skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess he wants to stress that having a degree from Harvard is not as important as one might think. In his case, I guess it was the hardships that took him to the heights; maybe the Harvard degree would not have been any good for him.
> Classical education is DEAD for outstanding individuals.

Fixed that for you. The vast majority of people are not outstanding.
Thanks.

About monads: Feared that too, will remove monad references and add something to the end about monads.
That site thinks I'm a fake, so I question the accuracy of its metrics.
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This is like comparing halloween mask sales volumes to who will be elected.

How many Trumps with that hair are going to be running around at the end of October?
Does the highest scoring pig not get eaten?
Pretty close when you compare the odds and consider the total pool of who could be president. As in 'so close without a microscope I would call them identical'.
I usually use SocialBakers, but it's down right now.

http://www.socialbakers.com/twitter/fakefollowercheck/
"They are nothing for entrepeneurs. (sic)"

Well the exception to that is that having an elite university degree can definitely help getting taken more seriously when fund raising, hiring employees, and gaining customers (as I have found out from personal experience).
> about $1.7 Billion annually maintaining empty or abandoned federal building

and a lot more on killing people overseas.
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When we're looking at how its use of genetic testing acts as a prediction of the future? Makes total sense to me.
I'm guessing OS X's font smoothing is more aggressive and makes it look better than Windows'. It also depends on how the font was hinted for Windows, whereas on OS X, the system "knows best" and has its own font smoothing technique.
I fly standard quadcopters above 10,000ft ASL regularly. Soon I will be on a trip where I will be taking off from aronud 20,000ft. Increase prop size or pitch to compensate and you don't lose any thrust, but you do lose some efficiency, esp. if you go for higher pitch. On Erebus (~ 0.65 atm) I had about half my sea level battery life fully loaded. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMh8kM4o6tk
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it says $90m for 6.5t. it doesn't say how much it costs to put 21t on GTO. i'd expect that price to be in the 'call us' area.

Good point. The later figure does not include a price. OTOH since the price is given for the lower payload which covers all/most the cost of the hardware, one may be a bit angry if the price per kg doesn't drop a lot after that. But they are the only game in town at those prices right?
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The admissions may be random, but apaprently not independent
Do you mean something like this http://www.rocketlabusa.com/
Yup. The thing is, they get so many applicants that they have no reason to care if they miss some good ones. The ones they end up taking are just as good. Any of the elite schools could throw out their entire admitted class, admit their next 2k choices, and no one would be able to tell the difference.

The schools have a huge incentive to admit students who will succeed. They have no incentive to admit all such students. This results in the admissions process that we have today.
"I applied for jobs 30 times - got rejected. I went for the police, they said 'No, you're not good.' I went to even the KFC, when KFC came to China, to my state - 24 people went for the job...23 people were accepted, I was the only guy. And when I went for the police, 5 people - 4 of them accepted, I was the only guy who did not receive it."

Much more motivational than being turned down by Harvard...I seriously doubt he's lying, given that he failed middle school/high school/college exams multiple times.
But before you have to install React UI Builder https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-ui-builder
Heavens, yes. Me, too. Some of the "wrong" samples were very fun -- especially if you like diminished or augmented scales.
Sound and Touch Collide: There might be a little synesthesia in each of us
This is most definitely a bug on Google's side in parsing the passenger names out of the booking email from Germanwings.

I experienced something similar, Google thought that the Geschäftfuhrung (management) at the bottom of the booking email were my co-passengers:

http://i.imgur.com/I8V4ZQN.png
(In this case, Thomas Lindner and Dr. Jochen Wallisch)
Great entrepreneurs don't necessarily make great academics and vice versa.
This looks really awesome. The description language really needs documentation though; it's pretty hard to figure out what to do just from the examples and the parser's source.
Except you can't get a job doing "entrepenuering."

What about when you get acquihired?
I'd like to see a history of betting markets in elections. How accurate have they been in the past?
I was strictly vegetarian for a year, almost to the day, and it was a great experience. I learned a lot about how to cook with new foods and made and ordered foods I might not normally have. I still cook lots of vegetarian meals, although I've switched back to eating meat again.

I ended up switching back because I was missing out on a huge amount of cuisine. Vegetarian and vegan food has plenty of variety, and if our culture swung that way I would have no complaints, but leaving out a big chunk of culture was just too much for me. I also found it was nearly impossible to be vegetarian while traveling in Europe (Netherlands, France, Belgium). A random restaurant in the US has a much higher chance of being accommodating of vegetarian diets than a random restaurant in Europe.

In any case, I would highly recommend a strict vegetarian diet, even if you only do it for a set amount of time. When you're forced to change how you think about food, it really gives you an appreciation for how many varieties of food there are.
Flight at that altitude is mostly problematic for GA aircraft because of the engines. Less air into the engine means less power produced means climbing is harder.

Most small drones these days are electric, so that doesn't happen. It's a bit harder to generate lift from the props in thinner air like that, but you also experience less drag, which balances that out to a large extent.
As somebody who's done a lot of Ruby, I can sympathize with that. But the rationalization is typically very religious: it often turns out that every decision made in the language is obviously the right decision. If you disagree, then you're wrong, and you should just accept it and stop questioning it. (This is not hyperbole. People actually say this.)

The Go community can be really problematic and condescending. Which is another reason why Elixir appeals to me: you get treated like a person.
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Personality test: What sort of data center manager are you?
One of my colleagues has done some investigations into the effect of density on multirotor performance before.

I don't have time to run the model for this specific case, but from a similar case with a lower air density of 0.71kg/m^2 (40c at 4km altitude) a simple quad uses ~20% more power in a stationary hover than at sea level.

Interestingly at high flight speeds (15-20m/s) you could actually start to see power savings at this altitude, as the parasitic drag of the vehicle body is reduced.
The example the parent picked — unused imports being an error — isn't an instance of Unix philosophy at all.

Unused imports flagged as an error is great for production code, but infuriating during developing, when you need to work with a lot of tentative code, the most basic of which involves printing.

Having to add, remove, then re-add "fmt" or "log" just to keep the compiler happy is not a Unix-philosophical issue around language design, it's just an unnecessary strictness.

Go is "opinionated", but it tends to err on the side of impracticality, a kind of distorted, prematurely-optimized YAGNI that disrupts developer efficiency in the name of simplicity. "go get"'s obstinate simplicity is firmly in this category.

Go gets a lot of stuff right, of course. And the tools — the "go" tool, compiler toolchain, gofmt, debugger, godoc etc. — are clearly good Unix citizens, of course.
There was a post on reddit/r/multicopter a while ago of prop thrust at different air pressures with the same current. It's pretty much exactly what you're asking for.

https://i.imgur.com/Z5toIVm.jpg

Assuming air pressure at 10000 ft is ~69kpa, and sea level is ~100kpa, there really doesnt appear to be much of a difference, except for medium-sized props, which had very interesting thrust outputs- gaining efficiency at low rpm and loosing a lot at high rpm.

Anyway, point being is a 250 class quad could pretty easily fly at 10000 feet. Not particularly well, but considering 1:4 (or even 1:8) thrust ratios arent uncommon with 250 class quads they could still pull it off.

Now, idk about bigger quads like the phantom/iris, their props have quite different geometries which probably act quite differently.
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Anyone have any input as to the current state of this game?

I was a massive X series fan right up until Terran Conflict and Albion Prelude and was looking forward to Rebirth more than any other game I've ever played.

Unfortunately the game was a huge disappointment. Not just in terms of the bugs and lack of stability but what I saw as the extreme dilution of the mechanics and gameplay elements that had become staples of the series.

It felt very much like a console game that had been ported to PC and was incredibly limited in scope compared to its predecessors.

Egosoft are good with patches and free updates though so I was hoping over time it would approach something like what I envisioned from an entry into the X series.

I haven't touched the game since a week or so after release.
Have you ever worked on an engineering team?
Not really, Go uses duck typing for interfaces. You declare an interface to require functions X, Y, and Z. Any type that has functions X, Y, and Z suddenly implements that interface whether you want it to or not.
I am a Rock. Come and cry on my shoulder next time your HVAC engineer says the part he needs will take two weeks to arrive...
You can't fight a cargo cult because they are proud of their irrational beliefs—they tie their backwards rituals into their private self image. You can't out rationalize them because you aren't fighting their tools—you are fighting their perception of themselves. That's a thing people will die for.

The only way out is to get them focusing on a new cult instead, thereby changing their self-ego attachment to less broken and less dangerous ideas.

edit: lol downvotes
What is a jiffy?
Shit Wives Say
It is an interesting claim. I think Harvard would still reject him, he doesn't seem to fit in with what a "Harvard Man" is.

The mistake is thinking that Harvard wants all the successful people in the world to go there, as far as I can tell they don't. Every private University recruits from their "tribe" whether it is 'quirky' at Reed or 'cosmopolitan' at Harvard, while not discriminating on race, religion, Etc they do pick people who create a community "like them".

The weird conflict comes in when someone like Jack, who by many accounts would have not "fit in" with the community at Harvard (he would have been fine at MIT I suspect) but Jack gets focused on "Harvard is the 'best' so I really want to go there." which isn't focused on the question of whether it is the best for him.

I really encourage folks to find a college that fits them rather than picking a college by some score it has. If you are lucky the college will reject you if you don't fit and that will save you from a bad experience there, if you are unlucky you'll get in and hate the experience.
There is so much more to this video than Jack Ma's rejection from Harvard. His company, Alibaba, is second only to Walmart in e-commerce business. He talks about Alibaba's success internationally (places like Russia and Norway). He also talks about the company's relationship with government regarding technology projects and privacy.
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This same math can be applied to the MLB World Series. (I'm in Toronto, which means for the first time since the early 90s, baseball is interesting!)

Instead of primaries, there's Pennants. Instead of general elections, there's the World Series.

http://www.vegasinsider.com/mlb/odds/futures/

Right now, the Jays are the second most likely team to win their Pennant (2/1 vs 9/5 for the Royals). But at the same time, they are the most likely to win the World Series (17/4 vs 9/2 for the Royals). In terms of the original article, the Jays are more 'electable' than the Royals.

I have no idea how this should affect betting strategies, but it sure is interesting from a statistics point of view.
> They are nothing for entrepeneurs.

This is absolutely false. Great colleges are extremely hard, and in top programs kids are always fighting for life to not get kicked out.

To me, CMU taught invaluable lessons in hard work, getting kicked in the teeth over and over, surviving mostly on coffee and alcohol, and persisting till success comes along. All these lessons help while starting a startup.

A great college program will make graduate's problems feel small in comparison to what they put him through.

Besides, starting a company is not the only entrepreneurial work one can do. Is Sundar Pichai less or more entrepreneurial than Zuckerberg? There are far more ways to inhibit courage than starting a company.
This was true at UVA. Independent study was allowed, but not advertised, at least when I was there (late-90s).

Paying per credit wasn't a problem, as tuition was fixed for full-time students.
many, if not most, find meaning of life in kids. for me, it's a bit more more broad - kids and future generations as part of mankind.

your selfish behavior would pollute planet unnecessarily, taking away precious resources, giving back more pollution. you might not care what will happen after you pass away, but I do.

(I say this as a space lover whose biggest dream is to get to space one time... but there are far more important things in life than polishing one's ego, which can be anyway achieved in many, many ways. climbed Matterhorn last week, that's a good starter I can recommend to some :))
If you want to see what clients are connected to your network you have to login into your router (typing username & password), navigate to its WiFi or DHCP client tables and then try to match MAC addresses with real clients. What I tried to do is mostly time saving. You can have information about hostnames, MACs, MAC manufacturers and status via the web.
I greatly enjoy that bit, but it's also totally wrong. "Near" is not the same as "nearly." It's "near" as opposed to "far." It's a miss which is near.
There's a good chance you had to do real, material work before that happens though (unless you have friends in high places that get you on-boarded to Google before you even release a product).

and, 'acquihire' without actually building a successful product is the ultimate entreper-poser move, isn't it? You didn't build something users want, you just showed you can be a worthwhile employee for a larger corporate entity.

Private success isn't always progress.
Why get paid once for a seat when you can get paid twice?
I bet this was inspired by the "Lisp in your language" post from last week, where somebody did it in JavaScript.

That got me to work on a Python version (using tuples, for maximum parentheses), but it got put on the back burner because my life took a turn for the busy lately.
I'm surprised that people still find such claims interesting. Colleges like Harvard are so popular that many people like Ma are inevitably going to be excluded. It doesn't mean much. There are at least three things going on:

1) Harvard has to make its decision on the basis of limited information.

2) Even if Harvard had perfect information, there are probably more 'ideal' candidates in the world than Harvard could hope to admit. Most are still going to be excluded.

3) Just because Jack Ma has become successful doesn't mean he would have been a good fit for Harvard. Success in entrepreneurship is not the ultimate educational goal for all (or even most) people, and does not necessary reflect all the qualities that a school like Harvard wants in its students (except, cynically, the ability to make big donations later in life...).

So where does this leave us? Don't beat yourself up if you don't get into Harvard. Most successful people didn't. But, at the same time, actually going to Harvard (and schools like it) remains an incredible opportunity for those who are admitted and have suitably aligned educational goals.
I don't even think quadcopters could produce 20% thrust at that height... which is pretty bad as consumer quads have something like a 2:1 thrust/weight ratio, maybe 3:1. High quality racing quads can get 8:1, but those have tiny batteries.
I think that (rejected from KFC) is a variation of the "humble brag". A way of attempting to relate to people that are not billionaires as if to say "hey keep plugging away you could be me one day!".

The fact is we don't know if the story is true first or why the KFC manager rejected him. Perhaps the KFC manager spotted that a guy like Jack was not simple enough or was to motivated or intense to stay for more than a week at that job. Not unusual for any company anywhere to reject people they feel are overqualified for a particular job for any number of reasons. Just because you tell Apple or Google you would be happy to start sweeping floors with your masters degree in computer science doesn't mean they are going to offer you a job doing that even if you would do a damn good job cleaning those floors.
Barack Obama went to Columbia, which is literally in the same league as Harvard. He also went to Harvard Law after undergrad, so I don't think he fits your narrative.

We don't need to include how an elite university selects their students to claim that they are going to miss a lot of brilliant and innovative people. The mere fact that they admit only thousands of people a year make this necessarily so.
Maybe that's the best thing that ever happened to him? If he had gone to Harvard, he could very well have ended up as a well-paid, well-connected cog in a huge corporation.

Whatever, I find it useless to think about what 1-in-a-billion entrepreneurs do or don't do. Harvard is a fine university and anyone who gets admitted should count themselves lucky and privileged. Those that don't, well, there's plenty of other excellent options.
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> BTW the most popular Lem quote in Poland is "Before I used the internet I had no idea how many idiots there are".

BTW there is no source for him actually saying that, it is all attributed and unsourced. It is a neat quote though. http://pikio.pl/przeglad-lgarstw-internetowych/ http://forum.lem.pl/index.php/topic,855.0.html http://x3.cdn03.imgwykop.pl/c3201142/comment_hLFoFsfYMX1rSeZ...
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Usually the balloon flyers must post a NOTAM (notice to air men) which pilots request from the local tower prior to takeoff or landing.
@jcfrei, I agree. One has to take into consideration the circumstances one is raised in, culture etc. That plays a huge role also. When you read about Jack Ma, although he failed to get a job at KFC, that did not deter him but rather egged him on. He is/was just a hustler with a keen eye to identify opportunities in the worse situations.
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Pretty sure that a lot of people who hate Donald Trump are following him on social media because he's the most likely person to say something outrageous.
Here's an anecdote. Habeas roamed free all day, but went back into his pen at night. Around dusk in the summer, it became hard to get close to him. He'd browse around in the grass, pretending to not notice you, but try to get close and he'd wander away, keeping about 6 feet between.

His pen was a wire fence ring around a tree (so he couldn't push it around the yard). I sat down next to the wire and ignored him.

He came closer to me, just to be companionable, still browsing in the grass head down. Silently I picked up the wire fence, moved it over him, set it down so now he was inside the ring.

After a minute he glanced up, looked around in a panicky way, and began to scream! You tricked me! Oh he was mad, charged around yelling.

So anyway, pigs are smart.
You could probably install something like pfsense or untangle and get a whole heck of a lot more tools. Or even dd-wrt. I'm assuming the drivers exist for this.
Apart from the absurd overuse of quotation marks that you linked, "remaining scrupulously neutral" is indeed a general editorial policy of the BBC. They tend to "report the controversy" - i.e. report that "some people think A, while others think B" rather than weighing the factual support or veracity of either position.

However everyone still has their own personal biases, and from time to time the hosts do inject their personal positions on the less scripted programs (eg the BBC World Service radio program). I actually dislike this as well, because it's not factually-based or institutionally overseen. It's just a host deciding to mock a position or slam a guest on his own. There is a difference between journalism and editorializing, and I have a particular problem when an institution that has a policy of being scrupulously neutral will refuse to touch factual bias but allows their hosts to go off and editorialize. It's not all that frequent, but it really bugs me when I hear it happen.

Another problem is that there's always bias just from what stories get selected as newsworthy and what positions are represented within them. There's an Overton Window inherently represented by that. Overall I do think the BBC does a pretty good job on that one at least.

As an aside - try watching CSPAN after a big state event or something when they do the call-ins. They have the most hilariously stone-faced hosts I've ever seen. To avoid the appearance of bias they will take literally anyone, and they get the full range of people, both in political opinions and sanity. "I THINK THAT OBAMA IS A SECRET CHRONONAUT FROM MARS! HE..." "Thank you caller. Now to Susan from Rhode Island,...". They must have their emotions surgically removed or something.
Just want to add that as much as I dislike scala syntax, this future based workflow with the Play Framework is ridiculous fast. If you can factor your controllers and request most of the models in parallel things get really fast.

Does exists something similar in another language, with a good web framework? I really like the performance, but the syntax throws me off a bit.
There's a pretty good book called "War of the Whales" by Joshua Horwitz that discusses the work of whale researcher Ken Balcomb to convince the Navy to limit sonar operations.
A (very basic) version in Lua/LPEG I did a while ago:

https://gist.github.com/polymeris/857a7ae31db0d240ef3f