What are some ways to make implementation of company-wide single sign-on successful? This question was originally answered on Quora by Sai Ramanan.

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Dale Nirvani Pfeifer grew up sharing sidewalks with penguins (true story), and daydreaming against the vast blue skies of her native New Zealand. But the Founder & CEO of GoodWorld, a tech startup that makes donating easy on social media, always knew her destiny was in America.

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What will happen to data scientists as querying data gets easier? This question was originally answered on Quora by William Chen.

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In a ruling today, the Wisconsin Supreme Court sanctioned the use of COMPAS risk assessment scores about a defendant’s potential recidivism in sentencing, so long as judges receive written warnings about the value of such scores and don’t rely on them exclusively. In that case, Eric Loomis challenged the trial court’s use of COMPAS scores in sentencing on due process grounds. Defendant’s argument boiled down to this: it was unfair to rely on a score whose accuracy cannot be assessed, interrogated, and challenged. Loomis and his attorneys certainly had notice about the score, but how the private company Northpointe came up with it was a mystery. The scoring system is a trade-secret protected black box, as my colleague Frank Pasquale would say.

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