skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Organizations are somewhat damned if they do and damned if they don't with affirmative action. In particular the onus of proving that an e.g. university is not being discriminatory rests on them. But diversity quotas such as at least 10% of all accepted applicants will be green, 15% blue, etc are illegal. It puts organizations in a situation where they cannot have diversity quotas, but my run into issues if their results do not look like diversity quotas. This same issue is faced by larger corporations as well.

Consequently, you end up with affirmative action that is based on equality of result instead of equality of opportunity. There are a large number of extremely well qualified Asian applicants so in order to constrain the amount accepted (keeping in mind that acceptance is a zero sum game) they are substantially penalized. I think there's a more fundamental problem with this beyond just fairness.

The whole point of affirmative action was to combat widespread overt racism and other discrimination in hiring/acceptance. Equality of opportunity is extremely important. In times past it's entirely possible the talent in individuals like Neil deGrasse Tyson would not have been allowed to be cultivated because of the color of their skin, and that would be a great tragedy. The problem is that systems that end up de facto equality of result face the exact same problem as we did when overt racism and discrimination was so widespread. You end up viewing certain people as less meritorious than they are, because of the color of their skin. This is something that should never be tolerated, no matter how benevolent the reason may be.
The default is to fsync once per second so the failure window is small but it's not zero.

It's possible to fsync on every write[1] but it may be too slow as the single threaded nature of Redis means you've serialized every write operation. Plus that'd apply to all usage of that Redis server, not just the queue.

[1]: https://redis.io/topics/persistence#how-durable-is-the-appen...
Can someone point out where in the paper they address the objection that a declining level of glucose doesn't necessarily indicate glucose was "used up"? Maybe some endocrinological mechanism (like insulin) simply triggered the uptake of glucose into various cells somewhere in the body.

People cannot be in an excited state, like suppressed arousal of various kinds, without the body being involved.
I think the problem is that 10% of Gmail users think Inbox is awesome and the rest think it's godawful for breaking 'feature X' they loved. Where feature X isn't one feature but a thousand tiny things. I think with Add-ons, they're trying to extend Gmail in a way that won't offend anyone married to the current UI.
Yes, clicking on "this thing right here!" is a powerful way for ordinary users to create references. It shouldn't be underestimated.

Programmers are so used to having to name things that we don't see the mental overhead of using names. A named cell is conceptually a pointer -- you can change what it points to (by giving the same name to some other cell instead), and if you delete the referent, it can point to nothing. That kind of invisible indirection is not easy for non-programmers.
Just tacking a question on here - when creating a student account, should I be setting my location to where I’m attending school or where I’m planning on being after graduating?

Looks like interviewing.io is tackling a big issue. :-)
This article hit home for me because I see it all the time. I go to a large state school where a 2-3 of the Big4 show up to recruit, but undergrads rarely get offers. We don't pass technical screens (partly on us, partly on the focus of our DS&A classes), and very often we don't even get interviews.

I think about this all the time and it concerns me. I'll never get into a top school now but I do have a big4 internship on my resume on an in-demand ML team - yet, I'm still going to be looked down upon compared to someone that goes to UIUC or Duke at minimum, not even considering people at HYPSM.

Sometimes I wondered if there's a point in trying if I'm already so far behind.
Why Ubuntu Dropped Unity and Ubuntu Phone
My recollection is that you are correct; it originated with Firebug and sprouted in other browsers after that, but I would love some history around it too.

Here's console.js in 2007: https://github.com/firebug/firebug/blob/85f35d8e871783adcf9c...
The odd thing is, the university I went to, not in the US, is ranked a bit higher than UB in the international rankings, but definitely the same general area. And it gets lots of attention from Google recruiters and those from similar companies, I believe. The interviews are still fairly hard work, I hear, but they seem less fussy about universities outside the US.
I'm sure they scan it, otherwise it'd be hard to catch spam. I don't think they ever said they scanned it for any other reason.
I genuinely don't understand obsession with LIDARs in the autonomous vehicle community, a millimetre wave radar is late seventies tech, does the job many times better, for less money, and can be made by an electronics engineering undergrad from radio shack parts.

Commies had them in such abundance that they put millimetre wave imagers (and that was in seventies) on thing as cheap as vision aids for tank drivers, field guns, single shot atgms, and even small arms.
Its not murky at all.

Russian Empire was allied with the Serbians, who were considered fellow Slavs.

Germans/Austrians were not keen on fighting on the eastern front with the powerful Russian empire and thus wanted to destabilize the country making it incapable of fighting against them (which they actually succeeded: the Soviets signed a humiliating treaty ending the war on the eastern front while ceding huge territories to Germany/Austria). Thus, they assisted the revolutionaries, among them Trotsky and Lenin.
A big desk doesn't make much difference to me. I'm happy anywhere with my laptop and a pad of paper. A comfortable chair is important though. Cosy lightning helps too.
The treaty explicitly says that piracy is not okay. In fact, because of the way outer space is in many cases treated as international waters, the same laws governing piracy on the seas govern space activities as well, just with some differences regarding how ships are assigned to nations ("what flag they fly").

However the real outstanding issue with the OST is how to handle mining claims. Claim jumping is a real issue, since you could spend a ton of money prospecting a resource, only to have your competition to rush over and build a hut on top of it and legally claim it as their own.

There needs to be some sort of mechanism, perhaps even not governmental if renegotiating the OST is too dangerous or unlikely to happen soon, by which a company can claim a mining claim over a resource they have prospected and have that claim be legally protected from claim jumpers for a period of time.
The only data we have are the 2015-16 download logs posted by Elbakyan and a reporter for 'Science.' At the time they had 28 million+ downloads over 6 months. I truly hope no more logs are released (at least not with that level of detail).
I like this point. My concern is people using autonomous vehicles to commute.
I went to a non-top tier undergraduate school. I made efforts--at big companies as well as the one I founded--to recruit from my alma mater. I ended up defaulting to NYU, Harvard and Stanford.

Career services at non-top tier schools are shit. Once, as a personal favor, I offered to help a company with a well-known CEO recruit from my state school. When I brought it up with a dean I knew, career services got mad. They said I should have gone through them first. Guarding their gatekeeping function was of greater concern than doing their job. They then suggested this CEO come to their fall freshman career fair. I said no, it's a high-profile company, they'd prefer if you curated a list for them. (MIT and NYU, amongst others, do this.) No response.

Consider, too, that 90% of recent-college graduate recruiting (in finance, at least) is less about finding brilliance than finding someone who won't make dumb mistakes. The Ivy League produces a consistent product. They hold no monopoly on genius. But the variance around others' outputs is too high for a young firm.

All that said, I never turn down an outbound email. (It's how I broke into the industry.) I also think it's important, as your firm develops, to keep an eye on broadening recruiting.

Closing note: in response to recent news, I started thinking about our workplace's gender diversity. It's bad, and it matches that of the schools we recruit from.
Is there any way to modify the appearance of text within emails? My startup has a popular Chrome extension that works with gmail on desktop, but we'd love to be on native gmail apps also. For context (and to understand why we need to modify the text), see http://www.beelinereader.com
This. The disappearance of quick links killed my productivity. Super frustrating.
They also killed Hangout apps: https://www.engadget.com/2017/01/06/apps-that-rely-on-google...
And definitely not with a child.
I like people. I like being with people. I like seeing my friends in person. I also do not like cars. Healthy places don't need automobiles for everyday use, but hermitage is not something I'm remotely looking for.
All the face-tracking tech behind Apple’s Animoji
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That was not the case two years ago. And maybe that's changed, but there's some prove-it here.
How about MODI - the mouseover DOM inspector loaded as a favelet.

http://slayeroffice.com/?c=/content/tools/modi.html
I’ve worked for startups where nearly all of the early employees were from one university, because it’s easier to recruit that way for a small startup. But they grew out of it after a few years. It’s stranger to be still doing much the same thing decades down the road.
Oh, I'm familiar with that. It's just that most don't take away the right to vote permanently. They take it away until you're done serving your sentence and then it is automatically restored. (See the link.)

A couple of States even allow inmates to vote while incarcerated. In my now-home State, inmates are encouraged to vote and sometimes politicians will even go campaign inside the prison. That's pretty rare, but has happened.

So, it's a temporary loss in most cases. Notably, Maine allows inmates to vote and Maine is overwhelmingly white. Vermont is the same way. In my quest for more information, I found some commentary about that aspect.
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Every company will use blockchain by 2027 – here’s how
Are we talking about concrete structures in general, or specifically marine concrete structures? This topic (or variants thereof) have been floating around the net for months. They're mostly bullshit. All modern-day PCC (portland cement concrete) structures continue to harden ('cure') for an indefinite period after pouring. A 30 year old building is stronger than a 3 month old building.

There's nothing magic or secret about this phenomenon.
Adding fly ash (very similar to volcanic ash) to PCC is a well known ingredient for making high strength concrete.
Context is certainly extremely important, but a model can incorporates context without general understanding.
Surprising Hamilton bus drivers with coffee
> ingrained Russian xenophobia

Citation needed.

(Unless you can't back it with statistics and then it becomes a slur)
That's irrelevant. 7 cents per mile in LIDAR costs is expensive, regardless of how the vehicle is owned and it's use charged.
Parliamo Glasgow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfCk_yNuTGk

I also grew up in Fife, although my parents paid good money so I would have an Edinburgh accent. Glasgow was like a foreign country to us...
>It turns out that not having to name things is a feature.

I think this is one of those great insightful points that's counterintuitive and yet has abundant real-world evidence we can't deny.

I'd guess that vast majority (99%) of programmers that program in languages requiring explicit variable names (Python, C, Java, Go, etc) will still use Excel without named cells nor named columns. Yes, they will label their adjacent cells with freeform text (e.g. "TOTAL PRICE:") but they won't use the Excel "named regions" feature to be referenced in formulas. How do we reconcile the inconsistent attitude we have about the benefits of names?!?

It turns out that yes, naming cells is a form of "code documentation" and helps avoid "spaghetti formulas" -- but it's also a friction. If programmers using Excel eschew cell names, it's a given regular users will too.

It also doesn't help that "names" in Excel is not a 1st class feature. It's a separate menu item and the name is a hidden "alias" for the cell.

With other products, the "name" of the cell is what you type into the box right there on the sheet. The UI for giving a cell a name is more immediate.
Aren't the flaws flaws in the concept, rather than the implementation, though? Are those likely to be improved on?
Critical industrial networks: Legacy kit, no antivirus, weak crypto
New grads are never hired for a particular skillset. No one is an expert on the unix kernel or hardware design or iOS internals out of college. Apple hires smart people and teaches them these skills. Same with Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon and every other large tech company.
there is a typo in the first sentence of the welcome pop up
The only feature required to beat Google Sheets in my book: smooth scrolling.
I don't know if it's ironic in any useful sense, so much as fucking depressing.

though yes a calculator that refuses to let you enter numbers correctly is some 'Time Enough at Last' levels of irony.
Would you get a speed increase in reads? I thought async and wal speedup would just be for writes (no good for read only database). Maybe I'm misinformed. Have to play with it and see.
TV news 'hack' sees Bitcoins swiped
> If your chief frustration is battleship coordinates

I read that more as a way to demean Excel by comparing it to a toy than any kind of exhaustive list of complaints...
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This doesn't really make sense. The thing that gives cryptocurrencies value is that they are scarce. The thing that gives them security is proof of work, allowing a distributed consensus algorithm that is hard to game.

Cryptocurrency isn't a source of magic money in the sense that you could tap it for a "basic income" type scheme-- where the recipients are not doing anything to earn it.

In cryptocurrency every actor in the system has a job that they do, namely, miners mine and that's how they get paid.

I'm not saying its impossible, it just seems like it doesn't make sense at first look.
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I went to a state school. Most of my professors also taught at a larger name school across town. My classes were half the cost with half the number of students. I believe I got the same education for less and probably got a lot more face to face time with my professors in the process.

The name of the school means very little to me as a result of my experiences. Especially now that I interview a lot of people and have a really hard time seeing any differences between them based on education.

Hats off to the folks who got the great education at a discount. In a way they may have made the smarter decision.
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In the case of French names it probably depends on if you have any exposure to French pronunciation rules at all. I have a pretty crappy level of high school French but I can usually manage not to butcher pronunciation. I was with a friend in Montreal though and she had absolutely no idea how to pronounce many things.
Cost fails to account for economic development as a result of the hurricanes and subtract that from economic damage.

Letting things break so that money will be spent replacing them is not 'economic development' [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
Tesla makes quick work of Puerto Rico hospital solar power relief project
If the biases start with the university imagine how deep it goes.
HashiCorp (vagrant) raises $40M
What “People over Process” actually means
They'll have to scan it for search. And spam, as sibling comment mentions. And, really, to store and display it at all, depending on your definition of 'scan'.
Have there been follow-up studies on this? An interesting experiment to conduct would be to give participants a shot of either glucose or saline and then test their self-control to see if increasing blood glucose increases performance.
> The main difference is that MIT has more reputable professors and the children have richer parents.

Harvard, maybe. MIT? Their undergrads are great — of the interns we get, MIT and Cal Tech undergrads are leaps and bounds above those from other schools.
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Teenager's life 'ruined' by Live.me and Twitter 'trolls'
Yes. I recently updated my home setup to include a cheap standing desk [1], an external monitor mounted on an arm, and a desk chair with a firmer seat and back (that a friend gave me for free). It's been night and day in terms of what I can get done when working from home or working on side projects.

Your desk doesn't need to be that big. I had a larger desk before and aside from not fitting very well in my room, it tended to get cluttered with random junk. Having a smaller desk forces me to keep it clean. Also using a monitor arm helps you claim back some space.

On the chair, comfort is important but like I mentioned above firmer is better if you're going to be sitting for a long time (and again, standing desks are not that expensive so you should consider one).

[1] $240 from IKEA http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S49084965/. It's cheap because it's manual (you turn a crank to adjust the height) but it works fine.
The modern Firefox Debugger has none of the issues you're whining about.

https://github.com/devtools-html/debugger.html
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I agree that it does seem counter-intuitive given what we've come to expect a cryptocurrency to be.
Yes, actually. A nuanced discussion on a nuanced issue is much preferable to ideological squabbles.
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"CS curricula vary widely in terms of technologies and depths covered, and applicability to real world problems."

No, they don't. At least, not at the undergraduate level.

I went to an unknown undergraduate CS program. Later, I did a PhD at one of the top schools in the country. For my career, I have worked with graduates from all of the elite programs. There's no difference in training. The big-name schools may attract "better" high-school students, but even that advantage is overrated.

Undergraduate programs are largely identical. It's only when you get to graduate school that the resources of a top-tier program start to become relevant.
Oh, yea. DabbleDB was amazing! Eventually bought by Twitter. Here's a demo video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCVj5RZOqwY
This and then read the Phoenix project and then the Google devops book.
Rubin's Essential Phone vs. The “World's Best” Phone
They trade off. I think I still prefer the Chrome performance and memory tools but the inspector, debugger and most other tools I prefer in Firefox.
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Penal labor is coerced, unpaid labor which is by definition slavery.

What you're referring to is chattel slavery.
Most CS courses aren’t really vocational courses; graduates don’t come out experts in a particular area, normally. Which is just as well, really; most of the technologies are transient.
KSC changes Falcon Heavy launch date to NET Dec 2017
Most people outside the states and Great Britain use metric for everything.
Writing involves a couple of different metaphors; the main one is the correspondence of a written symbol with an oralsound. Another one is that a linear sequence of glyphs matches a linear sequence of sounds. Obviously there are mechanical problems with fitting a long sequence of letters on a limited space. Boustephedron maintains the linear sequence of the letters by going back and forth. People quickly learned that it's much easier to read if you instead cut each line into segments and start each segment on one side of a page, but this breaks the visual metaphor of a continuous line of written symbols matching a continuous line of sounds.

Inventing writing is really, really, really hard. Just as, given that we learned to read so long ago, it's hard to remember how hard it is to learn to read. Boustephedron is like training wheels for writing.
That theme is so ugly. It's like Firebug is permanently stuck in Windows XP.
>Sounds a lot like Gmail Labs, which was discontinued.

It's still present and working on my personal Gmail as well as my work Gsuite account. I use a bunch of the features.
WebPageTest.org result: https://www.webpagetest.org/result/171024_AW_97ca0329c0a7e7d...

I am impressed how fast it loads, despite it being over 3.5MB.
I'll just give you the context and you can decide for yourself:
http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/27/against-individual-iq-w...
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> This was a design error on the part of the programmers, because the software didn't make it clear why it was "misbehaving"

Partly yes, but only partly, as they did publish the "peculiar" workaround that they (the programmers) used in the update (though not giving to it the relevance that should have been given to it), but NO user actually reads the boring text that comes with the updates of course.

In this peculiar case the non-reading users were divided in three:

1) non-reading users that didn't even notice the anomaly

2) non-reaading users that noticed the anomaly and that either read the accompanying text or called to ask why the anomaly presented itself and were given a reasonable explanation.

3) non-reading users that noticed the anomaly, but, assuming that the programmers were a bunch of good-for-nothing morons [1], forced or "overruled" the settings without asking anything (and of course without even asking themselves if they were possibly causing an issue later on)

Of course both the #1 and #2 were fine, with the difference that the #1 were simply lucky, whilst the #2 "deserved" their success, as they had the curiosity to delve deeper in the issue.

The #3 are the main reason why I posted the Chesterton Fence reference, but it is applicable more generally.

Now that they were (all, users and programmers, in different ways) bitten by the issue, most probably the programmers in next release will add a field to the database so that you can have more than one payment with the same government code on the same day.

Still I can bet that in a few years the new kid on the block (among the programmers) will notice that there is a field in the database that is always set to 1, the memory of the reason why that field was added will be lost and he will probably remove that field by saying "Ha! I optimized the database by removing an unneeded field." and falling in the same fallacy.

[1] BTW, not that the opinion specifically was completely wrong, though I am not a programmer (nor an accountant) I had to deal with some of these guys to import some inventory data coming from another accounting program and it was a nightmare.
These are the earplugs I used. I'm not sure if there are better or worse out there. The price point was low enough that I just bought them without a lot of research and they worked perfectly.

https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00LENN4P0/
Badrabbit ransomware
It's an interesting idea. Did you write something to explains how it produces and maintains an economy?
it'd be amusing to do an actual survival analysis of google product lifetime, with right censoring and everything.
Resolution?