skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reality is the "bar" ensures most people in medical and dental schools come from upper middle and upper class families.

It works to deter not those who are more than capable, but those that cannot incur huge costs to get into medical school. That includes volunteer time, extracurriculars, going on "mission trips" in undergrad to volunteer to help in medical clinics abroad, very expensive application costs (if you aren't in the 0.1% academically you NEED to apply to a lot of schools), paying to travel for medical school interviews, etc. Not to mention the opportunity costs of doing these things instead of working a paying job.

It doesn't end there. I have twice this year hosted friends from out-of-state that came to my city to interview for fellowships. Even after completing a residency most (all?) hospitals and medical groups will not pay for your travel to interview with them. One of these friends told me he is paying ~10k in travel costs to interview across the country for a fellowship position...thankfully he has a trust fund. I believe he faced similar costs when applying for residency.

It is insane. And that's just one aspect of medical education that deters otherwise great people.

If Cuba can figure out how to output a huge number of successful physicians (to the point that they placed them in other countries) there's no reason America can't other than apathy.
Probably because the network’s critical mass necessary to provide a reliable service depends on the average user.

If you alienate the majority of your user base, the more frequent users won’t have a reliable service at all.
I actually do something similar with my tablet as well. Mosh + tmux is insanely powerful. Even when I'm using my laptop, I have a more or less persistent SSH+tmux session open.

It's nice being able to kick off long-running tasks and still able to just shut the laptop and walk away.
SF has plenty of room for growth without increasing the land area.

NYC, for example, has population density of 10.4k/sq km versus SF's 6.2k/sq km. Paris has ~20k / sq km.

Tokyo is hard to get a good stat for since Tokyo officially includes a handful of mostly unpopulated islands, but I think if the islands are excluded the density is around 8.5k/sq km.
True “too big to fail” has an element of regulatory capture. These guys definitely aren’t there yet.

If Waymo’s launch is even half successful there’s going to be a mass exodus from Uber I think. Their cash comp is the lowest in the industry.
You still can't actually change your billing country in Office 365 without starting over with a new account. Even support can't do it.

https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/273493-office-365-adm...
Air ambulances are extremely expensive.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web

Follow following Youtube channels:
1. FreeCodeCamp: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8butISFwT-Wl7EV0hUK0BQ
2. The New Boston : https://www.youtube.com/user/thenewboston/featured
3. Ben Award : https://www.youtube.com/user/99baddawg/featured

Outside Youtube:
1. Wes Bos : https://wesbos.com/
2. Udemy : https://www.udemy.com/understand-javascript/
3. CSS Tricks: https://css-tricks.com/
4. Egghead: http://egghead.io

Etc etc
It's not just you. I used to read hundreds of dead comments, and thought "Don't they understand why they should be banned?"

Read mine. There is more to what's going on than meets the eye. And if you email me (see profile), I'd be happy to illustrate just how carefully Dan controls his image.

After all, see your language here. There's nothing wrong with being curious. That's the whole point of HN.
Several countries have similar blackout rules. In Australia there's a blackout from the Wednesday before election day up until after election day (which is always on Saturday).

These rules only apply to paid advertising by political campaigns and select broadcasters, and so your discussion of free expression and so on is not really relevant.

In Australia the blackout period only applies to radio and television advertising, while online advertising just requires the person who paid for the advertisement's address and name to be provided with the advertisement.
I was given one of the recent MBPs with touchbar for work at a client and from my consulting company. I really don't like the new MBPs and didn't like the prospect of carrying around two laptops so I used my personal Pixelbook for as my consulting company's laptop. They use GSuite so isolating accounts was a breeze. I was able to install IntelliJ and do full-stack Java development with no problem. Window management was surprisingly nice. I agree with all of your points BTW.
What if a proper testimonial user didn't have a profile picture?

Also searching I found this, https://ctooltrk.com/ kinda interesting I guess.
By the way, Fn+backspace on a Mac does a delete. Not just in GUIs, either.
I've gotten a prompt response from Google Cloud every time I've filed a support request. Then again, my company pays for a support contract with an SLA.
There are people who have a bad experience and they complain about it on the internet. Nothing wrong with that. I'm just adding the opposite data point.
Nightshade? Like no tomatoes or potatoes or bell peppers? Or like fungus, as in 'is that wise, avatar?'
In a free society we don't prohibit certain activities just because a vocal minority dislikes them. The bar for coercive control and regulation needs to be a lot higher than that.
It could also be that she submitted a number of photographs for consideration with the article and the editor chose the final ones.
> For those not enjoying MBPs and their keyboards the Pixelbook's keyboard is pretty good.

I really enjoy the Pixelbook's keyboard. It's definitely better than the MBP's and is sometimes more pleasing to use than my mechanical keyboards (Cherry red/brown switches).
The Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins
> Well, not having the driver's phone number is good. Can you imagine passengers calling drivers and harassing them for whatever reason? It will happen.

I'm pretty sure you can get their number if you call them via the app during the drive.
That definitely changes the calculus :)

As for payscale, I meant the locality pay tables:

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries...

The federal government aims to have everyone at the same grade and step to make roughly the same (adjusted for cost of living). Sounds similar to your goal.

To aid that they broke the USA into a group of metro areas.

You could look at the locality tables, and if there's states that have multiple entries on the GS payscale, adjust accordingly in your algorithm.

For example, Pennsylvania would have a low rate if you're in a small town like the capitol, a medium rate if you're in Pittsburgh (home to CMU) and a higher rate in the east near Philadelphia. Your model (IIRC) had one COL value for all of PA.

Similarly, you could look to the US State Department's per diem table to find a list of international localities that should have their own calculation. Many organizations rely on it. When I traveled on business for a multinational, they used the State Department Per Diem rates to determine what is a reasonable amount of money per day to give:

https://aoprals.state.gov/web920/per_diem_action.asp?MenuHid...

While the per diem rate itself may or may not be useful, a list of cities that should have a unique value for COL is a useful piece of data in itself.

To be honest, I'm surprised that nobody with input to the algorithm used either data source or a similar one - I don't know if say, Canada or the EU do their own calculations or leverage the US federal govt's. I know a few multinationals that use the federal guidelines for setting per diem costs rather than spend the effort calculating that in house. But the general idea - that a larger entity had to tackle this issue long ago and published their solution... I think it's a useful data source.
How old is your little sister?

My first guess would be that she is too young for Java. Why don't you start with a more modern languages like NodeJS or Python? Those languages are easy to start and are not that overwhelming like the languages that carry too much legacy.

For the editor I'd recommend Visual Studio Code. Its open sourced and comes with tons of addons for the languages of your choice. What Microsoft can do really well - is to build great IDEs.

There are tons of books online, check in amazon for best sellers. Another options is video courses. They again are more easy to start with. There is udemy, skillshare, coursera. This format is more interactive. With video lessons chances are much higher she will not get bored and would continue with this further.

my 2 cents.
Launching in Phoenix only; for anyone whose never been there, the roads are straight & wide with extremely sparse car/foot-traffic and zero bad weather days. For those living in actual big US cities, don't hold your breath that this service will launch anytime soon for you...
What if the number of people upset with the schedules was actually much larger (and more diverse), but only privileged families felt comfortable or justified protesting the schedule?
I'm not an expert in this, but the historical Okinawa diet doesn't have as much in simple carbohydrates compared to other lifestyles[1]. I think calorie intake is a notable aspect like you mentioned, but eating foods with a higher satiety strikes me as making a larger impact as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa_diet
They’re friends that work there - software engineers.

The headcount issue was a friend saying they were trying to get more people on their team and the integrity teams had it easy because they could get more people easily.

There was also a lot of internal recruiting to get people working on the integrity teams.
Why blockchain developers 'can earn up to $158,000'?
Facebook Is a Normal Sleazy Company Now
What would break in your opinion? I, like many, have 99% of my net worth in diversified index funds. When I researched the topic, I came up with the two following considerations that seems to be in agreement with the general thinking of everyone who has not a very strong interest against indexing (e.g. many portfolio managers and investment advisors):

- If everybody keeps indexing, at some point doing active trading will become so profitable that there will be a partial reversion of some indexers, so in other words it’s a self correcting feedback loop like many other economical phenomenas.

- Index funds will be nearly bullet proof _if_ the capitalistic machine that powers our domestic and global economy will continue to overall thrive, with increasing population/consumption and/or increasing productivity. This one in my opinion is the real threat, considering how horribly we are treating our natural habitat these days.
Other discussion on the front page (with more votes/comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18454254
My jam at the arcade in Manitou, CO.

This interview seems uniquely Japanese while still reading incredibly charming and interesting. Some meta-design along with the nuts and bolts of what this small team accomplished.
Great photos!
You can buy Aleppo soap or something with similar ingredients. We use several soap products that are based on olive oil.
They are the new Microsoft
Your photos feel a lot less intimate, but are none the less great. I especially like the unnamed street scene further down as well as the photo of the train window. Maybe I'm just thrilled to be reminded of my recent Isaiah vacation though. ;)
Your photos also make me want to go back even more and visit Hokkaido. It's just such a wonderful country!
Reminds be a bit of Pagemagic.io
Like the numbers investors saw for Snap before it’s IPO and it’s not doing so well right now. This 120B valuation doesn’t make sense regardless of the numbers. Especially considering they just did a bond sale with an 8% coupon. What company worth 120B sales bonds with an 8% coupon? Absurd tech bubble with ridiculously valued “unicorns”
The fact that they profit heavily from such behavior is most certainly disturbing.
Well, Yogi also said that if the world was perfect, it wouldn't be. So I keep shopping at Amazon.
Mixnode now supports integration with Amazon S3
> Please tell me what about this is bad.

A trillion dollar company is getting subsidies, when they should be helping to build and grow the society that created them.

Healthcare in America is disgraceful. Absolutely the worst in the developed world. Tens of millions of people in your country live on food stamps. Tens of millions work multiple jobs and are still considered "in poverty". Higher education is so expensive it's prohibitive or puts people in crushing debt for a very long time. General infrastructure is horrendously bad.

The whole point of a society is that everyone contributes to make it better for everyone. When a trillion dollar company gets to pay less that they're supposed to, it makes society worse, not better.

The goal of the society should be to make life better for everyone living in it NOT to raise the stock price of what is already one of the biggest companies in existence.
I feel like the interviewing grind has become akin to gymming - you go to your mental gym, build up your 'muscles' by doing pointless repetitive tasks AKA algorithms you'd never use in real life (probably like how bodybuilders would never need to deadlift 125kgs in their daily life). It doesn't directly help you do your job but you know bodybuilders have higher than average fitness levels. So in the same manner, devs grinding leetcode probably have higher 'fitness' levels than devs who don't.
Java's deserialization will instantiate any classes that the data tells it to, which in practice leads to myriad vulnerabilities as many classes have constructors that can be used to write files, execute shell commands, etc. Many programmers didn't realize this, and bad things happened.

This is a classic example: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2015-7501/

(Many more can be found under the CWE-502 "Deserialization of Untrusted Data" category)
It was around that time; I no longer remember what name they were carrying at what points during that process.

They subsequently acquired the remains of AT&T; a few other things, and the name with which they subsequently rebranded themselves.

My point was more the "money for nothing" aspect; I merely don't remember off the cuff what exact name/branding they had at that point in time. Ameritech got bought out by ("merged with") SBC. Then the "merged" SBC bought the remaining piece of AT&T that included the name. A lot of the tech stuff, that had ended up in Lucent, went instead to Alcatel, IIRC (making a hole in the Omaha tech scene, among other things).

P.S. That's how I remember it, now. I wasn't involved -- well, other than being rather thoroughly shafted by then Ameritech/SBC (and now I seem to recall their carrying such a combined name, during the transition) on a home DSL deployment. I ended up learning from their own rather thoroughly demoralized tech support that almost all of that was outsourced: Installations, IT, etc. One actual Ameritech/SBC employee (or was it before the SBC "merger"?... sigh) told me that all they could do was file tickets. Those went to third parties, and they couldn't do a damned thing about following up on them.

Doing a tracert showed over ten hops -- sometimes well over, before your packets even left their "network" to the wider world. And that was the least of the customer's problems...
Sure. That's why California has 55 electoral votes.
> Critically though it isn't retail investors who would bear the cost of a failure, that would be born by the folks like Softbank and the hedge funds who have invested.

This is highly optimistic. A failure of a big startup such as Uber could easily start a chain reaction, failure of other similar big unicorns, perhaps steep losses in stock market, spreading panic etc. It could easily could get to a point when government bails out the investors and banks in some way, just so they don't lose money. This is more likely scenario in my case.
Each party's appraiser comes up with a value favorable to its customer? You don't say!
You ignored the rest of my comment, which was not in any case addressed to you.
Japan has very high standards for buildings. Their building codes ensure structural integrity during earthquakes, prevent spread of fires, and ban usage of hazardous materials like asbestos. Japan also has environmental building codes that mandate levels of energy efficiency for new buildings. As in the US, they are still relatively new, but have been strengthening over time.

If there really is a law in the US against building homes without central heating, then it is a rather idiotic one.

I lived in a Japanese apartment without central heating. I bought a $75 space heater and was never cold.

The grandparent pointed out that the housing options in SF are luxury condos and $50 tents. Maybe that's because the laws in SF basically prevent developers from building anything in between? "Can't be more than x tall, can't be in these areas, must have x amount of parking, with x kind of heating, x amount of green space, and at least x sq feet per unit, " and on and on. With all those zoning and building regulations, it doesn't really surprise me that the only kind of housing you can reasonably develop and make a profit on is luxury condos.
It makes me angry. I don't even have Facebook, but the level of scapegoating and vilification is extreme. It's annoying enough to see people be tone deaf about the previous election. It's even worse when they act like the outcome was supposed to be one way, and it's largely Facebook's fault it was the other way.

It's like these trash psychological studies about conservatives being motivated by "fear" and "disgust" and liberals being motivated by "openness" and some other word with positive connotations. These people aren't lab rats. They have free will, Facebook didn't force them to vote for Trump. If they're able to be influenced by Facebook ads, they were just as well influenced by anything they saw on Fox, CNN, etc.

No doubt, Facebook has an influence on the thoughts of people who use it. But that influence is present in every other medium. Acting like people are two-dimensional characters who made the wrong decisions because they were badly influenced by Facebook, but not me, not me the intellectual who is immune to such influence because I'm not a lab rat but these people are. That attitude drives me up the wall. And the lab rats see it too. They're not so stupid that they're unaware about being talked about like idiotic subhuman specimens incapable of coming to their own conclusions.

And then the same people that talk about them like lab rats get mad at the NPC meme. Okay, I'm laughing again.
> My sort of crazy theory is that there is a behind the scenes lobbying / media battle between pharma, the hospital lobby, and the insurance lobby and that this dictates a lot of the national conversation around healthcare.

It's important to point out that the insurance companies have no cost-lowering incentives though. They have an incentive to deny claims, but their incentive is actually to increase industry-wide healthcare costs because as long as the cost increase also applies to their competitors, it allows them to raise prices and higher premiums means more vig.

They're also the ones strongly against some of the proposals that would actually reduce costs significantly, like catastrophic-only insurance that would have people paying out of pocket for routine non-emergent care and provide the incentive to compare prices.
It's not blocked off. You are only allowed to make a left or right turn when you are on King St.; you're not allowed to travel on it for more than one block. There are jersey barriers by some TTC stops but they're in place to protect pedestrians from being struck and slow traffic.
These are always so funny to me. Primarily in the sense that the absolute VAST majority of programmers on earth will never use many of these in their job, given how extensively are high level languages used and how extensive web development is. And once in a blue moon, when you actually do need an efficient tree algorithm, you can get the gist in 10 minutes off Wikipedia.

90% of "but muh CS science" is just bullshit so people have shit to teach. If it wasn't for ML, I don't know what the academic world would be doing... probably reinventing UML (lol).
Non-responsive.
" Writedowns of goodwill are the same as any other asset impairment."

Technically yes, but really no.

Most other assets have an objective value.

When companies buy others, they are buying brand, talent, future revenues, often at crazy massive premiums. That's where the inherent intangibility comes in.

There's just no way for investors to really nail down why a given acquisition might be had for this or that much.

Companies are bought for often nebulous reasons, so these writedowns often skew the earnings in weird ways.

So it's the inherent intangibility in that price ... that drives the ambiguity of a lot of goodwill.

But I get what you are saying, technically it's not rocket science.
Clicking this PoC link on iOS shows that the iOS Mail app suffers the same UI vulnerability. It appears like you are emailing support@paypal.com, when you are not.
Statistically speaking I do as well? What does that even mean?

Would it be fair for me to say that your entire argument is a hot take that ignores evidence to the contrary when it contradicts your priors, because it makes you feel better and smarter even though better quality arguments exist?

Not every purchase a person makes is some decision derived from marketing. You're basically arguing that people have no free will here and all decision-making is outsourced to advertising.

I see ads for things I don't buy and have no interest in all the time that do try to use the method of appeal you describe. Your model falls apart and doesn't explain this.
8 lives to save in the former, if the house is on fire, vs. one to save in the latter.
A 4 color pen + cheap amazonbasics moleskine knockoff

Black = facts. numbers, locations, new edicts, etc
Blue = thoughts. musings. edge cases I think of during meetings but don't want to derail over, etc
green = events (after work social, conferences, etc)
red = todo

It's not perfect (ex: I usually write the details of meetings such as time/location and add a red star with "TODO: enter meeting X into calendar" but the line between a meeting an event can blur. Is an intern presentation an event or a meeting?

My main distinction is meetings are mandatory, events can be moved.

(Ex: I won't schedule a doctor's appointment during a client meeting. I would list the day there's an evening drinks session as a time I could meet the doctor)

It's not perfect, but the general idea is that the notebook is to store things until the end of the meeting - then they go into my calendar, into my todo list, or onto my whiteboard as problems to be brainstormed.
I’ve started telling non-techie people that you don’t interview for software engineering jobs: you audition for them.

They get it.
No it isn't. Thank heavens I don't work with anyone like you.
Hippocampus is crucial for forming non-hippocampal long-term memory during sleep
And how many really cool/new/different restaurant choices do you have?

And how many companies are around you which offer interesting jobs?
> Perhaps try and remember your items if you don't want to worry about recovering them later

You sound like a really nice and understanding person :)
Series F seems like a red flag to me, but if you don't have a non-compete then you should be fine. I wouldn't worry much about revealing secrets. It should be obvious what sort of things you shouldn't disclose and it's unlikely anything from a few hours of interviewing will affect the other company's operations.