skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I grew up in suburban Maryland, and school trips to Balitmore - to visit the National Aquarium and such - were frequent. We'd go to Orioles and Ravens games and walk 20 minutes from parking without incident. The first time I was ever "cut loose" to roam around without adult supervision was during a trip to the Inner Harbor in 8th grade, and then every year after that, in high school, we would get to spend a day there with visiting Japanese exchange students. There was also an annual anime convention that I'd attend with friends, and again, we'd roam around the area without trouble. It wasn't actually until college, when serialized prestige TV began to be a "thing" and The Wire started to bleed into the the broader cultural atmosphere, that I had any comprehension that Baltimore was supposed to be a dangerous place.

There is a razor sharp divide, even if it's not delineated by a train track.
So... what color is the bear?
Try customizing your daily briefing. Really nice for a curated news briefing while you’re getting ready in the morning, or making dinner.
I'm a heart surgeon!

I can't find work because, ... you know ... ... ...

the rich!
In general, we do delegate voting to experts: we vote for the nominees of our preferred parties.

Note that I'm not saying you should be forced to do that, just that there's nothing intrinsically wrong with it.
Did you read the article?

They literally put $4.6 Trillion on an entry between
wealth entries lableed "incomprehensible" and "incalculable".
Show HN: Building computer labs in schools in Africa
My name is Nelly Cheboi. I am the co-founder of https://techlitafrica.org, an organization that fosters a more technologically literate Africa by building computer labs in African schools.

I was raised in Mogotio, Kenya, in abject poverty. At nine years old, I collected wild vegetables on my way from school to cook for my younger sister. The only way I knew out was by studying. So I studied. I studied hard. And I ended with a full-ride scholarship to Augustana College, IL.

I was majoring in Chemistry before I discovered computer science my junior year of college. I loved it. With only three semesters left, I decided to get a degree in it. I also built a school with the aim of fostering digital literacy. I doubled down on my work-study program, got some donations from friends and four months later I launched Zawadi Preparatory (www.zawadiprep.tech). We admitted 30 kids at its launch in January 2016. Barely 3 years later, we are at 150 kids.

In summer 2018, we built a computer lab at Zawadi Prep. We collected computer donations, bundled it with elementary OS along with open source education software. There is no broadband internet, so we downloaded terabytes of content for our local server including Wikipedia and Stack Overflow. We showed the villagers how to make a Rails app at our free after school program.

I cannot think of a better success story than the one of my seven-year-old niece, Michelle. My friend came over to the lab. Michelle asked, "do you want to see our content?" They were like, "sure." She then opened up a computer, navigated to `192.168.0.2` and said, "look, we have all these." I teared up a little bit. I did not teach any of that.

Our goal for 2019 is to build 10 more computer labs in 10 different Kenyan schools. I always wanted to end poverty. To me, teaching digital literacy is the best way I know how. We now have over one hundred donated workstations. To meet our goal, we need a few hundred more.
I could be wrong, but I don't think Jews get much of an affirmative action boost either.
Charisma, tension, timing. The professionals are actors, comedians, and politicians.
Boarding schools, with Chinese characteristics.
Wouldn't your heart rate increase to alarming levels?

If you were awake & in pain during surgery, you would (of course) freak out. Even if you were paralyzed, your heart rate would increase and the doctors would know. This is what a doctor once told me when I asked.

I'm not sure how to contrast that with what the article says.
While I understand your point and appreciate your knowledge of the situation, I’m left with the idea that while the rest of the world is grounding these planes until more is known Southwest is flying them anyway. The only motive I can see for them to do so is money.

What’s the non-monetary harm in grounding until more is known? They are a small percentage of their fleet.
You can totally get a perfect score in the SATs and have bad spoken English. Having trouble speaking a language is only loosely correlated to being able to understand written language, especially when it’s language of tests. People who have gone through learning a second language seriously get this.

The SATs are also stupidly easy compared to entrance exams in any other place on the planet. If you are gifted and study seriously for a week you can get yourself a very good score no problem

I’m sure that there are cheaters, but if your reference is “bad spoken English” that’s not at all conclusive
These universities don't have the prestige without the legacy admissions (and alumni donors).

There are tons of universities, but it's hard to say anyone "deserves" a spot over someone's family who helped build it.
Is it really surprising that the upper class is isolating itself from the rest, as the gap gets bigger and bigger in time? That happens in all areas of life, school included. The admission system of many universities just makes this very easy.
I've been quite happy using Firefox for all personal and most web development work. Unfortunately though we've had to recommend Chrome to users of our web application since Firefox doesn't support speech recognition..

To catch up I think Firefox needs

- More funding - I think large tech companies should donate heavily to avoid a chrome monopoly..

- Perhaps more focus on core browser features like speech instead of various side projects? (like Firefox Color and Price Wise.. though I must admit I really like Screenshots).
It's realistic, I vaguely remember one story from someone who dislocated his shoulder in his teens and had to have a doctor pop it back into place. Apparently they didn't have regular pain killers, so they gave him something that induced amnesia and just had clinic staff hold him down. He doesn't remember any of it at all.

Granted this happened ~50 years ago so I don't know how embellished the story became over the years, or how pain science changed since then.
agreed! including many other methods to get around air gaps.
was just going to mention not being able to recieve mail from .ru addresses via ProtonMail.
Thanks, reaching out!
Uh...that wasn't antisemetic...when talking about Ivy league representation, Jews are disproportionately represented which is why I distinguished between "Jewish Whites" and Non-Jewish Whites...
Zaid Jilani made a point this week about how AIPAC isn't actually that powerful, rather BDS just doesn't try that hard to lobby and get the right people elected. I guess the BDS movement is going to have to get itself hired Facebook as well now to not get its websites banned? If that's how we think things should be--that what we think is and isn't "insidious" as a society should be steered by Facebook's hiring whims--I think we should be pretty upfront about that!

At least all this is happening above board. It's not like Facebook has employees running tutorials on private Slack servers teaching people how to game the harassment reporting system to spike down content involving opinions they don't like.
In those cases (if they are not two reports of the same incident), while MCAS was discussed prior to the flight, the actual incident appears to be autopilot related, and there is no mention of the trim running away and having to be disabled. In fact, the Captain's report mentions that he chose to engage the autopilot earlier than usual, "to remove the possible MCAS threat."
How is a school prestigious by allowing undeserving[1] rich kids in?

[1] In the sense that they're not academically or athletically at the top of the heap.
As of 2013, the median grade at Harvard was an A-. The mode was an A. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2013/12/...

Anecdotally, I have heard of places that refuse to hire Harvard grads for this reason.
It’s much more democratic to respect the original vote, no?
I think that delta v includes an extra allowance for the extremely thick atmosphere as compared to Earth's. The delta-v for Earth is given as 9 km/s, which is actually greater than orbital velocity at 250 km altitude; the difference is the extra delta-v you have to allow for atmospheric drag. Venus' atmosphere would give a lot more drag.
You'd probably come off as more of an idiot that way. :)
I'm not sure that dissolving a staunch moral evaluation framework necessarily results in a dampening of outrage. Absent an objective moral framework what is left is a subjective moral framework that is not debatable and thus cannot be externally challenged as "correct" or "incorrect." If my own unassailable framework is the only vaguely truth-like metric by which to measure anything, it seems to me that outrage is the perfectly predictable response towards anything with which I disagree since anything that does not agree with my moral framework is not moral.
>> I'm sure if the said parent had not donated the 2.5 million dollars, not a single thing would have been different for the students. Not one.

That's definitely false. Most universities tie annual endowment spending to total endowment size. Just because you can't directly tie the dollars to a specific project, doesn't mean it didn't contribute to the general student body's quality of education.
Working on it. Hope to release it later this week.
Probably a license to keep their changes private.

https://github.com/stanfordnlp/CoreNLP/blob/master/LICENSE.t...
Audubon’s Haiti
Apparently patients do experience pain under certain anaesthesics, but that they do not remember upon awaking. Pretty disturbing to me.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/12/surgical-...
Financial aid at ivy league schools is extremely generous in large part due to their huge endowments.
It is an interesting system.

I did a "full time" 3 month long more "traditional" structured boot camp. I really wish it had been longer and that they.... filtered .... students as it went.
think twice

http://www.unz.com/runz/the-myth-of-american-meritocracy/
Accidents? Or fatalities? Cars today are certainly safer than cars 50 years ago.
> maybe that the “low orbit” distance given for Venus is 400km vs 250km for Earth

No, that won't make much of a difference: the gain is basically just the gain in potential energy for the extra 150 km, which is equivalent to only a few tens of meters per second delta-v.
There’s a lot of study going on about that very issue right now. A lot of surgery is done with the patient conscious or semi-conscious, but on an amnesiac medication that’s supposed to suppress memories. It’s not clear whether memories retained at a deeper sub-conscious level can trigger PTSD.
I couldn’t agree more. The traditional education system is broken for training software engineers in my opinion. I thankfully dropped out my freshman year, but some of my classmates were literally not capable of using Git (branching & resolving merge conflicts) for their senior capstone projects. Given almost every company uses Git all day every day how is a $250k education helping prepare them for working in the real world?

I love that programs like Udacity (and likely Lambda School as well) teaches Git(hub) as a 101 level course and use traditional workflows to submit, critique, and grade code.

I do, however, still think traditional universities still have a place, especially when it comes to research. I’m referring to things like AI/ML.
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What causes some of the finest hackers to come from Russia? Is it attributable to their education system? Comparatively, I don’t see as many hackers coming from any other country? I don’t mean it in a bad way. Just curious.
Pure test prioritization also encourages rote learning and optimizing for the test, which is not great for creativity.
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Did you read the article? The fixer just paid the folks administering the test to let someone else take it, or to let them fix the answers after the fact. Also, agree with the person who mentioned Goodhart's Law.
I suspect you've never heard of the "Jewish Quota" that capped the number of Jews allowed in various schools: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_quota
Is there a difference between your careers posted in English and the ones posted in French? That is, can I apply to your Front-end position in English even though the job is posted in French?
I didn't downvote you and I hope that my comment comes across as more similar to a vuln disclosure than a threat.

Your employer is listed in your HN profile. Assuming that you actually work for that company, you should be careful making such comments, even if your intent is completely benign.

When I was a reporter (I'm not anymore) I trawled HN comments for stories. It is not inconceivable that some Gizmodo-esque rag might write "[Redacted] Employee Making Racist Comments on Tech Forum" or whatever.
Aren't minorities the majority in Baltimore? I don't know what the difference is between Baltimore City and whatever is Baltimore in practice, but the statistics I've seen today [0] suggest that "minorities" are white people.

Honest question - how can the criminal justice system in Baltimore be biased against 'black people's drugs' as a minority when they are numerically in the majority? It is an interesting logistical challenge to discriminate against a 60% voting block in a democracy. Is criminal justice enforced by non-city actors? (I'm not an American)

[0] planning.baltimorecity.gov/sites/default/files/2a_City%20Profile%20-%203.30.16_0.pdf
So how does this study capture individuals like, say, myself who apparently industry has deemed "unemployable" due to past legal (all-substance related) "transgressions" but is desperate to work in the industry where he has a 25 year history?

I deal daily, now that I am mid-50's, with deep bone-on-bone pain due to a badly torn ACL in high school, and have found that light-dose opioid treatment keeps my QOL at a reasonable level and let's me live a pretty normal life.

Getting access to these medications is now basically impossible without a huge financial and emotional investment thru "normal" channels.

Have any of you ever felt the shame one feels when a 26yo pharmacist looks at you with semi-disguised disgust because you asked him to fill a opioid prescription? Or even worse, tell you that they are "out" of the medication and suggests you go to the other side of town to fill it?

And let's not mention the incredible hassle and expense of trying to get said prescription nowadays...you can't even mention the word opiate during your examination without risking being kicked out of the office or something of the like.

Does taking 30mg of a crappy synthetic opioid twice a day to relieve me of chronic pain really make me an unhireable junkie piece of shit? YES! shouts back society on a daily basis.

Because that is where we are nowadays...BTW, I work my ass off while on medication because it allows me to concentrate on my software and not on the never ending aching throb in my knee.

I've tried Tramadol and many other pain relief concoctions to various degrees of success, but I just don't understand why I have to live with the trade off when what works for me works so much better then anything else.

So I choose to buy my opiates on the street...the natural type thank-you-very-much, and my life is much more pleasant, besides the fact no one will hire me due to my past, then it would otherwise be.
A donation is only a donation if you don't expect anything in return.
Is there an autotools equivalent in Rust land?
time to forget elastic and use open distros
> Any place where people congregate will have more crime. The existence of the Wal-Mart may have displaced crime and shoplifting from elsewhere. The existence of the Wal-Mart means that crimes occur there,

OK

> but that doesn't tell you anything one way or the other.

This directly contradicts your previous sentence.
Love how their extra small is 4 cores and 16gb ram (about $45/mo).
This is accurate. I was there. My name is Tyler, and I help install Linux and content on the machines. If you have content, routers or ethernet cable, please reach out! <mailto: techlit.africa@gmail.com >
MTOOLs for Bochs and Win32 and/or DOS
Bigger question: Why bring race up at all, then? Class has demonstrably larger effect.

The 1% are very disproportionately represented in the Ivy League, too.
What are you talking about, of course sourcing new endowments allows them to build more things/provide more services/etc. Approximately half of Yale's operating budget comes from revenue generated by its hospital system (which is a whole 'nother contentious issue, but besides the point). The other half largely comes from drawing a "safe amount" on it's endowment principal, i.e., small enough to be sustainable in the long term without depleting the fund. A relatively small part comes from tuition. Obviously, increasing the endowment (be it $2.5MM or $250MM at a time) increases the amount that can be put towards budgeting in the future -- enabling, for example, the University to grow its student body (which Yale is currently doing) while maintaining the ability to privately subsidize student tuition.
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That's easy. Always count on team of people from various interests, ideally people sent from candidates and watch each others.
I’ve also woken up during surgery to remove a hematoma. I was so high off the anesthesia that it was less fear/pain and more of a disassociation/dreamlike state. I was comprehending what was going on around me but didn’t have full control over my faculties.

I expect that kind of thing happens pretty regularly because once the anesthesiologist realized it they re-dosed me pretty quickly and I was back out again. They didn’t seem alarmed at all. The whole situation, while it felt like a decent amount of time, probably lasted less than 30 seconds and only felt more stretched because of the drugs.

Tangentially I do remember the doctors and nurses having some sort of conversation that seemed ridiculously mismatched to the current situation but I am guessing more mundane talk happens during people’s surgeries than a normal person would expect.
I have heard of that but what does that have to do with anything now?

It isn't an active policy of any of Ivy League schools anymore ..
Do you really think these schools would have the same prestige and endowments if money and connections didn't get peole in?

People want the prestige and connections of a legacy/endowment driven school, but don't seem to realize that it comes with legacy admissions.
And "Donations" like what I describe aren't bribes?

This is only slightly different classes of bribes. They both are bribes.
That's how college admissions in most asian countries work.

You're get a roll number, you write a test, a list gets published that ranks all the roll numbers, sometimes with scores. Colleges offer admissions to anyone who scored between ranks 1-N.
At more elite schools N is small (e.g. 100), but in lower ranking schools N is large (e.g. 100000+).

Affirmative action is practiced by having different Ns for different disadvantaged groups (i.e if you are a lower caste, N=1000, but for general admissions, N=100)

The downsides of this system are that it still fails to eliminate economic biases (i.e a student from a well to do family can hire tutors who help them test prep better) and that it's impossible for the school to control the makeup of a class - e.g in a year I was in school, a new test prep school opened up in a city and students from that school scored significantly higher than others in the admissions test. So, about 50% of the incoming class were students who went to that test prep school.
Even if you don’t wake up during surgery, it feels like there’s an imprint of the trauma. I had a very long operation and by the time I came round I was in pieces emotionally, with no clear idea of what had happened but still a deep sense of dread. On some level it felt like my body knew what had just happened.
Agree. Anecdotally, I had a sales manager who graduated from Harvard. He was literally no different from any corporate manager I've ever had and just parroted whatever unattainable goals trickled down from the top, providing no clear way to meet said goals
In ACN 1597380 - why would MCAS kick in if he wasn't manually flying (pilot states autopilot was engaged specifically to avoid MCAS)?
We are in the process of building up a new aristocracy. This process has repeated itself over all of history.
Fastmail has DKIM, static webpage, shared email folders, DNS and more. Support is also very good. Choose fastmail
I'm not sure how your comment addresses the core problem that risk/distance is not a reasonable metric if long-distance driving is less risky than short-distance driving, and you apply the short-distance driving risk to long-distance driving.
Nice story. Is there a more technical description of what criteria they are using? Day of the week? Temperature? Rain? Any graph for the 97% accuracy?
Man behind firm that linked Iran to Citrix hack revealed
Or drive.
> The most common justification for all this grunting and groaning is, "I'm not always certain of the next thing to say, so I need time to think of it."

I knew someone whose strategy in this situation was simply to speak

with

lots

of space

between

...

each word.

Thereby supplying himself an opportunity to think.

Sadly his fate was the same as unhappy Julius.
My spinal analgesia for an unplanned c-section utterly failed. My anesthesiologist thankfully kept it together and immediately went to our discussed plan B, but I felt so bad about it that I sent her a gift basket. I wonder how common that all is.
How do Jews get a leg up from affirmative action and legacies when the application doesn't ask for your religion (any more) and there were quotas in the past to limit the number of Jewish students?
Elon should just copy/paste a lawyer pre-approved disclaimer text onto the header portion of each tweet, just to nullify the short sellers enrichment commission . . .
If you want an RCA of the last two crashes in 737 MAX's, please see the parent. Ridiculous gyrations to avoid new aircraft regulations creates dangerous scenarios for pilots and passengers.
Man, that sounds like a real dark time. Glad to hear you left that job--hope you're doing better now. Thank you for sharing your story!
Good link, thank you.
If the goal is to graduate alumni which will donate the largest amounts, then a large donation up-front from a well-connected individual is one such filter which achieves that goal without delay.