skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aside: I've looked at that BlackGirlsCode link a bit more and I'm quite shocked that such segregation is encouraged, lauded even. Now there's some argument to support educating the sexes separately but if you're an asian girl living in Brooklyn (say) you can't go? Just because you're Asian ... ??? Really? What if you're half-Asian+half-African, how about your skins black but you're South American. Damn.

Do people really think you get rid of negative discrimination by doing more of it; how can such racism be positive?

From their website:

"*Sadly, San Francisco’s digital divide falls along the same racial and social fault lines that characterize so many of society’s issues. White households are twice as likely to have home Internet access as African American houses. Bayview Hunters Point, Crocker Amazon, Chinatown, Visitacion Valley, and the Tenderloin have significantly lower rates of home technology use than the rest of the city. Sixty-six percent of Latinos report having a home computer, as opposed to 88 percent of Caucasians.*

*Through community outreach programs such as workshops and after school programs, we introduce underprivileged girls to basic programming skills in languages like Scratch and Ruby on Rails.*"

If the racial divide is so disheartening why add your own. If you want to help the disadvantaged then help the disadvantaged not "all the disadvantaged with the right skin colour". Damn.

[redacted]

Edit: I've redacted my over-flamy end comment.
Putting that into greater perspective with some data: studies have shown your desk environment to have 400 times more bacteria than toilet seats.
Yes they do. But y'know this is a techy site, so people are gonna talk about tech.
What would you have me/us do then?
just because they exist doesn't mean it will be a huge success. I used to get envy when I saw an idea implemented I thought of, until I got a bit older and started seeing the same companies failing.

I personally think this idea will be over-run by broken/stolen products.
Who needs links when common sense suffices. On 99% of websites links do X, on the Verge and some others they do Y.

It may be the case that a world where 99% of websites doing Y is slightly better than the one where 99% of websites do X. However, both of those worlds are preferable to the world where 50% of the websites do X and 50% do Y. If you live in browser doesn't handle links the way you prefer there's a way to change that for yourself.
I haven't seen much talk about construction at all here on HN. It's a tech site, full of techies, talking about tech. Of course tech will be an overwhelmingly popular topic here.
The classification of this as a television reveals the schizoid nature of display development. For programmers the main requirement seems to be lots of pixels without undue eyestrain. Where things start to get crazy is that 4K is now the standard for movie projection in commercial theatres and creative professionals of all stripe are clamoring to produce content that takes advantage not only of the pixels but all the qualitative properties that photographers, illustrators, animators need. For me as a photographer, having a 4K camera is a wonderful thought in terms of resolution but if the display can't integrate into my workflow to match my printer then it is not so useful. It is this referenceability issue that makes it possible for Sony to sell 10,000 dollar reference monitors for television production. I can only hope for the day that I can by a $500 4K monitor for creative professionals.
Six months later: "I Fired My Mom (and now our relationship is weird)"
Because you can't drive a 308. It's 30 years old, and its engine is constantly about to blow up (at least it feels that way)

And when it does, your 40k goes \poof\ with it.

Source: been around somebody who owned one of these, he was much happier when he sold it and bought a corvette.
Why I bought a house in Detroit for $500
>This is more of a strategic move to make Oracle Linux and the other RHEL copies and CentOS-wannabes less compelling: many enterprises that are evaluating Oracle vs. Red Hat will stick to the single-vendor option, and many enterprises that are evaluating Ubuntu vs. CentOS can finally check both checkboxes for "corporate backed and officially endorsed" and "$0 to get started".

Yes. There are customers like me who are never going to give you $500 per server. sorry. it's just not happening.

But, eh, when I need money, you know what I do? I go work for larger companies, maintaining their servers. You know what I tell them to do? I tell them to go buy RHEL; It's a good product. They really do set things up so you don't have to do a major upgrade for ten years. And for the large companies? the $500 isn't a big deal, and the support really is worth something; they have someone to call if I'm not around.

CentOS was perfect for RedHat, because there is a real disadvantage to CentOS, even without the support problems; there's a delay. Nobody who can afford the $500 a machine is going to use CentOS, but it's there and good enough for those of us who can't.

Oracle changed this situation. Oracle will give you CentOS, for free, and is much faster at the re-compile. Now, I don't use it because I hate Oracle, but using Oracle has been the rational choice for some time now. (And I like RedHat. I mean, as much as you can like a company. Vs. Oracle? I am really rooting for RedHat here.)

My hope here is that RHEL will improve the compile-time of CentOS to where it's as good as Oracle.
>They operate in complete secrecy behind the scenes. You have no power over them, but they have massive power over you.

We vote these people into office. We have the power. The government is people - just people we've decided get extra power so they can get things done.

Please, please, please don't ever forget this. The moment you start thinking of the government as some impenetrable adversary, you've already lost. Being politically active is how change happens, not falling into the dems-vs-republicans-vs-whoever trap of "the other guy is bad".

The government is us.
YC will be at MHacks
Criticism and hate seem to be increasingly conflated these days. I don't see anything in that quote that would quality as hateful.
Who Built That Video Game?
Intriguing title and abstract, but I don't really understand what this means, or its implications. Can anyone summarise for a layman?
That's true, but that's just one quote of his (he's still alive btw). Here's another:

> The conservatives are fools: They whine about the decay of traditional values, yet they enthusiastically support technological progress and economic growth. Apparently it never occurs to them that you can’t make rapid, drastic changes in the technology and the economy of a society without causing rapid changes in all other aspects of the society as well, and that such rapid changes inevitably break down traditional values.

Dr. Kaczynski is an anarchist who opposes virtually all political establishments.
About 4 square feet?
Far worse, in my opinion, are sites that disable command/control-click (open link in new tab), either on purpose or b/c of lousy javascript.

I probably command-click 99% of links. How often do I, as a user, want to leave the current page and enter an entirely new context, within the same browser tab? Almost never.
TIL, thanks. I usually just middle click but this earlier.
My qualms are with the lack of motivation to learn. I get the daily urge to look up some shortcut or random tidbit of information I didn't know about any subject, so I get rather upset when coworkers continue on their day doing the bare minimum.

It takes a total of maybe 15 seconds to learn how to open a link in a tab. If that's too much effort for someone, then I seriously question what other small things that person has decided to just not learn throughout their life.

edit: I should note that by "users" I mean fully grown adults working with a web browser every day as their job, not Grandma.
Pair-programming at its finest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ
Do you spend time on construction forums every day, hearing about the latest trends in construction? I would guess not, which is why you don't hear much about what is going on there.
I think like assuming people know how to open links in new tabs on their own (i.e. right click, "Open in New Tab") is completely misguided.
You are mistaken. The Unabomber is and was a horrible person. Yet I found mcantelon's quote from him to be very insightful, even if I don't agree with it in its entirety.

Judge the quote on its content, not the messenger. The only instance in which shooting the messenger is valid is when we rely on the messenger's credibility in evaluating the opinion, which is not the case here, at least for me.
That's weird. "cd" with options was one of the first commands I learned.
Yeah, but homeopathy has no financial incentive to work. Chemistry just doesn't care about things like revenue. Yelp! on the other hand...
At some point, the resolution game just gets silly. I can't help but wonder if the focus on resolution is really more about finding a new selling point now that Moore's Law is falling to the wayside.
Oh THAT"S the problem ;)
Well, the difference is that the first one is usually fact based and best delivered neutrally. The second one is usually emotion based and delivered with harsh invective, and additionally usually doesn't concern itself with facts.
Yeah I wish there was a better way too. I have like 50 pages accidentally added to my reading list because "Add to reading list" is right next to "open in new tab" in that menu.
This class warfare is ridiculously mistargeted. Google employees may be well paid but they are still members of the proletariat, the class of wage slaves who exchange their labour for money, the same class as the protesters. It's the banksters, politicians, privileged guilds and company owners whom they should both should be rallying against.
Pngcanvas, a pure Python PNG library
why should he or anyone?
I don't see what the big deal is. I've never owned a server either. But as a Googler working on Google's cloud platform, I do like the positive press.
So... what?
Just started looking at this but could be really great:

Super Scratch Programming Adventure!

http://www.nostarch.com/scratch
do you leave a sound on in case the battery dies?
I read an academic paper a while back where the authors claimed that Chinese search engines use target="blank" so all search result links open in new windows, and that's the normal state of affairs. Does anyone know if that's true?

Update: found the paper - http://jeffhuang.com/Final_Branching_WSDM12.pdf

Here's the quote:

Users in the Chinese market nearly always branch [what the authors call opening links in new windows], a behavior forced by their search engines' default settings. Some people speculate [footnote for http://www.quora.com/China/Why-do-most-hyperlinks- on-Chinese-websites-open-a-new-window-tab] that this default started because Internet access is slower in China and so branching enables Web pages to load in the background. Others believe default branching is economically motivated as it allows a search engine to keep users on its site longer. However, a qualitative study of how Chinese users perceive branching versus backtracking would be interesting since their default action is opposite of that for the American and European users, who have been previously studied.
How are Django and Nodejs better than other frameworks written in PHP like Laravel, Synfony and Yii?. Are your claims base on the fact that one day you hear someone say "yeah, this language/framework is better than PHP" or "this language have better syntax" and follow the trend, because in the web development context, i think that PHP is very capable and useful to accomplish anything related to the it IMO.
Half of US Congressional politicians are millionaires
Understood. Note that, apparently, if you DO respond to one of these messages, the original sender is actually provided with your email address. Here's the text of a message I just received from Google:

"How it works with email addresses

Emailing Google+ connections works a bit differently to protect the privacy of email addresses. Your email address isn't visible to your Google+ connections until you send them an email, and their email addresses are not visible to you until they respond. "
Neither of the posts you cite contradict Krugman's original argument. They merely argue that the rich have a new way of becoming richer without exploiting or the poor (namely robots).

The mood affiliation is different, certainly. But I'm citing arguments, not tone.
> Are users really too stupid to know ctrl+click, middle click, or right click->open in new tab?

There are people that use their computer day-in and day-out that don't know about alt-tab to switch between windows... The computer doesn't come with a manual, and no one ever showed them. Not everyone that gets plopped in front of a computer explores their new environment once they have a workflow down.
The main point, as far as I'm concerned, is that if a site has standard links and I want to open a page in a new tab, I can do that. But if a site opens pages in a new tab, I cannot suppress that. (Yeah, there's probably an extension for that, but that's not the point.) You are taking away choice.

It would be nice if browsers would indicate whether a link opened a new tab or not. That would also make me less hesitant to open a link to a help or documentation page while I'm in the middle of a transaction, as TFA mentions.
Not just "Female Founders", female co-founders as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ
Would you really want to try and write a high-quality video encoder in any other language? Now surely you aren't recommending switching to hand-tuned assembly! :)
Mm. But notice the difference in delivery of those two quotes. This one concerns itself with a straight true statement (progress is at odds with tradition). The worst you can say here is that he says conservatives "whine".

Much unlike the other one which implies that leftists are all about power as opposed to what they say they are.
The graph is misleading because it misleads the reader into believing that college grads and non-college grads made the same real wage in 2007, disguising the fact that there was a substantial gap between their wages at 2007. The fact that both wages fall a similiar percentage relative to 2007 only tells us that the gap between both wage classes remained the same, in effect telling us nothing.

There are entire classes of misleading graphs that are misleading despite being technically, literally, valid.

Your snark is not helping.
well, yeah. they would look fine and fool quite a few car enthusiasts (from the outside, anyway) if the dimensions were right.
It's not insoluble, it is up to 3% soluble. "Most likely not enough to harm anyone." For some reason the state has declared it a federal disaster?
check out this green ice- look, it's not soluble! Fine to drink! http://i.imgur.com/pzBsLRP.jpg
I agree -- why would someone disable this? Luckily so few people do this that I simply don't visit those sites (looking at you, fandango!)
No, almost nobody with public utility water service stores water, beyond perhaps a few gallons if they buy bottled water.

I used to live in a town where there was a cancer warning on the back of the water bill because of the (naturally occurring) radium content of the water (sourced from wells). We had a water service bring 5-gallon jugs (water-cooler type) which we used for cooking and drinking.
> "Your confusing statistics with Logic."

The "appeal to statistics" is just re-proposed racist talking points. You would not accept it in a discussion involving race, and you should not accept it in a discussion involving sex or gender.

> Notwithstanding the merits of either side, you are (1) structurally mis-understanding the nature of the argument. (2) baiting an HN commenter to personally disparage [persons x, y, and z]; and (3) making a veiled threat.

1) See above.

2) I am not baiting anybody into disparaging these women, and do not see how my comments could honestly be misconstrued as such. I don't want @zorpner to insult these women, I want zorpner to realize that unless they have specific information about these specific women, then there is no justification for assuming such disparaging things about these women.

3) I have made absolutely no threats, veiled or otherwise. Where the hell are you getting this from?

> "The [persons X,Y,Z] are not representative employees at firm Q [0,1]..." "[0] HR/Ops specialist, a Lawyer, and an Accountant..."

This has been addressed in this discussion by one of the women in question, I am genuinely stunned that you are repeating it.
The majority of < 3 yr. old companies don't own a physical server.
I don't mean any of the following as flame-war type criticism, so I hope you are able to find a way not to take it that way.

Stories by women* about their perceptions of the hostile sexualization of many work and conference environments are themselves part of the case being made that women are being held back.

(You would perhaps be shocked how many men share many of the same concerns, and not just out of solidarity with women.)

Ambivalence of the sort you claim and the concomitant disinclination to engage and try to understand things like the late night coffee invitation incident is part of what is holding women back.

I'm not* saying that you're actively choosing to make the world a worse place. Further, as beings of finite attention and lifespan it's quite true that we can't possibly pay attention to everything.

In your writing I do hear a bit of something that makes me thing you might want to understand what the big deal is, but it just hasn't "clicked" for you. Perhaps this is because you find the existing discussions off-putting, or perhaps because the things you read about are about situations that wouldn't be a big deal for you personally.

If you're interested in understanding more, I'm wiling to continue the conversation here or elsewhere.

Even if not, I'd encourage you to keep dipping your toes in the conversation from time to time.
You're changing the subject. I have no comment on Coinbase or on what I would do in your shoes.

I am commenting on the rules of HN.
Python and JavaScript are proper and beautiful languages, PHP is a merely a wrapper.
All investments are guaranteed returns? News to me... All my money into Target stock! All investment implies risk and I wouldn't learn financials (or anything) merely from Merriam-Webster definitions.
But it's not silly to have the retina or some outher circa 300 DPI display. It's the difference between the bluriness and the paper-printed-like sharpness.

Written on the iPhone with the retina display.
Could Everpix have been run by a very small team at the end, rather than shut down? It looks like it was near adding a net 1,000 subscribers per month.

Also, wouldn't it have been possible - with the understood pain points - to substantially reduce costs by moving off of AWS? Trading the ease of AWS for the critical cash for operations.
How is he acting as though sexism is a "solved problem"?
so a writer can get a paycheck.
run a rewrite proxy (e.g. Glimmerblocker on MacOS or on your network) and you can get rid of crud like this, those annoying floating bars etc etc.

It seems a million bad web "designers" don't realize that the page is for the reader's benefit (else they'll stop coming).
Then I would expect that you of all people would want to make the change at the browser level, not on a site-by-site basis.
I see this as a good thing. Seems to me that we are basically getting back RedHat releases pre-RHEL. Fedora is great for the desktop, but I really like "Enterprise Linux" on the server side. I basically abandoned RedHat after the RHEL/Fedora split. Went to Gentoo (to unstable at the time) for a bit, Ubuntu, then CentOS during the late 4.x releases. I will pretty much stick with CentOS from here on out, why? Well enterprise customers who what support can get it, people who don't can easily use it, and those that don't want to pay now but know they will need to later will have an easy path forward. And its nice to have a major release that will remain stable and patched for a 7 year haul. Some folks seem to be concerned like this is a bad thing, RedHat has been a model citizen for open source. The amount of work they do in backporting fixes for people who need to remain on a version for whatever reason is huge. On top of the fact that they make most (all?) of their own software freely available as well. There is really no advantage for them to do anything to CentOS other than keep it doing what its doing, but faster.
You are not refuting anything I've said.

I only commented on relative difficulty.
Hah, yeah I thought that was a weird addition.

We are those that service you, even your loins!! for your money! You bastards!

WTF.

The sad part is that public transportation is so horrible in the Bay Area that companies are spending MILLIONs per year to have private bus lines.

The Transport services at Facebook were amazing. But when I left and then was working in Mountian view and had to take bart+caltrain it took me 2.5 hours each way!

After riding the trains and transport in Hong Kong recently, just how bad BART is was really driven home.

Bart is so abysmally poor y comparison to the HK train system, it makes me angry that I am punished by having to use BART.

It would be great if the rage that these protesters had were re-directed at the piss-poor management of public services and infrastructure.

Google and FB wouldnt have to spend millions on busses if the bay area were an actual urban planned region with real transportation services.

The fact that CalTrain and BART can't even sync schedule in the ONE single location where they intersect is atrocious.
Evidence for or against bias on a particular axis is something that tends to indicate the presence or absence of differential treatment basis on that axis.

Facts which do not provide a basis for comparisons of how different values on that axis are treated are not much evidence for or against bias, this include facts about outcome (e.g., all the people I hired are black, etc.) without additional information from which the expected outcome in the absence of bias can be inferred.
Are you prepared to argue that because my mother was discriminated against in the past based on her sex it's now moral to discriminate against me (male) because of my sex?

Either I quash your argument by showing you how my grandfather was sexual discriminated against (which would by the logic that made such an argument above make discriminating against my mother justified) or we have to say that it's OK to discriminate against my daughter because of her sex.

That may be a false dichotomy (please add alternatives) but I'm nonetheless not prepared to follow the route that leads to continued discrimination based on irrelevant characteristics.