skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see this attitude a lot and frankly it is quite annoying. If the guy wanted a lecture he would have asked for a lecture. He wants to learn how to do something without spending 100 hours in it. I know that feeling, lots of us have been there. You are not his mama to lecture him.
> If I was teaching a class and I had to choose between 2 students for the last seat, I might choose the one with the (insignificantly) lower score if that student seemed more fun to be around.

This doesn't bear any resemblance to current admissions policies. Discrepancies between races in average SAT score at a given college are in the hundreds of points, not the low tens.
The most salient lesson I got out of spending my high school summers doing volunteer construction is that I hate poor people.
Now is it? It also asks basically to teach how subtraction works, which is something you should know when leaving primary school.
I'm torn. Do these state bodies (Chattanooga power utility) have a state mandated monopoly or protection? Do they use those protected profits to build a network which they then sell to consumers? I would be upset if my competitor had that advantage and I didn't (note I'm wondering not certain that that's the case here)
That date and time format on the top bar is probably the least likely way a Swede would write it down using a pen.

Other than that your theme looks good. Please share details.
Great tool for educational purposes. However, it looks like that sometimes timeouts are not always executed in the right order[1].

[1] http://latentflip.com/loupe/?code=c2V0VGltZW91dChmdW5jdGlvbi...
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That's why he called it 8cc, on purpose. He works with his fellow Rob Pike 8c author at google, and Go just switched away from 8c to their new internal compiler written in Go.

And 8cc shares the similar KISS principles as 8c, by far simpler than the big and slow c compilers gcc, clang, CompCert.
No, there's nothing I can do about it, and I'm highly unlikely to be a person of interest under the mass surveillance programme, so why bother?
XCode is a horrible IDE for any language.
I can imagine two unmentioned scenarios that would be useful for a business, so far.

One is the food truck biz model and trade shows, maker fair, state fair type events. Assuming the fad hangs on long enough, I suspect every "work truck" in the country could end up with a spam transmitter, so if a neighbor hires a plumber the neighbors will all be spammed while the plumber truck is on site.

The other is playing weird games with powering the beacon off the same power strip or wall outlet as the "Open" sign, on the theory that spamming people when you're not even open isn't nice. So, open for business, out flows the spam, closed for whatever reason, off goes the spam.

Of course spamming people isn't nice, regardless of being mobile or open, so the primary user interaction will be shutting off beacon spam, much like the only interaction I have with notifications on my phone is shutting off spammy apps so I don't have to ever see a notification again from that app. You get to sell one ad, once.
I have no professional experience with ML, so I might be missing something obvius here that's part of the industry paradigm.

But the article gives two points why you shouldn't use coefficient values to determine feature importance, which I think are only valid to some extent.

>a) changing the scale of the variable changes the absolute value of the coefficient

and

>(b) if features are multi-collinear, coefficients can shift from one feature to others.

Regarding a), well, that's what standardized coefficients are for.

b) is a bit trickier, but most regression models are based on the assumption of non-collinearity. This is of course a problem with real-world data, because you will quite often find some level of collinearity. That's when you (1) test for this issue and (2) look towards multilevel models.
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I learned programming with 80's BASIC. Currently, I can't think of a better first language than Python. It's great to learn that it's being used by 4,000 schools in Saudi Arabia.
Then, I think it should be documented.
Disempowerment is a common theme here - it is the case that the 'general public' (read majority non-technical) are concerned about the current and future ramifications of this surveillance but feel disempowered because of how widespread it is, and i think this is because it is difficult to make reasonable changes in the immediate term to effect anything. This is of course excluding publicising/talking about the issues from a political point of view.

If telecoms company A proved to be betraying the trust of its customers, customers might find it reasonable to move their custom to telecoms company B - however the issue is that if both telecoms company A and B are both guilty of surveillance there is no feasible choice for the consumer.

The same can be said about political parties. If all major political parties support mass surveillance there is no viable alternative to support.
Technically the answer is yes, unless there is a "compelling governmental interest". The supreme court once ruled that selecting college students so as to increase the diversity of viewpoints in a class satisfied this test, which is basically how diversity got to be the buzzword that it is today.

Note that the rationale goes like so: "increased diversity among the students leads to higher-quality education, and therefore this diversity may be sought through the otherwise forbidden means of racial preferences". Where the goal is to benefit certain groups because you like those groups, the same process is notionally illegal. You have to say you're doing it to help everybody.
Kitchen and dining room circuits are required to be 20 A and GFCI in the US so you could up the wattage if need be. I doubt such a thing exists, though.
Everyone can do something, the honest expression would be "there's nothing I want to do about it."
After reading Glenn Greenwald's book, I supported https://protonmail.ch/, an encrypted email service based in the EU (Switzerland -edit: no it is not, should have said "Europe"-). It's currently in beta, I'm waiting for custom domain support and apps. The complete focus on "but Americans are protected" as an excuse for the NSA spying makes me actively seek out local services that are privacy aware. I use Telegram with encrypted chats for many conversations now. I found this service as an alternative to digital ocean: Transip.nl. I do wonder how my rights are when I pick an Amsterdam based data center for my droplet though. I know MS actively protected user data from Ireland which is good, whatever their reasons are.
I also switched to using mobile websites in mobile FF instead of installing many intrusive apps. Mobile responsive website are often as good as apps and better for sharing links.
If I'm not mistaken, both this compiler and plan9 6c target x86-64, so naming it 8cc has a weird cognitive dissonance to it.

[0]: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/1/8c
Yes, it's terrible to have a myriad of files each of fifty sparse lines.

"Modern" languages like Java/C# tend to scatter code over many small files. I think it's a cultural thing: since IDEs do not have "split" mode that provides several views to different parts of the same file side-by-side (like Vim does), programmers tend to split code into files small enough to scroll fast and IDE handles switching between files. Plus the dogma "one class, one file" that limits file size even if it's not helpful.

I'm glad that functional programming is on the rise: it divides code units more naturally with modules of functionality, not a one-size-fits-all programming language structure like classes.

P.S. Also, composition of a big source code file conveys some "background" information you'd have to recover from a needlessly fragmented pile of small files.
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Actual examples always turn out to have very sensible ex post facto rationalizations of moderation decision. Yes, there's always a good argument - this question is too short, that question is too long, this question looks too much like homework assignment, that question looks not enough like homework assignment, etc.

The point is, when you look at even few examples taken together, you realize that those "sensible moderation decision" cover pretty much the entire space of possible questions. There is no good question on SO. Moderation seems to be applied unevenly and sometimes totally at random.

This is why I don't even ask questions on SO - I have no idea how to write one to be sure I won't end up at -100 (or +100, but Closed As Not Constructive, which is SO's way of highlighting actually interesting questions).
>>I've started to despair a bit more about both technological and political solutions.

Ditto the despair. I feel like I've been contributing to the construction of an oppressive pantheon, and there's nothing that can be done about it.

But then I see things like ipfs, and tor, and so on .. and somehow feel like there might be hope. But regardless of the technological solutions that are being proposed, we still need to reign in - and more importantly, make society more aware of the need to reign in - those who wish to oppress us all with technology. Its a daunting task, but the best thing I can possibly do is raise my sons to understand the need to understand things. Teach them cryptography. Save all the old machines for them, just in case. Impress upon them the importance of recognizing repression and fascism in the world today, and do what they can to stamp it out.

I'm also spending more time outside with them, enjoying the simple beauties of life. Its just as important as waiting for the keys to re-gen ..
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Glen Greenwald gave a TED talk about a similar point of view.
http://www.ted.com/talks/glenn_greenwald_why_privacy_matters...
Could somebody shed some light on this? The only thing I took away from the poor translation is that one of the four original founders changed the name of his own manufacturing company from Smart Projects SRL to Arduino SRL. The article states "The central point of contention is where the future official Arduino boards are made" However, why would this be an issue with a project that has always waved the open hardware flag? Everybody from Sparkfun, Adafruit to Spark.io have based their own boards on arduino's architecture so why is this all of a sudden become an issue? Io non ho capito
This occurs in Brazil with racial quotas at university. The only problem is that most Brazilians have some African blood (some say one drop is enough to claim they are black). It'd make more sense, as you mentioned, if it were based on income.
There's interesting people on there, but I couldn't tell you how many.
That's not an attitude that leads to progress, to a better world. "It doesn't affect me, so why bother"?
thats great .. ive been using alfred but really as a simple app launcher. I will try and see if i can implement some early version of theses ideas. I am also thinking of being able to search opened tabs as well. I hope you will have time as well to contribute and hopefully turn this out into something cool
And taste much better.
This.

Volunteer has to be free from pressure.

But we have a society that try to push "moral"values instead of freedom and pursuit of your OWN happiness (obeying laws).
Incidentally: the Harvard Jewish quota was described externally as their plan to increase "geographic diversity" (there's that word again -- doing a lot of work for a full century) in the applicant pool and to combat anti-Semitism. I love this, just like I love that Yale's present racial discrimination plan is administered by the Office for Equal Opportunity.
Just to be contrarian here is an answer that I stole from somebody:
thaumasiotes says:
Technically the answer is yes, unless there is a "compelling governmental interest". The supreme court once ruled that selecting college students so as to increase the diversity of viewpoints in a class satisfied this test, which is basically how diversity got to be the buzzword that it is today.
Note that the rationale goes like so: "increased diversity among the students leads to higher-quality education, and therefore this diversity may be sought through the otherwise forbidden means of racial preferences". Where the goal is to benefit certain groups because you like those groups, the same process is notionally illegal. You have to say you're doing it to help everybody.<<

So I guess is OK if Hardvard does not become homogeneous all in the name of diversity. I'll swallow it.

Edit: Yes, I know it is legal. I cannot comment about peoples motives since I don't know them.
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And Rob Landley wants to plug his fork of tcc into qemu code generator http://www.landley.net/qcc/ to do something that I do not completely understand but sounds awesome!
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Yes but no one takes the writing portion as a real measure of anything concerning scholastic ability and its the most coach-able part of the test and even back when I was taking it a 200 point difference was taken to be no guarantee of differing levels of academic ability.
My only gripe with Protonmail is that they're closed sourced. The good news is that they intent to open source it when they come out of beta[0], so I'll be switching to them as soon as that happens.

[0] https://twitter.com/protonmail/status/468759469006942209
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mailbox.org seems like another EU (Germany) based email startup.
Email is a very big hard-to-deal-with issue, however the Dark Mail Technical Alliance and services such as those already mentioned are taking steps to making email more secure.

It is interesting you mention Telegram, i have started using that with contacts of mine who have also adopted it, i'm not totally convinced it is secure, but does seem a better alternative to WhatsApp.

Further to this i've secured the domains i host content on, not because the content needs securing in terms of handling financial data etc, but because i believe that the wider encryption is used the harder it will be to operate global 'catch-all' surveillance.

ref: http://darkmail.info http://mailbox.org https://telegram.org
I started using TextSecure with my closest friends, but not after the documentary, after the first Snowden revelations.

I'm also very cautious about using non-HTTPS sites these days, or using sites with broken HTTPS. I sent my bank an email about their poor HTTPS configuration as well.

I also intend to use EFF's CA for all my future sites, regardless of what type of site it is and whether it actually "needs" HTTPS or not.

I'm much more careful about what I share through Gmail/Hangouts. I use 2FA for Gmail now, but I know it's useless against the NSA, because Google defaults to SMS-based 2FA (and the wireless networks are completely owned by the NSA), regardless of whether you chose SMS or Authenticator 2FA. It's mainly to protect against other "regular" hackers.

I plan to start using FIDO-ready hardware tokens this year, and I won't change my phone until the new ones have strong support for local fingerprint recognition/FIDO.

I try to use as few Microsoft services as possible: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-c....

I haven't managed to move off Windows yet, but I might in a few years time. What most people don't realize is that Microsoft gives NSA "back doors" on a daily basis. It's all the zero-day vulnerabilities they share with them months before Microsoft gets around to fixing them. That's time in which the NSA can exploit those vulnerabilities. And now, unfortunately, Apple is going to do the same (technicaly giving them to the DHS...but I think we all know those are going to the NSA, too).

http://bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-14/u-s-agencies-said-to-sw...
Apparently, racial discrimination is not always illegal in the US.

In 1942, the federal government used racial data gathered by the census[0][1] and rounded up over 100,000 Japanese into concentration camps.

[0]http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/confirmed-the-us-c...

[1]http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-03-30-census...
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Correct. But at least it is "local" and not GCHQ/NSA oriented.
I live under assumption that what has been uncovered by Snowden is true since the early 2000's.

I assume that for the last ten years all my online identities are pseudo-anonymous in the very best case and that all my communications meta data and content is logged and has been, is or is going to be scrutinized by TPTB. And that should anyone be interested, my full profile along with all my social network is or can be made available.
Are you saying that you can't find a point of view where it would be a more specific question? Because that's what I meant when I said 'arguably'.

Saying that you can find a point of view where it isn't more specific isn't really that interesting (to me) as a response to that. Hopefully the rest of my comment is enough to see that I was not particularly defending the SE status quo.
I think one of the nice things about programming, and one of the things that will ensure that programmers will always be in high demand, is that as tools improve, our desires and needs and aims adjust accordingly.

Just consider web development. There was a time you could make decent money with 'simple' HTML/CSS work. Clients were happy with that. Then you had to move to CMS-based sites, because people demanded the ability to add and edit content easily. Then you had to start offering plugins and more complex tools because everyone needed more than just a contact form to interact with their site visitors. And now everyone wants web apps, which are significantly more complex than simple websites.

I suspect that people who love programming and are good at it will keep moving up along the ladder of abstraction, and if anything there will be more and more need for experts at every rung of this ladder as companies get stuck with 'old' technology (for example, I could make a killing as a Drupal consultant).
No. I have no need to. There are better things to do with my time.

It's like saying I won't drive my car on the street because the police are watching you. But the police are looking for bad guys, not me. I'm not a bad guy.

I see so many people trying to block the police from doing their work finding bad guys. They don't want road checks for drunk drivers but then complain when a drunk driver kills someone. They don't want license plate scans for criminals and drug trafficking yet complain when they aren't caught.

They don't want the NSA scanning internet traffic and email yet complain they didn't catch the Boston bombers and others ahead of time while actively protesting the same thing.

I fear people like Snowden more than anything else.
That's largely a non-sequitor, as 1942 would have predated most of the laws jkot would be referring to.
In SO's case, clearly the mod culture is not improving the quality or the reputation of the site.

But I think it's mostly the hacker content that has this issue. The format seems to work better in other contexts.

As someone said about academia - maybe the battles are so ferocious because the stakes are so low.
https://kolabsystems.com/ is really good and you get a full groupware solution.

Or run your own kolab server in an AWS instance for instance. :-)
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Racism is widespread across all segments of society so why would IT be any different? That being said, the reason why you are probably not hearing back from companies in Canada and the US is due to very strict immigration policies. Companies based in those two countries already have a hard enough time trying to secure H-1B visas for full time employees with advanced degrees so imagine the orders of magnitude required to bring in someone still in school for a summer internship. (Being a straight A student in your local country simply won't cut it.)
Thank you :) Thats great to hear
I'm keeping my eye on EFF's developments on their CA.

It's hard to totally avoid Microsoft/Google etc absolutely, but by not buying into them completely at least it's security through obscurity.
Would be happy to help review your resume (privately if you prefer!) if you'd like to share it.

I think there is definitely racism prevalent in IT.

But it's also possible that there are other factors here; simply being unfamiliar with your university and whether it's a good one makes you a harder choice than someone at a well-known US school, there are more perceived unknowns about you. If you have something like a bunch of GitHub projects to point to, that would definitely be reassuring.

(Also, I'm not sure which US/Canadian companies you're applying to, but the well known tech companies are extremely hard to get into, even for US applicants. The number of available internships is tiny compared to the number of CS students who want an internship.)
His point is the last half. He's not a "person of interest" in these surveillance activities so it doesn't concern him; and it shouldn't.
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I tried boris and psysh at work but they both failed when i wanted to redefine a function or a class.
This indeed is very useful. Won't the name Gantt chart or similar be more suitable?
So basically it's OK b/c harvard did it?
I'm sorry about that incorrect assumption, I was unaware of how the system worked, and it happened seemingly instantly. And there may have been some beer somewhere in the mix...

Again, sincere apology.
This is done in the name of diversity because it's officially legal that way. Nobody's doing it because they believe in diversity.

Compare what happened to my roommate's dad: a sensitivity training guy came to give a lecture at his company, and was easily prodded into saying that workplace diversity increased along with the share of women. 40% women is more diverse than 30% women (sure). 70% women is more diverse than 60% women (hmmm). In the college context, "diverse" is more likely to be a code word for "black" than for "female", but the semantic drift is just as real; it's quite possible to describe a class as, oh, "40% diverse".
The observation regarding change in behavior and social interaction is probably valid even today - but what difference does it really make ?
I am not sure about the "obedience" of employees in India. Would surprised if there is a slavery mentality among workers in these outsourcing firms. Its primarily cheap labour. And India produce a vast pool of engineering graduates every year. This is more of a demand supply problem. Have noting to do with caste or marital status. In tech industry, nobody cares about these.
If I squint hard enough...

Anyway, I was just refering to the first sentence. The rest of your comment is an interesting proposal, though at this moment I don't have any thoughts on it worth sharing.
I don't think I've changed a single thing since Snowden first started leaking stuff. That's not intentional and I'm not advocating that, I just haven't. I don't want the government reading my shit but at the end of the day, I guess I don't have anything I care about hiding enough to go to the trouble of hiding it.
Oh it's certainly better than none, I didn't mean to imply you shouldn't take it. Take B12 any way you can. It just didn't have the same kick. Just anecdotally, I have found the methyl- much stronger, like 1 cup coffee vs 1 can soda. You only have to try it once to see if you can tell.
It might be a good idea to have separate label and labelHTML properties so users of the library don't have to think about this in the common case of text labels, but they can still use HTML labels if they want.