skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you marginalize people, they'll look more and more outside of society's box.

The US is luck in that there are plenty of opportunities for non-workers without advanced education to make their life, but there is no way their inequality can keep increasing without those opportunities disappearing (as they depend on a middle class). When they disappear, the only thing out of society's box will be crime.

If you want to know how the US will become once it gets more similar to Brazil, take a look at Brazil.
Whatever someone's feelings on the matter, it is illegal to discriminate based on gender in the US.
Was it this one? https://github.com/airbornio/signed-web-apps
I don't think so. Their service was used to steal someone's phone account, which was then used to steal someone's money.
As you said, you wont get further updates to the apps, however everything will continue to run as is. Also you will be able to further manage the server or reconfigure already installed apps. Other features like automatic backups will also keep working.
They still seem to hide things if you compare to Bing results.
> Do you see doctors for memorizing vocab?

Quite plausibly so; if you have unusual trouble remembering even modest quantities of vocab, that could be a brain problem.
Well, less of a "redneck" vibe, and more of a subtle "I can't imagine living in some place so much less dense, and I can't see why you would live there other than it being cheaper." I think sometimes this is misinterpreted to be harsher than intended.

Sort of a "it's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there" vibe. Which, to be fair, is exactly how I feel about SF and the metro area around it.
Unfortunately, we seem to be stuck in this situation where we can't muster up the political will to try anything that has any elements of the dreaded "socialism". It's like a ratchet that can only go one acceptable way: More capitalism.
Who are "they" in this case? If you think there is broad electoral support for removing government pay caps I have a bridge to sell you :).
will international students get any?
> Nobody cares about what you do with your phone.

Well it sounds like the Australians who will put you in a cage for 10 years for not unlocking your phone very much do care what you do with it...
On some level this is why I'm skeptical of all security efforts in the electronic space.

Because if the government or anyone sufficiently powerful is actually after me, the first thing I'm going to do is throw my phone down the garbage disposal and blindly dd all my hard drives with zeros.
I re-read my comment, I didn't say "That is the US law".
This approach has a long history. Of course the rendering engine was running server-side.
The Times article indicates 1,000+ employees signed the letter.

In some places I've worked, there would be 1,000+ job openings the next day.

I've been fired twice for doing the right thing. Once the state got involved and fined the employer, which was nice, but didn't pay the bills.

"Doing the right thing" is so very easy when it's a movie or a book or someone else. In real life, it can take months or years to rebound financially and socially, so I wish all of these people well.
Mobile apps are regulated because they're legally seen as transforming the mobile phone into a medical device. Medical devices are regulated because people rely upon their results (e.g. insulin measurement) or efficacy (e.g. defibrillator), making their reliability critical to health.

If someone were to release an insulin measurement app that guessed your insulin by analysing selfies and wasn't reliable, then diabetics relied upon its results, it's easy to see how injury or death could occur. Birth control is a medical issue, and therefore, similarly, if an app makes claims of predicting fertility, it requires regulation to prevent unsuspecting members of the public relying upon an unreliable product.
> Why do you need wider streets?

For public health reasons, enable emergency and disaster response, contain potential propagation of collapses, enable large volumes of people to evacuate in a timely manner, etc.

Europe has lived with narrow streets for some centuries and learned to avoid that mistake. It's a shame that somr people have forgot or never learned those lessons.
How does it intermingle?

I'm sorry, but social media and even internet access are not rights nor are they provided to you by the government.

The reason you can say whatever you want on the internet is tolerance. Not because its an inalienable right.

A corporation should be held accountable similar to the federal government? That is a nonsensical sentiment. How would that even be enforced? Corporations are accountable to shareholders, not the citizens of any nation.

Please think critically for a moment about what you're suggesting, keeping in mind you clearly are only suggesting this for one specific company, out of all social media companies. it's blatantly out of spite.
That's a very strange way to consider salaries. 7% of the healthcare output is extraordinary. By any measure US doctors are obscenely overpaid for what is ultimately not very creative or challenging work. On average US doctors earn 2-5x more than doctors in other developed countries [1] -- while delivering significantly worse healthcare outcomes. Some estimates put this "excess income" at an extra $100 billion a year but I've seen estimates of a quarter trillion a year that gets sucked up by doctors -- again, for delivering worse care.

The priestly incomes that these NYU graduates will go on to earn is precisely why NYU can offer free tuition. Attracting the best medical talent, even if you pay for all their training (call it half a million dollars a pop), can probably still be profitable if this talent can be leveraged by NYU's network of private care facilities.

[1] https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/10/25/doctors-sal...
Any examples that show this is hiding rather than ranking differences?
Sorry but this sounds not very informed to me. HTML5, including the APIs it specifies, is already the big rewrite/consolidation of browser standards. Considering the massive investment in JS engines and browser tech since V8 came out in 2008 or so, and considering the shrinking Web, this isn't going to happen. The approach of specifying features/API levels with requirement levels declared in page metadata etc. has long been dismissed by browser developers. Even HTML5+ doesn't bother to version their specs eg WHATWG's "living standard" thing.
> Iraq invasion was...

> So "invading" is not the correct word...

I think you are contradicting yourself?

We invaded on false pretense 'Weapons of Mass Destruction' if I recall - it was an invasion and ideally it should have been an effort driven by the UN instead of the Republican party of the USA.
Have you had much experience working in food service? The iteration happens incredibly quickly. Any kind of cultural factor (like, say, a predisposition to underestimate the tolerances of white people) will quickly be erased by dozens and dozens of experiences.

When you are waiting tables all day, you're optimizing for two things: tips, and, even more so, limiting annoying situations. A hypothetical server who carries the bias you describe will learn quickly, like, within a night or two, that haranguing their customers about spiciness will result in both worse tips and a lot of extra hassles. In your example, you were so agitated about the spiciness that you even got their boss involved—that's a huge hassle for a server, a big waste of time and something that probably annoys their boss.

I can say from experience that servers do not have the luxury of making decisions based on arbitrary cultural factors. The data is being drilled into them all day, every day, and in all but the most unusual cases, servers will take the path of least resistance to quick turnover and tips. And if you want to deal in stereotypes, don't underestimate the practicality of immigrants.
The numbers are increasing, but leveling off. High fertility rates only exist in a few regions of the world (Africa, South Asia) and even there they are falling rapidly.

The "solution" broadly speaking is higher intensity - of energy, land, everything. If you have compact energy sources (nuclear) powering compact food production (high-yield agriculture, some vertical farming) feeding people living in compact cities (higher density, more ridesharing), then it's doable. You can already see lots of signs of this in the developed countries.

This will still require lots of adjustment from people, but asking them to live in duplexes, share rides and eat less meat is much more doable than asking them no you know, not exist.

The Breakthrough does lots of great research on this topic: https://thebreakthrough.org/
well, first and foremost phone companies. But also anyone who trust phone companies to protect them
It does if it scans them before they get on the subway.
Sure. If you are a CDN right now you can host multiple customers on one ip. If you are using TLS there are 2 ways to do this:

1. Have a big SAN cert with lots of names.

2. Use SNI to select the correct certificate for that client and route to the correct customer config (and therefore correct origin)

If SNI didn't exist we'd be back to the bad old days of every TLS site requiring a dedicated IP. As ipv4 exhaustion has gotten worse this has gotten more expensive. However if we're using ipv6 then hosting N listeners for N ip addresses, each with their own dedicated cert, is much more scalable.
Yes, I should have chosen the word "completion" rather than "admission".

The comment I was replying to was saying, in effect, "I want to be able to earn a graduate degree without having to earn an undergraduate degree".

Those programs sound great. They would allow a person to EARN both the graduate degree and the underlying undergrad.
It seems like putting the entry point at the top would make the code easier to read, at least in the annotated form you provided. Gist doesn't really have a good way to read from the bottom up like suggested.
we want the most capable doctors. This will help keep more of top candidates from choosing other careers.
I skimmed it and the closest I could get to find an answer to my question was

>Finally, it also seems worth noting that this decoupling coincided with the passage of many policies that explicitly aimed to erode the bargaining power of low- and moderate-wage workers in the labor market.

I am in my 20's I was not alive in the 70's. What did Nixon, Ford, and Carter change in that time that eroded the bargaining power of wage workers?
"A fat guy, a watermelon, and a stack of magazines? That's a function!"
The U.S. game industry lobbied in Washington, D.C. for a smaller $1 coin, closer to the size of a quarter, arguing that inflation (which had reduced the quarter's spending power by a third in the early 1980s) was making it difficult to prosper.[17] During the 1970s, the dollar coin in use was the Eisenhower dollar, a large coin impractical for vending machines. The Susan B. Anthony dollar was introduced in 1979, and its size fit the video game manufacturers' demands, but it was a failure with the general public.

I found no evidence that the video game industry specifically lobbied for the diameter of the Anthony dollar. Is there any?
And to think that this was Stanford's original mission.
> If we had a legislative house for white people and another for black people, would that be a good idea because hey, that white majority doesn't always think long term?

I mean, maybe. What year are we talking about here?

Perhaps in 2018 that wouldn't be a good idea, but even if you were to go back to so far as the 50s, I think that you would find a lot of blacks saying "yes. I very much WOULD like to have a seperate government ruling me in America, because this other group doesn't care about my rights".

There are lots of times when the majority is wrong, and decentralizing power is one method of insulating people from the effects of it.
Slightly offtopic: I notice this is written by Bitmovin's General Counsel, and Cloudflare has had to defend itself from patent trolls previously (also mentioned in this blog post). Is there a reason YC hasn't taken this on internally, perhaps in partnership with the EFF, with a dedicated resource to defend and then pursue patent trolls for their portfolio companies?

Also, congrats on the win Bitmovin!
> but this is something that I find as limiting my freedom.

What freedom do you see as being limited?
Yes, unionization is key here. Cultural tastes need to change a bit, I think, but developers have enormous leverage.

I’d like to echo the sibling comment to visit your local DSA branch if you want more information.
> Maybe Google has some plan how to actually undermine the censorship long term, but it seems that it must be quite a long shot.

There's no such plan. The Communist Party will kick them out faster than you can say "great firewall" if they took any action to undermine their censorship regime.
I think there could be a sliding scale of sorts, with the last resort as sorry, you must visit a store.

Perhaps a series of strong security questions(no 'mothers maiden name' type), and if failed, you must present ID at a physical location.

Perhaps a copy of an ID or other photo on file that you could match/resend?

Maybe an option to 'lock' the account to changes, that can only be unlocked by the user when logged in, or by visiting a store?

Just off the top of my head, I can think of hundreds of things these companies could be doing better..many of which are not 100% foolproof, but far ahead of what they're doing now.
>I am lost at what Google attempts to gain with this.

Revenue.

>Then, there's the PR disaster that's bound to come up once it gets official.

Does the public care about privacy? Does the public understand or care about China's firewall? Does the public have an attention span long enough to ruin Google's reputation?
"The company announced that in the latest round of fundraising it had raised a cool 250 million yuan ($36) from investors that included government agencies."

I want that too.

Just if someone else need their national browser too - I am here with my Sciter (https://sciter.com) - it is an independent implementation of HTML/CSS and universal Web browser can be made from it with 6-9 months ETA.
The research was covered in a recent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17218250
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Yeah, there really is no moral excuse for any restriction (or even tax) on the purchase of chemicals which are broadly safe for consumption, completely generic, and of considerable medicinal value. I am convinced that there are more people who would begin to benefit from unprescribed private self-medication with MDMA than who would begin to suffer suffer harm.
Organized protest doesn't necessarily mean unionization.

Look at the school walkouts in the United States lately.

Helicopter video on the news of 1,000 Googlers marching out of their offices would do a lot more to raise the nation's awareness of the issue, and put a lot more pressure on the C-level, than an internally-circulated letter.
Also, though copies of E.T. ended up in a New Mexico landfill, they did so alongside many other Atari games as Atari was just emptying warehouses.
Yes, it happens often enough. I eventually switched to fountain pens which I could refill from a bottle. I buy a new bottle every couple years and buy a new pen about as often. I also got a few refillable markers.

I don't think I write a lot, especially. I guess I just don't lose pens very often.
The key difference between die forever and recovery (which sometimes comes with another hype cycle) is the underlying utility/value of the thing. Real estate in places people actually want to live will "always" recover, because there's underlying value in somewhere to live (but people may not always want to live in the same places). Video games came back because decent games are fun. 3D movies seem to come back for another round of hype cycle every so often, but they don't seem to offer enough real value to offset the cost of producing them or viewing them, so we're kind of in the stable and stagnant phase. Crystal Pepsi and other clear colas obviously have no redeeming value, so it's probably not coming back again.

A lot of the companies in video games around the time of the blow up are gone now, but some of them survived -- Nintendo was early and is still around, Sega survived until much after the crash. The crash wasn't good for Atari, but it sort of survived into the 90s, and it had a lot of corporate shenanigans too. It doesn't seem that unusual that so many companies in a field aren't around 30 years later.

Re: cryptocurrencies, who knows, but the real question is if they're really useful compared to traditional banking, for enough people for it to offset the tremendous escalating costs of running the network.
Sure, but his point was that you don't give up rights to the government simply because you have no use for them. Other people do. If you don't defend them, they get eroded and society regresses. History shows us this.
If party A makes unreasonable demands and party B accepts, responsibility does not lie solely with party B.
No, but guns are.
"I get to do things that I would never get to do in the private sector" well I know people who switched from NSA to private sector and pretty much keep doing the same things :)
So I guess it depends :)
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I wonder if someone can help me identify a game I recall from my youth. I recall it being a computer game, and you started off in a jail cell. You could move around, there was a bed, and a window - I think you could jump.

I was young enough that I couldn't figure out how to even escape the cell, if that was even the intent of the game. I played it in Russia, sometime in the 80s or maybe even early 90s,

The only other thing I remember is that the computer also had Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion on it.
I think the design your future actions is a big part of this.

I've had some success with framing two modes, Architect Mode and Implementation Mode.

Architect Mode is when you sit down and make a plan to achieve a long term challenging goal (losing a lot of weight, getting in shape, learning something new, etc.). It's where you set up a routine and plan for what you're specifically going to do each day in order to do this. Being able to separate this plan from when you're actually enacting it is important because it removes the choice and doesn't allow comparisons of an immediate reward with an abstract distant reward.

Implementation Mode has to follow what was set up by the architect and is not allowed to make decisions - this is because you're compromised and unreliable when comparing an immediate reward (do I eat that slice of cheesecake?) to a long term abstract reward and it's very easy to rationalize why what you want to do is actually okay (it's only an extra 400 calories anyway - today can be a cheat day etc.).

A big part of succeeding with implementation is stacking success (doing the thing every day without missing any day) and picking a small enough starting point. Another is not putting yourself in positions where you're easily tempted to fail (don't buy oreos and have them in the house). Once you get more in the rhythm of things you are safer in more difficult environments.

When Implementation mode fails it means the architect needs to reevaluate why and make changes - it doesn't help to ruminate or beat yourself up about the failure.

Even with this mindset things are difficult, but I've found it to be the most successful for long term goals when they're clearly defined - most of it is getting the psychology right - then the behavior can follow.
No, I have not. But that's definitely something to think about. It would certainly be nice. You ever hear about how it's better to study at a library rather than at home? That's certainly a good case with work but may also be a good case with using the internet - you know, do everything we have to do internet-related elsewhere (like at a dedicated WeWork desk). Then our home is more like an actual home, I think. If that's what you were trying to get at. Otherwise, I would definitely love to hear why you have been thinking about doing so.
You could say that about you and me as well.

Time and place matter. He was there at the right time, sold himself and got a contract that essentially guarantees someone can't just come in and undercut him in a month.
Part of it is that the biochemical processes involved in producing ethanol are so straightforward that they are undergone in almost every fruit bowl and refrigerator, with or without anyone's knowledge.
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I'd have to forward declare everything, which is annoying. It's a C thing.
Free speech in a country that goes authoritarian is very harmful for your career. People in power have connections, they can make it hard for you to make a living without even breaking the law, just asking the right people for a favor. Anonymity is one of the things that make people more likely to say what's need to be said.

Without protection of privacy - very few people will exercise their free speech when things get hard.
Building a high-available file storage with Nginx, haproxy and lsyncd
If they can detect these things, they can detect anything on your person. Pretty crazy.
But are those really a reflection of how - say - Bezos or some oil rich prince actually live? I doubt it.

I expect it is actually mostly banal despite the staggering level of resources they and theirs casually consume.
2FA by SMS strikes again. I'm not going to hold my breath for every phone company to get their act together. Hopefully these kinds of incidents will lead to a wider adoption of U2F, or at least OATH TOTP
> For example, a browser could easily run OCR on the frame-buffer and read it out loud.

And then we wonder where all the software bloat comes from.
The benchmarks weren't particularly well written, using lots of syscalls for timing instead of RDTSC. The impact was small compared to cache size, and the benchmark worked perfectly fine for education.

I noticed a later filesystem simulation benchmark for the same class ran faster when I moved my mouse. After a few minutes of investigation, I submitted a patch to prefer /dev/urandom to /dev/random on hosts that had /dev/random.
I remember at my local K-Mart the commodore products were under the glass display cases with electronics like calculators. Then they'd have a couple of spinning wire racks for the discount ($9.99 and $19.99) shareware and games. Expensive stuff (from EA or Eypx) was under the glass and you had to find an employee willing to let a kid actually touch the box...
Question: Why would you want to obscure the real cost of college even further?
It's still about the basic human dignity, you loose it once you don't have free speech or the right to privacy. Would you feel dignified if you were forced to go around with a huge hole in your pants without the ability to "cover your ass"?
I'm talking about the ~6 million estimated violent crimes that occur each year. Many, many of those are deadly threats. Any that involve a weapon are automatically deadly threats. Any involving multiple attackers are deadly threats. Any that involve a significant advantage in physical force of the attacker over the target are deadly threats. In general, any that involve the attacker being in a position to cause death or grave bodily harm are considered deadly threats, and can be legally met with lethal force if that is necessary to stop the threat.

I'm not sure what world you are living in. There are millions of people who are victims of violent crime each year in the US. It happens. A lot.
It'll be interesting to see if the mountain of lawsuits against Bayer grows to include parents of autistic children. https://www.csail.mit.edu/research/toxic-environmental-chemi...
Surprised to see no mention of security. How do you prevent people from messing with the polls? Physically or digitally.