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> citing fear that her grandchildren might start communicating with terrorists over encrypted PlayStation systems.

ugh
I don't think academic results are the (sole) metric of what enhances society most. I'd argue that getting more folks from underrepresented groups into schools and the pipelines that ultimately follow is a better society enhancement than a school having a slightly higher average GPA.
In other words, not using racial preferences in admissions decisions lets the black college enrollment trends continue; though, as the article doesn't point out, 'not using mandated racial preferences (banning aff. action)' is not the cause of disproportionate representation.

I think the argument against affirmative action is more, morally speaking, addressing the question, "should we use racial preference to fight racial preference?".
>>> ...then find a way to distribute it. Networking is all about solving the distribution problem, getting noticed.

I'll distribute it. Anyone with an internet connection can put a novel in front of millions rather easily. The problem isn't one of distribution but monetization. Book publishers, like movie studios, know there are only so many dollars to be spent each year on books. So whether a particular book is marketable has as much to do with what else is happening in that market.

Markets can only absorb so many spy thrillers or romantic romps in a given timeframe. Quality is now arguably secondary. If you accept that, then it is not difficult to understand that publishers do not always go with the best book. Instead they turn to reliable sources, especially friends and previous authors. Networking and name recognition become the entire game --> the rise of ghostwriting.
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My first post was directly related to the comment I replied to. It also relates to the article. I agree that you're reply was irrelevant, as is your second.
>these people really didn't do anything to warrant the unreasonable amount of gain they have or will have.

Not true. Miners helped secure the network (and were rewarded with more bitcoins for doing so due to the mining difficulty) when bitcoin was brand new and vulnerable to attacks. It sounds like you haven't read much about how bitcoin works.
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/giphy #1 gets you the first result for your search so pretty much the same thing that this rightgif bot does. i guess they have a bunch of secret commands like #weather and #echo? i found them here. anyone know of other secret commands?http://thenextweb.com/apps/2015/10/14/these-secret-giphy-com...
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> are you obliged to help out those around you or not?

It might also boil down to a disagreement around who we are obligated to help. Some say dis-advantaged ethnicities. Others say dis-advantaged socioeconomic groups. Et cetera.
I'd like to see research on whether banning affirmative action benefits Asian students, who are typically discriminated against.
It won't let my peek without asking to create an account :(
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Whomever you are, you have had ancestors that enslaved and ancestors that were enslaved.
I'm pretty sure that's not true.

It is true that you can't just rent an apartment in seattle, call it a day, and pay no income tax. CA will look closely at things like owning in CA, where bank accounts are, how many days you spend where (keep airline receipts), where you're registered to vote, where your kids/spouse live and attend school, etc. But it is possible to establish residency in a state tax haven and avoid that 12.3% CA income tax.

As always, if the amount of money is material, see a tax attorney.
It does need better training for sure.:)
I would argue that the best engineers focus on themselves quite a bit--they just focus on improving themselves and their strengths and weaknesses instead of their relative ranking among others.
Hopefully you reported the error, they do incorporate those!
2015 is over. Language is just a tool, focus on solving the problem.
So they can run their illegal tax schemes directly through The City? Or arrange their ledgers so they pay no tax?

We need a full reform. This is a small part of it.
Well, the key here is that any non-JSON data you pull from a URL should be static. That means it can be cached, and the client should only be pulling a small amount of data that varies based on their account.

I wouldn't write an interactive web application this way, but for sites that are mostly content the approach works fine. You still have to test on multiple browsers, and you still have to write code that handles the differences in browsers/engines/etc. But your servers are doing less work, and the content reaches the customer faster. It's still up to you to optimize your JS (though I guarantee most tracking cookies are taxing JS far more than rendering a few divs will).
It says a lot about the broken sensibilities of higher education that an Historian describing how an outcome occurred feels obligated to explicitly dissociate herself with the outcome ("I don’t intend any of this in triumphalist spirit"). Or for that matter, even to express an opinion on the moral correctness of the outcome.

If an historian who happens to be from Egypt describes the governmental system at the time of the pyramids were built, would we expect them disavow the ancient regime? Even if they were describing the system under Nasser, a disavowal would be weird.
Static websites are great of course, and the article outlines that nicely.

The problem that I've been facing personally is that most of the times, the people who are updating and maintaining content on marketing websites are not developers.

So having to use the command line for static site generators such as Jekyll or Middleman is just not a good experience. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE static site generators in general and I'm using both Middleman and Sculpin myself.

Other people has seen this problem too, and some user-friendly-ish static site generators have started to surface, but I want to chime in with a solution to that too since I believe that the best way to adopt static site generators is to use the tools that content creators and maintainers already love and are familiar with, e.g. WordPress which now has a whopping 25% marketshare[1].

I built SpudPress[2] with a friend. It is a hosted static site generator for WordPress. We automatically generate a static version of your WordPress site and host in on a super fast CDN. You don't have to worry about any of the edge cases of generating a static copy, we take care of all that automatically for you.

[1] http://ma.tt/2015/11/seventy-five-to-go/
[2] https://spudpress.com
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Yes, employer side of payroll taxes and other costs, along with the gigantic health insurance costs (employer side). These should be eliminated, let the compensation flow to employees and then tax it in land values or consumption taxes, ideally. Then people can get an idea of just how much tax they are paying, and maybe Americans will stop thinking they're getting such a great deal.

That said, it's still pretty remarkable how high US salaries are even with all these costs.
Very true, but (imo obviously) employees here are generally deluded: your relationship with management and founders of your employer is an inherently adversarial relationship. Pretending otherwise benefits them and screws you.
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I haven't kept this up to date for a while now, but https://gist.github.com/macintux/6227368 may have some content of interest.
This is why Cameron wants to have some "red lines" with the EU. He's terrified they are going to strangle The City.
In the graphic of where English is the official language, Quebec should really be colored grey. :D
GPA might not be quite as important, but actually graduating is. Especially given the loans one takes on and how hard it is to repay them if they don't graduate. Something that lowers graduation rates could cause more harm because it means a general reduction in ability to repay loans taken to attempt college.
> everything from groceries to petrol is more expensive than the north of England since it has to be shipped in

I can assure you that the North is one of the cheapest places to live in the UK. I could rent a huge, 4 bedroom house in some places for less than I'm renting a single room in London. Out of interest how much is petrol/groceries? What popular UK brands do you have over there that could be compared?
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Not what you are asking about, but I find it very useful; Microsoft has a product called power BI which is a dashboarding/BI solution and you can create dashboards for Cortana.
> I question the need to preserve a language if it inhibits the positive spread of information.

I think that language diversity is bad for the communication of information, but language preservation is good because there are words in other languages that are difficult to articulate in English. If you still have a few people that speak their native language (Even as a second language), then those exact concepts are preserved.
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Wait, so since they can't spin off the Alibaba stake tax free, they're going to spin off Yahoo (and pay taxes on that lesser-valued spin off)? Shareholders would then own 'YHOO' which are basically BABA pass-through stocks, and whatever other company Yahoo becomes?
I don't think you need to learn C and C++ as a prerequisite for learning Rust, but I still think C is worth learning. The concepts that you would learn with C++ can be learned just as well by learning Rust, so I would skip C++ if I were you.

If you decide to learn Rust, the Book[1] is, I think, the best way for you get started, seeing as you already have experience programming.

1: http://doc.rust-lang.org/book/
You're a better *software engineer than you think. Fixed that for you. I expect PE's need less affirmation after passing rigorous apprenticeship and evaluation.
>which should still help increase diversity

I think quotas by income would be a much more interesting experience for college students than quotas by race.
I don't understand what the fuss is all about... Just learn to invert binary trees, shouldn't be that hard...
> I question the need to preserve a language if it inhibits the positive spread of information.

It's possible to believe that a unified language is useful and still mourn the loss of other languages. I think it would be useful for society if we had a single common language. I still think it's sad that so many indigenous languages are dead and dying. I'm sad for the same reason I'm sad when some rain forest species goes extinct. It doesn't affect me in any meaningful way, but it's still a loss to us all. We can't get it back.

I think the ongoing efforts to preserve (in recordings) the languages likely to go extinct is valuable and useful.
I have no idea why this article is so popular. It claims to show the way to get better at chess by the doing the following: 1. Study the opening, 2. Study the middlegame, 3. Study the endgame, 4. Study your own games, 5. Study master games, 6. Play OTB, 7. Study tactics, 8. Use "psychology," meaning, don't be afraid and never give up. Along the way a few books and other recommendations are thrown in.

This is all rather trivial stuff.

While, I don't disagree with everything that the author says, I think that it should be acknowledged that his claim is pretty much unfounded. There are those who have not done any (or all, or much) of these things and their rating is above 1800, and there are those who have done all of these things and their rating never comes close to 1800.

Beyond that the author does not seem to be aware of the well-known debate on this subject.

There are at least, broadly, two views on chess improvement. One side, as represented by Silman and Aagaard, argues that chess "meta-knowledge" is key. A player must first look at the characteristics of the positions (e.g., understand Silman's imbalances), and with this understanding, and only then, can a suitable move be found. This group usually advocates a "thinking process" as well. The other side, as represented by Watson and Hendriks, argues that it is only the moves themselves that are important, and the correct move in many cases contradicts the "rules" of strategic analysis. For this group, only "concrete analysis" of a position (i.e., looking at the moves without prejudice) has any possibility of leading to a good move. In this "concrete analysis" group, at least Hendriks (if I understand him correctly) argues that in a tournament situation where there are significant time restrictions, and experimentally moving the pieces is not allowed, only knowing the position itself, or similar types of positions, can help the player find the correct move.

So, we have the "meta-knowledge" group advocating the learning of strategic and tactical ideas, and then applying that knowledge to a given position with proper thinking technique. Accordingly, this group believes that if you want to improve your chess, you need to learn more strategic and tactical ideas, applied with an improved thinking technique.

And we have the "concrete analysis" group advocating the learning of the correct move in specific positions. Accordingly, this group believes that if you want to get better at chess, then you must learn many hundreds, even thousands, of positions.

The truth is probably somewhere between the two extremes. My own experience is that as far as tournament OTB play is concerned, I have benefited more from the concrete analysis approach than anything else.
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so... all i need to do is play a ton and read a ton of books. that sounds much faster than my previous options of playing a ton and reading a ton of books.

THANKS!
What I never understood is why in these days we are not able to have a product that would be spread on the teeth (let's say a yearly application) to protect them from most of the major aggressions.

Each time I had a tooth "cured" (i.e. drilled), this "cure" weakened the structure of the tooth so much that it broke with a period of 6 to 24 months. And once the inside was removed with drilling and the outside has broken, what's left? Nothing: goodbye tooth, hello hole.

I am pretty sure that they would have lasted longer if they had not been cured (supposing I could stand the occasional pain, but in half of the cases, pain was not even about to start, a tiny decay was just detected by visual inspection). But now, I have to plan to start eating more soup soon.
I'd be interested in seeing the underlying data because there's a lot of noise you introduce by just equally weighing all colleges as data pts and then teasing out a weak trend. You could boil down the entire ban and non-ban populations to a single number for each group which would probably tell you more than these graphs do. Better yet do it over time.
actually sorry about this. Dupe. Previous discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10699281
Yeah, that's kinda the benchmark for flipping anything in a generic US suburb.

40k for a kitchen, 10k each for a couple bathrooms, another 10k for paint and flooring, some landscaping, maybe roof or siding, and there you are.
Go is a perfectly fine incremental refinement on the Perl model.

What the Go cheerleaders lack is actual experience of most of the alternatives over significant time.

I have code in production based on Go, and C++, and Haskell, and PHP, and Erlang, and Python, and JavaScript, and probably others. Go doesn't really stand out, at all. If I had to pick one, I'd pick C++. If I had to add another, it would be Haskell, unless I needed front end which forces JavaScript.

Go is probably ahead of PHP, though, so that's something.
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One of my favorite articles like this, from 2 years ago:

> This morning Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) announced a record-breaking weekend for sales of its new iPhone 5S and 5C. In the first 72 hours more than 9 million phones were sold in 11 countries around the world.

> To me though, all this over-the-top fanfare and even the record-breaking first weekend of sales could actually be cause for concern.

> Let's face it this new iPhone is just an upgrade, a refresh, dare I say a sequel.

Yes. that's exactly what it is. And it sells like crazy.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2013/09/why-record-ipho...
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Yet another thing employees really need spelled out.

All the "we are a family" bs that any company pushes is generally crap.

If you fuckup in your family, you're generally not disowned.

In any company - you mess up and you can be cut...

If you have big enough issues to complain a lot to HR or speak disparagingly about your employer... Then you need to start looking for a new position, silently. HR is not the friend of the employee, mostly.
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Attacks via bittorent clients, legitimate clients from legitimate sources, are extremely rare. Torrent clients only perform a handful of tasks, a very limited profile for threats.

Oldschool P2p (ie Kazza and bearshare-style sharing schemes) are a different story, although even they are rarely attacked successfully.
I don't think anyone's immune to thinking about how they rate, but the best know they're good, so it's usually just a passing thought they spend very little time on.
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out of curiosity, how many lines of code do you need in matplotlib to generate http://koaning.io/theme/images/monopoly_plot3.png? in R, you'll only need one. also i have done this work in a python notebook, you can specify R cells to take pandas dataframes allowing you to still use ggplot2 for plotting. see old video of mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW8Aei2wlsM
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The biggest advantage is just the huge market and tremendous amount of capital the country has flowing around. Reserve currency status imports even more capital (to our detriment). I think Americans who haven't analyzed other nations don't realize how different the capital availability is here vs abroad, from real estate to corporates to startups. This is why the economy basically froze when the credit markets seized.

The large market drives the entrepreneurial culture, because the stakes are so big if you "make it" here, and market sizes for even the most niche things become viable for an entrepreneur to chase with investors in tow. Not so in smaller markets.

Most success is in spite of our poor government, inefficient land use, and entrenched inequality. Chapter 11 is fascinating, I studied it extensively in school. I would not say it drives entrepreneurship but rather large corporate risk taking maybe. Startups aren't thinking about restructuring options. Besides, startup investors are after equity, not debt; Chapter 11 is about reorganizing debt, with secured debt the higher priority, at the expense of equity holders.
And also OP should not take advice from a list that includes "CSS" as a programming language.
Is there a language that deserves to be the world language?

I mean, not "would be a good one"... deserves?

(I'm sure many people would cite some beautiful language as a "good one", but remember that in the process of becoming the "world language" it would cease to be "beautiful" anyhow.)
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>But there doesn't seem to be any reason to question his character.

I guess that depends on how you view facebook itself. Advertising is one thing, but I find the model of encouraging people to share their personal information for one purpose, then surreptitiously monetizing it by selling it to others to be downright slimy.
Movable Type, one of the original blogging platforms, worked (and works) exactly like that, though it also supports dynamic publishing. For example, Jeff Atwood's blog has always been statically generated: http://blog.codinghorror.com/coding-horror-movable-type-sinc...
> So I say to Facebook and Google, "use the language of the user, as defined in their browser language s settings primarily, but offer the user a choice to change it. I'd like 25% of the increased sales"

Unfortunately this is not always accurate. Chrome on my Mac for example uses "en-us" despite the fact that my machine is entirely configured to use British English (en-gb). For my own websites I'm forced to geoip the location to infer which subset of English to use - most annoying.
Thanks for the example -- while I have never needed to actually change the read mode, you shouldn't need to actually use that query buider, read mode is an optional argument to r/table. Apologize if I misunderstood what you were trying to do, or if this was a relatively recent addition that wasn't available last you used clj-rethinkdb.

Here's an example (from tests in the repo):
https://github.com/apa512/clj-rethinkdb/blob/1cd09c7c8a4ce27...
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Are you forced to use JSON with RethinkDB? Like is the mechanism RethinkDB -> JSON String -> to POJO and POJO -> JSON string -> RethinkDB with each database interaction?

That seems crazy inefficient.