skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is in fact not difficult to explain carceral inequality through the prism of white supremacy, as "whiteness" is a fluid concept largely defined in specific opposition to "black" people; historically, it's adapted as needed to embrace formerly "non-white" people (the Irish, Italians, Jewish people) in solidarity against encroaching black people (for instance, during the Great Migration).

A useful thing to keep in mind is that "black", as in "African American", actually is a sort of synthesized ethnicity (their original cultures having been stripped from them in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade)... but "white" is not. There are Irish people and there are Slavic people and there are Sicilian people, and their cultures are not in fact all that similar. "White" just means what it needs to mean.

All you need to add to your mental model of "white" and "black" to fit low Asian American incarceration into it is the idea that Asians will soon attain "honorary white" status. That's not a message board concept; the transition of Asians from "model minority" to "white people" is much discussed in the real world as well.
"It technically complies with the law"seems like cold comfort. Anyway you're just moving the locus of struggle from the approval process to the zoning regulations, since anyone with their head screwed on is going to demand that the city council use the law to block a development like this.
>The free market has worked out much better.

It's like everyone who preaches this line knows so little history or wants people to forget[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_(horse)
Non-discrimination is a core value of open source
> You're claiming to know the intentions of the Boring Company based on the ordering and number of Frequently Asked Questions? Sorry, but that's not very compelling.

No, I'm claiming to know it based on what they're actually working on, a passing interest in civil engineering projects that's deep enough that I actually read the Environment Impact Statements and construction plans, particularly with regards to mass transit systems. I might not be an accomplished entrepreneur, but you're not going to sell shiny new tunneling technology with a mass transit system that utterly fails at the "mass" part. Elon Musk has also pretty much said on record (well, on Twitter) that he hates trains because he doesn't want to have to be in a crowd of people, which is a good sign that he's interested in seeing the not-mass transit aspect as the major focus and not the tunneling improvements.

> That sounds actually substantive. Why not comment on those?

I have commented on them at least three times in this HN three alone. If you can't figure out what those were, here they are:

1. Digging deeper is not a panacea. You have heat dissipation, drainage issues, and especially vertical (people) circulation problems.

2. No one builds tunnels for $1 billion/mi. The tunneling costs do not drive the cost inflation to $1 billion/mi.

3. Smaller diameter bores are nowhere near as much a cost savings as Musk suggests they are. TFA even points this out.

There's lots of other stuff, which keeps getting brought up every time there's a thread on this topic. You'd have to have pretty big blinders if you follow the technology to miss the discussions of how many things just don't add up.
I'm not saying they are or aren't misogynistic. Just that they're really badly named to be clickbaits and feed on the existing hostility against a bigger community. I've seen a few fragments and honestly they don't make me interested in analysing the whole thing. What they don't seem to do though is help any cause beyond getting more popular and setting up us-vs-them ideas.
Please don't perpetuate stereotypes like this. This sentence has a clear discriminatory undertone implying that asians are less capable of creative/critical thinking.
What makes you say that? The Oracle JDK IS the Open JDK, only with a few extra features. At least that’s my understanding. A shared code base.

If they do a terrible job of sticking a feature in they’re going to have to keep handling it until it’s cleaned up or removed.
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Lack of money and resources. "Telecom-backed" pockets are deep. Pro net neutrality pockets are not as deep.

Lack of ethics. Telecom-backed groups do whatever it takes to profit off communication. Pro net neutrality groups are probably less willing to participate in robo calling the elderly.
Who's going to buy the home at the original price, let alone an appreciated one, if it's now next to a paper mill?
It could be a night-chess-club, after all?
Money quote on page 345: "In the second study, Mosing, Madison, Pedersen, Kuja-Halkola, and Ullén (2014) had over 10,000 twins representing an extremely wide range of music skill estimate deliberate practice and perform tests of music aptitude. Mosing et al. (2014) found that there were genetic effects on both music practice and music aptitude. More important, there was no evidence for a causal influence of music practice on music aptitude. Identical twins differing massively in amount of deliberate practice did not differ significantly in music aptitude."

Apologies for being contrarian, but let me flip things around: Perhaps people who are able to benefit from practice enjoy it and tend to do more of it.

I get excited learning about the latest C++17 features and used to love reading stock exchange specifications, which most people would find about as exciting as a root canal. I find it rewarding because I can apply what I learned and feel a sense of satisfaction. Conversely, I've always sucked at golf and could barely stomach the half-dozen lessons I tried, even though I consider myself a diligent person and spent years practicing many other things. I never improved my swing and the entire experience was nothing but frustration. If you have a rough time at a beginner or intermediate level, it's hard to gin up the desire for continued practice beating your head to a wall.

The premise of this paper is naturally enticing. If you had only tried a bit harder practicing lay ups in gym class, you could be just as good as Michael Jordan (ok more like you could get a bit closer, since they claim practice explains ~20% of results). I don't really buy it.
Maybe this would all be fixed if every Bird scooter had a license plate and you needed to be licensed to drive them?

In contrast to Bird, Scoot hasn't attracted that much criticism in SF despite being a pretty similar service.
Freelancer here. Sorry for the downvote.

But 40h/week is not what you get when you're freelancing. Freelance is a mix of sales, dev, consulting. You may get 20h/week some days, 60h/week other days. There's an awful lot of stress that comes with arguing with yourself and pushing yourself to keep moving.

I think OP just wants to be comfortable and relaxed.
> The equitable solution would be to compensate surrounding owners for their property losing value

They already get compensated in the form of lower taxes. Just like how if the neighbors build something that increases their property value, they need to pay more in taxes.
how's the performance compared to Oracle's (in Linux)?
JWT with a split cookie seems brilliant to me. Good write up here: https://medium.com/lightrail/getting-token-authentication-ri...

By splitting the JWT across two cookies, rather than using a single cookie or having the JWT stored in the browser local storage, we are able to meet our requirements...
Which cities are the best examples?
Oracle has never announced that they’re charging for their JDK. In all the talk over this stuff over the last few years they’ve never said that. They’ve been quite clear that it will still be free to download.

The only change is that free security patches will now be limited to six months after a release.
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> Take a day off of work, what's the problem?

The problem is that to get a good offer you need 2-3 competing offers. Assuming a 20% onsite success rate (from the article), thats 10-15 days... Most of us only get 10-15 PTO days a year, and wouldn't want to spend them in something harder than a regular day of work.
I've tried a few times to find routes to Europe, ex-Sydney where it's more than marginally cheaper.

I've never really had much luck.
This may cut against what some other are saying, but I've found larger tech companies to be very reasonable about the 40 hr work weeks. As you stated, you've had experience all at web startups. Startups tend to encourage the "work-all-day-every-day" mentality whereas (at least in my experience) larger tech companies will let you do your 40 hrs. Doesn't necessarily have to be a strictly tech company. A large corp of any size that has a decent tech department might suit you well, but they may be less open to the long breaks. My experience has been the large companies I've worked at (telco, bank, and largeish internet company) have never encouraged me to work crazy hours. YMMV, good luck!
Looks like these were cancelled -- https://www.china-airlines.com/us/en/fly/on-board/fleet/fami...
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The alternative would be a "gentleman's agreement"? An NDA would seem to be much more transparent with everyone understanding what was agreed to rather than something agreed upon over cigars and cognac. Refusing to sign NDAs as a matter of principal doesn't seem like a very mature way to conduct business.
Along with other school propaganda like "MIT doesn't do legacy", "Ivy League doesn't offer sports scholarships" is essentially false. The implication is that the ivy leagues don't give a "free pass" to students for athletic reasons, when they do.

To their credit, they aren't willing to sacrifice all pretense of "student-athletes" compared to some other schools. But there are definitely plenty of students that only get admission due to their athletic ability.
Add up the time you'd spend interviewing on site and doing pointless phone interviews and that's the amount of time we allocate to ourselves for work-sample tests.

In 10 years of doing this, I've never caught anyone cheating, and as I've remarked elsewhere and often, the quality of the hires we made once we switched to work-sample testing (a thing we did to raise the bar for our hiring, after our standard interview loop passed some people who were better talkers than appsec people) went drastically up. While I was at Matasano, we didn't let a single person go who had gone through our work-sample process.

That said, if you're worried about cheating, build a small, non-confrontational interview into your process where you just talk about how they approached the challenges.
Then I vote to give them a 2nd chance and see how it goes. Its easy to pull their permit in the future if needed.
There's a difference in the objective here that may reward us for avoiding a monoculture. One way to do all crypto means one way to defeat it.
Somehow I expected a Batman MUD.
My company runs its Scala apps on Java 8. That's the version officially recommended by the Scala project:

> For most users, we still recommend using Java 8 for compiling (and running) Scala code.

https://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/jdk-compatibility/over...
It doesn't make any sense to assume that someone would want to buy Home A, tear it down, and build a paper mill there, but that nobody could ever want to buy Home B next door and build a profitable venture there as well. Often in these situations, housing values go up, because the opportunity exists to build something more valuable than a house.

Furthermore, when you buy a house, you are a taking a risk. You're making an investment. I don't see why the rest of the world should be bending over backwards and living in stasis to protect your investment. If you want absolute control over what happens on your block, buy your block.
5th, as of 2018.

https://www.businessinsider.com/california-economy-ranks-5th...
What an idiotic response.
Because Java has had such a terrible support record. And it’s not like Oracle has any products they support.

Microsoft has quite a history of creating and then abandoning different APIs and technologies.

This is all pointless hyperbole. This isn’t that big change in the Java ecosystem. It’s not like it’s going to cost $20 to run Java at all.

The price is for running Oracle’s Java... that’s older than six months... that you want security updates for.

You can run a different JVM, you can get the security patches from someone else, you can go without them. You can pay someone other than Oracle. Free options still exist.
It's not just alumni. Asian applicants were rated basically the same on "Personality" scores from teacher letters, counselor letters, alumni interviews, etc. Everything except their final grade (which is the only place that includes essays, I believe).

However, I find it incredibly unlikely that asian applicants are so bad at writing essays that it's singlehandedly tanking their personality score that drastically.
Strange. There was a known way from London from/to Sydney via Philipines that was much cheaper a year ago. And I had luck with Denpasar and Colombo many times including this year.
Air rights.
I imagine if any of these people were an EU citizen and actually asked in paper writing to be removed, they would be. GDPR does not require that companies make this process electronically initiated, nor that deletion be the default.
More steps to better code (2016)
> Al Capone was taken down because he had more power than that of the government.

Really? Not conceding the point of him having more power or that being the reason he got taken down, but isn't it good thing we had strong federal government with tough regulation to pick up the slack of lax local regulators

> this will eventually lead to the destruction of our country, which, before that happens, will be a civil war.

Amazing performance there. From "denied scooter licenses" to "dystopian communist dictatorship" to "Civil war" in under 5 paragraphs.
That one was about personalization. If you're a political junkie, it'll tell you how many people died in a riot.

If you're not, it'll tell you about the Pyramids.
My sister pays for Netflix, I pay Spotify family.

I have a $14 monthly donation for some religious institution. And about 10% of my salary goes to paying off debt.

I pay for a VPN (Mullvad) every now and then. Also have my own domain name which I never use but I'm afraid of domain name squatters.

I would actually pay for membership to some elite club. Unfortunately, it looks like Something Awful or MMOs are the closest to that.

I'd also pay for anything that sufficiently motivates, even if it gets me working an extra hour per month. Haven't found anything along those lines. Some work for a short period of time but the motivation wears off.
.Net Core (open source) and .Net Framework (Windows Only) have different support policies.

.Net Framework has a much longer support lifecycle.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17455/lifecycle-faq...
Thanks a bunch mate. Appreciated. Great talk. Very interesting. Now if you'll excuse me, I have pointers in my structs to squash...
I'm Jewish so I can give you my point of view, but there are many other people who may feel differently. For me this is simply a troll doing something that he thinks is funny and slightly inconveniences the mods at osm. Calling certain areas "Jewish" is not antisemitic in the way that is in any way dangerous. Here is a joke from Jews about how Teaneck is Jewish [1], nothing antisemitic about that. Here is a joke about Israel being Jewish [2] .

But lets just say that this was antisemitic. So what? Trolls do offensive things online all the time. OSM was properly alerted to it and quickly reverted it.

[1] http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3613/1194/1600/teaneck.jp...

[2] https://johnjohns1.fjcdn.com/pictures/ish+conspiracy+could+m...
So that embargoes can be enforced, so that the OS dev doesn't jump the gun and publicly announce the vulnerability to the world before all the other devs have had a chance to ready their patches.
I actually have some Sifteo hardware and some development docs—been wondering if anyone would benefit from having them to do independent Sifteo dev on.
That's a good summary. Anything from Beej is very good usually.

Watches are incredibly useful. I remember struggling with a bug, wasted days or even weeks on it. Then during lunch an older more experience engineer told me to use watchpoints, and just like that I could see the trace of what was writing over that particular memory address and the problem was solved. It's like in the movies where the master utters some cryptic koan and the struggling apprentice is suddenly enlightened.

Speaking of corrupted memory, another command to add is "x" it stands for "examine memory" and it does just that. Then after examining the memory, for fun, set a watchpoint to see what code ends writing or reading from it.
You’re free to make that argument to property owners and see if it sticks. If I was a gambling man, I doubt you’d get any traction. And if you attempt to use legislation, you’re going to get shot right down, because property owners have more to lose than transient renters.

Big fan of FWD:Everyone by the way, great product.
In a lot of cases, the trip booked through the aggregator blocks you from collecting loyalty points from the chain.
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I think his argument is if you have the same number of great leaders per capita in each race. Then maybe at the margin you should take in an African American who scored better than 98% of his peers over an Asian who scored better than 90% of his peers.(for instance Asians have 30x the number of individuals per capita who score an 800 on an SAT compared to African Americans.)
True that! IMHO this has been a trend that I've observed where interview feedback is something that doesn't exist. More often than not, even when requested, I've never received any kind of feedback from companies. Despite the the abundance of companies like Hired, TripleByte, LinkedIn and others, recruitment still remains a black-art!
Women in Congress
the AI F-35 would be a different type of war drone than the predator
the predator drone is a pigeon carrying a firecracker compared to what is coming...
Asians make up 22% of the harvard class(with the current quota system), and are 6% of the U.S. population.

I don't think eliminated legacy based admissions or increasing school funding would bring this number down.
DTerm is a nice utility
https://github.com/muhqu/dterm
:/ I understand the reasoning for zoning and don't have a better solution. Thus I am generally for zoning.

I was responding to (middle OP?) "Why shouldn't land owners be able to build whatever they want on their own property? It's not your backyard, it's your neighbors property" and "As long as they follow the noise and disturbance ordinances, then sure."

Those former seems to suggest getting rid of zoning altogether which would cause horrible negative externalities IMO. The latter assumes noise disturbances would somehow balance the market which I highly doubt.
Netflix, or Amazon, or someone. Please bring back Police Squad!
I know people like to hate on Amazon for the gentrification of Seattle, but as someone who has studied and worked in urban planning, I absolutely believe Amazon did the right thing by betting on an urban campus in the heart of Seattle. They could have built another suburban Microsoft or something like the monstrosity that Apple is doing, but Amazon didn’t.

I’d like to say that this comment is totally unbiased, but it’s not. I recently started at Amazon (I speak for myself / opinions are solely mine), and I’d be lying if I said that the urban campus that I can walk to wasn’t absolutely part of my calculus. I could not imagine commuting to Redmond for Microsoft, or Kirkland for Google.

I moved to Seattle a decade ago and biked through SLU on the way to my internship at the Seattle Department of Transportation downtown while in my masters program. I am still amazed by the changes in SLU. I absolutely feel the disparity and displacement, but I cannot blame Amazon or Vulcan. The reality is that Seattle has simply not permitted, incentivized, and built enough residential and public transit capacity to accommodate the growth that was forecasted to be huge. Affordability has suffered.

And that is a matter of political will. People like to blame planners, but the planners saw most of this coming. Change is hard, and Seattle has done pretty well in spite of everything. We’re not the Bay Area, and we can be proud of that.
The lack of a true business class within EU really stunned me. I really don't understand it.

I don't fit, at all, in Economy seats, so a proper business class seat is my only option if I'm going to fly.

I tried booking Business flights within Europe last year, but after re-checking flight details several times, looking on SeatGuru, and a ton of googling I realised there just wasn't any(1).

Instead, I ended up getting trains and ferries (and the occasional train-ferry, thanks Germany/Denmark) to go Amsterdam->Oslo->Barcelona->Amsterdam.

It took a lot longer, but at least I was comfortable, and I got to visit a bunch of extra places in between.

e: (1) okay, there are some 'secret' ones where a long-haul international aircraft is re-positioned, but these are hard to find, subject to an aircraft swap or outright cancellation at any time, and on limited routes and dates.
On my machine the demo page doesn't work at https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/

I tried to get Google to fix this a long time ago and it seemed to work for a while after being offline for weeks.
Shouldn't Greq and Linus be some of the very first people to be informed considering the amount of impact they both have on the entire Linux ecosystem? I find it alarming that they were not contacted immediately considering how much of the world/internet relies on Linux.
How California’s super-strict net neutrality law reached the home stretch
Anyone knows how this compare to Dragon NaturallySpeaking?
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Having hard time finding a good alternative to gitbook.com. I'm looking for a really modern hosted service like Gitbook.com. Gitbook
s support doesn't seem to respond at all. There is no way to call them, so I'm looking for something else.

I know there is gatsbyjs.com, hexo.com and others that allow us to build one, but I'm looking for plug-and-play service where I write docs in markdown/html and setup the CNAME of my company's domain and be done with it. Any suggestions would be really helpful!
I suspect that you want to move on from your jobs after a year or less because of burnout, etc. Perhaps if you join a company that has a sustainable working culture and minimal office politics then you would not encounter the same problem.

I happen to work for (and know of others) a Canadian company that values very highly work-life balance and isn't targeting its hiring towards people who work a lot. This creates a culture where you don't need to take several months off to recharge, because your day-to-day is already sustainable. Similarly I don't see any reason why you couldn't take a few months off every so often for personal reasons, but still be able to return to the same job once you felt recharged.

Email me if you want to learn more (email in profile).
Since we're on the subject, I would ask this question I've been meaning to ask for a while. I love writing command line tools and I've written a few in Python but the performance isn't there.

Would you suggest me to learn Rust in order to write CLI programs? I'm also looking at haskell for the same but after this thread, I'm really thinking of going the rust way. Ideas?