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Of course. Obviously their training is not enough (or not on-going), their culture is poor, or the wrong sorts of people are being recruited.

I can appreciate that police would develop a strong us-vs-them reaction when dealing with organised crime for example, but there's little excuse for extending that a woman pulled over for not indicating when changing lanes. That was a real opportunity to give her a reminder, not warn or ticket her, and rebuild a really fractured relationship that people can have with their police.
I tried to create an account (to look for work), but the submit button didn't work.

It scrolled me back to the top of the screen and didn't send any data to the server, but didn't display any errors.
We've added a --dev flag to JRuby that attempts to turn on fast-starting flags in JRuby and the JVM to reduce startup time. It can be as much as twice as fast.

We continue to try to improve startup performance, and hopefully over the next year we can close the gap a bit more.
Apple was not #1 in personal computing. Commodore and Atari had higher market share numbers than Apple at the time of the PC launch. The PC destroyed the 8-bit market, and the Macintosh did not take it back when launched 3 years later.
Here is nice TED talk by Kevin Slavin on the influence of algorithms: http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_slavin_how_algorithms_shape_o...
Kvm and bridge networking problems
In the default configuration the vms cannot talk to other kvm created vms. I did a traceroute from one vm to another, while running tcpdump on my host's br0. The arp packets for both directions of communcations returned the same mac address. Needless to say, they couldn't talk to one another.

KVM was so close to making a simple to use bridged networking, they shouldn't have stopped where they did. Now I have to manually assign a mac address.
DARPA don't need no ethics board.
Well, on second thought, a Beer Party isn't a good idea for a party. What about employees who don't drink or wouldn't be comfortable around a bunch of drunk coworkers? They should change it to a fruit parfait party.

E:

Being downvoted by a bunch of alcoholics I see /s.

The issue I'm pointing out here, in case anyone missed it, is that the party isn't welcome and opening to an entire group of people based on it's "theme". In this case: frat excludes females.

I don't drink. I actively avoid being around drunk people (though I don't care if they drink - so long as I don't have to be around them). So a beer-themed party would be very exclusionary of people like me.

I would not feel welcomed at this party. I would feel excluded and that I don't belong. So why isn't that an issue?
That's generally not true. MRI's straight-line performance has not improved as fast as JRuby's, and if we're ever slower than MRI it's generally something we're doing wrong. When we're doing things right, performance can be anywhere from two to ten times faster than MRI.
The challenge was recently discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9874215

This new article is from the lecturer's point of view.
This is feminism gone insane. Do these people go around trying to find stuff to be offended by?

"Frat party" is offensive now? What about the very existence of frats altogether. Should we ban those? Oh what about men's clubs? What about groups of men? Tell you what, why don't we ban men gathering in groups of 3 or more. That oughta correct sexism.
Not every class is graded on a curve.
What about just "College Olympics"? (If olympics is not a trademarked word).
The 'economist-ic' explanation is 1) diversification 2) agent-principal problem 3) asymmetric information (books are cooked, owner is selling because something is about to hit the fan).

Investors and business brokers deal with them by 1) low prices / earnings multiples, not putting your entire net worth into a small business 2) as OP suggests, you either manage it yourself or somehow have loyal staff with skin in the game 3) earn-outs for original owner who gets paid out over time from earnings after successful transfer.

Because of the risks, small businesses sell cheap relative to earnings, often fail not long after they are sold.
The commons worked great in two situations--1) europeans and 2) villages.

Maybe if we could get back to small villages of european descent we could have a higher quality of life.
Technically, Atari and Commodore survived to the 90's but both were gone by the mid 90's. Along with Jay Miner, sadly.

[edit] I often wonder if there had been a in the same price range, better 16-bit or 32-bit successor to the 6502 would things have turned out differently?
I disagree, I think that this is precisely targeted at encouraging failed startups to open source their software for others, which has been rare in the past.

People can then tell their (former) CEO, "See this site, everyone is using the graveyard".

Encouraging that behavior is utterly different than just indexing the few that did so in the past.

I see no particular point whatsoever in insisting that it would be better as a vague indistinct generic gitub wrapper -- although if you have an idea for improving search of such, go for it.
They're a mixed bag because they're benchmarking libraries more than they're benchmarking runtimes. Often the JRuby-specific versions of libraries (e.g. activerecord-jdbc) do not get the same performance attention as the ones for MRI, and as a result they perform worse.

I know this is small consolation, but everything in the JRuby ecosystem is continuing to improve every day. When there's specific reproducible cases where we're slower, we take them very seriously.
The first italicized paragraph of the OP says the scores are not curved, and the students are told this, so your analysis is incorrect.
Sorry, tired, it's been a long day, the exact quote was:

> 100 hours at the wheel in a bit more than five days. Is this crazy, suicidal or just business as usual?

It's murderous.
> "points" have no intrinsic value except in comparison to your classmates

this would be true if the course was graded on a curve, but the article makes clear that

> the course grades are not curved.
WHOAH. Did you just equate the female sex to the gender of women? That sounds very gender-normative for a discussion like this!
The points only matter in comparison to your classmates if there is a curve or something and the directions say there is no curve. If there is no curve then I don't see how the notion of having an advantage comes into play.
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Wow, the site is amazing. Love the keyboard in the background.
pg said downvoting disagreement is fine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
What do you mean? JRuby can make system calls as fast as MRI, generally. We don't support their C extension API, but we support and maintain an FFI library to programmatically call C from Ruby.
> Because the "points" have no intrinsic value except in comparison to your classmates

This is where your logic is wrong. The professor is not saying the class is graded on a relative scale (for example, top 10% of the class gets As). If everyone gets two points, and it bumps up everyone's GPAs, then of course it will benefit them all, especially in comparison to people who are not in the class.
It depends on whether you consider the points valuable per se, or in relation to other people's grades. If you choose two points and < 10% of the class choose 6, you are still better off than you were before, if the points have intrinsic value. The article says that the class is not curved, meaning 2 points for you is a better grade, regardless of what others get.
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Sure, the course grades are not curved, but the students are definitely competing academically, especially those in the same class. There's class rank, honors status, merit scholarships, internships, job opportunities, etc., that are technically at stake. It makes sense to choose 6 every time.
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Twist ending - Selling mailing lists is the actual business.
Ruby performance has not improved substantially since 2.0, and we should almost always be faster for straight-line workloads. If we're not...tell me.
Wait, seriously? I had no idea it wasn't OK to asks for up-votes. I guess things have changed: https://twitter.com/rrhoover/status/453903533083856897
Depending on your needs, the network appliance type servers made by ADI Engineering for Netgate may be appropriate.

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I have NO affiliation with these companies. I'm simply happy that they are shipping Coreboot.
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True and I'm a big proponent of attribution. I just think that in a lot of cases the person who's assigned ownership of things like a lyric, melody, etc. is really just the lucky one who got to have their name put on a long string of remixes. This is especially bad in music and specifically hip hop where building on earlier music is one of the core tenants.

It's easier when the thing in question is still whole and unchanged but ownership of bits and pieces of a copyright work is troublesome to me.
> What about the very existence of frats altogether. Should we ban those?

A lot of people think so. ;)
The author quotes:
“Everyone here will of course say they are carrying on
his work, by whatever twisted interpretation. I for
one carry on his work by keeping the links outside
the file, as he did.” – Ted Nelson, eulogizing Doug
Engelbart.

This is a hint. People interested in this topic should
study the work of Ted Nelson and Project Xanadu. Ted's visionary ideas permeate our thinking today.
Or more generally allocate the 6 point slots in advance - how they're allocated doesn't really matter. The point is that everyone knows that if they are supposed to choose 2 points and instead choose 6, nobody gets anything. Someone still might blow it for everyone out of spite, though.
This is the rational choice in isolation. But collectively there is a better solution. The problem is that there's always the (rational) incentive to defect from the coordinated outcome, because as you point out, it's better for you...if you're the only one who defects.
Um, maybe? There's a whole list of unacceptable types of parties for companies to host.

Greek may have generated less uproar, but that's not the word they chose.
If a workplace is seeking diversity, I think there's also something problematic about a very alcohol-driven work culture. The Geek Feminism wiki points out a number of problems with an alcohol-focused event:

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Women-friendly_events#Alc...

One thing that was hard for me as a guy to learn is that women can reasonably see all guys as Schrodinger's Rapist:

http://kateharding.net/2009/10/08/guest-blogger-starling-sch...

If one is continually performing the "will I be safe" calculus, alcohol clearly increase risk. Much more so at a party whose whole purpose is getting smashed, and which has strong connotations of college sexual dynamics.
No matter which way I look this at this article it sends my brain into a recursive loop that terminates in WTF

1) NYT, this is not 'ill-timed'... this would be dumb at any point in history.

2) Anyone that can't/won't understand that 'frat party' is at best not inclusive but more likely degrading and offensive is completely unqualified to lead people or organize anything. They should be fired immediately but I doubt anything meaningful at all will happen to them.

3) Who even thinks this kind of thing is fun? Chugging beer... seriously? How old are the people who work at Twitter?

Ugh... this kind of thing makes me so mad. Makes me ashamed for my vocation and for my gender. These idiots get all the attention from the slobbering tech media who perversely loves to perpetuate the culture... grow up, get a life, and stop the madness already.
I assume it has to do with the meritocracy myth. There's quite a bit of good writing about it. Here's one piece: https://medium.com/@jocelyngoldfein/techs-meritocracy-proble...
We work closely with engineers at Oracle and JRuby is one of the premier projects on the JVM. There's also no legal way they could come after us; their suit against Google is about copying Java APIs, a very narrow domain.
The use of "females" as though women were biological specimens to be studied is a early indicator for certain behaviors...
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A fraternal society refers to the nature of the organization, has nothing to do with the sex of the individuals that make it up. Males/females could operate interchangeably in roles inside a fraternal organization.

> It would have been different if they called it a college party.

The connotation being that colleges have no history excluding individuals based on their sex? Just as there have been male or female-only frats, haven't there also been male and female-only colleges?
That is so far past what the current rules for truck drivers are in the US that its horrifying. I couldn't imagine people trying it without drugs.
Yeah, the word goaded implies intent, and we can't really know intent.

>Maybe I am naive,

No disrespect intended, but I think you are.

>but I think that assuming the cops are out to get you is a bad place to start from.

I didn't start from there. I've been around them my whole life.
All selections are anonymous, and the course grades are not curved.
Yeah that's true. But my take on that is if a group of people wants to self-segregate and socialize separately then the state or society ought not to have authority to stop that.
There is def. some truth to this. The idea of, "End of Days" is one that continues to be recycled. There's always some sort of catastrophe around every corner. And this is true. But, I also need to wake up, and water the plants. (If you wanna be all Zen about it!)
This is fundamentally the same form of argument as the "we are the 99%" slogan.
How many men here would feel invited and included if their company threw a "Sorority Party" or, for the Brits, a "Hen's Night Party"? And that's before we even get to this being one thing among many in that environment alienating and marginalizing women.
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It's true for W15.
Point is, as long as it's a pong party someone would've still extrapolated it into Something For The Perpetually 'Offended' To Be Angry About(tm)
To pick up on the point about positional goods, everyone failing the class actually improves the ranking of [up to] half the classmates. If the points count towards some total score and there's some kind of calculation to normalize grades across the student population, everyone failing the class might actually bump up the overall grades of some of the weaker students in that class. Conversely, in this situation nobody benefits from everyone being awarded two additional points.
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From the article, the class isn't graded on a curve so your assumption that 2 points is worthless doesn't apply.
They can retaliate, there's simply a cost associated. That's one of the reasons this is a poor exercise: In iterative games it's often worth making sure people know that certain kinds of behaviour don't work - even where you have to harm yourself in order to do so. Otherwise you'll always be held hostage by those willing to move the costs closest in time.

I suspect this is why hatred and resentment are part of our make up.
It's important because it focused national attention on a very real issue for awhile, before the story shifted to be about journalism. It's also an important moment for journalism, but that's not what I was referring to.

The UVa story was largely fabricated, but that doesn't mean that no one gets raped, shamed for being a victim of rape, ostracized for being a victim of rape, or encouraged to be silent when raped at a frat party at many universities. One of the most telling responses to the article before it was investigated was the fact that very few people were actually surprised.

That's important, even if the media successfully dodged having to deal with the deeper issues for another few years.
The network that picked up that task was just a little wacky. No big deal. Look the other way. Please ignore. whistle

lol
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socially just story, bro
Many chat bots display very human-like behaviour. Does that imply that the underlying technology will solve strong AI? Of course not. Such extrapolations are almost guaranteed to be incorrect. There have been some very eye opening articles recently about the limitations of deep neural networks which I highly recommend. AI is still an incredibly difficult problem and that is not going to change anytime soon. Deep neural networks are a decent step forward but we shouldn't get carried away.
Well, if you instantly want to alienate the rest of the class and have no more classes with them or social events in common, then it might work. I would expect the rest of the class to all put 6pts down to deny them their "victory".

Its not often someone makes a public declaration that they desire to remove themselves from their peers. Good to know for the rest of the students on any assigned group projects.

[edit: dammit parent had a valid point - ah shucks]
Are you really trying to make the argument that a "fraternity" is a gender neutral organization? That's the direction you want to take the discussion?
I've gone to frat parties where women get in for free. (Whereas men have to pay $5 cover.)
That's not my point. If an AI would have the godlike superintelligence that you allude to, I would certainly consider it to be very dangerous. However, I see no indication that we can make such an intelligence, or even that a slightly-smarter-than-human intelligence could create an intelligence greater than itself. Of course, singularity is based on this belief, but there have been plenty of good arguments showing why singularity is completely unlikely (e.g. a linear advance in technology requires exponential growth in resources that even an AI can't amass).

Another example: I can drive a car, but I can't drive two cars at once (even remotely). What makes it probable that an AI could control thousands of, say, robots at once?

Again, I'm not saying an AI catastrophe isn't possible, but I can think of ten other catastrophes that are much more likely.
Has that been used in a game already? I'm curious.
A lot of people are commenting on how the article said there would be no curve, but I interpreted your statement to mean a deeper comparison to other students: the intrinsic value of doing better or worse than them, that translates to actual physical results: better chance at valedictorian than them, better chance to stand out to the teacher, higher overall GPA, etc.
is there a mascot celebrating Dresden bombing? Or fire-bombing of Tokyo? There is not much difference, beside "efficiency", between those and Nagasaki/Hiroshima. Decades ago it seemed a meaningful strategic bombing operations. Today we understand that it was horrible war crimes (though committed because of not fully understanding of the degree of criminality of it than out of a pure evil will... but again, winners write the history ...). We've evolved (and, for example, the Miloshevich/Karadzhich were prosecuted as war criminals for atrocities much smaller in scale than the above mentioned, and nobody would imagine a mascot celebrating those mass killings even though strategically they are indistinguishable from the strategic bombings of civilian targets in the WWII), and taking down the symbols celebrating the crimes of the past looks natural as part of that evolution.
This is pure speculation on your part. The reporter for Rolling Stone went out in search of this story and interviewed at many campuses. The only account she came across was the fake Jackie story.

Since there aren't actually any examples of this happening, it certainly doesn't seem pervasive.
This is not necessarily true. If you're already a good student, this devalues your GPA, mostly due to the generally awful GPA system. Assuming your school considers everything above a 92 to be a "4.0", if you're already in that range, you definitely don't want to help anyone else into that range.

Note that, of course, this would be fixed by just making GPAs decimal numbers out of 100, the average of all of your actual, numeric grades from each course (multiplied by credit hours?). You can divide it by 25 if you really want the weird 4.0 scale for some reason.
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Read it, not very convincing.

Pinker overestimates hunter-gatherer violence and underestimates non-direct violence in present times (such as US covert violence).

A lot of these criticisms are available online.
If you could summarize or link to those critiques, I would be interested.
"When you're truly passionate about what you do"

I'm sorry, but that line is just absolute bullcrap.
Force them to intimidate and torture at least one side of every communication they want, instead of letting them intimidate and torture three or four centralized service operators to get everybody's communication.
... and so the role women play at a frat party is the role the company thinks women should play in the company? You're not making this look any better an idea.
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This really doesn't work for me as an experiment.

10% is too easy to hit. Do 3 or more students need the 6 rather than the 2? Why should I choose the 2 if it won't do me any good?

In any class I teach, there are generally 10% on the line between grades that requires that I take into account a little more than just scores. Did they do all the homework? Did they improve on assignments or were they blowing them off? etc.

Given that 10% probably need the 6 and not the 2, this is likely to never work.

I had a tragedy of the commons that I hadn't intended. I had an extra credit programming assignment, but there was a catch--the students had to write the tests for the automated tester. If nobody wrote tests, nobody had the chance to get any extra credit. They were allowed to collaborate on the tests, but not the solution.

Everybody complained bitterly when nobody wrote tests.

My response was not terribly charitable: "This is extra credit, folks. Not charity. You all had two options.

First, write the tests yourself. Yes, writing tests is time consuming, but not horribly difficult. Some students started, realized the amount of work, and stopped. However, once somebody writes the tests, everybody get to benefit.

Second, encourage someone else to write the tests for you. Did any of you talk to the students most likely to write tests? Did any of you encourage these students to put in the work if you couldn't pull it off yourself? Did any of you offer to compensate them for their valuable time?

Many of you have been repeatedly asking for a group assignment since the beginning of the semester. THIS WAS A GROUP ASSIGNMENT AND YOU FAILED. It simply worked out that freeloaders weren't guaranteed to be carried by the best students. The best students realized the amount of work and simply opted out since they already had enough points.

Welcome to the real world. Figuring out how to get someone to do something that they don't really want to do is a fundamental problem of life."