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>It might be true for you. We know it's not true for many other people. That's why orchestras stick auditionees behind curtains. It's why people are advised to remove any protected characteristic information from their resumes/CVs.

In a highly-competitive field with strong compensation and a lack of qualified candidates, I have a hard time believing that it's any sort of normal for recruiters (who require placement for compensation or to keep their jobs) to discount people based on race or gender, especially with the amount of good press and cheap marketing that now comes from having an outwardly diverse company.

I don't buy into the narrative that the engineering field is flush with discriminatory practices. Companies are even paying non-STEM people to spew inflammatory garbage about the STEM industry -- if the tech industry is financially tolerant of these parasites, why is it insane to think that we, as an engineering workforce, have healthy/tolerant views?

>I'd be interested in how you know you've eliminated this bit of strong conditioning, or whether you're operating under a cognitive bias.

This one is easy -- I'm not interested in someone's race/gender/religion/appearance/other-non-consequential-factors when it comes to work. I'm primarily interested in taking care of my family and in personal growth; working with others that help the success of my company and challenge me to better myself help in these goals.

By definition, I wouldn't know if this is some sort of cognitive bias, but evidence would suggest that I'm in good shape on this front. If it's a bad thing to not raise or lower my expectations of others based on race/gender, then I'm comfortable being a jerk that judges people based on their merits.

>Because so far when we test people who say "I don't care about race / sex / etc" we find people who do in fact care about it.

I feel like you're trying to indirectly accuse me of something, so if you are, own up to it and make the accusation directly.

People who fixate on race/sex/etc that have deeply rooted issues with it, not those who focus on thoughts, ideas, and ability.
And you spent countless hours or even days finding the most relevant documents.
In my opinion, they need to focus. Cut a bunch of stuff, find a niche they can dominate, and rebuild. Either be a bad-ass server platform, amazing social app, or perhaps apply themselves towards a select group of people (aging seniors or something)-- whatever they think they can do-- but focus. It will be painful. But it's their best path forward I think.
Lots of negativity around this purchase but in my opinion Opera was destined to be Left in the dust of the big 3. I think this purchase guarantees at least some money flowing into competition and new ideas from a company that seems to embrace common sense web standards.

Congrats to the team and the owners.
WoW arguably had as much influence on EQ as EQ had on it (and it's not like EQ was the first MMO or even the only big MMORPG out there before WoW came out).

Before WoW EQ had no instanced content (had to camp every mob spawn), mobs were rare especially the ones you wanted to take on on the later levels and it's name was a bit of an oxymoron as it barely had any quests.

WoW pretty much "invented" the modern quest based leveling instanced content PVE-Theme-Park MMO genre, and people who played WoW Beta/Alpha know just how much it changed it pretty much started as an EQ clone questing was scarce Blizzard initially planned to have about 30 quests from 1-60, then said it will take a 100, but eventually the figured out the correct formula (even with having orders of magnitude more content than any other game at the time it still was an utter grind to get to 60 in vanilla some people took months to level to that).

WoW initially launched with more content than any MMO on the market which is something that will not and could not ever be repeated again, they launched at an almost perfect a storm sort to speak, as all of the late 90's fresh 2000's MMO's were dying out due to lack of content and game play becoming stagnant.

If SOE at the time decided instead of working on EQ2 which came too late with too little content (and required a computer from the future to play at high settings not to mention ultra, as even my ATI X800 pro at the time couldn't run it well) and instead worked full steam on putting out content for the original EQ with maybe a slight engine overhaul WoW might not have became the monster it is, however anyone who played / still plays EQ1 will tell you that the best content for it came out after WoW was released and it was almost a direct clone of the WoW style of content delivery and progression.
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In Australia we've had a couple of 'accidental politicians' get in due to lucky preference votes where no-one expected them to be taken seriously. I've seen both good & bad from this. One consistency is they seem to approach things with a more openness and honesty. So while I like democracy, I'd also love to see some experiment where 10% of politicians were taken from the populace at random, kinda like Jury duty. I think it could be a good thing to combat political dynasty and keep things fresh.
Man wrote words on Twitter. This is news now.
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Magic the Gathering is Turing complete. That doesn't mean you should refer to it as a programming language.
Intellij is amazing. Note that jetbrains built resharper to de-suckify Visual Studio. And many of the refactorings that we all take for granted were invented by Jetbrains.
yes, movies like Tears of the sun. considering the number of US citizens, they are all over planet and it's a rather unreasonable expectation.

generally US citizenship meant much more in the past than it means now since there are more interesting places to live (albeit in long term US might still prove as best spot... or not).
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Did you work this out? Or is it a case of cloning the repo?
So Free Basics has been in India for about a year already. Are any of the grand claims about it supported by the data? I like data.
Thanks for the hints. I am planning to dissolve and I am one of those "tests". How can it take one year to dissolve? could you elaborate on that?

Why I am leaving?:
- My experience is that (my) accountants are bureaucrats, which may be necessary because. They only know about filling up forms and hours to charge you more and no advising. I am in a small city but the company is very big (BDO). Still the country encourages you to have an accountant (Even in the FinanzAmt, even in cases that in other countries you would do it yourself)
- Taxes are huge (for a netto salary of "only" 2000€/m, so 24k year, is about 50-60k for the company).
- Mentality is oposite to that of startup's. "You can feel it in the air" which means in everything you do, from lawyers, accountants, banks, even investors.
- There is no benefit for investors (although I think there is some on work).
However the for Handelskammer you only have to pay if revenue (or profit) is over a minimum, but I think it depends on the state. The first year that shouldn't be a big issue.
Moreover, I would not start again in Germany because:
- It is costly (500 min for standard basic in notary fees)
- and long. No matter what they say in the official sites: is not 8 days; they don't count that you need to set (that means in advance) appointments with bank, notary, finance-amt,... usually several with each, It took me over a month to have the tax-number and wanting the VAT-number to operate internationally all was about 4 months.
There is no one-stop company like in many other countries.

Sorry Germany, but in this situation it is a no-go.

Estonia, Irland, Luxemburg, I have hear about Bulgaria for low taxes too (10%).
Spain, also problematic: you need to live there 50% of the year, you pay taxes even if you don't have income (this is crazy and it has been like that for... ever). Good thing, is not that high taxes and salaries are low for a very skilled people.
I never felt that situation was clearly resolved in my mind. The essentially ran a subscription dvr service. It's hard for me to wrap my mind around how it's illegal for a business to do that, but just fine for me to do it myself.
I thought that type stability was actually a crucial notion in real-world dynamic language implementations? Witness inline caches and polymorphic inline caches, for example.
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There is one salient example: fresh water in India.

In 1947, the British departed with 24/7 pressurized water across the developed parts of India.

Now, the British-built water system has all but collapsed. Instead of pressurized water, the water comes weakly and only intermittantly. What difference does that make, you ask?

Well, if a pressurized system leaks, the leak causes water to leave the pipe. In a non-pressurized system--coupled with the user-side pumps that are used to pull in more water--leaks flow INTO the water line, bringing contamination with it. Couple that with the common practice of placing fresh water and sewer lines in the same trench and everytime somebody pumps that water toward them, they are pulling in fecal matter that leaked from the adjacent sewer lines, which also leak.

That's why Indians often cannot drink their water without going through reverse osmosis. This is just an example of how India frittered away a resource the British brought them.
A good analogy is a farmer shopping at a supermarket.
> We’ve all been there: Some jerk cuts you off on the highway. You lean on the horn, scream abuse. You want to get out the car and kick the @#$% out of the bozo’s SUV.

Nope
Tweet in question:

> “Anti-colonialism has been economically catastrophic for the Indian people for decades. Why stop now?”

The context is: India’s telecom regulator this week blocked Facebook's free, but limited internet service.
What Marc, Benedict and everybody else is (conveniently) ignoring is that Facebook does NOT bear the bandwidth cost of FreeBasics. So the whole thing about "giving something for free" is disingenuous.

Indian telcos, Indian consumers and Indian public pay for FreeBasics. Fair of them to decide whether they want this scheme or not.
I'm still hoping that journalism recovers from the new paradigm that came with the dawn of the internet...
Mughal Empire , sectarianism and caste system crippled India, not Britain.
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I don't particularly like the guy, but is there a campaign of deliberate misinterpretation going on?

Yes, probably a really stupid thing to say, and perhaps wrong for many reasons.

No, he did not say India should have kept Britain as its colonial power, or any of the other incredible interpretations now flying around the Twittersphere.

Jonny Axelsson: Anti-semitism not the opposite of semitism. Now whether anti-colonialism is a thing is another thing. Americans, esp. right-wing, have Humpty Dumpty appoach to redefining words but in context is clear: @pmarca referred to the post-colonial anti-colonial mix of nationalism, socialism, abuse/power that afflicted many ex-colonies

Marc Andreessen: Exactly.

https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/697281882401026048

[Please disagree with Andreessen's point, not with my point that he really didn't say take India back to British colonialism but said something else that perhaps is almost as stupid.]
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Going one step further, some AI will be designed to be aggressive; for example, law enforcement, military, security escorts, etc. -- I'm guessing that will it is very likely that you're right that some consumer AI will be aggressive, if it become too common, it'll be shut down.
I think this thread might need a refresher on how to disagree [1]. Already a few DH0 offenses.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html
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Good point!
Everybody thinks in Germany everyone speaks English. Well, they normally don't.
wow! considering the millions (if not billions) he has made from the hard work of people from India, he sure is a shameless @55h013
While probably not a smart tweet I am not sure if people just buzz about it for entertainment reasons or maybe really did not understand what he wanted to say.

..because I think the message in its context is only that using the anti-colonialism gesture is not a useful policy trick to counter facebooks free basics initiative for Indians.

On the other hand it's twitter. And they have to be outraged about something.
Last I checked NValt DOES have tags...
"Denying world’s poorest free partial Internet connectivity when today they have none, for ideological reasons, strikes me as morally wrong." - Mr Andreesen, given how rich you are, you need to be really careful when you talk about morals. (Quote from Bible omitted)
The comments suggesting that this is unimportant are pretty silly. People have been objecting to cryonics on the basis that it hasn't been proven beyond a doubt to preserve fine structure, versus only having had a reasonable set of evidence to preserve fine structure. They have objected on the basis that proven methods of preservation in small scale tissue samples hadn't been rigorously demonstrated to work in large organs. Now that the fine structure and scaling doubts are dispelled, they move on to objecting for other reasons, and even suggest that it was obvious in hindsight that the fine structure was preserved, or that methods would scale.

Denying that cryonics is relevant or useful or a valid area of research and development because no-one has yet completely implemented the full loop of technologies for reversible full body cryopreservation is missing the point. (But note that it has been done for a single organ, which was transplanted, and functioned).

The point is that we could be saving lives, and we are not, largely because of irrational objections that are not really based on technological or scientific positions, but grasp at a those positions as a shield for the real nebulous feelings on the matter.

The reversal of cryonics in the future has been written on extensively. There are very detailed treatments of what would be required. There is no sound reason to think it impossible; it's just a matter of sufficient control over chemistry and biochemistry. If you believe that there is some sound reason that it is impossible, then publish a paper - it would be influential if correct, because it would demolish the work of much of the cryobiology community in their initiatives to create reversible cryopreservation of organs and tissues.

Here is the paper for this research by 21st Century Medicine: "Aldehyde-stabilized cryopreservation":

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cryobiol.2015.09.003
>> "Knowing the sentiment in tech about keeping internet free from external interests, I don't know how he could support Facebook's plan like this."

He's a pretty big investor in Facebook. That's why he's willing to ignore the net neutrality implications - because it benefits him.
He talks about the Carnegie Award for Heroism, which is for civilians: http://www.carnegiehero.org/
Were the mughals invaders and colonisers like the British? Did they "leave" after their demise? I thought they basically became part of India, especially with their artistic and religious influence on the people.
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While I admire Mr. Andreessen a lot for his work as an entrepreneur and investor, we're witnessing a very real amplification of the consequences behind the expression "don't meet your heroes." The difference here is that Marc is abnormally outspoken. It would be dubious to assume that similarly ignorant opinions about large swaths of the world are not also shared by some of the biggest minds in tech.
If you work for a USA company, yes - it does.
Cadillac/CMU actually spun out into a company called Ottomatika which was acquired by Delphi.
FYI it was socialism that held back the Indian economy during the 70s and 80s.

Which is exactly what he says he meant:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11072752
If they fire Mayer, Yahoo will probably be sold and they'll get something back before the value tanks.

Mayer doesn't need more time. She's a competent middle manager and an excellent researcher promoted beyond the scope of her talents, and she made the classic mistake of misunderstanding the difference between a popular platform and a range of products that users really want.

Now she's out of time and out of ideas.
Cashing a paycheck is largely non-issue as cheques are almost gone in Europe (except France, UK and Ireland - but they're soon to be gone there too) - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheque#Europe

But it makes the problem even bigger, because there is a push to go cashless (like fines if you pay cash over a certain amount - starting around 10k euro) and it's working - Sweden has 40% less currency in circulation than 10 years ago.
I'd like to see examples of said countries; at least of any of the developed nations I'm familiar with, I've never heard of such a scheme. In universal education schemes, like what are common in Europe, competition for top schools is extremely high, a single test score determines the trajectory of a student's life in many cases. In systems like that are present in places China, performance not only dictates your school but also your profession with highest performers tracked for the engineering and sciences and working its way down (unless of course you are independently wealthy to the point of seeking foreign education).

I suspect, from my personal experience; n=small etc, the value in the ~knowledge~ of a 4 year bachelor's degree in the united states is very close to 0, honestly. Especially for the people in this community, I would be extremely surprised if what was taught in schools came up anywhere bu a white board interview from a pretentious company.

I would love to hear counter anecdotes or be presented data to the contrary
Algorithmic personhood already happened via corporations.
I was in the process of reading this when I thought to check who this person is. Of course, by that time the site had failed, so I haven't read the whole thing yet.

But, it seems to me that the author is falling in to a trap many an unwary data "scientist" falls by not understanding the discipline of Statistics.

When one has the entire population data (i.e. a census), rather than a sample, there is no point in carrying out statistical tests.

If I know ALL the words spoken by someone, then I know which words they say the most without resorting to any tests simply by counting.

No concept of "statistical significance" is applicable because there is no sample. We can calculate the population value of any parameter we can think of, because, we have the entire population (in this specific instance, ALL the words spoken by all the characters).

FYI, all budding data "scientists" ...
You are mixing up the mathematical universe with the physical (also known as real) universe.

For a mathematican 42 or -42 makes sense - there are no units necessary. The mathematical intepretation of a negative number is just being element of a set.

For a physicist 42 or -42 are pointless, because a unit is missing. The physical intepretation of a negative number is the quantified absence of a unit.

- by the way: https://xkcd.com/435/
Good point. FWIW I imagined doing it in the opposite direction, using GNU Social with things connected back to twitter in some way.
> Have you participated much in the overclocking community? The whole point is that every CPU chip is different and can be overclocked by different amounts, some almost not at all.

On the other hand, there is no way that you can actually determine how far a CPU can be overclocked and still maintain full functionality, so it might be best to limit overclocking to systems that will not be used for something of high financial or safety value.

The problem is that fundamentally the hardware is still analog. Digital is an abstraction on top of the underlying analog system. In the digital abstraction, a signal changes instantaneously from 1 to 0 or from 0 to 1. In the underlying analog system, the components carrying the signal have capacitance and resistance. Changing the high voltage that represents 1 to the low voltage that represents 0, or vice versa, involves discharging or charging that capacitance through that resistance, and that takes time.

This sets an upper limit on how quickly that signal at that particular point in the circuit can change digital state.

There are also other ways the analog nature of the underlying circuit leaks into the digital realm. Neighboring components that are in the digital abstraction completely isolated from each other (except through intentional connections) might be coupled by stray capacitances and inductances. This can let signals on one cause noise on the other, or the state of one could change how fast the other can change state.

When a chip is designed the designers can figure out what areas are the most vulnerable to potential analog problems. They can incorporate into their tests checks to make sure that these areas are OK when the chip is operated in spec.

The ideal scenario is that if you clock a chip fast enough to break something, the chip blatantly fails and so you find out right away, and can slow it down a bit.

The frightening scenario is a data dependent glitch, where you end up with something like if the ALU has just completed a division with a negative numerator and an odd denominator and there has just been a branch prediction miss, then the zero flag will be set incorrectly.
Interesting Flash video isn't affected yet. Waiting for HTML5 EME (ie DRM) to become more widespread?
Damage control stations!

Really, what on earth was he thinking when he wrote those tweets. And it's not the first time he pulls a gaffe like this either.
Facebook has never shared data. This is what one can figure out from bits and pieces from PR releases: https://medium.com/@sumanthr/a-data-driven-argument-on-why-m...
I'm not a psychologist but I believe this qualifies as "projection."
Really! I will check it out and see how that works.
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I think you don't understand the difference between amount of something and
a number. Number is just an abstract concept, and it doesn't have any
inherent properties like being "real" or "imaginary", whatever that means for
you. On the other hand, amount can never be negative.

BTW, read a little more about number sets. There are such sets as "real
numbers" and "imaginary numbers". I think you can find some material in
mathematics textbooks for ground school and high school (probably not about
imaginary numbers, though).
Out of all my years driving, I've never been really concerned over a bicyclist, even when they go through stop signs, or hang on my lumber rack. Yes, a lot don't obey traffic laws to a tee, but it's a bike. They do not have the mass, nor size of a automobile. They just haven't been a concern for myself.

I honestly don't get the outrage towards bicyclists. I think it's more psychological? Personally, I have found the most out of shape individuals complain about cyclists the most.
Mughals were the Mongols who converted to Islam and invaded India.
You should find out what India's share of world GDP and trade was when the british arrived.
One of Evans' favourite debate tactics is to tweet something brimming with subtext, then when someone calls him out on it, takes a literal approach to what he said. It's infuriating.