skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't remember anything unusual for entry. They did have a probationary period, but I don't recall the details - I assume it was more of a CYA for the school.

It's also worth noting that she's in a niche field. The program coordinator was accessible. It's a small program, cohort based, so relatively easy to ensure the student is meeting expectations once enrolled. YMMV when trying this on a more common subject.
> How do you sort out people on a "promising"/"not promising" scale for doing good things for the economy?

Ask Australia? But at a very basic level:

* Criminal background -> sorry

* No high school-equivalent education -> sorry

* Crippling, expensive disease -> sorry

Those are just three basic things that let you know straight away that this person has little chance to do anything but consume resources.
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> I still think she is the perfect pick for COO of Uber.

This is a great idea. I think if it looked like she'd take the position she'd get a call from Larry and Sergey asking her to do them a favor and not take the position so Alphabet would have a chance in that market.

They'd likely be willing to let her be CEO of one of the other Alphabet companies to discourage her from going to Uber.
This brings all new meaning to the phrase "silent but deadly".
"It wouldn't be hard to have an immigration system which is biased toward useful vs. not useful."

I think that's extremely hard in terms of startups. You're essentially expecting the government to select what is valuable and what isn't. I don't like unclear visa situations either, but I haven't really seen a country effectively implement "come here and do whatever for a bit as long as you can take care of yourself". Which is what I would think is most compatible with creating startups.
that effect is only negative from the specific perspective of low end salary holders.

that effect is positive for businesses and consumers.
A lot of people refuse to buy with anything other than paypal. I don't sell things online very often, but I do regularly buy things from ebay. Here's the way I look at it.

Paypal has historically sided with the customer close to 100% of the time, mostly because they are not a bank and therefore are pretty much powerless when a customer issues a chargeback. That's why fraud is rampant. If its trivial for an unethical person to steal things on a regular basis using paypal, because sellers have no reliable form of recourse, I can be pretty certain that as an actual honest buyer I'll practically never have to worry about getting screwed over by a seller.
What if the results were worse? Would it not have been important to know that farts were actually contaminating a sterile operating room, leaving patients at greater risk of an infection?
People will always find ways of framing it into convenient political dichotomies. Only further blurring the much grayer reality of the situation. Which is why this article even made it on to the front page in the first place and why it should be flagged if it doesn't promote rational discourse.
Imagine if the US just bought all the foreign media companies it could and then controlled the news to protect national security. Would that be ethical or legal?

This is analogous to what the government is doing with privacy rights. The US can't say we're a nation rooted in innate human rights but then dismiss those rights when dealing with the rest of the world.

To the contrary, the US should be supporting countries that don't spy on their citizens and punishing those that do. We should want to encourage liberal free societies, and not become a global threat to freedom.
Savings in a straight savings account? CDs? Investments? If the latter, you're planning (even a little bit by selecting the right date-targeted funds).

And you just winged it in college? No clue what the next semester would hold? Never selected classes because they were needed for future classes and/or graduation requirements?
A company like AMD isn't going to be concerned with customer privacy and security unless it affects their bottom line. If the market was hostile to closed drivers and processor firmware no one would bother selling these types of systems because it wouldn't make sense financially.
The consumers have spoken: they're OK with trusting computer manufactures, software vendors, telecommunications carriers and governments. To me and perhaps other people interested in security that's unfortunate but to device manufactures, they're simply giving the market want it wants.
how is voting to remain in the EU a vote for "independence"? seems like exactly the opposite of independence.
>I can't quite decide if you're being deliberately provocative or just misinformed.

Or maybe I genuinely disagree in your assessment that any of those technologies (apart from GraphQL, and that is still nowhere near major league) had any major "industry impact".
It's not on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners .

However, Karl Kruszelnicki did receive Ig Nobel Prize for his research on belly button fluff.
Brain has 100 times higher computational capacity than previously thought
> Whenever people put up the walls for their house (which serve the same purpose) those are days of joy too.

I don't think that was the context of the OP's comment, but if you wish to extend to those kinds of walls then that's fine with me. It's just not the way I would have interpreted the meaning of a border wall.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/06/the-gra...
For clear examples of what op is talking about:

Guess blogs — PR — Reporters — Co-marketing with partners —Guests on podcasts — Most notable speakers at conferences

All require one party to make first contact. That first contact is often a "cold" email.

It's a bit embarrassing reading the comments. It makes painfully clear how ignorant the tech side of an org is about how their employers marketing and lead-gen departments work. That blog about a partner's integration that was published on the exact same day as the parter published about your company? Yeah, that's not magic.
Yes, login with Google at the very least is planned.

And yeah, there is an issue on some systems with dependencies of a go package. We are going to fix that, sorry.

Thanks for the issue.
Because most of the anger at Trump and his admin has been around their plan for deportation of criminal illegal aliens
>>> You are one buzzword away from being a professional. Instead of fitting a line to just eight datapoints, we will now fit a line to 8-million datapoints. Welcome to big data.

LOL :) (Side-note: 8 million is still not big data)
You don't kill an immigrant when you refuse to give him access to a country.
It has nothing to do with the future of humanity and everything to do with the future of the country.

(Edit: I am an immigrant. And of course immigrant lives matter. All human lives matter)
Is this an advertisement?! Let's look at the features of the model they linked: 14" non-retina display (I calculate 157 DPI), lackluster trackpad, "Intel HD graphics", "plastic construction" and Linux. Okay, you can get 32 GB of memory and upgradable SSD.

There is no 14" MacBook Pro, but anything less than 15" is not "pro" IMO :) so I will use that one. So, MBP: bigger screen (15"), better resolution (220 DPI), better video (Radeon 450 with 2 GB VRAM + Intel HD Graphics 530), better CPU (up to i7 2.9GHz), better trackpad, better build quality, better OS†.

How, exactly, is this an MBP alternative? It has exactly nothing of the things I buy a MBP for. How did this advertisement make it onto the front page?

† I like Linux, but I've found OS X to be a Unix that just works. Every time I use Linux I'm always fiddling with stuff. Additionally, there is commercial software available for macOS, so for non-tech people, it is much more usable.
With due respect to all, the concerns about immigration are not about immigrants taking the founder jobs, it's about taking the worker jobs.
>Is Garrett Camp an immigrant? Sure sounds like it. But is that really in the spirit of "founded by immigrants"?

Yes, Garrett Camp is an immigrant. He just happens to be white and from Canada and is thus perceived less as "those other people" and more "American" because he blends in. If he came from Sudan would you consider him to be "more of an immigrant"? Your own comment implies this bias even if you didn't mean for it to sound that way.
Your reference is irrelevant because it doesn't break down by country and you are pulling exactly the equivocation BS I just demonstrated OP was doing. Please reread my comment if you don't understand why you cannot justify current immigration policy by pointing at immigration averages or totals without reference to country.
This is why we are working on Mineranker, an open source newsfeed and ranking platform: https://github.com/francisypl/mineranker

If you are interested in more open newsfeed ranking systems, check it out.
I really hope they do, but be aware that this date keeps changing. The last time I checked this page, it was spring 2016.
Moderators would not need to police it, users would use the page to rescue incorrectly flagged posts.

In any case, someone other than HN (e.g. Algolia) could construct a page/queue of flagged posts for review. It would be used by a subset of the audience for the "new" page.

No permission needed from HN moderators. Users already have the power to vouch for stories, they only need a timely way to review.
You don't get automatically sent to the brig for not fulfilling your commitment, IIRC, you have to pay the retail cost of your military academy education, and if you don't do that, then you are in trouble
> - Android doesn't provide fine-grained permissions control or root access, so users can't block ads.

One caveat here - Google devices are probably some of the most allowing of root access and full device ownership - easily unlocked bootloaders basically allow it to be a one button process.

Some manufacturers make you put your device on a shitlist with them before they'll give you a key to unlock the bootloader and root it - others, like Apple, won't allow you to at all.

Once you are rooted, you do have full ability to block everything and get fine-grained permission control via XPrivacy for example. Android devices are actually some of the best here mostly due to strong community support. You can't even get this control if you want it on many mobile devices these days.
Honestly, just data structures and algorithm skills seem starkly lacking among the autodidactic programmers I've known. An in-order traversal of a tree data structure is not hard, you just have to know how to do it, in concept if not able to immediately write the code out on your screen.
This looks like a pretty nutty technique, essentially exploiting an undocumented state (or bug?) in the VIC chip.

The Atari 2600's TIA had lots of sharp corners caused by the reliance on polynomial counters, which saved silicon but made for lots of seemingly-random edge cases (after all, polynomial counters are also used to generate pseudo-random noise!)
Far from enough. If each city in the world was its own country, maybe.

On top of that, people are born in a random country leading to very unfair [dis]advantages.
add to that: Many studies show children need more sleep and would benefit from starting later in the day.
Ok. So wouldn't it be better then to simply put a cap on the number of immigrants per month and not screen them for characteristics beyond criminality?

We could cut bureaucracy and improve economic efficiency at the same time! I'm a small-government guy.
Knowing that explicit white nationalism could be problematic, a white nationalist must speak in code.

You have got to be kidding me. Ok, let me play along.

Xapata is clearly a white nationalist! How do I know it? He doesn't speak in white nationalist terms! Those white nationalists need to speak in code, so the evidence is clear!
It depends on person, as usual. For many, the US residency is a blessing. Things are nice here, compared to where they come from. The quality of life is much nicer, and this is something i'd most definitely want for my kids.

However, there is also a greater advantage to going back home: Those markets usually lack the capital and the knowledge, and it's relatively easy to copy startups from here and implement them in their home countries.
Materialism alone cannot explain the riddle of consciousness
Some devices like the Chromecast and some Chromebook do not use your network DNS settings by default and rely on 8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4 for DNS queries.
It is a symptom of capitalism in general. Capital tends to consolidate in monopolies or colluding oligopolies within 1 industry, because of economies of scale.
They would.

I made some experiments. Mix of fear of cross voting and anti spam technique I guess.
Wait a second.

You can come to the US, start a company, employ yourself, and support your own h1-b?
Hi dragonwriter... I've visited both links and neither of them seem to be related to immigration and how limits to illegal immigration impacts pathways for legal immigration.

Also I did a duckduckgo search (I don't use Google due to their TOS and my perception of their ethics) and could find nothing on the first page of results to support what you were saying which is why I asked.

Please advise.
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GitHub thread about malware being spread through trusted domain
This is just a DNS filter. Why is it a big deal? DNS filters sort of work, but they're not new or magic. They trigger some ad-blocking detectors when the ads don't load.
In theory you can supply your own firmware.
The statistic from SBA includes _ALL_ immigrants, including those you seem to despise.
> You mean like Steve Job's biological father, who was/is a business owner in America?

You mean like his father who abandoned him?
Holy cow! I was big into the demoscene as a kid - they consumed most of my hours spent on the C64... but WOW, that was an amazing demo: not only implementing some crazy-new tricks, but also aesthetically beautiful! Now I need to go back and watch all the other gems I've missed over the last 25 years.
The incident you linked to wasn't a nuclear explosion: the rocket the nuke was sitting on exploded. FTA:

"The W53 warhead landed about 100 feet (30 m) from the launch complex's entry gate; its safety features operated correctly and prevented any loss of radioactive material."

(I am not a nuclear engineer)

If you have a ball of fissile material, there are two sizes that are interesting to you. There's the point at which the material goes critical: on average, every neutron emitted causes the emission of more than one neutron. However, there are two types of neutron emission: prompt neutrons (released immediately when an incoming neutron breaks apart an atom), and delayed neutrons, released eventually by the decay of fission products. If you're producing one prompt neutron on average, then you're at prompt criticality.

Nuclear reactors prompt-subcritical but delayed-critical. Because the exponential growth of neutrons in a delayed-critical material is relatively slow, it can be managed by futzing with control rods.

If undisturbed, a supercritcal fissile mass will explode. The question is, how energetically? If it's delayed-critical, not very. The time scale characterizing the exponential growth is large compared to the time required for the explosion to propagate through the mass, so the mass will explode with not much more than the minimal amount of energy required to render it subcritical again. This is messy, but not what you think of when you imagine a nuclear explosion.

If the mass is prompt-critical, then the exponential growth is much faster. Even once the mass has released enough energy to explode, it still takes time for the mass to expand enough to be rendered subcritical. In that time, a prompt-supercritical mass will undergo many more generations, resulting in an actual nuclear explosion.

To get an actual nuclear detonation, then, you need to get your fissile material from subcritical to prompt-supercritical as fast as possible, so it doesn't predetonate unimpressively. This is a tricky task, requiring carefully shaped explosives, and pretty unlikely to happen by chance.
No it doesn't, case insensitive passwords have nearly half of the entropy. It's less bad than plaintext password storage but only barely.
Coedit, IDE for the D language – version 3 released
Suppose Scotland does vote to separate from the UK, presumably with the intention of attempting to gain EU membership.

My understanding, based on a whole minute or two of Googling, is that the relationship between the parts of the UK, such as Scotland, England, Wales, and Northern Ireland is similar to the relationship between the states in the United States: if you are a citizen of the union, you are automatically a citizen of whichever part you live in.

I wonder, then, if between the time of the vote and the time that independence actually happens if Scottish independence would trigger a lot of movement (1) to England of Scots who do not want independence from the UK or who do not want to try to join the EU, and (2) to Scotland of English who want a shot at staying in the EU?
I had to do something like this a year or so ago -- built a malloc in js for managing WebGL memory blocks.
*LEGAL immigrants.
My Panasonic CF-RZ5 weighs 1.6lbs, and sports VGA, HDMI, Ethernet, 3xUSB3, a headphone jack, a power socket, a 1920x1200 IPS display, and a removable battery. It is from 2016, and makes the idea of all of these features compromising portability questionable.
If all ads were a picture with a link served as part of the page, I wouldn't use an adblocker. I read newspapers full of ads and don't really mind -- the ads make the local weekly free!

But it wasn't me who started an arms race decades ago with pop-over/under chains and escalated with tracking scripts, auto-playing videos, and bidding platforms serving malware.

Are advertisers really surprised people opt out of such toxic behavior?
Yes, almost all countries have that kind of rules, with varied degrees of success.
You don't really notice before you move to live in a different country.
One Tiny German Town, Seven Big Michelin Stars
Augmented Reality in JavaScript – 60 fps on 2 year-old phone
It looks like I am one of the few like you who think it is not true that '30 is considered "old"'. All my life, I have worked with experienced developers (called principal engineers, consultant engineers, distinguished engineers, etc.) who were between 28 years and 55 years old. Not even once they were regarded as "old". On the other hand, the more experienced the developer was, the more valued he or she was because of a strong correlation of higher productivity and wisdom.

Can somene name companies where 30 or older is considered old?
Well, first of all, many consumers are also low-end salary earners.

Second and perhaps more importantly, the more salaries are driven down, the less money those earners have to spend, which means businesses will see less potential revenue.
Having watched the video of what he accomplished on the C64 I am now retroactively furious at every drop of framerate I have experienced on every platform ever.
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I think the title "Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree," is inadvertently misleading.

There certainly isn't profound respect or reverence for a bachelor's degree itself, from employers or anyone else. However, there is an expectation of social and to some degree, field specific exposure.

Perhaps the point of the article is there are far more useful ways to gauge someone's career/field specific potential than a bachelor's degree. And if there are more practical assessment tools than not having a bachelor's degree shouldn't be a barrier to entry.
It may also be worth observing that in the case of that particular example, a (paid for) four-year university education is part of the packaged education and on-the-job training deal. (I assume that's a graduation at Annapolis.)
I would argue that "everyone has one" is inherently "everyone in my career has one", which the number that matters. If a heavy equipment operator doesn't have a bachelor's degree, well that doesn't really matter to me because I'm not competing for his job and he's not competing for mine. What matters if, what's the percentage of people competing for my job that holds a BS? Because that is the only determining factor of whether or not I should get one.
I think maybe lerax had a dyslexic moment and thought it was REPTL, which would be a little funny (reptile).
The Yorick Project
You start getting into weird questions with "usefulness" right?

Is an artist useful?
Correction: they corrected it.
Its only because the trough was so deep. Its hard not to have a massive gain during your presidency just after a crash.

To be clear, I think presidents have little to do with market moves. So they should not be accredited with gains nor blamed for falls.
The 'Tapper' videogame patent (2015)
VirtualBox: cooperating VMs can escape from shared folder
I wrote the blog post. Some of these broader patterns do relate to Baumol's cost disease, i.e., health and other service typically do not see productivity increases at the same rate as manufactured products, agricultural produce, and wages in these services will tend to reflect increasing wages in other parts of the economy (especially skilled ones), but mostly this is about increasing volume, i.e., quantitive and qualitative increase in health goods and services.

This empirical regularity can be explained by the fact that as countries get rich they attach increasing value to human life _and_ they experience diminishing marginal utility with most other consumption expenditures (an extra year of life, even discounted, can be worth a lot more than buying yet another bauble, a few more sqft in housing, etc)

"Profits" as such are unlikely to explain more than a tiny fraction of this as (1) for-profit sector isn't that large in the health care space (2) their cost profile is generally very similar to government and non-profit alternatives (3) the patterns generally have relatively little to do with true price increases/inflation. Further, even removing profit per se from the equation does not mean that problems of this sort necessarily disappear. Principal-agent problems abound, even a physician on state payroll doesn't necessarily have their incentives well aligned with the interests of their patients.
I know how difficult it can be to run a volunteer review system, but we have done it for years and have learned a few lessons. One thing you should do here is remove privileges for a bit from the moderator in question. Reviewers need to have some consequence for mistakes, otherwise they will tend towards moving faster and faster in their actions, with lower quality as the result.
Strong FBI Ties for Next Generation Quantum Computer
And commercial reputation management / PR firms. See the book Grassroots for Hire.