skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I certainly do think what you have described it's a well accepted stereotype, and it may well be true in your anecdotal experience, but I don't think there's been any real evidence that Asian applicants, as a whole, are nothing but test taking, piano/violin playing robots or are as a whole less well-rounded (by whatever measure) than white applicants.

As for your own experience, prop 209 passed in California banned the state, including state universities, from considering race, so you were not judged by any heightened Asian standard like some other schools.
A far better measure is the London-NY time record comparison. 777-200 did it in 5.27 hours on Jan 15 (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1...).

Concorde record was 2.88 hours (2h 53 minutes).

Ratio = 1.83:1. Much higher than the confusing Sydney comparison (1.25:1) with its stopovers.
AWESOME that it's SVG but dot/graphviz supports SVG output.

What I've been doing is I just have a dir of .dot files and then I have a gen.sh script which writes the SVG/PNG files.

Dot is a bit more low level but more powerful. Great for documenting protocols or state machines.
Have you ever played a game after reading the rules and determining that it is mathematically impossible for you to win?

Politics will never cease to be a complete waste of time for some people until the rules are changed such that all evidence of their participation is not completely eradicated before the results are determined.

Should all those people who vote Green or Libertarian or Constitution parties in their U.S. elections just double down on their efforts and vote harder? Should they steer even more conversations into long-winded tirades about politics?

I have sampled the "getting more involved" tactic. It is worse than a waste of time. Sometimes you suffer retaliation for "rubbing the cat the wrong way". If you want to make a difference, vote with your feet, and vote with your wallet. Voting with your vote only lends support to those who believe that voting means you must meekly accept the results.

It seems odd to suggest that if you hate something, you should do it more. If you truly despite politics, you should be exploring other means to accomplish your goals. Start a nonprofit business. Create an advocacy group. Create a community nexus for like-minded individuals to trade ideas. Write a book that browbeats your personal opinions into the reader with the help of a flimsy sci-fi plot line. Hell, create a for-profit business, and spend the profits on the thing you wanted the government to do.
Yet often, military humanitarian missions are in relief to atrocities caused by... other militaries.
I was always confused by the difference between the two, even thought they might be different entities. This will minimize confusion in the future, glad to see the change.
The webpage states the following:

"Research shows that 2 to 5 percent of the U.S. population has problems with pitch perception."
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I don't buy it. What if the miss wasn't near? Would it be a far miss? An average miss? What exactly is the point at which you go from colliding to a near miss, to any other kind of miss? It's redundant language.
Quoting facts from a story that rebut someone's theory isn't "rhetoric of casually discounting", even if you don't like where those facts take us.
I had the same agitated reactions upfront. However, the same software presented differently, and suddenly youve a fun option to travel around a city and expand your photography. It could be a fun option for some, and obviously could be used maliciously as a form of control. All that said, though, this being the highlight of the camera is ridiculous. The times I want a regular camera with normal societal uses greatly outweighs the fun of this: Furthermore, I am an artist, and would find that this would greatly reduce my photography - sometimes surreal things happen in mundane but popular places.
I created a fake business and bought it an amazing online reputation
I made that "technically speaking" statement in the context of "I don't feel like installing a not well established ssh server replacement on hosts at work". I thought, maybe Galanwe has concerns about security and the fact that mosh builds on ssh instead of replacing it might be a counter argument.
I swear i have seen this in play regarding a certain open source project...
Sure, the shift in delivery mechanisms provided a lot of incentive to move to faster deployment.

But I should note that a great deal of software in ye olden dayes was in-house software, and that still ran on 3-18 month cycles. And that wasn't because of technological limitations; my dad was delivering new versions of software every few days even in the 70s. It's just that the conceptual model and the dogma pushed in the direction of long, heavily-planned release cycles. The Internet's main contribution here was to make short cycles not only possible for commercial releases, but competitively advantageous in an obvious way.
I'm going with drunk/nonexistent copyeditor, but the Beeb did publish this recently: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34204052
> We’re still stuck with mostly “von Neumann style” languages that talk about state and assignment and memory and stuff — computer things, not idea things.

Maybe there is a good reason for this beyond something simple like inertia? On the other hand I sure don't want to be stuck doing backward things—wait a minute—is this more pop culture masquerading as insight?
For comparison:

Here's the same thing in modern Python: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10221707
We should turn adobe photo shop into a web browser!
Was your last landlord a jerk hellbent on ruining your life? Good luck being anyone's roommate. - The Future
Elon Musk making enemies fast in Texas Gulf Coast hamlet hosting SpaceX launches
To a first approximation every country in the world has an interest in backdooring Cisco routers, so if the vector for accomplishing that is as dumb as default passwords, why exactly would you single NSA out for that? Nobody's saying it couldn't have been NSA --- like China, Russia, France, Israel, &c NSA also backdoors foreign routers --- only that this story doesn't point to NSA directly.

The moral drama in this story is much less interesting than the technical phenomenon, especially when we barely have an inkling of what's happening technically.
The New York marathon has around 50K finishers. Many of the finishers will have friends and family taking pictures of them crossing the finish line.

That will end up generating many similar pictures taken from near one area and within a short time.
I'm not sure this project does "automate decision making." I'd argue that the intent is to encourage you to expand your photographic reputare beyond generic tourist snaps and other bland over-done photos.

My biggest criticism isn't the intent which I think could be legitimately useful. My issue is that they make assumptions about a photo's originality based purely on GPS coordinates, which is too simplistic.

I've taken terrible photos in unusual locations (e.g. taking pictures of pretty flowers in a field). I've also taken amazing photos in tourist traps by finding a different perspective, or just happened across a great picture opportunity.

In an ideal world this camera would use GPS and aim to determine how generic your picture really is (e.g. shooting straight up into the bottom of the Eiffel tower isn't original, sorry. But shooting the Eiffel tower with a bunch of toy Eiffel towers on a souvenir stand in the foreground is at least a little).
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My Statement: MOSH is a replacement for SSH

Joe - you changed the very words from SSH to sshd, sshd is just the server side of SSH really what does that matter at all? What part of "Mosh is a replacement for ssh (the client), but not for sshd, as it relies on it to make a connection" Is any different than my whole previous post?

Read my statement on SSH being replaced. The sshd connection is actually totally and completely replaced with a UDP MISH connection and sshd no longer works after the connection is authorization. So in action SSH connection is shut down and handed over to MOSH (AKA Replaces the Connection) Also it is so you never use SSH for your work except to be authorized by your keys.

>OpenSSH also is not meant to be replaced, which also has not been claimed in your link

My Link - The official website for MOSH. The only statement is that they think MOSH is more secure than OpenSSL and OpenSSH. But yes it replaces OpenSSH and SSH. It replaces the very connection it makes and it replaces SSH or OpenSSH with MOSH to handle EVERYTHING except that initial handshake authorization.

Please Quote your source for "which also has not been claimed in your link"

I say look at the mirror. Joe the statement is 100% true MOSH is a replacement for SSH in purpose, programming and in practice. Where is it okay to say that MOSH is a replacement for SSH is wrong in any sense besides it is a requirement?
Prolog Well-Formed Pages
But one example does prove that a general rule like "state intervention on innovation is considered harmful" is too shallow to be useful.
> At 10000ft, pressure is around 30kpa.

Do you mind if I ask where you are getting that pressure value from?

The ICAO Standard Atmosphere gives a value of 70kPa for 10,000ft.
> That drove most other candidates from the race

Given the unusually crowded Republican field, that's hard to defend as consistent with reality. "Resulted in most of the other candidates that were seen as likely and viable by the mainstream establishment staying out of the race" is, perhaps, not as obviously contrary to reality.
Did you read the article before downvoting me?

Let me spell this out for you...

A Facebook app, is an app made by facebook, which obviously i'm referencing the one that they are talking about in the article your commenting on. And yes, it was made using React Native. Any more questions before you read the article?
Progressive enhancement for JavaScript is not only a accessibility and usability issue, it has become a security issue. Tor enabled JavaScript by default, because the web would break without JavaScript support, and that hampered adoption rates of Tor.

We already had a programmable web. If anything we are moving away from machine-readable code.

If progressive enhancement does not fit your development style, and takes too much time to build, well... fine. I see this not as a fault of progressive enhancement, but in your approach. To me it is akin to saying that writing unit tests takes you too much time, and hence, testing makes no sense.
JDK 9: Highlights from the State of the Module System
Prolog Well-formed Pages
Russia: Google Abuses Position with Android App Bundling
Your right, when I say a facebook app, I literally mean an application, developed by facebook.
Scientists say California hasn’t been this dry in 500 years
Leveraging Aerospike in Docker Effectively
before SO/github there was usenet and good quality books, but then again we didn't have a new framework to learn every day, personally once I bought my O'Reilly X/Motif series I was set for quite some time!
This would be really painful. Many of my passwords are more than 20 characters all over the keyboard, and I probably fill in passwords 20 times per day.

Instead, I just use KeePass, which I protect with an offline SSH key as well as a strong password. In order to compromise my passwords, you'd need my KeePass database, access to one of my devices (laptop, desktop, but not phone), and my password.
stackoverflow is also part-wiki, so depreciating questions isn't as likely as someone coming around and updating the answers
SocioCaster
I live in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, which has about 50,000 people in 3-4 square miles, depending on how you count it. I just signed up for NextDoor (and I find it incredibly creepy that they publicly display my address by default), and found that there are 1200 people who have signed up out of 50,000 possible users. 2.4% is probably a high water mark for signups, and it looks like only a couple hundred people participate on here regularly.
Show HN: Generate SVG pie charts from the command line
Introduction to Virtualization Technologies
Building for others (2012)
This reminded me of O'Keefe's Prolog Well-formed Pages, one of the cleanest templating approaches.

http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/staffpriv/ok/pwp.pl
it reminds me of the Einstein was bad at math myth.
Economic competitors who are not really potential enemies are targets of surveillance.
That’s why you’d use neither of those.
Right. But nobody is trying to force anyone to use this, the whole point is to help people take original and interesting pictures.

If you want to take family pictures of a race event, just use a regular camera, not a specialised artistic one.
Much of the criticisms that I've read about prolog are very specific about prolog (I am not an expert here, though).

Further, the fact that prolog-like languages (be kanren-like languages part of those or not) have issues should not be a basis for discarding all of them. Useful niches can be found, and their problems might be solved.

More in general, the idea that I can take a function, and provide an argument less, and a result, and the function is inverted (in a mathematical sense) for free, seems very, very powerful. The main alternative is to have two functions, one the inverse of another, that use the same building blocks for reuse, but that puts a cognitive overhead to the program, whereas a person understands most inversions quite easily.
1. It may have significant vertical speed by the time it hits 25 km.

2. It may be of a different constitution by the time it hits 25 km (larger droplets drop faster; extreme example: hail), giving it a higher terminal velocity.

(I don't know whether any of these is true)
FB's GraphQL APIs are only used by our first-party applications; for third-party APIs (where you don't control the callers), it definitely gets trickier for the reasons you note. One option would be to do some analysis of the query in advance (effectively, assign each field a "cost"), and reject queries that have too high of a cost. The "cost" metric could basically be "around how many objects will this return", so in the

user {friends {friends {friends {friends{id}} } } }

case (which is the canonical example in FB's schema of a crazy query), we would note that there's a 5000 friend limit, and so that query would potentially query 5000^4 = 6.25e14 nodes, and based on that we would (hopefully) reject it.
You do hear about ORMs though, which I think supports your point that SQL is better at what it does (than an ORM).
> rhetoric of casually discounting the possibility

Rhetoric: language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect on its audience. Casually: without definite or serious intention.

From a logical standpoint, that sentence fragment is a representation of cognitive dissonance given it states there is and is not intent to impress (raise interest). I'd consider rephrasing it.
Clearly since Russia messed with Ukraine SpaceX' well being now has a national security aspect to it. Government support will be there for it if for nothing else but a goad for NASA to work faster.

They might be behind schedule but Musk is known for setting unrealistically aggressive targets. His companies may missed the milestones but they're still streets ahead of anyone else.

SpaceX' track record has been nothing short of amazing so far and is likely to continue once it get's its supply chain wrinkles ironed out.
Tivo?
>> 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.

That's not necessarily true. The Falcon 9 has the potential to be reused, but requires additional fuel reserves in order to handle the return procedure. I'm not certain, but it's possible that a full 21t payload wouldn't allow for that additional fuel capacity and therefore your single launch would have to account for the entire cost of the rocket, whereas smaller payloads would be able to spread the cost of the rocket across multiple launches.
If anybody is interested in Prolog, you might find this old blog post of mine useful. I cataloged a number of pretty useful online (freely available, legal) Prolog learning resources:

http://fogbeam.blogspot.com/2013/05/prolog-im-going-to-learn...

Sadly I've only just now finally gotten around to investing some time in to trying to learn Prolog myself. I got as far as creating myself a Github repo[1] and writing "Hello, World" and figuring out how to run Prolog programs at least. It's not much, but ya gotta start somewhere.

[1]: https://github.com/mindcrime/LearningProlog
How an Software Engineer Used Open Source to Make a Bestselling Novel and Movie
Yet interestingly you can buy a Ferrari which goes more or less 2x as fast as, say, a VW Golf GTI and costs 10x the price, and there is burgeoning demand for the former. So if those economics apply in the air as well (speed = luxury / exclusivity), we should be able to sell cross-atlantic tickets for somewhere between 10 and 20x the price of a midrange air ticket which I would suggest is premium economy. So we're talking in the 10-20k USD range per seat.

My recollection is that noise regulations and landing rights to landlocked cities in the US killed Concorde. Not seat prices.
How does Facebook "subscribe" to their GraphQL queries so that everything in the UI updates in realtime?
Patrick doesn't seem to be here yet, so I'll deliver his line for him: This is the human version of making lots of small tweaks to your website and to your advertising. If you can find a 1% improvement to your advertising clickthrough rate and a 1% improvement to your conversion rate every day, by the end of the month you'll have nearly doubled your sales.
A Gaming Platform to Engage Your Dog's Brain
Lapcat is a project from the same company that's doing Skylon (Reaction Engines, Ltd.); it's a different application of similar propulsion technology, with an airframe redesigned to suit.
> I'd like to see a history of betting markets in elections. How accurate have they been in the past?

IIRC, like polls, they are fairly accurate -- if you look at the state of the market at the last point before the election.

Earlier than that, not so much.
I haven't been able to find much about the legalities involved in these restrictions. How can a private company impose restrictions on public roads and beaches and land they don't own? Is there a governmental agency that will actually be imposing these rules? I can imagine the FAA clearing the airspace, of course, but what about the land/water?
Here is what I think about this...

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In conclusion, stop breaking HN.
For me, it was a lot of forums, mailing lists, and Planet Source Code.
Austin looks like it will pass San Jose soon, making 4 of the top 10 cities by population in Texas.
"Mind you, empires are driven by a dominant culture and group. The question then becomes: who would play (or is playing) that role in the EU?"

I had quite an acidic comment originally about this first but then realized up-to-date political debate is out of context for HN. But yes, to me in light of history this is a huge thing - and is mostly ignored in daily discussion.
They've definitely been fixed in 1Password. I think they were fixed in the next version after the paper. They've discussed it pretty openly on their blog, but it was shortly after the paper was released and that's been a few years.
Their function is to both perform War and to project enough strength that War is undesirable to other parties.

What is the reasonable argument that this institution should prioritize Whale protection in that continuum?

I am arguing against you, but I am pro-whale, pro-dolphin, pro-environment. I am trying to make the point that "why not?" is a silly question. It's not simple. People need to fight for doing the right thing here. The Navy's job is "war." If your institution is in possession of & has the opportunity to use nuclear weapons, you aren't spending time focusing on "doing nice things".
A Very Gentle Introduction to Relational and Functional Programming
What I meant by "automate decision making" is that there should be some measure of critical thought that goes into taking a photograph. How will I compose the frame? What am I really trying to capture?

This camera answers "Do a lot of other people take photos here?" which, as you point out, is an overly simplistic measure of a good photo.

But if you take this idea a little further and run some of that fancy deep-learnin' stuff of on your photos to search for common photography tropes (Oh, a macro shot of a flower? Pfft. Been done!), then you're just relegating more of your critical thinking to a machine.
New efficiency record for solar hydrogen production is 14 percent
Incredible how people yell that this is immoral and 'fucked up'. People who have no clue about whether the pigs are disturbed by this and whether they have another place to be if they don't like the light. Maybe they like the game? And even if they didn't - we eat them later, for heaven's sake. People today are crying moralists and wimps. Always go 'mi mi' complaining when something new pops up. Meanwhile people starve and get slaughtered worse than pigs and nobody bats an eye, haha.
Since there's much evidence we're not the only ones here who cringe at this use of "unicorns", we replaced it with "successful startups" in the title. If anyone thinks of a better substitution, we can change it again. (Edit: we changed it again.)
British Man Fined for Misuse of Drones
Conservative group launches $1M anti-Trump ad campaign in Iowa
Amazon founder Bezos unveils rocket plant, launch pad in Florida
read the article. He did talk to people "in management" at a couple of places and only one took the suspect ATM offline.

demanding that he "work with at least one authority figure" is a bit naive in Mexico.
Because investors in Europe are a bunch of pathetic spineless banker types.
Thanks! I ran into some problems running instantserver but would like to get it back online sometime. Your version looks great, best of luck!
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The Best Algorithms of the 20th Century [pdf]
What Google's Support of Open Source Means for Cloud
Travis-CI API under attack
There has been a growing community of developers that advocate better documentation these days. Check out the Write The Docs[0] community and their awesome wiki[1].

[0]: http://conf.writethedocs.org/

[1]: http://docs.writethedocs.org/
Last time I flew trans-Atlantic -- last month -- in-flight wifi with mid-ocean coverage was available for $30. And we've got Facebook, SpaceX, et al promising us all clusters of satellites delivering broadband everywhere on the planet within 5-10 years.

As the energy cost of high speed travel goes up with the square of the velocity, it'd be a whole lot cheaper to stick to subsonic travel in business class -- lie-flat beds, in-flight showers, and broadband. How many people are willing to pay $10,000+ to save 10-15 hours on the flight time from LHR-SYD or LAX-Tokyo? Especially when the accommodation during hypersonic flight is going to be cramped and spartan due to weight constraints (and it's still going to involve security theater at the gate and waiting hours for a scheduled departure time to roll round)?

I can believe in Aerion's supersonic Mach 1.5 bizjet -- the core market is CEOs wanting to bounce over to the opposite coast of the USA and back for a meeting within the same working day -- but I just don't believe there's going to be a mass market for hypersonic antipodeal travel on a commercial scheduled service.