skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been thinking about similar things as educational tools, calling it interactive and illustrative simulation.

The idea is help people (kids and adults) learn a variety of real-life complex systems, such as free-markets (and how they do and don't work), game theory and social behavior, the impact of money in politics, the impact of advertising on the economy and web content, etc.

Users could control sliders to compare ideal situations to reality. For example, they can reduce to zero "consumer gullibility to advertising", "consumer myopia", max out "consumer intelligence", and see how the invisible hand of the free market works well. Then they can move the sliders into reality (They get to decide for themselves how far over), and see how the free market breaks down, and effects such as the Mathew Effect (rich get richer).

Overlapping thoughts?
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I have seen single servers do 250k writes/second. So it really depends on the data and access patterns more than some arbitrary one size fit's all solution.
Yup. Hell, if you think you can do it, but you're put off by a whiteboard, I'll get you a laptop with a development environment on it and leave the room to let you work on the problem.

Interviews are stressful. Keeping the candidate relaxed should be on the interviewer's mind.
Please, use http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html

my eyes hurt :-)
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Nice. When I write up my take on Users First I'll send you a note.
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what up 10 years of rails.
Have any questions or want an invite? Comment! I'll see what I can do.
15 out of 16 Visits to Your Login Page Are Intruders
you could always use heroku's postgres instead of mysql, avoiding having to put in a CC.
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I don't think you're playing "easy mode" by any means. It's admirable that you are writing blogs posts about gender diversity in tech & at YC. It would be even more admirable if you wrote about class and race diversity in tech & at YC. Right now it feels like you are avoiding talk of other types diversity in the industry. Though I do agree the issues are different.
> It’s not universally bad — it’s really cool that you can get all this software for free. But, value is being generated from your labor and it’s not being captured by you, and that’s unsustainable.

A useful alternative perspective on open source and I hope people will pay attention.

Unionization is something I certainly hope can someday happen for programmers.

I think this touches on some very serious unresolved issues we have in society.

Anti-capitalism is a reaction but not a solution. More egalitarian sharing-based attempts at organization have generally also resulted in centralization and lack of freedom and equality just as much as capitalism has.

I think that the problem is creating a system that is efficient and holistic but also allows for diversity and evolution.

Whether you are coming at it from a fundamentally competitive angle or a cooperative one, you easily end up with centralization and hierarchy. Creating efficient holistic systems generally results in this hierarchy.

What we want is a system that is somehow holistic but also made up of diverse components.

I think that the problem we need to solve, or if it is solved then we need to starting promoting the solutions.

If anyone read this and has an answer to that question please let me know.
I must be getting down-votes by attorneys who prefer innocent people be tied up in frivolous lawsuits for years.
Don't understand reason for the downvote. If I'm incorrect, an explanation would be appreciated.
Right on, looking forward to hearing from you
I'm hell banned, but if you can see me then this post is useful:

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_22094415/asian-workers-now-dom...
This isn't the best visualization, but I just spent a couple minutes overlaying the New York map with Trulia's crime risk heat map[1,2]. I think the important takeaway is that the green dots visible in the red areas can be interpreted as false negatives for danger. Of course, this is a really, really rough sketch so take it with a grain of salt.

[1]: http://www.trulia.com/local/new-york-ny/tiles:1|points:1_cri...

[2]: http://imgur.com/HOuJFKZ
Couldn't help but notice: $398.70 per hour = $9568.80 per day = ~$3.5m per annum. They obviously get a discount...but still. What kind of discount do guys like this get?
I'm not the person you're replying to, but my answer: dizzying and illegible.
I'm a web dev who has switched to Emacs a few years ago. In the first year I went from throwing profanities at it to writing some basic elisp code to refresh the active browser tab after saving the file, before watch tasks for nodejs were even a thing.

I can't say that you should switch, or that it's superior to anything, but I think you could at least give it a try. And by this I mean: use it as your only text editor for as long as you can invest (a week, maybe a month). Start with the built-in tutorial, install: ido, web-mode, js2-mode, maybe add yas-mode. Install a nice color theme. Learn the key bindings in web-mode to efficiently navigate HTML documents. Try to perform some tasks using macros. While editing try to forget you even have a mouse. Discover the little things, like "undo" being able to be narrowed to the selected lines instead of global linear history, or the kill-ring (you can paste form previous "cut" operations, not just the recent one).

There's some un-learning and re-learning of everyday tings like the shortcuts for copy/paste or the concept of selection vs. region, but for me it was a good investment. I can't say it'll be good for you, but I encourage you to try - if you won't switch you'll at least get a better understanding of what you like about your current editors.
Another option for "modal" editing in emacs is god-mode(1). It lets you use emacs commands without modifier keys. I have it set to change my mode-line color when it's activated, it's great if you want a little taste of vim but not the problem of trying to shoehorn vim key-bindings into emacs.

1. https://github.com/chrisdone/god-mode
We had the same idea at a hackday and built it. https://github.com/Quantisan/nullwave

We used the laptop's mic as the source of environmental sound and just flipped the signals and play them back on a headphone. Because of the distance between the laptop and our ears, the signals can't really be cancelled that trivially.

The app ended up amplifying non-noises (we had some filtering) and we could hear other people talking quietly even across a room. So we jokingly said we built a spying tool on demo.
Individual characters can be made out, but words are hard to read. Not enough separation between letters and symbols, so constructs like "(pred=%i)\t" are harder to visually parse. I'm also not a fan of aliased pixel fonts -- it really exacerbates the picket-fence effect while reading.

Here's what your code sample looks like in Source Code Pro:

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

Smaller font:

http://i.imgur.com/m0p17tm.png

Notice how all letters take up the full horizontal width so words clump together. It's easy to see that a space is a space, and not just an "i" next to an "l"

It's also worth noting that I had to try 3 separate OCR processors with your sample before I got one that didn't output complete garbage.
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Direct link:

http://www.catananytime.com/

Looks OK, I hope this has a better interface than PlayCatan. OTOH PlayCatan is a breeze to play fast once you get used to its peculiarities.
> its also inaccurate to assume that anyone who plays golf can afford $500+ in alcohol.

One would hope then that upon getting a hole in one they would not spend $500 that they cannot afford. It's not a requirement to buy anyone else a drink.
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> the font is incredibly difficult to read.

"Fonts" are computer code. Typefaces are what you see, unless you're editing the font that will set the type on your screen.
It's worth noting that it's not corporate revenues that are taxed but corporate profits. Money that corporations use to hire people is not taxed at the corporate level.

That said, "[t]he more money a company has, the more money they can use to employ people and be productive" is still true and relevant because money is fungible. It is just less extreme than if corporate taxes were applied to that money as well.
And, in general, you can't limit your liability if you are a 1-man corp. Courts can "pierce the corporate veil" if it turns out the corporation is acting entirely on the behalf of the invdividual.
OED accepts both pronunciations. Apparently "primmer" is the British way of pronouncing it.
Except instead of your car breaking down it's like $650 out of the blue to wash all your neighbor's cars out of the kindness of your own heart. It's a completely avoidable cost (no insurance needed, just don't buy people drinks if you don't want to).
FYI - Ask urls seem borked:

https://news.ycombinator.com/ask?p=3

Pages 1 and 2 worked fine though

[UPDATE] Now shows item #61 (perhaps the list was limited to 60 items and thus 2 pages when I first clicked...still showed the "More" link on page 2 though, FYI).
There's certainly a lot of hate that only makes sense with audiophile logic, and a lot that stems from Bose not playing the same marketing game that everyone else does. Amar Bose wasn't a charlatan. But like any premium brand that's marketed by marketers rather than engineers, sometimes things end up overpriced and benefits get overstated.
Simplest solution to fix this is to change "Since the database runs in local host". Otherwise, it depends on the extent of the compromise. If the attacker got root access, then all of the data is compromised. Note: you can minimize the effects of this compromise by doing one of a few things: storing the hash of data (e.g. with passwords) so that the original data is still (relatively) safe, or you could also have the data encrypted with another key (e.g. if it is a credit card number) that does not reside on the local machine. If the attacker has not gotten root access, you can use different users to separate what potential data the attacker has access to.
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>tech companies and incubators need to be targeting young black males for immersion and mentoring programs as early as 5th grade

This right here, If it wasn't for my uncle getting me into computers I don't I would ever had thought to see a career in computers let alone development. If we want to be frank I know when I was growing up (only 28), playing around with computers as a black child was something that "blacks didn't do". It was hard to find any blacks computer teachers, mentors or owners that you could access easily in the tech area and the stigma of being a "nerd" was something the culture was about to accept. Of course my parents made sure if it was something I wanted to do that they would make sure I had the best education I could to make it happen.

What we lack in the community is for children to see other blacks in a position and think "Hey I can do that". This was something that we didn't have much back then. I still only know a handful of black developers and it may be wrong to say it but sometime when going to conventions and what not I know I sorta feel like a unicorn, after a while you just go with it but its still in the back of your mind.
What admin template is that, please?
It shows fine in safari on 10.10 at least.
If you've read some of the alternative literature on capitalism you might think that profit is by definition providing "unpaid work for other people to exploit and make lots of of money off of". It's a rather clever inversion of private property rights that exploits the medium of commodity exchange - to pay someone a fixed wage for their commodity called labour time and exploit their produce to turn a profit.

Open-source is only an ethical perversion if you believe the above is a just system of compensation. To me the profit motive is a hinderance to progress and innovation as it requires subjugating everything to the need to produce a surplus - often eliminating whole extremely useful areas for human advancement as they are impractical in this regard. Case and point: no one paid Einstein to produce his innovation, he merely took a menial job that gave him time and means to produce it. That being said capitalists have certainly made money off of it - eg, GPS. We should be careful not to conflate the exploitation of innovations with the cause of them.
The problem is that as the gap widens that poor kid might have no actual chance at a decent stable job with benefits. Odds are he will be stuck in part-time land with no benefits and doing odd jobs on the side, so for him going with a startup must seem like a better choice.

Also since we are talking about aspirations you have to consider the "all or nothing" attitude that's so common these days, and I see a lot of people particularly in the lower classes who are far more motivated about the tiniest possibility of a quick jackpot than a slow but steady improvement in their lives.

But then again that way of thinking might have more to do with the way the middle class (the "steady option") is disappearing than with a social fad.
I don't call myself an audiophile but I have owned a lot of different headphones up to the $1500 mark.

There's no need (and no way) for double-blind studies here. We're not talking magic cables. Objectively you can plot frequency results with actual science and measure a difference. Subjectively you can experience it, and of course there is the look, smell, weight, clamping pressure, earpiece comfort and texture of the things as they sit on your head (hence no blind testing possible).

I have disdain for Bose because of their breathless hype, misleading sales practises, high cost and (subjectively speaking) mediocre performance. Lots of people disagree with me and like Bose a lot. And that's just fine.
Probably not. These days as a consumer you can't really sue companies you do business with because they make you agree to arbitrate any disputes. It's nutty.

Briefly checking the Coinbase TOS reveals this:

> 8.2. Arbitration; Waiver of Class Action. EXCEPT FOR CLAIMS FOR INJUNCTIVE OR EQUITABLE RELIEF OR CLAIMS REGARDING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS (WHICH MAY BE BROUGHT IN ANY COMPETENT COURT WITHOUT THE POSTING OF A BOND), ANY DISPUTE ARISING UNDER THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE FINALLY SETTLED ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AMERICAN ARBITRATION ASSOCIATION'S RULES FOR ARBITRATION OF CONSUMER-RELATED DISPUTES AND YOU AND COINBASE HEREBY EXPRESSLY WAIVE TRIAL BY JURY.

https://coinbase.com/legal/user_agreement
That you'd rather ignore things than try to solve problems? It's very easy to ignore the IQ gap and other differences between groups. It's harder to try to solve it with things like improved education, reduced poverty, etc. This is exactly the problem. Pretend the problem doesn't exist, and you don't even have to worry about attempting to solve it!

In case you really are unaware and averse to Googling, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence#United_St...

Rushton & Jensen (2005) write that, in the United States, self-identified blacks and whites have been the subjects of the greatest number of studies. They state that the black-white IQ difference is about 15 to 18 points or 1 to 1.1 standard deviations (SDs), which implies that between 11 and 16 percent of the black population have an IQ above 100 (the general population median). ... Roth et al. (2001), in a review of the results of a total of 6,246,729 participants on other tests of cognitive ability or aptitude, found a difference in mean IQ scores between blacks and whites of 1.1 SD. Consistent results were found for college and university application tests such as the Scholastic Aptitude Test (N = 2.4 million) and Graduate Record Examination (N = 2.3 million), as well as for tests of job applicants in corporate sections (N = 0.5 million) and in the military (N = 0.4 million).
> WMD is a political term.

No it's not. It has been co-opted by politicians (and that is the crux of my complaint and why I choose to not use/accept the politicians recent expansion/redefinition). You are correct, C&B do not do as much physical damage but at least biological can easily kill as many.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapon_of_mass_destruction#Evol...
"On the other hand, the corporate tax is a great way to ensure corporations retain profits instead of paying them out, thereby making the corporations larger."

Corporations pay taxes on the money they retain, and not on the money they pay out in wages or other costs of doing business.

Of course, they also do pay taxes on money they pay out to shareholders, and they don't pay taxes on money overseas affiliates retain...

But "corporate taxes are an incentive to retain capital in the corporation" is generally incorrect.
In Islam we are told to love kids till 7 by holding them close to us. Just conversation and love. Tell them to pray when they are 10 and use harsh language if necessary after 10. I know i am talking to a highly intelligent audience in this forum, most of which is atheist. I love you as a fellow human and would request you to know about Islam through Quran not through the Media or by looking at Muslims(coz most of us are doing it wrong)
19% female applicants were accepted, and 24% applicants were female.

39% accepted applicants were from outside the US.

0% of founders were anywhere near pg's age. Are all Entrepreneurs under 40? Not remotely.

But more astounding: You would never get tech industry leaders saying "men are just smarter" or "whites are just smarter" yet Zuckerberg makes exactly that statement for agism.

And he made that statement at a Y Combinator Startup event.

So re your "obvious reasons", it is not that every one over 40 is rich, it is that few intelligent people over say 40 would be fool enough to go near those organizations given that very public attitude.
They steal your children if you don't pay them.
Subpixel smoothing requires vector outlines to get good results, so scaling a bitmap won't work in practice. More importantly, font rendering is optimised to a specific size, i.e. the bitmap for 32x32 isn't just a scaled version of the 16x16 bitmap. The usual mechanism for this is hinting, but some engines use their own heuristics (e.g. CoreText, and maybe Metro?).
I don't disagree with you. In fact, everything you wrote is in agreement with my original post. All of those challenges you describe are just some of the factors that make the racial disparity a more difficult problem to solve than the gender disparity.

And yet, my original post is now deleted, so we can go along pretending these problems don't exist.
I would be working on comic strip that started about 10 years ago. The 6 months would allow me to accelerate the storyline!
The reactor was actually de-fueled long before that in 1975, but the reactor vessel has still not been removed and the associated parts await eventuall decontamination and decommissioning.

As a 6 year old child of the Atomic Age, my parents took me to tour the Savannah at her Port Everglades (Ft. Lauderdale FL) stop in 1964. The view through a window at the nearly featureless grey reactor vessel was anticlimactic. The most memorable sight for me was the stainless steel bar/lounge for the passengers. It looked like it had never been used.

When I was about 10 years old I built a plastic styrene model, which included a detailed reactor that I carefully painted in he assigned colors colors. All this detail disappeared forever into the grey containment vessel.
Hm, something like this would be nice in conjunction with my XBMC htpc.
Once you mentioned offshore, I thought you were going in a different direction completely.
What kind of magical thinking leads people to accept these anthropological legends unquestioningly? 'there's a tribe who have no concept of left and right but always know which way is North' 'There's a tribe which has no concept of numbers greater than four but understands logarithms'...
Double Union, “good fit”, and smoke screens
Well, only 1% of the software "is Christian". The other 99% has already been created in various forms. I'm not criticising the project, I just don't know why he didn't extend existing software, or even fork something like BuddyPress.
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When connecting to your web page via HTTPS it attempts to load JQuery via HTTP and FireFox cowers in fear of XSS attempts. Don't do that.
These smart crows make chimps seem like mere monkeys.
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The San Jose Mercury News estimated that Silicon Valley tech jobs are mostly held by Asians.

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_22094415/asian-workers-now-dom...

Based on my experience, I'd believe it, though the proportion is likely less in San Francisco and more in the South Bay.
I've been using Fira Sans Mono [0] since Mozilla released it, I love it. It's worth a try. https://i.imgur.com/h9yXXdx.png

[0]: https://mozilla.github.io/Fira/
co-op? A good amount of Waterloo CS grads don't have debt.
You and I are still talking about very different things. I am not proposing banning people from the internet. I am proposing that private websites should filter out particularly obnoxious hateful and unreasonable comments.

How would I feel if a website removed my profane, unreasonable, and offensive comment? Ashamed. Considering a website has no obligation to display my comment I think it would be ethical (and of course legal) for them to not display horrible comments. I would accept it. I see nothing inhumane or unjust about a website declining to distribute my hate speech.
That isn't $3/mo, according to the link, it is a $3 instant one-time premium. I'm assuming it covers one day, game, or something similar.
SHA256+random salt goes at about 10e9 hashes per second on a workstation with a good GPU. That's enough to do a permuted dictionary attack that will get the overwhelming majority of passwords in a system.

[edit]

Does anyone know if the bitcoin ASICS have been repurposed as SHA256 crackers? md5 and sha-1 are more common in password storage, but if you use what the parent suggests, then it could be worse since there is so much specialized SHA256 hardware out there.
Looks kind of blurry.
white page with a loading animation and a number slowly incrementing in the corner.
Notice the contradictory language used in describing what you want:

"creating a system that is efficient and holistic but also allows for diversity and evolution."

Effectively: I want things to be one thing that is the same, but also to be many things that change constantly. The truth is that this kind of small-scale logic breaks down when we talk about large systems. They can usefully be viewed, to take a page from Marx, as mediators of internal contradictions like this. Desires that pull in opposed directions.

It's in fact these contradictions that Marx, I believe, very effectively demonstrates cause ever more rapid and widespread crises like the financial meltdown of 2008 and the .com bubble 8 years before that as well as numerous global crises in the interim. He leverages a lot of historical and empirical data to demonstrate this and I would say reality has consistently validated this prediction. Its this crisis tendency that leads to an anti-capitalist position - clearly the system cannot effectively avoid disaster (it's now struggling to even remain stable for a decade). Therefore, we should really search for alternatives, what those are is not a ready-made answer and there's a lot of push back in attempting to experiment in the way necessary to discover them.
Doesn't work on iPad... (1st gen)