skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
man!!!!!!! Healthcare reform, now i see. Shhh... It will be our little secret. Jon Stewart will have a heart attack if he learns about it.

//determine if due date is valid

//based on 10-month pregnancy (sprint 9 requirements)
I answered both "0-4.999" and "0 - But I am thinking of buying" thinking that they were not mutually exclusive.

But perhaps I just screwed up the poll.
I've read that only works to a certain degree, not much more than 50%. Is that right?
This is true, some of the best marketing was made around making people want stuff that they wouldn't really have a use for.
I think I'll try testing this statistically, even just as a cute example for Statistics Done Wrong. Thanks for the idea.

(If I get interesting results I'll post back here in a few days)

edit: I can't replicate the results in their charts using this BLS table:

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.htm

For example, for veterinarians I get 90.7% white, not 96.5%. Am I missing something?
I try to practice with Cracking the Coding Interview book when I have time but I am not sure if that is sufficient.
#1) This article was not a "hit piece", more a "isn't this curious?" piece

#2) There's already enough statistics out there that show injustice on a much larger scale - pretty much pick any statistic - life expectancy, wealth, employment, incarceration, etc and you'll see rank racial disparities -- in many cases racial disparities that haven't closed over the past 50 years.
Unfolding the box model, gorgeous slides on CSS 3D transforms
"Groundskeeping workers" was a surprise.
Yes, except that before DVD's, tapes were routinely $20+ and DVD's dropped below $15 surprisingly fast and when you figure for inflation, that they are still around $15 means they are selling the same product for considerably cheaper than VHS did (and for a while in higher volumes).

I totally agree that digital hurt Blockbuster, but Blockbuster was in a terrible place before the world went digital streaming. Netflix DVD mailers basically stole millions of customers on the promise of "no late fees", which was clearly a huge customer complaint with Blockbuster.

Blockbuster's decline started before streaming was big and Blockbuster did a reasonable job to try and keep up with Netflix in terms of building up their own mailing business, digital rental business, kiosk business, etc. but the fundamental problem with Blockbuster's business is they needed to rent things for $5 a pop to pay for the revenue sharing and rent.

Redbox and Netflix built their business without paying as much or anything in revenue sharing and a completely different operational cost structure. The only way Blockbuster could have stayed afloat is to keep happy customers, but they pissed too many people off too many times by being too expensive and ripping people off with late fees. Happy repeat customers who are willing to pay a premium for awesome service will keep many businesses alive, but Blockbuster lost happy customers and didn't have awesome service.

Internet played a part, but let's not throw away the business fundamentals with the bathwater.
That would be the same as this, actually. (For 2n, leave odd terms blank. Etc.)
In my mind, the main issue with modern web design is people slapping on generic Bootstrap themes without any effort.
I'd say it's horrible for savings. Savings is something you actually want to "save", meaning its likelihood of retaining value is as close to 100% as possible. With low risk comes low return, which is okay for savings. Bitcoin is an investment at best, a speculation at worst. It definitely isn't a guaranteed store of value. It's easy to confuse the fact that it's going up with the idea of storing value. Not very long ago your "savings" would have been about 1/2 its peak value in April, and in a year it might be worth 10X or 1/10th.
There are reasons for MS not auto updating IE and leaving update settings to system admins. SAP in my company works only for IE9. One cannot simply drop whatever it is and start working on bug fixes for IE10/11, Firefox and Chrome, irrespective of whose fault it is. Google is being Google in this matter.
I have not tried in a bit...last time was 2 days. I have heard they had a backlog due to the withdrawl shutdown but of course that is speculation unless I try to transfer today and see how long it takes.
"Misc. Agricultural Workers" is 92% white? So much for the theory that agricultural work is done by illegal migrant workers.
I bought $1k worth at $36/coin. I sold it when it dropped to $6. I'll have to go long on the next cryptocurrency.
This attitude is counterproductive as it paints our culture in a bad light. We should be on our way without pushing our ideals on others.

Bitcoin can feel like a cult sometimes, something I am ashamed of.

Also telling everyone to buy just a little reeks of pump and dump.
On the flip-side, I wonder what the "blackest" jobs in America are? (Aside from Olympic level sprinters that is)

[EDIT] - Ok, I amend my last bit to "Outside of Professional sports"
If only this were more true. API's for most things are...lacking.

A dearth of API's is particularly bad in computer security.

Vendors: We have this great new device to monitor ___ and alert on it!

Customers: We'd like to integrate that with our other devices, and this Hadoop cluster...

Vendors: We integrate with all kinds of stuff!

Customers: Can you show me?

Vendors: You just go to our shitty web front end and click "export." You can get an Excel file or .csv. It's THAT simple! Or I think in the next version we can export to syslog. Larry? Do you know about the syslog thing? Yeah, it's going to do that. We have our engineer working on it.

Customers: Can I query the data directly?

Vendors: Sure! Just go to the web front end and arrange your Boolean logic operations with this impossibly obtuse drag-and-drop graphical programming hack we came up with. Focus groups LOVE it, because you don't have to type to use it.

Customers: What if I want the machines to talk together and query each other without me having to type in a password and click the shitty web front end?

Vendors: crickets ... So how many do you want to buy?

Are you listening, potential YC candidates?

By the way, when you write software, write the API first, then write your cool UI using the API. Yeah, it's a little more difficult at first, but you'll save untold amounts of time in the long run and the product will be better for it.

Edit: In case this wasn't clear, I'm talking to you, you HN-reading recent college-grad who wants to start a company but needs a good idea that doesn't involve social networking. Make network security products with great API's and sell them to companies. Forget about the cheesy front-end, make it easy to get data into and out of. Your target audience is techies who aren't baffled by databases and are willing to spend a month hacking on a system if it helps them query huge amounts of data quickly. Also, you want to charge less than the cost of these techies making the system themselves. Go.
That's what I did for http://xo9.us. Although I did change a few things, but it's basically a theme which I've seen on a few other sites.
Similarly, in Taiwan Line has completely taken over from WhatsApp. Snapchat has no presence at all.
I had a good experience with Scott Walker and Ki Ingersoll at Walker Corporate Law. Granted, I have no basis for comparison, so I could very well have overpaid. But for the fixed-rate company conversion they did, their guaranteed rate was in line with the estimates I got elsewhere. I felt like they were quite helpful and attentive, and there were no surprises. What I could not afford was uncertainty in results or budget. By that standard, they delivered.
You're projecting a purpose onto the Bechdel test that it doesn't inherently possess. It doesn't tell you that any particular movie is bad for not passing it; obviously, a film can fail the test and still be a great work of art. And nobody is saying that movies that fail should be censored or limited.

The point of the test is to illustrate that, given that having a conversation between two women is such an astonishingly low bar, the fact that a large fraction of movies still can't clear it is a symptom of systematic biases within the industry.
The 11 Nations of North America.
I looked at the covers of your books: those are good. I also looked at the interiors on some of your books: those seem to not have received as much attention.

InCopy makes it easy to add styles that translate well to InDesign. The same is true for tables and lists. I’d say, watch the tutorials Adobe and Lynda.com[1] created.

InCopy has copyfitting features: you can see exactly how many lines fit on one page and how many lines you’ve got left. You can also preview the layout.

[1] http://www.lynda.com/InCopy-training-tutorials/232-0.html
There's always the danger of relying on APIs that are subsequently retired with little notice though.
For the individual occupations, presumably they all have enough participants to avoid a high chance of any one of them being that far off (for example, there are 100,000 veterinarians [1]) [Edit: and see
sanskritabelt's comment below that seems to match my intuition.] Then the question is how many different occupations are being considered here, and it doesn't seem like it would be high enough to make numbers like 96% very likely. So if we were measuring the whole population, it seems--just eyeballing-- pretty unlikely.

But of course we're not measuring the whole population. The data from which this chart was actually derived might well be caused by random chance. The article's failure to cite a more specific source than the BLS generally is a bit annoying here. Edit: I guess the source is [2], but I'm still unclear on what was measured.

[1] https://www.avma.org/KB/Resources/Statistics/Pages/Market-re...

[2] http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.htm
Its possible that 5% is actually higher because 100% of transaction volume includes change and there is no way to determine what was change and what was a real transfer of Bitcoin to another person/service/etc...
This is what the USPS says, but it might not be the final answer. If the requester is in the 9th Circuit (one of AK, AZ, CA, GU, HI, ID, MP, MT, NV, OR, WA) and especially if the requester is in the Northern District of California (SF Bay Area), there are court cases that may be relevant.

Doug Carlson[1] requested basic data about post offices and post office boxes (location, hours, etc.), and the USPS claimed the information was commercial and therefore exempt from FOIA.

In at least the case of the post offices, it went to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled in his favor [2], meaning that the law in the Ninth Circuit may not be on the USPS's side. (In the case of disclosing the locations of mailboxes, the USPS claimed a FOIA exemption based on the potential for using knowledge of mailbox locations to distribute chemical and biological agents, but it lost to Carlson in the Northern District of California [3]).

I would encourage the requester to take the next step in a denied FOIA request and file a timely appeal with the USPS general counsel [4]. I'm not a lawyer, but you could probably find one who could write a convincing letter based on the current caselaw in the 9th circuit. Or try Doug Carlson himself, as his contact details are part of the public record [5].

[1] http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/PROFILE-Doug-Carlson-S...

[2] http://www.leagle.com/decision/20071627504F3d1123_11592

[3] Carlson v. USPS, No. C-02-05471, 2005 WL 756573, at *6-7 (N.D. Cal. Mar. 31, 2005) (concluding that disclosure
of data pertaining to mailbox locations would not risk use of postal system to distribute biological or chemical agents because agency failed to demonstrate that such data actually could be used to determine mail collection routes). Found on p.206-207 of http://www.justice.gov/oip/foia_guide09/exemption2.pdf.

[4] http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/foia/faq.htm#H10

[5] http://prc.gov/prc-pages/library/dockets.aspx?activeview=Sum...
I didn't say "price spike", I said "distort the price". There is no question that the government's large stake in GM -- and their desire to unload it over the next 6 months or so -- means that there is some degree of "oversupply" of GM stock. Investors, whether buyers or sellers, have to factor that into their decisions regarding GM stock.

I'm not convinced that the market for GM stock is sufficiently liquid to mitigate that.
Farm labourers are generally not considered farmers. I would not really expect them to deviate from that classification. However, you do not need to own land to be considered a farmer either (i.e. you could rent land to meet the criteria).

Though misc. agriculture workers doesn't fall much further behind on the list.
Spend some time on /r/bitcoin. There's some good discussion, but also some talk on there that would cause you to run away for fear of association. Sometimes I'll go there and want to go somewhere with more intellectualism and open-mindedness, like say a Tea Party forum.
I try to do as much research about the company as I can, so I can speak with some knowledge and have some questions for them. If I can I research even who will be interviewing me, so I know some of their background - not to let on, but to try to give me an idea of what kind of questions they will ask, based on the experiences they have had.
It's like logo design: there are specific types of branding that you keep in mind (abstract, wordmark, letterform..), they're like mental models. They aid you in the development of design, so it's not "is [it] too formulaic" but "does it serve its purpose?" Does the way it's designed benefit what it's meant to do?

A lot of landing pages look the way they look because it does what it needs to do: educate about the product. The uniqueness of the web design isn't in the layout but in the hierarchy and positioning of information within the common single page -> scroll down -> sign up.

Is it lazy? Depends on the situation. Is it beautiful? You could make it so, but it commonly isn't. Does it get the job done? Pretty much all the time. I see the same template, but I get different information.
Living in a surveillance state: Mikko Hypponen at TEDxBrussels
Interesting. I'm not sure which disk its on and it might well be corrupt but I had various components that I was going to make into a secondary desktop or donation machine so I suppose I should check while I test, it might pay for itself!
What do you think a bitcoin will be worth in 10 years? If it doesn't die (read: get killed), it'll likely stop being a novelty and actually have practical use (currently I have to go out of my way to find a good/service that accepts bitcoins.) Mix that in with a generation of grown "digital natives" and suddenly 100's of millions of average people are now likely to use bitcoins.

As we know, there's a max of 21 million bitcoins (which we won't hit for years) - spread that across ~500 million users, and I think we'll see the value of a single bitcoin be 10x-100x higher than what it currently is.

It'll be a bumpy ride to get to that value, and I think this is the very beginning of it.
There's a massive gap between the tools that are given to [business] end customers vs the APIs. If I'm savvy enough to propose complex processes or ask nuanced questions but not savvy enough to write code against an API to get it done, I'm SOL. Expensive developer is my only real solution.

Agree that good API UIs (I realize that's two "interfaces") has a great future ahead.
And even then, worrydream is pretty slow on mobile and frequently crashed my iPhone 4 running iOS 6.
Who Hosts the Y Combinator Startups?
Dre Day only made Easy's pay day...
A profession with 10K workers should randomly expect to be about 80-82% white.

From here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_proportion_confidence_...

p=0.81
n=10000
and z = 2 gives a 99% confidence interval
Back in the day, yeah, it was a few days. Typical wire times.

It's a much different story these days. You can transfer $100K out of a brokerage faster than you can get $100 out of Mt. Gox.
"For a company that sold hardware, making a runtime that works everywhere, and has cross-platformness as a core feature seems sort of counterproductive."

This might possibly be connected to the fact Sun no longer exists as an independent corporation.
This is a strange blind spot for film to have, especially with regard to genres like science fiction or fantasy where the art is limited only by the creator's imagination and conventional boundaries are expected to be tested.

Maybe Hollywood's worried that target audiences won't identify with a female lead, maybe the formula's considered too risky for a blockbuster. But surely there's an alternate universe somewhere with aliens or magic where (hold on to your hats) a matriarchal society somehow evolved and manages to be part of the fabric of the story without characters constantly drawing attention to it, comparing it to Earth, having it set up a battle of the sexes, etc.
The Day the Barges Opened
Oh, this is not modern web design. This is just the web design pushed by San Francisco hipsters onto their brethren. None of the web sites average people visit as part of their normal life look like that nor will they ever.
Details Emerge of Potential Google Monitor in Europe
Xero Partners with New Automated AP Company
I bought 50$ of bitcoins a year ago. I have sold them this week for 100$. I'll buy back when it's low.

At first I thought a deflationary currency was the future. The more I think about it, the more I think bitcoin is just the first step on a bumpy road. I don't see the point anymore in buying bitcoins to then buy goods/services. What always ends up happening is that someone somewhere hogs them and waits for the price to go up. I'm then stuck to buy at a premium, every time, unless I had a stash of coins to begin with, something which most potential adopters don't have. I'm also not convinced that the early adopters should get a bonus from having mined so many coins when it was easy. I don't have a silver bullet, but I think this problem could be fixed by a new cryptocurrency. Either dampen the bonus to early adopters or remove it entirely. This should be a goal of crypto-anarchists, I think...

Or maybe I'm wrong and we'll be seeing a lot of trade going on with different denominations of one BTC in the near future. Maybe people don't care to give a premium to early adopters.
Amazon Web Services Blog: AWS Data Pipeline Now Supports Amazon Redshift
I suspect we'll be reading another post from this author in a year's time. About how after investing in his people, many of them walked out to other jobs.
Wait a minute... "It was proposed by a few but rejected by most as paranoid." and yet is most likely what happened? so the most in "rejected by most" were wrong. Wrong!

So when someone says: "You're just being paranoid", my reply will be: "Better paranoid than wrong."
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I am a college kid wanting to dive into the world of programming any suggestions where to start? I have not been satisfied many tutorials over C++ and java.
And 90% white is firmly in the "basically impossible by random chance" category.
0: Little interest in real currency, zero interest in new ones.
That's not true and has turned into something of an urban legend with uninformed people repeating the claim. Here is the list http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/070611-microsoft-andro...
>First, when shot once, a large fraction of people will stop their aggression, e.g. Trayvon Martin is the most recent famous example.

Is this really how we ought to be doing public relations?
Start collecting emails using autoresponder courses. Think of collecting emails as asking a girl for their number. If you want a date, you're going to call them, talk to them, get to know them, and ask them out. If you want a sale, you need to develop a relationship with a customer.

Collect email from potential users on a landing page. Then, send them email to let them get to know you and you know them. After a few emails, say 5-7, you could say "hey I have this great product that makes doing X way easier!". A number of potential users who get to say the 5th or 7th email will then trial or purchase your product if you ask them to. That's like getting the first date. Your product ultimately still has to be good for it to be a long term relationship.

Pretty much any email newsletter software worth anything supports some kind of autoresponder series functionality.
Honestly it's not more difficult at first -- I've started doing API-first development, eschewing MVC, and it's made life easier. I highly suggest people give it a try!
You could always just, you know, downvote it. Or flag it. The way the system is supposed to work.
We should really understand what whiteness actually _is_ if we want to parse these kind of things correctly: http://www.ohio.edu/people/hartleyg/docs/abolishthepoint.pdf
No offense, but as an engineer with no particular knowledge or experience with marketing, I don't see very much actionable advice in your items. I see a lot of ways to screw up (emailing bloggers wrong, picking wrong marketing person, waiting to long to market), but a dearth of advice for not screwing up.

Maybe the positive advice will be in your Guide (haven't clicked the link yet)?

EDIT: OK, I should have clicked the link first. :)
We use trello. But it seems to become redundant since folks end up sending emails to other to update them on a task.
This may put a small kink in their plans, but the NSA and GCHQ have unlimited resources and will find another way in.
Without knowing how many jobs there are total it doesn't sound fully like a "isn't this curious" piece. At best I'd put it with the "50 weird things about the 80's" type of piece. At worst it could detrimentally affect those professions in the name of progress.
Some messed up Chickens in Zelda:Ocarina of Time
Public APIs are lacking. If you are an Enterprise entity, and can pay for it, there are some very interesting and scary APIs out there. Yes, then they hire developers to actually use them. Sorry, you're not going to be as capable as a dev team in using an API, even if there was a really nice GUI. Get over it. Complexity is the new barrier to entry.
0 now. I made some money from buying low selling high from the first bubble. I sold out all of them when the price was at $144 a couple weeks ago under the belief that mtgox was becoming too unstable. I still haven't received any money from them after cashing out so I'm not feeling to bad about losing out on the current bubble. The market is just too sketchy to stay in any longer, I have no faith in the exchanges.
It looks like that data comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I'm going to go ahead and guess that they don't include undocumented workers.

A lot of those construction jobs are probably only looking at union work. The author says as much below. I don't know what it's like for electricians or carpenters, but the concrete business has a lot of undocumented workers, especially on non-government jobs. And even when they are somewhat legit they don't typically join the unions or get tagged as 'cement masons' (finishers) even though a lot of the time they do finishing work as well as the general labor.
It's definitely a flawed metric, but I doubt most metrics start out perfectly and there is nothing wrong with that. It's value is in starting a dialogue and I am sure it can be improved with iteration.

Some minor issues fact-based movies, documentaries: biographical movies (if it is the story of a man and there are no women in his life that doesn't necessarily make it chauvinistic), historical movies (if it is a movie about anti-feminist or chauvinistic events, does that necessarily make it anti-feminist even if the goal is to educate?)
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I withdrew my funds from Mt Gox over a month ago. Still waiting for it to arrive back in my account. The price of bitcoins has risen significantly since :(