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Obviously both are bad, but if you had to choose (and you kind of do, because admissions is zero-sum in the short term), you should incentivise good character.
This per-call-site change in the async/await case is entirely unnecessary. Users of greenlet or similar get the same semantics without changing all their call sites. The implementations are different, but there are zero-cost implementation techniques available either way.
I work in finance (a trading firm, not a bank). In a way it's freeing to admit to yourself and to your coworkers that all you really care about is making money. No one's deluded thinking they're changing the world by selling options like FAANGs think they are by harvesting personal data.

It's not like we're making the world better but we're not actively harming it.
The definition of white supremacy isn't expanding, but those are two topics white supremacists vocally support.
Another interesting treatment of "immortality" in fiction is the Chasm City/Glitter Band/Yellowstone society from Alastair Reynolds' novels.

Rather than achieving true immortality through some one-off miracle pill a la Golden Age pulps, "immortality" is a sequence of stopgaps - one life-extension therapy gives an individual enough time for science to advance to the point where it comes up with another extension. Rinse and repeat for eternity (or until your nanotech goes crazy and melts you from the inside out, whoops).

The sociological consequences of a system like this, where maintaining your immortality through the pursuit of enough wealth, prestige and tech to get your hands on the hottest new therapies becomes practically a raison d'etre in and of itself, are an interesting contrast to Banks' utopianism. I'd love for us to go Culture, but I'm not holding my breath. On the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised to see some variation of the therapy-chain thing during my natural lifespan.
Yes, I think we're finally getting to the state of engineering and medicine in the 1800s, where bridges and buildings were collapsing, snake oil salesmen and physicians were indistinguishable to the layman, etc. Enough catastrophe will eventually motivate society to regulate the upstarts.
Unless you have sufficient millions to cover those millions of spending.
ya..usually $100K-$125K is the range of our savings. I don't it is really a huge amount of savings when earning over $500K.
When you spend enough time in the future, you forget all the shitty things about the past that tech has changed and only notice the problems that stand out today. Not sure if you're specifically referencing Tahrir Square with your second sentence, but tech has definitely led to real, lasting and immensely positive change worldwide.
>in the end, the users are wrong in the moment, but the real problem is that your app allows a behavior that has negative outcomes, and the proper fix isn't to educate people, but to make it impossible for people to click that delete button so easily, or maybe make the deletion recoverable.

this is the kind of thinking that kills apps for power-users, and leads to dark patterns.

You're not wrong, but I don't really like to think about how those kind of practices could be applied to social problems and government.

"We don't want X people doing Y, so let's subtly make it harder for X people to continue doing Y, without wholeheartedly admitting our intent." seems like a really slippery slope.
The issue with that is it would be cheaper to produce counterfeit bottles, breaking the entire system
The window is shifting to opinions held by those who call themselves the left, which isn't necessarily the same thing as what has been traditionally considered to be leftist.
From the article:
"The score will be calculated using 15 factors, including the relative quality of the student’s high school and the crime rate and poverty level of the student’s neighborhood."

So no, it doesn't account for you to secretly discriminate against you. What it does do, for the penalization part, is that the schools that are in affluent neighborhoods have access to much better resources than ones from Compton or Watts.

To me, a kid from Compton who scores 1500 on the SAT far outweighs someone from Palo Alto High who also scores 1500 because of all the resources the latter received to be able to reach it.

Moving is orthogonal to the problem, except that the district could be brutally hard for some kids.

Also, imagine the other folks in your neighborhood who got literally everything. Driving to school in a Maserati and spending for 4 different tutors over the course of 12 years.

Who is more deserving? You, who scored 1500, or him, who scored 1500? I sure hope you don't say, "it should equal!"
> Health startup uBiome said it would take down the testimonials; new code of conduct calls for ‘accurate and truthful statements’

This story comes only a few weeks after the SF-based health startup was raided by the FBI for suspected health insurance fraud.

The company’s reviews on the Better Business Bureau website make for eye-opening reading: https://www.bbb.org/us/ca/san-francisco/profile/clinic/ubiom...
Yep, the hazards of broken glass are one of the downsides of glass. However, we have that situation now mostly with beer bottles. I routinely pick up roadside trash in my subdivision and much of what I pick up is glass beer bottles.

The other downside (as others have already pointed out) is the weight of heavy glass containers built for reuse. It raises the cost of distribution.
Your comment isn't nearly as clever or original as you think it is.
It's a scale thing when you want a ton of different endpoints.

This is one of the options that Google Pub/Sub and SNS can do for you (and if you use e.g. App Engine, this is also queueing model). It can sometimes be an easier model for bootstrapping message passing.
> Nobody should be able to influence air traffic

That is impossible to prevent. If not anything, it is usually not that difficult to overwhelm any electromagnetic communication with your own powerful signal. Preventing communication is at least as destructive as manipulating communication without avoiding detection.
I agree, but do we really want to disincentivise parents sacrificing for their children's education? I'm fine with taxing Maseratis at whatever rate, not so fine with this.
What statistics will the Adversity Score be based on? How close to reality are those numbers? What statistics will colleges create using the Adversity Score? Those will surely be even further away from reality.

The primary use of a number like Adversity Score is to create a pretty spreed sheet that generates pretty graphs that look good in board meetings, grant applications and pamphlets. While the data backing up the graph is impeccable it also is built on layer after layer of imperfect abstractions until the graph has very little to do with reality.
Google collects more data, but they're much less free-wheeling with how they share it around. Pick your poison I guess.
thought it was a handbag designer.
What would it subvert?

You go to a better school, you get a better education, you are more educated and you get a 34 on the ACT.

If you go to a crappy school and you get the same score than there's no qualitative difference between the schools and your parents skipped vacations for nothing.

But obviously the OP must believe there was value in the better school otherwise they wouldn't mention it. So they would believe they would have got a lower score in a different school, and if that's a proxy for education, then the OP must have ended up with a better education, and is also much more likely to succeed at _any_ college they go to, even if it's not Harvard.
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GPLv3 is incompatible with with the App Store's terms. I like to think that LGPL is technically compatible, but it's certainly a gray area. Note that iOS allows for dynamic linking libraries these days, though code must still be signed before it can be executed.
Which of the two template arguments are you talking about? The enum-typed template argument will lead to a optimized specialization of the template. C++ does, however, have an unfortunate problem with restricting type parameters to types with certain properties/guarantees in ways that won't make the compiler explode in obtuse error messages.
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We should absolutely want to live in a society that rewards people for effort and sacrifice. If we do not reward people for doing those things, they won't do them, and you definitely don't want to live in that society.
Please tell me. You're over center of LA. Where's that mythical flat area you'll land on? Oh, and how will you find it through the fog bank below you for miles...
What abiut multiple airplanes flying close to each other.
Can it inspect WebSockets frames yet? I'm a Firefox user but I miss that sometimes when developing stuff.
Yep, it is still widely used as smb/cifs is a horrible protocol and it should feel bad.

There are some issues with nfs(v4) on the bleeding edge by default, but it has been really cool to see some of the nfs workarounds to deal with big data.
I've had a tab open in my browser for 5 weeks that's a $15 item on Etsy and $10 in shipping. It's the stupidest thing since I would have bought in a heartbeat for $25 and free shipping. I know it's dumb to linger on something so small, but now that I saw this I can justify the additional cost of shipping. I don't get how my brain can rationalize things, but apparently Etsy know.

Five weeks of hesitating, all to be brought in by a catchy video.
two kids..swimming, dance etc. They all add-up.
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It's fine to recognize it. But if you say, z-score applicants by their 'adversity score' peer group, then you negate the impact of their parents efforts. If you negate their parents efforts, you make it not worthwhile for their parents to make those efforts in the first place. If you make it not worthwhile to make those efforts, they won't be made. And society as a whole will be worse off for it.
I am not so worried about games and movies — having access to them is a plus but I wouldn’t be too upset over not being able to revisit a specific game or rewatch a specific movie. Music bothers me a bit more because I like to listen to a lot of my favorite music again.

What worries me the most about this trend is what impact it will have on the computers we use.

Today you can buy a powerful laptop or desktop. You can write software on it, for it, for any purpose at any time. You can distribute that software to others freely, and you can permit others to run your software for any purpose under permissive terms of your liking that still protect the rights you have over your intellectual property, the software that you wrote.

I might be falling trap to the “slippery slope” fallacy here, but the way I see it, once the majority of new games, movies, music and other entertainment is all accessed via streaming, and all of the big players in software move the applications that are used in business and in education to the cloud, the computers we use may easily:

1) Become too weak to do intensive work locally, because everyone are using them as thin clients only, for interacting with software that is run in the cloud.

and/or

2) Become so locked down that we lose the ability to distribute software outside of cloud delivery mechanisms controlled by corporate entities.

I am not anti-corporate. But we cannot allow the corporations to be in control over the software that we use, in this way. Not because they are corporations or because they are capitalists or anything that. The same would be true of any entity, whether that entity be a business, a state, a body of the government, a non-profit organization or even just a person.

When we allow someone else to gatekeep access to the platforms we use, we are handing our freedoms over to them.

I use an iPhone that is running iOS. I can afford to allow my phone to be this restricted because I have other computing devices that allow me to develop software for them on them, and to run software written by others on the operating systems that those other devices are running.

But if none of my devices allowed me to do this, and no devices on the market allowed me to do it either, then where would that leave me?

And where would it leave us? The humanity.

In my opinion, the ability to develop software freely, to distribute that software to others freely, and for them to be able to run that software freely, is so essential to our society and to the future, that if we lose this then we need to take drastic measures to regain the control that we lost as quickly as possible. We would need to crowdfund the development of computers that allow us to do what these future locked down computers don’t. And we would need to ensure that these freedom-friendly computers become used by so many people that we could continue to develop these machines and be able to continue to produce them, at a reasonable price. So that the ability to develop and run any software for any purpose will always be possible.
An individual giving up their car and living in a yurt has literally zero impact on the global problem. It’s like being in a burning stadium and saying “well that person won’t toss their 4 oz drink on the fire, so why should we bother calling the fire department?” Strong concerted effort from people with social/economic/political power is pretty much the only thing that can actually move the needle in terms of biodiversity loss, global warming and all its consequences, etc. just imagine if Silicon Valley companies exerted effort similar to what they’re willing to do to subvert labor protections to change our energy infrastructure!
I would like to put forward best arguments for both systems, maybe it will direct our discussion somewhat.

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Method 1.

Give everyone equal chance at competing in the admission process itself, regardless of how they got prepared. Someone who prepared well, for any reason, might do well in the future too, for the same reason.

Result 1: Get the best prepared students to best colleges, maximize the number of top scientists / engineers / lawyers / etc graduating. Stronger academia and industry in the end.

Result 2: Meritocracy.

Result 3: On the feeling level: objective reward for hard work (no good example comes to mind, but maybe a Cinderella-type story).

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Method 2.

Give everyone equal chance both during the preparation and taking the test. Since that cannot actually be done by the time tests are taken, instead normalize the test result to adversity levels, on the assumption that someone held back by difficult circumstance is likely to perform ~25% better once released from the difficulty.

Result 1: Uncover potential geniuses in the rough, remove mediocre-or-lazy-but-pampered kids.

Result 2: Reduce stratification of society, even if at the expense of overall academic performance of the country.

Result 3: On the feeling level: a fighting chance for poor kids in bad situations (think "The Wire" type kids).
Yes, and I think that's the smartness of this is they clearly came from a stance of Deprecation and realized they could make it more general. Good work, imo.
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I don't think this is the whole story, since as far as I'm aware the only people who get the redemption are people who put very low value on their time because it's inconvenient to actually redeem bottles.
Also, as a smaller player, they stood more to benefit from open source projects (Android and Chrome) and open standards (the web and email). Now that they're on top, the most rational strategy is to secure their position by destroying the bridges they used to get there, locking down those open technologies.
We already have school choice for universities. You go where you want and you either pay for it or find funding from the government/charities. No one finds it weird that you're not tied to your local neighborhood for higher education.

We already have something that's not too far from school vouchers for universities, which is FAFSA. The government provides aid that you can use at any accredited institution, not just the institution into which you were geographically zoned.
I'm not sure what your point is. Nobody mentioned Harvard. This de-values the efforts of parents to improve their kids education. If you devalue something, you get less of it. Simple as that.
That's an interesting article.

I remember that years ago a project at the University of Arizona was doing archaeological work on landfills. It turned out that surprising amount of the non-degrading material found once you dug down a bit was telephone books.
Its ML research is exciting. I would like to work with Yann Lecun
Ask HN: How do you start learning how to build decentralized systems?
Aimed especially at any of y'all that work in the crypto industry or adjacent. I'll be working at a company in the space soon, and wanted to prime myself appropriately, I have a decent amount of SWE experience but none specifically with crypto.
It's possible now, that this information has gone mainstream, programmers worry about how their non-tech friends view them for working there.
Well, someone has to prop up the humanities. Universities are supposed to be communities of scholars. They aren't job training centers. Unless some students are persuaded to pursue less-career-oriented majors, all our universities would soon into polytechnics.
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Hang on, here you go.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucson_Garbage_Project
Stata made some aesthetic sense in isolation. My understanding was that its unusual look and big price tag was justified by the argument that it would be the northeast entrance to the campus. But it's had various problems both in terms of usability and in terms of various problems with the structure and associated elements.

But then with all the other construction in that area, including some very big buildings, Stata now gets almost lost amongst its various neighbors.
>despite using drugs at the same rate as white people

This statistic does not accommodate for cultural differences in use. It's quite possible that black people are more likely to carry and/or use marijuana in public or while driving.
I know but they may conceivably just charge fixed fee for enabling that option on the nodepool.

> it has a high cpu or memory load, and Google would make a lot of profit on the nodes.

They currently solve that problem by having their node VMs melt down at like 50% utilization so you have to run everything with huge padding.
If Tesla backed down on the Autopilot branding and called the feature what it is, fancy cruise control (Cruise+ maybe?) they wouldn’t have to have a PR battle every time something like this happens. It’s way too late for that now though unfortunately.
I've known several people that would no longer work for Facebook, but the Cambridge Analytica isn't the biggest concern. It's the fact that they are censoring people, even within private groups.

I have a friend that jokingly said (in a private group) that men are vile pigs. We knew she was joking - it was good natured. Yet, Facebook issued her a warning and removed her post and threatened her with a ban. First they came for Alex Jones and I said nothing because I don't like Alex Jones (and think he's insane), but now that the precedent is set that Facebook is the speech police, it will expand to us all (especially with their machine learning advancements that are here and yet to come).

The EFF has a really important article about this that I implore everyone to read[1].

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/01/private-censorship-not...
Just introduce a random pool. RANDOM.

I don't trust any of these people to do it correctly. I wouldn't even trust them to make random truly random.
The US banning Huawei totally is no different from China banning Boeing totally.
The partner program isn't on by default, the paywall is. You do not need to be part of the partner program for the paywall.

Source: https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018834314-Stori...
Because reusable usually means crushing the class and making new bottles. Recycled aluminium saves more energy than the glass process.
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I don't think Blogspot/Blogger had ads.
... not really innovating? its main product is still centered in social signaling and gossip ... just like day 1. Also the social craze is not so crazy anymore (I wonder, how are the other social apps doing?)
Kinda feels like admissions departments are not doing their job/the College Board is attempting to do their job for them. Why should I trust a metric from the College Board? Anybody who has taken an AP test can tell you the courses are in no shape or form close to college level. And the SAT is an exercise in anal perfectionism, not intelligence. I don't trust them to accurately judge the socioeconomic background of a cow, let alone a student. And anyways, isn't it the job of the admissions department to judge a candidate by more than their scores? Isn't that the point of "holistic" admissions?

Also, is it just me, or are SAT scores wildly overvalued? Maybe it's just my high school, but SAT scores were never emphasized, versus the ridiculous race for grades, extracurriculars and good essays. The days of a "good" SAT score getting you into a college are over. I can generally tell how old someone is just from how much they emphasize SAT scores.
> For many students, I tutored them weekly or biweekly, for 1-3 hours per week, for multiple years!

This... is a feature, not a bug. The SAT is a tool to measure educational attainment, and you boosted scores by legitimately educating students. The SAT is not a test to measure natural ability (I can't believe this needs to be said, but so many people claim that no intervention should be able to boost SAT scores, and the only logical conclusion is that they want the SAT to measure some sort of unchangeable inborn ability? Of course, I think the actual problem is that they haven't realized that if you eliminate all environmental differences, all you're left with is the genetic lottery.)

But anyway, I think this is absolutely fine. Would you expect someone who hasn't gone to high school to do well on the SATs? Then why in the world would you think legitimate education shouldn't boost SAT scores?