skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're indeed right. I could. But this stuff is everywhere, whether you want to read it or be part of it, or not.

1. Donglegate. Told a dongle joke, got fired.

2. Meritocracy Rug, Github.

3. "CodeOfConduct.md"

4. GamerGate

5. Throwing fits about pronouns: https://www.dailydot.com/news/github-gendered-pronoun-debate...

6. NodeJS leadership splitting at the seams https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/72dff4/nodejs_...

7. Demonization if you are a "White male in tech" - regardless if you are for equality or not

8. Google Memo/"Anti-diversity Screed"

So you're right. I could stay quiet about this. But these problems aren't going to go away with silence. And they aren't going to go away by shaming people into submission or silence under threat of job loss. These things are affecting the whole industry, and it's about high time to confront these issues head-on, without fear of losing your house, your food, and your livelihood. (Why do you think I run under a pseudonym?)
> who have no desire to return to China.

My understanding was that increasingly, overseas students are returning to China? (known as "hai gui", sea turtles)

See e.g. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2016-03/18/content_239314...
> And we see the effects of poverty on education: "Surveys by Rozelle's team have found that more than half of eighth graders in poor rural areas in China have IQs below 90, leaving them struggling to keep up with the fast-paced official curriculum"

Just remember that we do not measure in the US IQ these days because the results would be very painful to look at for the poor of the US.
The look reminds me of an old Asteroids-like game for OS/2 (I forget the name). Just a coincidence, or was that an inspiration?
> Podcasting on the phone lost the ability to rate/review podcasts.

Happily, Podcasts (at least in the 11.0 GM release) still lets you rate/review podcasts on iOS 11.[1]

[1] https://i.imgur.com/AFRSQZu.jpg
> Yet again, Minnesota bucks the trend. Wonder why they keep doing so well while the rest of the middle states flounder.

I would assume its because the majority of Minnesotans live in the Twin Cities Metro and the Twin Cities is doing pretty well economically. For example 16 of the 17 Fortune 500's in Minnesota are headquartered in the Twin Cities and the unemployment rate is about 3%. If you drive outside the Twin Cities lots of towns look pretty distressed.
I notice this every year. This year there is a noticeable stutter in the IOS animations.

I'll bet the iPhoneX handles this perfectly. Better buy one!
Confirmation bias is a powerful thing.
Calling for a safe spaces? "Trump demands safe space for Mike Pence after he was booed at Hamilton" - https://news.avclub.com/trump-demands-safe-space-for-mike-pe... ("The Theater must always be a safe and special place.The cast of Hamilton was very rude last night to a very good man, Mike Pence. Apologize!")

Trying to ruin someone's career? "Donald Trump Casually Threatens To ‘Destroy’ The Career Of State Lawmaker" who promoted asset forfeiture reform. - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-destroy-state-lawm... . I believe most people are for forfeiture reform.

Or more recently, "Wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, 'Get that son of a b---- off the field right now. Out," Trump said amid applause. "He's fired. He's fired!" - https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-protests-donald-trump... . This form of silent protest against discrimination is increasingly common.

Always claiming to be a victim (though not from some -ism)?

"Trump claims to be victim of ‘witch hunt’ following appointment of special counsel in Russia case" - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/05...

"Trump on sex assault allegations: 'I am a victim'" - http://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/14/politics/donald-trump-sexu... ("As you have seen, I am a victim of one of the great political smear campaigns in the history of our country")

"Trump paints himself as the real victim of Charlottesville in angry speech" - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/23/donald-trump...

"Trump: IRS audits me because I’m a “strong Christian”" - https://hotair.com/archives/2016/02/26/trump-irs-audits-me-b...

Is Trump an SJW?
Removing the overhead of Redux
It's also possible that women are, overall, less interested in high stress jobs.
also rules out e.g. the fairly common practice of using R or pandas for some ad-hoc processing.

This is essentially the reason why all organizations are adopting Spark, since it allows you to write imperative code on dataframes and build ML models.
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPilot

I'll give it a shot when I get home from work!
Developing nations get a lot of leeway - see India's FDI restrictions, etc.
I have to disagree entirely here. We shouldn't be forcing kids to learn a singular skill early on, but allowing them to explore all areas of interests.
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> How else can we decide which side or sides is/are being demeaned/marginalized other than intellectual debate?

The problem is that "intellectual debate" often ends up just being thinly-veiled excuses for why it's ok to discriminate against the marginalized group. It's kind of like how "intellectual debate" about phrenology was used to justify attitudes about different races.
> deeply racist portrayal of its Klingons

This struck me as strange. The Klingons started off as the violent bad guys in TOS. Then in TNG and DS9 there was an attempt to make them more admirable. In Discovery, I got the impression that the Klingons will be made more sympathetic in that we will be given more of a picture of their perception of the Federation, and why they perceive the Federation as a threat. Yes, Burnham is prejudiced against the Klingon race (or culture), but I don't think the message of the show will be anti-Klingon.
I don't know much about NYC, but I've read "The Bonfire of the Vanities" (1987 novel; heard the movie sucked...). Anyone plot key points in that? (for example: the car scene of Sherman and Maria, the court house in the Bronx, the Park Avenue apartments). If not, whaddaya whaddaya?
Hmm... One of us has their wires crossed.

If you're just with a couple other people, I don't see that as cheating - so long as they're all okay with it. I see cheating as being with a different partner.

Unless I got confused, cheating was the subject?

That and, it's okay to have sex with multiple consenting people. You don't need my permission, of course. However, I've nary a problem with it. I've been in similar situations, where we shared and shared alike. It's all good, so long as everyone consents.
Romulans are emphatically not dark and barbaric, they're "evil" Vulcans, and aesthetically modeled on various European Imperial iconographies with lots of Eagle/raptor symbolism. Ancient Roman (it's in the name already) or even 20th century Fascist seems like the reference points.

The Cardashians seem to be based on Totalitarian Communist regimes. They have grey skin, which isn't dark, but is also not a human skintone anyway, but they seem to map most closely to Russian/Stalinist. Not dark or barbaric by any means.

The Borg seem to be a comment on Western technocracy run-amok. I have trouble seeing the Borg as anything besides a cautionary warning against tech singularity ideology. If you submit your culture to the logic of machines don't be surprised when it becomes mechanical and inhumane.

There are dark and barbaric trek villains too, of course. The Jem'Hadar shock troopers seem like a particularly charged take on the trope, being essentially militarized slaves. Interesting, though, that the Jem'Hadar were controlled by a very white technocratic Vorta. Maybe a reference to historical practices like the Ottoman Jannisaries. What should we make of the non-humanoid shapeshifter "founders" though? Pure scifi or allegory for the formless, faceless, secretive domination of neoliberal capitalist interests acting in the shadows?

The Ferengi are dark skinned and despicable, with more than a hint of "Shylock" flavored bigotry incorporated into the trope. Kinda unfortunate. They did significantly redeem this trope in later DS9 episodes when they focused more on Quark and showed some of the more nuanced and interesting aspects of Ferengi culture.

And then there's the Klingons. This one is hard to put a finger on. They were originally introduced as space barbarians with a swarthy (but not black) complexion. I think the original model there was intended to be something like Barbary Corsairs, which is kind of a racist trope I guess. The Klingons were updated a lot though. The more mature portrayals of Klingons had them as an honor society that resembles Samurai culture in a lot of ways, while also incorporating a kind of hedonistic body culture that is very un-Japanese. It's not so simple really. What about now? Klingons made less human-seeming and more cartoon villain seeming? Not sure where they're going with this.
This is great, congrats! How did you get your first few customers? How do you plan on monetizing? I realize Peergrade is free, but, as an educator, do you have any advice with respect to selling into K-12 vs higher-ed?
These all seem to be assuming the institution-teacher-student model of education we have today. Even the "New school models" section is assuming a delivered experience, which has an institutional bent.

I think biggest area of disruption in education would be in building fundamentally new architectures for educational systems, based on networks and social communities instead of funnels and institutions. The latter have a pretty huge list of undesirable properties and negative externalities, especially in how they limit diverse experiences and learning.

An eye-opening read on this front for me has been Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich [0]. It's insane how much of what he wrote 40 years ago still holds true.

[0] http://www.davidtinapple.com/illich/1970_deschooling.html
As a member of the German Education and Science Union i have to strongly disagree.

Germany is becoming a low income country for a lot of jobs and the unions are doing nothing against it.

Year after year all German workers have collective bargaining agreements close to inflation, while the economy booms.

The union-reps are in bed with the companys and workers eat it up.
Adequate information - Do you think principals have adequate information? If so, why couldn't they just provide it to the parents then? Besides, there are many tools such as feedback reviews + word of mouth which would help with the information asymmetry.

Unbalanced classes - Classes may currently have balance within the school, but there is already a massive inbalance between schools. And why do we assume that all classrooms should have an equal distribution of IQ? Colleges do the opposite - they purposely exclude lower IQs.

Difficult students going to bad teachers - Maybe this is how it would turn out. I'm not sure. (But even if it did, it would be even more of an incentive for teachers to perform better - just a thought).

I would be hesitant to predict any specific outcome of this scheme, only that teachers would be more inclined to provide the service that parents actually want.

Ethical grounds - I would question the ethical resolve of any school that isn't open to whatever system will help students best.
Babylon 5 was unfortunately made at the very point where CG was still pretty bad, and because of that it didn't age well. If only it was shot a few years later...

On the other hand, B5 had an absolutely amazing storyline. I wish someone would remaster it, replacing the exterior CG shots with new renders, and release it in full HD. It would beat the crap out of most of the things that are on TV today.
Why not before high school? As someone teaching kids, they grasp the concepts just fine at young ages and if the material is presented in a fun and personalized way, they tend to enjoy it more than other subjects (depending on how those are taught).

Actively exposing your child to coding will greatly increase the likelihood they pursue it later on.

Our pricing is as low as $22.50 per hour with a friend, which I consider pretty affordable compared to many extra curriculars!
Man pages aren't even in the kernel tree.
The children didn't, but their parents did nothing to fix the problem and in most cases voted to continue to pass these same problems on to their children. Public school is scary-bad because them damn liberals are teaching our children to think and those judges prevent us from force-feeding our preferred cultural indoctrination, so let's starve the schools in the guise of cutting taxes and promoting "choice." Then let's all act surprised when our children get a shit education, when they lack qualifications/skills for jobs and continuing education, and businesses have to expand elsewhere to find an educated workforce. Then we can blame the failure upon the schools, greedy teachers unions, and administrative "bloat" and not admit to our own greed and short-sightedness. Of course the children of the elite will do just fine in private school, where they will get an education that might, almost, be as good as what any kid in Minnesota gets from public school.

When I was a midwestern public school kid of the 70s and 80s, Kansas was on par with the rest of the midwest in terms of general public education. After Brownback and his ilk have finished raping the state anyone with a child under the age of 14 should probably consider moving to a another state for the sake of their own child's future. This is not a problem that goes back generations, and the cause and solution are blatantly obvious.

Seriously, the one word response to your attempt to absolve them of any agency or responsibility for this situation is "Kansas."
I'm going to ask for a citation on that. Where is proof that average users will ignore reasonably worded security messages?

Because as far as I can remember (Windows back to 95, MacOS back to the 6100), we (ie computer science professionals) have never done what I would even call an "acceptable" job at attempting this.

And the argument, for 20+ years now, has always been "Har har, users are too dumb to read. We'll just abstract all those decisions away from them."

Stupid dialogs and lazy UX begat stupid users, not the other way around.

(E.g., for starters: https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/756/what-are-some-alt... )
A far better way to describe this phenomenon is to generalise it to the behaviour of a conquering culture or nation instead of one specific 'race'. Whether it be Mohammedans invading the Byzantine empire, Genghis Khan setting off to conquer the known world, Khoikoi on the war path against the San, Aleuts battling Inuit or Yupik, nearly all of them feel themselves superior to their opponents in some way.

This is not a race thing, not is it a cultural thing. It is a human trait which is universal. It is not just related to physical attacks either, e.g. so-called 'social justice warriors' feel themselves morally superior over those who do not follow their specific strain of self-flagellation and -denial, sports teams, philosophers, investors, anywhere people choose themselves a niche they plant their flags and wave their banners.
"This is an issue of student safety and having people at the institution who hold views like this does not create a safe campus for everyone."

"This is especially appalling when the author elsewhere in the article takes the words of multiple decolonial scholars of colour out of context in order to justify his violence against their respective communities and cultures."

I haven't read the whole viewpoint article yet, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't call for violence or threatens campus safety.
Let's begin by why Damore felt the need to write this in the first place: he was taking a diversity workshop. He was so offended by having to attend a lecture on how to be nice to disadvantaged groups that he wrote that wall of text.

"These discriminatory practices are both unfair and divisive. Instead focus on some of the non-discriminatory practices I outlined."

The discriminatory practices he's referring is to have a few women-only classes. From my understanding, there also exist classes for everyone. Requesting to remove women-only is repugnant because those classes and similar initiatives have increased women's participation without reducing the number of men nor the opportunities for men.

Wanting to get rid of those classes is just the holders of the status quo fighting to keep the status quo.

"Discriminating just to increase the representation of women in tech is as misguided and biased as mandating increases for women’s representation in the homeless, work-related and violent deaths, prisons, and school dropouts. "

This is beyond stupid, having more women in something positive isn't the same thing as having more women in something negative. There are nuances and differences and wanting to have more women murdered is nothing like wanting to have more women in tech.

"In highly progressive environments, conservatives are a minority that feel like they need to stay in the closet to avoid open hostility"

This is just an example, but the whole memo is written in a conservatives vs progressives or right vs left. This is divisive and confrontational. Bringing in more people shouldn't be a matter of two warring tribes, of which we must all pick a side. I don't know about you but there are some things I like about how things are now (conservative?) and some things I want to change (liberal?)

We're all a mishmash of opinions, not football teams.

"Being emotionally unengaged helps us better reason about the facts."

It's impossible to be emotionally unengaged. There isn't some kind of division between thought and emotion, and emotion isn't the antithesis of rationality. We're all frail creatures with biases, emotions, thoughts. We're not machines, and even the machines we build exhibit our own emotions and biases.

So, no we should not de-emphasise empathy like he says. We're humans and we should be empathetic towards each other.

"Reconsider making Unconscious Bias training mandatory for promo committees."

We all have biases. I have them, and so does Damore but he calls them rationality. By trying to remove training about those biases, he's trying to safeguard his biases even further.

Then there's the further damage that his document did... it has created a hostile atmosphere. Damore was right to be fired because who would want to work with a guy who is very rational about why women aren't statistically suited by nature for certain roles within the company?
"go talk to your customers" is much easier said than done.
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You haven't been listening to platforms. There are solutions that the traditional media ignore because their funders/advertisers don't like them. Example: medicare for all, financial transaction tax, Gore's lockbox for SS funds, repealing parts of patriot act, etc.
The Light Camera technology of integrating multiple small lenses and sensors into a single small flat device could significantly erode the DSLR optics advantage. It will never be as good, but perhaps good enough for most customers.

https://light.co/technology
> alimony tends to not adequately support a middle class lifestyle by itself.

Should it?

I mean, let's say we have a happy "leave it beaver" family with 2.2 kids, a white picket fence, a dad who works, and a mom who doesn't. Due to no fault in particular, they get divorced. They now have two households to maintain instead of one.

Why would both people deserve a "middle class lifestyle"? Their expenses have each gone up, and the total income hasn't changed. How can you split one "middle class lifestyle" into two, and obtain two of the same thing?
If you search for Tiananmen in Google, the first result is 6/4. Most westerners associate Tiananmen with the event more than the place.

Now if you search for Taylor Swift's most recent album, TS 1989, well, that's kind of blocked also. Not sure why :)
The book Democracy for Realists opened my eyes.

https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Realists-Elections-Responsi...

TLDR: People vote based on identity (self image), then adjust their beliefs (positions) as needed.
[you are/you're] shit out of luck. IE: fucked.

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I was in a similar position, and even skipped college in lieu of coding. It was the right choice for me at the time, but in retrospect I'm not significantly farther ahead of my peers - our coding ability has leveled out, and they have CS degrees while I have a few more years of experience.

The one difference (compared to 17) is that I have a lot less free time now - I wake up at 7am, I'm at work by 9:30am, leave around 5:30pm, and I'm home at 6:30pm. I end up with maybe three free hours after dinner. When I was younger I spent that time tinkering with side projects or working, while now I prioritize doing things that are fundamentally different than my day-to-day work :)

My biased opinion is -- if you don't absolutely need the money -- spend the time on fun side projects with cool technology or practice an instrument or something else fun. You'll have years and years to code 40 hours a week for money!
One's date of birth, in isolation, may or may not be particularly sensitive. However, in combination with other information, it can help positively ID a person, and can then be used for shenanigans.

Example:

* Jacob Smith -- Not particularly identifying

* Jacob Smith, born in 2004 -- Narrows it down, but that's the most common surname in the US, and the most popular 1st name for 2004

* Jacob Smith, born July 22 2004 -- Narrows it down a lot more. Even if you have a couple thousand Jacob Smiths born in 2004, it's unlikely that more than a few will share a single birthday

* Jacob Smith, born July 22 2004, in Burbank, California -- Odds are you've identified a single individual at this point.

A single datum in isolation doesn't tell you much. But the more data you have, the easier it is to use that data for good or evil.

A further point, a date of birth can be used for validation of a SSN, making that SSN even more useful for shenanigans.
> I was of the impression that APFS would still default to case insensitive.

I am of the impression that you are right. I got it wrong.
I'm sad that a lot of the progress looks like outliers, but I think it's a mistake to claim there hasn't been any progress (note, I'm not accusing you or the original article of making that claim; I would have liked more progress but I have to admit there's been some).
Part of me is now wondering if this was even nefarious as I'm picturing over zealous Cuban pest control specialists, without strong regulation or laws, simply using termite microwaves with people around.

http://pests.guru/termites/control/treatment/methods/microwa...