skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm suggesting that you are inviting selection bias. That does not provide any grounds to question the median aptitude of the population. It just says that anything you infer from your sample data is most-likely skewed.

Now, a skew is discriminantory (by definition it is bias). Whether or not it is <sexist> is simply a question of distribution of the mechanism responsible.

Is a program of 3.5 years of self-study (lets assume, in social isolation) an equally attractive proposition? Probably not, given that women consider doing anything in isolation to somewhat socially demeaning. We know that women, for example, self-select mates based on quite the opposite: high social standing. A long self-enforced period of social isolation is thus <rationally> counter-productive from the perspective of evolutionary biology. So, if we use this as a gating function, yes we will get biased results.

Fairness is a question of expected value. A fair bet is one where the ratio of cost/benefit is equal. So, in this case where there is an asymmetric cost, the result is uneven fairness (in this sense).

Whether or not it is right or wrong depends upon your criterion for value. By one standard - maximizing the potential peformance - it would be inefficient. This is beacaus you have mean XY and below mean XX performance represented (~regardless of proportionality -- as XX is biased down in both quality and quantity). Whether or not this inefficiency is wrong or acceptable is on the whole, just re-phrasing whether or not gender bias is (or is not) wrong.

That is beyond the scope of my commentary here.
Have you been explicitly returning true all this time?
He does talk about arrays on slide 25 and the last slide is about the problem of global scope.
Exactly. This is just a more elaborate form of Windows little pop-up-boxes asking you "are you sure you want to...."

I keep trying to teach my nephews that the default answer to that question is no... but of course, "yes" is the way you get anything done.
OK, so I've got a "TS064C".

Now where do I find a useful list of which models are actually broken?
And with the powers that be constantly changing the requirements.

According to the first anonymous source of in this article, up to the 4th or 6th day before launch.

No matter how good CGI Federal is, if they were being forced to constantly rework stuff that should have been frozen months ago that'll bust the budget and overall decrease quality as other stuff doesn't get the time needed for polishing and testing as well.
ClickOnce apps are as well. We get bit with this every day because our main desktop app is distributed through ClickOnce.
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Is it known if there are ways to support the cleanup process?

I ask because due to allergies I have constant sinus congestions and as a result a very light sleep. On average I wake up (to the point where I'm consciously aware that I'm awake) 2 to 4 times per night, persumably due to lack of oxygen.

I'm noticing memory issues; and while the process may not be reversable, I would like to halt it or at least slow it down as much as possible.
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Right, that's why I'm wondering :)
The Foxnews pie chart should add up to more than 100%. :D
That's exactly the thing Paul Graham mentioned in an interview:
http://www.inc.com/magazine/201309/issie-lapowsky/how-paul-g...

They don't realize how independent they can be. When you're a child, your parents tell you what you're supposed to do. Then, you're in school, and you're part of this institution that tells you what to do. Then, you go work for some company, and the company tells you what to do. So people come in like baby birds in the nest and open their mouths, as if they're expecting us to drop food in. We have to tell them, "We're not your bosses. You're in charge now." Some of them are freaked out by that. Some people are meant to be employees. Other people discover they have wings and start flapping them. There's nothing like being thrown off a cliff to make you discover that you have wings.

I've been talking about entrepreneurship with some people, and realized how true the "Some people are meant to be employees" part is. Most people are so afraid of failing they aren't even willing to try for fear they might not be able to do something.
Quite a good deskription of how he made it
Samsung has just released version 1.0 of their open-source implementation of ex-FAT [1]. Why aren't they using that? I think it should at the very least work with 64+ GB microSD cards, if not with smaller ones, which I'd be fine with.

If they still think it's risky to be sued by MS, I think that lawsuit would be well worth it. At worst, they risk losing a few tens of millions of dollars (I doubt the "damages" that can be claimed would be more than that for a single Nexus model).

But the potential upside is huge. If they win, then not only Google, but every other OEM can finally stop paying Microsoft for FAT/ex-FAT patents, and just use that. Heck, they can probably even convince Samsung and a few other OEM's to pony up a pool of money for the trial, if they don't want to take it all on themselves.

The value/cost would be orders of magnitude bigger than what Google paid for Motorola's patents. And if they win, the potential savings for all OEM's who still use microSD cards, would be in the billions of dollars.

As for my personal expectations of this happening, I think Google is too chicken to do it, as they usually are when it comes to such confrontations, but I see Samsung doing it soon. What is Microsoft going to do to Samsung? Beg them not to buy Windows from them anymore? (which is what they'd risk doing if they sued Samsung)

I have a strong suspicion that the only reason Samsung even agreed to pay them for the patents in the first place was because it was part of a deal with Microsoft, in which they got lower prices for Windows licenses, which means Microsoft may even lose or break even at most with Samsung in that deal. Microsoft would've definitely agreed to something like that, because having Samsung on their "extortion list" meant every other company would then start to give them money, too - which is exactly what happened as soon as Samsung agreed to pay, and Microsoft made it public.

[1] - http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQzODQ
1. Send email requesting a 2 page resume

2. Add to resume pile

Done! This situation should never occur on your behalf:

Say I have a pile of resumes and what not on my desk, and this.
> SATELITE 100%

I'm pretty sure that's cheating.
Lol, How many times does one (me in particular) need to read inspirational stories about hard work, dedication, pizza, and soda pop to actually do something about it?

Small anecdote: I was working on software for my site yesterday and thought about Carmack and the Fez guy (Phil Fish) and how they did amazing things on a computer. And then I thought about how tough it was for me to build a software for the web. Yes, its some complex software, but we have more tools now than those before us. There's really no excuse to not get things done (if you really want it done).

What I need to realize is that these guys didn't just think their way to success. They built their way to success. They had the idea, and then executed. You have to be moving and building. No one can see inside your mind. So, to show how amazing your idea really is, you'd need to literally "show" them the idea.

So yes, hopefully this is my last awe inspiring story. Hopefully (not hopefully, it will be...) the next time I chime in, I'll have something to show instead of an idea baking in my head.

In the words of Jobs "Real artists ship"! And I feel like I'm there.
Earlier this year, Numberphile (which is a fantastic youtube channel) created a very accessible video about this topic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo19Y4tw0l8
If that's true, then that's a pretty "evil" thing of them to do, so I really hope that's not the main reason.
same article in the guardian:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/sep/07/turning...
Sorry, you did something wrong. One of Time Machine's core functions is to migrate old laptops to newer laptops. It absolutely does not refuse to let you restore across new hardware.
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I'm not saying I like the idea, but Microsoft's way of handling SD cards is a solution for all of these issues. When you put an SD card in a Windows Phone, it becomes part of the internal storage in a way akin to Windows 8 storage spaces. There's no picking where a file goes, it just goes to internal storage which includes the SD card.

The major drawback of the way Microsoft did it is that if you take the card out of the phone, the phone needs to be reformatted and the card cannnot easily be reused.
Checkthis certainly has a beautiful UI/UX. I like the fact that the add-content bar between blocks doesn't interfere with the block spacing (With Sir Trevor the add content bar adds height between blocks), and the grouping of blocks in the add menu of Checkthis is going to work better for a larger number of block types than the Sir Trevor horizontal list.

The drag-and-drop repositioning is also much slicker with Checkthis, as you get to see the other blocks shuffle around the one you're moving, rather than partially so with a copy of the block.

Sir Trevor is a good start though!
Signed ClickOnce deployments can request elevated (above Internet Zone) permissions. We do that with the ClickOnce app we deploy.
Creative indeed. But the time spent in scrolling down, absorbing the content and then scrolling back, may irritate the short-of-time interviewers.
And for the nerd comparisons: http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/
Men in fashion design shops are far more tolerated than women in auto-mechanic shops. Same with male nurses.

20+ years ago, I started out as a secretary, mainly because I knew how to use MS Word and Excel and nobody else had computers on their desks. I didn't see much inverse sex harassment, mainly because everyone needed me to get their work out.

Meanwhile, my female co-workers were being chased around the desk.
That does sound terrible. It's always a gamble on first generation products. Hopefully you returned them and got iPads. Nothing beats the Apple app store. I almost returned mine after a week.

I kept thinking, Windows sucks. The reality was, I didn't know how to use it. I do much of my work in Chrome, InDesign, Photoshop, Lightroom,and Illustrator. Haven't had any problems. Office is nice to have, but really only use OneNote.
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Really interesting insight and actually makes a lot of sense. Thanks.
Carmack and Woz would've made a great engineering team...amazing that such brilliant engineers were also so generous
I run an SSD for the system and a HDD (in the optical drive bay) for storage in my (aged) MBP. Any advice to get the HDD to wind down when not in use? This setup is fantastic when plugged in, but battery life suffers with the HDD in the aftermarket location unable to go to sleep...
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Let' s agree to book mark this and come back in 10 years.
There's also this article that has quite a detailed analysis of the rounded corners of iOS7 icons http://www.mani.de/backstage/?p=483
I often have to shake my cat's biscuits before she'll eat them, even if she has just been eating them.
For the video simulations you're suggesting, they would have to slow everything down for us to see the difference, which would kind of break the realism they showed until then.

Also, the glowing trail thing would be a great way only for creatures like us humans, with slowly refreshing visual brains to handle information coming from faster refreshing retinas. But I have to imagine cats have their brains appropriately tuned for the refresh rate if their retinas and see movements clearly, with great detail in the time dimension.
There is a lot of learning by asking questions, which works well guy to guy but there are serious barriers if you are female. I have repeatedly run into the fact that most men either do not want to talk to me at all or, if they do, it is usually in hopes of getting into my pants. Neither scenario leads to professional development. They are both equally poisonous, just in different ways. It is rare for me to run into a man who will converse with me at length about something other than whether or not I might sleep with him, in essence. That is a huge barrier to networking and professional development.
I'm not from the bay area either, but have you see the rent prices out there? Just seeing how much rent prices over the last 20 or so years have increased, mostly because of the tech industry, it's easier for me to sympathize with them.
Very nice effect, but there's nothing squircley (?) about iOS 7 icons -- they're just squares with [more gradually] rounded corners.

Edit: inserted bracketed qualifier after reading cheeaun's article.
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Forget the salt. I thought you were possibly concerned with encrypting one character being a weakness.

As a recipient of my message you receive my message encrypted one character at a time. When I press enter you receive the key to decrypt all of these individual characters and can string them together into my message. I pick a new key and start sending the next message one character at a time. I'm thinking that any MITM attack will introduce noticeable latency into this scheme.
I don't see any relevance. I showed your Poland argument wrong, re WWII.

Since you lack better arguments, you're going to make me drag up definitions for casus belli and discuss this a long time, I take it?

But I don't need to do discuss Afghanistan since I only showed there were logical inconsistencies in an argument.

Edit: Removed the rest, not relevant or interesting enough.
There's no need to invent a derisive (or at least an apparently derisive) nickname for a language simply because you dislike it or its community.
>Your proposal is OK if accessing sensitive information is something you only do occasionally, but it's not very practical to switch users completely if you deal with sensitive information often, which many people do.

$ sudo -u banking gnucash &
$ firefox &

Done. My banking files and my Firefox session are now separated.
I had the same initial impression, but he actually goes over and mentions how much he ended up liking Lua.
How is any of this a default issue it is a philosophy issue:

1. Mir they shouldn't do this. Again Philosophy.

2. Unity they shouldn't follow OS X lead. Again Philosophy.

4. Software Center - It is where you BUY programs and magazines. It is not a default it is how they run the business. Again Philosophy.

5. SDK is another HUGE philosophy issue. This write for Ubuntu is not Linux friendly. Again Philosophy.
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I'm not sure it makes sense to market these phones too awfully much: my guess is that they're either subsidized or sold at cost, so why hand that benefit out to those who aren't "in the know" to some degree?
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"the Scarlet cloth", what's that?

It may have referred to something specific once, but now it's just a colour.

There are many examples of things that are just a part of speech now. e.g. when was the last time you had the opportunity to actually "put the cart before the horse" or "strike while the iron is hot".
Google simply has no idea how to launch advertising campaigns. It's been their weak point with all of their products and it's rather pathetic; the general public just doesn't know what the Nexus product line is.
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How are you going to send the key over the wire without anyone intercepting it?
And referencing a Wall Street Journal article that's behind their paywall, http://www.marketwatch.com/story/obamacare-woes-widen-as-ins... says:

"Emerging errors include duplicate enrollments, spouses reported as children, missing data fields and suspect eligibility determinations, say executives at more than a dozen health plans. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Nebraska said it had to hire temporary workers to contact new customers directly to resolve inaccuracies in submissions. Medical Mutual of Ohio said one customer had successfully signed up for three of its plans."

On the other hand, if they get something, this tells us one simple method the insurance companies can generally use to resolve issues. Although it sounds like they'd best contact everyone who maybe signs up, and no doubt the system will be telling two or more companies that some customers have signed up....

A lot messier than CGI Federal's Medicare.gov's Part D prescription plan signup system, where in all fairness the info is binary (I've signed up with X plan) and both sides can depend on the site doing the right thing.
Yes... swap the two drives. The optical bay cannot properly put the HDD to sleep. I am running a similar setup, but with the HDD in the original bay, and the SSD in the optical bay and have no issues.
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Very interesting article.

I've been thinking about the rise of cable channels versus network tv when it comes to the cultural impact of their shows.

They certainly seem to get it right in that respect a lot more often than the networks do, based upon my anecdotal evidence (totally lacking any real data), cable shows like Game of Thrones, Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, American Horror Story, Mad Men, etc

It seems to me (not that I have any real data to back it up with) that the shows people talk about online (and amongst people I meet) are basically all cable shows, from back with the Sopranos to shows airing today like Game of Thrones, Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, Dexter, American Horror Story, Homeland, Mad Men, Boardwalk Empire etc, have a much greater cultural influence than what the networks are offering apart from a juggernaut like American Idol (which seems to be fading away these days aswell) and perhaps something like Big Bang Theory.

I think it's an interesting shift, if there is indeed a shift and not just something I'm making up.
Try telling that to economists who claim to discover macroeconomic theories through econometric models and call it "empirical"
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Ah right -- Torrentz is a meta search engine and doesnt host any torrents.

The way I use it is to search for the torrent, and then use the results to pick a torrent site [that appears in the results] to stick with. Then that gets shut down, I head over to Torrentz, run another search, pick another site and so on..
> Lol, How many times does one (me in particular) need to read inspirational stories about hard work, dedication, pizza, and soda pop to actually do something about it?

If you want a good source of motivation, you might try getting a horrible job for a while.

Really. I did door to door sales when I was a girl. Hours upon hours of walking around seeing people who want nothing more in their heart of hearts than for you to fuck off and die. Nothing motivated me more to put in the hours at uni - even though I didn't like what I was studying - than the prospect of going back to that soul-crushing job, nothing's motivated me more to put in the hours at things that don't really please me than that either.

These days, when people tell me that something's hard, or that they have a shit job, I really have to step on my tongue to stop myself turning around and going - You don't know what a horrible job is, not really. You've been on easy street all your life.
In the case of the bird, it may not need fully optimized brain to fly. So it might be acceptable to have reduced brain performance as a tradeoff for longer awakeness, especially if you could recharge under reduced performance and then go back to fully awake (and rested).
X should be 24 hours
https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/news.arc#L10...
I hate to be that guy, but... [citation required]. (Not trying to heckle, just would like to hear it first hand, so to speak.)
I don't see why Americans should be able to discuss education policy in Polish. Seems a non sequitur. I don't think the author of the book claimed to be able to do such anyways.

As for technological over-reliance, I take that as given.

I'm surprised that you agree w/ the conclusion of the review that segregating talent into higher and lower achieving groups is bad. To me this is one of the strengths of the US system. Even if the high achieving groups are not stimulating enough for high achievers, it seems to provide some sort of positive stimulus that otherwise would be lacking in the system.
It's weird reading the Android engineers rebuttals. It's something that really irritates me, and frankly it has put me off of owning a smartphone at all (not having a microSD slot).

I also noticed a few limititations for the first time with my partners Nook HD that does have an SD slot. I bought a 32gb MicroSD card for it to store video and music. When trying to download from the web browser files went to local storage. I also had issues with downloading in general, some of which would be incomplete or disappear. While downloading I expected to be able to move to another app, and have the download background. It was a pretty shonky experience. I tried to find some kind of setting for it and ultimately realised that Android wasn't that brilliantly suited to handle external memory.

I'm never that sure if a device is going to take ownership of something like a micro SD card when I attach it. The whole portable format thing is a pain too. Not being able to use ExFat easily on my Linux laptop is a pain. I'm surprised one of the free file systems haven't been chosen as the default for for usb sticks, memory cards etc. Probably a result of manufacturers looking to have Windows compatibility.

I'm not quite sure myself which way I think opening media should go, should I select an app first and then open something, or should I use a 'finder' to get to a file and then choose what to do with it? I guess the latter at least affords for the 'finder' to suggest what to do with it, if not have a sensible default. Should my 'finder' know if a piece of software can handle the file upfront? Should software register what it can handle to a central authority? Sometimes you might not know wihch is the best software to open something with.

From a users perspective, I'd at least hope that if the device had 8GB on it, and if I had a card plugged in with 32GB, when I went to download a 1GB file it may put that on the 32GB card. Maybe there should be named storage pools that you could select when downloading. Or a sensible default.

Perhaps when you plug in media you should get the option of integrating it to the devices storage, or having it as temporary or portable storage.

The whole file management thing doesn't feel like it's solved on the desktop, but neither does it feel particulary good on Android. I think I like to know where my files are.

I do get that this is an epic problem. My Aunt was hopeless with file management on her laptop, but is happy with her iPad, other than suggesting that she has no idea how to get the photos off of it, and hasn't succeeding in doing so yet.
$50.000?
I don't get the amount of cash needed. Not judging, just not understanding. Could someone explain and justify the need for this?
There is some discussion in this thread http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3851 - Python is much more complex than Lua.
Ah, I see, that makes sense now. I thought they would host the torrents themselves, but every link that looked like it would be a torrent download was an ad. Your clarification helped, thanks.