skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that the only data driven conclusion we can derive from "holistic" admissions that consider every factor stems from what happened in California. Most California public colleges (UC Berkeley, etc.) subscribed to the same school of thought, but when race-based considerations were banned, the Asian American percentage at the school shot up considerably.

The colleges were still considering the same criteria for admissions, but once race was removed, a significant increase in Asian American acceptances at the schools occurred. I think it's very hard to argue that Asian Americans failed on your aforementioned categories, or that there wasn't a systematic bias against them when considering these facts.
The problem is probably your ISP, check http://ispspeedindex.netflix.com/.
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Rochester has an extremely sad downtown area, because it’s tightly encircled by highways killing any connection to the surrounding areas, and it was turned into an office park filled with parking lots. Only a few blocks (where there are students) have any kind of vibrancy. For anyone who doesn’t have a car, it’s the perfect dystopian nightmare. A great illustration of what the article under discussion in this thread was talking about.

It was much more of a real city up through about 1950. This comparison shot is striking: http://iqc.ou.edu/2015/01/21/60yrsnortheast/

At least they’re trying now though, http://www.cityofrochester.gov/InnerLoopEast/
Some Netflix shows are just not shown in the US on Networks and often they get branded Netflix – like a lot of British Shows. I imagine the rights are worked out as timed rather than for all eternity on Netflix. If Netflix "created" the content it would be on there in perpetuity.
If anyone links the social security number to this, I will kill them myself, not only with just my bare hands and ten gallons of boiling rage, but using only the ring fingers. Ever try doing something with just your ring fingers? It's gonna be slow and clumsy.

I was thinking more along the lines of just keeping a list of hundreds of millions of unique integers, and linking as many identifiers to them as are necessary. If you have a keyed database, it is essential to have unique keys for indexing.

Identity records all over have all kinds of problems, mostly due to stupid assumptions--like assuming that a SSN always uniquely identifies one individual.
I've recently switched from jQuery to mustache to create elements for DOM insertion; I like that a lot, especially because it works linearly like a good old library, instead of being a huge ass framework - it's a good fit for the programming model.
The solution is to look at the questions asked.

If you're asking loaded questions, you're getting loaded results. If the results in question are college sexual assault statistics and no one bothered to ask "have you been sexually assaulted" then that's what I would call loaded.
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I thought it was hilarious
Wake up, get ready, commute both ways, lunch, happy hours, etc. 50 hours is on the low side.
How would you do 1?
I created this initially for myself to keep up with things around the house, such as when was the last time I cleaned the A/C filter, who borrowed stuff from me and did they bring it back, etc. I'm also using it to keep track of my blood pressure on a daily basis so I can show a chart to my doctor. If you have a moment, try it out and please provide feedback. Thanks.
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> unknown reason

it's called greedy ISP
That doesn't seem to do anything for me. What am I looking for?
What is model-based machine learning?
Or you could be fair with everyone. ;)
I never said that rationality and survival were at odds with being a pirate - that's something you injected into my words, hence strawman. I said that the strict rationality in the article was; the extreme nature of the rationality described.

I mean, I even italicised the word 'strictly' in my reply, to clearly indicate the important bit of my comment that you blithely removed to create your strawman. You didn't 'drill down' my argument, you twisted it to say something I never said. It's like if I said "if a person inhales too much water, they can drown" and you replied "why do you think water is at odds with survival?".

Hell, even in this new "distillation" of yours, the word 'strictly' is used. If you're a fan of rhetoric, then get on board with the meanings of words. And if you want to be pedantic, I didn't just say "that's a strawman", I pointed out why it was.
I wouldn't quite say that. Dummy cameras give petty criminals a risk they hedge their actions against. Security theater would be telling people they can feel safe from personal injury because of said cameras. Someone else put it succinctly: Surveillance is not Security.
jQuery is the BMW M3 of libraries. It handles all the hard stuff for you in such a way that when you use it, you look like a superhero capable of anything. It's one of those rare tools that makes almost everyone better at what they do just by the fact that they're using it. And everyone can find a way to use it in their own style. Just a completely brilliant piece of software that has inspired me (and many others) for a decade.

I'm still waiting to meet John in real life and thank him out loud for jQuery. One of these days.
I have all the sympathy for burning karma, but it seems to come down to this:

It is easy

There is virtually no way to get caught, only a few out of probably millions do and if you buy a VPN that number drops to virtually zero.

It is easy to justify that you are not really stealing, because one you can't practically buy the thing and two you are not taking anything from the publisher.

Of course there are also those who fundamentally don't believe in copyright being a valid agreement, at least in its current form. I count myself weakly in the last group, in that I think music and movies should be subject to a compulsory streaming license - the producers gets paid for each view, but they do not get to choose who can watch when or where.
Pops up a menu in the corner of the active window with Restore, Move, Size, Minimize, Maximize, Close. If the window is off screen, the menu should pop up within screen bounds anyway.

Also accessible by right clicking a titlebar, for anybody who's familiar with that one.
…for now.
Yes, this is what I am saying.
Although part of me can't imagine thinking someone is watching 4 cameras on every car on every train at all times.

Having video footage of crimes is useful even if nobody watches it until after the fact. There are some security cameras in Vancouver which were installed with the explicit promise that footage would be deleted after 30 days without anyone having seen it unless the police get a warrant in the intervening period.
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Are you seriously considering waking up and putting on pants to be working?
I think you are wrong on pretty much everything you've stated here.

> There are no devs there, you're basically on your own
There is an extremely active mailing list and IRC channel (several official ones actually) where you can almost always get in touch with the actual Qt devs and others who use it for support without paying them anything. There are over 500 people in the IRC room right now.

> If you want to make cross-platform desktop apps (with opportunities for mobile too), I'd recommend hiring people who know web-dev and start looking at Electron [0] and NW.js [1].

Maybe when Web Assembly (or whatever its called) becomes a thing performance will be tolerable but I have yet to come across a web application that doesn't run incredibly slowly. I use Atom for a basic code viewer right now and it is pathetically slow compared to any native applications (GEdit, Kate, Geany, etc)... and this is on a desktop machine. I can't imagine anyone creating a remotely complex web application on mobile and expecting any sort of reasonable performance. Text editors should be some of the faster applications -- imagine creating something that's media rich like a music player, a video or photo editor; it would be a disaster.

Also regarding your "with opportunities for mobile too" comment, you know Qt is supported on iOS, Android, WinPho, BlackBerry, Sailfish right?

> massively vibrant frameworks, libraries, tools and communities
Yeah, its not like the native software community doesn't have that or anything. Unlike web tools, native tools have been developed for far longer and they are more robust and reliable.

>It really doesn't make sense to use things like Qt, wxWidgets, GTK anymore
Yes, if you don't care about performance and all the things web frameworks miss out on (how's that GL support looking? Native is getting ready to support Vulkan -- WebGL is still stuck on the ES2 equivalent) then jump on board the web app hype train.

You're also completely overlooking embedded where Qt specifically is used extensively. Kiosks, IVIs, small displays for smart appliances, etc.

I don't like the Qt model of using the GPL as a way to get people to go for their very expensive commercial offering and I think a model like Unreal Engine's (give us a share of your revenue) makes more sense as an additional option for smaller devs.
But unlike, say, extensive airport screening procedures, it's fairly easy to test if dummy CCTV cameras have an impact on crime rates.

I don't know if such a study has been done, but if it works and impacts the intended endpoints, it isn't really theatre.
Probably an artifact of seeing a bizarre response in general to the comment, really. The tone of the quote also doesn't help, as it sounds pissed-off.
Yeah. I would imagine that if you had real cameras, it would make sense to publicize that fact. Partially to let people know they shouldn't expect any implication of privacy and partially to let people know the cameras aren't decoys.

The cost/size requirements have come down so much in the past 20 years that it makes a lot more sense to actually install cameras and record locally to a DVR/NVR in the bus.
I have a friend that's worked at Foursquare for a long time. Hopefully this new pivot works out for them.

I'm not sure I understand what they've pivoted to though. It seems as if they're providing location data to customers like Apple?
I wonder if they still allow the names of admissions candidates to be revealed to the people who review the applications? It seems that hiding this would be a really basic step.

And no I'm not saying that a name tells you the race. But sometimes it is an indication.

Not saying it's bulletproof; it's not. But it would help. And I can't think of a valid excuse for not doing it.
Still don't understand those capability types (iso, trn, ...). Need more tutorials!
Streaming has made people lazy. Unless I want some shows really badly, I won't even bother to torrent it. Once you go streaming, you never go back..
Renaming wouldn't be a good idea (best to keep the existing API and create a DOM 2.0 API for backwards compatibility) plus it wouldn't really solve any problems anyway.

For me I'd need to do some research to create a good, comprehensive list but some of the things off the top of my head:

- Simplified ways for creating HTML elements. jQuery's way is nice and I think chainable, while a double edge sword in some cases, can make this a little nicer (doesn't have to be chainable to the extent that I can make 10 elements in one line but being able to set the properties in the creation step would be nice). In fact even allowing a simple JS Object to be used for setting properties in the creation step would be handy.

- Templating needs to be built in. Practically every single framework has its own way of templating and they all suck to a degree because you have to take the huge tradeoff of either doing the templating server-side, loading the HTML then replacing the values or loading the JS then generating the HTML. All of it is slow. A browser native solution could be orders of magnitude faster than dealing with the last two and makes it easier to leave the front end as purely static versus having some dynamically generated items.

- HTML and ECMAScript committees needs to get together and create clear separations of functionality between what the HTML and the ECMAScript standards provide. AJAX was great but this is an HTML standard; HTTP needs to be baked directly into the ECMAScript standard since JavaScript can run anywhere now. Eventing too needs to be moved from HTML standards (as far as the eventing itself is described; the events individual elements use most certainly should stay in the HTML standards) and build eventing right into ECMAScript. Right now node and the browser both provide their own event handling.

Obviously those items are far more nuanced than my real fast list but you asked me to give you answers to a hard problem :). I could make them far more detailed and nuanced with some time and research (I have other ideas but I need to investigate them more).
That's not the point under discussion.

The rationalization here was that the work was already done, so why shouldn't it be free?

It's a silly rationalization and I'm pointing that out.
Geoffrey K. Pullum's anti-recommendation to Strunk and White:

http://chronicle.com/article/50-Years-of-Stupid-Grammar/2549...
forget the tin foil hat about vpn etc.

1. use a decent client (transmission. the windows version in confusing to find but works fine)

2. require encryption (default usually is prefer encryption)

3. don't be a retard and download cam from movies releasing today. it will suck and mpaa is probably the one seeing it.

4. if you limit to few torrents at a time and limit upload and download your isp will not bother sending your logs to the mafiaa
Sure, if you include all that I've been working 50+ hours a week for virtually my entire career. I don't generally count all that other stuff as "working", though, because I have some control over how much or little of that I have to deal with.
Harvard can't end racial discrimination in admissions. To get into Harvard, a teenager needs:

1) To know about Harvard and elite universities in general. Believe it or not, research shows that most qualified poor kids don't apply because they don't have any knowledge about the value of an elite education or that places like Harvard exist. Anecodotally, I know a couple of brilliant ones from poor backgrounds who went to their state universities simply because they had no idea there were other options - in fact, it was an imaginative stretch to go to college at all.

2) Family and community support for a college education, much less an expensive elite one far away. Sure, some super-teen can overcome this, but it's a major reason kids don't apply or drop out at high rates. My two friends were constantly asked, why would you want to go to college? Kids in these situations are in alien environments at college (that it seems perfectly normal to white middle-class kids should tell you exactly what environment it is) where they have few people who can relate to them (Edit: and an institution not built for their needs), then they go home and are asked why they are wasting their time and family's money. And as they absorb university life, they also become alienated from people at home who don't have those life experiences or opportunities.

3) Money: There is a very strong relationship between family money and college education.

4) An excellent high school education: Something else that correlates strongly with the family they come from.

5) Connections: It's not what you know, but who you know. Do you think all those kids in Harvard are there on merit? What about the legacies? The big donors' kids? The kids with recommendations from alums? Those aren't avenues available to most kids.

And all these things have a strong racial component. If Harvard can eliminate these factors then sure, why not eliminate affirmative action too?
well, it seems not very useful if you are doing a discrete piece of work because you have one short comment to make, not a list...

maybe encourage is the wrong word, but it seems like a useless tool if you are doing things in (what i perceive to be) the right way.
None of these companies currently recruit on 500 Miles. What other companies would you add to the list. I can update it!
> When Foursquare began in 2009, it started as a fun check-in game that exploded in popularity... We are now a fast-growing location intelligence company, making consumer experiences richer and informing business solutions.

Well jeez, it sounds pretty soul-crushing when you put it that way. "We used to be this awesome fun thing! Now we beat each other over the head with buzzwords all day."
I think you're wrong. Progress comes from building a consensus and working together with others of like mind.

But you probably don't care what I think.
I used to work at Flipboard, and we invested a lot in this issue. It is not easy, and requires constant (constant!) maintenance.

Getting to 80% quality isn't hard. 90% is tricky. 95% incredibly costly.
Argh. I have just that, a $5 DO droplet located in New York (I live in Sweden) that runs a Squid3 web proxy. I use this for Squid3 to not be detected as a proxy:

via off
forwarded_for off

request_header_access Allow allow all
request_header_access Authorization allow all
request_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
request_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
request_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
request_header_access Content-Length allow all
request_header_access Content-Type allow all
request_header_access Date allow all
request_header_access Expires allow all
request_header_access Host allow all
request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
request_header_access Last-Modified allow all
request_header_access Location allow all
request_header_access Pragma allow all
request_header_access Accept allow all
request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
request_header_access Content-Language allow all
request_header_access Mime-Version allow all
request_header_access Retry-After allow all
request_header_access Title allow all
request_header_access Connection allow all
request_header_access Proxy-Connection allow all
request_header_access User-Agent allow all
request_header_access Cookie allow all
request_header_access All deny all
Dom, congratulations on your success. You are really an inspiration to me.

I'm currently employed full-time (also in Canada) and have a lot of down time doing angular/react. I have been taking some steps to get involved in the freelancing world.

After some research I found that WordPress is an easy platform to get started with as a freelancer, so I'm currently learning it.

What would your advice be to me? is going the wordpress route a good idea? How do I get clients?
Even if you are using some kind of prebaked images to deploy, you should be generating individual keys using the SSH PKI features per machine as part of your individual host configurations.

This allows you to verify hosts while having never seen their keys. Just totally shutting off verification is a horrible idea.
Agreed. I was just thinking if their justification would be to deter graffiti they would want people to be afraid of being picked up during/right after the act, but I guess it would make sense for them to be worried about someone reviewing the footage later and their picture being passed around to the transit cops.
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I wasn't commenting on the word choice. I was commenting on the focus on the financial drawbacks of startups, when the focus should be on how they stifle good work.
why? i want to express my disdain at the patent system, and the sentiment reflected in the article. this is what those kinds of words are for. people are free to downvote if they are unhappy with that.
The GitHub page, when copy-and-pasted on http://markitdown.medusis.com renders okay.

MarkItDown is a "toy" implementation of a rich-text to markdown converter, that I wrote 3 years ago and still enjoys significant usage. Maybe it could be used as a start for a more full-featured parser.
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Ok, url changed from http://jpc.sourceforge.net/home_home.html.
You know what is the funniest fact? There is Ramsey Theory stating chaos is impossible and you'll always find patterns even in the most unpredictable things. Now the footballer is called Ramsey as well... Another Ramsey Theory coincidence?
How do you propose improving security in this case?
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Right, of course.

But the people who equate the two don't actually care about Asian Americans. They are making a political argument.
Current system: you take up a student loan. You go to college. After college, you pay the bank back more than the college cost. Bank pockets the interest, at least 25% of the total.

Proposed system: your parents pay taxes that cover less than the college cost (not everyone has kids that go to college). You go to college. Bank gets nothing. After college, your pay more tax than in current system, but you have no student debt, so you total expenses are significantly lower.

Which system do you think is better (assuming you're not a bank)?
That's why they have that inane message on a loop that says "Security alert, cameras are no gurantee against criminal activity in the BART system."
The interesting data here aren't the news articles themselves, but the news-browsing history of 20 million people over a 4 month period.

To answer your first question, though, according to the official description of the dataset [1], "On the item side, we are releasing the title, summary, and key-phrases of the pertinent news article."

[1] http://webscope.sandbox.yahoo.com/catalog.php?datatype=r&did...
Agreed. It's impressive that she can make it sound like an adventure to bum around Macon, Georgia, peering into a condemned building and drinking by yourself in a local watering hole.
We’ve heard that this latest round of
financing cut the company’s valuation
roughly in half. Foursquare declined
to speak to valuation, but its previous
round in 2013 put it at a reported
$650M valuation.

In other words, if you joined Foursquare in the last two years, your stock options are now worthless.
You seem to perceive it as an either/or proposition. It is possible to have a kickass, satisfying job which also pays really well. Money is important, at least in the US where you're responsible for funding your own retirement.
This article piqued my interest about the founder's educational background, and it sure is odd, considering all the wording in the press and her own descriptions of her background. 4 years 4 months in medical school (according to LinkedIn), dropped out as a "third year candidate" and describes her attendance as both 2011-2016 in her list of schools and from 2011-2015 in her list of employers.

Did she periodically take a hiatus from school to found other companies? Was she in school part-time? I certainly don't fault anyone for dropping out of a grad school program, but completing two years of medical school (if that's the case) is a far cry from "practically a doctor," like the article describes.
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From the IP holders point of view: Netflix streaming content they don't have the right to because the subscriber is using a VPN is no different than piracy.

The subscriber is just paying a middleman (netflix) for it. But they see no money for it. This is because one company doesn't typically hold the IP rights world wide.

Why does paying the wrong people make it better?

>I mean at this point the only reason people would want to use Netflix is feeling guilty about pirating.

That's ridiculous.
Most aren't, but some are. You give up something priceless if you adjust to fit in -- and though it's hard not to, you don't need to.