skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to forget the Hendricks hotel ( Raven in the Netflix series) in Altered Carbon.
So, I am actually interested in how would you handle that?
Depending on your skills and requirements, designing an UI with web tools can be easier then with pure Qt.

The presented software could be understood as a lightweight alternative to Electron where the Hackernews community just collected good argumenst for and against at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16435688

I personally like all the ingredients (Qt, python, the web). The only thing which could steal the show is the quality of the browser engine integrated into Qt. Since typically Qt is some shared library (especially when used with Python), the whole software will be not as monolithic and probably "pixel perfect" as an Electron application is. On the other hand, this is what you are used from regular web.
I started it somewhat arbitrarily in 1900.
>How does one contribute to the code running HN?

One doesn't. Unfortunately.

>I read the site almost exclusively on my tablet, and I would love a "open links in new window" settings option and would be quite happy to help write the code to make it happen.

Do what everyone else does and make it a plugin or userscript.
It actually happened in the form of whatsapp and Snapchat. Facebook tried to acquire both, succeeded with former and somewhat successful copied the later.
What's wrong with 928 g? A lot of jet turbines can go over 10,000 g at the blade tips.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbofan

I don't think they are targeting 17,500mph. Guessing they are trying to do something sub Mach 10 for aero reasons to reduce fuel and increase structural margins that are held tight by the rocket equation. Reduced delta v = improved margins.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equation#/m...
Also interesting is to figure out how Rust deals with closures, which reference the parent scopes, and how the corresponding (cyclic) data structures are managed.

Does Rust eliminate the cycles by copying? (expensive, and doesn't allow for writing)
I had a similar experiencee to you, but more positive. My school was about half the size of yours. I did senior year classes at the community college. My parents pushed the school board on this, and the district covered most or all of the tuition. Community college class credits transferred straight across to university, which not all AP classes do, so I came out ahead there.

Some things the article misses: in rural areas at least where I grew up there is a culture of avoiding loans and debt as much as possible. The current college culture expects students to rack up massive student loan debt. There is a clash there.

Also there is a lack of examples to follow. No one from my school has ever gone to an Ivy league college, for example. There is no one to ask about how it works or if it is even possible.
Comment banned in my imagination for violation of imaginary ban on the phrase "So you're saying..." and its variants, which are almost always the opening tag of a sentence that misrepresents something.

"Strange that you'd say that..."

They didn't.

EDIT: Deleted sarcasm. Also adding: I say all this even though I actually lean the same way in my suspicion that rural dwellers probably absorb proportionally more public spending in some categories, while voting against "big government" etc.
I prefer Radio New Zealand National to NPR, and I'm a Canadian living in California.
The closest hospital from me is an hour away. 45 if you drive semi-fast. That time + whatever response time is. We had to call an ambulance for my father once and it was 20-30 minutes for them to arrive. It's not really that uncommon.
When I was growing up in the rural Midwest, about 30 minutes from the nearest small-town hospital, we waited nearly an hour and a half for an ambulance to arrive to help my sister with an asthma attack because my mom couldn't drive and keep her breathing at the same time.
Show HN: Nested virtual machines written from scratch in C
You're not wrong, article looks at it from a Western viewpoint. This surveillance is actually not new. Its a throwback to imperial China, with technology added to it. I can imagine a lot of Chinese prefer it to lawlessness.

It does cost vast amounts of money though. China spends more on surveillance and the police than the entire military budget.
The other poster is saying that the clarification is significant because it would discount people that move from rural areas to the city.

If you're saying that you'd like the higher education to move TO the rural areas, then I see your point. But I think you may have just misread.
> I suspect the killer is that "real time" portion.

Real time is good for collaboration but it sucks for messaging. A good messaging platform allows you to ignore it until you are ready for it.
Yeah, I probably should've mentioned mozilla, I go there a lot too.

I don't think w3schools is "unreliable" per se. I don't use for learning as much as a reference though and move on fast if I don't like what I find there.
We applied last year but were rejected and got no feedback.

Hopefully we have a stronger statement and mission plan for this batch. We try to provide the most efficient paths for learning any topic. Be it React.js, Go, History or Math. The project is also fully open source which I presume is the reason we failed the batch as monetising Open Source projects is quite hard. The website:

https://learn-anything.xyz
The same people will also turn around and say "but it's not really autopilot!" when faced with challenges from the other direction.
Iowa. They do it differently. The state took over decades ago.
Nobody misses wave, lots of people miss reader. You can take the number of reader re-launches after Google shuttered it as proof of that.
The Big Loophole That Helped Russia Exploit Facebook: Doctored Photos
Clients routinely background checked us at Matasano; I know because every time it happened, I had to sign a release to allow it to happen (as did any other team member who was checked).

When a public company acquired us, in a process very similar to this one that also involved a 6-figure legal review bill, I did not sign a background check release, or even a credit check.

I would be surprised to learn that A round investors routinely do stricter checking than a public company doing a full acquisition.
Firefox is not written in rust. It has multiple small components which were rewritten in rust recently, but it's far from the whole system. Their DOM is still C++
I'm tempted to put this in the same bucket as "the bell curve" that it uncovered a factoid, but one which shifts the centre overlap of two curves by a statistically significant (ie, measureable) amount, but does not strongly suggest that close to normal people on average have a difference which matters a damn.

Many of us outside google believe that google employs too many people who think they are Mensa, and so self-identify in the far right side. Sorry guys, but I hate to tell you this: your own curves probably don't support your arguments: you're all well within normal.

TL;DR no, this doesn't support the diversity memo
Well, we can all be proud that state governments are both handing out disproportionately large sums of money to rural areas and doing so in ways that crushes any notion of cost optimal. This is done, of course, through infrastructure building, in which rural mucipalities beggar themselves to get state matching for road construction they cant afford to spur on unproductive growth that will turn around to bite them with maintenance costs. Matching makes it sound much better than is the case, since in some cases the state's share of the bill exceeds 90%.
>One thing i've learnt is that comparing optimisation algorithms is really hard

It still boggles my mind how simplex, something that theoretically runs worse that interior point methods is competitive (at least based on what I've read online). I guess with these problems, the instances of the problem has a huge effect on how long approaches take.

>In particular, i get the impression that a lot of the cutting-edge research is about being able to solve huge problems at all

This is also the impression I get. When I look at benchmarks (btw, does anyone know an updated publication for these? A lot of what I find seems to be from years ago. I'm not sure how fast development of these are, but it would be nice to be updated once in a while) it always has some measure of time along with number of instances solved.

>Perhaps those algorithms will be more useful for ML hyperparameter optimisation

I thought about this, and maybe the reason why they largely don't use these have to do with getting results that are good enough (generalize well). A global optimum might not be worth the effort, so they stick to some variant of gradient descent. The measure they look at, after all, is performance on the test set.
Aside from that, there may be something specific about a well defined problem that they can use to speed computations up, and a more general approach probably can't assume these for other instances of NLP for example.
John Forrest is a hell of a character too if you ever talk to him in person. He's retired to a villa in Italy but still works on Clp, Cbc, and various consulting projects for fun: http://fastercoin.com/f2_files/about.html
These are very good questions to ask. Thanks for raising them.
There are plenty of western “free countries” with little-to-no street crime. It’s not an either-or situation.
Still, being seen here has value in part because of who sees you, itself in part because of the VC and startup culture behind the site. Keeping abreast of YC developments doesn't even matter - some people want to hang around the water cooler where very important people might happen to walk by.

I suspect that if this were just a tech and programming forum, it would be about as popular as a niche imageboard like lainchan.
The issue was decided a long time ago. Paywalls with workarounds are ok. It's fine to post workarounds, as panarky did. All the rest is off topic.

The paywalls suck, of course. But HN without all those articles would suck much worse, so we live with the workarounds.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
It would be better to design the B330 to be its own fairing with just a launcher specific adapter ring at the base. That would provide a significant weight savings, reduce the volumetric constraints, and eliminate fairing separation mishaps.
Unless it gets the ecosystem the Pi and the Beagle have, this gets old rather quickly.
Ask HN: How Would You Stop Sybil Attacks in a GBI Blockchain?
I've been thinking a lot lately about crypto and using some sort of coin w/ built in DAO's owned by everyone... where the coin is how much you get of real-profits from the DAOs which could be real estate rental properties, vc funds, saas apps, etc.....and you can also buy/trade coins like normal, -- but everyone who owns coins could earn a GBI as well as in they'd be paid dividends of coins daily/weekly etc... But the biggest problems keep coming back to --how do you ensure every participant is a single REAL person on the network with no duplicate accounts, etc?
Anyone have any thoughts on ways to do this?

I know so far Web Of Trust... maybe requiring Biometric scans... could have a bank tied into it where all funds from DAO's are deposited in USD, and each person would have to go through that bank's own verifications to ensure they're real people. But that would piss a lot of crypto-fans off who hate centralization altogether.
This is a myth. Rural areas get more tax money back than they pay out. Rural communities are already subsidized by cities, but their low tax base and inefficiency means they still can't provide the same level of services. That's not to mention that cities can provide services with less environmental impact.

> even for the same size school (the same tax base approximately)
This is probably a bad assumption. Rural folks pay significantly lower per capita taxes, on average.

Here are a few relevant sources, but this information is all over the place:
https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/817088161906102273
http://www.startribune.com/metro-vs-outstate-which-counties-...
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/03/opinion/sunday/why-blue-s...
Approximating the station as a hollow shell of constant thickness, the mass would scale with the surface area. The volume would scale proportional to the surface area to the power of 3/2.

So 6.6x the mass gets you 6.6x the surface area, which gets you about 17x the volume, or ~5600m^3
Any way this could be done without requiring javascript?

For security, ad-blocking, and privacy reasons I have javascript blocked in my browser, and really don't like to turn it on except for sites like my bank.
Well, they keep screwing themselves over the way they vote so I hardly feel bad for them. If you can’t get informed and vote in your own self-interest then I don’t know how I can possible he’ll fix your problems. Maybe they should take their own advice and pull themselves up by their bootstraps!
> The entire problem here is incorrectly assuming that "A owns B" implies "A has a pointer to B". I don't know if this is a Rust-imposed constraint in some fashion, but it certainly isn't a necessary one.

Rust has support for weak references[1] to support this exact use case.

For 90% of uses cases A owns B tends to produce much cleaner architecture. Having ambiguous ownership is just a recipe for resource leaks and non-deterministic behavior.

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/rc/struct.Weak.html
because it's more efficient? The services will help more people because of population density. I mean, the math is obvious. I'm not sure what the argument is. Nobody is saying city folk are more important. There are simply more of them.
> When a public company acquired us, in a process very similar to this one that also involved a 6-figure legal review bill, I did not sign a background check release, or even a credit check.

> I would be surprised to learn that A round investors routinely do stricter checking than a public company doing a full acquisition.

That's easily explained: when doing an acquisition the company is the focus, not the executives. When doing an investment the team that you are effectively partnering with is a very important part of the deal.

Post acquisition a player with a troublesome past that was not disclosed could be easily discarded especially since this would be considered a lack of disclosure, but in an investment scenario where that player (and/or their buddies) holds the majority of the stock that is not so easy.
That would be the same problem that other students from less educated communities have. I've many times read of research saying that they feel culturally isolated at college, and also at home where few share their experience and many question their decision to go to college. Many drop out.
The cause of sex-related ability tilt is irrelevant with regard to the consequences on STEM employment. Whether due to socialization alone, innate ability alone, some combination of the two, or causes we don't understand, the outcome is the same and the consequences are the same.
The measurement of general intelligence is just about the most strongly predictive tool in Psychology.

Here's some things from Thomas Sowell's Migrations and Cultures that people don't know about intelligence as measured by groups. Polish and Italian immigrant communities went from the mid-80's average IQ to over 100 over the 1st half of the 20th century. Poles had increased their average IQ to 108. In another study, African American children of US service people growing up in Germany had the same average IQs as their classmates.

So could factors outside of genetics, like culture, have powerful effects on IQ? It certainly looks like it. Advocates of Social Justice should be looking for what these factors are. Whatever those factors are, not seeking to deliver them to underprivileged groups is like letting lead get into the water of Flint Michigan: It can mean huge differences in the IQs of growing children. Instead, what I see from the far left, is the willful suppression of such information. If it doesn't fit the political agenda and narrative, then it's a-priori a product of bigotry or bias of some kind. Sorry, but that strikes me as cynical and very odd. It's almost like someone cares more about power than the welfare of the underprivileged.

More on the specific topic of the op, the SAT and ACT certainly don't measure everything. Perhaps there is some kind of bias in workplace culture that puts too much emphasis on the skills well measured by such tests, while other kinds of skills are underappreciated? My intuitive sense, considering what tech is like, is that it's probably true.
Next in line: Netbeans.
Depends on the country. I know in the UK class is distinct from income. In the US it's very closely linked.
It's all about clear standards and strong moderation. I visit another forum that has a great community. No karma, no voting, just those two things. I've also run a large community in the past that I believe was successful for those reasons.
I think you missed the point of their question. The problem isn't that there aren't enough universities in rural locations, which is what that stat could be representing.
Given some of Tesla's past behavior, I suspect any such attempt would involve any or the following:

- pulling of full vehicle logs, prior to any subpoena/ discovery, and publishing of press releases with Tesla's "findings" on the driver's record

- disabling of Autopilot for that vehicle, if not

- disabling of the vehicle for failure to adhere to the EULA which probably has "binding arbitration" clauses
Measurement of general intelligence isn’t part of this study.
I'm quite familiar with password attack scenarios.

If high-value targets are selecting passwords that would be vulnerable to a targeted cracking attack, the solution isn't to blacklist a half-billion passwords (when they could just as easily come up with literally trillions of other passwords that would also be bad, yet are not included in the blacklist). The solution is to show them how to manage their specialized threat model - 2FA, creating strong passphrases, using a password manager, etc.
That has a lot to do with the license. It should be more copyleft. Permissive licenses attract leeches who do nothing but complain to overworked contributors.

"Over the years, I've become convinced that the BSD license is great for code you don't care about" -- Linus Torvalds

https://www.cio.com/article/3112582/linux/linus-torvalds-say...
I invented the design for this protocol, Google stole it from me, and I have the digitally signed emails with Google to prove it. Not that anyone cares now.
Google Wave was really the spark that inspired me to "build a startup." With that said, it was a mess. It was a schizophrenic product that couldn't decide whether it was a developer platform or replacement for email. It had "everything" in the worst of ways.

It really was a Frankenstein; I distinctly remember threaded conversations that wouldn't collapse, weird and inconsistent results when contributing to the same "wave," and an interface that was honestly pretty awful (not to mention cramped on the screens of yesteryear). There's more: Google wanted to create a protocol but the tech was invite-only (???), it wanted to replace email but no one else adopted it. The whole thing made no sense.

But after watching the Google I/O talk, I was enthralled. I thought to myself "I bet I could build that!" And really, even if Google Wave failed horribly, it did contribute to the "real-time" web we all enjoy today.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16404452
Constructive criticism, I have typed in "Flying", I was suggested "Travelling" among others (none directly related to just flying). When I clicked that word I was taken to page with some links to known travel sites. I have no idea what is going on, what are those and what I am choosing. I would encourage you to iron some UX and UI to be more noobie friendly. Nice concept, but I would like to be able to use it without getting lost so quickly.
I mean strictly in the sense that we already have root servers pointing to TLDs pointing to individual domains all the way down. I'm not suggesting DANE in particular here I'm suggesting trust one "Super CA" that signs a "sub CA" for a TLD that signs another sub CA for the domain which can keep doing the same thing. Basically just chain each CA together but all of the sub CAs would be further and further constrained such that .ly couldn't sign certs for .com and ycombinator.com could only sign certs for subdomains of ycombinator.com.

In essence, we already trust the registrars to link a name to an entity, DV certs are just going to defer the judgement to the registrar so why bother trusting an additional entity to issue certs for every domain instead of just having the registrar sign your CA that can only issue for your domain and only until your domain expires.

Right now AFAIK I can technically get a SSL cert for a domain I control and have it expire well past when the domain expired and was transferred to another party. I now have a valid certificate for a domain that I don't own.
Is this something new? I haven't managed or been a direct party to a funding round, but I've been a founder during one A round and key staff at another and never signed background checks for those. What kind of investor was this that required background checks?

A public company that acquires a company managed by a felon might have to restate financials or write down part of an acquisition's value, which leaves me wondering about the supposed disparity.
I thought that ACT and SAT scores were used as a proxy for the measurement of general intelligence.
The biggest problem with political correctness is the friction between politically correct ideas and actual empirical reality. If there weren't that friction, political correctness wouldn't even be necessary. It would just be called telling the truth. That friction is always there though and constantly generating painful cognitive dissonance that require constant positive pressure in the form of censorship and downvotes to maintain the fiction that reality is being accurately described.

For example, try posting FBI murder rate statistics by race of perpetrator and victim to any forum where political correctness is highly active. Instant downvotes and censorship to maintain ideological hygiene. This is the constant positive pressure that is needed to alleviate the friction between reality and political correctness.

There is a belief that pretending that reality is a way that it is not will make it the way that it is pretended to be. We all experience a very small segment of actual reality, so this actually works for people who are insulated from certain realities that might be ideologically unhygienic.
> People generally move or commute to cities for higher education

I'm not sure that's true. My impression is that most universities are in small towns. In the U.S., that describes many large state universities. I would guess that the cost of land in cities is a big reason.

EDIT: With many large universities enrolling tens of thousands of students, plus employing faculty and staff and supporting all the third parties (from caterers to construction to police to temp agencies), their towns can't be too tiny.
Radiologists? I've heard they can work remote from home working nowhere close to 40 hours a week and pull in well into six figures.

Of course one could argue making a determination if someone has cancer is not low stress.