skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
100%. To truly level the playing field requires far earlier intervention (of the sort we see through LeBron James' I Promise initiative), and is entirely beyond the ability of the College Board or even the university system as a whole. But the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

> (or adjust the SAT so it is more representative of their actual skills).

The problem, as you point out just one sentence later, is that adversity materially diminishes students' abilities. Either we can test them on their actual skills, which correlate strongly with socioeconomic status, or we can give disadvantaged kids preferential treatment at the last minute. You can't have both.

I don't know how to reconcile the belief that everyone deserves a fair shot with the reality that there are only so many open seats at America's premier universities (or anywhere else advancement and prosperity reside, for that matter). If you truly believe in equal opportunity, you must concede that the rich and poor are equally deserving of the chance to go to Harvard, and artificially closing the gates on some of the rich in favor of some of the poor is a crude facsimile of justice.
I wouldn’t use Taleb if you want to be taken seriously in the area of psychology.
Isn't it a crime to accuse someone falsely? How much time will the computer spend in prison for that?
Your comments echo my sentiments exactly, but I do think this update is mainly about resolving these points. They've done a lot of work in recent years on a revamp of the foundations of the DevTools, and I think they're starting to pay off now.
Thanks for the interest XP Android will come!

I tried to make Notify17 as usable as possible with the fewer amount of setup, so bash is a thing :)

I'll let you know when Android is out!
The GP isn't saying don't have the feature. They're saying don't have the delete button next to the save button, labelled ambiguously, and without a confirmation step.
> Having a bus or lorry use an active runway is just a single, malicious UDP packet away...

Nonsense. It all depends on what is implemented on top of UDP.
Actually its doesn’t matter as any dollar spent by the rich will filter down through the economy and ultimately end up with a near identical carbon footprint.

It would only be if the rich spent their money directly on subsiding fossil fuels would it make any difference.
There is a new lecture series here to add a resource: https://youtu.be/xALXm2XHDWc
I have a question for those far more into sleep hygiene than I am: is it possible to get blue light-blocking prescription lenses for normal glasses?
Do you really think you are going to solve this by training all the individual people responsible for litter?
For a second I thought this was actually about scooters being abandoned on the sidewalks. I was in Paris in February and there were scooters littered all over the place.
> Don’t reuse passwords.

Nobody here disagrees with this premise. I just disagree that "low cost of compute" changes the fact that functions like Argon2 can be tuned to become more expensive to crack based on changes in computation cost. If you're worried about someone spinning up something on AWS to crack hashes, bump up the memory and CPU hardness and now they'll have to spend much more money to crack your passwords. In addition, the design of most modern password hashing functions is such that you get poor parallelism on GPUs.
It's just for beta testers, meaning this will be temporary (3 months for now, with good chance it will be renewed or made permanently). The biggest challenge here is determining what a good number is for a free tier, to help small users properly and not impact on the business for bigger ones.
> The student has the privilege of benefiting from their parents' sacrifices

And that sacrifice will be for nought, due to adversity scoring.

This is a very bad idea.
VMware over NFS maybe used in SMB (small medium businesses) enterprises use iscsi or SANs

when the NFS server crashes bad things happen and if you are building a redundant multi master NFS it’s a lot simpler to use iscsi and FC SAN
They're working on this as part of (ironically) Google Summer of Code. Here's the bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=885508

(Yeah, it's overdue.)
Even PHP's hash_function uses scrypt. Yes, some people explicitly decide to hash everything with sha1 but nothing you or I do will ever be able to stop them.
I drove a Hertz vehicle in Germany. Two weeks later, back home, I got a letter from a German town/municipality with a speeding fine. Included is a photo from the camera... the person in the photo is not me, and the timestamp is days after my rental finished.

Thankfully, they resolved it with a couple of (very confused) phone calls. Sounds like I got lucky.
As someone who went to Harvard, I'm pretty sure there are a lot of extremely decent universities that all basically provide the same quality of instruction. People just get unreasonably hung up over the 'best' schools, but there are easily at least like 100+, if not several hundred, that provide easily roughly the same educational experience as far as I'm aware.

The peer group may definitely dramatically different from what I can tell, but if you're a serious student and there for the learning above all, very straightforward to get into a school that will teach you just about anything you could learn at Harvard or any other Ivy League or similarly 'elite' school.
> We "never once made this about anything other than obtaining immunized testimony in furtherance of an investigation," he said, adding that "all we want is her to truthfully answer questions as our constitutional republic requires of our citizens."

Immunity does appear to be on the table as part of the request, though I'm not sure why you would browbeat someone into testifying with jailtime and threats that amount to bankruptcy if you aren't seeking to entrap them in some fashion.
Your content is backed up. In addition to Medium, your own blog can also attract users. Your website is much more customizable. With some luck and work, your website may perform better in google search.
It was, here's the bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=885508
The article has a quotation that suggests there was immunity:

We "never once made this about anything other than obtaining immunized testimony in furtherance of an investigation," he said, adding that "all we want is her to truthfully answer questions as our constitutional republic requires of our citizens."
How much can you earn from blogging on Medium?
Add Japan to the list. Littering is extremely rare.

When traveling, I've been impressed by the cleanliness of Zurich, Copenhagen, Helsinki, and several cities in Germany.

If as a society we can't do something as simple as not throw garbage on the ground, I think we have a very bleak future.
Yeah, the article is somewhat confusing, or wrong? I didn't see much people driving on pavement as well (I can't recall any), but had to move four of these to the side so that the lady with a roller can go through the pavement. The parking is literally - just leave them anywhere. And then they fall on the side, making them unwanted since nobody wants to drive scooter that's on the ground, so they stay there for days.

> She said parking in such a way as to obstruct traffic or pedestrians will mean a 35-euro fine -- but the Paris city council has pledged to build parking spots for 2,500 scooters.
I just don't understand why someone who wasn't born female, and has the physical advantages that come with [nearly] a lifetime of testosterone, would be proud of themselves for smashing the records held by biological females.
And who determines the amount an individual can consume per month? I have friends and family that drink at least a bottle a day and have no plans on stopping.
I choose to believe he made the computer virus as an abstract metaphor for aids.
I always found it strange that Foucault has come to be identified, in the mainstream view of his work but also in academic circles, with radical leftism. It's hard to read Discipline and punish or any of his work on biopolitics and not sense the underlying criticism of the welfare state and "big government". His libertarianism made him at odds with many French Marxist thinkers of his era and I suppose must have played a part in his relocation to America.

I think that Foucault found capitalism and the freedom it granted absolutely fascinating (just like Marx before him was fascinated with capitalism's ability to increase wealth), which eventually led him to look into thinkers like Hayek, Friedman and Say. Anedoctal but imo significant: his last partner and the executor of his will now works for a neoliberal think tank.

The left-wing magazine Jacobin had ran an interesting inyerview on the subject of Foucault's neoliberal inclinations some time back, worth a read if the subject interests you: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/12/foucault-interview/
The article says they are being placed in bike lanes and streets. Paris streets aren't super safe but they are considerably easier to ride on than they are in American sroads.
Fundamentally I think pretty much everyone agrees on the concept of equal opportunity. But what people don't seem to agree on is the definition of equal opportunity. Or even I guess what is opportunity?

If we have 2 people, A and B. A belongs to a wealthy family and lives in a nice neighborhood and goes to a nice high school. B has a poorer family, lives in a worse neighborhood and goes to a worse high school. What would providing equal opportunity look like? It seems like it should be something along the lines of B should also be able to attend the nice school, have access to tutors if desired etc. Not adjust B's scores up by some arbitrary amount because of circumstance.
I’ve thought about doing this exact thing. I wish you the best of luck - I think there is a strong demand for a simple solution like this.
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They just rolled out scooters in Helsinki. People are riding on the sidewalk everywhere. I contacted the city to suggest learning from the other examples of cities which have had many teething problems with scooters, but they were not in any position to enforce any form of rules on the operators. Crazy.
Isn't the whole point of modern password hashes that the don't scale with GPU compute in the same way as MD5?
The cops are the ones investigating, and I'm sure the number of actually stolen rental cars is far greater and comes along with identity theft. But at Hertz some human should do a thorough check.
Traffic in cities should be remodeled.

Currently, approx. 7/8 of public space is used by cars. Most of the time they're stuck in traffic or 'dead capital' while in parking mode. Furthermore, where I live, the price to park a car is ~10 times cheaper than to rent (per sqm) and highly subsidized by tax payers.

I wonder why we do protect our workers but pedestrians and cyclists/scooters just don't matter. Have you ever seen a working environment where an object with 2-40tons is allowed to freely move next to a person at a speed of 50km/h and more? I'm glad we do have rules in working enviromnents. It would be great to see the same on roads as well.

I'm all for 'shared roads' with a speed limit reduced to 20km/h which makes it unnecessary for cars to overtake scooters/cyclists. We wouldn't have to build new infrastructure but could simply use the existing one. I could imagine we could even remove most of our traffic lights replaced by roundabouts.

In the long run I hope to see less cars overall and people switching to smaller means of transportation. Moving 2 tons to buy a 500g loaf of bread is just insane.
That's not what Keynesianism does. Keynesianism is countercyclical stimulus spending which boosts the economy in general by increasing activity, balanced by higher taxes which prevent overheating.

The last decade or two haven't been Keynesian at all - they've been selective corporate welfare for the financial sector, combined with a bizarre implication that this will somehow trickle down into the economy as a whole, combined with very anti-Keynesian low taxation for the beneficiaries.

The effects are as you describe, but more for common sense reason than Keynesian ones. Financial actors who were some combination of bankrupt, inefficient, and corrupt were bailed out and Frankensteined into continued growth when they should have been left to die on the slab.

The result has been a fragile debt, leverage, and froth extraction economy, tentpoled - for now - by a few giant tech monopolies.
> By the time you hit the SAT it's too late.

We should maintain some real alternate paths for kids for whom this timing is bad.

I grew up on on welfare and left school at 15. Was smart but troubled. Worked dumb jobs for a while. Benefitted from enlightened admissions policy and eventually graduated from $VERYGOODSCHOOL. I worked hard and did just fine. My kids are privileged and my late career is fun and rewarding. I want to do all I can to pass on these opportunities to the next generation of kids like me.
Disingenuous mockery doesn't help.

(If you actually believe that's where people are trying to go then I have worse insults for you.)
Can anyone who has seen the book comment on how good it is?

There are just two reviews on Amazon, one 5* and one 1. The 1 said "The book resembles a set of somewhat incomplete and somewhat disorganized lecture notes prepared by a course instructor as a rough outline of the content of his course."

That put me off buying it. So more data points would be helpful!
The plural of pavement is pavement.
As the parent of a startup and one singular demanding child, I have to ask... 10?! Wow! Nevermind why, I want to know how do you get anything done? Do you have staff? Do you have personal time to yourself, or with your wife? How many soccer games do you attend in a given week? How many bedrooms does your house have? How many of your kids are turning out to be programmers?

Forget maintaining software, I want to know how you maintain your existence. I don't think I could survive.
In some parts of Europe that is the case. In most of the world it isn't unfortunately.

In the Netherlands those scooters are allowed on the pavement if their max speed is 5kph but this is a grey area if the law. Otherwise they need a "specialized electronic moped" type approval and can either be classified as a bike (max 18kph), a low speed moped (same place on the road as a bike, max 25kph outside, 20 inside cities, requires driving licence and insurance) or moped (helmet, required to go in the car lanes in cities, max 45 kph, requires driving licence and insurance).

A rental company came by my office a while back to promote people into buying one. They completely ignored the obvious safety concerns people had as it is far les easy to stay up with smaller wheels but still compared it to biking. We will see where this is going but I would not go fast on one without proper body protection especially if they go > 20 kph.
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This seems fair. I was in Paris a month ago and we used Birds to get around. Many people rode them on the roads but plenty were whizzing up pavements too, pretty dangerous considering the top speed, speed delta with pedestrians and nobody wearing helmets.

The only issue with riding scooters on the road is a lot of the roads in the centre-north area of Paris are cobbled, but you can just slow down.

I don’t find anything remotely controversial about banning a powered vehicle capable of ~30 km/h from pavements.

<3 Paris!
"Hey kids, the Mariana Garbage Pit used to be an empty trench full of earthlife, and I hear it used to have water in it too..."
The pricing for the moment is intentional. My first category of end-users and single customers.

I originally envisioned Notify17 to be a personal hub, more than an enterprisey tools (in the beginning clearly. If business grows, sure the model will change).

I'm not trying to compete on tools like PagerDuty, which already do their jobs very well. For now, Notify17's main goal is alerting/reporting on a smaller scale.

From a startup perspective, the team is building up, it's in a phase where the main features are working, it's no more a prototype (backend/iOS), but how users will want to use the product is still a question (therefore the call for beta users). I want to have a solid set of features that I know users will use before trying any big jump.
Thanks a lot for the wish! I hope many will find this tool useful :)
The claim of a computer glitch comes from a lawyer defending those that have been caught up in this (so essentially speculation unless he has records from Hertz confirming the root cause).

Story seems more like an attempt to shake the tree and see if there are more plaintiffs out there... more plaintiffs means more grounds for pursuing a class-action which leads to more money for the lawyers.

doesn't take away from something undesirable happening here...
European companies can't compete against global giants
I would be disappointed if such a high-profile and technically savvy site would be using anything less.
And then go to jail.
Facebook says it has busted an Israeli election manipulation company
I was with you until the very last sentence.

Look, it's a question of implementation. There's a quantitative threshold at which students qualify for admission. Either we change that threshold, or we fudge the score.
None. The question of liability for automated crime reports is an interesting one, though. One would assume there is a person responsible for the operation of the computer in question.
> Why does my parents’ achievement have a fundamental impact on my opportunities?

Because they are your parents and they will have an impact on your life whether you like it or not, right down from the genes you inherit to the kind of people you hang out with. So yes there achievement will have an impact on your opportunities.

What you want can only happen when parents are no longer associated with their children in any way and all children are raised by the State so that everyone can be provided "equal opportunities" and even then the type of genes you inherit will impact your opportunities because although social inequality has been removed, biological inequalities can never be removed.

So no your children or not equal to anybody else's children and yes what you do in life will have an impact on your children's life that's how life works.
Why fixate on Harvard? It can only ever serve a few thousand kids. There are hundreds of universities and colleges that can provide a good education and more than a fair shot. The problem isn't a poor kid who graduates from University of Wisconsin or University of Colorado instead of Harvard or Stanford, it is the kid who didn't even graduate high school, can't really read, and isn't prepared to show up at work in the morning, let alone do the job.
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Says one alien to another while on a dig on a barren planet in the middle of nowhere.
GDPR covers personal data -- not content.
the grand jury system makes a mockery of the US justice system.
I have the book and I wish I didn’t buy (it’s an expensive book). You need to be already pretty good with Linear algebra and most of the material looked like cliff notes of various linear algebra and continuous optimization topics. I still plan to go through it but mildly disappointed.
To clarify for the Americans, "pavements" means sidewalks in this case, correct?
And where's that funding going to come from? Currently, we're funding schools in proximity to household wealth.

Perhaps increasing poor working families' wealth is the solution that fits in with our current setup.
Significantly overshooting the temp is something you can avoid. The thermostat needs more information, but predicting the temperature in 10 minutes if the heat is turned off now is not that complex.

Ex1: https://www.heat-timer.com/steam-outdoor-reset-2/
Ex2: https://nest.com/support/article/What-is-True-Radiant#how-it...
It's already illegal to ride scooters on the sidewalks. And anywhere else really, given that these vehicles don't fall into any category.

As usual, France is really good at introducing laws that don't bring anything new instead of simply enforcing the current ones. I've seen seven different companies providing free floating scooters in Paris, and plenty of them are used by complete idiots. There have been several deaths already. The mayor could easily ban all these startups if she really cared about the law and public safety. Riders who own their own scooter seem to be a bit more responsible, and those are the ones that should be targeted by new laws.
But much of that utility comes from the fact that everyone uses it, rather than some inherent quality of the product, like is the case for Maps. Feeling somewhat "forced" to use it does not help with a positive view of the company.
Note the 3 pane layout vs Chrome's 2 pane. I can see more at a glance and more effective use of the monitor - plus I can see the Box Model (or Flex model) without having to scroll down. https://i.imgur.com/Ts3Ygk5.png

And yes, referring to the event bubble next to the element.
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I rented one in Italy. Two weeks later hertz charged me an admin fee for passing my details to the police - apparently we'd been flashed by a speed camera, no idea where.

Police never got in touch though, which makes me wonder if it was all a ruse. I'm not exactly going to chase up the police to find out.
Let's work on nano tech which we know is toxic to fish but we'll contain it. We promise. We can't stop our economic growth for remote possibilities that will probably never occur.
Trump ramps up war against 'political bias' with new social media reporting tool
Reminds me how uncle bob warned us that some day when the software industry is regulated, git blame will send some sorry engineer to jail.
Is this a different product from AWS SNS ($1.00 per million) or Twilio push (10000 free per month, then 0.00025 each)?

https://aws.amazon.com/sns/pricing/

https://www.twilio.com/notify/pricing
Truth is, college admissions from Saratoga is a blood bath with so many over qualified, over worked, over stressed kids. If you are the oddball kid in a worse school and worse neighborhood and you're motivated enough to watch Khan Academy you are going stand out and do great, whether you end up at SJSU or Stanford.
Oh in terms of something like money, taking X dollars from the richest and using it to help the poorest is extremely positive sum.

This might be true for college admissions too, if you're flush with opportunities you're still ahead if you lose one.

But there's still an aspect of "pulling people back". It's a hard tradeoff to design. But if you do it right you really can make something with better outcomes and more fairness, even if some will call it an abomination.
They are handling bugs through Github issues too, everything is under DevTools org (https://github.com/firefox-devtools)
Right. There isn't an ethical way to "upgrade" human operating system.

It's infuriating to me how so many Hacker Newsites refuse to hold corporations accountable for their design flaws.