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> That is the worst kind of discrimination in my book.

That's only true if SAT score are a good predictor of "success" - however you define that. That's obviously not true for elite institutions since their candidates' SAT score are all bunched up at the top and within the MOE of each other. It's low-resolution. If you want test-based admissions, you'll have to design a test that shows significant differences among the elite schools' applicant pool.

On the hand, just having an "Asian attenuator" is, objectively, racist. The schools that do that will probably claim they just deemphasize applicants who don't have outside activities, which has led to formulaic portfolios of the "right" outside activities among high school students now, because "grades are not enough." Ugh. That's worse than just accepting the top SAT scores.

How can you tell which highly selective universities really have a sophisticated selection process and which are just running ethnic groups through different sized apertures? Elite schools that have legacy preferences have an especially hard job defending their policies.
It would be nice if HN linked to older submissions. You don't want a redirect because there may be an interesting new discussion.
the options are:

i) Just downvote a comment that you think should not be on HN but which is not bad enough to flag

ii) Get involved in a tedious sub-thread bit of bickering with the comment's author about why you think they're wrong

iii) Write a post explaining why you think they're wrong, and have them reply with clarification, and you both end up agreeing and happy.

iii rarely happens. ii happens too often, and i is preferable to ii.
In all honesty chrome is by far and away the worst at handeling large numbers of tabs of all the browsers (bar perhaps version of IE).
Presumably if you took the top 100, and manually merged then into the top 25? 50? job "categories", you'd have a more stable grouping and more interesting time-series statistics.
> Green leafy vegetables, such as spinach, are not as rich in iron [as red meat]

There's a long history of confusion about how much iron is in spinach, and then even more confusion about the source and extent of that confusion.

For a recap, "The Spinach, Popeye, Iron, Decimal Error Myth is Finally Busted," https://www.bestthinking.com/articles/science/chemistry/bioc...

Or, shorter, Supermyths: Spinach Iron Decimal Point Error Myth Busted:
http://super-myths.blogspot.com/2010/12/spinach-iron-decimal...
> Personally, I use downvotes exclusively for hostility

IMO, noobs might think HN community is hostile & leave. Not many noobs would ask for reason, if they feel intimidated - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9179609
typically what happens then is that the organisation makes a political wing to act as a presentable face to the terrorist wing.
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ECS still feels like a preview, but it's coming along! We might blog about our experiences there in the near future. Overall it has a good feel to it, other than some seemingly odd configuration deviations which turned out to be abstractions made for "future flexibility".
This might help with this problem: I reverse pinch gesture the text around the vote arrows for a larger font, vote, then pinch gesture the text back to normal size. This just takes an extra few seconds and is a good workaround.
I used to do somethingng similar but I've been using reading lists and a little more self control to manage most of my favs now.
I drink milk straight from the cow, get on my level.
also, why did Kyoko spill the wine on Caleb, and why did Nathan seem to expect it ? Was it Nathan's idea to have her do that so that he could demonstrate his callousness to Caleb ?
I like downvoted comments. I always pick up a couple of them when reading the comments to get a view of the people who think outside the norm. Sometimes they are genuinely stupid, but sometimes you get very interesting remarks on things which the "established norm" dislikes.
There is no right to free speech in the UK. You can go to prison for a racist tweet, for example, which is a whole lot less reasonable than putting a great deal of scrutiny on people who go on the TV news and talk about how they want to become terrorists (e.g. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2455xy_bbc-interviews-isis... http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2014/08/26/ctw-dnt-paton-wal... ). Which is absolutely ridiculous and would never be tolerated in the US, the only country in which there's anything approaching an absolute right to free speech.
Based on your answers, I recommend offering to do the iphone app as a contractor. Exactly how much you charge depends on how much of the 3 areas you have to work on (design, iphone app dev, backend dev). Just off the cuff, I would say don't do it for less than 50k.

Why?

- You can have an actual "trial work" period so you can see if the environment will be poisonous/you can't work for them fulltime. This is a big one since you mention the relationship might be poisoned already.

- You will be signing up just for delivering the app so there is less stress on you.

- You can get your 100k for 1-3months of work rather than 1 year :)

Contracting you should make more sense for them too: they have a trial period with you and a potential full-time first hire if all goes well. This is something they wouldn't have if they went with an iphone app dev shop.
There's some issues on my copy of OS X with getting a working gdb, which I needed on something else I was working on ... hence the manual def.
C++ is really horrible, everything feels like an after thought. The new unique_ptr and shared_ptr ends up with really ugly code, the concept is good but wow...

Can we move away from this horrible language already?

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/
http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/coders-at-work
http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus
http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/rms
clip that supports this assertion perfectly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HooRolKCM3s (buzzfeed 90 Days Of Working Out With P90X)

No change in diet = 90 days of exercising for (almost)nothing.
Iron loss from menstruation is a few milligrams per day. Women absorb iron more efficiently. It is a myth that women need more iron than men.

Iron accumulates in tissues over time and contributes to aging. Excess iron is very clearly linked to cancer and heart disease.

I make a point of giving blood a couple times a year and avoid the iron fortified cereals and flours. It's very often reduced iron, which is especially toxic.
You are probably not aware of the details of what he did with Emacs and GCC. The short answer is: it was possible to implement reasonably effective Lisp in Emacs, but it was impossible to replace the most of Unix infrastructure in it. Therefore the GCC was necessary.

It's not about the "theoretical possibilities" it's about the practical limitations.

I can't refer to you to any single resource regarding the limitations of any Lisp for implementing the free-source replacement of Unix, but if you investigate how the Lisp in Emacs was actually implemented you can get the picture. Provided you have enough basic knowledge about the low level aspects of the CPUs, compilers and interpreters and also the limitations of all the hardware before the most modern CPUs. Even today, what's "good enough" on the desktop can be "too much demanded" from the lower power systems. But the lower power systems of today are also much more advanced than what we had for decades during which GNU project grew.

GCC 1.0 was released in 1987. The 2000 USD computer had less than 1 MB of RAM then.
Or ever existed. Time travel anyone?
I'm never really satisfied when people quote these studies that just observed what people drank and concluded "skim milk makes you obese!" when it seems obvious the causation makes just as much sense the other way around - people who are overweight switch to skim milk as a way to cut calories from their diet.
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$400 on Aliexpress gets you into the range of branded phones from brands like Sony, Xiaomi, Lenovo, Huawei, ZTE, Oppo, Jiayu these days.

Almost none of the phones in that range are truly "no-name" (though beware the fakes) - even Oppo and Jiayu are fairly established brands by now, though obviously nowhere near as well known.
I've read something quite contrary on reddit.

It was about Clojure vs Haskell and more specifically, dynamic vs static typing. Person was claiming that it was so much easier to change statically typed languages. It get more difficult to maintain large projects that are Lisps.

From what I've learned so far about languages, it makes sense. It looks that Lisps are more suitable for implementing algorithms because of the reductionism, but in more realistic systems world, you build interfaces, add random strings, and so on.

If you are patient and good enough, you can probably build significant part of a system, but not all of it. I do not know any systems built entirely on Lisp, but I might be wrong.
It's hard to say exactly, but the tractor usually weighs around 25000 lbs. You can probably save around 2000 to 3000 lbs of that.

If you do remove the operator completely you're going to end up creating other jobs anyways, as now you're going to need people to respond to flat tires and other load issues, you're going to need marshalling yard with load masters, you're going to need more humpers at each location.

This also ignores the case where loads are directly delivered to a customer. I work in radio broadcasting and the 53' box freight truck will drive straight to our transmitter site, even the ones up on mountains. There's _no_ driverless trailer that's going to do that and help unload the item. Also, since the transmitter is one of four destined for other customers, there would be no one to supervise us around other loads that we don't own and aren't covered for.

So, you'd need to create secondary hubs that can handle these types of deliveries with smaller trucks, hence, more jobs.

This is what I meant earlier, the logistics are really well nailed down. Owner operators of trailers make a lot of money because they solve a lot of problems all at once, are independent, and usually make a fuel surcharge so the price of gas impacts them far less.

If you remove them, you're going to need a whole bunch of other infrastructure to replace what they do. The system is labor efficient already as computers have already impacted all the secondary parts such as freight bookers many years ago.

Someone elsewhere mentioned companies making their own fuel dumps, which is _highly_ optimistic due to the way the current industry is arranged and the overhead and regulations involved in managing fuel tanks. Right now a dispatcher has software that can track their trucks with GPS, get fuel prices at all US locations from corporate fuel vendors, estimate current fuel volume on the truck and determine the optimal place for the driver to refuel along with the optimal amount for the driver to purchase. The message to the driver is usually communicated automatically through a message system installed in the cab, the driver can use the same system to communicate their actual mileage and fuel volume which gets factored back into everything. With newer trucks, the driver doesn't even need to input this information.

Sorry for the ramble, but this industry is pretty complex already. I'm not sure having fully automated trucks is a near-term reality, nor am I sure that the companies involved are actually aiming for that. There will be a slow shift of _certain_ types of loads into full automation with the last mile being driven the way it currently is with a very gradual shift to full automation as technology advances to meet these secondary demands.
>It would be good if there was some way to privately reply to a comment. (Essentially your proposal minus the necessity of downvoting). I'm not sure if there's any way to do that without it being a vector for abuse or disrupting public commentary

I have my email address in my HN profile. I take it you wouldn't do that because you believe it makes you too vulnerable to abuse?

Will you please help me understand what you mean by "disrupting public commentary"? Maybe give an example.
Have you thought of making it a bit more hacker friendly ? Having some available GPIO's somehow exposed and documented. A small (optional ?) component to point the camera forward. Something to mount these phones onto a frame in a solid way. An optional way to provide power to the phone without occupying the USB slot.

These phones would make excellent autopilots and controllers for RC cars, quadcopters, even regular helicopters, but there's just a few things missing.
Oh how I wish we (Scotland) had decided to part from these lunatics.
it's not that ddg can't index the pages you're looking for or connect your query with those pages. it's that google knows so much about you they skew the results heavily.
Similar thing here in Germany: Government brought up the so called "Vorratsdatenspeicherung" (data preservation law) again, only to prevent terrorist attacks. Similar laws where cancelled by our "Bundesverfassungsgericht" (German constitutional court) and also at the EuGH (EU constitutional court).

But still they brought it up again, because "the terrorist danger is so high" ... and of course they said, that the data will only (we promise!) be used in these cases.

Now, short time before the law shall be passed (it should be rushed threw the parliament, of course!), they added some additions to the law, that the data can be also used at any crimes committed in the internet. That is exactly, what was criticized by our constitutional courts before.

The law makers try to install such laws again and again. They are not interested, whether it is constitutional or not. When they fail, they wait for the next terror activity and bring up the same bullshit again.

That is the reason, why I come to believe, that our democratic systems are bound to fail (again). With so few people caring about our constitutional rights, we will loose them.

The lack of care for the constitution allowed it, that the NSDAP "legally" changed a democracy to a dictatorship once before. It can happen again -- in any country.
The title of the photo says "composite photograph", perhaps several close up photos were stitched together?
> There is no reason that the HN codebase isn't open sourced

I think mods mentioned some pretty aggressive voting rings (from surprising, disappointing, places. The Atlantic did this. I stopped posting any links from them when I found out.) But there is a lot of vote ringing on HN.

Would being open source affect vote ring detection?
Its a bad thing. While you may not agree with Stallman's analysis of the morality of software, should everyone think about the tools they use - not just their apparent functionality, but also the broader ramifications of characteristics of said tools.

The world would be a better place if fewer people just went on autopilot and short-term gratification.
If you want to use Chinese you're going to have to learn their customs and possibly the language - MTK will just ignore you if you try asking them unless you're already a huge established company.

Here's some good background reading on the culture of these ecosystems:

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3107

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4297
Appealing to microbenchmarks is not a useful argument because they are in no way indicative of real-life performance and tend to stress only a single part of the system being tested. They're fantastic for compiler writers, terrible for making any kind of judgement about the languages being compared.
Also there is eLua for MCUs - http://www.eluaproject.net/
It would be great to hear more about I/O performance on ECS. A while back I ran I/O tests on another Docker-based container service running on Softlayer(Bluemix) and I could get near-native level performance because that environment had Docker containers running on bare-metal hardware. More here: http://www.cloudswithcarl.com/?p=63
That vid just makes you want to go afk and DO something.
Is this really a problem that needs a solution?
What is the evidence that this is a failed approach?
Schools that ban mobile phones see better academic results
A few more policies like this and a No vote in the EU referendum by the UK and a Yes vote in Scotland and I can see another independence referendum happening before 2020 - which I personally think is too soon, even though I did vote Yes in the last one.
There's a popular CGP Grey video which claims the opposite, ie that the monarchy is a money spinner for the UK, and not just because of tourism

Are you saying this is incorrect? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhyYgnhhKFw
Stallman likely worked in the LISP your describing. He was a researched at MIT's AI lab. Their the LISP machines they went on to produce were actually a hybrid natively assembled OOP LISP, aimed at solving a lot of the low level issues you'll run into writing a kernel/system tools in LISP. I haven't worked in this language, I've just seen it referenced in a large number of places.

As he ultimately decided to not go this direction, I'm going to assume he considered it more of a dead end.
The Firefox debugger should automatically blackbox minified sources. You can also click on the little eye icon in the debugger panel to manually blackbox sources.

You can also use the developer toolbar to run a command like `dbg blackbox --glob *-min.js` etc. to blackbox a bunch of stuff at once.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Debugger/How_...
For the most part, the lords are selected using a nomination and approval process by the democratically elected government. The Monarchy I think we all know about, no real power.

The Lords system is quite cool besides the fancy names. You have people who are experts in the field who can check through laws. Politicians in a large part aren't always able to look down through the technicality of laws where some foreknowledge is required. Lots of academic or real life experience among them. Given the corporate influence some of these guys may have there is a couple of restrictions on what they can do when it involves expenditures or taxation, too.
Sure, but which GNU tools, beyond Emacs, use Lisp?

It's very easy to do hyperbolic statements like lauding lisp, it's hard to use it in practical situations.
>IMO, noobs might think HN community is hostile & leave.

I believe the parent was referring to downvoting comments that are hostile in tone, not using downvoting as an outlet for his own hostility.
Could you try to refrain from insults like "coo coo for cocoa puffs"?

Stallman is trying his best to live up to his ethical principles. What is the point of your uncharitable criticism?
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I missed the Quantity field. My bad.
Not really. I'm sure this happens some of the time, but I suspect that's more common with developers who haven't written either.

In my experience, a lot of the developers who prefer C to C++ are developers who wrote a lot of C++, found that it only improved productivity in solving problems that it created, and went back to C and realized how much easier it is to write software in C.

C++ gets you caught up thinking about problems that don't even matter.
I doubt this would transfer to an individual parenting level. If your student is the only one in the class without a cell phone, there is still plenty to distract them.

School-wide bans would clearly be most effective.
The portability aspect is interesting.

I use uwsgi extensively (not just with python), and I think it sets the bar these days.
> "Safety"? Coming from your ilk, which calls all dissent "harassment",

Well aren't you a nasty piece of work. Using a straw man to claim harassment doesn't exist.

> Mean words on the internet put nobody's life at risk.

Completely untrue. People have been bullied into suicide many, many times. Vulnerable people can have their address revealed and receive physical attacks or be outright murdered. Hate speech can incite violence.

Get out of your fantasy land. Speech and action are not divorced, and words usually hurt far more than sticks or stones.
Maybe it comes from academia. Lisps are used to teach recursive program and step into purely functional idioms. I wasn't introduced to the effectful APIs or libraries. Only car, cdr and recursion as primitive means. Also history rarely reports Lisp being imperative. McCarthy first paper shows a functional structural symbolic derivator, he was said to be a proponent of recursion when nobody cared, I think Richard Gabriel said the `progn` form was introduced a-posteriori to satisfy FORTRAN programmers. I've read only once that Lisp was planned to have imperative traits from the start. So it's not unnatural to think of Lisp as a mostly pure recursive language that caved in to allow side-effects (just like ML has Ref types when it makes sense). It's a bit Edisonian in how simplified the story has been.
I don't know. It was just a side note on my side and to be frank, I don't care to much, since I am not British and when the British think they can afford it ....
Can you please post a bug (with screenshots, list of add-ons installed, and any custom browser css tweaks) to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ and CC :callahad in Bugzilla?

Those sorts of fit-and-finish bugs really bother me, and I'd love to figure out how we can fix that one for you.
Maybe I am thick, or maybe it's just that I haven't finished my coffee yet. Please tell me what context that I am missing that makes Cameron's quote acceptable.
I'm using ECS to run a small cluster of 25 odd microservice containers of three different categories spread out over a number of instances.

I'd second your opinion that it still feels like a preview. There are some rough edges that we've encountered such as a mistyped tag name causing ECS to hang forever in the pending state, as it didn't properly catch the error condition of not being able to pull the nonexistent image tag from our Dockerhub account.

One thing that I think ECS really highlights is the need for an ELB service specifically for docker containers. I'd love to be able to run multiple web containers on the same instance and load balance incoming requests to multiple containers on the same machine. Right now because of the limitations of ELB listeners we are instead running one beefy web container per instance with lots of CPU and memory allocation, and one node.js process per core running inside the container. Then ELB load balances requests across our instances, but each instance is still running only one web container.

ECS still brings benefit for deploying and updating web containers, but the true power lies in its management of worker and other background service containers, and the ability to shuffle them around and disperse them wherever there are free resources with very little administration required.