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> if someone creating an IQ test is a white male, chances are white males will have an advantage on the test

But why and how would white males consistently create culturally biased tests which advantage East Asians?

> It's very hard to create a "general intelligence" test that isn't biased in some fashion [and many say it's impossible]

Tests of reaction time are probably not culturally biased: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_chronometry#Mental_chro...
Wait, so your argument is that only Native Americans would feel unwelcome in this community?

Is this supposed to be in his favor?

EDIT: For clarity
Are those really prevailing salaries in New Zealand?

50k NZD is only $34k USD.
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Biking is a way more efficient way of getting around a downtown core. It makes more sense to ban cars downtown (except freight and emergency) than to effectively ban bikes by not having bike lanes.
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Its kind of hard to understand if you haven't experienced it. On some projects you might see the previous and latter generations and compare side by side the apparent changes and improvements.

For those who did revamps, they knew their value of the original and believed they could improve upon it. Unless you have some personal investment in the concept, I don't think you can improve on it too much beyond cosmetic and mechanical improvements.

So my suggestion if the problem is interesting enough for you, part of your work is to get experience and own the problem and strive for a solution. It may not the the project that gets you going but the implementation being in need of your skills, etc.
> This is going to sound amusing at best, but would you mind defining what it means to boot?

I imagine that most of the time would be in mocking some/all of the hardware interfaces to present to the VM, and running your init processes (and all that entails for whatever OS you're running).
It's an obvious conclusion, but I'm not sure that it's a tautology. The name of something doesn't define what it is, only tries to describe it. As others have pointed out, it is, for example, perfectly possible to be interested in an adblocker mainly from a security point of view, without taking any position on ads themselves.
Are you serious??? I would love to hear more.

A lot of things make sense in this light, especially the location.

Here's a forum thread from 2003 with a thowaway comment on the same topic, about the 5th or 6th post.

http://www.planetcrap.com/topics/782/66/
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> The World Health Organization estimates that 80 percent of people living in urban environments are being exposed to unhealthy levels of air pollution from particulates and it says they cause four million deaths annually around the world.

The level of particulates middle-class people face indoors in the worst urban environments is tiny compared to the level of particulates people face (esp. in rural areas) wherever cooking is done indoors over a wood fire. We’re talking about a level of wood smoke filling the room which causes eyes to redden and start watering, and makes it physically difficult to breathe. (Source: my parents are anthropologists and my godparents are indigenous rural Mexican peasant farmers, and I spent lots of time growing up sitting next to wood-burning hearth fires.) On average, by historical standards, humans’ current exposure to particulates is very low and continues to drop every year.

I don’t know if it makes sense for people to freak out about cooking eggs in their houses, though having effective indoor ventilation is obviously worthwhile, all else equal.

Edit: I looked up the actual WHO source (not linked in the OP): http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2014/air-pollut...

> After analysing the risk factors and taking into account revisions in methodology, WHO estimates indoor air pollution was linked to 4.3 million deaths in 2012 in households cooking over coal, wood and biomass stoves.

This is not talking about people using a gas range with an underpowered ventilation hood to cook eggs, and the 4 million deaths number is not restricted to urban areas. The people dying here don’t need a little electronic air quality detector, they need electrification and rising incomes so they can afford better heaters and stoves.

To cut outdoor air pollution, we should get people to stop burning piles of trash, stop using fire to clear large areas for agriculture, switch away from coal power plants as soon as possible, and try to get the worst polluting old vehicles off the roads.
you don't need a car anywhere in LA. take public transit, or stay in one neighborhood, i.e. santa monica. it's not rocket science.

when people visit LA they spend hours driving across town over and over, for absolutely no reason. you don't have to do that.

LA residents avoid doing that at all costs.
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I work just down the street from the Santa Monica station. It literally opened a week ago or so, and the author's complaining that people getting on downtown don't yet know which line to take. Well duh! It's brand new!

As for the complaints of old trains and scuffed up seats - the train isn't new. I've ridden it downtown occasionally for the last 3 years or so. What's new is the part from Culver City to Santa Monica. It didn't used to go out that far.

It's like the author didn't bother to check the actual facts or history of the project. This was a stupid article.
In my experience, no. Maybe that's partially due to my skillset, but I wouldn't advise using this thread in earnest to find work. Personally, I mainly post here because I like the idea of potentially doing a project with/for a fellow HN user, although the chances are slim.
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Maybe they mean, less ad impressions => less revenue => dwindling IT budget => slower server?
Nice! Well done, sir/ma'am.
One would argue that we could consider it a societal good to have good critical well rounded thinkers. Nowadays college is more like a capitalist transaction in order to make money. If thats the point of college, then its definitely not worth the cost. I'd love to go back and be able to do a full course of liberal arts - I'd probably be a much more well rounded person.
I've not personally touched Salesforce, but demandware centers around "pipelines" which essentially I would equate them to a visual route handler/middleware combination. Which works in combination with their propriety scripting language (javascript based), templating system, etc.

pipelines:

http://blog.baha.dk/content/images/2015/12/dwpipeline-1.png

general overview:

http://blog.baha.dk/2015/12/19/part-2-developing-demandware/
It's also building an educated workforce, at the end of this thing, these guys have developed more and deeper skills in a useful industry, and so what if the government paid for it instead of paying for school, during which time they also wouldn't be working?

What's the alternative, work at McDonalds and develop no useful skills in the meantime?

Additionally, _some_ of these companies will actually work out, so there's that bonus too!

Overall, it sounds like a pretty solid investment in the workforce to me. A lot better than paying people to sit home and "look for a job" in an area where jobs are hard to find, at any rate.
Any last minute data sci summer internship opportunities?
Not to hijack the conversation, but I find it interesting that bloomberg almost has a good strategy for popup blocking people.

They present a dialog that says "We noticed that you're using an ad blocker, which may adversely affect the performance and content on Bloomberg.com. For the best experience, please whitelist the site." and a few second countdown before it goes away.

So, since they asked nicely, and it is their content, I turned off ublock for them, and reloaded. The page loads with the content aligned to the top, then a second later the content jumps down 200-300 pixels for a second leaving a white border at the top, then a second after that it jumps up half the size of the prior white border, because the ad that loaded is too small for the allotted area.

Congratulations on reinforcing the idea that all site advertising is bad. ublock has been restored on my end, and you've already exhausted the good will I was extending towards you with that move.
It makes a lot of sense that the ending affects the entire experience. We tend to implicitly assume that things will proceed as they have in the past, following a trajectory. So, to use the Formula One example, since he started strong and finished weak, it's perfectly reasonable to believe that if there were more races, he would have continued to do badly and lose the championship. But if he had started weak and finished strong, then it's an easy assumption that if there were more races he would have continued to do well.
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I loved that game, it's been so long since I last played it yet I can still remember the sounds.

Time to dig out an OS7 emulator!
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> In the 1950s, due to a lack of downtown parking, pershing square was gutted to be a multi-level underground parking structure with a poorly accessible park on top. Now in 2016, when we want a walkable city, many lament that our one central park is really just a multi-level parking lot.

I think [Grand Park] might be the New Central Park™. But it is, to your point, divided into three sections by streets cutting through the middle of it. =(

[Grand Park]
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You all just laid off a whole team of analyst a month or 2 ago from my understanding. My friend was on the team. Sounds like interesting work though.
Exactly. They are able to trade with every other country in the world, and yet Cubans are still living in poverty.

If the embargo was lifted, the US would be blamed for "forcing their imperialist products down Cubans' throats".

There's always an easy discourse for Latin American dictators when things go south, to be promptly parroted by useful idiots (to use Lenin's nomenclature).
Could it be a function of time on page, maybe even with scroll distance. You generally know if the article will be garbage in the first paragraph or two and always before the fold (doubly so before the fold if there wasnt ads taking up the top 75% of the page)
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Would be funny if they'll use Google's software in the future to parse the legal documents that were confiscated in the raid.
What does "[dupe]" mean?
>plausible scenario

Uber becomes the cab of choice for 2.5bn people, the rough number who have cell phones. Value those at $50 each and you have a $125bn valuation for the floatation.

Not sure it'll happen but that's probably the kind of thing the investors are thinking.
>A well-­rounded liberal arts degree establishes a foundation of critical thinking.

This is the sort of thing you tell people when you can't point to anything measurable. It's the college grad's equivalent of "I'm a people person!"
> We're stuck in single core performance hell because physics.

Wouldn't other semiconductor materials allow higher clock speeds and it's just that the switch would be difficult to do incrementally?
Quite a few people bike here in my anecdotal experience. However, LA suffers from the same problems as SF. Certain areas are becoming impossible to afford, so if you work in or near those areas you have to live very far out and commute a distance that's not realistically bikeable. (And also some people have disabilities that make biking unrealistic.) People in my office are commuting from over 30 miles away. In fact, some are commuting from Orange County up to LA's west side.
Pretty much with bike lanes it's a "build it and they'll come" situation. If you don't have protected bike lanes and biking is unsafe, you don't get a lot of cyclists. The bike lanes may look empty now, but you have to build some degree of a complete network for the whole thing to work and for bicycling to become an appealing alternative to driving a car.

Looking at it another way, how many people would drive from A to B if the road narrowed to a single lane and became a pothole filled dirt road? It probably wouldn't be an appealing commute.
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Speaking from experience, you can easily get by without a car in DTLA, Santa Monica, Echo Park, Highland Park, Chinatown, Koreatown, and Venice (west of Lincoln Blvd). You could probably get away with it in Hollywood/Silver Lake/Los Feliz too.

I went carless in Pasadena and I could get around town, to downtown LA and to places on the northeast side OK using the Gold Line (5 minute walk from my apartment). Unfortunately many of the Pasadena stations are in less-than walkable areas. Making it to social events outside of the Gold Line's coverage area was hard (connecting through DTLA sucks, will be improved when the regional connector is built). I'm sure things would have been better with a bike and had Uber been around when I was doing that.
State job creation works when you simply pay people to do stuff, like the WPA did in the 30s. The problem is that these days you have a dozen heavy machines to do what hundreds of people did, and the machines are very expensive.
Your article is great. The examples of functional and non-functional uses of Rust were neat. I've been practicing by doing the Rust track on exercism.io and, by comparing my solutions to others', I always get impressed by how equally performant those two versions are (at small programs at least).
Sounds like you scoped it well. I see that as a similar use case to putting crypto keys or user pictures in LDAP.

Often folks doing this try to re-invent a content management system like FileNet in the DB.
I've seen some forensic accounting software that is quite good at uncovering illicit transactions, however in this case they need to prove that Google didn't violate the law but intentionally abuse it so I don't know what they'll even be looking for.
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This just isn't correct.

Intel's big advantage has been their ability to reliably and continually improve their manufacturing process, and for this to reliably and continually deliver performance improvements (the tick/tock strategy).

There have been a number of times when other companies beat Intel to a new technology (introducing, say, the 64 Bit chip several months ahead), but when the market took off and the cycle began, only Intel was able to deliver in sufficient quantity.

This is entirely untrue. AMD delivered a better consumer-focused 64bit architecture, and for an entire generation the Athlon outperformed the Pentium4. Yes, Intel sold plenty, but AMD did too.

That was the last time Intel made a misstep in their x64 product line.

Nowdays, desktop chips are facing some challenges. TSMC, Samsung and other are able to deliver plenty of ARM chips to market for the phone and tablet chips. Nvidia is increasingly eating the compute market.
> 6. Possibly updates to sites I visit regularly (equivalent to a highly unreliable RSS client)

This is what annoys me the most in Google Now. It's a damn black box. I'm happy that they provide "updates to sites I visit regularly", but even more than those updates I'd like to see the list of those sites. Without that, and any kind of information about how reliable this reporting is, I have no way of trusting I won't miss an "important update". I just don't know, and Google Now does nothing to reassure me.
This whole article is a little misleading. It makes it sound as if anyone who happened to own Dell stock at the time of the buyout could have sued to get some extra cash.

But only in the footnotes does it mention this:

>To be eligible for the court-ordered price bump, investors must have voted against the transaction.

Clearly, everyone who owned Dell stock at the time thought it was worth more than $9.35. That's why they held the stock in the first place! Those who thought the company was worth much more (say, $18 per share), presumably voted against the transaction. They were understandably pissed when the transaction succeeded anyway, so they sued. But those who voted in favor of the transaction didn't get an extra penny -- they agreed on a price, and that's what they got.

On a related note, here's an interesting game theory tangent: If you think the buyout offer is a great deal, should you vote for it? After all, if you're confident the deal is going to succeed even without your votes, maybe you should vote against it -- to preserve your option to sue for even more money. But if everyone thinks like that, then the deal won't go through at all...
Arts Major here.

An Arts major is great for your personal growth because it's broader and more generalist than STEM but it doesn't add much value to society on short term. Once it doesn't add direct value to society, society doesn't reward it also. This translates into an high probability of a stagnated life after graduation. Choose carefully.
Eh. Still vulnerable to HSTS attack. To me HTTPS without HSTS is only protection to programmers. To the public, HTTPS without HSTS protection is essentially useless against MITM attacks.
I understand and respect your point-of-view. I probably even agree with it, as stated.

After I came across Urbit, I heard allegations of Yarvin's writings under his pseudonyms. I went and found his writings - and to the degree I understood it - I didn't agree with the conclusions. At the same time, I found a lot of the quoted material that had allowed me to find his writing in the first place was taken out of context.

But more importantly -- I didn't see even a hint of bad behavior in any of the developer's group discussion. I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of taking what a person does "after hours" and putting it on display in the public square. If he were running some sort of "Boys From Brazil" project after hours, I'd probably feel differently, but that's not what he appears to be doing.
By better organization design and management.
In general, Unitarians are nice people trying to be nice. But nice isn't enough.

The Bible teaches that you can't have love without truth (1 Corinthians 13:6). Love without truth isn't really love at all. To take one particular, teaching people to be agnostic about who God is or even whether He exists isn't really loving in the long run, no matter how nice the intentions are.

And there's some real danger of self delusion in editing the Bible. If we are the ultimate judges of what parts of the Bible count, we become the ultimate judges of Truth. In contrast, it's consistent to trust the scriptures and the God of the scriptures. But if you take that objective source of Truth away, what keeps us honest about who God is? When there is no objective source of Truth, people create a false god in our own image. One that's cold and harsh. Or one that thinks love involves money and power. Or one that only hugs and never rights wrongs.

Anyway, I've never heard a good answer from a Unitarian about how they know what parts of the Bible are good. It generally boils down to their own feelings and experience. Typically phrased like, "I can't see how God could...." As if anything we don't understand is automatically false.

Anyway, Unitarians are generally nice people, but the ones who are Christian are heavily editing the commandments of Jesus from the Bible. They're very close to practicing another faith. It makes about as much sense to me as a Christian attending a mosque or synagogue.
> Watson could probably do it, if it were as important as doctoring.

I initially read that with the alternative meaning of doctoring, which is is a rather amusing take on it.