skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is part of a long and slow change in the role of higher education. Previously, college was seen as being for people who academically deserved it. College was not for teaching high-school level concepts, it was for teaching advanced concepts to students who had already demonstrated some bona fides. Now, it is seen as an extension of high school; the onus is on the college to mold all comers into more educated and productive citizens, even if that means re-teaching the basics.

[1998] http://articles.latimes.com/1998/may/28/local/me-54085

>The Times reported in March on data from the California State University system showing that roughly half of the freshmen at the Fullerton campus failed basic-skills placement exams and had to enroll in remedial math and English courses. New statistics released Wednesday show that those students had a mean high school grade-point average of 3.1, or a B.

> "How can it be that students can be getting Bs in English and not pass a fairly basic test and end up having to take a remedial class?" Klammer asked... "We cannot afford, as a state, to be reteaching high school classwork at the university," he said.
Are you insinuating white people don't need remedial classes?
I worked at a place that had the floor to almost ceiling cubicles. It was nice and quiet. Then we went to the open floor plan. Then the Nerf guns arrived.
What i don't get is how an eth token gets bought in eth, and creates millions of dollars of a new currency

yet eths marketcap doesn't go down?
I think most people are. While they are at work.
Yea but Google isn't firing him for "lack of cultural fit." They're firing him because they don't like it. Big difference.
Let this incident fully dislodge any tendency to cling to the belief that people in positions of authority wear their hearts on their sleeves, or that their statements can be taken at face value.

It doesn't make sense from the naive perspective because people are manipulating the narrative. If Trump's election doesn't make that painfully obvious, I don't know what will.

Imagine you are reading some code written by a colleague and comparing it against some output. After reviewing the code 3-4 times, you cannot figure out where a certain strange token, unlike the others, is coming from. Do we continue to stare at the same chunk of code, or do we look for other points in the pipeline where the file may be touched by an external process?

Companies that fail to maintain a specific type of brand persona open themselves to extremely costly lawsuits. Corporate management exists to say what needs to be said to get employees to cooperate and to keep the company from falling into legal or financial peril.

You can't take things at face value. This article indicates that Damore is 28 years old. A lot of us have to learn this lesson after a few years in the workforce, often in bitter, unpleasant ways (generally proportional to the amount of hope/optimism we have that things aren't really that way). Let's learn from Damore's experience, where his well-meaning attempt to discuss and explain the issue at hand got him terminated.

"Kumbaya" is a myth. Humans are tribal and driven by biological impulses to hoard both materials and personal control for good survival-centric reasons. There is no reason, other than naive optimism, to assume there are some fields where these instincts do not apply.

We should think about how we can change our processes to keep undeserving persons from scheming their way into positions of power, and revising a legal structure that forces everyone to act like a scared mouse around anything slightly controversial is probably a good place to start.

I hope that Damore revises his essay in 1 year's time from his now-forcefully-refined worldview.
>Bottom line: the core thesis of the "manifesto" was on par with eugenics, anti-vaxxer propaganda, or anti-climate FUD.

Awesome strawman!

Don't agree with someone? Equate their argument with something significantly worse..
Not all cal states are created equal.
Many are effectively glorified community colleges(not necessarily a bad thing) , while others (like calpoly slo) are excellent universities.
Source:was recently a California high school student
I went to a Cal State university - it was a joke.
Are you insinuating that white people can't be diverse?
"Begun on the margins of the newspaper in which the statement appeared while I was in jail, the letter was continued on scraps of writing paper supplied by a friendly black trusty, and concluded on a pad my attorneys were eventually permitted to leave me." --Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., "Why We Can't Wait"

Either you or your grandfather are outright lying, unless your grandfather literally handed Dr. King the notepad his attorneys brought him and told the story as him "giving Dr. King a notepad", which is merely a lie by omission.
> Africa is not a country, it is a continent. Comparing it to India or China (whose economies haven't really paid off for foreign investors as much as you'd think) is a major flaw. China and India have an incredibly consistent society from corner to corner and well organized governments

I know. I’m ethnically Indian. I’ve been to India multiple times. If I were to invest in an Indian startup it would probably be in Bangalore or Chandigarh.

Just as it is highly unlikely that I invest in a startup in Wyoming, it is unlikely that I invest in startups in large parts of Africa.

Calling it “Africa” is just short hand for segments, categories, and locales in that space.

And boy is India far from consistent and organized. I speak Punjabi and don’t speak Hindi. There are 50 other states and 50 other languages that are spoken.
Plus Pixar and ABC (with Shonda Rhimes' shows) and every movie and show they've ever released since they stopped being a premium channel. Disney has managed to get a lock on a lot of very hot property.
Isn't cockroach protocol compatible with PGSQL?
More students = more $. Do you really think they care about whether you pass or not?
But there are people in the middle that believe in the constitutional right to assembly and association.
Show me where it says "same".
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I meant JS-extensible and open source.
pay is a big one, another big one is rapport with coworkers. if someone likes going to work every day talking / interacting with their fellow employees, then its a lot harder to leave
There's an entire department of the federal government whose first, or perhaps even only, priority is to deal with the fact that OP indelicately mentioned.
Electron-based apps make me cringe, too, but you are ignoring their strong point: it's probably the easiest and most reasonable way to make cross-platform GUI apps today.

I'm a macOS developer, and there is no way I would ever use something like Electron to make a Mac app — it would be inferior, in all sort of ways, subtle and otherwise.

But there is also no way I could create a great native Mac app, and a great native Windows app, and a great native Linux app, unless there was a relatively massive development budget (of time, which generally implies money).

You shouldn't be comparing Electron apps like Slack to the nonexistent high-quality native Slack app, which Slack would never build, and therefore exists only in your imagination.

You should be comparing Electron to other frameworks that deliver cross-platform apps across the major desktop platforms: basically, Java and Qt.

I run Slack and VSCode all day; no, they aren't as nice as good native Mac apps are, but they are about as nice as the Java-based JetBrains IDEA tools that I also use.
> As a non-American, I find it quite worrying that American companies (specifically tech and SV ones) that operate globally are so eager to police politics on their platforms.

It's because of the most liberal free speech clause in American constitution. Because it is not govt's responsibility to police speech, when speech gets too unbearable to most people, the companies have to step in or else they risk their platforms disappear.
So, you're telling me there is a feminist conspiracy against science?
Eh, numbers seem to match up with national numbers, and there's not a huge difference between ethnicities https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d12/tables/dt12_270.asp

The scary one to me is "field of study: education" : 41.1.

41% of future teachers need remedial education? Wonder how that stacks up to other countries.
uhh.. this is a really messed up comparison considering UCLA is the most applied to college in the world.
Yeah I get you. Because Ethereum has such an enterprise-facing governance (eg. Ethereum Enterprise Alliance) most of the education that goes into it is to business and big corps right now.

Do you mind if I get your email and send you something? Looking at writing about this and would love some feedback.
Cal Poly Accept rate: 29.5%

UC Irvine Accept rate: 40.7%

Not sure where we're going with this though.
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I setup a website a while ago and hadn't gotten around to making it HTTPS. I noticed that I would often attempt to go to that website when starting up hotel wifi networks, as HTTP sites seem to redirect to a login page, while HTTPS sites often just seem to hang.

So I decided it would likely be useful to others to have this as an easily rememberable URL!
Some (very few) individuals, institutions, and groups in the US do in fact come quite close to true land ownership: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allodial_title#Limited_allodia...
> No person-to-person platform can reach scale and be apolitical.

Companies that are too political can't scale at all, they put to many people off. Most overtly political business like feminist cafe's or LGBT bookshops die pretty quickly. In the tech world, if I could go back half a decade and know how political github would become I and many other people would have never signed up.

> The idea that companies are apolitical can't die fast enough.

Why do you want to make life more complicated? When I go get my morning coffee I don't want to know what the companies opinion on gay marriage is. When I go watch a movie I don't want to know what the makers opinions are on progressive taxation. When I buy a phone I don't want to know the manufacturers opinion on global warming.
Left hand turns are one of the tricky things (as experts like John Leonard have also pointed out). The appropriate behavior is VERY context-dependent. Ordinary prudent and conservative behavior in some circumstances is you're-never-going-to-make-a-turn and you'll cause road rage in other drivers under other circumstances.
> Just curious how you sourced your Ensibukko investment. AngelList? Or direct relationship with the company?

Like all good investors, I know people. :)

Investors will feed you crap about being value-add, experience, help with sales, help with hiring, etc, etc. But good investors know people and bad investors don’t know people. They call it “proprietary deal flow”, but it just means that they know people.
Men and woman ARE equal. What they are NOT is identical.

Many feminists rightly argue for the first. The second is obviously postmodernist twaddle.
Never seen a pay/subscription site with an anti-adblocker. It wouldn't load until I let it connect to facebook, twitter, scorecardresearch and load a 1st party tracking script included in two tracker lists (Fanboy's and another). It was so tenacious it piqued my curiosity.

Really hard to fathom the thinking behind that. At first I thought it must be a pirate site that depended on ad revenue, but nope it's $8 / month.
Please extrapolate what is the differerence. I dont see it
> Now, it is seen as an extension of high school; the onus is on the college to mold all comers into more educated and productive citizens, even if that means re-teaching the basics.

This seems to be the case with grad programs now too: doing the teaching that undergrad should have already done. Turtles all the way down.
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Your understanding is incorrect.

You don't even understand how mining difficulty works.
Early Facebook and Google investor slams them for “aggressive brain hacking”
In depth article on the quitting economy.

https://aeon.co/essays/how-work-changed-to-make-us-all-passi...
does this mean that technically (not legally) one can extract API credentials form chromium/chrome and use them in other project?
You think a VP at Google leaked the document to the internet?

Really?
I feel this way about my boss, I have stayed a long time after it does not make financial sense because she

A) takes my ideas seriously even if she doesn't see the end game. Just says go for it and see what happens.

B) comes up with trainings and stuff that match my role that she can send me on.

C) holds me to a high standard without being a jerk about it.

I will be bummed to leave and stop learning from this person's example. I'm taking a hit financially but I've come a really long way. So I'm being reaaaal slow in the job hunt. I know when I'm in a good work environment, and I might not find that. At the next job.

As a manager myself, I will go out of my way to retain a good employee. Our wages are low (nonprofit) but we can be very flexible to the needs of an employee. Diligent, dedicated people who care about doing a good job are worth their weight in gold.
For passwords, I get it. But seriously, to see if an email or username exists, just try and sign up with it...

"This email address is already in use."
> He said women have a harder time leading.

He said, in the context of Big-5 personality traits [0], that women on average skew higher for 'agreeableness' (a scientifically sound finding that has been replicated in cross-cultural studies), and that high agreeableness leads to having a harder time negotiating salary, asking for raises, speaking up, and leading.

He's not saying women have a harder time at these things, he's saying people with a high agreeableness personality trait have a hard time at these things.

His very next sentence states that while women have higher agreeableness at population-level averages, it would be wrong to just look at averages between genders because there is significant overlap in these traits across genders. However because it is seen by senior management as a problem for women, men with high agreeableness are excluded from training programs designed to help people with things such as negotiating salary, asking for raises, speaking up, and leading.

So, he's not saying that women have a harder time leading, he's saying population-level averages in certain personality traits result in women initially being less well equipped to handle certain situations (not that they lack aptitude or ability for it), and that senior management have recognised this and implemented training programs specifically to correct for it, but because these training programs are only for women, they are excluding a large portion of men with the same traits, who are then denied access to similar corrective training.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits
And the fact that you're writing this under a throwaway drives home how difficult it is to have a discussion that goes against these ideas. You run the risk of being bullied or shamed into quitting or simply fired.
The hope is that these efforts will also help students obtain their degrees sooner — one of the public university system's priorities. Cal State has committed to doubling its four-year graduation rate, from 19% to 40%, by 2025.

The implicit message here seems to be, "let everyone pass through the system regardless of how qualified they actually are, but we'll have to lower the bar to keep grades and graduation rates high."

In a society where there seems to be an increasingly prominent discussion about the (ir)relevance of university degrees, it seems astonishing that they would hold such a position. It's debatable whether there was ever a time when having a university degree actually meant you had a very high likelihood of being "ready to move into the workforce, ready to move into graduate or professional school.", but this certainly doesn't help...
First person to write a streaming service for all these myriad of streaming services is going to clean up.
> I'm not familiar with Cal State but do they just let anyone in who applies?

No, it depends on the Cal state. There are two cal state that have high acceptance rate and have low grad rate. IIRC CalState Domigez have the highest acceptance rate.

But there are other very selective calstate such as cal poly.

Cal State (CSU) is an umbrella term for many california state universities across California excluding UC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California).

Examples are CSULB, CSUF, CSU-whatever...

edit:

I had to take remedial English classes at a UC in my program ESL. So it's not amazing...

Examples for UC is UCI, UCLA, UCR, UCSD....
Agreed. $30/month for only Disney content would only be for the die-hards IMHO, but there are a fair number of those. Saying "most" families would is unfounded.
In which departments have you seen that? [Not denying, genuinely curious]
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Even better, UC Merced Acceptance rate: 73.7%
Okay...so he did it on company time...I can tell you most of the memes on Memegen were probably made on company time...so let's say they were made on company time, in the spirit of fairness and reciprocity, should the anti-conservative post authors be fired as well? They might have made a lot of conservatives uncomfortable and feel like they were being harassed.
This is extremely ignorant. You are demonstrating you have absolutely no familiarity with the subject matter, with the nature of the theory, with the nature of the experimentation that has been done to eliminate other theories, or with even the most rudimentary basics of cosmology.

As such there's no value in actually debating you on these points.
Ok, don’t get me wrong:

I pay for the basic tv package as well.

My point is I don’t watch enough on-demand video to justify another 2 Netflixes on top of that.
which department? i seem to be missing the implication
So, there's this thing that happens when people who lack tact say things that are true, but they get fired for it.

When you say things without tact, people hear the wrong thing, and you get the walk of shame with your cube plant out of the building.

It doesn't matter how "right" it might be.
Of course all kinds of people can land in these remedial classes if they are not prepared.

Now, I ask you, which schools do a better job of preparing students for college level work, the schools white kids get to go to or the schools black kids have to go to? If you are wondering, look at the AP classes offered at say Palo Alto high school vs Crenshaw high school:

http://schools.latimes.com/school/los-angeles/crenshaw-senio...

http://schools.latimes.com/school/palo-alto/palo-alto-high/

Highlights:

Proficient in Math:
PA: 76%
Crenshaw: 2.5% (not a typo)

Proficient in English:
PA: 84%
Crenshaw: 18%

Now, are you saying we shouldn't let bright kids from bad schools get into college?
Would they be a viable business after 5 years in the event they don't get bought? If not, are they banking on the IP being worth something?
The cost of software (which is essentially just information) vs what people will pay for is fucking mindblowing.
There is strong financial incentive among power brokers to promote as much tuition cost and student debt as humanly possible, especially when the government underwrites it, making it zero-cost to both the lender and the school. The only losers are the taxpayers, who are abstract enough to be a non-entity, and the student, who is made to believe that he must obtain and service such debt to have a successful adult life.
You should really just take a weighted average of all the things putting energy onto the eastern interconnect grid(including grid-tied home solar installations, but those are probably negligible in the grand scheme of things at this point).

The reality is that anyone in the US, east of the rockies and not in texas will have the same 'mpg equivalent' for their Tesla.
If you hated Javascript, prefer elegant languages and now love React try Clojurescript with one of its React-based frameworks: Om, Reagent or Reframe. Peter Hunt, the creator of React, was strongly influenced by Clojurescript and David Nolen in particular.
Regulatory capture and ineffectual politicians. If politicians pay no heed to the civil service, the civil service has no impetus to improve.
NEO is backed by Chinese venture capital.

Unlike other more open and honest or at least auditable crypto currency systems, NEO aka antshares was 100% premined which is incredibly dubious and indicative that many of the shares were selectively distributed to individual 'whales' who can and will easily dump their holdings.
Disney is the one studio with the brand recognition, loyalty, wide customer base across a variety of demographics, worldwide range, wide variety of content (including sports), and essential franchises to have a shot at pulling this off.
> Prejudice means pre-judging a group.

Would it be a prejudice to say women on average are less tall than men? Where do you draw the line between "pre-judgement" and "statistics" (can we call it post-judgement?). Height is OK but work drive is not OK to post-judge?
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> For instance, a lowered standard for interviews isn't a thing.

It's also not a thing that the author of the memo stated. See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14958594
So you assume he worked this through from first principles and is thinking critically and has checked his sources... because he works (well, worked) at Google?

I can tell you that the norm among engineers, even at Google, is to receive lore and anecdotes from people slightly more educated as if it were gospel, and to repeat it uncritically until someone else more charismatic comes along. This happens so often that someone wrote a book called [The Leprechauns of Software Engineering](https://leanpub.com/leprechauns) about the unsourced commmon knowledge that engineers will blindly repeat without thinking about it.
i've seen some pretty shitty grad students but i don't really blame the grad school. a lot of non-cs undergrads go into cs grad programs with barely any programming experience. in my experience, the grad programs don't teach them the fundamentals (assuming they know them) but instead teach very specific niche areas. They end up never learning basic programming fundamentals.
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They're alienating people like myself who are firmly on the left. The left used to care about socio-economics, but they've abandoned the white working class (and the working class of every minority) in favor of identity politics. The left used to care about everyone getting access to a decent education and healthcare instead of denigrating the poor as racist rednecks. The left used to be in favor of helping their neighbors and not opening borders.

Now people who are on the left and many of those that could be are left with no one to vote for.
I think they're betting that many people will eventually drop Netflix and push their $10/mo towards Disney/etc.
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Yeah, that's a mean not a median, and is therefore the wrong average to use for this purpose, which calls for median (or even mode in preference to mean.)
This is basically new bundling for ESPN