skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You start off by claiming that people are notoriously selfish and short-sighted, but mysteriously the rest of your post only applies this to the receivers of aid. The givers are people too.

More fundamentally, you're only looking at material outcomes. What I'm saying is that freedom (a non-material ouycome) is a good in itself, one which is under-considered in aid.
And this is what dismissing diverse/alternative opinions sounds like.
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Unless you subscribe to recent attempt at redefining the word to "racism|sexism = prejudice + power", which is coming from the... I'm not sure, I guess the identity politics/radfem corner.

Whenever I try to really understand that culture or their opponents (MRA, r/KotakuInAcion etc.) I just end up feeling like both their sides are completely worthless endless rabbit holes and time sinks. Perhaps I just need a minor in Gender Studies to understand.

I wish both sides could just cease to exist.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prejudice_plus_power
[1] http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Prejudice_plus_power
If an NTP client is already misbehaving and/or misconfigured to the point where it's considered "abusive", what are the chances the client will do The Right Thing(TM) when it receives a "kiss of death" ("kod") packet from the NTP server?

Enable KOD, by all means, but you may also consider putting in some (high) per-IP rate limiting for 123/UDP in your firewall rules as a backup plan (for if/when clients ignore kod).
Condoms ruin the sensation and are so bad at preventing pregnancy they're on par with withdrawal. We should make hormonal birth control and IUDs cheaper and more accessible instead.
Legal risk sounds like a bad thing. That being said, it doesn't put discrimination in the hiring process per se, only the referral process, which may not be protected by federal law. I am not a lawyer.
> you'd think a lot more people would be excited to adopt babies.

A couple things;

1. The primary barrier to people adopting babies is the insane expense and rigamorole involved (at least in the US). You might argue that the expense is justified, but it doesn't change the fact that it's extremely difficult and expensive. Plus, in some states, adoptive parents are given lower legal priority than the birth mother. I know a couple who had to give up a baby they adopted months earlier because the birth mother sobered up (temporarily) and decided she wanted her baby back. So not only a huge expense, but a huge emotional and financial risk as well. This is a by-product of the law, not of the difficulty of raising the child.

2. Despite this, most healthy children do get adopted. Most of the un-adopted children have physical or mental health issues that most would-be parents are not equipped to deal with.

I'm not saying that caring for a baby has no cost, but I think you argument ignores the largest challenges of adoption.
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A practical introduction to functional programming (2013)
Well fine, bigotry if you're being pedantic.
"kick my ass" can also be translated to a major monetary penalty - Steve Kamb tells us about his friend who bet $500 to his friends if he didn't lose weight
Counter-counter-counterpoint, the 5K iMac is pretty much a better specced iMac from all angle. It has all the good stuff without sacrificing anything important. It simply is a "better"machine.

The complain isn't with the wide colour gamut display or any new feature they added, but its the other stuff that they sacrificed.
I was living in Twin City at the time also, and the loss of the T-Mobile tower made finding loved ones a bit difficult.

Your history of the metro light rail is a bit off. The rail was pushed by Gov. Jesse Ventura (who the Republicans and Democrats would surely not claim). It was opposed by Pawlenty, but he relented on a smaller line to get the federal money. The state government under Pawlenty funded in via a bonding bill for $37.5 million. That didn't pay for it though. It took almost $100 million from the state and money from various other regional players with over $150 more million from the feds. It has not met its promised ridership goals, and it will never relieve congestion.

All of this money could have gone to fixing the roads instead of funding a train that kills people because of a bad route in Minneapolis that once was a turn. Never mind the whole problem with the U. Check the stats on transportation to see how important those bridges are to business as commuter numbers are not the whole issue. Those daily congestion issues can be blamed on not wanting to expand the highways. The long proposed 294 and 894 would have done more than then the light rail.
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One thing that's actually interesting is that for basically the month of December it looks like there are fewer than 2000 files being pulled through that VPN endpoint. Seems to me that that would indicate that either not that much is being torrented through that VPN provider or that their tracking is only covering a relatively small percentage of DHT torrents. I'd have expected to see significantly higher volume through any significant VPN endpoint.
I personally interpret this post as a reaction to the gross disrespect some Islamic factions have for Western culture, women and human lives, and to issues such as German politicians unilaterally deciding to accept large amounts of immigrants against the will of most citizens, without a good plan to integrate those immigrants culturally while they come from a culture that is very bigoted and known for violence against their women.

Edit: I do think the heritage thing was unnecessary, unless used in a context of cultural differences and the therewith coming need for integration.

I don't think it's fair or useful to demand each culture to build their own technology from scratch, I think that's crap. I do think it's fair to ask immigrants to adapt to the local culture to the point of tolerating it.
Sure. It's just xenophobic.

And since the OP's culture was clearly a white man's culture - a culture that has been relatively slow to accommodate others, in many ways its still a racist, sexist vision - granted one with unusual bluriness at the edges.
For domains that you do control, the best way to deal with that is to:

1. Pay the domain registration for as long in advance as possible (I think it's 10 years). Also, pay for hosting of any web sites for as long as possible because:

2. Not only delete all the content, but set up the server to serve up a "410 Gone" response to every URL except for robots.txt. For that, you want:

User-agent: *
Disallow /

The reason for the previous two steps is to inform Google (and other search engines) to remove cached copies of your sites. The robots.txt is not for search engines but for the WayBack machine. It has cached copies of your site (most likely) but if the robots.txt file disallows indexing, then it won't return any results from searches there. Sure, after your domains lapse and the new owner replaces robots.txt the stuff from your domains will be available again, but ten years might be a decent amount of time. If not, make sure you repeat as often as you can.
I've come to realise that I suffer from this phenomenon in an odd (and possibly funny) way.

While I unapologetically consume plenty of fiction and television just for entertainment purposes, I seem to be on some mission to find only the highest quality stuff. So, what I consume ends up being dense, cerebral, and often dark. And while it's enriching and engaging, it also isn't exactly relaxing, and doesn't help me to relax and turn off when I perhaps should.

I was surprised to find that I felt guilty about consuming just-fine mindless entertainment, and also surprised about how good it felt when I actually did.
"Don't write tests. Generate them."
Kalid from BetterExplained here, glad you're enjoying it!

I often go to the history of a concept for both historical appreciation and, practically, to understand it better. We often study Calculus without looking at what Archimedes was able to do -- break shapes into smaller parts -- and without really seeing how the notion of infinitesimals come into play. (Epsilon/delta definitions don't give the same insight.)

The natural log was discovered before e -- why would that be? Sine, cosine, trig functions -- they started as measurements of triangles, evolved into analytic definitions of their own -- why does this progression make sense?

In my mind, truly understanding a concept means you understood the path it took to the current state.
Actually, plenty of people complained about the 2015 MacBook. They are just willing to put up with it more since they understand that the machine prioritises portability above all else.
Interesting. I wonder how much we could improve the physical and financial health of society if caretaking lagged a generation behind birthing. At this point, such a social policy would be extremely difficult to implement in the west as we've not just discouraged but morally proscribed teen pregnancy.
At a skim, it doesn't look like it does minimization on failure? That's a big part of the value of QuickCheck.

(As I said, it was a skim - I'd love to be wrong!)
> I think the best way to learn about computer science it to program for a machine so simple anyone can understand how every bit works. No magic.

We do this in my school, sort of. The 2nd year courses teach you to know how to write assembly in a fictional subset of MIPS (https://www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~cs241/mips/mipsref.pdf). There is a course where we write a compiler that emits this fictional MIPS, and a course where we learn how to implement a CPU that can execute (an even smaller subset of) these instructions (starting from CMOS gates).
Anything Merlin Mann works for me :

- back to work http://5by5.tv/b2w

- roderick on the line http://www.merlinmann.com/roderick/

- you look nice today http://youlooknicetoday.com/
Spot on. Turns out when you give away free IUDs, teenage pregnancy and abortion rates plummet. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/06/science/colorados-push-aga...
Depends where you are.

It's possibly legal under English law. If you have two candidates who are equally suitable you're allowed to employ the one with a protected characteristic because of that protected characteristic.
Racism is cultural, not just phenotype. For example, you'll find plenty of English racism against the French, Germans, Welsh, Scots, and Irish, even though all of those groups are white.

You're putting too much emphasis on the race part of the word, and not its meaning of exclusion using factors beyond an individual's control. You are the one being hyperbolic.
That's the "A's hire A's, B's hire C's" concept. A sign of a bad manager is that they never recruit people that they feel are equal to or greater than themselves in any way. The outcome is that that manager holds back the entire organization to secure their own power, and dilutes the talent of the group for personal gain.

Sadly, the President-Elect appears to share this philosophy:

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2016/04/21/life-lesso...
I've also used the Adafruit module, although with a Raspberry Pi. FWIW, the PPS signal seemed to be a little off from another receiver though (Garmin GPS 18x LVC). I never tried to pinpoint the issue but I strongly suspected the Pi. No noticeable issues w/ the antenna inside on a window sill (should be fine as long as you can see four satellites).

I haven't tried it myself but I've heard of several other good experiences w/ the BeagleBone Black. The Garmin seemed to work the best for me, although it is a little more expensive. I was strongly considering putting a few of them in $work's (private) facilities as a fun, nerdy project but I never got around to actually doing it. The Garmin with a BBB might very well be a great combination for that.

One other thing: make sure you use a "real" serial (or parallel) port -- not a USB to serial adapter!
Bobby Droptables!

How is SQL vulnerabilities like this still happening to systems that need to be secure?
Radiotopia would be the place to begin. Just give each show a try, and you've sampled the best available.
Can you clarify what your culture is? And who specifically these out-groups that you worry about are?

I'm not trying to bait you - you're essentially making an argument that relativism in some forms runs into problems when pressed to limits. It's difficult to discuss this without understanding whereabouts you think these limits lie. I don't think anyone can really make an argument about the logical structure of your argument per se, but most will have issues with how you connect various "real world entities" to components of your argument.

In another post I just made an assumption about your beliefs - maybe I was wrong.
Not sure if it's what you're looking for, but https://github.com/thelounge/lounge has docs spread around on the wiki and website, and neither are very well done.
No, I still don't agree.

> bigotry: intolerance toward those who hold different opinions from oneself

It sounds like the OP is perfectly tolerant of them existing and doing whatever it is they do, but thinks there are cultural factors that make some people more productive or better to work with than others.

This is obviously true -- education, shared language, a certain amount of tolerance from them -- are all things we expect to be cultural factors in employment.

The OPs point is about what cultural factors and values are most important for and best at jobs.

How is that being a bigot?
The last programming language
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A Short Introduction to Boosting (1999) [pdf]
Built by the lowest bidder?
Why not just use the public pool? A virtualized NTP server isn't the ideal scenario and there are plenty of "not quite 100% public" NTP servers you could use as well (i.e. you first have to send an e-mail to get access).
Your view is not radical at all. I haven't looked at the Bloomberg numbers or the sources they cite, but it's not like manipulating data and misinterpreting statistics is something that never happened, especially by news organizations reporting causality of parameters when no statistical significance is to be found, or when the "study" was done on 30 persons.

What irks me is presenting something, anything, as a panacea and thinking in magic bullet terms. My comment isn't just about this.. This thinking would be shot down in a technical conversation, but make it about gender, race, or wealth, and everyone tie their tongue and short their brain for fear of being labeled racist, misogynist, or elitist.

Innovations where made in countries where a 100% of workers where of one ethnicity. They were made when a 100% of workers where of one gender. They are also made in companies that are ethnically diverse and employing people of different genders and sexual orientations..

What does this tell us? It tells us that what's important is to hire people who can get the job done and be trained to deliver. That's what this tells you to optimize for.

Looking at this:

>For every 10 percent increase in racial and ethnic diversity on the senior executive team at a U.S. company, earnings before interest and taxes rise 0.8 percent, the report found.

0.8% increase in EBIT for every 10% increase in racial and ethnic diversity in the C-suite? I'm willing to bet that changing the carpet or putting flowers in the patio has a bigger effect than that.

What is a 100% ethnically diverse group anyway? Is that one in which each ethnicity is only represented by one person? A company's goal is to make a profit, not to play race-Lego.

This is usually the part where I have to put the disclaimer: I am African and live in a third world country.

Though I'm from the same country and ethnicity of Saint Augustine, if that could serve as a referral to get hired..

EDIT: originally intended as a reply to fatdog's comment which was flagged before I could reply, so I replied to first child. fatdog's comment was back (unflagged?), so I deleted the reply to first child and re-replied to fatdog's comment.
I absolutely agree with you. The culture of society at the hands of "the diversity police" has become one that strips the individual of any power or responsibility. We've gone too far off the deep end.

I think Milton Friedman put it best: If discrimination exists, then it presents an arbitrage opportunity -- because people that are "discriminated against" are cheaper than those that are not... there is no need for societal policing:

"The man who exercises discrimination pays a price for doing so. He is, as it were, "buying" what he regards as a "product." It is hard to see that discrimination can have any meaning other than a "taste" of others that one does not share. We do not regard it as "discrimination" -- or at least not in the same invidious sense -- if an individual is willing to pay a higher price to listen to one singer than to another, although we do if he is willing to pay a higher price to have services rendered to him by a person of one color than by a person of another. The difference between the two cases is that in the one case we share the taste, and in the other we do not. (110)"
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Obligatory Tom Scott/Computerphile video on why electronic voting machines are awful.

https://youtu.be/w3_0x6oaDmI
Channels in Golang
Not the OP, but from skimming the ToC, about 90% of the topics covered are taught in undegrad courses required for graduation for my CS degree.

> Because my friends who do "real CS" at various universities generally avoid anything which has to do with hardware and practical operating systems, and are basically mathematicians working on problems relatable to computers

Are they in grad school / doing research? Maybe they're just specializing in those areas (I think it's called theoretical CS).
I am really liking this idea.

I am not a programmer. I am a network engineer. In my daily work I have to research a lot on network engineering. In fact, atleast one hour in my job each day involves researching about the topics in network engineering that I am working on.

And I see myself using a similar tool when it is available.

One major factor I would like you to consider is that the web is very much transient. The URL that we see now may not exist one month from now, due to various reasons.

One clumsy workaround that I have been using so far is to use archive.org 's wayback machine tool to archive those pages and add those URLs too.
Maybe you can implement something similar. It cannot be something you host because I guess you yourself wouldn't know how long you would be interested/able to support this tool.

I know Evernote intends to solve this in a lot of ways. But I hate Evernote due to lots of reasons. I am more of of a OneNote guy.

Also, is your tool is geared especially towards programmers only? There is nothing wrong in that if you would like to keep it that way. But can you also consider adapting it so that people from other technical fields can use it?
Want to trade? You can come to NJIT: the land of physics, math, and more math. Oh and 4 "inter-disaplinary" corses (read wastes of time).
If google and facebook - who make their money off data - are willing to delete data for free, then they probably have some legal mandate to do so. If so, then they will continue to allow deletion while the laws remain in place.
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> Why waste so much of the scarce money available to schools on something that can be easily replaced by 1h of earnest talk

1h of earnest talk does not funnel taxpayer money into a vendor's pocket.
Honestly, that's the University's fault then. Properly configured, it should've had very little noticeable effect on the firewall (i.e. "permit udp any host 10.11.12.13 eq 123") as there's no need to do any inspection or tracking state ...

... unless they saturated the available bandwidth but, really, that's a different issue (although also preventable!).
If you're actually using a VPN (as opposed to a SOCKS proxy) then what they can certainly identify is that you're moving VPN traffic, the volume of traffic each way, and probably that it's torrent traffic (gaming, streaming, surfing will have very different usage patterns and much lower uploads most likely). For torrent traffic, they can also tell whether you're seeding a lot, leeching/downloading without seeding, or a mixture.

This makes sense if you think about the kinds of traffic you'd expect from the most common uses. There's a pretty limited set of categories that most Internet traffic can be grouped into, and they all will have pretty distinct and identifiable patterns - commercial streaming will be slow and steady, downloads will be bursty, VoIP will be small streams, etc.

For sophisticated enough systems or determined investigators with enough raw material to examine, they may even be able to get a decent guess at what sites you're using (even via a VPN) if you're only doing one activity at a time. If they can identify that almost every video view on YouTube starts with a particular traffic pattern of sets of blocks of data of roughly identifiable sizes and that video views on Netflix, Vimeo, Hulu, YouPorn, or whereever all have different patterns, they can approximate which sites you're visiting - particularly given enough data over time.
The US and Russia would target each other allies' as well.
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Cultural discrimination isn't the same as racial discrimination, and I think it's very dishonest of people to pretend they're the same problem.

Also, culture is something you control: even by your definition, it's not racist. (Though, really, you want a term like 'discriminatory' when talking about all factors, because racism is about race.)
2016 – A year in review in the life of a Node.js web developer and book writer
It seems obvious to us, but computer literacy in out country (and the world) is quite low. I think this underlines how bad it is. Can you imagine if the English literacy rate were only a few %? It wouldn't be uncommon to hear of people doing strange things since they wouldn't be able to read warning signs.
Currently ZoL and FBSD also support not-mutually-overlapping subsets of feature flags - IIRC the multi_vdev_crash_dump FBSD/illumos flag isn't supported on Linux[1] even in git, and FBSD doesn't support userobj_accounting or large_dnode from ZoL git master[2][3].

[1] - https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/2438

[2] - https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/3500

[3] - https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/3542
"Though much of the commission’s work is public, the hacker gained access to non-public reports on flaws in voting machines."
Steve Dunleavy is an interesting man.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Dunleavy

Pretty certain that he was still among the living, but 2016 has been a really rough year for celebrities.
I've liked the books I've gotten from them (usually from Reginald) and will definitely get this one.

Fun fact - I remember meeting their founder (Peter Armstrong I think) at RailsConf many years back. He had just written "flex on rails", which was a great book (though both those technologies are unsexy these days). He mentioned his idea for something like LeanPub (though I'm not sure how far along he was at the time).

Great seeing him/them execute on this and become the de facto for self-publishing.
I wish I could give your post more votes.

I don't believe your view is radical amongst those that build and create. I believe your view is only radical to those that don't.

People who do not have 'skin in the game' often lament that those who do are exclusive and divisive. That's only because they've no concept of what it takes to create and maintain a thriving community of like-minded individuals.
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I never said it was harmful.