skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I'm more in agreement with your line of thinking than lulzwat's, you're not really addressing the part he's disagreeing with. His proposition was that you counteract preferential treatment by trying to remove it, not by trying to balance it out with other preferential treatment. Even the example you gave supports that (_everyone_ is behind a screen).

Like I said, I do agree with your general sentiment because the situation is way more complicated and a given entity (YC in this case) doesn't have control of all upstream sources of preferential treatment to try and remove preferential treatment. It just seems like the way you phrased it didn't address the actual problem lulzwat perceived. As much as people like to pretend it isn't so they can sit on their high horse, this stuff can be complicated to get your head around (at first glance, it's 110% reasonable to say giving preferential treatment to black people seems just as racist as doing so for white people). It serves no-one to ignore someone's complaint and respond with genericism when they don't understand (or agree with) the nuances of this kinda stuff.
2 months to spec something? That's insane, we're not talking about building the app.
just like Silverlight! :)
Sure you can get by with many things, and I mostly have. But if I had some money, I'd buy something more durable. Admittedly, I might not actually buy granite: tile countertops are cheaper, and have many of the advantages I'm looking for.

I don't cut on countertops, and agree that's bad for knives (I use cutting boards, as is traditional even in countries like Italy and Greece where stone countertops are the norm). But I do often have sharp things in the kitchen. The last time I dinged a counter it wasn't even due to a knife, but because I accidentally dropped a corkscrew. Would've been no problem with stone or tile, but since I don't have those, it caused a permanent mark where the tip hit! With wood countertops I've found myself paranoid about even setting a coffee cup or wine glass down without a coaster, lest it leave stains that are hard to remove. And with linoleum I'm always paranoid that even a bowl taken from reheating in the microwave will leave a ring-shaped heat-mark.

In addition to tile as a stone alternative, I am somewhat curious about the newer generation of synthetic countertops. I have heard that modern Corian countertops (or generic brands making Corian®-style countertops) are quite durable, and somewhere in price between linoleum and stone.
It's not that people don't whine, it's that when they whine they are always in the right (obviously untrue). It's a part of the creation of an image that the participants want to portray to other participants, just like the cherry-picked photos and favorite media.

A person who strongly follows particular trends and styles on facebook is much more likely to share the same favorite medias as those facebook participants who share similar interests; this is two-sided, though. On one hand, you could say that it's the interests that shaped the person into the trends and styles that they participate, but the other possibility is that the person is emulating people who have the styles and trends that they wish for themselves, and simply merging information from a suitable profile.

Ever wonder how your friends found the time to read through A Brief History of Time and GEB without you ever knowing of their interests in science and math, or ever having caught them reading a book?

They didn't.
HubCap: pwning the Chromecast part 1
Exactly. The control group is there to, for example, make sure your culture of Ebola is really that, viable and so on. If they didn't get sick, let alone die, you'd know your experimental group results were invalid.

Monkeys are also very expensive animals to do research on, and no one likes to kill them, or at least we don't tend to have the same sentiments about mice and rats.
>>So you're still at the mercy of their offline storage security. Not saying there is a better option for most people, but this wouldn't protect you against a Gox-like breach.

Just FYI, Coinbase's staff is infinitely superior to the embarrassing shenanigans of MtGox. If you want to get an idea of what they're doing, jump to 12min30secs in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwG1roO70co

Assuming that Bitcoins won't be FDIC insured in the foreseeable future, this is as good as it gets imho unless you feel better moving the majority of your coins to your own address and keeping the private-key yourself.

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And as always, Disclaimer: Bitcoins are not FDIC insured and it's still wild-west out there. Don't play with money you cannot afford to lose without any recourse.
It's obviously an editorial. I don't post them often but every now and again I make an exception. I think the subject matter speaks to a dichotomy that crops up frequently here between liberty and the supervisory role of the state.

Perhaps you might try focusing less on the second amendment and more on the question of why letting your child unsupervised int he park is treated as a serious felony.
"Heat death does not imply any particular absolute temperature; it only requires that temperature differences or other processes may no longer be exploited to perform work."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe
I really don't keep up on this stuff much, but why is this still Haswell based? Why not just do this on Broadwell?
If you just want insertion, deletion, resizing and merging with better data locality and roughly same performance as Bloom Filter, also consider Quotient Filter http://arxiv.org/pdf/1208.0290.pdf
Thanks for your response mate. I'm not American, so it's hard for me to tell what's going on in your society.
My parents were fairly poor, although they never really let us kids feel like it at the time. But yes we did have a computer at home.

I had some other comments, but the way you put this has really made me rethink them. I'll just say that if you make it to YC, then you're clearly doing something right.
Black is not a background, though.
So what group do you use the word black to refer to? It is commonly used to refer to African-Americans in the US. Since YC's target is predominantly US applicants the intended group is understood to be African-Americans.

The article says:

"It's adding black colleges to its recruiting swing this fall, as well as reaching out to groups with strong ties to the black community to increase the pool of applicants, Altman said."

I very much doubt that when Altman said "the black community" and "black colleges" he had in mind people from African countries or black skinned people from India.
Great to hear a personal side of this story, from both a technical and human point of view. Thanks.
Of course! But in the startup world you get to pick your market, your product, your idea -- everything. If you don't have access to capital, don't pick an idea that requires a large capital injection before product/market fit because that's where you have the biggest advantage. You get to pick your battlefield here, and if you're smart you'll pick one where you have the advantage.

Once you get to product/market fit, you'll get capital no matter who you are or where you come from. The market pressure is too strong for people not to invest.
There's no hard rules on it. When I started working on it a couple of years ago, I was fond of dark color schemes for monitoring interfaces.
There are pthread implementations for Win32 though.
Thanks for the design tips. Its a rough first draft of the interface and I will be implementing a new design based on feedback.
I visited the Tate modern art museum in London while on vacation this summer, and left bothered by the idea of modern art. I could put a collection of furnace ducts in a corner, or hang a mirror on the wall, or bedazzle an internal combustion engine (all exhibits), but it wouldn't be art, because I don't know why it's art, and neither would it take any particular skill. It bothers me that this 'art' lacks both skill and approachability. As a PhD student, I'm no stranger to obscure academic fields that can't be understood by anyone outside your narrow specialization, but at least even the most obscure theoretical work in computer science might actually be useful to people who aren't theoretical computer scientists, and that possible future approachability to people outside the field seems to be lacking in modern art.
I have to give some serious props for Yahoo for taking a chance on a new dev with little experience. A lot of people go through the same frustrating thing, and many potentially talented people get looked over. Your story is inspiring (as well as a little wink to hiring managers :)

Also, super excited about the work Yahoo has been doing with React. Keep it up!
A 19 hour, 100-job Hadoop pipeline! Are you running up against the limits of your architecture, or do you think there's room to grow?

"The MapReduce pipeline starts to process data as soon as the data is available. It’s triggered by the condition jobs which periodically check if the data is available on S3." What do you mean by that? What's the trigger condition, when the number of logged events reaches a threshold? I was a little surprised to hear it's dynamically triggered, and not on a scheduled clock.

Cool stuff, thanks for posting it.
I must confess I skipped the results that had photos in them. I hate photos.
[...] Node.JS [...] JavaScript [...] isomorphic single page applications [...] npm [...] bower [...] ecosystem [...] use cases [...] Grunt [...] ecosystem of plugins [...] Broccoli [...] Gulp [...] cohesive [...] Backbone [...] React [...] Ember [...] Polymer [...] Angular [...] Mocha [...] Casper [...] Karma

Reading this buzzword soup makes me so happy to be an embedded guy who gets to work in C i think i'll go dance a little just to celebrate. Wow... seriously just wow...
I think you'd find that it falls off the front page pretty quickly.
The size of a chart, and a quantity of the unknown (the knowledge needed to safely produce a dietary replacement) is a pretty silly comparison, ignoring the intended snark.
> So what group do you use the word black to refer to?

African Americans in the US. African entrepreneurs that come to American colleges, like Ashifi Gogo of Sproxil that I mentioned before. "Black skinned people from India"? Sure, them too.

All those groups are underrepresented in technology and could bring valuable perspective to what matters to the African American community, the Nigerian community, the Indian community, the Afro-Caribbean community, ...

But we've gone down a rabbit hole here. The point I was making through example was that underrepresented groups - blacks, Hispanics, women - have different perspectives that deserve attention, because there are damn good ideas there.
Great, let us know about your side project!
Semantic versioning is useful for specific interfaces.

Not long ago I implemented a scheme almost exactly like it, but it's for a specific software component. The client is compiled against a header file for that component, and pulls in, statically, the major and minor numbers. I've implemented this sort of thing in the past too more than once.

At run time, the client is linked dynamically to the component, and so it can be calling a newer version than the one against which it was compiled. The component supports a "checkversion" function in which the client reports the numbers with which it was compiled. The function returns the current numbers to the client, along with an indication of whether there is compatibility (which the client can ignore). If necessary, the component uses the client's info to implement any backward compatibility hacks needed for that client. The client can also use the returned numbers in some way, if necessary.

These numbers for that component have nothing to do with any official version number for the project, or the package which contains that component. They are, exactly as this article says for the "robot", not for humans.

It definitely is "semantic" versioning: the numbers have rigorously defined semantics, which is evaluated and used to make a concrete decision based on rules.
>This is akin to mathematical axioms that escape proof within a formal system.

No it isn't. Unless you understand quantum gravity better than anyone else does, there is absolutely no connection whatsoever between the possible empirical reality of spacetime and causality, and Godel's description of mathematical incompleteness.

Spacetime is observable, not axiomatic. The whole point of theories like loop quantum gravity - and one of the main reasons that the string theories are poor relations - is that LQG theories take an explicit interest in possible mechanisms that explain the observed properties of spacetime and causality.

In the jargon, they are 'background independent.'

For example, take a look at Causal Dynamical Triangulation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_dynamical_triangulation
Intel has a pattern of releasing variations of microarchitectures with higher core counts after their immediate successors have been announced/launched. Think Sandy Bridge-E after Ivy Bridge, Ivy Bridge-E after Haswell, and now Haswell-E.

They probably do this because it's probably to easier to manage the larger die size and greater complexity as the process has matured and yields have improved.
I sort-of think it's this guys library -- so he can change the major version number whenever he wants. Heck -- the Kernel project (now) just changes versions whenever they "feel it's right", and nobody complains... API changes or not.
Quick question: isn't channel's raison d'etre the fact that they need not be backed by system threads, that they are considerably cheaper and one can fire tens of thousands of them without worrying too much about performance. In other words aren't they primarily intended as a tool for solving a concurrency problem rather than a parallelism problem.

Although, as far as I recall Go does map a bundle of them to a thread and can thus handle parallelism as well.

Just to clarify, this is not a complaint, I am trying to get a better idea of these abstractions.

@tylertreat

> I believe you're confusing goroutines with channels. Goroutines are lightweight threads of execution. Channels are the pipes that connect goroutines.

That is indeed correct. I was thinking more in the line of fibres that meld the concepts of a coroutine and a channel into a single abstraction. So the idea is Chan connects threads rather than coroutines.
I'm also a non-American, and it wasn't sarcasm.

I think the privileged label is overused these days (esp online), but the way I see it is that I've (apparently) got it slightly easier than a black person.

Doesn't mean I didn't work hard to achieve what I have, and my parents were fairly poor, but I didn't have other people looking at me and dismissing me because of my skin colour.

Some people are more "privileged" than me, some less.

It's a scale of difficulty, and people love to label and classify.
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I tried OpenBSD the other day. I was so impressed that I immediately donated $20 (via BTC :)) to the OpenBSD foundation.

Everything was extremely straightforward and consistent, much more so than Linux (which I normally use).

I am now migrating my servers to OpenBSD. Very happy so far.
Texas Supreme Court Quotes the Big Lebowski
It is the article that has an excessive focus on the 2nd amendment. This is the final paragraph:

If you’re a parent, you should be absolutely terrified that a 9-year-old’s constitutional right to fire an Uzi trumps your right to decide at what age your kids can play at the park unsupervised.

Something has to change. Now.
I'm a little surprised Starbucks wouldn't just revert to cash mode? Who cares about exact prices when everyone involved knows that each items costs no more than a few cents. Just round to the nearest dollar, and any competent manager would reward such behaviour given the alternative.

At least this is my experience with pharmacy billing. If we couldn't put claims through due to network problems, we'd just estimate based on your previous claims and keep things humming along.
This day will never come for ReactJS.
> Intel's first client processor supporting 16 computing threads and new DDR4 memory will enable some of the fastest desktop systems ever seen.

Not necessarily -- as AMD fans (I'm one) have seen, the entire "more cores is better" is not always true -- it heavily depends on the workload, and frankly, most games and programs are not utilizing these cpu's fully (yet). Now, put something like a 2 x 16 core Opterons in a server and you have yourself quite a powerful virtualization platform.

With that said - I'm interested in seeing it's price point and performance compared to AMD's offerings.
You own it, you can do whatever you want on the property (within reason..). If you want to evict a tenant, that's your right and the state/city/federal government should not have a place in intervening.
I believe you're confusing goroutines with channels. Goroutines are lightweight threads of execution. Channels are the pipes that connect goroutines.
I feel the same way, despite being a fan of Dadaism and Marcel Duchamp. You might find it interesting to investigate the Stuckist movement, made up of artists who are similarly exasperated by institutional hostility to representation.
Hardly. What definition of "philosophy" is in use here? It sounds like he just means "beliefs" which, of course, everyone has. If "philosophy" means ideas that do not need facts, reason, or testability then it is just nonsense. Philosophy that requires these qualities is called "science."
Did you miss where the OC (original commenter) stated his car was stolen?
> In other words the big question was: "will Amazon ditch their only reason to sell hardware?"

Obviously Amazon is a content company, but something tells me that they're probably not selling a lot of content to owners of Fire phones, given the pitiful sales figures.

Keep in mind, the history of technology is rife with examples of companies that reduced or eliminated vendor lock in in order to increase adoption; it's not unreasonable to suggest that Amazon might sell more content if they sold more phones, even if those phones were more open.

And you're also completely bypassing my point about prices and margins. Even if you think the closed model is worth the costs for Amazon, clearly they'll sell more content if they sell more phones, and clearly they'll sell more phones if they're cheaper. And they're famous as a company willing to take the long view and sacrifice short term profits for long term growth and market share. Given that, wouldn't it make sense to sell the phones at cost, rather than at Apple or Samsung level margins? Worse, while the Fire ecosystem is closed, it's closed in the wrong direction.

The price point of the phone implies a strategy of "we'll make money on the phone, which people will buy because of our amazing content and user experience". But their user experience is mediocre, and their content is available everywhere. Apple can do that with iPhones, because you have to buy an iPhone to get iOS, a phone with iTunes, and most iPhone apps. But the kindle app runs just fine on my OnePlus One, as do all the other Android apps I might want to install on a Fire, if I had one. You seem to be arguing for a strategy of "we'll make money on our content, which people will buy because they already have our phones". I agree, it's a very promising strategy! But I wonder why Amazon hasn't tried it. :)
I think we will probably be fine, for the reason the author mentions in this paragraph:

> Just walking down the halls you could tell which classes were those of the fine art department. They were always sitting in circles and talking. In the foundation, illustration, and design classes the students were working; drawing, painting, designing. I had great students who went on to become successful fine artists, but who had to enroll in the illustration department to get the necessary skills (anatomy, perspective, painting technique) to produce representational fine art. Ironically, but not surprisingly, this famous school's most famous fine artists stem from the illustration department, not its theory heavy fine art department.

I.e., skill in representational art is still being taught and valued. It just changed label, from "fine art" to "illustration".
A couple comments:

First, Altruism aside, this will likely be a win for ycombinator. There are always opportunities to be had in targeting subgroups which others neglect.

And the problem with bias is that much of it is subconscious. Unless an organisation makes a conscious effort, it will likely discriminate.

This means there's an opportunity for YC to get easier access to the cream of the crop, merely by specifically recruiting. And articles like this are helpful too, as they'll signal to would be black entrepreneurs that they should not shy away from YC.

Second, this could be very important for future african-american entrepreneurs. Reference examples are so, so important. I (white male) did not become a programmer, despite a love for math and computers. I literally didn't have a single programmer in my extended family or circle of close friends. I played around with computers, but I had no idea what a programming language was until age 25.

(If this sounds incurious, think about what massive blind spots you yourself had until recently)

If YC can fund an african-american entrepreneur who succeeds massively, then this will inspire thousands of others.

The same arguments apply to recruiting women, and inspiring women. I applaud this move, and YC's earlier initiative to recruit women.
Most contemporary art needs to be illuminated by some mumbo-jumbo narrative about what it "means" before one can appreciate it. I get the fact that one of the things that makes art great is that it pushes the envelope on accepted norms - stretches the bounds of tradition. To have mere skill and craftsmanship and no individual vision does not make great art. But for me, the reverse should also hold - you can't have a total lack of coherence or skill and just get by on a pretension of "edginess." Unfortunately that is all that seems to matter in contemporary institutionalized art.

I am repeatedly surprised by how contemporary early modern art (a.k.a. renaissance art) -- both literature and the visual arts -- seem to me at time and how they can combine truly radical innovations with an unwavering commitment to basic skills. Write that searing tragedy about the frailty and absurdity of the human condition ... but make sure you absolutely master your iambic pentameter first!
> Spending time on social networks doesn't cause unhapiness

> And the more you time you spend on it, the worse you feel about your life

These two statements directly contradict each other. If something gives you a brief jolt of happiness and "the more time you spend on it, the worse you feel about your life", it's only superficially true that it gives you happiness, and it's much much more correct to say that it causes unhappiness.

I'm literally only using the propositions from your own comment here.
Excellent product. The integration works a treat. Mobile support will be much appreciated but so happy thus far. So glad I heard of jumble.