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> it does seem that they spent some time going through the content

Or .. the automated filter noticed the words "Jailbreak", "espionage", "attacks", and "Hacking" in the title of the videos and flagged them.
Fast food etc. though is more "stuff that's bad for you taken to excess" as opposed to something that can randomly get in an accident though.

I agree the deer is the better example. You can have patches of unexpected black ice though. I've skidded a few times though never had an accident.

There's certainly gear one uses in activities that have some inherent danger like your chainsaw example. I guesxs things like skis and helmets could be another. The difference with an AI though is that it's the machinery itself that is making the decisions.
You probably don't care, but in my opinion using words derived from nazi terminology is trivializing their ideology. Makes me pretty uncomfortable to read this on HN now.
It might be more interesting if voting occurred at the level of space separated words rather than characters.

As it is right now, twitch is tripping over itself trying to even type "ls" given the delay. As anyone who's ever tried to use ssh over a poor connection can relate to, there's a whole lot of "llllss" type command lines getting run.
From some googling:

"..FBI’s most wanted list of cybercriminals: Russian hacker Evgeniy Bogachev. Bogachev, the authorities believe, was responsible for operating both viruses... GameOver Zeus and CryptoLocker" http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2014/06/...

"still appears to be at large in Russia, where officials have shown little interest in helping the FBI"..."What a talented guy," said Mikhail, 23, who recognised Bogachev's FBI photo as the man he would see in the lobby with his wife and nine-year-old daughter. "Sitting at his computer at home, he broke into our enemies' camp, but did not harm his fellow Russians." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/1088...

"His alleged bank heists topped $100 million"..."Bogachev, 30, who lives luxuriously in Anapa, Russia, a beautiful seaside resort town of 60,000 on the northern coast of the Black Sea, and often sails his yacht to various Black Sea ports, remains a fugitive." http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/06/03/fbi-bus...

Guess the authorities can't find him because yachts are pretty tricky to spot.
I wouldn't agree with the conclusion of being truly inferior - there could be ongoing issues with the work context.

I'll put it another way: Graham says we can look at just the performance by group to detect bias in selection. But there could be bias in selection, and A) different treatment after selection, which would not be revealed through Graham's test. Or could also be bias in selection and B) continuous reminders of stereotypes triggering stereotype threat, and this would also not be revealed.

Now you could point to a tech company with few underrepresented minorities, let's say 1%. If there's no overt bias in the work environment then people should succeed and if they don't they're just worse performers. On the other hand, if you're in the 1%, just noticing the underrepresentation among your coworkers might be a constant reminder of stereotypes.

I don't claim to have a simple solution for this.
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I find it slightly amazing he posted this. Did he not bother to ask someone with a probabilistic background before posting?
> This effort started two years ago [..].

And it is well thought changes.
I don't claim to know the answer, but it may be that the ISIS phenomenon is what happens when you have that sort of revolution with more networking. Oh boy. Beheading videos.

Markets are fine. The things they do just become furniture we don't notice any more. Most of the "evil" things capitalists get accused of are actually just not very capitalist. There are handful of Rand-influenced firms out there ( Cypress Semi comes to mind ) and they generally just aren't noteworthy.

I would not defend Rand on her best day, but she at least had a mechanism that can be used - with modification - as an operating principle - don't trade greater value for lesser. Don't sell your soul.

I kind of think that if we could vote our way to nirvana we'd have done it by now.
Out of curiosity, what do you envision your fountain > pdf program to look like? When you say html are you exporting fountain to html and printing view your web browser?

Re. your first point I think a lot of writers date their scripts as their version control. Final Draft does have a limited revision tracking system. At this point I think most screenwriters just pass on PDF documents rather than .fdx or printed pages.
> People make decisions based on social, cultural, and physical expectations of them, and there's not anything wrong with that.

I couldn't disagree more. If the culture is plain chauvinism ("women belong in the kitchen not the boardroom") then there's everything wrong with that. All oppression throughout history is essentially "just culture", but that justifies nothing.

Your biological reductionism is completely at odds with our best scientific understanding of contemporary gender roles, as a few minutes on wikipedia will tell you.
I think you are falling into the mistake of associating what you call design with features. How features are implemented and how consistent they are with some pure notion of their role is secondary to how they serve the high-level design goals. Once you understand Kotlin's design goals you see that the features and their implementation make a lot of sense. If you think the features aim to serve another goal, then the features might seem inconsistent. Outside of academic languages, language features exist to serve particular purpose, and so their "academic" form may be compromised to serve that purpose better. There is no point in isolating features from their purpose and then arguing over them without first understanding their goal in that particular language, as the same feature can serve different (or subtly different) purposes in different languages, or a feature must be twisted in order to allow the goal to be better achieved. There is no way to say whether a feature is good or "broken" without first analyzing the language's goals, and a feature that may be bad in one language may be great in another.

As Scala (or Ceylon) has such radically different goals from Kotlin, it doesn't make much sense to discuss which features were imported and how without first understanding the why. Kotlin's designers didn't say, "I like this Scala feature but not that one"; they said, "we have this goal and this Scala feature serves it but that one doesn't". A language is not measured by what features it has, but by how those features serve its goals, and whether those goals are appropriate to begin with (i.e. provide a good cost/benefit ratio).
The idea of just keeping the carbon in the ground makes sense. But it would be simpler (and require a lot less capital) to just impose punitive taxes on coal mines and coal imports.

The mining companies pass the cost on, renewables become more attractive, no complicated capping and trading system necessary.

The only problem I can see with this is that the WTO probably forbids it. But one would hope that everyone involved could get together and make an exception for the sake of saving millions of lives.
I've been hoping to come across something like this ever since Pat Shaughnessy's Ruby Under a Microscope (http://patshaughnessy.net/ruby-under-a-microscope). This looks fantastic!
This interaction of computer and human decision-making is actually the subject of a fair bit of active research. e.g. at Duke http://hal.pratt.duke.edu/

To your basic point--yep, at some point you need to stop automating unless you're willing to hand over control entirely.
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Lots of economic reasons in these threads why this technically feasible (if disruptive) solution can't come to be.

Maybe a better use of these billionaire saviours time and money would be to invest in solar and other renewable energy sources, as well as water desalination (the connection being high energy cost).

Be a sun baron.
>> behavioural correction requires a certain percentage of individuals to bring and succeed in their cases

No it doesn't. Both the extensive use of the class form and punitive damages (or close substitutes) are virtually unique to the United States. Ad hoc regulation by an entrepreneurial plaintiff's bar acting without meaningful client input is not the not the only effective means to regulate businesses. On the contrary, plenty of countries arguably do a better job without the use of them at all.
Greed is at best an incoherent standard. For it to be bad, it has to be pathological.
Right. This doesn't mean connections open at that rate. It just means that systems are more resistant to SYN flooding attacks.

Originally, upon receipt of a SYN, hosts began to open a connection and allocated the necessary state table and buffer resources. By sending bogus SYN requests, an attacker could tie up many buffer resources until the timer for connection opening timed out and released the resources. Defense against SYN flooding involves reducing the resources committed upon receipt of a SYN. Only on the next packet of the handshake are the connection resources committed. Most SYN flooding attacks use a phony source IP address, so the reply SYN with ACK goes to the phony IP address and the handshake never completes.

There's now a TCP Fast Open proposal.[1] This allows sending data in the SYN packet. But that means committing resources on receipt of the SYN. That breaks this approach to DDOS mitigation, and has a different mechanism for dealing with phony SYN detection. Is the new code prepared for that?

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7413
> does not mean that all platforms are equally unethical.

I would agree that Google is more ethical than Apple, for now. But they still do bad things, and they could easily get worse in the future. We need to move away from this kind of centralization, so that no one has the power to unilaterally gag legitimate content.

> Google Play doesn't allow apps that interfere with other apps.

Almost every app "interferes" with others in some way. The "no interference" clause seems clearly intended to target interference which was unwanted by the user, but that is not how Google applied it here.

If the user expressly intends that the app interfere with other apps, then I think that it is unethical to prohibit them from doing so on their own device. Disconnect is not malware; users install it for exactly the purpose it implements.
> run a PR and news campaign attempting to convince the general population that ransomware groups will take the money and run

This would be not enough IMO. Creating and spreading malware that takes money and NOT decrypt data will probably do. PR and news will follow. (And give that money to orphans or starving as a self-justification :)
Differential treatment after selection would indeed invalidate Graham's test.

Stereotype threat, however, is NOT such a different treatment. Again - if stereotype threat reduces measured performance by X and actual performance by Y, then the bias it introduces is Y-X. If Y=X then there is no bias.

Do you believe Y != X? If so, why?
All other arguments aside ... this idea also fails if the judging party's idea of quality is mostly uncorrelated with actual quality. Which Graham says in other essays is usually the case (it's what you mean when you say it's almost impossible to predict which companies will be successful).

Graham says the subjects of bias "have to be better to get selected", but what is really going on is they have to be better according to the metrics of the judge which are essentially arbitrary.
Of course i understand Apple should be rewarding hackers who research and report security flaws, and not punish them, but do they really need to support/allow hackers who don't intend to report these security flaws to Apple but instead use them to create jailbreaks?

Don't get me wrong I have nothing against jailbreaking, but Apple supporting the jailbreaking community well that sounds a little extreme...
Then make the argument that these findings are wrong. Don't make the argument that you are surprised the majority of climate scientists "believe" in global warming when that is what results in the field are showing.
To the extent that fans replace football with another sport (instead of meth or oxy), high-octane basketball is the natural substitute.

Meth or oxy? Interesting article, but I feel like it's, uh, brushing rural America in some very broad strokes.

That said, I found it interesting that it was discussing the collapse of sports TV in 2012. Just three years later I think we're inching closer and closer to that - the average cable subscription subsides ESPN when the majority of viewers don't watch it. With cable subscriptions declining, there is huge trouble ahead for ESPN, since they are tied into incredibly expensive multi-year contracts that they might find themselves unable to afford.

In totally unrelated news, ESPN shut down Grantland yesterday.
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Potatoes are very nutritious. Maybe there's a less greasy way to make fries so that they'll taste good? Maybe make them in coconut oil and a lot less salt?

All the meat served in restaurants is far worse for you than fries.
Graham's intuition is assuming equality of the two distributions.

As I noted in a different comment here, you can pretty easily fix Graham's test. Compute min(accepted a) and min(accepted B) instead of the means. In your example, the min of the accepted distributions would both work out to be 80%.
> I challenge you to find a Chrome extension in the Chrome web store that lets you download Youtube videos

Are there _any_ Chrome extensions that allow downloading _any_ streaming content, from _any_ source, not just YouTube?

For example, does Chrome allow extensions that save streams from Pandora, or Hulu, or Reuters, or Facebook Video?

Seems to me this policy is enforced equally, it doesn't favor Google properties or exclude competitors.

The Chrome developer agreement states that these extensions are prohibited:

infringes on the intellectual property rights of others

enables the unauthorized download of streaming content or media

https://developer.chrome.com/webstore/terms
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They've increased the round length to 20s, and it seems to be working. We're on the point of running fdisk /dev/sda
I don't see any reason why there should be symmetry between the defense's aim to get the best outcome for their client and the prosecutor's office's role to get the worst outcome.

Instead, I'm fine if every stage and every actor in the system was biased towards a finding of not guilty.

To that end, I do think it's incumbent on the prosecutors to only seek to convict those it believes are guilty rather than those it believes it can convict.
Apple doesn't allow hackers to have fun on their platform. Water is wet.

Anything I'm missing?
(Rant up ahead, mildly directed at parent, but really directed at the average person espousing parent's view on HN, of which there are a surprising number. so, xkiwi - please don't take it personally, it's not really about you, I'm just unloading frustration).

For your own sake, I suggest you take a serious look at your worldview. You are saying that people on Quora are "obeying a dictatorship" because Quora chooses to "force" them (on their own property, mind you) to use Facebook or Google, which is something almost everyone uses.

Your point of view is so far from the mainstream, and might I add so insulting to the people who use Quora, not to mention the people who built this amazing, free of charge site that so many people love, that I think you won't be able to hold a meaningful conversation with almost anyone else.

And might I add, talking in this way shows a complete lack of empathy with almost anyone else in the world. If your base assumption is that Quora is a dictatorship that people obey, it really seems like you have never taken more than 2 seconds to think about someone else's point of view in your life.
When trying to bring about a big change, his point seems to be that sometimes new simple thinking is more important than old complicated thinking. That's very much in line with the MIT Media Lab and their way of looking at the world.
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"Germany's 'crucifixion'"

Germany did not suffer a thing. Returned to be European powerhouse in a whim.

Losers of WW2 (Japan, Germany) are way more successful than most winners of WW2 (UK, France and especially USSR).
Despite the fundamental economic problems with this proposition listed elsewhere here, I'm just floored by the political implications:

There is hardly such a thing as a "climate-concerned billionaire." Mostly there just exists the "capital-concerned billionaire." The writer is enamored with the capitalist class, but there have been no signs in the history of ever that it systemically works in the interest of the massive people or its planet.

Who is the author really trying to appeal to? Are they still trying to convince the affected people that we can depend on the unaffected people to be saviors? Where the hell is the Atlantic article titled "Destroy Capitalism: the only way for billions of concerned people to save themselves and their environment"?
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This is false - noise doesn't hurt this test at all. See my comment explaining why:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10483991

Bad measurements add noise (and increase the sample size required) but they don't invalidate the bias detection procedure.
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Looks interesting.

Pedagogically, I wonder what the tradeoffs for using Python are. I haven't looked at it, in part because I've heard comments to the effect that it's a big hairy mess inside.

On the upside, students have a better chance of actually needing the knowledge than with Lua, for instance.
Good point. The other argument is also true; Security and correctness is not a single metric.

With modern (buggy) hardware and DMA access, when your driver and/or hardware fails all bets are off. Some hardware may be possible to reboot (much as you'd reinitialize a kernel module in Linux), but sometimes your best course of action is a complete reboot.

As for security, you also need to take a long hard look at the the operating systems your operating system relies on, such as the ones powering your disks, nic, pci-controller etc. There are some potential tricky security interactions with them.
There is a big difference between homogenous, but mostly uncoordinated and unconscious biases held by liberal academics, and the conscious, coordinated and incredibly aggressive campaign by conservative politicians, business interests, activists and academics to attack and discredit any theory or research that conflicts with their world-view.

If some innocent conservative academics are facing blowback for being associated with the wrecking tactics of their ideological peers, I'd say it's the least of our problems. The risk that we might literally wind up destroying our civilisation due to the malfeasance of the right weight more heavily on my mind than that some conservative academics struggle to get tenure. If anything, attempting the resolve the latter problem will only exacerbate the first, by helping legitimising the garbage research that conservative academics are paid to produce.
The bosses in the typical quant firm are also quants themselves, and have no trouble following the rigor used to justify the validity of a trading strategy. Sure, at a certain point in the chain, you're talking with someone (eg. COO) who isn't allowed to see the details of the modeling procedure, but this is the point of scaling up and having risk/pnl limits -- no HFT firm, for example, is at risk of blowing out from lack of statistical rigor.

I doubt taking Yale's financial markets courses is sufficient to understand or be exposed to what is currently being used in quantitative finance. I took Stanford's financial markets and statistics classes, and those are far behind and unaware of what's currently being used in the industry (I've worked in two highly successful HFT groups since Stanford).
It's not really even censored from Apple devices since you can watch all the same videos through the Apple TV YouTube app.
There are large communities where many people are or know criminal defendants, such as poor communities in large cities. I don't understand why they don't make their voices heard.
It's incredible to me how Encyclopedia Britannica just couldn't conceive of it being a legitimate thing. I think that really exemplifies how larger companies don't bother to compete with startups that end up destroying them.
That you think the only threat to civilization comes from the right shows a bit of bias all on its own. That you can say this in the same paragraph where you essentially condone censuring people for holding views you find unconvincing is just icing on that nasty little cake.
He used "Scrivener (2.60.5)" to write that one. (Run pdfinfo on the file to see this.)

My understanding is that they're not crazy picky about what you use to write the script as long as the output on paper/PDF is in hollywood standard format. (Layout, typewriter font, heading formats, etc.)

At work, we've written a system that parses scripts from PDF files that is being used for breakdown, script analysis, and sides generation by quite a few movies and tv shows.
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My roommate recently became the Director of Technology of https://nextgenclimate.org/

It's an environmental advocacy organization funded by Tom Steyer. So, there certainly is such a thing as a "climate-concerned billionaire".
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Good point. I'm not even really one to turn to legislative remedies. It's difficult to imagine many practical ways to match the vast legal resources of these established interests against individuals.
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I just hope it's not infected by systemd.
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For years, wire wrap was preferred over soldering for aerospace hardware because there were no cold solder joints. NASA still has plenty of documentation on the matter.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=wire+wrap+nasa&t=canonical

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Of course, the rest of the world has a football-like sport (rugby--sorry, Australia) which suggests that there's a fair bit of demand for that general type of sport--and not just in the US. Rugby has its own issues with concussions although probably not as much as American football.

In general, I agree with the article that football isn't "too big to fail." I'm not sure lawsuits is so much the path though as kids simply not playing. That doesn't seem to be happening however.
> and nurse children

Science mostly solved that problem decades ago, if you hadn't noticed, to the extent that breast feeding is now viewed as strange or embarrassing in certain cultures.
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Great insight. I had the great fortune to take a course with Gary Becker where we went into some of the mathematics of college admissions. He made this precise point -- the variances of the particular populations you are looking at matter a great detail. He managed to build some pretty convincing models which provided a compelling narrative for "biases" that we seemed to observe in the real world, all with simple changes to the distributions of populations. Great comment.
How do those other countries do it?
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