skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or, you've generated Scenario Five: Reddit wanted to remove a mod in connection with the Jackson AMA, Victoria refused to cooperate, they fired her instead.

But I would definitely agree that what looks like conspiracy generally turns out to be stupidity.
Totally true. I developed the product that was responsible for >50% of the company's revenue and walked away with 0.04% at exit.

It was decent, not life changing. I probably should have negotiated significantly higher. Hindsight etc.
See my reply to the sibling post.
Are you smarter than a burger flipper?
seems like it's the address used in twitter bootstrap as an example.
This was ridiculous the first time it came out. It's just as bad now.
Probably some library initializaion takes enough time to affect the results. I wonder what is taking time in this case.
Thanks for the data! From the same site as your second link:

http://cis.org/node/3877

If you look at table 29, immigrants make 93% as much income as natives nation-wide. Given that they account for only 13% of the population, that means that they represent less than a percent of income reduction nation-wide. Admittedly I'm talking mean not median here, but I'm not buying the argument that a regular person in the most powerful economy on the planet is having a harder time than the ones in the tiny countries of Australia, Belgium, and Germany because of a 1% drag on national income.

Americans have forgone universal health care, a strong social safety net, free or cheap higher education, all in the pursuit of a better economy and higher personal incomes. Lots of leftist countries haven't had to make that sacrifice, and yet even if you added 1% to the per capita income of Americans, they'd still be at least in the same ballpark, if not still ahead. From where I stand, that was not a good trade.
Access to legal resources is nearly exclusively related to wealth, not race. A black person will have pretty much the same access to legal resources as the equivalently wealthy white person. Poor people regardless of race don't have much access to anything.
A European perspective: From about the 1950’s to the 1990’s, the USA was seen as the best place on Earth to be, bar none. It was viewed as having the biggest and best (for some definition of “best”) of everything (military, industry, products, culture), and was seen as being committed to an almost Google-like “don’t be evil” policy. Sure, there were exceptions, and individuals (and their administrations) were criticized, but they were seen as exceptions to a general good principle. The American national pride was seen as a little over the top (especially the slightly creepy “pledge of allegiance” school ritual) but not completely out of the realm of the concievable, and a bit understandable given the USA’s status.

Then Bush, Iraq, and 9/11 happened, and the resulting PATRIOT act, TSA, NSA, etc. Many were of course disillusioned with the USA before this (Washington Papers, CIA, etc.), but I think this was the point at which the view of the European general public shifted. It was suddenly OK to express suspicion about the USA’s motives in public discourse, in a way which would have seemed tinfoil-hat-ish or far-left-extremist before.

Now I can come to the point: The national pride of US citizens does not seem to have softened or changed. On the contrary, it seems to have hardened in the face of opposition. This, I feel, is the real emotional reason which Europeans have, to denigrate the USA at seemingly every opportunity: They feel that US citizens are far too proud of the USA when it has far too many flaws, and that Americans need to be put in their place, so to speak – taken down a notch. I confess that I personally have occasionally succumbed to this way of thinking, especially when Americans have been proud of (or at least content with) specific things which are really not very good at all compared to other nations.

I do not excuse this behavior, I am merely trying to explain it.
I'm pretty sure I remember Delphi using the carry flag to return boolean values.
In that case you should check out the section https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United_S...

It seems clear to me given the evidence presented, that bias in the justice system does not account for the gap when it comes to serious crimes. Given this, in my opinion "Blacks commit crimes at around 5x higher rate than Whites" is a fair claim. I actually should have said 8x, I misremembered the article.

One interesting thing to me is that within parts of academia, it is not controversial to claim that Black people commit more crimes. Such academics seek the causes of this difference in various sociological explanations. You can see the discussion in the rest of the wiki article. But outside of academia a very different story is told. I believe that academics think that ordinary people cannot be trusted not to draw "racist" conclusions from the statistics about crime. Therefore liberal academics do nothing to dispel the myth amongst mainstream liberals, that Black crime rates are mainly due to bias in the justice system.
I don't see that at all. This comment says more about your mindset than anything else, to be honest.
Facebook Are Killing It
My take: Facebook are killing it because they are pursuing functional, reactive, declarative designs.

The next step on is to consider using a LANGUAGE that naturally supports this paradigm: Clojurescript or Elm are the obvious choices.

This dreamy utopian future https://speakerdeck.com/chantastic/inline-styles-react-europ... … already exists in both ClojureScript and Elm!! For example, the Reagent library in ClojureScrpt. Is insane popularity imminent?

Shameless plug for an MVC layer: https://github.com/Day8/re-frame
There are all sorts of things you can't say in the US.
Uh huh. And who makes that decision? Once you give someone that kind of power they're going to decide criticism of themselves "can't do any good to anyone, but rather the contrary".
Sure, fine, but why the anger? Why the 'trainwreck'? that's not constructive at all. The article definitely didn't claim these were security vulnerabilities - only that they were surprising. Some of these were surprising to me too. Am I an idiot for not knowing these? (no, I'm not, I'm just a novice).

It's really aggravating to learn something from an article that is making someone more knowledgeable this angry without explanation.
It would be nice to see the numbers, in addition to the graph.

I did a straight port of C to lua, and ran it with luajit.

The C code ran in 49.901s.

The luajit code ran in 14m16.547s.

C code was compiled with -02 -std=c11 -lm (version 4.8.1, mingw).

luajit.exe was 2.0.3, static build, using VS2012 x64
That Wikipedia article reflects some of the worst problems of biased sourcing on Wikipedia. (I say this as a Wikipedian who tries to fix those problems.)
Node v0.12.6 (Important security update)
GovTech Is Not Broken
I'm somewhat confused about why this is on HN. The guy doesn't work in technology. He's not leaving because of technology. The article doesn't talk about technology. It doesn't even talk about the immigration process -- which immigrant entrepreneurs and technology workers on visas can relate to. Y'know, despite all the troubles I'm having with my visa (After seven years and hundreds of thousands of dollars invested I have to leave the country and re-apply for a different kind of visa -- a major pain) I still want to stay here. The U.S has many problems, but at least they are out in the open and people are working on them. This is a great place to work and has far, far, more opportunity than the UK. The writer may want to read Cory Doctorow's recent article [1] about how London has become almost impossible to live in.

[1]http://boingboing.net/2015/06/29/why-im-leaving-london.html
Managing a fleet of Windows desktops to reliably deliver an office suite and web browser to ~35 clerical workers is a gapingly unsolved problem. Seriously, it's hilariously, soul-crushingly painful.

Fix it. Preferably for less money than buying Macs.
Plumtree is an excellent alternative to Mnesia: https://github.com/helium/plumtree
I've been torn for a while. This is one of my two fake addresses to direct junk mail toward.

The other one is "1060 West Addison Street, Chicago IL 60613"
Show HN: Hackjob.io – HN job listings done a bit better
I don't see why the mods ever have to know the names of those who upvoted (or downvoted) to be able to ban them. A message would be sent out to those who were banned, letting them know why, and if they choose to reveal themselves as having made the bad vote... no one's doxxing them except themselves.
Golang data structures
This appears to be a long-winded telling of the kind of nonsensical crap that has been circulating as of late that tries to convince people a circle is a square, or up is down or something equally preposterous.

How did the descendants of immigrants become xenophobic?

The founders of the USA were not immigrants, they didn't immigrate to join Indian tribes, they were founders of a country. And until very recently, immigrants to the USA immigrated and integrated, they became Americans, they didn't immigrate and expect to receive special treatment because they were a member of group X.

It's not xenophobic to simply not want your country and culture to be overrun with competing cultures. The idea of multiculturalism is nonsense. Cultures can't coexist that's just not how it works, a culture is the dominant way of life in an area, you can't invite another culture to come and live within the confines of another culture, that makes no sense. What is being done in such a case is you are inviting significant changes to the host culture, and it shouldn't be surprising that most people are pretty content with their home culture and they're not receptive to the idea of having foreign cultures thrust into their home.

cannot pay a visit to their home country because they are undocumented

Are you f-ing kidding me? Can't do you something because it is likely to reveal that they are in violation of a law they willfully chose to violate? That's some kind of big problem we should be concerned with?

A nation without laws is no nation at all. What's the point of any country having rules and regulations for the people they admit if people who break those rules are simply overlooked, much less greeted with pity and concern for their plight of possibly getting caught?

When matters such as these are written about in the media why is it that preference is so often given to euphemisms such as 'undocumented' when what they are actually trying to describe is illegal alien?

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Another commenter mentioned the race angle that was brought up in this article, I luckily missed most of that in my brief skimming.

The real race problem that never seems to be addressed, and it's an uncomfortable reality and whatever the solution is, it is not immediately apparent and I suppose that is one reason why there is a near and total blackout on the subject in the national media. But it doesn't explain why the national media tries to portray the facts in a way that is near 180 degrees opposite to reality.

The real race problem is that when it comes to interracial violence, and black on white vs white on black, the facts are black on white racial violence is off the charts compared to white on black racial violence. It's not even close.
Distributed Erlang on its own is fine to run in production (particularly as a control plane for metadata between nodes) because few assumptions about reliability of the network are baked in; most of them can be made by the application designer.

Distributed OTP applications (with the automated takeover/failover mechanism) see very little use in the real world because of their set of assumptions that network failures are rarer than software or hardware failure, which result in perceiving all netsplits as nodes going down (a great way to get split brains!)
"Feeling bored at work? Just go start a company. Feeling depressed about life and lack any direction? Just go start a company. Broke up recently? Just go start a company. Had a parent die and can’t move on? Just go start a company."

This is how we end up with statistics like 27% of founders have mental health issues. Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/austen-heinzs-suicide-and-dep...
Folsom Avenue? More like Folsom Street. See the eponymous fair.

Also, this used to be Twitter HQ...
It's always refreshing to see descriptions of America by people who have lived here a long time after living somewhere else long enough to be without American presuppositions about how life works. One of the things I found most startling about coming back to the United States at age twenty-six-going-on-twenty-seven after three years of living overseas was reverse culture shock. When I first went to the other country I lived in (Taiwan), any time an experience felt strange, which was often, I would just say to myself, "Of course this is strange, this is a foreign country." But I was very taken aback when I returned to the United States and found out that many experiences feel strange here now--I know that the United States is not the center of the Universe. Now that I've lived in more than one country, it's a whole lot harder to have a standard for "normal" for many aspects of life.

The writing in this article is very interesting, and the author reports many interesting incidents. This article deserves your close reading attention, and I predict it will be good food for thought for the readers who read it from top to bottom. I look forward to a future article by the same author about what he thinks about Britain after he lives there for a while following so many years away in America.
I've seen a lot of different studies related to race and crime, and nothing that would imply a bias in the justice system that could explain the 8x greater rate of crimes such as homocide.

My original post was fair and correct, because all the available evidence makes it very clear that the rate at which Black people commit crimes is much higher than for White people.
Ask HN: Why are most web designers have very simple and boring websites?
I'm a fullstack web developer and have been for the past 10 years. I never had a portfolio and prefer to upload my work on github. But times are changing and i decided last week to make my own. I've literally created over a hundred website through my career, but when it came to making mine, i was lost. So i decided to look at world known web designers portfolios to be inspired, hopefully. But the thing is, most of them are generic and boring! I really don't understand this, is it like a trend or something?
Meet the Memcomputer: The Brain-Like Alternative to Quantum Computing
What would be the point of open sourcing your hard work? I'm sorry but I don't believe that you should solve by giving it away for free, how,does that benefit you? I'm genuinely curious to know if any of you have gained a real business value by open sourcing.

However, I do believe in open source if the soul purpose was to open source to begin with, just as long as people aren't naively jumping on the bandwagon after failing to gain traction or sales.

Perhaps a little too black and the white thinking above but in my own experience, open sourcing your product seems to attract freeloaders, your conversion falls, someone that would have gladly paid walks, leaving money on the table.
I hear you. E.g. - I find go-format to be vile. I remember "non New Jersey" languages from back in the 80s, and find K&R syntax / format worship sickening.

Yes, leave an existing file in its existing layout. No, don't get your shorts in a twisty if both double quotes and single quotes are used in places when the language treats them EXACTLY the same (i.e. - no value interpolation).

Don't force me to copy Java idioms (UGHHHHH!) in an otherwise functional programming language. I don't care about how to use "this" (other than to read somebody else's crap OOP code); I'm using variables in closures that happen to be bundled into an "object". I'm using currying for "dependency injection", rather than writing crap classes with one "do it" method for 90% of instances of "class". (alas, I do most of my work in Java, and only a little JavaScript, which is why the java-isms in JS upset me so much -- Java clowns, GO AWAY!!!)

This is an unfocused rant, I apologize, but I hear your complaint about mandated arbitrary stupidity. I don't know why you got downvoted. People didn't just not agree, you offended them. Go figure.
why even bother with prime numbers? just have the program count from 1 to 2^n and the results will have about as much meaning as these do.
If you're a programmer who can pass algorithm interviews, you have a great chance of scoring near the 90th percentile the first time you attempt the LSAT, and the 96th percentile with practice. Scoring much below the 80th percentile on the LSAT is very poor. In Canada, few students are admitted to any law school with scores that low.

Say you spend $300k on law school. Over a 30 year career, you only have to make an average of $10k extra per year to break even.

The "Jobs Data" tab offers more details: "79.2% of graduates were known to be employed in long-term, full-time legal jobs", "93% graduates were employed in long-term jobs", etc.

The number of software jobs are expected to grow, but is the growth going to be in jobs you really want, or will they all be for 23-year-old coding bootcamp grads?

Again, who cares about the nationwide averages? The 50th percentile Northwestern law grad makes $160k right out of school, and is on track make several times that as a law firm partner, or somewhat less as in-house counsel. My impression is that most programmers struggle to hit $160k any time in their careers, at least outside of SFBA.

When someone describes the downsides of their job, I take it with a grain of salt. Often, it's a case of "the grass is always greener". Sometimes, members of high-status professions want to downplay their success. In any case, most of the lawyers I've talked to say they enjoy their work (though they do work much longer and less predictable hours than programmers).
I agree with the overall point of the article, but one nit is that it isn't great to cite Michael Brown's shooting as evidence of police racism. There is evidence (witness accounts consistent with physical evidence) to back up the officer's claims. Citing that only weakens your case. The other examples are valid, though.
How do you know it's satire?
I did not understand persistent until someone point me to the wikipedia article [1]:

> In computing, a persistent data structure is a data structure that always preserves the previous version of itself when it is modified. Such data structures are effectively immutable, as their operations do not (visibly) update the structure in-place, but instead always yield a new updated structure.

The way I understand it in terms of python: It's like a nametuple or dict, where each update return a new namedtuple/dict with the new values for modified attributes but still the old values for attributes that did not change. It doesn't need to deep copy all the datastructure/database.

This is not persistent as in "stored on disk". Being append only is a way to achieve persistence except it is also applicable to non-stored-on-disk datastructures.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_data_structure
Is the complexity actually quadratic, like amelius said?

The diffing operation is linear according to React documentation: https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/reconciliation.html

Is Array.prototype.concat linear, too? What about the ImmutableJS equivalent? I don't know a whole lot about algorithms, my intuition is that there would be a way to add an item to the end of the array without traversing the entire thing, but I guess it all depends on how the data structure is implemented.
Education in Minecraft
This 2009 NPR story about Robert Frank and his book of photographs The Americans is also interesting:

http://www.npr.org/2009/02/13/100688154/americans-the-book-t...

"The Americans showed a different America than the wholesome, nonconfrontational photo essays offered in some popular magazines. Frank's subjects weren't necessarily living the American dream of the 1950s: They were factory workers in Detroit, transvestites in New York, black passengers on a segregated trolley in New Orleans. Frank didn't even get much support from the art world, he recalls.

"'The Museum of Modern Art wouldn't even sell the book,' Frank says. 'But the younger people caught on.'"
It would also be nice to express numbers in the same base too. :-)

"The luajit code ran in 856.547s."

The graph is log-log which can be a bit tricky to read but that puts it in the same ballpark as Ruby and PHP (assuming the same factor of difference between the two, after scaling your C vs luajit results to match the given C value of ~40s, luajit becomes 687s.)
I think no one really knows why the community is getting pissed off constantly. Right now it's just acting as an angry mob with no brain. And if you follow all this drama, you will see that they bring a lot of golds (so a lot of money to reddit) and that they die out in a day or two.

Personally this was my cue to unsubscribe of most default subs that did the black out today.
Whites probably are prosecuted less for minor things like pot or jaywalking or what have you.

But for high-profile things i.e. the things that should be priority for a justice system, things like rape and murder, it is the simple, uncomfortable fact that blacks outpace all other races by a wide margin.

If you think that demonstrating that blacks are incarcerated at higher rates than whites somehow disproves the above facts and somehow proves that whites commit more rapes and murders than blacks but are not caught/incarcerated, then for that to be the case, given the amount of rapes and murders that blacks commit, there would have to be a huge number unsolved rape and murder cases.

Are there a huge number of unsolved rape and murder cases? No there aren't, the number of unsolved cases is probably not even 15% of the solved and prosecuted cases.

Maybe you should develop a simple command of the facts before you literally compare someone to a mass-murderer in your grammar naziism.
Why this over vimperator?
"Yes, I think this is an important article for Americans to read, and it hasn't yet received any significant discussion on the site."

Problem being, if it is, in fact, worthy of discussion here, there are three different discussion threads for this article... and a given reader is unlikely to see more than one.

For example, your extensive comment on copy #2 goes unseen by those reading comments for this copy only... as most readers would.
Not just typically kept private - by exposing the reasons for a termination, they could be liable for pretty serious damages. I have no horse in this race, but expecting an explanation for the dismissal is pretty short-sighted.
What mind set is that?
Why do many Hacker news commenters criticize posts without understanding what the writer is trying to do? The purpose is to benchmark the language, not to come up with the most efficient algorithm.

Further, your suggested optimization is terrible. Even if it turns out that's slightly faster (which I'm not convinced it is: did you actually compile that code and look at the generated assembly or profile it?) there are much bigger wins to be had by using a better overall algorithm, such as the sieve of Eratosthenes, which was mentioned in the article if you had read it.

I know I'm being a grumpy old man here, but if you decide to comment on articles you either didn't read or didn't understand, you've only yourself to blame.
I'm not following. Can you elaborate?
I was curious too so I took a look at their website. It looks like they list all their tests and the price for them. This seems rather transparent of them. Not sure if Walgreens does all of these.

https://www.theranos.com/test-menu