skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look no further than this video.

Hispanic and Black populations in USA are consistently painting themselves as victims. As a result there are many Hispanic and Black organisations focused activism and their membership counts as "personality development" at Harvard.

Asian students on other hand are busy getting successful instead of painting themselves as victims.

How an Indian student faked to be African American and get admission
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwMzZtU5H7I&t=4s
The idea of having Boring Company pay for the construction and then reap the profits strikes me as a really great idea.

When the government pays for construction, the contractors don't have a strong incentive to actually finish the project. They'll keep getting paid no matter how long it runs over or how over-budget it goes.

But in this situation, Boring Co won't make any money unless and until they get it up and running.

I know nothing about this. Has this been done successfully before? What are the potential downsides I'm not thinking of?
Well for clueless tourists like me, I sucked it up and paid up the 50 pounds or whatever it costs for the roundtrip to the airport.
Your comment is more correct if you remove the "No."

"Less congestion" can mean either "shorter span of time" as you further explained, or "less congested at some time point".

The former should be what readers jump to, because "congestion" is nearly binary at a moment in time -- either traffic is flowing smoothly (1-2x optimal travel time) or it is clogged (>2x travel time). "Slightly clogged" isn't really an important case for travelers.
This is similar to the the original dynamic that allowed Silicon Valley to be Silicon Valley and produce ICs, then computers, home computers and game consoles, etc.
I used to run something like that at some point. It basically was a Dropbox account for syncing to a Pi, a python script that monitored changes in a folder hosted on that Pi and would recompile a harp.js website that would then be gitted to Heroku.

I still have some sticky fingers from all that glue but it was good time.
I do not think this article is very insightful, but I love this quote: "How should I manage my hacker? The same way you herd cats."
The hole illustrated in the Tesla video is horrendously unsafe (almost like a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternoster), but I'm 100% certain the final product won't look anything like that.
The 2400 series was retired in 2015. Does the 2600 series have the dividers?
How is walking half a mile with luggage less of an issue?
Politicians generally don't draft regulations. They decide what to sell and then sell it to the public.

Lawyers (bureaucracy, politicians team, industry reps) draft regulations. It is unlikely that the lawyers who drafted GDPR for instance were unaware of possible side effects. Given the enormous amount of legal work in checks and certification that has come out of this for the legal industry, it may even have been intentional.
Because future leaders aren't the ones with the best academic test scores.
I agree with you up until your last point.

It's important to not confuse accusations made by the student body of a university with accusations made by the administration.
Energy or time. If you have a family you probably don't have time for side gigs
I don't think we should prejudge what the racial makeup of the country's future leadership should be and then use de facto racial quotas to match those assumptions.
Will Ferrell thinks it's possible.
If there's one thing HN hates and has absolutely zero of, it's empathy.
I think the Indian system seems fairer on the outset and more merit-based but there are definitely conditions attached to the entrance examinations. For instance,

- It’s more than just a Boolean to get into the right school. Your score dictates what major you’ll study for the next 3-4 years. This idea single-handedly ruins it for most students as they try and game the system because they want to study what they’re interested in. On the flip side you’re training students in majors that they personally may have no interest in

- The Indian system adds “quotas” for minorities but these percentages are fixed and don’t fluctuate over time. To make it worse they very publicly lower the bar for admissions since there’s two different scores that can now get you into the same university. This again leads a lot of students to try and game the system and forces the general populace to think of the system as unfair.

- There is no age barrier and combined with the above reasons, you’ll see a lot of students take the entrance exams many years in a row after graduating high school to land the right school and major. A lot that don’t succeed settle for a major/school or worse - commit suicide.

I think there’s a midpoint somewhere between the West’s opaque approach to college admissions and the East’s transparent yet rigid approach.
Indeed this is the whole idea behind OKR. The Objectives are _supposed_ to be grand, audacious, and only achievable under extreme stretching. Furthermore, they are _supposed_ to not be used as a KPI for performance reviews.
It's less a criticism of GraphQL-the-specification and more a matter of GraphQL-the-community failing to provide any reference implementation for the most basic of usecases--the 95+% of apps that use ORMs.

That said, GraphQL-the-spec does highlight a key ORM weakness--it's not so easy to dynamically construct complex join queries with decently-optimized fetch plans.
I bet fewer than 50 percent of people who go to O'Hare even leave the airport.
I assume you'd expose it to gradually increasing air pressure on launch somehow.
I am surprised about this. A cloudy future. Is this the future of web programming? Expecting downvotes.
I greatly regretted leaving a finance job early in my career to work in an early stage start-up.

The start-up workplace culture was worse, work life balance was worse, the loud open-plan office was unhealthy, distracting and frustrating to work in.

Even on a generous expected value basis, favoring only high valuation exits or IPOs, and even as a super early stage employee, the compensation was way worse at the start-up compared with a stable high salary, bonus, retirement plan, and benefits.

To be clear, that is even if you assume away a lot of the risk for bad outcomes at the start-up and favor high valuation possibilities. Even still, the equity is manipulated by founders and investors and is so drastically unlikely to work out in a favorable way for employees.
Keeping all knowledge locked up would stifle innovation but not having trade secrects at all would also stifle innovation. Even IT orgs need some of their stuff to be proprietary sometimes
I don't know why you're being downvoted; China absolutely does all of those things. They are not playing fair in the global market and never have. One can debate whether or not the tariff is the right approach, but let's not pretend that China is a victim.
Maintenance for a tunnel over ten years is not three times the initial outlay.
Here is the list
https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/enforcement/301Investig...

Tractors, fork lifts, agricultural equipment

Lathes

Milling Machines

LED's

Lithium batteries

Touch screen

Not a lot of electrical "tech" goods besides these three above, maybe PCB and GPS equipment.

About the tractors, milling machines, and lathe. I like this, because the new products that are available ... are chinese crap. But they are so cheaply made, and impossible to fix. Every small farmer knows you want an old one, and rebuilt. They built the Massey Ferguson 35
, which came out I think in 1955, made up until 2002 a great small 44hp tractor. You want a new small tractor, it'll come from India or China and it'll break down fast with electrical issues. Maybe not a Japanese one, however. I was asking my mechanic why we don't just start building the old ones here, they said they just can't compete. It would be great if we started making them here again. The same goes for Lathe and Milling machine, if you want a good one, you need to find "old iron" and rebuild it (if it needs it). It doesn't appear that CNC parts are on this list, so you can still buy cheap chinese CNC parts to upgrade it.

The other stuff on the list, coincidentally, I am very interested in. Basically I am getting into hemp products and wanted to, at a hobbist level, build some of these machines for personal use. Now I want to investigate if there is a market for american made agricultural machines for hemp.

I don't see a lot of "tech" on this list, might be overblown. These are things we need to make here, make them right, and of high quality.
In August I quit my cushy (cushy!) day job to go full time on my startup, fully bootstrapped, living on my savings account.

I discovered what panic attacks were, and made it to February a few months ago before getting a less cushy day job. Although I had the financial runway to go longer, I didn't have the mental fortitude to keep it up with a wife and three kids I have to provide for.

We're still continuing nights and weekends at a much slower pace, but at a much more sustainable pace. The biggest challenge is keeping a moonlighting team motivated. My decision to fully vest my cofounders up front is paying off with this approach. I suspect it will be another 6-12 months before we go live at this point.
> the country’s future leaders won’t be 60% Asian

huh? what? what scientific reason do you have for believing such a thing?
Infinite roads are not an option. If there is more pent-up demand than total possible road capacity, then there will never be enough capacity.
In a broader sense there is: if you lose your job, it's easy to find a new one.
You mean "assembled in the USA"?
I've seen similar topics come up on HN front page every once in a while.

Here are some of my thoughts on the topic, through the prism of metrics for a company.

http://dimitarsimeonov.com/2018/03/23/the-vanity-metric-para...

TLDR of my post:
The vanity metric paradox - every metric, sufficiently optimized becomes a vanity metric, as it stops being the make-or-break qualifier for a company.
Chicago doesn't have any money to spend on the project. It's not like there's a kitty and they can pull another few hundred million out to finish the project.
The WTO allows for countries that are being wronged by another country (which is breaking trade rules) to enact retribution. That is 100% legal.
I don’t think there should be racial quotas, de facto or otherwise, but if Harvard decided to only admit tall men with “upper management written all over them” that wouldn’t be irrational.
My intention was that the casing and PCBs would be made in the USA. The only China sourced parts would be the PCB components.(Not finalized/assembled PCBs.) As far as I know that would qualify for "Made in the USA".
Mac Pro is assembled in Fort Worth.
The whole thing reads like it was written by a hacker that I would hate working with. Bunch of self-absorbed bullshit.

> May have intense powers of concentration. Prizes an offbeat and clever sense of humor. At times, painfully aware of inconsistencies that are invisible to the people who are acting hypocritically. Marches to the beat of a different drummer, and needs to work at understanding people like managers.

i.e. Incapable of empathy.
Money turns into time tokens.
Therefore reducing your cost of living = more time.

It's a different way of thinking and I like it. The comfort & security that comes from a steady paycheck can go in an instant. Don't let that false security keep you stuck in the rat race. Nobody wants to pay for you if they don't have to.

I went to someone else's startup to escape corporate then success turned it quite corporate as well. The process left me burnt.
Now I contract and it's not all roses, but I would never go back to the office life.

Corporate was unhealthy for me in mind body and spirit. You get lumpy, you drink more, you eat garbage, you sleep worse, potential back & cardiac problems down the road and most importantly sex dies.

fwiw, my father was an alimony ridden fine artist and my step father was a senior partner at a big 4 accounting firm.
My dad was a really happy, well read and interesting guy. My stepdad's life is textbook american dream perfection and it's a very sad and bland one.
So what do you think makes an OS Unix-like?
Another similar issue is they never accept Pull Requests from github.
> with a story about how someone was declared to be dressed as Stallman because they held a printed email.

As an intentional Richard Stallman costume, a single printed email would be great. Although maybe too easily confused with a Knuth dress-up. :-)
A quick google search shows that Chicago is already spending .5bn on improving the blue line (https://www.transitchicago.com/yournewblue/).

Why would they approve this project if they didn't feel this was sufficient?

Only thing I can think is that the demand is going to be strong or they're thinking it's a steal with the contractor buying it out and are willing to experiment.

I'm all for new transit solutions and I'm really interested in this one, picking this route in particular though is what's odd to me...
This is the true story here. How does putting tariffs on parts that hackers/innovators use to prototype new products help the American people? If you don't have enough funding, and a large enough customer base to get your electronics manufactured offshore, you get hurt by the tariffs.

I feel like China may welcome this with open arms, bolster their own manufacturing by cutting out DIY'ers.
Just want to point out that even for someone in the US 450EU/day is not really that low. Granted there's $100+/hour some are charging bu it's not really a regular for > 6 months contracts. Salutare!
I did the maths and if I'm right (I'm terrible at maths) then a loop would be impractical for any reasonable G force anyway - the radius would have to be over 100km for even 50gs. I'm guessing they'd need some kind of linear acceleration, in which case they can just point upwards anyway.
Exactly. Don't reduce everything down to one factor.

In business you need profit AND customer retention AND ongoing development AND some level of luck AND a lot of other factors.

Same for health. You need enough sleep AND good food AND a good mental state AND good genes AND a lot of other things.

Focusing on only one thing while neglecting others doesn't work.
>Meanwhile, less than average looking or low status men date even less than they used to. The whole incel movement will just get worse if the whole world goes poly because men are generally less picky than women and are happier with lots of casual partners.

This seems to be saying that women should be required to "settle" for lousy men, instead of going for better men and accepting that they have to share them.

If a woman has a choice between being a co-wife for a guy who's reasonably attractive and well-employed and treats his partners really well, or a guy who's a drunk bum but will be monogamous with her, which is the more sensible choice?

Also, another factor I think is being ignored is the fact that, over the age of 30, there's more women than men (and this gets progressively worse as the age increases). Monogamy necessarily leads to a lot of unpartnered women.
Nothing worse than shipping and having absolutely no sales.
If your side-project is at all related to your day job, this most likely runs afoul of your employment agreement and IP considerations. Typically, your employer claims ownership of all IP you generate that pertains to your work or its business. For example, if you work at Google, I think it's essentially impossible to simultaneously work on any other side project that you wish to commercialize that will not be owned by Google.
Implement your own – call(), apply() and bind() method in JavaScript
>I am not saying marriage is a panacea but it seems to be a reasonable compromise to channel human sexuality for the good of society.

Or perhaps "society" shouldn't be so arrogantly entitled to intrude on the consensual relationships I may choose to enter. With regards to my sexuality, I owe "society" absolutely nothing.
They partnered with Flextronics to assemble the Mac Pro in Texas.
(2008)

we know God’s number is 20 since July 2010, or 26 in quarter turns, since August 2014 (http://www.cube20.org/)
Marc Benioff of Salesforce: ‘Are We Not All Connected?’
Added React Native to our developer dashboard tool at Chart.ly.

Project is definitely healthy in terms of activity both in terms of commits and contributors. Here is the dashboard:

https://chart.ly/github-dashboard/facebook/react-native

Would love some feedback on our dev dashboards if anyone here is interested!
> In the 1920's, the Protestant Establishment still dominated business and society. University administrators sensed that if they admitted too many Jews, they would alienate themselves from the power centers around them. So they restricted the number of Jews by shifting their admissions criteria and putting more emphasis on "character," measured by alumni connections, athletic skill and personal letters of recommendation. Applicants were less likely to be admitted if all they demonstrated was academic brilliance.

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/06/books/review/the-chosen-g...
I wish more people knew and understood this concept.

It's important to know the impact that you have on a system, especially at large scale. Decades after Goodhart made this law, we still have shoddy credit risk measures that put tens of trillions of dollars at risk just in the US alone. Hell, the last recession alone was mostly caused by the government's choice of credit worthiness metrics.
It's interesting that the only ones speaking up are those that seem to have a problem with the article. As a counterpoint, I find the article apt.

Like men who worry when they start to go bald, you're more likely to notice when you don't have some trait that seems desirable. No one else really cares whether you identify as a hacker, but it's interesting how many people here seem to.

I think it's important to be aware that being a programmer does not automatically make you a hacker. The real hackers are few and far between, and if you claim to be one, you might want to reexamine that notion. It's like claiming to be an Olympic swimmer: a very specific skillset that people work all their lives to attain, and few are good enough to swim with the best.
He was directly elected by 304 individuals. You're confusing a democracy with a republic.
You're talking about minimizing jerk:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerk_(physics)

To my knowledge, there is no reason to minimize jerk for machinery. Only the maximum acceleration value matters.
> The reason this is failing is because of awareness

I don't think so. On google maps, UP is the only option shown when going from union to pearson. The thing is that most people still need to take public transit to get to Union station, so it's not convenient enough for most people.

I used to live in Etobicoke where there's an express bus to Kipling station (the closest subway station to the airport). There's also an express bus line from Kipling to the airport. The subway system is run by the same entity (the TTC) as the buses, so a fare to go from Union station (downtown) to Pearson airport costs $3.25 and gets you there in about an hour. Subways run every few minutes and the express line to the airport every 10. By comparison, the UP express (the new train line) fare costs $12.35 and gets you there in about 30 mins, running every 15 minutes. So when considering UP, you're looking at paying $9 more to save maybe 30 minutes travel time (from union station).

BUT, the catch is that UP only goes from the airport to union station. The TTC also serves the entire Greater Toronto Area, so for the same $3.25 you can get from _anywhere_ in the city to the airport, and if you have a monthly pass (which you most likely do if you commute), then it basically costs nothing to go to the airport. Why would you go all the way down to the harbor front just to pay another $12 to go back up to Etobicoke, when you can just take the TTC to go directly to the airport for no extra cost?
GP never said China was a victim, just that a tariff screws over US companies, not China.
I mean the net neutrality ban. I should probably have been clear about that.
Not every single Chinese tech firm does these things. It's possible to develop a more nuanced view of China other than "China bad tariff good".

Why not investigate which firms committed which crimes and punish those specific firms? It's a smarter approach that helps our justice system and China's.

But "smarter" isn't part of this administrations playbook.
Exactly. And this would be an excellent test just to see how much he has actually 'divested'.
To be fair her face is also peppered liberally in her own art work. Page through the carousel at the bottom[0], I think I count 2 without her face in it. That said I suspect that, like many artists, she's iconic for being iconic. Her works have made their way into our cultural consciousness even if her ideas or her personal life haven't.

I think that's okay.

[0]: https://www.fridakahlo.org/the-two-fridas.jsp
It is time to phase out Affirmative Action, it not only hurt high achieving minorities but also those minorities that it is supposed to help.

There are so many times where I have heard indirect comments that so and so got in only because he is the right minority. I see there is a lot resent among those who say they would have made it if it wasn't for AA.

Trump is direct result of this resentment, and it will only get worse if we don't address this issue.
The State of Black Women Founders ProjectDiane 2018
> Asian Americans do extracurricular activities just like everyone else

For instance
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/jeremy-lin-1.ht...
It's possible. Controlling for grit and time spent not resting, being the best at anything demands a significant time investment in that activity. If you had just one hour a day, you could spend it either playing basketball or doing math. I'm not saying one is better than the other; just that if you do the former, you'll get better at basketball. If you do the latter, you'll do better at math.

(I'm fully aware of studies that show that being athletic leads to sharper mind and better neuronal circuitry. But moderate physical activity is sufficient to have that effect. Being the best at football requires a lot of practice beyond just staying fit.
Yes there are those who are really good at doing both. But that's an exception I'd surmise.)
"Demand is a good thing because it's economic activity that wouldn't have happened if the piece of infrastructure in question wasn't built out."

It's economic activity that has a huge amount of negative externalities and infrastructure cost. So if the economic activity generated has a value less than that of the externalities and costs, society is worse off.

So we need a way of limiting demand so that any trip whose benefit is less than its infrastructure and negative externalities doesn't happen.

Currently we mostly do this by making trips really slow and annoying during rush hour. There's obviously a better way but tolls are political suicide.
Not 150mph pods.
is outline ok if it is client side js that grabs the page and rerenders it? is it any different than a chrome extension.

how about if they give me a virtual machine in their datacenter, and i run chrome+client side js, inside my vm?

You could get into Aereo vs American Broadcasting Cos territory if your service made the claim that it dynamically rendered the page for each request, using private instances.

now lets say you mix in some ipfs+cdn? where do you draw the legal, illegal line?

if you really want to get crazy, clients or competing cleanup services (ublock, outline, mercury, instapaper, pocket, user hand cleanup) could compete for the best re-rendering method, one page at a time, and the distributed database of pages+alternateviews could keep track of which "view" is considered the best, for each page.