Those bans come with loopholes that you could drive a bus through.
You can determine from free public records search that somebody has an arrest without even knowing what it is, and people use that to filter folks all of the time.
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).
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.
You can ask Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Spotify, Paypal, Uber, or any of the other founding members if they feel like their lawyers seem convinced they each have a legal vote equal to Facebook's.
Do you really believe that each of these orgs, many traditional with whole legal departments, would sign on to a public association with this potential without crossing their i's and dotting their t's?
Don't trust Facebook, trust that the 27 other companies (and their lawyers) don't trust Facebook.
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.
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.
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.
Can I please get a non-touchbar 15 inch macbook pro though?
Less sarcastically, I don't know how many people (proxy value is articles written about and videos made about) like the touchbar. However, Apple will never backpedal on a product no matter the reception of the touchbar which I personally hate.
If we're keying off of personal anecdote, allow me to be a single point in favor of the touch bar. I actually like the thing, and find it useful. Yes, I do!
I like it took, but I wish the escape key was a physical button. It's nice that you can touch anywhere in the corner and don't have to hit the exact spot on the Touch Bar, but it would be nice to have a button.
As a frequent vi user, I mapped my 'caps lock' key to Esc long before Apple started shipping a Touch Bar, so I have been puzzled by people lamenting the Esc key placement.
The 2018 keyboard does feel better than the previous ones, however it's still not very reliable. I need to take my 2018 mbpro to replace the keyboard next week (same issue, one button is registered twice from time to time)
I have spent a few evenings playing with early releases. I like the ‘turtles all the way down’ idea, but I am waiting to see more mature releases. I have spent much more time with TensirFlowJS that works well, has many great examples.
From what I understand this is mostly because they hired the Swift guy.
I understand the benefits compared to Python (although I would have preferred Go or Kotlin). But what happens when the guy eventually moves on in a year or two?
That is not what their employees talk about at CppCon, LLVM conferences, ISO C++ meetings, Java Language Summit (yes they come around in spite of Android).
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.
Isn't the line between the two indeed blurry? Maybe deep learning is machine learning, but modern statistical methods such as elastic net, SVM, and random forests are things data scientists should know about.
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.
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.