skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough -- but that has nothing to do with race. The authors discovered a correlation there but that's not the point. If it turned out Foo Bar was a name that happened to correlate highly with people who would pay for arrest-related services, then advertisers would fill in the gap.

So sure, should there be mechanisms in place that can prevent "libel" in Google because of correlations between names and less-than-savory behavior (regardless of race)? Yes, of course. If my last name is Manson it is probably a bit unfair to me as a person if Google is advertising stuff to people searching for me as if I am associated with a famous serial murderer, too. But the implication that this is all about race and is some systemic racist thing is just data mining and likely the authors projecting their own biases. I'm sure you could find all kinds of interesting clusters of names that have certain negative advertising, and only a subset of them would be clusters that highly corresponded to race or ethnic groups.
"we have granted Egoman Technology Corp a licence to produce and distribute Pis in China and Taiwan".

If this truly is a charity, why not go the Arduino route and allow anyone to use the design (but not the trademark)?
Point 2: I am thinking Chuck's point is not that we shouldn't try to reduce CO2 emissions, but rather that we shouldn't try to combat warming through other avenues. We are not very good at the latter, and it introduces additional complexities such as "where exactly should the climate be, anyway?". Your initial statement left it up to interpretation whether you meant you wanted to combat CO2 emissions, or secure the proverbial interstellar ice cube to drop in our oceans.

Point 4: I'm not sure if there is anything we can do about Yellowstone, unless our hydroponics have advanced enough to allow us to live and farm underground and we establish tremendous power capacity to make up for the lack of sunlight.

do you accept the notion of the climate as a closed systems as excluding geologically sequestered reservoirs of hydrocarbons like oil and coal, or not?

Is this even a point of contention? Sequestered hydrocarbons like oil and coal are almost entirely from plant life, which means that carbon is from the air. (90%+ of plant mass is from the air) I don't see how you could consider those deposits of hydrocarbons to be separate from the earth's climate, at least from a macro perspective.
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It favors high unit margins. This is a law that says, "Corporation, if your gross sales profit is $200 million, you're way better off if your gross sales revenue is $1 billion instead of $10 billion."

But high unit margins are terrible. First of all, they mean higher consumer prices, which are bad in and of themselves. But also, that unit margin either becomes corporate profit (in which case it makes richer the stockholders of the company, who will, ceteris paribus, be wealthier on average than the consumers paying that cost), or it gets eaten up by the management of the company (in which case it makes richer the executives of the company, who will, ceteris paribus, be wealthier on average than the consumers paying the cost).

It is crazy to suggest that we should pursue a policy that increases consumer prices and redistributes that wealth to the wealthy.
Why are the two companies taxed at different rates?
Surely they should both be treated equally - or is it a gross tax that has effective net rate of 1% of 500 million for luxury company - which seems a very small fraction to tax at ?
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> Not to mention the conspiracy theorist positing that it might have been a woman posting the fake porn pictures.

Why is that possibility not worth considering?
Err, plenty of answers would get you the job besides sorting, including order insensitive hash functions and tables, neat automata based solutions, etc.

I actually gave hashing/hash-table of a small character-bag of my own making as the first answer. The interviewer then told me to solve the problem "without any [standard-library] data-structures". I had to question that, and was told I had to come up with everything myself, as if writing my own standard library in C. The interviewer was then satisfied when I gave the sorting answer, and I did get the positive call-back.

It was a matter of giving him what he wanted, not necessarily just solving the problem.
It is interesting to see how the community reacts when someone steals their work. There are some good suggestions like contacting the owners of the offending sites politely.

Quite a few of the comments seem pretty malicious in nature. Like serving up javascript which behaves mischievously. It doesn't seem to matter to these people if the site owners were victims of bad and lazy designers.

(Never mind the fact that the original design is not that original.)

I can't believe that almost the same people then go on to rage and demand, more or less in spirit, everything else be free and open. (academic papers, iOS, music etc)

Free, open and being kind are rules which are good to apply to others. Isn't it?
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They're not appealing to false authority.
I don't think it's a hard choice for the browser to make- send the data as it is captured by the camera. How that is displayed is something else, but as timdorr demonstrates, it's not difficult to toggle.
"First they came for Facebook's right to collect all of my personal information, and I didn't speak out..."

Tragic.

You managed to think yourself into a corner where a law protecting personal privacy from corporate misuse is an attack against your freedom.

I'm leaving now; don't follow me.
I'm giddy with excitement on what this could be used for.

Please correct me if I'm wrong:

Does this mean that when you chat with another person you are directly linked to them, making the communication more secure than say Skype (which passes the 'data' through Skype servers)?
That's never going to happen b/c there is too much legacy infrastructure and the benefit is marginal.

All current home routers are configured to do NAT, so you're not going to be able to have a Skype 2.0 be P2P b/c then you'd need to explain to millions of people how to reconfigure their routers.

Also P2P opens a whole new can of worms when it comes to security.
60 million years ago is most assuredly pre-human-history.
$400 a week is hardly enough to live comfortably

Is the cost of living in Rochester that high, or was the author living somewhere else at this time?
My frame of mind is that going to college should be for the knowledge, not for a job. If you want to go to school for a job, there are plenty of trade schools you can go to. If college was just for jobs, the majority of majors would be cut. If you are going to college just so you can get a job, then I believe that it will most likely end up as a mistake, especially in the software development field where it is possible to get a job without a CS degree.
From the linked Huff Po article:
"I was doing a lot of programming from home. I would write out the program on paper using Fortran [a programming language], then I would mail it in to key punch operators at NYU, they would punch the cards out and then I would use the cards to run the program."

Programming on paper from home, that's incredible.
I didn't say "eat cheap shit food". I said "plant a garden". Not sure how you read one from the other.
edit: I was too brief in the intro here; this comment is meant to provide additional context on how others (namely, Reuters) have interpreted Sweeney's work and is not meant as a judgment of the actual study itself.

It's funny ("funny", as in, it was a confusing coincidence, not as in, the study is suspicious) that the OP mentions the ad-delivery on Reuters.com.

I tried it out for myself using the professor's name and got this massive correction note to a December Reuters story involving her study (the correction was so major that the story has been removed from Reuters archive:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/13/us-usa-internet-pr...

(Reuters) - Please be advised that a November 25 article reporting that Instantcheckmate.com's advertising relies on racial profiling has been withdrawn. The story, "Professor finds profiling in ads for personal data website," contains errors.

The headline of the article and the article itself incorrectly assert that Harvard Professor Latanya Sweeney's research showed that Instantcheckmate.com, an online background research website, had engaged in racial profiling in its advertisements.

Sweeney says the preliminary results of the research found "significant discrimination" in Instantcheckmate.com's online ad search results, but were insufficient for the article's assertion of deliberate racial profiling by Instant Checkmate. Her research is ongoing. Instant Checkmate denies any such activity, which it describes as being at odds with the company's values. The company says further that it hasn't seen Sweeney's research.

There will be no substitute story.

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This doesn't have any bearing on the legitimacy of the OP's summation of Ms. Sweeney's work, just that her work has been written about before, and apparently, easily misinterpreted by the media.

edit: If you want to read the pulled-Reuters story, this appears to be a copy of it:

http://technewthings.blogspot.com/2012/11/reuters-technology...

The Reuters story focused more on Instantcheckmate.com's practices and apparently made too strong of a conclusion. Strangely, the author of the piece, a Reuters corespondent, is also a Harvard fellow who is collaborating with Sweeney for a book.
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They're "significant" because of their contrarian-ness, of course, not because they have compelling evidence.
In your scenario, isn't the "luxury" company smaller than the "economy" company? The point is to encourage smaller companies. So the "economy" company could find some way to split into separate companies (say, one that produces desktops and one that produces laptops and one that produces computer displays).
IPv6 is also pretty much a requirement due to the whole multicast MAC address collision thing I believe.
Who would rent a valentine's pixel which will need to be scrolled x time to be seen? Please, would even you really buy it for 10 dollars/pix?
Not saying we aren't affecting the climate but it might be less obvious than some people are trying to present it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland#Norse_settlement

(Contents behind link: The amount of ice on Greenland have seen significant variations over the last few hundred years, even before we started using fossil fuels.)

(Personally I'm all for reducing the use of fossil fuels but my _biggest_ reason is because they are a very finite resource and seem to be running out during our lifetime at the current rate of consumption.)
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I would take a class if it was interesting to me, but I doubt I would become a matriculated student or pursue a degree.
How do you know that they aren't just creating but not sharing? Even I do that, goal-based as I am. I just don't spend as much time on it.
Same experience. In fact, I think most of my college friends have the same experiences. It is hard to find someone who is always on top of his/her work.
I kind of get the author's idea. I can probably skim through the course materials more quickly on my own.. But I wouldn't be able to understand and remember the materials to the same extent if I have not done the homework and the exams.
If I provided multiple independent reconstructions of historical temperatures, would you change your position and accept the scientific consensus?
It works on some alpha release of both Firefox and Chrome. There are already some file transfer apps if you're curious, although I haven't tested myself: https://github.com/lindstroem/FileTransfer and https://github.com/peer5/sharefest . Also, the folks from easyrtc ( https://github.com/priologic/easyrtc ) have already started working on adding DataChannels to their library.
I think you're completely missing the point of the article, which is saying (as I've been trying to explain here as well) that the silence, or inaction, still has a negative effect. It still causes harm. It's completely irrelevant whether you want to classify it as an action or not; it has a result, and the result is negative.

edit: and I fully acknowledge that I let myself get dragged into a side discussion on it, which I shouldn't have.
You asked and I told you how it is at my company. I am not privy to other company's reasons.

Your phrasing implies that you get a job offer after 80% of interviews. That seems a perfectly fine record and it seems there is no need to know what was going on in the other 20% of interviews, so things are good.
What are you doing with the money? Is this a charity?
So, after a century of entire societies based on race-based slavery, is legislative and judicial reform going to completely wipe out racism, or is it more likely to be subject to some sort of asymptotic decay? Is everyone going to change their minds instantly about racism, or will it persist in the minds of large numbers of people? Is racism likely to disappear with everyone's logical and rational acknowledgement, or is it more likely to to persist in forms which are deniable and publicly invisible? Everything we know about human nature indicates the latter choices are going to be true.

This is precisely why witch-hunt attitudes towards racism are counter-productive. Racism isn't an evil or a personal shortcoming [1], it's a consequence of unfortunate history combined with shortcomings in the way our minds process social information. Treating racism as a kind of evil makes communicating rationally about it impossible. And since it's a once huge social factor asymptotically decaying, it's going to be all around us. It would be much better for us as a society to be able to talk about it rationally. That's not what the current social climate is conducive to, however.

Basically, everyone's attitude towards stuff like racism and sexism should be somewhat like the stance "Everyone Poops" takes towards, well, poop. It's not the most pleasant thing in the world. It's just a consequence of where we came from. The only difference is that there is hope that eventually we will overcome it. (Well, maybe when people's minds are uploaded into computers, we won't poop or judge people overwhelmingly on external morphology.)

EDIT: [1] - Harboring some racist attitudes or ideation is perfectly understandable, but if you go and perpetrate some sort of crime or act of cruelty as a result, this is certainly wrong. We all experience hate and negative emotions. This doesn't excuse you from acting like a civilized human being.
No offense, but those are the sorts of things that people say when their own research cannot pass muster for publication.

edit: misspelling
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Why? So my grandma can read my code? That's not the way to enlightenment if you program in a professional setting.
If you're finding trouble getting work, it is because you have an attitude problem.
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Yes, that's exactly what they're saying, as dull-witted and unimaginative as it sounds.
Good questions / concerns. Yup scrolling works, but as well, if one shares a specific Valentine, then it will appear auto-popped / enlarged.

As for the value, the thinking is this is a public showing of one's affection, and real estate is limited / disappearing.
> Could be ML that's learned racism from the internet itself.

This was my first thought.
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I'd suggest "enterprise" means "everywhere the classic top-down enterprise sales strategy works", which generally means "companies over 1000 employees". At Expensify, we define the market as:

1 - Individual, prosumer, contractor, solopreneur, etc.
2-10 - "Very small business"
11-100 - "Small business"
101-1000 - "Midsize business"
1001+ - "Enterprise"

But you're very right to ask -- different industries segment the market differently. We focus on employee headcount because we sell seats; companies who sell big contracts not tied to seats typically segment the market by revenue.
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serverside code cannot be ripped off unless there is a security flaw. If you are concerned about something people might rip off, do it serverside. All the front-end code will never be protected...
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
— Desmond Tutu

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so now you're saying they should change/evolve their design because other companies have blatantly ripped them off? it's not just "some design", it's their brand. if Mitsubishi put a MBZ logo on their car MBZ wouldn't "continuously innovate" on their logo.
Have you never been so engrossed in building something that you stayed up all night to work on it? I certainly don't put in 20 hours every day, but I know many very talented coders that go on similar coding marathons.
I remember an early PSP jailbreak (SKU PSP-1000/-2000) being based on an exploit in libtiff through an image loaded in the browser.

I wonder if it was the same exploit.
I've read before that this can actually be harmful for the person whom you're trying to help. The article was in reference to a pirated android app. The author noticed some crazy amounts of ad traffic from one of his apps. Evidently, the pirates were using this as a method of compensating for stealing the app. As it turns out, since the conversion rate was so low (a lot of clicks and no purchases) his ad revenue became basically zero dollars. So, they stole the app and made the only other revenue stream worthless.
I just want to say six words to people saying aaron commited suicide:

"Make it look like an accident."

I, for one, am deeply sad that he is gone, and wish he wasn't. Being considerate to people who feel this way might pay off, stop being such assholes.
It's important to emphasize that CO2 is important mainly for its role as the primary forcing: the actual temperature swing it would cause by itself is minimal. It's the feedbacks that kill us (and which are, unfortunately, quite a bit messier than the very clear humankind-CO2-greenhouse effect connection that exists).
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I agree this shouldn't be the only component overall, you need to see if he fits into your team but I feel like if he can solve a problem in a timely manner that I deem moderately difficult using google and some experience based tricks with me looking over their shoulder then I can judge if they are a good engineer. Everyone I've hired using this method has never been fired for incompetence or issues with their skill. My issue is judging peoples personality and team fit. I still have yet to find a solid solution to this and asking Microsoft interview questions or how linked lists in C work isn't going to do that either. People are often overly nice/fit for the first few weeks/months but then go downhill from there as their true personalities show. I see no way to judge this other than calling contacts/past employers and even that doesn't always work.
Zealots? I wouldn't say that, considering that I don't even think that reduction of CO2 emissions on a global scale is a realistic solution. The zealots tend to stick with that one though. I'm actually wishing for a debate on the best way to deal with rapid increases of CO2 concentrations, either through reduction or geo-engineering solutions.

BTW, calling it a "debate" pretty much automatically puts you in a category also. The only reason it's even put into the public's mind as a debate is because of the huge business interests which are threatened by the science. You might as well say that you aren't on either side of the "cigarettes cause lung cancer" debate. Do you think Exxon is going to do anything different than R.J. Reynolds and Phillip Morris did when they spent decades challenging the science of tobacco induced cancers?

I am all for questioning and challenging the science WITH SCIENCE, as opposed to economic arguments and ad hominem attacks.
No plans currently. Do you think that would help with someone buying a digital Valentines? Please lemme know if you have any suggestions of relevant charities!
I honestly don't know. My guess would be no, for two reasons.

GPU vs. CPU; GPUs are much better at the number crunching needed in producing the hashes ("mining"). I doubt very seriously that you can get the kind horsepower out of a vm. I could be wrong; they may have machines dedicated to scientific numeric calcs but then you would likely need to produce a driver for harnessing it, if it even exists.

Computational pricing would likely dwarf any kind of return. Electricity costs alone can be enough to offset profits. I can only imagine what adding AWS fees on top of it would do too.
Colorado passed a law that tried to require internet retailers to provide the state with a summary of purchases made by CO residents so that those residents would be required to paid sales tax.

The law was stricken down and again on appeal as a violation of the Commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution.
Are there any usability studies on video self-views? What are the precedents from other video conferencing software like Apple's FaceTime and Google Hangouts?
No one can guarantee that a bank won't fail. Nor should anyone. Banks are money-making enterprises; to allow private parties the spoils of risk while insuring them against any losses is anti-capitalist, and is at the heart of what creates perverse incentives for bankers.

Fixing "too big to fail" isn't about making everything safe enough that banks never fail, it's about allowing an insolvent bank to fail without causing a domino effect that affects the whole economy.
"Aaron died becaue he killed himself." <- I'm with stupid.
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AXPW is my number one pick right now for risk/reward. They are on the cusp of commercializing a Lead-Carbon battery, which allows many discharge cycles. Normal lead acid batteries sulfate after a while and fails. This is good for energy storage and certain types of hybrid vehicles.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/1020351-axion-power-a-batter...
I'd say they've got B.i and B.ii down pretty thoroughly and C wouldn't be difficult since the end result of the act occurred in the US.

A is the problem. If Congress expands that to economic crimes, then it's instant terrorist.
Asking for a coherent definition of racism in an academic paper is (presumably you are attempting to insinuate) racist. Natch.

The intro handwaves a very general definition, but never brings it back to the question at hand.
You can't dismiss my opinion because your feathers got ruffled either. I still think this is more looking at notable examples rather than the typical example.
None because I am smart enough to know that I personally am too dumb to fully understand them in any truly strategic manner.

I do invest in index funds but generally just spread it around.
"make me seriously question whether the climate change deniers have ulterior motives"

The ones in power do, but the followers accept plenty of concepts because they run contrarian to what various "authorities" state and believe.

It follows with plenty of subjects, not just "What do scientists know, anyway?" but plenty of "What does medicine know?" and other fields.