skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It matters if they have professors that grade on a curve. Take all of those students who wouldn't pass the math entrance exam and put then in the same College Algebra class. They are all terrible students but the curve grading passes 80% of them.

> allow students to have a shot at taking actual credit courses rather than being forced into noncredit remedial classes they may not actually need

If the placement tests are done well, they would indicate that which remedial classes the students may need. If the tests are flawed, fix the tests, don't eliminate them.

While putting them into 101 classes may help them, it slows down the rest of the class -- the students who are up-to-speed on the skills required for the class get less attention spent on them because more focus must be placed on the students who didn't pass placement.
1. Because it lacks anonymity?

2. Because the average voter cannot possibly understand and verify the security properties of that setup.
This debate seems focused entirely on ethics, but I posted the story because:

1. It's important to call out injustice and fight for what we can improve in our own communities, but it's also important to remember that this is the day to day reality for many people. We should reflect on our lives every so often and feel lucky, because it's healthy if for no other reason.

2. When we measure value and progress using dollars and technology, and we only pay attention to the things in front of us, there is collateral damage. If you're on a blind mission to make computers affordable to everyone, or to compete with hydrocarbon and fission energy on price, this is one effect.
Such a framework would need to be extremely flexible in order to really support _all_ use cases.
You only get taxed on income above a certain amount and you don't usually pay double taxation on taxes you paid to the country you live in. It's not that big of deal except that you have to file the tax return.
archive.org is still getting blocked over Airtel: http://paste.ubuntu.com/25276595/
Probably Google engineers are down voting whatever they see about it. :))
Some do, but not that many. Having a US passport is useful. You can discount the income tax already paid in an other country, so (other than the hassle of filing) it mostly affect people with very high income or who work in countries like Dubai without an income tax.
Isn't there some debate as to whether there is profitability though? Or have they definitively made the turn away from investor money subsidizing below cost rides?
It's not all about the money, it's obvious....
Please downvote! It's 2017, an introduction to a sentence I totally hate, and 60 women are suing a progressive company for sexism. One freaking hundred years, or something, after women started voting. What happened in that time? Women were blind to say the least? How is this NOT evidence that men and women are different. I've seen countless cases of men fighting and swearing at each other, bragging about themselves, and stuff. And countless cases where women would think and say of themselves all the diminishing things, from I'm not that good to I'm not that pretty. I don't remember a single case where that was true for those women or men.

But to say, like so many people say and believe, that men and women think and act that way because they were told so, is abhorrently and viciously and so flagrantly vacuous if not downright false, that it makes you wonder if anybody really and honestly and proactively wants anything better for women working in fields were they are underrepresented, and not actually fame and money for themselves only. Please, downvote!

A social phenomena, specially one that is so enduring and prevalent, could hardly be conceived to have been caused just by repeating some magic formula to kids throughout their childhood. Never in my life have I heard, Cristian, be a physicist because that's one men do. Cristian, be a programmer because that's what men do. Cristian, be an entrepreneur because that's what men do. Heck, I didn't even know the word entrepreneur, in English or Romanian, when I started my company by myself, by working on evenings and weekends. Nor did I think 'I act like man!'

The dynamic of personal choices and psychology is so complicated and so contingent to personal background and current state, but in the same time if in the middle of all that diversity you see some very specific phenomena happening across cultural and personal backgrounds, then maybe, just maybe, there's something underlying that can not be ignored. And ignoring it would only perpetuate the same evil, if it will not actually make it worse. Please, downvote!

LATER EDIT: Regarding the 'I was not promoted because I am a woman', how could we, as readers of an article actually judge the veracity of such statements. If a man thinks of himself to be good enough for a promotion and he's not promoted, what can he do? What if an women is promoted instead? Who's judgement is to take precendence? His, the manager's? The people? The judge? What about all those tiny details about working with the person in case, the small social interactions, the gut feeling? Seems like it's a luxury men can not afford, that is to cry 'sexism'! And it's not like outthere, in the real world, there're no women manager who treat women and men beneath like shit.
It's fairly annoying on desktop too... scroll, scroll, scroll, oh great, I'm stuck.
That's what James Damore looks like?? He's just a dorky kid! His room looks like a college freshman's. This guy has no understanding of the weight words carry, he's probably just a single frustrated guy who reads a bit too much of The Blaze.
Fascinating. I think this one is going to run and run, and not just within the techie community.

I read the fateful memo (which has been labelled 'toxic rant' and 'diatribe'). I was discussing it with my partner who is a nurse.

As you probably know - most people who work in nursing are female. Is that because of 'gender stereotyping' or 'biological differences'? Are women just naturally drawn to the caring professions?

What I find especially interesting is that this topic is now being discussed in scenarios where it wouldn't normally be talked about...

As I said...this one will run and run...
I've been a long time nosetests user, but it's become unmaintained, so I'd like to migrate something else. pytest seems to be an obvious choice, but I really dislike the way it formats test failures. Is there a way to make it use a more traditional format?
> Yes -- the management of the company decided this.

...yet nobody took personal offense because of the implication that some of them shouldn't be there. That's the point.

I'll agree that the context is questionable... but only because we don't have the details. I don't think there's anything inherently unreasonable about making a case for a change in hiring policy.

If the place where it was posted was specifically used to discuss how company policies can be improved, it seems reasonable. If it's a place only visible to HR and management, it seems reasonable. If it's a place specifically for topics that are potentially political and offensive in nature, it seems reasonable (even if internal). If posts in support of (or proposing extending) the existing diversity policy were effectively allowed in that place, it seems reasonable.

It's the double standard where one set of politics is approved and encouraged, but the other is fireable that is problematic.
Sleeper trains usually have an attendant in every carriage. Doing that would seem to defeat the point of a self-driving car.
Anyone aware of similar maps for Boston's T system? (as the oldest subway system in America, its stations have many quirks)
Rule #0b. If you do have kids, don't take them with you. ;)
Uh, I read commit history all the time. (My initial comment assumes you believe the idea that a clean history is useful, because that's the context of ekidd's comment. So I really don't feel like debating that particular point, if that's what you're getting at. It's been re-litigated hundreds of times.)
Can someone help me understand how we've equivocated factually wrong things with dissenting opinion?

If I said all human beings were born with 8 fingers and 6 toes and am dismissed from my biology class for it, was it because I had a dissenting opinion?
How do you connect to Bryant Park - 42nd street from Times Square? I have always walked above ground.
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Because the discussions end up repetitive, unproductive, and boring.

(Flagged this thread for the same reasons. Sorry! But trust me, it's for the best.)
To protect voting, use paper ballots and count them in public (OK, and voter ids if you insist).
A distinct flavor of hubris arises from self-proclaimed brilliance being so easily impaired by a silver spoon that isn't quite as shiny.
For music lovers torrents exist for casual listeners streaming services are a better fit because you do not have to know what you want.

Classical music fans are more music lovers than casual stream listeners
Because some things are so sacred they may not be discussed.

Unfortunately, I'm not kidding. The topic is very sensitive and talking about it at all leads to people in the extreme plying thought of people who identify as either left or right.

In my opinion, this polarisation needs to be discussed as it may be the cause of quite a number of the worlds political problems today. Twitter is the worst offender for this but if people are told what to think before they even see the facts then it will be pervasive in all places.
Because it seems to be a hot alt-right activist issue right now
Because it's overwhelming. How many damn articles do we need to see about this stupid memo? There's no conspiracy here, many of us are just tired of reading about this really dumb event. It's just a flame war, nothing of value is happening, every blogger is currently frothing at the mouth trying to get eyeballs on their ads.
The UK seems to manage OK (ID is only required in Northern Ireland). 2015 saw 37 allegations of personation out of 51.4 million votes cast (https://www.ncpolitics.uk/2016/12/how-big-a-problem-is-votin...).
I couldn't have said it better
This makes ./configure run twice as fast
Since I'm not American, I'll leave this one for others.

But, I'd ask what "freedom from consequences" means?

There are certain consequences arising from free speech that are, in some sense, protected.

Can I (as a non-government entity) fire someone for choosing a certain religion, for example? Wouldn't that be a "consequence" of their choice?
what factually wrong statements did James Damore make?

[edit] I'm genuinely asking, I've not seen a source for the original memo so all I've heard is second-hand info.
It gets WAY more complex if you don't have a standard salary job. Even if you don't make over 100K a year. E.g. small business owner expat is in for a world of pain, stress, and audit.
I always remember my Grandfather suggesting that Michael Crichton (sp?) wrote a bunch of stuff to order by the government. I was never entirely sure I believed him, but then never entirely dismissed it (as evidenced by this comment).
Yet the irony is - The govt. will never dare to link it with voter registration. And no one questions, as everyone knows why!
Because they are bordering on propaganda. One was submitted by "supremesaboteur", which (to be fair) is at least an honest user name ...
>'No written language was ever devised in sub-Saharan Africa prior to outside influences.'

Is just plain wrong, see ( https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1nz7k6/were_... ) also it depends on what you mean by language, Genevieve Petzinger has shown a fully formed written cave art language going back since man (or woman) first started drawing in caves.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something (e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to ask or complain about moderation). If you want to say something to us, please send it to hn@ycombinator.com.
I've rarely "shared" it with other people in any meaningful way.

I almost always hear other people talk or see them using their phones though, unless the cinema is pretty much empty.
For Google, the rope was already dosed in kerosene.
The guy who wrote the manifesto just lit the fire.
ScriptEd is a great and effective way to do something good for your soul! I volunteer in NYC and it's great to see the students empowered with coding skills! This is great for Oakland
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The internet is finally getting a high-speed internet lane for emergency
> The US is the most wealthy-unfriendly tax regime in the world.

I'd like to hear more about this. I'm a Canadian, and our conservative politicians are always saying that WE are the most wealthy-unfriendly tax regime in the world, and that it is stifling investment.

And I keep reading about how in Scandanavian countries, the rich have to give nearly all of their income back to the state, but they are impossibly nice people, so they don't mind. Are Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark friendlier to the wealthy AND providing Universal Health Care to their citizens?
Without knowing, I would like to share my own experience as a freelancer that helps friends for a while now.

Figure out what is the current market you want to address to.

If for instance, the area where you live has a high demand on WordPress developers, specialize on that and start showing your presence on places where WordPress developers gather on a daily basis: (forums, IRC channel, Slack, Meetup, Conferences).

By doing so, you will get the opportunity to have your voice heard and somebody is going to ask for your help eventually.

Remember: Quality over quantity.

Prefer to deal with clients that consist of the 20% of your clientele that pay you the 80% of your total income, than going the other way around and have to deal with toxic people that have no idea how businesses work.

If you want to gain some professional experience, you can find lots of non-profit organizations that are looking for such valuable help and they could give you incredible momentum to your company for helping them in need.

Be persistent and open-minded with the tools you have to use ("use the right tool for the right job") and embrace challenges.

The aforementioned suggestions are applicable with other technlogies as well, either that is PHP + Laravel, Python + (Django or Flask or whatever makes you happy), or Ruby on Rails, etc etc.

Good luck.
I wonder about biometrics though. How expensive would it be to connect the national fingerprint database with a ballot scanner of some sort?
Here is a clue for everyone: you aren't paid according to the value you bring.

You are either paid according to some pseudo-arbitrary schedule or you are paid what you can be had for. Unless Google has a secret pay penalty for females, the problem here is women being willing to work for less. No lawsuit is needed to correct that.
I switched to Dart few months ago, it actually makes JavaScript bearable. I never get to see the actual generated JS code.
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There are a lot of possibilities to find a remote job. The only thing here is that you should be a professional, because your feedbacks influence your reputation and thus your potential work. Then you should be able to show your portfolio, like at your personal website, at various resources, which are meant for it. Sure thing every client would definitely make a research on you as a developer, that is why it is better to have a good reputation, good feedbacks (true, not fake), and a good portfolio.
Btw, we wrote a similar article (at https://mobilunity.com/blog/where-to-find-reliable-front-end...) on how to hire frontend coders, where we indicated the ways to find them as well.
The trick is that you don't just have to convince somebody (a security expert) that the system is trustworthy, you have to convince everyone (voters) that the system is trustworthy. Anything more complicated than paper ballots counted in public will leave room for doubt.
Should we rethink the use of passwords? Passfrases everyone?
Yield fixtures are just awesome for mocking, but the magical global dependency injection definitely makes you feel a bit weird on occasion
The only sane response to this crap is silence. Stop legitimizing it by acknowledging its existence.
I'm blown away by how quickly these events have been unfolding. I wonder if the mainstream media got tuned away for these interviews in favour of Dr. Peterson and Stefan Molyneux. Is this an indication the mainstream media is no longer mainstream or it the topic that makes this an anomaly?
You refute him by attacking his looks... How very tolerant of you...
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Yes. My point would be allegations of personation is a meaningless number. Because if there is no voter ID you would not get many of these allegations either way.
I wish there was some happy medium, like that I can merge a branch and it gets squashed into a single commit, but then if needed I can 'expand' that commit to see its contents, even after the other branch is deleted.
> electric vehicles, which need even more cobalt

The headline reference to smartphones made me chuckle. Sure, they're the big thing right at this moment, but if electric cars take off they way they look like they could, their cobalt use will massively eclipse that of our dinky little pocket computers.

From what I understand, there is a major supply bottleneck here obstructing the path to exponentially increasing our electric transportation, worse than with the more commonly discussed lithium. Any story about sourcing materials used in batteries should at least be looking at the impact of producing an additional 500 million+ pounds of them a year (and that's just to support Tesla's current projections).

[Not trying to smear EVs by the way, I think they're great and I want one, just pointing out that there are still significant logistical issues to consider.]
> The document, which was widely condemned as misogynistic and scientifically inaccurate

Citation needed? Have The Guardian actually read the memo?

They are re-iterating misconceptions based on Gizmodos original story, where Gizmodo
deliberately gave a misleading report, removed sources and incorrectly presented an internal memo for internal discussion as an "anti-diversity manifesto".

Even a cursory glance of the actual memo would have shown that none of these allegations hold. Less so that they were "widely condemned" by anyone who had actually read the memo.

I has honestly expected The Guardian to hold higher standards.
>“Mom, is it true that there are biological reasons why there are fewer women in tech and leadership?”

Disgustingly using her children to cause an emotional response.
Ritual Defamation
Uh. Blockchain is just a doubly-linked list with hashes. And a set of rules how the peers validate blocks and come to a consensus. Not some magic crypto pixie dust that brings anonymity or prevents fraud.

It could come useful, e.g., for keeping census data to avoid some forms of fraud. E.g. prevent rouge organizers loading elections with "dead souls" voters (Gogol-style). But I don't see any immediate use for election themselves.

Say, the blocks would store anonymized votes (nothing about blockchain itself implements the anonymization). One immediate issue I see is that blockchain only verifies integrity of the blocks after they're in there and out to the public, so it could be verified. Sending them too early would skew election results (observers would be able to see the intermediate results and bias their votes accordingly), and sending them too late would probably make blockchain mostly pointless.
Ask HN: How to stop worrying and find joy again?
I'm 31 and have been a developer for about 10 years now. Since I was a teen, I've always enjoyed tech (programming books, slashdot, hacker news..) and loved it. About 7 years ago I decided to build my own stuff, so over those years, I've released about 15 side-projects (apps & websites), all of which ultimately failed. This has led me to have a pretty unhealthy relationship with tech lately. I come home from work and immediately jump into my computer and force myself to either push forward my existing side projects or come up with yet a new idea. If I get stuck, I panic that I'm not doing something useful. My biggest dream is to run my own company, so whatever activity I think does not help me get there, I dismiss as being useless (sports, reading books, hanging out with friends, or just the overall joy of learning something new for no purpose, etc).

Lately, I seem to get so overwhelmed thinking about this gap between where I am and where I wish I were, that I end up grabbing a few beers. Not to the point of getting drunk, but definitely to the point where I can put my mind to rest. Same thing happens with sleep. The only way to shut down my thoughts is to fall asleep listening to some podcast. In the roughly 5 hours between coming home from work and sleep, if I feel like I didn't achieve anything, I will have a very crappy night (heavy teeth grinding, insomnia, etc).

I'm not the self-pity type of person and have always told myself to just suck it up, and keep pushing forward, but after doing this for the past years and not getting anywhere, I feel like a change is needed.

Needless to say this doesn't feel like a healthy lifestyle. Since I consider a lot of people in this community come from a similar background and probably have similar aspirations, I was wondering if anyone has been through a similar phase and what you've done to come out of it? Thanks!
Works fine in the UK, voter fraud is tricky (although there have been cases with postal votes) when there's a piece of paper that can be physically counted again.

Very hard to defraud if you are in, purely for example, Russia.
One of the things TFA is pointing at is that the alternative might be:

First they came for the Socialists, and I spoke out, and they decided I was a Socialist and took me away too.
Can you link to those scientific researches that point to men being more intelligent compared to women?
> Network television is the same way.

And the movie business. And the music business. And the book-publishing business. In any creative industry, there are hundreds or thousands of mediocre-to-terrible attempts for any hit. It's the nature of the beast. Shaving that ratio by orders of magnitude is black magic, or even just luck. This is why successful outliers are so handsomely paid - not because they do something well, but because they dramatically decrease the risk of producing stuff that won't sell enough.

The saying that goes "90% of everything is crap" emerged before Netflix was even a concept.
>The US is the most wealthy-unfriendly tax regime in the world.

[citation needed]

The US has no wealth taxes like some European countries, and long-term capital gains tax is 15%.

Just to pick a few counterexamples:

Denmark has 42% capital gains tax on gains over ~$7600.

Netherlands has a 1.2% asset tax on assets held worldwide over something like $20k.

>I have friends who have never lived or worked in the US amd yet are asked to pay high US taxes.

Asked to pay or just to file?
Two things:

* for a society that enjoys even minimal levels of freedom of speech, the Kolmogorov option isn't easily distinguishable from opportunism or careerism.
* for a society like the U.S. that enjoys minimal levels of freedom of speech, what is an example of an unspeakable truth? Charles Murray's research exists. Brendan Eich is still rich. Richard Stallman has an extremely unpopular opinion about child porn on his website and he still does talks to people who worship the ground he walks on.

Frankly, it seems like the height of narcissism for a tenured professor to defend not speaking out against Trump by appealing to Kolmogorov.

It would be so refreshing to see the author instead appeal to Occam's razor and just call it cowardice.

Edit: grammar
The narrative must be maintained, comrade!