skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) To understand the perception others may have of of things I say and to know when I don't understand something enough to talk about it. Knowing that my life experience has differed from that of others and that my statements are perceived differently because of my privileged background allows me to more efficiently communicate and prevents faux pas (like the original PG one that caused this whole furor in the first place).

2) To build empathy. Recognizing privilege allows me to more readily understand those who are not identical to myself and relate to them. In addition to making me (I feel) a better person, this enables me to more easily befriend a diverse set of people.

3) By consciously thinking about privilege as a concept, real toxic social and political structures which can be actively deconstructed become even more evident.

I see people complaining frequently about the use of the word "privilege" as though it's some kind of pejorative being used against them; in general, it's not. Rather, privilege is a way of thinking about the effects of one's background on their social and economic position by identifying taken-for-granted advantages that society has granted them.

Frankly when I first started learning about the concept of privilege it seemed obvious to me: of course those with different backgrounds have different sets of advantages. But thinking about the concepts consciously and with the ability to label them has really helped me to both identify inequalities and combat them where I am able.
I noticed you made a very conscious effort not to identify the gender of this person. I sense some amount of obsessive-compulsiveness.

I don't mean to offend you, but perhaps the problem is within you, and that your own over-analysis of your friend's behavior is what is ruining the relationship? Lots of people engage in small talk, very often. You may be focusing on it too much. And perhaps you're holding your friend to a higher standard of deep conversation than others - so you don't notice the small talk of other people.
Amsterdam and environs is an exceptionally good location for internet startups due to the massive cheap bandwidth available there (datacenters are expensive though).
If we are allowing the appeal to authority fallacy then neither would Baron Schwartz write this article out of ignorance. We have two different authorities disagreeing here.
With this headline and then reading the content I feel like this was more of a marketing exercise than a legal one.
Maybe you have ADD [serious]. During the school year, I can't focus on reading even 5 pages of textbook. It's only after I started taking adderall could I blaze through 100s of pages per day.
they're back...
Users: Thrilled. Conversion Rates: Up. Sales: Unchanged.
Most likely Krugman didn't choose the title.
I didn't believe that until it occurred to me that they could be using the http referrer to reward the affiliates. The links themselves don't seem to contain an affiliate identifier. Is that the case?
> > If you find this comment grating, well, let me translate it into geek-speak: before jumping in to comment, please Read The Fine Manual. :)

> Honestly not sure what that last reference is. mmm, something-something console game/board game, I think. -1 geek point to me.

http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/r/RTFM.html
Although you have to realize that there are people who see 'equality' as mythological, based on analyses of gender and race that see them as inherently hierarchical through their social construction (basic reasoning reveals that race isn't just skin color and gender is not sex organs and characteristics). Unfortunately these people are few in number, and they're mostly women and non-white people, so no-one listens to them anyway.

If we sympathize with those folks, HN comment threads become even more futile.
In particular, patent GB630726 by Leo Szilard, Producing neutrons, covering nuclear chain reaction, was one such secret patent. I think it probably was a good idea to keep that secret.
> As for the first article, as I've already said, I already knew (in an intellectual sense) that being poor is a disadvantage.

This is not the point of the essay.

> I'm in dire need of enlightenment it seems.

Heh. Ok, I'm out! :)
I'm glad I practiced mathematics and writing and read lit and history in school.

I learned a lot of great supplementary things during that time fueled by my curiosity, but without the sort of mediocre communal baseline, I might have just spent all of my time listening to the full catalogs of obscure punk labels and mastering ideal StarCraft strategies. Fun times, of course, but it's nice to pepper that with some traits and knowledges society might need too.

Some homework is a waste of time. Other parts of it are just repeated application of principles that require drilling for deep concepts to really hit home. When you're a student faced with the work, it's unlikely you will be able to reliably tell the difference, in order to pythonize the bad and practice the good.
Who runs OpenSSL? Is it again volunteer?
I think big companies need to step in and help creating infrastructure for these big projects.
Yeah I dont see it at this point, so fairly fast turnaround.
Is there a good Chrome extension that splits up the text into multiple pageviews each requiring a click-through and inserts ads around the perimeter of the leftover single-paragraph block?

277wallst kinda had it going in that direction, but they clearly haven't arrived there yet.
Yes; try calling someone a 'spaz' in the UK.
Says the person who wrote a hateful takedown of the valley, the homeless, and 'white guys.'

Also, it appears you followed a simple node tutorial and you are calling it a "platform." I'm not sure jealousy is the correct word here. If writing blog posts and following tutorials is your idea of being a developer, I'm not surprised you had a hard time in the Bay Area.

Put in the coding time, stop overselling yourself, and maybe then you will be attractive to potential employers. Blaming your failure on everyone else isn't getting you anywhere.
I didn't identify the gender, because I didn't want that to affect anyone's evaluation. It was a choice. Relation to OCD, zero.

And really, small talk is well understood, and it's something everyone does sometimes. I feel like it takes a special kind of ... something ... to literally avoid saying anything of substance, ever.
Probably not, given the nature of long-term OEM agreements; the shortage is just due to early supply ramp-ups going into the Christmas season (the R9 series cards were press-released in late September 2013).

Apple has been an ATI customer for 10+ years IIRC .
The Logistics of Shark Tank from One Contestant
Who is the impostor?

Gwen_Bell or GwenBell?
Chromebooks are very intriguing to me. Currently I use a MacBook Air and iPad Air for computing (C#, Java, ObjC programming, Photoshop, and basic office stuff such as word and Excel). I primarily run Win7 due to the VPN client my company uses only working with Windows. But if that changes. I may look elsewhere.
Correct me if I am wrong, but if the govt pages continue to link to these newly reborn link spam pages, certainly these expired domains have higher link value than a brand new fresh domain?
Yes, all-volunteer. There are no ongoing commercial sponsors for that project.
> I honestly don't get it. You have all the same opportunities men do, at least in this space.

No. Just no. It's true that we have the same opportunities to TRY (i.e., submit resumes, build what we wish, etc.), but not to actually be IN the space. Have you ever been interviewed and had a male interviewer walk into the room, take one look at you, and immediately change his body language and adopt a condescending tone? Had it happen more than once in a 2 week period? I have. Let me tell you how fun that was. I hadn't even opened my mouth yet.

This is just one example of how entry for women can be a challenge. Clearly not everyone looks at women so blatantly with discomfort, but the fact that it even happens to a noticeable extent is enough to posit that there are completely disparate opportunities for men and women in tech.

There are so many more non-negligible ways women have more of a challenge to enter the tech world, but I wanted to quickly illustrate one example to bring attention to the utter fallacy of your statement.
The next question to ask then would be, "do marketing managers who would hire these guys care about the ethics, or simply the perceived competence of the shop?"
Reading Your Palm for Security’s Sake
Ladar had a hard enough time making ends meet with the service as it was, adding something like that to the mix would have alienated a huge portion of his userbase.

You would think his users would be pretty savvy but he spent lots of time and money walking people through simple tasks like configuring Outlook or Thunderbird to check their email. I'm pretty sure support was his biggest operating expense.
Obviously, VM should have no access to audio outputs, display driver should be rewritten to scramble output to be only viewable using a Lenslok-like device and the whole setup should run on a isolated computer staying in a clean room with a dead-man switch installed that - in case of unforeseen consequences - would quickly power a whole apartment down and call for emergency.
> Code becomes less OO

Frankly...good. If there is one thing Java desperately needs, it's less OO code.
Gwern addresses this issue in his essay, "The Melancholy of Subculture Society" [1]. In it, he focuses on this very issue. Society is fragmenting as information technology allows people to congregate by interest rather than by geography. As a result, we have deep conversations online, with others in our subcultures, but shallow (or even nonexistent) conversations with those who happen to be geographically close to us, but with whom we do not share interests.

I've noticed this in my own life, to a certain extent. I have deep and fascinating conversations with people online about all sorts of topics. But off the Internet, when I don't know if you're interested in the same things that I am, I'm a bit (well, more than a bit) boring.

[1] http://www.gwern.net/The%20Melancholy%20of%20Subculture%20So...
Probably related: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1317642

edit: actually, maybe not. But similar deal, and more context than just a shopping cart.
Have you considered the possibility that your friend may have a brain tumor?
Yet another example of why to both sign release artifacts AND verify them is important.

Also, if you're running the public website for a security lib or core FOSS package, expect more attacks by kiddies trying to build rep... so very conservative tech choices (mostly static website served from a read-only fs) and defensive practices are de rigueur.
This is definitely paid linking. I own a very popular travel website and friends with other popular travel related sites. I can confirm that Expedia has contacted us to purchase links. It's not really news and very well known in the travel community. Often their pay is as low as $10 for a link.
"I'm most bullish on bitcoin when I read articles such as this one .... it reveals how little anyone really understands money or economics."

That is an incredibly arrogant statement, considering the article is from a Nobel prize winning economist and you did nothing to refute or undermine his actual points or references.
ya that line was really out of left field...
Do you honestly think they are not paying bloggers? They've paid PLENTY of bloggers. I get these emails all the time.
I find it interesting that you combine 'left-thinking' politics with anti-Israeli mentality. I consider myself fairly leftist, but mostly pro-Israeli.

At the same time, this is an actual action that the church has taken, so it isn't really inflammatorily anti-Israel. I actually find this as a creative and open-minded method of opening the question.

I'm actually happy to see the link isn't dead. As long as HN doesn't descend into a political focused site, and it isn't just propaganda, I appreciate seeing as many sides and opinions of an issue as possible.

We'll never make progress if we can't get the die-hards to open their minds just a bit.
"I don't know Erlang's stance on this."

Erlang's stance is probably irrelevant to anyone in the Go/Rust/C/C++ etc community; it does so many things differently that its experiences are unlikely to be useful. I'm pretty sure it's M:N, but, for instance, it also trivially has a NOT-stop-the-world GC, which is something that not many languages can say. Not only that it isn't "stop the world" but that it's also fairly trivially so. It doesn't have synchronization problems because it basically doesn't have synchronization. (In the OS sense. Of course your user code may have various sync concerns, but there's no OS-level race conditions, or memory race conditions, etc.) It pays for these characteristics, but also reaps various benefits.

(It's a pity that I don't know of any great single chunk of documentation on the Erlang VM I can point to; links solicited. It's such a different beast. Someone interested in learning about how it's different without necessarily learning Erlang would probably better just studying the VM itself.)

P.S.: Yo, 'sup.
Correcting the record on the NSA recommendations
Corrected. The link in the comment above is explanatory.

Reference: http://atriangle.github.io/old-fordesigners.html
I liked David Goodger's attached comment, that the real problem is running eval / exec on untrusted input.

There's probably a corollary that no input is trusted.

But eh, I've had scratchpad scripts where I lazily used exec or eval on commands that were programmatically generated (not entered by user or from outside programs).
Exploiting Roku
you are mistaken. This was the case until about 2008 or so... here is a quote from matt cutts.

"On expired domains, Matt said Google tries to reset pagerank/links for all expired domains to zero when they are registered by someone new. They don’t try to penalize the expired domain, but they also don’t want to give credit for the previous owner’s links."

http://www.seo.com/blog/conferences/matt-cutts-does-domain-r...
A few historically interesting architecture books that are now available for free online are:

Thornton, James E, Design of a computer: the Control Data 6600
http://ygdes.com/CDC/DesignOfAComputer_CDC6600.pdf

Gordon Bell, Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware Systems Design
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gbell/CGB%20Fi...

Levy, Henry M., Capability-Based Computer Systems
http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~levy/capabook/
See this talk: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity12/evaluatio...
Unlikely and besides it wouldn't even work because they're guest posting on other domains than the one they own or would have registered.
if post.created_at < 5.minutes.ago

That reads like "if post was created less than five minutes ago", i.e. if the post is more recent than five minutes. However, if "5.minutes.ago" gives you a timestamp, as is reasonable, then that actually means "if post was created more than five minutes ago", i.e. the very opposite of what it would mean in English. Whoops!

A more sensible syntax might be:

if post.creation_date < now - 5*minutes

"ago", "from_now", "since_now" etc. are especially despicable in a language where you can just use + and -.
No. These "guest posts" are not quality articles. Typically they are written from third world countries to pump out as many articles as possible. They are tricking bloggers pretending it's a guest post but in reality it's being used for link bait.
For more running related books you should check out "Once a Runner" by John L. Parker Jr. [1], and "Eat and Run" by Scott Jurek [2].

[1] http://www.amazon.com/dp/1441800905
[2] http://www.amazon.com/dp/0544002318
In the age of System 6 and early System 7, before Open Transport, there was MacTCP, an add-on TCP stack, originally sold by Apple for $2500.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacTCP

http://tidbits.com/iskm/iskm3html/pt4/ch17/ch17.html
The mean would certainly be n! (note that it is possible, and even likely, that you may create the same sorting multiple times by random chance).

The median, which I don't think you're referring to, is something else (I imagine it would be substantially less than the mean).

(See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_distribution)
Usually there is an iframe that drops a cookie on Expedia's (or whoever's) domain. The usual deal is the partner gets paid on any conversions within 30 days of dropping the cookie, with the newest affiliate winning, but there are also more complicated source attribution schemes out there.
Please take it easy on this person and don't turn this into a lynch mob. I up voted it for a genuine differing perspective. I agree that "the valley" ( including SF ) has its warts, but on second thought this post is hardly coherent enough to be taken seriously. To the OP I suggest you delete this post forthwith lest it come to haunt you. Think about the problem more deeply. As others have pointed out, your mention of "tumblr" and "cryptographically securing your work with git" betrays a sophomoric lack of understanding software engineering.
+1 for Amsterdam. Ask for the Crux.
That looks right to me. This is a very important calculation to do in order to avoid getting 100x the number of samples that you really need.

Essentially the same calculation applies to classification error.
Would love to see proof. Care to share the email?
The problem being for any competitive keyword you're almost assured not to rank with completely white hat practices.
I think this is just data point N that's consistent with so-called "higher education", if not government schooling alone, being increasingly revealed to be a very inefficient -- where not outright distortive or parasitic -- phenomenon that's simply a holdover from a previous age. Whether we call that the Middle Ages, or the early Industrial era, etc. It's clearly an anachronism, in terms of process and technology and assumptions. Good riddance! Not all "education" is good. And not all learning requires "education", formal or otherwise. Book learning can occur outside/without a classroom/school paradigm. And much of the correct-vs-false mechanisms and signal-extraction-or-broadcast mechanisms of traditional education can be replaced, or at least massively automated/optimized, with software. And like the general phenomenon where information bits want to be free, an increasing amount of static educational material is going to become effectively free and public domain. First the purely static experiences, like text, but an increasing amount of the dynamic and interactive experiences as well.

Education, government and banking are all up for yet more huge disruptions and shifts due to computers and the Internet.
This is by design because EnterpriseDB (based on Postgres) is basically intended as a replacment for Oracle. Anything commercial that uses fancy Oracle features would want to look at this because it would be easier to support.
Sadly it's only 20GB traffic but then again for £1 per year that seems okay.
I call this phenomenon "language skeuomorphism". See this comment I posted some time ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5056667
Not as much as many would have you believe, though aiming for A/B grades in your core curricula would be a good thing generally. In many colleges with grade inflation (and this particularly includes more selective schools), anything less than a 'B' is pretty much the mark of death. In engineering or STEM programs, it's not unusual for the median grade in and early "weeder" course to be a D or F.

In many cases, what a high GPA shows is that you've got a highly developed ability to get along with the system. For positions in which that's important, you'll get higher consideration than someone with a lower GPA.

There are a lot of observations about how grades don't correlate well with innate ability. There are several well-known cases of highly successful tech entrepreneurs who'd dropped out of college (Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg). Though I can also think of many who've completed undergrad or advanced-degree programs as well. Robert Pirsig in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance notes that his best students (he was a college professor for a time) got the worst grades. Of course, the worst students did as well, so don't be guided by false equivalence. My experience is that if you're actively and directly questioning material, you may well find your nominal academic performance suffers for it.

For tech in particular, execution matters far more than GPA, and having a solid project or projects under your belt will amount for far more than a high GPA. I know and have worked with many people who lack a formal college degree but who were absolutely brilliant in their work. Sadly, the lack of degree can limit opportunities and/or upward mobility in many firms, though this may change, particularly with recent trends in college costs and financing.
> GODDAMN THOSE LAZY WHORES FOR WANTING EQUAL PAY FOR THE SAME WORK.

Well that straw-manned quickly.
I read somewhere that Solaris has the best support for non-blocking disk IO. Does anyone know if that's true/know more about that?
Nice. I love the minimal approach. Another site like yours is http://www.NatureSoundsFor.Me which has a whole bunch of other sounds like bees, cicadas, sheep, whales, and more. I like your UI better though, it's super simple and feels like an app. I made one too a while back http://TimeforZen.com but it's in bad need of a redesign.

I LOVE your "Fade to Slient in ___ minutes" feature. Perfect for inducing sleep.
I think half the point of this is the straight-faced, detailed examination of exactly how terrible this proposed sort is.

Or at least that's the part that made me start giggling...
They might be looking for client addresses of specific targets. Then again, if they were trying for a "bank shot" attack on some particular target, they almost certainly wouldn't be trashing the front page to let the world know that the whole site is compromised.
These are direct links, not affiliate links, and there are no hidden iframes stuffing cookies as you suggested later. These links aren't part of any referral program.
OS X cross toolchain for Linux and FreeBSD
> The less the language actually specifies, the more likely you are to encounter the situation where two Rust libraries can't work together because they actually work under Rust-Alpha (some twiddling of the knobs) and Rust-Beta (some other incompatible twiddling of the knobs).

We are explicitly trying to avoid this. Libraries should be able to work in M:N or 1:1 mode, or some combination of the two, without having to rewrite code. This change was carefully designed to allow this.

> Do they realize that this was a huge step towards potential fragmentation of the language?

We are very much intending to minimize fragmentation. Projects like alternative standard libraries are discouraged for this reason.
I tried to cancel my membership, but there's no way to do it online without giving them a call. They won't pick up if you call, you have to press 1 and 1 again to get a callback.

Shady and left a bad taste in my mouth. Would not try again.
I'm able to program for hours straight - just books knock me out for some reason. Even ones I want to read.
> Erlang's stance is probably irrelevant to anyone in the Go/Rust/C/C++ etc community; it does so many things differently that its experiences are unlikely to be useful. I'm pretty sure it's M:N, but, for instance, it also trivially has a NOT-stop-the-world GC, which is something that not many languages can say.

This is the same as Rust.
Offer is still running - further information on the specific offer than just the WHT link can be found here: http://pwyw.vpn.sh

Nice find on the WHT link though :D
I think you're neglecting to consider the possibility of seismic communication by doing a lot of client-side computation to make the CPU fan kick on and off.
Martin MacDonald's thoughts on this subject (Big Brand SEO Spam): http://webmarketingschool.com/big-brand-seo-spam/