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MIT tries to select students who will make it through MIT, and then get them through. If you get in, you have a 93% chance of graduating. That's an unusually high success rate for a serious engineering school.

(That may be the influence of Harvard, 97.5% graduation rate. It's hard to get into Harvard, but it's not hard to get through Harvard.)

There are lower tier engineering schools with huge drop-out rates. Cal Poly flunks out about half their engineering students. It's much easier to get in, but the first year is designed to get rid of the unqualified students. MIT is trying not to go there.
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> Wrong question - the right question is "which companies don't have the typical whiteboard interview"

Wrong question. The right question is "which companies actually respond to you within a week of application submission". Those "reapply in six months if you don't hear anything" emails tell me a LOT about a company's real priorities.
I agree.

I'd like to add that IMO the right approach is to use CSS that belongs to a component in the .vue file, but also keep a global CSS project for utility classes.
Gonna have to talk to friends and coworkers. I've done this (mock interviews for people who are bad at interviewing) for friends and even friend-of-a-friends, but I wouldn't want to be on a searchable directory of such people.
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Make a few friends at the very top or a lot of friends at the very bottom.

Administrators can get you permission to use the cool new AV equipment to record the demo for some project thing you're doing.

Janitors work just as well in a pinch though.
Nothing at all.

> They examined [polymorphisms from] 2,000 people and correlated their similarity within the roughly 1,400 pairs of friends within the group.

>the Framingham data is relatively homogeneous in terms of ethnicity, consisting largely of people of European descent.

The population they studied seems very close knit and ethnically homogeneous, and the study's inferences are conditioned on this sort of population.

Presumably the consistent background genetics of the population allowed them to control for larger genetic differences and detect the subtle differences correlated with friendships in the group.

I would be surprised if the observed effect held up in a more cosmopolitan population where other stronger factors, both genetic and sociocultural, have more of influence in the formation of friendships. And, as others have noted, the observed effect was real, but very small.
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It's interesting to see that much of the tech described in the article come from Formula 1's latest engine formula. There was a lot of complaints about Road Relevance, clearly it has born fruit.
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The tread that seems to connect all of us who went through similar things is we didn't stop pushing, right?

I go home and see people who stopped and they're exactly where they were when I left them behind. I could have been there too.
How about UNREADABLE
I can only assume that it was to save on licensing costs, especially now as Nokia has been broken into pieces. Nokia already had ultra low-cost 3G platform five years ago (e.g. Nokia 208/301/515), so the tech definitely exists.
Actually, early reports look like they will be updated to (3G) when the phone comes to the U.S. market.

https://www.cnet.com/news/nokia-3310-3g-us-launch-fcc-filing...
Or, if you do get a response, it's usually a "can't sue me" copout like "not enough experience" or "wrong cultural fit".
While I agree with you about patents being the problem, I'm not sure that moving past patents entirely is the solution.

Can you think of a better way to fairly incentivize and compensate innovators while solving the problem at hand?
You can already see that this is a broken technical qualification process. If you can "defend yourself" from a demerit on the challenge's rubric, you have a subjective process. The smooth talkers will glide past regardless of their abilities, and the gifted developers that don't have interview skills will get washed out by it at random.

If there's a point to outsourcing technical qualification, it's exactly to avoid this kind of problem!
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If driverless cars save lives, where will we get organs? (2014)
Just going to chime in with 'CSS Modules' - this approach of scoped-css generalised to use with whatever framework (but most commonly, React)
It is a tough problem no doubt, largely because of the unbalanced sample size.

People who work on anomaly detection in finance (anti-fraud) usually look at it as a "characterize a normal transaction and reject anything that is far from the center" problem as opposed to a "classify transactions as good or bad" problem.

Would someone succeed or fail? I think it could go either way. Are you talking about the general problem or the problem for some particular environment? (ex. Netflix certainly does not need to solve the general problem)
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also probably playing a role ... toyota hybrid patents starting to expire
No not really. Have you gone to Senior House? There are plenty of communist ideals all over the walls. I'm sure plenty of Hilary supporters though I haven't been there this recent election
As I said above, I don't endorse MIT's behavior. However, there is a spectrum here. It sounds like you think it's ok for him and I to make an agreement that the school will disclose his grades to me in return for getting a free (to him) education.

If I'd taken this further, and asked him to disclose his personal conduct, and he agreed, would you have a problem?

Keep in mind I actually don't care about his personal conduct. I care whether or not he's taking school seriously, and I am using grades as a proxy for that. I take the money seriously, and if he's not going to take the benefits the money is purchasing seriously, then I have the option to stop paying for it.

The problem I see is that this is a slippery slope. Suppose your kid gets into two schools -- say a cheap(er) in-state school and MIT. Either way you're paying for it, and you know the kid will get a perfectly good CS education at either school. However, having MIT on their resume will be worth something, as will the relationships they make. Perhaps it's even worth the huge additional expense, assuming they take full advantage of it. At what point does the additional value beyond the curriculum, which the school is happy to charge for, give me some interest (both intellectual and legal) in how all of that is going?

I ask not to argue that MIT is correct here, but to try and illustrate some of the complexity. I am not an ethicist but it seems like an interesting question to me.
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'Lie' is indeed a strong term, informally suggesting an intent to deceive. Personally, I would suspect negligence and incompetence rather than deceit, but negligence is a serious matter here.
This is where EVs also have an advantage because they scrub their brake pads much less.
Make sure mama also told you these two things... Cobra insurance after losing your job requires you to pay the full premium which can be upwards of 10k per year. Also Medicaid has a very low asset threshold that you can still qualify unless you are pregnant, have young kids, disabled or elderly. ACA subsidy is the best shot for most in this situation but who knows how long till it is dismantled.
It certainly does. Most of Chase's cards cover up to $500 per occurrence. The Sapphire Reserve, and I believe Ink Preferred, cover up to $10k per occurrence. There are plenty of accounts of people taking advantage of these benefits online.
The way they use privacy rules is incredibly cynical. Whenever it's something they want to do or something they want known they can slice through red tape with ease. If it's something they don't want to talk about their hands are suddenly tied.
Through just your bank account number?!
I think it's trivially obvious that they do?

The uncomfortable questions are whether people are genetically predisposed to, or naturally have a greater aptitude for, some particular interest, particularly on racial or gender lines. For many physical activities this is a settled question for gender, but that's about all we know.

Even this alone is not necessarily controversial, the problem as we've seen time and again is that the reaults of such a study are taken as a basis for discrimination. If we could rigorously quantify and prove a statement like "people of East Asian descent show a 2.3% greater aptitude for mathematics," it doesn't mean that the Chinese guy sitting in front of you has any such aptitude. Historically the metrics by which we have attempted to measure such things have been deeply flawed and biased. I'm not sure it will ever be possible to make such assertions in any rigorous manner, the factors behind cognitive tasks are just too complex.
For a while they were cheaper in Japan with sales tax than in the US without tax.

The sticky price structure of Apple was severely undercut by the price of the yen. They fixed it now, though.
> They are. Remember that you also have to factor in the whole chain of crude oil underground -> wheel rotation if you want a proper comparison. Transporting and refining gasoline isn't free either.

Do you? I mean... we're still going to refine petroleum if we go to electric cars completely, if only for industrial purposes. Even then I think it's going to be a while before anybody proposes electric passenger jets or electric cargo freighters, so there's still going to be refining and oil exploration. I am not really sure it is correct to assign 100% of the cost of that to cars.
>>You could even buy the same types of cells on amazon that Telsa uses, 18650.

This is a lot like saying you can buy the same food resources that go into world class restaurants. Technically true, yes. But does not diminish the accomplishments of Tesla in the least.
People need to stop pulling these "well what about x?" red herrings in an attempt to undermine the discussion.
Suggested reading: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/299961.Who_Moved_the_Sto...
The power generation is far more centralised, meaning economies of scale/size can apply both to efficiency of the generators (they can operate optimally all the time) and to infrastructure around them, e.g. for a hypothetical CO2 capture system, it is almost certainly easier and cheaper to apply huge versions to 100 power stations than to try miniaturise to fit to 100 million individual cars.
Please use a proper title when submitting your website, no need for a question.

The URL (wwww.hidora.com) is wrong, https://www.hidora.com/ works.
> 2.1 MB just the initial page, with no cards

650 KB for me: https://i.imgur.com/eVoZtWQ.png
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C++ added scoped variables and it was generally regarded as a good thing. Is a 'naming strategy' a reason not to have scoped variables in regular programming languages?

Scoped CSS (like CSS Modules, or whatever Vue has) is just taking BEM, building that into the language and handling it for you automatically without having to worry about silly Block__object--modifier rules.
>According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, 20% of all emissions are tailpipe from cars.

The only USC source I could find[1] says that 20% of US emissions are tailpipe emissions, but the question was about global emissions. Globally transport makes up 14% of emissions according to the IPCC.[2]

[1] http://www.ucsusa.org/clean-vehicles/car-emissions-and-globa...

[2] https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emiss...
The move to electric vehicles is great. They certainly are fun, but as a car guy, I'll miss the experience of filling up the tank and feeling the rumble of the engine roaring down the road with the pedal to the floor.

Small experience to give up for the sake of the planet and future generations though. <3
". No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
This is tangentially related to why Elon Musk[0] likes to ask potential interns and employees how "they" solved a particularly difficult problem[1]. If they personally solved the problem, they are going to know the details of the solution. A student who relies on a "helicopter parent" is significantly less likely to understand the details of how to solve difficult problems.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/paularmstrongtech/2017/06/19/th...

[0.1] (archive/no adblock) http://archive.is/RxqQg

[0.2] (archive/no adblock) http://archive.is/uJmoD

[1] https://www.inc.com/anna-hensel/the-1-incredibly-detailed-jo...
What will world look like after environmental collapse? We imagined that future
what about emotional epigenetics ?
Your statements read like a Tesla marketing pamphlet.

In 1900 28% of the cars produced in the US were electric. Albeit only a little more than 4,000 were produced. In those days all cars were luxury items, a horse was non-luxury. They also held the land speed records vs ICE prior to 1900.

Didn't Telsa partner with Panasonic to build the battery factory? Panasonic has been making batteries for years.

They've only built 200k cars total! Probably more since March.

On track to deliver...let's see if they can meet their target.

http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/223/electric-car-timeline.html
That would probably be difficult. Ending their sovereignty is not a solution that's feasible (it would likely take a constitutional convention, and agreement from the tribes in question, else we would basically have just invaded them like Russia did with Ukraine). However preventing American companies from selling patents to them is pretty easy. To put it simply, the solution is not screwing around with the tribes' "immunity", it's regulating the industries.

You are basically saying people should vote to annex the land of a people we basically already committed genocide against... do you really want to open that can of worms?
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I would err on the side of caution with these so-called MongoDB-compatible databases. Most of them (such as Cosmos DB) only really support basic CRUD operations and none of MongoDB's advanced indexing and querying capabilities (such as MongoDB's aggregation framework cf. https://www.mongodb.com/presentations/webinar-exploring-aggr...)
By 2022 all Mercedes-Benz car lines will have electric or hybrid options available. Now that is not very catchy.
The article itself does not do any better, seeming to suggest the demise of ice by 2022 while the actual announcement only promises hybrid versions or electric versions ALSO for all car lines. So.. ICE only cars will be available, hybrid will be available and electric too. I am speculating that as usual gas price is going to determine how many of each they will sell.
The same thing happens when the data is serialised into HTML rather than JSON. Sensitive primary keys get encoded in weird places, like element IDs or class names, even in embedded JS within the page.

"Not as visible" depends on who is looking.
The problem is that "mental security" usually means denying actual truths. As Orwell put it, 2+2 = 5
Who said anything about assigning 100% of the cost to cars? You break it down into a per-gallon figure, and use that to assign the cost to cars.

It's the same thing with electrics. You don't assign the entire energy lost in the power grid's wiring to EVs. You assign them the percentage loss on the energy they consume.

To obtain a gallon of gasoline costs a certain amount of energy which implies a certain amount of emissions attributable to that gallon. If you're looking at the entire efficiency of a gasoline car in terms of miles per unit of CO2 emitted, you need to account for that. The same goes for a kilowatt-hour of electricity and accounting for the miles-per-CO2 of an EV.
> Copy and pasting CSS properties is cheap

Why even bring that up? All 'CSS-in-JS' approaches have a way to reuse styles without having to resort of copy and paste.
My feeling is that #2 is the reason. Also, a lot of Apache projects embed RocksDB and would effectively be stopped (until a suitable replacement would come up) had they not changed the license.
Slack on the role of talking bots and invisible efficiencies
for apps/general phone use 200 Euro phone is fine, but it will have quite a mediocre camera. For many camera on the phone is really important (let's say it's the only camera you have on you most of the time you spend with your little kids), and so you have to avoid cheapo phones that perfectly satisfactory for any other needs (texting/emails/maps/web etc (and phone calls if someone still doing it))
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you've never been (or perhaps don't know the culture) in Brazil. Had you been you might recognize this for what it was most likely was - murder.
Interesting that you had so many pain points. I like Ionic, don't love it but I find it to be very very easy to work with.

I don't mean to flame, I just want to provide a counter example as I was using Ionic on the day to day basis for about 5 months.

- I find the router to be very easy to use, requiring no work arounds, you call the nav controller and push / set a view, nothing crazy here.

- The build process, specifically for the TypeScript? Are you using the CLI? There's just about nothing you need to do

-I was able to start fresh on a mac and have everything up and running for both Android and iOS within 2 hours (this is mostly installing the Android SDKS).

- And the live reloading will reload your entire app within 20 seconds, and this was on a pretty large Banking application using most of the plugins that are available (Camera, fingerprint, maps, etc etc etc).

Note that this is all done through using the Ionic CLI, which really eases the development process. I personally wouldn't try it without the CLI.
Who do you imagine they verified was Person X? More on the malware cert issuance: https://blogs.msmvps.com/donna/2009/05/18/microsoft-mvp-mike...

For malware concerns there's also Comodo's relationship with PrivDog. I'm not clear on whether PrivDog is deliberate malware or just incompetent insecure software.
> This feels quite political.

It's bloomberg.

> Trying to sell it like no jobs are lost is quite naive at best, and purposefully misleading at worst.

I agree that it comes off as very cynical and feels like a PR piece for amazon and automation.

Also, the problem isn't just that current amzn employees aren't being fired. The problem is also that hiring of NEW employee hiring could be significantly curtailed and wages could stagnate. Not to mention how this would affect local businesses.

AMZN is a major employee during holiday season. Would be interesting how things work out going forward.
They are the Apple of the car industry (vertically integrated, focusing on top of market). Apple, after decades of being "beleaguered", is now the most valuable company in the world by market cap (and has been for the last 5+ years).

Tesla is poised to have it's Apple moment soon, driving the industry forward while taking the cream off the top and profiting handsomely.
I wonder what you conflate into a supposed "tech world". Much of the tech industry is unrelated to building the internet infrastructure.

Usually the industry defends regulation aligned with its own interests and has ties with governments.
Sarcastic swipes don't help.

I'm sure you feel strongly about defending your group, but so does everybody else. That's why we don't allow people to lash out at others when commenting here—it's a short path from there to internet hell. So if want to keep posting to HN, please control this impulse. We ask the same of everybody: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
The stronger, more confident civilization and culture wins, not the most progressive or sophisticated. Rome was wiped out by barbarians and the dark ages followed. Western civilization is weak and divided, some don't even think it's worth defending. This is mainly due to outside influences intentionally creating division to weaken the United States from within.

Western civilization is far from perfect but I think it's preferable to any alternative I've seen.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cy2XPPUXcAACD43.jpg

edit: As far as what people are entitled to, I feel I'm entitled to nothing, not even the air I breath, unless I'm willing to work for it or fight for it. Most of the human rights we take for granted are only there because our ancestors fought to defend them. If you sit on your ass and feel entitled to something because you exist don't be surprised when someone takes it away.
In the US, all you need for an ACH transfer is the account number and bank's routing number (which is public info). If the transfer is unauthorized you should be able to get it reversed, but it's still pretty bad.
Submitting to restart the conversation on this, because it looks like Amazon made the right (business & ethical) decision to recall all eclipse glasses outright. It's already being sued for some that were sold before the recall (where the customer did not get the message).

I agree the situation could have been handled differently if eclipse glasses were treated as a dangerous/sensitive special item, but assuming they became aware of the risk at that later point, there weren't too many options available to them other than the full recall.
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If you modify "Yue", want to redistribute the modified "Yue", AND don't want to release your modifications to "Yue" in source form.
The legal doctrine under which the MIT administration feels pruessure to do these things is called In Loco Parentis and its incarnation at MIT is particularly influenced by the death of Scott Krueger[1]. MIT has to at least appear[2] to be taking issues of student safety and the use of intoxicating substances seriously.

[1] http://news.mit.edu/1998/da-0923
[2] In the aftermath of a GHB overdose incident at Senior House's annual party Steer Roast in spring of 2008, there were rumblings that Steer Roast would be prohibited. I was part of a group working with the administration to allow Roast to continue. Rather than being just a CYA, The members of the administration whom I worked with appeared to genuinely and sincerely care about safety in this domain.
All of the exclusive universities sell degrees for a fortune. Their delivery rate is their graduation rate.

The admissions process is gamed to hell by wealthy people and the graduation rate is still 95%+. Hmmm...

The whole thing is a scam where the truly deserving students are a cover for the majority.

It's the same reason they don't worry about giving away online courses. Education isn't their product. Their product is a piece of paper that ensures your child won't be serving burgers alongside Will Hunting.
A bank account number is all you need to initiate an ACH transaction for any amount to any other account (in the US).
In this particular case it's more likely negligence.

I can easily see how a missing integration test, and a few code changes later, the feature gets broken and nobody notices it. It doesn't prevent any normal codepath from executing properly.