skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are so many diners in NYC owned by Greeks? Why are so many corner stores owned by people of Arab heritage? Why are so many basketball players and musicians black? Why are so many CEOs white? Why are so many doctors South or East Asian?

Having a clear line of progression into a career, validated by people you feel connected to, is important. I would say that having a familial connection is strongest, followed by a social connection, and lastly followed by cultural/ethnic connection.

For many of these kids, the first two types of connection are already very weak for high paying careers. Well, at least for those careers that have reasonable prospects of success (ruling out music performance and sports). It can be transformative to these kids to have some example to follow. Believe it or not, not everyone in America is born believing in the reality of the American Dream. It just seems that way to many, because they have been surrounded by people for whom the American system is working from their earliest memories. Many others grow up awash in evidence the game is strongly rigged against them. If that's what the preponderance of evidence tells you, then why try?

I would go further and say that not all the limits black people face in this country are self-imposed. Even if you're doing all the right things, there is a burden to constantly prove you're not one of those black people on the evening news. Not to mention, black people disproportionately lack the privileges of wealth and social connections compared to other ethnicities. This leads to a vicious cycle of self-fulfilling prophecy on the perceived capabilities of black people, as perceived from both within and outside of many black communities. I would argue that institutions should feel some responsibility to recognize these inequalities and even act against them in ways that align with their philosophies.
Very interesting. Sounds like DRI (Directly Responsible Individual) at Apple. Are there any manager type roles (who does the assigning of projects to engineers)?
Unfortunately, ftp.freebsd.org doesn't seem to support https.
That is not the idea
This is why you have a board. And hopefully some decent legal documentation in place. Talk to them, lay out facts and the action you want to take, and just follow the documented process for things like board votes and such (again I hope you have legal docs in place, otherwise be prepared to get a lawyer and slog it out…). Sounds like you think the success of your company might depend on you getting rid of him, so just treat it like what it is: business, not personal.
Programmers 've strong opinions, good writing skills and political. why?
Wow, that sucks. Did you accept a plea bargain, or were you tried and convicted? If it was a plea bargain, did they start out at some kind of conspiracy charge to work you down to where it stopped?
I was expecting an ability to view the data not so much as a way to opt out, but to see if there's anything I could improve. Maybe something is public that is only hurting my "score" so to speak. Maybe the little I contribute to other OSS projects due to limited free time is hurting me more than I expect?

I purposefully went to the site hoping I could see something on myself without going behind a paywall. I'm starting a new gig on 1/6 and even if I weren't, I'm not quite the "target market." I do want to recommend this to the powers that be and hopefully use myself as a "control" to find a somewhat adequate replacement. I'm such a jack of all trades though that I'm afraid I may not be adequate for that either.

I do quite understand that $95/mo is much less than any recruiter fee over time so I completely understand the value of this service. It'll just be really hard to do a cold recommendation to have my soon-to-be-ex employer spend money on something they wouldn't be able to evaluate as easily as I can. I may be addressing problems Sourcing.io can't really speak to anyway. These may be "shoot ourselves in the foot" sort of issues no one can address but them.
For people waxing about what "Syntax Control" is, and coming to some over the top descriptions of clever AI, machine learning and what have you.

You're overthinking it.

It's the most naive implementation you can think of. It's exactly this: you select "verbs" and the verbs are highlighted. You select "nouns" and the nouns are. Same for adjectives, adverbs, prepositions (as, from, in, etc) and conjuctions (and, or, etc).

Nothing earth shattering, nothing you can't do with simply tagging words, nothing marchine-learning or AI about it.

Here's an example of Syntax Control in action: http://imgur.com/NrseuZV

Beside the naiveness of the core functionality, notice also how naive the tagging is. As noted below by bosie, "programming" is marked as a verb in the phrase "in programming terms", syntactic context be damned. Same for "run-on" where run is highlighted as a verb too.

P.S Damn, it's even worse than that. All the hard work -- which was not that hard itself -- was already made by Apple in their CoreText API. According to the Verge:

">the heavy lifting is already baked into Apple’s developer platform. Since iOS 5 and OS X 10.7, Apple has provided a class called NSLinguisticTagger that segments natural-language text and labels the text with various bits of information, including parts of speech".

P.S 2 Now, since Apple itself added the capability to tag parts of speech in the iOS API, and since this is a very obvious example of using this (Apple themselves showed something similar in WWDC 2011 IIRC), isn't iA's patent application essentially like asking to restrict the use of Apple's very specific API? It would be interesting to see iA's lawyers fight Apple's lawyers.

P.S 3 This was part of a comment in a sub-thread, but thought it would be more useful posted at the top level to give everybody an idea of the feature.
Perhaps your intuition changes if you think about the line (in a plane) coinciding with the x-axis. Don't you think it is reasonable to define that line as the set of points (in the plane) having y=0? Also, should that line not be identical (isomorphic) to the set of real numbers - which is just a set of numbers? And should not all other lines in the plane be identical (isomorphic) to the first line?
You know the "don't snitch" stuff applies to police too? The "blue wall" is pretty much the same thing.
Will GM or Ford buy Elon Musk's Tesla in 2014?
This is my general observation, but i don't know anyone, which does not have above characteristics, reason I asked it, these characteristics actually have nothing to do with coding.
I have a feeling Amazon is going to develop their own shipping solution. I bet a fairly large percentage of boxes that UPS ships are from Amazon. UPS could be turning into a bottleneck for them...
Of course it's theoretically possible, he's saying that there isn't an option in the NVidia drivers to automatically scale up low-resolution display modes to a monitor's native resolution. Purely a software problem.

I dunno if that's true or not, but my aging ATI card definitely has an option for this, so I'd be kinda surprised if it was.
One warning with gh pages: sometimes they can't handle a flood of users and report "503 Backend is Unhealthy". This unfortunately happened to me last month when https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6722197 was on the front page here (http://oss.sheetjs.com).

Good news is that they at least check the status: https://status.github.com/messages/2013-11-13
From a Scandinavian viewpoint, the US prison system looks like the 19th century in many ways. I have no problem with that, longer sentences for repeat offenders with many crimes would be better than rebates(!) on prison time, like in Sweden.

Point is, I'm not that judgmental and still I say: Not trying to rehabilitate prisoners so they have good job skills is obviously insane. And totally immoral.

More of the prisoners will fail when released; do drugs, commit crimes and end up back in prison. This costs an insane lot of money (prison costs, people not working, health bills, etc). Even worse, it will also destroy the lives of innocent people -- e.g. crime victims and relatives of the prisoners.

I can only see two reasons for not putting an emphasis on rehabilitation for job skills: Pure incompetence -- or some economic interest in getting repeat offenders back into prison.

tl; dr: No rehabilitation of job skills hurts the economy and innocent people as much as the prisoners. Add extra time to the punishment if more punishment is merited, instead of shooting society in the foot.
Doesn't that support the other view, that race shouldn't be brought into play?
> You pretty much have to resign yourself to the fact that you'll work at 50% of the salary as your peers or have to make your own future by starting your own companies and projects.

Fuck that. If you're going to resign yourself to something, resign yourself to the fact that you will have to work 150% as hard as your peers to make as much money. I know this is saying almost the same thing, but it's saying it in a more positive way.

I do like your comment "or have to make your own future by starting your own companies and projects". They say success is the best revenge. If this motivates you (like it did me), milk it.
My operating system is finished. I wrote all 130,000 lines from scratch by myself over the last ten years. Marketing!!! marketing!!! marketing!!!

God is my cofounder. God said 640x480 16 color way back in 2004. God said many things.

Without being God's temple, it fails. With being God's temple, it for sure, succeeds.

God says...
now_you_tell_me Ghost I'll_get_right_on_it do_I_have_to
You_fix_it what_do_you_want ghetto you_think_you_could_do_better
caution youre_welcome guilty God ghetto incoming kludge
no_news_is_good_news now_that_I_think_about_it go_ahead_make_my_day
I_planned_that China ghetto quit money ingrate that's_no_fun
Don't forget that just because he is a shareholder doesn't mean he has an automatic right to be a Director (or employee). Hold a vote of no confidence in his abilities to add value to the company and fire him as a Director - you can't take away his shares though, unless you can convince him to sell.

Your first and only duty is to the welfare of your company.
I'm not actively seeking new employment and am very happy at my current position. However, I am always (passively) interested in new opportunities, and am not going to ignore something awesome that falls in to my lap. A service like this is actually very valuable for someone like me.

That said, opt-in is the way to go. I definitely don't understand the seemingly contradictory point of view of them saying "we don't like recruiter spam either" and "we find ways for companies to send unsolicited requests".

So, I would fall under the categorization of "aren't looking for a new job", while at the same time don't agree with the opt-out (without an actual opt-out mechanism) nature of this service.
Tristan Walker is a very successful African American deep in the startup scene. He was director of BD for FourSquare and was EIR at Andreessen Horowitz for a spell.

He just announced his newest venture, Bevel, a health and beauty 'brand' for people of color.

I don't know him personally, but his public persona seems very welcoming if you wanted to reach out depending on what you're trying to achieve.

[1] - http://www.crunchbase.com/person/tristan-walker

[2] - http://allthingsd.com/20131218/tristan-walkers-next-act-buil...
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Yeah is ugly and dated and the users experience is not there, i don't know why a big company like Intel doesn't know that the first layer of conversion is the design. Make thing pretty and pleasant to use before launch!.
Remember when Ellison said he was just going to outcompete Salesforce (mid-2000s)? Interesting how that worked out:

http://www.salesforce.com/company/oracle.jsp
He most assuredly is legally obliged to tell the board. His first duty is to do what is in the best interest of the company.
Ripple had $2.5B money transfer, now second biggest virtual currency
How Google Is Cleaning The Web Of Comment Spam
My pre-click expectations were fully met.
The great thing about evil is you can enable it in your .emacs and it mostly just works. But even better, because this is Emacs the vi layer is also easily extendable. Here's an example of adding other operators (adding `mit`, `mit>` etc): https://github.com/ZaneA/Dotfiles/blob/1858a02de25e25de20e96...
I've also done stuff like

x <- m1;
f x;
x <- m 2;
f x;

in a do-block, and it's not clear to me how to write 'shadowfrom' (or however you pronounce '<-' in that context).
Usually 10 lines of java, which is already quite verbose turns into 30 lines of xml.
OMG..damn accurate as I experienced the same by one of the teammate.But as a contract employee I can't do much
I agree except that since it's apparently been going on for a while, there's no time now to allow him to "repeatedly" fail. Ideally, this improvement plan would have already been attempted and the results of that (assuming there were repeated failures) could be included in the info provided to the Board.

At this point, he should just go directly to the Board and include his proposed improvement plan in his presentation. The co-founder has already indicated an unwillingness to change or leave; the Board should be able to force it.
Ask HN: How long does GoDaddy sit on a domain after it expires?
I have a domain name in sight that has expired on Dec 16th but godaddy (previous owner registered on godaddy) continues to keep it as "This domain name expired on 12/16/2013 and is pending renewal or deletion". Is this normal ? I tried to click on "buy it" and it wants me to pay $70 for it. Is there a timeline by which the domain should be released or is this a godaddy trick ?
How do you feel about native vs HTML5 for applications that need to do a lot of timing? From my perspective setInterval and setTimeout seem pretty kludgy.

Also, I'm really interested in what you mean by "the dozens of prototypes that are required..." If you're talking about building several prototypes of the same feature to compare and contrast, would you mind sharing the tools/workflows you use for this?
LOL @ "It's not a big factor when we're judging applications". Because, it is a factor ... but, not a big one.
They are doing precisely this.
I'm still not sure what exactly your plan is. Just moving your landing/marketing page or the whole ecommerce frontend?

WordPress is nice if you need a blog or at least a CMS for luser or if you need some framework to build on. Is that the case?

Maybe it's a useful abstraction (e.g. uptime, maintenance, development) and maybe it's good that someone without developer knowledge could work on it, but you told it would need a lot of integration work? Sounds like you should create an API then. If you need an API anyway, than this actually would be a great way to test it in a real environment. Otherwise likely unneeded effort.

To speak about WordPress plugins, please mind, that most of them are rather simple. Hook some button code and JavaScript somewhere and offer some simple configuration backend UI. Deep integration for any features the user might see often needs custom CSS work, editing the site template or even coding within the plugin. At least that's my experience with my personal requirements. Or to say it in different words: Integrating Facebook buttons isn't that hard anyway, but a professional newsletter would be a lot of work anyway. Also you could likely reuse the plugin code and transform it into Rails code.
“What's wrong with your lawmakers down there?”

We also have a significant number of completely uncontrolled intersections in dense, urban neighborhoods. No lights, no signs, nothing other than “please drive slowly with caution.” So it's not just the legislators who are a little lax.
Typically (hopefully!) shares are vested based on work as an employee, in which case you can get back the unvested shares at least.
I do not see this happening. One of the main reasons Musk created Tesla was to remove the middleman, that being dealerships, and to be able to sell directly to the customer. If that buyout were to happen, that would completely contradict that main principle of Tesla.

EDIT:
At the time of my comment, I forgot about the legalities of buying publicly traded companies. It's something I don't particularly follow.
> You want to know why, and you want the proof to be so trivial that in hindsight it's obvious.

Certainly I agree with the first part of this sentence, but I'm not sure about the second part. I think that, if this is accomplished, then it is viewed as a victory; but I don't think any mathematician would describe it as his or her mission. (Perhaps on a larger scale, the mission of mathematics is to find the right definitions that make previously difficult things obvious.)
I don't believe so, I think instead that the text-only cache you're seeing is what is showed to all clients with javascript disabled. They use javascript to show the annotations on the page and as a fall back they have a stand-alone page that shows the annotation. The same thing happens on a mobile browser, because they don't have the screen real estate to show the annotation in context. So, no, not cloaking, just actual no-javascript accessibility. Something a lot more sites should be doing, in my opinion.

Even if this was a Googlebot-only page, it still wouldn't be cloaking, as they're just showing a more search-engine friendly version of the same content that's in the annotation on the actual page.
But this is not a fight, or it shouldn't be. There is no need to "take sides". The pattern of under-represented ethnicities can be seen all over, should it be brought up in every conversation? It is a reflex of beliefs and behaviours in our society that we want to get rid of, not perpetuate. Encouraging people to discriminate based on race would be the status quo, ignoring it is the exact opposite.
Author is really reaching here. UPS is not the stodgy, antiquated fossil it's being portrayed as. UPS has been quick to embrace tech and is really not that far removed from Amazon.

This is the company that automatically distributes packages and generates optimal routes for its trucks. It's the company that can automatically account for changes in its transport graph and reroute. It's the company that does fuel consumption analysis and incorporates it into its truck routing algo.

Author really doesn't give UPS enough credit. It may have failed some deliveries yesterday, but crowing about how it's a stodgy beast and should embrace logistical technology like Amazon is preaching to the choir.
thank you for the screenshot. though i do wonder, what exactly is it highlighting?
"in programming terms," - why is programming a verb and what good does it do to highlight it?
What was it you wanted to do? I'm not an Emacs internals expert, but you've got me curious :-)
Point being that this would require a superficial interpretation that disregards the history of anarchism as a branch of socialism.
I am so sorry hosh. I disagree with everything you just said.
> How so? The standard library may be flawed, but the core language is perfectly capable of handling general algebraic structures.

I mean algebraic structures in the mathematical sense you mentioned (rings, groups, &c.), not in the computer-science sense of algebraic data types.
Only if you can make a plausible argument that there are no existing stereotypes.
Wow, WTF.

UPS missed a few packages in an insanely demanding crunch time, and you feel the need to pen an accusatory piece illustrating them as a complete failure?

I ordered all of my Christmas shopping the Saturday evening before Christmas, I got all but one thing, and I am, in fact, quite content with Amazon + UPS's performance.
Most of them probably just cheat. I've known half a dozen people in the country illegally working on startups. (With values of illegal from "left company sponsoring them but didn't leave the US" to "founded company on visitor visa and stayed in country for ten years without getting the visa updated.")
These are the same people that were going to the mall on the 24th (pre-Amazon) and complaining that everything was out of stock.

We are nowhere near instantaneous transportation, so there will always be logistical delays. Planning your holiday purchasing around those delays is smart, assuming that 2-day shipping is always guaranteed and waiting until the last moment is playing with fire.
That sounds scummy as hell. It also sounds like a problem that needs fixing!
Public order offence here; UK. But I don't see how it makes sense to do that over a little tiff, or even how it could be practically enforceable unless the policeman was right there. I mean what are you going to do; film all your life incase someone says a mean word to you?
Baidu IME secretly transmitting Japanese users’ data
Analogy, not identity.

You're right that brains don't need sleep because of nvidia drivers. But I think you can work a little harder to get the analogy.
The best way to do it, is to not have to. The second best way, is to fail fast. I waited too long in my last startup and wasted too much time waiting for someone to carry their weight. It never gets better.

I recommend reading "The Founder's Dilemma's" to cover the other things you'll need to consider later as well prevent other, BIGGER, issues.
Still has text-based install and no working mouse upon first boot without hacking config files (tried in VMware and VirtualBox). Definitely STILL not for desktop / casual consumption.
Yanks ready to go all-in on Tanaka -- and they need to
During my latest round of searching for a new gig, I realized I could use an application to at least track the opportunities I had. If you juggle a bit of interviews at once it becomes a little difficult to keep things sane if you aren't careful. Having something to help me refine my crappy interviews or take adequate notes to realize the pros and cons for future endeavors would've been a godsend. I hadn't really done a lot of interviews for development shops around here so I had no clue what I was missing until I saw it first hand. I kept somewhat adequate notes in OneNote (yes, windows phone and yes I know I'm one of 3 users). I even made an Excel spreadsheet to keep most of the information together but nothing beats charts, graphs, or adequate reminders like "Hey, you should likely prepare for the interview you're about to have buddy" because the ones I weren't prepared for sucked hardcore and they were totally my fault.

I had the idea that it could be beneficial to freelancers/contractors as they do the same thing but usually in much more limited time scales to the x months I took. I'm one to share ideas because if someone makes it, I'll stop building it. As someone that wants to be a freelancer at some point, I don't look forward to the oDesks of the world (no offense to people that do great there) but having just something to keep all of these plates spinning more freely would help a lot of people I think.