skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about class?

Ivy League Parents -> Private School -> SAT tutoring -> Ivy League College -> Investment by Ivy League VC -> Acquired by Ivy League Tech Company

vs

Poor parents -> Shitty Public School -> High School Drop Out -> Programmer at Ivy League Tech Company (maybe)

There's a reason most of the big tech companies are from Ivy League graduates.

And you can't ignore how many successful startups only happened because parental financial support. Someone working paycheck to paycheck to pay for college isn't going to have a reading week to hack with. Or can't borrow $40k from their parents. Or live at home for free.

The game is ultimately fair - even a dog could get funded with traction. But there really is a class system in the U.S. and it is probably the biggest bias in the system.
I wholeheartedly agree, yet certain people continually attach open source as somehow being the worst of our industry. Just because it requires people be passionate enough about development to do it in their free time.
Science subscription boxes for kids launched by former medical researcher
That's certainly a reasonable hypothesis. Is there evidence that supports it?
Really? I wouldn't expect the likelihood of winning given getting a hole in one to be much.

A hole in one is only 2 (or extremely rarely 3) under par, the spread of scores in a game would usually be far greater than that.
It seems like the recent vandalism was probably done for the lulz just because of the new Twitter bot that would be drawing attention to it. Even the protestation "Out of over 9000 staffers in the House, should we really be banning this whole IP range..." seems like a joke, as "birds in Omsk" may be a meme reference, and "KDE2 under FreeBSD" almost certainly is. Even "over 9000" is. (I see someone else has noticed this on the Talk page.)

Anyone who can write on a Talk page, can create an account or proxy to another IP, so the really nefarious edits are going to be made under different IPs or accounts. I wonder, are the obvious shady edits investigated by minimaxir in this thread, actually deliberately made public. E.g., Luis Fortuño (as an example, not an accusation) vandalizes his own page so everyone thinks his opponents did it.

[0] http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/welcome-to-omsk

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_does_one_patch_KDE2_under_...
NYU iOS App Dev Professor Now Teaching Swift Bootcamp In NYC
What companies are doing is nothing more than citizens within the US can and choose to do, they move to places where their tax burden is less. Where you can get the same or similar services for less of your income.

However politicians know it is easy to vilify corporations thereby allowing them to either out right lie about how taxation works or lie by omission.

Companies moving their head quarters out of your country should be a clear signal that your doing it wrong, except in the case of the US politicians want to punish them for doing what is right for them, their share holders, and their employees.

The power tripping in Washington is so extreme that punishing is their first reaction to anything they don't like.
Nitro and Og yo!
It is interesting, but I don't really see it as HN material. It is too short and too content light to satisfy ones genuine curiousity and it has got nothing to do with tech.
As if a dissenting judge's reasoning has no merit.

So, in that case, did the company actually break the law in some way? Because if they did not, then the reasoning behind their "devious" reorganization and the morality behind it is irrelevant. Unless we want to say that the line dictating illegal tax avoidance is whatever the Supreme Court happens to say it is that year based on their own personal moral fiber.

From what I'm reading of that decision; it wasn't made because the transaction was deemed a somehow "immoral" abuse of the law to avoid taxes, but because the reorganization wasn't valid under the relevant statute. Conducting the reorganization solely for reducing tax liabilities is apparently not a valid reason for the reorganization under the statute. Someone could attempt the same reorganization for reasons other than reducing tax liabilities and it would still not be valid, under the same statute, if it did not meet the requirements.

I feel the quotes are fine within the apparent intent of the original thought, that hating a company because it does logical things that some feel are immoral makes little sense. Hating a company because it breaks the law to avoid paying taxes is a different matter.

I would also through back "HOLY SELECTIVE QUOTING BATMAN!" since you address one quote while ignoring the one from Commissioner v. Newman, 159 F2d 848 (1947). Although I'm not going to read through that decision so it could be a bad quote for all I know.
>"we shared the stats on founders born outside the US. it's not a perfect map to race, but it's not a bad one either."

It's pretty well established that there are lots of people who were born outside the US in tech in general [1] and among founders specifically [2].

Simply noting the same isn't necessarily saying anything.

>"there are people of all colors in this YC batch."

That's great.

Seeing numbers broken out by ethnicity would be a lot more interesting as it would facilitate a more direct comparison to the rest of the recent releases on diversity.

1: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/516546/silicon-valley-f...

2: http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/01/immigration-and...
Rails makes up a substantial amount of queries for the bare term "Rails", even if thats an everyday word.

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=ruby%20on%20rails%2C%...
Interesting read from a historical perspective, but the idea of a message hidden in DNA is far fetched to me - DNA is subject to the effects of evolution and mutation which seem to me would make any message unrecognizable after a billion years.
Obviously, you can't say something that broad for all ISPs in all locations. But in a recent dispute Verizon posted a graphic[1] showing that the max average peak utilization in their network was 65% of capacity. So if Netflix is 1/3 of that (say 22% capacity) and it doubles their average bitrate to all customers, it would still not saturate the link.

[1] http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/verizo...
$705 in 2 days
thinking to myself: "bees are dying, the planet is overheating, everybody's overweight ... what we really need is more saas software and more mobile devices.
"you feed your young baby, you're also checking them for all kinds of things"

Which you won't check if you happen to have a quiet child that doesn't wake up during the night.
To be fair, github culture is a far cry from the early days of open source.

If I didn't run in with the first/second generation of OSS developers, I probably wouldn't like the culture either.

Now get off my lawn!
Not to mention that the Evil Mode editing messes up the Emacs repl. At least for clojure.
Which is soon followed by the inevitable "but I was already taxed on this money!" wealthy investor complaint.
I can't find the link, unfortunately, but the Congressional Budget Office released an analysis a few years ago comparing the FairTax with a flat tax and I believe another proposal (possibly a VAT system) and found that, while the FairTax would greatly benefit the poor (via the flat "prebate" checks) and the rich (because of the elimination of capital gains taxes and the fact that they spend a smaller proportion of their income), it would increase the burden on the middle class substantially. That kind of killed it for me.

Edit: Found it. It wasn't the CBO, it was a Bush-appointed advisory panel. See the "Chapter Eight - Nine" pdf, page 20:

http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/taxreformpanel/final-report/i...
In the short term (meaning a few generations) even very sexist people tend to have kids of the opposite sex, while racists seldom have kids of another race.
Haha it's funny that you've cited that post as I'm complaining that it's getting flagged in the comments... I guess the point is that HN is a black box to us regular users and it's tough to speculate on how and why threads move as they do.
I haven't, but I just bookmarked it. Thank you.
I spelled it wrong. It's right here: https://www.medable.com/
Writing Tip of the Day
“Nobody asked the jackhammer dude to work on an open jackhammer project on Saturdays, that would be totally absurd.”
The Next America (Pew Research)
Winnowing: Local Algorithms for Document Fingerprinting (2003) [pdf]
This was hard to read. I couldn't get the first paragraph to parse right. "the lone hacker building a billion website overnight in his dorm and here about the excitement of building a new product" reads like maybe "dollars" is missing. I don't know what "here" is doing. I suspect something was edited rendering it ungrammatical. There are also some odd homophone errors, like "higher" for "hire". Maybe the "here" was "hear"?

The underlying concept is interesting; it's just hard to follow because it's so badly presented.
Generally share buybacks help the shareholders quite a bit. Unless I'm wrong, the advisors don't skim as much off of buybacks as they do IPOs. (And I am wrong more than I care to admit!)
Building a free and open source multiplayer digital audio workstation.

Here's the manifesto, copied from the README[1]:

* Fast but not over-optimized. Waste no CPU cycles, but do not add unnecessary complexity for the sake of speed.

* Take full advantage of multiple cores.

* When there is a tradeoff between speed and memory, sacrifice memory.

* Sample-accurate mixing.

* Never require the user to restart the program

* Let's get these things right the first time around:

- Undo/redo

- Ability to edit multiple projects at once. Mix and match

- Support for N audio channels instead of hardcoded stereo

* Tight integration with an online sample/project sharing service. Make it almost easier to save it open source than to save it privately

* Multiplayer support. Each person can simultaneously edit different sections.

* Backend decoupled from the UI. Someone should be able to depend only on a C library and headlessly synthesize music.

[1]: https://github.com/andrewrk/genesis
>You would have to somehow balance it out against the fact that eliminating corporate income tax would invalidate a lot of incentives built into the corporate tax structure.

The current corporate income tax structure favors large bureaucratic institutions that can afford to pass the barriers-to-entry to avoid taxation. Thus small enterprises end up spending more on taxes than large institutions do: it's a regressive tax.

Eliminating the corporate income tax would heal that inversion.
I do wonder since he is using a gmail account if it is a honeytrap.

That seems like a very, very dumb thing to do if one's objective is to defraud Google. His entire client list will be accessible through them.
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Poundwise Pennyfoolish no? (Or is it Pennwise Poundfoolish?)

If productivity doesn't drop, why not telecommute 50%?
Across the board cuts for any programs with budgets above a certain percentage of the entire Federal budget. Basically a progressive budget cut to avoid small programs getting hit too hard.
My own form of self respect is not having to wear a polo to work.
This is running Cassandra 1.2.x which is over 18 months old.

Here's some performance notes on the latest (2.1rc4): http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/cassandra-2-1-now-over-50-f...
Does anyone have suggestions in this area? We're interested in building better dupe and blogspam detection for HN, and want to get the lay of the land.

There are also interesting references at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism_detection#Fingerprin....

Edit: Thank you all for the excellent comments.
Mysterious 80-metre Wide Crater In Northern Siberia
I don't get the complaint about the documentation link. The "Learn More" link takes you to the GitHub Readme, which has a fair bit of documentation and links to everything else one might like including the command line interface project, and a "Resources" section with links to the full API. What's hard to find?
You're preaching to the choir. Your typical Java programmer doesn't even know what these phrases mean.
I'm not sure what you're hinting at with your remark about racial disparities with regard to education, IQ and culture. Right now your comment looks pretty racist.
Good point, I was thinking that myself but wanted to keep the core algorithm to show specifically the boiler plate involved in solving in an OO style.
Is a good software, I'm sure, but 500 points? Is this some sort of communal self-assurance humble-brag about being accepting of "religious software"? Or does everyone just really love ruby CMSs?
Presumably, a sufficiently evil entity could Reed-Solomon or otherwise erasure-code a message that could survive a long time.

But yeah, the analyses listed in the article are laughably naive.
After a while they just get too big to do it. But that's ok. As long as someone is willing to buy the bonds, there's nothing wrong with shuffling the capital structure.

In theory, some people need fixed income instruments (say insurance companies) so there is a market for it.

If the people with risk capital want to place it on smaller more innovative companies, why not?
I'm so glad to see this post! You hit the nail on the head.

> Black men are being left out of another generation of wealth creation and we need to stem (excuse the pun) the tide of that now.

What's your suggestion, other than the normal stuff (engaging with students in HS etc)?
"His response: He was legally entitled to stay in the condo, and the loss of electricity would threaten his at-home work, which pays up to $7,000 a day." He's obviously delusional and is just repeating the comment spam he posts all day.

It's to bad this woman doesn't know someone say like me... One five minute conversation with him and he would be packed up and gone in 24 hours.
Who is a founder?
Makes perfect sense. Thanks for making it not too intrusive; not stealing key focus is a huge "nice guy" move.

License purchased.
Something borrowed: Bose sues Beats/Apple for patent infringement
Monaca Updates its Mobile App HTML5 UI Framework Now with jQuery Support
The thing I keep wondering about with this project is to what extent you can't already do this all with AppleScript, and to the extent you can't, why you wouldn't just add events/routines for AppleScript to get the same effect.

Isn't this mostly just a Lua scripting bridge?
It's 1100 words which seems about typical for HN submissions (based on a quick sampling of the current front page) and tech-related is not a requirement per the HN guidelines.
We have some community contributed docs here: http://coreos.com/docs/running-coreos/cloud-providers/vultr
> Sexism in tech is real.

Honest question: Is there any unambiguous evidence of this?
We can thank Bill Bridge for killing the punched card.
George Snively
This is such a good point. Sometimes I have to explain to people that coincidences aren't weird. It would be weird if there no coincidences.

But that usually detracts from some of their spiritual/political beliefs and its quickly dismissed.
If prices were taxed progressively (which AIUI they are in some cases, e.g. expensive imported cars), you might see large items split into many small parts sold separately, with an on-site assembly service that costs less than the saved taxes.
That's actually an excellent reply. It's sort of what I thought, but I wanted some insight from the trenches.

My company is: https://www.zerotier.com/

I offered Dropbox as an example case because what I'm trying to do in the virtual networking space is incredibly similar to what Dropbox did in the file sharing and collaboration space. I'm trying to attack an old market with a new approach, a completely new piece of technology, and a superior user experience, hoping to unlock a "sleeper" market very much like what Dropbox accomplished.

(I look up to Dropbox, at least from a business example case point of view.)

My client and server software (actually the same thing) are open source, but my pretty web UI (https://www.zerotier.com/admin.html) has a closed-source backend component that runs its API.

The network is peer to peer with managed supernodes, which are just peers that are designated as permanent trusted anchor-points to permit rapid zero-configuration provisioning. I run those and offer that service for free.

I charge for the convenience of the web UI, which allows people to set up virtual networks with a few clicks. Techno-geeks can dig into my open source and run their own "netconf master" if they want, but so far I've had precisely zero people (that I know of) do this. There's no real value in it to anyone. My business model is freemium and I'm starting to get a couple of paid users out of hundreds of unpaid. (My bandwidth costs are tiny since it's p2p, so I can be profitable even with really awful conversion rates. I have lots of ideas to optimize by offering more pro features.)

So yeah... much like Dropbox. I'm working on putting together a seed round for this to take it from side business to Real Company. :) Just wanted to ask to see if being OSS is going to repel potential angel/seed VC investors.
What do you mean?

I am 20 years old and I can't have XP with 20 stacks/languages, although I am quite open to learning new stuff. Sadly, there are only so much technologies in demand where I am located.
I think he is incorrect in his assertion that companies should choose to pay more taxes than legally required, but I think he is right to say it, because it'll build political support for changes to laws which (in my opinion) need to be made.
The Term Web Developer Means Nothing
Never saw that, thx. His leap of faith worked out well for them.
Another good bird IQ documentary, Nova's Inside Animal Mind: Birds...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-spBaywak7M

An even better read, IMO, but I am partial to the Corvus corax...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/254704.Mind_of_the_Raven
I find the rounded r's and n's a little bit difficult to negotiate, especially at smaller point sizes - while aesthetically pleasing, it makes the font harder to read. When I program, I want all my neurons available to coding. Also, the horizontal bar in f is on a different height than the one on the t. This makes it noisy.

Having said that, I applaud a developer committed enough to make "the perfect editor font" just as much as I applaud those who, via their config scripts and plugins, shape vim or emacs into their own perfect text editors.

Also, he managed to make his font work on WIndows. I never did it with mine (https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font)
> true # everyone can read bible verses!

must be my favourite code comment ever. :)

https://github.com/churchio/onebody/blob/3cac22587627b7846ea...
A space drone!!!
When you state HIPPA compliance, are you saying that you've addressed NIST 800-66 with a 3rd party certification? As I'm sure you know, the word "compliance" is sort of funny and subject to interpretation.

Disclaimer: I work in a similar space.
Wow. Are you really claiming Apple gets moral high ground for its salaries even after criminal collusion to keep them low?

As Apple's aptly demonstrated, it doesn't pay those salaries for any other reason than that it must, and even then it will break the law to pay less.

Finally, most US Apple employees are located in California, where cost of living is substantially higher than most of the country. There's far less disparity in your figure when taking cost of living & the common academic pedigree of Apple's employees into account.
Just hi-hacking this comment to talk about the same line.

Everybody needs to stop with this "white-male" nonsense, which is inherently racist. There is much cultural diversity among what is considered "white" and that is painfully obvious. The "black" American guy and "white" American gal might have more in common with each other than the "white" Italian working in the cubicle next door. This also applies to the vast spectrum of "Asians" whose cultures differ significantly.

And just a personal opinion on something else Sam said

"Realizing that it’s hard to speak with much authority here as a white guy"

Completely unnecessary and I think it would be healthier if people stop this self persecution. (Using the same logic, maybe I can say this with authority because I am an indigenous Australian =D)
Not having to, and choosing to wear a polo to work are different things.

Even if it's just on those all-day-meetings days where you interface with your PM and other biz types...

"Don't dress for the job you have, but rather the job you want".
Writers unite in campaign against 'thuggish' Amazon
This is what I'm most curious about. The technical/security side is only 1/3 of HIPAA, how do you turnkey the remainder? How do you scale/automate preforming repeat RAs, etc, across different clients?
- work on that computer game I've always wanted to build.

- learn the Postgres codebase and add my pet features:

o bitmap indexes (for data warehouses)

o ORDER BY clauses for UPDATEs (to avoid deadlocks)
The solid parts are actually the JRE / JVM...
Thank you, hannahurr! What a very worthwhile interview; the tech world greatly lacks such things.
At least it's a "home-row pinky" with Emacs' Ctrl, too. :)

Personally, though, I don't find the worst strain comes from the placement of Ctrl. The worst comes from the awful staggered layout of keyboards that serves no purpose save for a long chain of HCI backwards compatibility with the typewriter. I hope someday keyboards like the TEK (which, incidentally, gives a perfect spot for Alt or Ctrl under the left thumb) become more commonplace, or eye movement-based systems supplant the use of one's hands for focus control.
Reread parent. The person is spun around so they can't know absolute directions.
Taxes are a great argument against corporate personhood. People pay taxes on income, corporations pay taxes on profit. This is why so many corporations pay no taxes at all. If they want to be people they should pay income tax like the rest of us.
Someone posted it on Twitter and I submitted it here before looking at the rest of the site. I feel a little bad now at sending so much traffic his way. Poor guy.
Beautiful work! Thanks Tim. That's quite a gift to release something like this.
It looks like the bounty board is down:
https://bugcrowd.com/aptible