skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also, the author makes a really good point that you probably want to help all disadvantaged(unless you're racist/sexist for some reason): why exclude asian girls if they get less help?

That one group is focussed on dealing with the problems experienced by one disadvantaged group does not imply intent to exclude others, it can just mean that they feel that the particular reason that one group is underrepresented are specific and that that is what they are focussed on addressing.

Particularly if the problem they are addressing isn't outright racism/sexism, but disadvantage due to mainstream educational systems being culturally maladapted to the target group, other groups -- even if similarly disadvantaged by the mainstream system -- may naturally not be well served by their particular programs either, and making clear where the focus is helps people to find the right fit for their needs.

Obviously, the ideal state would be to not need such targetted groups, but the existence of disadvantage doesn't mean that there is a good short-term one-size fits all solution.
I wish HN used target="_blank" for story links. I'm often reloading the HN front page, wasting everyone's network resources because I forgot to go back and closed the tab instead. Opening offsite links in a new tab should be the norm for most sites, with few exceptions. Bloggers probably shouldn't open links in new tabs, because I'm rarely following multiple links from a single blog, but directories and news listing sites absolutely should. In addition to sites where following an offsite link might interrupt my session in an annoying manner (his first case), if there's a high likelihood I'll want to navigate to multiple links from a single page, then they should open in a new tab.

Temporary digressions like contextual help text should probably get loaded into a hidden div and use JS to display/hide rather than open in a new tab.
Yes, there are plenty of crap coders and agree with your argument but, again, it's not really the language's problem. Actually, I believe it's quite opposite. It's a side effect of success.

PHP was suitable for new programmers because of how easy it is to deploy, learn. PHP3, the first version of PHP which was widespread, was released during the dot com bubble. When everyone and their mums was into Web. Everyone started writing tutorials, passing their shitty skill set. to new developers. Which produced more crap developers.
That's why this rhetoric is dishonest. It's the use of this specialist meaning of the word freedom in a way which is opposite to it's conventional meaning.

If you stop using this misleading word, the whole GPL thing looks more reasonable, but also less like a moral crusade.
My points weren't criticisms, they were merely highlighting the sentiment that comes from outside "the bubble" that is SV. It is unusual to people outside SV* to see such a high number (the % was just an additional data point that signals to non-tech people how much salaries constitutes tech startups). This has everything to do with the talent war - the market dictates that an engineer's salary must be $foo because Facebook/Google/etc are willing to compensate that much. People are generally curious why that "that's just the way things work" who aren't familiar with it.

> company that sells services and develops products

Here is my criticism now - not all products and services are equal, yet the costs to develop them (in SV) are. FB/Google/etc.'s high revenues dictate that their products and services constitute a developer that costs $foo - they set the market rates. Talented developers are fungible, but their salaries are not - thus the disconnect.

> How much higher would that number have been had Everpix built out their own infrastructure?

I don't have the answer to that question, and probably very few people do. There are two points to be addressed there - (1) could they save money by building their own? mature companies deal with that question all of the time (2) this is a real life indication of how much a software services money can make on one client by "selling pick axes in a gold rush" - thereby singalling a reinforcement to that sentiment.

*(note - I'm in SV)
If Google can't protect its datacenter traffic from the NSA, or from the law, what makes you think DDG can operate outside the law or protect itself from NSA snooping?
Really, there's no such thing as "optimal" because no one has a crystal ball. A portfolio of 100% VTI is indeed diverse, tax-efficient, and has low expenses. Personally, I'd add some amount of VXUS (international stocks) for further diversification and MUB (tax-free municipal bonds) for safety. You could do very well with just these three ETFs, often known as a "lazy" portfolio:

http://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Three-fund_portfolio

Keep in mind, though, that there are no guarantees. Stocks will have bad years, and you should expect that some years they will lose 50% of their value. The key is to choose an allocation that you can live with so you don't panic and sell when things get bad. Keep contributing and rebalance regularly (once or twice a year is usually enough). Tune out all the noise and stick to your plan. Even with these dips, most people expect stocks to perform better than any other asset class in the long term (20+ years).

I'd also recommend The Little Book of Common Sense Investing:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0470102101

It's written by John Bogle, who founded Vanguard to bring diversified, low-cost investing to the masses. Vanguard is different from other companies in that it's client-owned. The Bogleheads forum is pretty good for this kind of investment advice:

http://www.bogleheads.org/

You might also check out Wealthfront and Betterment. They are software-based financial advisors that use Modern Portfolio Theory and the Black-Litterman model to allocate your money optimally given their assumptions about expected returns and correlations between asset classes:

http://www.blacklitterman.org/intro.html

https://www.wealthfront.com/whitepapers/investment-methodolo...

https://www.betterment.com/portfolio/
>an opportunity created for one person //

An opportunity only offered to one person out of a group who would similarly benefit from that opportunity simply based on their racial heritage is racism. Yes. It's entirely unnecessary discrimination.

"All the blue-eyed children may leave early for recess." [not a direct quote AFAIK] - the brown/green/whatever eyed children would equally benefit from early recess.
So is there another service that does what everpix did? I had it in the back of my mind to jump in because it's a service I've really wanted, but didn't get to it before the great shutdown. I've looked at Loom and I use Trovebox, but neither seem to support videos very well, Loom is iOS only, and Trovebox is moving to a different business model.
No matter how imperfect this initiative is, it is so much better than nothing. I frankly never grok the negativism. (Is it a form of nihilism?) I give to the EFF. I speak up whenever the subject comes up. You can, too, and you should find your personal path to support freedom. Our freedom. "An injury to one is an injury to all." Aaron's persecution and death was an injury to all. The Clipper chip was crushed under Clinton -- many other interferences with our lives can and must be crushed. It's never over, it's always worth fighting.

If you think it's insufficient action, you be our new Sam Adams or Patrick Henry! I'll join, with determination and passion.
Especially for the people out there looking for opportunities, do you have a clear number in mind?
I don't know -- if you learn this stuff, it is presumably to use it -- so you'll get repetition from actually doing the stuff? This is quite useless knowledge if you're not going to be using the command line IMNHO (I do use the command line all the time -- I don't see why someone should learn to do that if they're not going to use it though...).
I don't think such statements are totally worthless, but I do see where you are coming from now. Thank you.
You can't prove that you're not a witch.

Someday, the community can wake up and decide that witch-hunting is not a respectable hobby.
Sarah Stierch leaves Wikimedia Foundation over paid editing
In the future, don't let yourself get distracted with accent etc, especially if you want to work in the tech industry. It may be different in Vancouver, but majority of tech workplaces in the US you are going to find people from all language background with heavy thick accent.
You mean it doesn't respect DMCA takedown notices? Because I bet it does.
i.e. Not only is pg a witch but also a liar for not admitting it!

Look we get it. You enjoy being some moral arbiter that has impossible standards so you can act like your better than everyone while accomplishing nothing.
> OSX users do not have this freedom. Hence, prevalence of OSX reduces software freedom.

This doesn't follow. Like most arguments about proprietary software reducing, rather than not providing, software freedom, it seems to rest on the assumption that if proprietary software did not exist, it would be replaced use-for-use with Free software, that is, that license models have no impact on the creation or distribution of software.
Especially for the people out there looking for opportunities, interested to see if you know for how much money would you be willing to leave your job?

I started a new thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7040782
> My (micro-) point was more that memory bugs are going to be inherent in a codec implementation because of the nature of hte problem, obviously not that all of the bugs are going to come from the assembly.

I don't understand this. If you write in a safe language, the compiler rules out the memory safety bugs, regardless of the problem.

> But the macro point is just empirical: the proof that Rust is an appropriate tool for codec development needs to come in the form of a production-quality codec implementation of some non-trivial standard (VP9, say), not a HN post.

Of course, no argument there. I am reasonably confident that we can get there with tuning though, based on our benchmarks so far. :)
Freedom has still not been reduced. This so-called gain in freedom of OSX users to modify the code has come at the expense of a corresponding loss of freedom of Apple to choose whether to release their code or not.
It was very tempting to make that comment. Thanks to schenectasy for stepping up for all of us.
You're very welcome. I missed one or two things, so there will be another update this weekend.
I totally agree with you, it's not a perfect language. However, given the nature of 9/10 web applications (CRUD with some relationships between models), it does it's job just fine.
"We tend to fund technical founders..."

From the article, "What stops female founders?"[1].

[1] Citation: http://www.foundersatwork.com/1/post/2011/01/what-stops-fema...
Amazing. Kudos for all the transparency around your shutdown. I'm still reading through all of this.

I'm founder @ Trovebox and recently posted this which anyone doing a subscription consumer photo service should read.

"Hello 2014, Goodbye Consumer Photo Service" - https://medium.com/p/b1234eaf75b
And those websites that don't honour middle-click or cmd-click to open in new tabs should die in hell.

Looking at you, LinkedIn.
You're welcome! Feedback appreciated.
It's hard to know whether you are supporting or rejecting the GPL.
There was a really great discussion on Reddit (of all places) about the purposes and results of advertising. One of the things someone brought up was that a lot of times, ads are there to reinforce your existing preferences and purchasing decisions, and not to influence your making of them.

Post: http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/14y695/el...

See the first reply to the first post:

> Holy fuck. You're right. I bought a car recently, and while the TV spots had nothing to do with my decision, now when I see them, I sing along with the song and cheer at the TV and shit.

It turns people who bought your product in to people who are fans of your product, which makes them more likely to become repeat purchasers (and less likely to seriously consider other brands when it's time to purchase).
Well, it's true. But if you're paranoid you choose not to believe it.
I love you.

just... throwing that out there.
Some of the syntax has been changing, but the semantics have been the same.
Here's the original technical report:

ftp://publications.ai.mit.edu/ai-publications/pdf/AIM-057.pdf
Nasdaq (which is a stock market) is still underwater from March 2000, so coming up on a 14-year loss.
Hey, you know what? If every black person sees you and thinks "honkey," you will likely experience hurt feelings, and a slight discomfort when in certain neighborhoods. You probably will stop going to those places. It would be very hard to blame lack of progress in your professional or academic career on this perception. You could go almost your whole life without that perception having any tangible manifestation in your life.

If every white person thinks the N-word when he sees a black person, that fact creates an inescapable environment of hostility where anyone would feel completely helpless to create any sort of positive future for themselves. Of course we don't live in a world where everyone is this blatantly racist. The point of this is to explain to you in a different way why racism is more powerful than just "you exclude people based on race." Some people need environments where they can feel comfortable learning, before they can get up to speed and have the confidence to defend themselves against criticism and hostility.

...you should really take a look at the more common definitions of racism to understand why this point of view you have in one held by a minority of people.

Right. Because letting the majority population define which terms an aggrieved minority can use to describe its own situation is completely sensible. What a surprise, the discriminated minority has a different view of the majority's behaviors than do those in the majority!
If you read through the VC correspondence the hang up was that the space simply isn't big enough (>$100M). According to the VCs the hockey stick would have hit a ceiling too low for them to invest.
> The problem is that you don't understand what racism is. Racism isn't just treating someone differently because she belongs to a different race. Racism has more to do with power dynamics than with color of a person's skin.

Some smart people cleared this up for me: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskSocialScience/comments/1rwvc3/why...

To answer "is this racism?", you have to ask "which racism?"
Highlights:

The Harvard team reports that the battery, which they say can be applied on a power-grid scale, uses naturally abundant and small organic compounds called quinones rather than electrocatalysts

[A] conventional metal-reliant flow battery costs an estimated $700 per kilowatt-hour of storage capacity, whereas the Harvard team's metal-free technology would bring those costs down to $27 per kilowatt-hour.
I read this a few times and couldn't understand what pg meant here:

If your numbers go up steeply enough for long enough, you could have eyeballs on stalks and investors will fund you.

What are these "stalks"?
Yes I did edit. My original comment was congratulating & encouraging HN for ignoring & downvoting your comment but then the replies started coming in and your comment was no longer greyed-out, so instead I just changed my comment into my standard copy&paste list and you are now the 9th on the list when the next time I need to post it arises.

That is all.
There's two things to consider here:

1) Sentry is not designed to replace logging therefor things like syslog will never achieve the same result. Sentry is explicitly for catching outliers and TCP is the only method able to store it's data.

2) As with CCP most people no longer use synchronous transports. We even changed the default to be the threaded worker transport. That said, when your user hits a 500 adding 50-200ms is generally acceptable as you've already put the user in a bad situation.
I had a similar experience when I interviewed with LinkedIn almost two years ago.

I remember two rounds of technical interviews with two people in each. In the first I was okay but in the second I did very well.

Then a director came in and interviewed me. After a good chat about technical things and their overall vision for the future he walked me out of the building and mentioned that after what he'd heard from the interviewers, he'd have HR send me an offer on Monday. I was excited!

After nothing happened for a week I emailed my recruiter (in house) and asked what was going on. She said she'd call me the next day but did not. So I decided to drop it for a while.

A month later I sent yet another follow up email and she finally called. Obviously it was rejection.

I felt the whole thing could've been handled better.
Hey Guys,
Thanks for posting this.

Could anyone please clarify for me following things? I have just started to learn about startup capital.
1. Since company is now closed down what happens to Investor's money ? Do they just loose all or do owners have to return it ? ( sorry if this seems pretty noob but I would like to know it )
2. What does 1 year maturity mean in convertible notes ?
3. Shouldn't the Net Operating Income be negative ? Since they had income of $280696 and Expense were $2,665,192.34 ?
Did they count investor's money as income ? or how did they arrive at $2,384,224.67 ?
Thank you for the reply.
Until you've been a victim of the kind of systemic racism they are trying to reverse, maybe consider that you know nothing about how such efforts should market themselves?
I haven't had to use the heater trick, but a few months ago while the water was out in my building and I woke up incredibly thirsty, I did realize that I could scoop the ice out of the icetray in my freezer (it has an icemaker, so there is always ice in it), microwave it to melt it, then drink it.
That's typical for Amazon, Google, etc. You don't have to pass all of them, just get enough of them (especially the more senior ones, although you might not be able to tell who that is) to like you.
Thank you for the precision about Apple products. I may be wrong about the two finger gesture being disabled by default (edited my post to reflect that) -- it was my impression that it wasn't, but regardless I think we can agree it is not the most salient feature to new users. Using two fingers on the trackpad also means I cannot just reach out with my thumb to click but actually need to move my hand to perform the gesture.

My comment may have given the wrong impression -- I am not arguing that forcing links in new windows is a good thing, simply that it is not the anti-pattern people make it to be. In some cases like an app where accidentally leaving the page may lead to data loss or to a form resubmission, I actually think it's an acceptable trade-off and not an awful choice at all. I do agree with the author that in The Verge's case it isn't.

My comment was just based on the (totally subjective, of course) observation that to me that I tend to use a "open/close tabs" flow these days much more than "forward/backward in history", and that the "back" functionality seems less important than it used to be a few years ago because of changes in the way websites are designed.

Issues of choice aside (which seem to be your main grief; I have nothing to argue against it), the usability studies that condemn the practice tend use the fact that it disrupts the "back" functionality as one of their main arguments. My point being: if this functionality is not as important (as is the case for me), maybe this practice isn't so bad after all?
Only seven interviews? You got off easy. I had 10, for a freaking sales job. 3 on the phone (one each with HR, sales, and a sales engineer), then they flew me across the country for a day of interviews - 7 back to back to back...

The thing is, 5 minutes into that first on-site interview I knew I was wasting my time. They hired a new East Coast Sales VP. He started the week prior. When you get hired as a sales VP what you do is bring in all your old cronies from previous jobs. You don't ever make your first hire somebody you don't know. Even though I nailed the interviews (they told me I handled the case study as well as anybody does) I knew there was no way in hell I would get an offer.

I was right, although I did at least get a polite rejection email a week later.

BTW, I probably had my lunch interview at that same sandwich shop.
Android and iOS demand in lock step.  How long will we keep duplicating work?
Is DDG US Company?
I don't have statistics, but Apple sent me to India/Infosys in 2009 to train their programmers, and it seemed about 50/50 to me (I worked with a few hundred people). I have no idea if that's representative, but I have no reason to think it isn't.
I've been trying again to get in to DDG and currently have it as my search provider in my main browser - but the lack of date limitation is a clincher for me.

I did Bing's search comparison again just today and came out on top for Google 3/5 and even on 2/5 searches.

Seems I'm stuck with Google, just wish it was old Google with booleans and code search and such.
EU report reveals massive scope of secret NSA surveillance
The variation I like is this:

An electrical engineer, a mechanical engineer and a software engineer from Microsoft are riding in a car, when they start down a steep hill. Halfway down the brakes go out and the car crashes into a tree at the bottom of the hill. Luckily, no one is hurt, so they get out and start analyzing what happened.

Electrical engineer: Clearly a short-circuit in the ABS system caused the brakes to go out.

Mechanical engineer: No, no, it was an over-pressure situation that caused a brake line to rupture.

They both turn to the Microsoft guy and ask him for his opinion:

Microsoft guy: I don't know, but let's push the car back to the top of the hill and try it again.
"This is pretty industry standard."

It shouldn't be, and didn't used to be (I'm 40 so I've been around software dev for a while).

This kind of behavior is unprofessional and an embarrassment for our industry if we just consider it our industry standard.

It doesn't take much effort to draft a form letter rejection (that is generic enough to avoid any potential for lawsuits, if that's their concern) and even less to send it out. With just a minor amount of work they could act like they were adult humans who treated other people like humans... why not do that?
How can anyone prove where the coins came from if they are spent? If there is a copy of the wallet that is not with this third party and is spent, how can they insure the coins?
I'm not sure if this is an insult, but it reads like one.
I think it's quite funny because like so many quotation-on-image internet memes, it's not what Franklin actually wrote.

This is the actual line:

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

http://franklinpapers.org/franklin/framedVolumes.jsp?vol=6&p...

Some other misattributed variations are here:

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin#Misattribute...
About half a square foot would presumably suffice, assuming an eight foot ceiling.
Ah, please regale us with your tales of successfully combatting racism and evening a tilted playing field. I know many people who need the benefit of your undoubtedly extensive experience in the trenches. I'm sure that your comment is not merely an uninformed effort made from your armchair.
I suppose I am a little paranoid, so I guess that's fair.
Aren't these numbers also so high because they took VC funding? The VC wants to throw the company against the wall as fast and hard as possible to see if it sticks. That means no time to roll out custom infrastructure, and hiring rockstar consultants just to build the product as fast as possible.

The idea is not terrible, it's definitely better than doing everything the right way (tm) for 5 years, just to find out there is no way to fit the market.