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Re: your second and third points, they're donating directly to an already established bail fund that's been around for a few years and have seen 90% of the people they bail out sho…

I have a feeling that if race truly played a preferential role in hiring engineers, we would see more than 1% of tech roles being filled by Black engineers at Google. ;) https://ww…

I believe the idea behind diversity initiatives is to ensure that the starting pool of 100 people is representative of larger demographics. Women make up ~50% of Carnegie Mellon's …

You can't really legally work anywhere at 13/14 -- I would totally recommend involving yourself with open source communities, joining a hackerspace, or looking for tech-related non…

"The 17,000 or so patients in this study were mostly middle-aged white people, upper- and middle-class, from San Diego." It's true that there are a lot of variables when asking bro…

The particular instance I was thinking of when writing my response was pretty blatant! I was around 15 or 16, and sitting on a public bench at the university I was taking classes a…

I mean, there's a difference between looking at someone because they're talking or you're engaging in the meeting with them and staring directly at their boobs. I've been in situat…

Ah yes, I definitely want this company with a super-insecure app to handle my money. If they fix Snapchat's API vulnerabilities (from 2013!) maybe I'd consider it.

to harass and objectify women. because clearly if they do something like break up with you, or refuse to associate with you anymore, they totally deserve to be publicly shamed.

I visited Flour a year or so ago and it was absolutely delicious! Lovely atmosphere as well. Totally recommend, regardless of potential nuclear meltdowns :)

Was also exempted from one year of classes--currently doing something similar but with Art + CS. Definitely would recommend to anyone--more time to do research and such outside of …

Last night I had a dream where I was coding for a project that I've actually been working on (after I woke up I was actually able to implement the bits that I remembered, kind of c…

Stumbled upon HN when I was around 14-15 (took me a while to work up the nerve to make an account)! Had been fairly familiar with ESR's Hacker Manifesto at that point (probably fou…

Hi! I just graduated high school, but spent most of my time hanging out in research labs at a university. If you happen to live close to a public university/college, I would recomm…

Judging by the logo at the end, I'd say this was a project for a character animation class--so no mocap. :)

I know some restaurants will offer birthday coupons for joining their mailing list, which might attribute to the large amount of customers on one.

This was posted on Tumblr, which is generally known for its short attention span, and the blogger has a large contingent of younger fans, who may not be interested in reading about…

MIT Medical is available to provide members of the MIT community with psychological counseling. This is on pastebin because it is a copy of an email that was sent to everyone at MI…

I think the point was less to be politically correct and more to personalize the game towards his daughter. He seems to really care about video games and wants to create the best p…

Over-exercising addiction actually has serious consequences on people's health, as it causes stress fractures that are often exacerbated by them trying to "power through it". That …

A good friend of mine hangs out with the 7x7 cube champion of the United States. He plays with various different kinds of Rubik's cubes, and from what I gather cubing can also get …