skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the record, modern mainframes are not for luddites. They can run Linux natively and they have a very advanced hypervisor that you can use for Linux as well. As far as I know, IBM invented virtualization back in the 70s and coined the term "hypervisor", and they've been continuing to innovate in the field since then.

zOS itself feels dated because of the 3270 based interface that you use to interact with it and the fact that a lot of esoteric languages are still used heavily, but the OS and hardware are both cutting edge on the inside. Node.js, Swift, Java, and Python 2 and 3 all run on zOS nowadays.
> it is never as simple as pulling out the torches and pitchforks screaming "BAN BITCOIN. BAN THE DARKWEB. STOP ICOs"

Straw man [1]. Nobody serious suggests banning any of these.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
When it was difficult or expensive to run a forum, and someone had to pay the bills, it incentivised the owner to have an opinion about what the forum should be and appoint mods to enforce it.

It also incentivised the participants to play nice within those rules because splitting off and starting a rival forum was kinda expensive and a pain in the arse.

By making things cheaper, and paid for by some big company somewhere, we've lost that.
It's the same way any other marketing material may influence you to make a purchase. A lot of online influencer marketing is recommendation-based: "I like this product, so you should buy it, too." Think of it similar to celebrity endorsements in traditional media. For many Millennials and Gen Z who follow these influencers, they are like celebrities (but usually on a smaller, niche-scale).
Thanks for mentioning this.
Real nifty.
> The big scam is "We hire the best and the brightest".

And adding noise to the hiring process increases the effect of "we are the best".

If you flipped a coin, it would be more honest and less expensive than putting people through a "difficult" whiteboard test. But you wouldn't get the "we only hire geniuses" effect.

As these "difficult" tests are usually based on a corner of the CS field that the interviewer enjoys, it is essentially random, while appearing to be totally meritocratic.

You end up with a process that filters out 90% of qualified candidates, but nobody that was hired by that process wants to change it.
Can you elaborate? Does Apple TV let you purchase à la carte (on-demand) from any service, or do you still have to buy into a monthly subscription for a service just to watch one movie or TV series from its catalog?

The "one hub nexus" we are clamoring for requires either a) preferably, a single monthly fee to access everything; or b) less ideally, assuming reasonable prices, on-demand pay-per-view pricing.

A nexus that simplifies signing up for a dozen different streaming service subscriptions from one UI is not good enough. All that does is improve the frontend experience, while doing nothing to resolve the subscription hell that expects consumers to shell out $80+/month across many services to watch maybe 1% of the content.
> Access to education has been one of the best thing to happen to minorities, and Asians are a good example of that. Most came from poor immigrant families and in the space of 2 generations they made it to top universities. So what exactly were we doing wrong? Seems to me the system is clearly working as a social escalator.

(circa 1998)
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/unequal-opportunity-race-...

(Circa 2015) https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2015/01/28/us-ed...

(Circa 2017) http://college.usatoday.com/2017/03/07/report-the-race-gap-i...

The overarching theme is that non-asian minority populations may be disparately affected by adverse conditions continuously perpetuated on them such as single-parenting.

And before we conclude that single-parenting is the fault of the parent -- no, not generally. It's generally the fault of the society that disparately targets adults of a given background for separation or incarceration.

If we're being frank, neither white majority nor Asian minority populations have had to deal with imposed inadequacies in family structure.

TL;DR: Asian immigrants are more likely to have support networks similar to the majority population, something frequently deprived from other minority populations in the US.
Certainty exaggerated, however using the nosedive episode as the example, each of the "ratings" are given by people based on social interactions.

Their emptiness in the case of the show is based on the emptiness of the people themselves. I wouldn't be surprised if such a system did wind up being fairly "empty" as you say (see: twitter, IG etc...), but that's a reflection on the users, not the structure of the system.
Visa is a heavy user of zOS as well, as are some of the other credit card companies.
"In BCPL,flexibility is retained by eliminating the concept of data types and representing all quantities by bit patterns of the same length. A single vector may, for example, hold bit patterns representing numbers, booleans and pointers to other vectors. Variables are declared before use, but simply as variables, not as variables of any particular type."

See chapter 13 example BCPL programs:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mr10/bcplman.pdf

See chapter 13 example MCPL programs:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mr10/mcplman.pdf
Not American but wasn't the goal of affirmative action to give access to opportunities from the majority (white-Americans) to the minorities?

I'll try and dig it up when I can but I do remember reading that as a result, Asian Americans got shafted the most (they are still a minority) while white women benefited the most from affirmative action.

People genuinely believe the model minority myth of Asians/Asian Americans and think that this is okay for them.
Why is race even a factor? Our society is moving backwards in regard to unification. If we stop using race or nationality as a factor for anything, we can get more fair results - as long as the selection process is thought out enough to not explicitly favor races over one another based on irrelevant factors. It seems like more than ever people are identifying themselves by race, and diversity is celebrated so granularly anymore than it creates 'us vs them' situations. I just don't understand the thought process. I want to work with the most qualified candidates and not celebrate or even think about their race, sexual status, heritage, etc.
You've already named two potential companies that could be attributed unfair amounts of blame.

Beyond them, there are a large number of potential officials that could have leaned on / been leaned on or through nepotism or laziness been a part (or not part) of the planning, design, implementation etc of the bridge that are partly or largely responsible for design/funding choices to this bridge.

There are countless examples of people receiving undue flak before being conclusively proven as guilt free, it is often prudent to wait before leveling accusations - that is what the NTSB does in it's processes - often to a fault.

I think it is unnecessary snark to ask me if the bridge collapsed, please don't be crude.
My layperson's understanding is that whether Twitter is a utility isn't at issue. If Twitter is to be regulated like a utility, any highly popular website allowing user uploads must also be. Twitter isn't even close to being the most-used or most influential site in its category, so you'd have to call Facebook or YouTube a utility first.

It looks like the judge is allowing the lawsuit to decide whether Twitter falsely advertised a policy of ideological neutrality.
Well that's if you assume this can't be gamed to prop up the non superficial. Bill Gates or Obama constantly used influencers on social media to get interesting messages out to the masses.

What I don't like is that the most hyper, overenthusiastic, over the top characters send a signal to kids that it's the only route up the ladder. It is not.
I imagine color gamut and brightness is a bigger issue for that.
Fully customizable Java webserver framework with multi-domain/website support
please check the comments at this very page. Some people claim that everyone involved is a charlatan, one specifically says "F... ICOs" and someone else that all ICOs could disappear and no value would be lost.

EDIT: I agree with you that they are not serious opinions worthy of consideration, so your point might stand.
Reminds of some assembly (!) source code I read once for, I think it was, Super Mario brothers as ported to the TI-89 calculator. Every object in the game had the same bit structure (position, velocity, weight, width, some others), with the final word being a pointer to an "update" function. The game loop was a very straightforward physics update on each object followed by a call to its update function.
Yeah. This tool has essentially solved chat for me. In combination with bitlbee (a generic IRC-to-lots-of-protocols gateway), I've unified my chat needs onto one interface.

And the bit you fail to mention is that the client naturally adapts and works great on a phone. So the same chat logs and interface and channels go with me in my pocket.
Roku has a pretty large list of providers and the ability to search across them. It does feel like I'm being nickle and dined to death though when back catalog stuff I want to watch costs the same as recent shows :(
I've collated a few of these here: https://vanspiration.com/social/

You're right - there are all types. Glamorous, selectively documenting lifestyle types, and others focusing on the craft of it, and others on living that way full time. And there are dozens more trying the same thing all the time, motivated by the earlier batches. I find it all a bit fascinating.
I reckon it's to purposely give them a "reason" not to accept Asian Americans.

People like to believe we live in a meritocracy and Asian Americans as a group did better than other races - so they put in "well-roundedness" which ends up being super subjective but a reason for them to deny others based on other factors not relating to scores.

The respect part is a cop-out as it plays on peoples bias. This is where social stereotypes of groups as a whole tend to work it's magic. Asian Americans are seen as "not able to lead", "worker bees" etc. Even though there is no objective measure for that, just peoples bias and this leads them to apply certain characteristics to groups (based on names/photos) no matter what their application looks like.
Suppose the application was fully race-blind, and Harvard could rank all applicants on the four criteria you listed (academic, extracurricular, personal, athletic), and derive an overall score for each applicant.

I would claim that this score would strongly suffer from racial bias. A cohort admitted based on this score would look like a cohort where certain racial groups historically disadvantaged would appear to have been directly disadvantaged by the admissions choices, despite the process being fully race-blind.

And the same for religious affiliation, gender, able-bodiedness, and various other designations.

So while nobody consciously evaluating admission criteria would have ever considered e.g. race, it nonetheless would have been a major determining factor in the decisions.

The question is if society does not want that outcome, then what steps is the university allowed to take to fix it? It seems explicitly considering e.g. race ahead of time, to ensure an acceptable cohort demographic distribution, is not OK. So then what else?
One word: parallax.

If you don't move in front of it, possibly; but the fact that humans have depth perception will tend to spoil the illusion a bit.
I really think theres an opportunity for a startup here, some intermediary between the influencers and the clients (hotels, brands etc).

I think this will be another huge market for facebook when they eventually solve this. Proper tracking of influencer posts, verification of audience demographics, filtering out of time wasters would solve a lot of these issues.
Please list the founders with shady pasts that you're referring to.
> I think what happened is a lot of people in our cohort figured out how to use the trolling techniques honed on forums and in flamewars on the general public... I think what screwed the pooch was a massive influx of boomers into social networks, and everything that comes from having a bunch of non-digital natives suddenly being given tools they weren't ready to handle.

See, I think this is where we didn't apply lessons that we should've learned. A good moderation policy and good moderators are arguably essential to the life of a good forum, but Twitter is and always has been disastrous at it. It's a global forum thread or IRC channel where the trolls have completely free reign.
New discovery about the brain’s water system may prove beneficial in stroke
Race blindness isn’t the end goal, the goal is racial equality. Today, black people on average make 1/3 less income than white people. Because we must assume black people are intrinsically just as capable as white people, the goal must be to drive that disparity to zero.

With that in mind, it makes no sense from a scientific/engineering perspective to ignore race. No scientist or engineer looks at a situation, sees all of these problems correlated with a single variable, and then decides the way to solve the problems is to ignore that variable.

History will remember “race blindness” with derision. A thousand years from now, people are going to be studying our society in textbooks. And they’re going to say “so they enslaved and then denied human rights to this group of people based on their skin color for hundreds of years. Then, they said they could undo the effects of all that just by pretending to ignore skin color on a going forward basis!” They’re going to see “race blindness” for what it is—an attempt to sweep under the rug generations of oppression because it’s uncomfortable and we’d rather pretend “we’re all good now, right?”

EDIT: shocked at the number of responses challenging my premise that blacks are equally capable to whites.
"your product" is a function of our laws concerning property and those are not a fundamental law of the universe. Corporations have had a large say in defining what property is in the modern world but consumers get a say too, through their actions.

Why are a series of 1s and 0s this companies property or that person's property other than because society declares them to be so? If they can declare who owns what then that declaration can change

Edit: For example, if steam boat Willie was still under the copyright laws that existed when it was created, it would be society property now. Because the rules were changed, it's Disney's property. If "property" can be taken from society by companies, then the reverse can happen as well
Taking a look at this article https://opensource.com/article/17/8/what-about-cobol for example.
"Cost of electricity by source" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source

"Electricity pricing" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_pricing

> United States	8 to 17 ; 37[c] 43[c] [cents USD/kWh]
Affirmative Action started much earlier than that.
The same the 12 months before did... That I know a lot less than I thought I do.
Nah, you'd need to emulate the depth and lighting of a real window before anyone would mistake a screen as reality.
How do schema upgrades work? It looks like a specific actor type is tied to a specific schema but I assume the schema upgrades must be eventually consistent unless they are using 2 phase commit across all actors of the type?
There is a difference between "random in theory" and "random in practice"... see: http://blog.maxshinnpotential.com/2017/11/05/how-you-should-...
FameBit (https://famebit.com) – acquired by YouTube
This might be possible for probably computer science education, if you want to be a lawyer, banker, architect college education is MUST
>Not American but wasn't the goal of affirmative action to give access to opportunities from the majority (white-Americans) to the minorities?

Officially speaking, no, as that would be blatantly unconstitutional if done by the government (including public universities), or illegal if done by private organizations.

The official justification was that having a diverse student body provided a benefit to the entire student body; so an underrepresented student actually provided more value than an otherwise equal over represented student.
You're entirely right. The anti-Asian bias would probably (as suggested by the article) also impact populations with the same socioeconomic detriments, examples of whom can be seen among Vietnam War refugees and subsequent South-East Asian asylum-seekers/immigrants more generally, as you suggested.

So by penalizing the whole band of Asian races to even out admission, a whole bunch of materially disadvantaged Asian populations end up less favored than their African counterparts.

It's an unfortunate state of affairs.
> I'm pretty sure I only managed to run Maraudon start-to-finish once.

The early dungeons had a massive range of levels, though. IIRC the mobs in outer Maraudon were low 40s (high 30s?) whereas Princess Theredras was lvl 50. You weren't really meant to clear the thing in one sweep.
I read an academic paper yesterday that read exactly like you. It's crazy hard to parse the words without my eyes glazing over. I fear universities try to teach students to sound clever and intellectual, not clear and comprehensible. I just had to vent because I have to slog through a large number of academic papers over the next few weeks and if they're all like this, I might weep from agony.

Besides that, parsing your logic, I think you completely missed parent's point.
Or alternatively, the influencer has the grand holiday experience for no real occasion while the follower springs for it as a treat for their honeymoon or milestone or something.
I've seen multiple successful (ish) startups doing this already
Editorial independence refers to an outlet's freedom to cover topics of their choice with the coverage they judge best. So, is your concern the quality of the reporting, which is an problem of poor editorial practice, or the focus of the coverage, which is a problem of poor editorial independence? Or is it simply that you don't agree with a lot of the coverage?
> there is endemic and generational discrimination and privilege issues that can mean even if you truly did not want to make decisions based on race, religion, nationality, etc., you inadvertently did just by using proxies for societal scale discrimination or disadvantage in those categories.

Agreed. However, it seems to rest on confusing race for class. How about we just focus on class and get all the benefits (pick up the poorest; policy that attempts to correct those suffering generational discrimination) without the negatives that come with race based policy.
I'm in the same boat, but what I've found from talking with many people is that they use Instagram to discover places and get an inside look, with what they see on Instagram determining whether they go or not. This leads to reviews on Google like "they run a really good Instagram, but things don't measure up in-person" (I saw this exact review the other day).
I'm Asian. This is ridiculous.
Agreed that there's not an inherent conflict, but it seems the author is also arguing against an OO kind of design. In typical OO, all components of a given object are "owned" by that object which provides an interface through which they are accessed. This article seems to propose that the different components of an object are owned and accessed via different systems.
Semicolon-Shaped People
How is discrimination against Asian-Americans well intentioned? It seems like your comment is referring to affirmative action, while the subject at hand is active discrimination against a minority.
> Why is race even a factor?

This has been endlessly discussed to death. It is a factor because it is a factor in society(common eg: black names not getting callback for an interview). It is a factor because social inertia exists. Ignoring it and putting your head in the sand is not moving forward, places like harvard to want to take corrective measures to offset the inertia. Yes we would like to live in a race blind society but it cannot happen overnight.
Before forums bbs meetups were a great place meet like minded people. There were so few of us outside friends happened more.
I apologise, but that is my genuine question, and my genuine thoughts.

The way I wrote that is because on issues like this, people get quite charged one way or another, so I wanted to avoid anything personal and just hear the specifics. I'm definitely putting myself into the deep end on this stuff, so I want to hear more on the arguments from both sides - and also the specifics on this case because a lot of it slides past my understanding, and I'd like to know how off base I might be (or not be).

I'm kind of sad I'm getting downvoted, and not really told why - I can't halt my opinions if I don't know why they're so against the grain (or against rules or something).

What is the parent's point that I missed?
I agree, it feels like most posting on the internet is just screaming into the void. There's no meaning behind it, no interactions to come of it. I'll never talk to the other commenters again or know anything about them. They could be bots for all I know, but the worst part is that it wouldn't even matter if they were bots because the interactions wouldn't be any different.

This [1] Reddit thread filled almost entirely by a single guy commenting to himself is the best illustration of this that I've found so far.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/HighQualityGifs/comments/77d9ou/the...
This might seem a bit sad, but one of my dreams is to replace a wall of my suburban Australian house with an edge-to-edge video screen that looks like a portal to a hi-def (seemingly live) scene of Utah. Sun rises. Weather rolls in. Sun starts to set. Animals wander past, etc. That would be some serious escapism for me when I don't have the time/money to justify the flights. So far, the best option has been wandering around Red Dead Redemption on a big TV...
I don't think that would work with literature, because modern literature often makes allusions to earlier literature.
Pro-rata: proportional. Really that’s about all you need to know.
#metrology is awesome! #quadruplepatterning #FinFETastic!

I'm really happy that I don't work on consumer products.
> how did forced busing lead to inner-city gangs?

White students (the vast majority) targeted the black students, who then formed gangs to protect themselves. There is a good multi-decade ethnography of the effects of various changes in public policy and society on one particular high school here: https://www.amazon.com/World-We-Created-Hamilton-High/dp/067...

The high school is anonymized, but iirc it's somewhere in Syracuse, NY.

Note that (at least afaik) that's not directly where our modern national-scale gangs come from, although White flight and the collapse of cities surely did contribute there also.
Influencers are like second-rate Kardashians: famous for being famous.

I have a relative doing something with restaurants. Made some iOS app/ website and put pictures, 1-2 line reviews there and on sites like FB, instagram etc. With about couple of months of effort, he was able to mooch off 1000s of restaurant meals along with dozen of friends and family members. His total vocabulary about food is 'amazing', 'awesome', 'tasty', 'yummy' when using with spellcheck of course.
In my opinion it's due to the gargantuan number of people on this site and Reddit. On some of the smaller subreddits, you do learn to recognize people by username.
> For identifying strengths and weaknesses: "Programmer Competency Matrix":

> - http://sijinjoseph.com/programmer-competency-matrix/

> - https://competency-checklist.appspot.com/

> - https://github.com/hltbra/programmer-competency-checklist