skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...really, the quality of education at Eton is better than a school in inner London where you are in a class with 35 other people, 90% of whom don't speak English? That information surprises me...what insights.

The point is that:

1. The gap is very large. Those schools are only graduating a few thousand compared to hundreds of thousands students in state schools. Even if you compare with institutions that receive a huge number of applications from private schools (e.g. Edinburgh, Durham), the effect is disproportionate.

2. We need to make use of people who have the most ability. It is foolish in the extreme to suppose that going to Eton or having the right parents makes you a capable adult. You say the admissions process isn't biased...but we are optimising for whether you attended Eton. Speak to someone who didn't attend Eton or similar, and ask them if you think that is fair.

Btw, I went to a private school and went to a good university (that takes from private schools to a very high degree), and worked as an equity analyst (so meeting C-level execs and fund managers who mostly went to Oxbridge) your views are just generally very very wrong. These people are not capable or unusually smart. They just grew up in a safe environment with class sizes of less than 30 people. And UK management teams are, comparatively, very weak because there is no real meritocracy here. Sure, there are some good managers but this is basically certain in a large enough sample. And if someone has come up the hard way, they are usually a much safer bet. It is kind of crazy that you have picked one of the most busted, unmeritocratic societies in the world...and tried to show how it is actually fair...
Definitely relates to software dev where some developers have 15 years experience and some have 15x 1 year of the same thing.

In reality I think most developers have careers that look like:

* 2-3 years of explosive growth and exposure
* 5-10 years of slower growth and increased mastery
* then diverge to shorter periods of stair-stepping (new technologies / faster mastery), coast on what they already know well or move out of active development
The Mouse Trap (Epic Games Sues Cheaters)
> For Fitbit, it's about the money. They reduce their costs with this strategy, and they don't care about your message.

I'm saying this is a dangerous line of thinking. What happens when someone does spend the money? Or finances a large group of people to exercise their rights?

(Recall the Gawker case - they threat modeled that Hulk Hogan couldn't afford to seek relief in the courts. But they pissed off someone much richer than Hogan, who was happy to help him access legal relief.)
Do stuff you're proud of until you die. What's more to think about?
The government will be in touch to help you correct your thoughts.
> Just fucking educate people on fact checking and elementary logic. Push for some lessons in high-school or whatever.

I was taught this back in the 90s, UK GSCE History so a mandatory class at least for the first 3 years. I can't quite remember if it came later or earlier, but early would make sense.

Consider the source, bias, first hand account / second / here say etc., find and compare multiple sources.

Maybe this isn't common and I was lucky? Maybe it doesn't happen these days. My history teacher was brilliant, one of the few I remember fondly.
Do you have an opinion on to what extent simulators can help? I've heard a range of opinions on this, and while there is no substitute for the real thing, I can't help but notice that full flight simulators seem freakishly good these days to the point where many pilots say their minds are often tricked while in the simulator. How much can commercial airlines rely on increased simulator time to help safety and apply hours to regulatory requirements?
This is one of my major criticisms of *Thinking, Fast and Slow." It assumes irrationality rather than that "rationality" is nuanced.
I've definitely seen, and been guilty of, using "centralization" as a weasel word in blockchain circles. Agreed this should change. Usually what's meant is "potential for corruption or abuse."
They say this like it's a bad thing.
This is great! Wish Asia-Pacific offices were more accommodative of this idea. In here, it's viewed as if you are committing a crime by leaving on time. For some f'ed up reason, staying at office is seen as a virtue. God isn't responsible for misery, we are!
Civilization has only ever started in highly fertile ecosystems. It has never started in a place that basic plant life can't even survive.
Yes, exactly. The 1500 hour rule is a factor in the pilot shortage. Not the only factor—low pay at regionals, generational demographics, and changing perceptions of the career also play a part—but it's definitely a big factor.
That is an excellent example of why only having backups on live machines is a major risk. Malicious actors and inept automation can wipe your company from existence. Disaster recovery won't help if the automation or malicious actors can reach it. I would suggest that tape backups with a vaulting policy would have saved them.
sure.

you can use =GET(url, JSON_headers) for that.
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https://forum.dashdash.com/t/get-post-interact-with-apis-of-...
It's not so fast even on a 1920x1200 display. Whatever it's doing in the background (I'm talking about the Android Studio flavor here), it tends to lag behind my typing when I know exactly what to write and just hammer at the keys.

Good thing I have experience from ssh-ing to systems across an ocean back in the dialup days :)
TypeScript? Python 3 with type hint? .NET core?
> And people who do worst are the ones who did not finished college but started.

As one of those people I could not disagree more strongly with your entire statement. Not only do I make a very good living without a degree but I've hired many others without degrees as well. If you can code, you can get a job.
You may enjoy Vimwiki, which will offer you some of the benefits you already have with markdown, but also offer structure in the form of hypertext links, when needed.

https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki

Also, consider checking out this blog post that describes a somewhat similar journey to incorporating vim (and vimwiki) in one's workflows:

http://www.stochasticgeometry.ie/2012/11/23/vimwiki/
Maybe...

Given the impact on the world's ecosystems of the current population, it doesn't seem so far fetched that having _fewer_ children might be critical to the continuation of society.
1.1mb of JS actually isn't that bad all things considered... (ugh, angular...)

Looks like an eventSourceBus request is the culprit... it's passing a huge payload on the querystring... Man, have to love "Enterprise" development.

I don't mean to be especially snarky or mean here... I've just spent my entire career for over half my life now developing web based applications across the stack with care. I've been a proponent of SPA for applications and it really is disheartening to see something work so badly. It could be the effect of HN, but even then it's just so many indications that this whole thing is a bloated mess that typically comes from an "enterprise" architect/developer mindset that makes me sad as someone in the practice.
Hitting close to home, I wonder which software companies would survive and where would VCs be willing to invest during a recession?

During the dot com bust in 2000, my local job market for developers full of just regular companies writing internal apps wasn’t affected at all. The company I worked for in the bill pay industry, kept humming along.

During the 2008 recession things were a lot crazier until 2011. The investors weren’t willing to invest in our pivot from writing software for ruggedized Windows Mobile/Windows CE devices for large companies to smart phones.

I would think that companies working in the health care industry would still be attractive.
think of tokens are liquid equity. it's up to the founders to make good on the tokens but that can be written down in notary contracts.
There are apps that straight up jailbreak your phone distributed under enterprise certificates.
Slideshare Misconfigures SSL Certificate, Causes Downtime
Longevity scientists launch academy to raise profile of life-extending research
>Further, the plaintiff should be able to sue the arbitrator if they failed to act in good faith

They can. 9 U.S. Code § 10:

(a) In any of the following cases the United States court in and for the district wherein the award was made may make an order vacating the award upon the application of any party to the arbitration—
(1) where the award was procured by corruption, fraud, or undue means;
(2) where there was evident partiality or corruption in the arbitrators, or either of them;
(3) where the arbitrators were guilty of misconduct in refusing to postpone the hearing, upon sufficient cause shown, or in refusing to hear evidence pertinent and material to the controversy; or of any other misbehavior by which the rights of any party have been prejudiced; or
(4) where the arbitrators exceeded their powers, or so imperfectly executed them that a mutual, final, and definite award upon the subject matter submitted was not made.
"As these are very large trees, establishing large colonies can have a relatively meaningful impact in carbon capture."

Maybe ...

I live on a ranch where redwoods grow and I was interested in reforesting some of it in an attempt to offset the carbon emissions of my family, etc.

My very rough back of the envelope calculations suggested that planting 40 coast redwoods would offset the embedded carbon (carbon cost to manufacture) of a pickup truck and its ten year expected fuel use. I chose a pickup truck as a sort-of-worst-case-scenario.

This is workable and we've already started this project, but of course we have three cars so the number is 120 trees for a single family.

I'm not sure how well that scales. Not everyone lives in redwood climate and not everyone has ~20 acres of leftover scrub woods to reforest.[1]

ALSO, and this has been a challenge, those back of the envelope calculations do not take into account the carbon cost of creating the trees in the first place. It seems like a rounding error, and I hope it is, but planting 40 trees involves a bunch of driving around and some earth moving and usually a chainsaw has to come out at some point and then we're buying supplies from a hardware store which were driven there by a truck .... and on and on and on ...

[1] This land was originally redwoods and douglas firs but was denuded of all large trees sometime before WW2 and is now a scrubby mess of bay trees and dying (SOD) oak trees. Planting redwoods is a return to the original landscape...
Seems like it’s the difference between him being supported in many IDEs and say visual studio shortcuts being supported in some thing like Atom. (Support May exist for this, IDK)
Interesting, thanks for the history.
A classic perennial favorite.

Everyone shakes their head knowingly about the problem, but whenever someone here suggests using safer and saner tools, the response is howls of protest.

"Buggy code is the developer's fault. Just try harder!"

"It's BNF/not BNF!"

"It uses/doesn't use types!"

"It doesn't let you achieve the last epsilon of speed!"

"It doesn't allow/does wrong my preferred form of prototypes/mixins/inheritance!"

"Everybody is using something else!"

"This is fine."
Is this why commercial carriers pay so much better than all the rest? Or is this no longer as true?

Also, is the influx of commercial pilots into the western markets from other countries analogous to the software development "We can't find enough good developers / You don't want to pay what they demand" trends we see in tech?
I don't read it as making a case for human systems over bitcoin. He is simply pointing out that bitcoin (and all cryptocurrencies) are more of a human system than the true believers believe.
Everyone has opinions. It'd be more interesting to have an estimate of the level of harm. Suppose we could snap our fingers and have blackface disappear from history entirely--never performed nor desired nor even conceived. How much would you pay, in days of labor, to be able to do that?
I originally started learning dvorak because I was getting cramps in my hands from typing. Learning dvorak solved that. I run dvorak at home and qwerty at work, and I think switching between them helps out my hands and fingers even more. The only downside is when I first start to type something I sometimes type gibberish until I realize I'm on a different layout. For example, I originally type "G " instead of "I " when I started typing this. As far as I can tell I'm equally fast in either layout. If a friend comes over and needs to use the computer I can click on an icon in the taskbar and they are good to go.

I decided to stay with qwerty at work because I want a colleague to be able to work on my system, and switching keyboard layouts multiple times per day only causes me to type gibberish more often. And as you say, there is value in standardization.
Let me know how it went! I sound like an evangelist and some fresh eyes and opinion could give my statements some nuance.
Good for them, Apple’s 30% is more akin to extortion than a fair distribution fee.
Although this may be a myth, I've heard tell of someone who once managed to memorize... two phone numbers.

e: no seriously though. With area code, phone numbers already are 10 digits. Are you baiting?
Hrm, I thought the Sud Aviation Caravelle also lacked them, but I was wrong (though they're in an unusual place on it).
Ask HN: How do you fight through the monotony of daily life?
I've been having random discussions with friends and co-workers about life and overall satisfaction. What's interesting is that all of them (including myself) lament over the rinse and repeat cycle of work and daily life. It's like you go to work, come home, go to the gym then repeat for 40 years until retirement. With maybe two weeks of vacation a year. We are all in our early 20s working corporate jobs in the tech industry and can't imagine doing this everyday. So how have you learned to adjust?
We can achieve ⅓ of the global emissions reductions called for in The Paris Agreement with ‘Natural Climate Solutions’ - replanting trees, rangelands, and fire response and restoration.

https://nature4climate.org/resource-centre/messaging/
I wonder why all the planes were names in some variation of Yoke [name, including Yoke]? Maybe:

yoke: NOUN; Irish informal; A thing whose name one cannot recall, does not know, or does not wish to specify.

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/us/yoke
Airbus: Urban air travel and delivery is popular
That seems entirely legitimate and in no way harms the consumer, which is what the app store is always claiming to prevent.

You bought it, you get to chose what code runs on it, and DRM shouldn't be used to prevent that.
In the aggregate, yes - given the premise that most potential Feynmans are actually underutilized in society because they can't be reliably selected for. Then I think such a system could arguably be a net benefit, with a greater number of non-obvious Feynmans being selected. The very obvious Feynmans will likely be unperturbed by a lottery because the lottery is (hypothetically) per-school, and they have opportunities to shine in whichever school they join.
I flew into buffalo that night about an hour before the crash. I remember thinking when we were landing that these conditions were some of the worst, and I fly a lot into Buffalo.
My cursory understanding of the stoics is that they are focused on excellence in virtue (wisdom, morality, courage, and moderation) and mastering the self. What I don't understand is whether these constitute the purpose. In other words, is life purpose according to Epictetus mastering virtue or is mastering virtue a way to achieve a purpose that one defines for oneself? Any pointers?
Didn't even register to me that this was JIRA... not really surprised in the end... did notice a significant amount of cruft in the app, and it's one API call that is the bulk of the wait time. Probably related to passing/parsing/evaluating the permissions around requesting the main payload for display.
Is loss aversion rational? To an economist, no. To most seemingly rational people, apparently.
The part I question is treating blocked/not blocked as a binary thing. There are often workarounds. Some are easier than others. Some people are more capable than others.

On the one hand we have people who need lots of hand-holding to use computers at all, and on the other hand there are very capable hackers for whom getting one account blocked by Google is a minor speed bump. Most of us fall somewhere in the middle in terms of resourcefulness.

There are many other barriers to getting online, including cost, connectivity, language, and cultural barriers. We're clearly not in a state of equal access. I doubt remaining in Google's good graces is all that big a contribution?
Would something like libRocket work? Sadly it is not under active development anymore.
Expectations not being met causing loan defaults causes economic contract. When expectations are not met, then loans begin to be defaulted on and revenue estimates are missed, and future expectations need to be tampered, hence contraction as they are pulled back into reality.
Yep, I always loved this line from Antifragile:

> “But recall that this chapter is about layering, units, hierarchies, fractal structure, and the difference between the interest of a unit and those of its subunits. So it is often the mistakes of others that benefit the rest of us—and, sadly, not them. We saw that stressors are information, in the right context. For the antifragile, harm from errors should be less than the benefits. We are talking about some, not all, errors, of course; those that do not destroy a system help prevent larger calamities. The engineer and historian of engineering Henry Petroski presents a very elegant point. Had the Titanic not had that famous accident, as fatal as it was, we would have kept building larger and larger ocean liners and the next disaster would have been even more tragic. So the people who perished were sacrificed for the greater good; they unarguably saved more lives than were lost. The story of the Titanic illustrates the difference between gains for the system and harm to some of its individual parts.
The same can be said of the debacle of Fukushima: one can safely say that it made us aware of the problem with nuclear reactors (and small probabilities) and prevented larger catastrophes. (Note that the errors of naive stress testing and reliance on risk models were quite obvious at the time; as with the economic crisis, nobody wanted to listen.)”
I don't understand why I am forced to make an account. It seems to be purely for the purpose of selling me on a subscription service, which as far as I can tell, doesn't actually need to exist. Like who's going to pay an additional subscription on top of Slack or whatever they use right now?

Is there any way to use this software without making an account?
One of my favorite things about vim is being able to open very large files. (Larger than my available RAM)
If you really believe that is true, find some actual evidence beyond gut assertions to support it.

The difference between HN and Reddit is not just being polite, it’s about productive arguments backed up by evidence rather than simply relying on believing something to be true.
Progressive web apps can be cached offline and load instantly

They only load instantly once they've been cached. Until then, it's Grey Rectangle City, and the user moves on.
> I'm still not entirely sure why Apple cares about porn

FOSTA and SESTA.
Plenty of people fight against violent confiscation of private land. You don't have to be arrogant or greedy to resist.
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Scientists learn how bone grows atom by atom
Paper Mario Brothers
Marketing for hackers: actionable notes on 500 marketing articles
Ask yourself questions about the advances in technology.
What would you do with a terabyte of flash memory in your phone? NVIDIA makes some incredible chips that currently cost about a thousand dollars; what would you use them for if they cost a hundred dollars or ten dollars? What would you do with a teraflop in your phone? Is there something you can do with AR/VR other than shooting and killing things? How can you implement remote work to make it practical and popular; is commuting to an office stupid? Talk to your parents and grandparents about their problems; can you solve them? What would you build for an Internet that is intermittent, not continuous? Can you build a gig economy that treats the workers fairly, not exploiting them?

Ask around for problems, figure out how to use technology.
Ah, right! I actually pay more to not have cable, I forgot about that.
Do good until you die. Attaching pride to it is a mistake if it leads to arrogance.
Everywhere in the Animal Kingdom, Followers of the Milky Way
Two Large Chinese Borrowers Miss Bond Payments, Sources Say
Fair enough. I wrongly assumed that they would have very similar approaches to admissions, but maybe not. If the extracurriculars don't have anything to do with the degree in question, it seems wrong for Harvard to be putting weight on them. Luckily, there are other Universities in the world to choose from.
The search ID is indeed unique, it's a reference to our database which stores your filters, sort order, and column selections.

We might replace it with something that doesn't require the backend at all, but the URLs will end up quite long if you have a few filters selected.

For now, we figured a short URL is nicer to share with other people. :)
What if the carbon capture process was driven by a renewable energy source? Thermodynamic still applies but the useage of carbon to do so could be close to zero.
In my experience, the issue is intermittent and seems to be less and less frequent over time. The problem is that tickets like this rapidly approach a "legendary" status where if there's even one user anywhere in the world who runs into this problem, he's going to cause a stink if you close the ticket.
He doesn't need citations. Your citation is completely irrelevant, it has nothing to do with memorization at all. Memorizing 10 digits is extremely easy barring individual memory issues, there's no argument to be had.
IBM brings Watson to any cloud
El Chapo Convicted in Trial That Revealed Drug Cartel’s Brutality and Corruption
I've not had the pleasure of flying "full flight simulators" (the kind used by airlines) so I can't comment on those. The lower grades of simulators are good for drilling procedures but are quite bad at modeling flight dynamics.
I've been using the free plan on Pingdom for a long time, and it's a great service! They've recently decided to scrap the paid plan however:

https://venturebeat.com/2019/01/07/pingdom-will-kill-its-fre...

I can totally understand the move, and if my personal needs were greater, I'd gladly have converted to a paid account. Basically I just want an email if one of my hobby projects goes down. Nothing much more.

I already pay for a server, so I decided to put together a minimal Rails app that gets me 95% of the way instead of hunting for another free provider.

For now there's no auth etc. It's bare bones, but batteries included. All you need to run your own instance, is a host running docker.
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