skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is that a joke? What's important to this conversation is that drawing from the the group ∪{N(x), ∀x} will unquestionably give you the best bridge designs and limiting yourself to some N(i) will tend to give you a worse subset of designs.

That is the entire point of my statement. The initial problem you are attempting to address is willful ignorance based on arbitrary groups. Recreating theses groups in an attempt to 'even out the playing field' makes no sense.

> Think what you like, you are simply wrong here as a historical fact and basic logic. The most obvious counterexamples are productive people who, due to discrimination, had their careers ended (e.g. Alan Turing, Jewish scientists killed in the holocaust) but it should be equally obvious that after given access, people from previously excluded groups had valuable contributions that would otherwise have taken longer to discover. I can't believe I have to spell this out...

And yet Alan Turing had a successful carrier helping the British government, Albert Einstein is heralded as one of the forefathers of modern day physics, and Hooper is considered to be the grandmother of CS.

> You can keep writing that word salad as much as you like, it's not true. The fact is good bridge builders from [unprivileged group] were being excluded. Despite your fantasies to the contrary, you were not living in a meritocracy where [privleged group] earned all the bridge contracts. You were living in a degenerate system where [group 1] rigged the system so that [group 2] and [group 3] were unable to win contracts even if their bridges were better.

I'd pay to see proof of this. Please if you would present some information to contradict my statement. You have, up to this point, only used conjecture. I have presented (at this point) six different people who have succeeded from minority groups you say need help.

> Lol, a ridiculous standard you pulled out of thin air. Discrimination exists, is widespread and has substantial negative effects on our society. Those are real facts that matter.

Well if it is so prevalent surely you would not have a difficult time providing factual evidence of it? Wouldn't it be easy for you to comply with my request?

I do agree that there is discrimination, but the evidence I have seen to date has pointed to the fact that people who have determination and the mind to back up their statements always win.
IOI and IOM contestants (and those who do both) probably know much of the material. Most of them aren't geniuses, just kids with persistence, good guidance and lots of time on their hands.
There are many non-paywalled articles we could use in the link. For example,

http://www.cnet.com/au/news/googles-new-holding-company-drop...
Sorry, "Doesn't include that phrase" refers to "Don't be evil", not "Do the right thing." I think you are misinterpreting the quote out of context.

Edit: Fuller quote:

Google’s code of conduct, of course, is best-known for its first line, which was also included in Google’s 2004 filing for its initial public offering: “Don’t be evil.”

Alphabet’s code doesn’t include that phrase. Instead, it says employees of Alphabet and its subsidiaries “should do the right thing – follow the law, act honorably, and treat each other with respect.”
Google Maps Still Doesn't Know About $2.4Bn Subway Extension in NYC
And abandon your kids?

One reason I bring this up is that a "duty to retreat" requirement manufactured by the Massachusetts courts was used to convict a man in the early '80s who wasn't willing to do that. There's a previous better known case were a woman was convicted because she didn't try to climb out of the high windows in her basement apartment.
Looks very similar to supervisor.conf
How would you sign in to Nautilus Prime without enabling cookies?...
MM and in the old days it would have been "No Irish No Dogs No ..."
It is rational for foreigners to pursue Masters in US. This has to do with these factors.

1. Many of these students come from countries where getting a tourist visa is hard. Even getting a H1B is hard too: look at the lottery ticket issue.

2. UK does not permit non-EU foreigners to work after finishing studies. So, it is irrational for those who borrow money to study to UK, then find work to pay off the debts.

3. USA gives 12 months OPT EAD permit after finishing their studies. If it is STEM masters, this OPT can be extended for 17 months. So, solid 29 months afte finishing 2 years masters. Given how hard is it to win the H1 lottery, it is a good choice.

4. There is 20,000 H1 quota every year for US STEM graduates.

5. It is very hard for many of these Masters students in US to get a decent paying job in their home countries. That's why, in India, etc., F1 visa is seen as a ticket to good living abroad.

American citizens/perm residents are equally rational as foreigners above. Their reasons are:

A. You don't need a masters degree to pursue PhD in the states. This is not the case in India and in many common wealth countries: you need to have masters to pursue Ph.D.

B. There is a chance that many students want to give up on Ph.D in the middle of their studies. So, they can use whatever credits they got to get Masters degree and drop out of the Ph.D program. This is the case when one passes Ph.D quals or not.

C. Some pursue masters to broaden their interest. Imagine someone with BA in Maths is interested in psychology, but don't want to pursue Ph.D. He just want to broaden his understanding. He will go for MS in Psychology.

D. For few, it could be moving from no-name school BA to MS in Finance at an Ivy League. HYP are in differnet category of Ivies from the rest.

E. The only masters Americans show interest in are: JD, MBA, MD.
The landlord is selling the service of "having a lot of money". It's usury by the back door.
It's pretty close to the end. Fines will be levied against the Volkswagen company, not to him personally. His stock options will become worthless but he's still set for life. I think in this area, at least, China does it right. Shoot the guy as a warning to the others.
"but that would have to be weighed against a massive number of people going to jail for not obeying"

Did that happen to Australia? I see no evidence for it.

If not, why don't we use the same mandatory buy-back approach that Australia did?
Remember the Toyota code, or at least the review, that was leaked a while back? I don't find it surprising at all that it would be possible to sneak through some stuff that no one knows what it does. And in that kind of environment, people generally don't mess with stuff they don't know what it does, cause they don't know what it'll break.
Now think about the time you were poor and the time you had money, and try to see whether you are where you are today because you were saving money.

Saving money, and leaving cheaply when poor will help you develop a habit for when you are financially in a better place.

However saving 20% of your salary when you make, say $2,000 per month in NYC/SF/LA, is not going to be possible. Not only that, but it would take 4 - 5 years to get to $20,000.

My thinking is there is a minimum people need to make before they can save meaningfully. Below that point, saving is just an exercise to get ready for a better financial position/earning.
I should add that in the Readme.
The plug-in provides a scripting interface that's only available to pages hosted via HTTPS on apple.com. The scripting interface exposes whether Safari is the default browser, and allows for prompting the user to change their default browser. To my knowledge the only place this was used was a "Welcome to OS X Mavericks" page that was shown shortly after installation of that version of OS X. I doubt that it's been used since.
I thought the justification for their big paychecks was the value they brought.
You are looking at it in relative terms (total_in_poverty / total).

However, according to your own analysis of the poster's source, the absolute number of people in poverty has increased a lot.

>In short, the claim that poverty is getting worse is utter bullshit.

371 million more people in poverty is not "getting worse"?
It's kind of fascinating that the liberal assessments seem to reflect reality much more closely.

Why?

Conservative politicians don't have a good reason to be wrong. In fact, it's quite the opposite, the better at estimating who your constituents you are, the more likely you are to be reelected.

I'd guess probably error bias. As a conservative, if you overestimate the conservatism of your district, you're not likely to lose many votes (especially in a gerrymandered district). Whereas, if you overestimate the liberalism of your districts, the conservative element will punish you horribly.

Whereas, as a liberal, you have to be more in tune to a broad spectrum of issues in both directions or a challenger can carve off a chunk of your votes.
2 cents from the CEO of a content marketing company:

One thing that humans will continue to be better at than machines for a very long time is creating interesting stories for other humans. There is no machine that has nearly written a Faulkner novel, or even written up anything more complex than a baseball game (which is itself impressive, though the template is not much more complex than a complicated madlib). When you read machine written stuff, it stinks of the machine that made it. The wriber software is little different at this stage, as evidenced by some of the mangled "ideas" it's generated for others on this thread.

Software and data absolutely have a place in any good editorial strategy, but presuming an algorithm can furnish ideas that will perform better than humans armed with data-driven insights is a mistake in my opinion.

Our content strategists are armed with boatloads of social data, they identify trending topics, top performing articles from competitors etc., and all of that informs the human decisions they make as the editors of their brand publications about what gets written.

At the end of the day, though, I'm going to leave the decision making (and a good part of the ideation) to the talented humans that make up the L&T Co. team.

I'm more compelled by software that helps my team come to data-driven insights themselves than by software that purports to "do the hard part" for them.
Interesting article, but I wonder why they did not use red=>green for "No Savings"=>More than 10k. It seems like an easier way to visualize the information.
Photos of the mothballed Soviet ekranoplan “Lun”
> A baseball bat to the head is far more harmful than most lying.

Only in the short term. In the long term, lies undermine your confidence, destroy your relationships, ruin your reputation, and can make you completely cynical about the world around you.

There's certainly a set of lies that each culture has deemed acceptable, but acceptable is not the same as harmless.
I read it as "follow the local government's law, regardless of what that law says or what it enables the governments to do against their citizens - so we can thrive in China, Russia, India, etc".
No, that's "do the lawful thing".

"Do the right thing" falls under ethics.
For the shareholders, I imagine.
So I have a VPN I use already on my iPhone for sensitive things. Seems like I should use it all the time.

Is it possible to make a VPN connection mandatory on a consumer iPhone? It's really a pain having to reconnect manually after I haven't used it for a few minutes.
We have a PS4 app, it's just not launched in the US yet due to the administrative and policy distance between SCEE and SCEA. It will be coming soon, but in the meantime, if you can get yourself a UK or EU-based PSN account, you can download the app through that and it will work fine anywhere in the world (provided you purchase a subscription through the web, the PSN store integration is a bit flaky and I don't want to promise that would work from US shores).
If you're burnt out, you're gonna need more help than "Eat a good breakfast". See a therapist, don't let it become depression, take some serious time off.
You guys are forgetting that "Don't be evil" is interpreted by a part of the brain as "Be Evil." That was a terrible slogan. "Do the right thing" is much better.

When we hear "Don't Be Evil" there is a part of our brains that interprets the part about being evil, the concept of what evil is, and then the logic brain has to jump in and say, "Now don't you do that." It's well known that telling people to "Not smoke" again and again will give them the urge to smoke. And telling your child to not do something will make them want to do it. Why? We believe it's because on an MRI scan most of the brain will light up when interpreting the "Smoke" part (because the brain is conceptualizing what smoking is), whereas only a small part of the brain will light up when trying to apply the negation "Don't" to that concept. If I told you to not picture a white bear....aha, you pictured a white bear!

If you want someone to do something, simply keep telling them not to do it.
Wow I'm so excited that I can now express myself with a range of Facebook approved emotions!
Do you need any plugins for this? Demo did not load for me. Might be corporate firewall.
poor people are way ahead of you on the spending less money idea

not always true.. I know quite a few who still smoke, own a car even if they don't really need it, buy the extra expensive, small can of coke, and generally follow convenience over financial planning.

these things do add up. will they help them buy 3 houses and live on the passive income? don't think so, but it definitely would help them pay for their home faster
I'm not authorized to discuss financials publicly.
> That is precisely why a lot of us pursue STEM degrees - it is easier to immigrate with a STEM degree, and the job market is favorable.

That's a needless generalization. Can you back it up with data from surveys? It is an offensive suggestion that immigration is an end in itself. People doing PhD just to immigrate? You mean to say you would invest several years into education and forgo thousands of dollars of income and sacrifice certainty just to immigrate to the US? The end for most people doing a PhD is professional excellence, unless proven otherwise with data, immigration is secondary. The reason people choose the US for PhD is either because programs in their own countries are hypercompetitive to get into (not having enough quality PhD programs) and/or because the US is the world leader in research in almost every field in STEM.
It would be cool too if you could set conditions on when to merge. I finish a PR it's kind of late :

Merge tomorrow 8am if tests passing etc.
Since airlines wouldn't be profitable without price discrimination of the sort that makes hidden cities and throwaway tickets possible, they won't just go away, when you post about it.

From the airlines' perspective those fares actually make sense. A direct flight should be more expensive than an indirect one, even if we are talking about the very same flight.

It's not a bug, it's a feature and here to stay...
"There's just nothing in the field of computing that I believe couldn't be better learned by experience."

I don't know what it's like on the Ivy League School level, but on the community college level; it seems like the courses are at least five-ten years out of date. (I'm not dumping on community colleges either. I have gotten more out of community colleges than state, or UC courses. I've alway been a huge supporter of community colleges.)

I really wanted to support my local community college, and learn something new, but every year I look through the offered courses, and even the catalogue, and it's just not worth the time, and now the money. The course are just too basic, and dated.

I honestly think tenure is to blame. Plus, I don't think most administrators know anything about computing, and just rubber stamp these antiquated courses. It's a shame because my local community college is surrounded by tech workers, and kids/adults who want to learn this stuff.
Downtown to Eastlake

Head up to the REI and hang a left, you can bypass the cluster fuck of SLU traffic.
> how young people interact with an increasingly-old government today

Interesting. Is government, by which I assume you mean elected officials, really aging?
This effect could be explained by the international standing of the university without recourse to inverse-nationalist bias. A Stanford degree is better for an Italian than a Sapienza Rome degree. But a Cambridge degree is better for an American than a Georgia Tech degree. Since the US has lots of top-tier universities, you see lots of American-trained professors in European schools.
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Ask and you shall receive. They've done the same thing (though in slightly simpler form) with the U.S.: http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/01/comparing_...
Nice! I'm seeing an `X-Uidh` attribute in my request headers, is that the Verizon Zombie Cookie?
Well,you guys are part of the problem.That is high school kids end up spending/getting loans to go to college to study course they can easily learn at a fraction cost by themselves.

And not too distance reasons why boot-camps are everywhere.You try to make computer science/tech looks like extra ordinary adventures.I repeat you don't need four walls of university to learn almost everything you need to know in computer science.

If i had had information that i have now,i would have dropped out of college in a heartbeat.I don't need to give you any example of people who drop out of computer science study and still excel.They are everywhere.Don't say that these folks are exception because they are not.

I understand that some folks need structure to excel in anywhere they find themselves in life.
I wonder if they chose the angry reaction to follow the nonviolent communication pattern: <emotion> due to <specific action leading to emotion> followed by <need hindered by action> followed by <specific request to meet the need>.

For example, "I felt angry when you wrote that any realistic web browser has to support Javascript. I have a need for using a text browser to bypass abuses of Javascript on websites with articles, so I would like you to view <specific article> with both w3m and Firefox."

The "dislike" action would not fit the nonviolent communication pattern.
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Snabb Switch: kernel-bypass networking illustrated
You don't have to have a software engineering degree or an EIT/PE to be a "software engineer". I know plenty of people who have vaguely related degrees like mathematics or statistics that never had to take such courses. And of course there are many autodidacts in the field who studied god knows what.
The undertone I hear a lot is that drug use is beneficial, and would have positive effects on the population at large were it not for the outdated taboos of a backwards culture. If society was more rational and embraced drug use, then people could lead happier lives. The secret that people won't tell you (because of the taboos) is that drugs make you more successful in work and family life. If coffee is good then by extension amphetamines ought to be double-plus good.

Heavily paraphrasing here - I guess this is mostly a personal observation. I am curious to understand if I should explore drug use - if so many high-performers are drug users then maybe I should give it a try.
Imagine that you're on a date. You've got a nice evening planned, only to run into a state-wide blackout. Now the trick is to get food at all. You see this restaurant with a lot of cars out front. Turns out they have gas grills, so they can cook some kinds of food. (Not french fries, though - that machine's electric). They're working by candlelight, adding up the tab on a hand calculator, pouring pop out of bottles, and they are not taking credit cards.

Been there, done that. Only once, but yeah, it happens.
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That was a fun read--thanks for the link. So basically the sellers are pissed because they MAYBE could have gotten more cash if they had held out longer, and Zuck obfuscated who was buying. Any claims against the agent aside, sounds like a major case of sour grapes.
I already implemented releases a few weeks ago. They're great, thanks for that!

I'm wondering what the reasoning is behind suggesting I upload source artifacts to you as part of a release. The blog post even specifically calls out Go, which is what the majority of our application is written in. So from my understanding, uploading artifacts would allow the Sentry UI to show me exactly where we did a Sentry Dump?

On the same topic, our current deploy flow makes it a bit hard to upload specific code changes per release. It would be great if Sentry could get the code from Github directly (assuming that I login and give you access to the repo)

Thanks for Sentry, we use it daily and would have a much harder time tracing errors and monitoring overall application health without it.
Eukodal was apparently a trade name for oxycodone. I guess someone misread a handwritten u as an n when transcribing Morells records?

Googling "enkodal" finds a bunch of OCR misses from Google Books, where "eukodal" is mistranscribed with an n, and also an article[0] about how Hermann Göring was admitted to a hospital in 1924 to treat his opioid addiction. The article states that he was addicted to Eukodal, and among other things quotes a medical journal where it is mispelled as "Enkodal".

[0] http://langbrosjukhus.se/hermann-goring/
Could we just agree that /P symbolizes a downward thumb. No need for the dislike button.
I think they may referring to the relative strength of the forces at "everyday"--i.e., human--scales.
By that reasoning we can order soldiers to torture if we simply fragment the process enough. One to strap in the left wrist, one to strap in the right wrist, one to switch on the gas to the blowtorch, etc.
Looks like that's the one: http://www.verizonwireless.com/support/unique-identifier-hea...
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This seems to be a link to a search for the title text. Is that what's intended?
So is evilness.