skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a myth that a brand new car is a bad deal. Brand new cars are way superior to used (1-2 year old). However, this is only true if you own it until it no longer works. This is where most people go wrong. If you don't own it for its entire working life (~20 years) you're better of buying a 5 or 6 year used model and saving ~40%.
It’s a reflection of the growing understanding that this country is now a pump and dump scheme. See: infrastructure spending.
If by "racism", you mean making decisions based on race only in a literal, overt sense, then sure. If by "racism" you mean structural, large-scale, societal oppression of disadvantaged groups, then no, that's not something a lone startup, or even a bunch of startups, can replicate. The latter is typically what people actually mean.

The over-arching problem is that structural racism is subtle. It doesn't come from managers saying that don't want any [insert racial slur]s on their team. It comes from people making connections through their kids' schools in mostly-white neighborhoods, or getting along because they like the same music or share the same hobby. People like people who seem familiar, and it's harder from someone with a different cultural background to break through. And this is before we factor in the fact disadvantaged groups tend to grow up with fewer opportunities.

Being "neutral" isn't a solution. If you don't try to actively correct for these things, you just end up favoring the status quo. It's not avoiding a choice. It's just choosing the path of least resistance.
Updated: US Customs Notice of Inspection of Electronic Devices Policy
Tear-sheet/summary:
https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/documents/inspection-electronic-devices-tearsheet.pdf

Comments from an attorney who watches these issues:
https://blogmsk.com/2017/10/03/tips-for-traveling-with-electronic-devices/

Excerpt:

On the September 18, 2017 Federal Register notice (see 82 FR 43556), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration made clear it will now routinely require those applying to enter the U.S. to provide social media handles. As such, the obvious starting point for these tips must be a reminder that Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) officers may require arriving travelers to provide the unlock code to their electronic devices and user names/passwords to gain access to programs, including social media accounts, so make sure all your programs are closed when you cross the border! The contents on your devices can be examined, and that is true whether or not you are a U.S. citizen, and regardless of your profession. If you are selected for such an inspection, you can expect this two page summary may be handed to you.
I don't assume that; I simply don't assume they are because they are in smoking. I'm saying the science isn't in yet, I'm not claiming it's safe.
Testosterone lowers life expectancy, increases the risk of heart disease, and is a factor in prostate cancer.

That’s not a “side-effect” of it though. Be careful about attributing causation. The effects of testosterone bring about the conditions that lead to these problems.

The same goes for estrogen: women develop breasts as a result of increased levels of estrogen. The increased cellular activity in the breast cells over many decades leads to an increased risk of cancer. It is because the breasts grow that cancer rates greatly increase; they are inseparable to some degree.
Ahh the immutable nature could be a limitation. Good point.
<rant>

I tend to prefer Macs these days over Linux. The library problem is real when upgrading things like Xcode (which is a problem that just bit me trying to `pip install lxml`).

`brew` is not as good as `apt-get`/`pacman`/`yum` but it's almost always more up to date since it's like an AUR for macOS.

My issue with the Air is that they rarely update/improve it. It's a great laptop though.

</rant>
I'm pretty sure 99.99% of sci-hub users don't know how to use Tor and wouldn't bother learning.
Georgia offers Amazon its own namesake city
Black people, living in a predominately black neighborhood, surrounded mostly by blacks do indeed have an awful culture that perpetuates ignorance and calls speaking without ebonics, "talking white".

It's cool you use big fancy words like "socioeconomic issue" to describe what is, in essence, black people behaving like black people!

There are no evil white men pulling their strings forcing them to be ignorant and not get educated, they just don't want to be a part of modern society and would rather rely on government subsidies than getting out and getting a real job or career.

If the majority of black people everywhere they go create ghettos and create this shitty "culture", then its the black peoples fault themselves, not some magic boogeyman "culture" that liberals are so inclined to throw around.
I don't see the advantage of the MB Air based on your requirements. Now, I haven't run into what you're saying regarding libraries on OSX. Personally it sounds like option #1 is your best bet for compatibility. Option #2 means you many run into headaches in terms of getting all your hardware to work 100% with your distro. (Assuming Linux)
> [1] http://gweep.net/~shifty/

Eep, that's an eye-burning page. Where should I go for discussion of the fast-but-inaccurate techniques you mention?
That's just the demo code (for cycling through 4 different canvases), the library itself works fine in Edge.
When I registered a change of address with USPS they automatically canceled my informed delivery at the old address.

You also cannot have multiple addresses. So you would need to cancel your old informed digest to register your new address for informed digest.

I guess the best solution would be for them to periodically send a letter to registered addresses with a code they can use to view/manage informed digest reciepients for that address.
Though I'm not familiar with SL, I'm pretty familiar with MMORPGs and similar software. I think what set the late nineties and early 00's projects apart from what is being done today was that they were pure passion projects. 1 to 6 individuals in remote basements just grinding it out over the course of years.

Nowadays a lot of big VR and AR efforts are funded by millions of dollars, the founders who should have the passion aren't doing the actual development, and many if not all staff are probably anxious to leave and catch an uber for $12 cocktails at the local hotspot.

That's not a bad thing. God forbid it's healthier. But it is a different environment and we can't expect the same creative output.
If a truly anonymous (which I'm skeptical that study was, but I'll give them the benefit of doubt) hiring method yields more white people, then that's 100% OK. The goal IMO should be to prevent bias with respect to gender, race, etc; not to implement a quota resulting in a certain percentage of people from backgrounds being hired.
Because a good diet and fasting do not kill tumors.
You're asking for quite a lot. Black America doesn't value education because the culture was designed to devalue education. I know no one on this site wants to talk about it, but a culture was created for Black America during slavery.

Think about what was valuable in slaves. Physical Prowess (Stronger slaves means more work can be completed in the fields), and talent (slaves that can keep other slaves entertained mean they're not planning a revolt).

Keeping the slave master entertained by singing and dancing also brought perks for the slaves that are able to do so. Being able to produce more value in the field also brought perks.

Now think about the industries Black Americans dominate today... Athletics and Entertainment.

Being caught reading would get you killed, being caught writing would get you killed. Being white and teaching a black person to read or write could also get you killed.

African immigrants have no problem taking advantage of the education provided in america, so this isn't a genetic issue. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-10-13/it-isn-t-...

The problem is the culture. Simply saying fix the culture when it's the result of a process that took hundreds of years to create will not solve the issue.
I'm a black person, so I'm not going to engage with someone who says things like "black people behaving like black people!"
This actually how it works in Germany. The postal service provides PostIdent [1]. E.g. when opening a bank account, you get a letter with which you go to a post office where you sign and your ID gets checked.

1: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postident
No I don't believe it does. Causation != correlation.

Just because a company goes on a PR campaign to openly discriminate based on race and attempt to hire minorities, does not mean more minorities will present themselves in the application pools.

Again, until urban minority cultures begin to value education - nothing will change.
I'm more concerned by Netflix et al brainwashing people into supporting the content cartels than a purchased judge verbally masturbating. The more reasons for every person to move to secure protocols, the better.
Books and torrents rhyme mightily. The same amount that gets you one blu ray movie gives you enough books for life. I downloaded one 20GB pack six years ago and wasn't in need ever since.
I mean it's obvious that you'd want the latest release, and there's no release numerically higher than that one. But I understand, for some, laconic and prejudicious snarks are more pleasing than trying to understand what the interlocutor is trying to communicate.
Any sufficiently advanced mobile app will redo at least its onboarding flow in the web. Capturing acquisition funnel details over an app download flow is either impossible if you're ethical or shady as hell even if you're not.

This inevitably leads to a copy of your settings and account management page ion the web. At that point, why NOT get people into a decent experience as fast as possible?
That's awful and I'm sorry.
Right, the benefit comes from reusing opened payment channels. A key thing to know is that payment channels can be used transitively: if Alice and Bob have an open channel, and Bob and Charlie also have an open channel, then Alice can send a payment through the connections to Charlie without any risk of Bob stealing the money. If many people keep open connections to a couple people each, then it becomes ridiculously likely that a path could be found through already-open payment channels between any two participants.
This is simple, I just need a government issued public/private key, a government username/password, a government OAuth servuce and a government mobile authentication app.

Most people won't even need to know the public/private key exists, but techies can leverage it to automate their lives some day.

Let's say I want to open a bank account with bank X. So I go to bank X's website and click open an account. Select my country and it redirects me to an oauth login page for my government. I log in and authorize the bank to view my basic identity info. Now the bank knows who I am and I can finish opening the account.

For in-person interactions, I could have my phone scan some person/company's public key in the form of a QR code and generate a qr code of my own that will let that company instantly authenticate me (airline, cruise line, police officer, etc.) with the government, but that same qr code will not do anything with any other person who sees my code because it is encrypted with the company's public key.

My government password can be reset if compromised and I never have to give out to anybody which puts it miles ahead of social security numbers from day 1. My phone is secure if lost, because it requires my government password to unlock the app as well as some biometric information.
Why not start a website where scientific discoveries can be linked to their uses on the one side, and on the other side to their contributors and former discoveries it is based on? Could be a wiki.
About 3. I switch between a mac at work and a PC at home and the shortcuts are really not a problem, your brain gets used to it pretty quickly.
Sansar is nice, but not directly comparable to SL (it reminds me more of would-be SL competitor Blue Mars). There is no single world; instead, it's a platform for the creation of stand-alone "experiences" (which can include teleport gates to other experiences, by all means). The building tools are also limited. Judging by my (so far also limited) experimentation, you end up working alone, mainly in something like Blender or Maya, then you upload and position your meshes in Sansar. In SL, you can collaborate on builds in real time.

An interesting open source alternative in the social VR space is Phil Rosedale's High Fidelity: https://highfidelity.com/

But personally, I am currently infatuated with the much more light-weight Rec Room: https://www.againstgrav.com/rec-room/
Assuming you would pay the fee and supply the ids, I see no reason for a NP not to sign a printout of your GPG key + QR code, will, or whatever.
I'm not following this. When I advocate for globally unique identifiers, I never considered using GUIDs for credentials, key exchange, etc. Just for uniquely identifying people.
This was published 2014/03/11 as far as I can tell, if anyone is wondering.
Soon to be former Apple (13” MBP A1278 16 GiB 2x2 TiB SSDs) owner here:

Lenovo X270

- 20-ish hour battery life

- Awesome water-resistant keyboard. Did I mention it’s one of the best laptop keyboards IMHO?

- Lightweight

- Portable size for train, plane, automobile use

- Choice of displays

- Kensington lock port, headphone jack, USBs and SD card slot

Do not buy an Apple any longer: unrepairable, $750 LB repairs, glued in batteries, soldered-in RAM and SSDs, unupgradeable and new terrible, feedbackless keyboards. Watch Louis Rossmann’s channel if you need any more convincing that Apple’s are often overpriced money-pits.
Snapchat's localized AR-Art platform launches
I think I could care less about the touch bar, because I am one of the few willing to admit that I don't use vim. ;)

However, I am _much_ more frustrated by the lack of MagSafe. I am a tremendous klutz (as are my kids, and my cats, etc), so the peace of mind of being able to not destroy my laptop, should I ever trip on a cord or step on it, is something which I am wary of. For those of you with newer Macbooks, how do you handle charging?
Can you remote into your desktop from a lightweight laptop or a decent tablet?
Once, it could.

Twice, it means they've found a very special person for this.
The TouchBar makes the MacBook unsuitable for touch typists. Anecdotally, it’s causing the most significant exodus of developers from MacBooks for many years.
What good intent is there in saying something so crass?

Saying "Urban <one or two races>" turns what's a non-race specific issue into a racial comment, good intent or not.
And I suppose that users here secretly hate VS Code, but still use it just to spite themselves.
And too much water will kill you; too much of anything is bad, the question is in what amount. However, I was unaware of the estrogen thing, very interesting, you do see that in women.

As for it being a vasoconstrictor, so is caffeine and any number of other stimulants, that itself in not inherently bad, it's simply an effect.
The study referenced in the article :
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3322/caac.21412/full
That's what they said in 2016 but fewer people turned out to vote against Donald Trump than against Romney or McCain. And also GOP picked up a lot of senate seats.
Oscar Insurance is a startup using technology, data & design to change the way people find and access care. We are disrupting the healthcare industry by putting people first, not business and cost.

https://www.hioscar.com

We're currently hiring for a variety of Full-time/Onsite roles here in our New York City location, and now our new Engineering outpost in Los Angeles (Culver City)

https://medium.com/@OscarHealth/announcing-oscars-first-engi...

Sr. Software Engineer: Web & Mobile (NYC) https://www.hioscar.com/about/jobs/?gh_jid=247940

Sr. Software Engineer: Data/Systems (NYC) https://www.hioscar.com/about/jobs/?gh_jid=248056

Software Engineer: Data/Systems (LA): https://www.hioscar.com/jobs/?gh_jid=692396

Software Engineer: Web & Mobile (LA): https://www.hioscar.com/jobs/?gh_jid=692806

Sr. Product Manager (LA) https://www.hioscar.com/jobs/?gh_jid=694635

Jr. Site Reliability Engineer (NYC): https://www.hioscar.com/jobs/?gh_jid=13255

IT Engineer (NYC) https://www.hioscar.com/jobs/?gh_jid=32248

Oscar was valued at $2.7 billion following a $400 million investment by Fidelity. Take a look at how we're simplifying healthcare: here's a recent interview with our CEO, Mario ; https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-07-13/oscar-healt...
Or it means any number of things such as the visible/vocal attempts at diversity failing to achieve their stated goals, the difficulty in attracting appropriately skilled developers from what is already a much smaller subset of the population etc.

The angle of the study, if not the actual result, is already a foregone conclusion considering it's from an Affirmative Action-lobbying organization but even then some of the complaints are a bit nonsensical (hard to know if it should be chalked down to the Guardian or the actual report though), for instance that it's twice as likely to find white men and women as CEOs than asian ones, when the amount of whites are fourteen times the one of the asian population in the US.
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I wouldn't say the difference is exactly that clear cut. Presence is a clear example of a situation where you want to use Realtime Database over Cloud Firestore. And you're right, for something that you would otherwise do "in memory" or use memcached/redis/etc Cloud Firestore may not be the right fit.

In my experience both databases are totally appropriate for a chat app. Even though in Cloud Firestore you will pay a document write for each new chat message, that's only $1.80 for a million chat messages and you get all the rich querying from the Cloud Firestore API.

Regarding your pricing question:
https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/pricing#operation...

> When you listen to the results of a query, you are charged for a read each time a document in the result set is added or updated. You are also charged for a read when a document is removed from the result set because the document has changed. (In constrast, when a document is deleted, you are not charged for a read.)
I am familiar with the Socratic method from law school, where it is generally used by the professors. I found it painfully slow, but engaging and insightful. I think a mix of lecture and Socratic method would be optimal, where the teacher begins by lecturing the structure of the lesson, then uses Socratic dialog to hone the fine points.
Refurb corporate laptop I'd say
Instead of instructing users to "copy & paste", encourage users to manually type it out so the concept is retained better. Just taking a page out of Zed Shaw's Learn Python the Hard Way.
How does this compare to prescheme from scheme48?

http://www.s48.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PreScheme
Definitely. But the parent poster I was replying to was suggesting you could do it merely with cash in hand - and that's not going to be doable. I mean, I'm not saying the scenario is particularly realistic: it's an absurd hypothetical wherein they'd want all these companies, and want to use cash alone to boot :-).
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T420.

But to go off your list here a bit I'd say bump up to the T430. i7 versions can be had on eBay for $250.

If you have an attachment to the keyboard on the T420[1] you can easily buy the keyboard and put it on the T430 (I did this on my x230 from a x220).

Also if you become interested you can neutralize the Intel Management Engine and install something like coreboot and sea bios.

[1] http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Install_Classic_Keyboard_on_xx...

EDIT: To take it further you could even upgrade the CPU to a i7-3632QM which is a quad core.
..maybe their voice doesn't actually mean anything?
The right answer to those failures should never be murder.

The right answer to those failures is to pressure the system to change, as this newspaper article is helping to do.
I'm going to need to see a spreadsheet or something for that claim.
1 year is about 19% depreciation.
but only ~5% of life of car
The restriction is on copyright. If a cancer cure is published in Nature then I can take the facts from it and publish it. Copyright does not apply to facts. Others can then use my publication for their own treatments, without access the original paper.

To get to your question of "public interest", one argument for Sci-Hub is precisely that:

> In her defense Alexandra Elbakyan has cited Article 27 (1.) of the UN Declaration of Human Rights "to share in scientific advancement and its benefits",

It's very unlikely that it would work in the US. I think issues related copyright ownership of scientific publications was resolved 40 or so years ago. I vaguely recall it was coupled with changed to the Copyright Act of 1976.

At the very least, that's about the time you start seeing explicit copyright statements appearing in scientific publications.
> ownership was transferred legally (gifted or sold rather than plundered)

A legal transfer between equals is one thing. I agree that should be permanently binding. Even if the depreciation of the funds used to purchase the asset and the appreciation of the asset itself make the transaction seem one-sided. But this headdress belonged at one time to the emperor who reigned between 1502 and 1520...in 1521 Cortes conquered the Azteks. Whether it was 'gifted' or 'purchased', it doesn't seem possible to have a particularly legitimate transaction in whatever exchange took place.

Perhaps a fair transaction would involve comparing the cost of the actual purchase of the item (which may have involved a one-sided transfer) to a later transaction of a similar item between equals. If a settler purchased a hundred acres of land from a native for a string of beads valued at 9 cents, but settlers sold each other land for $1.25 an acre, and those hundred acres are now worth $300k then perhaps a court could agree that the original sale was invalid and offer to allow the land to be repurchased for somewhere between 300k and the equivalent transaction of 300,0000 x 9 / 1250 = $2,160. Or, in the case of this headdress, they could do a little reenactment. Give the Mexicans some canons, black-powder muskets, and chemical weapons, and the Austrians some flint knives, and set them on opposing sides of a remote rain forest. See what sort of price they can come to agree upon.
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Omg the site is so jerky in desktop Safari.
Wow, that would suck, but at least they probably have a street addresses. That whole 911 thing is oddly implemented.
Do they use any tools to monitor sms reception on real SIM cards?
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As someone who owns a T420, I can recommend it for that price. The CPU might be a bit slower and battery life might not be as good as a modern notebook but the keyboard is extremely nice and the overall performance with an SSD is good even for modern workflows. Just be sure to not use a Samsung 840 Evo SSD, I had bad experiences with stutter during heavy I/O that didn't happen with an HDD or Samsung 950 Pro. You can also upgrade the memory by yourself, if you need to.

Remember to check if the T420 has an Nvidia Quadro card inside. If it does, the Display Port is wired to the Nvidia card and works badly under Linux and sucks the battery dry quite fast.
Looks very good. $3 is probably the right price point.

Have you approached the Postman team? Could see them being interested in some kind of JV. I use the paid version of their tool all the time and am a big fan.