skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the same effect, I think, that has caused your comment to receive a number of upvotes but very little (i.e. zero at the time of writing) agreement in the child comments.

Personally, I see where you're coming from. I learn more about how sexism manifests itself in the tech industry every week, it seems. Even with good intentions and a lot of conscious thought about the issue, it doesn't seem extremely unlikely that some action I previously considered harmless could be taken the wrong way.
I use the following extensions on Chrome:

1. Tabs Outliner -- lets you cycle through the tabs in a nice list format. You can jump to a tab or close it directly from this list.

2. Session Buddy -- lets you save all tabs. Even if the browser crashes it remembers which tabs you had opened!
Three Congressmen Are Using Red Tape to Bind SpaceX to Earth
still somewhat skeptical that an epoxy seal will last next to turbulent water with sea debris. I know other strategies are magnetic couplings. Still, maybe replacing cheap motors frequently will be cheaper than a long lasting one (if one exists??). Make sure your mounting plates are accessible!
AppMind.co – Discover any iOS App's Keywords
It's the fiercest at the moment! Lyft and Uber are engaged in an epic price war, where each of them is subsidizing the cost of rides while trying to expand as quickly as possible to new cities to best the other.

In about a year, this competition has halved the cost of getting between any two places in San Francisco. It's quite thrilling.
I think we still think about College with too much "baggage" in our minds.

I am wondering if there's an even more revolutionary approach - for example, continuous education, where evaluation/tests are performed continuously.
Is anyone actually arguing it's strictly necessary, though?

Diverse viewpoints can help meeting the needs of diverse populations, but it's obviously possible to make a product that appeals to other demographics than your own.
That VP of Product Management Is A Rockstar
This article makes it seem as if the Toyota president came out to Elon Musks California home, and after a ride in the Roadster, suddenly saw the light and decided to start producing electric cars.

And just how did he decide to execute his grand electrified vision? By backporting electric propulsion onto an existing SUV platform. Yeah, this is exactly the moment where this particular piece of journalistic spin comes crashing down.

The RAV4 EV was sold only in California precisely because it was a compliance car. Toyota simply decided it was cheaper to leverage their existing investment into Tesla to produce an EV on the cheap that could get them the required environmental credits so they could continue to sell their actual vehicles without having to buy the credits at a (at the time) large cost from other manufacturers. It was a simple localized business decision, not some grand strategy.

Of course Musk doesn't just ridicule fuel cells, he affectionately calls them "fool cells". As someone who builds his businesses by reasoning from first principles, he justifiably doesn't understand the idea of swapping a 20% efficient (if you're very lucky) combustion engine with a 10% efficient, experimental fuel cell when you could instead use a dead simple, clean and 80%+ efficient electric motor.
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> "...in a technology 10 years old..."

Like JavaScript, Python and Ruby :)?
So basically, y'all are taking on Mechanical Turk?
Elon Musk Reveals Open Source Design Hyperloop
If you have code examples already, I'd be grateful--I ran into server that had Python but not nmap or nc and while I was already familiar enough with socket to do what I needed, I wasn't so familiar with struct and wasn't able to make much headway manually building TCP/UDP packets before having to move onto other work.
Is Buzzfeed a tech company?
Similar boat. Not corporate, but our paying clients are school districts. Plenty of teachers are technophobes, and evolving UIs and new features are a burden (in fact, we have a 3 month window each year where truly new features are rolled out), and users need to be retrained

Hotfixes ship as soon as they're done
Yes, but he's not terribly representative of the population dropping out of college, then or now.
I never thought aerial hobby drones were that interesting, but that sounds fascinating, as you'd be looking around in an environment seldom experienced otherwise.
Bill Gates is an outlier as are other famous college dropouts.
Yes. You are generalizing. Massively. There is no possible situation in which a VC I had met could ask me out without making me feel extremely uncomfortable, to put it lightly.

There are lots of logical reasons for this reaction, and I will list some of them briefly. 1) Power of VC network is implicit threat to 'play nice' and go along with it, even if VC in question has no intention of being nasty in any way. 2) The power imbalance already implicit in VC/founder relations makes 'asking me out' incredibly tense. 3) It would make me doubt myself- "Is every other VC I am talking to (since they are 90% men) just interested in me for that reason?".

So follow the OP's advice. And just don't do it.
Unsurprising. I don't think the details of TSX have been revealed, but the implementation potentially has complex interactions with the cache subsystem: http://www.realworldtech.com/haswell-tm.

Given that TSX is one of the features that distinguishes some of the more expensive Haswell SKU's, is Intel going to issue a refund for affected customers?
Neovim plugin prototype: compile Go code on-the-fly
For those wondering, the TSX instruction set is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_Synchronization_E...

I first heard about transactional memory when Sun had plans to implement it for its UltraSPARC Rock processor. There is a decent overview of the concept at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_memory
While I agree with your premise of wanting a revolutionary approach, I think your solution is in the wrong direction. I think continuous testing would lead more to "teaching to the test". If anything, I think the revolutionary approach would not involve standardized testing but rather a more qualitative approach, though Im not sure what that would look like.
Seems like a functional chat system, but it seems too simple to be of any use for a web application, with the whole thing being held in-memory.

Try adding your disposable rooms to my chat app, which has direct/private messages, persistence, and a lot less code.

https://github.com/dparise/chat-app
Also, technically not a drop out; he's still on leave.
He also mentions using a hacked WiFi, your pretty safe.
Nonce reuse? It usually gets you at least forgeries, and in GCM's case it even gets you key recovery.

I agree that the published sets of challenges don't really need much theory.
Source code here: https://github.com/myitcv/neovim_example
Maybe its because higher ed in the US isn't scarce, so not valued as highly. Not as big a deal to drop out, take a job, because there's a middle class to drop out into.
I really can't fathom why you were voted down on this.

Regardless of where the failure is there is clearly something about the software engineering industry and the pipeline leading to it that is biased against minorities and women, which implies we are failing to optimally place the most talented (or potentially talented) people in the right positions assuming talent if evenly distributed among various ethnicities and sexes). Which means our economy is not as productive as it could be and we're missing out on the increased opportunity for possible break throughs in software development and other related fields with similar bias.

It's clearly a problem. It may not be directly the fault of say Apple or Google but it is naive to see numbers like that and not be concerned.
I see no reason to believe that the tech industry is any more sexist than any other industry with an overwhelming male dominance. For example, a poll from just a couple of years ago reported that one in four women reports workplace sexual harassment[1].

It'd be much less worse if this was a tech industry problem only. The sad reality is that we're knee-deep in shitty behavior.

And I want to stress, since some seem people to take the opposite of the charitable principle when reading posts, that this does not in any way excuse the tech industry. It just implies that it's not due to lack of socialization; it's a general problem of men.

[1] http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/11/one-in-four-u-s...
Do you know if there's a good IPv6 equivalent? I have IPv6 Core Protocols Implementation but like the writing style TCP/IP Illustrated much more.
"There is no intrinsic reason why these numbers should not be proportional to society in the long run, that's why we compare the ratios."

That's true. Roughly proportional anyway. But there's still gonna be minorities inside that group. I guess what I tried to say earlier is that making sure minoritie's voices are heard is (IMHO) more important than making sure they're represented proportionally to society. Simply because there's always gonna be a minority.

"[...] diversity as a thing in and of itself is at least good business. Especially in positions of power and decision-making."

Don't forget that huge groups like races, genders, etc. are incredibly diverse already. I guess a stereotypical example would be hiring a white man might diversify your staff more than hiring a black women if that man happens to be a vegan (or whatever). Or take the Fox News staff as an example if you like (they sure look diverse on mute). No argument on the second part though. Any representational entity (management, senate, etc.) should represent society accurately.

The rest of your post is a no-brainer. Talking to seemingly different people is always a good idea :)
we cannot call every single internet provider around the world and ask them to drop DNS record from cache

Google allows users to flush a record from their cache https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/cache which is better than nothing, especially if you use Google's resolvers on your servers.
> I do think, as we look at the for-profit sector, there are a lot of best practices there. The support systems they’ve had, the student tracking. The way they use capital assets.

This presupposes that these aren't present in the non-for-profit sector, which in my experience isn't the case.

And if we're going to use outcomes as a measure, it's clear for-profits are absurdly dysfunctional. Except:

> The way they take a much tougher cohort of students, on average, than most institutions.

The "we take on more difficult students" line makes no sense. With failure rates so high, it's not at all clear that they're doing anything other than taking on more students, failing those students, and thereby generating unnecessary debt and pocketing the federal grant money.

More-over, favorable analyses of for-profits almost always compares for-profits to flagship state schools or private non-profits, ignoring the class of institutions most similar in terms of prestige and quality -- local and regional state-run colleges and universities. Which are -- in my experience -- similarly prices and vastly superior in terms of learning community and outcomes.

> And, so, while there are certain practices that are not good to adopt there, seeing the challenges they face and seeing the things the way they have done well, bringing that into all of education, will be important.

Yeah, but it's kind of a tautology. "Good practices are good".

Anyways, I'm interested in specific examples. Because I really don't see any innovation per se in private higher ed. It's all stuff everyone else has been doing for decades, but with more marketing and unfounded claims to novelty.

> I don’t believe that a measurement system should simply apply to them and not apply to the broader universe. And, getting those things right is very, very difficult.

Yeah, I'll agree that performance-based funding structures don't make sense in education generally, and make even less sense in higher ed.

That said, it's kind of a misnomer -- if laws end up looking like what's been proposed so far, private institutions will always have the option of not taking federal grant money or subsidized loans.

IF performance measurement takes hold -- which it shouldn't -- I don't understand why the public should be expected to subsidize a for-profit industry and not have carte blanc to regulate. If you don't like the regulations, don't take the subsidy.
[CSS3] A Better Text input – Saher Team
> Jessica's statement subtly suggests that this behavior is less common, and that the vast majority of the investors Y Combinator works with are above engaging in it.

My reading of Jessica's statement was that she was trying to make it clear that ycombinator wasn't accusing their customers without evidence.

Investors, in a real way, are Ycombinator's customers. Yes, sometimes your customers do bad things and you have to deal with it, sometimes dealing with it means making them no longer your customers. As much as possible, you want to set expectations about those sorts of situations ahead of time. But, you want to set those expectations in a way that don't make your innocent customers feel like they are being accused of anything.

When you are setting these sorts of expectations, it is easy to make it feel, to your customers, like you are assuming they are guilty without evidence, and that's not something you want your customers to feel. It is a mistake I've made myself. At one point, in response to one of my poorly-considered spammer-discouragement policies, a potential customer told me "we don't assume you are stupid; but we do assume you are a spammer." - you don't want to make your potential customers feel that way.
The simple answer is that grids are hard. Everyone loves the simplicity of tabluar, Excel-like data display - yet it's clearly a difficult task to achieve in the browser due to the sheer DOM weight of such widgets. Factor in advanced capabilities like sorting, filtering, customizable display, et al and HTML/JavaScript performance becomes even harder to manage.

Sencha's Ext JS framework has had perhaps the industry's best grid widget since 2007. It offers excellent performance, handles infinite data sizes, built-in sorting and filtering, and is completely customizable. If you poke through the Sencha API documentation, you'll see a ton of other features.

Try the online example here: http://dev.sencha.com/ext/5.0.1/examples/kitchensink/#grids

In full disclosure, I work for Sencha.
That's actually quite impressive and it ties into why I started the project. When I was a teenager I read a paper that talked about the drive used by Captain Nemo in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. The magneto-hydrodynamic drive† basically tries to push seawater through a set of coils and, as you've said, it's very, very inefficient and currently impractical.

Reading that paper inspired me to look into this and I ended up trying to make a submersible with the limited budget I had. It was very frustrating and I just gave up and ended up trying to make linear actuators for touch sensing instead.

†http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetohydrodynamic_drive

http://www.skewsme.com/mhd.html#axzz3ACp7NENa
i assume it'd be something better than just a standard epoxy. there's plenty of underwater-specific epoxies and coatings used in the oil&gas industry that'd hold up just fine.
It's not the motor that Musk is so invested in, but the mature technology of the 80%+ efficiency lithium-ion battery. A fuel cell powered car will use the same motors as any other electric car.

From a non-technical perspective, the battery capacity is what sets Tesla apart from every other EV available today. Musk seems to understand that quite well.
Uber Is About To Launch An API
I took a class which had a short quiz/test at the beginning of each meeting. It was just a handful of questions that covered the assigned reading for that date. The reading in question wasn't out of a book, but was always a single review article, or 2-4 smaller academic papers. Together these quizzes represented a significant chunk of your grade.

I learned more, and more quickly, in that class than probably any other I've ever taken. It was mixed between grad/undergrad (I was undergrad at the time), but because everyone "had" to do the reading for each class everyone was on a more or less equal footing, and the discussion was fantastic.
Culture of bullshit. In some companies, the better you produce bullshit and fluff the better you get treated. Nobody cares who is doing the actual work. Whoever speaks about that work will get rewarded. In such culture, people who can do stuff will escape and people who assemble bullshit all day will stay. Then people wonder why nothing is being shipped...
A wave glider that tweets autonomously at sea
Show HN: Brew.io – My home brewing hobby application
Cool idea. It'd be nice if calculation and data were transparent, unlike bike/transit/walkscore.
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer buys NBA team L.A. Clippers
Apparently I won. :) So I know it pays back.
Here's some context:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot-hand_fallacy
What being a runner says about your character
Not necessarily. Most businesses lose money the first year -- so add that with a minimum payment to the state of around $1,200+, and that becomes a significant discouragement to even try to start your own business.

Bootstrapping a side gig until it's large enough to sustain oneself becomes much more of an unfair challenge (when compared to other states) -- yet I have a feeling shell companies don't have an issue as they are usually backed by another already incorporated company, etc.

So it serves nothing but to be a giant roadblock for small businesses to get off the ground... at a time when we are supposed to, as a country, be promoting small businesses as they are the real job creators in the market.
The phenomena isn't limited to Kenyans. Top runners around the world have that kind of diet.

You're not going to find a "proper" experiment, but many, many athletes experiment with their diets, and ketogenic diets are pretty well explored ground. Athletes and coaches alike gravitate towards what yields results. Running is an extremely competitive sport with few barriers to entry and the claim of such a low-hanging "massive competitive advantage" is an extraordinary one that requires extraordinary evidence to be taken seriously.
If I was cynical I might consider this to be a feature, simply release another set of statistics a year later with the demographics sliced a little differently and declare victory.
Forbes article: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2014/08/07/what-it...
Wait till you have kids, high-powered jobs, and information-dense hobbies. I would love to have a personal assistant.

Jaba, I see you're drunk. Laser Sintering 3d printers are 50% off today. Shall I go ahead and order you one?

EDIT> And a property. Fucking houses.
Generally speaking have you had many customers asking for refunds (monthly or annually?). Currently in my product, the monthly charge is about ~200. But I'm thinking of doing a yearly option of a $1,000/year. Any advice on something that high of a price point?
Notably, Maryam Mirzakhani is the first woman to win a Fields medal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam_Mirzakhani
I suspect that a larger issue might be that Linux users tend to run servers with multi-terabyte collections of stuff.

It'd be difficult for them to make money at $5 a month off a guy who wants to backup 20TB of usenet archives or whatever.

Right now those kind of collections are weeded out since they don't backup network shares.
The funny thing about college dropouts: It's rare for a college dropout to become obscenely successful, but conversely it is also not uncommon for someone obscenely successful to be a college dropout.

Or heck, it's not even that uncommon for successful people as long as we're not talking about something like lawyers (TV doesn't enter the equation, Suits.).

I guess what I'm trying to say is, Bill Gates is an outlier in a heck of a lot more than education. Maybe it's time to consider that "being successful" has little to do with formal education and more to do with skills learned later in life. Which implies that being successful at a young age requires those skills to come earlier (which they are less likely to if you spend most of your time in college).
Looking forward to seeing NYC supported and that email requirement removed.

Heatmaps would be interesting too.
"There is no intrinsic reason why these numbers should not be proportional to society in the long run, that's why we compare the ratios."

Tall black men are wildly overrepresented in the NBA. Should the NBA be "proportional to society?"
They do improve the design of the architecture, but the question is "Will they improve the design of the architecture more than shipping the product, letting it contact reality, and learning from experience?" There's an opportunity cost - debates cost time, time delays shipping, and shipping is what enables customer feedback. In my experience, customer feedback and actual experience is much more important for improving the design of the architecture than debating with other people. You can try to make your design slightly less wrong by consulting with other team members who are equally as uninformed as you, or you can get it right by going out and getting hard data.
As great as S3 is, it's still confined to Earth. Seems to me that the odds of a planet-wide disaster taking out all Amazon infrastructure (as well as certain less important things like human civilization) are higher than the odds they're giving of a catastrophic S3 failure.
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Yeah, this is exactly why high performance chips have a microarchitecture that lags client chips. Such bugs would devastate the value of those chips. This will affect haswell Xeon. I bet some serious discussions for delaying that chip are ongoing right now.
IMO the biggest challenge would be making a system that will punish according to actual transgression, not according to perceived status. In reality, the slick investor type will get off the hook, but the virgin neckbeard programmer will get slammed for harassment and also for being a virgin neckbeard. Any ideas for fixing that?
"Regardless of where the failure is there is clearly something about the software engineering industry and the pipeline leading to it that is biased against minorities"

How can you say that when East and South Asians are so overrepresented?
The Google DNS was not affected, or more likely it was quickly flushed (I guess, the guys who made this error were the first to flush Google DNS).
Yeah, but it isn't, really.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think they've claimed it is a "real" market, just that pricing programmatically adjusts to demand.

Can Uber drivers set their rates, to undercut other Uber drivers?
Once we got to a stable functional release, the bar got raised for releasing a subsequent client. Change means instability; instability means it won't be shipped. So changes accumulate, the code never sits still long enough to shake out all the instabilities.
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Wow, Fieldbook looks awesome! What are you using as the datastore behind it? And the interface framework - entirely custom or built on AngularJS or similar?