skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what's the advantage of doing client side rendering in webgl vs a video logo or a JS sprite animation of some sort even.
It's nice to have options especially with the most presigeous companies and I don't think it's just the startup scene.
In the UK it's not uncommon for the top universities to have more potential employers turn up to a careers event than potential employees. That's a nice situation to be in.
I agree with your general point, but Stanford and Harvard in particular aren't great examples, because for many people they're considerably cheaper than public universities, if you can get in. Both schools have pretty generous tuition reductions, all the way down to fully waiving tuition plus paying you a stipend for living expenses, if your family makes below about the 60th percentile of household incomes. Even up to about the 80th percentile they may still come out cheaper than a public university. Harvard has a sliding scale between 60th-90th percentile, where 60th percentile pays nothing, and 90th percentile ($150k/yr) pays the full "sticker price" tuition.

The schools that are really expensive for people from the middle-ish of the income distribution are the private schools that don't have as lavish endowments as Stanford and Harvard do, who therefore offer much less generous reductions, generally only need-based aid to considerably poorer people, not circa-median-income people.
And thus "threatening to quit" becomes the way for the crazy dudes to get whatever they want.
Let's not turn this entire thing in to a witch hunt. It's more important to learn from the mistakes of others than for us to burn her at the stake.
I was going to come here to say this. I've lived in a couple of college towns in California (Davis and Santa Cruz), and they both have a Gap in the downtown area. Strolling downtown, especially in Santa Cruz, is just a Thing To Do, like going to the mall used to be. It's where you see the Santa Cruz character, grab a cookie from the cookie store, and mooch around looking in shop windows. Essentially the exact same mall activity.

That said, as the article focuses on Gap, I think their problems are far more pronounced than just malls or online. The Gap and Baby Gap store in Santa Cruz are almost always completely empty, and that seems to be the case for most places. I get the feeling Target is just dominating them, selling the same clothes cheaper.
So, is there any way to make an achievement or do something of merit outside of the dominant power group's judgement?
Maybe it was a whole pile of men who had no idea how women think?
WOW OpenBSD 5.5 will ship Ruby 2.1.0 ^_^ OP have you tried Arch Linux ? It already has v2.1.1 > https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/ruby/
Any future release if not in official repo's then in testing. You can also find more info on official wiki here, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ruby
> I did not say Secure Boot causes this,

Here's what you said:

> Hear my fucked up story of UEFI, Secure Boot and Windows 8:

Why mention Secure Boot at all? It's got absolutely nothing to do with your situation.
> More and more colleges provide MOOCs : massive open online courses. It could be a good free alternative to college : just pick courses you are interested to and build a portfolio of certifications.

Except actual certifications attached to MOOCs generally aren't free.
Nope, not Nashville. About 750 miles East of there in the D.C. area.
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Equally stupid.
Actually, we have no written Constitution, and very little in the way of actual rights in the sense that if a Constable asks us to move or go home or to search our bags, we have to let them.

Employment rights however are slightly better. The employee interviewed in the OA would have recourse to an employment tribunal for what used to be called 'constructive dismissal' - the terminology may have changed recently. The monetary compensation would be quite basic by Valley standards, but the public exposure of the employers, subject to cross-examination, would be most satisfying I imagine.
Yup. "Would you please be respectful and not hula hoop in the office? Thanks."

"What a hostile environment that coworkers tell me to not hula hoop in the office!"

You can't win with some people or environments.
Such a poll would go against the site rules, and for good reason, but I sometimes conduct hidden polls by posting "libertarian" and "socialist" (I'm putting those in quotes because these terms have different meanings in the US than elsewhere) comments (using different accounts) on political threads and counting the upvotes. It might be surprising (but only for a split second) that the vast majority of HN users are progressive (in America: socialist/democrat), while free market believers/libertarians are a minority. It is by no means scientific, and possibly quite anecdotal, but also not surprising, that the free-market libertarians are among the younger members of this site (usually early twenties, judging by the information posted on user pages of "libertarian posters").

This is not surprising because HN is a community of mostly well educated people, which here, like elsewhere, is composed of left-leaning individuals. However, it is also true that the number of libertarians here, while still a relatively small minority, is larger than found in other communities of well educated people.
I think mostly people from the Dogecoin subreddit, reddit.com/r/dogecoin . A lot of it was probably mined rather than bought also.
And don't forget that no matter what your IP, no matter what your language setting, no matter what country you have set, Google Maps will still default you to showing a view of the continental United States. You're in Tokyo, searching for Yokohama? Here's Yokohama Sushi in downtown Los Angeles. For a while, the new web Google Maps redesign even removed the HTML5 Location API "my position" button. It's back now, but it should be defaulting to showing your location, like the mobile apps do.
I can't think of a better starting point than Wikipedia if we want to achieve an uninfluenced discussion. It's almost guaranteed to be less biased than the primary source.
> Especially as one can't force CSS to stop calling it color.

You can get pretty close :)

http://spiffingcss.com/
Yes, although they have a slightly different model.

rbenv basically just chooses which ruby (along with the gems that are installed with it) is active on your system.

rvm also provides a gemset functionality that is more like the virtualenv model, where you can have multiple gemsets per version of the interpreter.

What virtualenv doesn't handle as well as either of them is choosing between installed versions of python. What virtualenv does better than both is create an isolated environment for your python program.
We could do something simpler and less expensive and less time-consuming, like straight out IQ tests.

But instead we see who can afford to spend 4-9 years at an Ivy League school and think this is more fair.
This is a really good point, and I hope they come up with a another proof of work algorithm that does something useful like protein folding, or switch to "proof of stake" which is not compute intensive alternative.
Have you heard the good word about taskwarrior? I did not see any mention of this cli utility in this post. I have not tried doing, but use taskwarrior on a daily basis. It is fairly simple and allows for prioritizing tasks as well.
Oh God. Really?
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Nothing is an achievement or thing of merit outside of the judgement of some individual or set of individuals. Merit/achievement isn't something that exists independently.

And the dominant group in society is, pretty much by definition, the one whose judgement is most influential.
Sorting by points is the default
I'll put that in the GitHub usage wiki page.
I once spoke at a conference for teens, where I was literally the only pro-college speaker. My original talk wasn't even about college; I made up a talk on the spot after hearing how anti-college everyone else was. Some speakers were even advocating dropping out of High School (!?!?) to work on your startup.

Sure, Gates/Jobs/Zuckerberg/etc didn't graduate college. However, you have to remember three important facts: they all at least started college, they all stayed until they had an insane success on their hands and they all met (or at least worked with) their cofounders in college.

College isn't for everyone, and it's definitely a broken system. However, it's about more than just about the classes -- spending 4 years on a campus with thousands of other young people who are all there to learn and explore is transformative. You don't get that once you hit the real world.
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This is a really important issue to talk about, not so much because of the sexism/female engineers angle, but because it deals with how start-ups are managed.

TL;DR
1. Have legacy documents, guidelines and policies in place
2. GitHub needs to have a look within its management team and decide if they want to continue eating themselves to oblivion.
3. Similar to the hacker code of ethics, we need to work on getting MORE people into technology. We should not be excluding people out of technology!
Did you try the ei.cfg trick?
90% of the college signal is in the "getting in", actually graduating only adds a little more.
Worry not, it appears that they are working on it.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Sandbox

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=925570
Google, please make up your mind

http://qz.com/180247/why-google-doesnt-care-about-hiring-top...
> Do you think Sergey Brin ... is thinking to himself, "I'm really satisfied with how many people found trivial information about pop stars with our technology" or is he thinking, "how can I get even more people to click the top-most served ads?"

He's probably scared shitless that he has exactly one revenue stream worth talking about, and has no idea how to supplement it.
Yes, it did not help
A sandbox is just code and code has bugs. As was said in the article you can escape the sandbox.
Uh, that's not the same thing. Many (the majority?) of twenty something's who are in a relationship are not married.
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I thought you meant this first - http://mozilla.github.io/brick.
> There is a huge chasm between ogling someone undertaking physical activity

If anyone -- attractive man, unattractive man, attractive woman, unattractive woman -- started hula-hooping in the middle of the office I would expect people to stare. Not because it's sexual, but because it's peculiar. The gap between "stare" and "ogle" is hardly objective, let alone a "chasm."
We're not dealing with a court of law here. "Gaps" in the story do not call into question the integrity of the story.
They go to law school because there aren't a lot of other options, not because literature prepared them for law school.

Some degrees just aren't worth very much unless you plan on going further than a bachelors. Russian literature is one of those.

Also law school isn't the ticket to a well paid job that it used to be, and it's very expensive.
I'll quote Lea Verou here: "not accepting something as de facto objective truth w/ no info != thinking one is lying. It's being rational instead of emotional." https://twitter.com/LeaVerou/status/445001688923914241

Here's an example:

X: The economy of Southern Portugal during the first half of the 13th century was bad. Do you agree?

Y: I don't know, I don't have enough info and absolutely zero knowledge of Portugal's economy during the 13th century.

X: are you calling me a liar?
> This is entirely hearsay, but the way that people around Waterloo talk about pg, I feel like he does operate this way.

Being a millionaire helps a bit in getting through with this behavior. If a simple wage slave tries anything in the direction of "rude honesty", he'll be out of the door within 2 minutes.
Fairly good clarification of the js. Frameworks
>And the dominant group in society is, pretty much by definition, the one whose judgement is most influential.

Then what is the viable alternative to achieving merit in the judgement of that group?
You do have certain rights for stop and search: https://www.gov.uk/police-powers-to-stop-and-search-your-rig...

Get all their details, and complain if you think you were treated unfairly.
People do say they are proud to be white all the time, just in a different way. I hear "I'm proud to be Irish!" all the time. The thing is "white culture" isn't really a thing, "white culture" is simply the dominant culture in our society that we tell other cultures they should adapt to.

No one is saying white people can't be proud of their heritage. They can be proud, and they do celebrate their heritage all the time. Acknowledging someone's race isn't extending racism, it's embracing them and their culture.

To be honest I used to think similarly, I never got why people had to be proud of their race, or why it was part of their identity. Eventually I realized it's because the dominant culture is white, I don't have to ask myself what it means to be white or what it means to be american. It is part of my identity, I just have the luxury of not having to think about it.

Anyway, I would highly recommend watching "The Color of Fear", it changed my mind on a lot of stuff I'd never thought about critically.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vAbpJW_xEc
I think you have to consider the story as a whole. If everything else was great, I'd agree with you that getting upset at this little scene might be over-sensitivity. But from the author's perspective, everything else was not great. Far from it.
If you mention what your system is, then it could help others in making buying decisions. This would then send a message to hardware vendors that linux support gives them visibility and appreciation.
And spring rolls
This is like accusing craigslist of causing murder through its dating forum.

Any time you rent a place out you face this risk.
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Here's my rant on how Secure boot should be done. Currently, you have Microsoft's public key certificates in the firmware, and you can either boot with secure boot on or off. I would rather that the certificates be treated similar to a web browsers, where you have a list of "official" certs belonging to multiple independent entities. In addition, when in secure mode, you shouldn't be able to boot from unsigned media.

Now here's where I think this can be improved. Usually, hitting something like F12 at boot time gives you a list of devices to boot from (internal drive, USB devices, DVD, network, etc). What I'd like to see added to this is an item labeled "Boot from unsigned DVD/USB/Network [for OS installation mode]". Once this is selected, whatever you boot would have access to adding additional certificates to the firmware. Or, more appropriately, you should be able to select 3 boot options: 1) boot from signed media; 2) boot from unsigned media; 3) boot from unsigned media with write access to certificate key store [OS installation mode]. That way, the end user can still maintain complete control over their hardware, yet still get the benefits of protection against boot sector malware / low level root kits.
That's actually the point of a sandbox. Code has bugs, so you sandbox it.

Now, the sandbox is also code, but to my understanding it's fewer LoC than what you are sandboxing. As bug rate per LoC is a fairly stable value, reducing LoC reduces total bug count. Ergo, by wrapping a large complex program with many LoC inside a small sandboxing function, you increase security (though it is not perfect, it still will have SOME bugs)
the veyron is a very fast car in a straight line, but it's not very good at cornering. a time of 7:40 on the nurburgring is not very good, considering you can do 7:08 in a GT-R for a tenth of the price.
It's been 2+ years since this story was last discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3390719 --- about time to see it again.
This is the perfect characterization of the demise of malls that I can think of. They fill a niche that just isn't needed anymore.

Sad. I miss my local arcade and video stores... there's only one video store left and the arcade closed up shop back in 2008.

I wish people would get off their asses for once and experience life! Convenience isn't everything. You don't make memories by sitting in front of a black rectangular slab with buttons and menus to choose from, you make memories from experiences. Like going places.. walking. Biking. Breathing. Seeing.

If we're not using all 5 senses I think there's no point in doing something.
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Thanks pg!
Have you also taken into account that most Americans that consider themselves democrat/liberal/progressive would be considered well to the right in most other countries represented on HN?

The American contingent really skews the numbers if you let people identify themselves.

You get a much clearer picture if you look at discussions around concrete issues, like government and regulation.
Agreed, I was merely pointing out an edge case in the GP's generalization.
Because the spelling wasn't the root cause it was a symptom of a culture that had gone so badly wrong that people engaged in petty arguments just as a way to score points.
Politics requires at least three people. With only two people, there is no us-vs-them.
This seems like a pretty good solution, except that your language picker includes country flags, which don't make sense for many users.
Two potential explanations: the tech industry can't stop talking about itself on twitter and blogs. How many mechanical engineers do you know that spend a large % of their day procrastinating by surfing the web and participating in meta-talk about the industry. Our day-to-day tool for doing our jobs also just so happens to be a worldwide communication device. Just like the media loves to report on themselves, the tech industry loves to post on the internet about the tech industry, so the effect of a single asshole's comment is magnified by a social network powered shitstorm, further entrenching the meme that tech is full of bigots and causing a flood of discussion and hyper-analysis of it.

The second explanation is that the tech industry is actually less mysogenistic than others, as you have noticed, but ironically due to the lack of widespread mysogeny like you see in areas like finance, when an "incident" occurs, a lively discussion happens because there is a critical mass of non-sexist males, not due to a lack of them. Off course, this feeds into the meme which cements it more as accepted truth, despite any real data or study showing that tech has a above average rate of male mysogeny.
Show HN: Educator News
I tried submitting this on Friday, but it didn't get any interest. If there's no interest this time, I'll drop it for a while.

http://www.educatornews.net

Basically, I've been wanting an HN for the education community for a long time. Someone built a version about a year ago ("Academic Recess") and got a positive reaction, but that project quickly disappeared.

Educator News is a fully open project. I'll be happy to respond to any feedback, particularly from this community.
It is a story about all of them, I did not say Secure Boot caused this problem, I said I disabled it to be able to install Windows 7.
My Acer require setting a BIOS password before modifying secure boot settings. Fortunately I can set it back to blank after modifying them.
Then become a part of botnet, or goodbye bank accounts
Presumably AirBnB needs to do some verification, so they're not handing out cash to anyone who makes up a story. Any such verification system will have some rate of false positives.
That's how I was doing it. It's been too long to remember the details, but I remember that there are different phases when code is loaded, and it can get very tricky when you're doing heavy meta-programming stuff. Everything works when load your new definitions from a buffer into the repl, but when you try to load it again from a file, all the phase issues come into play.
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Half of the reason I go to Westfield Mall is because of the food court.

If it was the standard mcdonalds-unrecognisable foodcourt chicken with different sauce-etc, I would hate it.
Well, I remember reading something like that once, so it must be true. ;)

In all seriousness, I did some Googling and the closest I can find is this:

"One final reason is that Satoshi was opposed to putting non-Bitcoin related data into the main chain. As creator of the system, his opinion should carry a lot of weight with anyone serious about extending it."

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Alternative_chain

I realize that is close to being useless, but I can't find the direct post in question by Satoshi that it is referencing. I seem to recall it not being Satoshi, however, but one of the current devs that I read a similar sentiment from.

But again, I don't have any direct links. I apologize.
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I think the time to turn these all into public mural projects and community spaces has finally come.
Its interesting to note that even a ton of the Thiel fellows, while dropped out of college, came from prestigious colleges before they accepted the fellowship. I have a friend here at MIT who accepted the Thiel fellowship, and I dont see how she would've ended up getting access to cutting edge biological research if she wasnt here, and being at MIT was certainly a plus for the fellowship application, a pure signalling effect.
Both would help! It's not a bad theme.. I like the growing popularity of "clean" design, just not this aspect of it.

Thanks for responding and thanks for the update on Rust. I'm not quite ready to adopt the language, but I love hearing about it.
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I've settled into the following workflow:

ghci Module.hs
*mess around*
:e *this opens Module.hs in vim, and reloads afterwords.*
*mess around some more*

It's the best programming work-flow I've found in any language.
Only if you one-sidedly try to impose yourself on that person, without regards to their attraction to you. Flirt and ask someone out if they seem interested, but if they aren't, drop it. What is uncomfortable and makes for a really hostile work environment is advances and unwanted attention that can't be easily stopped.
Clickable: http://www.educatornews.net

Github repo: https://github.com/ehmatthes/educator_news

Discussion of previous attempt (not my project): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4783912
Schmidt really needs to segment out that "average" rise of 15 to 30 percent.

1. A few fields clearly need education, like medicine or law. Break those out separately.

2. Getting admitted and graduating from college is a strong signal of your employability. Even if college adds absolutely nothing to your skillset, it can increase your value. (Think of getting a perfect score on the SAT.)

3. Being able to put off earning for 4 years is partly a signal of your socioeconomic status.

4. It ignores the people who try to attend college and fail. They are left with debt, the opportunity cost of wages for their time in, and no degree to show to employers.

This is separate from the fact that as we have pushed more people to get better degrees, employers have simply increased their job requirements, so you need a college degree to be an office manager. A credential race is a zero-sum game for society as a whole.