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> No

I'd really encourage you to read it an other articles on implicit bias; they're really important issues that have disastrous impacts.

> I'm pretty sure that if you run statistics, you would find out that people from poor neighborhoods are more likely to be criminals, violent, less educated, less intelligent.

The problem I have with this is that it's a hunch that sounds reasonable, but there's no data to support the claim. I think we need to be especially careful in situations with implicit bias to vet all of our assumptions, because in aggregate, they have really negative impacts on large subgroups of people.

Here's a link to the source document for the linked article: http://www.povertyactionlab.org/publication/are-emily-and-gr...

That article references other journal articles that review exactly what you're talking about, varying only location. It appears that it helps, but helps whites more. I didn't read that article (I'm at work; only have time for so much research, which probably should be no time at all :P)

> I'm not from the US, but don't many American blacks have white-sounding names? And I assume those blacks are more likely to come from families that are wealthier and better educated.

The article says, "Each resume listed identical qualifications except for one variation... names"

I looked into the underlying source article and they list and control for the education of the applicants, which means there's no need to judge their education by their name, since you already have it.

I think the problem a lot of people have is that it feels a lot like we're saying everyone is racist, which feels a lot like an attack. To spin it a little differently, I'd personally say we're all biased. You could go through any long list of cognitive biases and implicit racial bias would just be one of the myriad everyone is subject to in some magnitude. It's a matter of being aware of it and really questioning your founding assumptions so you can reduce the bias where possible. The problem with racism is that it has real and lasting impacts right now on minorities, and is particularly insidious (if you ask me).

I really think it would be worth your time to read the article and follow some of the linked articles. It's really interesting information that's relevant.
Why not including the lowercase into the hash-algorithm?
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That's a great article, thank you. I had read the original linked article a while ago but never saw this one.
Well, big time credibility is something that only a mature tech has, but I'd say surprisingly good. Serious users from many niches as early adopters, and results are of technically high quality (Clara.io, Tinkercad, various medical imaging and architecture stuff), and of course there's the games scene that has the potential to go big. And browser support is on good track with Microsoft and Apple on board now, and a lot of attention on support in mobile browsers.
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It looks more like a pyrrhic victory if he had to waste the little time he had left on fighting his insurer.
No it was not 13 months, it took 4 months from WWDC 2007 to announcing the SDK, which was then released another 5 months later.

Jobs was being slippery because they had nothing to show at WWDC 2007, but here is the timeline:

iPhone revealed: January 9 2007

WWDC 2007: June 11 2007

iPhone released: June 29 2007

SDK announced: October 17 2007

SDK released: March 6 2008

App Store opens: July 10 2008

From the iPhone being announced to the App Store opening was about 18 months total, quite a pivot if "iPhone as originally announced was never going to allow third-party native apps; it was to be web-apps only forever, and this was not intended to be a temporary position."
This is one of the tropes the shills abuse en masse over and over again, FYI-- the conflation of criticizing Israel's policies and actions with the hatred of Jews.

Israel and Jews are not the same entity, it's entirely possible (even probable) to disprove of Israel and approve of Jews.

As an example, I am married to a Jew, but detest Israel's foreign policy and the way it tends to drag the USA around.
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Yep. Would not mind replacing this rapidly deteriorating mass of sludge with something in metal and composites.
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I was reading the comments of this MIT Tech Review (http://www.technologyreview.com/news/533686/2014-in-computing-breakthroughs-in-artificial-intelligence/) and I came across this opinion (see title), which gave me the shivers. Two points:

1) AI taking manual workforce-based jobs. I can't help seeing how beneficial the industrialisation of processes has been for humanity. Instead of relying on inaccurate human judgement for manufacturing jobs, we let machines produce perfectly similar assets much better than we can do. This has increased the reliability of the outputs, in addition to lowering the prices of the products, which has made them affordable to many more people. Jobs get more specialised, so like the tools human beings have developed throughout history. Once more, survival entails adaptation. And this is again a matter of supply and demand. In Spain, where the economic crisis is still hitting the markets and unemployment, having a proper specialised education no longer guarantees landing a job (and it's not because evil robots are doing the tasks of leaving scientists).

2) AI taking over engineers, lawyers, etc. AI is difficult per se. Nobody comes up with a human replica made of metal by chance. Things take their time, and improvements are gradual. That's a matter of fact. At present, AI (plus Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition...) delivers a set of tools that allow us to see father, from the shoulders of giants. We had never been able to digest the amount of data we are capable of doing nowadays. Isn't this progress? We haven't yet created a creative machine and I don't see it coming any time soon.

I am so firmly convinced that AI has so much good to do that I just created a blog (http://ai-maker.com/) solely dedicated to AI and its applications, and I'm going to dedicate my spare time for the following years to grow this side project into something awesome, because that's where AI is leading us.
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It does "halve" the keyspace, by removing one bit of entropy from your password. This is assuming you only use letters in your password and not numbers or other symbols not affected by capslock.
Hey, I forked your repo and added tuning, so that everyone can adjust it for their display

http://genabitu.github.io/screentunes/

Maybe I'll get to get it play music (a json with timings and notes would suffice, I suppose?)
>Saying that google's anti malware blacklist (used by all browsers out there aside of IE) is a secret plan to de-anonymize people by using a microtime of a request timestamp seems... far fetched.

Uh, not really. Tracking users is at the heart of their business model.
This is certainly one of their tactics.

Here's an okay link describing other tactics: http://vigilantcitizen.com/latestnews/the-25-rules-of-disinf...
Heh, i don't mind. Been using it myself for the very same reason. No need fumble with consolekit or anything similar.
Mi experience about real systems

Dependency Management: Yes.
Source code control: Yes (proprietary, file based/git)
Continuous Integration: Jenkins, TravisCI, TeamCity
Deployment: I'm aware of people using Docker and Ansible, and regular file copy/scp deployment.

I don't know what defines the verb "good", "flexible" and "well supported". I think they are. File based VCS is not out of the box, but is an available feature and many people are moving to that in order to use GitHub or similar services.
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This is where I found PG's essays for the first time.
What might be most interesting about the USB3 connector will be the opportunity for compromising such machines. People might be cautious about plugging in unknown or unexpected hardware and flash drives to their machines, etc, but they'll always recognise what looks like a charger and won't think for a minute that it might be doing anything other than supplying power.

Could be very interesting, especially in office locations where charger sharing goes on. Or even at home, how do you know that /your/ charger isn't the special version that not only powers the MacBook while also appearing as a bus device that's backdooring your machine and radiating your secrets back over your mains cables to an adversary?

Lots and lots of fun to be had there.
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I'm not sure about facebook but I believe blizzard (WoW/Diablo/etc) ignores case completely in all passwords
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lol, tells you much about the DOM and CSS, hu? ;)
I bet new and well-maintained ones don't, but I've seen lots of crummy old microwaves in offices that absolutely pummel the wifi when they're in use.
Giving the attacker two ciphertexts, where their plaintexts are related by a simple function, sounds like the sort of thing that breaks cryptosystems.

So I hope they're canonicalizing the password casing instead of storing the hash of both possibilities.
Thanks for this--now I know where http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ got its name
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In your case it makes perfectly sense; except in the case of this topic the controls all seem to be overlays i.e. are never part of the scene.
> So, with Discourse, rather than all that, I decided we'd default on a solid absolute minimum password length of 8 characters

8 characters is way too much for someone just 'poking around'. Sure, 6 characters is much less secure, but then again how secure do you need to be for a forum/commenting platform?

It's much better to let the user know his password is weak while letting him take it anyway.
Yeah, I've gotten that recently. It's not that annoying, since you're going to have to validate your email address at some point anyway.
Didn't know that one! The dry humor is f*ing priceless :)
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See this discussion surrounding the PREF cookie used with the Safe Browsing API:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368255

According to Mozilla this cookie is only used by the Safe Browsing client code and isn't sent to Google through regular web browsing (private mode or otherwise). However, the Lumber Cartel (there is no Lumber Cartel) wood be able to use this cookie to fingerprint web browsers and so track people as they move among Internet connections. Those of us who are double super extra paranoid disable Safe Browsing in order to prevent this.
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As a former 12" Powerbook owner/lover and current 11" Macbook Air owner, I want my 4:3 aspect ratio back. Screen real estate is at a premium on a machine this small, so I want more pixels (more area). And carrying a elongated rectangle around is no easier than carrying a more squarish rectangle. (iPad and Chromebook figured this out.)
How so? I thought they mostly make money from the information you provide: search keywords.

Do they actually manage to make significant profit on retargeting or some other ad technique that requires tracking? What can they do beyond tracking?
A typical PCB milling machine would cost 30000USD at the lower end. But looking at boards produced by this machine, it doesn't come close to the quality of a milled board.

I think you could probably develop a milling machine with a similar price point, and some people I believe have used cheap Proxxon (MF70) mills to cut PCBs (the MF70 costs about 400USD). So I'm not sure what the advantage of extruding here is.

I guess it would be interesting if they can do multilayer boards, but from the results shown that doesn't look like a possibility.
I managed to glean a little from my visit, but not that much:

* They apparently have something resembling a dating website.

* They can download computer games (my tour guide complained that his son spent too much time playing them).
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But there is so many of them! :)
He's a "Teacher of the Year" from Virginia. Similar to how "Florida man" is from Florida.
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But I want Sqlite DB :) (for this particular project)
Mac-style caps-lock, which doesn't invert again with shift, and PC-style, which does.
Yes, Facebook tries to be everything to everyone. It kinda has to, more or less, for the sheer number of users.

Nilay Patel recently argued that Facebook is the new AOL, it's the portal of the 2010s. I think that is an apt description. I am using it yet also kind of just pining to drop it.

I also use it for groups and messaging. Somehow, Facebook groups are great. They're super simple, and they just work. The newsfeed on the other hand is completely broken.
Why would they need to store the hash of both possibilities? They can simply invert the case of what the user types before hashing it - ie. compare both hash(enteredPassword) and hash(invertCase(enteredPassword)) to the hash in the database and see if either match.
Agreed. I go into work day in and day out and the best I can reasonably hope for is that I will continue to do so for several more decades. For better or worse, most people have to work many hours a week for many weeks per year for many years in a continual process in order to make a living. Also, lots of "products" (as in the results of work) that I'd consider very worthwhile such as music, visual art, educated students, clean streets, well-prepared food, and general public health often require a lot of work for relatively little pay. In terms of ideals I might find this unfortunate but in terms of reality, economics will often have the last word.
I actually agree with you. I also saw my fair share of folks who were not in the frame of mind to appreciate the incredible opportunity they were given. They were looking at CC as a place where only dumb kids go, or that they were better than where they were or were just looking for a place to hang out and meet people to party.

I think that people should be paying something to go. But not too much.

I've also observed that people who couldn't normally afford CC monetarily also can't really afford it timewise. They're already working 2 jobs or whatever. And the kind of time commitment education requires simply isn't possible.

What concerns me also is the continued rise in CC tuition (along with other tuition at other schools). CC works because it's cheap and it's real college. But once the prices start to rise to real college levels, it stops working.

I think when I went it was something like $50/crhr. It's well over $150 right now (out of state is over $350). I would not be able to send myself to CC today if I was in the same position.
I'd caution against making the argument "If someone pays you, it's useful to somebody." It reminds me of the naive assumption of economists, that people are rational and seek to maximize utility. But exceptions easily come to mind.

People waste money all the time. Maybe the OP's boss paid him three years salary to do something the boss thought was important, but really just wasted time. And nobody knew it wasted time, because it was hard to measure.
That's a possibility worth exploring, especially with services like https://assembly.com popping up. Starting a company is still a huge risk compared to being an employee though, and a good employee might not make a good entrepreneur.
My operating system files churn as much as anyone, but I don't intend to use SSDs for files that will be written and rewritten.

I'll use it for the stuff that I want to write once and keep for 30 years.

I have terabytes of such, already.
I'm thinking more a Thunderbolt 3 connector - not USB type C.

TB3 allows for 100W power transmission. Your Thunderbolt Display can then plug into your laptop with a single cable, including charging needs.

Additionally, TB3 comes with a new connector - which is smaller vertically. Perfect for a new thinner MBA.
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I'm an adult and I don't understand Twitter either.

It's not that there's anything wrong with the basic idea - it's just that Twitter, the company, constantly wants to make it into something it isn't. And invariably fails at that.

I now use it for my geeky posts, and occasionally, rarely, to check my feed for interesting tweets from the masters of the startup scene.
wow, that machine is amazingly cheap. The CNCs I've worked with were about 30000USD. How are the results? Does the lack of an auto-tool changer get annoying?
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Email is such a terrible way to associate identity. And, I think the industry is really misguided in not taking on the challenge of standardizing identity in a way that's not tied to email (or phone, or phone number, more recently). Sure, it's the quick way, the path of least resistance, but there are so many issues with email as identity, and it's really frustrating to me, as a user.
There was also related work going on in RepRap community - http://blog.reprap.org/2009/04/first-reprapped-circuit.html

Not sure if it progressed anywhere since 2009 tho.
> I find the argument that you have to start off by using a Unix in order to become a proficient hacker to be particularly disingenuous.

While "Unix" is perhaps not a requirement, but he does give a convincing argument why it should be an open source operating system - which significantly reduces the number of options.

Sure, you can be a hacker who uses Windows, but you're locked out of half of what your computer can do. That is a restriction.

Yes, you can work only on the userspace but to me, the essence of being a hacker is having a keen interest in the whole stack. While you're still locked out of your CPU internals, an avid hacker should also have an interest in hardware hacking.

Feel free to disagree, but I'm on ESR's side on this one.
Maybe this is far too naive, but wouldn't a smart but unmotivated kid respond to the same incentives as anyone else? Namely, can we figure out how to reward kids and their families monetarily for staying in school and excelling? The promise of some scholarship years down the line might not do it.

Obviously this is tricky business for a host of reasons, but if we expect education to be a worthwhile investment, there's got to be some way to 'borrow' against those expected future gains.
When I first started doing code review, there was a similar post on HN. I thought it was a good idea and tried to use a checklist, but a lot of the time you skip over items because they don't apply. And as you do more code review you get better at identifying possible issues, reducing the need for a checklist.

Nowadays you also have software (e.g. Hound) that does some basic checks for you.
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The idea is not to not rely on C. The idea is to not have to do the compiler development in C.
Mostly because it's almost impossible to know this by just reviewing the code, without having to run it

If you believe that, then either

- The code is badly designed/obfuscated enough that its behaviour is not easy to see (something that should definitely raise a concern at a code review)

- The reviewer doesn't know enough to figure out what the code should do (which in and of itself is a huge WTF.)

In some sense, testing (especially the black-box type) is "dumb". It cannot discover failures at edge cases which could be seen from reading the code and thinking about its behaviour, something that should definitely happen at a code review. It is useful as a sanity check, but cannot replace reasoned inspection.
Code reviewing is such a hilarious concept in programming. Everyone thinks it's the most important thing, yet I've only seen rubber stamps and uninterested reviewers.

I'd be so much happier if we could get rid of the entire notion and do up front design and pair programming.

Also, oh my god that checklist. Anyone that has a business dedicated to delivery is going to have to throw that thing out the window.
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While you make a true statement, it is a non sequitur from my argument.
Also, since solder can't handle large loads (it would simply melt at some point,) PCB milling looks like another approach and also somewhat worked on in RepRap community - http://reprap.org/wiki/PCB_Milling
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I'm a self-taught front-end developer (more of a hack) that doesn't have a CS degree, and I want to go back and learn the fundamentals. Anyone been through a similar thing that can recommend a good free online CS program?
I agree. You may be "helping" your manager, but that may mean helping them displace their political opponent for the sole purpose of taking more power for themselves. That, and I've seen far too many inane requirements and heard too many stories of code that was never used to remain especially optimistic.
It's kind of bizarre that this article focuses on the plagiarism issue, but seems to miss the even bigger problem: It doesn't appear at all clear if these published studies are actually done!

If they aren't done and yet are published in fairly high impact journals, presumably people are relying on their conclusions. Even worse, increasingly automated systems are relying on journal articles for automated diagnosis.

OTOH, if the studies actually are done... I guess it's a new avenue for funding science!
> Many students come poor and/or bad families. No new "Common Core" tests are going to help that child learn if they are afraid they might not eat dinner that evening or they will be beaten up by their drunken family members. Just flogging the teacher to teach harder won't work.

This sounds true if you don't think about it too hard.

But why is it that kids who don't suffer get about the same (horrible) education as the ones you mention?

> It would be nice if "teaching" was considered just as a prestigious profession as laywer, doctor, astronaut

It would be nice for teachers. But this is the same kind of half-assed thinking that makes public schools worthless. Instead of making things better for children/students, you've slipped into talking about making things better for teachers. It's like the entire country subconsciously belongs to the teachers' union.