skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alfred Wegener noticed this about a hundred years ago and formulated that theory around this observation and some supporting evidence. However, until the 1950s and 1960s the why would they be moving? was wholly unanswered and Wegeners theories were not accepted until then.
That "recognizable slant" is in the eye of the beholder. On divisive issues, the community is simply divided, as is the society at large—or rather, the societies, since HN is a majority-international site. But that's not how it feels, because of this effect, which a reader pointed out yesterday:

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16751922

I guarantee you that readers with opposite views to yours have opposite views of HN's "recognizable slant". Compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16397133 to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16407769. Or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16134205 to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16750306. And so on.
>sarcasm

>strawman
It’s confusing because you think of “employees” as a unit while gp thinks of individual “employee”s as units.
For anyone interested in this topic, I’d highly recommend checking out some of the papers by Denholm. His papers are usually quite approachable, but very thorough and well written.
Now imagine that you both may actually be talking about orthogonal issues....
Is this surprising to anyone? There are numerous documented cases (some mentioned in this article), many anecdotal, of blatant discrimination against Asians at universities. [4]

Honestly when you look at the data, its hard to believe there has been no major backlash on a national level until this point, especially when you consider a majority believe there is discrimination against them [3]. One reason could perhaps be the fact that Asians outperform other groups on a variety of positive societal metrics (income, wealth, education). [1,2]

Anyway, whether or not you think we should or should not do anything about it is up to your political tastes, but I for one am at least happy its getting some national attention - given my own personal experience and just knowing what the data says. Admittedly, if the data looked a lot different I would be more inclined to rule this out as bogus.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_U...

2. https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...

3. https://www.npr.org/assets/news/2017/12/discriminationpoll-a...

4. http://asianamericanforeducation.org/en/issue/discrimination...
Hey, remember when the USSR started and they eliminated homelessness within 10 years. And also, were the first to space. In addition, had citizens that were better fed than the US, had more doctors per capita. And this is just from State Capitalism, not Socialism.
No. This level of abstraction hides the fact that your call option can drop in value even if the stock goes up tomorrow.
But what are people outraged about? I see my comment has been on a rollercoaster of up and down votes so people obviously feel strongly but I still don't understand what the actual issue is.
So, wanting to work at a reputed place for software engineering == endorsing every single policy the company (a collection of over 70K individuals) might adopt? To the point that you should be expected to take a bullet for it?
Only imperfect solutions for an imperfect world
I get bye with capslock remapped as control and using ctrl-[, which is the pinky of each hand and requires minimal movement. Control in general is useful for everything, escape not as often.
s/text-only/ASCII-only, no Javascript/
s/browser/& I use/
s/in VGA textmode//

@userbinator is correct; I often find this is advantageous for me and neither need nor want Unicode "support" in ths program; I have other programs I use to view non-ASCII characters if the need arises.

I am in agreement with this programmers choices, for the most part. Certainly I agree with this one.
Also athletic recruiting. No one cares about sports. Just these two are 40%.
Nitpick but it actually represents "HN commenters" because there almost certainly a lot of people who do not comment and those people don't necessarily have the same view as the commenters.
Heh, I'm mostly bitter because most of the places I've interviewed at lately just give everyone a Macbook Pro and that's the end of it, and I'm sick of cursing at their window manager and then running Linux on the things. (Missing webcam driver makes me grumpy when the XPS 13 I normally use supports everything perfectly).

Anyway, I don't mean to rag on anyone's preferred OS. More just taking an opportunity to grumble pointlessly about a particular unconvincing argument people like to use for it. (Unfortunately, that argument is convincing for the people who buy the hardware I have to put up with at work).

Also to remind people about ergonomics, because we mustn't forget these things. Please don't be too drawn to the shiny touchbar, it is still attached to a keyboard which encourages squishy hand position and which is attached to a screen that is not at eye level.
I heard the same thing about Facebook and Google invading privacy "people will just move to another platform if they start getting too creepy!".

Still waiting on that...
Those factors all correlate with your race, though, so this doesn't really change anything - racism by proxy is still racism.
> What got Google in trouble with Oracle

... was a big wallet.
I am also Asian.

> Speaking as an Asian, the insinuation that my race might be considered a meaningful dimension in the pursuit of class diversity makes my blood boil. This PR rep is barely even trying to hide the real implication here: "we want our class to be visibly colorful". That's some grade A bullsh*t.

But the thing is, it's not meaningless right? Diversity has been shown to be good for performance, or at least I assume that's why they care.

I'm very curious how this will turn out. In my mind, the question is now whether it's still considered discrimination even though it's no longer a case of "all else being equal".
These days you can use JavaScript for anything that has an AppleScript interface, and you can use automation (either language) from a shell script. For applications that support it, automation is pretty nice.
That doesn't mean that having quotas for different races is the right way to solve that though
The only people I hear complaining about that are engineers with technical blogs and I always wonder if they are just trying to talk themselves up.
> GPUs can actually scan to a display from multiple framebuffers in different resolutions and color formats in the same time.

This is also how early SLI worked: each GPU has a framebuffer, one holding the "even" scanlines and one holding the "odd" scanlines. Each GPU does its own rendering work to its own framebuffer, each rendering a vertically-squashed scene, with one scene offset by one pixel vertically. The master GPU then interleaves the two framebuffers together (pulling data from the slave GPU's framebuffer over the SLI link) when outputting a field.
I guess you've never been to the US?

I'm from the UK, and OK, sometimes there is a small gap between the door and the floor and ceiling.

In the US, sometimes the stall door is literally just over waist height while sitting on the shitter curling one out... I've never come across anything remotely like that anywhere in the UK.
RethinkDB still has a 2 year old critical memory leak that probably won't ever be fixed:

https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/5865
https://youtu.be/Ii_pEXKKYUg?t=5m16s

RISC-V is already faster. It just needs better fabs.
I see, thanks for clarifying. E-mail in my profile if you want to chat about anything.
Up to the employer, and whether they know about it ("concealed means concealed").

I've worked places where several employees (owners included) were known always armed. No big deal. Safety was assured precisely because they were.
Welcome to the first step in being white.

Having grandparents who were treated as subhumans by the grandparents of the people who are now telling you that you are too privileged to be treated equally.

But if you move to the middle of no where in the deep south, in 20 years, you might not get police beating you as violently when they arrest you, if you're rich.

And you're racist if you bring that up.

Speaking as an Eastern European.
My first thought was to use the sh -c method.
> USSR did not have toilet papers or pencils?

They had cars made of toilet papers. /s The car industry is a great example of how centralized planning is a total failure.
You can make the Caps Lock key even more useful by turning it into a "Hyper" modifier (Command+Ctrl+Option+Shift) when it is held down (great for system-wide shortcuts in Hammerspoon[0], since application shortcuts that use all four modifiers are very rare) but acts like pressing "Escape" when it is tapped.

This is easily done with Karabiner Elements[1] and a simple rule[2] you import and enable.

[0] http://www.hammerspoon.org

[1] https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements

[2] https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/complex_modifications/#caps_l...
This maybe offtopic so I apologize in advance but when people say "Asian-Americans" does it include South Asians as well or just East Asians? As a south asian this has caused me a lot of confusion while talking to people in bay area
> I think the time to bring up erroneous posts, is in the thread in which they occur. And as long as we are talking "substantive," how about citing tptacek's incorrect posts instead making vague references?

I did bring them up in the threads they occurred in. Not wanting to reopen those old discussions is precisely why I didn't talk about specific examples or give links.
Vietnamese American is bimodal, with a strong classification dependence on time of emigration.
What Each MBTI Type Is Likely to Get Depressed About – Astroligion.com
>Speaking as an Asian, the insinuation that my race might be considered a meaningful dimension in the pursuit of class diversity makes my blood boil

Welcome to being (situationally) white. You had a good run, but you've been on track to join the jews in assimilation limbo for quite some time.
Some data to back up differing MCAT score acceptance rates by race https://www.aamc.org/data/facts/applicantmatriculant/157998/...
> ie if I purchase 1 calls of GOOG and they expire

There shouldn't be holding requirements for going long on options. At the most you lose your hypothetical gains (tho, wouldn't most brokers be nice enough to automatically exercise-and-sell for you for a small commission?)

The problem is when you write options.
Well, you can use KMS to do something similar, but without the auto-rotation.

1. Use a KMS key to encrypt a secrets file (obviously, never check this into source control)

2. Store the encrypted secrets file in an S3 bucket

3. Tie a new IAM role with kms:Decrypt and s3:GetObject policies for the relevant resources to your EC2 instance

4. On app start, get the KMS key and secrets file, decrypt, and set environment variables

In practice, rotating using this scheme just means creating a new KMS key, re-encrypting the file and pushing the updated copy to S3, and updating the IAM role's kms:Decrypt policy. It's not too bad unless you have a million services.
Join a board of an association as a substitute which works close to the domain in question. There are a lot of charity organisations that can give domain knowledge.

As a member of an housing association board (co-operative apartment complex), I have learnt a great deal about property management, applicable laws and regulations, understanding offers from contractors, managing tenants, etc.
Bridge transcript, addenda and errata:

Voyage Data Recorder

https://dms.ntsb.gov/pubdms/search/document.cfm?docID=447547...

Errata to Voyage Data Recorder

https://dms.ntsb.gov/pubdms/search/document.cfm?docID=455021...

Addendum to Voyage Data Recorder

https://dms.ntsb.gov/pubdms/search/document.cfm?docID=455022...

Attachment 1 to Addendum to Voyage Data Recorder

https://dms.ntsb.gov/pubdms/search/document.cfm?docID=455023...
I guess that while the person is not depressed and feels great, it totally makes no sense to talk about anything related to the depression. This could quickly provide the patient with the insight that a depression is purely physical, and that nothing needs to be talked about really.
I dunno, this so-called expert sounds like a quack.
A Male Orca and Its Mother Worked Together to Kill a Newborn Calf
As I agree with your statement, I'm not sure exactly what you are getting at. One can be under threat, prepared to use a weapon, brandish it, and yet not actually use it. Discipline and restraint are import aspects of firearm training.
Pretty sure the GP was intended to be ironic.
This is a fascinating and frightening technology. Used altruistically, this can heal a lot of people and prejudices. But how long until people use it to reinforce their own prejudices, simulate dehumanizing scenarios, or force it on others as sci-fi-level brainwashing form of propaganda?
These plots of the Asian enrollment at Ivy League schools converging tightly to 15% even as the Asian fraction of the population has doubled are striking evidence that there is a very well defined quota.

NYTimes: http://reappropriate.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/nytimes-a...

Economist: https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-T5jqm6t78Mo/VsELOqHiXiI/AAAAAAAAQ...

Notably, Caltech has race-neutral admissions, and their Asian enrollment has tracked the increase in the general population.

EDIT: Note that the plots show total number of Asians rather than the Asian fraction of the population, which would be a more appropriate benchmark since the total population is growing. However, between 1990 and 2011 the US population grew by just shy of 25% while the Asian population more than doubled.
State of the Channel Address 2018 or Year of the YouTube Partner Programocalypse
A better analogy might be the engineers who help design the guns, and the various other well-compensated, high-skill, and socioeconomically mobile individuals who facilitate their design and production.
I totally get that, but in a lot of cases it is easier to use MacOS than to run Linux (like not having to worry about hardware drivers pretty much at all).

Also, those are characteristics of laptops... Not specifically Macs... And I do need a mobile computer...
it also keeps going past the schooling age.
Exactly right. Somehow people keep explaining high salaries of FANG in terms of cities/area in US. Truth is more likely that these companies have immense market cap and profitability and being helmed by first generation liberal entrepreneurs they are happy with sharing benefits.

IBM, Cisco or any other typical IT company pays 120-150K salaries in bay area and not much of profit sharing/ equity.
On Chrome and Firefox, at least, as long as I delete Array.prototype.whatever first, I get an enumerable property when I polyfill it.

Not saying that's the ideal solution, and there are certainly other issues with extending built-ins and clobbering the original name. The Chrome blog also mentions forcing a patch to legacy websites is an unacceptable solution (though I'm not sure I agree with that unless we want to maintain name compatibility with every library forevermore).

However, it's certainly not a matter where MooTools would have to completely rework what they're doing, or where the browser would have to make the property enumerable from the start.

In fact, it'd be easy enough to use a compatability shim on the site side that'd nuke all the conflicting properties from Array.prototype before Mootools ever loads, if they know they're on ES5 and would never use the native ones.

> Array.prototype.map = () => { console.log('map, yo'); }
function Array.prototype.map()
> [].map()
map, yo
undefined
> for (k in []) console.log(k)
undefined
> delete Array.prototype.map
true
> Array.prototype.map = () => { console.log('map, yo'); }
function Array.prototype.map()
> [].map()
map, yo
undefined
> for (k in []) console.log(k)
map
undefined
So if Harvard systematically discriminates against certain races in their admissions process can lying about your race on an application be considered an act of civil disobedience? What's the difference between an Asian who wants to go to college saying they're black to get in and black children that wanted to go to white only schools during the civil rights movement? Why should either be denied an education based on their race? And then, if you're not ok with people lying about their race to gain admission what punishment should befall those that do lie? What should be done to those who commit race fraud?
> > Logging errors can be done in <100 lines of JavaScript, so if that were the value added of this service, they would be in trouble.

> No it cannot. You need a backend to send and store the logs, a dashboard with some grouping/filtering features to analyze anything, an alerting system to send you daily/weekly emails, user/group/permission management if you don't work alone, and so on.

That's a pretty big change in scope you've got there.
The scan rate and accuracy may not be the best, but the fact that they are using a linear photodiode array impresses me. The fact they were able to do all this for $35 is even more impressive, and I await the day I can purchase this from chinese electronics hobbyist websites.
Yes, but not because they banned penny stock ads.
> Do you treat other mass shooters and terrorists the same?

Of course not. But there is, more often than not, a common background between all these cases. Recognize and fix the system and prevent more suffering. Shootings are the ultimate outlet, so if you fix the system you automatically prevent loads of more suffering.

> By this logic, if employer in right to work state fires someone and that someone shoots the workplace, employer caused the shooting.

Yes (except for the rare case where an immediate firing is warranted, such as stealing from the employer, sexual harrassment or similar).

There is no obligation to exercise the "fired on the spot". You can as a boss always behave like a decent human being and show your employees at least a fucking basic level of respect. Or you can decide "uh we dont need XYZ any more, even if he's still productive, has worked years of overtime, shown dedication and has to support a family but if I fire him I can make 10k personal bonus that year"... but then I would not be surprised if you'd end up at the wrong end of a baseball bat or worse.

By the way I would advise you to read up on how most of the workers' rights we know today in civilized areas of the planet (right to unionize, strike, illegality of "at will employment", social security systems) have been achieved: through shitloads of blood. If your state still has legal "at will employment", the state is responsible for any avoidable suffering caused by this.
I'll be the first to admit I never thought I would buy them. Way over priced I said. So I bought some standard bluetooth headphones on amazon for 30$ and they worked well but eventually the weight of their connecting strap started to bother me.

After another amazon binge, I decide to go light and try a 4 start knockoff product that seemed like they would do the trick. At first, they were great, the second song was good too and then low battery. After a full charge, the best I ever got was 1 hour. I only got to use them for a few weeks because one day the entire innards came out with the charging cable for one of the KnockoffPods.

So having the iWatch, which has does wonders for my health, I gave in and purchased the most expensive Easter egg I've ever seen. But from the moment I put them on you could tell why they are worth the price.

First, the battery life is excellent and the idea to add a battery pack into the storage case was great.

Second, the ability for the headphones to sense when they are in your ear is a nice touch and the tap for siri is convenient too.

However the think I like the most is that with the iwatch3 and airpods, I can still have my phone capabilities with me without all the distractions of the iphone.
Ctrl-C is another option that works the same as Escape and is easier to activate with one hand.
The kind of asians that apply at top schools already rank highly in SAT, GPA, curriculum and activities.
This is a false equivalence - discharge rate of the Muskegon is not the same as refill rate of the aquifer being drained.
> You think Asians are getting into good universities solely on their SAT scores? Universities de-emphasized the SAT decades ago, so your entire point is moot.

From my experience, both being an Asian and being surrounded by them, Asians are good at getting into universities/jobs/whatever because they very consciously try to play the "game".

It could be SAT scores, algorithm questions, vocabulary, ability to play an instrument, etc.

All of my friends knew or at least thought they knew what universities cared about, and then got extra schooling to prepare exactly those things. Some people even hire people to help them write their essays who I guess are "experts" at writing applications.
To me, the touch bar is a deal-breaker.

Here is what they could have done:

Right hand side: a regular power button that doubles as finger-print.

Left hand side: a regular esc key.

Replace F keys with a touch oled screen.

I could actually live with that.
Google Bans Crypto-Currency Mining Extensions from Chrome Store
Aldous Huxley Tells Mike Wallace What Will Destroy Democracy (1958)
Thanks for setting me straight.

One the one hand, it's cool that they are forward thinking about using telemetry to improve their products. On the other, it's a little upsetting and disheartening that I played plenty of Mass Effect and don't recall ever being given the option to opt out of telemetry. And I am the kind of nerd who will scroll through all the game settings before I even start.
Well, we had this thing called phone companies. In the beginning, many places, the switchboard operator would listen in. Then switchboards became mechanical and the industry regulated as a utility. And while it was technically easy for phone companies to listen, it was illegal for them to do so. (and nsa built a closet so it could listen in illegally, and got caught, and faced no consequences beyond an astronomical budget increase, anyhow...).

In The US there seems the trend is if you transport it, you get to data mine it (as long as "it" is digital, and "you" isn't a post service or phone company - not sure about isps). While in Europe the GDPR states that we live in a digital world, detecting that someone made a thousand copies of your data is really hard; but we'll make sure everyone is responsible for helping keep your data safe. Like the mailman and the telephone company.

But yeah, I think a lot of people still assume that a company facilitating private conversations won't have as primary business model to spy on those conversations.
In the US, "Asian" without further qualification generally means East Asian. (In the UK, "Asian" extends to both East Asian and South Asian.)
> A union at Google could threaten to effectively halt all institutional operations of governments or other companies in order to influence their actions.

But this seems an amoral thing to do, to me! A small group of unelected, unaccountable and non-diverse people abusing their relative power to try to force a democratically elected government or private company to do something? Why would anyone want that?
I agree, but know they still had to get through med school same as anyone else.
[citation needed] on why you think there is a large fraction of the worlds best engineers that don't want to be associated with military projects. It has been my experience that the best engineers want to work on hard problems and solve the worlds pressing needs, that sometimes puts them right in the middle of military projects. For instance almost every modern technological breakthrough has been accomplished by or for a military project, and most large technology companies have done work with the military ( and not just modern technology, historically all the big engineering firms helped with military technology ).