skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I find in my day to day interactions that these days Blacks are less discriminated against than many others, but it seems it is now less about color and more about accent.

I totally agree with you. I have experienced lot of stuff by myself that you mentioned.

I am living here in US from last 7.5 yrs. I still have very thick accent. I tried a lot to get rid of it. Even hired an accent trainer but due to lack of time could not practice. At the end, my trainer gave up. I have lost lot of opportunities due to my accent. It is not just my accent, my tone is also so rough that when I speak my voice becomes so rough and it sounds so unpleasant. I think I need throat surgery to speak properly.

I don't blame them who show me off faces. My only complain is they don't even try talking with me. I can see the change in their body language when they see me coming.

Not all are bad. Some people are still very welcoming. I wish there were more of them.

I have seen my European friends getting so warm welcome even though they speak more worst than me. I am not jealous about this. Just sharing how people treat others differently who are from different origins
Which was where Twitter had to go in their first major refactor, as well. Originally timeline views would be built on-demand, but that approach proved unscalable very quickly, so they moved to preemptively building timelines by copying tweets everywhere they needed to go at publish-time rather than request-time.

It's basically just an inversion; instead of the cache being a read-through layer over the database, the database becomes a write-through layer over the cache.
That's google consumer surveys, and they're using it exactly how Google designed it to be used..
http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/home

EDIT: article is dead.. so can't reply to your question.. but go to:
http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/how

and scroll down to "Watch the web answer it":

"On the web, people answer questions in exchange for access to that content, an alternative to subscribing or upgrading."

Also, if you go to:
http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/static/consum...

and go to page 4.. you'll see exactly the same screen as your FT image.
Be Remarkable
repository here: http://ucb-sts.github.io/sts/
Author seems unaware that ..- might be parsed as a single operator, seems "not mathematical" to her. A good illustration how beginners in any language get hung up on small things that are different than other languages they know.
I meant the fate of the person who posted his private key trying to work around that more-than-issue. (as, IIRC, under the terms of being in the Mozilla repository StartSSL was obligated to revoke certificates that were known to be compromised)
Let's be honest. The rat is not "enjoying" it.

Also I'm in the camp that trying to reverse engineer the brain by studying neural activity is like trying to reverse engineer Angry Birds by studying register activity on an iphone.

Nevertheless, very cool visualizations.
Could you comment about how the item was buried shortly after the changes?

If it wasn't buried by a mod, then either the penalty that's applied to surveillance stories is incredibly enormous, or the story was flagged into oblivion by users. Did flagging only start after the title and link were changed? Isn't that quite suspicious? It really looks like someone's doing title/domain/url monitoring for stories to flag, and this story is a good candidate for examination.

I guess I'd just like confirmation that 1) mods didn't bury the story, and 2) it doesn't look like flagging suddenly increased after the change. If flagging did suddenly increase, it would be strong evidence of flagging abuse. There's no explanation for flagging the second story and not the first, other than failure to detect it automatically. In fact, you would expect the exact opposite pattern if the story were being flagged legitimately.

Thanks.
If the video of "oh shit we accidentally shot down a malaysian passenger jet" was verifiably recorded before the plane crash, it would be de-facto proof of an action by some party to crash the plane and blame it on Russian separatists.
PCI isn't a law.
Would you have been less offended if he had just said "friends named Guido"?
Intrusive ads & indiscriminate tracking are more offensive.
I love his writing too. My all-time favorite is one of his best known writings, "Argentina On Two Steaks A Day,"[1] which I first read in a print best essays anthology and didn't realize had begun as a blog post until years later.

[1] http://idlewords.com/2006/04/argentina_on_two_steaks_a_day.h...
Because reading about his awesome life makes me want to develop a SaaS product and charge for it from Day 1.
I've been curious about the politics/ specific policies regarding this.

It would be cool if rap genius did an analysis of the legal bottlenecks that prevent free market housing.
I realize they are also using Google's survey product. I don't see anything on that site that indicates cloaking like this is acceptable. What makes you think that?

Edit: Thanks for the reply. I agree they're saying that the survey product can be used in place of a paywall. But popping up a paywall is still cloaking. There's no indication that this grants you an exception.
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A number of those laws already exist, but are ignored or have exploitable loopholes. How do you know define reasonable assumption for getting a warrant to search someones home? If you need tangible evidence for that, then the warrant is basically pointless because you ahve what you need already.

PCI compliance for instace is clearly being violated here, as are numerous data protection acts; the issue is that nobody is accountable for it
Keyboardless keyboard by AirType
I put the following in google "site:news.ycombinator.com KEYWORD"

try this >>>> site:news.ycombinator.com "Ask HN"
I'd love to know what license this will be released under.
PCI might not be a law, but you will get large fines from who you process with, sometimes monthly!

http://www.pcistandard.com/pci-standard/card-association-fin...
8 Things I wish I knew about AngularJs
Elko – A server framework for stateful, sessionful applications in the web
Are you being sarcastic or do you really think they are nothing to worry about?

If people just accept any cert they see anyone could just mitm them with a self signed cert.
It seems like a flaw in Haskell's parser to me.

It looks like it is doing basic greedy tokenizing before passing it on to the parser, and, as this shows, that is not the best fit in this case.

Syntactically significant whitespace is seldom a good thing. (With the potential exception of indentation.)
Indeed, Base58 encoding would be preferable. I filed an issue https://github.com/kaepora/miniLock/issues/3
This is a bad cryptosystem which will result in people being fucked. Take it offline. A serious known weakness of zxcvbn is that it will grossly overestimate the entropy of things like quotes, lines from songs, lines from movies, etc.

"the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" has 111 bits of entropy according to zxcvbn.
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The submitter here is Matt Might, whose family was the subject of the article. His first comment in the thread makes it obvious why this is an exceptional case.
Agreed. This makes it easier for programmers who write bad commit messages to hide in plain sight with messages that might look (at a very cursory glance) like they're substantive.

I'd rather have a tool that automatically caught every commit with an unsubstantial message and notified me that I might need to remind that programmer to be more descriptive with their commit messages. Even better if it provided a "wall of shame" of programmers in a repo to make them feel bad about writing unhelpful messages. That might get too simplistic (commit message quality doesn't correlate perfectly with length), but the point remains that I don't want to make it easier for them to replace trash with less obvious trash.
Interactive real-time raytracing in WebGL
Switzerland, and no, I've read that a supermarket cashier or a secretary makes about the same as I do, without the long hours, but I am very frugal so I most likely save a lot more than they would (one month of salary buys me several months of runway for when I'll get serious and drop everything else) and I like what I do of course.

EDIT: I just typed 'median income switzerland' in google and damn, I am even worse off than I thought...
As I understand it, you will only be fined contractually as part of a card acceptance agreement, so the government can't be charged.
If the tenant is supposedly blasting the aircon, with the windows open in 114 degree heat ... I'm not sure an alternate explanation is needed. (Not to mention, bitcoin mining requires a lot more than cheap-to-free electricity)
There are plenty bacteria [0] that perform photosynthesis too

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanobacteria
There seems to be two ways to apply Occam's Razor. The first, used by people actually tasked with investigating something, is to prioritize exploration of simpler explanations before more complex ones. The second, more commonly used by Internet bystanders, is to treat it like an iron law, immediately cut off all alternate avenues of inquiry and give people degrading labels. Occam's Razor is best as an investigatory rule of thumb and not a thought-terminating cliche.
A preload does not require the header to be set. It would obviously be the smart thing to do, but it's not required.

HSTS is only a header.
People of Color in European Art History
Whichever responses you get, they are unlikely to be terribly informative due to heavy response bias.

Besides, even if you arrived at some reasonable aggregate, you would then have to surmount the pitfalls of ecological inference to be able to draw any meaningful conclusions: it could very well be that users whose preferences influence the most the content of top-voted submissions are far from representative.

That is not to say though your guess is ex ante incorrect: programmers almost invariably earn above the median income in every country, especially in the US (and especially in the startup scene); and this is an English-based US site that distinctly up-votes programming and startup content --"niche" topics of very narrow interest to all but a particular sliver of population, and so highly informative in the "Bayesian surprise" sense.
readme, Thanks for the extensive feedback. On the content, I now have indeed publisher account to get the data legally and even earn commission. CL doesn't expose any public API and their TOS explicitly bans screen scraping.

Some of the issues on the UI is because I am using app framework which promises it working on most mobile devices.

If it were just web, I would go with bootstrap.
Thanks to all of you for your thoughtful comments. Several of you drew the important distinction between individual income and household income, which often pools the incomes of more than one income-earner. As is surely apparent from my submission and comment history on HN, I am not a person with a technical education or technical occupation. My person income since I had children (when I reduced labor force participation in the interest of homeschooling the kids) has been below the United States median personal income. My wife likes her work and does it well, and much of the time we have had children we have been near the United States median household income, and recently above it, in nontechnical occupations. I like HN because it includes a lot of discussion about lifestyle and education tradeoffs that I wish I would have engaged in when I was the age of most participants here. I'm happy with my life, and think I am staggeringly wealthy--not least because I have this Internet technology that lets us communicate with one another all over the world. My oldest son is launched into adulthood as a hacker and has an income sufficiently high to save money in his high-expense city, and my other children look set also to have more expedient career choices than I made.
not to mention Firefox pretty much uses the HSTS preload list that Chrome does.
NumPyPy Status: how much of numpy can you use in pypy?
Thanks for the link. He presents solid evidence. The inspection notes from his border crossings on the final pages are particularly chilling.
I wish I knew more about .phar security in general...
Trnio – Turn your iPhone into a 3D scanner
If they had an MX record, this would be really interesting to see. I'm sure I've seen plenty of signup forms with placeholder text such as: user@example.com
In "small business" you sometimes end up having to cut corners. The reason is there simply isn't enough profit unless you wing it yourself and learn as you go along. Taking chances.

The owner says she bought a property in Palm Springs because she couldn't afford one in the bay area. Her biggerpockets profile says "Newbie investor, current focus on vacation rental condo in Palm Springs."

Some of her leasing activity probably violated her HOA's CCRs and she didn't research the laws. This isn't cutting a few corners to maximize profit. This is choosing to be 100% ignorant.

The owner is an entirely unsympathetic character. I've been in real estate 20 years. People like this who think they can make money as absentee landlords and are too lazy to understand the business and laws lose their shirts 99.9999% of the time.
The smell of an old book that hasn't been opened in decades is distinctive and pleasant, filled with happy memories. So at the risk of sounding creepy, and as a fan of second hand book stores and old books - I wonder how this book smells?

I have only looked at really old books through glass, I've never held one.
My vacation isn't far off at all now! First in a good few years, and my first time abroad - certainly looking forward to living without stress for a short while!
Nice! Hope that milk didn't end up on your cereal afterwards!
This is... spam? What is this.
I'm being sarcastic. Also some departments use different self-signed certs than the university at large. Not a great situation.
I can't claim your experience since I've never been on your side of the H1B process. I've also been out of people-management for a few years. I can say that when I was in that position it was drilled into me that you need to make sure H1's get equal pay.

Just googling a bit now about H1B audits I found this: http://www.raminenilaw.com/h-1b-wage-and-hour-audits-dol-aud... They mention that the auditors can demand 3 years of wage data for both H1B and non-H1B's in the same employment classification.

Further, see http://www.greencardapply.com/h1b/h1b_pwages.htm#sthash.DNRi...

"in certain programs, such as H-1B (temporary
specialty occupations), the employer is required to pay the prevailing wage or
the actual wage paid by the employer to workers with similar skills and
qualifications, whichever is higher"

I'm sure there are places that skate as close to the line as they can and do try to save money on H1Bs. However, the law is set up to avoid this and audits are much more frequent than a decade ago.

> Another issue is that H1B has maximum term of 6 years

My understanding -- and correct me if I'm wrong about this -- is that transferring early on isn't a big problem. If your GC isn't far along anyway then a job switch can't cause much of a delay. However, if your GC seems just around the corner (a limbo that can take years to get through) you're unlikely to risk moving jobs and throwing a wrench into the works.

I can understand that the H1B process would want an employer to demonstrate that they're not bringing someone over to flood an already over-supplied local labor market. However, once an immigrant's first employer does that I don't see any reason to restrict them further. As far as I'm concerned, they've earned their visa and they should feel free to work anywhere they like. The entire concept of a human being having to be "sponsored" by a company is distasteful.

Further, what possible reason could there be for a 6 year limit? If they were suitable for employment in 2008, they should still be in 2014 given that they have more experience. It's insane that we'd even threaten sending them away. It would be simpler to just start the GC process automatically with their H1B.
I made it this far:

"It's the only place in the world where visionaries and extremely talented people live within an hour drive from one another."

and had to stop to laugh at the sheer arrogance of that statement.
You've been here for nearly three years. The surprising thing is that you don't know Hacker News is not just about hacking. That fact has been repeated almost daily since the origins of this site.
IANAL, but I would imagine that in such a situation you may be able to get the case thrown own because you could demonstrate that the licensing organization and the patent-holding organization are related and that the license was not offered in good faith.
Well, TrueCrypt (controversially) recommended BitLocker... that seems to be one of the few options left. Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft in a non-related division but I feel like if it's good enough to protect enterprise customers' secrets it's good enough for my personal use outside of work. You are free to use whatever you like, of course. The HN neckbeard illuminati will likely disagree with me, already aware of this. To each his/her own.
>>There is no motivation for a connection between artificial and biological computational networks.

I would disagree, and say that future ANN research has high motivation to become as powerful and complex as BNNs. And I think maybe you get ahead of yourself by saying that our brains are not very efficient when the fastest supercomputer we currently have built is still 100,000x less computationally powerful than a human brain.

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2013/05/neuro...

"Neural Networks attempt to bring computers a little closer to the brain’s capabilities by imitating aspects of
information in the brain in a highly simplified way. Although neural networks as they are implemented on computers were inspired by the function of biological neurons, many of the designs have become far removed from biological reality."

http://scholarsresearchlibrary.com/EJAESR-vol2-iss1/EJAESR-2...
It is called "rent seeking:" the use of politics to increase wealth. In this case, it is using politics in various forms to limit the supply of housing stock. "rent seeking" harms the economy. Perhaps passing "affordable housing" legislation at the state level would help. State law would override city law.
Slightly off topic, but if you were relocating to the area with 3 kids (ages 7,5,2) in tow, any recommendations on where to live? Office will be somewhere in SF, but exact location still unknown. Would appreciate any suggestions..
This seems really promising, can't say I would miss all of the ^ (hat) usage for Modern Windows APIs.

I wonder how he intends to wrap/change the DirectX APIs. AFAIK Direct2D, WIC, DirectComposition are already native COM-based APIs, much like Direct3D.
On Net Neutrality, Verizon Leads Push for 'Fast Lanes'
Show HN: LeakyTruffle – Get extra job info from White Truffle
It is in a "a feedback period", exactly so they can get the feedback like you just gave. So get off your high horse about taking things down.
peter - there is a language called Escher already - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escher_(programming_language)
Mongodb has one good thing, excellent geospatial queries. I am taking advantage of that. Its the only reason that I picked mongodb.
Article writers typically don't pick these inane titles. I think you're being a little unfair to the piece and the work described in it, which deserve better than a dismissive one-liner.

If anyone can suggest a better title, we'll change it and turn the user flags off this post.
Show HN: RainBar – Background rain for the desktop
How Tests Make Us Smarter
I stopped at:

I suppose it's not uncommon for a housing situation like this to exists anywhere in the world, but somehow US and hostel-living for smart and talented people, that just doesn't seem right.

Hostel-living for smart and talented people (= white males) doesn't seem right. If you're poor and therefore uneducated, it's perfectly OK, I assume.
If some of society has benefitted and the organization has not made a profit from those benefits, then I'd say that the non-profit claim is valid and we are all better off for it.

There are tons of people who use MongoDB without paying MongoDB(Tengen) a penny.

Even though I totally understand the IRS concerns, eliminating this benefit creates a disincentive for the commons, and we are all poorer because of it.

I think one of the metrics that could be used here to determine full or partial non-profit status is the community around a piece of software. The active community is a representative, albeit biased/skewed, sample of the entire community using the open source software in question. Polling these unrelated parties (i.e. there is no contractual obligation between them and the software producing entity beyond a commonly accepted open source license) should be sufficient to figure out if an organization should qualify for non-profit status.
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Vested interests like tax preparers always lobby against the notion and talk about how it's a bad idea because they might overcharge you or whatever.
There is a language called Escher already - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escher_(programming_language)

(Someone else just posted this information, but that comment was auto-killed.)
In SF, yes.
Go Zoli.
I don't think that we can really consider Perl 6 and Parrot to be anything but abysmal failures at this point. The people developing and advocating for them have had many years now to product something that's even minimally usable, and we just haven't seen that happen.

Writing traditional compilers and interpreters, or emitting C, or targeting LLVM have all proven to be good ways of getting production-grade programming language implementations created and usable quickly. Messing around with Parrot has never resulted in anything useful.
How, who, what?! You earn under 21K and own your own house and still save 10k pa?

I find myself guilty at my profligate unbudgeted ways but even so, I can't see how that's doable!

Tell me more
If you want to read something interesting involving religious groups and avoiding taxes and taking advantage of welfare programs, read up on the Kiryas Joel community.
You know what would be interesting? A cheat sheet that says "this matrix operation helps you solve this problem". Linear algebra (the immediately encompassing field here) is a goldmine of practical solutions to problems people actually pay others to solve, so a few pointers could be immensely useful.
Got it. But if you say "don't allow pairing" they're SOL from a software perspective? I find that hard to believe... but either way, who knows really.
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I think Coreboot is useful for some things, but I did not like it when Chromebooks used it because using different firmware for different OSes defeats the purpose of firmware standards. I think it is possible to run UEFI as a payload in coreboot.
There's nothing inherently right-wing about being pro-immigration or against State ownership of enterprise (or against the State in general, in fact).
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At the other end of the spectrum, there's Subliminal[1], which relies on Apple's UIAutomation underneath, which in turn relies on the application's accessibility information as-is, rather than hijacking it. Building up tests using either UIAutomation or something that sits on top of it like Subliminal will actually help you improve your app's accessibility at the same time.

[1] https://github.com/inkling/subliminal