skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is pure ideology, built with rhetoric on emotional sand instead of argument from principle.

A difference in outcome by itself in no way lays a requirement on society to 'drive that disparity to zero.' This is a baseless, indefensible assertion and leads to utter chaos when applied across society in the myriad ways one may analyze 'inequalities of outcome.'
If you take the time to read real history written by highly educated and thoughtful scholars (as opposed to bs pseudo intellectual history) then yes.

Just think about the racist stereotypes held by Americans towards Chinese and Japanese people during and prior to WWII.

Those stereotypes were not of the successful violin playing overachiever, I can promise you that.

Thus, for anyone willing to look in the mirror, all sorts of implicit biases and stereotypes or prejudices - racial or otherwise - must be called into question if you want to live a life of intellectual honesty with oneself.
You would think that sort of discrimination is a thing fo the past, yet....
http://www.chicagotribune.com/g00/business/ct-bias-hiring-05...
It's not really an edge case, though. Asian-American students should (based on merit alone) make up almost half of top colleges. I realize you probably didn't mean "edge case" as in "a small effect", but the effect here is so large it really is front and center - it would radically change the makeup of top college student bodies, with a large corresponding impact on affirmative action for underrepresented minorities.

It's also historically not a small issue either. The same was true for Jewish students a few generations ago, and Harvard acted then as it did now - to limit the representation of those groups and prevent them from being a big chunk of the student body. This also isn't new about Asian-American students, for that matter - for many years now the evidence has been piling up that colleges are discriminating against them. So bringing this up isn't like someone found an interesting theoretical problem with college admissions policies - it's a huge long-standing issue.
In some states, California being one, you can "read law" while working for a member of the bar and then sit for the bar exam. The CA bar exam has 45% pass rate though, with most takers having gone to a good law school. YMMV indeed.
https://fohr.co does this and is probably one of the first to do so (they started in ~2014, I think).
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I think using AI itself sound tech influencer trend. This can be a customized old-school bullshit generator e.g.

http://www.bullshitgenerator.com/
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Asians are around 60% of the world population, no? So I'm not sure how a rise to 40% of Harvard inhibits "proportionate" representation.

Edit: I'm not pretending to be obtuse here - I'm actually questioning why an elite university should be representative of US demographics rather than the world.
Wow! Cool examples. Thanks!
I'm 31, and I found an even better Internet experience than the old phpBB forums in the form of modern image boards.

I regularly visit Lainchan and a couple of boards at 8chan, and everything's like the communities of the 90s. I actually met some people IRL and it was great. You guys should try finding some of these small communities.
Come check out https://hackerforums.co ! We have a nice old fashioned phpbb forum for ya
You were likely downvoted because:

1. As @woah said, your statement is incorrect, HN has more vocal crypto opponents than supporters.

2. You needlessly called people "idiots".

3. Your comment was rambling and mostly consisted of whinging and name-calling.

4. HN Guidelines frown on commenting about the voting on comments (yes, I know that's what I'm doing too).
Thanks for this, I didn't realize there was a term for the issue I was taking with the structure.
Traditionally, alcoholic beverages were shaped by the environment around them.

The reason that Scotch Whisky uses peat smoked malt was that there wasn't coal available for them to use instead. It was aged in used barrels for economic reasons, rather than taste.

It's the same for beer, different styles of beer largely came about due to differences in water chemistry.

It seems weird to try and artificially define American Whiskey by trying to force a terroir in the product using selective breeding. That's backwards from how the process has historically happened, it's artificial.

The whole artisan American Whiskey market is bullshit anyway. Most "craft distilleries" just buy bulk white spirit or pre-aged spirit from a wholesaler [1], then finish it in their own barrels. The usually use smaller barrels too, to try an impart as much flavour in as short a time, leaving you with an unbalanced whiskey that just tastes like an oak barrel. Sometimes they even use tricks like artificially heating and cooling the ageing warehouse or using ultrasound to try and speed up the process. But you can't rush time.

In fairness, it's not just American Whiskey that has this problem. It's luxury spirits as a market. Luxury alcohol is a marketing industry that sells alcohol. Vodka is especially egregious, where the bottle the spirit comes in is often more expensive than the contents. Only 10 of around 130 Scotch Whisky distilleries are independent, the rest owned by international conglomerates like Pernod Ricard.

[1] https://www.thedailybeast.com/your-craft-whiskey-is-probably...
You were 5 when this occurred.
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Different, but related issue (at least philosophically, to me): US colleges currently are 57:43 women to men [0].
Does this warrant a response, and if so, how should it be implemented? Male quotas? Gender as a "plus" in admissions (like how Harvard does race)?

[0]: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/college-gender-gap-remains-s...
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What do you want these ex-convicts to do the rest of their lives? Ostracize them into some sort of societal prison forever?

They served their time, and the justice system has deemed them safe, and they hopefully learned their lesson, so please welcome their return to free society. It is much better for everyone if they could actually contribute their skills to the betterment of humanity by participating in the legal free market, especially if they have specialized skills in demands, rather than potentially risking that they return to the life of crime out of necessity as a result of being isolated from the legal free market.
The idea you'd be able to see everything you want for $9/month when the going rate was $100/month is and remains an utter fantasy. There is no way, shape, or form where the industry is going to suddenly operate on 90% less income.

Ironically, when you ask for one big hub, you're asking for a traditional cable subscription: Comcast will give you most of the channels out there (often, throwing HBO in for free), and due to the APIs the major ISPs and channels are on board with, you can either watch them on Comcast's site or the individual channel websites. Oh, and Comcast boxes now integrate your Netflix subscription too.

Cable packages when bundled with Internet service are often pretty price-competitive for what they offer. I recently left Comcast, but picked up their competitors' cable package for the same reasons: It's a pretty inclusive streaming package for a good price.
> To my mind, it's not a big departure from my original comment.

Fair enough, perhaps "expansion" would have been a better word than "departure".

> But your stance seems fundamentally dismissive, so I think I'm done here.

To my mind, I'm trying to be responsive and evoke thought-provoking conversation. In this case, I hoped I could get you to share what you think could be done to improve the broken system, but I failed.
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This is why you never give HR your original documents and only your copies.
Lol. Say more with less syllables. What an empty fog. Almost want to ask if this comment was computer generated.
The fact that the bendable screen wasn't having the bend changed in real-time felt like a big red flag. They made the claim this could be used to "unfold" your phone into a tablet.

It should be a no-brainer to have the image changing and a small motor flexing the screen open and closed. I'm guessing this tech isn't actually ready yet.
> there has to be some form of normalization for students whose parents/culture/childhood environment didn't value education.

Why? Colleges are literally places of education. It doesn't seem odd that children who focused on their education would be highly-represented there.

Intervening earlier may make sense - promote education in environments where it's less focused on.
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

Think carefully about if racial equality is truly your end goal. I agree that in a perfect world, there would be racial equality. I also agree that there were, and are, forces pushing us away from racial equality and that those forces are harmful.

Consider two children, one black and one white, who are in an approximately equal position. Why is it beneficial to give advantages to the black child just because his condition was caused by generations of discrimination, instead of, say, crappy parents. Perhaps it would be easier to consider the population of "low class" people [0]. Under what theory is it beneficial to discriminate in within this population?

This is not to say that, from a practical perspective, affirmative action is always wrong. For instance, if you have a white applicant and a black applicant that, by all available metrics, are equal; it is entirely possible that the black applicant is actually a better choice for reason that statistically exist, but which you fail to capture in your metrics. But, unless you are arguing that there are actually meaningful differences between the races, you are simply using race as a proxy for some measurable property(s). It would be better if we could measure that property directly (although, we often cannot).

If we simply force racial equality without address the root causes of the inequality, then we have two problems: The first problem is the harm caused by the initial racism. The second problem is the harm caused by the racism inherent in our method of forcing equality. There is also the benefit caused by incidentally addressing the root cause of the inequality; but since that is not what we are measuring, it is not clear how well we are doing with that.

[0] Yes, in general low class whites are better off than low class blacks. But the curves have enough overlap that it is possible to construct a population where the expected value of a white person is equal to that of a black person. That is the type of population I am talking about.
Society is necessarily built on ideology (also known as principles). The idea that differences in outcome shouldn't be based on factors like race isn't exactly a radical one. Nor is it based on rhetoric or emotion--if we assume races are equal, differences in outcome tied to race must be the result of societal inefficiencies and failures.
The rich will just go elsewhere, so you might end up doubling their education cost (if new institutions need to be created) but their placement in society will still be the same. Current Ivy league's would fall in stature and we'd back here again within a decade.
he is just hurting himself by trying so hard on a already broken system, encouraging him to keep going at it like most of the user on this thread( Keep drilling! keep drilling!) will just make him more sad and doubt even more of his own skills which are already proven on his company to be good enough, if anything people should encourage him to try places that don't use such broken methods and go for companies that really value his skills and dont take such broken process seriously.
Which in some ways proves the point. Poverty begets poverty. Black Americans are under-represented in the well-educated cohorts of young professionals who get high salary jobs and easily move to high cost-of-living areas.
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> Most of the following blog post is written from a game developer’s perspective, but should also apply to other areas ...

Video games are a special case where allocations and deallocations are often well scheduled and predictable. For the more general case, using a data type like ivector[1] for the object arrays would provide the desired memory safety. It gives you the flexibility of safely accessing an object via index, iterator or (zero-overhead smart) pointer. Even though it's a vector (like std::vector) its iterators behave like list iterators. That is, after an insertion or removal operation, unlike indexes, they continue to point to the same item (not necessarily the same position) and they only become invalid when the item they point to is removed. In particular, they don't become invalid after a resize/reallocation operation.

So using ivector's iterators instead of index handles would allow you to safely perform insertion/removal operations if necessary.

Also, for performance reasons you may sometimes want to temporarily obtain a direct pointer to the item. ivector allows you to obtain a zero-overhead smart pointer to the item that is guaranteed not to become invalid. [2] It does this by disabling "resize" operations on the vector while it exists.

[1] shameless plug: https://github.com/duneroadrunner/SaferCPlusPlus#vectors

[2] https://github.com/duneroadrunner/SaferCPlusPlus#make_xscope...
With OLED the black levels are affected by random pixel mura—which makes pixels that should be off show as slightly on. So you can cover that by biasing them up slightly so they are all slightly on and the blacks look more uniform—however the actual contrast ratio suffers. The higher the PPI for oled typically the worse the mura issue gets. So likely they will improve this over time to get the black levels down and effectively the contrast ratio will go way up.
Going back farther, it would be easy to feel nostalgic about the BBS scene.

There were less people and it had a higher barrier for entry, so better signal/noise.

Now there's everyone and it's easy to participate, and the noise is defenning.
I did not mean to imply that names do not matter wrt getting a callback at a job, of that I'm aware. I meant more as a 'why does it matter in qualifications.' i.e. in my formulaic paradise that is apparently too futuristic, name would be omitted as a factor. I don't think it's only race based, either. I'm sure an Alexander would get more callbacks than a Bubba. But people don't choose their name, such is life.
Is there any point in having an 8k screen right now? seems like there isn't even a lot of 4k content as is. So unless you are a graphic designer or something it seems pointless right now...or am I missing something here?
Uh, yes they do.
As with most things in life, parts I agree with, other statements need the opposing view. Temperance.

Using a Presidential analogy, it advocates a style much like Reagan. Founders should focus on vision and being the flagbearer of that standard. Then have the cleverness to delegate much of the responsibility for keeping the ship afloat to talented individuals without regard for ego. As a general process, seems reasonable. Probably less stress, more focus on important tasks. To an extreme, you become detached and unaware of the undercurrents within your firm. The vision can wander because it is decoupled from reality on the ground.

On the counter side, I would argue there is value in being more akin to a Clinton style figurehead. Fairly well known for keeping abreast of everything, to the point of annoyance. Leaving people people free to do what they do, ie, not micro-managing, but being aware of what is occurring - remaining engaged. To an extreme, you are obsessive and obstructing rather than staying informed. High stress, and not enough time maintaining vision and outlook.

Needs both, and fundamentally disagree that we as entities are limited to a "linear" growth. It may just seem linear as you approach the event horizon. To those far away, your change is remarkable.
Many people browse the Explore tab more than their home feed. Even if they don't follow these people, they still may see the post and even without "liking" it it will up the posts "impressions" (business accounts can see these stats). Brands buy ads for exactly this reason. Influencers are the same.
Do you only think it is a problem for admission metrics?

What about other clearly obvious racial biases. Is it a problem that the NBA lacks Asian players?
Is this simply an agreement on the standard? Or do they have working radios that could drop into smartphone form factors?
Neat library!

Your post mentions not finding any reliable modem libraries. I'm curious what issues you had with mine, if you tried it?

https://quiet.github.io/quiet-js
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Without proprietary video card driver both Windows and Linux had troubles even scrolling a window, it was very laggy. Why was unaccelerated VGA (or VESA?) mode so slow, I wonder?

I haven't looked into the details on Linux but on Windows the "default" VESA/VGA mode uses the VGA BIOS, whose code is run in 16-bit VM86 mode:

https://wiki.osdev.org/Virtual_8086_Mode#Usage

http://nuclear.mutantstargoat.com/articles/pcmetal/pcmetal04...

The 16-bit code is not optimised for speed (is your framebuffer more than 64K? It's probably doing bankswitching and only copying 64K at a time), and the video BIOS itself may reside behind a slow serial interface on the GPU[1] --- so executing from it is very slow.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Peripheral_Interface_Bu...
Ofcourse all types of people are likely intrinsically pretty close to everyone else, but you can't underestimate the effect of culture. Roughly speaking, alcohol is legal worldwide if you're above the age of 18 or so. So why do alcoholism rates vary massively between countries? It's largely 'culture'.

Black american culture has been pretty self-destructive these last hundred years. Look at rap music videos, thug culture, single motherhood statistics, etc. Meanwhile recent immigrants (asian americans) are passing them.

Culture is incredibly powerful and we don't all have the same culture.
I think parent was being sarcastic
Save the money and buy the flights. You don't need to justify a dream. I drive across the US once or twice a year to camp in the deserts of Utah and it is, indeed, a trip of a lifetime. My photos are here:

https://www.instagram.com/desertdefender/

and some more here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/defender90/albums/721576335549...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/defender90/albums/721576262049...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/defender90/albums/721576252403...
Scientific explanations are always incomplete and approximations of an objective reality. Yes all Science has to make fundamental assumptions to function, we all have to make assumptions to function in the real world. There are fewer fundamental assumptions with Science then with religion. I am fallible, but I try believe in things based on evidence.
It used to be a free download until June 11, but they've extended that period to June 23.
I'm a bit confused. How does QAM work with audio if you have only one channel rather than I/Q? Are you using multiple frequencies for that?
> History will remember “race blindness” with derision.

Reminds of the "I Don't See Race" skit by CollegeHumor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qArvBdHkJA
>>The idea you'd be able to see everything you want for $9/month when the going rate was $100/month is and remains an utter fantasy. There is no way, shape, or form where the industry is going to suddenly operate on 90% less income.

Reminds me of at&t. They made boatloads of money at one time until they didn't. I'm sure they didn't like it when suddenly their main product, long distance calls, became dirt cheap. I still remember paying huge amounts of money in late 1990s to make calls from NYC to Buffalo. The whole thing was such a big racket.

I for one will not shed a single tear if these companies go out of business. Some other companies will take their place.
I'm really starting to think this site is being used to test AI. Either that, or speakers of English as a second language trying to participate. I see a lot of comments like this: high average syllable count, no actual meaning.
Which reminds me of the old joke, "Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's the other way around."
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Ends don't justify means. Period.

This isn't right. That alone is enough of a reason to be against it.

Ethics is never a question of goals,if that was the case anything can be justified with an end goal which appears worthy enough.

There is this subversive ideology about acheiving equality. People are created equal regardless of the "race" social construct. If you have to make someone equal then they were not born equal.

If someone can't get into harvard due to historical disparities against their group then what needs correction is not harvard but instead their current sociological conditions.

How can a person not feel completely insulted when they get accepted into a school or a job solely for the sake of their skin color? I would feel humiliated.

This society needs to get back to the basics. If you accept something as wrong then also accept it as wrong for everyone, else scratch out any reference of equality under the law.
Consider two children, Alice and Bob, who appear equal on objective measurements while applying to college. Alice comes from an environment that heavily values education; Bob comes from one that does not. Despite this, they both achieved equal academic results. Further, if admitted, they will both find themselves in the same education valuing environment (college).

Since Bob came from an environment that did not value education, we might expect to see an improvement from the mere fact that he is now in an environment that does value education. In contrast, since Alice already came from such an environment, we would see no such improvement (from that cause).
This is actually untrue: Jay-Z and Beyonce's new album is Tidal exclusive, and I just saw someone complaining about it on social media today. I'd expect this trend to increase, not decrease, over time.
This shouldn’t happened in recent versions. What version are you on?
Racial quotas are illegal, so Harvard cannot say it outright. Harvard says that race is considered as a factor in their holistic evaluation.
Bear in mind, everyone's talking about how must-see a given TV show is, and how much they loathe "having to" shell out money to see it on X streaming service.

Prices go down when demand is low. Demand for TV is not low, ergo, prices are not going to go down.

Also, when it does, the first casualty isn't going to be the companies: It's going to be the shows you love. People on HN were thrilled when Amazon saved The Expanse. But if The Expanse doesn't drive X number of new Prime subscribers, it won't be around much longer than that.
That it prefers certain races over others?
On what basis do you claim James Damore is “alt right” [1]? It sounds like you’re just making up lies.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/15/technology/culture/james-dam...
I'd like to hear how you think piracy will be made more difficult. I'm not trying to be antagonistic, I am just curious as I have only seen the piracy community grow in recent years.
We need to stop basing education on submission and obedience. Asians are successful students, but they struggle to build startup cultures in their countries.

Edit: Downvote me all you want. I'm an educator who has toured schools in Asia to build international educational relationships. Their students are perfect automatons who will never take the risks necessary to change the world.