skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a lot of ways (or by a lot of definitions) prejudice & bas is exactly what these algorithms and (or selection criteria for loans or insurance policies) do.

When we ban prejudice we are saying (IMO) two things. (2)It is unfair to the point of being illegal to assume that because one is black (old, transexual..), one is unfit to do a job, attend a university or somesuch. (2) It is harmful to society when such prejudice is widespread. It alienates or devalues a group and perpetuates social features we don't like.

I think for insurance, loans and such there is a sort of special allowance because these industries need to be biased and their bias, being cold and calculated is not unfair. They also don't specifically discriminate on racial/gender/etc lines and so they were never part of any particular anti discrimination effort.

Insurance companies particularly can work around any specific restrictions by substituting banned variables for allowable ones.

By hiring one person and not another, you are always discriminating. This kind is clearly considered in the "fair" range since it's directly relevant to the thing you are selecting for.

Which kind of discrimination are insurance companies doing?

Anyway, algorithims are far more commonly used today so the "problem" is bigger. Also, I think they are the sort of leak in the anti-discimiation logic. I mean there might not be any political campaigns dedicated to the right of the 22-30ag.1-2yrsedu.PSTC.QXRT statistical cluster, but that cluster may is discriminated against. The discrimination is impactful. It may mean they pay higher interest or insurance fees. They may be denied a lease. Non trivial impacts.

Is it fair? As the title here points out, biases & prejudices seems like a nonsensical vocabulary to use when it is based on "facts."

This is all tricky stuff. Paypal identified me at some point as "high risk." They have frozen €35 and they have reversed transactions made by me. Not uncommon. It happened because I happened to share some characteristics with some fraudsters. They aren't race, but they are not any different (from a common sense morality perspective) then being the same race as a fraudster.

I'm not sure where I'm going with this. I don't really understand it, but I don't think the relationship to legally prohibited prejudice is nonsensical.
The brain is plastic, why wouldnt intelligence also be so?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity

>Neuroplasticity involves the higher cognitive functions as well as memory and motor and sensory functions. No part of the brain is an exception. IQs of retarded individuals have been raised. Even thought and imagination, as brain scan technologies have clearly demonstrated, can change the structure of our brains.

http://www.nas.org/articles/Education_and_Intelligence--Part...
What to Look for When Choosing Your ARA Solution
People need money to live. It is unavoidably about the money. The real problem is not the money, but where it comes from. It is not coming from the users, who expect everything to be free. That is the real problem. Things won't get better until we truly are the customer, not the product.
Estimates – Uses, Abuses, and That Credibility Thing Again
How to Create a Today View Widget on iOS
Didn't I get it or does the article completely leave out what Greece and the EU agreed to? I, and that as a German, still think Greece needs to make some reforms but the payback part will slow down their whole economy and many people will suffer because of that. The pressure from Germany is to high especially if you think about the fact that Germany never payed all their dept (for example after WWII). Really strange that our minister of finance is so strict about it since he was the guy that back in the days received 100000 DM in an suit case and couln't remember from whom...
The #1 problem here is that Samsung largely tried to be the "like the iPhone but cheaper" player in the market. While that worked out fantastically well in the early days, it came to bite them pretty hard when even cheaper competitors rolled in.

If your claim to fame is you're the cheapest, you're going to be racing to the bottom. Look at how dismal the state of Acer is in the PC world.

What they should have done is differentiated themselves on something other than price.

It will be hugely ironic if Blackberry manages to produce an Android phone more successful than Samsung's entries because they stubbornly stuck to their core design principles. People buy Blackberry not for price but because it's a Blackberry. They love the things.
sun.misc.Unsafe effectively became a non-internal API a long time ago. Yeah, it's flagged internal, but it doesn't get broken without a damned good reason (I can't remember the last time it meaningfully broke, even).
LeMons racer? That's the first application I thought of but when are you ever alone on track?

You could throw one or two of these in common passing places and combine that feed with in car video. You could get some really neat video.
It helps that most consumers can "sweep" the price of their phone under their 2 year service contract. Especially considering that cost of services don't fluctuate when not in a contract, or when you get a cheaper phone.

Damn, I wish the FCC or CRTC would put the ban hammer down and force mobile service contracts to be adjusted based on the retail price of the phone. I just don't understand how they stand to gain so much when a customer chooses to get a cheaper device.
Microsoft gather ammo for cloud war with Amazon
site is not accessible to me, google cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:techrap...
ZeroCater's First Product Manager Opportunity
I've never seen him in anything (not a Dr. Who fan here)
None of these actually exist yet. It's just a bunch of concept videos.

Here's what the current experience is actually like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td5fZhGNz9M
Hunting and Hallucinogens: psychoactive plants for dog hunting [pdf]
> If it stays this dominant for one vendor, it surely will cause things to stagnate.

It might, although I could also see the opposite: if everyone is doing okay, selling enough to get by and grow with the market, there might be less push to get out there and try new things. Instead, companies would compete on price, on advertising, on superficial design. But if there are lots of companies struggling to find a foothold, then they'll be lots of motivation for trying new things, in search of anything that'll work, and give them an advantage. There's no margin for them to be complacent.
Does the New Yorker just inject random comics into their stories? None of these illustrations appear to be related to the content.
The OS X version now has ads, but only on certain pages. Highly annoying. This was one of the historical differentiators.
I came here to recommend the same thing! Growing up in the SCA, the birthday dirge is my standard.
Infectious causation of disease: an evolutionary perspective [pdf]
That link is a very useful contribution to this discussion (and possibly the first really useful comment in this thread), thanks. Everyone's entitled to their opinion, informed or not, but if you want an informed opinion, the question needs to be what the current uses of Unsafe are, why they're used, and whether there are plans for a migration path.

It sort of seems like the major use case (judging from those numbers) is reading and writing raw byte buffers, possibly mapped from other objects/files, with native performance. Is there a potential sensible design for a bounds-checked raw data API ("unsafe but only within these pages") that maintains the JVM's usual safety guarantees for all other data, and can be implemented in a performant way?
The Economics of Reproducibility in Preclinical Research
Concentrate on things that you suck at or avoid; technology or not, building a good stone wall is as enjoyable as an elegant RAILs deployment.
It's interesting how public some of the comments have been including executives and previous executives of Reddit commenting on some big changes and big opinions. Including the once CEO of Reddit /u/Yishan publicly criticizing and stating he no longer respects /u/Kn0thing.

It'll be interesting to see how Reddit evolves in the coming months, it's been the social news site since the Digg V4 apocalypse, which is about 5 years.

Digg was at it's height form 2005 to 2010, Reddit took over from 2010-present. Is a 5 year window the time to Eternal September? Or can Reddit hold onto it's user base despite the many public problems?

Stay tuned for the next episode of "People Talk About Stuff on the Internet" to find out!
One of the common elements of the Lovecraftian Mythos is that the gods of it do not care about humans and cannot be appeased or swayed or what not. Perhaps this isthe primary takeaway we should focus on when comparing these vastly influential technologies and the people behind them to Cthuloid horrors.
Can we get Adobe declared a Superfund clean up site?
Maybe the concept of default subs is the mistake?

It might be better to ask users a series of questions about their interests when they sign up, and then create each one a personalized list
That has got to be the worst intro text I've read in a long time:

> The Voice Tracker™ I can be used as an auxiliary microphone with conventional conferencing systems that have a good AEC. The Voice Tracker™ II has its own built in AEC, and consequently can be used with VoIP systems that do not have a robust AEC.

Looks really cool, though.
The Virginia DCs are in different flood plains and on different power grids. A hurricane remnant did hit the one year (2005 probably) and a tornado took out power to one of them.
Controversial opinion, but I myself use CSS preprocessors quite sparingly. I actually see nothing wrong with the CSS syntax. I like the fact that CSS is (almost) nothing but a bunch of named key-value pairs. The real issues have always been semantic, in the subtleties of the box model, which Flexbox is addressing somewhat, though more daring ideas like constraint-based styling are still niche.

Just look at the LESS example on the front page. The compiled output is simpler than the source you're writing. I find having some code duplication to be an acceptable trade-off for turning a basic declarative configuration language into a chimera DSL that must be incorporated into the build process.

The more a configuration language strays away from being declarative, the less desirable this becomes.
> The BFED realises that while not all experiences will be identical, all browsers can be used to consume a website, even gasp, IE6 and below.

Where would we be if we supported all legacy software? Does there not come a point where cutting support for a class of platforms is a good thing? This article makes some good points, and I think a lot of frontenders (myself included) would benefit from being a bit more "boring", but this article is going a little too far the other way.
My Nexus 4 doesn't stutter or lag and it's two generations back, other manufacturers do seem to have more issues depending on what they did to the stock ROM.
> For instance, if someone new enters the phone market, and spends a ton of money and loses a LOT of money, the total profits for the industry go down, and if Apple makes the same dollar profit as the year before, their profit share number goes up.

I think it said that the 92% figure was based on the top 8 manufacturers, which are mostly stable in terms of who they are from year to year.
After the Hero Comes
Are successful artists good or lucky? Web-Based Experiments [pdf]
How we traded a million Minecraft blocks in Bitcoin
Is this another thread about rogue AI?
I've also never received mine despite buying I think 2 or 3 of them..
Wikileaks Global Intelligence File Dump Contained Malicious Software
Excellent Open Source Go Projects
The New Reddit C.E.O.’s Many Challenges
I doubt it. The courts generally aren't kind to people making these sort of ex post facto claims.

I wish there was a punishment for companies that steal from the public domain. I would also apply this punishment to congressmen that continue to extend copyright durations well past the point of sanity.
I'm a fan of immutable infrastructure but there is still a need to get access to a container now and again to troubleshoot things. We don't run SSH inside the containers but it's easy enough to write some tooling to find a host running an instance and use docker exec to get a shell on it.
Give them this link: http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/

email me at mdcrawford@gmail.com and I will post what listings I already have for your area, and will find some more. (Presently I have the Portland Oregon area, Seattle and six or eight others actually posted but I have at least a few listings each for hundreds of cities in dozens of countries.)

Ask your local government's employment office for help with outplacement.

Say nice things in their linkedin profiles.

Give them all hardcopy letters if recommendation.
Concentrate on things that you suck at or avoid; technology or not, building a good stone wall is as enjoyable as an elegant RAILS deployment.
Yeah, I find that claim particularly amusing since they're just using a single PIR sensor, which is far less accurate than any camera based system. There's no way that you can claim a single PIR beam is as accurate as a camera based system.

There's absolutely no information on what they consider "accurate," and anything I can find on older HN threads is very vague and implies that accuracy wasn't their main focus.

Here's a basic question I have: can this count a mob of 20 people walking out of store at the same time? If it can't, I believe "accuracy" should have some context, since there are other enterprise systems that do that no problem.
Well I never actually said it was "evil", just outside the bounds of what I find acceptable. And it's interesting to see that, after all of that back-and-forth, in the end you and I agree: It should have been implemented as an extension, not hardcoded to one specific provider.
With perhaps humor being the exception, it seemed like his description of this new genre almost summed up the themes from Frankenstein. I think horror has always been a "geek" thing. (If that word with its modern meaning can even be retroactively applied)
> > > There's a time and place for SPAs, you can't just dismiss it entirely. Every web app today should be an SPA.

I feel like this is a joke or amusingly unintentional.
Destroy your marriage and social life! Ruin your financial situation for decades to come!

No. Just no.

It takes a certain breed of individual to take on this kind of challenge, to throw caution to the wind and just do it, plus a whole lot of tenacity and sheer luck to make it work out.

If you want to learn new things, this is the worst possible advice. It's akin to saying "If you want to learn how to fly, throw yourself off a building."

Having been through the start-up cycle many times, I'll tell you one thing: You won't learn a whole lot about technology compared to learning business. As a founder you'll spend far less time coding than you do wrangling spreadsheets and worrying about payroll.
Uh, one that shoots at you? How are you going to get the tracking beacon onto your target?
I would use this case as a good measure of some of the problems with management of intellectual property laws. I mean, it's pretty obvious to anybody that the song has been appropriated by the culture at large, and that attributing legal power to any specific entity comes off as completely clueless.

It's an analogue to political revolution: If people rise up and overthrow their government, it's probably illegal. But that doesn't mean it's wrong. And it doesn't mean those people should agree to give the government back because it was illegal.

Happy Birthday was stolen by society. Maybe that was illegal. But too bad. It's too late to protect it.
Interest groups, forums, even IRC.
My metal-loving friend's birthday is coming up soon - time to teach everyone this song.
Front-end is crazy, so I can sympathize with the author's desire to use it minimally.

I think if this really is your perspective, and you are waiting for the front-end chaos to settle before investing heavily in front-end development, you should just stick to server side pages and use jQuery to sprinkle in some JS sugar.

>>> Be a great front-end developer. Be boring.

I think you could rephrase this to...

Be a great front-end developer by being a server side developer.

His arguments:

Browser support - me: situational but makes very good points.

Preprocessors - me: completely disagree

Accessibility - me: very good points but not restricted to any one type of developer (web apps, spa, server side templates, native mobile, native desktop)

UI design - me: totally agree with his point on browser sniffing, a dangerous game

Third party CSS and Javascript libraries and frameworks - me: seems like he should avoid these altogether

UI architecture - me: this really seems like an opinion that is easily debatable

CV - me: a good voice to have on your team regardless of tech / project requirements.
Moving a Simple API to Amazon’s API Gateway
At The Mountain View of Madness

Cool Airbnb

The Tweet of Cthulhu
At least in OpenJDK it is in fact implemented as a JNI package, so it is already going through the JNI calling convention:
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/jdk/file/9b8c96f96a0f/s...
5 reasons business students shouldn't intern at a startup
And you smell like one, too!
EBS Snapshots: Should I trust transaction logs and file system Journaling
The communities are niche, but on the other hand Plan 9's internal code style, organization and the liberal use of a few small grand abstractions actually make it easier to study for hobbyists and researchers alike compared to a full modern Unix with all of its intrinsic architectural complexity and real-world cruft (not that OpenBSD isn't one of the best ones in avoiding this).
Natural Gas Surpasses Coal as Biggest US Electricity Source
Do you have a ref for that? I did quite a few searches and didn't find a single person on webhostingtalk saying they had been null-routed by OVH in the past year. Only one guy who worked for a competing hosting provider.
This should phrased about how much you lean on preprocessors. Sass is more more intelligible than regular CSS in many circumstances unless you're trying write everything as programmatically as possible. Its easily to write a For loop that spits out a grid but may make look like greek to a junior dev.

CSS preprocessors are unique, with LESS and Sass, you can write straight CSS and use its wonderful concatenation through imports, or just its nesting or perhaps simple variables for colors. There's so much benefit that I can't imagine not using them.
There are times when you need heavy machinery running in the browser. It's impressive to see a water surface simulator or some live graph running in the browser. That's rare, though. Many sites that would work perfectly in HTML 3.2 have way too much machinery behind them.

Much of the heavy machinery is there to support two simple functions - adapting to screen size, and scrolling. That's because the HTML5/CSS model does not natively do either very well. Other machinery is there for form input validation, which HTML does not support directly.

There is, of course, the other major use of Javascript - silently obtaining information about the user and sending it somewhere to be "monetized".
Yes, exactly.

This is an old-school ops team that learned about "devops" and "immutable infrastructure" and figured now they have all the necessary arguments to kick the devs off the servers once and for all. Not progress.
If you're challenged, you're learning more and staying sharp. Stay challenged.
so you would be happy with your race paying a higher interest rate for loans if it is calculated as optimal?
> But he also indicated that Coin expected to produce some faulty cards because of the volume of devices it was manufacturing. “A big part of doing mass production is stabilizing each unit so it performs as well as we want. When you build tens of thousands, you get some variability,”

Shouldn't they test the cards before shipping them out so users don't get the really crappy ones? The one the op received was completely broken, and worked at one of the four places he went to after trying 4 times.
Yeah, sorry, that's not how this works. Y'see, you're sending emails to people using webmail (I mean, if you're a nominally functional human being). So your emails are insecure, too, because you are insisting on something that is fundamentally not compatible with how normal people use computers in 2015.

This is a community thing. You need to give to get them to give. And you're not giving.
I use a radio remote for my DSLR that gives me about a 100 meter range. I wish there was a version of this for Iphones
Workout, eat smart and get more than 7 hours of sleep a night most nights. It's absolutely amazing how much these three things affect everything in your life.
I preordered very early in the initial backer stage. After a year of almost nothing (except their comically bad "early beta" debacle), I saw the Apple Pay announcement and canceled my order that very day. That was the moment I knew Coin was utterly doomed.

They could serve as a case study in how not to do customer service. When you're behind schedule, you cannot afford silence. You have to blog, tweet, Facebook, hire skywriters, anything and everything to tell your customers what's happening and give them a reason to trust you. I don't mind when a project is late. I very much mind when the project gives me the impression that someone absconded to a Caribbean island with my investment.

On a technical level, well: chip and pin. I thought coin was worth $50 when I thought it would be coming out a couple of months after I bought it, so I'd get a good year of use out of it before new card tech rendered it obsolete-by-design. Even if I got one today, my credit union is going to chipped cards in two months. After that date, there is literally no reason I'd personally want to use a Coin.
Exactly. I had been wondering if my way of sticking to work related things while exploring stuff in my own time was the best way of learning, but due to the kind of free time I get it is the most optimal strategy. For example though I would love to complete SICP I just don't have the kind of time it needs, so instead I try to read as much as possible about OOPS explore languages that are exemplify OO design but aren't that mainstream like Pharo. This way I don't have to worry much if the knowledge acquired would be forgotten and wasted, whatever I learn I practice at least a part of it daily.
Managing scale is managing scale. There are numerous business books written on this subject. In a nutshell: build a scalable org structure (delegate, get yourself out of the loop when possible), explicitly define policies and processes, establish quality controls and do NOT compromise on quality, invest in communication and training...
Shouldn't copyright have the same system as trademarks, where once it enters public vernacular (or in copyright's case hitting a certain level of mass culture) it's no longer valid?
I would be interested in that trivial list. Especially if, in your opinion, some of the preferences should be defaulted to something else.
I think "some code duplication" massively understates it. Being able to use named variables for colors is on its own enough of a win to make up for whatever truth there is in the "harder to train developers" downside. The many other wins make it a no-brainer.
In Firefox, type "about:Mozilla" into the address bar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Mozilla