skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My boss recently asked me to write a couple of very simple Python scripts for mobile translations. I had to convert files to replace &#123456 type sequences into proper UTF-8 codepoints. I had to replace a bunch of unicode codepoints with a mirrored en-us side. I had to convert lines like "abc" = "def"; into a trivial .json file (a single flat dictionary).

The task was very simple in Python, but would be absolutely trivial and fun in AWK if it
a) had first class unicode support, including conversion
b) had a support for quoted fields. I think it needs a new variable, like QC (Quote Character) of FD (Field Delimiter).

I would put money on a kickstarter of another crowdfunding initiative to modernize AWK. I don't mean by slapping a Python or other programming language on it, but by fishing long-standing issues with it. I think a for loop like in Python, Rust and VimL would be a better fit to an otherwise simple language (only C-style fors are available in BEGIN/END).
"During the 2014–16 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, for example, researchers used the platform to share and cross-check daily patient counts." Pretty sure this is referring to the lab I used to work in.

Honestly, I'm not particularly worried about the buyout - pretty sure the chances of them just scrapping the whole service are slim, and "GitHub disappears" seems equally as likely burning through VC cash as it does owned by Microsoft.
I feel your pain. A large part of my rationale for freelancing is my Crohn's Disease. Gastrointestinal issues really do a number on your life.
I believe what GP is saying is that;

1. Having a child incurs a cost to employers.

2. Regardless of legality, a business will try to minimize this cost.

3. Since it's illegal during an interview to even touch upon the subject of having kids and what a candidate's strategy may be to remain a productive employee while raising a child, employers may be even more discriminatory towards _everyone_ of a child-bearing age, in order to avoid discriminating against recent or soon-to-be parents.

So, how can we alter the incentive structure for employers such that they're not tempted to discriminate. Should we shift the cost burden of child rearing to the govt? Or should we allow an employer to ask you about your plans for having children and how it will affect your employment
I was interested in knowing more and tried to find what her father was charged with. The best i could come up with was this from a badly translated article:

"Under the leadership of Markizova big sabotage was conducted in the livestock building, in which the cattle were exposed to cold-related diseases and deaths. The waste of young animals amounted to 40 000 heads…"

http://z-news.xyz/get-that-lousy-said-stalin-the-story-about...
iOS Radio Station Music App Template Written in Swift
This is the first explanation I've ever heard in 30 years over dozens of physicians/nurses for why a blood draw needs so much sample. And I wonder if young med students/nurses are taught that little fact about squeezing a fingerstick...
Unlike in American colleges, students in India apply to both a college and a major at that college. So competition for desirable majors in the top schools is cutthroat. If you don't get enough marks you don't get to study that major at that college - either go to a different college or (in the case of really high reputation institutes like the IITs) study something else at that college.

Generally you can't change your major without changing your college and starting over (or at least from year 2) so it's almost never done. I saw a thread on Reddit the other day where someone explained the Russian system and it sounds similar to what we have in India:

"Majors/minors. It's such a big deal in a lot of fiction, for example. But even though I read about it a lot of times, I still don't quite get it, along with class selection. In Russia, you choose a specialization when you enroll (e.g. Applied Math), and from the day one to the end, all students in your group will attend the same classes and take the same tests and exams. American system seems like a computer game's research tree to me - "you must unlock A, B and C before studying D", and somehow, it's your burden to keep track of what classes you attended and got grades in. WTF. Here, you just get a ready-made complete curriculum, no need to do anything but study. If you feel you chose a wrong specialization in the beginning, you might change it, and then things become a bit complicated, but it only happens rarely, and usually only right after the first semester." [1]

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/8qrh78/nonameric...
They clearly do. The most explicit example is that ancestry correlates with whether you are a native speaker of the dialect the test was written in.
We don’t use any standardized testing in Canada and I don’t think it’s affected our higher education system at all.

Are there any proven advantages to standardized testing?
Well, she was targeted by GamerGate. Lots of people who were not involved in the original drama were targeted later.
more is less
The point would be to not print more and more dollars to "boost" the economy and run more trade deficits, especially using debt. With the gold standard trade deficits would result in less money being printed.
Where you see smugness, I ask you to see reality.

If you want a system that works, design the incentives to align correctly. This is not happening here.

If you leave a T-bone steak on your porch before you sleep, can you really be surprised in the morning to discover the raccoons have gotten it? Do you then blame the raccoons and call them evil? That might feel good but it's not going to solve anything.
You're repeating what the article already says (and then gives a reasons to be optimistic).
BlackBerry was probably the closest, and I expect they already knew what modifications to make.
electric cars are probably still not the largest electricity consumer...
I'm from Pittsburgh.

We're doing extremely well focusing on new industries, like healthcare and technology.

No one is going to re-open a steel mill.
The one sentence that Led CEO from poverty to running a $48B company
> That would solve the reckless behavior and cannot be fixed with money.

I knew a rich person once with a drinking problem: he kept losing his license but his solution would be to just hire a private driver the next day.
Discussed 13 hours ago with 117 comments[0].

[0]:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17320360
I am not sure what it going on here. How does it relate to crypto?
That is not the argument.

Tests are written by people who talk a certain way, in a way that is easier to process for people who talk the same way. Different communities use different language, and this is reflected in how quickly different students process the problems on standardized tests.
There's also the issue that standardized test scores are higher for students who have the time and encouragement to study for them - things which are scarce in poorer families where the student might have to work or help take care of younger siblings. Years of institutionalized racism (loans not given, redlining, denial of employment opportunities) have economically crippled some ethnic communities.
Getting GitLab.com reliable is a top priority. We are hiring multiple SREs and https://jobs.lever.co/gitlab/a9ec2996-b7b6-4d87-aed0-1fc2ce3... is on our jobs page.
If Harvard admission criteria leave out the best applicants to other colleges, and they go on to create powerful companies like Google in large number, will Harvard’s prestige decrease despite continued support from the elites?

Doing very well in tech entrepreneurship needs intelligence more than great personality and political connections (they should be above a level but you don’t need a very high level of them).

Politics is still the most direct route to power but billionaires are also powerful and have longer influence. If next generation moguls are educated elsewhere, the colleges with more merit based criteria can emerge as more elite. By merit, the criteria may include other objectively useful metrics in addition to academics.
Yeah, I had the same reaction. This sort of stuff makes me _feel old_. But I'm not actually "old," so what gives?
Thanks for the info. And great product you have!
It gives smart troubled kids in terrible schools a chance to show that they are talented and in a bad situation.

Instead of just selecting for the agreeable popular kids who can get recommendation letters.
Didn't they just win a very similar law suit about this?

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180606/01224439979/court...
CPAN was named after (in imitation of) CTAN, the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network. CTAN was named by George Greenwade — the idea was to bring together (network) various TeX archives that various people had collected. See:

• https://www.cpan.org/authors/id/H/HF/HFB/grok-cpan-1.01.pdf (page 3)

• https://ctan.org/ctan/?lang=en or http://dante.ctan.org/what_is_ctan.html
I looked it up, the stat is 43% of mothers leave the work force after having a baby. Yeah, 90% is an exaggeration, but 43% is a huge chunk of women. This isn't intended to debate you, just to put a real number on it. The article I got this stat from talks about some of the things you mentioned.

I'm far from an expert so I could be totally wrong but the little bit of literature I've read on outcomes for children suggests a full time stay at home parent provides the best outcomes. That almost certainly doesn't have to be the mom specifically, but if we're going to subsidize behavior, I would prefer to subsidize whatever behavior provides the best outcomes for children. The article below suggests part time work from home opportunities with deadline based projects. That might be a reasonable answer, but again someone with actual expertise on child rearing/psychology should set policy here. The best outcomes might not be [parent] getting back to work in 6 months or even a year.

https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/04/why-43-of-...
Your comment and questions are only related to the post as far as they both concern higher education. From your phrasing it's clear what you think the answer to your questions are.
Ask HN: How do people pair code/debug remotely
When trying to help coworkers or friends with a issue/bug, and you are not right beside each other, do you often: share small code snippets, use screen share, remote desktop software or other methods?
He tragic story of Igbo slaves who committed mass suicide off U.S. coast
There's a very strong correlation to Uber/Lyft in the industry. Both are investing heavily in companies like Bird to capture the last mile of transportation. Acquiring companies like Bird that help with that are opportunities to upsell customers for a few dollars more to get into a car.
For the current regime, mmaybe. But don't underestimate next regime's ability to flip tables.
I suppose we are now very much into personal bias.

Mine suggests that until very recently working as a personal lawyer for a reality star & planning for the “normal” security concerns therein wouldn’t be something high end firms would do (nor things lawyers would ask for) as a matter of course.

Remember by the time the feds come knocking it’s too late.
> SparkSQL doesn’t support gz

Yes it does. Source - use Spark SQL routinely. You're right that multiple small Gzipped files are not an ideal input source as it'll create a bunch of small tasks, but Spark definitely does support GZ.
there is the same system in the US and Canada... not sure if it is in all states and provinces though...
But from the perspective of wanting drunk drivers off the road, it worked, yes?
Boffins try to make speculative execution great again with Spectre-Meltdown fix
Depends on the data structure and encoding. For instance, another simple/fast/non-optimal encoding would be a 32 bit table of bit flags, which would weigh in at 0.5 GiB. That would give you a ~11.5% false positive rate.
Paprika on everything

But I was referring to plain potatoes, I've never had a real Yam, my understanding is that sweet potatoes are not the same thing.
He bombed Syria right after some bad news. I think he's well aware of the concept.
I did, but in an early stage where I had only one lesson in the archive. Didn't really catch up. I'm planning to switch to the new domain hnlessons.com, maybe I'll do then another one
Comprehensive does not mean "all possible items".

The archive is the collection of archive files which contains a combination of software libraries, documentation, programs, tests, and metadata. It also includes manifests, checksums and other data useful for the CPAN program.

The network is a collection of 250+ mirrors of the archives.
Would that be a trie?
I think it's a justifiable reaction, similar to the one after Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub. When an 800 pounds gorilla pays a bunch of cash to acquire a successful independent product, they do so either to quench a potential rival or to embrace and extend into that field and leverage their traditional offering. It makes sense from a business perspective, and they are the only ones capable of paying that much cash precisely because they can use the leverage.

For example, I myself wouldn't touch any service from Amazon with a ten foot pole. I acknowledge their role in starting the cloud revolution, but every business move of that company down to the design of the last web button is to set itself up as a monopoly in the fields it enters. They are the Apple of everything.
https://www.thestreet.com/story/14207102/1/the-yellow-pages-...
"...fascists ... they promised that they would wipe out a part of humanity and they did wipe out a part of humanity, while the Communists promised that everyone would be equal and did wipe out a part of humanity. The two things, we see,
not the same, ..."

(Péter Esterházy: A szavak csodálatos életéből / my rough translation)
Maybe that google art face detection thing could be a place to start?

https://www.blog.google/topics/arts-culture/exploring-art-th...
The diversity thing is mostly a red-herring. Admissions offers are abandoning standardized tests because of Goodhart's Law.

> for students who have the time and encouragement to study for them

It's not just time and encouragement. SAT/ACT prep is serious industry. $100+/hr tutoring sessions. Owners of good SAT prep businesses can make six or seven figures in a few months.

And good prep courses really do work. Tests, like coding interviews, are a game you can hack with enough time and effort.

The signal is totally washed out; with enough money, you can learn how to take the test well enough.
I wasn't a "high-performer" though. My high school marks were top 20%, my entrance exam scores were maybe 70th percentile if I'm generous with myself (I honestly don't remember). I was academically good, but not a standout performer.

Like teenagers everywhere else I rationalized my laziness and underachievement by saying to myself "Oh but I have other hobbies, and I write well, and I'm not like those swotty scholars with their noses in schoolbooks all the time. An enlightened education system like America's with their personal essays would take all those other intangibles into account and therefore value me just as much!".

Now that I'm older I'm starting to see the dark side of an admissions system with squishier, more malleable standards. I think it's possible that the current system, even with all its evils, is the most corruption- and bias-proof system possible in India. The only way to "hack" it is by outright fraud or other crimes - fake documents, leaking exam papers or otherwise tampering with the examination process. Otherwise everyone has to write the same exams, and study whatever their marks earn them (let's leave the additional complication of reservations out of this for now).
No, she destroyed devices, used Bleachbit to delete evidence and they still found ~ 70 secret and top secret emails on her server. There is also evidence of a cover-up. The Russia narrative is also bogus in the case of the DNC hack they even refused to give the server to the FBI.
Indeed, it seems that we have quite similar opinions.

The difference seems to be on emphasis:
- You seem more concerned about religiously inspired fallacies. (I agree that they are fallacies, but I don't take them very seriously any more).
- I am more concerned with preventing gulags. (Which you are not interested in dicussing).

I suspect the difference in emphasis may come from us living in different countries (I live in Norway, which is more or less atheist socialist in its value system)

Btw, the original article was: "Things I learned in the Gulag"
> that analysis shows that seawater extraction could be competitive with land mining at present prices.

Price of uranium isn't really the main impediment to more nuclear deployments. Rather its politics and safety concerns etc. So I'd speculate that discovering another (big) uranium mine that costs the same as current mines won't make a lot of difference to nuclear countries.

That said, it could enable all non-landlocked countries to mine it from the ocean. That could change things.
We plan to add automatic https ssl certs for custom domains in the months ahead.
I don’t really understand why it matters that these are scientists. It seems that the scientist title is added only to give this article more weight.
The linked report (exhibit A) is interesting to read:

http://samv91khoyt2i553a2t1s05i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-c...

It would seem at first that Harvard wants to help poor students and race just happens to be a proxy for socioeconomic status, but it turns out that's not what they are doing:

> Harvard’s preferential treatment of African-American and Hispanic applicants is not the result of efforts to achieve socioeconomic diversity. Rather, preferences for African Americans and Hispanics are significantly smaller if the applicant is economically disadvantaged.

It seems they want to have their cake and eat it too. They want to appear diverse based on physical features. So if someone takes a picture of the class and publishes it everyone would say "Look how diverse they are". But they also don't want poor students because they want donations to keep streaming in.
Perhaps, I have no idea, I certainly wasn't!
Multi-gate protocols increase amount of gate-deception investment required, making it harder only for economically- or socially-disadvantaged students to subvert them.

With a single-gate protocol gate-deception investments have diminishing returns, which could (I'm not an expert) put participants on a more level playing field.
And where do you hail from, good sir?!
https://danhalbert.org/more.html
Judges can rule however they want regardless of the law in question.

Politics is a popularity contest, and nobody cares about corruption and the issues.

Nobody will stand up for you.

If you stand up for yourself, there will probably be consequences.

The FBI is scary.
That is the main worry, I would say. Less likely Github is going to flip and die than Microsoft becoming anti-opensource again (they are anti-foss/floss still I would say -- not talking about the engineers working there of course).
Freaking nonsense... if you are familiar with the constitution you'd know your rights before the cops tried to explain them to you.
The difference is that most of the things back in 60s, 70s and 80s were built by people who were actually passionate about computers and programming. Then the career types took over — the ones who spend more time planning sprints and following SCRUM practices and figuring out ways to exaggerate what they do than they spend writing actual code. Of course, some of the blame can be laid on the feet of the people who fancy themselves engineering manager because they happen to have an MBA — despite the fact that they can’t Engineer their way out of a paper bag.
Almost all discussion of racism is not about the facts of discrimination, it's about politics of the 'culture war', including here on HN:

1. Consider whether you can predict with high accuracy a person's attitude toward a racial discrimination issue, while being blind to that issue's facts, based solely on the political beliefs of the person and on the race of the alleged victim. (You can do the same with politicians and, very sadly, with U.S. Supreme Court justices.) For example, I had no doubt what the parent article's position would be based on the publication's politics and the race of the alleged victims.

2. In the U.S., by far the most prevalent amount of discrimination historically and currently has been against African-Americans. Yet I can't remember the last time such an issue was on the front page. To a degree, that could be for lack of novelty, but that doesn't nearly explain the vast omission.
Canadian clarinet player sues ex for deleting his scholarship offer
>The most explicit example is that ancestry correlates with whether you are a native speaker of the dialect the test was written in.

What kind of absurd "argument" is this? If you're testing for a university in America, the expectation is that not only will the test be in English, but the vast bulk of your university courses. And Asian Americans, despite a large number coming from families of non-English speakers, still do disproportionately well. But if the local language is something you struggle with, that local university isn't for you, unless we're also going to argue that degree awarding requires lower standards.

In which case, just throw university in the dump because it's worthless.

If we're at a point where having a majority language and doing important business in that language is bordering on discrimination, this society is lost.
That's true for getting into undergraduate programs, but when it comes to graduate programs, dentistry, medical, law schools etc, I believe we still do use the same standardized tests as in the USA.
Because this is Nature. It's a science magazine.
This made me chuckle. I care about his grandma. But yeah it sounds like he just read the title and somehow arrived at the conclusion that this can be used for any and all blood tests.
Please continue it. My cofounder and our CTO Dmitriy left an implementation suggestion in the issue.
You're health is really more important than time, so invest time into your physical and mental health and it'll pay dividends. Few medical scares helped me come to this conclusion.
Yeah, but will it run Photoshop?

Until you can run real apps, how can it compete with PC clones and Macs?

I do appreciate my Chromebook a lot, but there isn't even a decent video player for it...I mean, it isn't a real OS despite all the hype.
I take the view that Ms Holmes deliberately used her "reality distortion field" to hide her deliberate criminal behaviour.
There was a fairly long interview on NPR today with the Director of Admissions of University of Chicago on this today.

From the part I heard, a big reason given was that you can significantly improve your SAT/ACT scores by taking test prep courses, which reduces the reliability of the test. They believe that can get a better idea of an applicant's academic potential from their grades.
What a great point. They don't even have to publicize it, officially they just got the data by good hacking.
Thanks you are correct
Of course, this ignores the fact that by forging their employers goals ahead, they're, to some extent, endorsing their viewpoints.
This is the final insult- if every murdered soul got a software agent, who posted under any praise/propaganda the one line.
"He murdered me- name - at the age of .. age.. . Let me and what came not to be not be forgotten." that would silence this.
They are relevant components
With Google, there might be 4 different kinds of it.
Is that a big deal? If I raise a million dollars to buy a million dollars worth of gold, then my company is worth a million, but it doesn’t feel like I’ve done anything much.
Sure, glad you liked it!
Factom Blockchain Reaches Final Phase of US Homeland Security Innovation Program
I think its also that with Hitler is was part of the publicized plan- while Stalin, Mao and pot just had utopian dictator work accidents by reality induced paranoia.