skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, the disgusting thing was when the large amounts of immigrants were coming in all together and they were complaining about being in Denmark or wherever. This guy, I mean, in this situation, I guess it's wiser for him to choose -- but the people in the first situation should have just been grateful, not complaining that they don't want to be here in X. The way they expressed it made them come off really poorly, in my opinion.
A few things immediately come to mind on why at least some biodiversity may be important beyond cute animals:

A) We still lean on natural processes for agriculture (for instance, pollination plays a huge role in the production of certain fruits, and some species act as natural deterrents to crop pests). Biodiversity ensures that some of these natural processes we rely on are still functional and resilent to disease and other "cruelties of nature".

(The same concern could also be said for biodiversity of cultivated crops, although that's a bit different of an issue than what is highlighted in the paper.)

B) Biota oriented drug discovery still is pretty big even now. Less biodiversity means that we will have to lean more heavily on synthetic chemistry.
Which sub-standard technology are we being forced into?

The EU claims that Google with its >90% search market share bundles/prefers its own sub-standard comparison shopping service to displace better ones.

I can't say I know enough about the matter to tell if the allegations are true. But the EU's case has nothing to do with forcing sub-standard technologies on anyone. On the contrary.
They did: it's called Emacs.
not many other apps would have the crowdsource data like this game though
>Ask anyone who did XBox and PS3 development which environment they preferred :)

I'm pretty sure if you asked anyone that did PS3/PS4 development they'll probably say ProDG.
Actually I can tell fairly certainly from the direction the noise comes that it's not the monitor - the noise comes from speakers (which are separate and apart from the monitor) and it starts when I press the scroll wheel on the mouse - I need to see if a wired USB mouse causes that or not.
>Because DRM is decreasing sales, not increasing them.

Based on what?
I'm always amused when people post racist comments and then claim "I'm not racist". Just own your racism.

In my article, I specifically talk about Atlanta which is a "black city" as you term it. Atlanta is home to Georgia Tech which is one of the best engineering schools in the country. So it is strange to imply you wouldn't be able to find CS graduates there.

Secondly, companies have no problem opening engineering offices in China or India to chase after demographics so I find it strange that opening an engineering office in Atlanta is such an absurd idea that one must trot out the must played out racist tropes about black people.
I agree - it's about focus and time. Recruiting is already a very manual process, and it's hard enough for most recruiters to identify candidates and get them interested in the role. The conversion rate from initial outreach to interested candidate is abysmal. Adding a layer of advising / resume help just doesn't fit with their model and would make them uncompetitive with other recruiters.

At HireArt we certainly do try to do this, but we're still a small part of the recruiting market.
There's also the EOMA68 "standard", which I hope will be successful enough to allow for the development of slightly more advanced computer cards:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop

I prefer the Novena and the EOMA68 over the Purism project because they seem to do more than just promising the impossible.

> what is your proposed solution?

I don't think there is one yet. We need those who don't compromise the vision from the start to win and get enough funds to continue. The EOMA68 project seems most promising to me because it also aims to reduce waste, which is very important to me and something that appears to be ignored by most people.

I'm using Libreboot on my Thinkpad X200s (I did not buy it from minifree). The X200s does have Intel ME/AMT and it can be removed by deleting the BIOS chip.
Or, the hard fork is a classic breach or contract, made difficult to remedy by the nature of the platform.
There's a backstory to all this - Indian immigration is largely folks with wealthy backgrounds and high education. That's understandable without resorting to color. But Americans from similar schools and similar levels of wealth are not hired in Silicon Valley - we look for another reason. And it happens to correlate with skin color.

Just looking at stats and pretending that's the whole story is disingenuous.
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I do accept it is evidence - but I don't think I would say a strong indicator, and it doesn't justify the strong conclusions made that the process is completely arbitrary.

- It's imbalanced classification: there are going to be more rejections than acceptances; so you have less statistical power, to find if there is a real relationship, when you just analyse the acceptances. Even apart from that, class imbalance can unintuitively affect post-hoc inferences.

- Scores are in context of the other candidates at a given level, and stage in the interview process, so are fundamentally already residual in some sense.

- I'm willing to bet, from hiring I've seen, that scores are distributed somewhat about the 'hire/no-hire' bar, and that extremes are rare - the process is going to be tuned, implicitly in the organisation, to make that 'hire/no-hire' decision, rather than predict performance.

> it is reasonable to assume, in the absence of other data, that it is uncorrelated for other samples as well

I think that's a very strong statement: it's not a random sample, its explicitly concentrated at one end of the distribution.

I do accept it is evidence, just not near enough to justify the conclusion the whole process is arbitrary.
So in other words the main benefit of POSIX conformity (with regards to Windows) is application portability, right?

Is the Linux subsystem in Windows 10 not good enough to handle this? What *nix applications do people want to be able to run in Windows that they can't already?
But that's not the number to look at for an article like this. The whole idea of pipeline problems is that you lose proportionality a little at a time, from early education to full time careers.

Ideally, you'd check the proportions starting from something like mathematical success or career intent in high school. Then you move on to college majors, graduation rates, and applicant pools. This is really important, because otherwise you end up focusing energy on non-leaky parts of the pipeline and achieving nothing.

This article focuses on interviewing, but the segment on black colleges and office siting is crucial. Ensuring unbiased interviews doesn't stop you from drawing interview candidates from disproportionately white colleges. Holding local code-ins won't save you from having offices in overwhelmingly white cities. "Lowering the bar", which companies are (according to this) hugely concerned about, still wouldn't solve the problem.

If you're studying the mismatch between 13% of the population and 1% of your workforce, the numbers you want are the ones that show where things went wrong.
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The numbers are confusing to me.

Here's an article claiming that the amount of computer engineers is around 5% of all black college majors - http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-09/report-few....

Now we need to make an implicit assumption that the enrollment and graduation rate of blacks is the same as the rate for the general population(I couldn't really find information on that, apologies). Using demographics data, blacks are ~15% of the overall population in the US. That means that about 0.75% of the total population are "blacks" && "engineer major". That would mean all the listed companies are overhiring black engineers if simply based on a college-graduate quota.

Besides that, I liked the gist of your post, but the end seemed incredibly disingenuous. Correlating Apple's number of black engineers and its value does not imply causation, and that statement seemed like an emotional appeal.
There's nothing about the NT kernel that needs to be rewritten to implement a POSIX or SUS compliant user-mode subsystem. They once had a Windows Services for UNIX (SFU) subsystem that was POSIX compliant. The new "Bash on Windows", officially called "Windows Subsystem for Linux", appears to be targeting the Linux Standard Base (LSB) and not striving for POSIX or SUS compliance.

LSB is mostly a superset of POSIX. POSIX is a subset of SUS. OSX is SUS compliant, though not POSIX certified. Windows is POSIX certified though not SUS compliant. And no one is LSB certified except a few Linux Distros.

This leaves me wondering exactly what target Microsoft should be aiming for since everyone seems to be playing by their own rules. It's like playing Monopoly with your friend's family who has their own house rules that aren't really like your family's house rules both of which are incompatible with the official rules.
Carbon Organic Generic Worker or COG for short.
Crystal is so great to use.
Companies should hire on the basis of merit, not skin color or sex.

I did undergrad EE/CS at Illinois/Urbana and I don't recall any blacks in any of my classes at all.

I've worked at high tech firms and never see black programmers/engineers.

I've worked for a Wall Street bank and never saw black programmers/engineers.

I've been to many tech Meetups and conferences and other conferences where software plays a major role but I've almost never seen black engineers/computer scientists.

Some of the meetups / conferences I see few women, but I do see women in the aggregate, but almost never blacks and I'm in NYC where there are many blacks.

I've been to Google Tech talks in the Google building in NYC yet never see blacks.

Since the meetups don't require you go to "the right school" etc. and are free to attend it shows that there just are that many blacks that seem to be interested.

Computer software and hardware are those areas where competence is extremely important. Hire on merit, not on other indicators.
Wow, thank you sir. Note that 1.7% is roughly the same percentage that Google, Facebook, and Twitter have according to OP. I hope OP sees this and reevaluates his position now that Apple's diversity numbers no longer appear to be 4x higher than the rest.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3615849/#!po=5.9...

C diff, Lysteria, and Salmonella... Oddly, ecoli doesn't appear on the list. See table #2 & #3
That's interesting to hear. Maybe my theory is all wrong.

I guess I was thinking mostly of the small, VC funded startups, and the big, name-brand tech companies mentioned the article.
We have the full suite of IBM systems at work, z, i, and p, plus a multitude of other VM systems and windows servers. They have been talking about retiring the z-series for the last twenty years yet have yet to do so. The reason is probably similar to that of the banks, not that there isn't sufficient talent to do so but just because it works, works well, and damn if every silly project a portion off the z, i, or p, doesn't go wrong in some form or another.

the new thing is wrappers, extending the life of the applications and their data but allowing modern interfaces via the web and hand held devices. if anything its the best example of code reuse there is.

on another note, I don't know if we have anyone under fifty who knows COBOL well enough to do new work but a few can do maintenance just fine
>> How come the open source world hasn't been able to create a debugger that's as good as the (still primitive) debugger in Visual Studio 6.0? It's astonishing to me how bad the state of the art is.

I keep asking myself that same question every now and then, why can XCode have such a nice and pleasant LLVM-based version of gdb, while gdb on linux still doesn't have even the most bare-bones GUI that let's me inspect common data types without jumping through hoops?
I'll give you that PS3 had a better CPU profiler but ProDG was a mess compared to Visual Studio. Crashes, disconnects, problems with source maps. If I remember correctly it couldn't do data or conditional breakpoints.

Compared to VS and PIX it was night and day, although you probably already knew that from my comment.
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Ask HN: Do Valley VC's ever lose money?
I imagine this scenario: a new Valley startup is formed (STARTR). A Valley venture capital firm (FUNDR) funds them with 10$ million. STARTR proceeds by spending the 10$ million on various products/services, such as engineering, food, furniture, hardware, offices, SaaS & software, transportation, etc. All of these products/services are likely provided by other Valley startups or businesses, as that is one of the points of being located in a hub as a new startup.

FUNDR, which is a smart VC firm that diversifies their portfolio, likely has investments in most if not all of these product/service providers that STARTR buys from. Of course, FUNDR incentives STARTR to spend their money on specific products/services by offering STARTR discouns provided through "their connections". FUNDR's investment in STARTR is therefore only moved around their own portfolio and is never lost. Or, in worst case, part of the investment ends up in FUNDR's partner or rival firms, which probably face the same situation where at some point the opposite happens to them and that part of the investment is returned to FUNDR by the same reasoning.

If STARTR fails then FUNDR has not actually lost anything, their investment has only been moved to other companies in their portfolio. If STARTR succeeds then more money starts flowing in to the eco-system, from foreign customers and foreign investors, which are used to buy even more products/services from FUNDR's portfolio companies (and cashed out via stocks obviously). As for engineering salaries; that part of the investment is paid off 2x-10x through the successful ventures where money is generated from abroad. FUNDR ends up always getting richer; it's either break-even or win for FUNDR in the long run.

Is this a likely scenario of how things work? If so, is this also the reason why Valley valuations of startups are so outrageous because VC's very well understand this kind of eco-system?
IMHO this is just a newish type of marketing campaign by Comcast / NBC / tv.USA. Raising the level of geek creds is not unlike Big Bang Theory, but without the laugh tracks. It's very likely a new type of fandometric tracking utility is being honed by Comcast to engage and entertain the faithful. Why not, huh?

btw, having the mailware deliverable ia that auto-exec flash exe is really old school, no? I keep seeing this in plots of procedural crime shows where digital savvy techie or detective shoves a newly discovered victim usb into their working computers. Who does that?
Finding a whiteboard and brainstorming about how to solve a problem is absolutely part of the job. Unfortunately it's hard to find problems that can be explained to anyone with a reasonable programming background and solved in 30 minutes. So anything you do under those constraints is going to be artificial.
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Yeah I struggle to think of corporations more "unethical" than ATT and VZN.
Back when I set up a client to pull from Gmail it would break twice a year: when the changed their TLS cert, and when the later changed it BACK.

My conclusion at the time was that they wanted to keep the percentage of users of the IMAP service below some value, and every time the jerked the config around, they'd see a dip in the graph on their end. My setup is currently non-functional. The maintenance cost was too high. Mission accomplished.

Note: now that I think about it, maybe the cert rotation issue was on (e)SMTP, not IMAP. Same diff.
Fight Club meets Hackers meets American Psycho, with a soundtrack like The Social Network.
Have you used One Drive yet? There's 2. :)
I think Mr Robot has good tech in it, because it's not a show about tech CSI-Cyber style. It's a drama, which uses tech as a basebone. All the hacking largely stays in quick snippets displayed, and maybe a sort of slow-marathon style of filming where it's clear something takes a while.

It's a show about hacking, but hacking is secondary to the other aspects, it just moves the plot forward, and that's why it works so well.
I had a similar experience: that kind of reinforcement encouraged me to try to do the least work possible to get the same results as others in order to prove how gifted I was, instead of working hard to go above and beyond. It was a rude awakening when I got to the point in life when I wasn't competing against my peers to complete set tasks, but rather competing against them to provide the most valuable contributions to a research group or company.

However, I also believe that this kind of explanation can be harmful because it puts the blame for my laziness on others. Even though the research supports the idea that this effect occurred, ultimately I got past it by focusing on my own agency.
Ha! Found a copy of the home page at last, cached just yesterday!! For those curious enough, here is the link:

http://106.10.137.112/search/srpcache?p=http%3A%2F%2Fdennisc...
Poorer than their parents? A new perspective on income inequality
Small fix, on https://pub.beakernotebook.com "offing" should be "offering".
That's useful. Whether or not that's the right number is difficult to say, but it's good to have some sort of baseline assumption to frame the rest of the piece.
I gaurantee you out of the people who can code or have cs degrees, blacks make up a much smaller percentage. You can't blame Apple for the deep societal issues we have that leads the average black person to be more likely to end up in prison than college
Well it sucks way, way less than Linux and macOS for me.

I'd rather have an OS that gives me what I actually want along with whatever problems it presents instead of just leaving out features like Apple does or breaking all the time like Linux desktop systems tend to.
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> Why not a character like Mike from "Suits"?

Suits already has a character like Mike from Suits. The characters name is, surprisingly, named Mike.

If Elliot were to be like Mike from Suits, Mr Robot would need to change the name of the show to Suits.
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Good points but that's not really a problem with the chip and pin tech. The parents comments sounded like he had a specific issue with that. Regarding speed I'm not too familiar with magnetic strip cards but don't you have to sign the receipt? If so that seems like it would take as long as entering a PIN. Also, do magnetic strips support contactless payments? The chip and PIN cards in the UK do which makes payments almost instant (up to £30).
Azure runs on Windows.
Mr. Robot has good tech because, like HBO's Silicon Valley, they consulted with people in the industry.

USA has posted an interesting making-of of sorts on the show: https://youtu.be/1BbTUASfrAI
I just binge watched the show a couple of days ago. Remember how Elliot stashes the gun given to him by Darlene in the popcorn machine instead of taking it to the meeting with white lotus? When Elliot shows Tyrell the Fsociety space, that same popcorn machine starts making popcorn.

I sincerely doubt Elliot turned on the machine just for popcorn.
I don't think that I'm being difficult; you're the only one to struggle with the concept of "Human nature", and only when you were unable to do anything to support your claim.
Nope! And thanks because I forgot about OWA! OWA is the self hosted web client for Exchange. That's another completely distinct product unrelated to Outlook 365 or Outlook.com.
Can you explain the design decisions? (Just curious.)
He also doesn't say poor - he just say manage their income badly - which I would say at least 50% of my friends fall into the bucket of.
Priorities and Laziness. Open source produces some amazing stuff because of laziness. It also produces a lot of "good enough" stuff because of laziness.
`nowhere do they tell you to make your own backups`. Nowhere do they tell you that your data will be stored forever. You're making assumptions based on something they haven't even said they would provide `FOR FREE!`.
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Something the author hints at is that the big discrepancy is geographic in nature, not racial. The geographic discrepancy manifests itself in not enough blacks getting hired.

Let me put it bluntly: I grew up in the rural south. I NEVER meet other programmers who have a background remotely similar to mine, ever.

When was the last time you worked with a coder who grew up in a place that wasn't a wealthy suburb or a nice city?

How many people who grew up in trailer parks work at Google or Apple?

The author is right: not enough black folks at these companies. What is sad is that this is a symptom of the real issue, which is socioeconomic and geographic in nature, and the companies trying to do something about it are only focusing on the symptoms.

This means that even companies like Apple will never fully address the underrepresented groups. America doesn't have a race problem, so much as a culture problem. Obviously culture is extremely aligned with race, but think about it this way: the geographical and socieconomic layers that are excluded by these tech companies are filled with people of all colors, and nobody gives a shit about the people that look too similar to the white folks from wealthy cities that have every advantage.
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Have you used One Drive? What about One Drive for Business? The should bring back A Drive and B Drive.
I couldn't be more opposed to this decision. It's a terrible precedent to set, and I think fundamentally undermines the ideals behind the Ethereum network. The DAO should live or die by its own code. A hard fork should only be done to save the Ethereum network itself because of a critical flaw.
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thanks. there are about 100 pull requests merged per month, so yea i think it's definitely getting better.

what bugs did you run across? i am very interested in your feedback.
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So now you don't even need your credit/debit card to be stolen for you to lose money while walking on the street.
If we can't avoid ruining a planet we evolved to live on, do we really deserve a plan B?
TL;DR:

For digging.
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