skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why is the name even a factor?

Because many people still believe in stereotypes. But whether stereotypes have any truth to them is a different question entirely.
Saying "Fuck ICOs" or "ICOs have no value" is not the same as saying the government should ban them. And even if you do think the government should ban them, that's very different from wanting to ban Bitcoin or the dark web; although there are certainly people out there with various reasons they think both of those should be banned, the chief argument against ICOs (that most of them are scams) doesn't really translate to either.
Car forums.

I don't know how many of you guys are on-the-side petrol heads, but it's one thing that strikes me with the facebook generation - all the years of lost knowledge when everyone pivoted from car forums to facebook groups.

No longer can you quickly search up 'what's the best gearbox oil to use in my T56'... Oh no. It's an almost-hourly repetition of shitpost threads that contain no useful information for anybody. Need to know what diameter bearing you need? What part # for that o-ring? Good luck. And if you do happen to stumble across the hidden knowledge of a now-defunct forum, you're likely to be met with the next peril - images that are no longer hosted or available to see without the original uploader paying for an image hosting account on photobucket etc.

I feel like all the collective knowledge from the years of 1999 - 2009 is basically lost to the sands of time.
Yes. In reality, we are talking about populations. It is still possible that the type of confounded you describe applies at the population level as well, which is why I qualified my statement with "might expect". This is an empirical question that requires empirical evidence to answer. Further, universities have this empirical evidence (although I am not aware of what it actually says).

I do recall hearing that (at some point in history) the army looked into this and found that black soldiers did better then their white counterparts with an equal score entering. Further, this is presisly the result I would expect to see in the face of generic anti-black bias. For instance, if there was some force that depressed black SAT scores by 10 points and had no other effect, then a black student would be expected to perform as well as a white student who scored 10 points better on the SAT.
Well the same guy behind this lawsuit filed one in Texas earlier. It went to the supreme court in 2016. The result said that Universities can use Race as one measure of admissions. Having a diverse student body is considered a good thing, but its a balancing act:

>>“A university is in large part defined by those intangible ‘qualities which are incapable of objective measurement but which make for greatness,’” Justice Kennedy wrote, quoting from a landmark desegregation case. “Considerable deference is owed to a university in defining those intangible characteristics, like student body diversity, that are central to its identity and educational mission.

>>“But still,” Justice Kennedy added, “it remains an enduring challenge to our nation’s education system to reconcile the pursuit of diversity with the constitutional promise of equal treatment and dignity.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/24/us/politics/supreme-court...

I guess being transparent about how you are doing admissions is probably the best way forward, but it leads to lawsuits when the data doesn't look like expected. Expect statistical analysis of this data from both sides saying what they want.
Central to all of the posts in the article is semi nudity, or at least showcasing the female body. That should give you some hints.
I cannot wait for the day they either change their practices or go out of business.
I have an LG V20 with a 6700mAh battery. Goes for DAYS with moderate use, and will easily make it all day with extremely heavy use. I managed to kill it exactly once, with 4 hours of screen-on nav + steaming spotify, another 3 hours of youtube, and probably some misc usage. It's fantastic, and I keep wishing that somebody would release another phone with a user-replaceable (and upgradeable) battery so that I could move on. I actually bought this V20 after the V30 and S9 were out specifically for the removable battery. sigh, I blame apple.
Except that Jared Diamond cherry picks material to fit a theory he already came up with. His "history" has little to no relation to actual course of history.

He's one of the authors, like Gavin Menzies and Ayn Rand, that make me automatically disqualify my interlocutor from knowing what they're talking about.
The same problems apply to email spam. It was bad for a long, long time but now it's a largely solved problem if you use (say) Gmail.
Obfuscated Tiny C Compiler (2002)
I can understand your situation because I was in your shoes once. I joined a place as an intern and stayed there for 6 years. Once I tried getting another offer, I realized I was a bad SWE by other company's standard. And I failed interviews after interviews. Around 25 interviews but finally nailed one which led me to path which turned my life around.

So, how did I get the last interview? Once I realized that I wasn't doing great, I started writing down all the interviews questions. The aim was to understand what was I doing wrong. But in doing so, I started to see a pattern, most interviews tend to follow a singular script. For example transverse a heat map, merge sorted array etc. And I trained on all those questions. Now this wasn't a perfect solution because I still failed 10+ interviews but over time I got better. And then around the 25th one I finally nailed one as all the questions were repeated.

Nowadays there might be a better options to do this like books/sites which throw tons of whiteboard interviews at you. So try those and best of luck.
As a parent in the IT world for the past 15yrs (with a background in networks, servers, etc) I find it difficult to reasonably block YouTube from my pre-teen kids. I can delete from their devices, I can set parental controls, etc but somehow they were always able to find some kind of way to watch it. I finally had to tie all smart TVs and devices to a local dns server in my home and filter all in/out traffic as a last resort. Most parents don’t have the slightest clue how to do something like this and I see my kids friends with pretty much open access to the internet and YouTube and it’s very disconcerting.. plus I’ve seen some of the “kid friendly” crap on YouTube, like catching my kids watching adults giving product reviews of toys (basically marketing to them about why they would want the toy) that is marked as kid safe. It’s hours and hours of let’s look at this toy, let’s talk about what it does and why you “need” it. It’s utterly absurd and a form of predatory marketing. I know there are some positive things about YouTube like when I can lookup a quick instructional video on how to do something but in whole, I’d rather see YouTube just completely shutdown.
Google Diversity Annual Report 2018 [pdf]
Show HN: Local YouTube Downloader(userscript)
Ones of the reasons you feel nostalgically is, of course, the fact that that was your childhood. And the other, I think, is that Internet itself was still quite a novelty those days, which made people use it just for the sake of using it. You can still log on to an IRC server and find event those who had been sitting there for all these years, and you can still make friends with people you never met in person. I did that for a test a couple of years ago. But later I realised, that it's just like a MOM game – you have to spend all your free time there or it won't work. And there's so much more interesting and useful things that I can invest my time in instead of just chatting with strangers! I used to feel nostalgic about that too. But after a couple tries like that I never looked back )
State Management for User Interfaces
>in case you think I am exaggerating, the scenario I described above is similar to today's internet situation in mainland China.

I don't disagree with this or condone excessive regulation. However, if what you said is true, innovation would not happen in China. Turns out, the startup scene is just fine in China, and innovations are not happening just... somewhere else in the world. Bad example.
Max would probably fail most companies interviews based on culture fit.

He joined Apple after that and was interviewed on the Changelog not long after he left.

Honestly he sounds like a really difficult dude to work with.
Pretending that income, one of the most important things in American society, is merely one of the “millions of ways” to classify people, and that a persistent large disparity between racial groups in that metric is mere “correlation” is intellectually dishonest.
It should be noted that cars catch on fire spontaneously all the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN6Vs_GGfbI
I think the internet just got a lot bigger.
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This author's editors rewarded failure by publishing this.
Which leads to this sort of thing:

https://www.facebook.com/WhiteMooseCafe/posts/20484067421065...

Which is harsh, but fair.
Report: There May Be as Many as Nine Star Wars Movies in Development
Based on the description on the site, the NSA uses this as a way to identify communities based on their communication patterns. This is a kind of social network analysis:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_analysis

The particular use case mentioned for LemonGraph is "streaming seed set expansion", which, given a set of "seeds" can expand that set based on their communication patterns to find people that are likely in the same community or overlapping communities.

E.g., if you have a few known terrorists and a database of metadata about phone calls or internet communications (emails etc.), you can analyze who your known subjects (seeds) talk to and who those people talk to, etc., to identify communities. This relies on the fact that there tends to be cross-communication between people in the same community.

This kind of analysis can often reveal the structure of communities, like where the headquarters, who the boss is, etc.

In industry and law enforcement, the same kinds of approaches can be used to identify fraud of various kinds.

"What it's like" is a graph database, in this case based on a fast in-memory database to support high speed graph analysis on a single machine.
> It is my opinion (based on experience) that companies that insist on a whiteboard test, despite years of programming on your resume and open source code, are either Ball-Pit companies (who don't know what it means to be a professional) or Clown-Nose companies (who know what it means to be a professional but still treat you like a commodity). Just walk away.

This is the typical HN vs the world attitude. "Boycott the world!" I understand the sentiment and I certainly have heard and experienced a good deal of interview horror stories.

But as career advice, I think your anger is getting in the way of your reasoning. "Turn down Google and Facebook because they don't respect you enough!" is most likely terrible career advice for the OP. The big tech companies pay world class salaries and (despite your experience) do not have a reputation for being terrible places to work. Indeed, big tech companies (the same ones with Kafkaesque and soulless interview practices) regularly make lists of the top 10 best places to work in the US.

My own experience is that every company I have ever worked at had varying level of bullshit, but that there has not so far been any correlation with the interview technique used.
Yes, it's like Neo4j but based on the in-memory database LMDB, presumably to provide high performance running on a single machine.

The link mentions that its use case is streaming seed set expansion, which allows you to identify communities based on a set of seeds. I wrote more about that in this comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17335873
So basically, if you want to raise money by selling gift cards for a product that doesn’t exist to speculators who will trade them, make sure you describe it in terms of some inscrutable crypto protocol network thing that doesn’t map neatly to stock or gift cards.
influencers are very selective with their 'reviews' and may chose to leave out things like data-privacy policies, when reviewing a company that provides you DNA analysis -- which should make you question all the information you get from such sources

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3EEmVfbKNs
Couldn't agree more. In what reality is lowering standards a way of raising quality? How would it help a black person to be affirmative actioned into a school their admittance evaluation indicates they could not succeed at? I guess affirmative action is only for black kids who barely don't meet the requirements?
> so nobody sensible worries about zombie attacks

As an interesting aside to this comment: https://www.cdc.gov/phpr/zombie/index.htm
Anyone who gets scammed by an ICO?
> mash composition

This is called the "mash bill," by the way. (It matters enough that there's a commonly used term for it.)
Might it also be evidence that psychopathy is not easy to study, ill-defined, and/or unrelated to one's state of residence?
I wonder if this market segment will evolve to be similar to the games industry, where market leadership shifts along with customers interests.

In the games industry a few big exclusives can shift fortunes significantly. The Playstation 4's significant success has come at the expense of the Xbox, and a driving factor of this success has been a superior exclusive content library.
Right or wrong, it is difficult to see how forced busing counts among "policies that ignore race".
No one was told this is journalism. It's a post on a VC's blog! Sometimes, even those are interesting.
There are many moving parts to this case and the issue(s) it concerns.

Highly recommend people read (about) the following book by Jerome Karabel:
The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion At Harvard, Yale, And Princeton.

Would also recommend Daniel Golden's The Price of Admission.

Prof. Frank Wu's insight might also be useful here (from ~1:10 onward):
https://youtu.be/PrDbvSSbxk8
> Asians have not been systematically denied entry to the NBA for hundreds of years.

I find this comment goes deeper when I followed Jeremy Lin's progression into the NBA. I suggest anyone who is interested in your comment should read too. Lin wasn't systematically denied entry, but the kind of stuff he faced and endured based on his race - which was admitted to by a coach, was pretty bad.

And I feel this type of behavior that he faced - when your race is in the minority of the place you're trying to get to/be at - can be applied elsewhere. Like Black people thinking that others might think that they got there based on affirmative action and not by merit, or Asian Americans thinking that others think there are "too many Asians" here or the likes.

In some situations, minorities aren't being outright denied by law/whathaveyou but they are put in potentially "hostile" environments where they might feel like they don't belong, which can be akin to being denied socially.
Wouldn't this depend on the state?
Not the Chevy Bolt. A Chevy Volt caught fire once in 2011 and GM changed the way they manufacture their batteries. It hasn't happened since.
You are not protecting anybody, Holden Caulfield, and nobody asked for your protection in the first place.
China was severely impacted.

Their big web companies are so far almost all based on US products that were banned in China. They also failed to capture any international audience and are mostly only successful within China.
Baidu, a copy of google. Weibo, a clone of twitter. QQ a clone of Facebook. WeChat a clone of Messenger. Alibaba a clone of Amazon. Etc etc

China started properly innovating, countering brain-drain, and going beyond copying what was successful in the west only in the recent years.
Here's the official statement from the SEC.

"based on my understanding of the present state of Ether, the Ethereum network and its decentralized structure, current offers and sales of Ether are not securities transactions."

https://www.sec.gov/news/speech/speech-hinman-061418
The American Revolution was fought in part to preserve slavery [1] and to allow westward expansion at the expense of the Native Americans [2]. Tens of thousands of slaves, as well as most of the Native American tribes, fought alongside the British.

I also don't quite understand what you mean when you say that the Founding Fathers didn't establish an aristocracy of their own: the first five presidents were involved with writing the Constitution and establishing the Federal government, and the sixth president was one of their sons!

1: https://www.counterpunch.org/2011/05/23/was-the-american-rev...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Proclamation_of_1763
This hasn't been true for several years. Most films today are 4K (Cinema)

http://gadgetflux.net/list-of-4k-mastered-hollywood-movies/
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That reminds me of the story of Nazi officers telling Jews to carry big rocks from one fence to the other each day. The work was so meaningless that the prisoners couldn't take it anymore and started to jump onto the electric fence to kill themselves. I think such a practice where you make someone feel completely worthless is inhumane.
You are shocked because there is still quite a degree of colonial thinking that is pervasive.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/04/race-gen...
Because you need to use proprietary graphics drivers for acceleration. Another reason could be that you want to write more portable code that can run in your RPi during the early stages of development and on a board with no GPU later on.
>The one area where I do agree with you is that I think racial categories often lack the nuance necessary to have that broadness of perspective...

This. Logged in just to upvote your comment. The broad racial categories we currently use are just idiotic. It's like using nothing but a blunt mallet for every household repair job. Some more nuance in racial categorization or even just doing away with it altogether and using something else (place of origin, ethnicity, economic circumstance) would probably be a good thing as a whole.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicle_fire_...

Edit: Sorry, this was the comment I was going for:

"In fact, all vehicles –both electric and gasoline-powered – have some risk of fire in the event of a serious crash." - NHTSA
I was surprised to find the same.

>There's a car fire every three minutes in the United States. And most of them are not due to crashes.[0]

[0]https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2013/12/1312...
Trying to cure our smartphone addiction – with an app
I just wish data were more availabile. Given that football/soccer is a continuous game (as opposed to the discreet stop/start of American football or baseball), gathering data requires a bit of labor so most of the data products are expensive.
That is literally the Dilbert Principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert_principle
This is a thing I haven't seen discussed much either when people are talking about whether it'd be okay for Asian Americans to be 40% of the quota if it was based off of merit.

What about the percentage of Jewish students in comparison to their population (US or worldwide)? It kind of debunks that part of the argument when you bring that up. I don't believe this is whataboutism since it should be in the same context and it's already happening.
The article is trash, and fails to connect the motivations of the treasonous and ambitious Arnold with the revisionist babble dumped into the article.

It’s bizzare to me that the author would attribute the woeful ignorance of Benedict Arnold to our achieving some sort of enlightenment about the “dark and sordid” truth of the revolution. I’m actually somewhat gobsmacked at the ignorance and lack of perspective demonstrated... we’re talking about breaking away from the British Empire, who spent the next hundred years or more oppressing millions in India, China, Africa and Ireland.

If this is a demonstration of the rigor of Ivy League academia, that’s the real story here.
Plenty of unicorns out there.
Yes it was on the 360. The original Xbox never got Netflix.
What a bold and interesting claim! Do you have any evidence for it? I have a hard time believing the admissions board would take such a stance for such a petty reason
> Scientific explanations are [...] approximations of an objective reality.

There's one of your beliefs: that there is an "objective reality". I believe in a shared reality, and that each individual has their own subjective reality too. Everyone has their own experience of an event, and their own inner world (dreams, imagined experiences, etc).

I would also posit that there is no one "Science". Science is a process. Every individual who investigates the world forms their own conception of what has already been discovered, and what is worth investigating. 'Scientific Consensus' is an agreement about what good scientists are to believe. Simple matters are easy to form a consensus about; complex matters are still under discussion.
>only in the recent years

From what I can tell, the regulation only strengthened in the recent years. Something else must be in the works, then.
I can't help but wonder the percentage of those 100 k people who are likely to book in an expensive hotel.
This is a very poor demo. There are other videos which show it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Mgs7P16Gao
We’re the public sector, we operate more than 500 it systems, some of which won’t be leaving the windows platform.

We run office 365, Skype for business and handle our Security through af and adfs for 10.000 employees.

So we’re already heavily invested in Microsoft as far as what our IT staff is trained in, and they prefer Azure to say AWS often for non-technical reasons, but that sort of motivation is still important from a management point of view, even if you can run windows in AWS.

That’s one reason. The other factors is that we’re in the EU and Microsoft were the first to implement our laws, without fighting them. Unlike AWS I can physically visit our Azure servers, though this requires you to throw a lot of money at Microsoft. Last but not least, Microsoft is a trusted partner that we’ve worked with for 25 years, Amazon is not.

There weren’t any other options than AWS and Microsoft, because we’re in the eu and in the public sector, and AWS wasn’t under the privacy laws at the time we started.

A lot of our neighbors are choosing AWS though, so it’s certainly viable today.
What makes this especially bad isn't that they're trying to correct an underrepresentation of certain groups by giving them a boost when evaluating candidates; it's that they're making up false "personality traits" based on stereotypes to demote Asian applicants. They'd be on much firmer ground if they just said "we feel we should have more African American candidates and we'll alter our selection criteria to get them by increasing our ratings for them."
If you have no scruples about getting free money, you can use the time to do whatever the heck you want. If you want to feel like you earned the money or you're not allowed to do anything outside of your scope, then yes, it's probably soul crushing.
That's some of the worst information redaction I've seen around. I might even think it's intentional
I have given up on inkjet printers. Mine tended to be clogged up every time I needed to use them. As you point out, the ink prices are prohibitive. Buying one cheap inkjet printer after another is a lot of wasted money.

So I replaced my printer with a B&W laser which always works and I simply go to a self-serve print shop to print anything that I need in color.
"We are a "real" startup and don't have anything to do with cryptocurrencies or tokens."

Then no, you should not be attempting an ICO.