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Yes, you can illegally discriminate in hiring if you choose to. Most major companies are very careful not to do this. In every case I have had a background check done on me I have asked for the company doing the check to send a copy and in every case the report sent to me certainly appeared to be following the law (the reports explicitly mention how far back they are reviewing).

In the US, most states ban the use of an arrest that did not lead to a conviction for the purpose of excluding you for employment.

Many states limit how far you can go back in considering convictions. I believe California allows background checks to look at seven years of history.

I trust that they would be willing to cede control of several aspects to Facebook for the sake of being involved and having some cut of the profit for fear of missing out.

Unless all the contracts are public you have no idea what kind of backroom deals they have with different organizations.

It may sound paranoid but that’s the level of trust many people feel Facebook deserves at this point in time.

Unless you can provide actual legal documents as opposed to whitepapers, your argument is unconvincing. Nobody trusts anything Facebook says, which given their past actions is completely reasonable.

I interviewed at Asymetrix at one point.

They had the very strange idea they were going to take on Microsoft and Borland with their own C++ development system, which seemed to make no sense to me given the other things they were doing.

I pay for NYT and WaPo, so I have no issues with these.

It is frustrating though that despite many alternative sources available there seems (from my perspective) to be a really large number of low-added-value postings of Bloomberg articles.

I can usually search for the subject or some content from the first paragraph and find alternative stories about the same topic and read those instead.

My observation is that a lot of the MIT News and MIT Technology Review titles read like this.

It seems to work to get exposure for work being done there.

I would like to see exactly zero regression from the current design.

I think there is a very tiny but vocal minority, particularly in the tech community, who have issues with it. Most people have few complaints if you are talking about the most recent keyboard. It may still have some room for improvement but the last couple generations of butterfly keyboard have improved each step of the way.

They’ve been fixed for a while now. I have used each generation of the new keyboard, and since the 3rd gen (released in 2018) have had exactly zero issues with keys that repeat or fail to register the keystroke.

The feel on the butterfly keyboard is so much better than the older keyboards (which I also use on a regular basis). The amount of travel on the old keys honestly wears my hands down now. I can type forever without fatigue on the newer ones.

Any news on Swift for Tensorflow?

I’m skeptical of how much practical benefit it will provide but still willing to take a look at it.

There doesn’t seem to be any mention of it here.

Over the past several months I keep seeing people trying to equate data science with machine learning, and it made me wonder if the people doing this are trying to salvage (or perhaps enhance) the investment they made in data science by trying to blur the lines between the two.

I got two (real) checks from him from the newly re-typeset first volume in the late 90s. Someone else did a bunch of the typesetting work and it was relatively sloppy so I managed to notice them from relatively casual reading.

Cashed both checks.

If someone is not a threat to themselves or others, but has strange beliefs and behaviors, should we really take their freedom away just because we don’t think they are taking care of themselves adequately or we don’t like the sight/sound of them?

As someone with bipolar disorder (very stable since diagnosis and medication) I’m always a bit dismayed when people call for locking ill people up “for their own good.” (Not that you’re necessarily saying that - it’s just something I do see people advocating for sometimes).

I’m in SF and previously lived Tenderloin-adjacent so I’m quite familiar with the unfortunate cycle of mental illness and drug/alcohol abuse from self-medicating. It’s not a pretty sight and I do think we should do everything we can to help these most vulnerable people in society. I’m just not sure taking their liberty is necessarily the best course of action.

> (2) The claim that a 93 year old lacked the dexterity to operate the smart lock is spurious. A physical key requires more dexterity than pushing numbers on a keypad.

In this case absolutely not. I've used the lock in question. It does not have physical keys, and the keypad is non-responsive, and round in shape (think rotary phone). Every person I know who has used the keypad has had trouble both on their first and succeeding attempts. I am pretty good with it, but it requires typing very slowly and using my thumb in order to ensure the key press is accepted.