skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As written, the first paragraph lays out the situation of you being personally accused of sexism and the second paragraph starts with defending yourself against those accusations. I do not think you set the proper context to use the fact YC has a woman cofounder to defend yourself against accusations of sexism.
Glasses that let you touch and move virtual objects in 3D space
Well, everything was at one point.

You would once have been called a materialist for owning your own set of cookingware, I think, but you'd hardly want to live without one now, would you? And you wouldn't call someone who buys a brand new set of kitchen knives "conspicuous".

I don't find much value in the Pebble so I don't buy it, but I definitely see a time when I'll want one of its kin. I'd pay to have data on my glucose level, heart rate, blood pressure etc available to me and me only, i.e. not sent to a central server.

But anyway, time will tell.
Are those coders or other types of founders?
I think I get what you're saying... mainly that when wealth is so centered in that 0.1% upper crust of power brokers, that it keeps potentially wealthy people off the boat. Combine that with the fact these people are well connected and intertwined, and it becomes

> Wealth, more evenly distributed, would give more people a greater chance at, in turn, creating more wealth.

Yes and no. Look at lottery winners (or other windfall recipients) as an example that the average person cannot create wealth. Some people are able to create wealth and most are not. Let's say Bill Gates does indeed give every person that shares his picture on Facebook $5000 dollars. Most people will waste it, some will use it to pay down debt, and a small percentage will create wealth from it. I think there are two groups that could potentially benefit the most from this. Upper lower class folks can easily put this money toward education and skills that would have a net positive. Upper middle class folks might potentially start new businesses and markets which have a definite impact.

If people have a problem with current wealth distribution, there is a very easy (not easy in the sense of doing it, rather in understanding it) way to reallocate it - get out of debt. Debt is one of the main ways rich people get richer, by reallocating money from the poor to the rich. Getting rid of their main source of income would force them to invest in real, tangible businesses that solve real problems (because presumably without debt, nobody is buying a new TV yearly anymore). I believe debt is the primary source of economic stratification right now, not income.

> In terms of large corporations, I do think it would be more beneficial to split the money more evenly amongst the people who helped create the wealth.

Amen to this. This culture where CEOs earn 20x the average employee salary is screwed up. Also, it would be beneficial if they didn't own every politician ever created, but that's another story.
OCaml I know doesn't support SIMD acceleration. Not sure about Haskell. You need SIMD support to get anything decently fast in the field of video/audio manipulation.
I've used both in projects I honestly don't like the auto documentation Django Rest Framework assumes you want. I enjoyed using both but I lead towards TastyPie, yum!
1. Does working at the American Enterprise Institute qualify one as a member of "[t]he American political class"?

2. What is "working in retail"? A couple of cousins with business degrees started "in retail" out of college. They weren't that I know of stocking shelves or mostly operating cash registers, and both have done quite well, though only one works in a related field now.

3. There is a rage for credentials that goes a ways back and is not helpful.
No, it's just one decentralized clearing house of many that will spring up.
Which statement, the increase in applications to top universities or the employers recognizing they are the cream of the crop?

https://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/01/12/freshman-applicat...
I'm not proud of this legacy code, but... it exists because it was a real world issue that would cripple a conversion server in production envs when fed certain files with timing/syncing errors as part of an automated upload and conversion process. When it would crash it would consume 100% of the cores and eat up enough RAM to force swap.

This cron has been keeping ffmpeg in check for over 4 years (not 6, whoopsie) in a production environment at this point... it processes thousands of videos a day using a custom queuing and reviewing system.

1 <?php
2 /*
3 ** Cron responsible for detecting failed/hung ffmpeg
4 ** instances and killing them.
5 */
6 require_once '/lib/class/dbmysqli.php';
7
8 $output = shell_exec('ps -aeo pid,etime,args | grep ffmpeg | grep -v grep');
9
10
11
12
13 preg_match_all("/^[ ]{0,}([0-9]*)[ ]{0,}(.*?) .*?([0-9]*?)\-[0-9]*?\.flv /m", $output, $preg_out, PREG_SET_ORDER);
14
15 if (!empty($preg_out)) {
16
17 $db = new DBmysqli('dbmaster');
18
19 foreach ($preg_out as $process) {
20 $pid = intval($process[1]);
21 $etime = $process[2];
22 $queue_id = intval($process[3]);
23
24 $etime = intval(str_replace(':','',$etime));
25
26 // elapsed time >= 60:00 (1 hour)
27 if ($etime >= 6000) {
28 $fail_sql = "DELETE FROM media_upload_queue WHERE queue_id = $queue_id";
29 shell_exec("kill -9 ".$pid); // kill hung ffmpeg process
30 $db->query($fail_sql); // remove file from DB
31 // debate if life is worth living...
32 }
33 }
34 }
35 ?>

Yes I know there are better ways to do this now at the OS level, but it was a quick hack over a half decade ago and continues to work... ain't broke, don't fix it kinda deal.
Agree, I've been recharging in infrequently enough that I can't tell you exactly how long I get, but somewhere on the order of 5-6 days I think. I turn it off at night though to save a little extra (I don't need notifications while I'm sleeping).
I do not see a 'world's first':

Elliptic does not offer insurance to customers but has to get insurance itself according to the published terms:

'Elliptic Vault shall effect and maintain with a reputable insurance company a policy or policies of insurance providing an adequate level of cover in respect of all liability which may be incurred by Elliptic Vault under this Agreement or in respect of any loss of Stored Funds up to a value of the Specified Cover.'

'In the event of any claim against the insurance company by Elliptic Vault, in respect of any loss, damage or corruption of Stored Funds up the value of Specified Cover, any Stored Funds subject of the insurance claim will be valued at the average USD ask price offered on the Bitstamp exchange in the 24-hour period ending at 00:01 am GMT on the day on which Fees are payable, or on such other basis as the insurer may adopt from time to time.'

https://www.elliptic.co/vault/terms

Insurance coverage for data loss, data theft etc. is not new, on the contrary, it is quite common if you store digital data and do not plan to go bankrupt because of customers suing you …
it loops when you get to "With An", not that you get through the whole verse.

That is, the cow says "Moo", the sheep says "baa", and the infinite recursion says "That is, the cow says "Moo", the sheep says "baa", and the infinite recursion says "That is, the cow says "Moo", the sheep says "baa", and the infinite recursion says "That is, the cow says "Moo", the sheep says "baa", and the infinite recursion says "That is, the cow says "Moo", the sheep says "baa", and the infinite recursion says StackOverflowException was unhandled

An unhandled exception of type

'System.StackOverflowException' occurred in Pxtl.dll

Make sure you do not have an infinite loop or infinite recursion.
As a UCLA grad, I can tell you that for something like the past 8 years UCLA has set a new record for undergraduate applications to a college. They get over 100K applicants a year now, and when I applied in 2006, they had just been the first school to receive 50K applicants.
This will be an interesting battle to watch. Will Aereo prevail? Any prediction? You all have probably heard of a little trend going on called “cord cutting”? I watch streamed digital content via Netflix and Chromecast. I will NEVER go back to Cable or Satellite again. Too much restrictions on channel packages also long term commitment.
Any action from FEMA or any govt agency? I would hope they would be bringing in and rationing drinking water.

This looks like a major disaster from what I understand, and the situation has the potential to deteriorate rather quickly.
This is an excellent idea, thanks for making this.

Along with calling, it might be helpful to have a wiki that outlined the issues and talking points. People often care, but then feel like they don't have enough depth of knowledge to take action.

At very least it would be nice to point to one.
That is true, however this is orthogonal to the problem because:

1. Relatively few colleges where you can get required networking.
2. People that do that generally do not have a problem with loans.
3. To build a network you got to be motivated.
Aren't upvotes a measure of interest? I would argue that the lack of upvotes on sexism-related posts indicates a lack of interest in discussing these issues on the part of the general population of HN.

What you get is a small group of vocal people eager to discuss the topic while everyone else simply avoids the post. This is similar behavior to what is seen in a flamewar, but could we agree that there might possibly be a better way to rank posts that is able to differentiate between an important discussion that not many people want to have, versus a petty internet argument?
'Superlens' Extends Range of Wireless Power Transfer
That says exactly why.

You read from a file and tell the OS to not buffer it(or you tell the OS to flush the caches before you start) on a native system, and it does exactly that.

You read from a file and tell the OS to not buffer it (or you tell the OS to flush the caches before you start) on a VM, and the OS thinks it does that, but the hypervisor living below the VM buffers some of the data anyhow, so you're really just reading from memory.
Video: Lake Michigan Waves Birth Giant Ice Balls
"People's abilities and interests by the time they're old enough to start a startup are the product of their whole lives..." regardless of their gender.
I don't think the problem is philosophy majors; they aren't a significant percentage of students:

http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d11/tables/dt11_286.asp

Their pay 10 years out is also supposedly in the top 10% (I recall the logic courses help them do well on the LSAT...):

http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/02/college-degree-pay-careers-...
I don't doubt that applications to top universities are booming. Kids routinely apply to a dozen schools these days. Employers might well figure that the kids they hire of these schools are better prepared. They might also find it a way to hire their own or their friends' children.
In bitcoin you have an option between reversible and irreversible transactions. (see multi sig transactions)

In traditional finance you ONLY have reversible transactions.

Options are good.
I have one and find it extremely convenient to read texts from it while my phone is in my pocket or in some place inconvenient. The bluetooth range on it is awesome so if my phone is charging downstairs I can still get texts on my watch.
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On the 30C3 there was a talk about a C Compiler (actually an llvm optimization plugin) that can eliminate nearly every memory management related vulnerability by adding memory checks. The penalty is only a 100% increase in runtime.

> If you're a C programmer and somebody says like: I've that optimization that makes your program 3% faster you go: wow! Then you come and say: well, now I make it half as fast you go: w00t?! But then you remember that people actually use ruby to serve web pages.

I'd say this would be actually worth it for a far more secure FFmpeg.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ybcByjNlq8
University is now considered "the next step" after high school, rather than one of the available options. So many people go to university with a superficial idea of what they want to do or become.

But how can you blame them when it's become a requirement for pretty much any job, and not going is a social stigma.
Is Parse a "write once, export for all platforms" type thing? If so, how come you only have an iPhone app and not Android?
Well -- at the time (way back in 2013, when it was signifigantly more expensive) -- the reviews echoed what I saw -- just Google around for them. Due to the number of reviews matching my personal experience (blown out brightness, bad color accuracy, unable to get it calibrated to good norms, etc) -- I was delighted to sell it off for what I paid for it.

I can't prove without access to a modern panel that they didn't get exponentially and magically better. But, I find that unlikely. They are fighting for cheapest slot.

But who knows, maybe it is the best panel in the universe now! Maybe the extra $3000 people are dropping on Sharp and Dell 4k panels is all markup! But, I suspect not.
"a top priority" not "the top priority"
TC Makers: A Walk Through The Pinball Hall Of Fame
exactly.. why don't more people say this? so much of the 'worth' of your college degree is essentially a function of how valuable it is in the current workplace. If you major in 'business' or 'communications' then you are majoring in 'fucking around'. There aren't too many jobs that I know of are looking for this.

If you go to college to get a degree that is useless, then you will work at Walmart. I mean, seriously, is that really fucking news?

What's news is how colleges still manage to increase their tuition costs some 5 times the inflation rate year over year just to crank out vast quantities of mindless degrees that are of no use in this economy.

Bill Gates thinks it's a supply-and-demand issue, but it sounds like unmitigated greed to me.
Cabbie is also not infrequently an immigrant's first or second job. I can remember a Ph.D. cabbie from West Africa--driving cabs in Washington, DC, wasn't the safest occupation, but for him it was safer than staying in his native land.
The process you imagined will only produce the opposite outcome: when the price of MS stock plunges to zero, Gates himself will likely buy back all his (confiscated) stock and since MS the company operates independently from the stock market, the real value of the company is not destroyed, and will likely bounce back when Gates buys back all his stock. Soon he will regain all his lost wealth and be filthy rich again. This actually happened in 90s Russia: when the former Soviet Union was no more, then Russian government issued every citizen shares of the SU state owned entities - factories, OIL FIELDS, etc. As you rightly pointed out, ordinary Russian citizen didn't know what to do with these "shares", they dumped them cheap. Some enterprising individuals then acquired them cheap and that's how the Russian Oil Oligarchs got their wealth.
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I guess you could. Although I'm not sure how exactly an algorithm can be inherently prejudiced, that sounds rather postmodern. You can make one that is inefficient or apply one that isn't suitable to a given data set, and end up with skewed results. But an algorithm promoting prejudice by itself? I don't know. I always thought mathematics was neutral.

Either way, it absolutely does not apply here. HN's algorithms sinking sexism-related stories is a side effect. The fact of the matter is it will sink any story that has an imbalance in the upvote-to-comment ratio, whether it's about sexism, Haskell or the Church of the SubGenius.

This is the same logic as saying that encryption is evil because it can be used by terrorists to hide information. Encryption always does the same thing, it's fundamentally neutral, regardless of what's being encrypted. The same way HN's algorithms are fundamentally neutral, regardless of what happens to trigger their procedures.
I think we know who eats chips and apples in the office. :-)
The Syntax vs The Spirit
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It's so nice of Vin Diesel to share that part of his private life with us. You can see that he is really grieving the loss of one of his closest friends. Losing a loved one is one of the worst things you can go through.
That's because Yelp made the strange decision to spend years as a US-only service. I'll never understand why internet companies do that unless there are compelling legal or logistical reasons. In Yelp's case I believe they were using Google Maps from the very beginning, so expansion would have been trivial.

Recently they bought and absorbed Qype, which in the absence of Yelp has been the dominant service in Germany at least. That should give them more of a foothold in Europe.
>people will just sign up with throwaway email addresses and, possibly, use Tor.

But what if real name was forced, like on facebook or google? There's plenty of precedent now if a judge wanted to declare that as a minimum amount of due diligence.

I can't comment at the Chicago Tribune without telling them who I went to high school with (through facebook comments.)
Those threads always turn into flamewars that spill out into other threads.
Nerds' general inability to sell isn't because they don't understand marketing lingo, but because they lack an intuitive sense of people/markets. Inconsistent and vague buzzwords do nothing to bridge that chasm.
(Posted on behalf of a friend)

"PG, of the three female partners you mentioned, one is in charge of legal, the second: taxes, and the third (largely) of founder relations.

How many full-time or part-time YC partners actually advise companies on business strategy?"
An important message about fish.
I personally find value in using my Pebble. Having the ability to glance down at my wrist without needing to pull my phone out of my pocket (or computer bag) is great. Having the ability to trigger URLS through a companion app is pretty cool. Glancing at my watch while walking through the airport to see I have a gate change notification is great. In the near future, there will be many other potential integration points and companion apps as the next major version of the SDK is released.

Are these features for everyone? Probably not. But it seems closed minded to reduce the purchase of what is in actuality a pretty cool device to "purely conspicuous consumption".
Senior managers are the worst information security offenders
The media is a bit obsessed with the Governor of New Jersey right now. I did hear about the spill this AM on the car radio. I live in Washington DC. How far is the nearest "water distribution center" from you?
“Smarter” is too blunt a point. Your average young woman is probably more risk-averse than your average young man.
> And while it's possible for women to be sexist too, if you think Jessica, Kirsty, and Carolynn are sexist, I'd like to see you say it to their faces.

That... is not an argument? There's ample evidence to show that members of underrepresented groups within individual companies/industries experience unconscious biases in hiring/ranking/etc, even towards groups of which they're a member.
It's not. Parse just replaces your backend, you'll still need to write dedicated clients for Android, iOS, etc.
I wasn't really aware GMU had a major research arm - is this relatively new? I grew up in the D.C. Metro Area and really just remember it as that weird local commuter school with a basketball stadium that the circus came to and the performing arts center. Growing up we had a grad student who rented a room and was in the choir. We used to go to her performances every once in a while. I've been the campus a few times in the last decade or so, and I used to visit the old weird library on the quad to study when I was in High School.

If they're growing their research arm, that can have a huge impact on the academic reputation of the school. It'll get them lots of name recognition.

But yeah, it definitely doesn't have the local reputation yet because we all remember it for what it used to be, a kind of community college that happened to offer 4-year programs.

I was really surprised when my relatives and friend's kids who are college aged started bringing it up in conversation about applications alongside of much more recognizable school name. I guess in the high-school guidance departments it's gotten quite a good name.

Times change I guess?
At Thinkful we recently dug into our enrollment and performance numbers to see what we could learn about people towards the beginning of their careers as developers [1].

Turns out that women enroll in our courses at about the same proportion they're currently represented in engineering, which is disappointing, but that there's no difference between their performance once they enroll.

Of particular relevance is the rate at which incoming students report their motivation for taking the course is to "found a startup". 16% of men, but only 5% of women, gave that reason.

[1] http://blog.thinkful.com/post/72670499078/gender-differences...

Edit for grammar.
> The appropriate response is to flip these weenies the bird

That is a very mature approach, I am sure :P
Side note: if anyone knows who said "instead of being a gatekeeper, we should be a gateway" I'd love to see it. It's similar to what I said except way, way better and I'd love to see the context.
Better than CREEP.
This is making me crazy, does someone have the solution?

The best I could come up with is:

function one_bit(x) {
return 1 >>> (x & (x + ~0))
}

("x + ~0" is equivalent to "x - 1")

But this doesn't work when x is 0 All other case should be fine, afaik.
Apps like SleepCycle that just use the accelerometer data are not as good as wristbands, especially if you're sleeping with somebody. I still have an WakeMate, but the app expired and they didn't opensource it, so it's useless :(
I know a roofer whose business suffered badly after a bad review on Angie's List. He didn't sue. I don't know the ins and outs of the job in the review, but he did good work for us.
Let's help Chris fill out his for loop list...

Lua:

for i = 1, 2, 3 do

print (i)

end
Cookware has an established practical and has been with us in various forms for thousands of years so I think that's a poor analogy.

The pebble demands your attention. That is all. It does nothing that something else doesn't do already, costs a chunk of money, needs constant feeding and attention. At least a smartphone was a consolidation of communication and entertainment devices. This is a portable distraction. A poor one at that.

Do you think it's healthy to constantly stare at your heat rate, glucose level and blood pressure and micromanage every parameter of your life?

Also in a decade, you will pay a subscription fee for that data from the central provider that your watch talks to. That model is established already plus it will probably be linked to your health insurance profile as well by then. You'll wear one to keep your premium down...
It's not the trolls I care about so much as more moderate people who may have seen the fight from a distance and come away with the idea that YC is somehow sexist. Particularly women, because I want them to apply.
I think we all know how this will turn out.
Big fan of https://sivers.org/srs - would have never started using spaced repetition without it.
> Aren't upvotes a measure of interest? I would argue that the lack of upvotes on sexism-related posts indicates a lack of interest in discussing these issues on the part of the general population of HN.

The sexism-related posts have a large number of upvotes, yet they are penalized anyway by the controversial algorithm under discussion.
False dichotomy. It's true that they are not your friends but it doesn't mean that you should never interact with them, nor that you wouldn't enjoy (and maybe even learn from) spending time with them.

You spend more time with your coworkers than with your family, so cutting this entire part out of your life for some nebulous principle is not socially smart.