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I'm not sure what to call this but... problematic? It is not too much to ask from your government but that they give everyone equal rights and privileges under the law. I don't nec…

It's not 10 people. This is data that Facebook gives you and each of those numbers is per user in the selected region. The proper way of reading that first graph is that for all Fa…

I think you are significantly overstating the extraordinariness of these claims. People are entitled to their own priors, I suppose, but if someone asked "What is the probability t…

It seems likely that he would have done the same to a male in the same situation, so I fail to see how that relates to misogyny rather than a general culture of violence.

I do not envy the College Board. We are in a social and political environment where many issues that bear directly on the test are things you can't discuss in polite company (e.g. …

> The second paragraph amounts to a sexist version of "I'm not racist! I have black friends!" It bothers me unduly much that it has become a common meme that saying this amounts to…

If you think there is no victim I think you may not have a very firm grasp of economics. In particular, small negative consequences borne by many economic actors adds up to legitim…

I think you may not have read the linked post. Scroll down to the bottom and you can see the device he built, which he wears on an armband.

The drop from 90 to 45 is shown in Tesla's own graph.

You are referring to a "randomized response" survey[1]. There are also list experiments and endorsement experiments for eliciting responses to sensitive questions[2]. 1: http://en.…

What is misleading about the number of people who have viewed your profile information?

What is the distinction in this case? Is the sexism the beliefs and mindset, and the actual hiring actions are the sexual discrimination?

First, let me say that in general I hate the negativity that has come to infect Hacker News, so it is only with much self-consciousness that I provide the following negative reacti…

Given the capitalization on the Github repository, it looks like that is intentional.

This is pure evil, and morally worse in my opinion than going after Swartz. At least he almost certainly actually violated a law. Trying to fill government coffers by seizing the a…

Wow, that's a lot of vitriol. I didn't mean to upset him so much, but I apologize to him for the offense. I understand that this is his baby so any criticism feels very personal. I…

This betting site has a really stupid betting system. It appears that the amount of money you receive isn't based on a pricing of the bet, as is done on all real prediction markets…

This game reminded me of Sword and Sorcery EP[1]. It had a similar aesthetic and used music in the same way that this piece did, although it was music from Jim Guthrie who sounds c…

Under U.S. federal law, age discrimination not only protects exclusively the old against the young, it also protects only those over 40.[1] Discrimination in the workplace and in p…

There used to be more information on his website that I remember reading, but this thread will probably tell you what they do: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3012956

Since this is a marketing piece, they should have to put some real money where their mouth is. Typical SLAs don't come close to being punitive for downtime. They might offer to ref…

I think this would be ok if they said upfront that this is a simulation of a meeting and so to pretend that you are someone attending the meeting, and so explicitly take it out of …

That article is one in a series. Perhaps I was wrong and it is not clear or well-argued without the context of the broader series to draw from. It's a shame because it is actually …