skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article/issue is about non-white applicants (Asian Americans) who are being discriminated against in the admissions process. And not just at Harvard but other elite schools, med schools, etc.

It's bizarre how many comments here are focusing on traditional white vs. black issues when this is entirely about a non-white group who is being discriminated against under affirmative action because their superior test scores would otherwise leave them hugely overrepresented vs. other groups.

Are we supposed to trace back how Asian overperformance is due to a history of institutional racism against whites in the USA? Or is the fact of a non-white group outperforming whites and then being discriminated against so counter to the narrative people want about race and affirmative action that they just go back to talking about Jim Crow? What are these Asian applicants supposed to do, just accept that they are held to higher standards than any other group? If Asians would just stop doing so well on the SAT we wouldn't have to discriminate against them ...

Asian incarceration rates are also lower than that of whites, another fact difficult to explain through the prism of institutional white supremacy.
Ah... limitless amounts of capital. Yes.. this is definitely something I have no grasp of. :)
EAMCET: 17,000 seats vacant in engineering colleges
Seriously, I thought computers were supposed to replace all those administrators.
Finagle Filter for Thrift Exceptions
New data shows wearables are no longer just for the worried well
Maybe they ARE the landlords!!?!?! :P
Whenever I ride around Berkeley, CA I see a sea of "nuclear-free zone" signs on roads filled with Prius traffic. It's not so easy to understand the real agendas here.
Transitioning from Founder-Led Sales
If anything, a commercial security product that allows anyone to audit the source code seems like a pretty Useful Pattern
The quickest way to defeat someone is to convince them to stop fighting.

This works especially well if the person you're convincing to give up is, at that moment, winning, or beginning to win.
Do we need a quarter century to make that happen? California built Shasta Dam in 8 years with a population 7 times smaller than today's and with early Industrial Age technology. How long could it possibly take to install some pumps at Whiskeytown to pump water back into Shasta during the daytime? The Pacific AC Intertie goes right over both lakes already.
Google v Oracle comes to mind.
Hrm, I would think that if you were developing a game in a GC environment, where GC timing turned out to be a problem, you would get rid of dynamic memory allocation, and try to do everything much more like embedded system programming with fixed memory blocks...?

I suppose at the complexity of modern games that's simply not possible anymore...
Eventually conquering North America was a long term goal of Adolph Hitler, which is a part of the reason why Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union. (Though the overwhelming short term need had to do with gaining the oil resources of the Soviet Union. A big part of the reason why the P-51 Mustang could outperform the German fighters was the availability of better fuel to the allies.)

The Soviet Union's ideology originally included the long term goal of promulgating the dictatorship of the proletariat worldwide. However, even Lenin's ideology changed a lot when faced with the actual challenges of ruling a country.
California is actually in the middle of shutting down the last nuclear source they have.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_Canyon_Power_Plant#Clos...
Well, the obvious solution is to not do it all at once, and instead do it over time.

The US is currently at record low unemployment rates, for the last couple decades, so if we start doing these things now, then unemployment will go up by only a couple percent.

And over time those unemployed people will get different jobs. As that's what happens today when people lose their job.
There's a lot of plotting and plodding over artificial intelligence in our culture, from movies to politics. But we should look forward to the automation of simple tasks and not worry about creative and complicated ones.

Appealing to both science and religion: look at group IV of the periodic table where the structure of brains is higher than computers (C and Si) and then think about the creativity of Fairchild, Backus, Hopper, Richie, Jobs, Mcarthy, Page, etc. and have even more faith in our creator.
Funny enough, there is a solution for more safely disposing of nuclear waste that is coming out of Berkeley.

http://www.deepisolation.com

They are a company to pay attention to IMHO.
PlantUML, open source tool to create diagrams from simple text description
They must have a generous time allotment in which to bill.
What if I'm near a major city but not in NYC or SF, how can I volunteer or get a chapter started near me?
Because they have a lot of complexity that, for a code they runs a part of auth logic, is really dangerous.

For example, verification of third party Macaroons requires building a directed graph, that needs cycle detection. No implementation that I've checked does this instead allowing only one level of nesting.

Third party caveats have more problems, if a third party would issue them they need to be standardized but there is no such standard. Worse, even the underlying byte format is not standardized instead there is this de facto standard of using "variable op value" format. But what variables are supported? It needs to be specified or the third party macaroon would be invalid.

If we talk about byte formats Macaroons are serialized using another custom format. Compare this with base64 and JSON used by JWT.

Then there are certain "programming shortcuts" in implementations [0].

I've spent some time implementing Javascript library to build and verify Macaroons from the paper (that is also inconsistent with the de facto implementations) but ultimately I've decided to just use limited subset of JWT. It's just simpler.

[0]: https://github.com/nitram509/macaroons.js/blob/master/lib/Cr...
At the same time it will shoot sub-prime mortgages directly into the Wells Fargo accounts of the enemy. Interesting times indeed. If WW1 was facilitated by the telegraph, WW3 will be lubricated by Twitter.
If your controllers are asp.net mvc controllers you can decorate them with permission attributes (see the relevant docs for your version).

Pretty sure most frameworks have a way to structure your code for permission checking.
Anyone able to actually purchase one? I'm just seeing a "Join waitlist" button.
Show HN: Chat Circles – Anonymous Chat Site Built with D3 and WebSockets
I always look at flight time since I'm flying with kids.
You may be aware of it, but there is a proposed solution that works on the problem on both ends, the admission process and the local school districts, and is not racially based (except for the deep historical roots of class/income inequality in the USA.)

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/05/an-unu...
The root cause is that in many ways, housing is subsidized and cheaper. Airbnb takes advantage of that to undercut the hotel industry.
> The F-35 is going to end up being a good aircraft and will fulfill what it was designed to do.

Before it's outclassed by something that didn't take so many decades to get to the field in usable form?
For invalidating, you just need to store the JTI (id, as a UUID) of the token in the DB. On challenge, you just compare the JTI of provided token to the one stored, and if there's a mismatch you 401. For doing the actual revokation, you can just clear the active JTI and have app code that would reject that. It's certainly arguable if this is worse or better than session tokens, but it's not unsolvable.
That's the NYC law, dating to pre-AirBnB times but now with new relevance. It distinguishes 'taking in a boarder' from 'subletting the apartment'. If you occupy the unit as your primary residence, you're allowed to take in boarders, defined as people with whom you intend to share the common spaces. So renting out a room in your apartment is fine (as long as you don't do some weird partitioning to make it de-facto a separate unit... you're supposed to be essentially welcoming a guest into your own household, even if it's a paid guest). But you can't do a whole-apartment sublet for periods shorter than 30 days.
I understand what you're saying but that doesn't contradict my point. If the appearance of AirBNB suddenly causes a housing shortage than there was presumably a lot of pent up demand for hotel-type space in the market that was being artificially restricted by hotel regulations, and the regional housing supply was fragile in the face of increased demand.

Across the world right now most major cities are struggling in the face of growth, but it doesn't really make sense that they should be. I live in San Francisco where housing supply is critically low, but our annual growth rate is only around 1%. It's deeply concerning that our institutions crumble and in the face of a 1% annual growth rate.
I live less than 10 minutes from the Google complex and google fiber isn't an option. It's really sad.
The status quo you're protecting is poor urban neighborhoods teeming with art curators and medieval literature experts?
thank you for sharing.

I have to do this.
Have to go on a news diet.

It seems like every time I read political news, I must get out of my keto diet, and consume some sugar.
Then my energy goes down, and I cannot concentrate as well, and then my productivity and focus disappear.
And my weight, starts climbing back up...

Unfortunately, I guess, the posts on this forum are often quite political, and that makes it difficult to stay indifferent/to contain desire to argue back.

I am finding, topics on lobste.rs are more technical,
and without the catchy headlines. So it makes it much
more consumable, and in line with my routines.

I would also wish that the headlines stop being that 'screaming/misleading' as they are now.
On your layoff papers you check the "sign up for COBRA insurance" box and go on with your life
I thought they were already used as pumped storage? I know the grand coullee has the ability to pump water up into its reaovoir, at least they talked about this in a high school class I took 25 years ago.
I WILL CUT YOU

In all seriousness, it's partly that I have dumb habits. I highlight text as I read it (and that causes all sorts of idiot pop ups to share the quote on social media etc) and micro scroll up and down even when not actually trying to actively change the field of view.

I can't even justify why I do it. But I do. It's just how I read longform text on computers. On the plus side "reader view" can be a lifesaver
Other than perhaps through social media (one more reason to consider "going dark" while job hunting, I suppose), how would any potential employer know your wife was expecting?
Hatch asks FTC to investigate Google's market dominance [pdf]
> I honestly think the american defense contractor industry poses a national security risk.

Doubleplusagree. The military-industrial-intelligence axis and their cadre of lobbyists are forever heightening tensions around the world and greatly exaggerating domestic threats in efforts to sell more units and invent new ways to kill people and grab more of those taxpayer dollars.
>> IMHO the biggest argument against the use of JWT is that you can't easily invalidate JWT sessions

That's true. JWT is great for WebSocket connections because you can make the expiry really short (you could even make it 1 minute) and you could re-issue a new token in real-time every 50 seconds just before the previous one expires. Then if the user goes completely offline for 1 minute, then they lose their session (the JWT becomes invalid).
Clickbait for HN.

They can imagine ways in which AI can be used to consolidate power, but they can't quite imagine the ways in which tech can democratize and distribute power.

Which is funny, because "democratization" is in every other technology pitch I see.

They bring up the issue of eventual consciousness of AI, which is scary because nobody can say what that is. Except that humans have it, and apparently that is the "je ne sais quoi" that sets us apart.

So yeah, they call on everyone to help avert a dystopian future. Which I can agree with. But they frame it as "us vs. technologists" where I see it as we are all participating in creating the future. Build your own robot startup, don't wait around for Judgement Day.
It's not unsolvable, just incompatible with the premise of "use JWT for sessions" which is to avoid the database hit entirely.
I found it here: http://thehill.com/policy/technology/404400-hatch-asks-ftc-t... .
Yeah, I don’t understand why pay is so depressed. Often times, junior engineers get paid like 60-120k.

I would say senior engineers usually output double, if not more, than a junior engineer. Why doesn’t pay scale with productivity?

Like, maybe I'm seriously missing something. Maybe Junior engineers at other orgs are ridiculously productivity? Maybe the expectation for senior engineers is ridiculously undproductive. Maybe the risk-reward of hiring senior engineers (and them getting hit by a bus) levels it out?

If the efficiency / dollar doesn't scale, then what's wrong?
Globalization has nothing to do with this. The problem is that AirBnB reduces an already-tight housing supply by turning homes into hotels. This would be an problem regardless of whether the tourists were international or domestic.
Apple sends out invitations for the new iPhone event on September 12
Are there any good sources of daily curated news? I'd like to read a condensed version of important news without all the emotional manipulation. I would pay money for that.
Yes, it's true of websites. But it's also true of tv/cable news, talk radio, and newspapers.
> And I wouldn't call it 'really secure', I'd say it's just as secure as any other client side secret.

Only if you store the cert in a file, but you can store it on a smartcard (e.g. Yubikey) or a TPM.
Brown guy in the US here. And Muslim and Pakistani. What kind of racism do you think I face? I felt more discrimination in Pakistan for being short and quiet and not having a deep voice than I ever did in the US for being brown, Muslim and Pakistani.
I have been sent through the express lane many times at airport check-in, I have prayed openly(in a corner) at 2 airports, I have worked with a Christian Republican who dropped me off at a mosque on my request and reminded me of prayer times.

I know this is anecdotal but I firmly believe the issue is pure economics + upgringing. I happen to be a moderately rich Pakistani Muslim from a happy and close-knit family, a white person with less income and/or bad family life will have it much harder in the US than I do and thanks to affarmative action, he will have a much harder time getting into an ivy league school than any member of my family or any rich/happy Black or Hispanic family.
Yeah, companies that use TripleByte all do this. There's a phone pitch phase of the interviewing once you've been accepted to TripleByte where you take ~20 minute phone calls where the point of the call is for the company to figure out your goals/interests and pitch you. It's an extremely good way to filter out companies that will probably not be worth the time to go on-site with; by the end of the call you are usually extremely excited about the opportunity or have saved yourself a lot of time cutting off the process there.
BTW, we're working on an open source FIDO2 security key, Solo.

We're having a kickstarter soon, and if you're interested you can join the waiting list at https://solokeys.com/
Oh My Fish Themes
> many states have 'lemon laws' that push liability back to the seller

It’s not that many, and they don’t work that well.

https://www.edmunds.com/auto-warranty/my-used-cars-a-lemon-a...
Ok. So does that change the argument in any way? Or are you just being pedantic.

[edit: yeah i'm being dumb. i felt the discussion was being derailed, but thats no reason to yell at strangers on the internet.]
Why one branch?

When a Canadian ship sails with a helicopter, the ship is Navy. The helicopter, its aircrew, and all the servicing people, are airforce. Their navy (RCN) handles the ship stuff and their airforce (RCAF) all the flying stuff. So a US carrier could stay in the USN, while the air detachments would be handled by the USAF. This sort of cross-branch cooperation means everyone gets along. The navy doesn't get jealous of the airforce's new toys because everyone plays together. When favors are needed, everyone has buddies in the different branches and knows each other's abilities.
The ones that track your mouse and sense you're about to close the tab and then show you the pop-up are the most sleazy
Are metal/chemical batteries “clean” though?

In the atmospheric climate context, possibly. But if we optimize only for that, is there not a potentially serious trade off in the likelihood of irresponsible disposal?
Unfortunately, dams really don't represent that big of an energy store in practice.
This is going to change everything for me. You sirs, have cracked the hard problem: how do we make U2F easy enough for users to use without taking away the "something you have" aspect of it.

This is brilliant. I love it!

Now please fix the licensing, make the core open-source, be a bit more transparent, and get audited. It would really inspire a lot more confidence in a tool whose target audience is currently the security paranoid crowd.
Don't overlook hyperlocal news; what's happening in your community. Even 'boring' things like reviewing planning applications have brought me closer to the other people in my town.

It's very easy, particularly as dormitory commuters, to know more about what's happening elsewhere in the World than on our own doorsteps.

I feel a lot happier that I don't know much what's happening in London, 400km away, but I'm making a difference 400m away.
Sure, if you give me yours as well. Ideally i want all of this to be public for everyone.
The sooner it shuts down the better, given the design and risks of the plant[1]

1 - https://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-power/nuclear-power-accidents...
the secure element alone is $5 at million quantity
Not sure how this could be downvoted. It's factually accurate. FB, Snap and Insta astroturfers must be out in force.
That's a pretty bold claim to make.

I assert that AMD is competitive [1] [2] and is definitely cutting into Intel sales [3] [4]. Even Intel's CEO thinks so [5].

Care to back up your claims with well known, respected, repeatable benchmarks?

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/11544/intel-skylake-ep-vs-amd...

[2] https://www.anandtech.com/show/12084/epyc-benchmarks-by-inte...

[3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmoorhead/2018/06/20/how-...

[4] https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/05/29/amd-keeps-chipping...

[5] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/11/amd-will-create-stiff-compet...

Even Greg-KH warns about Intel's performance due to these exploits: http://www.eweek.com/security/linux-kernel-developer-critici...
THey can build transmission lines into WA and OR and get hydrop from there.
Maybe locals would be more supportive of Airbnb if cities made deals with other cities saying 'your residents can stay in our units on a short term basis if ours can stay in yours'.

People from boring/small towns and cities would be left out of this though, since their demand to visit tourist destinations would exceed the outside demand to visit their area.

The result would be the residents of larger/more-attractive cities, who are free to stay in other major cities, seeing their advantage over the rest of the population grow, which in turn could lead to more people choosing to move to these cities.
Sounds like they needed an inanimate carbon rod!
Like you said, "brown guys" seem do be doing alright: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_U...
To default on a credit card you have to qualify for a credit card. Which generally requires some history with a bank that for youngsters involves a secured credit card to build credit - e.g. a credit card with $500 monthly limit paired with a $500 savings account that allows no withdrawals.

What happens when a lender decides you're unqualified for a student loan?
Friend, why are you being so combative?
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I can also code in C with malloc()/free() everywhere.

The features are available, it is up to the programmers to use them
"unfunded mandates", I don't think those words mean what you think they mean: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfunded_mandate

Whereas you used a phrase typically reserved for government regulation, this here is your free market at work. The "money provided for fulfilling the requirements" part is Microsoft writing a check to pay the invoice. It is up to you, the business person, to decide to eat the cost or pass it along to someone else.
I've yet to find an employer that would give me more PTO instead of a pay raise. They'd rather pay an extra 10k between a pay raise and corresponding 401k matching increase, but they won't even consider giving me 5 extra vacation days so I'll have the time to enjoy stuff with the money I already have.
Okay, I like pumped hydro as much as the next guy but... one pumped hydro dam isn't enough for the entire state of California.

Assuming 1GW pumps, that means you can pump a GW-worth of power during the day, and tap ~800MW of power at night (assuming 80% efficiency due to evaporation and other conversion losses).

It seems like the Shasta Dam is currently ~700MW and plans to be ~2GW soon. To give you the scale of power demands.

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Its estimated that California's current Solar capacity is ~30GW btw. Soooo... you'll need like 8 to 15 dams the size of Shasta to absorb that power.

Well, you wouldn't need to absorb all of it. You'd need to absorb just enough to run California at night. But still, you can see the amount of electrical usage California already has, and how much storage it needs. Especially if solar continues to grow.

Solar + Wind is nifty, because Wind generates most power at night, while Solar generates most of its power during the day. But even with a team of different plants working together, the energy storage problem is serious.

That's just the day-night cycle. Weather cycles (ex: hot, but cloudy days) are probably harder to plan for.

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EDIT: Anyway, pumped-hydro HAS to be part of the plan. Its one of the few Giga-scale storage methodologies we have. But even then, Gigascale isn't enough.

Realistically, California (or really, the world in general) just needs to builds its economy around the concept of "negative cost energy". Sometimes, there will be energy out there that needs to be absorbed by someone.

IIRC: Germany has aluminum plants which spin up to absorb the cost. People can plan to charge their electric cars during negative-cost energy times, or run their AC-units on overdrive to store some extra cold air. That's the sort of thing that will be sustainable in the long term.

Pumped Hydro (and other energy storage tech) will capture what we can to use later. But building out a "smart grid" which can take advantage of negative-cost energy would be the most obvious way to take advantage of solar.

Peak Solar only lasts for an hour or two. But for those two hours, negative cost energy costs will become a thing.
>I think it is a legitimate point despite its unsavory origins.

It's actually not. It's dismissive of the lived realities of people marginalized by unchosen structural norms. You can deny that identity has tangible effects, but that doesn't make what you say true. It only serves to demonstrate your blindspot. It is one that is commonly shared by people whose identity is considered the default.

Some people that are loudly ignorant, especially those that defend their ignorance vigorously, face consequences in professional settings. As they should. It's a waste of everyone's time and effort.
Many leftists are now coming to different conclusions about free speech: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance