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I've seen many Black people made to feel inferior by comments like this, which have the result of implying that the reason they probably got in was because a "superior" student didn't. But for one thing, those of privileged races who didn't get in were obviously extremely marginal candidates anyway, who even failed to capitalize on their racial privileges.

(And of course, a Black individual who happens to agree with affirmative action is less likely to publicly offer their perspective here, since ironically doing so may hamper their careers, as some future investor or employer googles them. It's much safer to hold the ideology which appeals to these gatekeepers, regardless of skill.)

Those who are truly concerned about racism have different criticisms of the (mostly private) system of expensive elite universities, as well as the US imprisoning by far more of its population than any other country. Such things affect education far more than affirmative action ever has.

And there are different kinds of affirmative action programs, with different attributes. But such subtleties seem not to matter to those who want to end them in principle.
Personally, I'm absolutely sick of Buffer. Damn, they email me more than most services I use, they publish regularly on several blogs which you can find on the front page of HN practically every day of the week, and they guest blog on a number of high traffic social media sites.

Yes Buffer, you know how to game the press. Yes, you are hustlers. You have controlled HN better than anyone I have ever seen (the herd mentality on HN is very real, you know this), but man, there is such a thing as over-exposure.

If HN truly is about learning about and helping other startups, Buffer needs to take a back seat and let others get some exposure.

P.S. That is the startup "secret". Publish on multiple blogs, maximum leverage with your email list, make alliances with other apps, guest post on high traffic websites and game HN RELENTLESSLY. Rinse and repeat. Rinse and repeat.
So what about the fact that me.ga hasn't actually done anything illegal ..yet..

It appears that this whole issue has blown up into an absolutely ugly power game. Everyone's bullying everyone and it goes to show that international law, national law, any law, really don't have much meaning when the stakes are high enough.

There goes civilization. =/

(I'm referring to the part where the minister was pressured to seize the domain.. the hackers.. well no comment on them..)
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I'd argue, having used it extensively in the 80's and 90's, that the BASIC variant shipped with RISC OS it is very serious.

It's a different league to your usual BASIC variants and scales up very well to large applications and even down to system programming.

It's completely unique and people could learn a lot from how little time it takes to knock out something useful, fast and powerful in it.
It annoys me to no end when people write "your" where it should be "you're". And I'm not a native English speaker.
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same here, non-native, never understood why this is so difficult for people.. just replace it with 'you are' in your mind to see if it works
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Ahh okay. I was wondering where the 27 came from. Wasn't thinking about the sqrt. Fair enough.
I'm not defending МГУ in any way (in fact I'm gonna troll people from there with this article to the rest of our lives), but МГУ is hardly any more unique than Harward in the USA.

Moscow had dozens of universities and "institutes" (approximate equvalent of college) and most Jews diverted to one of those after being brickwalled by МГУ.

Of course, I consider that the pure mathematics education was a pretty rare thing in USSR which had considerable aptitude towards applied sciences and engineering.
Me too.

When I first heard of this "your/you're" confusion two years ago, I didn't believe it. Now I see it happening every single day.
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I would have thought that the kind of people who post on HN are going to be better at correct use of English than those on your average Facebook/Twitter stream.
There are actually reasons for some of OOXML's weirdness, just not good ones. For instance, it appears the reason why OOXML is pretty much the only XML-based document format which doesn't use a mixed content model is because there's a huge amount of prior art that'd have made it impossible to patent if they had. (Microsoft tried anyway though.)
Holistic evaluation is legitimate. I'm not sure why people think raw SAT is all that should matter.

Universities basically function to stamp kids as "qualified for the middle class". Inasmuch as the USA is increasingly multicultural, it cannot have its university system exclude entire races from the middle class simply because they on average score X points less on the SAT. That's not politically tenable.

The underlying problem here is growing population and not proportionally growing seats at brand-name universities. There is really no reason that e.g. Harvard can only produce X number of "Harvard degrees" per year. I realize scarcity is part of its value, but it can still increase production and remain "proportionally scarce".

I totally think that admissions councils should strip ethnicity data when considering individual applications (versus the demographics as a whole). But I also think doing so would still result in "discriminatory results" where say the Asian kid with perfect SAT and facility at piano and violin is rejected in favor of the Black kid with a hundred points less than perfect SAT but wrote an eloquent personal statement on how he taught a Kenyan village how to code (or whatever).

I don't really like the assumption that SAT should be the sole determination in admissions.
I'd have to agree. Java is probably on of the worst for beginners. Especially, if you're by yourself. Setting up your workspace alone could be enough to stop you from getting to your code.

If you start with javascript, at least you could just open up your web browser to see if your code worked.
or in other words necessity is the mother of invention.
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What is his copyright agenda, though?
Don't forget people over 21 who don't drink, e.g. muslims. I can well imagine that poor muslims who don't own a car constitute a significant constituency, and with a significant Democratic preference; it seems plausible that keeping them from voting would lead to a noticeable shift in the overall result.
What applications have no peer?
The ports system is for developers only. Not recommended for end-users. Binary packages are the way to go. It's emphasized in the FAQ multiple times and also across most tutorials and mailing lists.

So your statement is just uneducated and ignorant.
Doesnt seem to be working for me ... or am i doing something wrong :D
The most fascinating thing about that whole your / you're confusion thing is:

It mostly happens to native speakers - or so i've observed..

And yes, it also makes me facepalm a little everytime i encounter it (non-native speaker as well..)
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IMHO, this is simply not true.

Practice makes perfect. Writing short, concise pieces of text that express your thoughts in an easily digestable is really hard, a challenge of its own (despite what you want to say) - it's like a form of "professional" art, that few master.
The supposed differentiator for Surface is Office. Why then is there not a single screenshot of Office on their product website? [1]

I eventually found an URL in a footnote (not even linked): http://office.com/officeRT which is incredibly sparse on information.

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/Surface/en-GB
Great work. Just wondering if you tested on IE<9? On IE8 does not look very good.
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Ha! After some gruesome hackery, I got it running on the Debian testing release.

A few small bug reports:

1) Your code to check who is in the closed beta is clearly not working :)

2) In the install dialog, asking whether or not to "Create a start menu shortcut to <game X>" is clearly meaningless :)

3) For some reason, Psychonauts is in my library (I own a copy on Windows), but I can't install it. Once past the dialogs, the install complete instantly & the gui believes it to be installed, but (unsurprisingly, since nothing has been downloaded) it won't run. Installing WorldOfGoo works perfectly.

4) You're re-setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH somewhere, which means that I can't actually play any of the games, even though I can install them, because they're finding the wrong libraries.

5) Running the games directly from the command line doesn't work, because they can't find a running steam instance to authenticate against, even though steam is running fine (this might be expected behaviour at this point, even though it works under windows obv.) I suspect this is related to (4): forcibly preloading everything in .steam/bin fixes the linking problem at least.

The Steam GUI seems perfect though: responsive & the look and feel is much the same as the Windows version. Bravo!
I'm not surprised, it's a cute ad.
3 million downloads bringing in $10K revenues, that dosen't seem like a huge amount of money considering the spike in users of the app.
So has anyone yet done the calculation to work out how many files github will need to store to have a non-negligeable chance of hash collisions in the git file names? Or perhaps the linux kernel?
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Holistic evaluation is legitimate. I'm not sure why people think raw SAT is all that should matter.

You don't need to use strictly SAT to have an objective system in which racism is honest. Before Grutter, that's exactly what U-Mich did.

They gave you points: 20xGPA + SAT/100 + 1 for a good essay + 1-5 for extracurriculars + etc + 20 if black + 5 if woman in engineering, man in nursing.

They only dropped this system after the supreme court said they couldn't use objective systems and be racist at the same time.

[edit: Fixed numbers, here is the actual sheet:
http://www.cir-usa.org/Images/mich_index.gif ]
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I work in a big multinational and the transition to IE8 is not finished.

It doesn't matter if 99% of a company is on IE8. If 1% can't use it, you are still out. Especially when your solution is new and people will not be so open to it from the beginning.
Same here, domain seems to be parked...

http://i.imgur.com/T2892.png
Why would a competent developer want to work on this with a you, a beginner?
I think it's realatively easy, for a smart guy with a solid understandings of statistics to come up with a reasonable model (weight polls by sample size, come up with probability distribution for each state, run x Monte Carlo simulations and take the average of the result...).

But a thing is coming up with a good model, another is to defend it publicly putting your reputation on the line, while it would have been a much safer bet simply to say 'it's too close to call', as many so-called experts did.

Full credit to Nate, he made math cool for a lot of people.
How does something that doesn't even appear to be a website end up on the HN front page?
I agree. Or perhaps even better than 'mathematically incontradictable' racism (but not quite as good as no racism) is having a more sort of standardised racism.

I heard from a Chinese friend of mine that some Chinese universities wanted to increase attendance from non-Han ethnic minorities. They did this by giving them +3% on the entrance exam.

This makes it clear racial discrimination, but on a fair and standard basis. Nobody is going to pass the exam just relying on that 3%. But the university gets more minorities accepted than they would otherwise too.
"Could of" is even worse. Non-native speaker here, too.
I still think you shouldn't dismiss the historical technial evolution blogs took. Words have connotations which can differ, but with blogs there really is the interactivity a distinguishing factor. Dismissing them misses their core.

I didn't react to the other definitions because they mean nothing. Your wordpress-Glossary has an entry for comments. The Blogger-definitions talk about how visitors may comment. Sorry, all of that points to my definition. Note that the latter interactivity-part of the wikipedia-definition is not necessarily related to "good blogs" but to all blogs.

If you want to have analogies: Disregarding comments in blogs but calling normal websites a blog is like calling a bike a car because it drives.

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Server do one thing: They listen to requests on a port and forward them to a script, or serve the corresponding file. Reacting to such a request is normal business, and implementing trackbacks and pingbacks is a three-liner. They are not more of an artifical extraodinary thing than a php-script serving some output. Don't see what the classification as complex and weird here aims to.

PS: I hate it when HN eats comments!
I use easydns.com -- not sure if it's still the case, but I think at one point ycombinator used it.
Because lots of people lie to pollsters or change their mind based on the last thing they read in the paper?
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Wait, so they had a choice between using an objective system and being racist and they dropped the objective system?
More first-past-the-post foolishness: Obama got 50.3% of the popular vote but 59.9% of the electoral college vote, while Romney got 48.2% of the popular vote but 40.5% of the electoral college vote.
I am sorry, Gandi.net switches randomly back to their Default DNS zone. Once it was my blog, now it is their default "domain parked" site.
One phone call from Obama and it's done. He should've used an .is or maybe even an .eu domain.
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Hidden gem on the right side:

[...] People often ask why they need to memorise formulas, or why they need to practice solving equations, when they can simply look stuff up whenever they need it, and on-line computer algebra systems can solve equations faster than they can, and more reliably.

But this is an example of why the ability simply to look stuff up is near useless on its own. Searches are deep and wide, and you need intuition to guide you. You need to recognise what might work, things you've seen before, directions to take that are more likely to be fruitful. [...]
In other words, TV advertising is the most effective way to promote an app?
From what I understood, this contribution is not about making stuff nanoseconds faster, but about how this pushes spreads down. Anyone doing any trading will be happier to see the spreads smaller, wouldn't he?

Note: by spreads I mean the difference between buy and sell prices. I don't know if there is a special word for it in this context.
but it's missing "hip" language constructs like closure or functional approach, unless there's something like CoffeeScript for basic
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I used to run a marketplace business and much of my role was getting in touch with partners to get them on our service. Obviously the value we added was key but I started A/B testing email to see if it made much of a difference. I found that the shorter the email, the quicker the reply I'd receive. I worked it up to about a 50% improvement in the end. Honestly I just learned that people want you to get to the point, lay out the key facts and make it clear what you want.

If you know the person look at saving any niceties for after you've made your point. It doesn't look so false if you save any of this for after you've made your request and and you're actually interested in how their job is going.
See my explanation in the comment section.
I've seen many Black people made to feel inferior by comments like this, which have the result of implying that the reason they probably got in was because a "superior" student didn't.

This is true in many cases. If true statements about a policy cause people to experience negative feelings, that is a problem with the policy, not the people speaking truth to power.

By the way, here are the stats. The majority of black students at elite schools (at least as of 2006) didn't even get a 1400 on their SAT:

http://www.jbhe.com/features/53_SAT.html

In medical school, blacks who were accepted are a standard deviation below the mean:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080801022539/http://www.aamc.or...
In what sense is the birthday paradox a paradox?
How do you stop them from putting caffeine in your soda?

Easy, because we have laws about food and drugs. If someone puts caffeine in a drink it must be labeled. If someone puts salt in food then it must be labeled. Do you imagine that government and society would spontaneously decide to take methamphetamine less seriously than caffeine if it were fully legalized?
I'm really looking forward to when the standard is implemented across most compilers. There's some great new features that I hope goes some way to addressing some of the complaints levied at C++ (there's still plenty left to go).
I think they meant in total since launch they have now brought in 3 million downloads, and that over the 3 days they have made $10K.

Maybe? It is a bit unclear.
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Hey, I'd prefer to live, study at, or work at Oxford too, or Cambridge, but there is actually only one Harvard. The first sentence of my post is true and was responding to its parent post saying there's only one MSU.

Harvard is definitely the most prestigious university in the US, just as Oxford is definitely the most prestigious university in the UK. Please noye I said nothing anout quality of education.
You must mean Chocks Away?

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It's funny how humans tend to fully forget about things that happened only 100 years prior.

Back in the late 1800's and early 1900's, some 50% of the American population was addicted to opiates in one form or another, usually without even realizing it (due to there being no failed drug laws yet, and no laws regarding the listing of ingredients on common "elixirs"). And yet, we didn't live in some apocalyptic wasteland with drug addled zombies roaming the land, we had a very modern, progressive, civilized society. Just look up images of America in the 1890's to see what America would look like without asinine drug laws, and with a large part of the population physically dependent upon legal narcotics.
More like people trying to find a use for their iPad mini
LOL, thought the same
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Doesn't that mean he undercalibrated some of his predictions?

If you say 50 events should happen with a 60% probability, and they all happen, shouldn't you have upped your confidence?

That said, since most his naysayers were saying he was OVERconfident at the time, kudos to him for proving them wrong.
OpenNIC idea is quite interesting but I can't see how it will ever become mainstream. I'd love though to see the domain monopoly end.
There has been anti-semetism in Europe for a long long time, e.g. In 1290 King John kicked all the Jews out of England. In about 1805 Napolean (while invading lots of Europe) gave Jews more equal rights with Christians. The Russian Orthodox Church declared him the "Anti-christ" and "enemy of god"
"as an issue of Federal law, that would be the purview of the US Attorney assigned to the region"

That's what I meant by local.

"They get their orders from the US Attorney General."

Not in this case. The US Attorney General is letting them each do whatever they want as they see fit. That's why there are lots of raids in some parts of California, and almost none in others.
Plus whoever won would still have to continue cleaning up Bush's mess while not ticking off the Teabaggers too much - an impossible task.

There are a couple of halfway non-insane Republicans who are sharpening their blades for 2106 - I'd say Mitch Daniels and Chris Christie are likely contenders who have some credibility. Well, Daniels doesn't much with me - I'm from Indiana and I can't say he's been a stellar governor.

My opinion from the start is that the saner Republicans wisely decided to sit this one out and let the crazies blow off some steam. Even Palin sat it out - she's morally atrocious but, I think, no dummy. We'll see her in 2016 for sure.
"in the Soviet Union"
And quite a few has been written on the enthusiasm of part of the Russian jews for USSR because they were so oppressed under the Tsarist regime.
There will always be a market for uninformed jabbering. Pundits wouldn't worry if they looked at their own record.
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It's sometimes called the Birthday Problem to avoid the paradox label. (See, for example, the wikipedia article.)

The paradoxy bits of the problem are the things that people find confusing. "Only 23?!" or "So if there are 23 people in a room there's a 50% chance that one of them will share a birthday with me?"
So.. are you fixing it, or what? I, for one, am actually interested.
I wonder if having such good predictions is ultimately harmful to the democratic process? If I were only voting on the presidential election, I would not have bothered going to the polls because my state was solidly on one side and the chance of my vote being pivotal was basically zero. But some of our local elections were less certain, so I went for those.

As the prediction models get better, get applied to local elections, and get more publicity, I wonder what it will do to people's incentive to vote? I'm much more likely to go out and cast my vote when the outcome is uncertain and I think I have a chance of being the pivotal vote. But if super accurate forecasts tell me my vote won't matter, then maybe I won't bother standing in line for an hour.
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Right, what you sometimes do is recruiting.

What this guy is doing is just wasting your time. He doesn't even have a job for you, he wants you to apply. If you wanted to do that you already would have done it!
It doesn't work like that. Polls are not independent. If poll A is out by a large amount, then it's much more likely that poll B is also out. As well, the confidence interval assumes that the sample was a fair sample, which is highly unlikely. It's very very difficult to get a true random sample of the voting populace. It's hard enough to get a random sample of the populace, and a random sample of those who vote is even harder.

That's why Nate Silver said that Romney had about a 10% chance of winning. Statistically it was much lower, but there was a very real chance of systematic polling errors.
It's still a dinosaur in functional gui features. Separation of document window and app. Resize, move, scroll, click and type in windows without bringing them to the front of the stack. A send to back of stack button. Drag and drop load and save. Menus you can select and item and keep the menu open.
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