skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you had to deal with the number of Indian or Chinese students trying to push into a program they have no place being in?

I get it's the poverty back home that makes them desperate and nothing to do with race, but the one time my former department accepted a Chinese student from mainland China it was a disaster, he was rude, hardly spoke English, his credentials were most likely fake and made the whole thing incredibly unpleasant to everyone with how pushy he was. Needless to say he was kicked out after a year because he kept failing his classes.

This isn't racism, this is people not wanting to be scammed.
Arbitration is private court where the judge is paid by your opponent. If you legitimately think this is awesome enough that we should all be gung-ho about it just because the companies who benefit choose to pay the fees, I don't think there's really anything else to discuss.
This looks a lot like the Riot Games developer portal. I wonder if they used it as reference.

http://developer.riotgames.com/
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One approach might be to just convert to Rust, and let the Rust compiler tell you what things don't type check.
We seem to have very similar symptoms in regards to our speech impediments.

> You always find yourself having to compromise on what it is you're trying to bring across.

This is so true, always that feeling like I had more to say, but feared stuttering so I kept the conversation short and lacking details.
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Most big companies have a policy that any thing created on their computers is their property. Similarly, any information created on systems that they are paying for is theirs. If you were creating business value in the bathroom, then they might argue that they have access to it. If it were for labor and privacy laws, they might even have a legal claim to monitoring your brainstorms in the bathroom.
As a graduate student I receive spam from addresses with Indian names a few times each month. I know from speaking to my advisor that the level of spam he receives is much greater, and often contains names that sound foreign to him. Even worse, these emails are somewhat generic in ways that resemble the form letter in this study. Normally, when a prospective grad student is interested in working with you, at least in the field I'm in (psychology), they mention something about your interests when contacting, rather then a generic form-looking email.

I'm not saying that this makes not responding to emails from minority students okay. I wonder to what degree professors might see something that is not personalized, from a name which is "similar" to other names they associate with spam, and decide not to respond.

Andy Gelman has a good example of the kind of spam that comes in: http://andrewgelman.com/2014/04/05/bizarre-academic-spam/
This is one of those “worse cast scenarios” when it comes to web application design...
This was another good article about KWC I saw recently http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2139914/A-rare-insig...
As soon as they have something that boots BSD,
where starting the graphics layer is optional
and it has decent networking, I will definitely
purchase one of these. I wouldn't mind a little
FORTH, too.

Godspeed, OpenMoko.
Derek is rather skeptical that it will work. Like him I am skeptical for basically the same reasons, but also like him I am happy to see YC try something new. There is nothing to be gained by being a negative know-it-all. The only way will know if it will work is to do it and see.
The main problem I see with this is that if you have old disks the last thing you want to be doing is spinning them up and down all the time.

The drives and firmware you want for 24/7 use are not the same as what you want for intermittent use. On big old raid arrays, the scariest thing was powering them down because for sure, some of the disks would not come back again.
This is an interesting idea. Can you provide any guidance on How would I go about rolling out my own tokenization system? I don't have need of storing credit card info but would like to roll out similar system for other user info.
He had a blog, while he was alive, which is still up and running:

http://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/

Very, very interesting work and commentary.

NOTE: there is actually a lot more content on that blog than the (bad) navigation suggests. If you look at the right-hand "monthly archives" column, it looks like there is only 12 monthly headings going back to Sept. 2011 - but if you manually plug in a URL like:

http://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/2008/11/

... you can see there is a lot more content there...
If they're aggressive enough, I'd say there could justifiably be a quite large latency. Say for example their block size is 55 disks with 10% redundancy. Then the seek time is the maximum seek time of the lowest 50 seek times within the set of disks which haven't failed. Now there's a queue to read each drive, and it may very well frequently be a huge maximum queue pretty much every time. Even if the queue is typically short, they would still have to show a typical high value, which I'd say is essentially read time of an entire disk.

Now factor that the disks are both large and crappy. A 120 Mb/s read speed and 1Tb disk size would imply 8000 secs ~ 2 hours. Factor possibility of differential pricing as you mentioned (even longer queues), and you may get an upper bound of 3 or 4 hours.

I'm just speculating though.
tldr :)

Any indication for the reasoning why for this difference?
Isn't biased stereotyping exactly what racism is though? A few bad apples can spoil it for everyone else? "Hey watch the black guy, I was mugged by once...", if you find that sickening, this is quite similar to that.
Startup opportunities abound. I look forward to the day a solution is found.
As someone who has always been deeply pleased by the Minneapolis skyway system, I was very happy to find the "Central Mid Levels Escalator":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%E2%80%93Mid-Levels_esca...
> Population is one number. Birth rate is a derivative of that.

No, its not. For several reasons. Firstly, because the derivative of population is the rate of population growth (persons/unit time) which is not just the rate of births per unit time, but births minus deaths. Secondly, because "birth rate" isn't the rate of births per unit time, but the rate of births per unit time per unit population.

> Population'' -- the global birth rate IS in decline, and has been since 1950 according to the UN

Those statements are only distantly related and only the latter is clearly true. While the birth rate (births/person/year) has been dropping for quite a long time, the second derivative of population with respect to time was around 0 from the late 1980s to recently, with the first derivative hovering at around 1 gigaperson / 12 years, though projections are that that rate of increase is slowing somewhat now. The second derivative of population with respect to time was actually positive for most of the 20th century, with each successive billion people added in a shorter period of time until it leveled off around at the 12 years / billion level. [1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_growth
Intelligent corporate policy. Oh how I wish such a marriage of pragmatism and respect for privacy were the norm.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-postmodernism

I'd hardly say we're in a post-postmodern stage, though... whatever the fuck that means, I'm assuming it's a reactionary stage against postmodernism, which would make it plain modernism.
I've definitely noticed a different response from waitstaff when I'm on my own than when I'm out with friends; it seems as though, in the former case, a waiter will tend to be a bit less formal and more friendly than otherwise. It's a little odd, perhaps, but it also tends to result in better service, so I'm not about to complain.
>we haven't seen a brain injury epidemic during that time but certainly we've seen social and economic policy changes during that time

That doesn't rule out a correlation between brain injury and homelessness; the social and economic policy changes might have the effect that fewer brain-injured people get the care they need to avoid becoming homeless.
It is commonly quoted but here is once source: http://www.headinjuryctr-stl.org/statistics.html

No doubt caused by TBI-related problems that often affect balance, coordination. Many TBI survivors have poorer judgement or underestimate how poorly their brains handle alcohol, etc.
I recommend looking at the WorkQueue [1] for better parallelism performance on problems like these. It's not upstreamed to the Rust core distribution yet, but it's fairly solid at this point, as it's the main parallelism workhorse for Servo.

One of the nice things about having low-level memory management and well as feature-rich generics in Rust is that we can come up with parallel primitives that are tuned to the problem at hand. For example, like parallel web page layout, I suspect that any parallel primitive that needs to allocate anything is going to be too slow to achieve any gains on this problem—it rules out threads, coroutines, etc. You need a super-lightweight primitive instead.

[1]: https://github.com/mozilla/servo/blob/master/src/components/...
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Another user put it better just a couple days ago, saying NoSQL should really mean NoACID - databases which simply prefer having eventual consistency for the sake of achieving high availability.

AFAIK, the recent trend in "Get me SQL" is really because the alternate databases became really popular - and as they did it simply became unacceptable to have to teach someone Python in order to query your database when chances are they already know SQL (think of all the junior analysts who know SQL through one way or another, but have never touched a REPL).

Note that this obviously doesn't include the real trend towards distributed strong consistency like Google's F1.
The keyboard shortcuts are completely editable if you go into the various .bind files (When similar things happened to me in the past, I made a couple of quick fixes to those and got keyboard shortcuts working beautifully again).
> I'd hardly say we're in a post-postmodern stage, though... whatever the fuck that means, I'm assuming it's a reactionary stage against postmodernism, which would make it plain modernism.

There's no reason a reaction against post-modernism would have to be plain modernism. Its hardly as if approaches to the world are on a simple unidimensional scale where there are only two extremes, and any reaction against one must be simply its polar opposite.
We also have to remember that these requests are shared between 100+ Facebook server.
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This email lacks any personalisation and looks exactly like spam to me. I am wondering if the study should have been entitled "Generic emails containing minority names are classified as spam at higher frequencies."
If you remember the late 90s well enough, this reached a head with Jedediah Purdy's For Common Things.

We have come so far full circle in 20 years, that Aaron Sorkin quoted Purdy without a hint of irony on his latest HBO show.

This was my favorite response then, and maybe Stein'll do a reprise: http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,992159,...
I'd be careful with melatonin. It appears to act like a stress hormone and has a bunch of significant effects. It boosts estrogen and lowers metabolism.
Thought Facebook had already fixed it. I tried with an image on my domain and it only went till about 660KB/s.

Then I found a bigger file.

It's now maxes out my upload speed (50mbps on fiber). The notes have been deleted but Facebook continues to do http requests for the file. That, or Apache continues to write requests to the access log after they finished and Facebook does not close active connections when it knows that the answer will never be used.

Edit: Found a video (big file) hosted by Facebook. Guess who's under attack now :D

Edit2: Seems they're loading at about 1.6-1.9gbps speed, calculating from how quickly the images seem to 'load' (become blank 1x1px images) on my client and how big the actual file is.
I'm guessing that the lowered income projection is due in part to Amazon dropping its cloud prices. Surprised the article didn't mention that.
Speaking as someone who deals with this often, it might be that the number of requests from Chinese/Indian students is simply overwhelming compared to everyone else, and the professors start putting up subconscious filters. They are also less likely to distinguish gender by Chinese and to a lesser extent Indian names, so we could probably discount gender bias at that point.

As for myself, 100% of the students I get requests from are Chinese (being in China, that makes sense), and I have to filter according to the university they are enrolled in (Qinghua > Beijing Normal University). We really miss some gems that way, but those are the breaks.
Yes, that re-shaped the area by making it easy to travel along that steep slope. There are lots of elevated foot paths as well in Hong Kong, interconnecting buildings with each-others, usually going from shopping mall to shopping mall in a dizzy labyrinth of walkways and escalators.

In Hong Kong, pragmatism tends to win over other considerations. Making things convenient is a build-in feature of the culture.
From a developer standpoint. I could get a minimal output via a serial port with a few lines of assembly on a bare hardware.

USB requires a lot more work and on Windows the API is atrocious. On Linux the API (libusb) quite a bit nicer, but still a bit of work.

The plug and play part, device naming and unique identifiers are a special "joy" of USB.

If serial port is sufficiently fast I'll take it any day over USB.
Ah, but intelligently for whom?

Benefits to Facebook might outweigh intangibles like "being nice" to the people and places they are indirectly making money off of.
Only if it's based on race. You must be American since you missed the part where I said it's the _poor_ Indians and Chinese that are desperate and most departments want nothing to do with them. That isn't racism, that is wealth discrimination. By contrast the poor Australians aren't applying to post graduate programs in mathematics, they are too busy being drunk at the footy, so they are not a group anyone had to worry about at my university. But if one of them showed up with fake credentials they would be as disruptive to the department as that Chinese student was, and would fly out just as quickly.
I'm a fan of Go, but it's really not at all suited to robotics.

The only area I would say Go is "good" for is web services. It's really a pretty mediocre language for anything else.

The type system is kind of horrendous, there's no clean way of generic programming, etc. It's really not good for many things, least of all robotics.

If you want to get into Go, I recommend writing a web server. It shows you the good parts of Go, and where it's useful.
That study is really quite interesting. Here's my summary.

They looked at the effects of a few kinds of diversity on assigned work groups. They looked at "informational diversity", which they measured using educational background, job background, and position in the company; "social category diversity", which they took to be age and gender; and "value diversity", which they measured with a questionnaire.

Looking at their regression analyses, we see:

Informational diversity significantly increases actual performance (a number of .30), mildly decreases group efficiency (-.05), and mildly increases perceived performance (0.05), satisfaction (0.09), intent to remain (0.06), and commitment (.10).

Social category diversity moderately increases perceived performance (.16), satisfaction (.14), intent to remain (.12), and commitment (.16), while mildly decreasing actual performance (-.07) and group efficiency (-.03).

Value diversity moderately decreases group efficiency (-.17), actual performance (-.12), perceived performance (-.10), satisfaction (-.11), intent to remain (-.19), and commitment (-.19).
I think the important thing is to get as much natural daylight exposure as possible. Sunlight lowers stress hormones, lowers depression, increases metabolism, and so forth. So I'm skeptical about "apps" and algorithms that are about micromanaging how much dim artificial light you get. The much more important thing is getting out in the midday sun for an hour or more every day.
I've been wanting something like this forever! The use cases seem nearly unlimited.
1-2 hours of my time.
A hacking competition for high schoolers... right before most finals weeks. I think this is a great idea, but the timing is nonideal.
Yes it is racism. I am not sure what to do though if you are on the receiving end of a lot of spam-like emails from people from certain countries. When I get emails from single women purportedly in eastern Europe wanting to meet me these all head straight to the trash. I would not really consider myself racist for doing this.
That problem is difficult to solve for a controlled experiment; as soon as you personalize the messages then two outreaches to two professors become incomparable to each other.
Are you talking about git annex assistant or git annex? git annex does file versioning very nicely then again it doesn't work on Windows so that's probably not very useful for most game developers.
"Skeptics reject sincerity because they worry blind belief can lead to such evils as the Ku Klux Klan and Nazism. They think strong conviction implies vulnerability to emotional rhetoric and lack of critical awareness. "

The article brings this point up, but I don't think it does a good job of dismissing it. I agree that irony can be harmful to culture, however, I think irony still has a job to do in our culture. There's a lot of people believing a lot of things which they don't have evidence for (religion being the biggest one that comes to mind), and I think having an approach of doubt to things can be a good way to be sure society/it's individuals believe the most accurate things.
Ok. It appears I wasn't clear enough in what I wrote.

Psychologists, unlike laypeople, don't treat the DSM as some kind of bible. It's a collection of rules of thumb used for helping diagnose various mental disorders. The fact that DSM 5 did away with a specific disorder is nothing like your example and says nothing whatsoever about whether a particular disorder exists or not. All they did was the equivalent of saying, "OK, we've got these grades from A1 to A5, and this other grade NG; maybe we should just call it A6 so it fits into the same general scale".

When they say "it's not an evidence based term", they simply mean it's not worth distinguishing from the spectrum as a whole. Let me quote from the very article you quoted:

> If these experts have their way, _Asperger's syndrome and another mild form of autism_, pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified (P.D.D.-N.O.S. for short), _will be folded into a single broad diagnosis_, autism spectrum disorder - a category that encompasses autism's entire range, or spectrum, from high-functioning to profoundly disabling.

(Emphasis mine)

Now, I'm not arguing whether it's a real thing or not. I leave that to people more knowledgeable in the field than I am. I'm arguing simply that your characterization of the term is incorrect and also doesn't agree with how psychologists view the term.

> The proof that there's no such thing as Asperger's (as a mental illness) has two parts. One, anyone could get the diagnosis through the simple expedient of visiting a psychologist and saying, "I think I have Asperger's".

I'm not sure how that "proves" anything? You've made a statement that something happens, but haven't actually provided any proof of anything.

> Two, the number of wildly successful people who were said to have Asperger's, including Thomas Jefferson, Albert Einstein, and Bill Gates, which means if Asperger's is real, then wealth and fame are reliable diagnostic indicators for the condition.

You appear not to understand the difference between correlation and causation, nor do you have a good grasp of probability distributions.
On the emails, I agree that there is no choice to filter just based on volume.

However, as for generalizing based on direct personal experiences, this cross a line where the abstract sender of an email becomes a real person. That begins to be a real problem.
Very well done, thanks for sharing.

Source:

http://tympanus.net/Development/SidebarTransitions/SidebarTr...
Instead of just repeating the claim that Go is good for nothing, except maybe web services, multiple times in a 7 sentence post, maybe just say it once and provide and dedicate more than one sentence with two points (one of which is subsumed by the other) and no depth to explaining why you think that.
I concur, please do not do this to your site unless you want me to leave
I doubt this Chinese student was poor if he could get convincing enough fake qualifications; he was probably middle class with city hukou and resourceful parents, but just didn't apply himself because his parents were always able to solve his problems for him (also, very likely an only child). This is actually quite common in China; the poor Chinese students are the ones that have to work their asses off because their parents can't give them any special advantages.

I have my own biases, but having lived in China for so long, they aren't based on ethnicity anymore (e.g. watch that guy in starbucks wearing farmer clothes, he might try to steal my computer).
Until art can take religion seriously again, it's a pointless discussion. Great artists are authentic and, sans religion, the authentic position is nihilism: everything else begs The Question.

The authors clearly understand this, at some level, by pointing out the singular value of black spiritual music in american history. But, like most of today's elite, they are unable to look the obvious answer in the face, because it's so horrifying.
That's pretty neat, but this demo uses some sort of scrolling emulation, so in the iPhone (tested in a 4s) this particular implementation breaks: Taping the status bar to scroll to the top, momentum scrolling, elastic bounce at both ends.
Talk about the tower of babel. This article, although totally excellent, didn't even mention unicode normalization problems. So basically, once everyone starts talking unicode, then we can start trying to figure out what is _meant_. [And not click on some phishing string that looks exactly like some legit string]
The fact that these names are considered "similar" to such names ("Juan Gonzales, but "Claire Smith" too?) are shady but "Brad Anderson" and "Steven Smith" are worth responding too basically demonstrates the authors' point.

Edit: Before I'm further downflagged by people who haven't at least skimmed the paper, I should point out that I'm referring to the actual names used in the study, I'm not being racist myself.
"We accepted one Chinese student and he was terrible, therefore all Chinese students are terrible" is exactly racism.

Racism isn't just marching in Klan rallies and voting for David Duke and "negroes need not apply". In the modern western world, that's the weakest, most ineffectual racism, because it's easy to call out and despise. The real, insidious, devastating racism is thoughtful, well-meaning people coming up with carefully-considered justifications to stereotype huge groups of people.

It's superficially very rational--black people are statistically more likely more likely to commit crimes, so doesn't it make sense for the police to keep a closer eye on them? Terrorists tend to be Muslims, so isn't it safer if we don't let Muslims near anything dangerous? But a lot of local, short-term "rational" decisions can add up to a monstrous and oppressive society.