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901.
by HillRat 12y ago
It does not seem likely to me that a multimillionaire would prefer socializing with a poor person of the same skin colour over socializing with another multimillionaire who happens to be black. Ah, but it's the other side of the soci
902.
by HillRat 12y ago
But the "gendering" of computers affects everyone, regardless of how or when they get to the table. I've known many women who found themselves regularly condescended to and even verbally abused by their CS professors, and man
903.
by HillRat 12y ago
I genuinely can't understand the thought processes of the nabobs who think the Grauniad acted inappropriately here. My first response was, "Journalism is not the priesthood," and considered it similar to interviewing Frank Un
904.
by HillRat 12y ago
To me, what's really interesting -- and depressing -- about the article is not just how easy it is for a mob to get whipped up by a dedicated troll, but by the (alleged) identity behind the trolling. We're used to thinking of trol
905.
Noncompetes:How companies kill their employees' futures(theatlantic.com)
3 points by HillRat 12y ago|0 comments
906.
by HillRat 12y ago
Yeah, the coldest summer I ever spent in Seattle was hauling an iPad around meetings at Redmond. One L69 had this very pointed way of staring at the tablet, then at the big red clock, then back again. Keep in mind, I was part of a team comi
907.
by HillRat 12y ago
To me, the saddest part of this is that there are plenty of high-caliber female computer scientists out there right now -- Denning, Liskov and Wing, Hamilton (computer science and the Apollo program!), Greif, and many others. On a more
908.
by HillRat 12y ago
While at least some of the advice is solid ("give each employee just one job" is really just a special case of "make it clear who is responsible for the outcome, not just the process"), Thiel is either making a truly tri
909.
by HillRat 12y ago
Let me set your mind at ease: I was actually at the hospital in question all day today (disclaimer: non-medical personnel, just coincidence) and I was in more danger from the sushi at dinner than the Ebola in the ICU. Yes, there is a small
910.
by HillRat 12y ago
I've always traveled through De Gaulle on my way to and from West Africa (used to take Air Afrique, but these days Air France, Ethiopian and Air Maroc all go to Bamako). However, since the patient wasn't symptomatic until they wer
911.
by HillRat 12y ago
Think about modern financial trading algorithms -- they're probably built to maximize the money that flows in, and there's nothing that says "I know that this money will be used for X." I think financial algorithms are
912.
Apocalypse soon: the scientists preparing for the end times(newstatesman.com)
42 points by HillRat 12y ago|59 comments
913.
Home Depot's “C-Level” security on the eve of hacking(businessweek.com)
2 points by HillRat 12y ago|0 comments
914.
by HillRat 12y ago
Unfortunately, "inevitable demise" is often more economically-rational than "outside-the-box pivots," especially when talking about an organization the size of RadioShack Corp. The cost to pivot some 5,000 stores into an
915.
by HillRat 12y ago
Penicillamine is another example of a pharmaceutical scam; in 1995, the cost to treat rheumatoid arthritis using it as a second-line therapy was $550/year. Even a few years ago the pricing was in the thousands, not tens of thousands. W
916.
by HillRat 12y ago
Most startup founders are less "new nobility" and more "2007 housing crisis straw buyers" -- they're necessary grease for the cogwheels of questionable investment. Nothing new here; it's the same thing we lived
917.
by HillRat 12y ago
"Wolves" -- if you accept the concept -- are basically the anti-entrepreneur. We're talking about engineers who get head-down in deep problems, without the interest or ability to turn them into actual products. I learned the
918.
by HillRat 12y ago
The Reagan era was so bizarre that even late-model le Carré can't do it justice. Claire Sterling's work (referenced in the article) was basically hackwork hearsay that came in via two key sources: a right-wing journalist closely l
919.
by HillRat 12y ago
Only if they're deliberately introduced. Very little accidental ambiguity makes it into legal contracts (unlike legislation and agency regulation!), but deliberate ambiguity is a very valid strategy, and often is designed to break th
920.
by HillRat 12y ago
It's a first salvo. Coffman and Brooks both serve on HASC and on the HASC Oversight and Investigations subcommittee; Brooks is vice-chair of the House science committee's Space and Aeronautics subcommittee. Whatever NASA provides
921.
Georgia siblings create app to rate police interactions(citylab.com)
2 points by HillRat 12y ago|0 comments
922.
by HillRat 12y ago
It's worth noting that Kalin at UW-Madison is looking to resurrect Harlow's work on socially deprived primates[1], something that was previously posted here at HN. Some of the primate researchers' work is (to a layman like me
923.
by HillRat 12y ago
To be slightly more specific, MSFT had a market cap of $23 billion and had just shipped Windows 3.1. It was so much in the zeitgeist that Doug Copeland would set a novel there a few years later. In any case, there wasn't any reason no
924.
by HillRat 12y ago
Trivial only in the sense that there was no question Klinger had the right to recover under 17 USC§505; the decision on the case itself was obviously more important. Even then, though, it was obvious the estate had no case in regards to the
925.
by HillRat 12y ago
My God, I love Posner's opinions, even a trivial one like this. You have to appreciate the part where he calls out the estate as having "enlisted [Amazon and other booksellers] in a boycott of a competitor of the state, and boycot
926.
by HillRat 12y ago
It's an interesting work and well worth reading, although it's more than a bit broad-brush in its discriminants. Ferligoj, Batagelj and Doreian did an analysis a few years ago using relational-constraint clustering of counties wit
927.
by HillRat 12y ago
Unfortunately, once you place the imprimatur of machine learning upon it, people will tend to conflate "perceived safety" with "actual safety." At the extreme, it becomes a way to create an apparent but false confirmatio
928.
by HillRat 12y ago
According to news reports, about 5% of names in TSDB are AMCITS or LPRs, though it appears that share may be rising relative to the overall growth of the list.
929.
by HillRat 12y ago
Technically, it's more like 167 terrorists per million. The TSDB is a global database that is a subset of TIDE plus domestic names. TIDE is probably about 1/3 again larger than TSDB, with news reports pegging TIDE's size at a
930.
by HillRat 12y ago
It was the AMEMB in Tokyo, though the basic principles apply to ay bureaucracy answering to political masters. Interns don't get AFSA (or, at the time, AFGE) union representation, and somebody's head was going to roll for that m

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