skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely however that sort of defense against specific manifestations of bigotry can be evidence (assuming proof is practically unobtainable). For instance, if I were accused of hiring practices that are biased against black people, pointing out that I have only hired black people would be evidence (if not proof, in this hypothetical and silly black and white example...) that the accusations are false.
Why I never hear of 50-50 ratio in plumbing, mining, or other typical male jobs?
> It made me so incredibly sick. I've never eaten a breakfast that actually gave me a headache AND made me want to puke.

I'm not sure if this is so much looking for a culinary miracle as looking for something non-toxic.
> If they haven't needed to fix the bug in all these years just writing that script was obviously a good decision.

Exactly this. There are an unbounded number of bugs which will cause this single symptom. I think detecting the symptom is exactly the right solution.
Elop and Nadella should lead Microsoft, says Gartner analyst
Mobile ISP image recompression
They are reboadcasting something that was already broadcast to the public for free, although time shifted and in a different medium. I see it as the same as selling open source software.
Wow these are all great resources! Thank you. My club is in the Phoenix AZ suburbs, but thank goodness for webcam. I've patched in colleagues from my company (in MA) before. Of course the kids all wanted to know what video games they have made, and how much money programmers get paid :)
It is also a common belief by some people that breathing air is necessary to stay alive
Inflation isn't the devil, severe inflation is; predictable mild inflation is stimulative to an economy. The devil you should be paying more attention to is deflation, even mild deflation makes the economy sluggish. People might like cheaper things, but they don't like lower wages and retailers certainly don't like lowering prices continually.

Your comment leads me to believe you confuse money with wealth. If inflation is stealing your savings, you're saving wrong. Cash is not for saving, it's for spending. Save assets, not cash.
No one considers assaulting ones neighbors sonically with a radio acceptable, why is it so different with your lunch?

Trust me, your sandwich is no better to anyone else than your choice in music. Leave it in the breakroom.
If I recorded NBC TV shows, burnt them to DVD and sold them on for profit I would be violating the law, despite it also being "logically similar". It isn't as simple as that broadcast being "for $0".
Anyone who could stare at that all red background for more than a few seconds is obviously color blind so they can't be blamed.
PG is asserting that these particular women, Jessica, Kirsty, and Carolynn, are not sexists.

Responding with statistics about women in general, rather than relevant information about those particular women, is problematic.
And if they used one antenna and hooked it up to multiple DVRs, would it be any different from a technical standpoint? The same signal is transmitted, the same broadcast is collected, and the same set of users get to view the same content in the same way. The intent of the legislation wasn't pushed for by the Antenna Maker Lobby(tm) to maximize the number of antennas in the world. It was to prevent a middleman from doing a mass reselling of over the air content without paying licensing fees.

If one is legal, the other should be as well. And if one is illegal, the other should be as well. Anything else would be insane. IMO, both should be legal.
Having such a simplistic worldview must be relieving.
Lottery winners are not average. Since the lottery is well-known to be a tax on stupidity, they are abnormally innumerate.
I would like to see the relationship between "wearables" and smartphones reversed.

Ideally, most of the functionality of a smartphone will be realized in a watch/bracelet. Then, you could just access your data using various cheap dumb-terminals (e.g. tablets and phones). And, by "cheap", I mostly mean something that you could afford to lose since it wouldn't need to have a large cache of your data to be useful.

In other words, we're still keeping the consolidation, just moving it to a different place.
Someone always always makes the same point as you and for some reason it always manages to infuriate me

It has been so thoroughly brought up and smacked down that at this point, I'm going to be charitable (?) and assume that this guy is just trolling and/or meta-trolling at this point. Take a deep breath and let it go.
>But what if real name was forced, like on facebook

Facebook doesn't force real names in practice, I know a bunch of people who have Facebook pages under non-real names and a bunch of joke ones, ones for dogs, one for a trash can. Really, Facebook doesn't seem to care to enforce these.
I tend to agree. It certainly appears people are assuming just because pg wrote his thoughts on women in programming that he must somehow be held responsible until all problems - real or perceived - are alleviated in this domain. Don't blame the messenger.
I backed them on Kickstarter; glad to see they're open sourcing the code.
I'm on my phone at the moment, but I did something similar except avoided the counting. I have a shell function called `ct` for "climb tree" where you specify the name of the directory you want to climb to; calling it will place you in the first directory above cwd whose name matches the argument and in addition I wrote a bash completion module for it so I only have to type minimal characters. I'll post the source for both shortly.
The Origin of the 8 Hour Work Day and Why We Should Rethink It
Great stuff. $20? You should be charging 10x that.
Hi John, Love the concept of RunScope. Want to talk to you about a possible partnership. Pls email me; my email address in my profile. Thanks.
>Am I the only one who thinks that the failures were intentional - that the whole mix-up is a passive-aggressive way of herding the USA into eventual single-payer?

Probably not the only one. I don't think they were intentional, but I pray you're right because single-payer is a much superior system.
Wolfenstein 3D Clone Tutorial
The Lesson For Startups in Paul Graham's Blunder
http://www.quora.com/Racism/Why-is-Im-not-racist-homophobic-...
Whoa there, Mr. Ranty Pants. I was with you up until you decided to paint every Pebble owner with the conspicuous consumption brush. Given the cheap, utilitarian look of the Pebble, I have a hard time believing that more than a smattering of owners have one to go "look at me! I have a Pebble!"

Folks find utility in owning a Pebble, and as an extension, in how they choose to integrate tech into their lives. Do you want to be the guy in the recent xkcd cartoon[0]?

[0] http://xkcd.com/1314/
When someone crushes the industry average in hiring an under-represented group, you really have to ask yourself what more can they do?

Being specific - are you suggesting more outreach? Overpaying to take funding opportunities away from others? Lowering the bar? Offering more coaching to promising candidates?
Thanks for this, I'd been wondering why mine was turning on all the time and I'd forgotten about that setting. Settings->Display->Motion
Shame on you, letting facts and reality ruin what some poor guy thought must be a really good argument.
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If using one antenna to capture and retransmit a show to a single person is legal, and it is (since households simply do that) I don't see how using more private, leased antennas to retransmit a show is anything but a blatant copy of the legal model.

The problem is that the law is nonsensical in the first place, which is why you can approach it from either side and get almost identical results.
Hiring family can be tough. If you would hire your Mom, would you also fire her?
HIPAA is easier than PCI. PCI involves not only concrete technical controls, but also a for-profit bureaucracy.

Neither are particularly meaningful from the POV of software security.
Entertaining karate cat
This is a nice and funny pic of a karate cat!
I really miss Zagat for restaurant reviews. (Thanks for nothing Google.) It seemed to attract a much more thoughtful and informed type of reviewer. For lack of better options, Yelp is still better than nothing but you get a lot of reviewers with seriously unrealistic expectations. My favorite are the reviews for things like (relatively) not-too-expensive NYC hotels that complain about things like the room being too small.
As you say, the strong social justice momentum in the US has made it easier for people from lower class backgrounds to be admitted to top-tier schools.

This does not mean that it is easy, nor common. The measurement is against a low base.

The fact of the matter is that being born lower-class means that it is very likely that you will not move out of that class during your lifetime.

Lots of interesting data here: http://www.pewstates.org/projects/economic-mobility-project-...

WRT the ease of breaking into Silicon Valley, I don't have any basis for comparison. As you may have inferred, I'm a person from a lower class background who broke in during the early-mid-90s and had my life forever changed as a result. Including class mobility.

My anecdotal point above was just that, an anecdotal point.
Add ?share=1 as a parameter at the end to get rid of the nagging modal window.
When they're wielding ridicule like this and you defend yourself, you look weak. You're playing into the frame. The sane people who are only superficially concerned with the issues at hand are first and foremost repulsed by weakness. The appropriate response to ridicule of this sort is to laugh at the accusers and give them a wedgie. Like it or not, that's how you win the crowd.
One can overlook one's own prejudice with regards to a few friends from categories which their disregard, having gotten to know them as /people/, and still regard strangers in those categories with disdain.

You can also be married and be sexist.
> For instance, if I were accused of hiring practices that are biased against black people, pointing out that I have only hired black people would be evidence [...] that the accusations are false.

Without information about the external constraints on your hiring, I'm not sure it would really constitute meaningful evidence (e.g., if the entire available employment pool was black, hiring only blacks wouldn't be evidence that the process you had implemented wasn't biased, just that the bias has no opportunity to manifest.)

(This is the kind of thing that would work mostly to burden shift, but then the burden would already, IMO, be on the person making the accusation from the start.)

OTOH, it would be very challenging (though not impossible) for anyone to have evidence that your system was biased against blacks with a hired-all-blacks outcome.
Thanks, we're glad to see the market recognising potential here. It's still early days but the support we're seeing is very promising.

Changes to the checkout process are dealt with regression testing. As for supporting new retailers (even niche ones), feel free to email us at founders@amber.io to support your site.

As for Magento and other platforms we're in discussions to support them too.
Sure, if you want to read capitalism v.s. communism into this.
Hasn't this been a "thing" for decades? When I was a little kid we'd get supercar magazines and they'd be full of advertisements for Ferrari and Lamborghini "kits".
An assertion that female behaviour or aptitude differs from male behaviour or aptitude in a way that casts women in a positive light is valid.[1]

An assertion that female behaviour or aptitude differs from male behaviour or aptitude in a way that casts women in a negative or possibly negative light is evidence of sexism and something that must be fixed.[2]

[1] http://hbr.org/2011/06/defend-your-research-what-makes-a-tea...

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/world/us-news-blog/2013/feb/05/gi...
I didn't intend to particularly provide a definition for cynicism so much as deflect the idea I was writing out of hatred.

>This piece, seen as a consequentialist act, would be a gambit played to calm a possible negative tide in feminist circles toward YC, that might have resulted in YC getting fewer (qualified!) female applicants... which would be bad for business.

Precisely, with a possible qualifier on 'feminist circles'--moderate, maybe even conservative feminist circles.

By which I mean to say, he's pointedly ignoring the feminist concerns outside of the most mainstream: even those that have a point.

Which is why this isn't a conversation! There is no interchange of ideas happening here, only the inevitable flame war spawned by a HN gender topic.
You can only determine which deserves more weight by your ability to change an outcome or your level of devotion to that outcome being changed. Women clearly have a vested interest in reducing negative outcomes for their group, just as furries, latinos, gays, asexuals, etc do for their own groups.

If you're arguing that it's silly to place all our emphasis on a single group rather than trying to make society better by not giving preference to any group, that would be a potentially valid argument however, it's one that likely wouldn't survive outside a classroom setting.

History has shown us that the banding together of some groups (civil rights movement for blacks, women's suffrage for women) has worked to enact change.

I'd assume that a psychological influence towards change may be that it's easy to feel sympathetic to a group when you have a personal connection with one of its members. Having no clear members to connect with (in a world where no groups are given preference) would prevent people who are close minded from feeling sympathetic towards change. That is simply an assumption though. I tend to lean that way because it has been shown that facts don't win arguments(1). As such, I am doubtful that providing evidence to harassers about the ill effects of their harassment or evidence about the potential benefits of them stopping would have any effect on their behavior.

In addition, the problem of harassment, bigotry, and prejudice is one that is both complex and large in scale. It seems logical to break this larger problem into smaller batches (i.e. working on the most populous groups that are affected) in order to promote immediate change instead of waiting for a solution to completely solve the problem (which is unlikely to exist).

(1) http://bigthink.com/think-tank/the-backfire-effect-why-facts...
One reason is that you get greater returns by diversifying. Unfortunately, diversifying correctly is hard. A second reason is that younger people typically can afford to invest more aggressively and older people should typically invest more conservatively. So an investment strategy depends on your personal goals and attitude towards risk. Finally, it doesn't take personal aptitude into account. By investing in an index fund you can inexpensively get average performance, but you can get greater gains by investing your money in a way where you can do better than average. Start a company, real estate, art, etc.

This is a pretty great intro: http://jlcollinsnh.com/stock-series/
Until we can declare both projects "fuzz clean" we recommend that people refrain from using either of the two projects to process untrusted media files. You can also use privilege separation on your PC or production environment when absolutely required.

Well, it's not like I've got a whole lot of options for video processing. Note that they didn't recommend alternatives that they say are fuzz clean.

I use FFmpeg quite extensively and will continue to do so.
> They go as cheap as $350 now, but you can get GREAT ones (really great, not just pixel density) for around $500.

Are there any for $500 that are better than the $300 ones?
A troll asking pg not to deal with trolls. How fitting.
I don't know why this isn't a well-established point, taken as an axiom of these discussions. It has been proven that testosterone increases risk-taking. Men, on average, are more willing to take risks--and even more willing, the more testosterone-triggering a situation becomes (e.g. a competition with the possibility of impressing a potential mate will induce higher risk-taking.) It's not so much a fact about "men" in the strict biological sense, either; it's just a fact about testosterone itself. Trans-men take more risks, too, when they're on hormone therapy.
I'm not sexist because my wife is a woman?
>> BTW, buying is not a huge part of adwords. In fact, it's pretty hard to get a positive ROI on a "product" purchase campaign.

Great point.

If I understand you correctly you are talking about how adwords link to marketing landing pages that _give away_ something valuable to the user like an ebook in exchange for your email address. In this way they convert you by slowly giving away more value, building trust, and upselling premium offerings, etc.
HTTP/2 Considerations and Tradeoffs
I like this concept. My solution has been to use '..' '...' and '....' to go up 1,2,and 3 directories.
If I were trying to encourage folks to not invest in local real estate, I would try to scare Googlers and Facebookers out of town.

If I wanted to destroy the tax base supporting my school, I would try to scare Googlers and Facebookers out of town.

If I wanted to drive my coffeshop or cheeseburger stand out of business I would try to scare Googlers and Facebookers out of town.

If I wanted my theater to be empty, I would try to scare Googlers and Facebookers out of town.
Surprised these businesses aren't flooded with one star reviews that simply state that the businesses have sued someone over a negative review.
GPL software was not created in order to provide free labor and tools to all businesses in the world. If you do not want distribute your software as GPL, scanning every piece of software for GPL is exactly what is expected from you.

I'm not saying that I would not contribute it non-GPL software. I do not mind companies closing their products.

However, GPL people do mind companies closing their software. So, those companies not using GPL libraries, no matter how useful is perfectly OK result.
Playing victim while infringing other people's rights and intimidating people with violence in the name of "revolution". Talk about Irony.
Following up:

This iMac doesn't reproduce (Windows 8.1 64bit, IE 11.0.2 (11.0.9600.16476), desktop and metro tested, only add-ons enabled: 1password and fiddler)
Since anything PHP-related on HN is bound to spur the usual PHP hate, here's something that might confuse the haters: PHP is actually faster than Go in many cases (according to http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r8&hw=i7...).
How about open sourcing the code so others can learn with you
Gosh, wouldn't the world be such a nicer place if society solved its housing problems by building more housing with a higher density instead of having these pointless zero-sum dominance contests?

But of course, that would defeat the whole purpose. The point is not to build more housing, it's to have a zero-sum dominance contest and come out on top!

</extreme cynicism>
That's a serious lack of disclosure, thanks for pointing it out.
There's absolutely no difference from 60Hz to anything above it.
Haha, that bad?
I'm pretty sure both charts mention that they are rates or % change, if one needs a degree to read things carefully to not be mislead, we have bigger problems…

All I'm saying is, if one wants to work 40+ years of their life putting a significant portion of ones increasingly diminishing difference of median income levels (which for those with high expectations for oneself, the difference is a joke anyways in the scheme of things) into 401k/403b/RothIRA's "invested" for them in the thing we call a stock "market", while paying off increasing larger debts for things one does not need to survive or to enjoy life and that's if one is apart of the decreasingly smaller group of those "successful" enough to come out "ahead" in that game, that's ones prerogative, not mine.
Clickable: http://www.k-tor.com/pedal-powered-generator
>But the "no female programmers" thing is specific to western culture. There are plenty of female programmers in India, and in Russia. So this is likely something about western culture, that has caused this difference.

i'd be very curious to hear from a female programmer from Russia. I just find it hard to believe in overturning of the sexist culture there, and my impression that we have more females in hi-tech here in SV.
Beware: you might be understanding cloaca as sewer (alcantarilla).

They mean THIS cloaca: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaca
If you're seriously interested in this topic, I'd suggest looking into the work being done by Evan Marwell from Education Superhighway.
I beleive that in iOS 7 you could disable Background App Refresh for apps like Foursquare and Yelp.
Yes, but then you'd be unfairly duplicating the content without permission.

With Aereo, you are renting the antenna (just far away) and streaming from that. Every customer has an antenna. It is the logical scaling up of a currently allowable business model. It has the same end result as many less savory models, but it is not illegal at all.

Whether it should continue to be legal is up for debate, but right now it's squarely in the right.
Tailbone - Automatic RESTful backend for AppEngine
Glad PG wrote this and equally glad this is the top comment so far. It appears PG hasn't yet learned that it will never be enough for some people. In anything he writes on this topic he'll leave out some group or state a point in a way that someone disagrees with. And then, all they'll do is attack attack attack.

Even Seinfeld isn't immune: http://youtu.be/VXbDJ3uBl9M?t=1h26m36s
In the 'ideal' scenario where you:

1. record a broadcast onto a single disc for time-shifting purposes

2. never watch the broadcast or disc

3. do not edit to remove commercials or make any changes from the original form

4. later sell the disc

5. no longer have a copy

What law are you violating?
Seriously, it's all the Googler-on-Googler gang violence that has been skewing Oakland's crime statistics.
If pg would get in trouble no matter how innocuous the essay, why should we pay any attention to whether he does?
There's actually a much simpler hypothesis, which is that price competition from cheap state universities has disappeared due to state-level budget cuts.
Do you have any statistics for your claim about female programmers in India? I have yet to meet a single Indian programmer who was female in the decade and a half I have been programming. In fact, the only females in tech of Indian heritage that I know have been US-born.
Can someone enlighten me as to what a Google bus is? Googling it doesn't shed any light...
I really want to ask pg why he even thinks there is a need to defend himself on these sensitive topics ? Is he really worried about his reputation that much ? I mean everyone knows what pg is known for: startups and innovations. Who cares about a misinterpretation of what he said or meant ? Honestly, every time he has to write a blog on what he meant, it kinda fuels the trolls and haters to counter argue. Why not just focus on what you do best i.e. help create startups.
They are not rebroadcasting. Only the person renting that particular antenna sees the program recorded from that specific antenna with that specific recording device.

Presumably, the only reason why they have multiple antennas and recording devices is so that the words "copy" and "rebroadcast" do not apply.
IF THIS THEN THAT gets better with iOS
My favourite part is line "But look around, see the violence and degradation out there? This is the world that you have created, and you are clearly on the wrong side."

Umm...Really? If one side is full of violence and degradation, and the other side has catered lunches and free massages, I'm going to choose the catered lunch side 10 times out of 10.
Similar premise to All the Troubles in the World by Asimov, right?

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