skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no doubt that systemic racism still exists, particularly in the United States.

Certainly, that paper provides evidence that those with African American sounding names are at a disadvantage to people with white sounding names when applying for jobs.

Calling this disparity a 'privilege' and not a 'disadvantage' that needs to be corrected only stands as a reason to vilify one group, rather than lift the other, disadvantaged group up.

It's practically become a social faux pas to comment on anything in regards to social equity if you're a 'cigender white male' because of all the 'privilege' that group of people have. Case in point, this entire controversy with PG.

The word privilege has become so loaded that it's almost a catch all to dismiss or denigrate people's character irregardless of the quality of the content.

It's not that I think anyone is deluded, or blind. The language used has just become so muddled as to be almost worthless.
"What do you expect from Android users?"

Sigh. What did i expect from a web designer? /s
That is some really good feedback/advice. Thank you.

Like many cultural differences, what seems offensive to some is natural and expected by others. When in a different cultural environment, it's only natural to adjust to the norms. So of course, why wouldn't the same apply to personality types? Makes great sense to me.
That was in 2011, before https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4391669 where he decided it was okay for a service to fail to meet its commitments.

And I don't think EBS ever had an outage as severe as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2269329

Disclaimer: everything I know about Hoffman and Joyent I read here. I've never done business with them; I'm pretty sure I should be glad about that.
Clearly more than we should expect from you.
I'm not able to get silverlight + proprietary codecs working on my machine. Is it possible to obtain the video lectures in another format?
Absolutely, yes. It requires many years and oodles of cash to train humans to desensitise themselves to the degree it takes to be a good fighter jock [I have a few family members who have flown. They are brilliant. Flying is an amazing endeavour.]. I am sure it takes a fair amount of time to achieve the same level of "discipline" in an RPV team, as well. [Here follows a bunch of things that are personal observations.]I personally believe that both of these categories of specialization are symptomatic of a deeper mental illness in humanity. I am not really interested in less death or more death as some kind of assessment of a things value. Death, in all things, is unavoidable. We, as humans, see ourselves as individuals because it is empowering. In reality, we are largely indistinguishable from each other when one takes a broader perspective. Both fighter jets and military RPVs are cool as hell, but they are both death implements, or deathplements if you are grammatically frisky.

I heard an interesting interview on NPR with a retired CIA chap. He was legal council to some alphabet soup within Central. He pointed out the irony of the controversy over the "Enhanced" Interrogation Techniques" and the relative quiet on the part of the American public about the Dispassionate Remotely Piloted Death Eagle Master Plan[This is the official name of the CIA's RPV program. look it up.]. I found it poignant. he has a book. I believe the title is Company Man.
It is in need of disruption, but there are alot of laws surrounding taking cash from people for something other than a product/service.

The problem you'll run into with the black box scenario is that the customer has no access to the funds unless you bring them the box which makes it a poor place to keep working capital funds that businesses use. Even if you start giving loans based on the box you start hitting legal restrictions, and compliance issues.

I worked for years in the financial industry focusing on services for the under/unbanked which relies on a lot of cash handling.

Every way you can think about how to get around the law has been used in the past to launder money and/or evade taxes.
This is strictly an opinion of course, but it seems like your co-founder is afraid to launch (and everything that can go with it, like failure). Sometimes it's confused for perfectionism, but you can tell the difference by the lack of progress / improvement. Fear is one of the most common impediments to success, and people like to talk about it approximately as much as they might erectile dysfunction. Once you launch a project, your life changes; the pre-launch development stage is substantially different from the post-launch stage; it places demands on your shoulders that you can't shirk off (properly), it dictates a lot about your life. And there's no going back, it's sink or swim.

Talk to him about the situation openly, lay your concerns on the table. Try to get a drop dead date agreement, after which you take over the project.
Sam, you don't hold down a fort. You just hold it. Forts don't fly away. <3.
No currently supported features, but I assume it actually does...something. Or serves some early purpose towards the development of a 'complete' emulator.
This article seems naive. Probably people are being paid to rate apps down.
While there are other ways to screw up, like promoting illegal ROMs, emulation itself is legal thanks to Sony vs. Connectix.
There is a famous book saying loneliness is the ultimate feeling coming along with us. So don't be afraid of being lonely. I read another blog post here talking about enjoy aloneness, which is also great.

If you are confident from inside, ultimately you can overcome the negative feeling, but enjoy the peaceful feeling for being lonely. At least there is no hurt from other people.

I agree that you have to give them time to surface. Actually frequently practicing meditation will help you clear up your mind and let the feeling surface. Make ourselves strong psychologically will keep us away from feeling lonely. Of course, always having goal to pursue, you don't have time to feel lonely.
I can't imagine why you would want to list 1 star reviews first... generally 1 and 5 star ones are the least informative (either "I'VE PLAYED FOR 5 MINUTES AND IT'S THE BEST GAME EVER" or "MY PHONE CRASHED WHILE DOWNLOADING THIS IT'S A VIRUS!!!", and 2-4 reflect though-out reviews.
On iOS, we have indexed 666,355 reviews in Turkey. Out of those, 92,853 are 1 star reviews. 13.93%

On iOS, we have 32,296,341 reviews, with 3,448,351 being 1 star reviews. 10.67% one star reviews.

Let's see if we limit it to reviews in the last 2 months:

16.47% negative in Turkey (65,154 total reviews)
12.05% negative in the US (1,960,283 total reviews)

(source - internal https://sensortower.com analytics)

It's a bit harder to separate reviews between countries on Android, but we have 7,862,505 recent reviews indexed in the last 2 months on Android, and 780,997 of them are negative (9.93%). I will try to run a query with language detection, though that might take a bit of time~
Authenticity is something I am working on. Too many times I find myself reflecting afterwards and realizing how inauthentic I was because I hit that point where I closed up and withdrew.

This particular issue really affected me in a previous, though past, work environment where a bunch of total knuckleheads were the loud, aggressive voices in every meeting (surely I kid, that doesn't really happen, does it?).

I read somewhere about an introvert leader who said that they would require themselves to contribute something within the first 5 minutes of any meeting, because if they didn't, they knew they would never say anything. This proved very helpful to me, and when I followed it, I was able to steer a lot of decisions in a meaningful direction, even if I then went and said nothing else during the meeting.

And of course, the real benefit was then getting back to work with a course of action that made sense. Which made the work much more enjoyable. I guess that was one of the benefits of authenticity.

Now I'm in different circumstances, and facing the need to be authentic all over again. Stay strong, and keep working at it. I will.
A language with everything would be a nightmare. To program efficiently you need a balance between capability and mental footprint. If I have to write large amounts of code to accomplish a task, that is bad for me and the eventual reader. If I use some feature so esoteric the read has to stop and research, or worse, misunderstands that is also a problem.

The Go promise is that they don't have some things, but you won't miss them. Some are deliberate omissions, some are deferred until they decide if they are required and can sanely be implemented. How those impact you is going to depend on what problems you are solving.

The danger is to end up wanting language casserole with bits and pieces from everywhere. It might be what you want, but by the time you union that with everyone else it is too big to know.

You don't go in saying "I need exceptions. I will use Go!" You start down the road saying, "I used to use exceptions, but in Go I will explicitly check all the errors." Only with experience can you look back and see what the cost was.
You beat me to it. I think Bitcoin has managed to infect our minds...
This is one of the more tiresome class of comment on HN. The parent was self-evidently just an opinion.
If they're being paid to rate the app down, why does the review itself claim the game is good?
I'm always amazed to see the degree at which open-source is used at Twitter. While it might be possible that other big players have a similar number of open source projects, they certainly don't seem to advertise this aspect. Something I expect will help their engineering recruiting quite substantially.
Abusing something is like a cultural thing in here. Sorry :(
I'm developing a very similar thing recently. Because nowadays everything you do will probably appear on the Internet, I call it 'automating your day recording'.

There's more you can add to this, such as 4sq check-ins, Instapaper/Pocket readings, YouTube watched, etc.

Then I realized that it's just FriendFeed, if you bother to add a social element.
Pretty much most movie style documentaries are just plain wrong or misleading.

And this list seems to have some of the more nuttier ones, probably due to the requirement they be stream-able.

But that's cool, I like watching nutty docos, they can be entertaining, but just don't think you'll come out smarter.

If you want to learn, read or better yet do a structured course with lectures. ie. https://www.coursera.org/
I've done some more tests [1] as you suggested. It looks like Shaw is routing all UDP/53 traffic to their DNS servers; I'd not considered TCP earlier. My optimistic guess as to their motivation for using such an invasive technique is that it was easy for them to deploy.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/0998a0dd2c0abca91c8b
Glad to see someone beat me to this comment. Emacs would have had a startup time measured in minutes were it not for this.
Binary recompilation is hard, but it's been done (the 360 did this for the original Xbox, which was x86).

Things that kill you are graphics and sound; particularly texture formats (which you don't have the CPU horsepower to convert) and sound (the 360 has a ton of voices in hardware, and this is difficult to emulate in software).

Personally, I don't think it's impossible. But it'd take the right people a couple of years to make it actually work.
Let's not fret over analogies.
That is the whole point of an emulator, which is a type of VM. Rosetta was an emulator, however products like VMware are not -- they rely on processor features to execute real code in a sandbox.
Thank you, this is cool. It's very annoying to read comments like "I gave 1 star but it's a good game" however I wonder how much is the actual effect on the ratings.
I caught Civilzation in one of its early re-broadasts, though was too young to appreciate it at the time. I've downloaded it and it's on my watch list.

Note though: the programs almost always had some point of view. Burke editorializes a few times in Connections (particularly in the 1st, 2nd, and final episodes). Clarke has a distinct vision of Western Civilization. Carl Sagan's thoughts on the importance of science, possiblities of extraterrestrial life, and against mysticism and nonscientific thinking are clear in Cosmos. The fact that the views are more aligned with convention don't lessen this any.
In the "About Everpix" part, the text make it seem like the app was doing ok and the reason they had to shut it down was because investors didn't want to invest in it anymore for whatever reason.

Well, the lack of investors was surely a big symptom of their failure but the cause it was not.

When you burn > $2 million in funding ($200k alone in PR and "Promotional Expenses" as their spreadsheet shows) and still can't get through the timid mark of 50 thousand users, then maybe there is something very wrong with your business model that you should think about.

I'm confident that's something that crossed all the investors minds during the series A conversations. They didn't mention that fact directly because it could sound too harsh or rude and they wanted to keep the relationship in good spirits, obviously.

The startup game is tuff, no doubt about it. I hope the Everpix guys learn their lesson and to better next time, they look like cool and competent people.
When someone hands you cash and you are giving them something not a product/service (i.e. can't be a monetary instrument or a promise of in anyway providing the money back to the customer) then you are acting as a bank.

So a new company can offer the service, but the aren't an armored car company they are a banking company and are required to get a banking charter.

You can try create services that somehow skate the line (which is what all of the check cashing, payday advance, and title loan companies do, but they are classified as MSBs), but an AG (Attorney General) in any state where you are operating can come after you. The feds will also come after you if they think you are illegally taking deposits which can involve criminal charges.
I'm more inclined to think of a country like Sweden or Norway as the good guys. I agree about North Korea, but torture, indefinite detention without a trial, Guantanamo, etc are not traits of someone I'd consider a good guy.
This makes me wonder... are there locales where 1 star might be taken to mean a better review than a 5 star review?

I realize that's not what's being claimed here, though.

There's no intrinsic meaning to how stars correlate to quality is my thinking here, but perhaps only due to familiarity do we think that more stars is better and not worse.
For some companies where the barrier to entry is very high or requires a lot of market share to compete, this may be true. But for others where the investment in actually building the thing was the only barrier, giving the code out to the world can be a terrifying prospect.
Sadly assumes management is competent.
Reminds me of those quote I've heard a few times: "gdb is designed to make you hate using it, encouraging you to be more careful when you write code."
You'll see a lot of technical answers, all of which are valid; but the overriding reason is that if you're playing your old 360 games, you're not buying new Xbone games. Microsoft takes a loss on every console sold; if you're not regularly purchasing new games at retail prices, they're not interested in serving you.
That's an implementation detail; particularly if there is some legal backing (government regulation of the good kind) for the transfer mechanism. Think something using the Ripple protocol backed by a bank fund that holds 1 dollar for every "coin" represented in the system.

If transaction confirmations took less than 500 milliseconds and had at least two confirmations from a network that had some form of insurance against double spend (rare and very noticeable) and identity theft (more common, but also noticeable) and auth token theft (relatively common). You could have something that looked like a general purpose internet mediated payment mechanism of sufficient (but not perfect) security; that would be relatively backwards compatible with existing infrastructure and resistant to attacks that merely depend on access to stored data rather than controlling a distributed ledger.
> So here we find ourselves in a world with various better choices than C and C++, yet they still get used for a pretty significant chunk of all the coding that goes on in the world. Why is this?

Isn't the emergence of relatively many system programming languages in recent years partly a reaction to there indeed not being many viable choices? I mean, I guess you have all the languages that are C-level (or Go-level) that were simply out-competed by C in the mainstream software world for whatever reasons, but people don't seem willing to go and program in languages like Ada and seeing if it's a better fit (or at least I haven't heard much of it). It seems more like, "every other decently mainstream language has mandatory garbage collection → therefore C/C++".
I'm amused by how many video game emulator devs insist that they're not for playing video games. (MAME is another big one.)
So your theory is that when I note my privilege, I am vilifying... myself?

I don't think that's what's going on at all. Privilege checklists, for example, are written by and for privileged people: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Privilege_checklist

Maybe the term is muddled for you, but for me it's a pretty specific technical term, and most usages of it I see are pretty accurate.

I think the "disadvantage" term can have some utility, but for me it misses important nuances. One is that disadvantage sounds pretty abstract, pretty diffuse. E.g., disadvantaged youth are ones that happen to be born into poverty. But differential hiring based on names is active and specific.

Another is that thing many of the actions that make up privilege are positive ones. People helped me out in ways that other people just weren't helped. For example, when you look at the makeup of company boards or executive rosters, it's not like anybody said, "Hey, let's keep the women out." It's just that they happened to promote a lot more guys.

But the biggest thing for me is it puts the focus for action in the right place: on the people who are privileged. With power comes responsibility. White privilege is mainly white people helping other white people. That will only change if enough individual white people notice their privilege and act.
Actually a shorter amount of time than I was expecting.
What does simulating the human brain mean? Would a simulation lead to artificial intelligence or just quite a large neural network?
> This sounds like an appeal to a "sufficiently smart compiler"

Because it is. It's a long road from "gee, I changed something, better copy everything" to something as good as FFTW or ATLAS. GHC is pretty smart, but not smart enough to be trusted.
> Loaning someone an asset at 0% is always worse than holding the asset.

Nit: if the carry cost of the asset is zero. This is _not_ true for dollars (at least at large corporate/pension fund/hedge fund scale) and various government securities have occasionally sold at negative nominal interest rates.

(It is, essentially, true for BTC, which is why your analysis is largely correct here, but there certainly are cases where one would reasonably lend USD or the like at 0%.)
I wonder if it is isolated to Google Play, and if so, if these are actually human accounts?
Interesting.

Is it for mixed reviews as in total reviews worldwide and Turkey or just for Turkey. It seems it is just for Turkey.

Maybe they are just more honest and say why they are giving 1 star reviews. Or maybe they are dishonest and really think the game is terrible but in the comment chose to say something else to seem nice? Is there somehow a disproportionate presence of Turkish Android app developers and since they are competing with you they are just messing with author's head.

Looking at the game review in the app store (presumably the US version) most 1 or 2 star reviews seem valid (and don't see a particular trend with names, to mean they are certain ethnicity).

A guess it would be good to browser other apps' reviews from Turkey. So I took a look at Cut The Rope. Very popular game, indeed.

Looking at US reviews, looks good.

Turkish:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zeptolab.c...

Hmm, well I can't read Turkish. So I opened Google Translate and started translating a few top 1 star review. And yap, same pattern.

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Mükemmel Çok güzel harika bir oyun gözüksün diye 1

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Excellent Very nice people to see a great game as one

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Gerçekten cok guzel bir oyun hem zeka açıcı Gercekten cok güzel

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Really a very nice game're really nice and intelligence opener

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Someone might want to help, but even with Google Translate it looks like they are giving it good reviews as text but 1 star as a score.

The crude and seemingly insensitive way is to just prevent Turkish reviewers from commenting. Or even better hellban them and never account for their score. The would correct this pretty quickly I would imagine.

Now I would really hope someone from Turkey to explain if there is a cultural or social reason for this. It just seems to strange and odd.
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Is there any more information about #1, "listen to what your body has to say"? I've come across this idea in several places lately and want to understand it better, but haven't found any good resources. Maybe something from cognitive or somatic psychology? Where does it originally come from? (Psychology? Meditation?)
I believe that Google's external cloud offering leverages the platform already in use internally, and is not a wholly seperate platform/product. At this stage of entry, google not only has to provide a compelling alternative to AWS, but also compete with private and domain-specific cloud offerings that many businesses are exploring.
If you are going to take user reviews seriously, you have to account for the possibility that a significant portion of the general population may be comprised of idiots.

People misusing the star system is a problem, but the real problem is that we are forced to care when people misuse it.

(To correct this specific problem, I would recommend low-tolerance hellbanning. If a positive review is accompanied by a one-star rating, that user's ratings and comments will never be seen by another user again.)
> Sigh. What did i expect from a web designer? /s

I'm not a web designer...
> The experiment on simulated human brain activity involved 1.73 billion virtual nerve cells that were connected to 10.4 trillion virtual synapses

So... 1-2 orders of magnitude smaller than a human brain. From Wikipedia:

> One estimate puts the human brain at about 100 billion (10^11) neurons and 100 trillion (10^14) synapses

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuron#Neurons_in_the_brain

Assuming linear scaling, that would put an actual simulated second of human brain neural activity somewhere between 6 hours and 2 days.