skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wald's unique insight was that the holes from flak and bullets on the bombers that did return represented the areas where they were able to take damage. The data showed that there were similar patches on each returning bomber where there was no damage from enemy fire, leading Wald to conclude that these patches were the weak spots that led to the loss of a plane if hit, and that must be reinforced.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Wald
//Now to find everywhere this matters and let the caller know.

Do you mean callers, who may be threads some of which have decided that the first character of foo should be lowercase while others have been sticking a prefix on foo? How do you coordinate all these separate changes to your foo string? Is there a String manager that coordinates all the threads and decides what the best string update policy is? Maybe I'm not following your argument for mutable strings.
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Gawker is banned from this site, and rightly so.
Pretty sure gawker is banned from HN.
The last I heard "gamification" was simply adding achievements onto things, such as getting work done, which I agree is awful.

This doesn't sound like that though.
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Even in the US, 1% of people are born in an environment that prepares them for acceptance into elite networks like Harvard. But the other 99% of people make up 99% of the geniuses.

Throughout history wealthy people have done almost all the great things, mostly for the simple fact that they were the only ones in a position to attempt them. Technology is rapidly leveling the playing field and, within a couple of generations, humanity will tap into the 99% potential it has always done without.
A co-worker and I were just talking about this. My take on the situation is that this could be partially alleviated if the car were to refuse to get off of the highway until after the driver manually took it out of autopilot. If the driver doesn't respond, skip the exit and stay on the highway sending out alerts until the driver responds.

Not exactly optimal, but I feel it may be the safest route. It would be interesting to see what other strategies people come up with.
There are already cars that have this feature, he should look into them.

What Tesla is releasing at this stage brings absolutely nothing new to the table.
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> This is why admissions officers will say "well-rounded" until they're blue in the face. There's nothing wrong with plain old eggheads—but let's try and get out there once in a while, too.

If you want to exclude the smart middle class kids, this attitude is the way to do it. The kid whose parents belong to the country club doesn't work there. He goes on the carefully orchestrated volunteer trip to Africa. The middle class kid, on the other hand, can't count on the Bank of Dad to pay for movies and pizza. She's the "egghead" who spends her time either studying or working.
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When you read this, it's so damn clear that education is going to change _dramatically_ in the next 15 years.

I'm pretty scared for late in my career when I'm going to be competing for jobs against people that got educated in a much better way.
That's actually a service I haven't seen before and find an interesting little thing. So thanks for linking to it anyway ^_^
Particularly since they didn't price the cars to include this feature.
Not to defend it but unlike with job interviews, AFAIK these interviews are only one of the admission factors.
Because the "he" in question is the relevant standards authority.
http://news.yahoo.com/video/solar-powered-plane-arrives-myan...
Well they already do this, to a lesser degree.

Ex: a student from a less priviledged background whose school did not offer 20AP courses, but did take the 3/3 that were available and had high marks on them, will be "boosted" versus a student who took, say, 9/12 that could have been taken, for example.
Flame war? I doubt there can be much of a flame war when just about everybody agrees.
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How is my use case a "wrong problem"? I'm providing a legitimate application of this limited technology and you're dismissing it with a distracting, unfounded argument.
I think they're just alumni interviews. And from what I understand they don't make much of a difference in the application process. I have a friend who used to do these sorts of interviews for Harvard and he expressed similar sentiments, namely that he found it disappointing how the kids he most liked never got in (generally because they were poorer and not as polished as the wealthier kids who got in over them).
If normal citizens had access to a VPN in which to access this site from another country, it would be quite redundant to use this site then wouldn't it? Maybe I'm not understanding.
"The Democrats had the votes to pass any bill they wanted."

Do you honestly believe Ben Nelson, Blanche Lincoln, Joe Lieberman and Evan Bayh (among many others) would vote for any bill Obama wanted? That's not factually true, so I'm wondering why you believe it.
Do you have a link to that? Would be interested in reading about online vote manipulation.
Willing to hear your ideas about this. We are aware there are many aiming to do the same.
Why so many negative comments? Japan certainly seems to outshine the US according to multiple metrics, so they are doing something right:

Japan's unemployment rate is 3.6% vs 5.5% for the US: http://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/roudou/results/month/inde... vs http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000

Japan's homelessness rate is 20 per 100,000 population (25,000 homeless people in 2001) vs 220 per 100,000 in the US: http://books.google.com/books?id=q-PgHH8TJi8C&printsec=front... vs https://www.onecpd.info/resources/documents/2012AHAR_PITesti...

Japan's incarceration rate is 50 per 100,000 population vs 710 per 100,000 for the US.

Japan is even on track to stop increasing their public deficit by this year (thanks to the new sales tax) whereas the US is far from being on budget. And Japan even manages to achieve this despite a significantly aging demographics (lots of social benefits paid to non-working people), compare http://www.indexmundi.com/graphs/population-pyramids/japan-p... vs http://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2012/3/28/saupload_3-...

Japan's society seems to be functioning better than the US. I appreciate this article for trying to find out why.
Immutability is basically like explicit version control. If the program is interactive, sooner or later you need to write a state machine that updates HEAD. A good example is the foldp function in Elm. [1]

You can probably do this in any language, but efficiency is another issue.

[1] http://package.elm-lang.org/packages/elm-lang/core/1.1.1/Sig...
actually it pretty much does - "But, he said, Tesla will disable the autopilot when cars are not on highways or major roads, citing safety concerns."
translation, only on the high, and basically really nice and fancy cruise control that they think can and will eventually do more but not right now.
I am not sure I agree on the two hundred mile threshold, maybe for the family commuter car. however no electric of that range will ever replace the car for trips to grandmas.

let alone the price differential between an equivalent gas powered car is going to have to be a lot closer to justify the limitations of an electric.
> What do you mean throw it over the wall?

It's more closed than it is open.

> It has been solid and running large, reliable, industrial system for many years.

Did I say otherwise?

> What do you want Ericsson to bake a cake for you?

Yes.

> It is open source (https://github.com/erlang/otp), some have forked it and updated as needed (for example WhatsApp).

I know it is open source. I have contributed to it.

> There is a bug mailing list (http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-bugs/),

Presumably you bring this up because I pointed out there is not a public bug tracker. A mailing list is not a substitue for a bug tracker.

> there are regular bug fixes, pull requests, frequent releases. New features added (like maps).

Yes, and? Where do I go to see the status of, I don't know, native processes? (Assuming that's still being worked on.) How about a list of bugs in the ssh or ssl apps? (This is not an esoteric thing: http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2015-March/0837...)

Lastly, I'd ask you to consider what your response has done to improve and grow the Erlang community.
Ask HN: Is there a way to confuse websites which track you?
By confusing I mean, is there a way to send false information to websites that track you, like fake searches and fake website visits.
I understand that its possible to not get tracked in the first place, but I want to support websites I like and therefore I don't want to use any ad-blocking software.
> I have a friend who used to do these sorts of interviews for Harvard and he expressed similar sentiments, namely that he found it disappointing how the kids he most liked never got in (generally because they were poorer and not as polished as the wealthier kids who got in over them).

Those are real deserving human beings having their potential limited for lack of upper crust "polish" in modern America. Institutional class discrimination is real.
I mean, the cars are insanely expensive already. I think they're priced to include plenty.
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But we are in a community currently in recoil from remote workers. On HN in the past week I have seen at least half a dozen front page articles about how remote doesn't work or how to do work life balance when remote. If people just cannot function without having their molecules in physical proximity to their bosses molecules you still get stuck with the dumb commutes.
Is the author saying recession caused the good aspects of Japan. If that is the hypothesis, then we expect that none of these cultural aspects like low crime rates, politeness, good food, cleanliness, etc existed before the Japanese recession? Why do people take articles like this seriously?
OK, but the original implied point still stands IMO: If you're a woman (or man, really) who might ever want to have kids, you probably shouldn't count on being able to reliably and affordably control that biology in your lifetime. And yes, that applies to your "all-natural" chances, too, which probably means it's good to adjust your expectations and "societal norms" as the article says.

P.S. Considering the forum, I got a chuckle out of "rewrite DNS using viruses" -- I assume it's supposed to say DNA.
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I'm an alumni interviewer for Princeton, and that evaluation metric reads very similar to ours.

I've also experienced the limitations of making an appeals to the admissions committee based on adversity and potential and what the school could do for the student.

My sense is that the alumni interview only really affects the borderline cases or if you give a truly horrific review of the student for one reason or another.

The process selects for a certain mold of person. Diversity happens only within this smaller universe, imo.
Someone I talked applied to Harvard for undergrad, and was interviewed by some insufferable asshole who said something like "you're not the kind of student we are looking for". Her comment was that "it was useful to know that the big Ivy League experience was not what I wanted" (and she instead went to a liberal arts college). But it's kindof bad that some random guy who is not even employed by them gets to be the (rather ugly) face of the university...
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With a secondary implication that, were the laws updated and the car's hardware "certified safe", they could theoretically just push a software update to enable last-mile autopilot on the car you already own.
I am surprised they didn't mention how they handle services and platforms. Then again, those are just conveniences to individuals, not something that can affect a business or livelihood like search and ads.
I'm primarily a Python programmer, but have had my eye on Erlang and Rust as other languages of interest to look into at some point. While those two are to my knowledge meant to solve problems in different domains, which one do you think would be easier to grok or get going with faster between the two? I have no C background. Just Python and SQL. I realize easier to get going with is a poor metric. It's not the only one important to me but I'm just curious. My initial looks into these led me to believe Erlang would probably be the easier of the two coming from Python.

I love the looks of Rust because it's C ABI compatible and I could write Python libraries with it.

Erlang because it looks to be the best thing going for webservices, which is much of my work.
Exclusion is tradition at these schools.

By 1926, Harvard moved away from admissions based strictly on academics to evaluating potential students on a number of qualifiers meant to reveal their "character." A report released that year by an admissions committee endorsed a limit of 1,000 freshman per class — allowing a shift in policy, as Harvard could no longer admit every student who achieved a certain academic cutoff.

Here's how Karabel sums up the new changes approved in 1926, which would effectively allow the Harvard administration to limit its Jewish student population:

The committee decisively rejected an admissions policy based on scholarship alone, stating that "it is neither feasible nor desirable to raise the standards of the College so high that none but brilliant scholars can enter" while stipulating that "the standards ought never to be so high for serious and ambitious students of average intelligence."

When the faculty formally approved the report eight days later, Lowell was further elated, for they also approved measures making the admissions process even more subjective. In particular, the faculty called on [Committee on Admissions chairman Henry Pennypacker] to interview as many applicants as possible to gather additional information on "character and fitness and the promise of the greatest usefulness in the future as a result of a Harvard education." Henceforth, declared the faculty, a passport-sized photo would be "required as an essential part of the application for admissions."

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-ivy-leagues-history-of-di...

disclosure: I am a Princeton alum and applicant interviewer. There is definitely a strong element of self-perpetuation at these schools, for better or for worse.
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Or offer day care, life balance, work from home etc.. Honestly, having a kid puts you out of the office but not necessarily out of work, especially tasks amenable to remote work.
Not sure what you're basing that statement on. Cloudflare very recently gave support to various parties involed in the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong. They claimed to have weathered the largest DDoS in history in the process.
If you're so tired that you drift out of your lane then you are beyond the point of when you should have stopped. In such a case, I would rather share the road with Tesla's auto-pilot.

I'm sure the press is going to sensationalize the first accident caused by the auto-pilot, but seeing as it doesn't get tired or drink I bet the accident rate will be far lower then human drivers.
Insurance companies took advantage of the bill, and raised rates to the point where some/many unemployed people can't afford private insurance, or qualify for medi-cal.

I think you are very mistaken. The ACA added additional regulations that limit insurance company profitability (80% rule). The reason rates went up is because the legislation demands insurers provide more (coverage of children up to 26, caps on out of pocket, no pre-existing condition limitation). I'm not saying they were bad ideas, but anyone in their right mind knew that would increase costs not lower them.
Cool! We're hearing the same thing from a lot of folks. They want a lot of choices when it comes to spaces and they want to also find people to work with. I'll get in touch when we launch in Canada!
because of that choice, my brain spam filtering just gave up on the story. If not for the comments here, I didn't know that it was about microcorruption.Maybe I should give it a chance.
Those people aren't "Republicans".
Nobody talks about this but fertility rapidly declines in your 30s especially after 35. Egg freezing should be done as early as possible, aka in your 20s, even then the odds that you will have a live birth after thawing are low. That being said, there is the viable alternative of using an egg donor which relies on fertile young women.
Yeah, probably not a bad idea.
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> Why so many negative comments?

Because the English-speaking world has roughly agreed on the neoliberal economic consensus that extreme individualism, devil-take-the-hindmost capitalism is the Only Way. It is an absolute dogma, reinforced constantly through the press and the best-funded political parties.

Rich nations like Japan or Norway who are trundling happily along with more equitable societies, rather than a return to Victorian social models, need to be stigmatized lest one start asking questions like "what's the point having a country of billionaires and ditch-diggers?"

Might as well pitch atheism in Saudi Arabia.
I have never worked for the federal government (or any level of government) so I could be commenting without the appropriate context here but I have worked at a massive (200K+ person) company before and it sounds just about the same as what you describe above. "We can't do anything about that" could have been on auto-reply from my boss's email.
I'm in a very similar boat - my parents were 48 and 38 when I was born (I'm 29), so they're really starting to get old.

My wife and I decided screw it, we're going to have kids now, despite not being in the best places professionally. It might be tough, but we're still in a much better place than ~75% of people when they start having kids, and we think we'll figure it out.

And so, this morning, we got to hear our kid's heartbeat for the first time. It's scary, and the idea of not being in the "ideal" job is worrying, and doubly so for my wife (who still needs some more experience to get her professional designation), but kids/pregnancy is sadly not something that can be put off indefinitely without consequences. So we bought the bullet, and we're going to make it work.
I would guess it has more to do with demand. Once recombinant insulin came out, most folks switched, a few didn't. Unfortunately, "a few patients" aren't enough to support an entire product line.
Well, except that they've hired an all star A team that does the work. They just need access to the data, that can be forced by the President.
Yep! I made the same call the 200C is the only car in that price range that offers full stop and go with active lane keep. I use it all the time and is easily the best feature on any car I've ever driven.

I believe some of the new Jeeps also have the new system but not sure if it does lane keep also.
When I applied to MIT a million years ago, I also had an interview with a local alumnus. Essentially it was just going over to his home one evening and talking about what my plans were and so on. I got to ask him about what the experience there was actually like, etc etc. He was a fairly successful engineer in a big house, which I assumed was an intentional part of the show on their part.

It wasn't an interview in any of the usual senses of the word, really just a meet and chat kind of thing. I had no sense of being evaluated in any meaningful way. More to make sure I wasn't obviously psycho crazy and at least minimally functional, I imagine.
Yup! My brother and I were born when my mom was 44 and 42, respectively. Apparently my mom had made an appointment with her OB-GYN to talk about fertility treatment options. At that appointment they also did a routine pregnancy test and she discovered that she was pregnant with me. :D
Hi!

I am the author of http://gogs.info/books/debian-mail/chunked/ and I am working on something similar (I have switched to Dovecot and wrote a nice GUI for managing users and domain) but in the end it will be a set of Ansible scripts.

The things I did different:

* Amavisd-new instead of dspam and OpenDKIM

* SQLGrey instead of Postgrey

* unbound instead of BIND as a caching DNS server

I have been thinking on adding PolicyD for rate limiting accounts but then I get a lot of overlap with other services. How are you satisfied with postfwd?
Trains (which are mostly self driving) have a button the operator must push once in a while to prove he's awake.)
He's already stated his desire for Tesla to be the first to market with autonomous vehicles.
Cannot plus one this enough. I use to have all email accounts in the one client. Now for work (which is gmail) I use a notifier (plus often just leaving the browser page open in Chromium).

If I find the notifier starting to bug me on the non-work days, I just switch it off. I have a cron job that starts it 9am every work day if it is not already running.
But this is not "stacking rocks to reach Mars". This is a complete unknown where we can't reasonably tell the outcome in advance.
It will to a certain extent. It's a powerful tug on the wheel and will follow the curve all the way through. You still need to keep your hands on the wheel or it yells at you.
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> Also, plants don't, "Convert Carbon into Oxygen", they separate the Oxygen from the Carbon and release it.

They don't do that either. They separate Oxygen from Carbon Dioxide which is not the same thing as carbon.

Carbon pollution is soot - like from a diesel. The stuff they are talking about here is carbon dioxide.
I wasn't trying to imply it didn't have an equivalent ndis tool, I just used FreeBSD as the example as that's my experience. I was more wondering if this would've helped advance these (and similar) offerings.
I don't think insurance companies know how to price it yet. If it works, insurance costs should go down. If it fails randomly, well....
"Even in the US," - American social mobility is something that is often touted, but not often proven. And last I saw, it seemed to have been exaggerated (though I don't have any great overview over research on this at all).
The store-brand meters and strips are usually a great deal if you don't have insurance, but the catch-22 is that most Rx insurance won't pay for the generic strips, just the name-brand ones.
Funny thing about using the $20,000 benefit for IVF: a clinic charges a lot more, like 2.5 times more, for the same service when going through insurance than when self-paying. With the $20,000 benefit you will end up out-of-pocket paying 50% of the self-pay amount. That is better than nothing but the service is not covered in full.
HN kills articles from the Gawker domain. I tried to bypass it but it looks like the submission has now been killed anyway.
Now I just use Youtube (via Streamus, a Chrome extension that plays from Youtube) and SoundCloud. Not having that 1 song really does ruin Spotify or any similar kind of service for me.
It could also just pull over on to the shoulder and activate the hazard lights. It'll probably also sound an alarm in the cabin.
You wouldn't be a remote worker if you're still going in for daily face time.
So does designing a proper protocol that doesn't rely on tamper-proof hardware as a cornerstone.

The essential idea behind software freedom is that your computer runs code wholly of your choosing and functions as your agent. The parties to a transaction voluntarily meet together by adhering to a mutually beneficial protocol.

Allowing other parties to know exactly what code you're running lets the more powerful party dictate that your code works for their benefit, effectively leaving you without a computer.