skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The issue with 'equality of opportunity' is it barely exists ... Colleges have limited ability to help with those factors

I think you summed up the problem quite well and acknowledged that colleges aren't in much of a position to solve it, but seem happy with a solution that ignores the problem. A much more effective effort would be to solve the problem and ensure that there is equality of opportunity as much as possible, like eliminating your postcode determining your quality of schooling.

Don't forget that not everyone is college bound, those that don't get help from the college will still have a poor education, will still live a poor community and will still have another generation of kids facing the same issues.
Reflections on Five Years of Making Art Through Programming
You'd have to copy/paste a serious chunk of code you don't understand to really cause any damage. I think this comment is either taking the pun or misguided.
I wonder why they are disclosing this so early, with so little information.
It’s not all doom and gloom, that sort of mentality is still alive and well in the indie scene. Specifically people who make games like FTL (Rimworld and Factorio are two more recent examples of fantastic games that don’t require internet connectivity) are keeping the dream alive. My rule of thumb is to never buy games on Steam and only get them through GoG or directly from the developer. Sometimes there are a few titles that I really really want to play but are too tied to Steam and not on any other platform (I’m looking at you, Tabletop Simulator!) but for the most part as long as you are ok with staying away from AAA titles you can avoid always-online lock in and still have an amazing gaming experience.
"diminishing the effect outsized parental involvement can have on college admissions" != "efforts of parents don't help their kids"
Any tips on replicating the same results? Would love to hear more
What universe do you live in? 96% of all prisoners are released. Less than 4% serve life sentences. The reason why rehabilitation needs to be emphasized is because we live with large numbers of ex-criminals. They serve their time and they are released and now they are part of our society again.
"It is absolutely their fault that their customers are throwing their products onto our ground."
WAT!

A company is not responsible for it's irresponsible consumers!

Also their no scapegoat for irresponsible people who litter. That is the crux of the issue here.

Rallying against a large corporation because people litter with their product is effectively excusing people who litter. That is wrong - don't go there.
We'll have nonviolent prison cities separate from the violent ones. :)
Yeah that book radically changed my perspective. I just laugh now when people talk all this doom and gloom.
You're exactly repeating OPs reasoning, yet you somehow completely disagree with it.

I don't get you, batbomb. But that's OK sometimes.
So by that logic, if I sold you a car and you abandoned it in the middle of a busy freeway, it would then be my fault?

I’m not on the side of big business, ever really. But this is insane logic (today it’s all to common too). The PEOPLE doing the littering are the problem, if it’s not a coke can it’s something else. Assign responsibility where it’s deserved. It easy to blame big money and business these days for the shortcomings of people.

Make it a crime with not only a hefty fine, but demanded personal time on community service. Some people don’t care about money, but everyone cares about their time.

It works just fine for the Japanese and in Singapore.
The boomers are mostly retired, with the exception of some senior executives, senior government officials, etc. They are truly pulling the strings now. The Gen-Xers are the mid-40s folks getting maximum whiplash from the string-pulling.
That's called being an startup, any other news?
Radar for the Wrist
> Banks don't earn much more than their cost of capital anymore.

This doesn't sound right. Can you add some citation or detail?
No.

Better for consumers to push intel out of the high end desktop market with a 64 core 128 thread threadripper with liquid cooling supporting 256 gb fast ram. Get the cores over 4ghz.

Coders can assign threads to virtual cores and spin-wait them for fast response to requests given the big threadripper L2 caches kept populated by the spin wait.
Reflecting on this, I wonder if a PaaS solution that is a "vault" of confidential information would be a good thing.

Similar to how Stripe handles payments with a token, we could all store tokens for User information (eg the Id) and query the vault (or operate on the vault, eg, validate login, or return email, etc) using keys.

The service could be hardened (like Stripe) to ensure the data is stored securely, and detect ex-filtration attempts (eg, queries for multiple customers at once being abnormal) and automatically block that.
How to avoid waking too early?
omg, Homebuilt CPUs WebRing still working.
The Jews actually have a pretty strong family component. In theory they aren't a race but for practical purposes it might as well be a racial stereotype (eg, the classic hook-nose propaganda - clearly a racial stereotype).

Anyway, the point was that the culture is what is important. Jewish culture is clearly somewhat different from Christian culture. If you seep a person in a specific culture that will define how they think in a way that their race does not.
Are you offering a competitive salary?
They pay well, it's a good brand name to have on your resume, but on principle, I ignore any recruiter from Facebook.

It's glorified MySpace that exists to build de facto detailed psychological profiles on unsuspecting participants, and it's specifically engineered to manipulate their behavior. No thanks.
You’ve never been to the Southwest or the Gulf South, have you? There are parts of the US where you would die without AC. Seriously, like when you get a brownout on a hot summer day in New Orleans or Santa Fe or Dallas, people start dying. Mostly the elderly and kids.
There are a couple of very interesting articles on GPS spoofing. Not only is it doable [0] but there are some interesting cases that most people don't really think about. Consider that GPS is often used as a timing signal by various financial entities (including stock exchanges). If you override the legitimate GPS signal (not a lot of power required as you'll be much closer to the receiver) and introduce a small deviation into the timing signal you can create some very interesting (and profitable) effects in the stock market. [1]

Even introducing an error into the system can cause disastrous effects [2]

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/a-225...

[1] https://radionavlab.ae.utexas.edu/images/stories/files/paper...

[2] https://blog.themistrading.com/2012/07/could-gps-spoofing-ca...
You are right it was in jest. I stopped short of the colacrypto coin. But your idea sounds good too just some scan and each bottle can be accounted for and at the end of the year have some idea how many make it to recycling.
Perhaps, but there is also a cultural trend of alt-right/far right groups clamoring about free speech in response to de-platforming and being uninvited to speak at college campuses. Most contemporary American free speech protests aren't apolitical affairs where nonsectarian activists are just "standing up for their rights because they legitimately care about freedom" for the sake of free speech as an ideal- they view freedom as a means to promote their ideology.
I'm not sure how the journalist fact checked this, but in 2016 CMU sent 12 people to Facebook[1]. In 2018 CMU sent 27 people to Facebook[2].

[1] https://www.cmu.edu/career/documents/2016_one_pagers/scs/scs...
[2] https://www.cmu.edu/career/documents/2018_one_pagers/scs/1-P...
From one developer in a crowded marketplace (mine is photo management software) to another (you're describing a CMS), I'd spend some quality time researching open and closed source alternatives, and have a ready answer for how your product's features differentiate you from the crowd.

Make sure you also check out WordPress, Ghost, GatsbyJS, Hugo (and then expand the search by those terms + " alternative").

Good luck!
Large.com is available for $850k if there's a VC thinking they can disrupt.
> my company (a startup)

ad-tech startup?
I dated a girl once whose family had a ton of money - think billions. She lived in the ritziest of neighborhoods, went to the best private schools, and had private tutors galore. I was a middle class income kid from a middle class neighborhood. She however, was also unfortunate enough to have early onset M.S. and could not sit comfortably for a very long, no matter how many tutors you gave her, and extra time couldn't overcome the fatigue. If she and I both got the same score, who is more deserving of admiration? I hope you don't say me, because you'd be wrong. The so-called "adversity score" would never capture her private medical struggle.
The people creating them shouldn't be banned, but those titles should definitely be banned because that is a terrible and uncreative joke/reference that should have been retired by the end of the 2016 presidential elections.
It's actually a problem at the moment. After the raise to $0.10 deposit, some people started hauling bottles over from Washington. The way the program is funded depends on less than 100% of bottles being returned.

We need something national. And just bottles isn't going to cover it - single use plastic products are cheap enough, and companies have no incentive not to use them, so of course everyone else ends up dealing with them.
There's a factory in town here that starts people with a high school education at better than the national median household income (COL is not high). They have their pick of that labor force though, and the employee count has come down over the decades.

So those jobs exist, just not enough of them.
What tends to be the first indication of breaches? It's one thing to do a forensic analysis after learning of a breach, and it's another to detect it in the first place.
That feature has serious bugs on iOS, and that's probably why it's not the default as Apple can't get it to be stable.

Don't ask him to add it, ask Apple, it's their fault. It's not a production feature.

And since it's Apple, you can't just use another browser as it's all the same crap on iOS.

You're stuck with something worse than the 2019 equivalent of IE6. iOS is a joke when it comes to web browsing.
I don't think the product is targeted at people questioning the health effects of their heavy drinking, but rather at people questioning the effects of endurance training, long commutes, or other habits that may be inadvertently causing them long-term harm.
It’s really easy to win the crowd by calling everyone else biased. When FB is one of the biggest lobbyists in Washington I highly doubt the press has ever been critical enough.

They got by on being the new darling child startup and built up an gargantuan pile of moral debt which they are now fairly paying for.
> Being conscious of dog whistles isn't expanding the white supremacist classification.

It does when allegations of dog whistling are levied against mainstream viewpoints. Saying "build the wall" is a white supremacist dog whistle is absolutely a means of expanding white supremacy to encompass support border enforcement. Nothing about building a wall on a national border is white supremacist. White supremacists may be in favor of such a viewpoint, but that does not make the viewpoint itself white supremacist.

Accusations of dog whistling is a very cheap and effective way of stuffing words into one's opponents' mouths and many do use it to try and paint acceptable views as white supremacist.
I completely agree with this, and based on past research it seems it’s a highly cultural phenomenon. What it basically comes down to is that countries with strong public transportation infrastructure view public transportation as a basic human right, whereas the US views it as a social welfare program. It’s a bigger fight than just voting for better politicians, it’s deeply cultural.
It will become just like credit scores. A whole industry will sprout around gaming the score. There will be "adversity score repair" companies guaranteeing to increase your score in 30 days. There will be "Adversity Karma" where you can log in and see your score and its trend over time.
I suspect we're just going to disagree on "as long as you can pay for it". In a publicly voucher system a large part of your ability to pay is provided by the government. This is not the case today. Vouchers take the ~$5-10k allocated for you that is "locked up" in your zip code and allows you to spend it anywhere you want. This doesn't fully equalize ability to pay but it's a large step toward equalizing it.

Secondly it fixes incentive structures. Good schools in high-tax areas can now see inbound students from elsewhere as partially subsidizing the cost of the school, rather than being a pure cost center. Again this doesn't perfectly equalize anything but it's a step in the right direction.

Allowing low income students more freedom in how they spend their government-allocated funds mitigates the problems of wealth disparity. This is already how the university system works so assertions that it is a complete farce should also justify the abolition of the FAFSA system in exchange for federal funds that can only be used at the university nearest your home.
Contrasting "scientism" as faith in "science" vs "science" as an evidence based process of ascertaining how the world works, you're probably describing "killing in the name of scientism" which is effectively religion insofar as it is a matter of faith.

E.g. faith that building universities and education makes people behave in a "sciencey" manner
Can confirm. Worked there. Deeply disenchanted with the ethics of many people especially in the product, marketing, and (as you would guess) senior leadership groups.
There's a huge spectrum between "raw ability" and SAT/ACT. A good test would measure somewhere in the middle of that spectrum. It's not impossible to do, but is really hard.

The SAT (and other standardized tests) make a lot of sense when you're comparing people who have spent more-or-less the same amount of time and money preparing. They also make sense as one component of a holistic picture, weighed appropriately.

The the true value of these tests for predicting potential is a lot less useful otherwise.

The huge problem, from a predict-success perspective, is that you can't tell the difference between:

1. a brilliant person;

2. a kind-of-smart person who's very driven; and

3. an average person with no work ethic who was forced to sit with a tutor for many hours each weekend.

> Then why in the world would you think legitimate education shouldn't boost SAT scores?

It should. That's what the SAT is for. As I've said twice now, the SAT is a well-designed test. I don't think the SAT should change. I'm just now sure how useful it is, especially as a holistic measure.

To be really concrete about this: colleges should shy away from the SAT because I won't be holding those students hands forcing them to study and custom-designing their course of study at their first job!

At some point soon after graduating college, the hand holding disappears and you sink or swim. Academic preparation helps, but work ethic and the ability to learn on your own is really important. Colleges are, or at least should be, attempting to select people who are more likely to "swim".

If I were a college admissions officer, I'd probably weigh "good enough scores to know you're not an idiot, plus a compelling demonstration of grit and work ethic" WAY over "great scores with no demonstration of independent drive".

(FWIW I think we're now completely disconnected from the actual topic of the article, since that's not what the hardship score is measuring)
Or impersonate indeed [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WKZNGisSqM
What is your best alternative? I'd say dev.to is a good one for the context of software/programming related content
FWIW, I think this past year everyone has been expecting Uber, Lyft, Airbnb and Pintrest to unlock a flood of money. Anecdotally, a researcher friend of mine turned down FB to work in Snap Inc, research and someone else's wife also turned down FB to work at Lyft went to get in before the IPO specifically and no other real reason. So as much as it makes a good story about ethics or privacy concerns, I think it's lots of things, but probably very little about Cambridge Analytica.
There are great high schools, decent high schools, mediocre high schools and bad high schools and we can tell the difference.

There are neighborhoods full of rich people, middle class professionals, working class people, and slums and we can tell the difference.

I don't know why you think that's so hard. It seems quite easy to me. Certainly worth trying instead of (as you seem to advocate) just giving up at the slightest difficulty.
GraphQL design patterns for Real-Time and offline app architecture
It is different when college board does it.

When a university makes that decision, that is the student pool they are going to bring in and they take the risk with their graduation stats, employment stats and failure rates.

When college board does it, they have literally zero skin in the game. They bill both the prospective student and the institution, produce this arbitrary number and there is no penalty for getting it wrong since they can just move the goalposts and declare success.
This is a luxury and a privilege many people can't afford, and I am right there with you in exercising it consciously.
No it’s not fraud in the least. Nothing says I need to be married at all.
He/she is making a joke. No user data was accessed so the assumption is questions may have been, a couple pluses changed to minuses could cause a lot of damage (headaches?) when copy pasting.
What happens now is if you don't found something your a permanent temporary.
It's worth noting that all of hiring is some form of discrimination. An employer is activilly discriminating against anyone one they do not hire by any number of criteria.

This is fine. Generally accepted criteria such as fitness of duty, education, relevant experience, references and criminal background are all forms of discrimination that are generally accepted forms of discrimination.

But, unacceptable forms of discrimination include race, sex, religion and sexual orientation. If you, as an employer, engage in discrimination against better qualified employees to make a quota of an arbitrary percent of these protected classes against another based upon their class status, you are, in my opinion engaged in unlawful discrimination. It is still targetted discrimination even if it's against a majority class member such as race or gender, if that's the reason for the decision.

Promoting or accepting an underqualified minority over a more qualified minority under "affirmative action" or "diversity" is systematic, institutionalized racism/sexism.

Instead, how about we stop asking or considering "what" we are and consider what we can offer beyond our race/sex/sexual orientation?
If by "marketing department" you mean "advertising business" you would be correct. But I am skeptical you meant that.
Please KEEP USING medium to keep all those uninspired rants, thought leader posturing, and no substance fluff pieces on subjects that are actually interesting behind a paywall.

Please put more effort into creating better content by exhibiting interest and passion into a subject through deep exploration, insights, discussion of core issues and resolution, and great descriptive writing.

It used to be that everyone who wrote a diary had no expectations of their content being anything valuable, and the value of writing was in the exploration of ideas and organization of your thoughts. Now the value of writing is how many people you reach? Philosophically, I'm against that change, so please keep that stuff behind a paywall.
> I’m getting pushed further and further to the right.

Cycles of poverty will never end when people with the privilege of dedicated and capable parents facilitate their success feel like victims. How about some alternate suggestions for poor kids without parents like yours?
Q: "How do I recursively set ownership of folders in Linux?"

A: http://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste
This logic is ridiculous. No one should be punished, how about that?
It's a matter of degree. Some sacrifice = great. Extreme sacrifice = bad.
That raises the question, what are the most unreliable components of a computer nowadays, beside the HDD?
> If you enjoy reading on the web chances are you’ve been forced to login to Medium at some point in the last week.

I've never once logged into Medium. I see a "Pardon the Interruption" notice every time I want to read something, but I just hit Escape and move on with my day. If I had to pick a side, I'd probably say avoid Medium. But I don't know under what circumstances it forces you to log in just to read something.
Because the metrics of these search engines show that instant is better for their users and because their non-web proprietary competitors are instant (Facebook Instant Articles and Apple News). Otherwise, they wouldn't bother with the extra infrastructure costs.
And you have just identified the reason that most people won't use it
The stereotype evolved because Jews were forbidden by law from owning land in most of Europe and also forbidden from joining the guilds that ruled the professions. So if you can't own land and can't be a professional and also might be forced out of your home in a hurry, the game-theoretic solution is to be a moneylender. I don't think this is particularly cultural, as women in India for instance have long kept their wealth in gold for the same reason. That's why women like jewelry: if you're forbidden from having a bank account and credit and can't own your home, you need to have something you can carry away and pawn. (I mean, since the 1960s women have been allowed to open their own bank accounts in the US -- but that's within my mother's lifetime!)
Interesting that this message is being delivered by the VP of Engineering rather than a VP of Security or another more security focused counterpart with a sufficiently senior title. Wonder if SO has an in house security team with management and executive representation?
People litter because it's convenient. Corporations ignore litter because it's convenient. The truth is everyone plays their part in this, but it is my opinion that those that produce waste must have a plan to deal with it.

For example, Coke could offer to refill their drink bottles, but the truth is, if you're out and about and want another pint of coke, you need to buy another container with it, which ultimately will need to be dealt with by your areas waste management system etc etc.

As a company they contribute so much to waste, and draw such significant profits that they must at least be somewhat implicated for the production of this pollution.

Another angle: if cars are being marketed to everyone left right and centre, and lots of people buy cars that ultimately produce tonnes of greenhouse gasses, who do you hold ultimately accountable for the pollution? the consumer who has had adverts/dreams rammed down their throat or the chaps selling the cars?
What Sudoku Can Teach Us About Learning to Program
If US "Defense" is any indicator, just pay more money.

Someone is willing to kill people for more money.
Also Asian myself. There has never really been a place for us on either side of the political spectrum. The left does not treat us as they do with other minorities, so they don't care about screwing us over while the right generally only uses us to pretend that they care about minorities to appeal to centrists/other.

While the right's policies may benefit us a bit, culturally the right will be just as happy to screw us to benefit themselves/their majority constituents when the time comes.