skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might not be related to skin color, but it is related to being poor. Or appearing poor, versus appearing respectable.

I also think it depends a lot on the job. Jobs just above the low-end might have a stronger interest in filtering out the supposed low-lifes, than a job that requires a good education before you can even be considered. I can dress however I like, partially because the dress code for coders isn't terribly strict, and partially because my CV sells me much better than any suit could possibly do.

On the other hand, maybe I would be able to get a better job if I wore a suit. But because my income is good enough, I can afford to ignore jobs that require nice clothes. But if you're poor, every step up is a step away from poverty, and you can't afford to ignore that.

As for skin color, I think black people are still much more strongly associated with poverty than white people, so for them, avoiding the appearance of poverty might still be more important than for a white person of similar wealth. Anything to dodge the stigma.
Agreed, I should have avoided that particular phrasing.
Oculus Rift style VR devices need screens with even higher density. I'm glad the show is continuing.
I don't care if someone has a $2,500 handbag. It's whether or not they have a $1 attitude or a $2,500 attitude - that I care about and primarily judge people on.

The author's mother had the right attitude (the determination) to help her neighbor. I know several people who can get things done and get what they want. They aren't rich or buy expensive things, they just have the determination to get an answer, find the right person, discover the right process, etc.

I think the author associated correlation with causation.
How I Got My First 1000 Users in 1 Day
I have the dubious honor of the slowest framework on the test on page #1! For some reason the i7 tests perform really badly for Phreeze, whereas the EC2 tests it performs near the top of all the PHP frameworks.

I've been too busy with work to look at the tests but my goal is to make a proper showing in round #8!
Why would it be a monopoly?
Coding is nothing like literacy. You don't have to be able to code in order to live in a modern society but you have to be able to read and write. There is no, or very little, point for the majority of people to learn how to code.
The analysis is a little flawed in that it assumes the composition of the incoming class has remained consistent each year. In fact, Dean Nohria, who took over in July 2010, shifted the composition of the incoming class (the class of 2013) away from finance (finance as a pre-MBA industry showed a decline of 7%pt vs 2012 class[1]).

This in part explains the shift in choice of career post-HBS.

[1] http://poetsandquants.com/2011/06/06/harvard-down-on-finance...
Or PHP, as you're most likely hitting some kind of DB / cache and not just serving plaintext or cached JSON out of your backend... backs away slowly
The ASUS does not do 120Hz. It does not even do 60Hz unless you use two DisplayPort cables and drive the left half of the screen as Monitor 1 and the right half as Monitor 2.
Does the same apply to Card's craziness, or is it just mine?
I had a 2009 MBP. Lion was slow as hell but swapping the HDD for a SSD did wonders. The RAM upgrade I tried before that didn't help as much as the SSD.

Tasks: OS X developer.
1. I'm an open source lawyer. This has been gone over many times at legal conferences, private and public mailing lists, etc.

2. Ask any others :)

Think of it this way: Your argument for giving someone a BSD licensed piece of software and then suing them over patents in it is "Yeah, I explicitly granted them the right to "freely redistribute and use it", but i didn't really mean for them to be able to do so"

At least in the US, roughly every open source lawyer i've met, believes a judge would have no trouble finding an implied license.

The only question is usually one of scope, and one of whether it would include sublicensing.
I was always a fan of renaming stuff to e.g. bzrun32.dll and moving it to C:\Windows\System32\.
Sounds great! Putting a solid 10-20 years into something is a pretty alien idea to me, but damn, kudos for sticking to your vision.

Out of interest, was the work that dried up similar to your 9-5 at all? And when you say near and dear, what are the ties that keep them close to you? Feel free to not answer if that's asking for TMI :)
PHP Weekly for halloween... kind of :)
Designing a Better Way to Work
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Echoing what they said in the linked article, it doesn't fit into a left/right paradigm, so "direction" might not be the right word. Instead I'd elaborate: editors there have opinions about political matters, and they frame their own political opinions as fact.
It's surprising that natural word of mouth is so much more important than some kind of invite trigger.
See my reply elsewhere in this thread [1] concerning a new less-forgiving approach we've adopted to glitches/errors. It's not the most polite way to run the project, and I apologize for any oversights and errors, but it's just a necessity since we don't have expertise in everything.

With Grails specifically, a very late PR arrived that unfortunately broke the test implementation for us, so we removed it from the Round 7 test. We aim to push new rounds on a monthly cycle, so I hope that anything that is missing in one round won't be missing very long.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6650136
Too bad memory is not measured/displayed as well.
For many cloud-hosted servers, you will end up paying for memory, rather than CPU.

And Java/Scala are disqualified pretty quickly.
The 3rd and Pine issue has existed in one form or another, on that very spot for at least 15 years ( I used to work at 3rd and Pine back in the day ). Blaming the sitting mayor for that street corner is laughable.
It's just more fun to believe that @horse_ebooks was a bot.
Aio Wireless is owned by AT&T
Ask HN: NSA and GCHQ incompatible licenses
Everyday something new comes up with the security services of the world infringing our liberties. We write software, some of is it is open sourced, most of it has licenses.

How feasible would it be to add a clause to some of these licenses that denies the use of that software by security services for spying on their own people? Obviously some open source software would have a greater impact than others. What open source software is likely used by the NSA and GCHQ et al?

I'll start with OpenSSL!
Free Marketing Ideas - Part 8
Thanks, jakejake. Your participation is always appreciated, especially your good spirit.

Yes, if you have time, please do help us resolve the issue (and I am guessing it is some configuration issue) for Round 8.
At what point do we stop handing over ideas to the spaz for implementation?
I see you have support for Typekit as well. Very cool.

This is pretty damn awesome, I have to admit. One of the big pains of working with web font services like Typekit is that you have to select a set of fonts beforehand, save the kit, change your CSS, and only THEN can you see a change. At best you can keep a handful of browser tabs open without refreshing them so that you can flip between them to compare. But this makes everything so much easier.
:) Wondering, is your 9-5 a particularly hierarchical environment, like a bank/multinational?
The EFF praises Senator Hatch. It's Halloween, not April Fool's.
Good to see hackers care about SOCIAL JUSTICE now.
Straight from the horse's mouth: "Merkel says German multicultural society has failed".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11559451
> You're trading one monopoly for another.

Considering it doesn't exist yet, you cannot really call it a monopoly. Thanks for confirming that you consider Comcast one though.

> even though time and time again government does a piss-poor job when given control.

You are correct there, the government's control over internet service has enabled a few mammoth carriers to become monopoly's of their realm. Be it for 'national security' interests like AT&T or be it piles of lobbyist money from Comcast.

The end result is no competition amongst peers. The only thing coming close would be companies that lease off of Comcast trying to sell packages at a lower cost. This of course doesn't last long since AT&T Comcast and others worked out exactly how to kill leased operators at will subsidizing rates in areas leasers operate to remove any profit potential from the competition that was forced to buy from Comcast anyways.

But complain about an operator that doesn't exist yet like it is a monopoly. Blame them for things they have not done yet. Try to push forward the fantasy that Comcast has a quality of service beyond destroying other quality services.
There are a huge number of middle aged middle class white people in the suburbs who are absolutely terrified of Seattle.
An unencrypted hard drive may be akin to a briefcase, but what about an encrypted one? Wouldn't that be more like a safe with a combination lock? IIRC, courts still cannot compel one to disclose the combination to unlock a safe, only to provide a key to a lock, exactly because safe combinations exist solely within the defendant's mind--just like most encryption keys. Disclosing the key implies that one has access to the data, which may be incriminating in and of itself with certain data. Even if the key is not provided, and the defendant is allowed to enter their password privately so that prosecutors may inspect the unencrypted data, the act of entering the password in and of itself provides evidence that one is aware of the contents, and thus may be used as evidence against oneself.
>you can't get at USB devices from the web browser except through a plugin, for example

Not yet, we can't. Mozilla is working on the WebUSB[0] API that'll allow access to USB devices via javascript as part of their ongoing WebAPI effort. They need this for FirefoxOS at some point, and these APIs are being implemented in desktop Firefox as well.

[0] https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/WebUSB
Unladen airspeed of a swallow?  African or European?
I noticed the same, and I suspect this has more to do with the implementation of the Mongo driver it's using than with Vert.x itself. Vert.x is a very high-performance server.
Tips for an Awesome Coffee Meeting
Thanks for the link to EvaporateJS. The recent price changes at Ink Filepicker make it untenable for our small needs and this looks like a great alternative.
The Great Seal Bug Story
If it was, I must have missed the punchline.

> Don’t start celebrating just yet – this doesn’t mean you can continue playing Candy Crush while waiting for your massive, heavy hunk of metal to defy physics and launch itself into the air as of this very moment.
It would be awesome if HR people only ever judged people on skill, and not on appearance or presentation. But if there's one big takeaway from this article, it's that there really are gatekeepers that filter people based on whether they "belong". Faking that belonging can be incredibly important to escape the poverty trap.
"Why Writing a Blog Suffocated My Life."
Rails is so 2008... node.js is the new hotness.
Perhaps those "corporate persons" should run for mayor.

Oh that is right, they are not persons since they cannot be jailed or hold a position that a real human would.

Maybe if the real persons behind the corporations would lobby with their identity rather than through a lawyer protected corporate shield I would believe they have the interests of the population they are lobbying against. But they don't. So their opinions and lobbyist dollars only look like means to obtain more profits from the corporate structure they are invested in.

Constituents are living batteries for these 'corporate persons' and the political process is just a way to enact corporate will as regulatory code or law, yielding profits from the living wallets under the politicians control.
My bet: the most important bit of advice you could give any startup about managing acquisition offers is: assume the offer is going to fall through. Funding negotiations are something many startups have a lot of experience with, and they're notorious for unraveling late in the game. Acquisition talks are much worse: they take longer and are more likely to fall apart.

An acquisition negotiation that dies late in the game is especially demoralizing. When you're getting a company funded, you're talking to lots of different investors, and may even have multiple paths to fund the company (institutional VC, a convertible debt round, &c). But failing to close an acquisition feels more like a verdict about the company and its prospects. For one thing, you have fewer potential acquirers than investors. For another, to get even a little bit engaged in an acquisition talk, you have to get yourself in the mindset of a near-future exit.

Things to watch out for:

* The (usually inadvertent) management shift from sales to "business development", where you start bouncing around the industry talking to different people about acquisitions

* Acquirer optionality --- the article correctly points out that the acquiring firm isn't necessarily prioritizing lower valuation about all else, but remember that deals are usually instigated and closed by specific people in the firm, whose careers are most definitely going to be evaluated by the perceived success of the purchase --- long story short, the bizdev guy at your potential acquirer is likely to keep you on the hook longer than you'll be comfortable.

* Infecting your team. I'm actually not sure it's all that standard for acquirers to do rolling team interviews. I've been a part of a couple (and a party to a couple more) now and haven't been formally interviewed despite very senior roles. I'd be wary of letting an acquirer "interview" anyone on my team before I was reasonable sure the deal will close.

The other thing to know about acquisitions is that they are fucking expensive. If you haven't done one, you probably have no idea. You are going to get very, very friendly with corporate attorneys, and if you've got counsel now reviewing sales contracts and whatnot, be aware that the attorneys that manage your warrants and reps and stuff are way way more expensive than those contract review people are.

The good news about legal expense and team risk is that they can be used as deal qualifiers: if an acquirer balks about committing to something before interviewing the team, or about legal costs, the deal might not be there. If it isn't, it's important that you know that!
Be very suspect of the results - for instance in python land you have:

wsgi:

import ujson
...
response = {"message": "Hello, World!"}
...

tornado:

obj = dict(message="Hello, World!")
self.write(obj)

What you have is the slower way to contruct a dictionary and then passing to the Python native JSON vs. a C optimized JSON for output.
Squat till your eyes pop Disgusting
Java and Scala would have large base memory requirements, but not necessarily large per-concurrent-request memory requirements.
The Dell UltraSharp range just strikes a nice balance between quality and affordability.

Other manufacturers have spent the best part of the last decade chasing the budget end of the market by cutting corners (e.g. TN panels, poor quality control) and adding gimmicks (e.g. glossy or non-black bezels, flashy lights, ugly asymmetric stands)

Dell have stood pretty firm, with the UltraSharp range at least, with high quality IPS panels, decent quality control and simple, timeless designs. Combine that with the economies of scale they are able to achieve bundling monitors with computer systems, and the established support network they have in place, and it's been a winning combination.
Senate Committee Votes in Favor of NSA Phone-Records Snooping
>Someone who's read the literature and understands why there's almost no way consumer electronics can affect a modern airliner's avionics might be more entitled than someone who thrives on 'breaking the rules' and thinks flight attendants are stupid 'ditzes'.

I'm not really sure that we disagree here, although you seem to suggest that there is some mutual exclusion between people who are informed and people who enjoy breaking stupid rules, which is silly.

>What happens when that stupid ditz says something that turns out to be right?

I don't know, what happens? I didn't suggest that flight attendants are always wrong, nor that stupid people are always wrong (nor that flight attendants are always stupid). Though I think that my issue here is less about being factually correct and more about providing adequate justification for why you're correct.
The Command Line Murders: Teaching the Terminal with a Detective Noir
The point, as you have indirectly struck on, is that everything has stagnated. Movement anywhere is important, because it creates the possibility that improvements will move inwards from the largest and smallest monitor sizes to the mid-to-large-sized monitors where developers do most of their work.
We have had the same experience. I loved the idea of BTsync, but we encountered too many issues. We tested sparkleshare and lipsync too. Unfortunately, none of them dealt with conflicts and merges as they were meant to.

BTsync would often not pick up changes (using osx and linux clients), and/or overwrite new files with an older version. It also had a slow latency when a file did change. As to the open source nature of it, you can supposedly limit its access to the shared servers through configuration, but this caused more sync problems.

These tests made us appreciate the Dropbox implementation even more.

Unfortunately, we need non-cloud syncing for our data, so I wrote a complex cron/rsync/inotify hack with its own issues - but at least we know the limitations and have custom workarounds. Personally, I hope BTsync will mature and be a feasible alternative.
I'm speaking from experience here, I bought a pair of vibrams, lost 70 pounds taking up running, and was doing great right up until I broke my metatarsal. Coming up on three years later I had to have surgery, a pin, orthotics, and I still need regular cortisone injections.

Here's a link: http://www.runnersworld.com/barefoot-running-minimalism/stud...
What could the US Government legally do if there was a Zombie Apocalypse?
4.3 runs quite well on my Galaxy Nexus. 4.2 was a disaster though.
That's what I did and I am so glad I did. Now I have paying customers and growing revenues. If I can do it so can you!
Their activity on the official Bitcoin forum could probably lead to some analysis on where they are from: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3;sa=stat...
I used to be a rabid fan of the n900 but after nokia died, when the n900 broke I switched away.

Samsung's android-based relay 4g is fantastic hardware, much better than the n900 all around. The keyboard is 5 rows and has a very nice feel. It would be much better to port a fully open source distribution to this than to try to refresh the n900.
THIS IS AWESOME. I was looking for something like this, and was really sad I was going to have to write something myself.... THANK YOU.
I'd like to see what this test looks like once you add event-machine to the ruby frameworks.
This is different code than the 2007 PHP code here: https://gist.github.com/nikcub/3833406
Web apps deserve sexy transitions too
Precious.
Hey Austen, if you'd be interested in sharing any specifics (companies, keywords, people, etc.) regarding people spamming by leaving millions of links gumming up the web, my team would be happy to investigate in more detail.
What weakening, may I ask?
My only wish is that Google would allow Google Now email notifications to work with google apps accounts. I bought a Nexus 4 on the first day after reading about Google Now, it was the number one feature I was most excited for. When I learned that my google apps email address would not work with flights reminders, tracking numbers, etc I was very angry. This was only advertised in small font somewhere deep in google's help pages.

Why does google alway force google apps users to be second class citizens?
Top Hospitals Opt Out of Obamacare
I wonder why they switched from perl to php. Seems kinda six of one, half dozen of the other.
For IT occupations the limit is even lower: € 36.192 per year.
A couple of questions:

Do the freelance publicists go through any kind of screening process before they can get on the site?

How does a business user's wish list of media outlets work? Can publicists suggest additional outlets for a given story? Or are the one's the business user preselects the only ones that will get you paid?

Which media outlets have your freelancers successfully placed stories in?
There are still practical limits, and sometimes you have to work within those. I've got a project on a 16G server - the data center doesn't have anything bigger. Moving everything to a custom server or different data center to get to 24G or 32G is... a lot of work. Some time spent finding memory reductions is still worth it.

And what if we went to 32G or 64G, but still needed more? "RAM is cheap" doesn't scale. The hardware needed to host a 128G system (or multiple 16/32G systems) isn't cheap.
If I just learned that a government spent time and resources to tap my fiber-optic network and record the internal operations of my company, I'd be damned if I would then lend said government some of my prized technicians to pull their asses out of a fire of their own making.

But that's just me.

I wonder what the end-result of this "surge" will be, besides the obvious (a website that is declared "working" whether or not the processes behind it are): will we start to hear horror stories of the mess behind the scenes of healthcare.gov, after real professionals get to see the sausage factory in operation?
This is going to be a comment that needs to know a bit about the Seattle area, so if you're out of town, I'm sorry :).

I currently live near the top of the hill of Queen Anne, my options for internet are Comcast, or Comcast essentially. Century link is also up there with a plan for a whopping 7mbps of speed down and less than 1mbps up. Comcast offers a plan for 50mbps down and 10mbps up, I need more upload speed, but I can make do with an upload running for hours a day. This wouldn't be bad if Comcast actually worked, but it doesn't. Probably 2 or 3 nights a week my internet becomes near unusable during peak times, I resort to putting my cell phone on LTE and seeing what I need to that way, I can't even keep up with the buffer rate on the lowest quality Youtube videos.

Downtown though, there are a number of apartment and condo buildings that offer 100mbps up & down internet for $60 a month (compared to my $75 for Comcast), or 1gigabit up and down for $120 a month(not available from Comcast at all). So, we do have some gigabit internet, and I've actually found a few places I'd consider living and likely will affect my decision when I eventually move.

At least in my neighborhood, Comcast has terrible(often broken) service with absolutely no alternative. I suppose maybe the density of Queen Anne can't justify the cost of gigabit fiber to the top of the hill, but given how many Microsoft and Amazon people live up here I'd be shocked if there weren't huge interest. This seems damning as to the economic viability of fiber that a relatively dense upper income neighborhood can't get fiber without government subsidy.
The panels aren't enough. You need good cases and, this is often overlooked, good electronics driving the panels.

I've learnt this the fun way by buying cheap Korean 30" screens. The cases are poorly designed, the electronics are flaky. I'd pay 2.5x for the Dell monitors, but I know they would keep working for a lot longer.
Looks like you're right, according to tftcentral.co.uk, it is LG AH-IPS. I didn't know the "SuperClear IPS" refers to firmware, not hardware [1], the 27" VP-series ViewSonics use Samsung panels.

[1] http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/viewsonic_vp2770-led.htm
Some countries have specific laws that apply to the advertisement or listing of products to users. I suspect that's part of the reasoning.