skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is certainly wise to be concerned with having a way to bring income to a profit-seeking entity. But companies like Pinterest and Twitter have very different business realities than companies like Ecomom which market in real goods which they have to pay to buy, pay to ship, pay to hold and even apparently pay to sell and ship again.

When your business is all-online, even at scale, it may be feasible to figure out what you want to do after you make your service big (and indispensable).
Whether there is an agenda by lobbying groups or other interests in increasing surveillance or just federal agencies need more power and funding to "protect", the effects are predictable -- make a showcase example using some horrible crime (terrorism, child pornography, in the past maybe communism or drug war related). It doesn't matter as long there would be maximum rage against the perpetrator and nobody in the public sphere would dare defend them and still remain standing as a public or political figure.

People like stories and laws are slowly eroded by scary stories. Joe-Smith-child-pornographer and Molly-Johnson-the-terrorist cases are brought as examples of the evil of encryption and anonymity. It is very easy, the script is always the same.

Again not saying there is top down shadow conspiracy to all this just how the constraints and incentives are set up these things emerge as a result.
Thanks. The OP's article sounded speculative and presumptive. Nice to hear it from the source.
Go on any Bitcoin forum and the newbie section will be filled with people wanting to buy Bitcoin with credit cards, usually via Paypal. Some of those will be scammers but not all of them.
> So maybe you just took it too literally at face value?

That's called being respectful of the views of others, and not presuming to interpret their words in any way one chooses.

> I wasn't writing a computer program, I was writing English, so let's try to understand what I was saying instead of attempting to interpret it like a computer.

I have a better idea -- say exactly what you mean. Don't assume other people will understand things you don't bother to say.

The problem with leaving interpretation of your words to others, is they will interpret your words in ways you didn't intend.
Be careful trusting data from the EPI, a left/labor/economic-protectionist think tank. It will be selectively chosen and spun to advance their core idea that domestic/union laborers need constant government rescue, via things like immigration restrictions. (Of course data selected by think tanks with other ideologies deserves skeptical reading, as well.)

As was pointed out last time the EPI scored a press hit with their claim of stagnant IT wages (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4880332), they appear to be leaving out the very real possibility a younger/earlier-career mix of workers -- a demographic bulge -- makes their broad wage averages look worse, even while each individual cohort is better off.

And, when in this latest study they highlight how many college graduates who fill IT positions have non-IT degrees (Figure F: 38%+), or of all IT workers have no degree at all (36%, p. 8), they should realize that one way to deal with a skills shortage is to make-do with less-skilled/less-trained people, but then pay them less while they learn or simply play-out-of-position. (This making-do also creates the early-in-career demographic bulge mentioned above.)

On the other hand, when the EPI looks at the fact many STEM majors don't wind up working in STEM jobs (Figure D), it is spun as: "For every two students that U.S. colleges graduate with STEM degrees, only one is hired into a STEM job." From that wording you'd think the streets are filled with woeful idle STEM graduates! But maybe, given the still very low unemployment among all with college degrees (and especially technical degrees), these graduates found something else they preferred? Or maybe they really weren't very good at or happy with their exact STEM degree area?

It requires the EPI's factory-floor mindset, where STEM degree recipients are cogs that could (or should) be dropped into closely-matching STEM jobs, to make this natural dynamism sound like we might have way more idle STEM graduates than we can use.
One factor I don't think I've seen mentioned yet is how much lead time you have between the construction of the array and the need to search it.

For example, suppose the array is built when the program starts, but you know the need to search it will not arise until significantly later, and you also know that the program will have significant idle time in between. You could then use that idle time sort the array.
Stereotypes don't appear out of thin air, but they aren't independently formed either; they get taught and passed on by parents and peers. Confirmation bias also plays a role in perpetuating them too.

After all, if you hold the belief that women are bad drivers, did you independently come to this conclusion based on an accurate assessment of driving skill and gender, or did you hear "ha, women drivers!" over and over as a kid and subsequently see every mistake a woman driver made and mutter to yourself, "ha, women drivers!"?
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I suspect there's some small measure of protection still - if there's a brand new exploit available (say, the current WordPress W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache problems), I'd rather not have my sites rise to the top of the list of addresses for the botnets to start probing - because I'd left the version information publicly available (or made those sites trivially findable via a googledork).

It won't protect me, but it might buy be a little extra time to respond...
Hey, glad to hear from a like minded soul. It's true they'd likely make quite good ipkvms as long as you're OK with having CVE's pop on your ipkvm gear. I guess they probably already do.

I think even just embracing it as an ipkvm++ opens up a lot of potential additions to the current approach. There's no reason why you wouldn't want to build in remote power and triggers to go into S3/S4 powersave. There are still plenty of shops that prevent sleep to make maintenance easier. And It'd be super easy to hook a usb port up as a usb client and software fake whatever dvdrom you happened to want to boot.

If you ever feel like shooting the shit, i'd be down to hear what parts of it does it for you or whatever else was on your mind. I have the same nick on github.
This is the first time that a minority group is negatively effected by racial preference policies, so it is newsworthy.

You must not be in the US. The history of the US has been policies against minorities. It's only been since the early 60s has there been policies that favored minorities. And even then it has pretty much been relegated to schools (and most just undergrad college) -- it's never been very effective in the workplace. And affirmative action has been pretty much dead for the past decade.
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I've been charged legal fees by an institutional seed stage investor, though the fees were capped -- at an amount equivalent to 2% of total initial investment.
> Don't assume other people will understand things you don't bother to say.

I never assumed; I simply hoped it would be the case. Feel free to believe whatever you think I really meant, I already made my point so if you end up missing it that's perfectly fine with me.
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good question, its probably much broader than you would expect... I think quant would fall under

27.0305 financial math

see the official list here

http://www.ice.gov/doclib/sevis/pdf/stem-list.pdf
One of those is legal, the other is not.
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Thanks! I'll look forward to it.
It's not very difficult to nab top-secret clearance, you just have to work on the right projects. One of my buddies, a recent grad, has a top-secret clearance because of the project he's on at Lockheed. In Huntsville, AL almost everyone has a security clearance of some form and fashion.
I'm not arguing that it's not broken, but a majority of these people deal with foreign intelligence. Very little domestic terrorism is classified above secret (It needs to be the most accessible to decision makers and local/state governments).
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Nice. After many years of apache, I, too, already use nginx. This is helpful, still. "funnels you into a pattern" is especialy good. Thank you.
A shit dev can't reverse a list. A good dev can code arbitrary problems you give him, and can actually ship working code. A great dev can discuss ins-and-outs of an arbitrary system you give him to design, moving up and down the stack with ease.

That's a rough guide, with many edge cases, but that's how we go about it.
I think you need to reevaluate your last sentence. Somebody who doesn't understand basic asset accounting is clearly not "Business Savvy"...
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I couldn't have been more surprised that the title of this was actually the Cursive song that I reflexively started singing in my head when I saw it.

Now on to topical commentary. Why did you choose to advertise your new venture through a required sign-up without any (ostensible) idea what it's about? While my curiousity was piqued, it wasn't piqued enough to willy-nilly send my email off without the expectation that "The Cursive" was something I'd be interested in.
Which specific aspects of the popular account of the North Korean regime do you dispute, so we can be sure to give you full credit when you're proven correct?
Sounds like you are in full agreement that a young guy that received no monetary reward should be punished for the rest of life for a program he wrote in 10 hours.

Also you seem to be in complete agreement that the prosecutors got it right on this one, as it seems sure you would agree that they got it right on the Aaron Swartz case.

We all know that the government gets it completely right on these cases, right? /sarcasm
If you're a skilled dev not in the Bay Area, but can work well remotely, there are plenty of companies hiring. For example: https://circleci.com.
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for those who need clarification of what counts as STEM for immigration purposes

http://www.ice.gov/sevis/stemlist.htm
http://www.ice.gov/doclib/sevis/pdf/stem-list.pdf
Lists in general are great for organizing thoughts. Being able to check items off the list helps focus thoughts and offload the overhead of keeping track of progress to something better suited to the task.
On the other hand, even if you remove the NonCommercial provision it is still not equivalent to Open Source or Free Software, as the actual source is not being distributed, merely the end result.

Sure, it's easier to mashup video than compiled executables or libraries, but even CC is not quite equivalent to a software license.
> affirmative action has been pretty much dead for the past decade.

According to the article, being black is like getting 450 extra points on your SAT compared to an Asian student. I don't think AA is as dead as you think it is.
I'd like to add that there are about a dozen other concentrations at Wharton that are not related to finance. Most people at Wharton dont concentrate in finance partly because there are a lot of very douchey people, like your coworker, who do in an attempt to get rich or something. Most people at Wharton are there for the rigor. Your coworker went to Wharton for the wrong reasons and thinks everyone else did too.
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They must because that is the only reason anyone goes to a top school.
By now there are tens of thousands of North Korean defectors living in South Korea and elsewhere. That includes others ex-prisoners (not necessarily escapees, some people are released after all). There's also satellite imagery that corroborates some of the defectors' descriptions. There's also testimony from ex-party officials and even from people who knew the Kim family, confirming that people were imprisoned or executed for thoughtcrimes.

Not to mention all the evidence from "regular" North Koreans who lived outside Pyongyang.
WASP stands for White Anglo-Saxon Protestent. It sounds like your daughter doesn't qualify on at least two counts, and even a biological daughter would fail on at least one.

N.B. Decendents of the Jutes, Angels, and Saxons who remained behind when those tribes invaded England are not referred to as Anglo-Saxons.
Friction + capability + turtles all the way down.
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sed can do in place recursive changes for search patterns. if you use vim search and replace across a file it's pretty much the same.
The article, if you read through to the second page, also says:

1) The prosecutors had IRC logs found on his computer that suggest he knew in general terms what Gonzales was doing with his packet sniffer, and was receiving links from Gonzales about his break-ins;
2) Watts admitted that he knew Gonzales was doing something wrong.

If he genuinely had no idea what his software would have been used for that would be a totally different case.
>Correct me if I'm wrong, but the fact that colleges always say they're looking for "diversity" is a blunt admission that they're their reason for looking at race is "diversity" (a.k.a. affirmative action), not to determine leadership skill.

It can certainly be read this way, but it's not obvious that this is so. Diversity creates an atmosphere that will most likely mirror the world in which these future leaders will be required to navigate. That in itself is enough of a justification for diversity, assuming their goal is to educate future leaders. Also, there is the fact that leaders of ethnic groups tend to be of that ethnic group, so maximizing some proportion of diversity is increasing that schools chance of educating a future leader.
Of course a first grader can understand margins. They're not personally involved with the idea and they're probably not seriously depressed.

It doesn't seem unreasonable to me that he didn't understand margins. It's difficult to communicate how... decayed... your thinking can become under protracted stress that has gone beyond your ability to cope with.

You have a very limited budget of energy you can expend on doing anything in the day, and thinking, especially about things that are unpleasant to think about - like the reason you've lost - is incredibly costly. Basically all you want to do a lot of the time is lie in a dark room and sleep forever.

You know how, when you've been going at a program for a while, you can start to find it impossible to hold all the bits you know in your head? It's sort of like that, the number of things you can bring yourself to hold in your head at once nosedives, especially where they're unpleasant.

It's not implausible to me that he was mostly operating on cached habit and his thinking resources weren't large enough to stick the concepts together in any more. The poor guy went and offed himself subsequently, after all, he clearly wasn't reasoning with a healthy mind.

Whether he did or didn't understand it I don't know, but I can see how he might not have been in a position where he could.
"publishing 50,000 intelligence reports each year - a volume so large that many are routinely ignored" - I would contend this. It's simply an assumption.

Many of their sources seem to be very junior to their respective organizations.
And in January, the unemployment rate for college grads was 3.7 percent, as opposed to 8.1 percent for those with only high school diplomas.

Those are average numbers across the board, and perhaps the opportunities that come from a high-profile program like the Thiel Fellowship outweigh those for the average college student. But at least for now, the data shows college is the more lucrative path.

??

Correlation does not imply causation.
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This is a strange distinction. It sounds like you're defining "discrimination" as "judgment" or even just "making a decision", whereas you're defining "prejudice" in a way that most people would consider a synonym for "discrimination".

I'm also not sure what that has to do with this article (which doesn't hang on any particular definition).
> The author is saying that MOOCs don't offer the level of sociability that brick-and-mortar classes do.

Of course, this remains an invalid claim for entirely different reasons, unless you interpret it as admitting that the "level" of sociability of MOOCs is often higher than a bricks-and-mortar class.

I recently completed an online master's program, offered by a traditional university, but in the MOOC format, with lectures in podcast format, and collaboration primarily via message boards, chat sessions similar to IRC, and email. There were conference calls as well, but the bulk of actual academic collaboration took place via text media. In-person meetings only occurred for one weekend in each semester.

As I perceived it, the depth and sophistication of interaction and collaboration among students was significantly higher here than in any bricks-and-mortar course I've ever taken. I attribute this to the asynchronicity of communication (it's pretty hard to get a large group of people together at the same time and all in the mental state conducive to productive discourse) and to the fact that people just communicate better in writing than in verbal speech (assuming they can write effectively, at least; if so, it's much easier to convey complex inter-related ideas in a paragraph or two of text than it is to attempt to verbalize them in real-time).

Quite like the comparing the experience of having a discussion on HN to discussing the same topic face-to-face with others, in fact.

OTOH, if "sociability" refers to merely recreational activity like grabbing a beer after a lecture, then yeah, bricks-and-mortar wins. But what's that got to do with school? If I want to socialize for the sake of socializing, I can go out for a beer with my local friends instead of my classmates.
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Considering that they haven't stopped people from being arrested, this isn't really stopping the war on drugs. Until drug use (and perhaps sale/distribution) is legal, the war continues.
How many people were caught and not publicized?

I think it's fairly impressive, all things considered, that after two IEDs went off in a crowded civilian area, only 3 people died. And that in less than a week, those responsible were killed or apprehended.

Now, I'm not pushing for a surveillance state at all. I hate everything about that notion, and I believe that what we have now is plenty adequate - if not overkill - for doing the job that needs to be done to protect our own civilians. Again, all that said, America is in a much better place when it comes to domestic "terrorism" if you will (that connotation sucks, but they were terrorizing the populous after all) than say Syria or other countries.
If any of this resonates with you, I'd also highly recommend _Angler_, Barton Gellman's account of the vice presidency of Dick Cheney. It's hard to overstate how far-reaching and insidious Cheney's efforts were during the first Bush term; he more or less co-opted intelligence efforts, and ran what at times amounted to a shadow presidency with his staff and Donald Rumsfeld.

On the other hand, it's hard to get around the Harriet Miers and Alberto Gonzales debacles, both of which involved comically bad judgement calls.
"PD friend with likely no more than a GED"

PD here means "public defender": a lawyer. Did you perhaps think it meant "police dept"?
Yes, but remember it's still used in the medical world.

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin
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Was thinking the same thing. My guess is on-the-fly parsing.
Singular third person "they" is widely attested and there is no grammatical problem with it at all. It's even in Shakespeare. You can use it, and if anyone complains about it, don't hire them.
> The students from India and China were there on various scholarships, indirectly paid for by Joe and Mary. Bummer. Ripoff.

Wait, are you saying someone like me from the third world can get a scholarship in the US from the US government?

Wish I had known that a few years ago. The people I know who studied in the US either did so out of pocket or via scholarships granted here in my country by local bodies.
There's a tiny book, On Bullshit, by Harry G. Frankfurt, in which he describes the bullshitter as a person who will say whatever is necessary to achieve what it is he wants to achieve. It's not really an issue of truth vs. lie... the veracity of his statements just doesn't matter to him one way or the other. I'm guessing that Jody was just very adept at divining and telling investors exactly what they wanted to hear, at least in the early going.
For most of these cases, skin color is the lowest common denominator that allows them to game the system.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/education/story/2011-12-...
See: https://github.com/angular/angular.js/blob/9480136d9f062ec4b...

Looks like they are never interpreted, but there are (at least) two different compilation strategies: 1) Anonymous function with a loop 2) Fully compiled Function constructed via JavaScript source with the loop unrolled
In general, this bit of code seems to be optimized to a crazy degree.

It's also worth noting that the "filters" part of the expression is maintained as a pipeline in an array, since filters may inform bidiectional binding behavior.
His crime was not writing a program in 10 hours. His crime was, as the jury convicted him of it, writing a program for someone he had a lot of reason to suspect was a criminal, knowing that he intended to use it for criminal purposes. I think after all that, and after failing to cooperate with police even after he became aware of the full extent of the crimes he aided,* I think two years in low-security prison is not an unduly harsh sentence.

If it was just the program, it would be a whole separate matter. But as much as the article wants you to think that, if you read the whole second page, you can see that the evidence the jury had in front of them painted a different picture.

As for being punished for the rest of his life--the government didn't do that. The government punished him for two years, for aiding in a crime that resulted in tens of millions of dollars in fraud. The fact that people don't want a guy like that working for them after serving his time is somewhat unfair, but also pretty understandable.

*) The article makes "not snitching on your friends" out to be some noble thing, but it's not and that's not how civilized societies work. If this were guys at Enron and not hackers, Wired would never be so sympathetic to that kind of bullshit.
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Being non-black, non-latino, and non-poor probably helps lifetime earnings, too.
He clearly did think that.
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Different thing: "The first is the buying of all outstanding shares of a publicly traded company by a single entity, taking the company private." That single entity can't be the company itself.
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