skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Identifying the best of the best requires complex statistical methods to remove several different types of bias.

I'd rather give students PRoPS, which is to say "percentile ranking of passing students". But that would require some means to normalize different professors teaching from different curricula, with variations in the capabilities of their students across different classes.

Automatically failing x% of your students every semester is as cruel and pointless as stack ranking. Clearly, if a student can demonstrate a minimum objective level of understanding, independent of the performance of their peers, they should not fail the course. Equally clearly, if a section is full of geniuses with perfect understanding, they should be graded more highly than a section full of normals that can barely get it after intensive study.

If you pile up enough testing data, year after year, it would be theoretically possible to construct a mathematical model to compare with some confidence the student achievement across disparate classes, professors, and institutions, as well as to say definitively who the good and bad professors are, and whether they write difficult or easy exams.

If you get a 100% on Dr. Aardvark's CHEM220 final at Example U., that may put you at PRoPS of 80 for "organic chemistry, milestone one", whereas if you get a 60% score on Dr. Zymurgy's CHEM235 final at Hypothetical Institute, that may actually have a PRoPS of 95 for "organic chemistry, milestone one". Dr. Z's exam was simply written to be impossible, and scored very harshly, while Dr. A's exam was built to be more forgiving, and maybe left out some elements that the Example U. chem faculty prefers to save for later courses.

This will, of course, never happen. Firstly, you would have to get academics to agree on the essential elements of a given subject at a particular checkpoint in a course of study. Secondly, institutions that rely on selective admissions and political connections for prestige would never participate, if there were even a shred of possibility that the objective evidence would show that they do not actually produce the quality of graduates that they would like to claim. Imagine if Ivy Limestone Woodpanels Law cranked out PRoPS for complete J.D. from 30 to 85, and Bigcity Urban Campus Law ranged from 50 to 99. The former is selective and does a lot of networking, but then passes anyone who still knows enough to not embarrass the school in a connected job, whereas the latter takes everyone, presents a huge challenge, and quickly flunks those who can't master the coursework and get hired through sheer merit. Those numbers would be a huge blow to the former's reputation.

Grade inflation is thus a natural by-product of institutions trying to be a "top tier school". It goes right along with publishing in the highest impact journals and wheedling more money out of your alumni. Schools that benefit from institutional prestige want to keep their reputations polished and shiny.
And we have the first person to confound not having a .app with not encrypting the connection here. The comment you replied to did not imply that HTTP is not necessarily insecure, it said that you can (quite obviously) use HTTPS with any TLD.
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High-rise construction is expensive, but high-rises aren't necessary for density. Wood-built low- and mid-rise is far more cost efficient, especially when you don't require 1-2 parking spaces per unit.

The reason why we get too many high-rises and too few low-rises is because of regulatory burden. In particular, the long, drawn-out, and capricious manner in which the laws are administered and challenged. In that kind of environment high-rises become more common simply because of the economy of scale--a high-rise developer has resources and the wherewithal to see the project through where developers of smaller developments do not.

The most important thing for commerce and especially real estate development is consistency and predictability. Proposition 13 and the cost of labor can be dealt because they're known quantities. Zoning boards and CEQA[1] are the real killers as the unpredictability compounds, many fold, the nominal regulatory burden.

[1] Compare NEQA to CEQA. The Federal NEQA law isn't much of an impediment to development anymore because an efficient ecosystem has developed--specialized assessment agencies that do the work quickly and cheaply, and relatively efficient administration of the regulatory regime. The cost of a NEQA impact statement is a known quantity and is easily budgeted. By contrast, under CEQA it's much easier for NIMBYs to challenge impact statements, which means the time and budget required for getting over the CEQA hurdle can be indefinite.
Yes, it was a one-time thing. I've just had three different people do it one time.

I assume the response was for the same reason relationship advice from strangers is always "break up immediately." People are really bad at judging things they know only one thing about.
It might still be possible. The JVM and .NET both have their speed annihilated by their awful choice of memory model.
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Are you? It looks like the Amazon load balancers don't actually care what your SNI domain is when routing traffic. They terminate your TLS connection, and then use the domain in your actual HTTP request to route it, which is not Amazon's domain. Amazon's ability to allow these two domains to differ, and to mostly ignore the former, is the crux of this whole trick.
How to break the encryption deadlock – Axios
That makes it sound like he's out something. Wonder how many things there are that he couldn't buy that he doesn't already have the money to buy. And, that he would find useful. Like a billion more McDonald cheeseburgers don't count.
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I think both of these can be true. I think (hope?) most people would agree that the toxically masculine way we often raise boys ("no crying! man up! don't be a wuss!") is abusive and awful. In the critical response to this kind of toxic masculinity, I think some of the rhetoric has been a bit inelegant, and has made some men feel attacked. I think it's especially easy for boys/young men to struggle to grok the necessary nuance to these kinds of discussions.
No, a lot depends on how you look at the data. See these two videos for a good overview:

https://www.policyed.org/numbers-game
So would you say you're... skeptic of skeptics?
> Facebook marketplace has been a boon for buy/sell to me and my family

Interesting. In my area, Facebook Marketplace is almost all stolen/burgled/shoplifted goods. People even call it "Fencebook."

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Unless you've tried it, I think it's really unfair to say Go is a modest improvement. The optics for one are much better than even the rift - not to mention you don't get dust inside the headset to ruin the experience.

Go also has a Snapdragon 821 for ONLY VR. The GearVR was sharing resources with a ton of other garbage background processes that Go doesn't need to worry about. And the thermal performance is also way better.

Finally, you can get Oculus Go to run at 72Hz which is a way more comfortable experience than GearVR.

So you get a lot more than your phone can give you for 25% of the cost.
Taxes can be part of the solution. But if you raise them too much people and companies find a way around it. They leave or they exploit loopholes. If the Panama papers taught us anything, it's that taxes will never be the whole solution.
What choice did they have? Either do this or be regulated and forced to do this.
> the same kind of pattern matching used by (e.g.) LLVM to find optimizable sequence of statements also could be used by any assembler.

Some of the simpler optimizations, sure. But modern backends do many incredibly sophisticated optimizations that are way beyond any kind of simple pattern-matching-and-substitution model.

Even fundamental "optimizations" like register allocation use quite sophisticated algorithms. Optimal register allocation is NP-complete, so compilers use heuristics on top of graph coloring algorithms to do their best.

Most other optimizations rely on type analysis, data flow analysis, liveness analysis, etc.
Or only the rich can afford copyright. Or like you said, the rich can be the "patron" of poor artists and keep them on a leash.
I'm getting it from here:

> modifying their web browser to deliberately mark others' traffic as "Insecure"

I'm assuming the parent comment meant how Chrome marks HTTP connections as insecure; they're not marking TLD's that aren't .app as insecure.
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One of the use-cases of the jiggler is during police raids, where they're used to keep a computer from locking itself. Obviously that's not the use-case you're imagining!
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It locked up my downward browsing on Firefox. I had to manually click the three content circles on the right to continue progressing through their presentation.
Once they've got your money I doubt they care how your thesis defense went. I'm sure they'll write anything you pay them to.
> beam forming simply from CSI in any random environment

Isn't this basically holography, just using a few discrete antennae rather than an (approximately) continuous film medium?
I interpreted the comment as: "Facebook would have a better chance of predicting it than competitors given their information."

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Said another way: when you become successful enough, the government becomes a stakeholder in your business.
I think there is a risk that some will say something along the lines of that in the example you give it is unfair for the plaintiffs to only get $5k and the lawyers $2.1M. Reality though is that not only would a lot of these cases never see the courts at all if the Lawyers were not paid, but also it is expensive as fuck to bring these cases and to the research and front end work, with a huge risk that you may not win the case at all.

I would be for courts to calculate compensation to plaintiffs as a ratio of, but on top of the award, i.e., if the punitive or compensatory award is X, the plaintiff's ratio is a minimum of 1/5, with total award being 1.2X.

I am not all that against blood sucking lawyers taking a pound of flesh and am open to the notion of their compensation being controlled and limited (which would NEVER happen considering the power and strangle hold the legal profession has on government ... bar (yes, that's intentional) lawyers from government and lobbying maybe???).
Zuckerberg's original intention was to create a dating website for colleges. It was obvious to eyeball this intent from the pre-wall days. Your page looked like this:

I am a: [man]

Interested in: [women]

Relationship status: [single]

Fave quotes, fave music, about me.

Then, all that got put on hold as FB was built out in every way except that (including adding the Wall, and then the News Feed). They must have realized that FB could be something much larger than a dating network, that would get used indefinitely by its customers, without pigeonholing their primary use case.

I'm surprised it took this long to pull the trigger on this feature, though.
Anyone running a new TLD can make it HTTPS-only if they think that's something domain-buyers want

How does that work? I thought they needed cooperation from browser makers.

Edit: explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16968262
Exactly, bragging about this hack made them do something about it.
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I don't know I think you're getting caught up too much on the specifics of what they're doing.

CPU's are adopting JIT like tendencies in order to increase performance. Instruction reorder, register renaming, branch prediction, etc.

> if you squint but offers somewhere between zero and negative insight.

The insight I bring from this is that we should look moving those features out of the hardware and into the software level. Let us take advantage of them in our compilers and virtual machines.

The JVM can beat C in many scenarios because it can make optimizations based upon runtime information that a static compiler will never have available.

Imagine what we could do if we weren't chained to the x86 abstractions.
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Great article if you're willing to read past headlines. I would have liked to see a mention of small processors that are still hugely popular (microcontrollers, etc.) where C is still a good fit.
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I'm guessing you haven't spent much time looking into how oppressive regimes work.

They aren't going "to realize that they are being an oppressive regime" and have an epiphany where they realize, "Hey maybe I'm an evil dictator?"

If you are up for reading, I highly recommend Michael Malice's book, Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il . After reading that you will completely understand why "see how long it is until they protest or move" is a silly thing to say.

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Sure, Apple is TSMC's #1 customer and uses the vast majority of TSMC's latest node. But TSMC is much larger than that.
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If I read correctly they meant the opposite, i.e. marked insecure if not .app.
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I suppose you could set it up so things that are still under development and not being sold (and hence the creators can't have extracted any value) don't need copyright protection and are instead treated like trade secrets.
Your second point is spot on. Users can't complain about FB collecting too much data. "You want to find true love, right? Well, we need better data about you to make it happen..."

But on your third point, I see an escape: Get married. Then you're free to leave FB.
> The fact that it's not giving you a great idea of exactly what's happening in the transistors is irrelevant

The author's point is that what's happening in the transistors is relevant — not controlling it is what led to Spectre and heavy performance losses if you aren't smart about cache usage. Thinking of C as a "low-level language" makes it easier for people to overlook that fact.
What are the intentions of mozilla? Is it "let's take away control from users", or is it "we don't care about what our users want"? What a fail..
No, the solution is to solve the technical problem of leaking metadata during the TLS handshake.

Should it also be unlawful to refuse service to someone who pretends to be you when they resell your widgets to the mob because they fear retaliation if the mob isn't happy with the goods?
Based on the story Amazon has no problem with you circumventing censorship, it is not the subject of the topic at all, do not lie please because you only hurt your own reputation and trustfulness - which in a highly sensitive area that you are working in is paramount!
...huh. How do you tell stolen goods from legitimate ones? Obviously the price can't be the only factor since they could just try to sell it closer to a realistic price.
All of those points are also true of making a living by (e-)mail fraud, and the first two are true of almost any criminal enterprise.
> If a significant percentage of users actually exercise this option, that will be the end of Facebook as a significant channel for ad spend. It will decimate revenue.

They'll make the "Clear History" feature a multi step process that's tucked away in a configurations pane, miles away from what the common user will seek out and use on a regular basis.
>The solution has to be at the broader government level (i.e. in Sacramento in this case), wrenching back some of the control that has traditionally been local in the interests of the broader population and not just, say, Palo Alto residents.

The current hole was dug by local governments being very involved in telling property owners what they could and couldn't do over many decades.

Why will recursion fix the problem?

The bay area is rich enough and enough of that is tied up in property that if it perceives it needs to buy influence in government in order to keep it's wealth it will probably be able to do so then the problem will be even more entrenched because it will be entrenched at the state level.
Aka GoDaddy is running a dirty scam. There should be no such thing as "priority pre-registration". They're just trying to grab more money. GoDaddy is the worst company you could ever look at for domain registration. Use literally anybody else.
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