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Not really a programming mode.

But OrgMode is probably one of the most powerful and unique emacs modes. There is nothing like it anywhere else.

Once you go OrgMode, there is no going back.
Lots of bad press for Seattle Tech today. Disappointing.
I served on a jury late last year [1] and the defendant invoked his 5th-amendment right. It was emphasized over and over again during the jury selection and in the instructions to the jury before we deliberated that we were not to hold this against him, and that it was his constitutional right. I feel confident that as the jury, we held to that.

[1]: By the way, if you get called for jury duty do not try to get out of it! It's an incredibly interesting and rewarding experience, not to mention the whole thing where it's your duty as a citizen.
Does Linpack even touch the memory bus?
Heh, Ironically, I bet if he came to this website, bells and whistles would go off and he'd get a call about his internet activities.
As I understand it (that is: minimally) it was not just a packet sniffer. Why would anyone bother to write a packet sniffer anymore? It was a sniffer designed to capture credit card transaction information.
Banks and the financial sector were always heavily regulated, even during the years before the crisis.

The whole securitization of debt and cutting it up into tranches only get fuelled up to such an extent, because there were customers hungry for yield but barred from buying anything that didn't have some official (even useless) triple-AAA stamp on it.
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I am intrigued. Do you have more sources?
Thanks for breaking these things down. I don't really agree with them but I appreciate how a different reading on things could conclude that an intelligent person could have made those decisions.
My point was to answer the comment that red-state extracurriculars serve as a black mark in the Ivy League. I think it's clear that they don't.

And data is not what you're basing your argument on. It's an interpretation of some data that might be flawed in collection methodology, reporting errors, false conclusions from over fitting and other common errors that occur in studies.

For the record, I served in the military, and earned an undergraduate degree from Harvard and know of many others who did the same. Painting the Ivies as somehow anti-military kinda rubs me the wrong way.
Probably just dried out before anything could grow on it.
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It makes perfect sense. We've traded one group that it is socially and politically ok to hate based on their skin color in for another.

I guess the idea that we should stop with race based discrimination altogether is too novel yet. So long as this is the case, the cycle will continue to repeat.
If I thought the SAT was a useful metric you might be on to something. I used to be an SAT coach (back when the top score was 1600) and I could typically raise someone scoring between 1000 to 1300 by 200 points in 6 weeks.

IMO it's just not a useful test, and I suspect the Harvard admin committee knows so as well.

That said, it can be used as something to see how much work people are willing to do. In which case I think the delta over their HS peers is more useful than anything else. A 1500 at Andover would be a lot less impressive than a 1300 at Crenshaw.
>It is more so that existence of smart people does not equal a more challenging or more educational experience.

Huh. I don't have any hard data, but I always thought the opposite. I mean, I didn't go to school, but I put a lot of effort into being around people who are better (at things I want to be good at) than I am, and I attribute much of my success to surrounding myself with people who are better than I am.

I mean, I agree about the second bit... my understanding is that undergrad at a prestigious school offers little contact with the (usually very good) professors (thus, my assertion that it's all about the quality of the other students.) - thus, grad school there, where you get more contact with the (very good) professors would be even better.

Perhaps I am unqualified to say, because I didn't go to school. On the other hand, I managed to learn enough without school to get a job that often requires a degree, so maybe I am qualified?
Right, but if they never exit, or keep taking funding rounds, the equity the employees have becomes either worth nothing, or worth not a hell of a lot. Again, divide the money they might see by the number of years and add it the base to see if it was worth it.

There's a couple others I know that went public, but still have pay caps, but implemented a preferred stock option system for bonuses and such that works out very well for many of the employees.
Why do your PD friends care so much about protecting the rights of their "clearly guilty" clients? It's because protecting the guilty's rights ensures the innocent's rights are protected too.

The trope here is the suggestion that criminals are getting off on technicalities. As you've illustrated with Miranda, even with the improperly-obtained evidence suppressed, he was still convicted. The government doesn't need to violate people's rights to keep criminals off the streets. And perhaps there would be fewer of those pesky appeals if the state did things right the first time.

Of course most 4th amendment decisions concern guilty people - the remedy for 4th amendment violations is suppression, so you never hear about the innocent people who are harassed by police with illegal searches - no evidence is found so there's no case with evidence to suppress! (Civil action is an uphill battle even for those who are able to bring it.)
At least UseHipster (dot) com had a (moribund) byline.

Source:

http://www.communiquepr.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/...
You need more karma to downvote.

Otherwise, it seems to me more like graycat is describing racism, but you can't tell greycat would support it based on that comment.
I think it will first take realizing that they don't deserve to be discriminated against. A lot of my asian friends are just like, oh well, nothing to be done about it. It's an attitude I find quite perplexing. Even the ones that do care about it do so only mildly--nowhere near the level of outrage that is mustered by a hispanic or black person when they (increasingly more rarely, today) encounter a similar problem.
It should be noted that pandodaily.com didn't turn down investor money:

"I’ve also raised a bunch of cash from some of the people I respect most in the industry. This includes: Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Tony Hsieh, Zach Nelson, Andrew Anker, Chris Dixon, Saul Klein, Josh Kopelman, Jeff Jordan and Matt Cohler, all investing as individuals. Also investing are a handful of seed funds including the CrunchFund, Greylock Discovery Fund, Accel’s Seed Fund, Menlo Ventures Talent Fund, Lerer Ventures, SV Angels and Ooga Labs."

http://pandodaily.com/2012/01/16/why-i-started-pandodaily/
Exactly. If he really understood what negative margin meant, he would never have asked for "a forecast that shows how much we need to sell to break even."
But she didn't have to pick anything. As I mentioned higher up, it's just picked off the top science subreddits and could be automated.

Everything she posts has already been proven to be interesting to anyone interested in science.
This feels right. There are a lot of people asking what comes next and this gives us a manageable way to talk to them.

I'm leaving clues about what we're doing in plain sight, but we're not quite ready to announce it yet. Not being able to share/show/tell and be open yet is necessary but not fun.
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"Still, on balance I think it is better to have a leader who at least knows how to say the right things ... even if saying them doesn't always mean he will actually get them implemented."

I think that could be even worse than saying the wrong things. If he's going to say he's going to change things but not really change them, the people who are actually interested in getting things changed may become complacent and less will get done.

I'll believe that the "war on drugs" is over when federal SWAT teams stop crashing through peoples' doors (sometimes the wrong peoples' doors) looking for pot growers, and when the federal government stops funding similar paramilitary operations and equipment for state and local governments.

And what about the thousands of people who are in prison solely for non-violent drug crimes, or have been released from prison and will find it difficult to get employment for the rest of their lives due to their conviction records? What will be done for these victims of the war on drugs?
Despite a lying Senator, checking the Native American box is a pretty simple exercise. Are you enrolled with a federally (or state in some cases) recognized tribe? Yes, check box. No, pick something else.
There was a blog post on hn a while back that could provide an explanation for this. Since you provide such information to some companies, they can share that with a third party that uses tracking cookies. Any website using that same third party to track their visitors then gains access to the contact details of their visitors.
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There are other parallels, too. When I was growing up, my dad used to check out VHS tapes of university lectures in physics, astronomy, etc. from the local library - they had complete recordings of a wide range of courses available to the public.

As with a MOOC, the videos were free to check out, although there was no text or problems provided alongside the lectures; but anyone could still check them out and watch them, or not, just as anyone can enroll in a MOOC, or not, at no cost in any case.

Which is why the article's point isn't really valid: all of these - MOOCs, video lectures in the library, and "University of the Air" alike - can't be compared to a traditional bricks-and-mortar university. Universities have entrance requirements and tuition charges; the people who attend courses are the ones who want to be there enough to pay high fees for the privilege, and whom the university admissions staff believe have the capacity to succeed in their studies. Quite a selection bias.

If MOOCs also end up having only 17% completion rates, it won't be all that surprising, but it won't mean that they're not a successful and valid innovation.
Fair enough! I'm just some guy that reads HN and am probably not your target, since I just recognize you as the poster that does cool startup data analysis.

Best of luck with your venture and thanks for sticking an awesome song into my head. I'm going to go listen to the Ugly Organ.
Many languages have block scope, but not all.

Python, Ruby, and PHP have function scope, but idiomatic Ruby guarantees block scope for loops. In Python even list comprehensions leak scope.

JavaScript has function scope but has the `var` keyword for local scope. Lua has global scope but has a `local` keyword as well.

As I mentioned before, however, I was referring to developers principally familiar with Python (or at least dynamic, interpreted languages) coming to Go, since that is the basis of the article.
Race based discrimination that favors any given minority will only come after the political/social upheaval that disadvantaged them has ceased to exist, more or less. At least, you have to reached the peak of your civil rights movement for that particular group, so that it's "obvious" that it's not just a "political opinion" to discriminate against them. This is why you presently see homeless GLBT kids who don't qualify for federal financial aid, while wealthy hispanic/black kids at private high schools get easy admits and full rides to wherever they apply.

It'll happen for middle easterners only once people no longer mind them--of course, then people will think it unfair that they are so oppressed, and whatever the current group-to-be-hated of that decade is will be further discriminated against in favor of correcting for a social pressure that has long since disappeared.
While the author seems to blame his political opponents for the perception of GWB as unintelligent, a more balanced analysis should probably also consider what Bush and the Republicans did to further that idea. When you use words like "elite" and "intellectual" (and "windsurfing" for some reason...) as pejoratives and go to great lengths to avoid publicly highlighting your intelligence and playing up how average you are...you probably shouldn't be surprised if people don't consider you a great thinker.

I'd certainly believe that Bush is smart, but is the author really complaining that people judged him based on what they saw of his public persona rather than how he behaved in private meetings in the Oval Office that they had no way of knowing about? Had Bush's public face been more like what the author claims he saw in private, I doubt there would be any such stereotype about Bush.

Basically, is anyone surprised or appalled that it turns out that perception matters at least as much as substance?
One statistic I remember is from Brad Smith's talk at Brookings (http://www.brookings.edu/events/2012/09/27-stem-education#re...). He says (around the 6:30 mark) that Microsoft has over 3400 open jobs for engineers and software developers in this US and this number is a 34% increase from last year.
Great stuff, have to disagree on the "replayability" section though. There were only 2-3 tier 2 weapon spawns on the entire map, the crescendos were pretty much always in the same spot (this was a bit better in L4D2), and so on. After the first 10 times every map felt the exact same.
I suppose that depends on what the goal of a school is. If the goal is to teach(which i think everyone can agree is there purpose?), then cultural discrimination, or any discrimination has no place in it education process. In school students are judged by their grades, so should they be in the selection process. Any deviation from this IS discrimination, again assuming the goal is to teach.
I don't disagree with you, but I'm curious how you explain the test performance disparity across races. If you look at the top public high school, TJ, blacks/hispanics compose 4% of the class at 25% of the population while asians make up 60% of the class at 5% of the population. Is it because asians are that much more naturally gifted?

I realize with regard to affirmative action that race is a poor proxy for socioeconomic status, but it is statistically practical with regard to cultural values. You mentioned "I went to an Ivy League school, I fit the Asian model minority stereotype pretty well." How much did your parents influence your priorities in weighing education?

One of the issues seems to be that colleges are attempting to address institutionalized racism too late in students' lives.
You're totally my target ;) Enjoy the album, and keep an eye out for more clues
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If you are hiring, your website does not make that particularly obvious.

(Interested applicants will read your blog to learn about you, but surely more prominent placement would generate more flow. Especially since your potential customers are your most likely employees.)
So your contention is that character and ethics are exclusive of intelligence? If not, why would one need to feign stupidity in order to project character?
The more examples I see the more I'm convinced that a big cause of failing businesses is just failure to do math. I've seen so many businesses struggle because they failed to do the simple thing: concentrate on profit margin and focus on maximizing it.
As a 3+ years of playing every night, i will have to disagree. The weapon spots are not important... The replayability comes with everything it provides. I have over 1 tb of dem files because i record every single match since start, and i still enjoy it.
You may be interested to know Seibel gave a non-zero amount of thought to the issue of women in "Coders at Work": http://gigamonkeys.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/women-coders/
> educate future leaders

Er, you changed the subject from determining which future leaders are accepted into college to educating future leaders after they've been accepted.

That's a whole another discussion which I wasn't intending to get into. All I will say is that the status quo seems to point toward the use of race as a way to fulfill affirmative action requirements, not as a means for determining aptitude.
Initial perceptions shape the views people have of each other...it's not just about how people view southerners. I'd guess from your post that you have certain preconceptions about "liberals" and "intellectuals" that aren't always accurate ;)

You can't judge a book by its cover, but that's where first impressions tend to come from.
It is certainly quite possible that "Phil, just bring me a forecast that shows how much we need to sell to break even" is a gross misrepresentation of what he actually said, but if it is at all true then Sherman did in fact literally not understand the concept of margins.
What incentive does a department have to hide an attack they helped prevent? Publicizing it, on the other hand, brings massive clout and more bargaining power when it comes to budgets. Look at Canada's recent announcement, for example. Why would the US government be any different?
hey thanks for replying. i just realized the same. In fact, i don't need email ids, i just wanted to know if people would be interested in a better way of product discovery and comparison in gadgets space. i will be redesigning and adding social plugins on the landing page itself.
The amount of money the fellowship gives is about the same as two years worth of tuition at Stanford. In what ways is it not scalable?
Piggybacking on this.. After reading SICP over the new year, I had a look into using Racket for various things, and although it seems to have an excellent, well rounded set of libraries and excellent documentation there seems to be less drive of people doing practical things with the language. Is there a glaring reason why, or is it simply lack of mindshare?
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> They can barely run Safari, iPhoto, Mail.app, and Skype at the same time without constant beachballing

I am skeptical of your anecdote. My 2010 MBP was perfectly happy running Xcode, IntelliJ, and pretty much any other applications I'd care to run, and that was before I put a SSD in it (which, naturally, helped a lot).

I think you're stretching the truth by a great deal.
It's not "racist". It's just that
the US citizens quickly saw that they
didn't 'fit in'. So, they became afraid,
rightly so, that somehow it was a game
that promised not to be good for US
citizens. And that fear was correct.

The US citizens just saw that they didn't
fit in and turned, which is just what they
should have done. There are lots of situations
where a person might not fit in, and racism
need have nothing to do with it.

Or, where were all the other US citizens
that one would expect would be the TA and
the students? Were they all racists? Or
did they just see or sense something wrong?

There was something wrong, very wrong: The
labor supply was being manipulated in DC. It
was a rigged game and not what it looked like
superficially. When see such a situation,
don't ignore the obvious and wait 20 years to
discover the details of how DC rigged the
game and, instead, just sense that something's
wrong and leave.

I saw situations where the division was really
clear: Essentially all the worker bees were
from India or Asia, and essentially all the
managers were US citizens, white of
Western European descent. In that situation,
got to be from Asia or India to apply for a
slot even as a worker bee -- US citizens of
Western European descent need not apply. Period.

Look, set aside your PC sensitivities for a second
and look at some simple reality: A big theme
in the US from Alexis de Tocqueville on is for the
US to create an identifiable, exploited underclass.
That's what's going on here. Given that such an
exploited underclass has been created, then other
people don't 'fit in' and will not be welcome,
especially by the higher ups. Again, it's not
racism, especially on the part of the guy who sees
that he doesn't fit in, turns, and walks; instead, it's
reality.
Anything that bucks the status quo in the entertainment industry is a good thing. Expect to see more and more of this and expect the traditional middle men to get more aggressive to prevent it from happening.
In general, you're right. But I think you'd be hard-pressed to defend the claim that there is no causative relationship whatsoever flowing from college education to employment. I don't think it's terribly controversial to claim that employers pretty universally view more education as a positive factor on job applications, all other things held equal.

edit: to elaborate further, I think you might be bringing up the wrong fallacy here - at least, if you're looking to highlight the problems with representing program participants by the general population of high school-educated people.
Kickstarter reviews applications to determine a realistic floor for the funding goal, to prevent or at least greatly reduce that gaming. They wouldn't let you launch a campaign to start a new SpaceX with $10,000, for example. Otherwise everyone would circumvent the system with a campaign for $1 and then stretch goals, as you say.

Source: an online acquaintance who ran a Kickstarter campaign for a video game, and had to revise his initial funding goal upwards by several multiples at Kickstarter's insistence.
how do they statistically account for 'non-jewish white?' - is there a box on the admissions paper asking how many Jewish grandparents you have or something?

I mean, I've seen forms asking for my race, but I've never seen one asking if I considered myself Jewish. (and it seems, well, pretty slippery, as nearly all the people I know who identify as Jewish also identify as "White (non hispanic)" - And I've seen several studies saying that without cultural context, even experts can't tell Jewish faces from non-Jewsh faces from similar parts of the world.)

Seems to me like there are a lot of people who could identify one way or the other, who will answer the question differently, depending on how they think you want the question answered.
Bush actively projected stupid. I say this as both an "ivy-league graduate" and as a rural (redneck) American: speak to people as yourself. Most people are not stupid, and pretending to be stupid to be more likeable is absurd. "Smart" is in no way equivalent to "programming lingo".
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No shortage of good IT workers as well. My point is it doesn't matter how good local workers are. As far as there are better (their standard) foreign workers they claim there is a shortage because they want top ones.
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The "Firefox quirk" sounds more like a Chrome quirk to me.
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