skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One cold, capitalist argument is to attract and retain black students, women students, and LGBTQIA students, have them do their best work, and have them graduate and succeed in life and donate back to the university.
It is and it does. Water fasting is the quickest way to trigger autophagy. Depending on the person this will start around 12 - 18 hours of no caloric intake.
A conservative leaning political post on HN's home page? I'm guessing this will be disappeared in a few minutes.
As a med student, using shinny new tech in medicine has become a dick measuring contest. There is absolutely no fear of new tech, just professionals rejecting useless unoriginal products that don't actually make our jobs easier. Like the data fad that will just make us manually reenter data into a new data silo for the benefits of other companies who will take no responsibility to the stability required in the field. I absolutely resent some of the interfaces we have to use but at least the CT/MRI reading software doesn't crash. Anything new and shiny does though.
Is there a startup opportunity here for a company that focuses on being an Amazon substitute for suppliers that have been kicked off Amazon?
Are you using the argument that because current conservative policy is to deny the existence of man made climate change that every other conservative position is unscientific?
Victim hood. Primary strategy of the right wing.
I wonder whether taking Metformin defensively helps in any way to reduce the odds of Alzheimer's if you have metabolic syndrome.
Yep, I later realized that flaw in my skepticism. In fact I had done some delivery from a store that used a call center, so it should have been obvious.
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Pure FUD from someone who has no idea what he's talking about. Getting hung up on the market price over just the past year, by an economist no less, is just willful ignorance.
S/MIME for XMPP E2E: https://xmpp.org/rfcs/rfc3923.html

I am aware that OTR is being rolled back. My point is that extensibility is at odds with practical security and privacy for the vast majority of users. The people who need it the most do not understand the difference between OMEMO and OTR, but I can tell them to go install WhatsApp or Signal, give them a rough idea of why you want one or the other, and everything will be copacetic.
Further, having worked in university systems, diversity offices and administrators are not highly funded. Almost all their activities are student led and organized; they usually just provide administrative guidance for student initiatives.
The bureaucracy always expands to consume all available resources. This is basically a law of nature.
politically lopsided

When the fuck did equal rights for minorities, women, and GLBTQ become "politically lopsided". We're talking about human rights here. There is no legitimate "other side" to this argument, just hate.

This article is concern trolling 101.
Weight training tends to be moderately cardiovascular. Not an out-and-out replacement for cardio, but your heart will be pumping hard at higher weights/reps. Same thing for a long session in a hot sauna. Just throwing some nearly-as-good alternatives out there for people who hate treadmills.
They don't destroy history, they just move the branch to something that's not a descendant of what it once was. You can get the history back if you want.

See "All the things your branch has ever been" http://h2.jaguarpaw.co.uk/posts/git-survival-guide/
Hi all

I've put some of the features of Scholarcy into a little online tool that pulls the highlights and main claims from a research paper. Where possible, it will create links direct to free versions of cited papers, and creates a background reading list from Wikipedia.

I'm hoping it will be useful for people who want to get a digest of recently published papers (e.g. from arxiv.org) first-hand, rather than relying on third-hand reports in the media. Or might be useful for journalists who want to get some headlines and quotable content.

Thanks!
Weird, since typically the issue is seen in reverse where leftist views don't hold up to statistics and logic. Check out some of Ben Shapiro's talks, or Crowder's 'Change my mind' series
1. There may be biological reasons why people with conservative psychology are better suited for other jobs than University administrator.

4. By the literal meanings of the words, justice for women is progressive, not conservative. Giving women civil rights wss please.
that the only diversity that administrators care about is diversity of (largely) indelible characteristics (skin color, sexual orientation, etc), instead of diversity of thought.

I'd much rather go to a school where everyone looked the same but thought different, than a school where everyone looked different but thought the same.
I don't disagree. I just fail to see how it warrants an entire department with (I'm sure) 4+ highly paid admins.

Every dep at my college was horribly bloated.
I know EXACTLY how you feel about the programmer-art. It's been years from the initial concept to trying to make something happen... but then there might be something already out there. For example, I was about to build my own offline maps app until I came across one that was reasonably priced and well-equipped. Everyone I talked to would definitely eat up this app concept if it came to fruition.
You've pointed out exactly the issue. It's a lack of diversity in thought and consideration of ideas that you disagree with. That should be the whole point of college. (An understanding of where the knowledge came from, how it's formed, and how to work with new ideas [even if they're wrong]

If someone's idea doesn't hold up to scrutiny, academically speaking, you should identify it as such.

The danger of labeling and avoiding ideas you don't like, in this case: conservatives, you're being intellectually dishonest and you're prone to basis.
I totally agree. Hence why I didn't say they necessarily provided the answers. Though I think our cultures are often deeply intertwined with their religions, which do provide a framework of answers to many of the questions (whether you actually practice said religion or not).
Ask HN: Looking for testers for ML model deployment service
Hi,

I'm the founder of Orchestra, an ML deployment software service. We have been adding some new features (such as uploading a serialized model) and am looking for testers.

If you're interested, please reach out. We'll find some way to compensate you for your time and valuable feedback.

Thanks in advance.
OMEMO and its implementation in Conversations has been security audited by an independent entity.

Other than that, sure, you have no guarantees, yet it's still desirable for such critical security components to be free, or at least "open source".
Paperspace (YC W15) Raises $13M Series A
Hi, thanks for the feedback here. We mentioned the interactive display piece in the section on sharing the dashboard. Interactivity is important for a dashboard, especially in this day and age.
It sounds as if you're already doing things that could land you in jail.
I still wear my gold pebble time steel every day... I dread the day it stops working and I can't get it fixed or updated..

It's the nicest watch I've ever had (to be fair I'm not a big watch guy) and my favourite thing about it is that it doesn't look like I'm wearing a computer on my wrist.

Oh and I only charge it every 5-6 days.. :-)
Here's my opinion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17124643
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Quality of public school education in America continues to decrease every year.
Is this true across the board? I can think of a handful of popular tropes where this is true, like climate change skepticism, but even this comes in degrees ranging from conservatives who agree that climate change is real and needs action to those who agree it's real but are skeptical about the long term consequences to those who think that climate change is real but not man-made to those who think it's not real at all. Other popular examples are just evangelical beliefs projected to conservatives en masse (e.g., creationism). I guess conservatives seem pretty ideologically diverse, so maybe it would be helpful to specify which ideas in particular are keeping conservatives out of the academy?
The links are direct on HN - you can always hover links to find out, if you'd rather not give the Opinion section any traffic.
Sure. But most of the time, the first version is worse than having no software, by the virtue of interfering with existing workflow.

(This is what you get when you design for those who pay for your software, and not for those who'll use it.)
Thanks for the heads up here. We just took a look and things seem to be operating normal now.
Never heard of "dogpile" before. Are you referring to dogpile.com search engine?

A week or so ago I was frantically searching for "hidden bird illusion", and could no longer find the animated gif on wikipedia, and also nothing related to it on DDG nor Google, until about an hour later...

I just tried "hidden bird illusion" and it gave the michaelbach.de page within first page...

Thanks for the recommendation if you guys were referring to dogpile.com it's always good to have a backup search engine...
Up for 5 minutes and is already flagged.
Is it possible the onset would have been earlier without the lifestyle? 72 is late, isn’t it?
Look at the comments that already exist - is there any way that you can imagine this not turning into a flamefest?
And gone.
Interesting blanket statement if not completely false. The only thing you can sort of assume is that those with liberal/left leanings are more likely to be teachers.
> A concrete example of what may happen is that after making a huge investment in China, Google gets a request to do more than just censor, an offer it cannot refuse.

It's possible that the opposite could happen too. China's leverage over Google is that they can pull the plug on google.com, but I don't know (correct me) if there are a lot of employees that they can throw in jail. So if Google builds up a lot of brand capital over 5 or 10 years, and pulling the plug becomes an unpopular move for the government, it could be that Google ends up with some leverage of its own about what to do with search results.

This isn't my area, so I'm just making all this up, but I notice that the tone of the thread is "something something I thought they said don't be evil," and I'm imagining that the reality is more complicated.
Are you looking for someone based in the region? As a solo founder myself, I'd be happy to coach but am not in the region.

My advice as someone who was new to a country is to get connected through the various meetups and incubators.
It seems we've already lost cockroaches in Europe, I haven't seen any since the end of the 20th century. Whatever, I don't really mind them as they don't bite.
Isn't this an opt in feature? I understand free reign police surveillance is bad, but if a customer opts in, I don't see the issue?
If you click the cells you will see the rationale for columns or what "claimed" means etc.
:thumbs-up: Thanks for being civil :)
I contend that this is yet more evidence that college education needs radical reformation.

The best way to reform college: competition.

Why not have a "free", government funded post secondary education that is online only and is standardized across the entire country. The standardized course content is created by the leading experts in all relevant subjects. Testing of students is on standardized exams only.

The cost of this system would be miniscule compared to the redundancy of multiple institutions, and to the physical footprint/costs of traditional schools. Especially in light of this article which shows huge resources spent on pet issues of liberal administrators.

When colleges need to compete on price with this free system, then colleges will reduce costs and cut this unneeded waste.
Exactly. Pretending there are two sides to this question is almost a paradigm example of what is wrong with American thought.
I really dislike this. I bought Ring so I can better track when packages arrive at my door and to use as a digital peephole since my door did not have one. This was prior to the Amazon acquisition, I never would have bought it had I known they were going to own it.

I'm sure Ring has had this up their sleeves for a while, but I really don't trust them, the police, and especially Amazon with the data. Pretty soon they will start selling live feeds of everyones device. Save time patrolling the streets with our neighborhood ring live crime watch.

Additionally with Amazon I'm sure they track when I come and go from my house, who knows, they'll probably start pushing me shopping ads based on what I'm wearing that day. Not to mention it has built in voice recording.
> I do think the interface could use cleanup, but can any ammount of cleanup prevent needing to know the mental model of git?

Git's interface is far, far more complicated than its model. Personally I spent years not learning about the model because I thought it would be as complicated as the interface. When I realised that the model is basically as simple as what you get when you view the "network" on GitHub then I started loving Git.
Ditto on Inbox. Tried to use Spark as a replacement, but it wasn't even close to providing the experience Inbox does. Do you have any alternatives in mind?
It can, however it also makes it harder to really pin them on anything. I think that's a net win.

I understand the position that excessive log retention can itself create a high-risk metadata pool, but there are ways to mitigate that by tokenizing them or removing PII data without having zero usage information.
Disappointed that there's no top-level section on iteration. It's a powerful but under-utilized part of the language.
No matter what disease you are worried about, it seems like you need to follow the same advice in your day to day life: eat better, smoke less, drink less, exercise more, sleep appropriately.
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The link at the bottom which said that you could check out a demo was confusing because there was no demo there.

Demo can be found at https://ckeditor.com/docs/ckeditor5/latest/features/collabor...
People don't go to Catholic church to hear a diversity of religious opinions.

People do go to college thinking that it will broaden their intellect, but at least when it comes to politics and culture that does not appear to be true.
If you are familiar with quack science, something should leap out, and that is mention of "leaky gut".

In short, "leaky gut" is the theory that your intestines are leaking waste into your the rest of your body and it is causing pretty much all other problems. While there is a true condition that causes it, the pseudoscience says this is common and somehow treatable through quackery. Usually "treated" by buying medicine from the quack or books on how to treat from the quack.

https://www.badgut.org/information-centre/a-z-digestive-topi...
Hopefully they are trustworthy, but there is no way to really certify they are not monitoring conversations. And even if the company as a whole does not, that does not negate the risk of the insider threat, which is the source of many of the huge data breaches these days. At least in the government classified systems have to go through a rigorous accreditation, regular audits, contain all sorts of logging, and there is some modicum of external oversight by congress. As consumers, we have zero visibility into Slack. I really don't understand why using Slack is not perceived as a risk.
Yes, you should not good-morning the weight.

But if you are low-bar squatting, your back isn't going to be completely upright, and so keeping a significant weight at a angle requires muscular contraction. Your back is going to get worked.
> it's still desirable for such critical security components to be free, or at least "open source".

Why the scare quotes?

What about software's source code being available makes it more desirable for your non-technical users who will never modify their software?
This seems fairly reasonable, as long as they keep the commitment that officers have to request videos from camera owners. Now, in theory, the PD could subpoena videos from ring without permission, but that's a higher bar than this.
How do you find new customers?
Yes, but what's the point of maintainable code? Speed. Quickly understandable, quickly fixable, and quickly upgradable.

Time is the key. Writing maintainable code is the investment a good developer makes because it pays off by increasing speed of interacting with that code.
Typo correction, but I can no longer edit: WhatsApp uses the Signal protocol, just with fewer of the privacy tweaks in the implementation. The criteria don't seem to consider those. They're important, but the two should be equivalent.
It seems like even if the cloud providers contributed 100% of their code back to Mongo it still wouldn't be enough to keep Mongo alive. They need money, not code. That's the subtext to this whole discussion.

AGPL was a roundabout way of hinting that cloud providers should kick back some revenue and now that it didn't work the truth can come out.
>The conference would touch on such progressive topics as liberation spaces on campus, Black Lives Matter and justice for women as well as for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual and allied people. I was taken aback by the college’s sponsorship of such a politically lopsided event.

How is this lopsided? If you want a space with opposing views, visit anything or anywhere else in all of Western society, where everything and everyone caters to the "ideal" person: a white male aged 18-49.
I wouldn't go as far as to say the company hired people who had no moral values. Just different from that of people who advocate anti-censorship values. Progressive political values are the current mainstream. Liberalism has long been on the decline in the mainstream. Both managers and employees, by and large, subscribe to progressivism. As a clear example of this culture, just look at what kinds of voices have been silenced on social media, and what kinds have been given free reign. I'm not even talking about the content of the employees' speech here.
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Exactly ... this is what incremental reading is designed to solve.
>There is no legitimate "other side" to this argument, just hate.

This is a perfect example of the problem, no intellectual capability to refute, resulting in a desperate resort to bigotry.
I also highly recommend Learn Git The Hard Way. Most developers who spend an afternoon with it will come away with a firm understanding of git's core abstractions.

Book: https://leanpub.com/learngitthehardway
Craigslist personals. I met my wife there almost 10 years and 3 kids ago. Quite a bummer that it's gone.
Learn Git the Hard Way
Nice article. This is a great example of how Domain-Driven Design pays off. By really paying attention to how users think of the problem and expressing that in their design, they ended up with a richer domain model which in turn let them get better code and a better user experience.
It's one of my favorite things in git! Don't "pretend the commit didn't happen", actually "undo" the commit (as in commit the reverse of your change).

Not only does it preserve the change in an easy-to-see manner, but you can also provide more context on why you undid your commit (my revert messages often read like "Revert "previous commit message here" due to it potentially causing some older android devices to break. More info at ticket #1234")

Now not only do you have a clear history of what happened (someone added X, then you undid X at a later date), but you also have context for why the change was undone, and can either revert the revert if you need to, or just re-do the work in a new commit later.

It's a great "oh shit" button that I'm much more willing to use since I know I won't have to worry about "rescuing" the commit later. If something goes wrong and I have a hunch it was caused in a commit, i'll often just revert it and investigate later when I have time.
This is an extraordinary claim to make without any extraordinary evidence being provided. How do you know?
I've always seen GDP used as the measure of that speed.
What is a Progressive Web App?
We've been doing the exact same thing for the past 10 years out of the midwest US, and I agree with everything you've said.

We view technical startups as hybrid companies in terms of market and industry. They're half web and software, and half whatever it is that startup does. We team up with non-technical founders who are trying to solve a problem in an industry they know, and we bring the web and software [and startup] expertise.

I usually tell founders that, as a best-case scenario, most developers and consultancies will build exactly what you ask for. The problem is how often you're going to ask for the wrong thing. One of the biggest values we provide is what we help you avoid building.

Consistent with your experience, this has been working well for us.

The other thing I kept thinking while reading the post, was that the clients who are likely to value non-coding software consulting enough to explicitly pay for it as a completely separate line item from the software development itself, are probably the same clients that do value and listen to the feedback from the opinion+coding consultants. So, it seems the author has found a way to identify those clients up-front, but at the cost of making the client find someone else to fulfill the coding role.
Fair! I did look only at the 'non-legacy/athletic' Harvard acceptance rates (hard to find and piece together, btw), so we're looking at a bit more apples to apples comparison, though, as you say, not totally.

Lets say that only 10% of the applicants that enter can win. If you think that you are a possible winner in terms of scores, grades, etc. then what should you pay to enter the lotto? Please correct my math if I am wrong (probability is always a mind warp). The further reduction in probability to win makes the nominal acceptance rate not 3%, but 0.3%. That means that the price of the hypothetical lotto ticket should be $8,980. You just move the decimal over.

Still, compared to the $75 application fee, this is a steal. The acceptance rate would need to be ~0.003% to get the lotto ticket price to be about what the application fee is. That means Harvard would need to be ~1000x more picky than they currently are to get the lotto priced correctly.

Harvard had ~40k applications last year. At 1:1000 odds being considered 'worthwhile' due to the hypothetical lotto ticket cost, then you should apply if you think you are better than the bottom 40 applicants. You can play with the probabilities and make up a lot of hypothetical curves yourself. Nonetheless, the math seems to indicate that the $75 application fee is really low if you think you have nearly any chance of getting in and the process has nearly any randomness to it.
I think I'll never understand the US pundits view that there should be some sort of permanent equilibrium between what goes for liberal and conservative in the US, no matter how bonkers the latter goes.

It's like monarchists in 1920's Europe clutching at every straw and demanding respect while deluding themselves that their time has not yet passed.
That's all fine but not responsive to my point. GP post said "but what if whatsapp silently hamstrings e2e overnight" -- my point is: what if my XMPP client/server does?

EDIT: I previously said "turns off E2E", which I didn't say in my original referred-to post, and that's more misleading than "hamstrings", which is how the actual attack works.