skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One can't be 100% certain of anything. However, between 2/3 and 5/6 of black students at top colleges probably would have been rejected under a meritocratic admission system.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11904256

Similarly, it's established that Asians tend to meet a much higher SAT cutoff than blacks and whites.

http://www.apa.org/pi/oema/resources/ethnicity-health/asian-...

It's pretty safe to say that most blacks at Harvard don't deserve to be there and it probably should be an Asian in their place. You just can't say which specific blacks and Asians it should be.
You have thrown up a false equivalency and are pursuing it in an odd manner.

What I would prefer is that there is absolutely zero mechanisms for a corporation to sue a government over "potential lost profits".

This is just not at all the same as discussing a potential lawsuit over defamation / libel / whatever "you" would be suing me over a comment for. And, yes, in that case I would still prefer to go through the normal court system with laws written by my legislature rather than a room full of mega corps and trade representatives.
Android is Linux on the phone. It's Linux kernel with stuff on top. Check out Replicant. It removes most of the stuff you might find objectionable.
Realm Mobile Platform – Realtime Sync Plus Fully Open Source Database
And we'd be up individually against huge conglomerates full of lawyers and psychologists trying to trick us. Without some sort of organization with comparable power on the consumer's side, this is not a very bright proposition.

edit: (Bright not as in 'intelligent', but as in 'bright future'.)
> in general, though -- is Metafont still the way we add new fonts to TeX these days in 2016?

Nowadays, we have XeTeX, which allows for the use of any OpenType font. In fact, for a long time XeTeX was the only non-Adobe product that could actually make use of OpenType features. I have fond memories of playing around with XeTeX in 2009-ish to show off all the really cool stuff my fonts could do.
Conducting User Research in Product Management
The very first sentence gave me a seizure.
This is still viable, but it's gotten a bit trickier because "closed as duplicate" has slowly become a more common outcome. So it's possible to have the stuff you know well be largely covered, and you lose gained karma if the post with your answer gets deleted.
The trend is towards "expert systems", an expert system is just that an expert at a single task, and that is well and good.

The general machine that really learn's in the wild, anything and everything is the holy-grail, but its also the 'free lunch'.

For now its better to develop gadgets and hack code that solves explicit problems, I think in time there could well be a wiki-expert, where a generalized machine could call upon the wiki-expert to solve the specific problem at hand, or call 100's of such agents, and the only task is to pick the best.

For now we don't even have the best answer's for the specific problems, let alone tools to manage the general problems.

A robot is just that, specific tasks, but is it human? No, its not.

RP Feynman some 60 years ago said "We can't program a dog, because we don't even know how a dog works". Nothing has changed folks, we still don't understand how the dog works, then only then can we have a robot-dog, and then we can talk about a humanoid robot.
Yes, by accretion or if they get heated up.
> OS X is a Linux based operating system that fixed this issue

OSX (which btw is based on BSD, not Linux) has been around for ages, but it wasn't that popular among developers until Apple moved to Intel, released the iPhone, and changed the laptop game with the MBA. That was the combo breaker, not the desktop.

> it's an issue that that's how people see it these days;

I agree, there is still good money in the desktop game; it's just that the margins on web are so eye-watering large, the market can't resist the temptation.

> go the apple route and make the Linux Distro specifically for a new laptop.

That would be nice, and it was sort-of tried by various entities at some point (Canonical + Dell, RedHat + IBM...), to be fair only with the commodity plasticky shit. Someone is trying it today with what are basically last year's MBPs (https://www.crowdsupply.com/purism/librem-15). The problem is that both Linux and hardware move so fast and so chaotically, long-term support is always an issue; today's graphic drivers might not be good enough for next year's chips, and tomorrow someone at RedHat might decide the audio stack should be rewritten for systemd, and so on and so forth.

And to be honest, the margins in the laptop game are clearly very thin. There is a reason Apple treats OSX as second fiddle to iOS and can't be bothered to refresh their MBPs as they used to.
I once got a full refund on a laptop outside of its warranty period because a software update (Windows 8.1) effectively bricked the machine. I demanded it under the UK Sale of Goods Act, which states that a product must be fit for purpose, which it clearly no longer was once the automatic update had happened.

I do wonder if this can be more broadly applied to consumer products that effectively change their behaviour after a software update. Is it the same product you originally bought? I would contest not. And surely lawyers could have a field day with this one?
unblurring isn't as hard as you would imagine, especially the "automated blur" where you simply select an area and hit "blur".

The blur function is a fixed function which can be reversed with pretty decent results.

There was a similar case where faces were masked using Photoshop's swirl blur function and you could simply reverse it for positive identification.

The "manual" tools like the blur/smudge brush are harder since you don't know how it was done and how many times but you can still try to reverse it.

There is a reason why no one is redacting documents with blur ;)
How to mark a coding challenge
Are you using n-grams or ?
Why Windows 98’s User Onboarding Is Better Than Yours
You really need to look at your 50 cartridge as a cost per page. Some Brother's take a larger capacity cartridge that costs more but results in a lower cost per page.
Motorola Goes Through yet Another Massive Layoff
> there is a limit of programmers per task before you just can't throw any more body into it anymore

This is important. The effect is that to complete the task you have to effectively scale the team up, you can't scale horizontally, which increases demand on top talent.

It means that if a programmer is (theoretically) 10x more effective than an average programmer he may get much much more than 10x the pay.
Starbase Data Tables – An ASCII Relational Database for Unix
Wow, things have changed since I took my SE electives (17-18 years ago). We had to write code and there were final projects that required the development of a non-trivial application. One that compiled and at least nominally worked. Granted I only took a course of about three electives at the sophomore and junior level, so maybe I missed the "fluff" in other levels.
Leaflet 1.0 – A JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
I'm sorry, but how do you develop a worldview where "public good" is determined via corporate lawsuits? Is it simply in the intention of the law? Because from what I can see of the history of ISDS, harming a companies bottom line is the exact criteria by which these cases are judged. Outside of the tobacco labelling suit, I am hard pressed to find a case where ISDS did not result in a ruling against a government.
What was the point of Firefox OS? I never really saw any kind of marketing around it beyond "Mozilla decided to make a phone OS."

From what I've gleaned, the only differentiating factor was that all apps are Javascript. Like my mom cares what languages her apps are written in.
What makes you think they're going to stop improving security in the browser itself? It's not an either/or thing, they can do both.
Tech Pros Migrating Far and Wide for New Jobs
I love my Brother MFC (7840W). This is the longest I've ever owned a printer and the toner is not expensive when compared to inkjet.
>I think it doesn't matter if Chevy, or BMW makes an electric car

I think you're wrong here. Tesla makes electric cars that actually look like fossil fueled versions of the cars that they make. The Roadster looks like a regular sports car, the Model S looks like a full size luxury car.
Part of my problem with the BMW i series is that the two cars look like spaceships or cars from a 1960s illustration of "the future". They call a ton of attention to themselves and I think they look ridiculous.

I think the real competition is making an electric car that looks/feels like the fossil fueled cars that many people in the world are used to driving. Right now, it seems like Tesla is winning that battle, though the Chevy volt is definitely on the right track.
yes, but it's not an "official" image yet, meaning it won't receive support from the Jolla developers (and is missing some things like the Android app compatibility layer)
Actually Earth adds a few tons of mass a day by stuff hitting it(meteorites, space junk, etc)... of course is really little compared to the huge size of the Earth!
New sensor from Occipital turns iPhone in room-scale VR device
Throwaway for obvious reasons.

No degree. Around 10 years experience in Network Security.

- BigCo

- Permanent position

- Cloud stuff

- £66k plus bonus et al which pumps it up to around £88k
New Take on an Ancient Method Improves Way to Find Prime Numbers
Great read on a topic I've been looking for more info on, recently coding an audio app that needs to manipulate audio buffers. And this is the only way to access them. I've been working in swift since 1.0 and this is the first time this all makes sense.
I wrote it, I'll see if I can dig up a link later.

The example I was specifically thinking of was asking "I want to do X, the API call is producing bad data, any workarounds?" and getting a highly-upvoted answer of "Just use the API, obviously!" This was Android, with devices mis-reporting their valid camera resolutions via 'getSupportedResolutions()'.

I realize that's not wrong to the same level as "Java Hashmaps are synchronized!", but it's a good example of what I mean. I often see this when the top response just reproduces an error the question was addressing.
Basic income + no minimum wage would make it much more attractive to do local repairs instead of manufacturing stuff far away where wages are lower or labor and environmental regulation much more lax.

In my country, youth unemployment is around 20%.
Is their any validity to HP's reasoning for these time limits? I know their print cart includes the print head unlike cannon,epson and lexmark.
1.0 lower on GPA (e.g. 2.5 vs 3.5) is "slightly reduced entry requirements"?

http://web.archive.org/web/20080423221308/http://www.umich.e...
I think the reason its not so good is down to the personalization. Google knows I want to search for Django as a web framework, while DuckDuckGo assumes I want the film.
That's exactly what I'm saying. "5% of my employees are female because 5% of my applicants are" does not mean that you've actually done what you can to eliminate bias in your recruiting, marketing, etc.
"The ten-thousand thing-kinds are ultimately alike and ultimately different. This is called the great similarity-difference." - Zhuangzi
The problem is that Googlers live and work and are friends with other Googlers, and have a massive echo chamber effect. Most of the people who Googlers interact with are either Google employees or Google enthusiasts, so it's easy for them to believe that something like the comments on this article are some sort of concentrated effort by a small group or something, as opposed to a very real, widespread concern.
It's operating in France, Spain, Germany, Belgium and Austria at the moment.
Yes, I'd second that. While there would no doubt be some sort of outrage from the users, I don't think it would be nearly as strong as suggested. Germans in general, and especially the more educated, tend to be very protective of their data protection rights. If FB attempted something like this, it would be torn to shreds by German media.
Same goes for most biometric security. Basically, if the security relies on scanning some visible part of the person (face, iris, fingerprint), then it can be bypassed with a photograph of the same.

I recall the Windows 10 facial-unlock thing being bypassed by a facebook pic of the owner, printed out on paper.
I think the only option that has an even remote chance of success right now is to fork Android and do your own thing while maintaining compatibility with as many existing Android apps as possible.

So, something like Cyanogenmod but with more drastic changes. It's Linux under the hood after all. It's already compatible with GNU coreutils and a whole bunch of other free software. No need to start again from zero.
Evidence That Computer Science Grades Are Not Bimodal [pdf]
Most of the major planets were named after Roman gods (except obviously for Earth). Some elements were also directly named after the gods (Mercury) and some were named after the planets (Neptunium).
I think an alternative will only come from a paradigm shift.

For the same reason DOS/Windows reigned on the desktop for decades, with Mac having a few percents and Linux repeatedly failing to grab any significant market share.
We still have Samsung's Tizen, fast, powerefficient and can it run Android apps
Eh it's not like I intended pseudoscience as pejorative, but as in there some evidence in cognitive science that defocusing and refocusing on tasks help efficiency, but as all thing in this field reproducibility and other issues make it a tall order to call it scientific.
> Do we know how much battery life will be left after 8 years?

That is the warranty period so I don't think you'll have any trouble:

https://www.tesla.com/blog/infinite-mile-warranty

> the 85 kWh Model S, our most popular model by far, now has an 8 year, infinite mile warranty on both the battery pack and drive unit. There is also no limit on the number of owners during the warranty period.
You should expand to facebook messenger.
That's kind of overstating things, isn't it? Yes, what HP did was balls-up stupid, and I'll think hard before buying anything from them, but companies have liberties too. They have rights to free speech (you don't want the government telling newspapers what to print), and they have rights to sell what they want, just as we have rights to not buy the merde they try to force on us. Twitter has the right to shut down speech on its network that it doesn't like, and that's not a First Amendment issue. Nobody's liberties are being taken away: rather, someone's liberties are being exercised.

Now, I do think that a lawsuit may be in order here, because it seems quite plausible that HP acted deceptively. But that's not "our rights being taken away", which is primarily an issue related to the guys with guns (i.e., the government). This isn't that: rather, it's a company lying to us, and trying to get us to buy their product on false pretenses.
Get ready to have your mind blown then: https://global.britannica.com/topic/Mercury-Roman-god
Cannot edit the original post anymore.

I have added new statistics at the bottom, including 10th and 90th percentile.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yPjcXoKuwq8SBngQ2-G9...
I do not have US data but in India a few friends and relatives living in same city have 5:1 ratio in compensation for same no of years as experience. The lower ones are in traditional IT job others in mobile app / big data.

I think in US it will be same cutting edge skill vs traditional skills.
> trying to understand what the fuck cout<<x actually does

You can always do fprintf instead of that; i almost never do C++ streams for io - there is always a way to avoid them.
The discussion about bimodal pay distribution is interesting, but I think there's a much more parsimonious explanation to it. Most of the companies that are going to be paying software developers $150k+ are based in or around SV, where rent is abnormally high.

But what's even more interesting to me is another question the author discusses halfway through the article:

> How is it possible that programmers are paid so well without these other barriers to entry that similarly remunerative fields have?

The author posits three hypotheses: 1) supply of programmers is naturally low, 2) immigration laws keep the supply artificially low, and 3) the overall relative efficiency of American companies create a productivity force multiplier for everyone at the company, including programmers.

I want to introduce a fourth hypothesis, which is that programming skills are highly commoditized, which causes demand for those skills to increase.

If I work for OmniCorp using 100% proprietary OmniCorp technologies, they have no reason to pay me more than the bare minimum because I'm effectively married to them. If I work for OpenCorp on a 100% open-source stack, then the buzzwords listed on my resume prove I can be productive at thousands of other companies, giving them all incentive to compete for me.
Well, I do think lawmakers see a difference in a device which COULD play copyrighted material versus a device that is specifically meant to play copyrighted material.
Gateway timeout. Can someone please copy paste the text to a more available service?
The article referred to motion blur not photo editing blur.
https://wiki.debian.org/Mobile
You can just use the gross margin accounting definition, this isn't too difficult and firms should be roughly compliant. Also, firm profits should be higher than if you ban price-discrimination, so I don't see where the political resistance would come from?

There are issues with:

1) Estimating the demand system and so picking the optimal gross margin. However, banning price discrimination is also relatively blunt and leads to a somewhat arbitrary outcomes from a welfare perspective.

2) Effects on firm incentives to reduce costs. If a firm knows that it will be subject to maximum gross margin restrictions in the future, it will have a weaker incentive to innovate possibly?
Mapping startups hope they can chart a new course to success
Sharp readers will note the tell for cognitive dissonance of deliberately misrepresenting my position twice in a row
By the written job description.
It just takes one loud voice to start a debate.
I've made a solemn vow never to purchase a HP product again, after I discovered that the printer I'd bought (from a major UK retailer) was region-locked to US ink. Which you can't buy in the UK.

I threw that thing into the e-waste bin with some force when it finally broke.
I don't think you can jump straight from "some people benefit from affirmative action" to "they don't deserve to be there". Obviously supporters of affirmative action do think they deserve to be there, despite their lower test scores, and it's worth at least considering that point of view.
These guys seem to be copying the Parse business model. Which as we all know worked out very nicely for the founders and investors. But very badly for anyone that adopted the Parse framework.
Their competitors may be subject to the same regulations, but new regulations force companies to develop products that comply with the new regulations. R&D is a huge expense, and you can't guarantee the product you develop is going to be better than your competitors.

Furthermore, their competitors might already have a product which meets the new regulations, or one which can be easily modified to meet them. This can lead to a financial advantage, but it can also mean the competitor has a period where they are the only product on the market.
A real open source OS? Youd equally well have asked what the point of Linux was before it picked up steam.

Of course the big difference is that Linux succeeded while Firefox OS failed. But thats after the fact.

I think something like Firefox OS is important, but probably wasnt something Mozilla should have undertaken when their key asset was under massive threat and it keeps dropping other stuff that, admittedly small numbers of people are using, were still successful in Theur niche and could have continued with minimal effort (examples of projects that affected me directly are Thunderbird and Prism).
How Coderwall grew over 50% with an A/B test
Clarification: Didn't the article say it was motion blur?
CMS Content Duplication in 4 Steps
Yeah, Messenger is on my list.
60 Percent of Galaxy Note 7 units have been exchanged in the US and Korea
If you took 30 seconds to read the first result after Googling "Firefox OS", it would be very apparent what their goal was and why they thought it was worth pursuing.

I'm not even a web dev, but I'm sad to hear that it didn't pan out.
Yeah but a year for 70 more emojis? Come on now. With all the good engineers they have.. There always must be a good idea in the span of a year..
Google the title. The first few results are all the right thing.

It's a PDF with lots of figures / code listings so copy/paste isn't really possible.
Tesla Responds to Chinese Hack with a Major Security Upgrade
I can't find good data on the topic but I'm sure it exists somewhere and would be confident that the the overall trend is a large reduction.

Have a look at the female labour force participation rates in America and USA between 1900 and 2000. How are they compatible with households spending more time cleaning and cooking now than in 1900? As an alternative, ask old family members about the amount of time their mothers spent cooking, shopping and cleaning when they were growing up. Finally, look at time spent on Household chores in Mexico/Kenya vs USA.
This is part of why I was able to pull my question together the way I did. I read that book and I feel like it changed my perspective. It shows the damage that happened to individuals but it doesn't stick with how people responded after the depression.
To be honest you should look into Python. It's really short code and getting very popular. It uses decorators and those template garbage %> that no one uses anymore (extra). It also is by default the cleanest code and in my opinion the shortest code. It also has a library for everything. It also is the fastest for big data crunching.
While I was studying at University there were quite a few instances where particular groups of student got caught cheating in various forms. It seems some people want to get ahead at all costs because they seem to have a lot of pressure from their family or peers to make it in a particular discipline. This is something foreign to me, as I chose what/where I wanted to study, free of these particular pressures.
Slackwatch: Monitor Your AWS Service from Slack Using Cloudwatch and SNS
How? If the TOS text is displayed, and the user clicks OK, how can the service provider make sure the user actually read it, let alone understood it correctly?

Should the user be required to correctly answer some quiz questions about the TOS every time they use the product? I don't think any users would agree to that, for any product.

Do you have a positive example of how to do this successfully?
So why did you leave it and what do you use now?
tl;dr: Remote attack of Tesla Model S demonstrated, triggers brakes while in motion. Tesla deploys code signing of all firmware updates in response.