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>"Does that make Wax a white supremacist for saying that culture matters for poverty-related outcomes, that not all cultures are equally good for escaping poverty, and that the 1950s American “bourgeois cultural script” was particularly good for that purpose?"

This is the core premise of the article, the conclusion, of course, being 'no'. Unfortunately, it does not accurately deal with the fairly clear subtext being delivered by Ms. Wax.

> "In an interview with The Daily Pennsylvanian about the op-ed, Wax was quoted as saying that “Everyone wants to go to countries ruled by white Europeans,” because, in the phrasing of the DP article’s author, “Anglo-Protestant cultural norms are superior.” … [they then affirm Wax’s right to express her opinions, then say:] We categorically reject Wax’s claims."

This, in particular, is striking. Why is 'being ruled by white Europeans' the draw to migrants over, say, the relative wealth of the west in the aggregate? France and Germany certainly offer troves of opportunity, but is Greece really more of a destination for economic migrants than, say, Singapore? Would India's quasi-british culture provide a counter-example when compared with China's?

The lack of any of these comparative examinations leads us immediately to question the argument provided. Ms. Wax doesn't even make case compelling to show that it was the 1950s script itself, rather than other causes before she jumps into discussing the superiority of the white european ruling establishment. Could it be that America's economic rivals had just been bombed to ash which led to an influx of capital to the country during an era where unions had clout? Nah, its just the fact that it was ruled by white europeans (/s).

Give me a break.
>Already you lost me. There are plenty of single parents out of wedlock children in very white states like West Virginia, Kentucky, etc. How is rap culture or black people responsible for the actions of white people in these areas?

Where did the author said it is?

They said there are "single-parent, antisocial habits" that are prevalent among some working-class whites" AND an "anti-“acting white” rap culture of inner-city blacks" AND " anti-assimilation ideas gaining ground among some Hispanic immigrants".

Three kinds of issues -- not an issue and two explanations for it.

>None of these people are against assimilating.

Hence the phrasing "anti-assimilation ideas gaining ground among SOME" -- the author did not write "prevalent in ALL".
We're pretty negative about discount rates in the scheme of things. We have a paper on this which outlines why we think discount rates are worth using in some kinds of situations: https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/sites/givingwhatwecan.org/fi...
I agree.

It's rare that a company needs something like Kafka.

Kafka introduces a number of issues related to the development of client code and data stores (if any) and the maintenance of these things. It's important that the actual scale justifies the expense incurred.
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How is this at all controversial? The American Jewish minority of 6% of the population owns 25% of American wealth. They've done well.

Are the downvotes about attributing it to their values? What else?

Their skill at (((accidental))) eugenics? The selection pressure put on them by other groups?

Other theory: KGB or Mossad votebots that want to suppress discussions about Jews not only being victims.
At that point, it's harder to search/test than just looking at your dataset, so there's no point to making the size that large
They do indeed care.

My brother and I submitted a sample from my dying mother, which they were unable to process properly. We were offered a replacement kit, but at that point our mother had already passed away. When I conveyed this to 23andme, they refunded our kit cost and removed our mother's pending profile from my 23andme account.

From their email:

"Unfortunately it is not possible for us to unregister a kit after an initial sample fails analysis. Replacement kits are automatically registered to the individual the original kit was registered to, and they retain personal registration information including name, birthdate, and legal consent to our Terms of Service and research document.

If we allow someone else to use the replacement kit, the sample would not be associated with their personal information. Additionally that person would not agree to our Terms of Service and provide legal consent for us to process their sample. For privacy and legal reasons, a replacement kit cannot be used by another individual."
>Why pay more when you don't have to?

That wasn't the question. It was about living without something you enjoy if it costs 0.60 or more.
More commonly called a DSL. See: Varnish's configuration language, which is also not Turing-complete: https://varnish-cache.org/docs/3.0/tutorial/vcl.html
Sigh, I figured this would get down-voted. Not surprised but kind of disappointed that, after giving my opinion and qualifying it as such, someone still felt it necessary.
One thing I've noticed is that companies will use cool languages as a recruiting tactic. Then you get in the door and see it's all PHP and one team wrote one Clojure script. (Not picking on PHP here).
A lot of our problems are technically solvable with very near term technology. Yet we choose not to do it.
Indeed. Before they left to found Symbolics, David Moon, Howard Cannon, Dan Weinreb, and others (I'm sure I'm forgetting at least one name) wrote the vast bulk of the system. I think Richard Greenblatt wrote most of the microcode (he also did most of the hardware design and construction).

After Symbolics formed, RMS did an amazing job at reimplementing many of the new features Moon and company were adding, so as to keep the MIT version of the system at rough parity with the Symbolics version. So his name belongs in the story, but not first.
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I guess Michael Faraday, Thomas Edison, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, TH Huxley and James Prescott Joule weren't scientists then. And Richard Leakey isn't one either.

As far as I understand, they were not data scientists in the contemporary meaning of the word. At least, they don't have the training, skills and experience I am recruiting for.
There's no better feeling when you can write some clean CSS in a wordpress template to make it do what you want!
To be clear, all of the teleological claims here are your own philosophical interpretations; they do not appear to be in the paper discussed in the link you have given.

If we accept your interpretation, then I think we must conclude that the purpose of life is to hasten its own extinction, by accelerating dissipative processes.
So you are sitting in interviews but you don't know if the candidate has a PhD before you go in? Sounds like that is your fault.

Of course I know what qualifications they have. I don't know what "fault" you are talking about. Fault for what?
This isn't a fair comparison, for it to be fair we would need to compare Olin to the Engineering and CS departments at Stanford.
Not if certain people aren't allowed to privately trade.
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That doesn't really have any bearing on Sony's contractual obligations as a console vendor. And you'll note PC games are often DRM-laden, and the DRM vendors surely have their own contractual obligations to do as much as they can to prevent their DRM platform from being compromised. Similarly, I know for sure that back when Apple sold DRM-laden music, they had contractual obligations to the music labels to fix any FairPlay holes they could.
> C had a head start on high-end mainframes for actual work.

No. C started on low-end minicomputers, not high-end mainframes.

And why didn't Lisp take over the low-end minicomputers? Because Lisp was too resource-hungry, and those low-end minicomputers didn't have the muscle to run Lisp well. They ran C just fine, though.
Name one great author that wrote succinctly, besides Hemingway, Mark Twain, or Orwell. Or the Spartan poets. /s
That was never an iTunes feature. That was a bug, that affected a relatively low number of people, and was fixed IIRC within a week.
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No mention of VPP - does it not apply to applications? or Routing/ switching?

https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP/What_is_VPP%3F
Given that everyone relies on vehicles that use roads (emergency vehicles, for instance), there's no such thing as "users" distinguished from "the general public."

Thing bigger, friend.
> Mesos (and thus Mesosphere)

Mesos is an open source project. Would you consider any other vendors besides Mesosphere?
CQL is the best and worst thing about Cassandra. The pro is that obviously it is very similar to SQL so it's easy to understand, the con is that C* is nothing like a RDBMS so you can be easily fooled into doing dumb/inefficient things with the nice CQL syntax.

I think that Cassandra is best thought of as a fancy K/V store that lets extra data ride along with query results. Don't think of rows/columns at first, it will just screw you up in your modeling. Also keep in mind that the cost for very fast queries is a lot of extra time spent figuring out how to model new data access patterns in the future.
"Those not on the Arpanet may send U.S. mail to.."

Ah.. nostalgia.
Is there evidence of that? I have to imagine that someone used to earning high incomes (like a doctor) would be able to effectively manage a large cash infusion without hurting their marriage.

Of course, this ignores the fact that sometimes divorce might be a "good" thing where a cash infusion allows someone to leave a bad spouse they were financially dependent on (or, more cynically, "upgrade" their spouse).
Keep in mind that they only screwed over the consumers because they knew there would be no punishment. They knew that businesses would drop them if they did the same thing to them. They took advantage of people, and would do the same thing to businesses if they knew they could get away with it. Why someone would trust this company at all is beyond me. They tried to screw over your mom and dad, and your family, but that's okay because they aren't a business?
"The correct comparison would be to .NET's community based alternative, which is Mono. Mono in turn had it's initial release in June 30, 2004, which is _13 years ago_, and 3 years before OpenJDK itself."

Mono is owned by Ximian, which is now a subsidiary of...Microsoft. This creates the rather odd situation where there are three implementations of .NET, but Microsoft controls all of them.
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I've worked in a number of domains. My CV looks pretty unconventional. I went from telecomms, to renewable energy, then embedded electronics for instrumentation, a stint in academia, from there to high power radio and TV broadcast and now particle accelerators.

They are different industries but have the common thread of engineering with a heavy electrical and electronic bias.
I think that is the secret, to have enough of a common thread and to bootstrap using knowledge gained from one industry to move to another. Also, systems analysis and problem solving generally transfer pretty well.
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Marin county is very, very hilly. Somewhere between hilly and mountainous, given that Mt Tamalpais sits smack in the middle of it. While most of the population is close to the freeway on the inland side, there are many many lightly populated areas with awful or no cell reception and issues with high-bandwidth type connections of various sorts. Many of the ocean-side areas are largely cut off from the main population by the mountains. I've never been to Dillon Beach, but it doesn't surprise me at all that Marin is where something like this would happen!
I think even though Python in the industry like in web isn't growing as much as say Node, in other places like Data Science and Intro to programming in Unis and Schools Python is growing very fast.

The article is not narrow minded but has a narrow focus and only analyses concrete data from a single source. It may be globally accurate but indicates a rising trend in people being interested in python. While Python usage cannot be directly correlatd to SO, we can infer that languages that have more questions have more people using or learning it generally. In the same way languages with a small community of users don't always prefer SO but something more personal like Mailing lists or IRC (eg. J language).

It should be safe to conclude that due to Data Science being the new buzz word and python at the forefront of it all, atleast python is getting a lot of attention even if it doesn't translate directly to more users right away.
> It’s worth noting that companies like Shyp, Luxe and Sprig, which all made a big deal about switching its workers from 1099 contractors to W2 employees, have all shut down. Ceasing operations is typically a multi-faceted decision, but it’s an interesting commonality between those startups.

I have no opinion on whether the contract rates are fair at any of these 'Gig Economy' startups and apps, but if this trend continues, aren't the workers essentially 'firing' themselves? Because, when the company loses a class action lawsuit these workers bring against it, their business model falls apart (from having to pay benefits etc, esp in states like California), and they shutdown, and instead of making some money as contractors, they make no money at all?

Or are they all in it thinking they'll get a HUGE 1-time payout on the settlement? That also doesn't make sense because in most - if not all class action lawsuit cases - the actual amount an individual receives is paltry compared to the total amount (which could go in millions) due to the sheer number of plaintiffs involved.
I understand that Turing completeness is not always a desirable quality for your programming language of choice, but since it is a rather obscure thing for those of us who haven't studied CS, when is a non-turing-complete language a favorable choice compared to a more traditional turing complete one?
I am really glad you made this comment. I know that this won't bring any "value" into the conversation but comments like these give me the much-needed hope and optimism that not all is lost (yet) .. well, except people arguing against your point. FS, You can not be "half pregnant" same as there is no such thing as "limited free speech". You either are allowed to think and share your thoughts freely or you are(or will soon become) enslaved, mentally, physically. @people below: History is written by the victors, you should never forget this, esp. when you are tempted to use a shallow, uneducated. ad-hoc out-of-context history reference. How can you distill any conclusions from our history if you did not manage to overcome your mental bubble, did not do the grunt work and actually went over all available sources. if you did, regardless of your thought predispositions(I have no inclination on that part, believe me), it would at least teach you modesty(like in any other science field, the more you know the more modest / careful you are when referencing a subject of your expertise).
Liked that AT&T analogy
>the single-parent, antisocial habits, prevalent among some working-class whites

You quoted it
I think that had the Penn students used your first two paragraphs as the gist of their response, there would be less commotion. To be sure, I don't know how well off the average US citizen is or the average NZ citizen; but it is silly to ignore economics and their effect.

I think that your third paragraph could use some some work, though.
Amazing - I cant wait to integrate this with our VR product. We previously used Amazon Polly attached to a chatbot:
https://twitter.com/Alientrap/status/829032930626383873

First uses that come to mind are players adding themselves to a VR world - or maybe celebrities / public figures.
Usually through local exposure of carcinogens.

Want skin cancer? Rub a known causing carcinogen on a patch of skin daily, want brain cancer? Probably injections or controlled exposure to radiation.

There is also a process of transplanting cancer cells (including from humans) into hosts to grow tumors.

Lastly these days there is also mutagenesis (usually gene knockout) in embryos and selective breeding and engineering for predisposition to cancer both general and of specific types.

Overall it's likely a mixture of several methods depending on the exact requirements; breeding mice which are predisposed to cancer by knocking out genes that are known to suppress cancer or help the immune system effectively battle it and then cellular transplant or carcinogenic exposure to cause tumors in specific locations or specific types of cancer.
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I'd be careful around claims about cultural identity and homogeneity. A lot of countries, like the scandinavian ones and NZ (and Australia) can look that way from the outside, but I think its a simplistic view. From our perspective, for example, apart from the obvious catastrophic partisan politics that have gripped the US, the US looks like it has a united cultural identity (e.g. a religious devotion to the founding fathers, patriotism, commitment to freedom of speech etc).

There was a recent article where a citizen of a Nordic country got upset at this common view, pointing out that perhaps it seems homogeneous to the US because in the US, today, you are white, black, hispanic, asian etc. There are not strong subdivisions in these categories, it seems, and subsequently they apply this view to other countries. But in Europe and Norway, Sweden etc, there are many flavours of 'white' with a long and recent history of animosity.

NZ is a country with a large indigenous population (the Maori), a lot of pacific island immigration, and increasing and accelerating immigrant population of Indians and Chinese (among others). These all assert social pressures of their own, and I would argue its partially our social safety net and maybe certain aspects of our culture and economic structure that have allowed it to be (mostly) harmonious, so far.

Not saying your entirely wrong, but that it is not (no pun intended) black and white.
But google could be cheating you as well. How would you know they don't keep you in an information bubble?
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Where's the actual solution? I feel like I'm missing something because what I see is some plausible commentary about it and some interesting discussion of Latin and ligatures but where's the actual decoding of the writing?
When the machine appeared there was nothing like it. Later machines were more robust and also smaller using microprocessors, downto Lisp Machines on Nubus cards for Macs.

> a small company

At max they had 1000 employees.

> And, originally, 45-minute garbage collections

Then they invented and commercialized better GCs.
Looks like a pretty useful addition to the many serverless frameworks out there that are heavily focused on deployment logic, not so much application/business logic.

In some sense this is pretty funny, where AWS Lambda is very much marketed as "just a function is all you need". In the real world however deserialization, error handling, validation etc are all necessary in all but the most trival cases...which leads us to frameworks shoehorning all the stuff back into the serverless world.
It depends on what you measure. Google argues that "time to interactive" is the correct number to optimize for; that's where Polymer-based sites shine.

But nobody can beat streaming server-rendered (or ServiceWorker-rendered) HTML + CSS on a "time to paint" basis. Google claims that "time to paint" is the wrong measure, but if you're using progressive enhancement, TTP is all you need.

Shadow DOM mostly sucks anyway for lack of a good way of sharing styles between shadow roots. (It's awesome that we can encapsulate CSS with shadow DOM, but that was too much encapsulation.)
I'm surprised by the decline of C#. I thought it was better off than java these days. Also PHP is gliding down. They improved the language a lot, but I can't say I will miss the PHP world much.

About python, isn't it related to numpy mostly ?
What hypocrisy.

All they care is that she is "Politically Incorrect" -- they could not care less about the facts.

Not to mention that when someone is wrong about facts you correct them, you don't fire them or ask for their condemnation. Professors are not supposed to be correct, just to probe for what's correct. In fact they should be encouraged to be boldly inquisitive and incorrect in that pursuit, and use dialog to sort out the ultimate answer.

And of course even "incorrect" ideas can be considered correct in an era -- in the 19th and up to the mid-20th century there were all kinds of facts and studies showing how some races were genetically inferior available to racists (that is: almost everybody).

Now we laugh at them, but how many similar (or even in the reverse direction) BS we take as fact because social "scientists" just put things under the rug and only give facts and statistics that are compatible with current cultural norms?
This article does a massive disservice by using the pre-CQL Column Family and Row terminology. While it's the Cassandra data modelling I'm the most accustomed to personally, it causes endless confusion for users who find themselves in the CQL documentation trying to understand how it all maps to Primary Keys, Partition Keys, static columns, etc.

This transition has been causing confusion for at least 5 years now, and it appears people are still using the old terminology! https://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/thrift-to-cql3
The Node.js community is embroilled in controversy over the Code of Conduct
So how did Lisp have the home court advantage then? :)
> It's no secret that the Jewish people have done so phenomenally well, despite two millennia of persecution, because of their strong values of hard work, family, and creativity

This is a commonly held hypothesis but the question of "why are the Jews successful despite being outsiders" is complicated and not in any way settled. What I know of it comes from reading some of "the origins of totalitarianism" Hannah Arendt. "The Jews are really hardworking" is a lazy and easy explanation for the question of how some Jews have flourished despite persecution.

It is not simply the case that culture is the proximal cause of (some) Jewish wealth than the particular material conditions of certain Jews throughout history that has lead to the affluence of and importance of some, mostly European Jews. For example, many Jews came to have a privileged position in European courts because of the rise of protestantism (a hardworking culture that doesn't value credit, something that Wax would probably say is "bad"). You're ignoring politics and history when you just chalk everything up to culture. It's survivorship bias at it's finest.

Edit: I butchered a sentence in the middle of my comment. Added a line break.
Mesos and Marathon are open source, but there are features that the enterprise offering has (in addition to support) that the open source one does not.

Vendor wouldn't matter if someone needed those "enterprise" features.
I'm not saying it's controversial, but I'd rather see strong evidence that just make assumptions based on general cultural stereotypes like "Jewish people work hard" or weak evidence like "they own a disproportionate amount of wealth."