skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Single page link: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/04/stephen-watt-stalke...
this is all really just a debate of how to strike a balance between diversity and fair admissions. all a moot subject anyhow as we move towards open collaborative learning online.
Do his parents / Taren support this? The title could easily cause some (likely unintended) grief. The internet wasn't too kind to Aaron when he turned there for help when he was down, why he'd be its 'own boy' now is a bit weird.
Sounds more like Alinskys methods in use by the Prosecutor, just throw shit till it sticks.
The only savings is interest. Also your talking about a 5% rate for 40 years ignoring the tax deduction and inflation.
Do they spend money? If so, they need a balance sheet.
Transactions on localbitcoins.com are far from perfectly anonymous. Relatively anonymous, sure.
I like it. A checklist is a very lightweight and efficient way for a team to codify a list of objective things that they feel must be done and checked for every pull-request. Once that's done, it should be considered good to merge regardless of peoples subjective opinions about the code. This avoid drawn out and opinionated debates about the code dragging down productivity. That isn't to say a bit of debate isn't a good thing, it just need not be the main thing.
"This" (noun): same as "I agree."
At the lower levels, sure. But once you start getting into more specialized fields, there are generally more courses and more professors compared to less prestigious counterparts.

It's not that there aren't sharp people at less prestigious schools, but that there are generally more at more prestigious schools.
Patrick is amazing, I hope we're not imposing on him too much. He helped me a lot when I did an Ask HN in the past (and he was right too :) )
Aristotle contended that justice consists of treating equals equally, and unequals unequally. You, on the other hand, want to treat Switzerland just like Turkey, even though the two countries are strikingly unequal.
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Lets hope he sticks by his word on this one...
>I read an article on HN a while ago, about a guy who escaped from a North Korean prison camp. That shed light on something that we don't know much about.

Without any corroboration I wouldn't believe that story 100%.

Especially in an era when said country is in the spotlight as an enemy.

As war correspondent and write Philip Knightley wrote: "The first casualty of any war is the truth". The same holds true for any coverage of a place where diplomatic animosity and/or state interests come into play.

http://www.amazon.com/First-Casualty-Phillip-Knightley/dp/18...
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Sounds like you agree with immigration only when it benefits you personally.
Why is the concept of a balance sheet so arcane that it needs to be wrapped in quotes?

Balance sheet != profits

I'm not even sure how businesses can operate without a way to organize and manage their organizational assets and expenses.
A former admissions officer of a good medical school in California once told me that the way it works is that they separate applicants based on ethnicity, and they then look at the top 5% of each stack. His words were "so if you're Asian with a 3.9gpa, good luck, you're a dime a dozen. But if you're an African American with a 3.4gpa, you're getting in." On top of that, many who share my ethnicity -- a minority in even our native country -- put down African American or, what's now the trendy thing to do, Underrepresented Minority, because they know it gives them a huge edge over the competition. I don't fault them for it. The whole application process is one big game and they're learning how to play it to their advantage.
It's not so much that Nokia has product formulation right for those markets, it's that they dominate distribution in some markets.

Trouble is, that's hard to defend.
Yes, I am. I am sure there are big differences (especially in the outcome) but both were losing money in the hope of building an audience, and to lower costs later.

As Hsieh wrote:

"Zappos sells shoes and apparel online, but what distinguished us from our competitors was that we'd put our company culture above all else. We'd bet that by being good to our employees -- for instance, by paying for 100 percent of health care premiums, spending heavily on personal development, and giving customer service reps more freedom than at a typical call center -- we would be able to offer better service than our competitors. Better service would translate into lots of repeat customers, which would mean low marketing expenses, long-term profits, and fast growth. Amazingly, it all seemed to be working. By 2005, gross merchandise sales were $370 million, and we made the Inc. 500. We weren't profitable yet, but we were close to breaking even, and our revenue was growing quickly."

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20100601/why-i-sold-zappos.html

Seems pretty similar to me. The only difference is that Zappos went after a much larger market.
Participating in "red state" leadership activities in high school among white students such as ROTC or 4-H have been shown to reduce admissions rates in Ivy league by about 50%[1], all else being equal. More important than being smart is to be the right race (non-Asian, non-white). And most important of all is to be an urban liberal.

[1]Espenshade (2009) pp. 92-93.
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Exactly.

Forcing a checklist upon all reviewers isn't what the article is all about, but rather it's about one developer's way of organizing his own personal process for doing code review so he doesn't forget something.

If I have a huge change in front of me, and I know that I tend to look for certain things, I could certainly try to look for all those in one go. That's error-prone, though. Might forget something, or get bogged down in syntactical stuff and miss something important. However, with a little personal checklist in front of me, I can go "Okay, I'm done looking at syntax. Now let's make sure that there's no off-by-ones." Leads to better organization of thoughts.
Or don't associate with criminals. You ever hear stories about poor black kids who have friends involved in gangs and then get dragged into their crimes? People don't believe them when they claim they didn't know about/didn't help their criminal friends. This is the same shit.
If you could reasonably foresee that the thing was going to be used in that way, yes, you bear responsibility. It's not like you just happened to make something that just happened to be used for crime in addition to the more reasonable uses you expected it to be used for instead.

Oh, granted, other people are responsible too - perhaps even more responsible than you. However, responsibility isn't an exclusive property, two or more people can be jointly responsible.
Here's an example: http://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-galaxy-s3-sales-20-m... Within a few years there will be 20 million Samsung Galaxy S III's with dead batteries and/or cracked screens. That's a dual-core 1 GHz ARM with 1 GB of RAM, 8 GB of SSD, and a hardware GPU.

Right now, there are professional 1st-world developers developing apps for all those "incompatible CPUs". So it's possible and even cost effective under the right circumstances.

Yet someone is currently being paid to haul away this stuff as electronic recycling.
How many needles you're looking for, and at what frequency (if ever again) you're going to need to run the search.

Building any alternative data structure from an unsorted array will require O(n) time. If you only need to find something once, then a O(n) linear scan time is optimal.
If the problem is simply that too many students are getting 1600s on the SATs (and similar criteria), it surely should not challenge the collective minds of the elite 1% of US universities to devise a more difficult test that has more room on the top end. As a matter of fact, as I recall, I took a number of such tests in high school.
Never? It's faaaar too early to make that claim. What if the cryptography is broken? Or if another crypto-currency comes along that's demonstrably better, to the point that everyone stops buying bitcoin and starts buying this new currency instead? These are but two scenarios that would cause bitcoin to lose its desirability, and therefore its value.
Explaining away someone's personal success because of their race is a particularly nasty thing to do to someone. Unfortunately, I see it happen all the time.
I find it amusing that how we Americans love to bash North Korea and Iran.

So what are you saying? That everybody else isn't privy to your insight about India, China, and Africa? So you don't see something unique about the regimes in N. Korea and Iran?

I found your comment pretty amusing in the same way you found "Americans bashing North Korea and Iran" "amusing".
It's not just small companies.

I worked briefly for a mid-sized tech company that took a >$70 mm round, but will likely be out-of-business before year end. Like Ecomom, it is helmed by a "visionary" / fanatical leader with a "grow at all cost mentality."

To me, a big red flag is when senior managers make plans without both revenues AND costs being openly discussed.
I initially thought I'd be smart and realized they'd be registered as a corp in DE, but didn't want to pay the money, so I checked their corp filings as a foreign corporation in NV and CA.

Then I gave up, did google: "ecomom board of directors", and used the plausible-seeming info from Bloomberg Businessweek (which is like Crunchbase for everything outside Silicon Valley, and generally far more accurate). First hit:
http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/pe...
So how can you have both the scions of the rich and powerful go there AND admit people based on merit?

The dirty little secret is to rank feeder schools vary highly in the admissions process. Few poor people send there kids to 30+k / year private high schools.
the coursework may be the same, but your peers are smarter and more hardworking.
>Participating in "red state" leadership activities among white students such as ROTC have been shown to reduce admissions rates in Ivy league by about 50%.

ROTC was only allowed on campus recently:

"Yale, Harvard and Columbia all signed agreements this year [2011] to bring back ROTC"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/23/rotc-ivy-league_n_1...

It's tough to do ROTC when you have to go to another campus every week.
The question I think is how we are weighting extra-curriculars. How does piano compare to... say.. windsurfing? I'd put both about on the same level as far as merit goes (one taxes the mind and dexterity, the other taxes the body and dexterity, both are fairly out of reach for the underprivileged).

If the "holistic admission" thing is being used to disqualify Asian candidates I would expect that two students with equal grades would be disadvantaged if they played piano rather than windsurfed.

From my anecdotal experience, I find this very plausible. (I'm a white guy who had extraordinarily poor grades in highschool yet was accepted to the school of my choice. My Asian peers almost universally far outclassed me in academic skill (proper student discipline in general); if you told me that I was accepted because I was on the swim team instead of another student with better grades who played the piano (both forms of self-improvement, not community service), I would not be surprised. Very disappointed, but not surprised.)
Even state schools have some sort of quota based on region. For example, its much easier to get into UW if you are from Eastern Washington than if you are from Western Washington (otherwise, UW would be dominated by kids from the Seattle area).
Oh man, that interview question gives one hacker the freaks. After reading it, my biological reaction was like: wow, I've got stuff to learn before becoming proficient in Computer Science as a college dropout.
Yeah, it's not like Google ever tried never tried to poach Hotmail customers with Gmail, tried to poach IE customers with Chrome, tried to poach Office customers with Google Docs, tried to poach Windows customers with Chromebooks, and so on. It's really unfair of Microsoft. It should just let Google poach all its customers.
The argument about increasing rents is one I've heard quite a few times however correlation and causation are not entirely clear (this blog goes into more detail: http://politblog.tagesanzeiger.ch/blog/index.php/tag/miete/?... (in german)). on top of that the available land for building would be more than sufficient for 8 mil. and more people. take a look at singapore, which is half the size of the canton of zurich but has three times more inhabitants (5.3 mil.). needless to say we would need to revise a lot of the very restrictive building codes here.

Anyway, the whole discussion about immigration really becomes absurd when you consider that most immigrants are not unskilled, minimum wage workers, but mostly highly skilled professionals. in some areas our economy is in desperate need of those professionals - for example in the health care sector - and dismissing those professionals would be the really foolish thing to do.
tl;dr Merck pharmaceutical products indirectly ~50K elderly people in the U.S., minor coverage by media, few consequences for unscrupulous business practices. Unscrupulous business practices kills 6 infants in China, major coverage by U.S. and Chinese media, responsible parties executed.
Unfortunately "sloppy thinking" pretty accurately describes the liberal orthodoxy that runs elite colleges.
There is a small subset of undergraduate students that go to public universities who are hidden high achievers with a very strong interest in an area of study. In this sense, they evaluate a college the way a potential PhD student would look at graduate programs - they are more concerned about the department ranking and research activity. If this were the case, a student might very well prefer UW, Berkeley, or UMich over Harvard, especially in a field like CS.

From this angle, it shouldn't be too surprising that this sort of student student would be as likely to come from UW as from Harvard. There's no real point in averaging in a huge student body drawn largely from a single state vs a small undergraduate student body with no in-state percentage requirements, because these students are unlike the other students at either institution. While it's harder to "get in" to harvard as an undergraduate, let's face it - the vast majority of students at either institution are probably not among the very brightest of the very brightest. Those statistical oddities are a small sliver, and I actually suspect that they can be difficult to detect through test scores and GPAs earned from age 15-17. These students often just don't give enough of a crap, or they may be far too focused on their intellectual interests to put enough time into the GPA game.

If UW has a strong CS department, it makes just as much sense that these odd outliers would come from there as an ivy.
In my personal experience, if this question were posed to me by a project team, I would ask questions about usage and purpose (granted it would be more business-like such as given an array of 10 million transcript credits, does employee X exist for the Code of Conduct training). If knowing whether a particular number (or item) existed in a large array, maybe we then create a boolean and check during inserts/updates/deletes. Who knows, lets ask more questions and understand each other. Not every developer works on cutting edge Google Search algorithms in lonely cubicle all day by his lonesome.

As a developer, understanding why and coming to an efficient solution (in terms of development hours and customer satisfaction) is about problem decomposition and problem solving skills, not being an algorithm expert.
This seems like the first time in quite a while someone's rights have been protected (as far as what's in the news goes, anyway). Unless the guy is convicted, he still has all of those pesky things -- regardless of how obvious his guilt may or may not be to anyone -- and it's a lot better for all of us if they're actually taken seriously once in a while.
One simple reason why most VCs don't do this is because they are sales tax exempt and so end up losing up to 21% of the bills to a bookkeeping quirk. So it's easier to pay a bit more out of the fund and end up with a deductible on the side of the company invested in than with a freebie to the tax collectors.

In numbers: if a complete process costs $100K and the investment is 2M the fund is out 2.1M. If they pay the bills from the fund directly they're out 2.1M without a sales tax return, if they pay 2.1 to the company and the company pays the bills the company gets back the sales tax so effectively this saves 20K or in this example about 1%. Not much but also not nothing, and if a fund does a lot of smaller deals this sort of thing adds up.

Not all funds suffer from this (likely Spark isn't one of them) so the ability of other funds to match this is dependent on whether or not they have classed themselves in such a way that they are sales tax exempt.

I'd imagine Spark to be able to offer exactly the legal fees less for the same amount of stock in company 'x' compared to some competitor that does it the usual way so effectively this shouldn't matter but it is excellent publicity for Spark.
Good. Adapt or die.
Uh, LOTS of folks in the admitted class at Harvard Business School each year is military officers.

Ivy League admissions for both undergrad and graduate programs is NOT what most people think it to be. There are MANY factors they consider and it's not all about grades/test scores/sports.
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Do you frequently find yourself dealing with arrays of unsortable numbers? ;-)
In CS, at least, I haven't seen that. The Yale CS department, for example, has some very smart people, but is not that large, and the specialties concentrate in certain areas. As far as I can tell, the undergraduate education there is roughly on par with the quite small and non-Ivy school I attended (http://www.hmc.edu). Possibly even somewhat lower standards due to undergraduate education there being a lower-priority focus for their faculty (their tenure cases are evaluated based primarily on graduate supervision and research, not teaching), and more grade inflation meaning that it's virtually impossible to fail.

edit: Though to be clear I'm not really claiming "Yale is worse than [X]", just that past a certain level it depends more on what you care about. Do you care about small class sizes? About the opportunity to engage in undergraduate research? About big projects happening in your department? Do you care about AI, compilers, graphics, or theory? About practice-oriented programming or software engineering? Depending on your preferences there are more like 50 schools that will provide a top-notch education, not 8.
* How many numbers are you looking for?

* How many times will you look for each number?

* How big is the original data?

* How sorted is the original data?

* What kind of access patterns do you have for lookups? (i.e. are the lookups themselves sorted)

* Are there perhaps special space constraints to consider that may have priority over time constraints?

* Where/how is the data stored/how is it backed? (perhaps you're reading from tape media or other non-random-access-optimized storage)

* Is the data a set or bag? (duplicate values allowed, do you care which one is returned, etc)
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Just as latino students are "favored" over whites with better scores, and (at the top of the SAT range in the graph) black students are "favored" over latinos.

You can't win here. Colleges admissions desire a diverse mix of students. Identifiable ethnicities have different median qualifications. So someone has to lose in that tradeoff.

The point upthread was simply that usually when you see this argument made it's a complaint that whites are being "penalized". This time it's asians. But despite being a novel spin, it's still the same story.
I was kinda shocked when I saw you didn't fault people for putting down african americans... until I re-read your comment and realized you didn't mean put down as in "insult" them... you meant put down as in write down in the college application that they are african american when in fact they really weren't.
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I agree with immigration when it benefits the country.

It's like when you hire an employee for your company: you're only going to go through with it if the transaction is mutually beneficial (keeping in mind the associated costs), which from your vantage point means that it must benefit your company. Immigration is the same thing, at a larger scale.
It's kinda weird that they took care to not mention his name in the article, but they say his last name in the quotes by the Judge.
Not at Cambridge or Oxford. Recruiting international students is what they do especially for science or mathematics, where education in these areas is a lot better in some Asian countries than the UK.
Touche'. I did not know that.
I was just at a 24hr Hackathon hosted by Facebook last weekend. They sent us the NDA in advance, they didn't make us sign it when we got there. The language of the paper is very broad, but they made it clear while we were there what it actually constituted -- certain areas where engineers worked were off-limits, and we could take pictures of the office, but not of any whiteboards or monitors with stuff on them. It was very reasonable.
Can anyone find a second source for this?
job sounds boring.
There is a word for that: Lying.
I think there is still plenty of space to explore criisisms and weaknesses in character in a full length film but in a short promo like this you need to sell the story and answer 'why should I care enough to fund this'.
Depends where you draw the line. Compared to a public state school, the Ivy League course cover far more material faster in more depth, because the students are better prepared harder workers and can handle it.

Harvard has 4 levels of Multivariable Calculus, for example, whereas most schools have just 1. The 2nd-highest level is basically Real Analysis, except (a) it is more deep/accelerated than the actual Real Analysis class, and (b) it is only taught to first-years.

The highest-level class was designed for students who were expected to learn an undergraduate math degree curriculum "on their own time" and pursue more advanced topics in clads.
This is not a question. It's a statement. I knew about reverse racism in college admissions when I was 10 and starting to go to a college admissions counselor.

I would also like to add this to the conversation: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/27/education/a-grueling-admis.... When the criteria to get into elite schools is completely objective, Asians get in disproportionately (what is called overrepresentation) because their families put a higher emphasis on education and doing well on tests. Not every Asian family has a Tiger Mother, but a significant portion of the Asian family places a lot of emphasis on academic achievement. I found the discussion about Jews to be interesting, because Jews in some ways are close to Asians. Jewish culture also places emphasis on scholarly achievement, but to a lesser extent than, for example, Amy Chua. That's why her mother-in-law and husband, who are Jewish, objected sometimes to Chua's overly rigorous methods.
Exactly. My brother may or may not be dealing with possession charges that would have warranted nothing more than a ticket if they happened ~60 miles to the West.
Medical schools have some of the strongest affirmative action:

http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/04/medical-school-acceptance-r...
Seems easy enough to verify. Just check what language they speak and with what accent.