skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another Social Capital Partner Departs Venture Capital Firm
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.

Right, the people who should really be worried are VSTS users. And GitLab users funnily enough. They are VC backed and will have to exit too, and everyone’s looking at them now. The least worst thing that could happen is bought by Atlassian and folded into Bitbucket.

And you’re completely right, it is actually pretty weird that they were never worried before when it was burning VC cash. Funded by grants, I’m not sure scientists fully understand how this works.
Codec2: A Whole Podcast on a Floppy Disk
People forget that Harvard may be their first choice, but their safety schools will be Stanford and so on.

These candidates who don’t get into Harvard but were contenders are not hurting for overall choice.
So you disagree with the assertion that native speakers of a specific dialect score higher than non-native speakers of that dialect--all else being equal?

Or did you just decide you'd rather argue with something I didn't write?
Try this ['1','1','1'].map(Number).

That's just about language specifics, not a question for seniors in my opinion.
2 posts about Stalin in 24 hours.

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It's not for every climate, sure. However, I ride one to work once a week and it always brings a smile to my face. You can't go 5 minutes in LA without seeing someone on one.
We cannot have meritocracy and a system where some people will go missing for a year at a time

We don't have "meritocracy" already, so this isn't a useful objection.

And when you consider that companies constantly complain about how difficult it is to find, hire and retain good people, you'd think once they've found one they'd want to, y'know, actually work to retain that person long-term. That would, after all, be what a meritorious company would do, and by setting that example word would get round and other good people would want to work for them.

In fact, perhaps you should consider that your entire view of this is precisely the opposite way round of where it ought to be.
The stated goal only matters insofar as it affects the policies that are created.

In 2018, it's a whole lot easier to avoid doing any manufacturing in the US than it is to avoid using any components made in China; and both approaches avoid the tariff as written.

If the goal is to bring back component manufacturing, they need to go back to the drawing board.
Designing a Collision Avoidance System by Watching Locusts Watch Star Wars
> "[..] researchers used the platform to share and cross-check daily patient counts."

No concerns about private datasets in the open on Github ?

I get they like the workflow but they traded ethics for convenience there.

Medical ethics.
Why is that an issue, it solved the problem. And kept losing means he gets it back: just do not give it back. Then we have one less drunken driver on the streets.
Umm..maybe I'm missing something but I don't recall reading about a lot of security breaches with Android, outside of some dumb users downloading very shady apps here and there.

Now, you wanna talk jokes, let's talk about the history of Microsoft's products, such as Windows. It is hard to keep a Windows machine going for over a year, no matter how careful you are.

I think, all things considered, that Google bakes excellent security into everything it does.
For grad school, GRE and the other tests exist to filter out obviously unmotivated candidates.
So, a good GRE score can not get you in with any certainty, but a bad one can disqualify you.
> It seems like we're bending over backwards to toss out any kind of test or criterion that could be perceived as discriminatory.

Yes. SAT/ACT scores are terrible signals because of Goodhart's law. Professional tutoring in wealthy suburbs starts at $100/hr. Many ambitious students opt for four-figure private prep courses.

SAT/ACT scores may have been good signals 20 years ago. But today, those scores discriminate against poor students and students aren't inculcated into the "elite institution rat race" from a young age.

That discrimination matters to U Chicago because they are interested in admitting brilliant, creative thinkers. Not perfectly groomed drones. If you don't require test scores, then there's a lot less back-and-forth about admitting that one kid who did publishable research as a high schooler but also happened to do only so-so on the associated SAT subject test.

Qualitative evaluations have many problems, but overly quantitative evaluations also have their failure modes. Especially when the candidate knows the quantitative function they're supposed to be optimizing.
The cool thing about git is it doesn’t matter what happens to the platform. You can take your repo and push it somewhere else if you don’t like how Microsoft runs the show. Given how Microsoft took Github’s idea with Atom and ran with it to make VSCode, I wouldn’t be surprised if Github improves under Microsoft’s rule.
Does anyone test the GitLab Web IDE on an iPad?

I was able to use Web IDE to edit a couple files including a `.gitlab-ci.yml` and kick off a continuous integration job from my iPad 6th Gen. I hit a snag with the Merge Request, but the commit worked okay. For now it would be a little cumbersome to rely on as a primary development workflow, but it's fun as a proof of concept.
My high school graduating class (~15 of the ~250 were "Valedictorians" thanks to grade inflation and a lack of a weighting system; they all had 4.0s) says differently. This was in an inner city public school, mind you.
> could be perceived as discriminatory

I believe "could be perceived" is incorrect; there is a large amount of evidence that it is discriminatory, and that therefore the most deserving students aren't getting opportunities and that the university is shortchanging itself on the quality of its student body.

> one stated goal to make the student body mirror the general population

Who stated that? Also, it's not a bad guide given that talent is distributed relatively equally.

> Is it even the role of higher education to remedy the cards that have already been dealt, and even if so what evidence is there that it actually does what people say it does?

What do you think, and more importantly to fellow users, on what is it based? Shall we stand still until nobody raises another question?

> It seems like ...

Sentences that begin with those words can end in almost any way the author wishes, and in almost all cases we will have learned nothing.
Sounds like by your absurd standards the B-2 bomber wouldn't qualify as being made in America.
Yep. Affirmative action has biases of its own, should be blinded to prevent it. Let it be based on family income only.

In Australia university admissions are based pretty much solely on one number [1] that represents your high school results (unless you didn't go to high school in Australia), plus bonus points if you are disadvantaged (for which race is not relevant unless you are an indigenous Australian or Torres Strait islander).

No interviews, no essays, just high school results plus some data on disadvantage. And handled by a separate organisation, not by the university.

It seems like a pretty good system. Loads of disadvantaged people coming through my university all the time (...I've been here far too long).

Perhaps hard to implement in the US since there is no national high school curriculum and the country is large and diverse making implementing one difficult.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Tertiary_Admission_...
Much more appropriate than the Mac II crash sound -- that was a happy arpeggio that completely failed to convey the message that something had gone wrong.
It doesn't scale up. That's why it isn't used.
If it's anonymized data, I see no problem. All scientific datasets should be in the open.
Why Google has ditched brain-teasers and 16 interviews from its hiring process
For those interested in Harvard's point of view:

https://www.harvard.edu/president/news/2018/defending-divers...

https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/diverse-education
> Now we're moving into territory of not discriminating against optional things people choose (having children).

We already do that in the case of religion.
> eng even tried to rewrite it in Elixir. We ended up scraping the rewrite project because the Ruby code just works and rarely gives us any problems in production.

If your Ruby code just worked, why did you try to rewrite it in Elixir?
Again, I was commenting specifically on this claim:

> This form of farming is a good way to get around the conventional farming practice of clearing trees to make fields.

It's not a good form of farming, because it's both low density and expensive.
> How much risk are they really in from a blunt melee weapon?

while i'm no fan of the police, or their excessive use of force, one shouldn't be dismissive of "blunt melee weapons". they've been killing people on a daily basis for the duration of recorded history, and will likely continue to do so as long as we're all made of meat.
Aside... I just happened to have re-watched all of TOS over the past two months. That one was around the middle of last week. Great timing, eh?
Thanks for providing that information. I respect that the admissions office at Harvard have a tough job and they've made it tougher, for the worthwhile goal of increasing diversity of student life experiences, for themselves by taking into account all these extra factors. And I know that the admissions office at every college is 100% committed to doing their jobs to the very best of their ability.

But extracurricular activities and personality seem like things that are fundamentally incomparable. What's better, 3 years at a local soup kitchen or 2 summers in a developing nation teaching arts and crafts? Cello or acting? Public speaking skills or organizational ability? Ambitious go-getter or diplomatic consensus-builder? For all I know Harvard has a rubric for judging what's better or worse but at some level they all seem like subjective judgments prone to some sort of bias. My mental model of the implementation details of this system is most likely flawed but I don't see how you can get around this problem. Happy to learn more though.
If Web IDE follows in the footsteps of other GitLab features, then it'll catch up soon!
The context of this thread was Linux and being able to circumvent the boot process via something like init=/bin/sh in the boot parameters. Someone pointed out that strategy doesn't really work with FDE, which was challenged as being uncommon.

I am only speaking to the prevalence of FDE among Linux users; it's not uncommon.

You're correct in that these are technical people. Most people running a GNU/Linux distro on bare-metal in their possession are at least somewhat technical, wouldn't you agree?
The problem lies in the comments and issue tracking, which are not stored in git. Sure, you can clone the repo, but you can only take the wiki with you, the rest would be lost.
Internet over pigeon is real
Leave bias aside for a second: Trump (before election) is a high profile person, he does have a huge business with hundreds /thousands of employees and is worth at least billions. To want security is not just normal but a super smart move. If they pay, why wouldn't the top OPSEC companies tell them how to secure their devices?

(Reading might do 99% of work though)
Or a percent of wealth. Although that isn't really effective punishment for people who blow all their income and don't save anyway.
Admissions officers know individual high schools, and the different grading systems. They can separate the bullshit for the most part
Available in Community Edition? Any chance you have a link to instructions for activating it?
Racists discriminate in one way, socialists discriminate in many.

Having said that, people should mind their own business. Harvard should be free to discriminate (if they don't take any gov funding) - it's a private institution.
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Actually, rich people in Sydney just paid their employees to say "oh, I was driving that car at the time". Pretty scandalous.
Yeah, exactly. Psychopaths don't empathize, so they don't understand why social conventions exist, so they sometimes get it wrong and something seems "off". When someone seems "off" you don't trust them.
You can't have a gazillion features and be stable. I think it's quite clear which direction Gitlab is going.
"Open Science is not compatible with one corporation owning the platform used to collaborate on code"

That was already the case before Microsoft purchased GitHub. So why did they start to use it in the first place, if they had this concern?
I could easily replicate my familial upbringing if I lived in one of the cities I grew up in (Cleveland) and had my father's single income as an electrician with my mother working part-time (mostly for her own sanity, not income). I've checked real estate prices and cost of living there, it's totally doable. Not much has changed there; if anything, tradesman jobs are in desperate need of good journeymen and apprentices as tons of kids go to college instead of exploring blue-collar jobs.

Where I live now (Seattle), hell no. But Seattle was a lot different 30 years ago.

And if I just kept my last job w/ a salary in the mid 100Ks and worked remotely, I'd live like a king in Cleveland. I literally wouldn't know what to buy or where to live. In Seattle I live in a "bad" area in a townhome that I could barely afford during the dip and now I won the idiot's lottery and am sitting on a property that has appreciated by double.

But through it all, Cleveland still exists. And I could easily live in a suburb of Cleveland and get a decent enough bungalow boring house for under 100k that doesn't need any work done to it except a paint job.

I bet I'd get even more value in Detroit or maybe Pittsburgh.
Can't find the cite at the moment, but I recall that cult members were also likely to be college grads and of above-average intelligence
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I think it depends. When I wrote the GMAT (albeit in 1992), a good score would get you into most Canadian business schools even if you had mediocre marks.

My recollection of the GMAT's difficulty was that any high school grad with an A average could easily score higher than the 80 percentile on the test. While I was happy my result gave me the ability to choose which business school I wanted to go to (my marks, while not bad, were also nothing to brag about), I also think the GMAT was a useless selection criterion.
People who are good with plants can grow anything in climate controlled greenhouses. Some of the orchids and things like staghorn ferns people grow are incredibly delicate. Even some of the mushrooms you buy in the store for a few dollars a pound are very technical to grow. There is no reason this cannot be cultivated in large quantities, and it is just a matter of time.
https://opensource.google.com/docs/releasing/publishing/#dis...
Making a great IDE is also hard. It's unlikely that you can get a professional level if it's not a main focus.
> multi-million dollar valuations in a matter of minutes

"matter of months or less" covers this.
I'm genuinely curious to know if scores-only admission would deliver a more economically-diverse student population. I don't know how you'd investigate that though.

My hypothesis is, if there's no benefit to doing expensive extracurricular activities, hiring a personal essay coach or college counselors, getting recommendation letters, and all the other ceremony, elite colleges might become more accessible to students of limited means. There's only so much of an advantage that expensive test coaching can give you, right?
How to Mount and Use an ExFAT Drive on Ubuntu Linux [Quick Tip]
Indeed, the first four repository I found for a google search with `ebola outbreak github` terms only have statistical data.
There are plenty of diseases which our body over-responds to. Colitis is one great example of the body basically attacking its own colon via it's immune system for no known scientific reason. And there are plenty of others.

Typically the bodies default response to everything, real of not, is inflammation. Which is the primary symptom of allergies. Which also happens to be the symptom most responsible for the popular diseases for which there is no rational/clear response for such a potentially dangerous over-reaction - other than unlucky genetics.
Your numbers are way off.

In 2006, Verizon's cost to pass a property was $850 and trending towards $700 in 2010. This includes not only the outside plant, but also the OLTs. The majority of the cost is in the outside plant, so the GPON OLTs are only a fraction of this.

Verizon deploys at scale and does not pay list prices. Furthermore Verizon would not be deploying NG-PON2 if it wasn't profitable and would definitely not be doing it if it was cutting into their margins. Therefore there is no reason to assume their NG-PON2 costs will be higher than their GPON costs.
2. Is the data used for anything else? Who has access to it? How long is it retained? Is it anonymized?
This article seems to have a very focused interest on data in GitHub repositories, as opposed to source code. I get that the article is aimed at scientists, but I don’t see the problem here: if Microsoft takes down your dataset just move it somewhere else. You’re not tied down with pull requests or comments like code repositories are.
In other words, if you're from a shitty high school (or even a "best in the county" high school, if it's a unexceptional county) you're shit out of luck - because now the admissions officers will just reject everyone from that school out of hand, no matter their grades.

Objective standards can really help people without the connections to succeed otherwise.
A Clarinetist’s Girlfriend Didn’t Want Him to Leave. So She Crushed His Dreams
> You could argus that there is a difference between physical and mental focus ...

Not only that, developing software is generally a "slow" task, not constant decision making in spans of milliseconds like in a "fast" sport you mentioned. If you want to compare, try a "slow" sport like golf, does your observation still hold true?

In engineering tasks you also gain a lot of productivity (at least if your metrics aren't crap, might be often a problem here) from years and decades of building up experience and knowledge. Moreover this doesn't get lost to a huge degree if you pause 1-2 years, not like physical training which goes away quickly and is hard to build up again.

I think what could play a role here is that older people may often be less focused on the job because that focus shifts to other things in life like e.g. family.
>>I will never forget my gut wrenching feeling when I opened up one of the main provisioning scripts (in Python) to read the first two lines:

True = 0
False = -1

<<

Could you please explain what is so egregious about those two lines for those people that may not see it? Asking for a friend.
Why are you on this site if you don’t believe in early stage investing?
Some women actually like taking care of children more than working their job.
BlackBerry was the best thing you could get at the time. Obviously things have changed since then -- BlackBerry hardly exists anymore!
The balance between inflation and dropping turbine prices. I'm sure there are trend lines somewhere...
Python regexes can be saved into variables, and even if you don't do it manually it automatically maintains a pattern-cache for the last expressions you have used.
Context-controlled sentiment analysis applied to news and information summaries for the purpose of distinguishing leading price indicators versus trailing price indicators.
What kind of degenerate society listens to economists with their intersecting lines espousing their regressive views on supply and demand? Probably the same cesspool that pays chemists with their arrows and triangles to stand up in front of impressionable children and preach their wantonly destructive opinions on fire.

Joking aside, scarcity is real. It works the same no matter how you feel about it. Descriptions of scarcity and related dynamics are just that, descriptive, not normative.

You can distribute scarce things in more equitable ways, but prices generally reflect physical realities that can't be waved away by a sufficiently woke fiat. Set the maximum rent at $500 and the minimum wage at $5,000,000 and we still can't all live in San Francisco's current housing stock.
It's not just a problem in the US, either. I recently learned of a New Zealand concrete company who deliberately don't bother with environmental compliance and instead just cop a fine and pay it. They budget for the fine every year, rather than spending the money to get into compliance.

Edit: change of wording
That would be the last religion I would expect to financially support an individual absent any work. Especially considering the widespread critiques by past members pointing to the fact it's a pay-to-play type of arrangement. Unless of course she reached some high ranking hierarchy before becoming dependent.

Otherwise there are countless religions which fit this category in the US. Many with a strong history in running almshouses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almshouse
> This is part of the process for releasing Google-owned code as open source.

20% projects are Google-owned code.
I like how Harvard sings praises of opportunity and diversity from ivory towers while literally discussing their will to hold up barriers to entry to education.

There's no good reason to hold education hostage. The goal should be to create as much opportunity as possible.
Good luck doing anything resembling work when you're having a newborn at home and haven't sleep properly in weeks.
Jet.com hit it faster. As did APUS Group and Rong360.

Article is based on a false premise.
My mother was bed-bound for several months during pregnancy. It's more common than you think.
The research suggests SAT test prep has an effect of about one seventh of a standard deviation – about 50 points out of 2400[1]. That's significant but not huge. Most of the perception of large gains comes from the fact that people do better as they get older with or without coaching.

(None of the research is great, but better than nothing.)

[1]: https://www.jefftk.com/p/sat-coaching-what-effect-size
I suspect that people will develop a cookbook method for taking a given scooter, quickly stripping away the tracking and locking elements, and just using or reselling as a generic scooter.

There will be instructional videos on YouTube -- something like phone rooting how-to videos... or how :CueCat scanners were repurposed to generic scanners.

Craigslist is a ready marketplace for stolen property anyway.
The fact that there are 14 is already a dilemma... its like pick and choose your weapon.
As a non-American, I always found the GPA system a little strange. In high school, our marks were always scores out of 100.
To add to this, if you are applying to McDonalds, try to dumb down your resume so that they don't think you are a flight risk.

I.e. remove really technical stuff and leave high school education.
How about the part where we're further away from Win7 in time, than Win7 was from WinXP? It'll be 10 years since Win7 RTM next year!
Slightly OT. I was wondering what happens to Github's policy on employees' side projects post acquisition. Links : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13921433 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13142327
Fuchsia has nothing to do with updates, rather breaking with the UNIX clones while pursuing more modern ideas with a license that Google favours.

They announced at Google IO that they will finally start requiring updates as part of the store access certification.

How this will work out, remains to be seen.