skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of the people quit medicine. They just chose to have a greater impact by not seeing patients.

Doctors who see patients are effectively professional laborers. Their impact is limited primarily to the patients they see.

Doctors who step off the patient treadmill can contribute to health in ways that affect more people than they could if they were just seeing individuals.
Doesn't work on my vanilla Mac.
How does one cheat at a test of this sort?
Yes, but from their perspective, it's an implementation detail. LAPACK could have been written in assembly language or APL, and their Python code would work just as well.

Python/Matlab/IDL are important because it is easier to quickly write correct code than in C++/Fortran.
Yes, I've been personally facing issues because the CDN server of a particular JS app that we integrate is slow.

We can't host it ourselves because that way we miss out on updates. However, its non-critical to our app, so I'm thinking of marking it as async so it doesn't hamper the page load times.
I can't believe the audacity of Po-Shen Loh to send a team exclusively of boys to the IMO. When you have to select 6 team members how can you NOT select at least 1 female? This flies in the face of all the outreach work people have been doing to get more girls into STEM, and this victory will only discourage them. It appears the top 3 teams are all 100% boys.

I'm delighted that this is currently the top comment here. It shows we are clearly concerned with the right issues. I hope from now on all national teams participating in international competitions will be gender balanced. In order to remedy this situation we need:

1) A Twitter mob
2) An email campaign addressed Po-Shen to not repeat this and discredit his work and efforts.
3) A post of the team's picture to the popular twitter/tumblr account which shames all male conferences and gatherings
4) An email campaign addressed to IMO to implement rules that all teams should be gender balanced.
5) A solution to Poe's law.
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Based on what evidence?

IE11 has pretty solid web standards support:

https://status.modern.ie/?iestatuses=implemented&browserstat...

And Edge promises a lot more.
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But that's not the claim that you made. The claim that you made was:

"It basically green-lights Iran's continuing atomic weapons program. I have read the agreement, and there is nothing in there that actually will impede Iran's progress towards creating nuclear weapons."

And that is simply flat-out false. The document does not "green-light" Iran's atomic weapons program, and there is actually quite a lot in there that will impede their progress if they try to cheat.
Oh god, stop gossip and you don't need to whine.
Sort of flew. It flew, yes, but the nuke was never used to actually generate power.
This is very painful.. definitely consider hosting site reliability when making your choice.
> For the Edge browser Microsoft has again decided to develop their own rendering engine, instead of relying on open source alternatives (Blink, Gecko, WebKit). I have to doubt their decision as a browser engine is a big development effort and they need to be updating it from now to eternity.

Um, why would they move when they already have an engine? Sure you can argue they should have moved to WebKit or Gecko or even Opera's rendering engine years ago but Trident has been improved significantly over the years. Don't forget Edge is based on Trident (so it's not entirely new or anything as implied in the post; it provided a good base to rip legacy support out of and to improve other things).

Beyond that though it seemed fine just kinda felt like the author had a bias against Microsoft from that first statement where he / she questioned their rendering engine decisions. I'm also not entirely convinced they tuned explicitly for the benchmarks they called out; sure they may have but I don't know that I believe they necessarily would have had to.
Don't suppose anyone has an equivalent for Linux?
I realize Mr. Schwitzgebel may have presented a conscious U.S. as a deliberately ridiculous idea to illustrate his point, much as Schrodinger did not intend his cat to be taken seriously. But as a card-carrying Science Fiction nut, I have to say, I find the idea plausible or even intuitive. Of course there could be a slow, broad form of consciousness that inspires extremely large and complex systems. It would live in the interactions and emergent coincidences of public and private life and it may even spill over into our more complex inanimate systems. It would certainly use them as tools or limbs.

I propose a ridiculously expensive study with a huge grant wherein I give the United States an aptitude and personality test. Based on the results, we could attempt to find this 239 year-old citizen some rehabilitative help to reduce some of its more antisocial and criminal tendencies.
I would suggest "elements of statistical learning". If possible I would also try to study some econometrics which gives unparalleled insight into the correlation vs causation issue. You can think of econometrics as a branch of statistics that remained separate from the mainstream for historical reasons.
I assume most countries picked the best candidates for their teams, as mathematical aptitude is relatively easy to quantify. If it wasn't the competition would have no meaning. Congratulating Ukraine and Bosnia for this like it's some heroic sacrifice is odd. These girls were the best choice for their teams so they were picked. I don't see much more to it than that.
Very interesting. How does one get comfortable relying on cryptography that uses a method which lacks provable security? Simulating proof based on actual use?
It is working for me. OS X Yosemite on a late 2013 Retina MBP.

myuser@[~]$ security find-generic-password -ga MySSID | grep password

password: "password"

"desc"<blob>="AirPort network password"

(Obviously I've changed the values here, but this is what it outputs for me.)
Are you kidding? Just because they don't look much different at a glance doesn't mean there haven't been huge gains.
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Scott Alexander writes well about this topic: http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/24/perceptions-of-required...
Team leaders know the question in advance. They are seperated from the team, but if they want to communicate they can.

http://www.quora.com/How-did-North-Korea-cheat-in-the-IMO-in...

Edit: have a read of this page. It shows that marking is not just a case of comparing the answer papers with a pre-prepared answer script. There is discussion and debate involved. http://www.imo-register.org.uk/2010-report.html

> Problem 4 was the second geometry problem, and so I led. We agreed four 7s straight away. The disputes were that I wanted a 7 for Luke Betts, and the co-ordinators were only offering 3 because they thought that there was a hole in his argument. On the other hand, they wanted to give Andrew Carlotti a 7 but I was only prepared to take 3. I explained to them the weakness in Carlotti’s argument, and they looked a little surprised. I asked them about the alleged weakness in Betts’s script, and I couldn’t understand what they were worried about. I suggested an overnight adjournment so that we could both make detailed preparations, and we met again the next day.
That's why it works. Plausible deniability.
> header enrichment will be solved by requiring encryption à la Let's Encrypt

I doubt this is the case. How many bits can be manipulated in client TLS headers by a MITM without causing breakage? I find it hard to believe TLS leaves no room for malleability early on in the handshake.
do you think your script would work if you just changed it from sync to async? I know some services do not provide async versions and converting from sync to async manually is not recommended.
I ran a frontend team and I didn't like salary secrecy. I am a big believer in having people earn what they deserve, and if they gathered the knowledge that they are underpaid or if I have that knowledge, I went to bat for them.

I've no doubt that most companies in the Bay Area abuse salary secrecy - startups are often so concerned about runway that they hedge on treating their employees right.
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it is a good news. because American become more confident in educating their kids in maths and abandon the idea that you can be lawyer if you are not good at math. on the other hand, Chinese can stop believing that math is highest form of intelligence and pursue career as lawyer etc.
It all depends on your workload.

I'm working on a web app that uses typed arrays heavily.

Chrome runs my test case in 2.7 seconds, Firefox in 3.2, and IE Edge in 23 seconds... (ie 11 in 30+)

Now to be fair i developed "for" firefox, checking that it worked in IE and chrome the whole way, but that is a pretty large performance difference.

Plus i've always hated benchmarks. They are so easy to "game" without real improvements in actual code. They are great for development and regression testing, but when used to compare engines i've found they are nearly useless.

All that being said, I applaud the IE team for really sticking to their promise of improving the browser and it seems they are going to give Chrome and FF a run for their money soon.
IF you send an email and ask "Why was I fired"

If they reply "Because you are brown"

Instant lawsuit, lots of money.

If they reply "For bad work perf", and it was really for poor work perf, they are fine.

If they reply "For bad work perf", and it really was because you were brown, and you prove it, lawsuit. It is obviously hard to prove. One way may be to show "Look I had 12 performance reviews, on all 12 I got perfect. In fact I did better on my perf reviews than people who are green, so obviously there is a bias for green people and against brown people.

Which as you see, the entire argument hinges around the exact reason you are fired. This is why when people are fired, it is safer from a legal standpoint to not give a reason. Even though that kind of sucks for self development. If you really were fired for being a jerk to coworkers... it may be nice to know that, so you can work on it at your next job.
Yecch. That sounds like some pretty high-school-yearbook-committee stuff to pull in a company.
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Issue #1: performance claims based on tests from one device configuration. The best performance data is gathered from as many sources as possible. In the spectrum of statistics, one data point is not enough.

Issue #2: "Personally I have found the Peacekeeper results to be a reliable measurement of web browsers performance." Is there data to back up this claim?
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I sincerely hope they NEVER use another engine. Diversity is our friend, and having multiple engines all on similar terms means that bugs won't end up as "correct" and it helps push everyone forward.
And also, to make up for the temporal inequality (the past ratio), the teams should be something like 5/6 female.

And logically: until that happens, the school system isn't catering for half their population.
Yes it has been but that has nothing to do with what we're talking about.
Well, then it seems that I take issue with your statement purely because I'm a jerk who thinks that the idea that philosophy should leave you less frustrated rather than more frustrated is a bad idea ;)
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After sadly verifying Microsoft's claims, author goes on to find third party benchmarks where they'd lose to make the point he initially wanted to make.
Reel to reel at 7 ips was quite good. I remember my dad's Akai player from the 50s even supported quadraphonic. Too bad this isn't catching on..
You're talking about the U.S. educational system leaving men behind, right?

Because in America, women are more likely to graduate high school [0], enroll in college [1], graduate from college [2], and even make up 3/5's of graduate students [2].

[0] http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0779196.html

[1] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/03/06/womens-colle...

[2] http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2011/gender-gap-in-...
You usually send them based on performance in national comp, so there is no subjective selection, you just have to make it to top 5
Those strange mockups/renderings look way bigger than the actual plane.
sudo cat /etc/netctl/wlp3s0-wlas (though it's the hashed key only, except if you'd used wifi-menu without -o to generate the file)

depends on the type of linux :)

EDIT: if it has to be the current network, something like this horrible bash oneliner: sudo vim /etc/netctl/$(ifconfig | grep UP | grep RUNNING | grep BROADCAST | cut -d: -f1)-$(iwconfig 2>/dev/null | grep ESSID | cut -d: -f2 | sed -e 's/"//g')
The ones that there are laws against are illegal. The rest are on the not bullshit to bullshit spectrum.
No, both lines are equally readable. A number of operations, placement of operators, names are all the same. The only difference is replacing "," with "]+", which is not any different for your eye* to read.

What you mistake for readability is familiarity: after you read a word you need to associate a meaning with it. It takes longer to interpret the meaning of things you didn't see before while grabbing a meaning from a cache is nearly instantaneous. You understood this difference in comprehension speed as a readability difference.

My main point is that it makes no sense to talk about readability without first getting used to the grammar and vocabulary of a language. In this case, it's unfamiliar feature in an otherwise normal environment, but it gets worse. There are people who believe they can judge the readability of entirely alien (to them) languages and it hurts those languages reputation pretty badly. Lisps are the prime example of this.
Except you would probably be wrong. I know the crowd here likes to think they can solve all problems better than the status quo but the reality is that for these kinds of things data doesn't help much. See: COIN
TL;DR

> What to make of these results? It seems like Microsoft has been targeting their optimization effort for the competitor benchmarks in order to show impressive results for their new product. When it comes to more intensive and complex HTML5 benchmarks they are still miles behind the competition.
I believe that Peacekeeper/Browsermark give a lot of weight to WebGL and related computations, which aren't currently optimised in Edge.

Octane and SunSpider give more weight to the rest.

It'd be very impressive if Edge was faster all round.
>I thought that browser venders we're having the :visited selector lie to you when you call getComputedStyle on them?

It's possible to probe the users history even though getComputedStyle doesn't give it away anymore.

See page 6 of this article: http://www.contextis.com/documents/2/Browser_Timing_Attacks....

Obviously turning off Javascript prevents these types of things to some extent, but even then there are ways: https://www.nds.rub.de/media/nds/veroeffentlichungen/2014/07...

The web is just not designed with preventing information leaks in mind.
Depends on what is controlling your WiFi, with netctl, most all the profiles have plain passwords in them, unless you configured otherwise.

These profiles are located in /etc/netctl, so cat-ing the correct file under sudo will give you it.

This will be a concat-d list of all profiles in a pager: `sudo cat /etc/netctl/* | less`.
"Well these tests don't meet my expectations so lets keep testing using other benchmarks until I'm validated".
Perhaps we should have meta-benchmarks.
As I posted on another comment, the TL;DR is more like this:

"Well these tests don't meet my expectations so lets keep testing using other benchmarks until I'm validated".
Not sure what the point of this is. Microsoft never argued that Edge is faster than Chrome at everything. They specifically said it was faster for certain benchmarks.

But the author is upset because it isn't faster for the specific benchmarks he prefers. If it's slower at Peacekeeper does that specifically mean that the browser is now slow ?

And then weirdly Mint/Linux comes into the argument as though it has any relevance to Edge. Nobody is switching operating systems because of browser microbenchmarks.
I read it as - the browser is fast at its core but still needs to optimize for the advanced HTML5 features. I guess it will get better over time. This is a good start. No matter what people think, this is a great step forward. Web as a platform is only as open as the variety of rendering engines providing standards compliant features are. If all the browsers are standardizing on the same rendering engine, it's not the web platform that is standard but that particular rendering engine. Even if it is open source, having multiple competing implementations supporting the same standard is a good thing. Especially when companies would like to push for features that benefit them at the expense of overall community.
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This guy is being sarcastic, I don’t really understand the down votes. Maybe that’s just the way it is over here.
How long should it take to load, could not see it on iPad
There's a painful downside in knowing you have cancer, but that doesn't mean a doctor can (or should) withhold that information from you.
Do they have geolocation data?
As the man says: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/558442350326714370
Salary grids is often a better solution to that problem. Performance should rather be paid as a bonus than a fixed comp. The bonus is discretionary and resets every year.
There's a chapter in "Making Software" about
"Conway's Corollary" that makes the claim that distance in the hierarchy matters more than physical distance.
The thing is we have no clear idea what we mean when speaking about consciousness.

Luckily, there are some people who honestly try to find out. Dan Dennett to name one.

Also this talk about consciousness by Susan Blackmoore is both funny and enlightening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdMA8RVu1sk
SF is a tech echo-chamber with terrible public transit and rental market that probably wouldn't be so expensive if anyone were allowed to build anything. On top of all that it has managed to attract more douchebags ("tech gold rush") per capita than Manhattan.

I'm not sure the density of craft cocktails bars and farm-to-table restaurants, or the fact that it never gets too hot makes up for the drawbacks.
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That exists regardless of what you think about it.
You forgot the Men's Rights Advocates and Gamergate brigades which immediately show up with posts like yours. (And send death threats to women posters and their families. http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/12/4693710/the-end-of-kindnes...)
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I skimmed over it without reading the "Poe's law" line at the end. I've deleted my comment. Have to be more careful.
Domestication of humans is what came to my mind on this topic. I'm not sure I would agree with you that we aren't being domesticated. Maybe countries domesticate humans? Maybe the most violent countries have the least domesticated humans? Maybe freedom and individuality combat domestication? It's definitely worth thinking about!
The idea of structuring a software-focused company as a co-op is really interesting.

One thing that I wonder about is recruiting. Is it an advantage or disadvantage to be a co-op when it comes to sourcing and hiring people? Do co-ops attract a different segment of the population? Are there people who explicitly don't want to work at a co-op (maybe they suspect smaller future earnings, or maybe they think its too granola and birkenstocks)?
Tests are written by people and their biases recognized or unrecognized will end up in tests. What about the way math is taught? Or the perceptions of gender differentials in math? I'm thankful that I have the privilege of not being told that my gender was a handicap for my field (statistics).
Results are hard to quantify. You can jump on a successful project and skew your contribution factor. But what if you are working on important tooling that requires difficult problem solving. This important tooling might not be quantifiable directly like, say, an advertisement framework. It may, however, be more valuable in the long term.
If they used an open source engine, I would hope it would be that they would open source their own engine. That would be nice to see. Considering Microsoft open sourcing other projects, and this particular product they give out somewhat freely already. Would also allow a community to build up around it, and report as well as possibly contribute bug fixes.
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It could be that the concept of math ability itself is currently defined to preference a gender. Or, taught in a way to preference gender. Or a gender is ridiculed systematically during the learning process. It's not so simple.
I wrote FORTRAN 90/77/4 at university. It's a pretty horrible language, to be honest. While it keeps getting updated regularly, each one adds a crust of "modern" features on top of a strata of mismatched features previously designed by committee. Its redeeming feature is its native support for matrices, including its ability to transparently parallelise operations on them. It's quick for the same reason JavaScript is quick - a lot of work and money has been spent creating fast compilers.

To me the main reason for its use seemed to be 50 years of technical debt. Ancient, badly-written functions written long ago that have been thoroughly tested but no-one can remember why they work; ancient professors who refuse to learn another language or validate code written in another language. And so the technical debt feedback cycle continues.
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The title is a little misleading in my opinion, as the article is describing new med-school graduates.
His conclusion stands, he's got 1/2 of the claimed perf gains from the using the benchmarks the Edge Team advertised, but when tested against other Independent benchmarks Edge's performance falls dramatically short, making it reasonable to deduce Edge is optimized around the benchmarks the PR team is advertising.
How could mathematical tests be biased? I mean, math is math is math. What would a non-biased math test even look like?
As a minor nitpick, some mathematicians see elegance in efficient solutions. It's interesting to get your head around a specific problem and come up with the solution that is optimal regarding some given metric.

However, I agree that industry and mathematics are not best friends. That's because mathematicians righteously demand and require a level of freedom and support the industry is not always willing to give because of the social problem it creates with other employees and because the value of the work of a mathematician can be too hard to judge.

From my experience, the fight to get the working conditions you need is not worth it. My advise to fellow mathematicians is that — when you want go into the industry — to go where there are already mathematicians.