skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are three hypotheses:

1. The selection criteria are the same for different populations, and the there are significant statistical differences in the populations that may lead to the observed result.

2. The selection criteria are the same for different populations, and random noise produced the observed result.

3. The selection criteria are different for different populations.

You cannot assert one without ruling out the others.

In the fighter pilot case, I imagine that it would be easy to disprove #1 and #2. Not all cases of discrimination are so obvious that there are no non-imaginary solutions to the equations that conform to the assumptions of the hypothesis.

It makes some people uncomfortable to face the idea that in order to prove discrimination is occurring, they must first employ accurate statistics for partitioned populations, which may be unflattering to one or more of the partitioned groups. You can't really say "because race" or "because sex" or "because disability" with certainty over "because selection-relevant attribute" using a statistical argument without showing the statistics. But those who attempt to gather accurate statistics are often accused of something-ism and vilified just because some people don't like the results.

Some people just want to work without constantly watching their backs and covering their asses. And that's why we assume independence without having ironclad proof that is also easily understood by the general public. If you're going to suggest that there is something intrinsic to femaleness that causally links to less engineering skill, you had better have a flawless data set with mathematically perfect analysis, and then also invent a psychological "out" which absolves anyone of guilt for relying on the results.

This is why all HR departments suck. Most of their job is covering someone else's ass, and if they choose to use statistics, they must be both factually correct and politically correct.
> it already has reached very high debt to GDP ratio (something Japan reached only years later after 1990)

Could you elaborate on this? China has a pretty low national debt the last I checked.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28china+debt+%2F+china...
Pity they don't fly to more places.
* tumbleweed .... *

(Actually to be fair, you'll find the Atom family of tools and related plugins to be not terrible for writing C# code. We can only hope that VSC continues to grow and spread and monodevelop fades away into the 'what were we even thinking when we made this?' it deserves to)
Yihao Zhuan Che is actually owned by Didi And Kuaidi, but all three are standalone apps. It's interesting how much internal cannibilization there is.
Fascinating. Do you work for Microsoft or live in the Seattle area?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish

"Embrace, extend and extinguish" was a widely employed anticompetitive strategy used by Microsoft for a long time as some court documents show. Not just some conspiracy theory. What makes you think Microsoft is trustworthy today? Just because they have a new CEO? Everything they "embraced" in the past turned into shit fast (The last victim was Nokia).

What am I making better here? I'm reminding everybody that a company whose whole success is rooted in exploiting a monopoly should not be trusted.
I'm not seeing what is disingenuous about it. you certainly didn't make an argument backing that statement, and the stories I'm finding of private tribunals with secret charges and no attorneys give me the impression I'm correct. that universities do not also have a private prison system in no way reduces the fact that they do have a private justice system.
I agree; I'm handwaving at the definition. FP as a 'thing' doesn't really exist, but we recognize languages that more and more embrace pure FP as an ideal, and require greater and greater concessions away from imperative programming. There is likely a sweet spot in that continuum, but from someone solidly on the imperative side, the people falling somewhere on that continuum can appear arrogant, due to what imperative bits they have given up, even if it's not ~all~ the bits.
Honest question. How much would you pay to have something that manages the updates and setup for you and give you the sysadmin help when you need it?
Until you drink the coke and a blizzard comes.

Also, there's no paradox.

Also, high diamond costs are due to marketing.
There was an error with init and created an issue in github

https://github.com/pipelinedb/pipelinedb/issues/1025
Meet the hackers who break into Microsoft and Apple to steal insider info
> I challenge you to find a definition for FP that includes Clojure, Erlang, F#, and OCaml but excludes Java, JS, Ruby, Python, C++

Challenge accepted: FP languages emphasise restriction of mutation.
You should check out some of the documentation on Linode's site. They have some great tips about doing some very basic security such as securing SSH, keeping things updated, etc. Worth a peek.
Obligatory Penny Arcade

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/07/22
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I'm not sure how you can say it didn't work well. Microsoft made a LOT of money because of it. And the things you cite, crapware, etc... that was not due to MS.

Sure things didn't work out so well for end users, but again, Microsoft benefited greatly from this arrangement.

I think Microsoft wants to go vertical because they see how well it worked for Apple. But Microsoft is no Apple. Apple started with hardware and have always focused on hardware. Their software and services exist to drive hardware sales. That's never been Microsoft's strategy. If they want to change, that's great. But my original comment stands. They have been very very successful partnering and not being an OEM.
I think too many people are erroneously conflating active fund managers with active traders, and my major objection to the article stems from how the author blurs the line between the two. But I admit, I'm not a regular reader of the author.

The market needs active traders for stock prices to accurately reflect investor opinion, but actively managed funds are not the only source of active trading.
I don't really use anything of Hashicorp's except for Vagrant. That his been fairly revolutionary for all of the teams I've brought it to. That is, Vagrant + Ansible. A repository of Ansible configuration scripts that can easily be slurped down to provision a Vagrant image means much more portable development environments.

In the case of the company I'm currently at it's even more important because we have a firmware build system with a non-trivial configuration that would take days to replicate correctly (because of all the "missing pieces" required that the original developer forgot to write down when documenting the process post-setting it up).
I would do bad things to good people for a decent command-line version of this that did good subsetting (as well as all the other fancy features).

I've found that using FontSquirrel's subsetting feature is a great way to reduce Font Awesome down to just the glyphs I use. I'd just like to automate it.
I think if you present your income tax receipts (your money was earned in China), as long as the money is earned in China. there are all sorts of problems that go away with income tax receipts since not any tourist can get a job and earn money domestically.
<1% of Americans owned stock when the market crashed in 1929. But its slightly beside the point. The depression was more triggered by a perfect storm of incompetence/environment debt.

-Hawley-Smoot Tariff did not work at all, and made things MUCH worse.

-Farmers burning their crops in protest of rock bottom prices post crash instead of selling them.

-The Dust Bowl worsened the situation greatly.

-Wide spread bank failure.
John Oliver effect, anyone?
I think it's well known that Cont is the "mother of all monads" which gives you the embedding. Then, anywhere you have global continuations you can have delimited continuations with one global variable. This is less well known, but I know Oleg writes about it a lot and Filinski's paper may indeed be the origin.

I'm not confident that this shows that monads are bad or harmful though. I'd like to see the larger argument.

I also wouldn't say that PFP is "avoiding badness" as much as its avoiding "everything" in name of explicitness. Over explicitness can be interpreted as a problem if you want—I'm very willing to take this argument—but I'm not sure how to paint it in broad good versus evil terms in the same way that I am with something like, I dunno, the COME FROM statement.
And for whoever is looking for someone like that: don't fall for promises like: I have a great network, or I'm a great salesman. There are a lot of predators and leeches out there.
I've made an offline mobile web app that generates random excuses and easily lets you share them (via email, SMS, WhatsApp and Twitter). It uses real-time train delay information for more realistic bails. Would like to know what you think.
Integration testing for Rails APIs part 3: Automating tedious things
If you use Go and you can, please try it out and file bugs. http://golang.org/issue
Also, I'm a fan of saying that "FP" is a community not a definition.
It's been a little while, but I have modules working using the browserify-rails gem which provides CommonJS support to sprockets via browserify. I use Babelify for ES6 support and then Reactify for JSX support. I add a command line argument to browserify in my application.rb to do all the transforms--config.browserify_rails.commandline_options = ["-t babelify", "-t reactify"], and it spits out working ES6 React.
I have had the opposite experience in the Haskell community. Hell, /r/haskell even started a AMA for new Haskellers[0] this week, and all I see is pleasant replies.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/3cfax3/new_haskell...
More than one offered pictures and in fact, according to other sources, seems to be a frequent method for pedos to prove to the hidden service operator that they are indeed "legit".
That's what Rackspace does. I haven't used them in a while, but it looks like it's ALL they do now. (moved to DO, since it was half the cost and I /do/ have enough sysadmin chops to keep two linux servers patched).

http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/compare-service-levels
Am I the only one noticing the spelling error on the frontpage in 'Connect with world-class entreprenuers and advisors'?
I agree with much what you wrote, but why is this cause for happiness? It's basically the end of programming as a profession should every company go that way.
This page is a good starting point https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/7-security-...
Yeah, that deal worked out okay for the architect:

http://money.cnn.com/2004/11/17/news/newsmakers/lampert/

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

Lampert's earnings in 2004 were estimated to be $1.02 billion
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It is interesting, when I was young I felt like I had no ideas at times. The reality was I just wasn't recognizing all the opportunities ripe for solutions. Pick things in your lives that you are frustrated and passionate about, otherwise a startup is doomed to fail. I say that because passion is the only thing that will sustain you when life is sucking as it will occasionally in a startup.

At the same time, maybe this is a point you should get an internship or job to gain the experience to know what might be of interest. I personally never recommend that a college student go looking to start a company unless they already have a really deep passion for an issue and it is marketable. Otherwise, in my experience and opinion, your failure rate will be way higher, almost a guarantee.
> The $83 million is going directly into growing our team and expanding our product offerings with networking and storage features.

Great to hear. Real private networking, object/shared storage and most importantly HA (IP failover/load balancing) is all DO is missing to start really competing with AWS for "big business".
One Christmas I got my ~6 yr old son a Rubik's Cube. He loved it and carried it around for a couple days. Then I took it from him to explain how you're supposed to mix it up and solve it. He cried when I couldn't get it back together! I felt so terrible. I spent about a week watching videos, reading move patterns, and practicing at night, and finally figured it out.

I have to get out a cube every couple of months and solve it or I forget. It's funny how a few of the patterns still to work from some strange muscle memory or something - and I only have to think about what piece I need where, and then my hands just do it.

The best part of knowing how to solve one is when you come across a mixed up cube at someone's home or a business... they think I'm some kind of genius, yet really I just memorized patterns to put pieces where I need them. But who am I to tell them what to think ;)
My comments were mainly focused on the past 10-15 years. There's no question that the OEM model was successful prior to that time.
If you liked the photography, I think you'll like Hin Chua's work[1].

His work has a narrative arc. He weaves beautiful stories through his great eye and curation.

[1]https://www.flickr.com/photos/hinius/16964929475/
"It's not logical" on its own is not a valid argument for anything. An actual argument shows why something is not logical.
Would anybody be interested in esoteric hosting?

Think Linode, but specifically for FreeBSD/OpenBSD/Plan9/TempleOS/MinuetOS/etc.?
Just look at the whole health/fitness sphere. You've got people that never eat X because reasons. Crossfitters. Serious weightlifters judge other people at the gym for using machine weights. I've found that ruggers have a superiority complex when it comes to football ("they wear pads, what wimps!"). There are also sorts of groups in different fields that consider themselves more hardcore than the masses. It definitely is human nature.
Is unicorn just a billion dollar non-public startup? Isn't there some other magic sauce required like supernormal margins or superfew employees or exploiting toothless regulations?

DO seems to be almost a too straight forward business model (buy servers, rent servers in sub-units) to be considered in the modern startup pool of wishful thinking. I mean, it's not like they're an iPhone app for renting other people's idle server space on demand. Now that would be a game changer.
Nice idea. It's a shame that the integration is manual. Even WhatsApp web is missing some of the group admin features. Perhaps you could generated a vCard (maybe in a QR code) to make adding contacts easier.

I've only used the whatsapp://send?text= URI API before (for https://instabail.uk) but it would be great if they allowed URIs to groups too.
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Your comment is about pure functional programing, which the linked article does not explicitly talk about. But even functional programing with mutable state has some pointing-and-laughing going on - for example, here: http://i.imgur.com/FM2DXkf.png.
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Javascript has Object.freeze and Object.seal built right in! How is that not emphasis? (He asks with a touch of both sarcasm and seriousness.)

(I seriously believe that any attempt to define FP will end in tears. It's a marketing term and has no real likelihood of producing legitimate technical value.)
You might be surprised. I'd say that child pornography is often punished more harshly than child rape.

The justice system weights the crime of consuming child pornography by the number of images the defendent is in "possession" of. I guess laws vary, but at least in my jurisdiciton, you can be sentenced to years in prison per image. It would be easy for a single wank session to result in -- potentially -- life in prison.

The issue is confounded by widespread lack of techical acumen among judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and even the forensic "experts" who investigate and testify (on both sides). For example, would you consider it reasonable to charge someone with a separate crime for every copy of the exact same digial file present on a hard disk? For both an image file and an automatically-generated thumbnail image of that same file? Do you meaningfully posess a file in your browsers temporary cache? How about a file deleted from the filesystem, but still present in residual form on the disk? Some of the issues are nuanced, and it's difficult to even have an intelligent conversation about the evidence.

[source: computer nerd supporting attorneys]
If the likelihood of me getting bit by a shark is 0.00001%, and the suit reduces that tenfold, I'LL TAKE IT.
I didn't rule out being charged a nominal fee for the service. They could also focus on non-essentials? Banks have many products other than mortgages.
That is the catch, all three landing strategies were coupled together. You couldn't do one without the one before it. More, previous steps had to take into account the baggage (literal) that was necessary to perform later steps.
Hey thanks for that! I'll check it out.
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> expanding our product offerings with networking and storage features

I'm so excited for this. I'd previously commented about how the lack of non-SSD storage meant I had to screw around with S3 when I really just wanted to keep everything on DO.

Great company. Been with them for two years now, and couldn't be happier. Combined with Cloud66 I worry less about deployments and servers and backups, and more about just getting the code out.
Hmm, I'm not so sure about this.

Ruby's tooling is obviously not as advanced as a language like Java, for many reasons. But terrible isn't the adjective I'd use. It's pretty easy to use editor integration to provide pretty decent automatic formatting, linting and code completion. Pry-debugger is pretty great, and generally I don't find working in Ruby to be markedly more taxing that other languages.

I guess YMMV, though.
What are you talking about? The euphoric feelings (a sense of uncontrollable excitement and happiness) led to me saying and doing strange things.
The Fragile Greek Banking System Is Nearing a Meltdown
I don't think HA is really on the needed list, seeing as you can roll your own load balancer in 5 minutes using provided tutorials. I mean I guess they could make an image for it to make it a little easier.. The AWS elastic load balancer is really nothing fancy.

Real private networking and object shared storage are both huge for sure though.
It is ironic that my daughter bougth a Lumia 640 in Ohio because you couldn't get them on the west coast. They have sold out in pretty much every location. I expect mostly because Microsoft has not made very many of them to begin with, but they seem to be the most popular phone yet.

I'm sad that there wasn't a way to recapitalize the Nokia phone business and re-release it into the wild.
I've been using it for years in production now. Hell, there was a strangeloop talk about our use of it. We're using Dynamo for storage.

I found working with Datomic really nice. I like how I can express queries using clojure. It also has some great performance for reads and the data cache cuts down on those reads from Dynamo, which keeps the AWS bill down.

I did not like the way schema worked in the beginning. You had to make sure you had it right from a very early stage of development and that can be difficult if requirements change, but they've addressed that in later versions. It's also probably the most complicated part of our infrastructure, which is 100% run on AWS. You've got 2 transactors (high availability) and X peers, you need to deploy a new version of Datomic on them. Coordinating that while minimizing downtime is no simple task.
Vagrant. Here's a little brain dump on it @ https://sysadmincasts.com/episodes/42-crash-course-on-vagran...
Xamarin Studio is better than MonoDevelop and (at least this is what they claim) free to use for Desktop (Window and Mac) applications http://www.monodevelop.com/download/ :

For Mac and Windows, you can download Xamarin Studio which is a bundle of MonoDevelop along with Xamarin iOS/Android plugins and branding. Note that a Xamarin license is only required if you develop iOS/Android projects, all other project types are free without restrictions.
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There's always going to be a limit to how well any macroscopic analogy can possibly describe what's going on with photons and light, but some metaphors work better than others. the trouble with the 'light is a particle and a wave' meme is that people try to combine two mental images - a cannonball flying through the air, and n ocean wave moving up and down, or a sound wave moving back and forth, and get a completely weird mental image of a cannonball flying along a sinewave path, or speeding up and slowing down. This isn't helpful.

Instead, you need to extend the metaphor in a different direction. Let's keep photons as cannonballs flying in straight lines. But now, imagine the cannonballs are constantly spinning. Some are spinning fast - they have a lot of rotational energy - they rotate with a high frequency. Others are spinning more slowly - low frequency, low energy cannonballs.

Now, which way are they spinning? Some have topspin or backspin, meaning they have a horizontal spin axis; some have sidespin - their axis of spin is vertical. Others might be spinning in a spiral - as if the barrel they came out of was rifled - so their axis of spin is aligned with the axis they're flying along.

You can imagine lots of cannonballs all flying along the same path, at the same speed, but they can all have different spin frequencies, and be spinning around different axes. Amplitude means more cannonballs. Higher frequency means more cannonballs spinning faster. Polarization means all the cannonballs are spinning round the same axis. Coherence (like in a laser) means all the cannonballs are spinning at the same speed and are pointing the same way as they pass the same point.

This maybe works better as a way to layer on the additional attributes a photon has - a frequency and a polarization - than to try to imagine some sort of transverse wave pattern. It also helps you deal with the idea of 'how do different photons carry different amounts of energy?'.

But, this is just a metaphor. Photons aren't really spinning cannonballs. It doesn't explain why thin slits cause polarization (and gives you a probably somewhat intuitive but definitely very wrong explanation for why bouncing photons off a surface causes polarization, so be careful.). It won't get you one jot closer to understanding quantum mechanics (no classical metaphor can do that), but it might just help you visualize how light can have mixtures of frequencies, polarizations, and amplitude, while still being just a bunch of particles.
Does anyone know a good adblock-like firefox extension that keeps videos from playing on pages like this? I hate it so so so much.
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Hi! I have been a programmer for a couple years and started picking up clojure after watching a few of rich hickeys talks. This is the one that best satisfies your question, imho: http://youtu.be/-6BsiVyC1kM
There was a nice result a while back that the efficient market hypothesis is true IFF P=NP.

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1002.2284.pdf
Ah, now I think I understand what they were trying to argue—full ES5 versus ES6 where I took it to be ES6 versus ES6-using-class.
MS has always been pragmatic. The shift is happening because they have gotten into the cloud business, with a primary focus on the infrastructure tier (Azure).

This means that as long as someone is renting compute time from them, MS don't really care what is running higher in the stack.