skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically, the difference is between, on one hand, having friends who are black and that being an orthogonal characteristic unconsidered in the friendship; and, on the other hand, having friends despite their being black.
I had a Pebble bought for me as a gift and I have to admit, while I'm a technophile I did think it was gimmicky.

Count me as reformed; I fell in love with the Pebble quickly. Now I won't try to tell anyone that it is a do-all device but it has done two things for me.

A. Having notifications pop up on your wrist... priceless. I get email and texts constantly and when I am working on-site I don't have to keep pulling out my phone. I can assess quickly if it's something I need to take time to deal with. I now wonder how I did without this.

B. It has convinced me that this is going to be a very big thing in the future. I find I constantly want the Pebble to do more... like the Galaxy Gear does. I'm not advocating the Gear specifically, but I am saying that having a Pebble has convinced me that this is a mobile device interface (wrist mounted) I want to see mature and that I will be making a standard device type for me.
Perhaps you live in a region with a characteristic natural disaster threat, or maybe you live in an urban area (or at least, you do not draw your water from a private or local-community well).

WV is a low-risk area for various natural disasters [1] . And it is relatively rural and gets good rainfall - folks aren't generally depending on giant city-wide water infrastructure or imported water, but rather on smaller, distributed water supplies that are individually perceived to be rather dependable.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/05/01/weekinreview/0...
I do sympathise with both sides, here. Right now, broadcast TV companies are able to charge cable companies "retransmission fees" in order to carry their channels. It's a decent revenue stream. Aereo have side-stepped this for their purposes.

Aereo are entitled to do this. But I don't blame the broadcast companies for freaking out - if Aereo can do this then the cable companies can too - the broadcast networks will lose their retransmission fee revenue (at a time when they're not exactly swimming in cash anyway) and the cable companies get to boost their profits even more. Which they don't deserve.

The only other solution for the broadcast companies will be to switch off their antenna broadcasts, which would also be a big shame.
Less than 10% of nurses in the United States are male. Why isn't there a hue and cry about this gender imbalance? Is it even a real problem?

There is, but you're probably not that exposed to it often by dint of (presumably) not being part of that industry. But if you look into it, there's concern about the lack of male nurses and a concerted effort to improve diversity (the same for other professions with traditionally female-skewed demographics, like teaching).
You don't have to listen to music with your headphones on. Sometimes I listen to rainy mood, sometimes a podcast or a tech talk, most of the time I'm just wearing them listening to nothing, they are over the ear and noise cancelling.
The SWE K-12 outreach (http://aspire.swe.org/) is probably close to what you're thinking of, though if you meant more of a peer-to-peer "dial a mentor" service I don't think I've seen one. Not that it couldn't exist.

Some other great organizations helping set examples and mentor high schoolers:

She++: http://sheplusplus.stanford.edu/

MentorNet: http://www.mentornet.net/

MentorSET: http://www.mentorset.org.uk/

Technovation: http://iridescentlearning.org/programs/technovation-challeng...

MIT: http://swe.mit.edu/outreach/

There are also several great organizations for women working in computing, who you could reach out to for mentors. PyLadies, DevChix, Systers, Anita Borg, etc... And local tech companies, at Google there were several folks working with local high schools who would put out internal calls for people to go and speak about the cool stuff they worked on.

Speaking of which, Google's Women Techmakers is also shaping up to be a great collection of women doing cool stuff in tech: https://developers.google.com/women-techmakers and https://plus.google.com/communities/100202454944694552166
US Congressmen care about what the money thinks about the US surveillance policy.

The tech industry has more money now than anybody else outside of finance, including the oil industry. It's that simple. Use it.
Congrats Cobi and team, this looks awesome!
They also tend to have a poor comment:upvote ratio, which apparently is used to detect poor quality discussions and penalize them.
Nah. Check-ins only seems to be the point. They don't need to constantly track my location.
It's fairly hard to produce hate speech towards the NSA. It's much more likely to happen when the topic of sexism is brought about.
See my other post: At least a smartphone was a consolidation of communication and entertainment devices. The pebble is none of that.
Does the fact that Aereo owns the Antennas that it leases have any merit in this case?

Also, what harm is being done to the broadcasters?
One need only look at the occurrences of and severity of the markets boom bust cycle before and after the we left the gold standard. We've had no depressions since the great depression and the recessions since then have been far milder than the many depressions/recessions before then. Depressions were a common occurrence under the gold standard, we've had none since we went off it. This doesn't prove causation, but given the role of deflation[1] in many of those recessions/depressions, it's certainly correlated.

The world didn't abandon the gold standard because it was working; they abandoned it because gold is a poor currency that suffered from deflation. Bitcoin will have the same problems, but may succeed anyway because it can't and won't replace the dollar, but will serve as digital gold; it's a good commodity but a poor currency. No one sane will be pricing anything in Bitcoin, they'll spot price in Bitcoin based on the current USD exchange rate.

I'm a Bitcoin supporter, but that doesn't mean I have to ignore history.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_Unite...
Congrats Aaron and team. Great news.
Ah, nice. Open source and lighter weight. This could be a good candidate for the PortableApps.com app store as you wouldn't need the 15.4GB and climbing full bitcoin blockchain on your portable device.
I agree with a lot of this, and sure no one goes out looking for a plumber on Facebook but Faceboook advertising really does work. Tons of case studies show that it is extremely effective especially with CPCs < $.10 and such.
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I disagree with both of these points.

As I see it, the main problem with college is that we as a society have put all of our eggs into a basket which is not owned by we the people (the public). If you would like to see a future in which all Americans go to college, then the cost should be spread across everyone. If you don't, then, I think we have different views of what the future could be. We should go back to free tuition, at least for state colleges, because an education requires so much more material than it did a century ago that stopping at K-12 was shortsighted/irresponsible, and now other countries are eating our lunch. An analogy is the private prison system: when we began outsourcing incarceration we created an incentive for prison industry lobbyists to interfere with the criminal justice system. Show me a private school that costs less than a public one.

Student motivation is a red herring. I've met just as many slackers who didn't go to college. In fact I would go as far as to say that pure book learning without introspection is not conducive to the human spirit. The best things I learned in college were how to redefine myself, and how to explore alternate ways of seeing the world. In essence my conscious and subconscious minds both grew as needed. Sometimes I wish that the US didn't have such a puritanical stance on recreation because we are in danger of creating a dystopian, authoritarian future. I wish with all our wealth and potential we could live more like europeans and invest in culture and the human experience. College isn't a trade school, I mean, who goes there to study besides freshmen?
The PC is dead, and this year’s CES proves it
Disappointed with the comments in here, I was really expecting at least one joke about Python 3 adoption.
It would be more like saying "I'm not racist because my spouse is black".
And, once they have the identity of the yelp reviewers, they can go over to the rip off report website and post, anonymously, the most hideous and vile things about the reviewer and expose their private and personal information without any recourse whatsoever.

Smart tactic. Get their identity and then go harass them. That'll teach them to leave reviews about services and products they have paid for!
>By the time you're 20, you should already be an independent adult.

Is this really a fair expectation? Your mind hasn't really fully matured until your early or mid 20s (25 is the most oft-cited age if I recall). I'd say that yes, when you're 18, you need about 4 more years to become an adult. Maybe spending $40k on a degree you don't really care about isn't the best way to do that, but I hardly think 18-year-olds are adults.
So a business that would be legal if Aero were leasing the equipment to people in their homes is illegal because it's instead in the Aero office and people connect to it over traditional telecommunications?
> A video player is a great thing to sandbox because all it needs is a video output, very limited file access, and very limited gui input. It doesn't need to read all your files, open network connections, or start processes.

Not sure if serious or sarcasm, to be honest, since this seems very far from what we see.

A media player is not simple to sandbox, (as the MacOS X sandbox showed us for example), because:

- you need to open files by yourself, without user interaction, to support playlists,

- you need to open connections by yourself to support video protocol like RTSP, RTMP, RTP,

- you need raw device access to support Webcams, Capture devices, DVDs, DVB tuners,

- you need to access GPU buffers for direct rendering, and/or shaders to do fast filtering or just plain chroma-conversions,

- you need to be able to access the audio output, at low-level, for libsync which is not always doable with the simplified APIs,

- and I don't understand what you mean by "very limited gui input"; how is that less than other programs?

Sure, it can be done, with performance costs but it's clearly not a "no-brainer".
>Well, this is exactly my point -- that this happens regularly, and isn't even commented upon, in many posts on HN when the inner state is, to take an example, a woman discussing her feelings of exclusion or a racial/social minority discussion their feelings of oppression. They're regularly dismissed as being "too sensitive" or having "misinterpreted the situation". But in this post particularly, the vast majority of responses are people who are directly contradicting the (controlled experimental) evidence, and there's very little pushback from the community at large.

I hadn't even noticed this irony! Thanks for pointing it out. It's pretty hilarious.
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Essentially everyone trying to offer services that "improve" Bitcoin is putting themselves in the game to monopolize it. The good old Microsoft "embrace, extend, extinguish" applies just as well to it as to any other technology.
Actually this week, how cold it is was (weather) even more important than the time, or day ... or texts, email, or phone calls. And with Glance (or other apps) this is on the watchface, for well, glancing at.

It was quite alarming as the temperature outside crawled down into negative degrees Celsius and I'm pleased to see it climb back into small positive integers today.
Drinking water isn't the only consideration. People can't take showers, cook with water, or even wash their hands. It wouldn't be a problem if it was one day, but if it goes on it will make living in the area terrible. The real issue is they don't know how long the region will be effected.
The major explanation I've heard is neither of those (though its a more general version of the Bowen explanation), but simple market-specific demand-pull inflation: higher education has increasingly become perceived as essential, so more people want to buy it and those who would have been willing to buy it anyway are less price sensitive, so the market-clearing price goes up.

(This is different than "eating up subsidies", since, while the subsidies are a contributor, they aren't generally viewed as the only, or even the most important, driver of increased demand.)
Haha I'm sorry! I didn't know that, that's why I said "what?" I don't read the bottle because I am a huge beer snob who doesn't ever touch a Budweiser.

But I'm just one of those beer snobs who really likes drinking a good brew, not one that talks about "camel overtones" or other stuff or whatever that means. Reading beer reviews makes me angry.
We only have a choice of which we want to start with. Eventually we end up with both.
This bit made me gasp a bit: "[...] all it needs [...]"

Off the top of my head:

>video output

Meaning: RW access to /dev/dri/cardX on desktop. In an embedded system, replace that with /dev/fbX. In most cases, we're rendering to GL buffers. Do you trust the GL drivers to be completely bug free? (Hint: from some embedded drivers I've dealt with I find it remarkable they work at all.)

>doesn't need to [...] open network connections

How about RTMP streaming? Or DLNA discovery and playback?

Some of the cases may be protected with sandboxing, but I have serious doubts about getting anything near complete coverage.
Point them out and give us a percentage. On top of that it would be nice to see the number of students relying on loans in your category of majors--I suspect (from personal experience) that more well-to-do people would major in Latin or Art History.
This is a handy reminder. We spun up Sentry a while back (like, maybe 1-1.5 years ago?) and spun it back down because logging to it via TCP was unacceptable for us.

For the folks using it, how do you get data to it? Curious how things have shaped up over time.
> ... see the violence and degradation out there? This is the world that you have created ...

No, that is the world that the current tenants have created. These are the people here to turn it around.
The salary quote point which is that a good portion of a professor's salary is paid of the grants they bring in. In addition, they are also often the ones supporting grad students and postdocs. Although this isn't true in all cases, from what I can tell, the professors I've interacted with actually bring in more money to the university than they are being paid. I'm not actually sure where tuition is going exactly.
... and lest anyone think this is limited just to (the extremely helpful and insightful) JL, we (a recent-batch YC company) have been repeatedly and substantially helped on important strategy matters by KN and CL. Reducing their roles to "taxes" and "legal" misses the point completely; they are more like "finance strategy" and "legal strategy". Both have advised us on important structural decisions we made early in our company's life.
Actually, it's not very water soluble at all. It's a large cyclohexane that's relatively non-polar (the first comment in that reddit link agrees). Approximately 5000 gallons of the chemical spilled into the river, so there likely isn't very much of the chemical mixed in with the water. Most likely not enough to seriously harm anyone.
> Can we speed things to being better by being unfair the other way now? Absolutely not.

Do you have any evidence for this? Because prima facie, reaching out to women does get some of them into tech fields, and we know that young women who grow up around women in tech are more likely to become such themselves. Are you claiming that we can't actually influence the number of women in tech by discriminating in their favor? Or are you just asserting that we shouldn't?

> I believe it is analogous (pun) to running pure sound through one equalizer that distorts it and then through another that tries to bring the sound back to true by using your ear. It sounds plausible, but it can never work.

OK, interesting metaphor, but you could say with equal gravity that it's like veering to the right and then correcting by turning left. The metaphors are a way to describe the truth we know, not derive it out of nothing.
Oh, that was the point being made. My view is that VLC essentially is a public facing system, in the same sense that my browser is a public facing system. Sure, it is not as easy to do a targeted attack against my VLC as against my mail client (or against the nginx on my server). But it is fed a lot of untrusted data. The same goes for Chrome, which also uses FFmpeg according to the article.
It completely depends on the type of chemical. Your scenario imagines something like radiation. Perhaps the chemical isn't incredibly toxic and can be flushed out. If someone spilled bleach you wouldn't be able to boil or filter it out but you could dilute it to where it's safe for consumption.
The crappy part of the article is that it provides shallow criticism with no real alternative or solution. There's a link at the bottom to "look" at the most "innovative" workspaces and they're OPEN FLOORPLAN!

So, open floorplan sucks, cubicles suck even more, can't give everyone offices (reduces collaborative work). WTF is one to do?
You cannot understand "infinite numbers" without understanding how equality is defined (bijection).
Do you not root for your country's athletes at the Olympics, and wish that more people would enroll in X so that your country would have a shot at a gold medal?
It only works if you consider quantity to be the only measure of representation.
This is great. I can already see using it for an app I'm working on to optimize the IAP dialog.
>It does when it's a nanny state telling people to spend.

States are not magic. Economics does not suddenly turn into a zero-sum game just because consumers are spending food stamp money instead of "real money" from jobs.
All I want is a digital watch that doesn't look like ass and isn't the size of a small car :/

I've literally flicked through thousands of them and found maybe 2 or 3 that didn't look completely awful. Do people seriously like watches where the manufacturer's name and various bits of other assorted useless text take up half the face?
Yep, and that's quite dangerous.

Especially since you can see often fake videos circulate around, that tell you to download a special software or codec to play them (with malware, of course). WMP also had a scripting/runtime system that could be abused greatly.

Be careful what you download :)
The Pebble isn't that conspicuous. I don't wear it because people notice it (they rarely do). I wear it because it lets me turn off all sound and vibration on my phone without missing any important calls or messages, and it allows me to filter urgent calls/texts from non-urgent ones without taking my phone out (even in places that don't allow phone use, like movie theaters). These are useful features for anyone with a phone, and more than justify the Pebble's existence by themselves.
An amusing and unexpected response, but while you're here, I'd be interested to know your read on this. Do you believe that there is a material % of such folks? Is it the sense you get that the incidence is similar to that found in other industries? Do you disagree with the other notions re: access or class-vs-race?
Care to provide some arguments to support your statement?
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Not hate, cynicism. Talk's cheap and tends to benefit the speaker.

The rhetorical arc of the piece is public self-exoneration. I don't think you can reasonably argue otherwise.

PG isn't required to give a deposition of his thoughts on the matter. He could remain silent and continue working on what's important to him.

Or more interestingly, he could launch YC initiatives to get girls coding, shift resources towards some meaningful contribution, something more tangible. Possibly he's done that, and combined with aforementioned silence he might be cruising quite comfortably.

Instead he writes a piece designed to keep the 'more moderate people' from thinking YC sexist, a piece that changes nothing (the flame war abounds) except public perception.

See above, "working on what's important to him," with a certain wry taste.
They don't have a right to a revenue stream just because it is there. It really should have little-to-no bearing on the case other than the networks' eargerness to pursue.

In my opinion it wouldn't be bad if the networks had to pay the cable companies to get carried--after all, they are essentially just improving reception for viewers, letting the networks display more ads than they otherwise could.
> Yeah yeah, this is where you go off about "in practice". Still wrong. In practice it doesn't prevent anything, in fact is is the practices used by companies (and people) that prevent them from using GPL, not the other way around.

You're glazing over a lot of practical issues. For example, if you charge money for a product you are distributing under the GPL, once it has been purchased once, nobody else needs to purchase it because the first customer can simply give it away to everyone for free and you have no recourse.

Can you think of even one GPL product that has been successful through sales of GPL licenses? Because I really can't. In practice, companies that make money from GPL software almost never make their money from selling the software.
How realistic is that? Neither facebook nor google require a photo id\birth certificate so real name is vaguely plausible name + we will kick you off if we find out you lied. Not exactly something that I would present to a judge as evidence.
Another Charleston native here, I think you're spot on. 300,000+ people are without water, yet the media's focus is still on the drama surrounding Chris Christie's traffic jam.
As stated by others, Aaron happened to be involved in a copyright issue relating to his legal situation. But his most significant impact on the world is not about copyright specifically but freedom in general. He founded Demand Progress and was key in the fight against SOPA. That's the significance.
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Says the guy who prints it out using a computer (and some sort of word-processor).
Even FEMA doesn't recommend you store that much water - they were recommending one gallon per person per day for three days before considering anything else (climate, type of emergency, children/pets/elderly/sick people). Plus you have to make sure that it hasn't expired or gone bad... 40 gallons is a lot more than people will consider storing. Hell, I don't even have space for 40 gallons of water anywhere. I barely have any room for a 3 day stash of food/water and a first aid kit. Plus maybe some of these people do have a good amount of drinking water stored up for an emergency, but there is no ETA on cleanup yet so they have to prepare for the worst. Even 40 gallons isn't enough if this goes on for a week for a family.

Also as a co-owner of a small fast food restaurant (in northern california), I can't use stored water for anything related to running the business. 40 gallons is a literal drop in the bucket in one day of use too, let alone however many days it will take to clean up the spill. That's a lot of businesses closed right there because they literally can't do anything to prevent that from happening. That alone, even before considering individual water needs, is a big deal.