skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> doesn't have direct influence on rejections, only admissions.

What bullshit. Accepting someone underqualified means rejecting someone perfectly qualified, by definition.

> But if you think publicly funded colleges should have 100% transparent admission standards

I think all colleges should have transparent standards. Publicly funded ones should have fair and non-racist transparent standards.
+1 , really nice integration. I use it daily for my blog. Kudos to you. (:
Yeah traditional farming is quite cheap and productive.
Is Silicon Valley's giant foundation just hoarding money?
haha I see. I'm a contrator in the Govmnt, they use scrum and togaf here. But yeah I guess it's a thing in big organisations. Thanks for your input.
I feel like this conversation, like all AMP conversations, is going in circles, spittle-filled comments denoted by unnecessary angry screeds of all caps.

Yes, right now there is a technical need for an intermediary because it guarantees AMP is actually AMP. It is trivial for a page to say it's AMP, load the AMP standard library, and then do everything disallowed by AMP. There is absolutely nothing preventing that but that intermediary rejecting non-compliant content.

Now of course we've talked about an HTML Light and that would be the browser enforcing that limited sandbox. It could send a relevant cookie and then reject content that steps outside the bounds. But we don't have that right now.
What I've learned after 20 Projects as a Product Designer
This is only happening in a handful of cities, though, right?
That's true there is a big shift toward srum. I'm actually consulting as a PO.
Software-only voting systems are a worse idea than paper-ballot voting systems. Unfortunately, issues do come up with paper-based voting systems so people think the system can be improved by throwing software at it.

At this point, voting by mail seems to be the way to go in places that are going all in with software systems.
What does marking as dupe do if clicking the past link does not show the dupe?
For encrypted streams, for example, or Web requests even, is crypto often the latency bottleneck?
> The rappers first and foremost are focused on themselves being the core of a business in which their image needs to be carefully cultivated, the support group around them needs to be taken care of, etc.

In the words of Jay-Z, "I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man!"
Ask HN: Do you think HN should notify us when someone replies to our thread?
And an unseen counter on the orange menu bar? So that we don't have to dig through all our posts to see if there are new replies.

What do you think?

(When I first started using HN, I thought the count next to my name in the orange bar was unread count. Lol. Later I realized that it was Karma)
It's really nice to see an application mute the volume by default. This is an incredible project.
Your comment did not say that that was what you were objecting to, nor did the text you quoted address how riders will or will not get frustrated et cetera.
What an amazing project and use of WebRTC. Thank you!
It sounds like you think we disagree, but we don't disagree. Parcel lookup is just an interesting public information database many people are unaware of — so I felt it was worth sharing.
Thank you for the write up and for the tool. I’ll be checking this out.

I can’t remember anyone mentioning ox-hugo to me before, but that may be more an indictment of my memory :-)
Nice launch! I have some Python code which I've been meaning to convert to App Engine standard to take advantage of the free tier, and I hadn't yet adapted it to the proprietary APIs. Now I don't have to. Thanks!

One Q: Does Google Cloud IAP work with this as an option for user auth? Would one follow the App Engine flexible environment pattern in their docs? The Cloud IAP docs still mention the Users API as the recommended approach for the App Engine standard environment without an exception for the Python 3.7 runtime.
> you are not realizing that respecting copyright law and abiding by those rules, as "unfair" as they may be, is the only thing that protects companies from being ruthlessly shared on uTorrent for free, and that if you were truly creative and trying to form a business, why not respect this law, and take additional effort to create something "new" and "original"

Copyright law is not meant to protect companies. From a historical perspective, it has always meant to temporarily protect authors' rights to their inventions so that society can get more works from those authors. Citing the US constitution (other countries have different justifications, but I assume that you are in the US):

> [The Congress shall have Power] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

This matches the purpose of the copyright system defined in 1710 under Statute of Anne (which inspired this clause in the constitution). The copyright system that pre-dated the Statute of Anne was a system of censorship by the publishing houses (that were members of the Printers' Guild), and the public rebelled against their censorship and Queen Anne strove to come up with a system that was far more fair and was meant to inspire authors to produce more work (rather than restrict what they can write so publishers can make more money).

Having a copyright system that protects publishers (which is what we currently have) and lasts for 70 years after the death of the author does not "promote the Progress" of anything (in fact it actively stifles it). I would argue current copyright law is unconstitutional in the US, but I don't have enough money to fight that fight (and the only people that do benefit from copyright law's overreach).

Unfortunately, in our modern age, the true purpose of copyright has been forgotten. People (like yourself) think that the purpose is to protect companies profits -- this could not be further from the truth. Such companies benefit from this misinformation, and regularly lobby the US Congress to add laws which further expand copyright laws (both in breadth as well as length) that result in even more profits for large companies without any more works made as a result. The true hypocrisy is that many of these companies would not have been able to make their works at all without the public domain, and without liberal copyright laws. The first cartoon Mickey Mouse appeared in (Steamboat Willie) made use of things from previous movies (Steamboat Bill Jr -- which was released 50 years earlier).

> out of respect for the law that protects from 100% bad actors which do not wish to creatively enhance, but to sell or distribute identical copies of original creative work.

Even if we ignore that these copyright laws are written by these same corporations (that themselves used public domain, and even infringed on copyrighted works from smaller publishers, to make their products), as I said above this is missing the purpose of copyright law.
That is only true in the states and perhaps parts of Europe. Catholics in Latin America, Africa, and the Philippines are much less buffet.
I definitly see Apple as being capable as lying. They have a history of it, of course, so I dont see how this situation is any different.

Additionally, Google is absolutely bad, but that is just whataboutism. If Apple valued privacy as much as they say they do, they would take a stand. Lost profits are part of taking a stand.

I still don't see how that original statement is innacurrate.
"<3</p>"

kay.

Why the web sucks in a nutshell.
If you click through and actually read the other article it was updated 12 hours after it was original published to reflect that they were wiped AFTER they were turned over to the FBI to image the drives and preform analysis and that all the data would be made available in the lawsuit. Kinda like this article had to be updated to reflect that this click-bait headline is not really true ether. But don't worry in a couple of months in a future post they will again refer to that one time when Georgia had 243 percent turnout with out mentioning it's not really true.
Doom on a BitFi #pwnieawards
Interesting, I wonder how long a rail system would need to be in order to be able to pull energy from tidal effects with the moon.
It's still traffic to get into and out of those spaces. It's more cars on the road, whether parked or not, which means delays given limited throughput.

Having a shared Uber pool encourages the actual namesake of "ride-sharing" and gets multiple people using the same cars, hopefully at the same time, or at least waiting on the street where they take up much less space than a car. Even a small amount of passenger pooling and avoiding the inefficient parking movement can make a massive difference in road throughput
Ditto. Every time I interacted with him, I walked away feeling smarter, and also feeling special and valued.

He truly did make the world a better place.
Then it's a good time to discover him.

His book, The Secrets of Consulting, was the first to help me get my head screwed on straight. I can't tell you how often his "Orange Juice Rule" helped me make a better decision.
From the docs:

"One of the most frequently asked questions is “I have a 723 pump but it has version 2.5B software version. Has anyone figured out a way to make newer model Medronic pumps compatible? Like flash older version of software onto my 723 2.5B pump?” The answer is “No. The ability to downgrade software versions in the pumps does not exist. It has been investigated and nobody has made any successful progress to that end.”"

I'm curious as to what form the investigation took. Are you aware of an online record of this investigation?

Are compatible pumps rare enough that the need to preserve them is constraining reverse engineering efforts?

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Edit: For those wondering what these things look like, here is the FCC submission including internal photos. FCC is involved because of the integrated wireless link.

https://fccid.io/OH21510

https://fccid.io/OH21510/Internal-Photos/Internal-Photos-239...

Looks like a System-on-a-Chip with separate memory chips? Can't make out the numbers. Opening in GIMP, it looks as if the photo has been doctored to remove chip numbers? That 12-pin unpopulated footprint on the processor board is for a test/JTAG header?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ If you're going to assume Apple is lying about the situation, then sure, you can make any statement about them seem legitimate.

It's still not clear what anyone gains by them walking away from China.
> The sooner that problem gets solved, the better.

We could just stop having SWAT teams. The events that supposedly justify them are so exceedingly rare that most members of SWAT teams go their entire careers without ever seeing one. But once they exist they get used for all kinds of routine operations that don't actually require them, where all they do is raise tensions and unnecessarily escalate matters.

There is a reason there is supposed to be a hard wall between the police and the military. If you really need a military presence, the governor can call in the National Guard. But when does that happen? Even they mostly end up getting called in for hurricane relief and that sort of thing.
Thanks Comcast! You did it!
> I believe they are counted because I still have some confidence in government.

Why would you? Don't. The ballot casting system should be inherently safe regardless of trust in any government official. That's how it's done in most democracies.
> Yes, right now there is a technical need for an intermediary because it guarantees AMP is actually AMP. It is trivial for a page to say it's AMP, load the AMP standard library, and then do everything disallowed by AMP. There is absolutely nothing preventing that but that intermediary rejecting non-compliant content.

That's because the standard is not well defined. If you had a doctype just for AMP at the top, that would work. I don't see any technical reason why google's servers are necessary. I see a business reason for Google of course but there's nothing technically that makes sense.

> Now of course we've talked about an HTML Light and that would be the browser enforcing that limited sandbox. It could send a relevant cookie and then reject content that steps outside the bounds. But we don't have that right now.

Well, AMP could be just that if it was standardized.
For those who aren't familiar, Scott Gray (one of the mentors) is a complete genius. Two years after he left Nervana his neural network kernels (which AFAIK haven't been updated since) are still the fastests available: https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks
It works. We’ve been doing it to redirect http to https for api servers that have clients written in C, PHP, .NET, JavaScript and more. Http 307 is well-defined and supported.
Systemd's DynamicUser feature is currently dangerous
It really reminds me of the Scanner Darkly (By Philip K. Dick) scene where Charles Freck tries to kill himself with pills but bought bad pills and instead went into a hallucination where an alien reads all his sins to him, a process taking tens of thousands of years.
There is a difference between hate speech, racism, bigotry, incitement to violence and political speech.

Clamping down on political speech and whistleblowing is the definition of censorship. If Facebook as a private party was not hosting any political content then it would be valid, but hosting other political content - for instance politicians and activists calling for ending Chinese censorship - while suppressing Snowden's leaks is a brazen act of political censorship and hypocrisy.

If this was a thread about China's dominant social media platform silencing whistleblowers there would be hundred percent agreement its wrong. It is untenable and duplicitous to demonize others for censorship while defending or hand waving this kind of 'moderation'. This makes a mockery of free speech and reduces it to jingoism.
It often takes 2 hours to get by bus or light-rail from one end of Santa Clara county to the other, while driving typically takes an average of 20-25 minutes. Also, VTA is expensive for low-income folks with a minimum of $2 for a single ride, and it takes up to 4-5 rides to get somewhere each way, and so the daily passes are $7.. Which is also a lot. Yearly passes for kids and disabled are $330, $880 for adults and twice that $1760 for express buses.

http://www.vta.org/getting-around/fares
To be honest those requirements sound perfect for a scrappy startup. Just enough of a moat to deter 99% of drive by hackers, but within the reach of any reasonably serious startup.

- £1,500 application fee

- €50,000 own capital requirements

If you're aiming to play in this league you really should be able to scrape together this kind of money.

- 3 months wait

Can also be seen as a 3 month delay imposed on your competitors.

Of course if you're aiming to use the API for your own personal needs only- then yeah, these requirements suck.
Looks like a side profile, with glasses
Have you looked into, or have any thoughts on Virta Health as a potential for your kids?

https://www.virtahealth.com/
TypeScript is nearly half as popular as JavaScript for React apps
I thought the major issue was that they were extremely vulnerable to being blown off course during the slow-moving launch phase. Basically, that even a mild crosswind would send it irretrievably askew.

I assumed that the price issue could in theory be solved by mass production economies of scale, if the other issues could be sorted out.
That's the publisher not doing things in the AMP-specified way. On massive content sites it's a pain in the rear to maintain both a normal version and an AMP version (and an FBIA version, and an Apple News version), so things like tweet embeds get left out.
The fact that college can teach critical thinking I find highly suspect. Also when exactly does all the critical thinking skills "taught" activate?

Is it after my freshman year, going into my senior year, or only once I have that holy piece of paper (a college degree).

Regarding history...well historically colleges were for wealthy white men/the upper class.
FB was able to obtain SMS data from some android handsets. Tons of people found this out when they obtained their data from FB.
>That doesn't fit entirely within the USB port like the Tomu,

No, but it would be possible to get something more low profile with some work. For most projects I would imagine it's low profile "enough".

For a practical joke (because I'm cool/evil), I plugged one of these devices into the back of somebodies desktop PC and it would occasionally output a random character (either G, H, J or K). I thought the same would be amusing for mouse control too.

You can get it to ultra-low power states too if you replace the power drop down (which consumes about 10mA from memory) and build a low power monitoring device.

>and it's out of stock (with no eta).

That's a shame. Erik is currently working on a 3D printer, it's likely this takes up most of his time now [1].

The clones are readily available though [2].

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/robotic-industries/buil...

[2] https://www.banggood.com/search/digispark.html?sbc=1
Hmm...Yes. But every time a reply is made? No! Only when there are new unreads since the last time I read the replies.

And make sure this can be turned off in settings.
From the article:

> Features like real-time electronic station signs, dedicated bus lanes and traffic signal priority will be added as construction continues.

The question is whether dedicated lanes for 100% of the route is a launch blocker. Remember that portions of the route are more rural and may not have any congestion to deal with.
Fair point about your experience but at the same time some people hate(ed) their formal educational experience and/or had to work constantly through college.
I really like that HN doesn't tell you about replies outright.

That means only people who care enough to check the comments get into long threads.

Other sites I feel like the notices just feed long threads of low effort arguing and mud slinging.

It also means that when people reply to me here beyond one reply, they put some effort into finding out if I responded again.... that's a nice feeling.
I agree, but is there proof that Google is differentiating sites "based on microsecond differences"?
Watch: CHILD’S REMAINS found at Islamic compound armed by “Muslim extremists,”
NameError: name 'government' is not defined
Before systemd, a difficult bug was a difficult bug.

With systemd, a difficult bug leads to an attack on systemd itself, and questioning whether it should even exist.

I like systemd, it's a pity some vocal people aren't enthusiastic about it.

Just like politics and the news, when you read of something being attacked, I think "who is saying this, doing they have an underlying bias against this thing they are attacking"?

I guess my question would be, is this really a general issue about systemd being difficult to debug, or some specific component subsystem of systemd. systemd is a big place.
Growing up, my dad had type 1 from agent orange (dioxin) exposure. Eventually had an insulin pump but it wasn’t a closed feedback loop because of caloric, time-of-day and finger-pricking measurements. The strips were expensive and created biohazard litter. For the safety of others, I wish diabetics would use old strip bottles to contain used ones instead of just binning them bare, because they seem to magically leap out, get everywhere and multiply.
Does this imply otherwise? http://blog.chartbeat.com/2018/02/15/google-is-up-what-to-do...
Use the 'threads' link in the header.

You can also get email notifications here:
http://www.hnreplies.com
Is the "lightfield" display in Magic Leap One the same technology used in the Hololens?
This is different though, no?

Say you go post on Infowars anonymously (but not through Tor/VPN/Proxy). They can now know where you live.

Of course the address is public. The relation between your IP address and your actual address isn't...
I realised a while ago that Github had an org mode renderer. So I've been working on a blog post that's hosted directly on Github (without needing to export to HTML). The renderer has some problems, but it's been OK for my code examples. Completely unfinished blog post here for example purposes only: https://github.com/ygt-mikekchar/oojs/blob/master/oojs.org You can look at raw mode to see what the source code looks like.

One of these days, I'm going to see if I can get something similar working on GitLab (which I've started using and admit to liking better at the moment). I think it should be easy, if a bit expensive (for them) because I should be able to set up a docker image with Emacs and export the HTML to generate a static page.

P.S. Anyone interested in the content of my blog post -- I got stalled trying to reason about the purpose of "this/self", but I've unstuck myself and should be finishing it up soon.
You have a point. But I'd like to think a bit differently. It's all about convenience, right? If HN had an unseen counter, I think that would be the most used component here.
No. I don't even have my mail program notify me of new email anymore, unless it's from one of three crucial senders.

Notifications are bad for you--especially for pointless trivial stuff like HN comment threads.

Consider the difficulty of checking on old HN threads a feature, which aids in Letting Things Go.

Just my own opinion, of course.
Why are you skeptical of the voting reform activist's reasoning? Secret balloting was introduced in the UK and the US in the latter half of the 19th century precisely because political machines abused non-secret balloting (systems in which a 3rd party has the ability to inspect one's vote) in the way he described. It's not a theoretical concern.
> What's the moral difference between political ads and donations to a political campaign which will presumably spend that money on ads (or other campaign related expenses)?

Public versus private view, public versus private benefit. Ads put me--the voter--in the equation. A campaign donation removes me from it.
And for comparison, in the greater Tokyo area there are like 10 different competing train companies (although of the largest 3, one was privatized out of the government, one is privatized but government-owned, and one is government-run) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Tokyo_transit
Yeah, that is indeed very differenr and troubling. I misunderstood.
I agree. 'Push' Notifications can be annoying if not relevant. But what do you think about an unread counter in HN? I can just click that to see if I missed some replies. Reddit has this.
No, it is not. I am 49 and I have no problems using HN. Also often it is clear, that some of the amazing answer found here, are from people way older than in the their 20s, because some of those answers requires the poster to have many many years of experience in order to come up with that answer.

There is a great mix of young and old here :)
Hi, I am Anil. Hands-on full-stack dev, around 11 yrs experience, worked as CTO, sound Web, mobile and cloud technologies experience in E-commerce, Gaming, Payments, Travel and FMCG domain.

Location: Pune, India

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> I view it as telling that Uber spent roughly four times what the taxi lobby spent

Uber spent four times as the taxi lobby spent on a single politician. I don't know what the taxi industry's total is. Given they shower tens of thousands of dollars on even state senators [1], I'd wager it's comparable to Uber's.

[1] https://nypost.com/2018/01/27/taxi-committee-head-got-thousa...