skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that 0% of MIT admissions is non-academic admits (legacy, recruited athletes, development, under-represented minorities).
Is that incorrect?

You are thinking of Caltech. MIT, by contrast, very vigorously practices affirmative action by race and ethnicity. (MIT filed "friend of the court" briefs in the last Supreme Court cases about affirmative action in college admission.)

http://mitadmissions.org/pages/policies

After edit: A kind reply just denied that MIT has "non-academic admits," and I agree with that denial. Everyone who is admitted to an undergraduate degree program at MIT (but also at Harvard, Yale, or Princeton) is plainly academically above average, generally qualified to be in an honors program in a strong state flagship university. So while everyone in MIT has strong academic credentials, there does seem to be a genuine admission advantage at MIT and several peer institutions correlated with "underrepresented ethnicity." Thanks for focusing in the reply on the language from the earlier post I was quoting. Yes, MIT has no admitted students whose qualifications could be called "nonacademic." But, no, Caltech differs from MIT in being genuinely more purely focused on academic qualifications rather than other student characteristics. (I know the whole family of a black woman who is an undergraduate at Caltech. She and her parents, and her sibling, are smart, period. I'm sure she had other college choices, and for all I know she found Caltech appealing because its admission policies make very clear that EVERYONE who comes in the door must meet a very high academic standard for admission.)
And in 2011, "live in tragedy" Microsoft can render fonts sharply, Apple can't.

I'm a Windows guy temporarily using a Mac to write an iPad app, and the main thing that bugs me about OS X is how fuzzy the fonts look. In Windows, my fonts look ultra sharp on-screen; on Mac, fonts look fuzzy. Apparently it's because of this: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/06/font-rendering-resp...

But I say to Apple: unless one's monitor has the dot pitch of the iPhone "retina display", your font rendering looks really fuzzy. <rant>What good is "preserving the typeface design" if it makes your eyes water?</rant>
I'd have some sympathy for Apple if their design was distinctive in itself, but its only real claim to "distinctiveness" is its minimalist lack of any distinctive features. If we allow a lack of design features and utter minimalism to be considered trade dress then we are in for all sorts of trouble because any generic shape or design becomes infringing and this precedent will ripple through everything.

Thus I think the whole argument about "Samsung could have made theirs more distinctive" is missing the point. Apple can easily make their tablets more distinctive too, and thus gain the protection of trademarks or trade dress.
They have always been optional in my experience (hence the whole point of the linked article). Perhaps you don't see questions like this as much because Australia is less diverse (92% white)?
Seems kind of strange to be trying to run:

rm -rf ./*

instead of just:

rm -rf *

Is there a difference between the two that I'm not aware of?
The myth of equality of opportunity is indeed to be protected; but it is a myth, because uncountably more opportunities are afforded to the children of the privileged - things like affirmative action are tiny in the overall scale.

I really don't like what you are insinuating. You appear to be implying that some people are inferior due to the ancestry of their parents, or the daily practices of their parents.

You should learn something: that variance within groups is far larger than variance in the averages of groups; and thus race and culture are poor signals for use in judgement. To protect against this bias, we do hold to equality across racial and cultural lines; to do otherwise, is to be racist and simply morally wrong.
They'll know when you show up for class. At best, that seems
like a bad start for the year, if anyone from admissions happens to match your name and face.
I took that line to mean he was really good at making people want to buy something from him and knew his audiences well enough to carry a broad range of snacking preferences.
Usually when people say stuff like this, I assume they're clueless and have borked their browser somehow and simply need to turn off some add ons and clear their cache, etc. However, I have all sorts of problems with Facebook also. Sometimes photos are suddenly 'unavailable', when it's not. When I click on a search, it's like their JS thinks the page successfully changed, but it hasn't changed the visible content and it will stay on that page forever. Now and then, after I sign in every action I take greets me with a popup saying 'Log in to continue' and I can't do anything (signing in again doesn't solve it). If I, someone highly tech savvy, have these problems I can only imagine how confused the public is.
There's already a flag to preserve /, but that won't help you with /*.
it's about how many tech-savvy people are
recommending it to their mothers and
IT managers

I know a lot of IT managers that aren't touching Google's products for fear of privacy issues. It's not always rational to think that way, however Google has a trust problem lately - which is also why Google Apps is not as successful as it should be, even though it freaking rocks - the thought that Google reads your emails is a terrifying thought for some.

I'll grant you that for a period of time I also started recommending Chrome - it was before Firefox version 4 got released, as for a moment I lost faith in Mozilla's ability to innovate.

However, now I'm back on Firefox because it is much better for me as a developer. And I also recommend it to normal people because I remember quite well what happened during the IExplorer's glory days and I don't want to help another monopoly on mobile browsers.

To me it is irrelevant if Chrome is better right now (although it isn't) - what is relevant is that I have more trust in Mozilla to guard my interests as a user. Google may be one heck of a company that did a lot of good things for our industry, however their interests do not necessarily align with those of the people.
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"anecdotally most devs I know refer to it as a joke and use Chrome instead."

Ahh the world of cargo cult browser fanboyism. All I can say is that the devs you are hanging out with aren't very good, any dev who would write off and "laugh at" a browser which boasts the widest and the most mature array of development tools is probably not very good to begin with.
According to the article, it's closer to "Bob has a 2310, Melinda has a 1675" [1]. This is far more of a gap than you portray - do you really believe that both 2310 and 1675 are above the cutoff, and indistinguishable except via extracurriculars?

Note to self: if I get an Asian girl pregnant, the kids get my name.

[1] Take the 450pt gap between blacks and asians on the 1600pt SAT and multiply by 2400/1600.
So basically you don't know what you're talking about and you're providing Slashdot as a reference?

Also, if such discussions are possible is because Mozilla's development model is in the open, which means all of their dirty underwear is washed in public, although ultimately this is for the greater good. The same thing happens inside companies like Google or Apple, you just never hear about it.
>"The California Institute of Technology, a private school that chooses not to consider race, is about one-third Asian."

When I attended Caltech in the 70's, I can vouch for them not considering race. They would go out and encourage underrepresented groups to apply, but to the admissions committee race was explicitly irrelevant.

Caltech has a very adult and enlightened attitude about the way they treat their students, the race thing is just a part of that.
I've started to find that I'm reaching the limits of my time constraints what with holding down a full time corporate job. I've been trying to expand my network to get in touch with good developers that I can pay on a part-time basis for now since I can't afford anyone full-time. Even harder to find a decent part-time sys/db admin here in NJ! Thanks very much for the insight.
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There is stunnel (www.stunnel.org).
I doubt the need for font hinting will go away any time soon. Most monitors are still roughly 96 dpi (same as mentioned in this article). Apple's retina display might be in the area where hinting doesn't matter as much. However, reaching 300 DPI for a largish computer monitor is really outside the realm possibility today for anything but a completely custom design. For a 30" 16:10 screen you'd need a resolution of ~7575 x 4750. You'd be seriously hard pressed to come up with a graphic card / cabling solution to handle that resolution.
devil's advocate: if design has practical merits beyond branding then why shouldn't everyone copy verbatim the design elements of successful products? this can still be iteratively innovative.
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Yeah, you're right, I didn't realise they'd improved it so. Start up was really suffering at one point, it's nippy, I'm wrong.

I think the major reason this myth has stayed in my mind is doing upgrades on startup, testing FF v Chrome just now, on a computer that FF has never been the primary browser, they're very similar in terms of responsiveness (FF still a little slower if I'm honest, but trivially and I think it's a bit psychological in the way it opens the window compared to Chrome). I'm not seeing major differences on disabling/enabling firebug though.

Right now every time I open FF it seems to upgrade, because I do it so rarely. So in my mind it's now become intolerably slow and I only open it when I really, really need 3 different sessions on a single site. I use Chrome as primary, IE secondary (due to it being more likely to have quirks and historically preferring IE dev toolbar to firebug).

As Chrome upgrades in the background and IE does it through windows update you're not playing on a fair playing field I guess.

EDIT: I should add this isn't exactly a modern computer, no SSD, 2.4ghz quad core, 3Gb RAM and my laptop's even more in need of an upgrade.
Apparently, this is subjective. I agree with you that OS X fonts look awful, but it's clearly a deliberate design choice, and knowing Apple, I suspect there is at least one person who thought it over and genuinely thinks their font rendering is the better choice. I can't fathom why anyone would prefer OS X fonts, but apparently people do.
Most users would probably just set Google as the default search engine themselves if it wasn't default.
This is pretty great. Stow (plus git) is how I'm managing the config files for multiple hosts in my respective home dirs, and the conflict resolution switches are going to be a huge help.
I knew when I wrote my first comment on this thread that someone was going to tell me about how they love flipping through albums at record stores. I used to, too! The issue is, most people probably don't browse record stores that much. You can take a bunch of books at B&N and sit down with them in the coffee shop. You can't do that at a record store.

This is all not to mention the fact that the era of buying music on physical media is pretty much over.
If you have wired connection, you can setup wifi sharing and turn it on and off. This way you can simulate slow connection as well. (Using http://mschrag.github.com/)
Easy weight management
Do you think it is possible to control your weight? It is extremely hard doing such things especially if you like eating much and don't like doing any exercises!
We periodically try this at our company, and in fact mailing lists are also available as newsgroups. Most people don't use the newsgroups. Part of the problem is on the client side - Thunderbird keeps newsgroups as separate folders so you don't have a unified inbox the way you do with email. So you have to check each folder and see if there's anything new. People like the immediacy of email and having one place to check for new messages. On the server side, newsgroups don't track things like whether you've read a message or not. So you can't easily move between a laptop and phone and still have things kept in sync - all of your interactions have to happen through a single client program.
Icon links instead of Text links is not a clear improvement.

Just like the current Gmail redesign, this Fb redesign has icons (with no text labels) that force you to mouseover the icons in order to determine what you're clicking on. While plain text is not necessarily trendy, it's very obvious what the text link takes you to.
So you've never once jaywalked?
'best student' != 'best score/gpa'
I don't associate spammy recruiter methods with the company they're hiring for
I am left with a negative impression of the company they're hiring for
I graduated from Penn a few years ago and have a couple varsity letters.
It's similar for athletes, there is just an extra step/another person at the university arguing for you. You still go through the screening process like other applicants and get a ranking, I believe it was called your academic index. The difference is you have some kind of flag on your application that says once you get to the committee, they talk to the coach. Different schools do the flagging differently, not sure how it works now with online applications, but I've seen different colored envelopes, stamps on boxes, numeric codes on sections, or the coach just contacts the admissions office for the heads up. When athletes, like non-athletes, fall into the no pile they tend to stay there, but when you get to a maybe you can have a strong voice for you saying they will add a lot to the community. Each coach gets a limited number of people to argue for and varies depending on sport. One downside to being in the athlete pile is that if you fall in the middle you are very unlikely to get in if you are low on the coaches list. So basically it's another activity with some extra leverage.
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The reason is rather simple - this makes all fonts on OS X look great-to-passable, while unhinted fonts on Windows look really bad and are simply unusable.
"People that work at SAP are just like people working in startups or anywhere else."

{ sarcasm: "Yes, a company that spends more on marketing and 'bribes' is just like a start up and the people that work there are too." }
I was in China just over two years ago and I can confirm just how insane the GFW is.

Every other Google search wouldn't load, sometimes Wikipedia articles (China, Tiananmen Square, etc.) would appear to start loading slowly (the top parts of the page would show) before suddenly cutting off and showing 'Connection Reset'. I don't know how that worked because usually browsers just show you a half page if the connection is lost, but in China the page would just disappear.
You appear to be implying that some people are inferior due to the ancestry of their parents, or the daily practices of their parents.

No, the implication is that P(inferior | race X) != P(inferior | race Y).

...we do hold to equality across racial and cultural lines;

There are two types of equality under discussion:

a) Statistical equality - P(Q > cutoff | race X) == cdf(Q > cutoff| race Y), where Q is some quality measure which is not a function of race.

b) Equality of treatment - using the same cutoff value for race X and race Y.

Which type of equality are you referring to?
No I don't have time to get drawn into what is essentially a nit picking argument and will probably end up circular in nature. I'm sure what would take me 30 minutes to dredge up and to get valid points to back me up can all be found in that link.
/me waves

I'm the owner/the guy who wrote it. The guy in this interview is Max, the co-owner.
I'm also a moderator on wickedfire. While I would disagree with your characterization of the forum, it would be odd if I didn't post there considering my position.
Not directly related to the OP's topic, but I've been wondering about these questions for a long time, maybe you can answer them:

1) Why do you consider being Jewish an etnithicity? (Why not just religion?)

2) Do most other Jews also think the same way?
AirBnB operates in a grey area? That's certainly putting it nicely. How dark can grey be before it is black? :)
Can someone fill me in on why the regular solarized theme is not proper for Emacs 24? I've been using it for a few weeks, and it seems to work fine.
When I boot my computer, it's a little slow at first when opening applications, so differences are very noticeable.

On this computer I'm using, Firefox 9 starts faster.

Also, this version on my computer upgrades in the background. I just get a "restart" notice when it finishes, then after I restart it checks for addons updates, in case some of them are invalid, but that's pretty fast too. And these upgrades don't happen so ofter.
If a few Asians don't tick Asian as their ethnicity when asked, that's going to reduce the stats for the number of Asians attending the university, effectively creating a negative feedback loop.
this is interesting. haven't thought about that. thanks!!
Everything you type into Firefox's search bar is also sent to Google's servers as a search query.
Nice trick; though it's a once in a cache-time event.
Annoying other people is not illegal. Reference the telemarketer I spoke with yesterday.
Kinda off topic, but I thought people might be interested to know that there's absolutely no blocking (or any other kind of censorship) in Hong Kong.
> So far, Bott's inquries to Mozilla about whether or not the Google deal has been renewed haven't yielded a straight answer. It's entirely possible that Google won't renew the deal, which would put about $100 million of Firefox's revenue at stake. [..] Google doesn't need Firefox anywhere near as much as Firefox needs Google.

This is completely mistaken.

What Google mainly cares about is search market share. Even 0.1% there is crucial, and worth a lot of money. Google would be willing to throw almost any amount of money at anything that would increase its share in search or keep it at its current height. The same is true of Microsoft with Bing.

Consider what happens if Google drops the deal with Firefox. Google will no longer be the default search engine in Firefox, and a lot of goodwill towards Google from Firefox users will be lost. Those two factors can easily account for far more than %0.1 of search. Worse, it is very likely that Microsoft would step in and pay the same amount to Firefox, so Google would be helping its main competitor in search.

$100M in that context is a laughably tiny amount.
If I'm going to be doing something major to a lot of files, I often write a script that outputs the commands to execute, so I can verify what's going to be done. Then I reexecute and pipe to bash.

It's not quite applicable to something used as off-handedly as rm, though it could be done. Something like:

make-rm -rf /*

might produce output like:

rm /usr/bin/a
rm /usr/bin/b
# ...
rmdir /usr/bin
rm /usr/lib/a
#...

And so on. That can then be piped to bash as a confirmation.
It appears that this is because the Tiananmen Square massacre occurred on June 4 1989 (6/4)
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I don't know what's your interest in this, however it looks to me like you have some kind of axe to grind.

Since you're not interested in "nit picking arguments", this makes me assume you have no interest in making Firefox better, so the other possibility is that Firefox may have caused physical or psychical damage to you or your acquaintances.

I'm sure the devs from Mozilla are sorry about it. It's time to let go.
I don't want to take either side, but it sounds like you have a huge taboo that you want to put to bed by saying 'I don't like what you are insinuating'.

I'm not taking neither reinhardt's nor your side. But this 'don't touch this subject because it's sensitive' strategy is getting old and pretty ridiculous to resource to.

A few lines after you wrote this

__You should learn something: that variance within groups is far larger than variance in the averages of groups; and thus race and culture are poor signals for use in judgement.__

So, race and culture are poor signals for use in judgement, but you still admit that they are signals (poor or not) and that their averages does vary, even if less than within the group.

All I can conclude is that you are afraid to touch the subject. You start by saying that it doesn't exist then you prove it is not relevant. That is not coherent, you can't believe them both because they are exclusive.

Not saying that I agree or disagree with you, but if we're going to have discussions about this topic we're getting nowhere if we're stuck to the old taboos.
I'm referring to "equality" in this statement:

Indeed, the myth of equality across racial and cultural lines must be protected at any cost.

and trying to tease out its meaning in the context at hand.

The context at hand appears to be in making decisions about people's lives. I don't see how to read it in any other way than "people should discriminate on the basis of race and culture"; and given reinhardt's previous comment against positive discrimination, he can only mean negative discrimination. Statistical equality does not seem relevant at all; I don't know why you brought it up. I'm suspicious that you are dissembling.
Here's my test of whether a message should be sent via email: "Can I reply to it?" If the answer is no then it probably shouldn't be in email. Think about all of the do-not-reply@ messages that come in that are notifying you of something happening in some other system. email is for communication but too often is just used for broadcasting one way messages. If I had an easy way of filtering out these messages I could easily reduce my inbox by 90% - down to things sent by humans that I need to respond to. Everything else could go into some notification feed, the problem is that there's no standard protocol for that so everything ends up in your inbox.
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Actually, a surprising portion of HN seems to approve of drugs. Selling heroin- fighting the good fight. Selling candy on the subway- criminal.
It would be much more useful if it failed NSURLConnections that are already live—that's the failure case that's difficult to test.
Thanks! I love HN for the civil exchange of views.
There is something incredibly funny about a post incriminating Firefox for not having enough new features to justify a new version number at the same time declaring Chrome as awesome at the end of the post
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The study was done in 1997. The applicant pool is much larger today and far more competitive than it was back then.

"For the first time in Harvard’s history, more than 30,000 students have applied for undergraduate admission. Applications have doubled since 1994, and about half of the increase has come since the University implemented a series of financial aid initiatives over the past five years"

Source: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/01/a-first-for-ha...
the mobile version has better features than the android browser, but it would lock up my droid x2 all the time so I had to stop using it :/
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Yes, and it's unfortunately not caught in a reproducible ( does that word exist? ) manner by the existing tools like the connection conditioner. I'll look into it, I thought about extending this project and add some categories to widely used libraries like ASIHTTPRequest, CocoaAsyncSockets and NSURLConnection. Would be superuseful I suppose..
Same here. Zero false positives, but several false negative results.
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