skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am one who can be in this boat and don’t know what to do yet.
Founders should be willing to take less pay and their biggest motivator should be their name in lights, not traction
> I genuinely don't think that any police officer, or at least any significant number of them, sees themselves as having placed the well-being of every citizen-including-"perps" over their own.

I agree with this depiction of the current state of affairs.

I am saying that it is bonkers and wrong, because it is bonkers and wrong.

You can't have a free society that fears its police.
>“How did you accidentally erase your phone?” “I sneezed at the wrong time.”

This seems like an exceptionally and unfairly reductionist, close minded and bad faith reading. I only gave that as one example option, and if you actually consider it it's easy to imagine that there could be restrictions like "You must have Backups on to enable this option". Or it could just not go that far, it wouldn't subtract from the overall feature at all.

>I imagine because the number of people compelled to unlock their phone under duress is so small as to be negligible.

I don't think that's a safe assumption at all, particularly outside the first world (or even in the first world considering how borders are hardening). Apple like anyone (more then many corps in fact given their startup-type org structure) must prioritize features and build up, and considers new things as the world changes and as their foundations continue to improve. They didn't always have FDE at all. They didn't always have the network lockdown to discourage theft. They didn't have biometric auth, until they did. They spent a lot of time and effort building up their HSM implementations, it wasn't there day 1. They are only now in iOS 12 apparently planning to push out a lock down of the wired port. Etc etc.

Finally, you completely ignored how these same measures would fit into another major current public issue and just announced Apple effort: allowing people to get "digital addiction"/information overload under control. There are multiple compelling lines here of which privacy/security are just one angle.

[EDIT] - Edited to add an example of the above from just this past WWDC: HN discussion on "iOS 12 introduces new features to reduce interruptions and manage Screen Time": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17230469

"Views" or however Apple chose to convey/brand it would be a great extension of that. "While I'm doing X, I only want to see Y" with a nice GUI is something that makes intuitive sense, it's how our lives tend to be ordered anyway IRL. GUIs got started by leveraging real world systems and symbols, and while that of course can be overdone and be too restrictive I don't think it's played out yet either at all. Lots of people don't bring work home with them or home to work but rather try to maintain a separation. Why shouldn't our digital devices be capable of automatically supporting that partitioning?
Cities have a process for growing and transforming neighborhoods from sleepy residential areas to "tourist ground zero", and that process does not involve waiting for Airbnb to decide which areas to do that to.
Bezos versus Ulbricht (in the past):

- both run very successful online store

- both never sold counterfeit or illegal products themselves; only offered software (website) to sell products by others

- bezos found not guilty for harm and damages from products sold thru his website because he didnt offer it himself

- bezos hires 50,000 employees in his own city, giving him God-status jail-free card (which prosecutor or politician wants to see headlines like "Bezos sent to jail, 50000 people unemployed")

- ulbricht goes to jail for life without possibility of parole because someone (we don't even know his name) used his website to sell drug that killed a buyer

Note to myself: when you grow big and break rules, like Ulbricht or Bezos do, make sure you have thousands of employees working for you, so that you become untouchable! Or face lifetime jail.
I agree with all but one of your points, the projection of her mindset. I've known many good technologists driving for the next big thing, hell I've done it more than once. Usually we're a bundle of quivering insecurities with an unhealthy focus on all the things that are failing in the approach and a level of fear approaching utter terror that the entire thing is going to end ignominiously. My take is that she may have had a vision, but no real understanding of the process to get there, hence 'she' never would have made the tech work and would have known that she could not anchor any of her claims to reality. That's pretty much deliberate fraud. The other alternative I see is she was pretty much brainwashed by her partner, which might be some defense.
If 43% of women leave the workforce after having a child, it’s still more likely than not that your employee is coming back. And my guess is that the number of women who plan to come back and then don’t is much smaller than 43%, because - to the surprise of many - women often know what they want in life. (That snark is not aimed at you, btw, just that this thread is full of people second-guessing women.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17320360

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17325778
You can thwart or mitigate most brute force attacks with key stretching. Even if you only require 50 msec of work per password on current hardware, you have made the prospect of a brute force exponentially more difficult.

If the database gets breached with write access, a user's password can be bypassed entirely, even if it can never be discovered.

If the database contains all of the information the hacker wants to know, they don't need to hack your account, they can just read the tables directly.
This is a lot of words for a question that seems like it has a simple answer. Whatever the difference is between being an "Airbnb superhost" and maintaining a license to operate a bed and breakfast out of your property, that's the "sketchiness" quotient we're talking about.
This is a reasonable point.

Do you have links to any data about how much of that money was spent to keep people off the street and/or how many people were kept of the street by this expenditure per day during the last year?
Harvard being an all-left campus that claims supporting human rights and opposing discrimination, is doing the exact opposite, how ironic, though not a surprise.

hypocrisy, hypocrisy.

Being a private school you can do whatever you deem right, the problem is that, when you lose honesty, you lose everything.
I haven't read the book, but reading this excerpt now, and given my Indian context of vegetables, this initially comes across as masochism. What we call "yam" in India has the full name "elephant foot yam", and is full of calcium oxalate crystals that will seriously hurt the mouth. We boil the vegetable quite aggressively to destroy the crystals.
But we all agree the new site is terrible right? It's especially awful if you don't allow cookies because every page you load you get the "we made a new look!" pop-up.
What 'book'?

AFAIK not nearly all the information has been discovered or presented, and much of this never will.

How about the 'convenient' intervention of mattis into military trials of the technology? Just because it sounds like tinfoil hat doesn't mean it's not true (see also: snowden)
Intel's non-SSE floating point is 80 bits. Which had been a problem for some.
Even items “shipped and sold by amazon” can often be counterfeit. Below is one example, but I’ve also read on HN of someone receiving a dangerous fake Apple adapter that was “sold and shipped by Amazon”, and I have personally bought shampoo from Amazon that I’m pretty certain was counterfeit.

http://www.thefashionlaw.com/home/amazon-is-tricking-consume...
Plenty of platforms doesn't behave IEEE:ish when you go NaN and Inf, which this template collection doesn't check anyways.

You would have to catch FPU interrupts and do the overflow/underflow/whatever yourself. So using this project would just lead to false positives.
Why that? I think the number of starter/boilerplate projects for React is already overwhelming.

I wish create-react-app was the only one way to start a React project, but it has its own limits:

- not intended for server-side React apps

- not intended for React components library

- not intended to be used with TypeScript but Flow (could change with the next major version tho)

Still, there are already so many alternatives, some of them just reinventing the wheel. Do we really need another one? I'm not sure.

- https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app (50k stars)

- https://github.com/react-boilerplate/react-boilerplate (19k stars)

- https://github.com/kriasoft/react-starter-kit (18k stars)

- https://github.com/davezuko/react-redux-starter-kit (10k stars)

- https://github.com/insin/nwb (3k5 stars, support Preact & Inferno & components libraries)

- https://github.com/zeit/next.js (26k stars, server-side support, very opinionated)

- and so on… just type "react boilerplate/starter/toolkit" on google. Most of them are out-of-date and not maintained, making the process of choosing one ever more overwhelming.
Is there any evidence they are directly using race as a factor in admissions and not factors that are strongly correlated with race, such as socioeconomic status and region of the country where the applicant lives?

If you designed an admissions process that only tried to normalize for those factors, would it also give the same appearance as being race biased as the current Harvard admissions process?

Note that I am not bringing up the subjective “likability” factor from the Harvard application process. Since it appears to be a subjective rating system it should probably be addressed separately.
It may be easier to do the state government contracts first to get used to doing them, get certified and arrange your accounting and other business practices to conform to government regulations. If you just contract in your current state you can grow very quickly, especially if it is for information technology, business management, cyber or physical security related services.

If you have a strong state presence it will be easier for the federal government to validate you for consideration for federal contracts. The best thing about doing the state contracts is if you see another contractor did a shoddy job you can bid for the work that is required to fix it (roads, buildings, computer systems, etc.) next time you are at your local courthouse or any government building ask them how things are running. If you hear complaints, there is a good chance that there is a contract out to get things fixed that you can bid on. The smaller the agency/government unit the faster the contract will normally be awarded (city->county->state->federal), though the bigger the agency normally the bigger the requirements.

If you have a nice bit of successful state contracts it should help you build up enough liquid money that is required to bid on the more lucrative government contracts (some require 1,000,000 in liquid cash to qualify) so you can pay employees even if you get a stop work order from the COTR.

Best way to get big is to start small and build a solid foundation and become a company that all levels of government can trust.
This sort of headline is massively irresponsible these days, when most people learn most "facts" from skimming headlines on Facebook and Twitter and inferring the stories. When the headline is all you see, it needs to be as fair as possible. To respond to the other response here, quote marks give you no information about the veracity of the statement. The quote could be from a baseless accusation or from an independent report. The BBC should do better.
> From the link: "The lone dot that ends a format can also prematurely end a mail message passing through a misconfigured Internet mailer (and based on experience, such misconfiguration is the rule, not the exception). So when sending format code through mail, you should indent it so that the format-ending dot is not on the left margin; this will prevent SMTP cutoff."

Did email clients not handle "dot stuffing" back then? That is, if a line begins with a single dot, the client would automatically insert another dot right before it. Then, at the receiving end, the client would remove the extra dot at the beginning of the line.
Starter kit that lacks documentation of how it works, what's it used for and why is a bit inadequate starter kit in my mind. It's nice of you to put it out there but I'd seriously hope you'd focus on explaining the problems you are solving and why rather than just pumping out code like no tomorrow.

And as a personal note I think you should switch to TypeScript and Styled Components.
Ridiculous comparison aside, Ulbrecht sold a trashbag full of mushrooms on the Silk Road.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/arstechnica.com/tech-policy/201...
> Sellers have completely gamed search, ratings, reviews, everything and Amazon, by design, makes it really hard to tell if you're buying something "shipped and sold by Amazon" vs some other shady seller whose products are only being fulfilled by Amazon

I have to disagree with you on that. I've personally not had an issue seeing who the seller is, and to double check I went to Amazon, clicked on the very first thing, a moon lamp, and it clearly stated right under in-stock, who it was sold by and that it was being fulfilled by Amazon.
Project North Star from Leap Motion seems like an affordable DIY solution if you don't mind getting your hands dirty.

http://blog.leapmotion.com/north-star-open-source/
Married in Montana: Servicemembers take advantage of state’s double-proxy law
It’s reasonable for admissions to take into account your access to resources. Growing up in a poor, single parent home is like going through life in “hard mode”, and getting decent grades is impressive.

Sadly race is a good proxy for socio-economic background, and people get treated differently depending on their skin color. Getting these different perspectives in the class is a positive.
You look at workplace performance directly, that's how. Employers fundamentally aren't entitled to the residual value of workplace performance above and beyond the standards they demand for the renumeration they provide.

Possibly you can create an option that allows employees to self-discriminate. Say, "drop down to 30 hrs/wk with some work-from-home flexibility" for a significant drop in pay. You'll get roughly the same level of performance in many creative arts like programming, but since it's the employee's choice to take the company isn't responsible for "discriminating".
This is such rubbish. What do you think would happen to senior officers of Amazon if they pivoted the company to selling illegal drugs?
>obligation for members of oppressed groups, but okay.

Presumptuous even to consider MSM to be part of the same oppressed "group." I understand that unity, as a minority, is essential for fighting the good fight. But, it's also important to recognize that not every MSM identifies as "gay," and behavior does not dictate identity. People must be free to identify as they wish, without judgement. Describe, don't prescribe.

What makes this group of businessmen so fascinating is that they subvert the homogeny of the modern gay rights movement -- "you're one of us! Admit it!" -- and reveals a different kind of queer.
Unlisted Links Aren’t Quite as Private as YouTube Promised
https://www.fakespot.com/
In Amsterdam it’s a broader issue, and excessive tourism is a big complaint by pretty much anyone native to Amsterdam. The city has recently put a halt to any further expansion of tourist shops / hotels / etc downtown, and on a national level we’re trying to get tourists to visit other parts of The Netherlands instead. This, in order to keep the authentic nature of the city, and ensure the city still caters to locals as well.

These kind of rules is something all businesses need to adhere to, and I see no reason why Airbnb should be an exception.
Time for me to mention https://www.fakespot.com/
I think this may be true may be not, but it's a distraction. People are fighting over Harvard's admissions process because it's one of the few relatively sure pathways to exit poverty (or maintain wealth) and become a "success".

I raise the question, why do elite Universities even have a right to exist? We should make the public system free and excellent like in other countries. When I meet international students and postdocs at ivys they think our system is a travesty. People are "buying" degrees when in their country only the rich and stupid have to do so. Furthermore, the undergraduate culture on campus is one completely divorced from the rest of society and doused in unexamined privilege.

Nationalize Harvard!
I bought some cologne from them and figured it was safe because the seller was posted as Amazon. Got it and the original barcode had been excised with a razor and replaced with a sticker. Scent and bottle were fake. When I wrote a dispassionate and factual review with pics it was removed with no recourse or explanation. Very sketchy.
The way I remember du and df is Disk Usage and Display (mounted) Filesystems, respectively.
You’ve just also proven health insurance doesn’t work!
“I’ve had several authors find their own software and thank me for preserving it. One author even apologized for the copy protection. He understood it was a “necessary evil” at the time, but he was so glad that someone had finally bothered to cut through it. He said it was so exciting to be able to experience his own work again, for the first time in decades.”

That’s cool.
He also attempted to hire an assassin.
You can only trust "shipped and sold by Amazon" if you can be certain they are not using inventory co-mingling. Basically everyone's inventory for the same product are thrown into the same warehouse storage bin, so when you buy the item it's a lucky dip as to whose product is picked and put in the parcel.

If another merchant is offering the same item on the listing I don't think it's possible to be certain. Does anyone know a way to be sure?
My point is the UI/UX for Amazon vs marketplace sellers is the same, and most customers are not as savvy or diligent as you or I to read the one line on the page that tells you the seller is Amazon or not.

The fact that you even have to be that careful is a bad customer experience.
And kept a diary where he admitted to all of this.
Yes, with low traffic it won't matter, but "it makes a difference in higher-scale situations." We benefit materially when doing billions of daily requests.

Servers don't have unlimited connections so HTTP/2 provides more throughput and concurrency over the same TCP connection pool, while also preventing any slow requests from affecting all other requests queued on the same connection. HPACK compression operates on individual headers and saving the keys alone can save significant overhead for smaller payloads, along with the binary protocol.
It’s the dangerous products that concern me more than the counterfeit ones. I’m more lenient than you, but yes there are huge category groups I won’t even bother trying to buy on Amazon. That list has been increasing, not shrinking. I still buy a lot from Amazon, but it’s probably more attributable to not going to physical retailers.

This has made me more bullish about non-Amazon e-commerce.
Do you all have any resources for getting started with contract bidding? Where to see open contracts? What it takes to be considered, legitimately? Thanks.
Mactracker is still being updated.

http://mactracker.ca
The speed at which energy is released varies by altitude and speed. The Tunguska asteroid managed to reach just 10 km over the Earth's surface before exploding where the air is getting quite thick. What you want to do is rather than dive in head first just skim the atmosphere and drain your energy bit by bit. Once you're going slowly you can afford to go lower without burning up.

When astronauts return from space they have to carefully control how they descend and make sure that they don't get too low while they're traveling too fast. Otherwise they'd burn up.
> Is there any evidence they are directly using race as a factor in admissions and not factors that are strongly correlated with race, such as socioeconomic status and region of the country where the applicant lives?

I can't speak to how Harvard works specifically, but from what I've seen elsewhere if you're an underrepresented minority your application will get flagged and go through a different process where they take a deeper look into your background. For a white applicant who isn't a recruited athlete or flagged for any other reason, the admissions committee most likely makes a yes or no decision in 3 - 5 minutes just based on your GPA, SATs, and reading the first couple paragraphs of your essays. If your application gets flagged for some reason (being an underrepresented minority, a recruited athlete, letter from a big donor, etc.) then they'll actually take a deeper dive into your background before making a decision.

The colleges also get their simulated US News rank updated a couple times per day based on the GPA and SAT averages of students admitted so far, so what you need in terms of basic stats can vary substantially depending on whether your application gets read in the morning or afternoon.
Yes, bc is useful. You can even pipe standard input into bc, and get the results of the calculations on standard output.

bc -l

used to be the invocation I used a lot.

I do that Google thing myself nowadays too :) They can even give answers to factorial(n) and the like. Found that recently. Wouldn't be surprised if a lot more too.
Certainly the article's original title is both misleading and clickbait, but the idea is to change such titles to something accurate and neutral. I've taken a crack at it based on the contents of the article, but if someone comes up with a more accurate and neutral title we can change it again.
> Search your feelings: You know it’s true, because of how stupid it is
Is there any evidence they are directly using race as a
factor in admissions and not factors that are strongly
correlated with race

In my country, anti-discrimination laws include "constructive discrimination". So you can't deny a person a job for being black, and you also can't deny them a job for having curly black hair and thick lips.