skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So? I was telling a story from my personal experience to try to demonstrate how that statement (in isolation) reeks of privilege. It does not reek of male privilege, which I'm admittedly less sensitive to than class privilege.

But imagine growing up surrounded by people telling you to "Stop with all that computer stuff. That's nerdy boy stuff. Boys won't like you if you're into that." Or parents who refuse to buy their daughter a computer for similar reasons. That is a story I've heard from plenty female engineers I know.

Does that count? I was trying to make my point more relatable. Sorry.
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35769

(You find it by searching google webmaster guidelines)
The NSA fucked up based on what we know, there's no need to wildly speculate that actual blackmail is occurring too.

Blackmail is one of the more benign outcomes of the surveillance apparatus that's been put in place. Are you perchance familiar with the career of one J. Edgar Hoover?
If you actually knew how to use Google this wouldn't be a problem. The `site:` filter is your friend.
Except that one of the arguments, if not chiefly, should be that the actual actions (collection, spying, what have you) were unconstitutional - not that any legislative or executive action were passed which Congress has not authorized recourse to. It's as simple as that - fight the behavior directly as it violates privacy rights, regardless of what Congress or the Executive has done.

It's true that Congress holds two very powerful jurisdiction stripping abilities but the ability to interpret the Constitution will never be subject to that. Interestingly, the Supreme Court may be stripped of that ability but a State or inferior Federal Court should always be able to hear such a case if there is standing otherwise.

(Starting with "Except..." sounds wrong b/c you ^ are correct in regards to statutory recourse, it just shouldn't have been dismissed based on other grounds available which you actually explained pretty well below)
As a founder, recently, we've been hit with the "I want more equity" statement due to the fact that they know how much everyone else has. (We're trying the whole full transparency path)

However, the ask was not from the I've done my research and similar roles at such # employee has gotten x% but completely a I'm #n+1 and yet n has significantly more equity than me.

I'm in the mindset that regardless of role, since these are the first few employees, they should get a decent portion of the company due to opportunity costs, risks, etc... but at least so far, I've asked what would make you extremely happy and satisfied as an annual compensation amount (monetary + equity) over the next 5 years?

My goal is to double the sought after compensation amount with anything more = icing on the cake. - This way, the conversation goes away from straight comparing equity percentages and of course allowing employees to choose whether they want more equity or more cash.

1-800-contacts founder, "Satisfaction=Expectation-Reality"
> I'm assuming this is akin to the http://www.openttd.org/en/ or Doom clones where the "engine" is open source and you have to provide your own graphics/sounds/etc.

OpenTTD has shipped with a complete set of base assets for quite some time, though it used to be like that.
And..? I would be much more interested if the title was "Cats Who Code".
Alternatively, computing power will get so cheap and easy to distribute that myriad small devices will be fetching saved data from the cloud and running the app locally with all the better latency that entails.
I'll rephrase my argument: given the vast demand for some people to do illicit transactions on the internet, an online currency (or more than one) will emerge to fill that need. So, given that, I think Bitcoin (or something like it) does realistically have a floor value, given its current front-runner stance. That may change, of course, if people choose a different currency, but that currency will be similar to Bitcoin in most, if not all, fundamental ways.
Yes, you can simply disable by

gksudo gedit /etc/default/apport

Change enabled from "0" to a "1" so it looks like this:

enabled=1

After reboot it will be gone, if you can't wait type in the terminal:

sudo service apport stop
Why was it disliked (prior to this incident)?
It depends on which medical do you prefer.

Here few ideas that I hope will be useful for you ;)

- Cancer care: Patients in their latest cancer stages could be under palliative care. It is an important stage for giving a patient the best care during their end of life stage. Sometimes, it is very difficult to coordinate the work between doctors (their are busy with multiple patients) and next of kin.
Next of kin needs suggestions, advices and help directly from doctors and closest friends for making this phase as easy as possible.

- EMR: Electronic medical records are really important in hospital and clinical settings but they are more important for patients. You want them always with you wherever you are and with the possibility to change the written language of your diagnosis/prognosis in the EMR.

- Child health records: Check this link => http://goo.gl/qSGCKz

- Machine Learning for Personalized Medicine: It can help finding the best options for you observing patterns in past patients

Good luck and wish you a great career :)
I like your first paragraph. That said I dislike your second paragraph because of all the possible reasons to oppose discrimination, a pile of historical anecdotes is the least effective. You can run a morality argument, or philosophy, or some biochem neurology analysis, or ethics, or legality, or (modern, civilized) cultural incompatibility with discrimination, or even simple competitive economics argument like those who select inferior employees for irrational reasons will inevitably in the long run be crushed by more rationally managed companies. But anecdote anecdote anecdote isn't going to do it. I like where you're aiming, you're just not doin it right. That said at least you picked popular traditional anecdotes, although you could have picked more recent anecdotes like Radia Perlman or Limor Fried...
> Don't forget that rap genius didn't / doesn't want to just be a lyrics site, they also do the whole "what do these lyrics mean" deal.

Do we really want to know the true meaning behind Dr. Dre's masterpiece? Is it so important that it needs $15 million dollars? Seems to me the wheels were being reinvented and being sold as square.

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/drdre/bitchesaintshit.html

Bitches ain't shit but hoes and tricks
Lick on these nuts and suck the dick
Get the fuck out after you're done
And I hope in my ride to make a quick run...
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35769?hl=en
They both require thoughtfulness. I'd have the same kinds of things to say to someone who simply proposed "war", without details, as the solution to anything.
Its not about precision weapons anymore., its not about killing the right or wrong people. Its not even war anymore, its a kill list and the real question is will the kill list ever end, the kill list has been endlessly growing.

Dirty Wars [1] is a fine piece of investigative journalism by Jeremy Schaill about exactly this.

[1] http://dirtywars.org/
The problem here is inherent with anything that can be fairly characterized as "prosecutorial discretion." Human editing is going to be inherently biased, and it's unfortunate to see a move away from the use of clever algorithm hacks as the preferred way to achieve clean results. You'll find no argument from me against SEO tricks being punished... but taking shortcuts will just result in favoritism at one point or another.
It takes far more than just a decision. It's an extremely difficult problem.

So is succeeding at war, of course. But we're not talking with anyone who simply advocates "war" as a solution.
How is that faster? You're adding five characters + the .com , and will get exactly the same result.
How to reach "dark matter" developers
Scott Hanselman has talked about "dark matter" developers (http://www.hanselman.com/blog/DarkMatterDevelopersTheUnseen99.aspx) - the ones working in companies everywhere writing the software that keeps businesses running. They're writing applications in VB6, MS Access, ASP.NET and often using outdated software and outdated practices. They work 9-5 and when they go home at the end of the day the only technology they use is their TV remote.

I'm not disparaging them. I work with them. For them, writing code is just a job and that job helps keep the businesses we depend on working.

But they could be so much more productive if they updated their skills and had opportunity to gain new experience.

There is no shortage of educational information and opportunities on the web, but these aren't the type of people to go looking for it. It needs to come to them, in their workplaces, ideally during their working day.

So, my question is this - if we want to help them enhance their skills and experience, how do we reach them?
Besides the other links, here are the ones for link schemes, which are the issue in this case: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66356
It seems reasonably possible that the people we're currently blowing up with drones would have similar technology by, say, the year 3000. (Not the exact same people, obviously, but that group of people.)
I personally have no issue with "Black Girls Code" or any other groups like that -- mostly because any work done to educate more people (of any gender, race, sexuality, whatever) about what we do is a positive.

Moreover its important that people who decide to contribute in this way (teachers, mentors, etc) feel like they are helping a group they care deeply about and/or can identify with.

Having said that I do wish we had more events targeting all kinds of youth with the goal of changing the mentality of future developers/engineers. If they learn in diverse groups (including some level of age diversity, preferably) I feel they'd have a better shot at creating a 'new normal' for the future.
Oh I know that a college degree is helpful in general, but I meant this program specifically. Aggregate statistics can sometimes be misleading.
I'd say that classism is the issue and not racism.

Leftists of the 1960s handed the government on a silver platter to Republicans by promoting a 1-d view of "race".

I grew up in New England where it didn't matter if you were black or white but rather what kind of black or white you were. There were blacks living in Beacon Hill in the 1950s but it all changed when the mechanization of agriculture sent southern blacks off the land and up north, and all of a sudden "homies" were colliding with refugees who were fleeing WWII and similar demographic and technological changes in Europe. (Why did Hitler think so many Europeans had to go?)

My ancestors came from Poland and French Canada and we were the people on the bottom in the mills, we wouldn't even get foreman jobs. If any of us had applied to WASP Harvard or other elite institutions we'd face the same kind of discrimination that Jews faced except we wouldn't even apply because family and social pressures pushed us into blue collar work.

If the left pushes the idea that all whites are privileged over all blacks that just means the numerical majority of whites go to the right. Big Win. To be a working class white and believe that guff you have to have your mind colonized.

I would say that the attack on explicit racism that has happened since the 1960s has made classism all the more dangerous because the current system leads people to believe that they earned what they got (i.e. are not "privileged") whereas at least an occasional WASP might look at his circumstances and realize he won the lottery.

(Oh, BTW, in economic terms there is no such thing as a majority oppressing a minority, the math doesn't work. For instance, if 90% of white people stole everything that belonged to 10% of black people, the whites only improve their standard of living by a little more than 10%.) If on the other hand, 10% of descendants of invaders of a country like Holland or England can steal 10% of what the 90% indigenous population have they can double their standard of living which is worth doing. That is, "whites" did not enslave "blacks" in the old South, it was a small class of rich white slaveowners who enslaved blacks.)
A key foundation of a modern nation's power over its citizens is the ability to arbitrarily create and destroy the national currency, to legitimately demand that taxes be paid in that currency, and to thus be able to use it to purchase arbitrary goods and services. It seems quite likely that major national governments will band together to ban transfers between bitcoin and their national currencies once they realize what a threat a wholesale shift to bitcoin would pose to their power to tax and spend.
Math and programming both require a facility in thinking abstractly, so I wouldn't be surprised if there was a correlation between math ability and programming ability.
Or you know maybe we can demand that this unit actively try to help these companies improve the security of everything in the catalog so that we are all secure. Knowingly allowing vulnerabilities to persist in equipment that a US citizen or US corporation purchases from companies like Juniper Networks or Cisco is akin to leaving them unprotected and defenseless against malicious adversaries.

We're not asking for disarmament. We're asking for de-weaponization by retasking the TAO and the unit that produces these products to work on defensive activities instead of offensive activities. For a long time many, except those considered tin-foil hatters, viewed the NSA as fundamentally providing a useful service to protect Americans and American companies. Now it's clear the tin-foil hatters were right and that the NSA is essentially an offensive organization and that even American citizens and companies are victims of those offensive capabilities.
Fundamentally the problem is that a lyrics site is going to mainly get hits from a search engine. Not many people are going to type rapgenius.com and then use their search to find the song they want.
I believe the milita movement, the source of the second most destructive terrorist attack on U.S. soil in recent history, would beg to disagree. For them, it is the central issue. Oklahoma City was explicitly revenge for the Branch Davidian raid by the AFT / FBI. Who is to say the next major terrorist attack won't be from that direction? Look at the NSA revelations. Whereas more pedestrian people like me think it's more government incompetence than Illuminati machination, the NSA revelations are proof positive to people of that ilk that the overarching conspiracy they've believed was happening is patently real.
How do British folks feel about this? I mean if they tried to pull shit like this in Canada, people would flip, burn down the parliament building.
More info on Checkpoint? What about an open-source alternative to both?
Rather tangent, does anyone know if there is any open-source version of "Transport Tycoon"? I used to love that game.
I blame a typo. :)
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Ask HN: What are some good general technical books for teenagers?
I'm a programmer by profession. I have a teenage daughter with a general interest in art and biology. She does well in math and science in school but isn't very enthusiastic about computers or technology.

I'd like to find some good general books about technical subjects for her. Unfortunately the selection at local bookstores is rather limited and their books are either too simplistic, too specific or both.

I know there are plenty of good programming books available but I'm not looking for books on programming per se as I already have a few shelves of books like SICP, TLoL, PiP, AMOP, etc. as well as more abstract works like GEB and she's shown no interest in those as of yet.

What I've been hoping to find is something that covers technology more generally: something that explains some interesting way a particular physical, chemical, mathematical or other technical principle appears in some network or system of machines and structures we build and maintain.

Can any similarly minded parents out there share any success stories?
Please explain exactly how he is wrong. The internet hasn't substantially changed the rate of growth nor the size of the economy. It also hasn't created any new transformative markets. It has simply made them more accessible. That's why the fax machine analogy is so apt.

Amazon is a storefront. Google is an ad service. Facebook is a glorified telegraph service. It doesn't matter how nifty their tech is. The only thing that matters in this context is what they do, and how that affects the overall economy.
> A women cannot be driven out of coding by anyone other than herself.

What a disgustingly ignorant thing to say. The sheer obliviousness of your privilege in this regard is staggering. It's ridiculous to expect someone to put up with harassment and vitriol and, when they finally give up and leave — which is completely normal and something any normal person, including yourself, would do — say that it was all on them.

You may not even realize it, but your comment actually excuses all of the sexism and misogyny in the industry. It's putting the onus, and the blame, on the victim. That's awful.
The difference between RG and songmeanings, and really any other lyrics website in existence, is the quality of the annotations. My habit of listening to rap has changed quite dramatically since I have discovered RG - I don't have to speculate about what a line might mean, because now there's a whole community of people who love rap collate their collective wisdom and tell you what it means. The verified annotations are also amazing...I mean seriously, what other site has artists themselves explaining what they meant for their own songs? I think the $15 million can be justified if you look at their long-term plans. They've built a model with rap and now they're expanding onto rock, pop and poetry. I see it this way: the sell for RG is for their whole slew of websites to become the wikipedia for literary/artistic interpretation, a position they have already locked down with rap. Whether that is worth $15 million is of course up to you, but it looks like it was worth it to some big name investors.
This confusion has occurred often in recent weeks. Many non-Brits mistakenly believe this is the government filter when in reality it's an ISP's (most recently BT).
>Most countries are representative democracies, and it's more difficult for leaders to go into a war.

I agree representative democracies are far less likely to go to war. I also don't think war is likely anytime in the present era. On the other hand, China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea are not representative democracies. They represent a fair portion of earth's landmass, population, and potential destructive power. I'd say the trend towards democracy has already peaked, and authoritarian governments are on the rise.

>As for the tribal argument, I think the "nation state" is dying.

I think we have very different worldviews on this subject, so a debate isn't going to be productive. But from where I'm coming from, it's easy to be idealistic when we're living in a golden age of peace and prosperity (despite the great recession). I'm more pessimistic about humanity in times of scarcity, disasters, and conflict.

> There's also the argument that the world is more united these days (particularly thanks to the European Union and somewhat because of United Nations).

I truly hope post-WWII institutions like these continue to have force for as long as possible. I think the world is safe from major war as long as this continues. But eventually, be it 50 years or 500 hundred years, they will fall.
So a couple of years if you started from scratch. Cool. I'm just wondering how fast we could rebuild computers if they all stopped working / disappeared.
I am so, so glad to see a much more high quality discussion (thanks in large part to lkrubner's insightful top comment) going on here today than the travesty that accompanied your post about Black Girls Code. The reactions that provoked made me feel sick. I guess the important think is your campaign is being supported and funded! But It's always a shock to see the dark side of this community revealed so starkly.
Which country was this in? India?
You've shattered the hearts of thousands of new startups.

This is what I've feared all along, the slow and "long ramp of death". It's as if there is actual hard grunt work involved in user aquisition without burning through all the capital some wrinkly old guy gives you.

http://businessofsoftware.org/2013/02/gail-goodman-constant-...
Similarly, Offscreen Magazine[0] has a section in each issue called Logbook. It gives an hourly-ish breakdown of a given day for various digital creators, from waking up to falling asleep.

[0] http://www.offscreenmag.com/
What else but Charles Petzold's phenomenal classic CODE: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software? [1]

http://www.charlespetzold.com/code/ [1]
> We're tribal creatures -Nationalism trumps economic interest at the end of the day. History shows this to be true.

Drop the Naturalistic Fallacy, please, and the.... damn.

Is there some actual name for the particular fallacy of predictive sociology being invoked when someone says, "People will do X because it's human nature to do X!"?
You are right that the first victim of war is "truth". But we are beyond classical war, we have global and economically driven war, that is beyond the grasp of normal people. How is it possible that the whole world is at so many "mini-wars", that the world doesn't take notice of the big picture? It's no joke, stupidity or paranoidity, when you say that the in many countries the whole media is in the control of only a few. Everybody knows only as much as he is required to know. In the USA you don't hear about wars that would make you sensitive for the topic, but about things you've already heard a thousand times. The same happens in many other big countries. People see their local news, but it omits the whole picture, just to show emphasize what's important localy. It's so subtle that people would say, that's ok, it's a kind of patriotism, maybe.

You can tell me that I'm wrong, or believe that this is mad, but please have a look at these few resources first. Let's make our decisions objectively and with critical thought as the parent thread's op said.

[1] http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/peace/conflictmap/

[2] http://gizmodo.com/5875194/all-the-worlds-wars-and-conflicts...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts

[4] http://www.warsintheworld.com/?page=static1329446051

Interesting recap of the last 23 years:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_(1...
Consumers don't have to notice, rap genius and other sites considering similar tactics do.
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Yes! Check out OpenTTD at http://www.openttd.org/en/ It has a very active community and has a lot of new stuff compared to the old TTD game.
Cost does not equal value. One could rather say the cost of mining bitcoins is analogous to... the cost of mining gold, not the industrial value it represents.
IIRC, the floppy drive for the C64 had a 6502 just like the C64 did.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_1541 indicates that my memory is correct, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64 says that the chip on the C64 itself is a bit different, though.
I posted a similar thing awhile ago, hopefully this helps.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6488822