skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say that its quite likely that both are a result of higher ability at the time that they are hired, and that, in both cases, those ability differences are also a result of economic injustice that disfavors blacks in society, as discussed in my other post in this subthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8100861
Market Leader - a company that was acquired by Trulia - provides tools to real estate professionals for obtaining leads. They have local MLS data integrated into their system for easy access to listing data. Not sure if this is entirely true you'd have to be a brokerage to access MLS data.
> two of them were WoC

How do you know? Is it your decision or theirs? If it's yours, would you consider (without looking) people from Kyrgyzstan, Okinawa, or Catalonia to count? Thailand?

Regardless of those answers, what do you think it "means"?

I'm just so curious!
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The economics are a bit different for indie developers rather than billion-dollar corporations. Much of the revenue on app stores and mobile advertising is associated with F2P games. Many big companies have free apps on iOS to avoid sharing 30% with Apple.

It may seem that indie devs don't matter, but they create new features that are later copied by the ecosystem, e.g. Reading Lists on iOS.

If the economics of iOS apps are closer to that of "content" like music, what does this mean for the users who invest time in learning app workflows and encoding new data? Should users prioritize data export and open-standard formats?

Hopefully iOS8 will make it feasible for apps to reuse existing data formats, instead of reinventing the wheel. This could improve the economics for some productivity categories.
I'm not a huge supporter of Rev. Jackson, but the lack of Hispanic and African-American groups in tech reflects a paucity of opportunity for historically poverty-stricken communities in America. And race is self-evidently a factor.

A large number of employees from the Indian subcontinent adds to a company's diversity, but doesn't make tech more welcoming to those Americans whose parents were treated as second-class citizens for much of their lives.
The National Bureau of Economic Research did an experiment where they sent in the same résumé for the same job under "white-sounding" and "black-sounding names": the "white" names got about 50% more call-backs than the "black" names. [1]

Granted, this wasn't aimed at tech companies.

[1] http://www.nber.org/digest/sep03/w9873.html
Thanks. Changed to that from http://earthweareone.com/bill-gates-foundation-announces-imp....
This looks pretty awesome.

I know it's a bit offtopic but on this page

http://trackingjs.com/examples/face_hello_world.html

where can you find such a nice 'chrome browser' graphic? it looks really solid. I want to use it on my website.
While getting deep into the TTY system might be hard in most cases the defaults of programs nowadays work quite well. And there is nothing easier and simper than opening a Minicom or Screen to interact with your embedded device. Besides being a much more low level interface it also shows you the shutdown and boot process where your ssh connection is not available. It's a really handy tool, although it might be annoying from time to time.
You'd think there are network effects at play. Case in point: the makeup of your favourite state school's CS department. The student body is 70 % South Asian, 20 % East Asian, 10 % white, with at least 30 % women. The support staff (that's computer support, not secretarial or facilities) is 100 % white, and 0 % women. Make of that what you think.
With all the app charts bashing going on, one might think that it's regarded as a developer's right to have their famous 15 days with every product. Did anyone expect or aspire anything else than a development towards a Billboard Top 100 or NYT Best Sellers mentality in a matured market that's a 24/7 popularity contest? The app phenomenon has probably created more one-man army millionaires in a very short time than any other industry, so stop complaining and get creative.

Bonus:

https://medium.com/message/you-are-not-late-b3d76f963142
There is not a single good argument to not tell them.

Altering someone's hormones so severely without their knowledge and consent is abuse plain and simple.
We have a millenia of past attempts to draw from to help you decide whether that would be good or bad.

What problems would this solve?
That's what got me too. No matter what kind of encryption used, if someone records a person turning it off once, it can use that signal to turn off anytime he wants possibly sabotaging the whole thing. But it's not a problem with this product, it's just a general cryptography problem. Even military drones have it.
So what you are suggesting is that this economic injustice causes downstream divergence in ability. Then the solution certainly cannot be affirmative action in hiring, since by that point the ratio of unskilled minority workers is not inherently discriminatory, it's a reality created by discrimination that led to a lack of skill development. I would tend to agree and would argue that the way to address this problem is to increase access to skill development, not hire un or under qualified people.
You're going to have trouble getting someone to perform voluntary surgery on someone 13+ without their informed consent.

It's possibly criminal for a doctor to fail to mention a relevant previous surgery in their chart when discussing health issues with a patient, so they're going to find out through a healthcare provider anyway.

I'm mildly disturbed you think there are reasons to implant things in your kids and not tell them about it.
Sure, then conduct interviews entirely blindly without mentioning any biographical information that betrays one's gender, race or social background, and that might subconsciously sway an interviewer one way or the other.

Also, be sure to conduct the interviews in a society where the interviewee has been brought up on an entirely level playing field, so they have had exactly the same opportunity to formulate and achieve their goals as others with their same aptitude.

Edit: see this Princeton study: http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/01/0212/7b.shtml showing a correlation between blind auditions and a dramatic shift in the gender composition of orchestras in the 70s and 80s.
Amazon does print-on-demand for books? Eg printing copies in Germany rather than shipping from the US?
But in that case why maintain two separate repositories? One for "our code" and one for external. I'm assuming the code in these repositories is open source... right? Why not simply check in the version to be used right in your local SCM?
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How would the loss of one specie of fish affect the "lives of millions or billions of people"? I know the thing with the top predators, but I think nature has many other ways to regulate population of animals, and if some ecosystem relies on one single weak link for its survival, it means this ecosystem is weak and will be replaced anyway. It doesn't mean we should destroy things without consideration of the consequences, but I think that if we always consider the worst case as the most likely we will never do anything interesting anymore.

Do you know that in France many industrial projects are stopped because of such reasoning? For instance, a guy has a factory there, and it's working well, and he wants to expand to the neibouring wasteland, which is conveniently placed. Then some guys come and say that some specie of triton is living there and might be disturbed, and the project is cancelled, and the factory guy must build another factory far away, and it's an headache, and he gets some "compensation" from the local administration, which is just people's tax money. All of this because maybe, just maybe, a triton will be disturbed, which will break the natural cycle, which will create an invasion of cricket, which will kill us all, but just maybe... (All of this come from a stupid misunderstanding of the butterfly effect)

Also, can't we think a bit out of the party line there? I am a nature lover as much as anyone, but I think we currently do not trust its resilience enough, and it is dangerous. Am I allowed to share these thoughts? Am I rude or something? Could there still be some topics that we cannot question? Then why? Maybe these topics are weak too, and will break if we question them. Which means they will break anyway, and will break much harder if we protect them from criticism. That's dangerous.
I can see potential of this in the military. Soldiers could be trained Pavlov dog style to do anything with a push of a button. Also could make them feel calmer during operations. There would be real benefits I think. Wonder if DARPA is secretly funding this, because open funding would rise ethical people concern.
The print-on-demand is only available if the author enrolls in the program, I assume for legal reasons.

https://www.createspace.com/
And depending on the context makes them wrong. \d is not equivalent to [0-9].
the expected opportunity cost of a focussing efforts on chasing a professional sports career from a young age is a lot lower, on average, for blacks than white

From a slightly different angle: playing basketball at a very high level is like playing a musical instrument at a very high level - you need to start when you are very little, and you need to play with great devotion. In your average suburban paradise you can't even hope to play sufficient b-ball even to untie Lebron's shoes.
So, I've been thinking about this, and the reality is that I'm not as familiar with C# and Rx as I should be to pass judgment.

How common is it to use "await" in conjunction with Rx? Your answer will provide needed insight.

I've mainly wrestled with the FRP paradigm in the context of JavaScript, both server-side and in browsers. So I should have qualified my previous observation accordingly.
You know what else -- if you find that certain frequencies in the music you're listening to are over-represented, they make these earplugs which can dampen only those frequencies. The song isn't anymore equalized coming out of the speaker, but as long as you've got your earplugs in you won't know the difference.

I can very honestly and sincerely say that I find this more insidious form of racism, which is so widely accepted, to be much more disturbing and frightening.

I can see why you would say that, because nobody reasonable accepts the open racism you grew up with, whereas -- if you think diversity efforts are racism and sexism -- then it seems to you that there is unspoken acceptance of race/gender-based discrimination.

Consider that,

a) your solution would require everyone to be ignorant of race, not just you,

b) not all racism is overt and visible, or even intentional, and therefore well-meaning people can still end up perpetuating racial biases because they can't correct for what they don't see

c) supposing that you, on the basis of your race, were a member of a historically empowered group -- any efforts to reverse that advantage would feel to your group like a loss of power, which is naturally against your near-term interests

d) supposing again that racial biases exist and have disempowered certain groups, over time, and empowered others -- the advantages would have had a cumulative effect over generations, as this is how advantage (in terms of wealth, connections, access, transmitted/received knowledge) is often-observed to accrue. In that case simply putting on the blinders would be like dragging one runner down with a 100 lb weight for half the race, then removing the weight and simply expecting the rest of the race to be fair.
Isn't the entire point of Markdown that you don't need a special editor for it?
I'm honestly struggling to understand this line of reasoning. What you seem to be describing amounts to maintaining two different code repositories. Both of them have to be versioned and coordinated with each other. Why not just check in all the code you're using in your real SCM?
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As far as multiple apps per VM, have you taken a look at OpsWorks? It seems to be aiming to be as automatic as Elastic Beanstalk, but significantly more flexible (at the expense of up-front configuration effort).

It certainly is unfortunate that CloudSearch doesn't scale down smaller, I had to skip it for the same reason.
> If you're editing the authentication system, which I imagine can introduce some heavy dependencies...

Not really true. Sandstorm acts as a proxy in front of the apps and adds headers which identify the user. It takes very little code on the app side to read these headers and use them rather than use the app's own authentication.

That said, we do have some changes which we'll have to rebase from time to time. Eventually we hope that app developers will be interested in maintaining these changes themselves and explicitly targeting Sandstorm, but that is probably a ways away still. In the meantime, maintaining the edits doesn't seem to painful.
It's funny, regarding the "indies can't be profitable anymore aspect of the article" I read a very similar article 10 years ago entitled, custom web development is dead... then five years ago entitled 3rd part web design is dead, now it's app development. My guess in a couple years we will be reading iOS extension development is dead...

That's just the world we live in. Init? There is no standing still in the IT industry.
I've been consulting for a few years now. In my experience it takes an average of nine months to go from stranger to the point where I get a green light on a significant project. Many times the client falls off the map. Just ignore it and follow up.
You get a $150 monthly credit for microsoft azure a month. While that is not anything to scoff at - a VM with 1 vCPU core & 1.75 GB ram is $45 / month.

Growing beyond $150 a month would be quite easy, even with a small user base, and at that point you are paying _a lot_ for what you are getting.

My point is just make you fully evaluate long term consequences of locking yourself into a closed source ecosystem with very expensive servers (Azure and AWS are both guilty here.)
Ask HN: Which are the best services for dev chat room with mobile alerts?
Do you have a dev chat room for your business & what is the setup?

What are the best services that allows you to setup a dev chat room with alert services like Stripe say they do - to alert on mobile, if there is no response for 30 seconds.
Oh please, NPR, take the money you spend on developing fancy misguided apps that supposedly serve up "curated content" and spend it on more reporters' salaries.

Lots more reporters. Lots and LOTS more reporters. The world is a big place, and the list of crucial, complex, reportable issues is growing by the day.

Then we can enjoy the "curation" work of the producers of the fine programs you put on the air and online—have you heard them? They're really a pretty good example of curated content. (Of course, those programs used to simply be called good broadcast journalism.)
Is that any different than grep --perl (should be available most places GNU grep is)? I use that for complex regexes.

For even longer ones I just started using perl with /x, so you can uses insignificant whitespace and comments.
Minor point, and I'm sure you didn't mean to imply otherwise, but many Asian-American (broadly defined) communities are historically poverty-stricken, and its members have been treated as second-class citizens for much of their lives. Just wanted to add that in case anyone inferred otherwise from your comment!
Its interesting that it seems Apple has really shied away from doing the bare minimum to improve things on the app store (until recently with videos and bundles). Not having the store be significant revenue is a double edged sword. I think there are some really interesting hacks that would have been better for consumers AND developers. In another comment (years ago I think...) I mentioned how I wish the top charts wouldn't show me apps I already own. There were years where Angry Birds, for me someone who already owned it, represented the top 10 being an effective top 9. It knows I've already bought it, there's nothing I can do with that being there - even Rovio is only indirectly helped by this since I can't go and buy it again, it just serves as some weird hypothetical billboard on my phone for "other people". If instead I got a custom top 10 that was the top 10 apps I don't own I would be very much incentivized to buy more apps. This is of course not even entering into the actually interesting domain of suggesting better purchases for me.

App Store revenue not being Apple's bread and butter is a double edged sword. My point here is not that the above idea would "save" the app business, but to notice that the app store today is effectively the same as it was 6 years ago. Experimentation in that space doesn't seem to be in their DNA.
Well, there are other good websites from which to learn about modern NFP. For example:

http://www.thebillingsovulationmethod.org/

Just skip the USCCB's writeup if it's not your cup of tea.
That statement is wiggly and doesn't actually tell me anything about your labor policy. Does your organization fall under the requirements of the City of Portland Sweatshop Free Procurement Policy [1]? It's one of the best ways to tell if an apparel company uses unexploited labor. If you do not fit all the criteria, where do you come short and why?

[1]: A direct link to the relevant document for apparel companies. http://www.portlandonline.com/shared/cfm/image.cfm?id=218026
As others in this thread have pointed out, $300/month is a ridiculous amount of money to pay. Get a small Linode or something for a tenth the price.
This is a year and 5 days old, per the article dated 24/07/2013. It gives it away by mentioning:

Meanwhile it is thought possible that Russia will announce whether Edward Snowden has been successful in his application for temporary asylum in the country.

He has been in limbo in a Moscow airport for weeks, but his lawyer Anatoly Kucherena says Wednesday is the deadline for the Federal Migration Service to rule on his request.
This is an old piece from from July 2013
I respect Mr. Jackson's earlier work, but he's becoming what he fought against. Nowhere in his article were educational opportunities promoted or discussed. Instead, an industry was shamed simply for the color of their skin.
With the Constitution becoming more and more of a joke recently, we should elect a constitutional scholar as the next President to fix this. /s
We store jars in git repo...
Top lists are also free marketing, every time someone makes millions on the app store, it makes headlines.

Those stories reinforce the message: develop for the app store and be a millionaire, attracting both more developers and more customers to the platform.

Apple has little incentive to change.
There is no way you can know exactly that two workers and two dynos are right. Just start off with Heroku. Maybe even pay for a worker or an extra dyno. Remember you can run multiple instances on a single dyno with eg. unicorn. Once your idea takes off you can deploy using the other posters' suggestions. By that time I thoroughly recommend Cloud 66. https://www.cloud66.com/
You need traffic in the hundreds of thousands of visitors to earn $300/month with AdSense.
Commentary from the last time it was posted to HN (504 points, 979 days ago):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3266455
Ask HN: Will YC ever fund another YC?
What if a startup with the same nature business as YC itself applies to YC?
I have extensive, direct, front-row experience with getting difficult apps into the store (though not Bitcoin-related).

The pattern you describe "shut it down, we need to figure this out first" is very accurate. The app is pulled while somebody high up figures out what the policy is going to be. Often the policy involves setting up safeguards (that you may or may not have already implemented) for abuse, user privacy, legal compliance, etc. These new guidelines are then consistently applied throughout the store (although some of them are unwritten and never make it into the official list.)

This process is slow, and not very transparent. However as a person who has been on the receiving end many times I think it is a net positive for the end customer. Sure, I would prefer a system that is both transparent and safe, but it's not so bad really.
Use <whatever> for editing and Marked for live preview:

http://marked2app.com/
The migration tool that came with Visual Studio 2002-2008 is a licensed product from a third party company (a "lite" version actually). The tool was demonstrated (and this fact mentioned) in some Channel9 videos (Microsoft website) about ten years ago.

Word and Frontpage used the same COM code based on trident (IE). Frontpage is dead, the successor Expression Web used a new HTML engine and is dead as well. The second Frontpage successor that still used the trident engine was Sharepoint Designer 2007. Version 2010+ lacks most layout features as the old Frontpage based code generated ugly HTML4. Word 2010 (and probably also 2013) still generates (ugly) HTML4 with inlined VML (graphics, WordArt) based on older trident.

And there is also InfoPath 2003-2013 (dead as of 2014) that is based on a modified Frontpage/trident code. It uses CAB based archive format to store XML and XSD files that resemble the user defined form data. The InfoPath WebForms are generated server side based on the XML stylesheet and XML data. Microsoft is working on a successor to InfoPath merged with other Office products and mobile compatible.
Cool concept but your landing page spends too much time telling me what I'll get and not why I'd want it.

I tried out the editor by pasting a random app link. It looks pretty neat but took forever to load. You could also short circuit the reloading when I cancel out of an edit panel. And fix the settings popup so that it can be dismissed when viewed in small browser windows.
I'm not sure if this is a real or example site, but if an example site it's probably worth getting retina graphics for it (it's very noticeable on an iPhone).

The image alignment also seems weird. There's a white border on the top background image, after which the images are right aligned (hard to describe; just looks like a bug to me)
You know, condoms aren't solely used as a contraceptive, there's thing called...HIV, you may have heard of it. Not to mention various other STDs.
That's a lot of scrolling. Are there other designs that are more compact?
that's not really the connotation that everybody else shares.
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