skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re starting to touch the issue, but IMO, not quite. Allow me to present a somewhat controversial approach.

Considering the US only: at the risk of extreme and borderline stereotypical generalizations - if one looks at the history of immigration into the country - the Asian immigrants have largely consisted of Chinese laborers around the gold rush, Indian truck drivers and motel/cornershop owners in the early - mid 1900’s. They came to make a living in somewhat decent conditions. Both lines of work require you to be reasonably honest, keep your head down and do the job. It can be presumed these were the values these Asian parents inculcated into their children - who saw the pathway to their version of the American dream as a relatively low risk SME. The Asian immigrants since the 1960s have been largely STEM people - academic high performers, given the nature of university admissions and the visa process. STEM high performers - as individuals, and presumably as parents too, tend to be intelligent but sensible (risk-rational), belive in very hard work, tend not to oversocialize, to not brag a whole lot, and tend to prioritize knowledge/lifestyle over blind ambition and obscene wealth. None of those traits are directly conducive to being a top exec, but rather to a job like VP - engg.

An excellent case in point - as another commenter also mentioned, if you go to Asian cities, you’ll find exactly the sort of “persona” you’d find in a typical Western exec, often exaggerated to an even higher level. But that persona hasn’t made it to US shores, instead choosing to make it big in their own place.

In contrast, many of the earliest “white” immigrants came here first for ideological reasons, and later driven by ambitions of striking it big, and often by delusions of grandeur, and were significantly less risk-averse than either groups of Asian immigrants I mentioned earlier. Of course there were plenty of regular folks too.

So I would submit that instead of looking at just Asians/whites making it to top exec, one should look at 1) professional backgrounds of the parents of top execs, 2) fraction of those with highest academic/test scores making it to top exec. Of course, to be a successful top exec, the need for “top” academic scores is outweighed by a host of other qualifications. Asians in whom these “other” qualifications are found in ample measure often do make it big in their home countries, but might make terrible immigrants to the US.
Tracks were useful to cross trenches too
As long as someone finds it necessary to discriminate between any humans (for example “Afroamerican”, “Asian”, “Hispanic”, “White”), instead of treating them all as humans, you will not get rid of discrimination, because by definition, to start naming groups is to discriminate. The very verb to discriminate is a synonym for distinguish.
Almost every large tech company still uses Java in some way on the backend, and I doubt that will change soon. Google, Twitter, Amazon, Netflix, etc. PHP has a significantly worse reputation, although Facebook is known for a very large PHP footprint. ColdFusion, well... I haven't seen anyone in recent years using that in production.
Turning on my lights slighly dimmed and playing a Spotify playlist for these special situations :)

https://simon-schraeder.de/posts/andchill-building-alexa-ski...

Next step: Automated wine dispenser :)
Define technically superior? The German tanks had massive reliability problems, not just ease of repair they broke down under non-striker's situations.

They were technical nightmares.
I can get another if I break it, so a clay cup trumps a grail. - Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, classical Urdu and Persian poet from the Mughal Empire

... from http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
What does zoot mean in this context? I'm not a native speaker.
The project might need a different name that doesn't contain "Git". Github and older trademarks have been grandfathered in.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17289138
> And I'd still be bound to the IE automation model.

Why? You fetch data, calculate stuff and give out reports. Unless there is heavy javascript involved, you don't need a browser for any of this. But now you are dependent on the fragile setup you have created, hopping that VBScript, IE and your datasources will continue to work as long as you live.

Becoming independant and gaining a future ground would be a valid reason to change to a better environment. It doesn't need to be Python, but considering the requirements, Python is a very good choice for this it seems.
Your parent mentioned Certificate Transparency. Under CT all the public CAs log certificates they issue, and everybody can see the logs, programmatically (with cryptographic security) or via a log monitor like crt.sh

So yes, bad guys operating a TLD can trick a CA into issuing for a domain under theirs, but the CT logs would preserve evidence of this cert existing, and the CA is required to keep records of why it was confident to issue. Monitors would know about the cert in 24 hours (usually much less)
With that amount of funding, they'd better.
This is probably not true - there are many much larger video aggregation sites that exist comfortably outside of YouTube.
The problem with this software is that you don't get uploads automatically. I use Nightscout and InfluxDB with Grafana, and just set xDrip and AAPS to upload every new value automatically. Now I can have a browser tab open showing the glucose graph and medication and see changes happening real time.
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No, VMs will make things worse.
How to use roku voice search feature?
Use harddisks as microphones? Nice!
I think human society tend to get more tolerant over time (at a large scale). Recent and not so recent events such as acceptance of marriage for everyone, fight for gender equality and so on. Clearly there is a long way to go but eventually, when human problems are resolved people will probably turn their focus on animals as well.

The process is slow and may take centuries but I think we'll get there.
Yes, but its less of an issue mainly because there is an orchestration layer over the top of the deployment layer.

Basically there is a thing that spins up machines, connects them to a thing that places programs on them to run. The scheduler then starts your program and maps in storage, outside world connections (HTTP reverse proxy, or a bit more advance and some level 7 routing [ie /v1 goes to progam a /v2 goes to b])

when it works it means that the developer really doesn't need to think tomuch about _where_ a program runs.

Basically its a feature incomplete mainframe clone.
I'm using the simple definition that murder is killing with intent, barring modifiers such as a state of war or emotional modifiers, which machines are incapable of.

Computer systems are deterministic - if we give it A, we expect to get B, not C or D in some unpredictable pattern. If we do somehow get C, that is an error, not an insight. If we allow that the machine is correct 90% of the time, it's still in error but furthermore we have now codified an acceptable error rate. A human or group of humans had to make that decision, because computers are incapable of deciding what is acceptable or not acceptable.

Ergo, when you step off the curb into the path of that self-driving car, someone has already made a decision that 10% of the time, you die. The stated intent might be to maximise the preservation of the lives of the vehicle's occupants or that group of schoolchildren or a dog or whatever, but the unstated intent is that someone has to die.

Which means it is codified killing, or murder. It is not a happy (or unhappy) accident of the universe.
Never mind those folks with the rifles pointed at us! They’d never shoot someone whose busy changing a wheel!
IQ tests only measure a very portion of what constitutes intelligence in our society. In other words you could score high on an IQ test and yet be an "idiot savant" or score low on IQ and be the go to person for solving tricky mechanical problems.

Since you ask about thoughts and imagination in a CS context, I can only guess that you are asking about abstractions. In that case, there is a massive difference between being able to understand an abstraction that has been codified or to create a new one. For example, it takes most of us quite a bit of effort to get our heads around the abstraction used by, say Haskell. But to create a new abstraction that renders computations in a new area feasible, e.g. neuromorphic inference, requires a totally different way of thinking and I doubt that IQ tests can differentiate between the two.

In my experience, many genius programmers have very good recall of masses of detailed information. Which is similar to the skills of top litigation lawyers. Yet, when faced with a practical problem, like diagnosing and fixing a corrupted notebook computer, they both call in somebody with better analysis and deduction skills and most likely unable to recite masses of memorized material.
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This is cool. Do you internally have bindings or implementations in other languages?

For example, as far as I’ve heard most of vg.no (owned by Schibsted, biggest online newspaper in Norway [1]) is written in PHP. Don’t know if that is still true, correct me if I am wrong.

If not through bindings or other implementations, how exactly do you use this internally? Do you have dedicated servers that serve a JSON API that makes these transformations, or do you write individual programs that insert the transformed data into databases before the data is used, or do you execute Java programs as du processes of your other programs and then read the transformed data from stdout? Or perhaps you are doing things in different ways in different places?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdens_Gang
If you cannot predict performance of a query you cannot write a query with guaranteed performance characteristics and cannot guarantee performance of your application. So, no, SQL and RDBMSs in general are neither designed for performance nor are any good at it. Which is one of the reasons we have the whole world outside of them.
> bad-faith downvotes that cannot be backed up with argument

Would forcing them to make bad-faith arguments really improve the place?
Unless the bibb screw is rusted to nothing and you can't get it out. Or you got it out but you don't have a new one.

I've changed washers before, the things I posted are from experience not theory.
Do Indians count as Asians under the term?
>Perhaps that’s why people in modern societies feel unhappier than those in poorer, less developed societies.

I have heard this before and would really question if it is true.

Has anyone studied this?
Any one who has worked with Indians and Chinese wouldn't be surprised by this (i'm talking about fresh of the boat types of asians here - those born here should be fine.
A large part of me thinks that Devs are hurtling towards the same graduate job demographic as lawyers.
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You just described people working for you as robots.

I understand it was meant to be a harmless joke but it's still not so nice to say.
I put a timeout of 2-3 sec between each image download. Do you think this will prevent instagram from detecting the scraper?
I imagine you've written more than your fair share of PROGRESS 4GL code in the past .. your qualifications questions are pretty much straight out of the PROGRESS 4GL user guide .. ;)
In my experience some shopping sites do not allow you to see the prices for all the configurations and options without going into "buy" mode. Once I have all the information and decide that it isn't it worth it, I just abandon the cart.

Interestingly, the sites that have transparent price information tend to have better prices. So I guess that not showing all the prices is an attempt to trap people into buying at less than competitive prices.
No C#/F#/Dotnet content. Why not?
Does Asian include Indians as well? Kind of amusing since Apple and Google are both lead by "asian" immigrant men.
What does them being male have to do with anything?

Are you implying that being male means that they must be reckless? Or that if they were female they would automatically be careful and gentle? Careful throwing around those negative stereotypes.

EDIT:
The driver is likely to be getting shot at. This is going to be an order of magnitude more important than slight gender differences.
There's really no reason. ICBM's are just as good and carry less political risk
*Microsoft and Google
I think there is a different between fluanted wealth individuals and careers individuals. Those that flaunt wealth, I have seen regardless of race, are those that had it easy. These people tend to be second-generation rich or got rich fast. Off course, this is a huge generalization.
I think Leo Tolstoy might be fairly well known in the US due to "War and Peace" and, possibly, "Anna Karenina". But his nonfiction or autobiographical works deserve attention as well. I would highlight two of these:

"The Kingdom of God is Within you" -- I think Mahatma Gandhi considered this to be one of the three most influential books for his philofophy of "nonviolent resistence". Even though Tolstoy was already considered a literary genius in his country, the Russian czar initially banned this book due to negative imagery of the Russian church. So I think it was first published in Germany or elsewhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kingdom_of_God_Is_Within_Y...

"A Confession" -- a short book that is somewhat related to the previous one; depicts young Tolstoy's "search for the meaning of life" (or, God). It had a huge impact on me (even though I read it first being 30+). This would be among my first recommendations for books to read when you're 20.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Confession

Also, this might give some more context to understand Tolstoy's nonfiction:
https://libertarianchristians.com/2010/07/09/leo-tolstoy-aga...
All of the websites concerned have strict authorization requirements and none have public APIs afaics. At the start, it just seemed easiest to automatically scrape them. I guess I could have reverse engineer their private APIs and used those - but as the doctors say, the retrospectoscope is a rare and expensive piece of equipment!
The Switch is portable, so most of its appeal is for people who have a commute but don't drive. The nvidia Tegra chip is powerful and efficient enough to play ports of games that previously would only have been playable on a home console like DOOM (2016) that you will never play on an iPhone unless you're streaming through the new Steam app. Nearly every game worth playing will end up on Switch.

The first party games have the same appeal as they always did -- stellar platforming in Mario, a mainline Zelda, etc. Whether those interest people is more or less a known quantity at this point (they didn't make the WiiU nearly as successful).
No disagreement with your sentiment. To expand on my parent comment, I find once off acts of kindness easy. I can buy you a coffee, heck even two or three. When we get to number 10 maybe 20 I start to have reservations and negative thoughts on where this is all headed. I think relationships start out the similarly. Both sides show their best side. Afterall which woman/man are you going to woo showing how selfish you can be. So we start off on our best behaviour, the honeymoon phase. Then to perpertuate the kindness and consideration we show in the honeymoon phase both sides have to show appreciation and gratitude.

What complicates gratitude in my opinion is our expectation and how we value different acts of kindness. In large parts of Africa women are still expected do the cooking. It is easy for a man to think that task is her duty anyway so no need to be thankful. I think this is where problems start. You are absolutely right, we should be grateful first for the people in our lives.
I think as you move up the responsibility chain, the number of confounding variables becomes so immense that only broad measurements are possible.
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They are allowed to exist by YouTube, provided they don't affect Google in a negative way.

There are constant discussions in the tech community about how we keep the internet free and usable by all. We (developers) should be leading by example and creating services that don't rely on permission from large corporations to operate. Especially when those services are about distributing knowledge.
Hi!

Thanks for raising this. Feel free to contribute any missing channel: https://github.com/watch-devtube/contrib

Or just send me the channel links over Twitter (@eduardsi)
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Carmack said it best:

"Putting anything that gets benchmarked in a position of security responsibility is very, very dangerous."

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/395927588108918785

I think the original context was WebGL, but it applies everywhere.
> Removed from the prestige of Yale, compliance rates dropped; when the experimenter was not appealing to the necessity of science, compliance rates dropped.

This doesn't debunk anything. The thesis was that people would unquestioningly obey "an authority figure". What your observation shows is that people don't attach the same authority to scientists with less eminent affiliations which makes perfect sense.

I'm not saying that Milgram's experiment isn't flaweed, it most certainly is [0] but your analysis is weak.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/01/rethinkin...
>what I have seen so far in corporate america tells me a lot of people(especially older ones) still make friends based on ethnicity and gender

Corporate America? This is in all kinds of America (and probably all over the world). From statistics I've read (don't have the link now), the average white person for example has much less black friends and acquaintances that would be representative by percentage of population in their area. And vice versa of course. Same for men having male vs female friends (and, again, vice versa).

We're social animals, but we prefer to associate with people similar to us -- and even when it comes to arts, and media preferences and hobbies and so on, gender and ethnicity play a role.

And of course there's the demographics: there are very clear white and black neighbourhoods for example -- this obviously extends to the social circle, e.g. neighbourhoods, other kids you know, etc. That said, severals programs to "fix" this, like busing and forced breakups of communities, didn't work.

http://prospect.org/article/moving-hood-mixed-success-integr...

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/feb/21/racial-segrega...

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/welcome-neighbors-new-evi...
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Yes I always thought this is weird. For me in the UK, "Asian" always referred to (for better or worse) Indian, Pakistani, and Bengali up until somewhere in the mid-2000s I think (??) when I was told by someone that "The O-word" is a racist term (I am starting to sound like my grandparents here!)

Sorry to anyone I offended up until then.

I'd prefer it if we just dumped this concept of needing to put everyone into a generalised named-group anyway. I am just me, regardless of my gender/ethnicity/age/favourite ice cream flavour/sexuality/politics. Articles pointing out how "my" group are failing at this or over-represented at that or that it is official "Named-Group Month" are not helpful in my opinion - they just serve to divide and highlight differences between people. We need to treat everyone equally by rooting out bias (conscious or otherwise) and I dont think this sort of thing helps us to reach that goal.
Well, maybe I'm wrong but the trend is there and if the low end restaurants have vegetarian options now that certainly mean something.
OTOH Germany didn't have the resources (raw materials or crews) to field that many tanks, so focusing on fewer but better tanks made sense. Not that it panned out, but it made sense.
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It seems highly unlikely that Harvard University would risk getting the entire organization involved in a lawsuit dealing specifically with Harvard College admissions.
Is authorization done with some activeX-applet? Otherwise I don't really see what IE is offering that Chrome offers too, but scrapping-libs can't.

BTW There are libs to use chrome programatically for those things. It's called headless-mode or chromeDriver. Similar things exist for other Browsers. So you could probably rewrite your app to become more indipendant without lossing the existing functionality.
Kind of sad ending for that cute, useful, little box to just burn up in the atmosphere.

Makes me wonder if this is actually a viable approach on a larger scale, in terms of resource costs? Or is the "burn it up at the end" just part of this specific experiment and future versions won't have to be disposed of like that?
As a society, we need to tie fees/fines (especially patent) in All areas of life.

And yes--a big company might just have to pay 2 million for their 100th Patent.

And yes--a rich guy breezing through a red light would get a $20000 fine.

"Oh no, but I might be a big Player one day?". The odds are against you breaking into the club in America. Those days are pretty much gone.
> I'm not a psychologist ...

> that's the whole idea behind prison guard training! If you insist on studying these scenarios in a sterile, painstakingly-ethical

Thing is though, when the behaviour emerges you can't see if it's to do with the training, or the mere adoption of the prison guard role.

When you "condition" your participants to behave in a particular way then that can become a confounding factor and then when it comes time to appraise the results you can be left scratching your head.

Precisely what you want to understand when an Abu Ghraib scenario occurs is whether it could be the training or innate characteristic emerging from the role.

Of course you could do a between-groups study where some were conditioned and some weren't but what would that prove? That the conditioning had the expected effect?
I've been doing research about keto diet and tried it out a couple of times. I think it's not worth it, food being more expensive and so on. I'm in a good shape, eating normal food and sometimes stuff like pizza. My glucose is excellent, I'm in a very tight control now with the current system. It's much nicer this way than I need to worry about every time I go to a restaurant (in Berlin) what kind of food they serve.
how is FCF (normalized per market cap) a better metric?
What kind of fuckery is P/E vulnerable to?
Whilst you're correct that we shouldn't be worrying about body attributes at all, and I agree with your vision of the future, we still need a way to get from where we are now to where we want to be.

In the meantime the best we've got is to try and make sure we've got some evidence of diversity.