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While I think it's true that the article overemphasized the weight placed on student evaluations somewhat, I think this does get to the real problem. There's nothing wrong with students evaluating instructors. The problem comes when this is the only method used to evaluate teaching effectiveness. I'm a newly appointed professor, but I've heard many stories from colleagues in the past about students thanking them for being demanding in their course as what they learned was helpful in the future. Demanding classes tend to have negative impact on student evaluations, but that's obviously not capturing the whole picture.
How does a sense of entitlement result in grade inflation? Well, the obvious way is if you pervasively require students evaluations, students systematically evaluate professors based on the grades they received, and these evaluations are used to make staffing and compensation decisions by the administration, incentivizing strategic grading behavior by professors.

Solution: stop the evaluations. Even most entitled students won't make unsolicited complaints. And of the ones who do? As long as student complaints aren't used to rank every professor relative to each other, but rather only to weed out the most egregious instructors, there's significantly less pressure for grade inflation. It's when you provide the administration a regular, systematized, "objective" stream of data points that the temptation to assess professors this way becomes irresistible for the administration.
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I am not sure if this is what you are looking for, but 'Mindset' by Carol Dweck is a good book. It talks about 'Growth Mindset' and how parents can inculcate this in their kids as opposed to the "fixed " mindset approach.

Another book that I would suggest is called 'Constructive living' by David Reynolds. Although that book is not about Raising kids per se, I am sure you can tweak some aspects of the book's teachings (for ex: Not allowing how we 'feel' determine our actions/lack of it) can be helpful when the toddler grows up.
At the small prize of parallelism. And now that you are dealing with workers, task queues, etc. a native process + supervisor solution doesn't seem bad at all.
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> If you absolutely have to load someone else's code, check to see if it has been altered.

Third party JavaScript code can be altered for legitimate reasons. e.g. adding new features, refactoring, security fixes, etc. In order to prevent a site which uses SRI from breaking every time a 3rd party makes an update to a js file, 3rd parties should version their JavaScript resources with a version number in the URL. This, of course, places the added burden on the site that uses the 3rd party JavaScript resource. They need to update the version number in the URL and update the SRI every time the 3rd party releases an update. And this should be a manual process because automating it would defeat the whole point of SRI.
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A perfect storm that brought down LinkedIn.com
By manually reviewing the said file or by trusting a central authority of some sort.
If you read the article to the bitter end it states

> That’s because it installed a server certificate for the computer’s localhost, i.e. 127.0.0.1. Not only is it a violation of CA/Browser Forum: Baseline Requirements to issue certificates for non-routable IP addresses, it’s not at all clear that Sennheiser has complied with the same processes that certificate authorities are required to follow in securing their root keys.

Which highlights a few things. A) the article expects anyone creating private CA’s to follow the Baseline Requirements for public CA but those requirements are the reason you can’t use public CA’s in the first place. B) what does it matter if the cert was signed for localhost instead of localhost.company.tld? The issue is that you have a CA installed and I have the private key for it. I can mint certs for localhost.company.ltd all day long and if I’m in a position to mitm I could also interfere with the dns for localhost.company.com anyway.

Anyways enough picking on the article over small details (I won’t even start about the key handling issue), but it does highlight that the cert was for localhost, so delivery of the certs to the websocket server wouldn’t be too much of an issue in this case.
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I worked in the credit union software space for a while, and using floating points for this does lead to trouble. There were several bugs in my time that were caused by using floats and were fixed by using integer math.
In India the online RSVP is pretty useful because

1) The average middle class or upper middle class wedding is several hundred people

2) Vegetarian / Non vegetarian food preferences are helpful to estimate costs and convey to the caterer

3) Choice of alcohol preference is useful because you are only allowed to serve alcohol if you buy a permit and every bottle is tagged and photographed by the excise department in some cases. Most weddings do not serve alcohol, but those that do are usually helped by including a alcohol preference question.

4) Destination weddings are increasingly common, or the wedding will take place in only one venue i.e. the bride or groom's hometown. In this case it's common to rent hotel rooms for the entire opposite side of the guest list. For this, having a digial RSVP is useful to organise rooms.

5) For Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims, a wedding typically involves multiple days of ceremonies and meals with multiple venues for each one. Sometimes people will attend all. Sometimes they will attend only a few.

For events of that size, organising information is a big deal, and having enough of a heads up helps manage costs and be better prepared.

The website will be irrelevant in a year, but just the RSVP feature can potentially be extremely helpful.

Once you have the RSVP stuff in place, the map and other stuff just becomes basic pages that you may as well put in place.
The most obvious example of something that would break is any code that uses symlinks. Here's an example:

% ln -s foo/bar/baz link
% ls ./link/..

This resolves in POSIX to "./foo/bar", not "." (which is how it would resolve in Plan9 if Plan9 had symlinks). If you treated ".." as a lexical token you'd have to sanitise it before doing anything else and thus you'd end up with Plan9-like semantics. You could also make the argument that Plan9's ".." semantics actually cause inconsistencies between "cd $path; ls .." and "ls $path/.." -- and this is especially true for Linux's "magic links" in procfs. So if you prefer a consistent VFS then making ".." a lexical token is not the best idea.

> Also, why do you need a new syscall to do it when it seems like string manipulation is all that’s necessary?

I'm not sure what you mean -- Plan9 is a separate operating system which does the above path sanitisation with each path-related syscall.
Am I the only one experiencing an interlace effect from Firefox rendering the icons?

https://i.imgur.com/N6vnaJe.png
here is the long term trend of that..as each decade advances and it takes 50% less people to create and operate firms like facebook a political storm gets bigger and bigger due the state having gutted certain small business loan and other safety nets..politically high tech firms need to understand the political cliff they are racing towards before its too late
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I work in Finance, I don't use float, and I suggest you never do either.
I personally think it's a great idea. Much better than having a code base with mixed camelCase and snake_case because a library didn't follow the language convention.

I've seen people write wrappers just to fix casing.
How do you know paternal mitochondrial dna transmission isn’t so rare that it has no real measurable effect on population mapping?
I agree that it should be fixed but we can't know that the cost is going to be small. Some websites are generated via dozens of layers of abtractions and maybe there's no options to add the sri without going deep inside some messy frameworks and changing several of these layers.
Can somebody explain why would anyone consider this a good idea? I'm honestly puzzled.
Same on iOS. Containers overflow horizontally.
I've generally read on Hacker News that having EU users is sufficient to put you within the GDPR's reach, and that for a web service there's therefore nothing that will protect you besides IP-blocking Europe.

The quote that you provide here that supposedly shows that the GDPR is irrelevant to Ebay Japan does not in fact contradict that claim.

Do you have an excerpt or other source that does?
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Probably not high priority in financial computing.
I third that. Chris is a really nice guy and takes time to answer every email personally. Hatchbox is awesome.
Was also going to mention Julia, it aims to solve this problem and has a really great community
I bet you $100 the CIA is balls deep in this shit.
Indeed. Experts in teaching should design curricula and write textbooks, not experts in the subjects (of course experts in the subjects should be asked to check everything is valid but not how to teach).

Nevertheless it has been a long time since I've last seen an open source program with a terrible user interface. I'm writing this in Chrome (which is open source too and its GUI is quite ok) on KDE5 Plasma (which gives me aesthetical and ergonomical orgasm all the way I use it although I always hated how old versions of KDE looked and felt) on Manjaro while making notes in the Atom editor (which is ridiculously resource-inefficient yet perfect aesthetically and very intuitive and comfortable to use) and managing files in Krusader (which isn't as feature-reach as Total Commander yet looks a way more eye-candy and is almost equally convenient).

Also legalese is so impenetrable only in English (and, probably, some other) language speaking countries, legal English indeed seems a language distinct from what ordinary people speak but in many countries laws are readable as easily as anything else.
A much better solution is to have a language-wide style guide, with a tool such as "go fmt" to enforce it.
Why not just copy the file, inspect it, and serve it from your own servers?
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Just sort of baseless optimism on my part I guess.
Dear moderators it is called Go, from the github description, "fixed decimal place math library for Go".
It’s always awful. That means it’s never worth it to discuss how awful it is. You’re probably working with people who helped produce the awfulness, and it pays to be empathetic towards your coworkers.

Code isn’t produced in a vacuum and there are always external pressures for why this was hacked in rather than done correctly. It just kind of makes you come off as tone deaf and inexperienced. “My code is perfect and everyone else’s is garbage.” (It isn’t).

There are always concrete things that can be done to mitigate some of the awfulness and improve a codebase. A good developer will identify the root causes and fix them. Discuss and identify actual problems and solutions rather than your considerable (and understandable) angst.
Peak Amazon.
Why particularly for Chrome?
Nice, thorough answer.
You mentioned that :
"of those at least 3 types of assets, never have 10% of more than any"

Could you please elaborate on this? Suppose, I have x as my savings, should I invest only 30% of that in each of these and hold the rest in cash? Is that what you meant? Thanks.
I just saw a documentary about Réunion yesterday, an island in the vicinity with a unique culture & cuisine (a fascinating mixture due to colonization history) paired with great tropical nature due to (now inactive) volcanoes that created some beautiful hiking trails in craters and calderas. All those little islands around Madagascar seem to be really lovely and beautiful, they are certainly on my ToDo travel list now.
I think that's more to do with paper delivery not having enough profit margin and not so much them just making it difficult for you to give them money. They do paper deliveries in the London area and global shipments of the international weekly version but other than that they are all online like a lot of news organizations have been lately. Both of these are easy to find and subscribe to online.
It's because that can break the site due to the browser's sandbox permissions model. Scripts are only allowed to make ajax calls to their origin servers. Also, serving a 3rd party script from the 1st party's domain gives the 3rd party permission to make ajax calls to the 1st party domain, which may open up security holes.
If you think it's bad now, wait until the last "A Song of Ice and Fire" book comes out. Life expectancy will plummet as people discover they have literally nothing to live for anymore.
It's for reasons like this that I recommend uMatrix for Firefox [0] and Chrome [1]. It's default function is to block scripts that don't belong to the root domain of the site you're visiting, and you can whitelist 3rd-Party domains by asset type on the fly from a dialogue.

It's really handy for eliminating dodgy dependencies, and it doesn't break half as many sites as NoScript.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/
[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/umatrix/ogfcmafjal...
Particularly with management breathing down their necks to deliver.
Sorry, I wanted to fix that after I posted the comment.
He’s basically a government contractor, are you kidding.
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> "isn’t it up to the universities to provide a majority their value in the form of education"

I'm not sure how this statement addresses my claims.

How do we measure/quantify the quality of education? I claim that the way students feel about the staff and the institution should be taken into account, rather than dismissed.
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How is my credit score calculated?
I actually started working on a guile shell that parses a bash-like command line to a guile form. Any parenthesised form is executed as guile directly with some nice macros/functions to make processes easier
The shortest time control I play is 10+0 and I feel that at my very average level, I don't learn anything from it (especially if I get on a discouraging losing streak). These days, 15+15 is what I try to stick to on Lichess so that's my preferred control (still considered fast by OTB standards).

With that out of the way, I suspect that the difference between bullet and classical people is probably like the difference between a sprinter and a marathon runner.

In my other spare time, I like to ride bicycles. Everyone who doesn't do it thinks it's a dangerous thing - but the way I ride isn't the way that most people think I ride. I prefer the slow, cautious, zen and analytical approach compared to the "intuitive" fast, mad rush that most people will be familiar with when they think "cyclist". I can go fast when required as I have developed and applied my own theory for it, but most of the time I prefer to just take it easy. So I see some parallels there - horses for courses.

I don't really buy the idea that there's such a thing as intuition. Intuition to me merely means that someone who apparently demonstrates it cannot understand how to explain their intuition (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/intuition). Many seem to be equating it to a higher form of intelligence but I don't buy that that is the case.

I daresay that Fabiano Caruana is probably pretty good at classical now and can perhaps afford to practise shorter controls a lot more. He's actually not bad at it, but has had inconsistent results in the past. But who knows - in 2020 we might be seeing a lot less Rossolimo and Petrov.
You are totally right, but I'm wondering if we shouldn't change this practice. I'm starting to think if you're making a call to an external service, it should be proxied through your network.

It'd increase bandwidth/latency, but you can be assured that the network calls your page are making are hitting the correct 3rd parties, and even inspect to see that the payloads are "correct".

Edit: Surely, this at the very least should be the case for payment pages and banking websites.
If you can't read the original article:
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I tend to agree with you there, but what evidence would convince you of some different explanation?
MakerDAO is basically a community run central bank on the Ethereum blockchain. You can lock away assets you own (currently only ETH but eventually even your house will work as a collateral). By locking away your collateral you can withdraw DAI which will be generated based on your collateral. This is comparable to how banks worked in the past where they only printed money for which they had gold as collateral.

You need to at least have a collateralization of 150 %. If you fall below that, your collateral will be seized, the same amount of DAI that you own will be bought from the market and burned. The rest of your collateral minus 13 % liquidation fee will be send back to you.

At any time you can pay back your loan in DAI or add more collateral.

This mechanism keeps DAI stable at 1 USD.

The entire mechanism runs entirely on the Ethereum blockchain.

Know why is that cool?

1. You have a 100 % decentralized token that you can keep in any crypto wallet that supports ERC-20 token (Be your own bank)

2. You have a token that isn't volatile so it is safe to pay out salaries or buy groceries with it.

Stablecoins that are pegged to Fiat money like the USD still have one centralized aspect though. The currency that they are pegged to is still controlled by centralized organs (e.g FED, European Central Bank etc).

The cool thing is, this stuff is just getting started. MakerDAO is just a few month old and pegging to the USD is really just the beginning of a new era.

In the long term, imagine you have a stablecoin that is pegged to the purchasing power of North America or Europe or any other region of the world.

It's totally possible. The data feeds are the hardest part but there are solutions for that.

Imagine having a currency that is pegged to the purchasing power of your region without any governmental control. This is where we are heading.
It's always struck me as strange than finance folk don't want correct math. They want math that matches the coins in their pocket.

If I am owed 2.575% on $3425956.57 for 245 months, why not get the correct sum instead of some rounded monthly sum added up? Its just strange.
If that is the only explanation then we would see far more boys being diagnosed.
I love these type of findings. Good job!
Interop with C/JS: you can't control all identifiers, because you can reuse a rich ecosystem of other language libs: you can't force their names to change

EDIT: you can still change them in importc pragmas, but this still seems less nice to me.

Still, you can reuse Nim libs even if they don't follow nep1: one can still use nimpretty/gofmt for his own codebase.
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As a concrete example, someone was running a massive online FFI for predicting the value of derivatives, and they were doing it in the real domain and using doubles on GPUs for monetary values. Where they doing it 'wrong' then? I don't know much about finance myself.
I can't help but wonder how much is attention seeking - wanting to feel special, different - which is a disservice to those who really would normally have this... Condition sounds negative, but I'll use it for lack of a better term.
This is a project that I started some two years ago to provide support for raster/vector GIS operations, image processing tasks, spatial hydrology analysis, and LiDAR data processing. It's a pure Rust codebase with a Python interface that allows it to be easily integrated into other software. There is a QGIS plugin for WhiteboxTools as well. More details are provided on the homepage for those that are interested: https://www.uoguelph.ca/~hydrogeo/WhiteboxTools/index.html
> The Guardian

> Despite being a tofu-knitting member of the bourgeoisie, I am yet to subscribe to teh Gruan. If I did, I'd risk their affiliate tracker going rogue and stealing my organic credit card details.
Yes, accept that fixed number could be 0. Often a curve might be A-D, not A-F. And there are many shapes of curves. You choose the shape based on what you're trying to achieve. In this day and age a curve that requires as many Ds as As might not be tenable, but that doesn't mean you can't enforce some statistical distribution to help manage curriculum quality.

The problem with grade inflation isn't just that it becomes more difficult to judge student competency; similarly, it becomes more difficult to judge curriculum quality. If everybody is getting As when the curriculum is challenging, they'll continue getting As if it degenerates. Enforcing a distribution helps you to maintain a stable relationship between the abilities of your student body and the quality of the curriculum.
Why assume that evidence wouldn't convince them of some different explanation?
Not necessarily. The underlying cause could be biased towards one gender. We don't know what causes it.
China Planning Major Purge of $176B P2P Loan Market
Looks like the CO2 emissions of sending a letter are 25 grams or so. Meanwhile, an email with a 1 MB attachment is estimated to emit 19 grams of CO2 [1]. I think the real numbers might be off by a factor of 3 or more - there are so many variables: opening the email on a desktop PC and watching a video and sending it to friends would use much more, and maybe you mail the invitation to someone who doesn't get much mail and lives out of the way so the mailman has to drive 5 more minutes just for one letter.

In any case, the CO2 emissions of the invite are negligible compared to other things: say on the night of sending the invitations you have a lamb dinner with your fiance and you each eat 12 oz of lamb, that dinner was responsible for 27 kg of CO2 emissions vs. 120 invitations would be only 3.5 kg.

In turn, that would be far less emissions than feeding everyone 12 oz of lamb (1607 kg of CO2), which would be far less emissions than that produced by the guests arriving (say 7% take transatlantic and 28% take cross-country flights, all economy) - a whopping 73920 kg CO2 [2].

[1] https://90by2030.wordpress.com/2015/12/09/carbon-footprint-l...

[2] BER-NYC roundtrip is 2.4 tons/passenger in economy = 0.07120=20.16 tons + SFO-NYC roundtrip 1.6 tons/passenger in economy = 0.28120*1.6=53.76 tons. Total 73.92 tons.
Also, “risk acceptance” and “vulnerability” aren't mutually exclusive. Vulnerability is the risk, the acceptance is deciding that the vulnerability is necessary because the cost to avoid or fix it is too high.

But making that choice doesn't stop it from being a vulnerability.
I said "If that is the only explanation...".
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I think this is fascinating, I think that ROGD could be a real thing but nipping science because it's politically inconvenient is not a good thing to do and has disastrous consequences. that being said i'm not sure that ROGD is actually politically inconvenient to the left, it merely expands the definition of trans. I do think this article uses slightly outdated terminology, neglecting to use AMAB (assigned male at birth) and AFAB (assigned female at birth) instead calling males or boys "girls who identified as boys."
I would recommend separation of those applications into respective sub-accounts. The hierarchy can be defined in AWS Organizations and you avoid resource overlapping of any kind.