skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm trying to draw a distinction between effective communication and not being an asshole. They are different problems. One is a problem of ability and the other is a problem of temperament.

Conversely to Linus, someone can be perfectly polite and pleasant but fail to communicate effectively because they don't convey any meaningful information. Such a person would have poor communication skills, but not be an asshole. Linus has good communication skills, but is an asshole.
> It is doing this by trying to encourage people from diverse backgrounds to a) enter the field in the first place and b) actually apply for jobs at Google.

Is there anything in the data (I haven't looked too much in dept) about the application pool. Because it seems to me, b) kind of sidesteps deeper issues and kind of says (figuratively) "Minorities just don't know to apply to Google. If that is the sentiment I am not sure I agree with it.

(Unless of course Google and just then turn around and implement racial quota hiring decision and then in effect we back to that. As "just apply, we'll make sure you get in").

I have seen companies do that. One company I worked for hired a minority into upper management. Her skill set, experience and competence was not up to par. Compared to the rest of the managers. The belief was that she was there as a token "minority" person. Not necessarily disagreeing with that. Maybe those kind of steps are needed. But just saying companies do that.

Now on a) I know Google does some good work. They have good programs for Women in tech. But not familiar too much with their program geared for racial minorities. Can you point me to some?
As someone who knows nothing about Pando, I'd love some more insight into why they supposedly suck.

(Speaking of shitty high-profile news site, my favourite pick is ReadWrie. 80% of what I've read on their site is utter garbage.)
Yeah, this comment appears to be spot on as well:

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/05/true-goodbye-using-truecr...
Since the 1970s the Asian population as a percentage has grown more than 5x (greater multiple than all other demographics) You would expect that if the median age of a CEO is in the 50s the enrollment numbers of Asians back then (1970-80) weren't expressed nearly as significantly. So still sounds 'white' any estimation.
From FTA: "What is something you believe that nearly no one agrees with you on?"
From the Google NY Times article ( http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/28/google-releases-emp... )
> Thirty percent of Googles 46,170 employees worldwide are women, the company said, and 17 percent of its technical employees are women....Of its United States employees... 2 percent are black ... Of Googles technical staff, 60 percent are white, 1 percent are black...Though Google did not specifically say how it planned to change the numbers, it said that it hoped releasing them would start a dialogue. The company had made changes in the past to recruit and retain women...

Then it goes on and on about women. If 30% overall and 17% technical are women, compared to 2% and 1% for black, it sounds like women have it relatively good.

Many of my CS classes had more black guys than women of any color. Yet there is almost no discussion of this. It's Jesse Jackson who prompted that this data be released.

While this is about Google, they've been the most open and forthright about it in releasing the data. The situation is widespread through the Valley.

I hear happy horseshit about Watsi and other nonsense in the Valley. Begin at the source - with the LPs of VC's exploiting mostly young talent in the various startups - startups where 1% of the hired technical workers are black, if that.
No, no it doesn't. It's a perfectly valid answer (given appropriate evidence). The point is it's an answer to rebut data and it's one that it self requires data. In no way does it stand as an argument that we should not have the data in the first place.

Again, the presumption about a a post-racial society requires evidence. That evidence may be that ethnic identity issues explain discrepancies, but it can't be an argument because we live in a post racial society , data to the contrary should be ignored.
The cost of a serving of Soylent varies based on the amount you've ordered. The cheapest it goes for is ~$3.04 per serving - $255 for a monthly shipment of 28 days worth.

The 'buy online' link from the Ensure page you posted lists their powdered product at $65 per 6 pack of 14oz cans. The serving size is 57g, so there are about 7 servings per can; a serving costs about $1.55.

Each Ensure serving is 250 calories, with 9g protein, 9g fat, 34g carbs (13g sugar, 0g fiber) and between 10 and 60% of all the major vitamins and minerals (most seem to be 25%).

Each non-vegan Soylent serving is 670 calories, with 38g protein, 24g fat, 84g carbs (2g sugar, 9g fiber) and between 33 and 57% of all the major vitamins and minerals (most are 33%). The vegans do their own thing with an oil additive (Soylent ships a fish oil/canola blend) so the published nutritional information is not accurate for vegans.

So without actually doing all the arithmetic, I would say that I would probably need 2.5-ish Ensure servings for every 1 Soylent serving to equalize calories. I would be getting more vitamins out of Ensure, but also more sugar - most of the carbs - and no fiber at all. The price would be close but Ensure would be more expensive.

http://abbottstore.com/adult-nutrition/ensure-powder-vanilla...

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0421/5993/t/4/assets/Comple...
Out of curiosity, does anyone know what happens to the solar panels that are shown in the animation when it docks to the ISS? They are disconnected before returning to earth. All of the stages are reused - are the solar panels thrown away?
I had the same issue, I think it depends on browser configuration. Some browsers disallow http content on https pages.
Hijacking NXDOMAIN for non-existent domains does not follow standards & is definitely breaking things.
can it RM be driven programmatically on the server side to do realtime or near realtime rendering?
> Sexual innuendo does not qualify as respect.

This has been rehashed aplenty. Sexual innuendo between two people, when not directed at a third person does not qualify as disrespect to the third person, unless you're trying very hard to feel disrespected.

> It certainly doesn't belong in a K-12 classroom.

If you think it doesn't belong in a K-12 classroom, I seriously doubt you have ever interacted with anyone in high school. Please read the data in this and draw your own conclusions. http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/FB-ATSRH.html
Steve Ballmer to Sign $2 Billion Deal to Buy L.A. Clippers Basketball Team
> Give these kids back their parents

What exactly does this mean? The government didn't create all those single parent households. I mean, who exactly are you blaming here?
Why Isn't the Guy Who Designed Beats Going to Work For Apple, Too?
How does unbiased qualitative reasoning work if counting isn't allowed. Genuinely curious, citations would be helpful.

In science, we call out qualitative reasoning as being biased and unscientific.
In the coming decades the cost of flying humans and cargo to orbit will drop by about a factor of 100, which will result in a rapidly burgeoning population of inhabitants and habitable structures in space. There have never been more than 13 people in orbit at any one time in history, within 2 decades, at the latest, that record will be shattered, and soon tens then hundreds then thousands of people will take trips to space each year and who knows how many people will permanently live and work on orbit.

If you really want to go into space don't become an astronaut, figure out how to acquire the skills which will make you so indispensable that it would be easy to find a job on orbit. It's hard to say what those are today but I think a fair bet would be becoming an expert on systems unique to spacecraft. But, you know, realistically it could also be something like becoming a zero-g chef, learning how to cook in zero-g and make food that is uniquely appetizing given the constraints and given the changes to taste in that environment.
The example of Pinterest and Path is for what? their logo is bad? I noticed that a lot of corp are using a single letter as their logo, such as Mashable, even hacker news. Recognizable is important, but hard. I upvote Pinterest logo over Path, and I like Twitter birds!
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Should humanity forsake all modern conveniences and return to the bush?
Yes, the OP was just commenting at how amazingly slow the connection is. These days we don't think about individual bits per second.
I guess fortunately for Google, it appears there's no merit to the accusation?
Maybe when it comes to adults, but we do have a good idea for babies. Lots of them eat nothing but formula and do okay (though not as well as on as human milk, let me hasten to add).

There was a case a number of years ago where one of the formula makers didn't add enough chlorides, resulting in cases of chloride deficiency (previously unknown -- salt is everywhere in a normal diet, and is present in human milk).

So... while maybe we can't say that we have a maximally healthy artificial diet, we do have multiple instances of artificial diets that are good enough to survive on.
> 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."

The title of his piece is almost certainly a reference to "How the Irish Became White" [1], so presumably not so much. I'm with you on the broader point, though, that the hand-wringing about who is and isn't white is silly, and that if it serves as shorthand for racially privileged people, that's pretty much fine.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Irish-Became-White-Routledge-Classics/....
The races that are obviously not Han (so the western side of the country) don't blend and have many problems. We are going through a bout of terrorism right now for this reason (coupled with Han paternalism, which makes the problems worse).

The races in the east have mostly inter-married and integrated with Han culture, though there are still some tensions (the largest Zhuang minority has been very rebellious up until the 20th century).
Well, it was also Paul Rand.
Despite the lack of competition that already exists I've yet to find an area where Comcast isn't rated as 'HD Verified' by Google.
Urban Renewal, No Bulldozer: San Francisco Repurposes the Old for the Future
Racial profiling, three strikes rule, and the drug war for starters.
This doesn't change the fact that those two are still awash in cash. They could easily be part of the rich guys in this program and this Dating Ring thing would welcome them with open arms.

Meanwhile, Joe Dev who is working 10 hours a day will be fired for saying "Hee hee hee, look at this huge dongle I just got." at a tech conference.
Well, in the case of some of them, it did.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_Sta...
"...just because you CAN do something, doesn't mean you SHOULD."
but if you can do something and you want to do it, why not?
Electricomics: Open source comics creation toolkit
The rise of the female founder
That's not how franchises are valued. Talent comes and goes.
When I switched to SockJS, I tried Engine.io too, but I ended up going with SockJS mostly because Engine.io didn't expose the client's IP address to Node, which made IP banning impossible. It looks like it's still an issue, sadly.
Part of my job involves writing software on OpenVMS. We actually just recently ported something that needed OpenSSL and were happy to find an up-to-date version.
Github repo's rather bare right now though. Still waiting for the release

https://github.com/Electricomics/electricomics
This list should be in the reverse order.
"one of the"
Who Created Truecrypt? (Translated from Russian)
OK, I don't like doing this, but I'll admit that I downvoted you. Not because I'm in Google's pocket, though I'll admit that I use some of their products, but because your phrasing is on the rhetorical level of asking "have you stopped beating your mother yet?"

The OP does not provide a shred of independent proof that Google unfairly penalized Vivint, and yet you're already rushing to what you apparently think is an inevitable conclusion (e.g. Who knows if this thing is at all true, but Google has been pretty fishy lately).

Come on, do a little research. Have you ever heard of Vivint before? I hadn't. So I (yes, I'll admit) Googled it and was surprised to find that Vivint bills itself as an "Affordable Home Security Systems" seller. OK, granted, I don't own a Nest device, so I googled "Nest" to see how they describe themselves...and Nest advertises itself as the "World's first Learning Thermostat. Programs itself. Saves Energy"

So help me out here, and I'll ask the mods to remove my downvote: what about a thermostat is directly competitive with a home security system? What about something that "programs itself" is at all analogous to an ADT-like system that seems to require human check-in, or at least a $50 a month service fee to have remote access? AFAIK, Nest's monitoring service is free, presumably because the thermostat is supposed to, well, "program itself" and thus requires less hands-on-touch by Nest.

And as someone already stated...at least a few of us HNers know of ADT...hell, I see their stickers everywhere...and has ADT complained about being wiped out of Google? I'd be willing to accept the possibility that ADT has paid its own "protection" fee to Google...but Jesus, there should be a level of evidence we accept to get to that accusation, and that level should exist beyond "website is tipped by competitor of Google believes that Google is out to kill competitors".

edit: to be fair, the OP has quotes (but no actual data, just claims) from a small company named FoxtailMarketing.com. That's also a place I've never heard of, but I have done the diligence of visiting their website to see what the company does...Here's the very first non-motto copy that shows up on the homepage:

> We guarantee that you will never be devalued or penalized by Google when you use our digital marketing strategy to build your brand online. At Foxtail Marketing, you can make your business more relevant online without fear of becoming obsolete.

A company that is built around telling people that they (Foxtail) can guarantee SEO-optimization without fear of penalty of the Google-banhammer...Call me skeptical, but unless the person behind FoxtailMarketing is Matt Cutts's best friend, then that kind of claim strikes me as the kind of thing a less-than-trustworthy firm might say, and that such a firm would benefit by being the "voice of expertise" in an otherwise one-sided story (the OP itself states that the story idea came from a "PR-organized dinner in San Francisco last night" in which Vivint's founder happened to be hanging out at). But maybe someone here has used Foxtail and can vouch for their SEO-magic?
Silicon Valley May Be in a Bubble, but It’s Not 2000
How does Amazon empitomise this? What goods have they raised the prices of (and why I say raise, I mean relative to the price before Amazon, not that Amazon merely increased their own prices).
And sometimes with managed or self hosted email services on custom domain names, it takes a ridiculously long time.

I think my attention time out for this would be 30-45 seconds.
Pales in comparison to baby daddies up and leaving the household. That's a cultural problem.
Thanks for those. I have said that if there were a "bar" version I would go for that - looks like mealsquares is that.
Sweet! I'll take a look, thanks. I considered PushOver and Boxcar but I didn't like the idea of forwarding all my email to them.
Evernote's biggest distinguishing feature is OCR, which seems to be missing here.
> Numbers allow us to identify problems.

The problem is in these sorts of cases the numbers are generally useless. Even if we eliminated 100% of all racial discrimination from society, fewer African Americans would attend college because fewer of their parents can afford to send them, and those type of consequences would carry down for generations completely regardless of continuing racism.

So you say you want to stick with the numbers anyway and try to account for income level. OK boss, that will reduce your confidence interval by a good bit but we can do it. The trouble is poverty is not the only issue. The fertility rates are different. African Americans on average have more children than whites and Asians according to the most recent census (2.1 vs. 1.8), so for the same parental income level the money is split between more children, as is parental time and attention. African Americans are also significantly more likely to grow up in single parent families. That one's 65% for African Americans vs. 23% white and 16% Asian. Ouch. So we have to account for that stuff too. And those all interact. If you have three children being raised by one parent making $30,000/year as compared with two children being raised by two parents each making $50,000/year, expecting to get anything resembling the same results is bonkers.
That's not quite a fair analogy. It'd be more like if you go into a bank and see a giant hole in their vault. You tell them about it and they sue you for breaking it. Meanwhile actual criminals come and go as they please anonymously. The bank's clients are the actual victims of course, it's not like this just affects the bankers.
I understand your viewpoint, but unless those whippeer snappers make the mistakes, they'll never learn.
You are correct and I never seen a poutine like this before but there is many variations that are good... I like a good "poutine italienne" for example:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-snFyhK5zhAg/UOW2AzMTNEI/AAAAAAAAAR...

or "poutine galvaude" (with chicken and peas):

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-s8Qv78uyb88/ToDfKVqZzdI/AAAAAAAAAC...
I have tons of stuff - it's spare parts and materials to make other stuff. I never want to throw anything out until it's a tangled pile of shredded debris if I can avoid it.

The alternative is just blunt consumerism - assuming I can buy things when I need them, and constantly being at the mercy of price-gouging suppliers.

I don't even know why you'd reach the conclusion that you shouldn't have useful things - i.e. a smartphone.
Except that it implies that stand-up meetings actually work to keep employees on their toes figuratively. In the first version, it's more of an implication that this is what the manual says and this company is just trying to build a business like you would a table.
New Dual Carbon Battery Charges 20x Faster Than Lithium Ion
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Highly doubt that this was anything but a coincidence. Even if you don't think it was, the Nest deal most likely took more than 2 weeks to close, and it'd be crazy for Google to take such deliberate and egregious actions before then.
Analysis of a Few Aspects of 2014 World Cup Squads
Wow, I was actually about to comment the exact same thing as lallysingh until I saw his comment.

> As someone who knows nothing about Pando, I'd love some more insight into why they supposedly suck.

This may not be a satisfying answer but it's the same reason as the one behind your opinion of ReadWrite: when you read enough of their articles (or at least enough of the ones that make it onto HN) and they're almost _all_ crap, it's a simple matter of numbers. As far as _how_ they got this way, just take a look at their pedigree; the founding members include the boot-scrapings of the tech-press: Sarah Lacy, Michael Arrington, M.G. Siegler, Farhad Manjoo, etc
For me this tweet is 404, what is its content?
They are man, the illuminati one percent wants to force feed soylent to all the sheeple. /s
It's a shame that Pando's inquiry didn't make it to me, because the suggestion that Google took action on vivint.com because it was somehow related to Nest is silly. As part of a crackdown on a spammy blog posting network, we took action on vivint.com--along with hundreds of other sites at the same time that were attempting to spam search results.

We took action on vivint.com because it was spamming with low-quality or spam articles like

- https://web.archive.org/web/20130919184930/http://anadesign.... for "Alburquerque NM home security system"

- http://www.womenspk.com/5-ideas-for-keeping-your-elderly-rel...

- http://www.frugalful.com/2013/12/five-surprising-ways-to-sav...

- http://doyoulovewhereyoulive.com/archives/top-10-benefits-of...

- http://arch.itect.us/2013/01/17/top-10-benefits-of-automatin...

and a bunch more links, not to mention 25,000+ links from a site with a paid relationship where the links should have been nofollowed.

When we took webspam action, we alerted Vivint via a notice in Webmaster Tools about unnatural links to their site. And when Vivint had done sufficient work to clean up the spammy links, we granted their reconsideration request. This had nothing whatsoever to do with Nest. The webspam team caught Vivint spamming. We held them (along with many other sites using the same spammy guest post network) accountable until they cleaned the spam up. That's all.
In my state in the US, a person calling themselves an "engineer" has to be licensed.

However, this is only for someone offering engineering services directly to the public. If you do engineering work for an employer, then you enjoy an "industrial exemption." At my workplace, we design stuff, then the design is checked by a third party (such as a regulatory approval outfit), which provides a technical report signed by a licensed engineer.

When people start their own side businesses, they call themselves "technology," "research," and so forth.

From what I've observed, remarkably few engineers do any engineering, such as determining appropriate strengths of structures, etc. Most product design work seems to be done by trial and error.
Well, I've never had someone looking over my shoulder to tell me I was doing it wrong :)

As for using partial paths, I was using something that I expected to be in the $PATH, and had no real reason to believe that it wouldn't be there. I definitely learned my lesson with that one.

Thanks for the tip!
I guess most people are not aware of California SCA5 [1]

That's basically an idea to brutally "reflect the demographics of the country". And that's actually racist.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Constitutional_Amendmen...
I suppose it depends on the probability of a fault which could kill the read out on a single physical control vs. the change of a fault killing a touchscreen.

You'd want to make sure you could field-service the backlight on those things.
2nd stage and trunk are not reused (I think). Cost-wise solar panels are not that expensive, they're mostly silicon doped with germanium (and other elements).
Yeah I'm aware of Chicago Boss and have used it, but like most "frameworks" websockets are bolted on and you have to write special handlers for them.

I have yet to see frameworks offer routing coming in from the websocket connection itself because it also requires non-standard javascript to send the route requests through a parent websocket connection.

Which is why I was thinking that it's the way this framework was designed.
Sorry, I didn't really want people trying to further bug the supposed dev. Steve Gibson has a good enough roundup. I wish he didn't use my info though :)
Well, I remember not even knowing what was DNS, and having the bad luck of having a computer with OpenDNS set as its primary DNS, I don't know why.

I only know I thought it was a malware and the first thing I did when I learned it was a DNS server was to change it.
Thank you. I will read the paper tonight. How did you come to hear of this? The Dovetail path is fascinating.
Sadly, it's not just HN. The negative reactions to this stuff range from the misinformed to the head-scratching to the downright idiotic.

Check the comments section on the recent NYT or Ars Technica articles - it's much of the same.
That's not weird at all cupcake.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/bryanzug/13982071359/