skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>[...] but they should encourage the underrepresented ethnicities to do better, [...]

This policy change is exactly that - an attempt to encourage poorly performing students to do better, where a large majority of poorly performing students also happen to be underrepresented ethnicities. The NYC Department of Education has and continues to try many actions to increase educational outcomes for their students overall -- de Blasio is trying to accelerate the process before he's out of office.
Or you can just easily get an A, because you enjoy doing a few fun programming assignments and learn the things taught in class.
At this point I don't know why anybody would have the Facebook app installed. You can't even read messages on it.

But yeah notifications in general needs a strong enforcement from Google if we don't have to turn them off completely.
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Wouldn’t it be easier for the government to tax the ISPs and data providers the 202 shillings and let that cost be passed on to the consumer?
Can you also throw in some adversarial workloads? Simple proof of work using node’s builtin crypto module would be a nice benchmark for V8 isolates vs Lambda’s processes, and would go a long way convincing people that using isolates is reliable in a shared setting relative to processes/containers.
And bullet is used for Rails to detect N + 1 queries.
https://github.com/flyerhzm/bullet
Make a bet and invest in a new, upcoming technology like Rust. If Rust takes off big, you'll have a head start on teen programming wizards.
My boss did this great trick to assert his domination over all opinions. Basically every time someone tries to speak interrupt them just as they start to speak.
SUSE Linux sold for $2.535B
I grew up fishing as well with the same wonderful memories, but can't enjoy it with my kids for the same reasons you mentioned. There is something beautiful about the slow, patience of fishing that feels refreshing. I just can't imagine someone stabbing a metal hook through my cheek and dragging me out of my home. But I'd love to find an activity that feels similar to fishing without enforcing my dominance over a wild animal.
You should be able to print it as a PDF via Chrome.
I hope no one tells you that you can turn of the new design then.
> You are not helping them by lowering the bar for them.

But you are helping underperforming students by placing them into top schools, comingled with better students - lots of research shows that. So lowering the bar for admission really does help.

I think the open question is how that balances against the cost of having fewer slots available at those top schools for the very best students.
Of course there is, but we're talking optimization here and most of the 3% is crappy DB queries.
Maryland scored a win using facial recognition software in Annapolis shooting
Intuition says that the water would then exert more pressure on the container. Like if you emptied and sealed a plastic bottle while at sea level, and then ascended to a high altitude in an airplane (or climb a mountain). The bottle would be bloated. Whether or not it would explode depends entirely on the properties of the container..
They say we can't tell the difference in quality of 420p, yet they sell us 4k displays.. I can't with this logic.
You can switch it off. And supposedly they will support the old design for a long time.
While I agree in total (e.g., how Microsoft approached the problem is great) I do not agree that the Stream API is that ugly. Yes, it is not nice and has a lot of pitfalls, but it is one of the "lower level" APIs in .NET and certainly did its job. Now its (finally) time to move on.

The future here looks bright!
When did the most "fake news" started appearing? When you could promote it on one of the most centralized platforms around: Facebook.

I think it's easier to manipulate a centralized platform's algorithms. That "high efficiency" of a centralized platform is also what's making the manipulators more effective.

Same with malware makers and so on. It's always easier to do something when there's a single dominant platform.
You can cut them down, turn them into charcoal and bury the coal. It is then sequestered for at least a few hundred years, likely much longer.
> It's always surprised me how many people do not know that water is incompressible!

Interestingly enough, they're right (though they may not know it) since the article is about its ability to compress under the right circumstances!
de Blasio already thought about this. The criteria has nothing to do with race, and is clearly about academic performance. The intended outcome and policy itself is driven internally by diversity, but the actual criteria doesn't (and probably cannot) mention race in any way, shape or form.
Honestly, all censorship and free speech ideas aside, I wonder if a small socia media tax could be net positive on American society? Especially in terms of relieving diminished attention spans, etc.

I have decreased my own personal usage by adding a "time tax" — I always log out after a brief session on Twitter/Facebook/etc. I also use 2FA everywhere so there's extra friction in logging back in. That extra 30 seconds of effort can be enough to say "nah, I don't need to check Twitter twice today".
If it makes you feel any better, it wasn’t until I was 30 that my wife and I had enough for a downpayment for a house. When I graduated, my salary was $40k. And, 3-bedroom houses, in my economically-attractive, but not extravagent, area were around $300k. Rent for a 2br was about $1000 / month, so saving $60k took quite a few years. Of course, several co-workers had well-off parents who bought them their first house (lucky them), but for many of us, we just had to pay off debt, and save, and save, and be confident that it would work out. It took a while, especially considering the two recessions, and it felt like it would never get better. But, it eventually did. So, although I don’t know your particular situation, I’m confident that people in their 20s today will eventually prevail. The difference is that the younger generation is enormous, and all of those people buying houses at the same time puts demand pressure on prices. But, it will work out.
They probably did you a favor by not being forced to deal with them down the road.

Unless you were as an engineer directly on Challenger O-Rings, I don't see any reason why anyone would cancel their financial commitment toward a startup project, because of this obvious tragedy.
I don't think most users reasonably conclude that and I'm not sure education is required to tell them this which they likely already know. I believe the issue is they don't care. They happily give a third party access to their email. I don't think education makes a difference here nor should it to those that don't value their privacy as much as some of us do.
What's the second number there, e.g. $7,174.00, and where did you get it?
Wait...you have someplace that actually uses the conveyor belt? Pet peeve of mine is that most cashiers just turn it off even when there is a gap between them and the goods. (Poor design of many stop mechanisms exists, but doesn't excuse this case)
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How do you run an email app in a secure sandbox to prevent data exfiltration? The app's primary purpose is to send and receive data.
Julia's Pkg3 is missing.
Yes. I like the HTML formatting; it makes for more effective communication. You can use bulleted paragraphs; bold, italic, typewriter font.

In a HTML message, you can have an indented code block which is not physically indented. When it is copied and pasted, it has no indent.

Hyperlinks and images can be used in HTML messages, which is convenient.

Color is possible: syntax colored code can be incorporated into an HTML e-mail.

Also, I use an mailing list archiver called Lurker, which I customized such that it allows HTML messages to be incorporated into the archive. So poor archiving of HTML mails isn't any objection.
Sandboxing. There is no network access, other than access to Google IMAP/SMTP servers. The app must operate locally on the device, full stop. What desktop apps have been doing since forever [I hope!].

This is about peace of mind. As a user, I would appreciate the option of "lock data to device" and knowing that my data stays on my device no matter what apps I install, no matter what permissions they ask for, no matter what they fine print says, no matter how good at securing their servers they are. I'm OK to have some apps not working anymore. You only leak data once, but there are thousands of apps to choose from.

Unless I explicitly take the action to "unlock data on device", which hopefully is accompanied by messaging about the high potential risks to privacy, "are you really sure" kind of UI experience.

Make data protection a BigDeal[TM].

Ninja edit: added SMTP on the list of whitelisted servers.
SSS-PC: The Dependable Scalable Operating System (2003)
Some rich heir being a shoe in at Harvard where he skips half his classes and takes a spot from someone with academic interests bothers me too. It's not fair.

But I'm a bit less skeeved out by a school administrator judging someone as an individual, even if it's for a crappy reason like dad being a donor, than having them admit or deny someone just based on the color of their skin.

Just as I would rather work for a boss who hired his buddy from the country club, but harbored no prejudice, than one who refused to hire blacks, Jews, Asians, etc. who met the job requirements.
I've been trying to pin down _why_ I've had the same reaction as you, but I really can't put my finger on it.

Something about the new site just somehow puts me off. While I could mindlessly browse the old site endlessly, something about the new actively makes me want to close the tab.

Either way, a good thing.
> I think the appeal of C is that you are able to write the fastest implementation any given algorithm, something that just isn't possible in most other languages.

Maybe you can, but lots of the C code I've seen in the last years was pretty inefficient compared to what one would have gotten from a reasonable C++ or Rust implementation:

Examples are inefficient strlen() operations due to the default "string" type, unnecessary copies and allocations of things like strings due to ambiguous ownership, unnecessary null checks to quiet down static analyzers in the absence of non-null references, and extra indirections or allocations in order to work-around missing compile-time generics (besides macros), etc.
A lot of optimizing advice from old misses some of the realities of old. Things generally ran slow. Performance problems were much more in your face and very common. There was a wealth of "tricks" to do with performance, and people made code difficult and brittle in the name of optimization tricks. So there was a bit of push back and a lot more focus put on getting things correct / simple / well designed. But, because things were slow, and you often didn't need to profile, because often things were in your face slow. So you still needed to get it fast, and while you may not have jumped to tricks too quick, you were still quite well aware of designing for performance. You had to consider data structures carefully.

These days, things are often just not so in your face and a lot of "don't worry about it" advice. Which is often not bad advice in terms of getting things working. But eventually you do find you have to worry about it. Sometimes those worries happen far too late in bigger projects. So I think these Rules are pretty good. I'd also add in benchmarking very simple aspects of the toolset you are using to get an expectation of how fast things should be able to go. Often I have found (especially in the web world) someones expectation of how fast they think something can go is way too low because they have already performanced bloated their project and think its approximately normal.
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The ISO link is buried, so I'll save you some trouble: http://www.ssspc.org/download/ssspc-2.3-20040105.iso
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Computers reflect the biases and belief systems of the people programming them
Not sure if they will join conversation but just now I invited @satyanadella @jeffmcaffer @natfriedman @defunkt @bkeepers into the Github issue. If you want them comment, cast vote with +1

https://github.com/dear-github/dear-github/issues/304#issuec...
Here’s a link to a pdf I just made from the browser (so no table of contents in the sidebar or other fanciness):

https://www.filedropper.com/foundertoceomattsbookforstartups...

PS: the link doesn’t work without cookies or in anon mode.
"write for clarity with an architecture that doesn't greatly impede performance"

I came here basically to say something similar to this. The most important metric is to have a design in the beginning that attempts to identify where the problems (Critical paths at a high level) are going to be and avoids them. That doesn't necessarily mean the initial versions are written to the final architecture, but that there is a plan for mutating the design along the way to minimize the overhead for the critical portions.

Nearly every application I've ever worked on has had some portion that we knew upfront was going to be the performace bottleneck. So we wrote those pieces in low level C/C++ generally really near (or in) the OS/Kernel, and then all the non performance critical portions in a higher level language/toolkit. This avoided many of the pitfalls I see in other projects that wrote everything in Java (or whatever) and the overhead of all the non-critical portions were interfering with the critial portions. In networking/storage its the split between the "data path" and the "control path", some other products I worked on had a "transactional path" and a control/reporting path.

Combined with unittests to validate algorithmic sections, frequently the behavior of the critical path could be predicted by a couple of the unittests, or other simple metrics (inter-cluster message latency/etc).
There is quite a bit of friction when setting up IMAP/POP access to an email provider. If I go to the trouble of setting up IMAP/POP, it's likely I know what I am doing. To the best of my understanding, the article is about 1-click permission granting / data leak.
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If you'd like to take it to the next level, try tenkara fly fishing. Not only is your 40ft span reduced to ~15ft, but casting is even more challenging (quite a few techniques!) and you now have to account for a lot more concealment (of yourself), and fighting/landing fish is quite a challenge when you have no reel. It's extremely rewarding to lang even the smallest fish!
You're leaving us hanging - what is that reason?

My understanding is that it was to support the building and car industry, and based on a land-use planning style, including zoning, that was popular 100 years ago. It also had a strong racist component in how it promoted whites over others, like with redlining.

For example, http://www.theamericanconservative.com/urbs/we-have-always-s... says it was "to stimulate the economy, and to constrain the market to only good investments. These goals—plus the social assumptions of the time—were reflected in the FHA’s evaluation of a mortgage. The standards included:"

* Large, new homes were given a higher score, because they increased demand for labor and materials. Older homes with small spaces didn’t create demand for new furniture. Features like long hallways and steep staircases lowered the rating, because they prevented easy moving of furniture.

* Homogeneity of neighboring housing stock was believed to indicate stable housing prices.

* It saw cul-de-sacs as the most desirable home locations, because they were most isolated from foot and auto traffic coming from outside of the neighborhood.

* The guidelines favored auto- rather than transit-oriented development. The idea was that this would increase demand for cars, which were a growing part of American manufacturing.

* Multi-use districts with “commercial, industrial, or manufacturing enterprise” were seen to threaten residential value.
The most solid career path I'm familiar with is to go straight from college into a software development role at a FAANG company, then mostly coast, optionally diverge to some other highly payed role else ware, and eventually come back to the FAANG company at a higher pay grade. You'll be able to live a lavish lifestyle, be a millionaire by 30, and really not have to work that hard.

To get this job you really have to have good grades. Why? Google etc. will ask for your transcripts coming out of college - anything short of a full degree and a 3.0 will likely disqualify you.
I often find stories upvoted for the comments alone. I've upvoted poor articles with great rebuttals.
Kind of ironic how this immediately opens the Reddit app on iOS.

Edit: just saw post is about reddit. I had assumed it was about the practice in general, since it is not uncommon to open a website and immediately be redirected to the App Store for some random site, article, etc. medium is one that comes to mind. Imgur. It’s a common thing.
Good point. I think all these engagements have to be done with an eye into the future personality of the child. My friend works with a girl who expects everything to be done for her (including asking the security lady to get two frozen chickens from the office fridge to her car). So should kids be treated the same way different people would treat them in life (with the exception of being abusive of course).
If you look at local city politics, it is a huge political issue, but one that's an extremely divisive issue between the left and the left, between "affordable housing" and "affordable housing". This is the NIMBY vs YIMBY issue.

"Where is the outrage?", you ask. The outrage is on the other side. Homeowners don't want their own homes to be affordable. When property values go down, the people who live on those properties get outraged, and those people are overrepresented among voters. When property taxes go up to redistribute even some of this unearned housing wealth, that leads to "constitutional amendment" levels of outrage.
I like this Bay Area guy https://fishermanslife.net/
> At some point, an engineer's economic worth plateaus, and the only way to justify a bigger paycheck is to have him offload the upper management.

Why not just accept a paycheck that plateaus as well? Mine's been pretty flat since I first (prematurely) got to that "senior" title. I'm not anticipating big gains in future.
It happens to me too, even after I log in as a subscriber. Clueless.

With the arrival of Conde Nast and the departure of Anderson, WiReD truly has lost the last of its mojo.
Focus on one project outside your FT job, otherwise you will spread too thin and have too much overhead deciding which to work on. Use some time to prioritize/select the one you want to do the most or which has the most potential and then give it all for a few months. Then you can re-iterate. But be wary of perfection paralysis. Ship/get something out the door. Even if it is not perfect. Commit.

And with that said. Don't be afraid to scrap a bad idea. But set ambitious time frames and ship. Then you do not have to worry about the next idea creeping in and stealing the show.
apps suck
Biased in what way? Is it a wrong bias?
For what it’s worth, I have worked for an EQT portfolio company in the U.S. — completely unrelated to this purchase, but they are not the Toys R Us PE guys.
There is a filter list to remove "Download the something-something app" banners that show up on various websites.[0]

[0] https://github.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/tree/master/stayin...
Could you talk a bit about the challenges that you faced in developing this? And, the before ans after benchmarks?

I tried something kinda similar to help with tuning data engineering jobs and pipelines for performance and costs. But, it turned out to be a fruitless activity because there were too many variables that affected performance. I’d produce some models that seemed to be marginally effective. But, after code changes, configuration changes, changes to data input sizes, the models quickly became stale and ineffective.
Yep, Android (Google) Messages' logo is a white text bubble on blue background. If you have a Samsung phone and didn't explicitly install another SMS app you're probably using the Samsung one. Ditto for the email client (Email), the photo gallery (Gallery), calendar (Calendar) etc. Samsung likes to do their own thing.

Edit: occurs to me that they don't have their own Maps app though. I'm honestly a bit surprised they didn't try to make at least their own UI for Google Maps, seems like a Samsung thing to do. I should also add that I don't mind the Samsung apps at all nowadays, but I do kinda wish they would just stick to the Google stuff (and quietly take Bixby out back and shoot it).
There is almost nothing like his ideas out in the wild. The closest analogs I know of are, ironically enough, tools for software developers.

We can take this farther. There are a lot of people trying to raise the bar on development tools and at least some of us believe that people tend to do what they know. What is demonstrated for them.

Give them crappy tools and they will be satisfied to create crappy things with them. Give someone a better tool and many will rise to that level.

There are several aspects of code comprehension that I think would be conducive to his designs. And monitors are getting wide enough now that we nearly have the space to do them.
There's a difference between IMAP software on your machine, and a third party company that does who knows what with your email.