skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that how the system works? I'm not American, but it seems like race does get factored in. Or am I just sorely mistaken?
If your systems are so weak that seeing code puts you at risk, you have other issues.
interesting, he says that software like SAP could 'predict/forecast' the spiking demand from customer.

I wonder how this could be done. Because we know how unpredictable of these demand are.
I have to confess that I have never understood why athletics is considered necessary at academic institutions, so it is even less understandable why athletics is considered during admissions.
MIT spinout conduit emerges from stealth
Similar situation for me, if you were getting anything lower than a B you probably couldn’t hack the coursework.
Back in the mist and depths of time, Monty Python was not at all mainstream. Those who knew of the sketch were most likely to self-identity as a nerd or geek.

Let us olds enjoy a bit of nostalgia.
It's amazing to me how many online friends I've lost contact with due people moving on from ICQ and AIM.

Back in the early 2000s, due to online gaming and hobby software development, Trillian would regularly have around 50 people online. These were not people I "collected", they were people I actively talked to for a variety of reasons: gaming, side projects, etc.

But then I got a job. Got a girlfriend. Got married. I got busy. I stopped logging in for about 4-5 years.

Around 2010 I was reminiscing a bit about the old times, and I reinstalled everything. There were only 3 people on AIM. Zero on ICQ. Oh well.
MBAs. Though to be fair there was nothing about that gig that made sense for a business degree. It was a cs research position. [edited]
I wonder how that compares, demographically, to the proportion of students receiving need-based financial aid and full-rides at my alma mater (an HBCU with a substantially smaller endowment).
If everyone is receiving an A, that indicates that everyone receives As regardless of merit.
I use tutanota and they are great! More free strange space than proton mail too (1 gb).

edit: I didn't release how cheap the premium was and just upgraded.
Analogy implies partial similarity. Of course there will be differences.
You never heard of Google Music? I believe getting fingerprints of all published music is probably one of the least complex tasks Google faces.
Why should I use his app?
Consequence of paid, for-profit education - they want their grads to get high paying jobs. C-grade alumni with a shit job doesn’t make a great donor.
I would be happy if that person didn’t come from an Ivy League school and whose parents aren’t multimillionaires.
Transparency is kind of irrelevant, if I'm bleeding out unconscious somewhere in the street, I'm in no position to make hospitals compete for my business. This isn't buying a new cell phone, these are peoples' lives.
FAA Database: 20 Pilot Write-Ups Incl. UI and MCAS issues
The best engineer I ever worked with went to a tiny religious university that didn’t have an official CS Major. There are smart people everywhere. He is also a super cool dude, and TBQH a lot of Harvard grads I’ve worked with have been... hmmm... “less than cool”
Now I know what other people feel like when they listen to programmers talk. :D

Do you know of any materials that present the debate in a form that a ten year old could understand?
There's LOTS of solutions for your own NPM, not to mention you can use git over ssh or http(s)... there are proxies, self-publish software. Some of it open-source, other options not so much. IIRC, you can even run your own npm if you wanted to.
This is the full list of Boeing 737 Max incidents reported by pilots to the FAA. Many of the reports relate to problems with UI design, documentation, and training. Three of the reports are specific to the MCAS software implicated in the Lion Air crash and a suspect in the Ethiopian crash. In two of those cases, the pilots were aware of MCAS and still had (harrowing) problems during their flights. (The third mention of MCAS is a complaint about the lack of disclosure/documentation.)

Thanks to the Dallas News for breaking this story [1], to @tuna-piano for the NASA ASRS database reference, and to @dpwm for the regex. The original story explains that the database is maintained by NASA and pilots' identifying information like names, airlines, and some locations are redacted to protect their anonymity.

[1] https://www.dallasnews.com/business/airlines/2019/03/12/boei...
Hierarchical management structures are part of the problem. Managers generally treat technicians as flunkies and don't value their opinions, and most technicians aren't willing to get yelled at or fired, so corporate systems select for the lowest common denominator instead of the highest common factor. It's not going to change under our existing system because capitalists don't give a shit about consumers or employees, and 99% of managers just want to get into the winners' circle.
I'm in no way implying my anecdata is conclusive, but I'm mainly suspicious of the verbal scores. And, if the verbal section of the SAT is stupidly easy, I guess I'm stupid, shucks :(.
A world of hurt after GoDaddy, Apple, and Google misissue 1M certificates
It brings in alumni, who bring in money.
Have you been successful with this? I think there is a real need to go much deeper psychologically into figuring out why you are drawn to it, what needs it fulfills and how to fulfill those needs in healthier ways. That plus vigorously pursuing a set of goals.
Does it? I have to wake up early and unfortunately, still go to sleep very late. Granted, its only been a week since I have needed to do that so may adjust over time but I just can't sleep at 9/10.
Show HN: Create Low Fi Wireframes
Slaying the UI AngularJS Monolith Using a Micro Front End Architecture
Ah thanks. Since my workload is more memory bound, might be ok with Atom.
Or it means that everyone works their ass off.

Or that they went to high schools that prepared them well.
The voice recognition on Android Auto works fine in the interior of every car where I've tried it. The manufacturers include well-placed microphones dedicated to the purpose.
I didn't realize police prosecute unfairly and was just looking at the stats...a friend shared an article on the targeting/prosecution breakdown and it wasn't favorable for young Blacks in the U.S.
Sorry to go on a tangent, but this is the first time I've heard the word "transducer" outside of a conversation about clojure. Is it the same concept?
Just for the final point, they’re pretty good for letting 1 device respond.
I don't see how you go from "giant JS payloads that can render your whole site are bad" to "don't use Javascript to hide a DIV".

Maybe the CSS hack is faster than onclick="document.getElementById('zip-code-modal').style.display = 'none'" but it's quite likely not.
For people with their sights set on a FAANG type company, do you have a "grind leetcode" track?
The question that always occurs to me when these kinds of discussions come up is why there is such a huge disparity between educational institutions in this country in the first place. If schools were funded to meet a certain level of performance, instead of based on who was attending or on past performance - like the military is funded - maybe that would be a step in the right direction.
63red Statement on Security
You can answer that question by playing semantics - copying from a dictionary, 'prestige' is having 'standing or estimation in the eyes of people'.

Most of the prestigious people I can name aren't prestigious because of their academic achievement, that is for sure - so it isn't obvious why an academic institution should be prestigious full stop. They all teach a similar syllabus, and most professors are remarkably talented. Harvard is prestigious because the students that go to Harvard are well connected, not because Harvard is imparting some superior secret sauce to its students. The selling point is the network of other people who are important, eg, the children of the sort of people who went to Harvard.

We don't give people standing or estimation from academic or athletic ability except in extreme edge cases (much more extreme than college admission). There is a strong correlation between intelligence and prestige, but that is because smart people make decisions that earn them prestige more than because academic ability is prestigious.
> Isn't that the precise question that science is trying to answer, but which is being disputed by people who do not like the answers?

Science does investigate all sorts of questions and there isn’t exactly a movement to shutdown neuroscience and psychology research. What there is a reaction to are people claiming to know the answer to these big field-defining questions, which conveniently says that their politics are the only right position, and otherwise claiming the mantle of science while acting contrary to how actual science is supposed to work. Sometimes that includes criticism of scientific figures but that’s when they aren’t doing good science: nobody would question that James Watson is a real scientist but the criticism he gets today isn’t for asking unpopular questions but for falling so short of the standard. Had he wanted to do real research into intelligence and genetics he’d have had no shortage of resources and collaborators but he wouldn’t have the big dramatic claims, just more slow progress chipping away at one of the hardest problems in the world.
You can find the link to the OSS in the notes: https://www.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch
This is definitely not the first time malicious software was implanted in industrial control safety systems. Here is an example from the Cold War (it caused the largest non-nuclear man-made explosion in history):

https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-software-blew-up-russian-ga...

The actual sabotage involved adding an integer overflow to valve control software, and making sure it took months to hit (so testing would miss it).
Can't imagine why you're being demoted for this accurate assessment. Current resurgence of machine learning is based on the realization that early 80s/90s academic research that was temporarily abandoned was not working only because they didn't have the hardware for a gigantic parameter space. Now we do have the hardware.
It really depends on who you are sending money to. Assuming your sending to people with bank accounts a remittance service would work, like transfer-to (recently renamed Thunes) [1] and EMQ (sea only) [4]. There are several services like this, and its how mobile wallets and remittance agents (electronic ones) send cash. You may need several to provide maximum coverage if operating globally.

Each country also has their own remittance providers [2] so if you are serving a specific country it would be worth digging to find out who has the best APIs. Mastercard has a service [3] that supports 80 countries but your recipients require a card. Note if your recipient is a business with an EDC machine there is a nifty way to send them cash using MC VCNs (what some global hotel booking sites use).

Most remittance providers now send to wallets in addition to bank accounts, which can be used to send cash to non-banked users. Though in practice this could be a pain for them and coverage is limited and the mobile wallets vary in quality and KYC restrictions.

1. https://www.thunes.com/

2. Only use licensed ones! Spotted this one operating in us: https://www.dwolla.com/

3. https://developer.mastercard.com/product/mastercard-send

4. https://www.emq.com/
I refuse to put an amazon/apple/google surveillance device in my home, so I am very interested in a DIY digital assistant device. I'm aware of a few options but it seems like offline voice recognition is always a little sub-par. I am really looking forward to the day when an offline, open source digital assistant can compare in quality to a proprietary/cloud device.
Who should ask you in two weeks? Internationals or Canadians specifically? Huge difference because the latter is for most intents and purposes, 'half American'. The Canadian case is super different from the rest of the outsiders. So some clarity would be nice.
Will there be documents in Spanish or other languages soon?
Out of all my classmates that went to really prestigious schools, like 20% were genuinely a cut above the rest. The other 80% just gamed everything, taking easier AP classes to boost GPA, random "resume" building activities, these folks just left a sour impression on me.
It was covered on HN when this feature was released. There's a database of >10,000 song fingerprints on-device (IIRC, people found it and it was ~100MB) that's updated based on the most popular songs from GPM/Youtube Music.

https://venturebeat.com/2017/10/19/how-googles-pixel-2-now-p...
This is about anti-Jewish discrimination specifically. This is pro meritocracy. Not affirmative action.
The dim ones don't have to work.
I don't think it is a binary 'either its a new plane or its not' situation. I think every change has to be scrutinized for its safety implications, and for MCAS the analysis seems to have been, in part, that a failure could cause a trim runaway, but trim runaway is a circumstance for which there already exists a response, and that would not need changing (what this overlooked was that the pilots would experience it differently, as pulling back will not stop it, and if they stopped it with the trim button but didn't disable it, it would start up again ten seconds later.)

Putting a longer undercarriage on an airplane is not a trivial matter. You have to design it, test it, get it certified (a new undercarriage raises obvious safety issues) and put it into production. It's not just the undercarriage - it won't fit into the existing wheel wells, and furthermore, the legs might have to be moved further out on the wing, and then you have to rework that, as well.
Faster, more efficient neural network verification
Even if it were possible to design a provably correct, impossible to tamper with, anonymous electronic voting system (which seems unlikely to me) it still should NOT be used. Why?

Everyone understands paper in ballot boxes, and how they can be cheated, what to look for. Everyone can assess an argument as to whether this happened based on the evidence presented.

Basically nobody would understand what to even look for in cheating the electronic system. It would be totally my expert says your expert is wrong and so it is/isn't fraud. Having even the possibility of that argument for electoral fraud is completely insane.

It doesn't just have to be fair, it has to be seen to be fair. Really it does. We need to have reason to have faith in our democratic processes most especially when the people you want to win, don't and the result surprises you.

The sooner we get to "Any electronic voting must be used to mark a standard paper ballot which becomes the entire source of truth." The better. Everything else in electronic voting is dangerous, sinister and flat out evil. Oppose it. Loudly. At every opportunity. Especially if you're known as someone who understands computers on some level.
Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (1930-2019)
Jez. You're crystal ball needs some more polishing.
A simple reason why there aren't more women in tech – we're okay with misogyny
Then why do European universities, many of them very prestigious and much, much older than American ones, base their admission on grades and tests?

Given that in most European countries (I think, it'd definitely the case in Germany) tuition isn't a thing either, one can reasonably conclude that admission to an elite university is linked to academic prowess, at least to a higher degree than American universities.

I went to an elite university (can't deny that I'm a bit proud of that), and except maybe for the possible of highly limited stipendia, neither I nor my parents would have had any money to make that happen otherwise.
Honestly they probably can't do worse.
What does this mean for the future of fake sports that no one watches or cares about that exist purely to help students from a certain class get into prestige schools?
This isn't that surprising for someone that has a lot of experience in something like project management or academia and/or is very good at negotiating.

For instance the place I work just hired as a senior engineer a former math professor with a math PhD that hasn't written a line of production code in their life. If this person decided to go through a 9 month bootcamp before applying the outcome would have been the same.
> Perry is the first non-nuclear engineer to run the Department of Energy

For some context in case anyone is curious: the position of Secretary of energy was created together with the Department of energy in 1977. There have been 14 Secretaries of energy, and 2 more acting secretaries.

It's not trivial to summarize each into a single field, but they have had degrees in law (x6), chemical engineering (x2), physics (x2), dentistry, economics, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and political science.

To the best of my research, it seems only one (Ernest Moniz) could be called a "nuclear physicist" or "nuclear engineer". He immediately preceded Rick Perry as Secretary of energy (if one skips over an acting secretary).
React Native 0.59 with Hooks Released
it might indicate that the course is not designed well and fails to provide gradient among students.
Tesla Lays Off One Third of Global Recruiting Team
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19368815
A couple of interesting questions:

1. Is being Jewish a race or a religion?

2. Being Jewish is also strongly correlated to class. 44% of Jews earn 100K+. Thats compared to ~20% for Christian, 19% Catholic, 20% Islam. (Interestingly Hindus are close at 36%).

Source: http://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/income-dis...
> More funding - I think large tech companies should donate heavily to avoid a chrome monopoly..

Mozilla has $560M in annual revenue, and Firefox is their only widely-used product. How much more do they need?
If you're building a picture in your head, you can check it against actual numbers here:

https://features.thecrimson.com/2015/freshman-survey/makeup/
Nor is affirmative action for Jews but you brought that up.
> Amazon's assertion that 'neither release notes nor documentation make it clear what is open source and what is proprietary'

Which is a wrong assertion, you can clearly see that it is an under Licence feature by the X-pack mention: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/curr... above the name of the feature.
The only cool Harvard kids dropped out
We are planning this, but for now we focus in English.
It is sad to think that for every one of these students that got in this way, another deserving applicant got denied.
I haven't used ProtonMail, and I don't have much of substance to say about FastMail except that I'm a happy customer. The recent Australia backdoor thing concerns me, but I'll wait to see what the company does. FastMail already has access to all of my data anyway, but I didn't sign on for silent government access at the same time...

Edit: I use Gmail at work and much as it pains me, I have to say that I prefer Gmail's interface.
I'm a current student at Lambda School going part time. So this is pretty biased:

I've been enrolled for about 6 months. I've had previous programming experience so I feel I've had a leg up. But had no idea how to use the skills or build anything. I've never felt this confident with what I've learned in my life. Period. Everyone I've interacted with is genuine, welcoming, and gives me the impression they want me to succeed. I'm truly grateful to be able to be enrolled and I look forward to working to be able to pay back the school the value they've imparted in me.

Thank you Austen and everyone from Lambda School!
Wait is non calibrated scoring the norm now? When I was in school (a terribly long time ago) classes were judged by the people that took the classes. That is the % were based in the people that took the tests.
Being net ahead at $55K suggests the repayment is tax deductible. Is that the case?
I think you're confusing flaps with air brakes. Flaps are wing extensions that deploy downwards to increase lift and drag, air brakes are panels that deploy upwards to produce lots and lots of drag to slow the plane down after landing, like a parachute.
Haha, that is legitimately what's going through my mind now.
My parents were nowhere near wealthy enough to make these sized bribes, but doesn't stop me from wondering...It's similar to reading about 'back of the milk carton' child abduction stories.
Considerateness in OpenAI LP Debate
To be fair, if you were donating data then you shouldn't exactly be expecting something in return. If there was an expectation then someone on your end didn't do their job or something on the Stanford end changed.
Yes. I would like to add though, that you can set an optional password as well. Without it the link would be useless. You can share it through a different channel.
Firefox integrates into some platforms better than others. There are some proposed changes to fix this, but they aren't quick fixes.

>Write bindings to all relevant OS composition libraries. For Windows, we already have DirectComposition bindings, and for Linux, there are already bindings to Wayland. We need bindings for macOS Core Animation (which runs in the window server on relatively recent versions of macOS) and Android SurfaceFlinger.

https://github.com/servo/webrender/issues/3115

On the Mac you can pick up performance improvements now by opting out of the OS's window scaling feature for the Firefox app.

Get info for the Firefox app in the Finder and select the option to "Open in Low Resolution".
Okay... It seems more chicken or egg, as the market would not have been lucrative and therefore attractive to participants without high potential earnings <i>independent</i> of the costs.

But even if we assume causation runs the way you state, the point is that a drug war's intensity and the amount of money wrapped up in it are inextricably linked. If you're buying expensive drugs, then it's highly likely that high-cost operations are involved. In a lawless industry, that means more lawlessness.
Do you expect them to tell you that they are taking bribes to admit certain students?
You don't have to use his app, and he doesn't have to support users like you.

It's a two-way thing: many developers don't want to support people that switch off JavaScript, and these consumers are apparently happy that they can't access the majority of the internet (or so they say).
So 20 MAX-related issues out of ~850. How is that significant?
>If the bribe taker donated all of the money to charity, would that make it any less unethical for the University/basketball coach

Yes, it would. That wouldn't make it ethical or legal of course.
This seems inevitable to me when your university is funded by private money and donations.
Meaning a hyper-focus on data structures and algorithms to get you through the interview circuit?

We train students on that stuff but they’d really struggle in the long run if that were too much of a focus.
>> They'll never wash this off.

I wouldn't go that far. If I ever interacted with these unaware children, I would go out of my way to not hold it against them. They did nothing wrong.
Not enough, and for sure not enough to make up for the allcaps.
He was a recent college dropout and bodybuilder, but yeah it’s not an absolutely absurd result.
Which Airbus model is affected?
Yes, it can be scientifically proven which point of view is correct so rejecting a news filter that flags the unscientific viewpoint is actually anti-science.
You mean curved? It depends on the class I think?

And what if like, you end up with a difference between A and B being 2%.