skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, no, you aren't helping your case at all. ARC is, again, not like a super primitive GC. And it most certainly is not "done by hand". That completely contradicts the "Automated" part of "Automated Reference Counting".
Why should this even matter in the first place?

How can we be a supposedly post-racial society and yet have this level of scrutiny on the racial makeup of a company that is clearly not actively discriminating based on race? I don't mean to be hyperbolic, but this isn't far off from having political overseers at production facilities in the former Soviet Union.
And this, children, is how you get an antitrust probe started.
Nah, you're Indians!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9VMY8X9rU8
That's not the point. The point is, its super confusing to me(and possibly to Native Americans too) if 'Indian' is meant for one group or the other.
The sommelier guy would get the top comment on HN every time
Yeah man, big no-no there. Indian refers to the ones from Southeast Asia (i.e. you), not Native Americans.
There isn't any evidence that Vivint did anything against the "rules". You're jumping to defend google pretty quickly, almost automatically. Just because you like them, doesn't mean they are always in the right.

They might or might not be in this case, we don't know enough to tell.
Anyone interested in this topic should read "The History of White People" by Nell Irvin Painter, who shows how in America the very definition of "white" has changed to include a widening circle of people. For example, in the 18th century, German Americans weren't considered white. In the 19th century, Irish Americans weren't considered white.
This is misleading. The article cites a single company that inadvertently violated Google's rules by failing to mark paid links. This seems to be part of the ongoing saga of companies making errors, sometimes honest, and being penalized.

Is the company even a major player in the smart thermostat space? It's not even listed in this market analysis from last fall: http://cleantechnica.com/2013/11/14/honeywell-leads-smart-th....

It looks more like a competitor in the home automation systems space that sells smart thermostats mainly as part of a more comprehensive system.

Given the absence of action against any of their more major competitors, this seems like a coincidence.
Why is that inflammatory? I thought it funny and a macabre but helpful statement to highlight the importance of being on page 1 of any result.
Soylent - "Ensure for Nerds"
Surely nobody's going to call an Asian a white -- I think he just meant to say that it's becoming less meaningful to group Asians among minorities in demographic analysis, perhaps because Asians are showing similar pattern as "whites".
Is it possible that Asians are so successful in America precisely because they have been largely ignored in the pursuance of social justice?
Do you have any advice for non-graphics programmers (save for a few undergrad/grad classes) who want to get into graphics? (still fairly early in career)
does that hold as well if you control for undergraduate/graduate major?
From the article it appears there was a clear transgression. It's just that it appears to be from ignorance vs deliberate.
Even if maximum efficiency is achieved by his style of communication, I still don't agree with it. Efficiency is not more important than being civil.

"Ends don't justify the means" kinda thing... but I know I'm not going to convince you in this thread; and you're definitely not going to convince me otherwise. There are too many rude people in tech that don't know how to communicate properly with people. Rudeness has somehow become acceptable in the tech-industry so they can't see the problem they have.... and it _is_ a problem.
> a company that is clearly not actively discriminating based on race

1. There's no way to tell whether they are or aren't just from exposing this data.

2. Racism/Sexism is discussed a lot in American culture, but I fail to see how "ignoring" actual data (which Google is proactively choosing to share) would somehow fix these issues.
Nor should "Indian" be used to refer to South Asians. Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Nepalis are not Indians.
People get defensive because the image presented is precisely that there's a problem with demographics being "too white" and "too male". For instance, today CNN presented this:

http://money.cnn.com/2014/05/29/technology/google-white-male... ("Google: Overwhelmingly white and male")

> I don't think Google was trying to shame itself over its own white male percentages

I'm not sure what other conclusion you can draw when Google says "we're not where we want to be" and the giant pie chart slices are 70% male, 61% white. They were apologizing and acting contrite about _something_, don't you think? The implicit message is "we did a bad thing hiring too many white males."

It absolutely is an attack -- not by Google directly, but by our culture which strives to make whites feel ashamed about who they are. I don't blame Google, they're looking out for their best interests. They don't want to get slammed for having too many white dudes in their ranks.
> He was released on appeal over a jurisdictional issue, not a statue or misapplication of the law.

This is actually why we don't know anything from that case. District court rulings aren't binding on other courts and the appellate court apparently threw out the case without ruling on the CFAA, so there was no precedent created either way.

But if the appellate court had ruled the same way as the district court and created that precedent, I don't think you could reasonably describe that as an improvement in the CFAA situation.
Microsoft and Salesforce Unveil Cloud-Computing Partnership
The Heat are the reigning dynasty with three of the best players in the league on one team surrounded by an all-star cast. They'd at least tie the Lakers in cost. But yeah, the Clippers are second-tier relative to some of the talent out there, I agree with that.
Meal replacement shakes are expensive, inefficient, and unhealthy compared to Soylent.

They usually ship with the liquid/water mixed in, and the cost/kcal is substantially higher, with the carbohydrate concentrations much, much higher.
Neither ARC nor GC hide memory allocations. They automate the process of deallocating memory. And ARC does not hide that either. Values get released when they go out of scope, and they get deallocated when the last reference disappears. It's a very explicit process, the only "hiding" is the fact that there is no `[foo release]` line anymore. But it's no more hidden than C++ destructors are.

> Ref counting does pause, you get cascading deallocations.

That's not pausing. That's it doing work, upon request (i.e. when the object is released). If you have a single object that roots a massive object graph, and you release that single object, yes, it will have to destruct that entire object graph. But that's not the fault of ARC in the slightest, and would happen just the same with manual memory management.

> More deterministic than other GC though.

It's not GC, so what do you mean by "other GC"?

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ARC has the exact same performance characteristics as manual memory management, except it's all automated so you can't screw it up (e.g. over-releasing or under-retaining). But it's subject to optimizations too (such as skipping the autorelease pool), which actually makes it faster than MRR in a lot of cases.
Old adage 'sleep on it' is true – but only if it's a really difficult problem
Here's another thing that Google's alleged dirty-tricks obscured: Vivint's Wikipedia entry including its fairly lengthy "Legal Issues" section:

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

According to that section, Vivint has made settlement/voluntary compliance agreements with, or been penalized by the states of Kansas, Ohio, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Arkansas, Washington, Louisiana, South Carolina, Minnesota, Tennessee, California, and Oregon upon accusations of fraud and deceptive practices.

Holy shit...Google has even more power than we had yet imagined! Talk about Pando burying the lede here.

Edit: Holy, holy shit: it appears that even Wikipedia itself is on the scam. At the very top of Vivint's Wikipedia entry, some Wikipedian/Nest-boardmember has placed a banner warning stating:

> This article appears to be written like an advertisement. Please help improve it by rewriting promotional content from a neutral point of view and removing any inappropriate external links. (March 2014)

So a company that Google has wiped out from the search results also, within a few months later, has its Wikipedia entry vandalized by the Wikipedia Cabal to make it look like an advertisement for Vivint, as if Vivint or someone friendly to the company would ever break the rules on Wikipedia. Surely this is a conspiracy to end all conspiracies.
This is just pure awesome. It is so awesome, that I was jealous of the author for not being able to do this first, I almost didn't upvote it out of that jealously--it's that good. Keep up the good work!

(I'm working on hacking together sims myself but for a larger project--I'm part of a computation group at some state uni modeling HED plasmas.)
Should there be a distinction between white Asians and colored Asians?

The more we mix the harder is to make this classifications.

Also, immigrants who come from far a way are usually better off. So may be they should not be considered a minority in the traditional sense.
Very true. Google is to search what MSFT was to OS/PC's. As they expand into new areas they are heading for a brick wall. Unless search is disrupted.
My biggest gripe, which has me real close to complaining to the times about it, is he didn't even talk about any of the other avenues of flavoring the product that the owners advertise themselves. Never once mentioned adding chocolate, or vanilla, or peanut butter. You can add anything you want. It helps, isn't great, but it makes it much better. Also he didn't mention if he left it in the fridge for a few hours to let it settle. Which you're supposed to do in order to let the rice protein mix well. All of which the owners mention, but no actual facts are in the article. It felt like he wanted to complain.
You ship them soylent... watch the videos if you are interested. The problem to solve world hunger is not growing the food, it's logistics.
Or any other industry for that matter.
Because if there are large systemic racial inequalities (not that I think employment at Google is worthy of the title, compared to things like education and incarceration rates), then we manifestly aren't in a post racial society.

Given the history of legal and social discrimination in the US, the impetus is on the people claiming we live in a post-racial society to back that fact up.
Next interview:

Q: Does this look like a nail?

A: Yes

Q: And does this look like a nail too?

A: Yes

You're hired!
Google search and most browsers will protect users against known malicious websites that has been hacked. They can't do that with malicious adds.
"American Indian" is the term used by the US government on the census form, so it likely is used in many other surveys that use a similar format. (I don't know how broadly it is seen as an offensive or incorrect term.)

http://www.census.gov/acs/www/Downloads/questionnaires/2014/...
Not in a passive sense. Majority of Asians chose to pursue personal development over fighting for social justice.
"White has stopped meaning Caucasian, imprecise as this term has always been, and has started to mean “those racial groups that have made it.”"

I wonder how much it'd shock Eugene if someone pointed it out to him that, in American racial discourse, Irish and Italian folk were once considered "not white." Even Germans were once considered not-white: as recently as WW1, much of the anti-German propaganda up-played the idea that they were somehow more Asiatic than good Anglo-Saxons and Frenchmen.

Before a strong sense of minority ethnicities was forged in the mid-20th century, whiteness was the word applied to the demographic categories that had made it; if they hadn't, they simply wouldn't be considered white. Now we feel it's pretty ridiculous to say that Asians are white, and for good reason. But it's silly for Volokh to pretend that whiteness-as-pale-skin is anything but a pretty recent innovation; in a way, pulling Asians (at least, the successful subgroups, the Chinese and Japanese, and to a lesser extent Koreans) into whiteness is the conservative, traditional approach, and his idea that there's a real "whiteness" that people either do or don't fall into is the kind of ethnic studies navel gazing he'd usually vociferously denounce.
I think that these manual actions are likely never to happen to Google properties, but they can easily happen to everyone else. They are opaque and have severe consequences on those that are affected.

How are websites selected for manual actions? Does someone get handed a list of sites to check out? Are they selected algorithmically? How are manual actions decided upon (when it is up to humans, it can be very inconsistently applied)? How are the results communicated to those affected (I hear that it is communicated in very vague and unhelpful ways via Webmaster tools)?

If one isn't friends with Matt Cutts or have deep SV connections (i.e. if I am not RapGenius), how does one get a manual action removed quickly? Apparently it is really really hard if you are not RapGenius.

Seriously, these manual actions are scary as hell for those relying on Google to send them traffic. If MF can be seriously harmed by a manual action, no one is safe.
FYI. Google "Google settles" and see what happens.
People interested in Soylent may be interested in the whole food alternatives, MealSquares and Ambronite.
For me, the interesting thing is how this was overlooked by almost everyone that read the statistics. People just saw large amounts of white people and of men in the data, and jumped to the "obvious" usual conclusion about overrepresentation. The data vaguely fits the narrative, so people quickly moved past the data and fell into the usual talking points.

Instead, the interesting thing in the data is the large amount of overrepresentation of Asian people. There's nothing wrong with that, but perhaps the sense that overrepresentation is a sign of wrongness that is the cause of people being afraid to mention it or focus on it.

Overall, the group most overrepresented in tech (judging from google's numbers and others) are Asian men. Yet, because the overall political narrative is focused elsewhere, that will remain un-remarked upon.
Possibly because they named her "Orassabenda"
No, you need a cooper. Making watertight barrels is really hard, a house builder can make great houses, but probably crappy barrels.
The suspense is killing me!
> The implicit message is "we did a bad thing hiring too many white males."

By interpreting this purely as an attack on white males ONLY you're ignoring the "attack" perceived by minorities who see things like 1% black tech employment rates and see mainly systemic bias. It has the appearance of avoiding the issue experienced by minorities.
They go on to contradict themselves. Google Public DNS does not permanently store personally identifiable information except for there 20 things:
No real comment on the issue at hand, but I've been targeted by Vivint's door to door sales team on one occasion. It was a very pushy salesman that started to ask security related questions despite my insitence for him to leave. Once I managed to gen rid of him I found a dozen plus other similar accounts of pushy and deceitful selling practices in my area. Serves them well I would say.
http://www.socialsecurity.gov/OACT/babynames/limits.html has links.
> I wonder how much it'd shock Eugene if someone pointed it out to him that, in American racial discourse, Irish and Italian folk were once considered "not white."

Why would that shock him? That's perfectly in line with his claim.
I don't understand your point here sorry.
Very interesting. Thank you for sharing! They're a very early adopter of technology enabled supply chain integration, so it's interesting to see where else they are on the leading edge.
Data transmission is always measured in bits.
Dragon V2 Unveil (Live Feed)
Are you actually suggesting that other minorities might be more successful in America if they were less visible?
SpaceX Dragon V2 manned spacecraft unveiling – 10pm EDT tonight
DDG is supported by advertising. I don't see why they'd be immune to the same conflict of interests as Google.
SpaceX is about to unveil the new Dragon V2 spacecraft
VIPS – very fast image processing with any amount of RAM
I don't think the players matter much in the valuation of a franchise outside of winners = more money.
The Quaker logo sure took a beating in its "revision."
15 minutes and it hasn't started yet. I wonder what's happening?

Edit: Started at 22 after.

Edit2: Holy cow, it's basically a flying Tesla! This is fantastic. And I love the redundancy.
Qute Hack Ideas (Part 1)
The signatures and binaries are not served over HTTPS. It would be prudent to compare them to other sources.
> Most meal replacement shakes I've seen (not including those used in the medical industry) aren't suitable to replace your entire diet with

We literally do not know that. Similarly, we cannot know that about soylent either. Because we simply do not know enough about human nutrition to be making these kinds of statements yet. The government's "Recommended Daily Intake" system is just a veneer over our relatively primitive understanding of nutrition to help give us some very basic possible guidelines (which are still quite susceptible to being wrong). The unfortunate part is that people take these 'recommendations' to mean that we virtually know all there is to know about nutrition when that is truly far from reality...

I'm confident that we'll get there eventually, but first the quality of nutritional research will have to improve significantly, and it'll be far more work than any one meal-replacement company can hope to realistically invest in. So as much as I am for soylent 'pushing the boundaries' in that area, it's gonna take a lot more than that to get us a full-diet-replacement figured out for sure.
Yes, Microsoft has had a desktop and document format monopoly for about 2 decades. It's not about any company being "evil" or bad, it's just with that much control, you can really leverage that monopoly and hinder innovation... What should we do about it?

As for the search engine problem, just use a different search engine. It's such a trivial problem to solve.
From a practical perspective, it doesn't matter if the window manager is native to the web (and gecko's proprietary iframe solutions are not). Also important is that webOS allows native development (a problem that would go away if w3c would agree to standardize something like LLVM bytecode).

Applications in webOS were not limited to Enyo. You only needed to access the proprietary API appropriately which is the same as with phone gap or the FF API (which isn't an approved standard).

Enyo 2.4 works on IE8+, FF4+ (actually 3+, but not tested), Chrome 10+ (once again, works on earlier, but not tested), opera, Android browser, Safari 5+, etc

You can check out the Enyo project at enyojs.com (it's apache 2 licensed). It currently has both a mobile theme (onyx) and a LG TV theme (moonstone -- for LG smart TVs). The partially finished Mochi theme (see the specs at https://github.com/enyojs/mochi/wiki/Mochi-Designs ) also has a lot of potential.

My personal issue with FF OS is that the UI sucks. With webOS being released under the Apache 2 license (which grants patent use), there was no reason to use a crappy design (except for "not invented here" syndrome). Even today, the core UI and features of webOS are better than iOS, WP, and Android (despite Matias Duarte's best effort to transform Android into webOS).

Only webOS is easy to use on a phone, but still feels natural on a tablet with almost no changes (and Enyo enables this app transition from the ground up which is why developers chose to use it instead of something else). In fact, webOS could even scale up to full-sized desktops with some modifications (as 10GUI shows).

Finally, webOS has a very large community for an OS that was discontinued a couple of years ago. The Preware community continues to release updates and new apps still make the occasional appearance.
Not to mention i've been dying for this type of product for a long time, and have not been aware of a meal replacement shake that is intended for this level of consumption.

People can argue the health implications all they want, but to argue that this isn't anything new.. well, maybe i'm missing something, but it's quite new to me.

Considering that i've been wanting this product for the last 15 years - I'd say at the very least the others (whatever they may be) were a marketing failure.
The problem to solve world hunger is to be able to distribute staple crops more efficiently to places which don't have access to existing markets. There's no conceivable way that some highly refined meal-replacement product for the first world can be more economical than access to bulk amounts of grains. Even Soylent as an emergency food is an order of magnitude less economical than the existing solutions for famine relief, which are themselves extremely expensive in bulk.
African Americans and women need better role models and tech companies can help with that.

Culturally, we all need to understand that we need to admire people who do these things. It will encourage us to seek partners (even in our own cohort) that are good at these things and have children which are even better. Obama gave fantastic advice to all African american men (to all men, really): marry someone smarter than you.

Everyone needs to follow that advice. We no longer have evolution looking out for us, and this is how we avoid idiocracy.
Virgin America Booking Process Redesign
http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/01/google-deranks-chrome-downl...
Remember when the standard Google excuse was "it's not our fault, it's the algorithm"?

Now it's "what are you gonna do about it?"
He seems to think that white has always meant Caucasian; that's incompatible with the idea that Irishmen, Italians, and Germans were once not-white. Although he nods to the fact that Caucasian has always had rather fluid boundaries, it never has excluded any of those groups: historically it was a pseudo-scientific concept invented by a German philosopher, and included everyone from Norsemen to Indians to Libyans.

Whiteness in American racial discourse has never mapped to this idea, as it has at various points excluded most European groups. And many groups that would have been considered Caucasian in the 19th century Americans would never naturally consider white, even today--Arabs and Indians, for instance.
Show HN: 2048 in PDP-8 Assembly language
I have alerts set up to notify me when I have goofed off too much for one day. That feature alone is worth the premium fee for RescueTime.
Poor white males, when will they ever catch a break in our culture?
You're asking us to find out about product-market-fit to alleviate your product-market-fit risk, but the real risk with ideas like this is invention risk. Google still only gets about 7/10 of my voice translations right when I directly speak to my phone.

Similarly, you don't have to ask Hacker News if a pill that cures diabetes would be popular, the risk there isn't product-market-fit it is invention-risk.
Level 4 Spoiler:

https://xss-game.appspot.com/level4/frame?timer=3')%3balert(...
There actually are real-life burglars. That isn't hypothetical. Would you really grant people permission to burglarize your business to demonstrate its susceptibility to burglary?
"Broke in" rather presupposes the point.

If we're analogizing, an exterminator seeing rat droppings in your restaurant and offering to solve your problem rather than letting the department of health deal with it, is a slightly more realistic example.