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I can't remember a story like this without horrible data: numbers without much context from which no good conclusions can be drawn.

> it's not enough to just look within the 'hire' cohort.

Enough for what? Why not? They specifically have a "score", not just a hire / no hire decision. Sure it would be better, but you don't make any convincing argument why their analysis is not valuable.

> designed to be a Classifier, typically tuned with an emphasis on having a low false positive rate.

classifier of what? Why is classifier capitalized? I don't think so.

How do you check that? I've found reporting on race in tech to just be absolutely horrible with numbers. Whole stories where the only number is "Google repots X percent of Y race." It tells me absolutely nothing without comparing that to demographics of where google has offices, and what the demographics of cs students are, among other things, and I've never seen that info.

Your 48% is very wrong. From the abstract:

"Our results showed that although casual contributors are rather common (48.98% of the whole population of contributors in the projects analyzed), they are responsible for only 1.73% of the total number of commits."

I didn't say they were clueless. I said their pr is clueless. Some pr person said "there is no risk" relating to it security of a large organization. That is obviously false, and clueless.

"Our systems and our customers’ information were never at risk.", their pr team is clueless. Security is not binary.

So it's proprietary?

"we still don't know how." No one is stating the obvious: we would know more if we had the source code.

Ahh, thank you so much. I read it as "are kind of forgetting" instead of "are a kind of forgetting.", even looking back a few times.

What does forgetting mean here? Is it like forgettable? Google failed me.

My 12 year old ipod has fm radio, I think a smartphone could do it.

Few months ago got an LG G4: the "unlocked international" version had a locked bootloader so you couldn't change the software, but the europe and t-mobile versions didn't. So, sometimes it can be the reverse.

> Topics and queues with different segmentation features are much more powerful and fine-grained in control compared to a service that's tied to HTTP transport than, say, a REST or SOAP API.

"than" and beyond is an illogical statement. Like Y is Z than X.

Use a hosted service to self-host? Come on. Does it also have more cloud in it?

what is a CN computer?

It was, just formatted poorly into paragraphs. A paragraph is supposed to have some feet to stand on it's own.

> At least here in the US, money problems are (mostly) a money-management problem.

I don't think so.

> The biggest problem I see is giving people cash. Why not instead give each adult a voucher for housing (just barely adequate for cheap housing) and each person $5/day food stamps (or something similar), regardless of income.

You haven't explained whatsoever what the "problem" is. Like saying "there is a big problem with nuclear energy. Why aren't we just using windmills." So... whats the problem?

Yes, it's a false dichotomy. Either we have a police state, or the terrorists win, take your choice! Don't forget the children, and the .0001 % chance of horribly brutally muderdered by terrorists!

This comment will never be a reply to any other comment. However, if I wrote it because the fbi told me to, why wouldn't I reply to absolutely any other comment the fbi told me to?

It's beyond the capabilities of most iphone users to lock their phone with a passphrase that is secure enough to withstand a trillion guesses per second, remember it and deal with inputing it often, so yes, this is de facto a master key to iphones (of course some judge would expect this same type of software to be implemented for all iphone versions).

Thx. great idea.

I've always thought, if I was rich, I would hire one or more developers who's job was to educate me on software (empowering me), and write and run software I was interested in. Wonder why I haven't heard of any rich people doing that?

No different in the US regarding prices.

Hah! You are delusional. To be specific, it's obvious he meant virtualbox + the roughtly 2 other less commonly used free desktop virtualization softwares.

Let's spell out the obvious: People, like me, use virtualbox etc. for free instead of paying for vmware fusion / workstation. If the free products didn't exist, vmware would be making much much more money on licenses for worstation etc, and developers would still be getting paid to work on the vmware products.

It's trademark, not copyright. And... ya, maybe.

> I think algorithms are something to embrace rather than fear

He has the same sentiment in his article.

"software patents (which have merits)". There are none.

Nonsensical statement. There is no other kind of enforcement than that done in the interest of the patent owner.

Nope. You are reading it completely wrong. It's saying patents can be declared invalid in more cases, nothing to do with "declaring a patent dispute invalid."