skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Un-PC is a nice way to gloss over actively denying a group of people their human rights on a half-assed reading of a religious text.

And who the heck are you to make such a blanket statement about who's productive and who isn't? It's a false dichotomy. Moreover your statement evokes an incredible amount of arrogance and hubris.
I haven't advocated Eich's views, I personally find them reprehensible. All I wanted to say in my original comment and from then on is that OKCupid deliberately performed actions with a negative impact (ie, an attack) - which countermanded bkor's original point. I found the statement "Nobody attacked Mozilla" to be incorrect - there clearly was a negative backlash.
Elizabeth is awesome, we're in the life science space and she has always been very helpful. We aren't YC, but has taken phone calls, talked with us at conferences and answered emails.
10:00 would also work, but doesn't seem as visually interesting.
So I can't reply to the people who've replied to my comment, so I'll do it here...

The taxes you're proposing are WAY WAY off base here. You're completely calculating them incorrectly and overstating the tax burden on people in America. The nominal tax rate may be 28% federal, 6% SS and 3% medicare, but you're disregarding the MASSIVE tax breaks available here - houses are huge tax shields, kids are huge tax shields, getting married is a huge tax shield. Live in a tax-free state (Texas) is like a huge tax shield. For someone making $120,000 that's married, 2 kids, with a house, paying 12-15% federal in taxes is about expected.
As someone who lives outside the U.S, can someone explain what does making him/her a partner means in this context?
The last sentence is a bit much, but I also clicked this thinking it was referring to accredited engineers.
The vast majority of drivers also think they are in the top 10% of good drivers.

The mistake stems from the fact that brains have a really hard time viewing themselves from the perspective of others.
America: The anecdotal nation
Information is thin on him so this is great to hear. I am still hopeful for the webgl/asm.js revolution that they are doing and hope it continues in force.
It's not much of a Pandora's box. They're certainly well-within their rights to try to do so. And civil rights activists would call for counter-boycotts, etc.

That's how society shakes this stuff out. That's, fundamentally, how free speech and freedom of association and voting with your money works.

And more to the point, this is the exact world we already live in. Conservative groups pressured World Vision into reversing their stance of accepting gay marriage just a couple of weeks ago. The Mozilla-Eich brouhaha didn't open any strange new Pandora's box, this kind of thing has been a fundamental part of the American civil landscape for well over a century!
Exactly the point of the article.
"We can do better" translated to: Let us join the feminist bandwagon please.

What's funny is that, even using infographics and stats to show how "unfair" it is, stats don't lie: The companies that have more than 18% women are mostly chick stuff: Fashion, blogging, etc.

Hard core tech companies still employ mostly dudes, and they will continue to employ dudes. If they change that, they'll get into Gawker club.

I am seeing this stupid trend recently. GE shared an article on their LinkedIn page, to which I replied with this [0].

Some company is paying teachers to teach girls to code, but they're not paid when they teach boys.

This is absurd. This is stupid. There's a reason most jobs in tech are taken by men:

- Most tech students are male. (So women start to get filtered out way before there's even a job involved - They pursue other stuff like marketing, arts, design, etc). There are few girls in Engineering. That's why Engineering students frequent girls who are not in Engineering.

- Once they graduate, there are still more men than women applying for jobs in tech. A lot of women will do something else. There is less an urge for a woman to achieve something, and less drive, than there is for a man. If you disagree with me, you are dellusional since you are basically contradictin History and Biology and Now: How many Fortune 500 companies were started and are run by women. Thank you.

It is a bit phony that these companies try to "promote" this. I love women. I've been intimate with more women in a couple of months than the average dude in a lifetime.

However, let's not start writing crap. Heroku ? James Lindenbaum, Adam Wiggins, Orion Henry. Three guys. Why isn't there a woman with you ? Is it that maybe you didn't know any woman who could fill in ?

I ask those guys: When you were in Engineering ? How many girls were there, and from those girls, how many could hack it.

I'm tired of this stupidity. I'm tired of this leveling from bottom.

Soldiering isn't for everyone. Soon I'll make a petition asking the special forces to let me in: Why is it a problem for you to let me in, even if I can't lift a dude and run with him, even if I need a pillow to sleep !? Intolerant bastards ! Make a rule to lower your standards to suit me.

And soon, people who don't bear the sight of blood will lobby to take blood out of surgery. Would you trust such a surgeon with your life ! Eww, blood !

[0]http://bitly.com/1oKeYZJ
Yeah, you're right; chemical engineers think they're God's gift to humanity :p
I never stated that Russia was wrong. Let's make that very clear.

I'm simply amused at ignorance of people who have very little understanding of the situation but try to give their 2 cents.

If government of South Korea was overthrown by anti-US activists; US would be dispatching troops to protect their military basis and citizens within a split second.

And I will bet you that the death toll would be in hundreds within first few days.
Drug culture reference:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture)
Well deserved! YC is better for it.
I have a hard time imagining that there are many companies who benefit from a monoculture. Diversity equals truth, or more accurately, increases the likelihood of finding truth.

If your business makes any decisions, like "how do we capture this market," or "what sort of features should we add," or "how should this thing work," then you are embarking on a truth-seeking endeavor.

Unless your product aims to solve a problem that only affects white guys in the city (which, to be fair, is certainly a non-negligible number of products), then you're going to have a hard time expanding your base beyond white guys in the city if your team consists of only white guys in the city.
Why Doctor Ratings Are Misleading
Exactly. This is stupid. There was some bogus Gallup "study" that says that companies performed 15% better when there were more women, and I call bullshit on this. They didn't say which companies, and in which fields these companies activate in.
Where did you hear about attempts at 1st stage recovery using parachutes? I haven't seen that mentioned anywhere.
Ideation – capturing those Aha moments
An anecdote perhaps but Microsoft's Office online proposition is virtually unusable in the "outlook.com" form at least. I haven't tried 365 yet but I imagine the codebase is the same.

Even in its native browser (IE) it falls over with stupid rendering errors:

http://i.imgur.com/kLDQ0f3.png

And it can destroy an 8 core Xeon with a 5000 row 2 column sheet...

No thanks.

Edit: also I'm not walking into another ecosystem. After they shot windows live domains a few days ago which I and a number of people I know were using, we're out.
No One Said Following Is Easy
I'm not totally up to speed on encryption techniques, but it looks like this makes it somewhat obvious that you have encrypted files on your machine by mapping a new encrypted file 1 for 1 to the files that you're storing.

In this case, wouldn't you lose plausible deniability? If I remember there's a feature in TrueCrypt which allows you to have two passwords, a fake password that you could use if questioned that decrypts a portion of the volume, and the real password that decrypts the entire thing. I maybe conflating two separate things, though.
Time received a good deal of criticism for their choice for their Person of the Year. I believe Edward Snowden was winning the online polling for a while (all of it?), but the POTY is ultimately an editorial decision not a poll.
I think it means they'll get more of a say in the companies YC invests in, and they probably will get to share in the profits of such investments. Much more involvement than other roles.
I wish grellas' comment were reposted in every thread like this with the same regularity that links to Betteridge's law get posted in every article with a "?" at the end of the title.
Dig the concept. Very cool
It's not that they have been "unsuccessfully trying". They were not expecting to recover the previous launch vehicles. Instead, the past re-entry attempts have been entirely successful in that they have provided exactly what they expected to get out of the tests. Data.

The data from the last launch provided a lot of really crucial information that has informed design decisions made for this and following launches.

It's actually better if the next recovery fails too, at least if it happens in a way that provides really important data. This would then let them work out the engineering and science required to improve the design further.
I can't tell if you're being serious, so I'll assume that you are. One google search led me to this study: "gender diversity generates significant gains in high-tech/
knowledge intensive sectors".

http://ftp.iza.org/dp7350.pdf
Github: Write line notes from your phone
No idea where the 37Signals number came from... this is the Basecamp team today: https://basecamp.com/team

The Basecamp team is 8/43 women - NONE of whom are accounted for here. That's a huge factual miss on the very first company I recognized & fact-checked. Doesn't fill me with confidence.
10:00 lights up one fewer segment than 10:08 does, though (assuming a standard 7-segment display).
I'm tired of tech missing out on so much potential from those with two X chromosomes. If tech was more inclusive, there would be far more great engineers to hire from.

>It is a bit phony that these companies try to "promote" this. I love women. I've been intimate with more women in a couple of months than the average dude in a lifetime.

Look at that last sentence. You're young. That's fine. We were all stupid when we were young. I'm still stupid in many ways. But be careful about the stupid things that you record for posterity.
Has Eich done anything else besides donating to Prop 8? It might just be me, but the way I'm parsing the postscript is that both Rice AND Eich have multiple actions that invoke disgust. Or is it that Eich's one action is on an equal level with any one of Rice'smultiple actions?
Not exactly original.

And depending on who's looking at the material, it could be considered offensive. If you get away with it, great but some companies like USAA require all employees and contractors pass drug tests so suggesting the universal stoner hour might not be the best decision.

There's a reason designers use lorem ipsum in mockups – it's because once upon a time a designer thought they were clever with their fake text, and an account manager had to deal with a pissed off client because of what it said.
It's silly to call this bullying. Yes, people shouldn't send death threats-- nobody should receive them regardless, and I think this is a larger problem with the Internet in general. But a collective of people exercising their free speech to disagree with somebody's views and to vote with their feet isn't bullying. It's not bullying just because someone's feelings are hurt when a shit-ton of people find said person's views abhorrent.
I remember debating with friends a few years ago about how YC is helping startups.
The conversation was mostly about what is more important, "PG time" or "Network effect".

With batches growing more and more, we kind of agreed that PG is not scalable and so that "Network effect" was slowly becoming more what companies were getting out from YC vs the "PG Time" they used to get in earlier batches.

Since, I've seen so many quality folks added to the team, I feel like the "PG Time" (which now is not only PG but all the partners) is becoming again more important than the network effect, and it's amazing.

Founders must be learning SO MUCH now going through YC...

congrats on that!
...while Edward Snowden, the source of all the information they published, is being hunted down and prosecuted.

Hmm.
Sorry but Coke didn't make Santa read and round, the character had been depicted like that before. While they did popularise this, and has gone on to inspire the popular image of Santa, so say they created it is going a bit far.

http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/santa/cocacola.asp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7152054.stm
@bluedevil2k: Living in a tax-free state (Texas) is definitely a huge tax shield, but lots of people making $120k often live in a tax-happy state (California) which has the opposite effect.

(My effective tax rate in California is almost as high as it was in Ontario, Canada, and the Canadians have free government-subsidized health care.)
I don't prefer that at all. If I'm doing something work related I do it at work and it belogs to them. If I'm not there and it's unrelated it's mine.

Lawsuits need only occur when someone strays into the middle.
That has one less bar (the line in the middle of the 8).
Pre-tax income of $120k would net about $95k in the US for a married man with 2 kids and a house in a tax-free state (Texas, Florida, etc.) 8% growth isn't a stretch, it's the average return for S&P 500 over the past 100 years.
Happy to hear you like the 90% so much - thank you for the feedback!

As for the 10%, we have indeed found that quite a few customers end up not taking pictures, even though it's a requirement to qualify for the protection plan.

We would be happy to take those pictures, but I wonder if there's a way to do it so that it doesn't interfere with the customer's privacy. Drivers taking the pictures upon pickup comes to mind.
I wonder just how long this discussion is going to go on. To me looking at who has jobs in tech broken down by gender is flawed from the beginning.

The more interesting sociological question is whether there is a nurture thing happening here, or just a natural tendency for women to not be as interested in computers and technology at a young age.

Boxing and MMX have way more men than women - why isn't there a "we can do better" campaign for these disciplines?

By the way my co-founder CEO is a woman and she's an amazing technologist and leader.
The 147 CSS3 Color Module color keywords
You're not wrong, but I detail in another comment on here why it is indeed beneficial to hire women.

My wife started the Baltimore and DC chapters of "Girl Develop It", which aims to solve your first and second bullet points.

The irony, of course, being that whether or not you believe in the gender pay gap, the gap definitely seems to be smaller in tech. Perhaps that's due to the relatively small amount women in tech currently (meaning the gap would grow as diversity increased), or perhaps that's because tech companies tend to be run more analytically (at least at early states) and less on negotiated value, but either way, it's surprising to me that more women aren't flocking to tech, as it likely holds higher relative wages for them, both because of the field, and because of the lessened gender gap.
In writing includes digitally.
GUI version of doing the same thing:

https://calomel.org/firefox_ssh_proxy.html
When I've done Office work in the "cloud" I almost always end up just opening the file in the native program and doing my editing there. All too often a key feature is missing from the 365 versions or rendering starts to severely lag.
How to become a professional iOS developer
Thanks, I can read Wikipedia. The point is that picking a tumbler lock requires those things too.
Another approach, for the lazy, is to just push the photos to Google auto backup. If you do that it'll automatically figure out that they can be stitched together and will provide you with the image. Works very well in my experience and requires no effort at all.
Lynching involves rounding somebody up, typically a black man, and murdering them. Let's not get carried away with our metaphors.
401k allows withdrawls at 59.5, which isn't all that late. Anyone planning an earlier retirement is very likely to be investing in normally-taxed accounts in addition (due to 401k caps), which can they draw from before that. Plus Roth IRAs also allow some flexibility in terms of early withdrawls.
The orange you are seeing at the top of the bottom stage may be either a tank or some sort of shielding for the tanks from the upper stage. I know the upper stage looks like it will use it's own heat shield... but it will also be re-entering from a much higher orbit.

The engines on a rocket are designed to withstand huge amounts of heat. It may be the intent is to have the rocket re-enter engine first. I'd love to see more information on that part of the rocket myself. Certainly interesting :D
Why C?

I'm just curious if another language can be used. (c++, go, rust).
This question has nothing to do with hubris. In fact, there are likely a lot more false negatives than false positives. Most of those 56% will become millionaires and most of the other 44% will as well.

Because they plan on retiring and make a decent wage. I'm sure some percent plan on making it big.
Yes, of course. But there is a difference between read, which only requires synchronization at the root node, and write, which requires synchronization at the modified leaf and potentially all the way back up the path from leaf to root.
> What does it cost to repair an electric motor?

Unless you somehow destroyed the wiring, very little. And the only kind of required maintenance is changing bearings (should last a decade, or two) or brushes (some motors don't have them, the ones that have require changing every few years, and they are quite cheap). Any other kind of repair is done only after some kind of abuse.

An electric motor also has no cooling, no transmission, simple lubrication, no starter engine, in short, nothing that breaks. But it has a huge battery...
Fixed Scope Projects Set Everyone Up for Failure
I don't think that is necessarily true; it implies that we cannot empathize with people that do not share at least racial and location characteristics with us.

I think a white man can make a product for black women, and I think a black woman can make products for white men. For me, it's more about acknowledging that the world exists outside of white men in the city and less about making sure your team is made up of every racial and socio-economic variable you aim to market to.
Once you're a front runner in a given market sector, it's often more efficient to buy up smaller companies to gain valuable intellectual property and future revenue streams than it is to rely solely on inhouse R&D. These types of acquisition sprees are extremely common, especially with companies like Google that are flush with cash.
sudo apt-get install python3. Or Whatever the OSX equivalent is.

Its not that difficult.

Arch comes with Python 3 as default.
Everything that isn't going into orbit requires "re-entry". The typical friction re-entry is used on capsules because it is cheap (all you need is a heat shield and some RCS engines) a "powered" re-entry can be done at well below thermal stress levels, but hasn't been in the past because the fuel used means you're not putting as much mass into orbit as you could have (the mass fraction).

If you know the first stage mass, relative to the lift off mass, you can compute the energy needed to decelerate it to 0 from what ever velocity it reaches at separation. Because fuel is a significant component of the launch weight, you need significantly less fuel to return the nearly empty stage than you did to put it up there to begin with.
Obligatory: http://www.bravenewlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/hugh....

Software culture is now all about the MacLeod Clueless. That's also why the median (and shitty) software company will now discard people once they are old enough that either (a) they have a clue, and get that the private-sector programmer game is rigged, or (b) they should have a clue.
That only appears to go back a couple versions. For example, times in ICS screenshots are all over the place:
http://www.android.com/versions/ice-cream-sandwich-4-0/
Holy crap: http://www.android.com/new/images/banners/meet1-1200.jpg
It's a statically linked program, real memory, diskless system, kernel-mode-only kernel without too much fluff in the video i/o abstraction.
That seems likely.

I appreciate your continued efforts to bring clarity to the issue.
As glossarian in residence I cannot but expand the above app-sec acronyms:

* CBC - Cipher block chaining:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cipher_block_chaining#Cipher-b...

* CFB - Cipher feedback:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_cipher_modes_of_operatio...

As evinced by the structural similarity of the
diagrams in the pages above, the two are very similar;
hence tptacek's characterisation of their
combination in encfs as "weird", I presume.

* XTS - "XEX-based tweaked-codebook mode with
ciphertext stealing":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEX-TCB-CTS#XEX-based_tweaked-...

I have to more or less hope this is the encryption
mode referenced above. NIST recommends an AES
cipher to employ with it.

Resolving all acronyms here seems futile (albeit entertaining), thus I will simply rest.

(This is my last unsolicited reply in this thread, I promise.)
My main problem with the way many people handle the diversity issue has been exactly this: their major insistence on phenotypes as the pinnacle of diversity.

It turns out that "white guys" are not a homogenous group. In fact, chances are that white guys from (e.g.) Finland, Serbia and Nebraska will have little in common besides their skin color and sex. Their opinions and worldviews will differ greatly.

Diversity of opinion is just as important, if not more so. Sure, on the outside everyone looks like a pasty-faced white dude, but jumping to conclusions based solely on that, is... misguided, to put it euphemistically.

I'm not saying we can't benefit from having a wide variety of phenotypes as well, after all different phenotypes equal different experiences. But not every white guy is a Bay Area caricature.
Yes, thankfully. However, in this case, the fact that numerology even exists is exactly the reason to at least entertain the possibility that other motives exist beyond the practical one: people like patterns.
My favorite 420 reference is California Senate Bill 420.

The bill was introduced by John Vasconcellos, who was certainly one of the coolest heads in the State Senate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Senate_Bill_420
I'd be happy to hear your thoughts. What's good, bad, right, wrong, or missing? Do you need a Computer Science degree?
Could you share some of those key features or which app (word/excel/powerpoint) is rendering slowly for you?
I can't comment on the protocol, but tinc is very easy to set up. You just need to generate pub/priv keys and then add your routes in /etc/tinc/vpn/tinc-up. We're running it in production with ~30 nodes worldwide and using puppet to dynamically add/remove nodes on the fly.

What is great is it's able to re-route around any peering issues suffered by local ISPs. Say you have three nodes in the US, UK, JP and your JP ISP loses routing to your US ISP. If both can still route to the UK then tinc will automatically keep traffic flowing.
Capitalism is mot working?
I never heard such bullshit as in this article. It completely denies the fact that standard of living by all accounts has multiplied since the last century. The writer perhaps would prefer to live in North Korea, where the system is really working. I am sick and tired of idiots who claim to be scientists.
Why the hell would Facebook be interested in a drone company? Google makes only slightly more sense.