skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For decades there was a policy to limit the number of Jews accepted to the ivy league. http://www.businessinsider.com/the-ivy-leagues-history-of-di... :

> Here's how Karabel sums up the new changes approved in 1926, which would effectively allow the Harvard administration to limit its Jewish student population:

> The committee decisively rejected an admissions policy based on scholarship alone, stating that "it is neither feasible nor desirable to raise the standards of the College so high that none but brilliant scholars can enter" while stipulating that "the standards ought never to be so high for serious and ambitious students of average intelligence."

> When the faculty formally approved the report eight days later, Lowell was further elated, for they also approved measures making the admissions process even more subjective. In particular, the faculty called on [Committee on Admissions chairman Henry Pennypacker] to interview as many applicants as possible to gather additional information on "character and fitness and the promise of the greatest usefulness in the future as a result of a Harvard education." Henceforth, declared the faculty, a passport-sized photo would be "required as an essential part of the application for admissions."

> Elite colleges also began to use legacy admissions during this period — giving preference to children of alumni — in order to maintain a predominantly Protestant student body, Karabel explains.
> The reason its not CSS is because this api generates the initials for you.

It's been a while since I've written any CSS, but I'm pretty sure you can select first letters? Useful for drop caps, for example.
Heh. I give interviews at a solid tech company. It's a moderate amount of work to come up with good interview questions, and I don't like changing them very often because having identical questions makes it easier to compare candidates and get a real feel for how they rank in relation to the rest of the population.

Imagine my dismay when I saw my carefully crafted problems posted on Glass Door. So, I made dozens of Glass Door accounts and posted the hardest, most bizarre, and occasionally literally impossible to answer questions on my company's Glass Door page to drown out the real questions posted there in a sea of insanity. Hope you liked it!
The revenge-of-the-nerds economy (in 18 charts)
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But that would mean a direct relationship between physical exercise and death, which I believe is not the case.
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It's odd, because girls outperform boys in school in every subject, in every grade, and have for decades. Schools already conform very well to girl-centric learning - perhaps because the majority of school teachers are women.

Arguments like this always start from the assumption that inequality is a result of failed education. It's like the people making these arguments have never met a boy or a girl. Boys and girls behave differently, think differently, and value different things.

Of course, we should strive to make environments inclusive as possible, and everyone should be free to pursue their (legal) ambitions, but why do we have to assume that any gender imbalance is a result of bias? Women become pediatricians more than other types of doctor. Is that because pediatricians are less sexist than other subtypes of medicine, or because women are naturally more interested in taking care of children?
Not quite, it's expanded to a 32-bit integer, one codepoint at a time.
I think there is a lot to be said for the way a good deal of men and women are raised. I'm not even that old, but my parents treated their sons and daughters differently in some subtle and some not so-subtle ways. I've also heard from many of my friends and family that despite believing that men and women are just as capable, they will likely coddle their daughters more than their sons.

Even in my family, in many instances the girls were "taken care of" more. If my or my brothers' cars broke down, it was 'figure it out on your own, get rides from friends, get a second job till you can afford to fix it, etc.' If my sisters' cars broke down, parents were immediately helping pay to get it fixed ('we can't have their cars breaking down on the side of the road! they could get raped/kidnapped/etc')!

Whether or not you think this is a valid way to parent, there's no question that this will force boys raised in the manner to be more self-sufficient that girls raised in this manner (and obviously, not all men and women are raised in this manner...and not all men and women raised in the manner will act like this...I'm looking at probability distributions of the population). It's not a matter of capability, it's a matter of all humans being lazy and we often don't learn to be independent and self-sufficient until we are forced to.

Another example is the dating market. No one wants to have to approach strangers, put themselves out there, and face rejection. It sucks! But constantly putting yourself out there will cultivate leadership and social skills and it can help build your confidence in the face of rejection. Even though men and women are equally as capable of all of those skills, the people that practice those skills more in their day-to-day lives will be better at them when those skills are needed in a business context.
The author raises several points, but uses the word "lone" six times:

> I was frustrated because the course consisted of lone work...

> Despite the cargo shorts and the loner attitude, I learned like a girl..

> Instead of a lonely computer lab...

> The rise of the archetype of the lone, antisocial hacker...

> Does the idea of being a lone hacker appeal to some women?

> Computer scientists are no longer universally considered to be ‘80s-style loners...

I take this as the emphasis of the piece.
I thought the guy's behaviour after he was fired had put this "he's just interested in science" myth.
Only Uber got it.
This is an interesting read because Dasgupta is what the current OMSCS algorithms class is using.
Well that's how courses work you have to know how to add 2+2 before going onto Calculus you cant expect to jump straight in to say a key role writing a Map reduce system for a major telcos billing system.
Interesting. I had always thought that moving to a proportional system would require a Constitutional amendment, which seems like a virtually impossible bar to clear, but if that law is constitutional, would Congress also be able to mandate that all states elect their representatives at-large using proportional representation?
And it's not just courses.

Many types of work bias toward people who are just fine with locking themselves in a room/the library stacks/a lab for a week to work through some problem. It's a completely different mindset from someone who likes doing sales or PR work.

It's not that there aren't people who can do a good job with both. But some things certainly come more naturally to some people than they do to others.
Thanks! I've tried out most of the other common BSDs (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD, and TrueOS) but I've always had more trouble with NetBSD for some reason. Hopefully I'll have better luck with it this time!
GitHub issues from code comments
So does New Zealand. I don't see how it's an issue that they expect skilled migrants to speak the language.

But Australia has had (and possibly still has) bigger issues with discrimination and xenophobia. Consider that the official immigration policy was called "White Australia" until the mid 1960s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Australia_policy
3GPP Cross-Reference
Packaging needs to be improved, especially given that it requires their fork of llvm and clang.

deb/rpm files or at least a PKGBUILD would help make it a lot more accessible.
Anyone whose fully bought into “Buy and Hold” who hasn’t heard “Diversity” has a really selective listening/reading pattern.
If you're looking for some ideas / examples for nicely formatted documents, there are some amazing LaTeX templates out there, e.g. try browsing https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates

You can open them for editing online in Overleaf to try them out - if you do, any feedback is appreciated, thanks (I'm one of the founders).
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This is so sad, MathOverflow was once such a great community. Here is his comment for context:

> I regret to say I'm ending my participation in MathOverflow, for the same reason I decided a decade ago never again to edit Wikipedia. It's hard to express how disheartening it is to spend hours of volunteer labor explaining stuff---in this case, in a way that at least 19 MO users apparently found useful---only to have your work overridden by a smaller set of users, for being (part of something larger that's) "off-topic" or whatever it is. Who the hell has time for that? From now on, if I have math questions, I'll post them on my own blog. Was nice being here for 6 years; thanks everyone. – Scott Aaronson 3 hours ago
What you point out is true in most political discussions, but I don't believe it is the case here. The powers that be are not Republicans or Democrats. They are the schools and the alums.
There is also PinPlay / DrDebug

https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/program-recordrepl...
https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/pintool-drdebug
People think of type theory as "internal language" of categories with certain properties (e.g. simply typed typed type theory for cartesian closed categories). A formal way to say this is that the syntax of type theory gives rise to category with certain properties, and this category is initial among such categories. This means that it is, in a sense, the minimal category that satisfies these properties, so that all constructions in type theory give rise to this construction in every such category.

To me personally, type theory feels a little like an ugly definition of this initial "category with X", and I'm currently exploring in my thesis whether a syntax derived from the categorical definitions itself could also be used for the same purpose as type theory is today.
Does this also apply to other branches of engineering, medicine and lawyers.
I want a lab that can also provide pilot phase 0 trial organisation infrastructure - or equivalent in another jurisdiction - as a product. I need a lab for lab stuff. That is easy. It is a crowded field. What is annoying and costly and time consuming is the legal and logistical setup for animal and especially initial human trials. A one stop shop would be very useful.
So why isn't female participation coming back up? It was higher in the 1970s and 1980s than it is now.

> "We’re now in an era where computer scientists are no longer universally considered to be ‘80s-style loners, but the structure of workplaces is still often dominated by the manner of thinking that was created by them (see also: “move fast and break things”[1])."

[1] https://xkcd.com/1428/
From the sidebar:

> good health is the best prescription for preventing chronic diseases

That's bad enough to approach self-parody, but in a way it's very illustrative of the fact that apart from smoking cessation and arguably some other forms of drug addiction treatment, we have very little in the way of demonstrably effective lifestyle interventions to prevent chronic illness. There are mountains of epidemiological associations and sometimes even plausible physiological mechanisms for many of these things, but it often turns out that the obvious intervention just defies the correlation instead of changing the outcome (cf. Goodhart's law), or changes things in a statistically significant but practically underwhelming way.

As far as I know, obesity is mostly significant as a public health issue because it makes many conditions modestly worse, not because it's the primary cause of any given problem. Losing weight might mitigate an illness such that you cross some diagnostic threshold and are thus "cured", but you're still in a much different state than someone who wasn't at risk of that illness at any weight. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try to maintain a healthy weight, just that it's wishful thinking to expect that doing so is going to solve all or even most of your problems. In general, it's important to recognize that health is a complex topic and not fool ourselves into thinking we've found the key to good health.
This is anecdotal, but there are different forms of test prep which the wealthy have access to that are way better prep than private tutors.

For example, Kaplan training offers 4-8 (you can pay for more) fully proctored fake SATs, written, tested and graded 100% in the style of the SAT, which they then use to tell you all the answers that you got wrong, where you lost points, what subjects those points were lost in, and then gives you test prep books specifically for the microtopics you don’t know, AND THEN gives you the books most people associate with test prep, AND THEN connects you with a group class, (AND if you wanted to pay for one)
a private tutor. The tutors are trained on the subjects, are there to track your progress, and to teach speed tricks.

And if it’s still at all a possibility it doesn’t work, they guaranteed a refund on anything less than a 40% point boost on points you didn’t score or an 80% final score on someone untested.

My point is, test prep as I saw it for the wealthy is not just books, or a tutor, its a vast network of trained practitioners and materials which probe at your weaknesses and give feedback at a rate books or tutors alone could never match. Test prep between the poor and rich looks fundamentally different.

THAT, aside from all of the benefits of economic stability and the educational support parents making 100k+ can provide, is where you get these differences in outcome.
Cellular automata are much harder to screw around with. Partly that is because computation by hand is a lot harder, partly because there isn't much that one can combine.

What makes the integers interesting is that addition, multiplication and exponentiation are all easy, all operate on the same numbers, and yet they behave very differently. This allows one to pose very easy questions (e.g. Can I express every prime as a sum of ...) that have no obvious solution to them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan
mm you mean go of the deep end into far right politics this isn't setting up a Branch of young conservatives in the London google offices is it.
My gmail, created within a day or two of public availability.
Even if information can be destroyed ("erased"), it is not by way of reversing the process that lead to its creation, the latter thus being necessarily non-unitary. This, in fact, is a requisite for the notion of measurement to make any sense.
I started playing tennis twice a week (would like to do it three times but those are the group times) and I love the difference. Aches have completely gone away, and I feel much fitter overall.
Speaking of hormones, being overweight or obese may also increase the risk of breast cancer. The development of breast cancer involves estrogen, and fat cells produce estrogen.
> there is a tinge of implicit buy-in of gender stereotyping in her writing

She emphasized that you can't predict an individual from population characteristics many times.

But if you're concerned about overall diversity and not just if a particular individual has access, then you must concern yourself, at least somewhat, with population characteristics.

Sterotyping is a sin if you use it for discrimination, it's humanitarian when you use it -- for example-- to save people from breast and prostate cancer.

> it basically boiled down to "we learn differently", and i just find that woefully inadequate

It may not take much of a difference in averages in the gendered sub-populations to make a big difference in tech's gender balance if you make the assumption that tech is selecting for people several standard deviations away from the norm.
A great guide to typography for the reader with a few hours to spare is Butterick's Practical Typography: https://practicaltypography.com/
I didn't know applying basic algebra and common sense is book-worthy, or is considered a professional mathematician's work.

I should become a scientist. I keep overestimating humanity.
As a physicist, all this talk about the "meaning of time" (which has been going on for centuries and in the modern form for decades) seems completely meaningless. This article, as far as I can discern, makes no scientific claims or arguments and has no measurable consequences. I guess it might be good material for drunken conversations if you like passing time that way, but I don't really see any other use for it.
Where Did All the Restaurant Workers Go?
Good investors diversify. It's possible that people who invested in AOL wanted them to keep the same business model and not try anything new, because they also invested in the other companies that were trying the new things.
I agree with others that the author's experience may not be as significant to the wider discussion of female programmers as she thinks it is.

I'm a developer now; I could not have made it through a Computer Science major in college. I'd always been drawn to technology and my dad highly encouraged me to pursue IT, but I just didn't find CS itself interesting to me. I was highly, highly averse to the idea of "lone work on exercises that seemed to have little application to the real world, the expectation that coursework required coding and debugging for hours after school threatened my ability to excel in other classes or in varsity sports".

Maybe it is in fact a particularly "male" engineer thing to want to focus only on excelling at one's trade while neglecting everything else in one's life. I was not like that.

So I studied Neuroscience and Psychology because they felt more applicable and "hands-on". I dissected cadavers, ran behavioral tests on rats, crunched data.

Then later I discovered that I really did enjoy programming itself; I realized I loved building things. Now I feel like I could sit through dry lectures on fundamental and complex CS topics that my younger self would find boring. It sounds like the author liked building things too. Maybe if her program had been focused on that instead of other things, she would have felt more motivated.

To me, this seems like a classic case of someone deciding that they're simply not good at math because they were taught it the wrong way or weren't shown why it was relevant.
There seems to be a bit of a contradiction in her post:

> Despite the cargo shorts and the loner attitude, I learned like a girl.

And:

> it was an all-girls school, and every single other woman who took that computer science class that year became an engineer or scientist.

Hmm, it sounds more like she has a different learning style, which is not necessarily down to her femaleness.

That said, I think that at a fundamental level, there are differences in how men and women think. But none are better than the other, we know that we gain richer insights when we take both into account. But in this current political climate, it's unwise to go too deep about this, because it can so easily slip into the really nasty domains. Remember the time when phrenology was used to justify gender and race discrimination?

This is why I dislike Damore. I don't care what his manifesto says, but I bet that he knew exactly what he was doing. Playing games is pathetic, dude.

I can sympathise with the writer as I have a similar story too. I'm permanently put off from going into engineering, but I've accepted that and moved on. (Incidentally it's education and design, to better design learning experiences for everyone!) And that's OK, the burden of guilt of "letting down your kind" is also terrible. Life's too short and there are so many other interesting, under-explored areas ... and you can still get involved in tech. The best bit about tech? It's just a tool.
If race is a factor in admissions decisions for some schools then I wonder why students don't just pick the one worth the most "points"? AFAIK, there are no objective criteria for classifying people by race. Anyone can choose to identify themselves however they wish.
You indirectly raise an interesting point - I wonder by how much Apple's feedback stats on these topics are biased.

Folks who worry about, say, wifi and bluetooth walk-buy surveillance are going to be much more likely to opt-out of just about anything they can, including usage instrumentation. So of course they'll be underrepresented in statistics generated from that data.
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And if you are a high performer at high school /uni in the UK women are more likely to go into medicine, law or the city where you can earn more than a train driver
More cells + a compromised system* = Problems.

The problem is people aren't interested in health. Oreos are a God given right, evidently. And it's easier to blame the healthcare system than to face the truth. That is, you are what you consume.

*The report is just cancer, but diabetes will be just as happy to kill too.
Yes, and use the correct units when setting max-width and line-height. This is good:

line-height: 1.4;
max-width: 30em;

This is not:

line-height: 120%;
max-width: 700px;

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/line-height...

http://maxdesign.com.au/articles/ideal-line-length-in-ems/

Also, use the proper typographic characters in body text: https://www.w3.org/2009/cheatsheet/#typo.
> The result of this is that STEM education is taught in a way that gives girls an opportunity to collaborate, as well as allow them to access the broader ideas, people, and goals that bring coding off the screen and into the real world.

Contrast this with "Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it." I think there's a big difference between nerdy obsession and grudgingly making something valuable. If nobody hired coders, it would still be my hobby.
> and I got crap grades throughout

She was not willing to do that and specifically cited it as a reason that she gave up.
Irreversibility is essential in creation of information, i.e measurement.
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We really need to get companies to see user data as a liability, rather than an asset. Our incentivisation system is completely backwards for this.
The discrimination against Asians is in some cases arguably not that much worse than discrimination against Whites, or even sometimes data shows Whites are discriminated against more.

Looking at LizzyM scores, for the most part Whites and Asians receive similar acceptance rates with similar scores, but in some cases Asians receive preference. You can see this w/ scores about 520 and 3.8(1).

However, Asians are admitted as a far greater proportion of their race than Whites. Asians are about 5% of US population, but can make up over 40% of incoming classes in med school, while Whites, who are over 60% of the US population, were only 37%, in this typical example at Northwestern(1).

Blacks, through affirmative action, enjoy a relatively equal proportion of matriculants as Whites, even though Blacks score on average many standard deviations lower than Whites and Asians. In many cases, a majority of Blacks are accepted with scores that Whites and Asians have, as data shows, a 0% chance of acceptance with.

So what is fair? Right now, it is hardest to get in to med school as a White, but that is so extremely politically incorrect that no one dare say it.

www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/admissions/how-to-apply/class-profile.html

https://schools.studentdoctor.net/lizzym_score
IPR is relatively inexpensive and quick. They must be filed within 9 months and filing costs are borne by the challenger.

https://www.uspto.gov/patents-application-process/appealing-...

I can't agree that this strictly benefits the challenger. A well funded challenger was going to challenge anyways. This lowers the costs for both sides.

I'll have to read up on the EBay case.