skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've got a 70 year old mechanical watch on my wrist right now. I bought it second hand from eBay, but paid significantly under $150 for it...
I hope this isn't too political, but I wonder why "disadvantaged groups" are defined by things like race rather than poor academic performance, poverty, criminal history, mental health, not being interested, not desiring prosperity, etc. There are so many reasons people don't get education and so many ways to slice and dice the population into groups.
Here's Walt Mossberg (nee Mosspuppet) interviewing Steve Jobs. Definitely NSFW. Tempus fugit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr4pPAn-m5g
Except it's a bad analogy. Rails is not the next step up from systems level programming, it's a completely different (and honestly far less difficult) domain. Most of those rails devs could never be good at the hard stuff.
Plus, an extra operation, at least compared to some of the shift-based fixes.
Dark web markets boom after FBI busts
Article takes too long to huff and puff and fluff before it gets to the heart of the matter (and then veering off into tangents shortly thereafter):

The Supreme Court has ruled that the educational benefits that flow from having a diverse student body can justify using race as one factor among many in a “holistic” evaluation, while rejecting blunt racial quotas or race-based point systems. But what that permits in actual practice by universities — public ones as well as private ones that receive federal funding — is often murky.

It would have also behooved a general audience to be given some history: https://www.britannica.com/event/Bakke-decision

It's not an easy issue.
I think of it like gluten, or lactose, for most people its fine, but some people definately don't tolerate it and only they need to avoid it. If you have the enzymes required to process it then you're fine, if your genetics are missing something required for processing it then you'll have problems.
> dox the perpetrator to kingdom come, in hopes that law enforcement and social reputation can make an example of of them.

Is a hell of a lot closer to "vigilante justice" than the version you just said. Had you made the sane posting first (or not pretended you did the second time) I wouldn't have said anything and just upvoted in agreement.
I suggest getting rid of anti-discrimination laws completely for things like college admissions. Affirmative action is probably not bad enough to be worth the effort either.
Why don't you send your resume to careers@shiftleft.io
I like to wear a watch, so I kind of wish I could get a fitness tracker (with heart rate monitor) that doesn't have a clock on it. I sometimes wear a watch and a fitbit and that just looks stupid.
"The Trump administration is preparing to redirect resources of the Justice Department’s civil rights division toward investigating and suing universities over affirmative action admissions policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants, according to a document obtained by The New York Times."

The applicants who are most discriminated against are Asian applicants. Asians are basically the Jews of yesteryear when it comes to college admissions.

A common criticism is that Asian applicants "game" the system by getting good grades, scoring well on standardized exams, and loading up on extracurriculars. Compare that with sending your kids to an elite private feeder high school. That's not gaming the system at all /s

Affirmative action in today's implementation is less about equal opportunity and more about equal outcome. I don't even see it as a race thing as even the POC applicants that benefit from these policies are almost always economically advantaged. What we need is economic affirmative action. If you come from property you should get second consideration. Infinitely harder getting good grades while impoverished vs a 4.0 at the local 40k/year private high school Ivy feeder.
Aha yeah, fair point :)
Email on the 27th, and also on the 19th and 20th.
Treat Uber like a stock exchange to ensure fairness
To be blunt, many of those people were either mentally unstable or mentally deficient before they started reading ISIS...

Social psychiatric help and better public education are also necessary tools in this battle.
The problematic line is:

__idx = (__l + __u) / 2;

__idx, __l, and __u are all the same type and the addition of __l and __u could cause an overflow resulting in a nonsense value assigned to __idx.
Maybe, but they must have had a strange priority. While I think I logged in recently, my account has always had a zero balance.
Which Fitbit? Seems like the Flex 2 wouldn't look bad next to a watch.
This article, so many, isn't about learning React, it's about learning to build a basic component. If all you want to build is a non-persistent to do list, it's great. If your goal is "Learning React.js" (in other words, be able to build apps) I feel you aren't even getting started until you start address pulling in data from external sources.
Breakdown from the SEC on ICOs
Can confirm, feel like I lost my left arm if I don't have my watch on.
(High-low) works, well if we consider this from a pointer pov!
It's only murdered when it's unlawful. This was death by government agents and lawful regardless of whether we agree with the law. This was an execution of someone that the government felt was in the way.
I agree with all points except when you assume 'wearables' implies 'watches'. Similarly to payments, the health benefits can be delivered with a much smaller device. If health is the main benefit than that big gorgeous battery-sucking screen is a waste.
I like the proposed idea of avoiding network monopolies, by running them as an exchange with many suppliers for different levels of the supply chain. This would also apply to Amazon or AirBnB.

(I didn't find a non-paywalled version, so I'm linking to the tweet.)
> bypassing their own domestic restrictions

This is often repeated, but I don't believe any evidence has been published to indicate this is happening.
Given that SMS is already considered insecure, my thoughts are that it's too late to be starting a new service offering it, saying "we need to educate users first".
All of those places will pay just as much for (as well as hire far more of) enterprise Java/Go/HTML/JS code monkeys There's nothing wrong with that, but picking 5 companies with their hands in damn-near anything is disingenuous.
Yes, that is the correct way to parse it. That implies that Uber has at least 3k managers, possibly more.

OP was commenting that >3k managers seems like a high proportion of their ~12k total employees.
Oh dear, the NYTimes should have really gone with "anti-white and anti-asian bias" in their title (as mentioned in the article) instead of just anti-white. Otherwise they are somewhat priming their audience. And well, everyone who will only read the title.
Gotta mention Shen here, the language with an intentionally Turing complete type system. You can write your types as Horn clauses.

http://shenlanguage.org/
So I've been a serial Pebble smartwatch rather than Apple Watch owner - my original motivation was I thought it's be neat to be able to glance at my wrist while riding the bike and see who was calling/texting so I would know if I wanted to pull over and answer right then, or wait till I'd got to my destination. Turns out the answer was _always_ "No." whoever it was, it could always wait. I was either going to be at home/work in 5-10 minutes and I could call back then, or I was on a trip and wasn't going to stop till the bike needed more fuel in an hour or two and it could wait till then. (Or I could ignore it completely...)

When Pebble sold out to Garmin* and refunded my pledge/order for the last version, I spent some of that money on a second hand mechanical watch - I really don't miss much from the "smart" features I'd gotten used to... (Probably the only thing I miss is the "silent vibration on my wrist when I've left my phone on my desk but am still nearby"...)

Edit: * It was FitBit not Garmin, as pointed out in replies by dugfin and spike021. Thanks.
It may please you to know that there are some coordinated efforts on this front, such as http://asianamericanforeducation.org/en/home/
Right, and most people could have much more free space on their phones (or, more apps). I'd much rather write some glue code than ask my users to dedicate 275 MB to install my app, not even counting cached data or anything else. There's a reason many of my friends and I have deleted apps like LinkedIn - it's not that we don't like them, it's that the the apps were too big for the little value they gave us, especially when considering the web versions give us almost all the same capabilities, and only cost a couple KB of persistent storage (cookies + history + maybe some localStorage or whatever).
I wear a ladies watch (I am a man) for this very reason, thickness, as well as heaviness. I didn't realize how much it affects your movement and coordination having a substantial weight on your wrist, until I got rid of it.
You can now do Activity Sharing so it can be more than competing with just yourself if you have friends who use a an Apple Watch. It can be a great motivational tool if you use it as such.
Yes, I like that idea.

I would rather have some GitHub integration in place, so I could `npm install github.com/someone/somepackage`, like Golang forces us to do, for example.

I don't do that for all packages automatically nowadays because there is this bizarre culture of people publishing different things to npm and GitHub. To npm they send only "built" files from ES7 to ES5-compatible mode, while to GitHub go only the unbuilt sources which will not run anywhere.

A solution to that would be for an automatic builder to be run on every `git push`. A third-party service, somehow, someone, somewhere. Travis CI, maybe? I'm waiting for someone to have an insight and solve this problem in these lines.
Won't this line have similar issue?

return -(low + 1); // key not found.
Makes sense but if the value BCC is at sustains itself, it would make sense that customers see that value as considerable and lost if they can't reclaim it later on.

Ironically, not "interacting" with that chain only serves to create more dead coins and thus push up value. Imagine if the value grows considerably... customers might be changing their tune if they feel that they lost out and feel they were misinformed.
If you wonder what's really behind that "adpotion" meeting, you owe it to yourself to watch the C-SPAN video of this.
It's always worth applying. There's a whole line of people who'll tell you you're not qualified in one way or another, that you're not good enough, that you're not what they're looking for. Don't even be in that line-- let alone at the front of it.

Let the company tell you no; don't tell yourself for them.
I think making it about race just creates more division and is really really dumb. Scores should be normalized by income, stability of household, then holistic factors such as extraneous circumstances, health, etc. Race should have no impact except in extraneous circumstances in rare cases
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Some would say that the "wisdom of the crowd" and startups are things that so many people ascribed special superpowers to, it brought in a lot of people that normally wouldn't push deeply into a high-complexity tech field.
ng nasa boeing lockheed spacex
I've got perfect months the last 2 months and now I stress if a day gets close to not hitting the completion mark (I.e. It's raining or such to inhibit an outdoor walk/run).
Why make it available at all though. You may as well provide a field saying "gender: male" because 51% of the population of the country this users ip is located in, are male and we rounded up.

If companies like google can massively fuck up language selection based on ip, you can guarantee other devs will too, if you give them the data.
There care as much as how it affects the sales of their next ones
>Someone needs to pay me to implement something that requires blockchain; instead of someone paying me to implement a blockchain and then going and finding a use for it.

That would require those who are arguing for "blockchain technology" to admit that they are Bitcoin poor and would rather talk than trade.
The bittrex price appears to have diverged quite sharply from, for example, the ViaBTC price[1]. At the time of posting this ViaBTC is 0.127 BCH/BTC and bittrex 0.194 BCH/BTC. I think this may be because ViaBTC is accepting BCH deposits and bittrex isn't.

[1] https://www.viabtc.com/quot/realtime?currency=btc&dest=bcc&c...
Yeah those pesky investors. Giving us money and expecting something in return!
You have to look at it from both sides though: If I started a business with Stripe as a processor, it's in Stripe's best interest for my business to grow as much as possible, because the higher my volume, the more they make. They'll want a good cut, but their goal is a long term relationship. It's not the same thing with Amazon: Every piece of intel I give them is an opportunity for them to eat my business.

I guess that if Amazon threw a crazy enough amount of money at them, then sure, everyone has a price, but how is joining Bezos' empire helping them? There's very little synergy in the other direction, so the premium for such an acquisition would have to be very large.

When you put the premium there, along with how being acquired by Amazon makes the competition more attractive, makes me think that something like that is unlikely.
In the 1980's, the SJUSD forced me to be bused over 4 hours per day to a gang-infested magnet school because of affirmative action when there was an elementary school on the same block as my house, but because of race quotas (already too many whites and asians, whom were counted together), I wasn't allowed to go there. It isn't a pattern of so-called "reverse discrimination" just an arbitrary SJW policy.

Furthermore, it should be noted my parents balked at private schools whom required pictures as a signal of institutions most likely to promote prejudice against people based on non-academic factors.

I think unconscious and conscious biases need to be minimized in selection processes, but that collective advantages or punishment goes too far. Holistic, integrated, bias-controlling selection that considers all factors consistently for all candidates seems like the best aspiration to avoid just hiring people whom look/think/act like me (I've seen academic departments that fall into this trap).
AW does this if you don't stand up within an hour, it pokes you to stand up and move around. It also sends you progress updates throughout the day of how much you've walked/moved/etc.
Don't blindly trust companies selling solar eclipse glasses on Amazon
I design custom instruments for startups and labs. No one will buy anything related to Theranos. No one wants a bunch of random parts in a custom box. Why the hell would anyone put a centrifuge or a thermocycler adjacent to an expensive precision instrument like a flow cytometer?
Mass, not weight.
> Scores should be normalized by income, stability of household, then holistic factors such as extraneous circumstances, health, etc.

Why?
Agree 100%. I think Rust's stdlib is useful and coherent, and shows the way for other libraries. It's a great piece of engineering.
The only issue I have with that site is that it's awful to look at.
> If you really want to own a stock that gives you no profits, no income from dividends, no voice in how its run, and actually no value what so ever other than the greater fool theory then go ahead.

I guess I'm a fool, because I take zero interest in participating in any of the stocks I've bought, apart from just monitoring the latest price and watching them (hopefully) go up.

Voting rights or not makes no difference to me.

But I suspect most individual / non-institutional investors are like me. So when I see people get upset about voting rights, it's really just a small number of very self-interested and deep-pocketed parties (activist investors, etc) with their own opinions of how a company should be run, and I don't as-a-rule agree with their opinions.
Why China’s AI push is worrying
You're just looking to time the market. It's not really a reliable strategy (unless you trade in insider info). Most stocks often mentioned in news/articles will inevitably get a stock boost when good news hits. Why not time them as well if you can time SNAP?
The widely used austenitic stainless steels (e.g. 304, 316) are susceptible to corrosion attack from chloride ions

What about the use of fiberglass and carbon fiber tanks? Is heat tolerance a problem with those?
Pretty sure busybox doesn't implement enough to be considered POSIX.

Hell, neither does GNU/Linux for that matter (it's not technically POSIX) but busybox is really way too minimalistic to be considered an OS.
The whole thing reeks of "bigotry of low expectations".

I didn't know affirmative action was a thing. Being a minority who entered/graduated University, I hate to think that I could possibly have been admitted into University because of my status as an ethnic minority rather than because I was actually qualified.
Is your goal to be paid extremely well for doing systems programming relative to other people in the same company? Or to be paid extremely well for doing systems programming?
For once, this administration is doing something good.
whats the difference? that one of them is the "good" guys?
I think it is completely possible the NSA was snooping on a non-US citizen running a largely criminal enterprise (especially if you count incidental collection). My point was that despite the headline there is no evidence that they were. The only person saying so is the known liar who ran the scam.
An executive's Twitter is a press release. Let's not pretend they don't realize we're watching.
Anecdotally, I've seen something sort of similar too. When I was younger, I recall a massive electrical storm that came across our house. The tree against the wall got struck, splitting it in half.

I was in the hallway when it happened, and immediately tripped the power out. Though directly after the initial flash that illuminated the whole house, there was this weird echoey persistence of light and sound, and both myself and my Dad could see this ball of light jumping between the light sockets along the roof for several seconds. Sort of the same effect you see when you catch a glimpse of the sun, then blink after and see the persistence of the suns shape in your field of vision. About half a second after each 'jump' it made a really loud crackling sound, and each globe was toast afterwards.

It was really strange, and Dad put it down to ball lightning. Though it's not something we often discuss because of the uncertainty around the topic in general. I often dismiss it as one of those 'maybe I remember it wrong because I was so young'.
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True. I would think the watches category will continue to occupy the pretty good/general tracking and health stats market (which should be huge) and, as the tech advances, there will always be smaller, screenless, more accurate detectors for specific use cases.

I am still amazed that my watch can track my laps while swimming (very accurately) and simultaneously track my pulse (less accurately, but that'll improve). And keep my calendar, deliver notifications, etc...
Anecdote from memory is the founder of instacart getting turned down for VC and then using instacart to send beer to a VC and then getting funding. Perhaps it was YC though?
This is not a very informative link. Would be nice to have a description of what it is and why the reader should be interested in it.
Why isn't rsync used to update apps, instead of passing archives around?
I wasn't entirely dismissing that it was happening. I just assume it's more hyperbole than reality that the 'private prison industry' has much influence of criminal justice laws. But I see that that there are a few occasions where this too is also being realized as a negative incentive.

This just further adds to the larger, more potent, argument against them. That the typical benefits of privatizaton are largely non-existant in this scenario. I really don't see the value of privatizing such a sensitive and serious government responsibility. Simply because it's far from a true marketplace.

I doubt many libertarians are pushing for these prisons either. Even the Koch brothers were awarded by Obama for their justice reform work to reduce incarceration rates.

Removing people from being able to work, taking away kids fathers, hurting their long term employability, and sending them to a 'con-college' doesn't help society at all from a purely economic perspective. It should be the absolute last resort for the worst criminals instead of the standard practice even for non-violent crimes.

It sounds like it's more of the domain of big government republicans who love defence industry style privatization like the countless companies getting rich off of NSA contracts with marginal ROI and limited oversight.

The real underlying problem here is a tough-on-crime prison culture in the US. This should never be a potential 'growth' industry. This can only happen in the US due to their high incarceration rate which far outpaces other countries.

If you kill this obsession with harsh prison sentencing and yearly flood of new laws you'd also stop this industry from being an attractive space for investors to back lobbyists. Likewise killing private prisons seems like it would also help reduce this culture.
If you don't want to work out a watch isn't going to change that.
Google also seemingly hasn't been trying very hard to make Youtube profitable. Spotify has a free tier, but you only get the "standard" 160 kpbs bitrate, as well as ads. To get the "extreme" 320 kbps bitrate you need to subscribe. Youtube could have easily restricted 720p and 1080p to paying customers, but didn't. I think now it's too late for Youtube to reverse their decision on that without some backlash.
In a similar vein, soundcloud was a hotspot for DJ mixes (not remixes) for many online hobby DJ communities, but copyright takedowns eventually stopped that as well.
Do you do that with all the transitive dependencies as well? With npm's small library ethos, it seems like that way lies madness.
College also seems a bit 'late' to be stepping in and trying to level the playing field. By that point at least 15 years of lost opportunity for advancement can have occurred.

Poor academic and other performance is just one small symptom of larger systemic issues.

In order for the US to move in a positive direction broken social divisions must be smoothed, opportunity for all must be increased, and the military industrialization of community servants must be reversed to return those groups to helping instead of harming citizens.