skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually in the US it seems to me at least that wealth is a far bigger means of discrimination than race. It does not seem likely to me that a multimillionaire would prefer socializing with a poor person of the same skin colour over socializing with another multimillionaire who happens to be black.

And anonymous boards do not break my rule. They do not discriminate by wealth and education because they are poor and uneducated so they resort to discriminate by race. But wealthy and educated people do seem to me quite likely to consider uneducated and poor people as far less worthy human beings.
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Sure, there is an ongoing and very real debate about the effects of gentrification in San Francisco and it's effects - rising rents, change of character, class divisions, etc. The Twitter skybridge is basically a metaphor for how the tech elite believe that they can be literally elevated above the riff-raff of the mid-Market area and stay even more out of touch with the reality of the homeless population down below. Techies can stay high up in their "ivory tower" and avoid having to connect with the normal people down below.
It's not a "mere mention of men" it's some bullshit nonsense that implies men ought to be a certain way and it also subtly implies that we're all men here and that this is no place for women. Christ you are thick.
This really does sound like working in a union shop in the US, especially as a public sector worker. Seniority, loyalty, etc matter and things like competence and productivity are someone else's problem. Jobs are wielded as political weapons (The Democratic Party leader in Illinois, Mike Madigan famously has a list of every union job he's gifted and calls on favors from that list), etc. Inefficiencies are continually introduced.

I find the far-left often bemoans a lack of paternal aspects in US society, by my god, this blog posting horrified me. I would feel to trapped and powerless in that structure. I think it also explains the milquetoast offers, especially in regards to software, these types of companies deliver.

There's something wonderfully rebellious and wild about US culture, in general, that leads to enough weirdness that somehow gets results. All the early pioneers of the things I love were pretty out there and let their freak flag fly. I can't imagine personalities like these thriving in that type of environment.
On message boards, you're all of bit-race.

And you are discussing other races that present in "real life".

I think you should not take that too seriously.
Here is a data point from the EEOC: 30% of Asian Americans report having been discriminated against in the workplace.

Here is anecdotal evidence: I have been discriminated against in the workplace multiple times.
It only takes one person to be racist. And there's nothing stopping a white person with far less education and wealth from calling a black person with far more education and wealth a nigger.

In many areas of the USA, a black person with money or a nice car is automatically assumed to be a professional athlete, rapper, or drug dealer. Whereas a Chinese person with money or a nice car, people will assume they are a doctor, or own a business such as a restaurant, nail salon, or laundromat.
Apprenticeships give people more viable skills than probably 75% of majors at four year universities. The fact is that you have an enormous glut of college graduates who studied sociology, political science, and communication who can't find work in anything related to what they studied so they end up working at a tech company doing customer service, doing a nursing program, working as bartenders, or as we all know learning how to program.
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Hmm. Learning a language/framework that is exploding in popularity is probably one of the best things a dev can do to stay relevant (read: employed).

Hell, very few of us would be using Javascript if it weren't for it's ubiquity/community/popularity. I sure as hell am not using it because it's a well designed language.
Odd how two legally justified shootings are considered the epitome of racism. I feel bad for the author and his kid, but referencing the Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown shootings took me out of it.
You sound like one of my co workers. "This doesn't offend me. I don't understand why it should bother you."
I just have a dorky personal blog, but the comments moved from the blog to Facebook on their own. I didn't do anything different, but my friends sort of decided they preferred to discuss the blog posts on Facebook. I didn't see any reason to fight it. It's not like I have ad revenue on the line.
A couple things stuck out to me about the numbers: 700 satellites weighing 250 pounds and costing $1M each.

1. Is this being considered because it is the best way to make use of the excess capacity on paid Falcon launches? If you have, say, 50 CRS launches to the ISS planned, can you tack on one internet satellite to each and get a constellation, or would they all end up redundantly in the same orbit?

2. $1M / 250lbs is $250/ounce. That number seems high to me which just goes to show how optimized these things are - very little structural material is needed to hold together a pile of electrical components in space.
> We never encountered drawn or discharged guns like those faced by unarmed black teenagers Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., or Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.

Seriously?

In the context of the rest of the article, the author is implying that Martin and Brown were killed because of their race alone, thus perpetuating a false narrative. And to what end?
Absolutely agreed. The undercurrent of "and if only the teacher could have a gun instead of those damned liberals trying to take them away from us, you child wouldn't have to die" is despicable.

On a tangent - there was, nearby, a bill motion that would not allow high school students to graduate without attending a CPR class. I like that.

Following Washington passing I-594 (removing the gun show background check loophole) with a vote of about 60% reared the ugly truth that at least 20% of Republican voters voted for this, something that is hard to reconcile with "Obama is coming for your guns". So, predictably, this aspect has been ignored.
Language lesson, how to answer the bank manager (and not have him believe you):

Q:　Will you use the card to buy alcohol?

A: ゼッテーそんなことしないぞ！

:)
I can't believe you put me in the position of defending Comcast from cheap shots.

The open wifi requires you to log in with credentials that are linked to a credit card and name. So any weird activity would be correlated to that login. Of course someone could use a stolen credit card, but at a minimum, "bad" traffic would be correlated to that account, not the open wifi that Comcast is allowing to take up your bandwidth.
I really like the idea of testing a language by writing a small command-line utility with it, even one that -- as the author mentioned -- already exists.

Way back when, when I first was learning C, I didn't comprehend it very well. I was OK with it. A friend gave me some CDs with FreeBSD on it, one with the OS, and one with program sources. It was that source code which really opened my eyes, and you could digest small programs (like chmod) and see, you know, this is working, production code, and it's not hard, and you can do this.
Oh my god! This is exactly what I've been working on in my spare time. I was just trying to come up with the specific content ID algorithm for it.

I made a graph-based UI for editing this kind of program since you wouldn't want to deal with hash-based names directly. You can see an example program here: http://nickretallack.com/visual_language/#/f2983238d90bd3e0a...

Currently it runs in JavaScript, but I was looking at other languages that it would be good to compile to, and Erlang seems like a pretty good fit for it.

Here's some other thoughts about it:
https://docs.google.com/a/thinair.com/document/d/1WtgfUqN6Sd...

Can we work together?
I'm no expert but perhaps this symbolic engine could be something to build as a valgrind module.
What would visited and upvoted links look like?
Could possibly be that your comment comes across a bit harsh. Even if not the intention, my inner dialogue read it as someone speaking with anger.
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Yea I thought of hashes too. Because there are hashes proven (?) to be secure, it follows that it's impossible to make a universally efficient fuzzer (i.e. one that necessarily spends much less than ~exp(parser size) time).
personally, I'd love it if they would increase the size of the up and down arrows. I find I have to hover over them for a bit before the tooltip pops up confirming I'm actually over the arrow I intend to click!
Internet satellites meh, not technology where the round trip is counted in seconds is good for the internet, and that's a physical limitation just as the speed of light limits the latency you have to about 5MS per 1K/KM..

The round trip from a base station on the same longitude as the satellite is 250-300MS, under best case scenarios you will to pass trough about 2-3 satellites to get what you want from the other side of the world.

If you do not need to go outside of your intimidate geographical area and say only need to pull data from a server within a 5K radius than atmospheric high altitude platforms are far superior both in cost and maintainability.
You can't upgrade satellites not since the space shuttle is out of the picture and even that was only borderline cost effective on high end surveillance stations like the KH series which were the size of a school bus.

Using tethered high altitude balloons or extreme-long endurance self sustaining drones seems like a much better solution for that than spending 100's of millions of dollars per launch.

Even if what he's planning is an auto arranging auto healing mesh/cellular network of micro satellites doesn't seem to be feasible either. Micro satellites have an extremely short life span and have huge energy source issues, cant launch them with a nuclear power source(too heavy, and too short lived of a platform to be both safe and cost affective) and cant have expanded solar cell arrays on them due to atmospheric drag.
What you are left with is a small nice cube which doesn't have enough power to transmit communications at any bandwidth that will be sufficient for internet traffic.

Other than sounding cool and potentially farming quite a bit for work for SpaceX i don't see this venture of being of any value.
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> I can imagine a very easy parallel to the
> tech community: "I taught my daughters
> their nerd cred would protect them."

That's why I posted it, and believe it's directly relevant to this community, rather than just generally relevant to the wider world. I try only to post things that I think have a specific attachment to the tech community, and you've nailed it exactly. I pleased someone sees the point - thank you.
The oldest model that is technically arbitrage are the old school Ad Networks. If you can get audiences assembled from lots of small pieces and sell one big chunk, you make more money overall.

With RTB, you can do this "assembling" on the fly and sell with some sort of data enrichment. If impression A is sold as more or less anonymous and you know that impression A is actually a potential customer for brand B, you can sell it to band B for more.
I bought this book, started to read it, then returned it because it was so bad. It reads like an advertisement and it seems to be aimed at old ladies who occasionally use "the googles". People in the industry will find it to be a lot of information that you already know.

If you want to read about the war between Google & Microsoft, I'd suggest this one:

http://www.amazon.ca/Digital-Wars-Google-Microsoft-Internet/...
As a white male who grew up in (American) poverty, from my point of view they've have been incredibly insulated by their wealth.

By 15 years old, I had been physically attacked a dozen times without cause, chased by gangs in cars for being in the wrong neighborhood, had a gun pointed at me at least twice, and threatened physically dozens of times over nothing.
I'd actually disagree on the search not needing to be prioritized point. I think search could actually be a very powerful feature of HN allowing for readers to gain a deeper insight into various topics. Imagine if someone was reading about Rust for the first time (hey, there's even a "Rust vs Go" kind of post on the front page right now!) and wanted to learn a bit more about it by seeing what people have said about it in the past on HN. Said user could easily see the search bar at the top of the page, and use the (hypothetically good) search engine to discover articles about lifetimes, green vs native threads, etc. with little effort. Doing so otherwise might involve spending a decent amount of time exercising Google-fu to find the same information.

Sure, the focus of HN is still on the new content that people want to see, but it could also be a place to learn more. Or even find old posts that maybe you didn't bookmark at the time, but suddenly want to see now.

EDIT: Apologies for the triple post (if anyone saw that). I tried to submit the post three times, and two of the times went to a HN error message. I deleted the other two posts.
You don't need to become rich, just move to another country than the USA. A good one is France, here "colored" foreigners are socially protected. Just make sure to move into a neighborhood with the same general level of education as yourself and your family (as that's the aspect on which most of the discrimination occurs) and you will be fine. Don't make the mistake of being white and educated and moving into a poor neighborhood though, you'll fare worse than having your children being called "whities" or similar heart-wrenching insults (think broken windows and physical aggressions).
How will this design look on a mobile device and other screen sizes?
Institutionalized privilege?

It was a different thing when we demanded equal treatment in front of law, and removal of laws which prevented free interaction among individuals.

The problem with this white privilege argument is that it has numerous parallels with Marxists polylogism idea. People are a lot less racists now, but somehow a culture has to be created which has to explain why in an era of low racism some groups are more backwards than the others, or why 'affirmative action is still required'.

All you end up doing is create a class of entitled progressives who think that somehow their lives were better because they are white/male/etc.

Do you know why people tend to be racists? They tend to be racists because at the end of the day believing that somehow the 'average' of their group being better than the other groups makes their own shitty existence better. So your life sucks, you don't have a job, you are fat as fuck, but thank god you are white.

People apologizing for White privilege tend to embrace it for the same reason(its not like they can experience it, it is always a second hand experience).
While reading the article, I'm also reminded of the working culture in Vancouver tech scene without any of the benefits a worker might receive in Silicon Valley.

Just crappier pay, crazy uncompensated overtime, next to nothing in terms of salary bump. You don't like the long hours of work with meager pay and high living costs? You don't like coming in on the weekend? You don't like leaving at 9+ pm? Quit and good luck finding a job in the tech scene here, forever banished to the life of high hourly wages from contract jobs serving some American overlord, getting paid for overtime, not having to commute for hours in the crap public transportation system.
There are some useful discussion about online comments on http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/

Online comments a view from the trenches (Podcast, 30 min)
Online comments a wicked problem (Podcast, 30 min)

Both podcast, try to frame the problems, suggest some possible solutions and estimate the costs associated with dealing with online comments. I think they give a useful perspective from a multitude of points of view (also I use it to learn English).
You don't need to become rich, just move to another country than the USA. A good one is France, here "colored" foreigners are socially protected. Just make sure to move into a neighborhood with the same general level of education as yourself and your family (as that's the aspect on which most of the discrimination occurs) and you will be fine. Don't make the mistake of being white and educated and moving into a poor neighborhood though, you'll fare worse than having your children being called "whities" or similar heart-wrenching insults.
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Click-bait headline. The article is actually about Greg Wyler's WorldVu company. If you haven't gotten around the paywall yet, here's the key quote...

"The people familiar with the matter cautioned the project is in a formative stage, and it isn’t certain Mr. Musk will participate."
That Android-first developer “trend”
I've been using the python port lately, its great.

https://github.com/daviddrysdale/python-phonenumbers
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It was at four for me, earlier, before a brief HN outage.

Now its at 18 !?!
What kinds of discussions, exactly, get autokilled on Reddit?
I agree that it's great to learn a language, I was thinking of this as more of an exercise to generate a good post, but it's probably more reasonable to assume he really wanted to learn Go :P
If something may offend you, it will. There are a lot of people around who would like to hurt you for cheap - and they're not going away.
You realize that neither shooting has been even close to "legally justified"?

The case about Trayvon Martin's shooting was a disaster by the prosecution, attempting to charge for the wrong crime (1st degree).

The shooting of Michael Brown has had no legal process yet.
And then the comments went bad :(
The hard part for me, is that if you do manage to climb up from poverty, you'll be accused of "white privilege."
Haven't read any Deming, but will check it out. Any particularly good place to start?

I'd say in general it has proven out, though there have certainly been some cases where we tried to build products prior to fully defining the challenge/process and they were basically DOA. Again, here internal tools are just like external products: Without a tightly defined challenge/opportunity it's really hard to deliver a useful product.
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So your trades, name calling, and children temper tantrums are because of a "subtle implication?" Seems quite disproportionate to me.

Did you consider that it is such a subtle implication (your words) that maybe there is no implication there at all? I just ask because that implication doesn't exist anywhere in the actual quote (word for word), so plausibly it is your own baggage that added it to your reading.

You effectively created your own sexism and then got mad at that very same sexism. Maybe you should self-reflect on that a bit after you've calmed down.
Criminal convictions frequently open up the way for civil lawsuits to follow. In an idea world, these would help drain off illegally earned income.

I'm not holding my breath though.
It's not exactly a guide about our work culture, but "Xenophobe's Guide to the Americans" does a pretty good job at succinctly describing some of our cultural quirks.

http://www.xenophobes.com/the-americans/
Hm. Geosynchronous? Or low-orbit satellites at say 90 miles. 1ns/foot means half a millisecond to the nearest satellite passing overhead.

And little sats cost $50,000 per launch piggybacked on some other launch.
>Words should make you laugh, especially when uttered by someone clearly inferior.

If all women adopt this mentality then catcalling will no longer be an issue!
TextSecure cannot be any more secure than the intentionally backdoored systems that they run on.

Your carrier can install arbitrary code, without your knowledge, on both your baseband and your SIM card, and depending on your phones implementation, have direct (as in DMA) access to your entire application processor and whatever OS and userland is running on it.

There is no way around this. If it's a mobile phone, it cannot possible be secure and cannot in any way be considered your device.
Having an open wi-fi shouldn't be a crime, especially when meshnets will become increasingly more popular in the future. I don't think running a relay should be either, however, I'm also of the opinion that this is bad design from the Tor Project. Torrents are good design. They force everyone who downloads to also upload. Tor should force everyone who uses the browser to also be a relay.

Yes, I know what you're going to say - "but then a lot less people will be willing to use it!". Maybe. Or maybe not. Maybe it becomes something that's just "normal" and you don't think about it, just like seeding torrents. Then if it's something people don't think about, and it makes running Tor "more acceptable", I think even more people will use it.

Currently we're in the situation where potentially a large percentage of the relays are run by NSA/FBI. If millions of people would be relays, then that would either be much harder for them to pull off, or much more expensive. Either way, a better outcome.
I go two ways on this.

Yes, it's offensive. Stronger: It's morally wrong. It should bother not just you; it should bother everyone. It's not OK, it's not acceptable, and it should not be accepted by anyone.

But I don't think that was guard-of-terra's point. His/her point, as I understand it, was that it's unfortunately all over the place, and you're going to run into it. How are you, personally, going to respond to it? If you're going to try to fight every battle that comes your way, you're going to be miserable, exhausted, and probably depressed. That's no way to live. For your own sake, for your own ability to function, you need to be able to just shrug it off sometimes - or, even better, laugh at it, as guard-of-terra said.
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Potential instructions for trying this on Mac (I was unable to make it work, perhaps we can build upon this):

curl -LO http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl.tgz

tar zxvf afl.tgz

rm afl.tgz

cd afl*

make afl-gcc

make afl-fuzz

mkdir in_dir

echo 'hello' >in_dir/hello

# there is a glitch with the libjpeg-turbo-1.3.1 configure file that makes it difficult to compile on Mac, so I tried regular libjpeg:

curl -LO http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v8c.tar.gz

tar zxvf jpegsrc.v8c.tar.gz

cd jpeg-8c/

CC=../afl-gcc ./configure

make

# error: C compiler cannot create executables

# if the above command worked to build an instrumented djpeg, then this should work

cd ..

./afl-fuzz -i in_dir -o out_dir ./jpeg-8c/djpeg
I'm not convinced the plight of women in tech compares even remotely to the plight of actual minorities in the US.
This is what the windows developer community needs!
Windows Vista did something similar to support both panning and selecting with touch screens.*

A vertical drag would pan the content, and a horizontal drag would act like a mouse: select or drag-drop the content.
http://youtu.be/roP3YtLvblE?t=2m22s

I thought it worked well, even though it made horizontal scrolling harder (had to use 2 fingers).

Windows 8 uses tap-drag for selection instead.
http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/support/touch-mouse-a...

(* I worked on this feature at MS back in the day)