skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In China’s test-dominated system, exam scores determine where students go to college and what careers they can pursue.

This is only true for the masses. The children of political and business elite have special privileges and greater options ( such as studying at harvard, yale, oxford, etc ).

> It's easy to forget how different other education systems can be.

It isn't so different. The education system in the US is dominated by test scores as well. The quality of jobs and career are dependent on the quality of colleges you attend and your scores.

Of course in china ( and much of asia ), they have a large population for limited opportunities and resources so the situation can get extreme.

China has the same landmass as the US but they have 1.1 billion more people.
Anecdotally, moving to the desert and waking up feeling dry and stuffy in the mornings has reduced my morning writing urges.
Not great, but could be a lot worse. Crystal city is on two of the main subway lines. And has a Virigina regional rail and Amtrak stop. There is a pretty major bus depot there too.

The downside is one of the subway lines only runs every 13 minutes during rush hour. And that cannot be increased without decreasing runs on other lines (because they share a tunnel). Maybe Amazon will convince the governments to run more on that line (and take it away from the other lines).

edit: Forgot to mention that airport access is probably the best place in the entire country. You could basically walk to national airport.
Data security?
Still, there is literally a metro stop right in Crystal City that's on 2 lines, and with all the underground corridors between buildings you can get tons of places without even going above ground. If I was an Amazon employee moving out there, damn straight I'd be finding some place right on a metro stop.
We hear about accounts being removed, but we never hear about victimized interlocutors being notified. It seems like telling people that they've been misled by malicious actors would be a super important part of this policing process.

Dear Twitter folks, it's not enough to just vanish a messenger after the message has already been delivered.
Ok, but I am only interested in the web version.
20% is a huge overestimation. Apple's revenue in 2017 was $239B [2]; Google paid them somewhere between $1B and $9B [1]; 0.5% to 3%.

[1] http://fortune.com/2018/09/29/google-apple-safari-search-eng...

[2] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AAPL/apple/revenue
I think you already missed that boat:

https://www.techradar.com/news/canonicals-dream-for-an-ubunt...
I got a one plus, and now i'm wondering...

But let's be honest, iphones and android parts are manufactured in china. There are most probably a lot of spying hardware we don't know about that call the mother land.
clojure has incredibly strong story for leveraging host platform ( jvm/js ) ecosystem
They're also extremely easy to conceptualise and use.
‘Cat’s bum icon’ I might just make this the official name of the logo!
> 2. Good transportation

Surely, you jest. Yeah, it's on a metro line, but hardly anyone lives near a metro line. That area is consistently rated as the #1 or #2 worst traffic in the country for years.
Pardon my ignorance, but why do you see this as an Android-only problem?

Surely every possible operating system suffers the same problem, no?
I mean, Crystal City is pretty soulless, but a bunch of AMZN cash will make that millenial ready in no time.

Also, some nyt writer that’d never been there called it the Brooklyn of DC which was hilarious.
> "The company may be having similar discussions with other finalists."

The article sounds very speculative. I don't know anything about this place, but if it's expensive like people here say it is, then I don't see the point of Amazon moving there. I think a place like downtown Chicago would make more sense. (if only the winter was not as cold and better public schools...)
>let them speak and prove them idiots. It's really not hard

No popular platform works like this. All working solutions involve hard moderation and separate forums/groups for different people.

>they, are people

Not necessarily.

Even if they are real people they may be paid propagandists, trolls or promoters. You need heavy moderation or access restrictions to make things work after the size of community grows. Eventually even moderation breaks down after the size grows.
And to its credit, Crystal City is actually pretty rad. It’s full of highly educated people who can’t say where they work or what they do. But they do have good taste in restaurants.
Actually, I kind of hoped he would show the computation of the Reed-Solomon codes, or at least had a popout for it if it would have made the page too long.
Show HN: Notn.app, make a personal homepage for your weblinks
<Basically any popular urban center in the US in the past 50 years> is the poster child of what happens when you have tons of growth over decades, but absolutely no planning, or worse, lots of nimby preventing infrastructure.

Could easily say that about SF, LA, Austin, etc.
Google Buzz was a much worse disaster for similar reasons.

https://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/technology/1012/gallery...
what is SSC?
Sounds like good transportation with terrible urban planning.
Trying to install using snap, keep getting the following errors, any advice? Never stops retrying.

bee@blackandyellow:~/Downloads$ snap install --dangerous --devmode Aether-2.0.0-dev.5+1811030036.53a6bb49.snap

2018-11-03T11:59:53-04:00 INFO Waiting for restart...

2018-11-03T12:00:01-04:00 INFO auto-connect of snap "aether" will be retried because of
"aether" - "core" conflict

EDIT: Snap files are an archive of sorts. I was able to extract it into a folder and run the file named "aether" to get it to work.

EDIT2: This gets the frontend working but I don't think it gets the backend working entirely.
Why configure cwm to emulate i3 when you could just run i3?

Still, cool to see people running a BSD on a laptop, IIRC I ran NetBSD on my old Thinkpad in college.
Thing is, there are plenty of places where Google dictates Android options that you cannot do anything about. It is not like Apple has a monopoly on this.

The idea of mucking about with multiple phones just to find the one which irritates me the least is very unappealing. It's an appliance, I just need the thing to work.
Another major advantage of Crystal City is that it is full of empty real estate. It was built up to house major federal agencies and their contractors, but all the agencies have moved out, and so have most of the contractors.

The Patent and Trademark Office had 5 huge buildings; they moved to Alexandria. The Dept of Defense is moving a lot of its employees to Fort Belvoir, and the contractors are following.

It's really kind of crazy to have such a major business district so deep in a major metropolitan area, with such low average occupancy.
Once again the principles of centralization vs decentralization play out in front of us. Decentralization is a strength, centralization is a weakness, in almost everything, from the internet to crops...
Is the linux tarball on the website updated to the most recent version? It runs under Arch, but just syncs endlessly. It's also a light client, where the Windows version is dark theme. I don't like using snaps, so this is preferred.
http://slatestarcodex.com
What are you talking about that no one lives near a metro line?

It’ll be on the same line as Shaw which is one of the most desirable neighborhoods for 20/30 somethings in DC right now.
I took Mindstorms to be more about a necessity-driven approach to learning. I would guess you're right: not everyone will find Logo interesting. But I think that everyone has something they want to do and are currently incapable of doing. I thought that Papert was using Logo to show how a general education can occur in the process of acquiring that desired capability. In the context of Mindstorms, this was always a new capability as a Logo programmer, e.g. being able to draw flowers. But I thought the more fundamental point was that people will acquire generaly applicable knowledge through the pursuit of some specific and sometimes (seemingly) trivial skill. This principle isn't contingent on using Logo for anything.
A taste of their own medicine. I wonder if the court will try to order Bahnhof to unblock Elsevier?
I'm pretty sure that this is not in line with EU NN law where blocking access to sites is only allowed for security, legal reasons, or to preventing impending network congestion (Article 3(3) of Regulation 2015/2120)
Blocking arbitrary websites out of spite is probably neither of these reasons and therefore not justified.
Cool, the biggest issue I’ve always had with FreeBSD is figuring out how to do routine updates when I’ve installed ports.
Chicago has a lot of "natural" advantages, but the governments of Chicago and Illinois are too dysfunctional to put together a competitive bid.
@b here. Seems the snap isn’t able to boot because of a similarly named package? Linux isn’t officially supported right now, but there was somebody downthread that managed to get it to work with the —dangerous flag.
That would work until another product person decides to eliminate the friction of "accept invitation" and adds an auto-accept invitation feature
Do you think Apple blindly trusts the hardware that comes from their factories? I have no evidence either way, but I would be very surprised if their hardware experts in the US didn't tear down and verify the parts that get shipped to them, like they did with the SuperMicro motherboards.

The idea that there is a lot of spying hardware in an iPhone that Apple doesn't know about is an extraordinary claim.
This is probably the single coolest feature of OpenBSD: “Also, Chromium on OpenBSD recently got unveil support. If you run it with --enable-unveil, Chromium will be prevented (at the OS level) from accessing anything other than your ~/Downloads folder.”
The user determines the priority of notifications per-app and per-app-notification type (using notification channels) and configures how the notification is allowed to interrupt them.

https://developer.android.com/training/notify-user/channels
DNA Is a Fractal Antenna in Electromagnetic Fields (2011)
It is normal. Remember, nobody cares more about your (long-term) financial security than you. Having a plan b sketched out, even if not completely executed, is always a good thing.

Good luck.
Does Sony no longer offer the 4.3" phone?
I'd love to know which major U.S. city does not have terrible traffic near its downtown.
@b here. Snap version is untested - it compiles but no guarantees. I think some people got it to work downthread, you might want to check which flags they used.
To me, "world-class software engineer" is literal - an engineer who can thrive anywhere in the world, ideally in any situation one needs software development for.

That means understanding industrial processes as much as dot-com tech lingo. The difference between designing for regulatory requirements and putting up a cookie consent waiver. Being able to effectively mentor junior engineers and continually refresh one's knowledge. The ability to navigate office politics and push back on unhealthy work-life balance. And of course, computer science academics.

"World class engineer" may just be jargon, but it's also aspirational. I know people who taught themselves JavaScript and Python in a year and are working at tech giants, and people who've been working in tech for 30 years and struggle to lead a small team. Maybe if we had a roadmap for what makes a world-class engineer, it might become easier to rise to that level.
Interesting, I didn't know it worked. A comment on another site by stsp@[1] suggested it doesn't.

https://lobste.rs/s/ljdhug/install_openbsd_on_dedibox_with_f...
pesticides ain't gonna make themselves
Can anyone clarify why this link is now flagged on HN? Thanks.
Why not Detroit?

They could remodernize Detroit in a massively good way.
Everybody here is ignoring yield per acre. RoundUp, for all its faults, drives the yield number up. More people (and particularly more cattle) are fed per acre when you use pesticides.

If you banned the pesticides, it would do a lot of good, but now consider how many more acres would need to be farmed in order to keep the overall yields the same. How many acres would be cleared that would not otherwise be cleared?

I agree that glyphosate (RoundUp now makes up less than half the market, which is largely Chinese-made and Chinese-consumed now) should probably be far more heavily regulated, but be aware that humans are not going to happily grow less food on the same land when yields drop.

Taste the rainforest.
FWIW: On Linux, I use firejail to do this.

But it's sweet to have natively:)
What? No, we should not force people to share the same space as fascists and racists. It seems ridiculous to have to say it. If I were to encounter neo-nazis in real life, I would not engage in a civil discussion, confident that the police is there to make sure everyone is civil. I would walk away. Online, it's pretty much the same thing. I'm not sure why it's so hard to fathom that most people have more productive uses of their time than hearing what racists and fascists have to say.
You're not thinking like a poor person, you're thinking like a comfortably wealthy person. Poor people often don't have the time, energy, or mental well being to run organizations or take on another line of work.

Money is a tool for overcoming barriers to cooperation. People who can't self-organize to cheaply produce food for survival will continue to not be able unless enough money is available.
Metro serves a tiny fraction of N. VA. Sure, if you're in DC and commuting out, it's probably ok, but people don't tend to stay in DC very long. Once they have kids and realize there is no hope of reasonable public education there, they move.
I'm not seeing the schematics for the PSU here. There's plenty of detail I could hope for that's not there.
> it's very hard to actually come up with a solution

Just not have "suggested friends"? I've never gotten anything out of that feature, and I imagine it provides little actual value to anyone since if someone was actually a friend or even an acquaintance, they'd have that person in mind when adding friends on Facebook.
metro is somewhere between "incompetence that leads to dead passengers"[1], "shit's on fire, yo"[2] and "meh". Lately the biggest scandal is they turn down ads for the ACLU in favor of Northrup Grumman.

In any event it's generally minimally acceptable at best. Dumping a ton of people onto it will not help matters.

[1] https://www.aboutlawsuits.com/dc-metro-crash-lawsuit-filed-4...
[2] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/washington-d-c-s-metro-...
Thanks for the reply. I'm talking about the tarball on https://www.getaether.net/linux_download.html

Link Location: https://github.com/nehbit/aether-public/releases/download/v1...

Looks like it's v1.2.3, released in 2014, so I'm guessing this client won't work? Might want to remove that link! :)
Baffles me how Mr Shrem is held up as some Bitcoin martyr by those in the community even as late as yesterday.

Here's OpenBazaar's lead developer mentioning that Shrem went to jail because "Bitcoin is challenging the way money works in society". Shrem went to jail for laundering money for drug dealers. That's certainly one way of challenging how money works in society.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL9MkOGgVAQ

The Bitcoin community seems to have trouble choosing it's spokespeople. Remember Bruce Wagner?

https://www.metafilter.com/107065/Bruce-Wagner-and-the-Bitco...
I used tkinter python bindings, very fun. Zero mental burden.

Also tk was used as Digital Domain (James Cameron FX company) Nuke compositing software. Sooo.. I guess it's fine.
If you're building some ports with custom options, check out Synth: https://github.com/jrmarino/synth

It downloads binary packages when it can & builds ports in parallel while showing a very nice ncurses UI :)
That was my first thought as well, that they would have a hard time finding a more expensive place for every metric, from real estate* to salaries.

However I don't see Amazon and Chicago being a good match, culturally, if that makes sense, nor do I think there are compelling strategic reasons for basing this location there.

*edit: Based on snowwrestler's comment it sounds like Crystal City has seem some large occupants move out, so real estate prices may be trending down. However it's still a fair premium to pay to be next to the airport, compared to farther out (where you also have a high concentration of software developers.)
It’s marketing BS in the sense that organic food still uses pesticides. I guarantee you that fact would be shocking to most consumers of organic foods.
> And amazon (and many other tech companies) adjust their salary to cost of life in the area.

Which raises costs for everyone and the "location adjustment" is usually less than what is really needed.

I was expecting it to be a bit further out, like Chantilly/Ashburn/Manassas. Close enough to serve the function but far enough out costs for employees/real estate is lower.
Elon almost reprimanded Kara for not listening carefully.
Does anybody have any insight on the things investors are looking for after the series C?
Somewhat off topic, but what's the reaction at Red Hat been about the IBM deal? I live in North Carolina and have been looking for jobs lately; I had been seriously considering Red Hat before the deal was announced, but I'm not sure what to think. I was hoping to go somewhere that offered more stability than a startup, but with the uncertainty around what IBM's plans are, I'm not sure that's the case for Red Hat at the moment.
racket compiled binaries are not "native", they are bytecodes jitted during runtime, and jvm's jit is highly performant.
OR...Bezos’s interests in Blue Origin and the Washington Post
lolibturdz
It’s in the OpenBSD distribution, which presumably means it undergoes the same code auditing that the rest of OpenBSD does.
Well said.

A private message would go a long way to quietly and personally telling us we have been duped.

While we like to refer to psychological wedges only working on “them”, there is a massive body of sociological / psychological research to show that we collectively are all vulnerable. Addressing it as the collective problem it is, versus an “it happens to them” phenomena, may have an impact on overall reception.
Protest is legal.
Same weather, even worse schools, way less infrastructure, almost no public transportation, the Chicago area has over twice the population to draw employees from
It's not, though.

WebView is the built in web view mechanism for all apps that don't want to roll their own web view, and Chrome for Android is a browser that makes use of that WebView mechanism. Strictly speaking, a browser is just an interface that lets you interact with web pages.

And you're not locked into WebView: if you actually wrote your own, you're entirely free to deploy it. It's just insanely hard to write a web render engine these days so for most people there's no point in the slightest: it just makes your application bigger.

One example where it _does_ make sense is Firefox for Android, which comes with its own engine, because as long as the Android core classes area available, it should be able to run. Not "stop working" just because someone tailored their Android build to not include WebView.
Want to share what motherboard and memory you ended up with and where you got them from?
Thanks, that was the impression I got on my phone - it seemed to automatically compensate for the Bluetooth delay, maybe it's more of an issue when using it on a desktop which doesn't have that functionality.
Getting rid of chemical warfare on soil and in farms will become much easier of farming is automated. Automation in farms works longer than any human labourer. And getting rid of weeds in farms and planting hedgerows and letting at least 30-50 percent of land go back to nature with reforestation and installing grasslands will help with habitat restoration. We have urban indoor farms that can deal with the shortage. A lot can be grown indoors..not all our food tho. Just take inside whatever is possible to be grown indoors! Shorten supply chains. Population needs to be reduced not by punitive methods but by incentivizing smaller families. In the 70s, our population was around 3.5 billion ..now it’s close to 7.5 billion. This is a problem. We accommodated this explosion by getting rid of animals, birds, insects and turning forests into farmlands. Some of this conversion needs to be reversed.
Maybe efforts should be redirected to google-free android based OSes (postmarket, or the right-now-quantic copperhead ...)
What do they do?

- adder: contributes to a product

- multiplier: changes the ecosystem, giving adders leverage to be more effective

- exponent: changes the game (ships a new paradigm changing how everyone thinks / does it)

Given how rare multipliers are, I consider that “world class”.

I don’t know that you can pre-identify the third category, especially since a critical mass of multipliers can also achieve exponential results.
No, not exactly like the US. Rather, it's similar for some schools. The US, fortunately, has a vast number of extraordinary universities.

At MIT for example, tied for the third best US university [1], they rank #137 on the median family income level among universities. That places them behind such schools as the University of Dallas, Virginia Tech and the University of Charleston.

Columbia is tied for the third best ranked US university. It ranks #89 on median family income. Those students are largely not elite rich families buying their way in.

The University of Chicago is also tied for third best US university. They rank #138 on median family income. Behind the university of Scranton, UNC Chapel Hill, and Xavier.

Cornell is ranked as the #16 US university, and comes in #87 in median family income.

California Institute of Technology is ranked #12. They're #105 on the median family income metric.

UCLA is ranked #19 in US universities, and ranks #353 on median family income among universities.

UC Berkely is tied for being the 22nd best university in the US. It ranks #214 on median family income, behind Babson, Mountain Saint Mary's, Vermont, and Willamette.

Carnegie Mellon is the #25 US university. They're ranked #81 for median family income.

Emory is the #21 US university, and ranks #120 on median family income.

The University of Florida is ranked #36 in US universities, and comes in #322 in median family income. You can go there for $6,000 per year in-state.

There are two dozen other top 50 schools I can add to this list, that rank far below what you'd expect on median family income.

[1] https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-unive...
Hire a DBA to give you a crash course. Use managed DB like AWS RDS where they backup and take care of installs.

DB's are generally very stable and don't need much maintenance. Most of your work really is from the dev side, schema design, good index placement.