skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's not correct to directly compare on-paper salaries between regions. There's the simple fact that a lot of the personal benefits from a certain place can be derived from public services or benefits paid through by taxes.

For example, in the US you have to pay your own health insurance, but in many other places it may be covered by taxes. Therefore your US on-paper salary it may be higher due to this fact because you would have to pay for health insurance.
People love fast websites, not AMP. For users, not much would have changed if the lightning icon on Google Search meant "This site loads really quickly" and AMP was a JS-framework made by Google as an example how to make fast sites, but basically all objections from the dev side would be invalidated.
50 women VCs and angel investors backing startups in Seattle and Portland
The benefit of atoms at the company I was at, was to force developers to build reusable micro-components (the type of thing you'd put in your "components" directory in react/redux apps). Otherwise, I agree if that job is already being done properly.
You keep throwing around the word "scienter" without understanding what it is.

Scienter just means intent. It's literally just the fancy legal term for intent.

Thus, it matters very much that Musk has a history of trashing short sellers and wishing harm to them, because they can use that history to establish that his tweet was made with the intent to defraud market participants and materially affect the price of Tesla's stock.

Especially the "funding secured" bit. You don't say "secured" if it's not really secured. There is no legal interpretation where "secured" is a harmless mistake.
40K GPU-Based Upvote Bot Tested on a P2P Reddit Alternative and It Succeeds
Sorry, but I actually understand precisely what mendelian randomization and instrumental variable estimation are.

You apply nonlinear least squares estimation to every selected suspected variable which is a bunch of linearization/polynomial approximating cross correlations with normalized by estimated covariances.
That is nonlinear IV method.

MR is this based on an assumption that genomes are random fields of genes with equal independent probabilities of occurence (known to be false, partly corrected by population statistics which is not enough) giving direct results on marker conditions/correlates but not on endpoints (known to be false, partial attempts to correct for it are made to check for pleiotropy but those checks are weak and linear) which markers are nonlinearly covariate with endpoints (hope you used the right mapping) and that highest magnitudes of the "correlations" say something about causation related to certain endpoints. (not in general)
MR shines as a negative method to rule out genetic causation or susceptibility, not positive method to confirm it. It can be used to confirm internal validity of a marker - invariance of it vs genetics.

The choice of variables (dimensions) is an educated guess too.

The assumptions that are verified is that genetic sequence is not heterogenous, heteroskedastic, there are no hidden linkages etc.

The assumptions are not typically met or verified for complex system such as lipid metabolism alone, much less endpoints such as CVD. Polygenetic phenotypes are common and typical, not to say anything about epigenetics.

Nothing is said about the choice of the checked variables which is critical, and trying too many gives the problem of multiple measurement reducing power.

The strongest assumption is that the variables are not covariant with estimation error. This is not possible to check with MR statistics alone unless you can somehow check those variants experimentally directly. (e.g. via gene splicing or mutation) Good luck with that.
Same for offline businesses. Go to a bank, they'll ask your consent for handling personal data ("It's a GDPR law"). If you don't want to sign, they won't do business with you. No bank will.

So, it's just one more paper to sign, and doesn't help the actual consumer. I would have expected more of "Don't send me any promotional/survey questions unless I opt in", or "Never share my data with 3rd parties, period".
Not my area, but think of things like a will. You being a billionaire maybe do not want to let your murderous family know that you made a new one writing them out of your will.

> Notary services are expensive, and some notaries are corrupt

A blockchain being the place where the act of bureaucracy ends up being stored changes nothing about that.

> OTOH this does seem like a good blockchain application

Exactly. It does at first, because it's about authoritatively storing information, and isn't this what a blockchain is good at? But then you think about how the system actually works and what the requirements are. A blockchain brings you immutable and decentralized storage of peer-validated information. None of these properties are of any value here. We just need a centralized storage that does not forget values by accident, which is basically every other solid information storing system. And most of those are a lot easier to run than a blockchain.
Yes! When I read the post title I was really excited. The I clicked in and felt my heart sink a little. Engineers and PMs seem to be too easily swayed by shiny things.
Needs Jira to be useful for me, very cool idea though!
> . Basically, many companies are still acting as though it's 2009 with respect to hiring practices and expect experienced people willing to work for sub-par salaries. When they aren't able to find such people anymore, they either turn to foreign workers (via visa programs), contractors (to avoid overhead costs), or just reassign more work to existing employees in order to keep labor costs down and profits up.

They're not even trying to actually find people, they're just putting on a dog and pony show to qualify for H1Bs or to keep their contractors on edge.
A spokeswoman for the NRA saying that one should be armed to defend against police didn't make me chuckle, it made me think: https://www.newsweek.com/nra-dana-loesch-botham-jean-dallas-...

Attitude on the old continent towards weapons is different, as is conflict resolution, police legitimacy and expectations on government itself.
I'm sure they did the math. They aren't going to lose money.
Funny fact - Sandisk products sold on Chinese market have additional 18-digit code protected by scratchpad, and you can verify authenticity of the card on http://verify.sandisk.cn. You don't need to unpack the card to scratch the pad and get the code for verification.
It doesn't make it "more expensive" for the Company (as opposed to its existing shareholders) raising equity capital unless the stock pays a dividend and the only way they can sell more stock is to promise buyers they won't reduce the dividend per share to compensate for the increased number of shares in issue. Tesla doesn't pay a dividend, so that isn't the case here.

In extremis, a falling/low price could limit the size of a potential new equity fundraising because the resulting dilution is too much for existing shareholders to take, but Tesla's price/valuation would appear to put it quite far from this being an issue.
> Hard to mix diversity with unity.

It's actually not that hard. You can have a mexican restaurant, hibachi restaurant, cajun restaurant and winery all in the same city and patronize a different one each day. That's the benefit of diversity.

What doing it wrong looks like is accusing the mexican restaurant of a moral failing because their staff is mostly latino, or the winery because their staff is mostly English or French. You don't maintain diverse cultures by requiring every place to be formed of exact proportions of statistically precise homogenized diversity paste, you get them by having clumps of different cultures near each other that trade and learn with each other while continuing to possess their own discrete cultural identities.

All unity requires is coexisting without fighting each other.

The fact that some people do it wrong doesn't mean there isn't a way to do it right.

And that's also why you see people on both sides of any given issue. A diverse country does not have a homogeneous people.
One of my concerns about code of conducts are views held outside the project's code, mailing lists, chat rooms and issue trackers.

The contributor covenant doesn't address this at all, yet there are key people behind the contributors covenant that have gone after maintainers because of view points held on other social media that have nothing to do with the project (e.g if a maintainer doesn't agree with marriage equality or trans issues).

What if you have a contributor who has his or her own blog posts showing they approve of James Damore's memo (maybe even just in part?)

I worry that tech culture is starting to crack down on opposing views in the same of inclusivity. I really agree with the Redis developer who calls some of the current trends almost "puritan."

In general this code of conduct doesn't seem like a bad thing, and it's been used on a ton of project. But I feel like there are situations where it isn't good enough for the most vocal in the community.
NYC's merit based high school (Stuyvesant)

"Hey why is your school almost 100% white when they are only 40% of the city's population? Why are they no black people? Implement a merit based system, of the color-blind variety!"

result

"Hey, your school still has no black people and its 70% asian!" Asian population represents 10% of NYC.

Always an entertaining case study.

Nice to see some studies into possibly more inclusive and holistic solutions
I wonder if they could measure trace explosive compounds/manufacturing residues at various points in the riverbed and use a hill climbing algorithm and repeated tests to locate the remaining bombs.
Give $2 to non-profit or political campaign. Your income is $129,999. Better?

This sort of horse trading happens everyday in our tax system.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016250
The Mirai Botnet Architects Are Now Fighting Crime with the FBI
Been there recently. The peace and quiet was uncanny, it felt like my hometown half a century ago.
In what non-small part?

They have a barely functioning mobile app and portal, but that's about it. Even the IT (which I wouldn't even count towards them being a tech company) seemed ridiculously broken at the locations I've been staying in the past.
The GDPR could have been even better- if it specified a standard for how much data - and rights a user would be able to offer to a website- thus allowing for automation- and even trade-offs per protection-level.
Now when I see any new product I look for a pledge to not get acquired like PostHaven[0]. Otherwise I simply refuse to use it. Sparrow, Mailbox, Inbox...Have been burnt too many times.

[0]: https://posthaven.com
And by using a highly restricted colour palette, low resolution, no anti-aliasing, etc.
That would have to sting.

At that point the Mac Pro will have been _over five years_ since its last update (December 2013).

Of course Apple is still gleefully charging full price for Ivy Bridge (Xeon v2) processors, not to mention ~$600 for 32GB memory.

That has to sting.
One thing that I think is sorely missed in these calculations including the FAFSA is length of time the income has been made. There is a huge difference between a family with an 18 year old that has been making 130K+ for the majority of the child's life and the scenario where a parent made it to supervisor after X amount of time with their company putting them to 130K+ in the last year(s). Both look the same in a snapshot.
Heh. I have a family of 13. The kids can get generic AA degrees at the local community college, because that is only $80 per credit hour and they don't need dorms or dining plans.

Scholarships do not exist for normal kids.
Somewhat off-topic:

Recently I watched a news segment in Korea about CCTVs connected to the internet without proper security: so many were wide open, and some could even record sound and play it real-time, and their lists were plainly accessible on some websites. The reporter said that the government had responded by blocking these websites from the Korean internet but people still found ways to access them via VPN.

As if that's the crux of the problem.

The mind boggles.
Its a crude measure, but children from wealthy families tend to have the oppurtunity to afford collage more than those from poor ones.
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> Why is financial aid tied to family income? Why isn't it granted in order of merit?

I grew up dirt poor. By the time I was in high school I had figured out I needed to do honors classes etc, but kids in families with resources started doing those classes in 7th or 8th grade. A doctor or lawyer understands the value of education for their 12 year old far more than a janitor. Many schools weigh GPAs more heavily for those in honors classes, so even if you're on even footing intellectually, you can't catch up. In other words, we're talking about the merit of the parents' involvement, not the merit of the student.

Now if we can redefine merit to be a raw IQ test at age 16, I'm all for it.

> Under the current system, if the most meritorious student's family makes over $130K, he/she is saddled with debt

Family income probably also speaks to how much they could contribute to the education cost. While in high school they likely had nicer cars and clothes and phones than the kid whose family made $30k.
In case your argument was not about a hard treshold (which isn't the case as pointed out in this thread.) :

How do you define merit?

A family with a higher income are in a better position to leverage their means into a better education and conductive environment. From a systems point of view, you want to balance this out by boosting families or persons of lower means to equalize the opportunity to actually engage in the meritocracy. Subsidizing purely on test scores or similar tends to favor families that already have a high income.
I mean, what does advantageous mean (and who gets to decide what advantageous means)?

The Chinese government was able to pull a ton of people out of poverty and into the middle class with a system of governance that most Westerners find, on balance, to be too costly to individual civil rights for the benefits it produces. Whatever side of the debate you are on you have to acknowledge that there are very real differences in foundational moral principals. While I don’t doubt that some moral principals can be derived from psychology, all things being equal, the problem is that our most fundamental moral disagreements are always very complicated and always involve placing valence on multiple projected outcomes.

I don’t understand how people so easily dismiss Nietzche’s central philosophical claims when a good chunk of modern philosophy and indeed the terrible history of the first half of the 20th century has largely vindicated him.

It’s not like it even matters as a point of debate though, as we will see who is right very soon.

Look around: objective morality indeed! We are generating the worst negative externalities we have ever generated as a species and we placate ourselves because we have democratized the blame.

If this is a moral generation then I would like to know whoever was immoral. We’re about to destroy each other at scales unheard of, but because it’s through the environment and not through war we have rendered ourselves inculpable.

At least pre-Modern Aristolean morality forced people to think of their obligations to their community.
I think both approaches are valid. In fact, economic-based scholarships tend to be more equitable than race-based ones.

>if the most meritorious student's family makes over $130K, he/she is saddled with debt, regardless of how good he/she is.

No. It means they won't qualify for this tuition break however they will have access to merit-based scholarships.
Yes very true that’s probably the best argument against it.
would you object to a railway company requiring that you have a license before they allow you to put a train onto their railway?
The US postal service received exactly zero tax dollars for operational expenses. It relies solely on the money it makes from postage and other service, so it makes sense. Think of them as a private business when it comes to financials.
Is access to employment is an "inane" concern? Is it moral, or legal, for employers to algorithmically exclude arbitrary classes from receiving or discovering job listings?

Consider expanding this sort of technique to monster/linkdin/glassdoor/etc so that you aren't shown job listings because it can be inferred that you are probably over 30, or Republican, for example.

It seems that ACLU wants to use this as a test case to clarify what is or isn't legal before this practice becomes a pervasive part of the employment market.
Insulting people is a very different thing from defrauding them.

Hate crimes are treated far more seriously than monetary crimes, if that's what you're trying to get out. It's simply that merely making racist statements is not a crime in the US.
This might be a problem for one or two of the top areas, but there are not enough Bay Area emigres to materially move the needle in the vast majority of non-Bay Area localities.
UBI is slightly different because UBI would not be enough to live in an expensive city. So if you plan on living purely on UBI then you would need to move to the outer city or rural areas where COL is low.
It's not delivery speed that I care about, it's "time to first paint". I want to read the damned news article, not wait for your crappy fonts to load and have to mute your autoplaying video nonsense.
That is kinda what an overarching noncompete is isn’t it? Cults always try to forbid former members spilling the beans.
Ah, so you routinely do not hire the best candidate for a job at your company? Mind you, "Best" doesn't necessarily mean code-ninja, just the overall best-fit (behavioral, experience, academic, ...) - you know what we all call "merit".

Or are you saying your definition of "best" includes familial fiances of the applicant? Why doesn't https://www.headlightlabs.com/ include applicant's finances as a parameter?
IOW the EU is picking winners and losers in the market. If your business model is based on building models of user behavior and monetizing that, you will not be allowed to succeed. If your business model is based on holding a monopoly on the reproduction or display of entertainment, you will be allowed to succeed, at the expense of tech companies whose technologies might have otherwise made your business model obsolete.

The most likely outcome will be a distorted market in Europe and European tech companies becoming even less relevant and even less able to compete in other regions of the world.
Ampere launches its first ARM-based server processors in challenge to Intel
Ask HN: Advice for a college freshman?
Attending the University of Virginia. Planning to major in Computer Science. Around a year of experience working at a startup and on personal projects, but nothing intense or serious.

I want to be in the best possible shape post-graduation. What should I be prioritizing? I feel like GPA shouldn't be my highest priority, rather, side-projects, social connections, or industry experience should be. I just hear so much about how little employers care about GPA above a certain level, and pushing for that 4.0 over a decent 3.7+ requires so much extra effort for not much return it seems.

I'm intrigued by the indie hacker scene. Solid passive income would be the dream for me. I don't think I'd be happy in a cog-in-the-machine-type big company position, though who knows, maybe I would. I just don't know at this point and would love some tips and advice from those a lot more experienced. What are the best ways to acquire internships for the winter/summer? How should I split my time between a social life and developing my skills? What would you have told your college freshman self back in the day if you could?

Thanks.
Remix is hiring software engineers to build better public transit and cities
That's equivalent to saying that buying a stock doesn't move the price up because you'll have to sell it eventually. A lot of people in long positions means a lot of buys that haven't been re-sold. A lot of people in short positions means a lot of sells that haven't been re-bought.
Rest assured that there certainly wasn't any democratic majority pushing this. EU is exceptionally good in hiding the regulatory capture.
Roman Mars talked about this with another Ivy League where they offered free tuition. It ended up affecting a single digit amount of students.
Actually, short selling has another nasty sting in the tail.

If there are few willing sellers out there when everybody goes to cover their short, you get a short squeeze - a feedback loop where the price increases, so people need to buy to cover shorts to avoid losses, which pushes the price up, which means more people need to buy to avoid further losses as the price rises and so on.

The original owner who lent the stock can also ask for it back on relatively short notice (say, because they are long and want to sell). Usually this isn't a problem because the short finds someone else to borrow from and uses that to cover - but if enough people do that then it can trigger a short squeeze even without significant price movement at the beginning, as happened rather dramatically in Porsche shares in 2008.
With two kids still in diapers, the day before trash day is always the worst.
The act of registering a corporate entity (c Corp, s Corp, LLC etc) in a state.
> Are we running out of something?

Yeah, money. In the US, new transportation projects are generally financed with federal help, while maintenance is left to the local government. This essentially creates a Ponzi scheme, where cities are going bankrupt due to depreciation on infrastructure, and not even realizing it. https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme/

In my opinion, roads are essentially underpriced. They're expensive to maintain and given out for free. (Similar arguments apply for parking, expressed humorously here: http://cityobservatory.org/parking-where-we-embrace-socialis...) This bothers me, as someone who doesn't own a car but lives with worse air quality and safety due to those who do.
tl;dr US territories often times have the ability from Congress to create parallel tax systems. Some have made attractive ones.

protip: Some other US territories have favorable tax laws too, if you want to dig. Its nice that they aren't being written about by EVERYONE right now.

Nobody's going to spoil it for you because that'll be spoiling it for themselves too.

ALL US territories have the same catch: they are underdeveloped bad neighborhoods, and changing the laws doesn't get the comfortable New England elites to move from their gated communities. New money MIGHT be interested.
Reminds me of the book "private empire" about ExxonMobil.

"Private Empire pulls back the curtain, tracking the corporation’s recent history and its central role on the world stage. The action spans the globe, moving from Moscow, to impoverished African capitals, Indonesia, and elsewhere in heart-stopping scenes that feature kidnapping cases, civil wars, and high-stakes struggles at the Kremlin."

Big cooperations could easily find a way to run a "blackops" negative PR campaign, on top of pulling strings in the SEC
What Can We Learn from the Far-Right Riots?
One thing that seems suspect about this article is when he mentions that nobody else can put a chip like the neural engine in a phone. He says Google does it in the cloud. I don't think he's tried a Google Pixel (2) device before. Put it in airplane mode and take some (portrait) shots. There are a number of articles talking about the Pixel 2 Visual Core, which sounds similar to the neural engine, and predates it: https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/05/the-pixel-2s-visual-core-p...

Some basic research would be nice.