skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
an alternative argument that is neither based in "erasing privilege" or "increasing diversity" nor any other possible reason for affirmative action (or some other kind of quota system).

disclaimer: this is conjecture, so please humor me. I don't have citations. this is a thought experiment for the sake of discussion.

suppose that the aspects by which Asian-American students claim they excel in, and claim as the basis for why they ought to have higher acceptance rates at certain universities, are actually not considered very valuable by those universities?

example: standardized test scores. SAT or ACT or some similar thing. maybe its true that the average standardized test score amongst Asian-American university applicants is higher than that of the general population. what advantage is that if the standardized test score itself is not something being highly valued by the admissions officer?

what would falsify that claim? examples of applicants from other cohorts being over-represented at the same average standardized test score levels.

under-representation of another group with similar test scores would not falsify the claim that standardized test scores are not considered valuable. if they're not important than there is some other criteria being selected for.

over-representation of another cohort would, however, evidence some kind of discrimination. the claim is that over-performance in standardized test scores ought to lead to over-representation in admissions. if it does for one group that over-performs but not another that also over-performs that does look like discrimination.
In zsh I can paste (or paste) into the browser (FF) I get

ls ; clear; echo 'Haha! You gave me access to your computer with sudo!'; echo -ne 'h4cking ## (10%)\r'; sleep 0.3; echo -ne 'h4cking ### (20%)\r'; sleep 0.3; echo -ne 'h4cking ##### (33%)\r'; sleep 0.3; echo -ne 'h4cking ####### (40%)\r'; sleep 0.3; echo -ne 'h4cking ########## (50%)\r'; sleep 0.3; echo -ne 'h4cking ############# (66%)\r'; sleep 0.3; echo -ne 'h4cking ##################### (99%)\r'; sleep 0.3; echo -ne 'h4cking ####################### (100%)\r'; echo -ne '\n'; echo 'Hacking complete.'; echo 'Use GUI interface using visual basic to track my IP'
ls -lat

Which seems like it would be pretty stupid for me to press enter. Which if we're talking security it seems to more sane thing to do is not automatically send commands that are pasted in. Zsh being secure and bash not. I feel this is more a developer issue than user.
ES proposal: Shared memory and atomics
Before Christmas there was definitely a large Oculus branded popup in a few locations near me. I think it still makes sense for Oculus to remain a separate brand.
Lemniscate Progress View for Android
> The point is that people shouldn't be littering their text with hard line breaks just to support software that can't do word-wrapping properly.

How can the software guess whether a given line should be wrapped (text), should not be wrapped (code), should be wrap-indented (list item) or should be wrap-prefixed (quote block) when it's only given raw bytes assumed to be text without further information?
I'm saying this as a Node.js user myself so I'm not putting down Node but... Node.js is not a "Framework"

Sails.js is a framework. You could argue that Express is. But Node itself if not.
This is it. For example, I have a fact in my swipe file about how when you put a young turtle in a small aquarium, it will only grow to a size that fits the tank. The next time I need to write about personal growth, I'll probably be able to use that as a hook.
Not really. Their job is to keep astronauts safe. Glitz and glam don't keep astronauts safe, boring does.

Flashy lights and colors will most likely distract the astronauts in flight.
This is really awful, for it to work well you would need to buy multiple keys and each time use them all to register (which precludes the option of storing the backup key somewhere safe).

Straight from the yubico website:
"It is recommended that users register at least two U2F devices with every service provider should a U2F device be misplaced"

That's just a plain usability nightmare, and not to mention expensive.

The trezor one works a lot more sanely for u2f, you get a recovery key when you first set it up (it uses the screen to output it, so even if your computer has malware it can't be compromised) and can leave it in a safe at your friends place.
Yup. I already formatted/reinstalled everything.. beefed up the encryption usage.. pretty much changed to a whitelist of domains on my tomato router and got me some OTP/U2F devices.. need to switch to Tor for browsing though.. and what else would people recommend?
Except sudo has a 15 minute timeout. So there's a decent chance someone has used sudo in that time.
... and specs? ram, screen res, battery claims ... I'm potentially interested!
What about programs that, by design, run indefinitely and do useful things? Say, a server that just responds to requests as they come. Is that "not a real program" for purposes of CH?

Or what about ones with side effects?

It seems to assume away a lot of (what is called) programs in actual practice.
No. If there is something I need to keep track of or be reminded I use notes + reminder app on iOS.
I'll answer these questions one by one:

> Do you keep a personal journal?

For the last two years I've written a journal entry almost every day. Some days I didn't write, like during travels, but I added information about these days afterwards. Sometimes those entries were pages long and contained conversations or dreams, sometimes it was just: "1. Dezember - 3. Dezember: much work, travelled to Budapest"

I stopped writing about three weeks ago.

> If yes, do you find it useful?
> When journaling, do you try to track any specific aspects of your life or just write about anything that is currently occupying your mind?

My purpose of the journal was to keep track of my motivation and good mood, so I put mostly positively worded events in there, like "* Went to training, despite mismotivation of the last days". I also recorded things that I never / seldom do.

It served that purpose well. I don't need it anymore, that's why I stopped, but I'll probably pick it up again someday.

> What tools would you recommend?

Plaintext Files. Or MacOS Notes. It doesn't matter really. Finding the perfect journal is procrastination to prevent having to write a journal.

> Is there any specific methodology that you follow?

Write an entry for every single day, no matter when, no matter how short it is (but make it at least one grammatically correct sentence). If you forget, just write the entry for yesterday.
Mark the entry with date and time.

> Any advice on how to get the most out of personal journaling?

After doing it for a while, you will develop a feeling about whether and how it benefits you. Follow that feeling.

Apart from that: Keeping a journal will always enable you to reconstruct and remember details of your life 10 years from now. One key sentence is often enough to help you remember the day.

That is why I'm going to pick it up again.
As far as the statistics go, on the application form they ask you for what race you self-identify as. There are only a certain number of checkboxes so a 'half' just has to choose which box to tick. That's the meaning behind the line in [3]: "Asian-American students face an extra source of stress : deciding whether to respond to the application question asking for their race and ethnicity."
Realtime object identification on mobile
SECRET VID OF DAVID CAM MORON SELLING WHITE BRITAIN OUT AT FREEMASON MEETuTube
This may be slightly OT - but the one thing I have always wondered about the 19th century is why Babbage didn't go down the route of Boolean logic/math for computation? Furthermore, why he didn't incorporate and use relays (from telegraphy)? For that matter, why didn't Hollerith?

Ultimately, to me it seems all connected to this "fixed" idea (that is, thinking "inside the box") that computation was about numbers - that there was only calculation and tabulation - counting, iow.

While Boole came up with the math/logic - few pursued the idea of making machines to work with it (a few -did- exist, but were obscure, iirc); embodying logic using electrical circuits would have to wait. Then there was the "revelation" of computation being about symbols, not numbers - which opened everything up.

I'm just kinda rambling here; my apologies. And, hindsight is always easier than foresight, of course. It just bugs me, and makes me wonder what "obvious" ideas we are missing today, that will change the world, that we won't know until we look back. I guess I wonder why many of the most world changing ideas (in the long run) are often very simple, and why did it take so long for humanity to see/discover them? I wonder if anyone has studied this - of if it is something that can be studied...?
Why we're not going to Mars
The most serious ones seem to be 32-bit only, which may provide you some relief / buy you some time if all your servers are 64-bit (though you should probably still upgrade).
I keep a personal journal.

I have yet to find looking back over it useful. I helpful in organising my thoughts when writing it down.

I used to use Day One but now I use a simple web app running that I built to replace Day One and Evernote late last year.

I'd build your own journal setup. Plain text files would likely work too. Make sure to back it up. It's a pain changing the system after you've written out 1000's of entries.

I tend to write about what's going on and what's coming up as well as what I'm thinking / worrying about.

Advice would be to just write it for yourself - assume it'll only ever be read by you. I find that helps me get things down without fussing.
Is this C++14? Can you please explain the "class = ..." template parameter?
> Perl was doing just fine until they fell in the perl6 hole and stagnate

i.e. backward compatibility is king.

Paraphrasing Stroustrup, there are two kinds of languages, those that are full of old cruft and those that are too green to have been proven in the field.
One problem with this is that git gets used as a deployment tool as well as a version control system.

Trying to get something to run on Heroku involved making lots of small changes just to get things to run on the server the same as on my dev machine.

When you do that 10 or 20 times the commit message become somewhat meaningless.
Yes. The smart kids don't help the dumb kids much. The dumb kids more often harm the smart ones though. Sometimes through malice, sometimes just through criminal habits and had behaviors that rub off. Companies and governments don't have a quota of stupid people they have to bring on board, why should schools?

The best education I ever received was in 6th grade. https://megsss.org/elements-curriculum it got progressively worse every year after that program ended.

It is better to increase the effectiveness of your best at the cost of your not best. The best invent/do/produce/control more over their lifetimes. They're also easier to make more effective because they already have a better base to amplify.

If you try to amplify your non best at the cost of your best, you'll find that its very hard to drag them kicking into utility. Most countries / businesses / families are great because of the outliers of greatness in them.

Rising the oceans ever so slightly by cutting down the piers, is a bad deal.
Git copes just fine with long commit messages. Providing the rest of your team is happy with it and your tools can display it ok, just do it.
Some relevant links that might give you a better idea of Google Cloud's current level of investment and technical capability:

- Details of Google's own network (July 2015) [0]

- Some more on reach of Google's network [1]

- Recently publishes security principles paper [2]

- A talk by Urs [3]

- Some customer stories, including folks comparing various cloud providers' networks [4]

[0] https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2015/06/A-Look-Inside-G...

[1] https://youtu.be/n9QtOyp4Mms?t=23m38s

[2] https://cloud.google.com/security/whitepaper

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4lqANaOqVo&index=2&list=PLI...

[4] https://medium.com/google-cloud/i-think-google-cloud-is-the-...

(work at Google Cloud)
There was plenty of time to do something about it. We've been slouching into an imperial presidency for a long time. Democrats could have trimmed it back when they held Congress and the White House. Instead they cheered when Obama said "I have a phone and a pen."

They dismantled checks and balances for temporary tactical advantage because they thought their opponents were a "rump party, mainly confined to the South".
Yes.

I tried to for many years with paper and pen. It never worked for me until I started using DayOne [0] on iOS and Mac. Simply superb design and one of my favorite pieces of software to use because it does (almost) exactly what I want it to .

When I type, I'm able to render my thoughts directly into text, whereas when I write with a pen I have to think about the physical process of writing. I imagine I'm not the only one here who feels this way.

A valid criticism of DayOne is that they don't currently support strong encryption, and their (optional) sync service stores your entries on their server. Their blog said that they are working on a good client side encryption implementation [1], however the last update was some time around the middle of last year [2].

[0] http://dayoneapp.com/

[1] http://dayoneapp.com/2016/05/end-to-end-encryption-for-day-o...

[2] http://dayoneapp.com/2016/08/encryption-update/
Parties become problematic when their tents gets too big: the central organising principle become personality-driven factions. The Democratic party may already have this problem. When push came to shove, the DNC's core concept of itself was as a machine for getting Clinton elected -- even during the primaries, when that absolutely shouldn't have been its mission. On a philosophical level, that's a pretty shitty organizing principle.

No, there are some things that should not be claimed by any one party, because they are foundational to civilization. Science and rationality, for example. There are other things that should be staked out as party territory, so that the parties are based on differentiated principles rather than personalities.

Personally, I'd love an America where rationality was considered foundational and in-your-face religiosity was a differentiating factor, rather than the other way around. Because honestly, that video made my skin crawl.
I recommend revolution against the mullahs.
It would be better if it was a curl piped to bash. Also, I'd love it if there was a curl at the beginning of this to track stats on how many people run it.

Although I suspect the stats would be poisoned by people doing forensics.

Edit: also, I wonder how many things it would break if browser changed copy to only copy visible text.
The Doomsday Clock is the closest it’s been to midnight since 1960
That's just a generic stand-in for any new version control system that becomes popular enough to display Git. For example, Pijul (https://pijul.org), although Pijul specifically won't become popular because it's licensed under AGPL3.
The future of Japanese games may rely on the Nintendo Switch
included in this list are articles from the guardian (7), the atlantic (11), the express (3), breitbart (24) and wikileaks (9). Regardless of your political affiliation, it makes no sense to list all 5 of those sources as fake news. It does seem like you've picked up some legit fake news sources as well, like "redflagnews" and "yournewswire".

Wherever you're getting your data, I'd suggest that it doesn't provide a good fit for "fake news".
the point is that what criteria are used to distinguish "best candidates" is not necessarily what those types of applicants are optimizing for.
Do you ever have ideas? Things that seemed interesting? That's pretty much what goes into the notes section of my journal. It's all on my phone so it's always with me.

I keep an unstructured, personal journal, and half of what's in there are thoughts I have, going to bed or waking up in the morning. There are some good pieces of writing that've come out of it and just yesterday, a former coworker and friend thanked me for some observations I had about the company we once worked at. Sometimes the things we reflect on can be a big deal.
Here's another source. https://liliputing.com/2017/01/kde-slimbook-linux-powered-la... the i7 upgrade with 16mb looks good, though I'd prefer better screen resolution.
I keep a written personal journal where I write whatever I'm concerned with, mostly along the same areas as you mentioned too. And I preform a weekly review and rating every Sunday. Have been doing so for about 3 years.

I started to aid my sleep, putting all the racing thoughts in my head down on paper and closing the book on them was very calming, I can then forget them for a while.

I also love the act of translating your nebulous thoughts into (semi) clear language of written words, to me it's a focusing lens on your life, and allows associations, perspective and ideas that may not come about otherwise. Even if just because it forces you to reflect for more than some fleeting seconds.

I never see myself changing the primary method of writing these down freeform. But every time I finish a journal I do read back through and write up in google docs some bullet point style wisdoms and take-aways to remember for the future .

Glad to know there's others that get benefit from journaling too.
Leaky Skylight: Diagnosis and Repair
The construction cost of steel and concrete buildings is significantly higher per square foot of floor space than that of low-rise timber-framed buildings. In Canada, the cost of concrete and steel buildings is around 80% more per square foot than the cost of timber-framed walk-up low-rise buildings, and the cost of condos in skyscrapers is a whooping 150% higher than low-rise walk-ups.

Here is a source for construction costs for major metropolitan areas in Canada:
https://t.co/18FwgkSlWY

And here are some figures.

For Toronto:

House (medium quality): 120-240$/sf

Walk-up low-rise apartment (medium quality): 100-150$/sf

Residential condos (medium quality): 180-240$/sf

Point towers, 40-80 stories (medium quality): 230-310$/sf

For Vancouver

House (medium quality): 165-225$/sf

Walk-up low-rise apartment (medium quality): 155-180$/sf

Residential condos (medium quality): 205-250$/sf

Point towers, 40-80 stories (medium quality): 270-355$/sf

For Montréal

House (medium quality): 125-180$/sf

Walk-up low-rise apartment (medium quality): 100-155$/sf

Residential condos (medium quality): 150-180$/sf

Point towers, 40-80 stories (medium quality): 250-355$/sf

So if you can afford a 400 000$ housing unit, and you assume half of it goes to pay for the land, you could get a house with about 1 500 square feet of space, a similar sized condo in a low-rise, a 1 000 square foot condo in a concrete mid-rise or a 650 square foot condo in an high-rise.

Yes, high-density housing options lower the amount of land per unit, but at the same time, zoning for higher density tends to rise the cost of land. A lot zoned for an high-rise building will be worth many times what a lot zoned for single-family houses is worth even if the two lots are adjacent, since the land value is proportional to the potential revenue of development, so the bigger the development, the higher the potential revenue, the higher the land value.
Papert on idea aversion and the difference between Mathematics and a school's maths curriculum https://vimeo.com/29322262
They don't say much about how well these suits can work. Are the just for protection or do they actually enable human functionality in space?

Zipper on the back? I sure hope they have a rope you can use to pull it up your back. This sounds like one of those design details that movies use as plot points.

For example, on a space station a disaster depressurizes a central capsule. A single astronaut is trapped with a suit on one end of the stations and because of a zipper at the back of the suit cannot be rescued.
The Sonoff is a $5 WiFi relay with an embedded ESP8266 that is programmable via Arduino (and several other dev platforms), allowing you to control the relay via HTTP/REST/MQTT/etc.

https://www.itead.cc/sonoff-wifi-wireless-switch.html
"Journaling" seems like a broad term for everything that you want to do. Some people journal about their day, others jot down ideas, some people use it to bookend their day.

Goal setting, Mood Tracking, Habit Tracking, Reflection Etc. is hard to lump into one system, but I have seen it done by a few people.

I personally (and know hundreds of others) spent years writing in a blank notebook with a structure that I created for myself.

Something that would allow me to write my goals, map out my day, write what I'm grateful for, track my important tasks, etc.

I saw this as a problem, asked some friends if they had the same issue, and decided to create something that would have everything above.

You can check it out here: https://bestself.co/products/self-journal

This is not a "plug"

You can download the PDF on this page and check it out first.

I believe in it that much that I want everyone to have access to this.

Cheers!

-Allen
Co-Founder | BestSelf Co.
" A lot of C++ programmers can do a ton of productive work and get by for years without writing any templates from scratch" as well as people who choose not to have a stove or oven in their kitchen can eat, but with the delusion that they are smartly avoiding difficulties.
Is the subset of boost in Google still the same as the public one?

https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html

It it is, I consider Google very lucky to have these who decided not to allow everything.
What are your thoughts on advertisements in Chatbots?
You can easily draw parallels between what people are made to write in college admissions and, say, modern electoral politics.

Prompts and questions are designed purely to give someone a chance to pander and make nice sounding things up, rather than say the bald, simple truth.

No wonder some people found Trump appealing -- at least his pandering and lying was refreshingly frank and direct.
Google and Facebook are starting to chip away at the fake-news problem
> I think it's generally agreed upon that the Space Shuttle program was needlessly wasteful and more PR- than science-driven.

Soviets decided to replicate it. So even if it was PR, it was a good PR - it managed to trick USSR to waste quite an effort.
Ugh, this is like the plot of Finding Forrester without the overarching craft nuance of personal voice as the inherent foundation of writing. Mimicry has a place in art, sure, whether music or text. But, and this is a big but, this article is about describing a "crutch" as a positive and I don't like it.

There are plenty of other more, dare I say mature ways of approaching writing that don't resort to, ahem, swiping other people's shit. Bullet points. Outlines. This example is not a good one in my opinion, and should be considered useful at best for Amateurs intent on developing their own skills over time.
For as well-supported Intel wireless NIC's are, I've found they are utter garbage. The Intel 7260 in my work-issued W540 randomly flakes out on me and has giant latency spikes, I actually ended up saying to hell with the one in my personal XPS 13 and swapped it with a Broadcom card that's worked much better.
I don't keep a journal.
I beliebe I would find it tremendously useful.
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I believe—though I haven't read it yet—that GTD (by David Allen) has some elements about personal retrospectives in it: have a look at what you did, what you wanted to do, compare and improve.

Again, I don't do this (though I want to) but I'll follow this discussion with interest!
It isn't just Mao. "If only Stalin knew" was a popular refrain.
Mobile search and YouTube still driving Google’s growth. What about hardware?
Also, re: these ostentatious religious invocations at the conventions. Think Jesus might've had a thing or three to say about that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_6:5