skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original copyright is with the paper for anything published after the second world war (the exact date depends on the country). They have the sole right to decide how and when their archives are published online. Determining copyright status is non-trivial, here is an example for some US periodicals:
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/cce/firstperiod.html

That being said, the paper have usually long since went under and the copyrights will never be asserted. In the extremely unlikely case they will be (for example, if the paper is still in circulation), a free online archive with no advertisements falls squarely under fair use, given the immense historical value of old papers and their nil current commercial value.
Coleman Hughes brought up the point, in a recent interview, that Prop 209 in California was an example of how abolishing affirmative action led to there being more diversity in colleges, a smaller grades gap between ethnicities and many other benefits that affirmative action was meant to accomplish.

The argument being that quotas actually don't help with diversity because, in the example of high end colleges like MIT, a huge chunk of quota kids end up dropping out, or changing to non-technical majors, or stay in the bottom 10th percentile of their class. They end up feeling terrible, their classmates (who on average will be 300 SAT points above them) end up not taking them seriously, so instead of this being a positive experience for everybody, it just creates more resentment on both sides.

I suppose many people believe that throwing unqualified kids into the meatgrinder is worth it just for the diversity exposure alone, and their sacrifice is for a greater cause.

This is not to say that exposing different clusters of society to each other isn't beneficial to overall social cohesion and acceptance. Doing it through quotas, however, doesn't seem to have been proven to be an effective way of accomplishing that goal.

Race is an awfully blunt way of looking at these societal clusters. Mashing all the white people together makes no sense. The Italians, the Polish, the Irish were discriminated against heavily early in the century. Russian-Americans make 30% more on average than French-Americans. West Indian blacks make 50% more on average than American blacks. Africans who move to the states for work are about as successful as Asians or Whites, despite supposed heavy racial discrimination. Race includes none of that nuance in it.
Yup, Growing up in Bangalore in the 90's, I remember it was nothing like this. In fact I remember summers being very enjoyable. Kite flying, playing with tops, going out with friends, playing Gilli-danda in the afternoons, and watching cricket in nights.

In fact my dad(who was a bus/truck driver), tells me he had far better quality of life than me in the pre-1980s. Air was pure, and the city was empty, and it was safe in the cities. It was almost like there was enough space and resources for everybody. You could rent easily. Working hours were same, but people got home quickly(not much traffic) and spent time with families.

And more importantly there was a calm, relaxed pace to life.

These days we have money and career, but much is lost in terms of quality of life.
None of the reasons you list require that the RAM and SSD be soldered to the mainboard! They solder them to the mainboard so that you can't buy the low spec'd config from them and then add 3rd party components at reasonable/competitive-market based prices. They force you to pay 2X+ the market rate for for RAM and storage when up-specing a system.

They have the highest margins, by far, in the whole industry, and well they are raking in money so it's working for them, as far as revenue/income is concerned.
Software systems are the perfect data generating processes. They are often compositional and yet complex because of simple interactions blowing things up. And we have effectively infinite data so it's a good place to get started. It would be amazing if an AI could reverse engineer a backend of an app just based on using the product and maybe making some scaling assumptions. But we're not that good with loss functions yet.

Maybe someday we can have an AI watch our log streams and tell us the ideal architecture for our systems. Then the trick will be to generate fake log data for what we want to happen in general. Perhaps we can just keep it coarse grained and say the AI can fill in the rest. The future of systems architecture!

Even more interesting is Conway's law. What if an AI could tell you how best to organize your company?
Basically this essay is about the issue that many internet services become monopolies and the negative effect of this phenomenon. The author argues that we have to create pro-market regulations and models of development (e.g., favors the creation of services that are open, like email, instead of one closed, like Whatsapp) that favors the creation of competition between different players.
50°C seems like an awful lot for any human to handle.
Trump made the claim that we must introduce these tariffs on national security grounds, because that is the authority he is using to impose these tariffs, which is an additional slap in the face to our allies.

Trump is probably lying about this, but I've heard the same national security rhetoric used with a straight face by commentators in Australia as a reason to put tariffs on imports, and it's a bad path to go down. Our allies already see us as unreliable now - Germany is considering whether they need nukes now that they can no longer trust us.

And lying about the reasons is basically negotiating in bad faith.

Tariffs by themselves are not the issue here.
See CalTech for an example of an elite school that has race-blind admissions. As far as I can tell, it hasn't put any pressure on the Ivy's to change. Incidentally, Caltech's latest class is roughly 50% Asian and about 30% white.
All the countries you mentioned are developing, they have better things to do than explore their history although I agree they should do a bit more.
> You don't need microfilm to read the NY Times; the entire archive is available on their website.

This was not the case when I did this thirty years ago.

> You read ~1800 newspapers from 100 years ago?

I concur with your observation that if you stop reading that sentence after the first few words, it makes less sense than if you read the whole sentence.

> Anyway, can you provide a basis that substantiates any claim in the parent?

I already did.

> I don't mean one link to one article

August 13, 1918 NY Times front page - article headline "Red leaders flee, reach Kronstadt, entire Bolshevist government escaping from Moscow". Of course history shows us that the Bolshevist government did not collapse in August 1918.

> there is nothing like HN for unsubstantiated claims about Russia like the parent, which are ceaseless

I have received ceaseless upvotes for my comments on the lies the Times has told about Russia over the past century, and I wish to thank the товарищи who gave them to me - from wherever they are in the world.
I come from a non-finance background, but does anyone else find the concept of dilution rather inane? Wouldn't it be much more intuitive and rational for all parties involved if new shares couldn't be issued but rather existed strictly as a percentage of the company which can only be bought from some previous owner(s)? Who would be initially defined at incorporation.

I'm sure there is some reason the system is how it is, but I have no idea why that is the case.
Interest in roman history predates the US by a couple cennturies... I doubt there is much exceptionnalism here besides trying to explain everything with US motives.
I admit I was a bit surprised that 'pamphlet' extends to 75 page documents.
I don't think it's as much that the protocol stagnates as much as it is that companies have a strong incentive to get users into their walled garden. If you use an open protocol, you can't lock people in.
Things are not different from Indian neighbor. I am from Karachi and we faced 44C a couple of months ago.
Lots of Fb and WhatsApp posts urging people to plan trees(We have more severe plantation issue than India due to the absence of more forests. Many locals are trying to come up with ideas of Urban forests, the idea worked well in India and the guy who did this in India helped to do the same in Karachi as well.

Not sure whether trees enough can change everything.
> If you were president of one of the top universities, the way you would instantly get all the students, all the alumni, and all the faculty to hunt you down and fire you would be to propose doubling the enrollment over the next 20 years. But why can't Harvard double or triple its enrollment? It’s like a Studio 54 nightclub where you have a velvet rope with a very small number of people on the inside and very, very large line of people on the outside.
This (metaprogramming, macros, language as a datastructure in the language)is why I learned Julia, but R + R-studio still draw me back by being just so useful.
On personal data and privacy violation: The Science Behind Tabi
I am not sure where you're even going with this. It's like you're trying to have a different argument about privilege. Harvard-educated people don't have more male children.

Making sure that Harvard students keep coming from the same families is, quite directly, the opposite of diversity. You don't have to count white males to see that Harvard keeps being shaped by the same group of people.

This is classism, in particular. Of course class is correlated with race, but even if it weren't, this would be fucked up.
It seems unlikely to be unintentional. Since Harvard is grading personality on a USA-centric scale, it would most likely accentuate the traits of the current USA leaders and executives who are overwhelmingly white. We would expect the white children to inherit, genetically and environmentally, these traits from their leader and executive parents and score the highest by a good margin and all other minorities to score low.

The results contradict the expectations. Conveniently, it is black > Hispanic > white > Asian which is exactly the diversity hierarchy
How our test data generator makes fake data look real
Renders as a blank page with a color changing square in the lower right corner for me. Very minimalist.
Are you familiar with the minimax algorithm? Google for how it’s related to linear logic.

For all is a clutch. There exists is much more manageable. However you need both the worst and the best “there exists”.
Have you been to India recently like last 2 years in the summer months. The temperatures have increased by a few degrees I am from Karachi Pakistan and I can tell you that temperatures have changed in Pakistan in last 2-3 years almost all high temperature records were broken. And we have more concrete cities now than earlier. For Karachi I am sure people will have to stop going out or working etc in the afternoon in the summer months just like desert cities like Dubai Abu Dhabi etc.
Am I the only one who feels that the author's withering rant about Tryniski opinions, and her blabber about free press is an undelicate and unneeded addition only to push some agenda ?

Like, is it really the point of his project ? Are his views expressed anywhere in his archives ? Why be so judgmental ?!
A Show HN should work you too.
People are also excited to launder money
Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’
Did you read the link on dialectical materialism?

> It's bona fide political philosophy and/or political economy.

It’s above all a description of development of science.
When I was in Vietnam in December a couple of years back, I was comfortable wearing a tshirt and shorts, it was about 25 degrees in Hanoi from memory.

I had several Vietnamese people ask me how I wasn't feeling cold, several of them were wearing jerseys to stay warm. I told them there where I'm from, it gets down to -6 in winter, 25 degrees is warm to me.

It's really the humidity in Asia that gets me though. It got up to 40 C in my (new) city this summer and I didn't really struggle at all, because it was dry heat.
Mother of all clickbait titles.

I read the first few pages and didn't see any content about R. The first chapter is an introduction to scheme. I scanned it and didn't see any R code all. It's an introduction to scheme that builds up to K means.

R does suck in so many ways, especially the object oriented systems and the horrible default libraries with so many inconsistent idioms, but we put up with it because mainly because it provides the most advanced open source ecosystem for modeling and visualizing data and it is also pretty fast, especially with data.table. If being fast is important we have Julia as a competitor. If having a better designed language with a reasonably complete ecosystem and sometimes being slower is OK we have python. Like pretty much every other domain area, there just isn't a competitive niche in data science for a lisp.

Also, R is already pretty functional and Lisp-like, sure it doesn't have prefix syntax, but it does have first class functions. Using various types of map (lapply, apply &c) is practically mandatory after a certain point.

I love the Wizard Book too, but this is embarrassing.
I think the key point you left out is Finland. Long drives, harsh winters, and corrosive salt do a number on cars. 5 years is a long time for a Finnish commuter. It's not very long if you typically use it for Sunday family trips to the ice cream shop in Southern California, however.
Tens of millions of Americans are going to get an immense wealth transfer in the coming decades.

You're right, but not in the way you think. It won't be the children of those old people who get the money; it'll be the people who provide services for the elderly. People are living much longer and they often don't have pension provision that scales well, so as they get older they have to rely on selling assets to pay for things like healthcare.
Can't change everything but it will make a large difference. Even bring more rainfall though our Karachi roads can't bear much rain :-)
Companies quietly fix problems all the time. Why would anyone disclose anything negative if they are not mandated to, by law? Remember when Uber paid off a hacker and kept the hack under wraps? That is just one example.

This is not guilty until proven innocent, this is just the way most businesses operate.
"No leadership potential" was in fact invented by Ivy League schools to keep the overachieving Jews out.
> Obviously hard objective criteria are not be enough to get into Harvard, and they need to dip into subjectivity which is rife with bias.

Why do they need to dip into subjectivity? Why not just set admission standards and then run a lottery on everyone who meets those standards?
Well, raw mango juice will not stave off climate change though...

(That said, shouldn't more or less the same hold for any country at the same latitudes?)
A lighthearted discussion about what personal data is, and what constitutes a privacy violation. Going along with it (or rather the other way around) is also this comic series on Tabi and her journey to becoming personal data: http://is.gd/TabiCom

Quite entertaining!
I doubt you do. I also doubt you are short BTC at 8000, or at any price.
Can you expand on this a little more? Why does the financial sector want settlements to take longer?
Cost, two types of aircraft are much harder to keep in the air than lots of one. Also the f117s have many hours on them.
This is a mis-titled (disingenuous?) introductory book to Scheme, basically using R to draw eyeballs.

Also it's barking up the wrong tree. R is known for its statistics prowess and working with large datasets. ML/AI is just a small subset of it. What's the equivalence in Guile that deals with statistics and data processing?
Are Americans allowed into Iran to do historical research? I know it is only possible to visit as a private citizen with some very restrictive rules(ie have a hired baby-sitter the entire time).
No, blockchain does not enforce anything about the original video. It only enshrines the version published initially by putting it (or a hash to save space) on a permanent public record.
And most people here calling BTC a tulip don't have the balls to short it. Easy to say a lot of stuff with zero skin in the game.
The Cost of Agile
Excellent response - couldn't agree more!
> Isn't it better to treat people as individuals?

James Damore suggested something like that, it didn't go down well. (Though I completely agree).
the 2 examples given of epigenetic inheritence are due to malnutrition and stress - but what about timing ? What if a person was malnurished and/or stressed in the past but is now happy and eating well - what does the epigenetic imprinting fade or will his kids suffer due to his past ?
Casey started monetizing his channel much, much later. In my view, the footage he has amassed and shared on Youtube over the years shares parallels with what Tryniski is doing, namely, he has provided people with a visual account of what it is like to live in New York City at a particular time in history. While obviously different than what Tryniski does in that it is more autobiographical, I definitely think it'll be significant if not now then in the future, especially as the city develops more and changes over time. There's been a lot of footage he has captured that only he has captured, e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKOdMA97FGM
There are ways to use state machines in web development [0].
Couple that with TypeScript and you maybe get something like that.

[0] https://hackernoon.com/upgrade-your-react-ui-with-state-mach...
Sync browsers and devices with Daily
A lot of farmland around the capital area has been converted into commercial land for urban construction. The same is true for Bangalore where Residential complexes have replaced the lakes. Four years back having an Air Conditioner at your home in Bangalore was very rare. Since last two years many residents who can afford it have installed AC or are considering getting one.
Sad to see this comment down voted.
I have never understood the point of view that diversity is unnecessary. Quite apart from the most diverse places I've worked having been by far the most enjoyable across my career.

You say Apple has almost none, yet is doing great. So what? Lots of things that were or are shit have done well. Even things that are now illegal. Do you like discrimination?

Every company the size of Apple should have people of all backgrounds, ages, sex, race. For every room full of twenty somethings designing a "great" product achieving ridiculous financial results there will be a dozen features or possibilities missed to invisibly cater better for more groups (potential customers).

Perhaps they need to use it in subtly different ways, or have different goals that needs an option or overlay not seen by the room full of bros. Perhaps when you hit 50 and your eyesight isn't quite so sharp so you need reading specs before you reach for the phone you realise Apple's much vaunted, industry leading, accessibility is shit. A few 40 year olds on all the teams might have noticed that and come up with better ideas and solutions than the current dross.

As to diversity being a drawback in execution, what utter twaddle.
>> One can not have freedom with out privacy. As we destroy the concept of privacy we also destroy the concept of freedom.

People increasingly do not care about freedom / liberty. This is evident by the people we elect and the things we care about. We celebrate gaining civil rights at the expense of liberty and no one cares about Snowden's revelations or anyone other exposure of government overreach.

Freedom is rapidly dying along with privacy.
>and I hope it will help me disconnect from the news cycle.

I remember long time ago I read a paper which suggest news is more addicted then drugs or porn. News include anything from Financial, Politics, Entertainment, etc. At the time I thought it was lots of BS. Now I am starting to believe we spent too much time in the "news cycle" from Twitter, Facebook or whatever it is distracting us.
Cancelling Observables – RxJS
It actually has a lot of key gaps (and a lot of typos).

The game style (shrouded game pieces used to make winning combinations with a smattering of instant winners) predated the Monopoly branding by years, maybe a decade. We had several such games in the McDonald's I worked at in the 1970s, none with Monopoly branding.
Article makes the point that the symbol commonly used for peace, originally was a logo for nuclear disarmament. Well, the common-use meaning is not that far apart :) A nuke-free Earth would be one of the biggest, if not the biggest contributors to world peace.

(From the tone of the article, I was worried that the symbol originally meant something quite different from what it has come to mean today. But no. Same ballpark.)
China and "India" are pretty well documented.

Russia, not sure what you refer to here, but few written documents and sparsely populated areas explain the lack of historic research much better than american intent.

As for central asia, which civilization are you talking about ?
Diversity is advertised too much those days, but in reality, it barely matters.

The advocates need to further explain why it is good for the team and such. Since many companies, including my own, implementing the diversity initiative by lowering the bar for the diversity candidates, even those that are being turned down at earliest stage, still interestingly, being rescued later. However, even people take issues about the candidate in question, they are afraid to voice any opinions, because the fear of being labeled as bigots. As ironic as it gets, during the group meeting, that the said candidate apparently doesn't have any deliverable for 6 months, still being praised with great efforts and hard works, while others in the team are pressured to take over what is supposedly to be done by the candidate.

I don't think this put the diversity initiative into good lights. It only further convinces people that it is more to the vanity of higher management other than productivity/benefits of the team/company itself.
Check out Project Panama. It's trying to bridge the gap between Java and C# when it comes to native interop, which is the main usecase for 'unsafe' features.
What is going on with the website that makes it so slow to scroll on a PC?
And that's why my new startup is all about COBOL on the Blockchain! Next step is an ICO to raise enough money to thaw out some good COBOL programmers...

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/cobol-forever-1a49f7d28a39
If you want to go fancy, the Punkt MP02 should do that at some point soon: https://www.punkt.ch/en/mp02-4g-mobile-phone/
Is there any evidence of this? I hear it talked about a lot, but I have never seen anything that actually proves this is the case.
But in this specific example - women in aviation - we do need to be careful, because for many years when people said "women can't do this" they did mean "no woman can do this, no matter how hard they train".

See for one notable example see the First Lady Astronaut Trainees (also called the Mercury 13). For years the route to become a pilot for NASA included being a military test pilot, and that was forbidden to women, and so women were unable to become NASA pilots even if they outperformed men on NASA's tests.

https://history.nasa.gov/printFriendly/flats.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_13

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/29/17393698/netflix-document...
From the perspective of the company, sure. It's in a company's best interests to do whatever they can to attract the best candidates. I'd prefer to work in a company that isn't a complete sausage fest, just like I'm sure most people would.

I was more commenting that in general trying to get 50% women on your tech team isn't going to help the industry as a whole.
That part sounds like a literal race quota.

I guess Harvard's defense is that they do most of the "work" at the subjective personality score stage where races are conveniently ranked in the same order as their desirability for "diversity".