skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an Asian American I hate how we are “white” or “nonwhite” situationally, to our maximum disadvantage. We’re nonwhite so we get racist jokes in middle school and don’t get cast as leading actors. But we’re white enough to keep out of Harvard and for us to count as “whites and Asians” for tech company hiring.

WTF are “Whites and Asians?” Whites own America, good and bad. They wrote the Constitution and they wrote the Three Fifths Compromise. They created the racial oppression system that Asians fought their way out of. And now because we’re successful we’re just bucketed in with them when convenient to anyone but us.
So, what actual book/tutorial would you recommend for somebody who wanted to learn web development? Regardless of the problems with Rails itself, what's a better learning path that the Rails Tutorial?
You forgot the crystals.
When their insurance premiums or taxes go up to have to cover a million dollars in claims when you get cancer or other long-term chronic health conditions, yes.
> Then, the climate came for me, and there was no one left for me to eat

ftfy
> and better supply chain

Curious how well that will work with shift to electric.

Tesla claims that spending so much on Gigafactory will give them the lowest cost per kWh compared to everyone else.

Someone like GM might be a big kahuna in the internal combustion world, but as far as buying lithium ion batteries on the open market they will have to line up behind Tesla, Apple, Samsung, home battery companies and those no-name Amazon brands building power banks.
I have a counterexample for you. Start an Internet forum as a side project that lets users subscribe to threads for email notifications. Grow it to xx,xxx users making x,xxx posts per day.

Before you know it, you're sending 20k-50k notification emails every day, and over a million emails a month, without making any money or while barely staying afloat with $100-400/month in ad and donations revenue.

Almost none of the SaaS or IaaS solutions HN loves to praise are within this use case's price range but scrappy not-for-profit communities like this deserve to exist, too. You're basically limited to leasing a bare-metal server or two and making it do almost everything you need.

The difference between $100/mo and $900/mo is the difference between getting to stay online or shutting the forum down. Even the difference between $10/month and $100/month might be enough to close shop over.

Personally, in this scenario, I've found setting up my own mail server with a tool like Postal or Cuttlefish to be worth every minute and delivery rates to even be better (due to getting to manage my own IP address's reputation vs sharing a mail-sending IP with anyone else).
I am bullish!
Reminder: Harvard consistently rates Asian students lower on personality traits like "likability", which is a part of their admissions process: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/us/harvard-asian-enrollme...
Maybe it could work while you're sitting underneath a 5G tower.
Plus radiation. Every CT scan increases your odds of cancer.

Also, mammography or even colonoscopies have been proved for most of the population to do more harm than good. cochrane is full of meta-studies about it.

The medical industry is very shady.
It's a running joke at my company (we consult for startups) that no matter what stack they build on, they'll always have a small team of people writing in Python for data science. Which is presumably where that's coming from. It is indeed a sort of de facto standard.

But that's not at all to say that learning Django or Python will get you a data science job; the underlying domain-specific data-science stuff is much harder to learn and qualify for than the Python is.
I mean now that they expanded the enrollment every admission comes at the expense of one other. If they said “maximum 200 students over 6 foot 2” then anyone over 6 foot 2 would be disadvantaged because they would be competing for a subset of the slots.
You're both right here, but also remember that the 'hysterical' ones are a tiny slice of the people who are upset about this. We'll never get to a place where there aren't at least a handful of manic twitter addicts being crazy about the issue.

Waiting "until people stop talking crazy" just means no action, ever.
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[Insert matrix management/neural network crossover joke here.]
> For example you assume that we are currently at the maximum number of available slots. If we aren't, then it may well be true that adding more people is possible without disadvantaging existing people.

Yes, they could "possibly" do that, but they aren't, so why the hell is this relevant?

Harvard admitted 2,200 undergrads in 1988. In 2018 it admitted 2,000. It took me 30 seconds of googling to find this.
Paul Allen, Microsoft Co-Founder and conservationist, passes away at 65
Sometimes I wonder what the tech industry could achieve if all companies agreed to donate 1% of resources to find a cure for cancer. I know that derived advances in tech (ML/Data Science, etc) have an impact but… is it really enough? We could do sooo much more for contributing to eradicate this disease.

RIP Paul Allen.
Usual personal opinion caveats

Ok, simply rails is a tool. It is a well worn tool. Can do a lot of things and a lot of people know how to use it. Learning how to use it has been done many many times before so the path to competence is really smooth and straight forward.

I think it is worth learning because:
1) the community, you would be hard pressed to find a more diverse, welcoming, non-neck beard programming community.
2) resources, there are a lot of them. You will not encounter a problem that someone hasn’t solved for
3) fun, ruby is really nice and doesn’t fight you. Some features are debatable (meta programming, everything is an object, it’s GIL implementation etc) and I think all dynamic languages downsides are most noticeable in large code bases. But for your stated use case it’s great.

I strongly recommend the hartle rails tutorial. I convinced a friend to drop out of his math PhD and go through it. Do I think he will stay a rails programmer? No, but picking up python is a cinch after rails and there is no equivalently good python tutorial for teaching technical fluency in web dev that I am aware of.

Best of luck!!
> if men don't make a first sexual overture there aren't going to be a lot of men who end up having sex

There are plenty of contexts in which men can make first sexual overtures other than investor/founder business (or similar economic power relations.)

> Things like Tinder where you can filter for "interested only" are pretty much a new phenomenon

Things like a brain where you can filter for “am I in an economic or other power relationship where a sexual overture is inherently implicitly coercive even if it is not explicitly coercive” are, however, not new, though apparently vastly underused.

Well, maybe not underused. Misused is probably more accurate; leverage rather than ignorance of the power dynamic seems common.
In Mexico the discrimination is based on skin color, and is far more extreme than in the US. At the end of the day the US is one of the least racist racially heterogeneous countries.
Wow, and I thought Wisconsin was corrupt.

I knew that states like Florida, New Jersey, and Louisiana rivaled us in corruption, but now I'm starting to wonder if maybe the entire US is just as bent as we are? Maybe all these other states just don't land themselves in the papers as often, but they have all the same problems with public corruption?

The US, in general, likely has a much larger problem with public corruption than I thought.
Do you mean Museum of Pop? (not Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)
If that "theory of the firm" is true, then engineering is much less commoditized than stated by the top-level commenter.
Sounds like "no true Scottsman" fallacy.

No one really cares about bitcoin and etherium, after their wild value swings.

Let alone - it's way too complicated for any layperson to grasp. Money is easy... but think about the distrust that many elderly people have with simple debit cards!
Cryptocurrency will definitely be our nerdy wet dream
Can't resist to at least provide some response here.

1) Having CT scans, and paying for them, does not really objectively lead to the conclusion that followed. Let's feel that tumor inside your lungs.

2) CT scans can also work without contrast agents. In addition they typically do not register everybody for a CT scan nor pump them full with contrast agents. There is a process. In US some hospitals are trigger happy as they get paid per case, blame the system not the technology. If anything an algorithm will fix that nasty human behaviour.

3) Having biased humans enforce decisions is not always a guarantee for success either. Every human sees only a fraction of the total amount of cases an algorithm processes within seconds. There are several fields where AI already outperforms elaborate test panels of MDs. Though it is hard to introduce these algorithms for the same reasons Tesla is having issues. Who is responsible when a mistake is made?

3.1) you would be amazed how often MDs do not agree when the same problem is put in front of them. 50/50 and 60/40 are very common cases. AI is typically more in the 80/20 90/10 range which is a huge improvement.

Now, all of this does not mean we do not need MDs anymore. An important aspect often neglected due to time bounds is the interaction of a patient with the doctor. With algorithms saving time more could go to the patient. That's a win.
Thanks for the link. See also the comments below the essay which give some valid criticisms.
Maybe he had a partner or someone as in that 60 minute interview they portray him as lonely and longing for the one.

He had to have someone....
According to this analysis https://seekingalpha.com/article/4205379-robinhood-making-mi... HFTs pay Robinhood significantly more for their order flow than other brokerage firms i.e. claiming almost 12x more than E-Trade makes ($260 per $1m in orders vs $22 per $1m). If this is true (I haven't independently verified but these fees must be published publicly by law), then clearly HFTs are getting something more from RH than they are from other brokerages.

The author goes on to say "Robinhood is well on their way to making hundreds of millions of dollars in cash income by selling their customers' orders to the HFT meat grinder. High-frequency traders are not charities. The only reason high-frequency traders would pay Robinhood tens to hundreds of millions of dollars is that they can exploit the retail customers for far more than they pay Robinhood."
Yeah, I was shocked when I first heard of it. But when I thought it about it, it makes sense: https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/58wmnz/so_reactjs_...
Such sad news. Paul Allen was a friend of a friend, and so we got to go to a couple of his halloween parties up in Beverly Crest in Los Angeles. He was incredibly down to earth and generous. His parties were a blast – the main fixture was always him playing with a live band. He loved rock-and-roll music. We bumped into Dan Aykroyd at one of them, dressed as his character from Blues Brothers.

He wrote an autobiography called "Idea Man", which I'd recommend if you want to know more about the man who was quietly behind the revolution in computing that brought all of us here today.

R.I.P., Paul Allen :(
That's the one! Thanks!
Balancing passion and work through remote job
I have not read the book, but on general principle I doubt that the topic is settled.

If you look at https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2017/08/07... you can see that indeed Asian Americans do not get in at the rates that their test scores would suggest that they should. That is evidence of bias against them. However it is hard to prove because it is hard to control for all of the other factors that colleges look for.

That and other things that I am aware of strongly suggest that Asians are somewhat discriminated against. Given that, I would be more inclined to suspect bias is more important than fact in anything that claims to be a debunking.
As a fellow member of a Paul G. Allen School (in this case the Global Animal Health one at WSU) I'm a little stunned - but he has indeed made a huge impact on the world.
Is Bitcoin going TO THE MOON? No, it's Tether going down the plughole
The scale of people affected went beyond ads - there was a lot of group creation and stirring controversy. They also got Americans to organize protests, I think the full reach was around 126 million people.

"When Facebook first acknowledged last year the Russian intrusion on its platform, it seemed modest in scale. The $100,000 spent on ads was a trivial sum compared with the tens of millions spent on Facebook by both the Trump and Clinton campaigns.

But it quickly became clear that the Russians had used a different model for their influence campaign: posting inflammatory messages and relying on free, viral spread. Even by the vertiginous standards of social media, the reach of their effort was impressive: 2,700 fake Facebook accounts, 80,000 posts, many of them elaborate images with catchy slogans, and an eventual audience of 126 million Americans on Facebook alone. That was not far short of the 137 million people who would vote in the 2016 presidential election."

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/20/us/politics/r...
I think 100 refers to total 100 shares of an original story, not 100 levels of share.

(Example: You can hit 100 shares in 2 levels of share. You have 100 friends share your story, each share reaches their 100 friends. That's only 10,000 people)
Yes, a neighbor seemed perfectly fine, found out he had cancer and was dead less than a week later. He was in his mid-40s.
The bitrate, I assume? :)
But admissions to Harvard is a zero sum game. It’s not like they say before admissions starts “everyone with 210 points gets in” and then gives 80 points for SAT score, 80 points for GPA, and 25 points for race. It’s like an Olympic race where they let the Athlete from the host country start the race 10 seconds early. If the other athletes complained I don’t think “we’re not hurting you, we’re just helping them” would be very satisfying.
Apple does a lot of things well with app purchases. You have to give your password to confirm each time and the information is obvious and they send an email.

However, it boggles me the number of steps you need to go through to cancel subscriptions. Why is there no "subscriptions" in Settings or at least directly in "iTunes and App Store"? You have to click on the id which is 100% non-obvious unless you search online. The answer is obvious but seems to undermine the rest of their consumer friendly stance.
Ask HN: Working in Software and earn more than million total comp,what do you do
Working for FAANG or not, if you are earning million or more per year in total compensation, can you please tell what you do? Why so you think your company values you so much ?
I'm not even sure where I'd look to find a platform target specification (and there SHOULD be a standard platform target).

Just basic things like:

* This is where the chip will try to run code if powered up/reset.
* A standard address and format for a "bios configuration" block, or pointer to one.
* Required standardized platform description.

Probably a lot of other things, but at least with the above a generic (if bloated) kernel could include the kitchen sink and bootstrap further according to the stored configuration.

Somewhat ideally the configuration should be in two blocks; a small 'read only' (or at least rarely updated) one, and the larger supplementary block that can be left erased without bricking the system (in fact, erasing it would be the 'simple' unbricking method, but it should have a shadow copy of the main block so that when re-programming that a partial erase/program might be recovered by the backup copy).
You're not actually being prohibited from opening accounts in those banks because of FATCA. Every major European country has adopted a variation of FATCA--most are actually more invasive than FATCA--and we have FATCA-related information disclosure treaties.

The problem is that the US has not agreed to disclose information back to other countries. Banks don't want to deal with the local consequences of that. It has nothing to do with FATCA.

Source: I do this for a living, and I have a great many contacts in banks all over the world.
> the Three Fifths Compromise

Since this is one of my common beefs...

The compromise was written at the behest of the Northern, non-slave states. The Southern slave-holding states would have been perfectly fine with five-fifths representation for each slave. Further, the point of the compromise was to limit the Congressional power of the Southern slave-holding states and was not intended as a value judgement as to the worth of slaves.
Well, by not "leaving money on the table" they now have an existential crisis.
I'm sorry that you believe my statement to be in jest. Is there a specific word count that must be reached to express the sentiment?

Please be more respectful towards cultures you do not understand.
TSA releases roadmap for expanding biometrics technology
Yeah - I work a lot in healthcare associated infections, and a good 80% of the stuff I read about "We're from Silicon Valley and we're here to help..." just ends with me going "They're going to kill people."
The level of experience, talent and expertise required to dive into LuaJIT development and following Mike Pall's stepping down from active development of it was cause for concern that this would be the end of the road (some even decided to abandon Lua as a result). My optimism grew when I saw this project (and the quotes at the end of it's github page, which capture the issue perfectly) - very glad to see this release and hope the momentum just gets bigger.
Are all these the same hack? I’m losing track.
Yes, I have been following this and thinking the same thing. Not sure why this is not relevant as it obviously must have set precedent in some way.
Optimization can be pretty useful. Most stats / ML problems are posed as minimizing a function subject to some constraints.

Depending on your problem, you might be able to exploit special structures to solve problems faster than just doing gradient descent. If you know linear algebra and stats, you'll be fine getting through an optimization book.

Boyd's book is canonical at this point, but might be hard to get through. Before you get to actually optimizing anything, you need to make your way through some chapters on convex analysis with little application.
In the 90s, yes. But in the early 80s when there were dozens of different computer architectures competing, the rise to dominance of MS-DOS brought about the standardization of computer hardware on a single platform.

That, in turn, led to lower prices as hardware was commoditized, and to accessibility for millions worldwide who could never before buy a computer.
What about setting up your own SMTP server? I’m genuinely curious.

Just configure SPF and DKIM, and send email basically for free, no? Is there some back magic that these services perform to avoid getting blacklisted?

What’s the benefit of using one of these services besides a nicer API and a dashboard?
Your passion shines through, appreciate your time reading the article.

I too agree that this technology will remain for the long term. As I talk about continually, this stage is about determining the best platforms and protocols to bring this technology to the masses.
"On the issue of fake news, Facebook has held off on a total ban, instead limiting the spread of articles marked as false by vetted fact-checkers. However, that approach can leave fact-checkers overwhelmed and able to tackle only the most viral hoaxes."

Does anyone else find this concerning? Even the smallest bias held by fact-checkers can dramatically skew things towards one side e.g. only "fact-check" articles that favour one side.
What? Loss to humanity? Sorry but he was no Steve Jobs or even close. He exited Microsoft in 1982 and essentially spent money that he made off of Microsoft (to do some good things let's say if you forget the patent trolling). Not minimizing what he did that was positive but don't compare it to Steve who actually did 'change the world' (no Jobs fanboy but need to point out what he did was way more than Paul Allen).

Separately that OS that made Microsoft as everyone knows they bought from another company.
The assumptions that documentation makes about what you already know. Sometimes these are such tacit assumptions that they don’t even give you anything to start googling about. Other times they’re assumptions that you’re already skilled in areas of computing that it can take months to years to understand properly.
Here's another comment from that reddit thread:

"If you're at all familiar with the history of React, there's actually some amount of truth to this. React grew out of an internal PHP extension at Facebook called XHP. See the recent post describing React's history at https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2016/09/28/our-first-5... for more details."

"That said, the parallels only go so far. PHP is frequently rather unstructured, while React lends itself to some very specific structures. I don't think I'd necessarily say that PHP typically involves "recursively breaking down parts of the page". But sure, some similarities. (Then again, just about anything that involves template-ish work has some similarities... )"
It is farcical. There are a few people who will defend this behavior publicly.

But nearly all of the power is in the hands of the corporations and lawmakers and enforcement agents, and this is what they've decided to do. We don't have a lot of options to counter their decision.

I think it will take a small, dedicated group of people who will fight through legal channels and create technical/physical ways to avoid enforcement actions at the same time.

The Pirate Bay and Piratbyrån were basically exactly what I've described. The international police and corporations cracked down pretty hard and illegally extradited Gottfrid Svartholm from Cambodia. Peter and Fredrik also went to jail too and still have unpaid fines.

Disgustingly, society thanked Pirate Bay for their sacrifices by switching to a closed, paid, corporatized service called Spotify.

Their sacrifice was in vain and we are all worse off 10 years later.
Oh, and could play guitar just like Hendrix

... according to Quincy Jones & Questlove
The 5,000 mark seems to be a red herring, though. Tesla has lined up European and Chinese factories (latter one seems to be accelerated due to tariffs) and copying existing processes to new factories is something that seems doable.

So even if Fremont stays at 4,500 forever, they could double or triple worldwide weekly production by just completing the factory build outs.
I think it was just recently that China placed ads in the Des Moines Register, with reports of similar activity on the Times etc.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/20...