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by ykler 9y ago
tl;dr is that Github is fair to men and women submitting pull requests. (Women have a very slightly higher chance of getting their pull requests merged for who knows what reason.)
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by ykler 9y ago
I don't understand what the "anomalies" this site detects in Denmark, Finland, and France represent, but the site itself says that they don't necessarily represent censorship and that it has only confirmed censorship in
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by ykler 10y ago
Whatever you think about this case, the article is written in a deceptive way. For the first half of the article, you are told that he is being prosecuted for making a tool that was used by hackers against his intentions. But then you fin
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by ykler 10y ago
'''The Nagel question then, is the fact that I experience vision a certain way really an essential aspect of "what it's like to be me?"''' It is an essential aspect of what it is like to be you
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by ykler 10y ago
The person you are responding to never said we live in a post-racial society.
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by ykler 10y ago
I have heard the complaint about no VC money before, and I guess it is true, but I don't understand why. What is stopping Calfornian VCs from investing in German startups? I understand that there is a bit more friction in long distan
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Catastrophic Interference (forgetting in neural networks)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ykler 10y ago
My experience is that sociologists are all like the woman who wrote this article: totally aware of the issues involved in dealing with multiple binary variables and a little embarrassed by the overly fancy and political word "intersect
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by ykler 10y ago
I largely agree with you regarding the popular view, but I wanted to point out that this article focuses on the gender "twist" because that is what is new in the research. The author of the article cites near the beginning an acc
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by ykler 10y ago
You seem to be saying that VDOM gives no benefits, but in my experience the idea that your view is a function of your state that you can just completely recalculate whenever your state changes is a hugely useful abstraction that makes code
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by ykler 10y ago
Just curious since I am not experienced with this stuff, are you talking about a TCP reverse proxy (so it could work with the SSH protocol too)? And would haproxy work equally well to nginx for this?
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by ykler 10y ago
From the linked Variety article, "However, over time, Netflix realized that explicit star ratings were less relevant than other signals. Users would rate documentaries with 5 stars, and silly movies with just 3 stars, but still watch s
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by ykler 10y ago
I guess "hypocrisy" is a better term. The term "double standard" suggests an unfair discrepancy in how two cases are treated, especially when this discrepancy is concealed and especially if the concealment is so deep th
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by ykler 10y ago
(Note: edited to make it more clear that hashing only on the client is insecure.) I think it is true that hashing on the client in addition to on the server offers a little security boost since if someone is able to snoop a login, they wil
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by ykler 10y ago
Here is one example of how a regress of explanation can terminate. Suppose you and I are old friends who haven't seen each other in years, and we happen to run into each other while we are both on trips to Japan. The answer to the qu
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by ykler 10y ago
Virtual DOM is entirely about performance. It is an abstraction that doesn't leak because it doesn't really have different semantics from the real DOM in the first place. In my experience, it is not crippled, doesn't cause
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by ykler 10y ago
I was a PhD student in mathematical logic, and I know a couple people who got PhDs in this area and became data scientists. One thing about this field (and other areas of math) is that almost everyone in it feels mediocre. It's like
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by ykler 10y ago
Great work. Do note that this is an NNN lease, though, which means the tenant pays property tax and operating expenses. For a new warehouse like this one, this site says these fees average 58% of the base rent: http://fgpcl.com
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by ykler 10y ago
I don't have a problem with third party tools or need to run a setup scrip on Cygwin or LXSS, but shell scripting just seems easier than a tool like ansible because you have a full programming language (albeit a terrible one), and you
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by ykler 10y ago
My understanding is that "fake news" refers to stories fabricated, often by small-time entrepreneurs, to make money off of Internet ads and typically spread through social media. Propaganda, on the other hand, is biased or fabric
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by ykler 10y ago
In my case, I had an editor for a structured document where the user could modify some parts of the document using a form and others using other components, some of which used forms internally. I wanted to have the whole document represent
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by ykler 10y ago
Redux Form really goes against the spirit of Redux in my opinion. It uses Redux internally, but you can't really directly access the reducer it uses, so from the user's perspective it is almost like it's not using Redux. Th
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by ykler 10y ago
"Depressingly, the study also found that very few personal attacks are moderated. Only 17.9% of personal attacks lead to a warning or ban." I'm not sure, but it seems like 17.9% is probably close to the right rate for modera
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by ykler 10y ago
The study doesn't even address the question of how much real names help. No one uses their real name on Wikipedia. It is just comparing edits from logged in users with edits from people who aren't logged in (sometimes called &qu
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by ykler 10y ago
"Many Silicon Valley firms remain hesitant to be seen as working too closely with the Pentagon out of fear of losing access to China’s market." This is an interesting assertion, but I'd like to see some evidence.
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by ykler 10y ago
I am confused. Your recommendations 1 and 2 seem to conflict with one another. I use Bluebird now for promisification, and I also used a few other features including the resource management (disposers). Does this mean that I will be usin
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by ykler 10y ago
"In fact, many of his examples of what to use are just other descriptive statistics, median is no less a descriptive statistic than the mean is." I think the author would fully agree with this. He is saying we should use more ea
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by ykler 10y ago
I'm working on a project that is related to fake news too. I'd be curious to learn a little more about what you are doing.
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by ykler 10y ago
Hiragana and katakana are pretty easy to learn, so if someone doesn't learn them quickly, it might be evidence they aren't working hard or efficiently to learn the language or aren't really ambitious. Chinese characters are
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by ykler 10y ago
I was curious about Camlistore and Tahoe-LAFS at one point. I didn't investigate them very thoroughly, however. How do they compare?

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