skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a really simple explanatory mechanism, which is that even if an AirBnB host is bound by the same anti-discrimination provisions of the Civil Rights Act as a Hyatt, which is probably true, holding individual service providers accountable at that level is basically impossible. And to the extent that the "sharing economy" involves more individuals rather than businesses that can be sued, you will see more discrimination.

This issue also strikes to the heart of some of the libertarian ethos around the sharing economy generally and Uber/AirBnB in particular. People are really racist.[1] Just getting the racism to the levels experienced by Andrew's friend experienced involved a century of the federal government beating the states over the head with troops, court orders, etc. The elimination of overt racial discrimination in private businesses is actually a wonderful example of concerted government action addressing a problem that according to free market theories shouldn't even have existed in the first place.

[1] I think Americans are much less racist than almost anyone else. I'm Bengali by ethnicity, and my observation is that people on the subcontinent are racist enough to make a south Georgia redneck blush. But even then sometimes I look around at maps like this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Racial_Di... (race map of Detroit with black areas in blue and white areas in red), and think we'd still have legal segregation if the courts hadn't forced it down peoples' throats.
My 2 year old does, though he picked it up from Thomas the Tank Engine.
Not in terms of workforce. Google has 47K employees: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=GOOG+Profile

A large percentage of those are overseas, and the remainder are concentrated in Mountain View (yes, I'm aware of satellite offices in SF, NYC, Boston, etc.) Call it 15K HQ employees, which should be enough to make an impact. Right?

Except that their own senator, California's Dianne Feinstein, remains arguably the most vocal NSA surveillance enthusiast on Capitol Hill. She'll get reelected with or without the help of those 15K voters -- in a state with a population of 40 million. (In reality the number is even lower because not all employees are U.S. citizens eligible to vote.)

And those 15K concentrated employees are negligible compared to companies like AT&T, which has 243,000 employees which tend to be inside the U.S. and spread more evenly through congressional districts:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=T+Profile

Of course AT&T has long had a cozy relationship with the NSA very different from left coast companies:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57589012-38/

BTW, compare to WalMart's 2.2 million employees:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=WMT+Profile
iPad app still is missing...
My only experience on 4chan was due to a Google Alert notifying me that I was the subject of a thread on /d/. That thread was the highest density collection of insults about me that I'd ever seen on the net, and sadly, I'm not yet thick-skinned enough to entirely ignore the "comments on the internet."

When I see things like that, or comments on youtube videos of my talks, I sometimes think "maybe I should retreat and make myself not such a visible target." But I stay because I feel like I'm meant to be a role model for my gender, and people seem to like to hear the things I say.
Or at least, I stay for now.

I get the impression that communities like this feel that people put themselves out there purely for their own benefit, and therefore they have the right to attack them, because they are asking for it. I think many of us never asked for it, but given the pros/cons, we stick with it. There are definitely cons, though.

I don't see how to prevent anonymous communities from lambasting public figures, and don't think they should necessarily be prevented. But it sure would be nice if they realized that everyone's a person, and nobody likes to wake up to find they've arbitrarily been chosen as the subject of taunts for the day.
As in "I used to think correlation implied causation. Then I took a statistics class. Now I don't..."

http://xkcd.com/552/
It's cool to hate on jQuery right now (for some odd reason), but don't let that get you down. This is an awesome start and I'll definitely be keeping an eye on it.

We do a lot of front-end editing on WordPress and this might make a handy replacement for the bulky tinyMCE that gets used.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7225945
A moon rover is a bit substantial for what constitutes "tech" these days. OTOH, you've probably read multiple stories on Flappy Bird.
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Right! I think in the future certain folks will be speaking pidgin txt while the rest of us that can afford the nicer phones or keyboards will use real words.
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You should write for your audience. The only thing that's correct or incorrect is if you succeeded in communicating with the intended recipient.
It's hard to concentrate on your own flapping when everyone else is flapping at the time.
Agree. They are waiting for other companies to provide more inventive technologies, ;-)
Impossible? That's nonsense. They could ask users for a standard race descriptor that is never shared with the hosts, and if the hosts seem to predominantly reject certain races of people, the marketplace like AirBnB could kick them out. It's actually pretty simple. It all depends on how eager the marketplaces are to solve this particular problem.
OK, but as dublinben points out, one must consider the businesses these services are meant to replace. He mentions taxicabs which are notoriously racist, do you suppose Bed and Breakfast owners might have different answers about vacancy depending on who asks?

If the goal is to observe racism as it functions in our society, cool. If the goal is guilt-driven self-flagellation about the distinction between startups' marketing copy and the reality of the situation, less cool.
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> so, is that all these big game companies do, just copy?

Well, don't just limit it to big companies. Small companies, even startups just copy away. And it's not just games, but apps in general.
Riak 2.x uses Solr to index values from K/V with AAE. If you're interested in how using it looks, I wrote a post using geospatial data here[1].

[1]: http://www.christopherbiscardi.com/2014/02/07/geospatial-ind...
With correlation statistics the p value is proportional to the sample size.
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WTF - that looks like fun creating it.
So basically what you're telling me is it's very hard to properly compare the final effective tax rates on corporations in two different countries. The study above doesn't compare to other countries. So you don't actually know if it's really worse in the US.
So much empathy./s

Context is extremely important in non-verbal, text communication. You are only harming yourself and your relationships with others by employing such attitude.
Installing Ubuntu 13.10 rather than the LTS12.4 shows the way in which it is easy to create technical debt with Linux via lack of expertise. Linux rewards knowledge but. mercilessly punishes poor upfront decisions. Now the school district faces upgrading all those laptops before the end of their service life.
Thanks man!

There are still a few thing missing for the first official release but I think we're getting there real soon ;)
This is not even close to true among my peer group -- 20- and 30-something, middle class, educated Midwesterners. Nor is it true on any of the message boards I frequent online. So this may be an interesting anthropological datum about some segment of the population (teenagers? the poor? uneducated? the author and his wife?), but it doesn't generalize.

Punctuation is important, and sufficiently literate people recognize that. Since our society is getting more literate (or at least compared to a hundred years ago, not sure if literacy has been improving lately), I imagine this phenomenon is getting less likely, not more.
It reads like something generated in Dwarf Fortress.
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I haven't used either of these services, but perhaps it is possible that these apps provide more information about the customer in advance than a traditional B&B or taxi driver would have access to. You can't necessarily tell somebody's race over the phone.
> Watching an app be successful and then watching the copy-cats swoop in

Be careful though. That successful app could very well likely be a copy-cat itself. Success does not mean originality.
> So with that (mis)feature, eliding commas would make a lot of code harder to reader.

Not really. Lisps get by without them and it doesn't have formal keyword parameters.
I don't think any of this is specific to AirBnb or Uber. What is described here is just plain racism, something that's blatant all over America (some might say, it's what defines America), especially in regards towards black people. The black friend in the story knew this and wasn't surprised. It's only surprising to people who think this is something of the past, as if somehow people have improved and this shouldn't exist. The idea that people as a whole change, improve, and become less racist, while romantically appealing, couldn't be further from the truth.
Good point. But does it make it easier for racism to happen? If Marriott/Priceline (blindly accepts reservation) is replaced by AirBnB (Chesky's vision), will travel become harder for African Americans?
Would you say that it is the animation itself (the bubble moving from its previous position) or the duration of the animation?

Thanks for your feedback!
Could Go be used to replace Java on Android eventually? If he's already comparing it to Objective-C, and since it already has garbage collection, it might not be a terrible idea, and it should make it easier for new programmers wanting to develop for Android, since Go is an easier language to learn than Java and much less verbose.
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I didn't imply anything about the web.

I was just referencing the ideas in this book (with which I have no affiliation): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ocean_Strategy
I have to agree with vdianuk (or whatever) here. You may not think you're being judgmental by applying criteria to others' grammar, but you are.

You aren't writing a book; you're talking to someone. IMing in completely perfect sentences does give an air of distance.
I used to have a boss who did this in actual speech. He hated talking to people, and when you were talking to him, you could tell how badly he wanted you to shut up by how many times he'd say "cool." As in, "cool" wasn't too bad, "cool cool" meant mild annoyance, and "cool cool cool" meant "FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY SHUT YOUR PIE HOLE RIGHT NOW."

He'd usually escalate through these stages the longer you talked. "Cool." "Cool cool." "Cool cool cool." "That's all I've got, boss!"
Their point was, there's only one factor here: something you have. There's no password you give the site. So it's one factor. It is probably significantly safer than just a password, since nigerian hackers can't steal your phone from a huge poorly secured database.... but it's still just one factor.
Oh please. That whole "fusion" thing from that facility is a trick to get taxpayers to fund more nuclear weapon research.

We should have finished this instead, what a waste:

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

Take a guess why congress only funded the one useful for weapons.
So your reference is a guy posting stuff on a blog? Well, here's a counter for you: I've lost 7 kgs on a ketogenic (low carb, high fat) diet. I eat as much as I want until I feel full. And according to body measurement scans, I lost mostly visceral fat and almost no muscle, which is amazing.

Yeah, try telling me you get fat from eating proteins and fat.
> "protecting" games has been a problem, almost literally forever. On the one hand you want folks to benefit from there work, on the other hand sometimes a 'derivative' is a much much better game

Despite this argument's merit in general, it's a complete digression in this particular case. They didn't just heavily copy his game, but then turned around and named it similarly, registered a trademark, then turned that trademark against him. At what point do we stop pretending these people are anything but thieves?
Situationally, it could be angry, but there are other reasons to end your sentences with a period. I think the real problem is that the short-text medium makes it hard to accurately convey emotion in the same way that tone and body language do, and so things like periods, emoticons, interjections, exclamation points, and phrasing have to carry that load.
Your argument seems to suggest that you think that speech should be entirely unrestricted. I don't know of any country in the world that has ever had such a policy. Even though it may be one of the countries in which speech is most protected, there are still a fair few limitations in the US [1].

So I'm not clear whether you're arguing for a radical position of no limits at all to speech, or if you're trying to put forward your own particular view of which parts of speech should be considered legal and which illegal (which as you rightly point out is problematic unless the distinctions and reasons for them are made very clear, which you don't seem to do).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...
In case anyone doesn't know, Python has had a json library since version 2.6.
this episode was really stupid
Hurricane says no one knows for sure whether NIF can really reach the point of ignition. "It's not up to me; it's up to Mother Nature," he says. "But we're certainly going to try."
So unfortunate, and also a reflection of the wider national context. Maybe time to add a few more to this list of "21 Things Black People Can't Do in America":

http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/02/21-things-you-cant...
Did you read the article? That's exactly what the author says. It's a short article, you can probably read it in 2 or 3 minutes...
Ahahaha! How many textbooks have you read? How many American ones? The majority of them suck. Wikipedia can usually be counted upon to be clearer. And the more academic the books are, the more they suck.
Actually, I would guess that how often the words "I", "you" and other personal pronouns referring to the author and reader appear in a book would be a powerful positive predictor of the book's quality.

Sure, being non-native doesn't help, but the world of academic writing has far, FAR bigger problems than that.
"The elimination of overt racial discrimination in private businesses is actually a wonderful example of concerted government action addressing a problem that according to free market theories shouldn't even have existed in the first place."

Just to clarify Milton Friedman (A champion of free market economics) readily acknowledges racism. His argument is more along the lines of "in the long term racist businesses will lose business to more accepting and diverse ones."
I wonder if this will be Ioncubed as well..
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The difference is that you can sue Hyatt if you are discriminated against, which keeps people in line. It's very difficult to sue AirBnB for the actions of a host.
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Avoiding a negative attitude to things is quite different to forcing a fake positive attitude. For instance, try to give people the benefit of the doubt - you can consciously change the way you react to other people, until it starts to become unconscious.
I think that's more in the hands of Google themselves but there is a project which patches the Go tools and runtime to enable Android apps to interface directly with a shared library written in Go.

https://github.com/eliasnaur/goandroid
I'm at the end (29) of your group and most of us (my personal peers) very rarely use punctuation in informal conversations (AIM, irc, hipchat).

Assuming it's a literacy issue is a bit offensive.

My formal email/hackernews/reddit etiquette has absolutely nothing to do with my informal etiquette. I'd wager most of my personal story is based on growing up surrounded by IRC in elementary school. There are points where I have to rail in my "stream of consciousness" style of type during informal discussions.
I have to admit that I chuckled at this comment, but mostly because I was nodding in partial agreement and partially because I expected to find at least one comment that said exactly this. :)

Wherever possible, I try to do the same. I understand it can be difficult with text messages quickly hammered out on a less than ideal interface, but I still can't shake the thought that refusal to at least properly capitalize is at the very least lazy. Although, I do find that as the years go by, I generally ignore these things if I'm already familiar with the person I'm communicating with, their habits, and typing behavior. Alarms only go off for me if their typing habits change dramatically (capitalizing where they normally didn't), because it means that they're on a different device than they normally use or because something else is going on.
You'll love this video then if you haven't already seen it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3keLeMwfHY
Given that hydrogen bombs are fusion bombs such a claim can be leveled at all fusion research. Maybe nuclear weapons research is the way they get the US government to shell out for fusion research, like the optics researchers did with SDI.
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Of course. Pie charts look natural and easy to comprehend when visualizing things like market share of certain products, for example browser market share (http://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qpri...). In fact I'd argue that that's a much better representation than a bar chart, like http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php, because the former makes it easier to comprehend roughly what proportion of the total market each browser represents, which is not as straightforward to see in a bar chart (in bar chart it's only easy to see how different browser market shares compare to each other). So yes, pie charts may be appropriate at times, although I agree that it's a poor choice in this particular case, as the root comment explains.
The comparison that is being made is the direction your thumb points when your fingers wrap in a particular direction. It's not merely giving it a name - it's specifically likening the vector to the relative orientation of your fingers. That's why the comparison is memorable. If it were merely a name with nothing that it is compared to, it would not be memorable nor helpful.
For me it's the comparative noise level. C# is noisy enough. When combined with stick your code here framework and code generation, monkeying with IIS, and the rest of the msft box I'm thrown into regardless of app load and requirements, I just start detaching or worse am just worn out at the end of the day. Go asks for so little in the productivity I get in return. Haven't enjoyed writing code this much since my Modula-2 days.
I haven't seen any trend of bashing China, unless of course reporting honestly is bashing.

NASA, despite its huge budget cuts, in the last decade has operated three rovers on Mars, landed one new one (via spectacular jet crane awesomeness). They've built new types of rockets, taken pictures of the universe, continued to do valuable research in science and space. Continued to be a major contributor to the ISS. And much much more.

I think the real question here is, where have you been for the last decade?
Reminds me of something I noticed in comics - you never put a period at the end of a speech bubble, but you can (and must, if applicable) put a question mark or an exclamation mark there. But there are times in Calvin & Hobbes where a few sentences fit into the bubble, and they have periods between them, but still never at the end.

It just belies the true purpose of periods: to separate two different sentences. So yes, it must mean something if it's there when it doesn't need to be.
I remember Yahoo recently having similar problems with employees dog-fooding their products. I don't remember them getting the hate, however.
White supremacy is an oppressive institution that reaches throughout all of society. Unless it is actively fought against, it will prevail.
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lol! Great!
The problem with incubators, accelerators and co-working spaces is ...
I'm old-fashioned. I'll keep writing in complete sentences on my instant messages unless I am making a mistake.
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People as a whole have been getting less racist. The only problem is that "less racist" still is not as good as many people think it is.
I wonder if you could get a negative score by pasting some translated Kant :P

Pretty cool, might use it as a quick checkup tool, would pay the 5$. Any word on what happens to the pasted text? I can't find any terms of use.

Could be really useful if you could change the rating rules. I'd like to adapt it to academic texts for example. There's some use beyond style as well since you could automatically check for superlatives (or adjectives in general) and the like that are generally not wanted and some other typical constructs that should be avoided.
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On the other hand, couldn't it be construed as just as judgmental when you feel that way about "perfect" sentences?

There's something to be said about taking the written word at face value and trying not to read into it much. I suspect the latter is because, without verbal cues or body language present, the human brain requires addition input to read the emotional state of the writer. Without that, it examines things that are probably incidental and meaningless but certainly not without consequence.
ES has performed very well for us as the backbone for the solution we deployed for a large government-sector customer. Had some GC issues initially, and were worried about user concurrency, especially since we were not restricting queries (i.e. users can do full-scale wildcard searches against the entire data set of 1BN+ records). But ES continues to shine.

Congrats to the ElasticSearch team, and all the supporters around it. Once I get back into more of a coding role, I'll definitely be contributing back to the ES project.
You could sue the host. But that violates the rule that you only sue people with money. There are not many but this is one disadvantage of wealth.
I don't know if it's generational (being 32 here), but fullstops in realtime conversations (email is different) always seemed used to highlight annoyance or mild anger indeed (perhaps because it emphasizes that you want to end conversation).

It's similar to replying "k" (or a single word) to someone who sends you a full sentence.
Corporation is just a name for a lot of people working on common stuff. There's nothing "corporation" can do that is not done by people composing it. And if you don't like people involved in the politics, who else could be involved in it?
This sentiment is interesting "Over the past few years, NIF has been getting a fat 'F.'" Perhaps now that 'grade' will change.

Actually, I think framing it as a grade is beyond silly; it is irresponsible. Giving a letter grade to long-term scientific project makes little sense. It is not a one-shot thing with a predefined notion of correctness. What can we compare such a grade to?

Instead, we should be asking what we've learned and how the project has advanced science.
Most of the time, you can take the extra time to form your thought properly. Are we really in that much of a hurry?