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Frankly, I don’t mind the idea (any physical keyboard giving you easier access to portions of Unicode’s vast repertoire of characters is a good thing in my book), but just one option/alt key is a no-go for me. I already make huge use of it both for keyboard shortcuts and my custom keyboard layouts, so there’s no way I can give up having one of each side of the keyboard. I would’ve probably liked this keyboard better if the emoji key was an additional key rather than it replacing one.
It's the prettiest construction site I've ever visited, and the exhibits about it (particularly the string and weight models) were great.
So for a business with their traffic needs, you'd recommend they do what? Buy up a bunch of physical locations all over the world and get some of OC lines?

I'd be shocked if they could stay out of the red, even at their size. Your proposal would also kill virtually every startup that needs a website.
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Or maybe she is a private citizen with an unusual sexual kink that she does not want her mother/boss/customers to know about. The UK government will not be able to keep all the data they are slurping up secure and it will end up in (more) criminal hands than GCHQ/the police.

> you're mistaking your desire for privacy with thinking the UK is in any way interested in you.

Why does the UK maintain a file on her then? And why on me? And why on you? If they are not interested why bother to store the data?

Your second paragraph is inaccurate in almost every respect.
Impossible. "M$" spelling is an artefact of at least 10-15 years ago. And author should have been at least 12 back then to pick this up.

Regardless, author does have a valid point here, despite somewhat puerile literary style.
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Welcome to the surveillance state in your head: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-surveill...
This isn't actually a flaw in the theory. The theory is designed to measure whether the selection process is inaccurately predicting outcomes. So an unbiased selection process will account for post-selection factors - including the fact that VCs might not like a person.

It's also worth noting that an unbiased prediction is not necessarily "fair" in the colloquial sense. For example, I've seen data suggesting that an unbiased prediction of college outcomes would actually penalize black applicants, since black applicants underperform relative to their SATs and college grades. (The person who had this data was very careful not to draw this conclusion in the publication - career limiting move, as they say.)

So a fair selection process which looks only at high school grades/SAT/etc might actually be biased as a statistical decision procedure.
Yes, seriously.

You don't need to believe that someone is actively looking at your communications to be concerned about all your conversations being logged into a database somewhere, for future reference.

We know now that the only chance we have to prevent our communications falling into the mass surveillance dragnet is precisely to follow, as you say, "Defcon levels of preparation all the time".

Despite what you say, your argument is exactly the trite old gripe about "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear". Except maybe if you decide in 15 years to run for political office on a platform to rein in the intelligence services, you might. Then it might not be good for them to have this huge haystack to search through to pass juicy bits to the tabloids. Look into the FBI's handling of Martin Luther King for example.
I think that too many are calling this magic, or liking it to paranormal, but 50 years from now we will look back and it will be no more normal than the law of gravity, or other physical 'givens' of the universe
BMP was one of the last formats that would be possible to "decode manually" (that is, read the actual data and paint the image from it). PCX was one of the other (using RLE)

Sure, easier to use a library, but sometimes you have some constraints
I think that's referring revenue from printing and selling your own copies of the completed violin, rather than from musical performance.
MI5 have a very long, and proud, history of distinguishing between political enmity and "subversive" activity. The history of "entryism" during the Cold War is well documented, and MI5 have declassified information about what they did and did not do. Basically they helped protect the Labour party from infiltration from Communist sympathising individuals who wanted to overthrow Parliamentary democracy. They did not spy on merely left wing individuals.

We're in an age of leaks, and there have been whistleblowers from the UK intelligence services. If MI5 were asked to spy on Corbyn you'd probably hear about it in the resignation letter of the head of the service...

Personally I do think Corbyn is a threat to national security. Not in a sense which he is aiming to destroy the state or country, but that his naive and inconsistent world view would embolden our enemies and be more likely to cause conflict. His views are one which he is entitled to have without state surveillance, he's entitled to stand for public office and entitled to be brutalised by his political opponents for his previous positions, especially on foreign policy.
Other way to read the first part: no matter how ridiculous the point, chances are high that a huge number of people will read and believe it.

Just look at Donald Trump.
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If I'm following his argument correctly, he assumes that there is a hard cut-off at some unknown point in the performance metric being measured, below which no-one is selected and above which all or most people are, and tests whether that hard cut-off point is the same for the two groups. It's going to be an accurate test in that scenario, but that's not a good model of reality. This is especially true when the performance metric being used is noisy and measured after the people are selected - which is exactly the scenario we're actually interested in!
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It looks like a toy, so maybe it is intended that way. A simple screen to slide emoji and select them with a tap, leaving the keyboard as is would have been better for me. I would not buy it as is. Probably it is thought for another public anyway, I'm old skool on my emoticons ;P
Ever heard of the Netpbm image format?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netpbm_format
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Your CSRS just increased. CSRS = Citizen Subversive Risk Score.

A couple more internet searches like that and you'll be hauled into "the Cage" for questioning, held without charge for 72 hours under the "Anti-Terrorism and Subversives Act 2018" and released after a good beating.

Your credit score may or may not be affected. Employers may call upon your CSRS score before employing you. Increases over 5% a year are grounds for dismissal.
Hah sorry, I was answering the wrong post, I meant to answer the post that said "why dual boot when you can run a VM", and the answer should be "VM works fine as long as..."

Sorry about that.
One of the best handled security event in a long time (at the best of my knowledge), especially on the PR side.
> They recognize that the approach is good but they worry about efficiency and standardized tests

"We know the students learn better but that's not our personal performance metric"
> This embedded content is from a site that does not comply with the Do Not Track (DNT) setting now enabled on your browser.

Never seen that before; +1 for medium.com
Agree on both fronts. I'll to adopt that narrative for explaining software.

There's a number of "contrast bookmarklets" that you can use to fix the problem part.

[1] http://megpickard.com/2011/06/nifty-bookmarklet-to-make-web-...
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This might be suitable for motivated students. I don't think it will work for everyone.
Yes, but they're not very commonplace in 'real usages'
Oh wow, today I learned.

This is outrageous, I was so naive of HN community, that things like this are not happening here.
Isn't this just pushing the problem away from us? The problem being: Why do I still click on an article even if I know it will not be worth my time, attention and energy in any way.

"Effectively this means that you're not paying with your attention". I don't see how this is true. The owner of the website might just think I don't pay with my attention. But I did.
That's surely a possibility as well. But it's impossible to decide until medical science improves. Be it autism, depression, obesity, nearsightedness, and so on, medical research is wandering helplessly with different hypotheses being in vogue at different times while having no way to conclusively prove or disprove any of them.

The problem is that medical science is dominated by a particularly insidious misinterpretation of frequentist statistics which makes most medical research for most practical purposes worthles. It goes as follows: A study that looks at one possible cause is, all things being the same, a hundred timess less likely to produce a false positive than a study that looks at a hundred different causes, so we should make studies as specific as possible to avoid false positives.

The error in this reasoning is that while a study that looks at a hundred possible causes is indeed a hundred times more likely to produce a false positive, it also produces a hundred times more data, so the amount of noise is the same. So in an ideal world, a hundred small studies are perfectly equal to one big study, so it shouldn't be such a big deal after all.

But we don't live in an ideal world and studies that don't produce significant results are often shelved, and studies that report results for one possible cause in fact looked at many and report only the most significant result. This makes it impossible to add up results from different studies to get a clearer picture and you only have separate studies pointing at random directions and leading nowhere, with no hope of getting more certain results untilt the way science is done changes.
Maybe C++ is also a showstopper for many?
That's assuming it is using Dart IPC -> Skia and not Dart IPC -> Higher Level GUI C++ rendering API -> Skia
It's a shame that there's no form of recognition that doesn't involve casino rights.

In fact, there is no official "casino rights" recognition to seek, it's just an often unwanted right that comes along with federal tribal recognition.

So many tribes, who want other educational and or commercial benefits that come with federal recognition (like being able to label their art/crafts "Indian-made"), or who simply want the recognition due to them for reasons of ethnic pride, have to face opposition from big casino corporations worried that some tribal leader in the future might propose a casino.

There should be a form of federal recognition by BIA that doesn't involve casino rights, that's the easiest solution (although unlikely to happen for legal reasons).
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And yet again the UK is not the USA, MI5 is not the FBI, Spooks is not a documentary.

The FBI's handling of MLK, and the general culture of fear of Hoover in the political establishment, is an excellent example as it is all before any of this technology. It isn't an argument against this, it is an argument for the effective oversight and regulation of the intelligence services. The USA might have some bizarre legal concepts in which the courts defer to the state when "national security" gets played but I can assure you that is not the case here. We've paid out settlements to the British Guantanamo detainees because trying their lawsuits would have potentially exposed intelligence relating to whether they were bad or not. NB nothing justified their treatment regardless of who they were.

It has always been the case that the intelligence services have the capability to destroy someone they don't like. If they don't have that then they're not any good at their jobs. If you have a (rational) fear that they can that is an argument for reigning in that service, not hobbling their ability to do the things we do need them to do.
really? I know electronic miniaturization is an amazing thing, but is this big enough for all data and calls to be tapped from?
Built it with a couple of mates as we have quite a few lunchtime games happening at work. While it has had a good run with people we play with, it isn't spreading much and it seems we will be shutting it down.

Regardless, first share here on HN. Appreciate your opinions.
Agreed, and this is probably by design. It's all a part of social control, or attempted social control. It's the threat of constant surveillance that will contribute to keeping people under control. Personally, I remain skeptical that Govt agencies can do a fraction of what they are claiming to be able to do - anyone who has worked with the various joys ofindustrial sized databases will know how difficult it is to maintain and query the really big ones - but the possibility of the threat remains. I forget the movie that the line is from but: "you don't actually need a big gun - just tell 'em you have one".
> held without charge for 72 hours

Today, if you're arrested in the UK under Terrorism charges you can be held for up to 14 days.

https://www.gov.uk/arrested-your-rights/how-long-you-can-be-...
I have tried.The most simple widget app take about 15M size. the learning curve of QT framework is very steep，although Qml is very simple.
You ignore the scientific evidence that Dr Perlmutter gives you. Dr Perlmutter refers to a number of published peer-reviewed scientific articles and you simply say it is otherwise.

And the articles show that the microbiome has an important role, and guess what: children inherit a large portion of their microbiome from the mother.
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paying the ransom was terrible advice, not only did it not work but now attackers know there is a potential payout it is in their interest to attack again. if it isn't the same attackers then another group, who is attacking doesn't matter. I hope ProtonMail now stop taking advice from whoever told them to pay up.
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Nothing wrong -- except I don't have enough juice on my laptop to run VirtualBox, etc. Want to attract 70% developers, have something to run easily on windows.
Singapore gets a lot of attention for having good schools, high-achieving students, novel teaching methods (sometimes), and in a sense, all of these things are true.

But there is always a cost. The enormous pressure that minors have to perform well in school in Singapore has led it to having one of the highest teen suicide rates in the world. In the short time I lived there, I knew 2 highschoolers who committed suicide.

There is nothing wrong with challenging a child, but I hope Singapore's culture eventually evolves to be a little easier on kids in general.
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The business - using click bait headlines and outrage porn to generate ad revenue - does (or can, at least) work. TFA is complaining that this business model incentivises shitty content that makes people cross.

Incidentally, this is not a new or unexpected phenomenon, 'traditional' media marketing bods have understood the principle for decades - the noisier a channel gets the louder/shriller you have to shout to get people's attention.
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There's one thing I don't get though. Being biased often means valuing something that is common among those you favor, but rare among those you don't. So even if one group outperforms the other, why would that in a practical scenario prove that your next candidate should be of that group?

It seems entirely possible that if your program is "narrow" enough you could exhaust the pool of more successful candidates from a minority group. Of course this would be a lot more plausible if you're biased.
Because then the growth of valuation metrics will be slow and you will not be able to justify round A,B,C,+,-, etc.

Try reading it through the eyes of an investor putting capital to work rather than the person doing the work.
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It's much more beautiful close up than in pictures, IME. I had mixed feelings until I actually visited.
I urge you to read of few articles that Dr Perlmutter refers to. Only when you see the hard data you will be able to accept that diet and microbiome play a very important role.
NO worries it'll all be legal soon. If there are any senior ex-Statsi left alive they will be looking at the UK spying systems and wishing they had had this level of access.
good catch. uncommon name, "cowboy ventures", prominent VC, bad assumption on my part. can't edit post, but noted.
My definition is the same as yours - it's exactly about the existence of rejected women who are better than accepted men.

This particular test is terrible for VC since the min return in VC will always be zero. But if you build a noise-sensitive version for something like college admissions, what needs to be true is a) bias manifests as raising/lowering the bar for one group relative to another, and b) both groups have a significant number of members near the cutoff.

As an example of the type of bias this test would detect, consider U-Michigan's point system [1]. An extra +1.0 GPA was added to black applicants. I.e. an Asian person with 3.9 GPA and black person with 2.9 GPA were equivalent. This would result in Asian people having a higher min GPA than black people.

[1] They replaced the point system with vague human heuristics when the supreme court said point systems can't be racist, but vague heuristics can.
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That we're still looking at a decade from now to completion, given that the Burj Khalifa took 6 years from groundbreaking to opening, is a testament to how much of the work of the Sagrada Familia doesn't scale. The challenge isn't "the building" as a structure -- it's that every single surface in (and on) the thing is a unique sculpture.

I don't think "cutting corners" as a negative -- it's realistic, if you want to ship. Nobody who said "let's build a new church here" lived to see its completion. It's awesome to see, however impractical for 99% of solutions, the occasions when a "screw time and budget -- this thing is going to be perfect" approach is followed through.
I run a company called SendOwl, which is probably the biggest competitor to Gumroad, and I must admit I'm sad to see this. We've been watching them over the years and have been impressed with some of the work they've delivered. I've also met a few of their employees and have liked their thinking around selling digital goods and where it's going. You could see they wanted to make a success of the company.

Their problems, in my opinion, have come from being VC backed. VCs ultimately want thier money back and with this comes massive, often unrealistic growth expectations. I've had a lot of offers of VC money for SendOwl over the years but I've never once considered taking it. I've bootstrapped SendOwl because I wanted complete control of the company, to direct where I thought it should go, to create the company where I wanted to work at (we work a sensible 9-5, I spend lunchtimes hitting the gym...), but most importantly to serve our customers and build something for the long term. This last part is something I've always seen as uncompatabile with the VC model.

The VC model is alluring though - VC money makes growing quickly easier, it makes getting PR easier and it makes bringing in lots of staff early on an easy decision. I'm not saying it's right or wrong per say, it's just not the path I wanted to go down. Bootstrapping isn't as sexy as VC money, but as long as we're growing, getting great customer feedback, and innovating with new features I know we're on the right path. Focus on those three things with Boostrapping and it's hard to go far wrong to be honest.

Interestingly we're getting more and more people asking about us as a company and whether we'll be around long term, so maybe the tide is starting to turn. Anyway I wish everyone leaving Gumroad all the best for the future. And any sellers out there who are interested in alternatives please check us out at: https://www.sendowl.com Happy to also answers questions in the thread below!
Dropping outliers is not common in good statistical analysis.

In many labs, your data is looked at very suspiciously if you don't have any outliers.

An outlier may not be thrown out without good reason. Preferably an a priori reason before you do the analysis.
Haven't people effectively been using robo advisers for a long time already, with human financial planers as glorified frontends? I mean often these advisers might just ask their clients for their data, enter it into a computer, and recommend whatever the computer says? So now people just type the information into a web form.

I admit that my opinion of finance advisers is not the highest. I suspect they are often more salesmen than experts on finance, who simply push onto their clients whatever their company wants to sell at the given moment.
I'm very wary of updating Thinkpad BIOS, since one such update bricked a X230. It ended up by having to get a new mainboard.

For a computer outside warranty, that can be pretty expensive.
wikipedia only shows mainstream "common" knowledge. Dr Perlmutter refers to published peer-reviewed scientific articles which say that diet and microbiome are important factors and the articles show large improvements with diet change and probiotics, much larger than with drugs. So think again, or read the scientific articles.
There's a React Native for Android, which has the same problem.