skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just read through the thread again and I really enjoyed your comments. I just wanted to say they were well thought out and you've given me the impression you know your stuff, or are knowledgable enough to form an opinion. I am neither when it comes to psychology, but I love to read anyhow. Thanks for all the various psychology links and new reading. This was a long winded compliment, in case I lost my point along the way.
"Being in the majority allows one to be ignorant of problems of diversity..."

Your point is expressed very well.

Made me think about how, though I have been the sole or one-of-a-few white guy(s) in work situations and maybe at times times taken out of my comfort zone. But not to the extent that the author describes. I cant imagine dealing with what she describes.

Saying it is the same thing is disingenuous or worse.
Not only the top contributor, but several others in the top of that list.
Another part of the quoted license:

> You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours.

Whatever anything else says in the ToS, this wins. Explicit statements always trump implications in contracts. You take that to court, show the judge, and you're on your way to dinner with your winnings later that very same day.

This ToS is not capable of Evil in the way you say. Period.
"Actually, such heavy-handed consequences on a hair trigger might be the opposite of what you want to do." - Yes.
What's striking is the comment that the "mysql" project has the highest bug fix density of the C programs. That seems unexpected, because MySQL is very heavily used and reasonably stable.

It may be simply that MySQL bugs actually get fixed. The work behind this paper counts bug fixes, not bug reports. Unfixed bugs are not counted.
Asking private citizens to enforce the law in that way is a totally absurd and intellectually void hypothetical.
What is a corporation besides a group of private citizens?

(Also note that it isn't law _enforcement_ that we are talking about.)

Nor is it an intellectually void hypothetical. The Stasi did exactly this not so long ago.

Finally it appears this isn't what you meant in your post. What did you mean in your post?
I would have linked to it, but I only read it in a dead-tree book at my parents' friends house a decade ago, so I had no idea where I would find it in the archives (didn't know when it was originally written). Apparently the Dilbert website has full test search for all the comics now, which would have made it a lot easier.

So, thanks for the link!
The IAC thing makes me wonder whether these stories can even be read normally. Given that this is a very large company that is closely managing the creation of a startup-shaped thing, do things like "founder" and "CEO" and "investment" mean what we usually think they mean? And if not, is there at all a meaningful parallel in the story of Twitter or any other actually-independent startup?

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-02/tinders-forg...

"""I spent a short and intense two weeks last summer reporting out a Tinder feature for Bloomberg Businessweek. What I found was a meteoric startup that wasn’t really a startup, owing to the fact that Tinder was born in an IAC incubator, and IAC owned and controlled the company. Rad and [former Chief Marketing Officer Justin] Mateen seemed to be playing make-believe in a lot of ways. They were keen to hide the IAC arrangement (“They’re sort of our partner in this”) and pretend that they were living the dream of being wined and dined by Silicon Valley moneymen (“We are being bombarded by venture capitalists … it’s very overwhelming”). When I talked to their minders at IAC and the incubator, executives were often dismissive of the two youngsters—happy to let them spin grand visions and soak up founder acclaim, while telling grownups, i.e. Wall Street analysts and investors, that Tinder was simply a lure to get millennials to pay later in life for IAC’s profitable dating service Match.com."""
Yes, I meant faster than gdb's native record and replay feature.

The nice thing about rr is that you can still use it with gdb, so you have the full power of gdb along with close to native speed record and reply. Once the x86-64 support is ready, it'll probably be a common tool for me.
I had to implement it manually, but it works. FWIW, I'm using a custom wrapper around MySQLi though.
Currently no, but that is a good suggestion. Thanks for checking us out!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8555285
Did you have tons of C/C++ libraries thrown at you in 100 level courses? Probably not, I'm guessing.

JavaScript is great because it runs in a browser, provides immediate feedback without having to compile/recompile and allows for all the simple flow control concepts mentioned by other posters.
At this point, I just know what I don't know. I just rediscovered this page:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/5me/scholarship_how_to_do_it_efficie...

Really, I'm just embarking on studies around such psychology. I'm beginning to think that ingroup/outgroup psychology and society's general ineffectiveness at dealing with it is a foundational problem I was meant to work on.
Check for bad inputs? I'm not saying this is a cure all, but it's a lot better than not being able to use arrays at all.
i'm fully asian with a white last name. when people meet me for the first time after communicating with me electronically they're always a little surprised. although, in my case i can see them kind of experiencing a little cognitive dissonance, which is fun.
>A limited copy, only for use in "operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones

also to:

>reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content

So not even family photos because you lose the right to keep them private.
Email me (find it in my profile), I'd love to chat about your situation. I'm pretty involved in the field, so I'm curious if I could hook you up with any avenues to liquidate.
Flickr Pro was depreciated a few months back. All Flickr users are able to download their originals now!
I think you took my comment to mean the exact opposite of what it says.
You write and think well about this topic. "Belling the cat" is the issue here as it would be extremely hard to implement a 'tolerance' program that would actually work. What exists today simply forces people to be more sophisticated and coded about resentments, jealousies, frustrations and prejudices. Or causes people to walk on eggshells which deepens the isolation that the author describes.
> she refers to a room full of black people as a utopia of diversity

I gave you the benefit of the doubt earlier, but this is outright distortion.
DB has now become boring. MS is a boring company.
Yes, in 1973-74 I used to submit college FORTRAN programs to an IBM 360 sixty miles away via an IBM 2741 Selectric console http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2741 that was connected to an IBM modem device/leased line. We used a line-oriented editor of a remote job entry system to create virtual 80-column decks of cards ("jobs") that included the job control language as well as the programs themselves. In the second semester we exchanged the Selectric's regular type ball for one with APL symbols (the 2741's keys had both regular and APL symbols), and used IBM's time-shared 360 APL system via the 2741. This was considerably more fun than FORTRAN because of a) the immediate interactivity and b) APL's amazingly compact notation. APL one-liners were like nothing before or since in computer languages.
Read-only Time Machine
Yeah, autocomplete is a disaster with Atom. Performance is okay for me.
A related (somewhat humorous) article from The Economist:

Quoting the article:

"The first principle of skiving (or shirking, as Americans call it) is always to appear hard at work....The second principle is that information technology is both the slacker’s best friend and his deadliest enemy. ...The third principle is that you should always try to get a job where there is no clear relation between input and output. The public sector is obviously a skiver’s paradise. In 2004 it took two days for anyone to notice that a Finnish tax inspector had died at his desk. "

Full Article: http://goo.gl/HftcFx
Why Instagram worked
GamerGate Auto Blocker for Twitter
A lot of stubbornness seems to blossom when a kid (or adult) realizes that there's something to understand beyond the next assignment. If you're working for the external rewards of 10 points/10 dollars/a marshmallow, once you've got it, you're done. If you are working to understand something cool, you have a lot more work to do -- and then you find something else cool, and then something else, and suddenly you're a stubborn researcher!

Many students I've met in high school or college don't even realize that there are cool things to understand in math. They think math is just a collection of rules. Once the rules are mastered/test is over, done. What's there to understand? And hence why be stubborn? What is there to be stubborn about?

A healthy disregard for authority is also important in stubbornness, and hard to teach in school (as it's against the self-interest of the harried teacher who needs a "well-controlled" classroom).
Global Hack Day
Great post but you can use whose instead of who's

"who's" is a contraction of "who is" while "whose" shows possession. Not trying to be a language pedant but my parents are both English instructors and I can't help it!
Bold claims... but Microsoft Band or Basis Peak seem more advanced.
I've been given the impression that NT's superior kernel architecture is why they are doing this. But they also want other people to care so they also try to get Windows apps working on it too.
I didn't call it a sophisticated framework for nothing. Of course it does a lot more than that.

Point is, it is ridiculous suffering from client side rendering latency penalties due to an absurd number of round trips loading all these different components. Concatenation is NOT a hard concept folks. Even if you aren't using GWT there is no excuse for letting this drive the problem.
How to build a restful API with Node
Ask HN: How profitable is windows app development?
I am sick of trying to develop for android due to the the unnecessary complexity and verbosity of the Java language. However, how profitable is app development for the windows store?
I've seen Microsoft employees across the web have to point this out a dozen times.

"The New Microsoft" seems to be making better decisions overall, but it apparently didn't learn anything from the early-2000s ".net branding clusterfuck" which conflated their runtime platform, development tools, consumer-facing single-sign-on, and a few dozen other things in the mind of the public.
I wouldn't be so sure, depending on his role in the operational scope he could be underutilized. I frequently find myself with too little to do because I can work quicker so I'm typically waiting for the people that need 8 hours+ a day to complete their responsibilities before I can make progress.

In my case, it's the people that think they're impressive working 8 hour+ days that need to learn to be more efficient that are causing issues.
So ChromeCast does not support HTML5 video? That's a bit sad.
Building a Cloud Benchmarking System
This really looks to me more like "Ubuntu wants to compete with OpenVZ".
Exactly. You have to drop hooks into the lexer from the parser, and by the time you're done you end up with just as much code. Only it's slower than a recursive-descent parser would be, and a lot of the time parsing speed really matters because it shows up as user-visible latency.
What are the best online resources for designers moving to startups?
Out of curiosity, why do you think that startups are "supposed to be good" at any sort of self awareness?

I ask because I've never heard of "self-awareness" associated with startups before and in my personal experience the vast majority of startups and startup people are incredibly un-self-aware.
Yes, and good engineering is also the art of simplicity; we should also respect engineering work by the amount of useless code they didn't write.

Docker resonates well with people because it focuses on aspects of virtualization that people care: development and deployment. It alleviates the need of using complicated configuration management tools by providing layered images, and encourages fine grained containers by supporting first class volume sharing.

The fact that it integrates well with other virtualization stacks is a proof that for a good part it's orthogonal to them.
I have not read the article but I doubt the analogy was meant to be an exact explanation (thus the reason it is an analogy and not a mathematical definition).

But for those who are familiar with calculus the notion of holography is related to the mathematical ideas and formulations of Stokes Theorem (and in fact Calculus in total) [0][1]. :)

The holographic principle (iirc) is commonly discussed (in physics) in relation to / in terms of ADS/CFT duality[2]. Where the 'boundary' of some quantum gravity theory (such as formulated by a string theory) on anti-desitter (ADS) space is a conformal field theory which is equivalent to a real world quantum field theory (if in the correct number of dimensions).

As far as I understand it, it allows a way for string theorists to 'map' particular string theories (in a certain dimension) to an actual quantum field theory, using the ADS/CFT duality. In other words, it provides a possible key to doing real world physics with string-theoretic methods.

Some commentary from an actual physicist would be most welcome, though. :)

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokes'_theorem
[1] https://www.khanacademy.org/math/multivariable-calculus/surf...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdS/CFT_correspondence
Funny enough I've had to deal with many of these when implementing http://platform.qbix.com

I pretty much agree with everything except #1. Rendering things on the server has the disadvantage of re-sending the same thing for every window. I am a big fan of caching and patterns like this: http://platform.qbix.com/guide/patterns#getter

You can do caching and batching on the client side, and get a really nice consistent API. If you're worried about the first load, then concatenate all your js and css, or take advantage of app bundles by intercepting stuff in phonegap. Give the platform I built a try, it does all that stuff for you, including code updates when your codebase changes (check out https://github.com/EGreg/Q/blob/master/platform/scripts/urls... which automagically makes it possible)

I would say design for "offline first" and other stuff should fall into place.
> Actually, such heavy-handed consequences on a hair trigger might be the opposite of what you want to do.

There is no plausible context in which saying "did you get that bruise from your boyfriend beating you?" to your colleague is appropriate. If someone does that, you really have no choice but to take a stand.
I'm pretty sure I get $100/year worth of 2 day shipping out of Prime quite easily, but I'm starting to agree on the other points.

What's been bothering me is that the 2 day shipping has started to turn into 3 or 4 days, and the deliveries have started mysteriously getting statuses such as "customer refused delivery" or "unable to deliver" even when I'm home all day. This is entirely anecdotal, but I'm wondering if there isn't some sort of effect going on with drivers who have started to see more Amazon packages and interpreted as not being as serious as a delivery as other expedited shipments.

Anybody else had similar experiences?
Causation vs. Correlation doesn't matter that much in most cases, if your goal is a investment strategy. Most of the research is like "if the ROE in the quarterly report is like this, then the return of the stock will be like that in the next month". Maybe the ROE is the reason for the stock performance, or maybe something else is affecting both the ROE and the future stock performance, (but certainly future stock performance can't just go back in time to affect current reported ROE, in normal cases). Either way, you don't care. What you care is to establish a pattern between a current event and a future event, and whether that hold true in all kinds of scenarios, especially in the near future. Although a direct causation is more robust but if it's a hidden variable you'll have to settle for less.
Hi, I've been trying to figure this out for a while, and it's a hell of a thing to get Google to understand. Can someone explain why the rail is referred to as "-5v" instead of its opposite simply being called "5v"?
JQuery widget for optimized data entry
I use gmail's filter to dump them and 99% of my emails to various labels. Once every 2-4 weeks, when I am in the mood, I check them out then delete them all. :-)
Ask HN: HN inbox, feature to send/receive messages to/from HN users
Few times I was in need to contact other HN users. But not all HN users have mentioned contact info in their profile.

Would it be nice to have Reddit/Quora like inbox feature for HN users, as part of HN itself?
Why You Shouldn't Drop Out to Start Up – Dharmesh Shah
This is THE open question for Docker right now. The first person to actually solve it is going to be in a pretty damn good place.

Docker could make most infrastructure-level "cloud" abstraction obsolete and let people run resilient, scalable clusters on hardware pretty easily. There's CoreOS, Kubernetes, and a few others in the app-instance-scheduling space, but right now, if you want persistent data storage of any kind (block, SQL, blob, whatever) then you still need to tie things down to an individual machine or use VM-level cloud technology to acheive some semblance of fault tolerance. The inability to do persistent storage in a reasonable way is, from where I sit, the main thing keeping Docker from eating the world.

When you can run Postgres in a stable/supported way in a container on my own hardware that gets scheduled around failure/crowding/etc, you no longer needs AWS, VMWare, etc. That could be huge.
Show HN: BallZ Eye.My first Game on Android .A fast game need quick reflexes
My first game in Unity which I have currently ported only in Android. Will be soon coming with ios version.Need the right audience for the game. Link:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codemymobile.ballzeye&hl=en
Google updates cloud with new virtual technologies and price cuts
Black is pretty clearly what she means, given her mention of Oakland.

I’ve lived several places in the Bay Area: San Jose, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara,
San Bruno. All places I didn’t feel like I didn’t belong. I walked around
and saw scant few other black women.

The peninsula and south bay are very diverse with the exception of black people. eg san mateo county is 63% white (notably less than the fraction of the US as a whole), 25% asian, and 25% latino. [1] Santa Clara is similar [2].

Also, from her article, the sole time she mentions being happy at work is this:

our team was predominantly black. I could relate to my teammates without
having to conform. I didn’t have to be anything different than who I was and
I flourished there. I was mostly happy at work [...]

Simply put, she wishes to be around black people and work with black people. I don't think there's anything wrong with that, but I don't see how you didn't see that in her writing.

[1] http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/06/06081.html

[2] http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/06/06085.html
Wait, it does NFC based payments as well? Huh?

Details are buried in the FAQs, mentions it supports AMEX only. There are some duplicate FAQs as well, wonder if that was not ready for prime time (though NFC is listed under the available sensors).
Arcane legends hack
FB and Google can clone what your thinking, maybe predict what your will be thinking? :-)

I wonder if they can predict with some percentage accuracy on what any particular active US user might vote for today base on the user's graph data?
Javascript is probably semantically closest to Scheme - it's a language built around closures and one universal data type (lists in Scheme, objects/dicts in JS). Scheme is a pretty good choice for intro CS courses, because of its simplicity and the need to re-implement many common language constructs from first principles.

JS shares this property, but also gains the benefits of being widely used in industry and available in every web browser, with a good debugger in Firefox and Chrome. I'd never really considered it as a teaching language, but I think it'd be a great choice.
These argument must be taken with a grain of salt. The truth is you don't know how many independent random investing they actually make. The classic argument is that given more than 1000 people there will be someone with a perfect score in 10 coin toss. But the reality is that some investor only tossed 5 times(big bet, long term investment), while some others tossed 100 times(short term, lots of smaller trading). It's much easier to say to a PE fund which only makes a deal every 2 years that its success is pure luck, than say the same thing to a high frequency trading firm who trades every second.
In the United States, "minority" is often used as a crude stand-in for "against which society is often biased". For example, "women and minorities" is a common grouping-together despite women having a percentage majority in the country.
I'm still so confused as to why any of these pedometers cost so much. I'm really interested in picking one up, but the price is pretty prohibitive for something whose value-add I can't really judge ahead of time
The overview/explanation that ought to be visible is in a file[0]. It is still not clear the extent of this or its derivation, how much is borrowed and how much original, and generally why it exists.

[0] https://github.com/rswier/swieros/blob/master/00README.txt
I love the hidden substructure of trivia like this.
If you're asking whether racism still exists based on skin color - yes it most certainly does.
body language? it's not that hard...
There are download links for webm and mp4, fwiw.
Wow, the progress on this looks great. The layout/resize behavior looked at least 30fps, maybe 60fps, in any case, it looked like layout was substantially faster than either Blink or Gecko today.
Lars Bergstrom (works on the Servo team) gives a brief overview of Servo, its motivation and its (good!) performance. He also gives a few pointers on how someone can get started contributing.
> On bare metal, these containers are just as fast as the native OS on bare metal.

This press release seems to have been writen in 5 minutes.
We at our company also tried to develop solutions based on beacons for our customers. The major hindrance to acceptance of beacons is people here almost always switch off bluetooth in their phones. I think phone designers should give 2 different switches for switching bluetooth on/off in the UI. One for traditional bluetooth and another for BLE. That way customers can be pursuaded to keep ble on.
I am not a practicing scientist, but I'll venture the hypothesis that your difficulties in the job market may be partly a function of your personality.