skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The disadvantages of generic male (98% of my year) CS student at my uni back in 1999-2004 compared to even averagely-looking female student were real, apparent, and kind of accepted.
Nobody was whining about it that those few girls had it easier on quite a few oral exams (written parts were logically more balanced). Girls dressed apropriately.

What was a bit more infuriating, that hardest ever topic was advanced electric circuit calculus, toughest course we ever had, solely because of professor (even though I studied purely software engineering, this couldn't be avoided). This course went far beyond what was taught on Math courses itself btw. He disliked women ("they shouldn't be in engineering"), he disliked people with hungarian-sounding names, he disliked people with long hairs, heck the list of types he disliked would be long. He was the greatest filter in out faculty (end of second or third year at uni), throwing people out of school completely for literally lacking a single point (ie circle) above one variable in exam (didn't matter that in next line it was there). Seen it first hand. Nobody liked him, he was perfect example of somebody knowledgable but in the same time somebody who shouldn't be a teacher, ever.

World isn't fair, never was, and never will be. Some things get sorted out, some new pop up as things change.
So, who got killed?
Yup, this is the key problem with these consensus algorithms. They don't handle shards very well. Most systems these days either punt and don't do updates via the consensus algorithm (Apache Kafka), or they use two-phase commit (FoundationDB, many others).

This is important work, but I don't think they're really going to succeed is making a truly large-scale system. The problem is the heartbeat; you can't have every node talking to every other node every few seconds.

What we really need is someone smart to come up with a consensus algorithm that doesn't need a heartbeat. Until then, it's two-phase commit if you want a reliable, large-scale (if not performant) system.

Right now, if you want a system that runs fast you use a consensus algorithm for shard metadata, but you do writes directly to the nodes without getting a consensus first. You run the risk of losing acknowledged writes, but it's the best you can do if you need speed.
> I do not know a single person ...

That says more about you than anything else. I know two guys who were accused of rape, separate incidents, in both cases the guy had an air tight alibi - one was out of town and the other was at church. The churchgoing fellow didn't even know the woman, the only point of overlap for the accuser and the accused was the fact that they went to the same high school ten years prior.

> If fake rape charges is a downside for boys ...

You have no idea, by your own admission, how incredibly destructive the event can be.
The problem is that a browser does really want access to a whole lot of stuff as it's almost an OS.

But no, Chromium doesn't run as root afaik, the rootkit stuff is complete bullshit.
My theory is that once you get a sufficiently outraged group of people on a righteous crusade (historically, we've treated women pretty badly in the USA), that righteous outrage does not dissipate once the primary causes of that outrage have been addressed. As a result, you get more and more minute nonsense being shoveled into the ideology (example: the "manspreading" idiocy) that's attacked just as vigorously as actual things that cause actual problems, like discrimination and human rights.

Then, the movement sufficiently de-legitimized due to this, more and more unaffiliated people turn against it, and some of their gains are lost.
Huh what? So you just say "undeniable" and that's it, not even a specific "accusation"?

I could also point to countless papers. What about boys being left behind in education, men dying years earlier, more men being homeless and in shitty, dangerous jobs, men having less children and less time with their family and so on.

What you say also goes for yourself. Your opinion won't be swayed, presumably because you feel safe and comfy in the feminist camp and don't want to risk losing your faith.
the article is good read and I agree males are also victims. But the statistics on those perpetrating the crime (sexual assault or rape) are overwhelmingly male.
This is actually what Philip Greenspun did at ArsDigita. Each project had its manager/lead own the profit-and-loss:

From Founders At Work:

"I'm organizing this company like McDonald's. Each restaurant is going to be managed by a few people, and they're going to have profit-and-loss responsibility. If they make a profit, they get to pocket half of it. If they make a loss, we're going to know who's responsible, and we're going to go there and fix it, and there are going to be consequences for those people." People have all the right incentives to make their customer happy, to do the thing on time, to take the customer's money, deposit in the bank, and then move on to the next one and get their bonus at the end of the year.

And apparently at one time Accenture had this philosophy too:

At the time Anderson Consulting (now Accenture) didn't have any salespeople. They always had the people who were executing the project sell it. "You eat what you kill" was the phrase at Accenture. You don't have a salesperson go out and tell the customer, "We can do this", making promises and then handing it off to a programmer"
Exactly. New tags should "fail safe" in old browsers (i.e. do "nothing"). The problem with the mask attribute and "only render the last one" concept is that older browsers might not be doing so already, and therefore the new tag doesn't fail safe (it is fail-active, so older browsers might render solid black favicons).

Seems silly. They should just use a new rel value for this specific purpose. Although broadly speaking it feels like the icon rel has had its day, and now we need a replacement that is DESIGNED to support multiple resolutions, and things like masks.
> [...] popularized the use of the term "survivor," previously reserved for those who’d survived the Holocaust.

I agree with the author that it's wrong to use "survivor" instead of "accuser" when the guilt has not been established, but you can not reserve such a generic word as "survivor". It simply means somebody who survived something life-threatening.
Right, and you can read it on the wall of any fast food restaurant... but tell me when the last time you've seen someone read that. It's fair for regulators to take into account people's actual behavior.
Exactly. I have really lost faith in the FDA.

Saturated fat bad. Trans fat good. Trans fat now VERY bad. Saturated fat actually OK.

Eggs bad. Eggs good.

Coffeee bad. Coffee good.

Sacharrine causes cancer. Sacharrine OK.

Meat bad (especially red meat). Meat good.

I now just eat what I want, and don't worry about it unless I start vomiting.
Reminds me quite a bit of Neal Stephenson's Anathem - the concept of bogons, introduced in one of the later chapters.
Let's not forget the lack of male teachers in pre-K and K-8, so a majority of their day has no positive male role models.
I wanted to make a point about all the confusing new features of ES6 that are just there to save a few key strokes, and will haunt you forever.
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Can't he hire someone who would go online?
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>I don't believe we know of them MITM'ing a cryptographically secure channel.

... two years ago.
Wow, I'm impressed by that. As other siblings, I can also confirm that it happens to me in all spheres of life, whether it be a trip to the store next door to get some bread, or my work commute, or even long airplane rides and week-long vacations...
Rent-seeking behavior is just about innate to any system of social interaction. If you know someone, then it's quite likely that you can use said someone's influence for personal benefits.

Not that it cannot be regulated. However, any attempt to do so that falls under the naive but popular category of "BAN IT" creates negative blowback in the form of what the author of this piece elucidated, while the complexity space and sum of possibilities to give one's self an unfair edge remains high.

G.K. Chesterton said it best [1]:

And then, last but the reverse of least, there plunged in
all the people who think they can solve a problem they
cannot understand by abolishing everything that has
contributed to it. We all know these people.

If a barber has cut his customer's throat because
the girl has changed her partner for a dance or donkey
ride on Hampstead Heath, there are always people
to protest against the mere institutions that led up to
it.

This would not have happened if barbers were abolished,
or if cutlery were abolished, or if the objection felt
by girls to imperfectly grown beards were abolished,
or if the girls were abolished, or if heaths and open
spaces were abolished, or if dancing were abolished,
or if donkeys were abolished.

But donkeys, I fear, will never be abolished.

[1] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Flying_Inn/Chapter_IX
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Schneier's Password Safe is the real deal:

http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/

I use it on:

- Ubuntu

- Windows

- Android

Synchronisation of the password db files is accomplished by storing a master file on Google Drive (Multi-Fac Auth here). I only change passwords on Ubuntu - upload to Drive and download to Android and Company.
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I thought they can label things as 0g Trans fat or even not list it so long as there is less than .5 grams per serving.

Looks like my thoughts were somewhat correct, at least at some time (August 2003 until ???), scroll to #6:

http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocuments...

EDIT: typos
I find alcohol is good way to explain to people outside of the US how it is unlikely to get a ban on guns in the USA, even though it's obvious that would prevent death by a madman going on a shooting spree at a school. It would be like suggesting we ban beer in Germany or wine in France because of all the known alcohol related deaths.
What happens if you fall into a black hole? https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150508-what-happens-when-yo...
> You yourself admit that it has shortcomings, but then defend it as what... 'better than nothing'?

No, I defend it as any other useful indicator (and there are publications on BMI usefulness), to be used by knowledgeable persons. You wouldn't blame "miles per gallon" as something bad because someone evaluated the SUV against the economy-class car standards, right?

A physician looking at a patient might decide to look at BMI, if the thinks it is adequate. A large institution (e.g. an university) might also use it to classify its population as a whole.
To answer all at once -- Morin does build in some repetition, so often there will be 4 or 5 problems more or less alike, and by #3, I can start to get them pretty well, though #1 might be impossible. However, sometimes it doesn't go quite as smoothly. And yes, his chapter #1 is awesome and useful. I mostly check my answers with limits and units.

Also -- I read a chapter from his bigger book with pencil, often copying out, before I start a chapter in his little book.

I don't have any other resources -- I hate watching videos on the computer at night, no school that is convenient, etc. So sometimes I feel like I just have to get everything from his solutions b/c I don't get his lectures first.

Finally, ... My plan is to work through this book by the end of the year hopefully, then do Astrom and Murray's feedback book, then come back to Morin's red mechanics book. And then who knows -- that is probably 30 months out.
Because we have different levels of risk and standards for what we consider recreation substances vs food? I don't know why that's so far to understand. These things have almost nothing in common from a public policy perspective. Even if we got rid of alcohol then it would be tobacco then guns, neither of which are food also.
Means people would tell managment things were wrong and they would ignore it as the share price was doing well. So instead of using metrics to gauge how well they did they were in effect ignoring those and going the share price is alright, have another beer.
When I'm paying the bill, its my network and responsibility as a parent so I'll take whatever measures I need and track what I want. This is partially to protect my arse from misadventure by proxy and partly to establish healthy use of the internet.

This is done openly and with agreement only. My eldest disagreed so she doesn't get a handset paid for.
On the contrary, sometimes ignoring the discussion is the only way to stay sane and make progress because there are an infinite number of people with "opinions".

In this case the original report is informative, what comes after (up to 2 posts now) probably isn't going to be.
It's not hard, is it? Don't have relationships with students you teach. If you're teaching Maths and you have a relationship with a History of Art student, fair enough. However, dating one of your own students is as bad as dating a subordinate at work. Just don't do it.
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There's a reason all of these examples show Android. While it's possible to do with Apple, there is no "ask-when-you-need-it permission model" for homescreen - you have to rely on users choosing the buried "Add To Homescreen" option, which they very rarely do.

It's a shame, because you can do a lot with those little homescreen webapps - if it could also allow notifications and/or be opened via URL a lot of apps could be made that way
Fun fact: alt+# is impossible on a Spanish keyboard, because alt+3 = #. So you actually need to hold alt to type the character in the first place.
But stroopwafels are good;)
and not like 1000 calories :)
Not too long ago Carl Sagan and others were on TV breathlessly begging people to worry about global cooling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling#1970s_awareness

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/03/01/global-cooling-compila...

Obviously, research changes and consensus changes. Being wrong in the past doesn't mean you're wrong today. Or being right in the past doesn't mean you're right today.
Or the more likely they'll not do advanced stuff in order to increase profit, as long as there is a microscopic delta better than running it yourself for most customers most of the time on average. The microscopic delta may not be measurable or noticeable by the end users of course.

Assuming their business model isn't assuming an infinite supply of future customers so in the short term as long as revenue per customer exceeds cost of sales per customer we're all good, etc. Support costs that exceed average cost of sales must be beaten down/ignored, otherwise its cheaper to let them go and have sales "earn" a replacement customer.

Finally their sysadmins work for them to meet their corporate objectives of various meaningless metrics which have no necessity of aligning in any way with your own corporate objectives.
As per 2. I fail to see how number of supported languages directly increases cost of game shipments (per unit)?

I'd say that just put arbitrary numbers in there since the project will require much more than $2 mil. to complete.

You are right about points 1. and 3. though.
There are certain dishes, which require shortening, that there is no effective replacement such as Apple Pie or Southern style biscuits. Shortening creates a flakiness and funny enough in floured baked goods, creates a flavor more buttery than butter alone, it has a magnifying property. Anyways the loss of (trans-fat) shortening will / has certainly drastically alter certain types of quick bread baking.

Shortening's like Crisco have been reducing the amount of trans-fats and the results can be seen in the loss of flakiness and butteriness of quick bread baking so much so that there is already a market for the older stuff.

http://www.cakecentral.com/forum/t/736295/does-generic-veg-s...
You're right that there other contributing factors with the production of any product. I feel like you still have to take them into consideration though.

Many are specifically worried about palm production because a lot of the areas that are being deforested are also peatlands. They burn the entire area which doesn't just burn the trees, but also a huge amount of peat. This releases a crazy amount of CO2.

You could argue that it isn't palm production's fault and that they shouldn't be burning those areas. As long as it is profitable it will continue though.
Those standards are only one factor in the decision. Americans need/want alcohol badly enough that they wouldn't tolerate it being illegal. People can start consuming one type of oil vs. another without even knowing the difference.

You can never look at one similar aspect of two very different things and make any conclusion about inconsistency or hypocrisy. It's an incredibly oversimplified attitude.
Just look at photos of your parents or grandparents generations. While not scientific per say, it is hilariously obvious that people are increasingly overweight. And to see people in this thread trying to defend the increases in weight is pure gold.
> We kind of tried that already

Exactly. We don't want The Mob 2.0. Banning something with such a huge demand is begging to transfer wealth to criminal organizations. (Unless you were willing and able to enforce it. And of course it's not the only reason.)
Highly processed foods already switched over to using better packaging that keeps oxygen and moisture out (trans fats don't particularly taste better than other oils, they have better shelf life, improved packaging makes up for much of the difference).

Proof that I am not rambling incoherently:

http://www.pffc-online.com/technical-reports/5213-paper-prod...

So no worries there.
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> In the rare chance that your true love coincidentally happens to be in a class you teach...OK, stranger things have happened in life. So do the adult thing: quit your job, then continue the relationship. True love should be stronger than the benefits of a tenured position. Don't screw it up for all the other poor students whom the gods did not make to be your soulmate.

It doesn't even need to be that extreme. I don't think a student and professor can't be on the same campus, the only thing that would need to happen is the student to drop the class.

That trivial, that simple, that easy. If you are screwing a college teacher, you can't be in that class. In the RARE case were the class is absolutely essential and only taught by a single person, then yeah, might need to quit for true love... or find a way to get that credit elsewhere.
In the US males are both more likely to be the victim and more likely to be the perpetrator. In large part due to Prison but also younger victoms.

Note: It's really hard to collect good population statistics, as victims often don't report things. And non-victims sometimes do.
I think what you really mean is - healthier food makes you feel fuller, because it is less calorically dense
Because of that, it is easier to consume less calories when you eat healthier foods.

http://www.boredpanda.com/what-200-calories-look-like/
For one, if you have less than 0.5 grams per serving in your product you can label it as 0 grams of trans fat.

Simple fix. Require transfats to be reported in milligrams instead of grams
So how to you feel about analog electronics, like anything with an operational amplifier in it? Or, essentially, any circuit featuring analog feedback. Makes my brain hurt.
I would think that, regardless if the professor is capable of separating their feelings, it's always going to look like favoritism.
> Personally I’d start by promoting a less vulnerable sense of self than the one our new campus codes are peddling.

Not possible.

A less vulnerable sense of self runs dangerously close to the idea that students are accountable for their actions, which is directly antithetical to the culture of adolescence that is being dragged into ever-higher age groups.
You do know that in situations like this you can always balance the scales? There are many legal, although maybe immoral ways to f*ck over a profesor like this. Nobody is immune.
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If a technology poses questions like these in front of you, you know it's really disruptive. Our technical development forces us to find answers to those questions, but that will be harder than developing the tech, and those answers possibly won't hold for long. I don't think it probable, but it may still turn out that we really don't want machines to make that kind of decision.
Agreed. This is no different than any other conflict of interest. Do you think bosses should be able to have sexual relationships with their direct reports, or with customers and vendors? There are safeguards in place to deal with such situations that remove the potentially biased individual from key decision making processes.
That's precisely why science needs to continue for its own sake and not as a tool to push political agendas.

Just think how bad things would be if someone had taken that 70s era belief in global cooling and used it as a justification to require us to dump more CO2 into the atmosphere to mitigate it.
One reason to prefer whiteboards: I find the feeling of touching chalk unbearable.
Maybe better to just link to https://github.com/tonini/alchemist.el/releases/tag/v1.0.0
Thats an american style thingie! Nice find though. But if you have lunch at restaurants like this you deserve to get fat. It would have been nice if it was open at night, so you can have a fat unhealthy meal after some proper unhealthy drinking session. Instead of a "frikandel". Which is another crazy dutch invention.
Speaking as a former student. Your post is absurd.

EDIT: OP probably meant it academically. In which case the post is still absurd, but for different reason - the professor doesn't need to rate everyone else lower to rate one person higher, unless people are graded on a curve, but that's a problem with grading system and not a professor.

Not to mention if the women aren't involved with every professor simultaneously, only a few of them will get a benefit by having sex.
GP claimed it was "slipped in unknowingly" which is false. Anyone who has paid any attention to the media the past few years knows that trans fat is now thought to be bad (never mind that in previous decades it was considered to be healthy, or at least "less bad" than saturated fat).

I actually do look at trans fat content on the labels quite often. The labels are very simple, it's not like a terms of service that's highly verbose and deliberatly obfuscatory.

If you want to avoid trans-fat, it's trivially easy.
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Yep, age will. If the average age of an American woman has changed from, say, 30 years to 50 years (aging population, changing demographics etc.) then this could contribute to weight differences because people tend to become more overweight as they age and get less active.