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I read an artcile suggesting that people believe certain things about race and bias but that the evidence is not there to support their beliefs. I read an artcile that suggests that people construct explanations to fit their world view. I'm merely pointing out that off-hand comments like this exactly fit the behaviour described in the article: Constructing explanations to fit a pre-existing set of beliefs.

I have a great deal of personal intest in the subject of race and bias, and I assure you that in twelve seconds of Googling, I will find enough conflicting evidence and explanations to suggest that the causes for bias are complex.

If I looked at a mountain of conflicting evidence with a predetermined belief, I'm sure I could find validation for whatever I already believed. So, I don't doubt for a moment that if you already agree with these statements, twelve seconds with Google will confirm our suspicions, just as I am sure that someone who vehemently disagrees with these statements will also find confirmation of their disagreement with twelve seconds of Googling.

UPDATE: To be clear, I'm not saying that Max is wrong: I don't live in the US, much less in SV. How should I know what American women and minorities are thinking? But what I am saying is that statements like this in a forum like this suggest not only that the speaker has preconceived beliefs about this, but that he also expects evryone else to share those beliefs.
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You can get an even higher response rate by looking at the monthly "Who's Hiring" threads on HN. When I graduated from college, everybody back home was telling me that getting a job in this economy would be a terrible, several-month-long ordeal. It actually turned out to be pretty quick and straightforward, and I'm very happy with the results.
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The article states we already pay per mile, via gas taxes. This means drivers pay different rate per mile, depending on how efficient their car burns gas, which is presumably itself a function of engine as well as chosen tires and weight of the vehicle, ie, how the car impacts the road.

The article then says legislation is needed to change us from paying per mile, to paying ... per mile, but in a way which is a hell of a lot more intrusive to the driver: cell phone tracking.

I remain unconvinced this is not about tracking and is about paying for the roads.

What's wrong with just increasing the gas taxes appropriately?
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>Expensive shows catering to a niche market

Like Arrested Development?
"Whatever was there" was removed before the bunker was declassified.

As far as I understand from the original text (english translation on the blogspam site is incomplete at best), the monitors were installed by the company who now manages the bunker and are apparently used for simulation of nuclear strike on NY, one of the exhibits in Cold War Museum.
"Doesn't make so much sense."

That's the point.
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Or as the article says: "The best and least complicated solution is to raise the fuel tax, which hasn't changed since 1993." But apparently the politics to put GPS trackers in every car, or odometer-based taxes, is apparently easier than raising taxes?

Ahh, right, 238 Representatives and 41 Senators (all Republicans excepting 2 and 1 Democrats, respectively) have sworn a pledge that they will refuse any such action. Even may the bridges crumble underneath our feet, they will not raise taxes on us.
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What is stopping Netflix from offering content internationally? I'm sure there are several layers of bureaucracy here, from Hollywood requirements, syndication etc. It would be interesting to know what steps/changes need to be taken to open this service up for the rest of us.
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The problem there is that you are punishing people buying more efficient, lighter vehicles that don't damage the roads as much as an SUV.
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1. Minorities, in general, are less economically privileged. It's not causation, it's correlation. Nevertheless, this translates to worse schools, worse education, worse qualifications, worse job prospects. So before minorities are even able to apply, they're being selected against economically. For no fault of their own, they have worse chances than a non-minority.

2. When giving money, Eric Ries is right, you don't just go off empirical data. I want to give money to someone I relate to and feel comfortable evaluating. Someone I can understand. When doing that, I'm probably going to choose someone who's like me. If I'm a VC or angel, that probably means a white male. That goes, without saying, for founders. I want someone who has my back, not someone who feels like more of a wild card--I'm taking enough chances as it is starting the company.

So is it Racisim? Hell yes. Are these people Racist? No. It's not as if these words are sticky bombs that implicate anyone who gets near them with an indelible smear. The world is not a fair place--rain falls and the just and unjust alike. Let's call it like we see it.

Silicon Valley, just like anywhere in the world, is not a 100% meritocracy (that I think we can all agree on). What percent meritocracy is it? That's completely subjective. However, trying to convince yourself otherwise is an attempt to wash your hands of the problem while doing nothing to correct it.

What has to happen to solve this is, thankfully, what SV does best--take risks. That means hiring someone who isn't your ideal and seeing how they pan out. That means giving a second look at people that you normally would pass over--if only to keep your lifeblood fresh.

It doesn't mean ruining your company in a futile attempt to change the entire world--but it does mean doing things different, ie, hard.

Enough with the outrage. There is racisim/sexism in the world guys (yes, guys). It doesn't mean you're a racist. Let's man up to it.
>Diversity for the sake of diversity hurts us all

I agree with this, but at the same time, a lack of diversity might (I stress might) indicate a problem with racism or (more likely these days) disparate impact and it's worth investigating and rectifying if need be. Just chalking it up to "well, I guess blacks/women/etc just aren't into tech" (not that you said that, but other posts here reflect that) may be ignoring a problem. If proper research shows that is the case, then fine, but let's not leap to assumptions.

>Black people in this country live in a separate America. They have their own culture as a result of past racism.

I see what you're trying to say here, and there are cultural/regional differences, but saying "[blacks] have their own culture" makes it sound a bit like an alien society. American black culture is just a subset of American culture - a random black guy from Chicago is going to have a lot more in common culturally with a white guy from Seattle compared to a black guy in sub-Saharan Africa.

>If we can extend White Privilege to everyone then we will have more diversity.

I'd rather just get rid of privilege totally, but that's a tall order. I do a lot of consulting for government agencies and in that world you really do get work based primarily on who you know. As a result a lot of my colleagues tend to be white males, not because of any sort of overt racism, but because the white males who head up government agencies tend to look within their circles of other white males for recommendations. Making the procurement process fairer and more reliant on merit will probably increase diversity in my market, and that's a good thing in terms of increasing opportunities for all.
I find the article to be in line with my recent rants at work.

My background is airline and finance enterprise software where lots of highly skilled of people are paid a high salary to do relatively simple and small coding tasks. (That's what they think but in reality most just don't want to take the initiative to go beyond the status quo, but that is another rant altogether).

More often than not this leads to engineers taking every opportunity to over-engineer a solution to simple problem so they feel that they are seen as top-notch engineers when in effect they are taking a simple problem and turning it into a maintenance and support nightmare.

In these situations a simple change such as adding a field to a method signature impacts multiple classes and interfaces due to the Lasagna code effect.

In this environment engineers religiously spend additional time planning, designing, and coding their solutions to be adaptable to changes that have almost no chance of happening.

If you spend 4 days creating an IT system that can seamlessly switch between and active directory back-end and a RDMBS (or anything unforeseen for that matter) back-end but the change never happens, then you just wasted 4 days. If instead you waited until the RDBMS support requirement was necessary it would probably still take the same 4 days but they would not have been wasted.
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Can you provide us with the model of what you think is happening?

Because "I think that something bad is happening but I don't know what" does not lead to a constructive discussion at all.
As a younger programmer, I've come to the conclusion that good code shares good interfaces, decoupled relationships, appropriate abstractions, and clear responsibilities regardless of methodology or paradigm used, so that your code is easier to implement, change, and maintain. After all, the end result is less complexity, and you can stub out some interfaces and get coding fairly quickly.

However, if you lack experience with certain kinds of problems, the initial investment of designing good code requires quite a bit of thought and care to do right, otherwise there's the risk of introducing lots of unnecessary complexity by adding lots of unnecessary classes and relationships.

And that's exactly the problem Alex is addressing in his blog post, because his fellow programmers don't share those same principles of good code. As a result, they get caught up in making large, cluttered interfaces with lots of interwoven objects that have shared responsibilities, and then they call that good Object Oriented code (because there's lots of objects, right?). They might even apply as many acronym riddled patterns as they can, because that's the way some really smart guys who wrote some books suggested, and they want to do things the right way.

In other words, there's a cargo cult of OOP, and it loves complexity.

In contrast to that, it sounds like what Alex does when he come across something where the architecture necessary isn't very clear is essentially what I do: carefully write code from the bottom up and refactor it as I go, if at all. That way, the relationships inherent in the code become clear, and you can create the minimal number of classes and relationships necessary to decouple those relationships.

And so what he's suggesting is that other programmers do the same. Don't waste time trying to develop a solid architecture from the top down when it isn't immediately obvious and start working from the bottom up instead.

Of course, in ten years, he'll probably be writing most of his software from the top down, finally capitalizing off all those years of hard earned experience writing code from the bottom up, but that'll be then, not now.
other already pointed out that having assignments helps, I'd add that for some people (e.g. me) a _schedule_ is a great advantage.

If you are trying to learn something on your own timing it's easy to procrastinate. Maybe you could keep a faster pace but you just won't push yourself a bit.

It goes without saying that people with good self discipline can do without a schedule, but for some of us it helps.
If the community is the problem, I think he should focus on the community itself rather than discussing on what Nodejs is incapable of.
Are you posting the code somewhere online?
Maybe you can host this as a project on Sourceforge or Github...

Very nice! Thank you for posting
To the contrary, I think it is constructive to question sweeping and inflammatory claims backed up by little more than adverbs.
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This article read to me like a concern troll (I'm just so concerned about diversity) overlying a passive-aggressive smear of the "I'm not saying" sort. As in: I'm not saying they're racist. Not necessarily. At least they say they aren't, and I take them at their word. At least until there's evidence that they're lying. Of course I have heard racist jokes.

Such language is unimpeachable on the surface and conveys something different underneath.
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totally agree - same situation, mpd/mpc, various iphone/android clients to interface with mpd and really missing party mix / genius style stuff.
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I believe it did not occur to them. I doubt that asian students had much more resources 15 years ago.
Mitch Kapor also has an interesting take on this:
http://mkapor.posterous.com/beyond-arrington-and-cnn-lets-lo...
I actually have a pretty similar situation. I am Irish, living in California after just finishing up in Dublin City University (I was probably one of Mervyn's lab tutors at some point!) and I'm also on the J1 visa.

The difference is that I found a job before I left Ireland (made the visa application a lot easier). I responded to a post on the "Who's Hiring?" thread here on HN a few months back and landed a gig in an awesome startup in Los Angeles called Factual.

HN is a truly invaluable resource for job hunting.
Sorry, but while there is only one model of what's happening it would remain both questionable AND popular.

To make it move you have to provide a new one.
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Experience with OOP is certainly essentially, but mostly for the reason that the OOP language you're using sucks. Most of the "handy dandy patterns" that have sprung up are to recover properties that should have come for free, but didn't. As a result, code isn't objectively good or bad -- you must consider how it will be used. All of the boilerplate crap you have to write has a flat cost and a benefit proportional to how things scale in certain ways. The author of this piece is advocating "don't write any boilerplate crap at all", which we agree isn't the right answer. But experience or no, you'll get the design wrong too, because you can't predict how your requirements will change. In summary, repeating my earlier point, your OOP language sucks.
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I submitted this article because it is "yet another politician thinks up hard technology solution to problem" article.

The problem statement here is pretty simple.

1) gas tax will not cover road and bridge repairs
2) people have more fuel efficient vehicles
3) gas tax is spent on non-road items
4) gas tax hasn't changed in years

It seems like a simple thought to just raise the gas tax and stop spending the money on anything but roads. After all, a sub compact causes less damage than an SUV. Surely the SUV should pay more, which it does through simple physics by needing more energy to move.

The second problem with a mileage tax that is paid monthly or yearly is the working poor. Public transport isn't and won't be universal in the US (like I said in another thread the closest bus stop to me is 90 miles away). The current gas tax works because it is a judgement at the pump with no long term commitments. Never mind the privacy concerns or that cutting down people's area of commute adds to unemployment.

The crux of this is electric cars need to pay a road tax also. How that is going to be handled is going to be the big problem.
Interesting, I'm going to check this book out now, thanks.

Your comments regarding the community were dead on. The ad hominem and personal nature of so much, well, I hesitate to even call it criticism since it's really just thinly veiled hate, has got to stop. It's absolutely a recipe for creating unhappiness, for making people feel bad, and for turning off potential contributors.
Sigh. It's feminists he's talking about. People hate conservatives and Christians with an irrationality I just can't understand.
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Watch the end of this:

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I am tortured wanting to correct them.

I win, except reality is fucked.

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Damn shrinks -- nothing is real.

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I'm a god! They honestly don't think it's possible to write a compiler. And I did! Talk about flattery.

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The "clearly" comes out of logic. If you assume that my "result" statement is correct, then the reason would also have to be correct.

Do you think African American students, 15 years ago, were spending time studying how to use computers? I think it's rather likely because:

- I've never heard of this

- Such playing-with-computers is something that was confined to the somewhat richer and educated people in American society, which the african-americans were not, 15 years ago.

I doubt that my audience thinks the exact way I do, and I doubt I have any bias that needs to be confirmed.
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"We consider that example extreme only because our society has diverged so far from that point. In those times, it would be a perfectly reasonable argument and the guilt felt would be real."

Which only proves that ethics are based on societal norms ("social upbringing").

If you think the norms are bad, try and change them, instead of seeking some mumbo-jumbo "independently justifiable morality", which doesn't even make sense (there is no method of independently justifying a moral position, nor would it convince everyone even if it did it exist. Even human life is not "independently justifiable" sacred. It's only as far as we believe in some (societal) norms).

The benefit of this (as opposed to the imaginary "independently justifiable" morals), is that our morals can be changed. This is after all what we call progress, in the societal and moral sense of the word.
I've used a 26" TV, set to a relatively low resolution (1366X768), as a primary screen for a few years now. I have a secondary 19" monitor next to it.

The low-res and relative large size of text, etc. allows me to sit further back from the screen, reducing eyestrain.

If you're going to do this, make sure to confirm the native resolution of the TV/monitor you're buying is exactly what you want. Or bring a laptop to the store and plug it in and try it.
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I m doing online studies at the University of London ( http://www.londoninternational.ac.uk/ ) and we have in some modules to every section a Video to give an overview and PDF for revision and Quizzes for testing yourself. The actual exam can be taken on campus or at your near British Consulate or Embassy.

Its pretty hard studying this way in comparision to study on campus. but far more convient and cheaper.

I assume that this is the same with other US Online studies like at Harvard or Standford. I just notice that the lectures in the Harvard videos that I ve watched, they seem to be aware of Online Students watching this later as an recording, and they are far more appealing to watch.

This is the Youtube channel to my Online Uni

http://www.youtube.com/user/UniofLondon?blend=16&ob=5

This Video id say is a better one, but many others are bad to watch online.

http://www.youtube.com/user/UniofLondon?blend=16&ob=5#p/...

I wonder what you thought of the British Style in this video to the US ones you have seen.

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The whole website is a PR/FUD base for Mark Logic. Check their Wikipedia page too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MarkLogic

I guess they're tyring "to fully utilize the potential of the internet".
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Ha...I agree but I do appreciate this thread I currently had to review geometry while studying C++ and most of what's explained on the document is what I discovered while reviewing so it's nice to have it documented, now it's time to get the logic down math is everything I'm discovering when it comes to C.S./Programming, it defines how you build Data Structures/Algorithms well apologies for the rant it's just good to see a thread which helps in an area of my current study, and it's true using geometry makes programming and math easier to comprehend