skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not. And as a person of color, I'll tell you that laws preventing discrimination offered me and my family zero protections (specifically with respect to restaurants) in the post CRA-III era.
No, it doesn't. It does however provide defense against taking over the server, stealing everyone's passwords, and using them on other servers. I'm assuming, and I suppose I should have stated above, that the first hash is salted with something like the domain name. Even if not it provides the same level of protection for password generation schemes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action_in_the_Unit...
One thing I forgot to mention is that I don't know whether Julia handles dynamic redefinitions gracefully.

What I mean is, for example, if I evaluate a new definition of an existing class, what happens to all the existing instances of that class? In Common Lisp, the old instances are now instances of the new class, and there is a runtime facility, defined in the language standard, for updating existing instances to ensure that they conform to the new definition.

If a language lacks facilities like that, then it's hard to work the way I prefer to work.

I guess I sort of expect that Julia will not have graceful support for redefinitions, because, generally speaking, the only people who even think of that feature are people who are intimately familiar with old-fashioned Lisp and Smalltalk systems, and they're sort of thin on the ground.

But maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised.
Hey, let’s chat about this. I built a product that is related/similar!
> Across the breadth range of companies built on advertising from coca cola to chanel as far as I can see they don't use internet ads.

"Coca-Cola has just hired its first chief digital marketing officer" (2016) https://www.thedrum.com/news/2016/12/12/coca-cola-has-just-h...

"Chanel has been investing in other areas of digital, boasting more display and video ad impressions in the past year than almost any other brand in the study." https://www.l2inc.com/daily-insights/chanel-flaunts-digital-...
I see this mentioned a lot as a cost cutting measure: buy insurance across state lines. I don't see how purchasing insurance in another state would help. Every medical facility where you live would then be out of network. How do people think this would work, exactly?
While I'm certain SF could be doing a much better job with their existing budget, that's not a very meaningful statistic. You'd need to know how many more people would be homeless in the counterfactual scenario where they weren't spending that money.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-cloning_theorem
It really doesn't and for exactly this reason. If you never comment on ongoing investigations, you also can't ever deny a non-existent investigation, or a lack of denial is confirmation.
Similarly in Wisconsin, and possibly any state with a flagship public university. Even if the point system isn't known, everybody gets into one of the Wisconsin system colleges. But everybody doesn't go to those colleges.

First, the number of positions is limited, though I don't know how the limit is set or if it actually fills up.

Second, the top kids at the top high schools in the state go to the Ivy's, or other selective private colleges, even if they could get into UW. This leaves positions open at UW for a wider variety of students.

There is also a third tier system, consisting of community colleges that feed into the university system or provide shorter term job training.

Disclaimer: One kid is at the flagship college, the other is in high school.
Because employers love credentialism and can discriminate based on college.

Your ability to break into the highest levels of many fields depends on that Harvard degree vs a public or 2nd tier private school.
A really great admissions primer - Sierra Burgess is a loser. You really have to stand out. Be bigger than life, grades and sat are not enough. Be a positive force but mature and mindful. If you can be super smart and this at 18, the world is your oyster.
Yeah, Gatekeeper has always had Apple as the sole root of trust. What’s changing is that each app will now have to be uploaded to Apple to be ‘notarized’, rather than signing being a purely offline process with a previously obtained certificate.
>A lot of the comments below this are rebutting this point by mentioning that videos are better for learning, or complex tasks. This seems obvious to me.

Video is better for learning? I've participated in many online courses and I have noticed consistently that for a lecturer to convey the amount of information that could be obtained in 1 hour of reading they would need at least 3 hours of lecturing.

The only reason I listen to lectures in addition to reading is for metadata. IE, what do they emphasize. And typically I need to do this at 2x speed or else I fall asleep.
I stopped using the Android version several years ago because it stops playback of Shoutcast streams when running in the background (or when the screen is off). Have you gotten around this somehow?
The Blockchain Game
How does client-side hashing solve the "server shouldn't have the password" problem? Doesn't that just make the hash into the real password? It may solve the problem of password reuse across different sites, but it doesn't solve the problem of the server's password database is leaked and the attacker can now try and break the passwords in order to use them to log back into the server and impersonate the user.
Here’s how it was in the old country:

Score = (score from exam at the school you want to go to * 2 + GPA + high school Math grade) / 4

That’s for engineering school. Every school has a different formula and holds its own exams. But the formula is public.

Sort all candidates, draw a line. When some of the selected people chose different schools, draw another line after a month.

We didn’t have an equivalent of SAT. But it can easily be plugged in a formula like this. There’s no studying to the test, since every school has a different test.
Client side hashing solves only one aspect of the problem. Effectively, this means a password breach of your service will give the attacker a “password equivalent” that they can subsequently use to log into the service without further cracking. This may or may not be a problem, depending on whether you’re willing to lock all user accounts.

Whereas a proper asymmetric PAKE means that even if your password file is breached, the attacker can’t use the leaked hashes to log into the service without first cracking each password.

The problem you point out: that password hashes can be brute-force cracked, is unfortunately not a problem we can solve. Consider that a server can always “attempt a login to itself”, so given a password database you can always run a dictionary attack. The only thing truly protecting you in that case is the combination of strong passwords and a hard password hashing algorithm. Passwords are fundamentally a drag.
asterix' 12 tasks : the place that sends you mad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtEkUmYecnk
Does granting asylum mean you have to host someone in your embassy in a particular manner?

I get that he feels he isn't free to leave without consequence, but I'm not sure that means they have to host him in a particular manner.... or that he is free from consequences for other things while hosted.
The Reuters journalist said:

- there are multiple documents about the social credit system, not just from the tax bureau

- people have definitely been banned from high speed rail

- two official docs from NDRC confirm this

(I haven't received links to the docs yet, but will reply to this comment when I do)
You should probably also check out https://cryvo.com/
Clearly, a dramatic increase in resources needs to be brought to bear on the problem.

Something must be done. This is something.

Any plan Mayor Breed might have will only be aided by additional funding.

Drug abuse is a serious problem. Giving the DEA more money will only help to solve it.
It's like colleges. You get the hype, everyone is talking about it and you feel like you have to be in one of the top schools in the world in order to make a difference. The truth is, it's over rated. Like MBA's, like top colleges, etc. There is a true value to YC, I do understand that, but it's business at the end of the day. The more money comes in, the happier the partners and investors. That value I'm referring to is the access to the network. Very similar to top MBA programs like I said right? It's like surrounding yourself with "yes" people. Eating your own dog food.

At the end of the day, if you decide to do something on your own, you'll do it no matter what. A ticket to Harvard is not what's gonna lead you to success. It's you and only you. YC comes as a distraction to a lot of people. They don't want to find a real solution to a real problem, they want to get into YC. That's their main motivation... not everyone of course, but in 2018 it feels like majority of the candidates are attracted by the hype. Unfortunately, if you keep squeezing the orange there won't be any juice left.

To answer your question, it takes time to get all the stars in line and to jump on a problem in a meaningful way. YC is a way to skip the line hopping you'll end up getting a ticket at the VIP party. I think some people got sick of it and became a little more patient. Waiting for a new way to make it and to become early adopters of that thing. Be a black sheep.
This is how you end up with China's system, which... has its own plethora of problems.
What happens if the CA change was an intentional change by the server and not the result of an attack?
Yeah, I think the legacy crap is the real crime.
I also have an amateur license. How much is the cost to go to non voice band for starters??
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AP scores might, but class rank is a far better correlator than SAT scores [1].

Although I couldn't find any research on it for overall collegiate performance, the only research i could find in a short Google Scholar search found slight correlations between SAT performance and freshman year performance (but not overall).

[1] http://www.psych.upenn.edu/~norman/SAT.pdf
There is some more information in this document: https://samv91khoyt2i553a2t1s05i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...
One interesting thing I saw in there was the huge advantage that the legacy applicants and the kids of the staff get https://twitter.com/LechMazur/status/1053290170315927552. The exact racial advantages/disadvantages are also calculated - they are large (Table 5.1N but it doesn't include Asian applicants).
Can you explain more? Why?
Turns out that even compiled software can be modified to suit the user’s intent, thankfully.
Where are you getting those numbers from?

The US rates are for small flat rate packages and envelopes on USPS.com. I didn't find an exact source for the China-to-US rate, so the $2 was the low end of a small number of articles about shipping rather than an exact quote. I may have misinterpreted, or converted using outdated exchange rates, or missed details about minimum quantities. As you say, there is subsidization involved, but I think this is about right for the amount charged to the shipper.
So if they just decided not to admit a certain race of students entirely, that’d be okay because they’re a private institution?
Juking the stats is pretty trivial.
At least they have a rule not to regress performance! Best to institute such a rule when it’s already slow as molasses, like they did, that way you can hit your KPIs while still shipping garbage.
It’s desperation. They want to throw him out and he knows it. He’s a manipulator, never trust anything coming from Assange
In Bulgaria out of 8 million peple between 100000 and 300000 people were killed during the communist regime.
> The rigor of a public school in rural Kansas vs. a private school in NY could be wildly different. AP scores and SATs correlate well (same test for everyone that takes it), but normal grades do not.

That assumes students in rural Kansas have the same AP & SAT preparation as students in the elite NY private schools. The income disaparity between the two schools is probably quite noticable with one having more access to elite college prep than the other. By focusing purely on SAT scores and ignoring economic advantages you are discriminating against those from poor places without access to college prep. It's easy to be blind to that when you fall into the "elite NY private school" camp and have no idea how bad educational resources are in rural Kansas. It is a process of the elite admitting the elite and excluding the poor. You can tout how "fair" SAT scores are and how they equalize talent while conveniently ignoring you are just using it as a filter to keep out poor folks. The elite private NY school may send dozens of kids to HYP every year. The rural Kansas school may never send anyone to elite college in its entire existence. And it would be questionable if that rural Kansas school never had at least one student that would have excelled at an ivy (if given the same opportunities as students in the elite NY private school). Take the kids from the elite NY private school, strip them of their high parential income, put them into the rural Kansas school and take the kids in the rural Kansas school and put them into the elite NY private school with high parential income. Now see how many from each get admitted where.There are students at Harvard that have parential income of over $500,000. It wouldn't be unusual to find not one kid with the same parential income in the rural Kansas school.
This is a very accessible introduction by Quanta magazine: https://www.quantamagazine.org/machine-learnings-amazing-abi...
Ask HN: Is it common for data science to interfere with Back End lang choices?
Joined a startup few months ago as a backend engineer (ruby), and we're just starting a new project which would consume/manipulate lots of data that Data Science team imports from another service.

Since we're going to write this service from scratch, as backend team we're evaluating languages/frameworks, but in this process getting lots of questions/comments etc. from data scientists re: why we're not using go or python languages. I'm genuinely curious if this is a common thing, I have no problem explaining the reasons why we're choosing X lang and/or Y framework, but people from other departments (project managers/product etc) started joining conversations too.
I joined this company from a relatively big startup (~100 engineers) and we had pretty well defined teams that would take these types of decisions within teams.

Please share your experiences if you had anything similar, thanks!
Within the last 3 years: Magic Leap, AR/VR in general, Theranos, Elon Musk's cave-diving submarine, Juicero, self-driving cars, drone delivery. Smartwatches, smart-home speakers, and IoT are roughly tied with blockchain for hype/use ratio.
Gruber's theory that someone in the administration wants to turn up the heat on China and is feeding Bloomberg disinformation, while wild, makes the most sense.
Im not sure all the power was ever delivered to the site. The other side of the airport has a very large new data center going in at break neck speed though.
I have similar thoughts. Years ago I had a big job search, and over a few weeks had more than 80 applications out - had a job posting page, some notes, etc. I kept track in a spreadsheet, but it was bothersome.

Later when I start freelancing (years later) I put together a tool, wrapped it in a dotcom - appliedto.com, then later a slightly more generic version - outreachto.com. Wanted to do email 'send as', and got bit hung up on making that work well (at the time, yahoo and web outlook were just PITA non-starters - I've done a bit more with outlook now and it's a bit better).

I've considered revisiting this service, but could never quite figure out any monetization. As others have mentioned, people who are looking for work are often cash strapped (or at least more mindful). Making it in to a bit more a a 'job crm' maybe...? Freemium, with sample cover letters and templates?

What I needed this for was for keeping track of which versions of resumes I'd sent to people, having multiple versions already written and uploaded, and email templates that I could save and reuse.

I don't really want to be hijacking this thread, but... at the same time, any feedback on these from the gallery would be appreciated. (and... no doubt there's some security stuff I need to revisit soon - it's an older codebase).
Slack + Slack Helper is 200MB and 0.1% CPU on my machine. Not too bad.
> Only if you believe in retaining all data in perpetuity.

There's a huge spectrum between your 'at most 30d' claim in another reply, and 'all data in perpetuity'.

30d is way too short. Perpetuity is probably the idealistic intent, and depending on storage costs over time this may be achievable.

> I suppose it demonstrates the difference in US and European perspectives on data.

How so? I described a the case of one UK-based company, and TFA is about one US-based company, both doing similar things.

> Most of what you describe has little meaning or use at a few months old.

Clearly this is not the case, as evinced by the actions of the people designing, building, operating, and maintaining these types of systems.
I had to search, so sharing it here in case someone else is wondering: PII stands for Personally Identifiable Information.
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Contact josmith2888@gmail.com or +17409540110 for hacking services. With proof...he’s the real deal
No. I'm skeptical that it was true then, for reasonable values of "lump."

One lump of coal: 25 grams

(Per https://books.google.com/books?id=HLFJAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA5-PA20&l... )

Annual internet traffic: 122,088,000,000,000 MB in 2008, 1,152,648,000,000,000 MB in 2016

(petabytes per month to megabytes per year: multiply by 1.2 * 10^10)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_traffic

There are 40,000 coal lumps of 25 grams per tonne of coal.

That would put moving-information-across-the-net energy consumption at 3 billion tonnes (3.4 billion short tons) of coal in 2008. That's about 44% of world coal production in 2008.

If it took 1 lump of coal per MB in 2016, that would be about 29 billion tonnes of coal (32 billion short tons), or about 360% of world coal production in 2013 (latest date available).

https://www.indexmundi.com/energy/?product=coal&graph=consum...
OTOH visitors who discover it will be unable to explore it. Seems like a tradeoff.
To those who have a problem with Harvard's alleged discrimination. Do you think female-only schools should exist? In addition, would you agree with an admission policy that only uses SAT and AP scores? Grades inherently are subjective and can unfairly be given on the basis of race on the K-12 level, so that's helpful.

Harvard should just model China and make the SAT the only criterion. If there are too many people with a perfect school, use randomization accordingly. Of course, the typical Harvard admit won't like this since it'll mean their private school boost won't mean anything, nor will the fact that they come from a feeder school.
There was a magazine in France in the 70s (or even before) called Pif. I recently learned that it had highly politicized roots, partly funded by French communist party, and trying to fight American cultural imperialism (Disney invasion) through this publication.

As a kid I never suspected any of this.
I was also impressed with the ticket experience. Everything flowed nicely. I visited almost a decade ago and I'd like to go back to see how much has changed since then.
Watership Down, Secret of Nimh, and The Dark Crystal were probably the most influential films of my childhood. It would be a terrible loss for any of them to be recategorized away from children.
As a follow-up, does Equador have to keep him? Why would they continue to grant him asylum if he causes them problems?
Honestly you get a TP with Windows pre installed, swap the HDD/SSD with a new one and install your distro of choice (preferably a big one like Ubuntu or Fedora for ease of use and support) and you are on your way. That way if you feel like going back to Windows you don't have to reinstall from fresh again.

I am on my 4th TP as personal computer in the last 10 years and the number of issues stopping me from using the damn thing out of the box is nil. The only word of advice would be to stop the customization process of your OS as early as possible.
Reinforcement Learning Applications
If a journalist dying influences someone's behavior but thousands dying in Yemen didn't do it I'd be curious to know why.
It's because Redux was specifically written as "just another library implementing the Flux Architecture", and Flux used the term "action". See Dan's comments at https://github.com/reduxjs/redux/issues/891#issuecomment-147... and https://github.com/reduxjs/redux/issues/377#issuecomment-126... for justification and links to prior discussions.
The root of this is the Harvard Jew Crisis of the early 1900s, which redesigned the admissions process away from merit. This is the basis of the modern practice at the Ivy Leagues. It was not done secretly, publicized by the university's President in speeches, and had little backlash.
It is in fact a result of Asian Americans having many similarities to Jews that they are being discriminated against, but they were not the original target. It will be interesting to see if they were ever explicitly targeted, but so far it appears to be collateral damage as times changed but the process's foundation has not.
That's not how Iowa works. You get the 245 points, you get in. Full stop. It's law.

It's a system that can't be "gamed". (And, coincidentally, doesn't need to be gamed.) The idea was that it would take all the race, and the extra-curriculars, and the subjective stuff out of the system. And it did. But it also gave everyone admittance. Which is fine. Maybe everyone should get into college? I don't know?

My point is, when you have a set target, it's pretty much guaranteed that after a few years nearly everyone will be hitting that target. It's the nature of the beast.
At that point why specifically call out sexuality? Why not just say “candidates whom have matured behind their peers because of difficult life experiences”?
I thought that public schools and policing were funded in the US by local and state taxes not by the Federal government (which is what the Presidential election fund refers to).
Reminds me of the Franklin REX (which I had in my wallet for a while -- eventually donated them to the CHM)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REX_5000
Maybe the reason people haven't risen up in bloody revolt is a good number of them are also engaged in some sort of rent seeking or useless or parasitic endeavor which pays the bills and which, they tell themselves is needed and noble. After all, nobody wants _their_ gravy train disturbed.

The gears of the currently horrible insurance/healthcare fiasco are mostly normal, honest everyday people trying to get through life. With everyone trying to figure out how to get just a little bit bigger piece of pie. Gears in an out of control machine. And these gears are just doing their jobs and hoping for their bonus and hoping their homes keep appreciating and going home to their kids at night.

It's a horribly broken system in so many ways. But it does seem like the Health/Insurance complex (and maybe higher education) are among the most egregious offenders and are growing more outrageous by the year.

I think there is disagreement on what to burn down. Every level will insist vigorously that they aren't the problem, they are necessary and helping and that the problem is something else. It's not just the rich 1% either, the problem is also many of us at some level. If it weren't these things would be fixed.
He's an Ecuadorian citizen now.
CRA-III?
Porn made the Internet.
Cryptocurrency Pump N Dumps made the Blockchain.
Personality-hacking/collusion made AI.

Whats the next "big" thing?