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You need to execute well, but you also need to be working on the "right idea" for it to become successful.

The simple core ideas behind Dropbox and AirBnB were seemingly disregarded by many devs and investors when first pitched, but have proven themselves to be valuable. Even Google wasn't initially considered to be a good idea where Yahoo rejected acquiring them for $1M, but turns out Search Engines displaying contextual relevant ads has become one of the most valuable businesses in history.
It's pretty amazing to me that we, as a society, are willing to accept legacy admissions. We spend so much time and energy and money trying to make sure that our educational system gives everybody equal opportunity when this one thing matters so much more than eg universal pre-k.
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21082381

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21064663

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21073819
But raising $100m from VCs is a lot easier if you did go to Harvard.
Harvard receives federal funding through student tuition assistance and research funding.
Tell that to the Vietcong.
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You want to revitalize rural America AND solve this tricky problem of too many qualified kids, not enough spots?

Let's bring a new wave of land grant universities. The feds own like ~90% of Nevada, let's put a top tier research university smack dab in the middle of it. Put up some new facilities, draw faculty away from other top tier universities/the rest of the world, and start pumping all these bright, but otherwise undistinguished kids into a place where they CAN distinguish themselves. All that sweet, sweet federal cash flows in, and you can bet people will set up shop around it. For the feds, it's a cheap investment, but one that has paid for itself a thousand times over.

Make it a public bell labs in the desert, then do it across rural America. Huntsville (kind of) did it, why can't we do it again?
No, we’re objecting to conflating categories which demonstrably exhibit radically different behaviors and outcomes.

To overstate the point: You can’t conflate “bought a black market gun, keeps it illegally, has no training, and engages in felonious behavior on a regular basis” with “endured numerous comprehensive background checks, bought high value guns (some specialized) at retail, took hundreds of hours of training from prominent instructors, keeps them for sport and defense, obeys all applicable laws, is a practical expert in said laws, and has committed no crimes”, then when the former happens to kill someone illegally, proceed to average the two and use that to assert “see? owning guns is bad”.
Not all CPUs have rdrand? Yes, trust it on x86 when it is present. Otherwise... Linux runs on a lot of arch that are not x86.

I agree that the LKML fear-mongering over RDRAND is doing more harm than good.
Please provide a link to a Unity WebGL GI example. Thanks

edit: PlayCanvas has a free tier.
I can't help but point out a perfect example of why I don't think you're interested in an actual discussion: The person with the pipe didn't just have a pipe, he initiated the interaction by hitting the officer with it. If the person with the pipe was just walking down the street, or even waving it in a menacing fashion, and the officer fired, this would be a very different situation.

If you genuinely don't see the difference between your description and what was captured in the video, it's not possible to have a rational discussion about this. If you do, you're being disingenuous at best, and it's also probably not possible to have a rational discussion about this.
I don't know man?

Just Devil's Advocate.

But what if these legacy admits are not as dumb as people think they are?

Just kind of, throwing that possibility out there.
Suggested title edit: {athletes|children of {alumni|donors}}.
Love this. Reminds me of one of my favorite xkcd's on survivorship bias: https://xkcd.com/1827/
An aside: 3D cellular automata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W-n510Pca0
Except that the context was through hole boards.

> "Through-hole is easier than SMD with the correct tools. Specifically a vacuum desoldering tool (Metcal MFR, Pace SX or similar)."
What we, as a society, are willing to accept isn't really relevant to Harvard, which is a private institution.
I cannot tell if you're being serious, but I'd doubt the scenario you described is commonplace.

Do you think that academic talent implies success in medical practice? It is a necessary but not sufficient condition.
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It should be a good thing to weed out bad students. It's not a good thing that there are bad students.
If you want to be rich, act like a billionaire (actions speak louder then words).
Problem with the buried lines is they have to come up somewhere.

Many years ago I worked with my old man doing some plumbing work. We had to replace a toilet that exploded when lightning hit the tree outside the house. Roots were invading the septic tank and offered a path for the electricity to come up to the toilet. The instant boiling of the water caused the toilet to explode. Sort of wish I had a cellphone back then to capture the images.

No one was hurt but could you imagine sitting there snapchatting when that happened ?
Neat, dont have time to dive in the source right now but whats the trick? Light probes?
Edit: Ah, nevermind its one click away:

"Illumination technique used here is:

Realtime direct shadowmapping with time blended lighmaps for global illumination on: walls, ceiling and floor.

For furniture we use spherical harmonics L2 with spatial and time blending for ambient light.

Reflections made with time blended box projected cubemaps for image based lighting on physically based materials.

Post processing done with color grading by LUT (lookup tables) and vignette."
He said UC system, your data is only for UCB.

Not saying his opinion is not baseless or wrong, but your rebuttal is flawed as well.
This might be for a future release, but you can consider geofencing the drone with maps pre-loaded, so that even if it doesn't have connectivity, it can still automatically avoid the no-fly zones.
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How do billionaires act? I don't know any personally.
Plenty of hourly employees have holidays and paid time off. Pretty much anyone that is paid hourly and in a union, for instance.
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Dumb question- why is 1/3 from donation when the endowment is so massive?
No US University. This type of thing doesn't happen in the UK (although I will admit, it wouldn't shock me if a few similar things happen on the quiet).
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Pft, please. Back when I was trying self employment in shareware games, the first thing I wrote was an AI to compose music for me. I can’t write music.
I mean it only in the generic sense, in that the admissions process overcame some level of review (and would likely not have if direct evidence of racial quotas had been presented, as the other comment mentioned).
> he initiated the violence by hitting the officer with it, and the officer responded.

Alternative perspective: the officer initiated violence by being there threatening a crowd advocating for the right to self determination. He came with lethal armament with the obvious goal of dispersing the gathering. That's why he was there, and the video shows it.

You see militarized police as normal, so this doesn't shock you. I refuse to accept that.

You can accuse me of acting in bad faith but I don't see how I could be more honest about my intentions or characterizations. You aren't even really refuting them, it seems you agree that militarized police presence should be normalized in our considerations. I'm not so sure. No good comes of it.
I can act like I live a lavish life and all I do is success upon success, but I know exactly that my friends would laugh behind my back.
My prediction from 2008 finally came true: https://nomel-blog.tumblr.com/post/47669161/idea-picture-bas...
What money ?

Unless you are buying gold or silver and taking possession you and everyone else has nothing.
Sorry, you want the government to spend money? No, no, that simply won't do.
It's not very useful advice, given that is spans from Elon Musk - who uses a top of the line business jet to commute from one part of the Bay area to another, very eco-conscious, and owns multiple mansions - to Warren Buffet who famously lives in the relatively modest house he purchased decades ago.
Seems your understanding is drunk and lost all of its tact earlier in the night.
I totally agree, but it is still possible. If you build a $100m revenue per year business starting from nothing, no one can take it away from you in America (currently at least, who knows about the future). Many people have successfully done this.

However, I have yet to see anyone become a Supreme Court Justice who went to community college. I believe almost all of them went to Harvard or Yale...
It's definitely possible. But I'd be skeptical that the sentiment was widespread.

Right around the same time the Oppenheimers were becoming the wealthiest and one of the most powerful families in South Africa. Despite being ethnically Jewish, I've never once heard of them facing any discrimination from the apartheid regime or the broader SA public.
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Sure, but so are Americans: white, black, Hispanic, etc.
Quote from previous link, in answer to a similar question comparing CAs (1d) to Conway's Life (2d):

"The pictures you're looking at, one of the axes is time. One row "becomes" the row below it. Each time-step iteration adds a row to the bottom, while the rows above it are immutable (because they are in the past)."
Fair enough. They said that a double rotor version has been developed, but all their prototypes and marketing material are single rotor. We can probably assume that single rotor is all that would fit on an in-wheel design but there are other ways to skin the cat.

They would still need to include a light thrust bearing on the double rotor design since you can never assume perfectly balanced air gap and one side or the other will dominate, but the losses would be much lower with that setup.
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As a non-American, I'm unsure about some of the terminology being used here - what are "legacy admissions"?
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I'd argue genes are negligible here anyway. Just exposure to such elite high-performing family and friends goes a long way to making high-performing people.

The barrier to entry for a lot of people isn't even being good/smart enough -- it's being familiar with or having the resources to navigate the bureaucracy that obfuscates the opportunities which are ostensibly open to "everyone".
> you must go to Harvard (or another Ivy League school) to succeed in life.

For certain career paths it helps a lot.

It also depends on where you live. In the Northeast there is a very tangible class system based on where you went to school. This still exists on the West Coast but it's much less intense unless you are going for big-time VC money or working in law or finance.
That and the fact that you can only activate them by using an online service. Screw that, if I buy a device like that I expect it to simply work. No grafted on service models. Too bad for Sonos.
I went down the rabbit hole with the Kelly Criterion recently, last time I thought about venture capitalism. Starting with a scenario of a repeated bet where you have a 10% chance of a 50:1 upside, Kelly says to bet a percentage of your bankroll each time, while someone of a more conservative bent might want to have a 95% chance of not going below a certain drawdown.

With those stats, you have to bet 28-29 times to have a 95% chance of winning your 50x upside. So depending on your maximum drawdown, you have to make a much smaller bet than what Kelly Criterion counsels.

In fact that seems to be a general thing - Kelly Criterion is generally about maximizing geometric returns, but the volatility will kill you - it takes lot of betting to have high odds of being close to those theoretical returns.

I'm not really experienced enough with the math to find strategies that maximize your expected growth when subjected to a certain drawdown restriction, but that's what people need when they are at lower net worth levels.
How do I know if you are responsible? Do your children have access? Are you sure they can't find the key or figure out the code?

A couple months ago a friend of a friend was killed because a boy from school brought a gun from home to their house to show off and was playing with it. He thought it was empty. It wasn't. Now a girl is dead, a boy's life is ruined, and their families are devastated.

This happens all the time.
Asia hasn't produced a Kanye yet. They got work to do.
Tellingly they go out of their way to say security fixes are always at their discretion and come from upstream. After explaining that a no feature updates is fine as upstream will be effectively dead. This ain’t Python’s problem Red Hat this has been slated for years
And yet we had exactly that happen in Syria.
Other perspectives:

Police statements are predictably found to change under a thinnest level of scrutiny.

“Justifiable” use of force varies from department to department, police force to police force, state by state. It does not mean “the only or best option available” as any less controversial action would be equally as justified. US police, in aggregate, are known to escalate situations into something more dangerous or hostile than all of the options available. Of the 17,000 distinct autonomous paramilitary forced in the US, there is no way for a citizen to know what “threat matrix” they are currently being evaluated under, and if there even is a way to no longer be perceived as a threat without being eliminated, especially when the police are already operating under bad information that you are unaware of. Finding police actions “Justified” is a term used to resonate with the preconceptions of citizens, but actually means 17,000+ different things which no citizen knows the details of, only that particular department and scarred prosecutor.

Speaking of fear: Mayors, governors, prosecutors and juries are afraid of their police, just like they were afraid of the Mafia. This is not talked about. Equally dubious “I feared for my life” situations can happen to you and your family and law enforcement can rely on people like you believing the police statement verbatim.

Police are held to a high moral standard culturally, but are not trained in a way that reflects this. In a criminal investigation due to use of force, the person under scrutiny would be convicted of their statements changed so much. Police are able to operate under an abstraction of “justified” which is available at the discretion of the their supervisor, the DA, prosecutor, or a jury under randomly generated prosecutor instructions applicable in that one specific jurisdiction that nobody was aware of before that day in a private grand jury trial, before continuing to a less private jury trial with the same issues.

FBI has analysis of police in nationalist groups. There is no way for a citizen to differentiate any officer from another.

With this in mind, there is a lot less latitude to accept the deaths as stated. Cherry picking a few of the deaths and concluding so easily that its “justified” from description alone just neglects the inefficiency of the system. There are limitations in any of our abilities to judge the outcome. There are imperfections in our system of checks and balances.

Other developed countries have many people with knives and guns and the US is a total aberration in how these situations are handled.
> In fact there are examples now of white gay men who claim to hate "identity politics", what they really hate is that LGBTQ identity jeopardizes their "white" identity and they recognize this

Speaking for myself, mmm.....no.
IMHO, degrees from any school should by default be devalued. Certain departments/majors within certain schools sometimes maybe have some value.

1. Elite schools are motivated to have high graduation rates in order to be competitive in various rankings.

2. Most programs at elite schools are not incentivized to take a tough love approach since it reduces enrollment numbers and ultimately funding. Popular programs get a pass on this.

3. For most elite school grads, if you’re hiring them for their education, then your usually hiring for the wrong thing. The best elite school grads, regardless of major, will get you access to better networks. The median elite school grad will get you someone who is aggressively willing to jump through hoops for rewards. If you don’t know how to capitalize on that, don’t hire these people.

FWIW, some majors at Harvard are definitely not easy — they just cull the weaker students early.
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If you read the article, it says the judge determined the exact opposite. That asians do not get a "fair shot". But the judge said that other concerns (historical racism against other groups) trumps this current bit of racism such that, net net, it's ok for harvard to discriminate against asians. Opinions may differ on the correctness and morality of this decision.
Many private universities in the US, including Harvard, have a reputation that is built not only (or even primarily) on the quality of their undergraduate education but on the quality of their research output. The funding for this research, which includes compensation for professors, grad students, and operational overhead, forms a significant component of the revenue of the institution overall. It frequently dwarfs undergraduate tuition revenue and often constitutes the largest single component of institutional revenue.

A substantial portion of this funding is federal. It's in the public interest for the positive effects of being educated at a well-funded research institution to be allocated "fairly" and since that funding comes from public sources it is well within the purview of the government to regulate that allocation.
Harvard is not as a charity designed just to produce the brightest minds. Its a private club for the rich and powerful. Yes they invite a lot of very smart and ambitious people, but educating smart people only part of its core mission. If you don't like it don't apply, stick to one of the regular schools which only take the highest grades.
"There’s No Scientific Basis for Race—It's a Made-Up Label"

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/04/race-gen...
> Multiple hominid species on Earth have had a technology gap on an unfathomable timescale. Indeed, the Denisovans developed stone tools tens of thousands of years before our own species.

Nonsense. Hominin toolmaking and tool use go back more than 2 million years, long before the last common ancestor of humans and the Neanderthal/Denisovan branch. About all we can say about Denisovan tool use is that their technology, circa 100,000 or 150,000 years ago, was roughly the same as contemporary Neanderthal and human technology.
What would they do? The us economy is utterly dependent on Chinese manufacturing.
I hear you, but lobbyists will get wind of the money and find a way to divert it into their coffers.

"Why should the fed open a school in Nevada when you can just give that money to us (University of Nevada). We promise we'll give x% of the money out in scholarships!"

The con continues.....
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Speaking of the _other_ dating... I had recently been messaged by a dating coach on LinkedIn who specialises in software developers.
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Different technologies emit CO2 at different rates. Different technologies are prevalent in society at different times. That's my only point.

Didn't mean to make it sound so harsh, "dishonest" wasn't meant to be a reflection of your intention. I chose the wrong word.
>If Hong Kong had to rely on force of arms to win its independence, then it's defeat is nearly a foregone conclusion. They just do not have the capacity to stand up to the LARGEST ARMY IN THE WORLD.

If they'd rather die free than old that's their choice to make and they deserve to be able to make it.
Good riddance, the only thing I've ever seen PDF encryption used for is DRM. In my mind, anything that breaks DRM is a bonus.
So the Matthew principle strikes again. Rich get richer, poor get poorer.
Some California toll roads still have manned booths (others have been 100% automated for many years). It's not a matter of providing jobs; it just costs a lot to put the infrastructure into place so it doesn't happen overnight or all at once.
But if we invest in research how are we going to give Israel billions of dollars every year?
> semi-assault

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> The Chicago shootings resulted in seven deaths but were spread out among multiple cases and days.

Naturally, smaller events have less coverage. But even totaling up the coverages for each Chicago event in less coverage than El Paso.

Most new outlets bias their reporting disproportionately. IDK what the relationship is. Cubic, probably. An event that is 2 as big gets 8 times the coverage. Three times as big gets 27 times the coverage.

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In any case, media frequently shows an unrepresentative perspective on reality. It is very easy -- indeed expected -- to change report reality based on the opinion of what should and should not be reported.