skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The 2005 report by the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention studying 4.4 million Swedes between the ages of 15 and 51 during the period 1997-2001 found that 58.9% of crime suspects were born to two Swedish parents (74.5% of total population), 10.4% of those born to one Swedish parent (9.3% of total population), 5.2% of those born to two foreign parents (3.2% of total population), and 25% of foreign-born individuals (13.1% of total population). The report found that male immigrants were four times more likely to be investigated for lethal violence and robbery than ethnic Swedes. In addition, male immigrants were three times more likely to be investigated for violent assault, and five times more likely to be investigated for sex crimes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_crime#Sweden

If you don't think WikiPedia is correct feel free to change the lemma, I bet they can use a certified statistician like you with all kinds of sources to prove them wrong. But until then:

Five times as much

And now I need to believe that I'm the one that needs to be corrected?

And another thing: once you split it up to region there's a bigger difference. East Asian and Western immigrants generally have lower or similar statistics compared to natives, meaning there are also groups that exceed the five times average.
You mean you want tech companies to attack you when you're just putting up your laundry?

/me is a recent victim of a Bee attack
USA's birthright citizenship is somewhat unique amongst countries. There's nothing wrong with questioning whether continuing the policy is good for America with the considerable amount of illegal immigration we have (estimates are that 7.5% of American citizens are born to illegal aliens).

Birthright citizenship isn't even universal. For example, birthright citizenship does not apply to diplomats. And the language of the 14th amendment, as to whether it applies to illegal aliens, has never been tested at the Supreme Court level. The key phrase being "and subject to the juridiction thereof". It's certainly at least questionable that children of citizens of other countries born here are subject to our jurisdiction.
> If you phrase it as just "don't prioritize traffic", you've just broken most CDNs, as well as QoS that optimizes for latency/bandwidth to improve VoIP and similar.

This is simply incorrect. CDNs are not prioritized on any ISP network. CDNs work because they have a shorter route to the end user, not because they have a higher priority.

ISPs should not and do not apply QoS in their core for VoIP or anything else when it's part of generic Internet traffic. It's the end users responsibility to QoS police VoIP or other traffic on their WAN interface. The ISP just shifts the bits.

Not privatizing traffic does not break CDNs nor customer QoS. Neither of these things have anything to do with net neutrality.

> But even then, how do you draw a bright line between "deliberately degrading", "not giving an advantage to", and "not doing anything to address bandwidth problems when they arise"?

It's pretty obvious how you draw that bright line. Don't prioritize and don't congest interfaces.

> How would you suggest writing a regulation that doesn't break CDNs and similar, and that can tell the difference between "deliberately hurting" and "not helping"?

Easy. As I already wrote, forbid prioritizing and saturation of network interconnects.

> How will that regulation adapt when people come up with new ideas to make the web faster?

It does not need to when done right, as explained above.

> One angle I could imagine working: limiting the ability of one company or family of companies to run both an ISP and network services via that ISP. Still hard to write something robust, though.)

Nothing hard about it. It's called functional separation and it's a widely applied remedy to the anticompetitive nature of telecom markets in other countries.
So, the district was carved up to ensure the electorate matched a certain demographic voting block... Sounds like gerrymandering to me. I guess it is OK when the demo isn't white, eh?
Thankfully, doesn't seem high up on their list of to-dos:

“That was the take-away from my conversation with Jeff,” Gardner said. “It’s not a priority of the Trump administration.”
nearlyfreespeech.net

It's pay as you go. I've not found it any cheaper than that.
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This is disgusting. I really hope Uber is an outlier, and not the norm, when it comes to this level of sexist elitism. If I had to deal with that kind of harassment and backwards pressure at work as a woman I would probably end most work days trying not to either cry or quit.

That manager should have been fired on the very first offense Susan reported. "Don't proposition your colleagues for sex, especially on company comms, ESPECIALLY on the day she starts her job" is an implicit rule that doesn't need explaining. How isn't this lawsuit material? Are the employment contracts really that binding?
Also, it's worth noting that creators of go _invented_ utf8.
Original researcher here. For context, people are not arguing that nothing is learned, but instead that children come innately prepared with abstract categories of "noun" and "determiner" even if they don't know which words are nouns or determiners or even exactly how these categories are combined.

Here's a paper that makes this argument: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~ycharles/PNAS-2013-final.pdf
I think considering this as a zero sum exchange is pretty unhealthy. Different activities have very different trade offs. Why is lesuire time considered unproductive? Does everything need to obviously contribute to something you feel is productive? Can lesuire activities contribute to productivity?

Personally I think spending time playing games, reading, watching tv and other activities are essential to remaining productive. Not least because they are all interesting input to consider things in different ways. But also because they give me space.
The irony (I will refrain from using a more accurate word) of someone mentioning "civilization" while winking at the behavior of a draft-dodging, adultering, tax cheating, sexual-assaulting, business-failing, anonymous-sourcing-himself, racist xenophobic birther who lies every time he opens his mouth is really astounding.

Congratulations. Tell us more about your unique ideas of "civilization".

Imagining the kind of rationalization and intellectual gymnastics that is needed to make a post like yours on "civililization" boggles the mind.

Unless you'd like to explain further, one imagines that we will indeed just have to consider that an "exercise for the reader", right?
If this thing takes off will all art be shredded one day?
It is surprising to people outside the DoD, but most applications are exceedingly mundane - I would lump a lot of them under "database frontends," like personnel, finance, and logistics systems. One problem there is that, in many cases, DoD or its contractors end up writing custom code for those things rather than using existing solutions, so projects get delayed as feature creep sets in. There is a bigger push for using commodity software but it's slow in coming.

For things where you truly need custom code - like missile guidance systems, avionics, specific process oriented tools for crunching data (intel or otherwise), open sourcing the core application is probably not going to help anyway. One problem though is that, increasingly, people want to use open source libraries for things. Take the data crunching - people want to use R, Python, Hadoop, whatever. This is where people are running into issues. And good luck getting those tools into close environments (e.g. classified networks) - many places do not have the resources in manpower or expertise to custom build the environments they need, so they couldn't use the newest shiny stuff even if they wanted to, even if their IA shop allowed it.

As to your last question, not a lot of examples to mind (maybe Accumulo like someone mentioned elsewhere), but another factor is that there are few programmers that are actually DoD civil servants - most stuff is written by contractors and DoD folks don't usually have the experience or knowledge necessary to even understand what they're getting at a technical level in order to recognize that what they have is something worth open sourcing (which might take some work). I'm not saying it's bad everywhere - I have met some pretty awesome technical folks that were GS's - but it's very uneven.

(disclaimer: USAF vet and still involved with the DoD)
> A general principle of planetary dynamics is that systems are only barely stable --- they are stable only over timescales of approximately their lifetime

I think I might be misunderstanding what you wrote, because it sounds tautological to me - "Systems are only stable as long as they remain stable systems."
But websites that don't bother to make their websites accessible without JavaScript have a bad track record for implementing ARIA (correctly).

Good accessible design has benefits for everyone, not only the disabled. For instance, that half of the web breaks when you turn off JavaScript, turned into a security issue when Tor Browser enabled it by default (to not confuse their users with a broken web).

Progressive enhancement and accessibility go hand-in-hand. If not for accessibility reasons, then develop websites with accessible JavaScript for security, SEO/automated access, or progressive enhancement reasons.
The Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment reads, plainly:

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

Earlier drafts of the amendment read differently; for instance, "of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty". That the language didn't survive is telling. More telling is the debate about native American tribal sovereignty, in which context the jurisdictional limit makes sense: in effect, you're a citizen if you're born in the US and not subject to the laws of a native American tribe (SCOTUS acknowledged this, in a birthright citizenship case: Elk v Wilkins).

Wong Kim Ark is clearer about this: "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof" is a minimalistic way of expressing "everyone born here" except:

* Members of Indian tribes

* Children born of alien enemies in a hostile occupation

* Children of diplomatic representatives of a foreign state

In all three cases you have classes of people who are not just aliens, but aliens formally exempted while in the country from some or all of US law. Hence: subject to jurisdiction.

So I think we can put to rest the idea that this has gone untested by the Supreme Court.

Regardless, the (relatively recent) notion that you can negate ~150 years of birthright citizenship by parsing "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof" is about as credible as the idea that we can ban guns because of the 2nd Amendment's "in a well-regulated militia" qualifier.
Wireless is not for everyone--not yet. However, many people do not use a lot of bandwidth and they may find wireless to be quite adequate. As wireless bandwidth goes up in quality and down in price, people might truly start to "cut the cord".

Twenty years ago you could substitute "cellular" for "wireless" and "landline" for "home internet" and make the same claims. No one dreamed people would eliminate land phones back when only a few had a "car phone".
Take the first 32 bytes of Sha512 if the extra bytes isare too annoying. This also gives you an extra 32 bytes to use for something like .. ?
The difference in tech skill between me and my 80 year old Grandma is mostly my ability to Google.
Do you use any advanced features like triggers/alerts with captured output?

I found that a regex I was using to pop a notif was slowing iTerm2 down big time, removed it, and it feels much better now.
I used Google extensively and skillfully throughout my careers as a student and software developer. In the past few years I've been taking the music of 18th century Scotland very seriously, and it's been a major change of pace to have Google be next to useless. Suddenly all the skills I'd let languish—remembering what part of what book I'd read something in, using specialty research databases, inferring the answer to a question from multiple suboptimal sources, etcetera—matter again. Sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's incredibly frustrating.
Any thing
You haven't made point one. Give it a fucking rest.
To be fair: even assuming subverter is a shill, it's far more likely that the account is being directed by the ISP lobby or related interests than by the FCC, whose employees are bland bureaucrats except at the very top. That's not authoritarianism, it's just astroturf. Non-government entities have been doing it for decades too.
And people are perfectly fine with that! Define a service level, any level, then you have a product to sell.

But the current situation, where they sell "up to" whatever the last mile will sustain and then don't ever upgrade backbones, don't add interconnects, that particular fraud can not go on. A market doesn't work when vendors can sell you a product, lock you in and face no repercussions when they don't deliver even 10%.
Considering the New York Times just vacated half their office space so they could lease it out, maybe not.
I am finding it very hard to get out of Silver because when I solo queue i frequently get matched with teammates who treat the competitive match like a casual game. Most people either don't use mics at all or they only use them for racial slurs, and many others just play like they don't really care about getting a win. It's difficult to lead the team when I get matched with three other kids who queue up together and dick around the whole match, and it's very demotivating to realize I'll have to endure at least 16 rounds of obnoxious chatter and getting owned. I really do want to get better, but I'm not yet at the point where I can carry an uncooperative team (especially when there are also smurfs on the other team).

I feel like a good approach would be to find some consistent players and stop solo queueing, but I'd love to hear if you have any other advice. Also, what has been a good strategy for you to in weeding out toxic players? Definitely seems like an applicable skill in all aspects of life.
Again you're talking completely different abstraction layers - unless you're saying that you can use a scripting language to use something like windows automation API to click GUI and stuff.

My point is that Windows has a culture of black box monolithic apps with GUI focused (if not GUI exclusive) functionality exposing. Nothing stopping you from exposing stuff like commandlets for PS and composing them to build higher level systems - but people don't really do this - and they do in UNIX systems - things end up being more transparent.

Nothing to do with any shell or anything really - more about UNIX philosophy of small focused apps composed together vs monolithic apps.

When you're developing stuff UNIX approach is IMO way preferable.
wonder how he spells "hypocrisy".
It is the cases of failure that are interesting and informative, and if the methods you mention are the only ways a person can solve the problem, that counts as a failure - as I mentioned, this is not actually about flattening lists.
I like the crash-porn at the end that preserves our landmasses exactly.

And say what you will about the instability of the solar system, but if orbits start coinciding, it might make interplanetary travel quite a bit cheaper!
False. Obama held several "private sessions", often inviting only left-leaning journalists [0]. I think people are conflating "press gaggle" with official press briefings.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/03/obama-holds-off-...
A number of cities have tried to build fiber networks only to be thwarted by ISP lobbying at the state level. Some had their eyes on Google Fiber. SF is studying municipal fiber, although I don't know how seriously.
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I did an Msc in Bioinformatics before continuing to a PhD in CS. I'd say that your assessment is largely correct. In general, I'd advise anyone to go into a CS masters. You can always jump to a bioinformatics job without much difficulty, but the opposite move isn't always true. The other replies have also noted that there's a lot of bioinformaticians who are basically scripters. Their jobs consist of running ad-hoc analysis scripts for other people. It's okay but not the most rewarding in terms of job satisfactions, because of point (4) in your post. The other posted who mentioned that the source of funding often comes from short-term grants is also correct in my experience. This means your job tend to be low-paid and last only as long as the grant duration. Altogether I must say, if you're happy in data science stuff, stay where you are. I'm making the move out from bioinformatics as well.
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The assumption isn't perfect, but it's close enough. Techniques like MIMO offer diminishing returns for their cost to handset complexity and battery life. There are no big leaps to be had in wireless that are comparable to eg. switching from DSL to fiber. And it is very clear that demand for bandwidth is growing with no sign of stopping. Users want 4k streaming and cloud backups/storage, and display resolutions are still growing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
At my university, the radio station held a massive all-day quiz competition. Google was still relatively new, but they adapted by making the questions more compound and reliant on some familiarity in a domain (e.g. What would the mass of the world's heaviest man be in picograms when using the IPK as measured in 1889?).

There was also a scavenger hunt component to the contest. One such item was a photo of a famous annual naked soccer game that you couldn't have had unless you were actually there in previous years. This was before Google Images (I think), so I had my friends go outside in their underwear and then Photoshopped them onto a picture of a soccer field.

Edit: in response to what you said about the dangers of over-relying on Google, I remember there was a quiz question that required knowing some fact that could only be found in some obscure printed book (again, probably before Google Books was around). So I altered a Wikipedia page (each quiz question allowed for several minutes until calling an answer in) to mention a fact that coincidentally matched the answer we called in, and when the radio station said we were wrong, we successfully disputed their answer by sending them a link to the Wikipedia page.
A rogue planet headed for intergalactic space might be a better bet.
Look into the details. This isn't what you think it is.
Minor nit: s/emojibake/mojibake/
While it's technically correct that Markdown has a mishmash of implementations (and technically correct is the best kind of correct, after all), it's worth pointing out that MultiMarkdown has both a well-defined feature set that includes things like tables, footnotes, and citations, a standard way to express metadata, and has a reference implementation in C.

http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/

And, you might say, "But I've never heard of MultiMarkdown," but the reality is that if you've used Markdown for creating, well, tables, footnotes or citations, or used a YAML metadata block for a Jekyll blog, or any number of things that weren't in the original Markdown spec but that people in practice do all the time, then you've used something that was either influenced by MultiMarkdown or something that MultiMarkdown adapted.

And that last point is larger than MultiMarkdown, specifically. I'd argue that Markdown as commonly implemented and used can do an awful lot of things that are necessary for technical documentation work. This isn't to say that ReST or AsciiDoc aren't more powerful, but in practice, there's very little I've had to write that can't be written in (Multi)Markdown.
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This is a general question, not related any specific company. What measures, laws, actions, etc. can significantly reduce harassment, sexism and related practices in workplaces? Any good researches on the subject?
I am reminded of the story of author Lois McMaster Bujold's sci-fi awards. She is a very successful author ("won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record") and sci-fi awards (and nominations) give tie pins. Because she could not wear the tie pins in the usual way, she had them made into a necklace. There are good photos with labels for what each one is: http://www.thebarflies.net/redshirts/unzipped/24_cryoburn/Ga...
There is a nice clean implementation in tweetnacl - while we are at it, commits could be signed with eddsa (or xeddsa/vxeddsa, though I don't know if those have compact libraries?)
I'm going to have to start shilling for conservatives so people give me accolades for my username
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Overwatch may interest you because it's tuned pretty hard to reward team gameplay instead of just "who gets the most kills" and K/D isn't even something reported in the game stats. One of the characters (Reinhardt) is even designed around essentially being a damage sponge for teammates, with killing enemies being a distant third priority after shielding allies and keeping enemies out of short range with his big hammer.

It's also got a lot more variety in characters than most similar games, with the cast covering a variety of ethnicities, cultural origins, and ages ranging from 18 or 19 to 60+.
> "this is complicated and needs to be handled with care, not with a trivial attempted fix like 'dumb pipes only' the way people often seem to think"

Why do you think turning ISPs into dumb pipes only would not fix most, if not all, problems?

The reason we have all these problems is that the ISPs do not want to be dumb pipes only.
I've used bigscreen before, and while it might be hard to read small text, it is still a really nice app. I don't use the "multiplayer" feature, but what is really nice is to switch up my work environment at home from time to time. It also eliminates a lot of distractions.
Maybe Youtube makes a deal with T-Mobile to keep videos playing longer (before packets start dropping) in exchange for money. This money might allow T-Mobile to invest in other parts of its infrastructure.

Another possibility: as a major ISP nears network capacity, they can implicitly (or explicitly, depending on law) solicit revenue streams from Youtube and many others for "priority access" to their somewhat- or completely-captive customer base. Eventually, secondary tiers are created to efficiently segment the content market -- a priority plan conveniently sized for every budget. Those who can't or won't pay fall into an ever decreasing performance category as the priority slices are snatched up.

The ISP then starts selling premium bundles on the customer side -- Platinum Service will include Youtube, Netflix, Amazon, Apple (and get our bonus in-house streaming service at no extra charge!). Platinum-Plus, for another $14.95 per month plus fees, adds priority streams from your choice of up to three major sports content sources. And Platinum-Pro adds non-degraded VPN so you can work from home. Choice!

The ISP is monetizing the fact that they're NOT adding capacity. Eventually they can choose to take the hit to their numbers and make that investment, but they'll do so within the now-normal tiered framework -- offering new capacity and premium deals at the top of the stack, rather than letting the bottom free-ride into better service.
I think researchers might argue that looking for deep answers almost always depends on being able to look up and efficiently collate discrete facts that are straightforward when considered in isolation.