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It means: remove the chroot folder (safely, with umounting everything first).
You can do it with "pmbootstrap zap", it will ask interactively, which chroots you want to delete.
Like any other commercial media, the main goal of The Economist is to get readers/subscribers. Slanted, inflammatory stories do a better job at that than objective, well-researched pieces that present a fuller picture.
For what it's worth, it's not generally the mainframes that cause the outages. It's the distributed ecosystem where you need a bunch of disparate systems from different vendors around the mainframe, all coordinating, to be able to fly planes, sell tickets, process boarding passes, etc.

There were fewer global outages when all of the functionality was on the TPF mainframes with dumb green screen clients.
I didn't read your comment closely enough. Sorry. I agree that there won't be a quick reduction but at least the influx of new prisoners would be reduced and neighborhoods wouldn't get destroyed anymore.
The thought that Mark Zuckerberg might one day run for president, and actually have a chance, is absolutely terrifying to me. If this happens, kiss the concept of personal privacy goodbye forever.
I agree that becoming an AI researcher seems daunting, since the field is moving so fast. However, so far we haven't seen any useful applications of machine learning to ordinary computer programming, so this hopelessness seems rather premature.

(Perhaps applying machine learning to code review might be useful, to spot bugs? The problem would be getting good data to train it.)
I'll take that bet. I know several excellent women who program. Some of them in their 50's. They'd probably outclass the vast majority of the hacker wanna-be's but they have one aspect that is totally different from their male counterparts: they try very hard not to attract attention and to let on how good they are whereas any male who can hold a keyboard is off to the races bragging about their mad skills. There just seems to be much less ego involved.
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The article linked in the first article has Google claiming it has gender pay parity early on in the dispute versus the government saying this is a bad situation based on the sample of data the government received. The original article then has Google saying it cannot produce the data behind this gender pay equity claim. It seems logical to anyone who is not a lawyer that the plaintiff, Google, cannot have it both ways in the very same case, in fact it seems positively ludicrous.
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White males are certainly paid too much! They should make half of what minority employees do!
Two points: article is 5 months old, and it's fantastic: informed journalism rather than "one coder's opinion."
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Just remember the authors are suggesting copper pots for water storage in developing countries, where people have more chance of dying from diarrhea than from prolonged exposure to copper.
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How is storing it in copper pots significantly different than "storing" it in the copper pipes prevalent in a majority of houses in the USA?
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OP's hyperbole took it too far by saying "good programmer". But if you change it just "top one percent programmer", it might not be too much of an exaggeration. Before I also get banned, I want to clarify that there's a difference between:

- "it's hard to find a woman programmer in the top 1%" because women can't be good programmers due to their biology

- "it's hard to find a woman programmer in the top 1%" because our society failed to train and produce them

The second statement isn't inherently sexist, it's just an observation of the poor state of our world.

If you're familiar with programming/math competitions you'll know that there are not many female represented there even after taking into account their smaller population: http://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=AlgoRank. There are probably 500 "red" coders (which is roughly the top 1%) but with probably less than a handful who are female. All you need is a username to compete so it's pretty objective and gender-blinded.

So it seems exceptional female programmers are simply not being produced even as early as high school and college level. Google interviews are very similar to those competition so I assume their data will also uncomfortably show this.
You're assuming they're equally talented, you don't actually know that to be the case. Even if that assumption is correct, talent isn't the only factor that determines salary. I don't think employers actually have the data they need to ensure the wages they pay closely correlate with productivity. If Google isn't intentionally paying women less because they are women, then I think the answers to these questions pretty much has to be 1. Because they can & to save money 2. Because they can't 3. Because they're operating under the same set of assumptions as everyone else in the industry, and better heuristics would probably cost more than they'd save on labor.
Ahh I see, thanks!
Yeah, I wondered if anyone was going to be pedantic about that. ;)
Right, because electing a "business man" with a questionable past is working out so well right now.
Silver is also known to have antibacterial/antimicrobial properties and is used both as a coating on handles, surfaces to prevent bacterial buildup and also in typical creams as an antibacterial option (however, I do believe a recent study showed it to be no better than a control when applied topically to burns, which is/was one of its primary uses).

Both copper and silver oxidize unpleasantly very quickly, though.
I don't follow how Simpson's paradox is relevant here.
The idea of "tough on crime" was born from the political elites though. Read the Rick Perlstein trilogy, particularly the first two books "Before the Storm" and "Nixonland", which go into this depth. It was used to exploit racial resentment in the civil rights era as part of the "Southern Strategy" as Democrats began accepting civil rights into their political program (and eventually to blame the Civil Rights Act for crime). Racism is obviously a persistent problem here, as well as classism (which is often an unexamined cultural phenomenon in the US) and a culture of vengeance. Vengeance is a DISTINCTLY American idea that has been with us since our calvinist roots and is part of our cultural image in everything from our forever war of foreign intervention to our films (particularly Tarantino films exhibit this). It's a sick, contemptible cultural tenet.

We can begin to reverse this by electing DAs like Philly just has: Larry Krasner, a civil rights attorney who has made lowering sentences where he has prosecutorial discretion and refusing to try insufficient cases a part of his platform ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsEFPHMrAKc ). It will also take citizen pressure to ensure these people follow through on their program as they join a thoroughly racist, punitive institution. Also, people must be willing to elect representatives that will cut criminal penalties across the board. Simply cutting them for nonviolent crimes will not solve the problem: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/03/04/how-to-cut-the...
Probably not. Yarn is still faster and has some other niceties that npm 5.0 doesn’t have. Yarn is still relatively young and will likely to continue to improve faster than npm will.
No idea why this got downvoted. The lack of job opportunities for people out of jail is a real problem.
There are other Go playing programs and they've apparently improved a lot by applying ideas from the original AlphaGo paper. It seems reasonable to assume they will improve more based on ideas from the new paper too, and probably surpass AlphaGo before too long.

(Similarly, Deep Blue was dismantled but chess engines continued to evolve.)
Explain how Simpson's Paradox works here. Explain how it can be mathematically possible for each state/city/etc to have a lower murder per capita than the national murder per capita. Use concrete numbers as examples.

Spoiler: it isn't mathematically possible.
> It's the legal team's job to push back on any new requests for data.

The legal team's ethics are not in question. They are upholding their fiduciary duty to be proactive, energetic representatives of what they consider -- or have been instructed -- is in Google's best interests.

Google is also perfectly capable of instructing its lawyers to drop this argument.

They have clearly chosen not to do so. It does them no credit.
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But if that's what causes the gender gap -- things like starting salary and time off from career, and men with those similar features receive similar pay -- then it's not a problem of sexism, at least, not on the part of Google. (I don't mean breaks on the maternal leave scale, eg months, I mean breaks of years.)

I've noticed that many of these complaints about gendered things are arguments for a particular social arrangement (eg, no consequence to a break in career) and not arguments against sexism, as such.

I don't think we shoukd be using equality laws as a bludgeon to effect changes in society outside of things like sexism or racism: that's what causes Trumpian backlashes. Most people are onboard woth fighting sexism; it becomes a mixed bag when talking about proposals like "taking years off should have no result on earnings".
That's a good point and I failed to match my argument with more information about the context. Brazil is a failed state (both politically and financially), so with more inmates and less money (for more prisons and rehabilitation projects), that creates quite the situation.
Unless you remember every conversation you've ever had on one of their services word for word, they also know more about you than you do.
Agreed much of our drug policy and criminal system systematically keeps down black people. Not sure that one comment skipping a discussion of race implies all of HN is biased, though
This is how democracy works. Either your vote matters and you are responsible, or neither.

Voting is not just a privilege, it's also a responsibility.
America was hateful and racist back when voters were all rich Anglos too.
Maybe the lower wage for women can be seen as a compensation for the risk that they get pregnant? It's more a problem for small companies, I guess.
What's the overlap though on someone who would aggressively overclock and someone who would still be running such a slow CPU?
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In Canada, we have a first past-the-post voting system (if you get the majority of the votes in the riding, you get the seat) and we have at least 3 parties federally (Conservatives, Liberals, and NDP). Technically, we have 4 (including the Bloc Québecois but they're only in one province). So, it's entirely possible to have a winner take all voting system and have more than two parties. Things have fluctuated over the years and we've had 5 parties when the Progressive Conservatives had a split and the Reform Party was created, but they eventually merged once they realized that they couldn't win if they split the votes.

There's been at least one attempt to try and change the voting system, but the side involved in presenting the pros of the new system really did a terrible job.
Thanks. Should have googled.

However, upon closer inspection, it seems like there was a wave of research during 1960s which looked at Copper ion concentration between 0.02 - 10g/L

In the 2000s there was another wave of research looking at antimicrobial properties, however sampling a few of them, it does seem like they were seen as growing surfaces rather than containers for water purification.

So, I guess it was observed for a long time, scientifically studied fairly recently, and not in particular whether it was viable in a practical setting?
> Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.¹

Yet this particular bit of information is too expensive to make accessible and useful. They have this giant correlation machine, and they don't use it to know as much as they can about their own company? How convenient.

I know, "one does not simply", but still: aren't you supposed to keep salary records anyway. Wouldn't you keep them even if you didn't have to, just in case? Wouldn't you run some statistics over them, just to see the trends?

Obviously, as rayiner says, Alphabet have other reason not to hand over the data.

[1]: https://www.google.com/intl/en/about/ (meta description tag)
The USA has "boys homes" that do this. As a child, I attended one such place where we all had to grow our own vegetables, to this day I can grow vegetables.

Privatized prisons (in the USA) are money makers, holding mostly low to medium risk offenders, you can even buy shares on the stock market.

With more police on patrol there will be less crime. Spend less money on prisons and more money on local police force.
He integrates Facebook's surveillance platform with FBI, DEA, NSA, CIA, DHS, INS, IRS, and so on. Allows all local jurisdictions, including those harassing poor or minorities, access to it through the "fusion centers" or whatever they have now. All kinds of horrors follow.

That's just the Facebook risk. There's also the problems that can come from his actions as President in general. ;)
The real answer to this might be: more doctors. The amount of emotional and psychological trauma any one doctor encounters in a shift in a large city hospital might be 100x what a doctor in a more rural situation might. Undersupply of doctors, higher population density, and cost-cutting have engineered a psychological crisis for the profession.

There are ~29 physicians active in patient care per 10K people in the US [1]. What would it take to make it 290?

[1] https://www.statista.com/topics/1244/physicians/
Your math is wrong, rayiner didn't mention neighborhood variation at all, and Simpson paradox is relevant to changes over time or resampling, not simple rate comparisons
If this is an implementation of ggplot2, what does it offer over http://ggplot.yhathq.com/?

I don't mean to undermine your project, just wanted to know about significant differences.
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Firefox 57 will be just another Chrome clone with a different rendering engine. Yeah, totally curious why Firefox loses market share...
I believe many of them do. Google has TensorFlow Lite: https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/17/googles-tensorflow-lite-br...

Facebook has Cafe2Go. Apple is working on this (and already has bindings optimized to use the ARM vector unit for DNN evaluation).

Running on device, if it can be done with reasonable power, is a win for everyone. Better privacy, better latency, and more robust operation in the face of intermittent connectivity.
Some of the best advice I ever read on this subject, which really helped me through residency training was from the little essays at the beginning of the Oxford handbook of clinical medicine [1]. The one I particularly remember was called "On being busy", and taught a generation of UK medical students and residents about "Corrigan's secret door" (the link hopefully shows that page on Google books). My favorite quote from the book was about how to recognise "stress" in yourself: "stress is defined as arguing with more than one nurse in 24 hours".

The book was affectionately known in England as the "cheese and onion book", because the colour of the cover matched what at the time was the traditional colour of packets of cheese and onion flavor crisps in the UK [2]

[1] https://goo.gl/6Pz1Z1

[2] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2293465/A-che...
So I was curious what the OpenStreetMaps version of Patricia's Green looked like:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=patricia%27s%20gr...

Partially because Google and Apple maps are proprietary and partially because mapping things like foot paths are more amenable to community involvement and Google and Apple maps are built in ways that do not strongly facilitate it. And partly because treating Google and Apple maps as the important alternatives seems to be a bit of Silicon Valley shaped world view.
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14% is huge, especially considering how many people commit crime because their life was destroyed by a drug conviction (their own or their parent's) leading to further crime.
More details on what comes after MZ: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060130-00/?p=...
> [...] but can't do what would be a simple SQL statement for most companies?

Would they actually be able to do that? Google has offices in many cities in many states, and in many countries. Different offices could be subject to different rules and regulations and reporting requirements when it comes to handling payroll. This could require that they keep different information in their system depending on where the employee works.

I'd guess that it might be cleaner and more robust to have separate systems in each office or region that keep this data for the relevant employers, rather than having one central system that is designed to store the union of everything anyplace Google might open an office requires.

It seems plausible to me that all they have in some central system is broad aggregate information, such as the total payroll for each office or region, with all the interesting details distributed.
> Wages trend, in a competitive market, towards marginal productivity of labor.

In a equilibrium model based on perfectly identical, perfectly rational agents, yes.

And in a model of horseracing based on perfect, identical spheres rolling down a perfectly smooth slope, all race results will trend towards the acceleration predicted by g. And yet we observe differences in reality and accept that observable reality, not the model, is correct.

Equilibrium models are useful, but once you add the ability for agents to have varying preferences according to which other agent they are interacting with, you get emergent behaviour that doesn't show up in the original models.
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So, in practice, white people in rehab, black people in prison? That's what we do now. See the Reagan era disparity in cocaine vs crack punishment
The US used to have something similar. The site still exists, but under Trump the petitions are no longer reviewed. You can't take democracy for granted.
I've been making a deodorant created from connecting a few 9v batteries to two copper electrodes in distilled water, followed by the same with two silver electrodes, then blending the results with a bit of alcohol and essential oils. I put it in a spray-bottle and hit the pits with it. Seems significantly more effective than the essential oils alone or conventional products.
Ask HN: Those of you who are parents – how do you balance work/life?
I am wondering how you balance your work/life. I myself do not have children yet, but my girlfriend and I are planning on having a family, for which I am completely willing to push back on my career and focus on family.

But what about you? Did it lower your career prospects? Did you decide otherwise and lost the family instead? Do you have any regrets? Any advice?
They have this..

DARPA, NSA, GOOG, CIA, FB, etc
Relevant article from a couple of months ago: http://www.truthhawk.com/is-facebook-a-structural-threat-to-...

And discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13867590
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They don't fully understand the moves but on the other hand, the live commentary on the games suggests it's not completely mysterious. Good moves still tend to look good to them, in retrospect at least.

The games are apparently very interesting to study.
I've been thinking about this all morning... surely there must be people already working on the following:

- AI that builds an understanding of a large legacy codebase, and is able to diagram & explain it

- using that to refactor convoluted logic and reduce complexity

- using that to train something that can write code from scratch or rewrite an exisiting codebase in a different language

Seems like a billion dollar business, as the world develops more and more large and shitty codebases with high maintenance costs.
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It's hard to find women programmers of any level because sexist valleymenschen deter them from from, or drive them out of, our profession.
Isn't that data what sparked the investigation in the first place?
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Can someone speak to how Agens compares to Neo4j? Since from a quick glance they seem to be using some of Neo's features.

I'd be interested in seeing performance comparisons as it seems Agens is implemented in C.
If we were smarter as a species, we would have started regretting it a long time ago.
I disagree; and your watered down comment is an example of what I was talking about. It does not just "systematically" keep people down. That is just your elitist way of saying "meh, the system is not optimized for your success but get over it". In reality; the system was actually designed to incarcerate a certain group of people, not because of American's "Puritan” roots but because America is racist as hell and always has been but it does not benefit the HN crowd (mainly White/Asian/Indian etc…) to admit or examine this issue since it does not reinforce the image of how they want to see themselves. That is how an entire discussion on this issue can take place without even a mention of the driving force behind America’s incarceration strategy.
Google originally used Torch7 as their ML library, but shifted to use TensorFlow in April 2016. TensorFlow is written by Google itself.

AlphaGo itself uses a method that combines Monte Carlo tree search with value and policy NN. All NN used are concurrent NN. The specifics are in a paper by David Silver et al: https://dvc0t0mx8dl84.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016...
If google doesn't have this information readily available it is pretty hard to believe their claim that they analyze salary data every year and definitely don't have a wage gap.
I too am interested in what the differences are. I have used the yhathq ggplot library for a while and it is quite useful but I sometimes find it lacking certain types of plots and documentation.

Also the last commit to the yhathq ggplot library was on Nov 20, 2016, so this library looks like it is currently more active in development.

Edit: Someone made an article comparing the two here: http://pltn.ca/plotnine-superior-python-ggplot/
I wonder why he / she won't do that.
Unless they can effectively manage fake accounts used by third parties to disseminate psychological manipulation on sections of the world's populace, then yes, they should police it as much as possible. Facebook is not a necessity, but it is integrated into the world's social norms. We may as well call it its own country. And any country needs to have laws.
I find your opening statement quite insulting and condescending.
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And that's not assuming that the lawyers don't see a multi year legal argument which means $$bank$$ for the legal profession.

I know one international telecoms company deliberately dragged out a legal case about pensions for well over a decade - of course many potential beneficiary's died during the case
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It's hard to spot but it's there.

Here's a more direct link though:

https://labs.rs/en/the-human-fabric-of-the-facebook-pyramid/