skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still doesn't make it wrong. I didn't read the whole thing, but the bias was there. His aunt moved from a "black" neighborhood because it was worse - and yes, there is a correlation between bad neighborhoods and black ones. But this doesn't makes his aunt racist, it just means she doesn't want to live in a shitty place.

I'm not american so I don't give a damn about racism, so I can say things which can't be said in public: black culture is inferior (muhaha... I trample on your cultural relativism) and has many toxic elements. It's stupid to blame race, but it's still fact that culture makes a hellof a lot of difference by itself, including more likely to have shitty neighborhoods and white aunts moving out of them.

So yes, you could call overly "reverse-racist" a point of view which willfully assigns to racism what can be explained otherwise.
I never argued it was a right. In fact, I totally agree with you -- it is a privilege. One that should probably be revoked or at least enforced.
And I'm a former US Army Military Intelligence person with 0 college experience. Thanks for your service Marine. I was self taught and my first hiring manager very much took a chance on me, one that he was happy to take that turned out well. More than 10 years (and 3 jobs later), him and I are still friends.

When you only have a few years of experience, or one/two jobs, that is different. But if you've worked in the industry awhile, it shows either a lack of discipline, lack of respect, or both. Occasionally, you have someone unlucky to accept shitty offers at multiple places and leave due to personality conflicts. That is something that I'd ask you were you to interview for a position on one of the teams I'm on the hiring board for. It is all about perception. If the perception is that you're going to leave after a very short period, I'll generally be gunshy, as many other experience managers will also do.
Schmidt wasn't making a strong argument against privacy, he was discussing the relationship between using an online search engine and privacy. He was asked People are treating Google like their most trusted friend. Should they be?

And responded with your quote, and a bit more. The context is harder to ridicule:

I think judgment matters. If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. But if you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines, including Google, do retain this information for some time. And it's important, for example, that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act. It is possible that information could be made available to the authorities.
I am not surprise. People already have an amazing smartphone they can use for multi-purpose with big screen (and probably continue to grow which is actually a sad fact for me). So why spend a few hundred dollars on a watch? People talk about the awesome stuff Watch can do with health data but honestly, I find that argument to be weak. You should exercise regularly. You are not going to detect a heart failure with Watch and even if you can you would be unconscious at that time. You should go to a doctor at least twice a year for a body check. Everything else? I want a map on my phone. If I want to message someone I'd pull out my phone and type a long message, not doodle. If I want to message with voice I can also do that with my phone. And the truth is a lot of people carry their phone in their pocket already so while it takes a few seconds to pull out that's just a prize. Wearing an expensive gadget like Watch to just see the message is just not economically smart. A lot of things you do still require to pair up with your phone and a data plan, so again Watch gains nothing.
I would just like to point out that Mihai Sucan, a wonderful developer that worked on the Mozilla Developer Tools, passed away in April of this year due to the skin cancer this disease often leads to. I had the privilege of knowing him.

You can read his blog here:
http://mihai.sucan.ro/mihai/blog

His twin brother is still fighting.

I am very glad to see that a great medical research center such as Stanford is doing work to heal this disease. If you want to make a donation this year, please consider them. Mihai also wrote about donating in his last blog post.
Define urban, please. At what population density is something "urban" vs. "rural"? The Phoenix metro is /huge/, but much of it is considered to be "rural" by the locals there because it doesn't come even slightly close to the density of a real city like SF or NYC.
Does it make sense to have special laws to protect endangered species? Why not protect all species? Does it make sense to have more severe punishment for cop killers? Why not have severe punishment for all killers? Does it make sense to have extra fines for drivers who break rules in construction zones? Does it make sense to have a special coaching for girls who code ( https://girlswhocode.com/ ?) Why not provide that extra coaching to all kids? Because we live in the real world, not some utopia.
This article from BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28352045 says "Telling people how to walk is simply not British" and I can anecdotally confirm there is no observed rule in London. A bloke once told me somewhat angrily "on the left in England mate", but he must be telling that to hundreds of English people daily.

Signs in corridors in stations can say either "keep left" or "keep right" depending on what's more convenient for corridor layout. Escalators are always stand right, walk left.

(Out of interest and because the article also mentions it, there is no concept of jaywalking in England and I've read that it is not in any way illegal for pedestrians to cross against a red light. However drivers rarely defer to pedestrians even at marked crossings.)

(Out of further interest, in Paris the suburban trains use left-hand running like the national network, but the metro runs on the right.)
Also, in a lot of cases, github replaces a long resume if you contribute to a lot of open source software. Please do keep that up as it is also a great way to stay current on tech you like, but might not be able to work on as part of $DAY_JOB.

I hold working open source code that is reasonably good higher than job experience in a lot of cases.

My github: https://github.com/SEJeff
Who here didn't know anything about entrenched sexism in SV until codes of conduct, angry twitter mobs and odd journalism articles such as this post came about?
> Considering that the space shuttle booster rockets used a 6:1 mass ratio of oxydizer to fuel, air breathing engines powered by these supercoolers can change the economics of rockets.

It doesn't change it too much because it's not feasible to go above Mach 10 or so in the atmosphere. (In fact, another comment on this page says air-breathing typically cuts out before Mach 6.) Low Earth orbit is something like Mach 25, so most of the accelerating is done in a vacuum where there's no air anyways. My vague understanding is that the performance enhancement is fairly modest on an absolute scale, but it happens to be important because it is just enough to make single-stage-to-orbit feasible.
oh, definitely! simply trying to remember back to what the gravel roads were like (been a while since I've lived there)

I seem to recall they get pretty awful, and ones that are not proper county roads become impassable at normal driving speeds
I'll give it a try.

Rockets require dense oxygen to burn. Near the edge of the atmosphere the air is not dense. Cooling the air increases the density. Cooling the air a lot will produce the dense oxygen required by a rocket.
Air also contains water vapor. Cooling the air will increase the density of this water vapor. Forming liquid water then ice. This water and ice will block air flow. Which will prevent a cooler from producing the oxygen required.
To prevent ice this cooler uses antifreeze. Methanol is sprayed (?) into the air being cooled. The methanol is then collected from the air and recycled. The collected liquid will contain water absorbed from the air. This prevents the ice and removes the water. Producing the dry, cold, and dense air for the rocket.
The innovation is using the methanol efficiently. The methanol introduced to the air absorbs water. This decreases it's antifreeze ability. This also increases the liquids volume. Where the oxygen is collected for the rocket the air is dense, low volume, and dry. This is where a low volume of pure methanol is required. From that point forward the air is less dense, warmer, and less dry. A larger volume of less effective antifreeze is required. By recycling the liquid and pumping the liquid forward they match the requirements with the liquid.

That's the best I can do YMMV :-) Cool stuff!
Thanks - yes, there are a few books devoted to the topic: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dst... - hoped to find someone who could provide suggestions about which one to pick.
There has been some discussions about WebAssembly at the lua mail list and I get sooooo excited thinking about the implications it could have! _ I too believe it could make Lua a popular choice.
I don't think that sort of ad is permitted anymore.

Here's what I see when I do that search: http://i.imgur.com/505yzNW.png
So when I said FAQ I was referring to the FAQ links at the bottom, which deal explicitly with SRS (see also https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3cxedn/i_am_steve_huf...) and with brigading vs harassment. By FAQ I did not mean "paragraph".

> Which is a blatant lie, as everyone knows.

I don't know that, and upon further inspection it is not obviously a lie, and is actually pretty reasonable. How did you determine that everyone knows this?
Show HN: Open-Source AngularJS Blog with Admin Panel
>it’s also a ‘technology company’ with its own content management system and the analytic tools to find out what is going viral. They have innovative technology that allows them to A/B test their Facebook headlines.

Such innovation. Many wow.
Mitro is Shutting Down on August 31st
Whether their comment was appropriate or not, we don't need to make this a discussion here! Please.
> But this is a very far cry from the debate "TechRaptor" and this thread are suggesting we have!

Actually, as a guy who refreshes the news every 20 minutes (in particular the NYT), I think we've finally arrived at exactly the point. I'd argue there's two groups of objective (as in not editorial) news reporting: summary and expository. The first is balanced, toned roughly at the median reader's viewpoint and getting across maybe the middle ~50% of the public's view/opinion/reaction. The second goes in deep on one side, really digging into who the different factions are, what they believe and why. It explains maybe the 45-95th percentiles – a touch of lip service for the opposition, but that's not what we're here to see.

Each side has merits and drawbacks. Obviously summaries are more neutral and matter-of-fact, but they gloss over important stuff. Expositions are one-sided – Fox News at the extreme – but they're where you start feeling empathy (or antipathy) instead of just facts. Yes, they're biased. That's the point.

The first article was an (incomplete) member of the former category. The second article was certainly legitimate as a member of the latter – I might disagree while reading it but I wouldn't cry foul that it was published.

My claim is exactly that the Times erred by updating instead of posting this article as another. I expect the top story on a piece to be neutral and follow-ups to take sides. By updating the original article instead, the Times is saying that the way they write it is what happened! Where you fall in the spectrum isn't the question. If you can concede that the middle ground on this issue is somewhere to the sexists' side of "Hero Pao was chased out by shrill angry mob," the New York Times' reportage^Weditorial decisions were bad.
Our design philosophy: What's yours?
I stopped reading here:

> To help determine the right iterations for your hardware I have an utility here.

Everyone with just the slightest idea of how hashing and password cracking works should know that there is no such thing as "right number of iterations for your hardware" because the attacker would obviously have different hardware.
I wouldn't consider that particular question to be noise, even though it does not really fit the SO format. By "noise" I'm mainly referring to exceedingly simple questions, which could have been solved by even minimal research or debugging. Questions that have already been asked many, many times and only vary in your precise code.

My point here is that, in my experience, the main problem of StackOverflow is too little or ineffective moderation, rather than the other way around.
What are they going to do? Kickstarter up $3-4 billion for a fab? Seriously?
Nonsense. They're selling them as fast as they can make them. Perhaps it will flop, but I don't think we know that yet.

Personally, I find hands-free Siri very useful, it's a nice piece of jewelry, and I'm surprised by how much just having the time, date, calendar, weather, messages on my wrist means I don't need to look things up on a larger screen.

It doesn't do everything, it does the most common things almost instantly. Not everyone will want to pay for that, but I don't think you can call it a flop until they can keep it in stock.
He posted an anecdote of a bad thing happening to a friend and it not being resolved.

I posted how all 3 times I've had something negative happen on youtube, it was resolved through the appeals process. I'm trying to give hope/advice to people that appeals do work in many cases.
>I'm a Unix person, so the notion of long being less than word-length seems pretty silly to me

It's silly for Windows to do something a certain way just because that's not how Unix does it?

What's silly is assuming that long and unsigned long are more than 32 bits wide, since neither C nor C++ has ever guaranteed anything more.
Army National Guard announces data breach
Perhaps it is a warrant canary / dead man's switch. If it posts something other than 'today nothing happened' you know the account has been compromised. if it doesn't post 'today nothing happened' you know the silent switch has been flipped and any further signals cannot be trusted.
Probably I don't really get the point of this article, or the exact changes in the hardware ecosystem when the density scaling stops? Because although scaling became harder recently, I don't think we have reached the point where the processing performance increase per year is slowing down.

I have a problem with that paragraph:
Even if it takes a couple of years and several iterations for a self-taught engineer to reproduce, the resulting product isn't terribly out of date: the iPhone has only undergone a modest increase in clock rate over the past four years, from 1GHz in the iPhone 4 to 1.4GHz in today's iPhone 6. This relative stagnation is endemic, leaving a large window of opportunity for engineers to learn from and emulate the designs of the best.

The iPhone 6 was released with iOS 8, which doesn't support the iPhone 4 anymore. Also the CPU performance of the A8 in the iPhone 6 has 12x the performance of the iPhone 4. If you still want to use current apps, an iPhone 4 is really outdated.

On the other hand for the Novena laptop of the author the same principles might not hold true, but that has more to do with software than hardware, because especially Linux works very well with not so recent hardware. In my experience Android and iOS software became way more processing power hungry than desktop software did over the last 4 years.
There is a premium version of the app and they also have partnerships.
>> Right, but the percentage of horse-riders carrying a sword was probably larger.

I would tend to grant that point even without study, however swords were rare and expensive. The author would have to be more specific about the period, but I remain skeptical of his theory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word

If they expressed any opposing view, that might be valid. But they may as well have stated it as fact.

(aside: that's not a WP: page anymore? lame)
Sorry I misunderstood your references, makes a more sense now, but I still disagree for the reasons stated in the edit above.

> I don't know that, and upon further inspection it is not obviously a lie, so there must be something wrong with your ability to deduce things if you feel that everyone knows that.

Once a conversation reaches the point of pedantry it's generally a good idea to just stop.
Erring on the side of caution.

If a page has included known exploits, it might also include unknown exploits.
One time I accidentally downloaded the McAfee scan. Avast Home found it in startup and removed it for me. McAfee Scan tends to conflict with other antivirus products.
Firefox..fills up available RAM with page caches. Often, swapping these pages back in from disk can be slower than re-fetching from the Internet.

WTF? I'm not a kernel guy and would like to know why this is. Very, very counterintuitive to me.
The United States has a threat intelligence system with patterns of malicious activity including malware and cyber attacks.

This threat intelligence system is also used to specify patterns of foreign propaganda. However, similar to the story above, patterns that are too broad can silence legitimate speech by citizens.

An example of this is stopfasttrack.com. Their domain name was similar to Russian propaganda, so then the switch was flipped to censor the Russian domain from Facebook, Twitter and popular email providers, their site was caught in the net as well.

They posted to Reddit about it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/duplicates/38pmg8/hey_re...

(The US government and NATO use the terms 'troll' and 'spam' as synonyms for foreign online propaganda)
Indeed. We call this "voluncation" :-)
Closest thing to an answer I've found is from the licensing page:
https://www.reddit.com/wiki/licensing

But it doesn't specifically address collection and distribution of API results as a dataset.

(From the page:)

A licensing agreement is required in order to:

* use the reddit API for commercial purposes. Use of the API is considered "commercial" if you are earning money from it, including via in-app advertising or in-app purchases. Open source use is generally considered non-commercial.

* use the reddit alien logo ("snoo") in your app or for its thumbnail. Any new apps you create must be approved as well before usage. The circular "r" logo is reserved solely for use by reddit, Inc.

* allow users to subscribe to reddit gold via in-app purchases. If your platform allows for it, we encourage you to work with us to make this happen. We see gold purchases as a way for you to help reddit and to give back to the reddit community.
the rocket equation is merciless as usual, that's why this approach is so helpful - it allows to accelerate without shedding mass, or more precisely, a fraction of mass that would be required for the same delta-v using a conventional rocket engine. in the end you have to accelerate less fuel before switching over to rocket mode. mach 5 is about 1.8 km/s, which is 20% of orbital velocity. falcon 9 reusable first stage separates at mach 6 (at a much higher altitude, though - i hear 80km and also heard mach 10 numbers). if you can do what the falcon 9 can do without the first stage... that's pretty huge.
No Apple Music, but still want to ask Siri for songs?
You think forcing you to uncheck the bundleware is a bug of the install and upgrade process, they think it's a feature.
I actually built an IRC bot that did this once. It searched reddit for your question, took the first result, and posted the top comment. It worked very well for certain kinds of questions. Especially if it came from the better subreddits like askscience, but even just reddit in general.

I improved on it a lot with a whitelist of subreddits and some machine learning to select the best thread. But I was only touching on what is possible with that data.

The scope of the discussions on reddit is huge. Despite a lot of jokes in the comments here, the quality of the comments on average, is pretty decent. And the metadata like subreddit and score are extremely useful for filtering it down more.
In America nearly 50% of the federal prison population are in for drug offenses according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons data current as of may 30th, 2015[0].

[0]http://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_offens...

edit: As pointed out below it was the federal prison pop. Also, made it more obvious that I didn't mean 50% of America's total population.
Never heard of ViralNova. Went to their website, and it looks like any other clickbaity garbage site. I'm amazed how much the sold for.
The Political Virtues of Hypocrisy
I dont use reddit to much but it doesnt seem dead to me. Theres tension between the community and company, but it seems to me it still serves its main purpose.
David Beazley: Python Concurrency from the Ground Up [video]
WhatsApp, Snapchat and iMessage could be banned under new laws
Good catch.

Up until now, no one has pointed out the article eerily resembles the tones that began GamerGate.

The more you look at it, the more it appears to be a deliberate troll to highlight the irony of injecting identity politics into journalism.

He's a trojan horse. https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/3cur16/im_m...

Also, so called "anti-gamer gaters" don't simply go off and offer AMA's to "gamergaters".

Anti-GG's modus operandi is to cast aside any discussion as misogyny or harassment.

Both sides harass each other, unfortunately.
They were apparently acquihired by Twitter a year ago: http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/31/twitter-mitro/

So not unusual.
Such a shame to see it go. A fantastic password manager to use. Amazingly slick interface, cross-platform support, intuitive UI. We would have happily paid for it (we can't afford $200/month, but maybe $20 or $40 - we're a small team of 5 people using it).

Big thanks to the Mitro team for keeping it alive until now. I'm still hopeful that this imminent closure will prompt someone to pick up the open-source project and keep it alive for longer (but understand that it's not an easy task).
The languages that fit the web need: extreme simplicity(i.e garbage collection, very high abstraction, very simple to learn) and rapid prototyping(i.e. dynamic typing).

The languages that fit micro-controllers will need - no garbage collection(to support real-time), abstraction without loss of performance, high-reliability(it's expensive to fix bugs after shipment).

Those differing requirements tend to produce different languages. For example , rust - which embedded developers find very interesting, didn't seems to attract much attention by web developers.
I see this glib line often (that free speech is only about the government), but I don't think it's right. It's true that the First Amendment specifically requires the US government to respect free speech. But that doesn't mean the general principle applies only to the government.

For example, John Stuart Mill's utilitarian defense of free speech in On Liberty is equally applicable to private parties and specifically says society and individual people should be open to expression of views they find abhorrent. He specifically covers widespread social ostracism as well as government laws. According to Mill, free speech is definitely not just about freedom from government restrictions.

I doubt you understand the principles of free speech better than John Stuart Mill. Or if you understand his argument in On Liberty and disagree, please explain why.
Never Gonna give You Up -- did I guess right?
I'd suggest that even if it's absolutely necessary, one could at least put something like

#if (ULONG_MAX < UINTPTR_MAX) && !defined (SUPPRESS_TRUNCATION_ERROR)
#error Truncating pointers to long is a bad idea here
#endif

in some source file or another, just so you have some indication whether or not things are going to break when you change the build environment.