skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You say all those things like other CS degrees skip university-level mathematics and the scientific method.

I said nothing of the sort.

I said they only require 1 university level math course in addition to discrete math, and a vague in this short overview science requirement, let's call it 1 course with a lab component (but it could be more).

All MIT undergraduates are required to do a lot more university level math and science, more than twice as much of the former given the usual pace of other universities, and four times as much as the latter. It's not optional, and FB/Google/whatever doesn't have to do any investigation of their transcript, just confirm they graduated from MIT (or CalTech, but it's 1/4th the size and science, not engineering oriented, I doubt they see many applicants from it and those should get true red carpet treatment).

And that's without getting into intangible benefits; as a physics major mentioned to me in my first week, "everyone" who attends MIT learns how to do electrical wiring. No, it's hardly required, but any vaguely curious person will pick up a lot of science and engineering just by rubbing shoulders with 4,000+ other STEM undergraduates for 4 years.

Compare to Zuckerberg's Harvard: back when I attended MIT, the math requirement for graduating from Harvard was proving you could do algebra, and I now find its CS program is not ABET accredited. That said, it's math heavy, requiring a linear algebra course which I assume goes beyond the linear algebra taught in MIT's required 2nd calculus course (see more here http://handbook.fas.harvard.edu/book/computer-science).

Strange, but they are Harvard (and ABET has some ideas about how to teach CS that the MIT EECS department does not agree with at all, like being able to teach design per se), they were a pioneering computer institution prior to fully electronic computers, and students can fulfill some of their requirements by taking MIT EECS courses.

(Let it be said I'm boosting MIT too much, if I wanted to do pure CS, CMU would be my first choice, Stanford probably 2nd, not sure about EE derived UC Berkeley (which has in addition has all those state school disadvantages, and nowadays many fewer of the in-state ones for residents), and MIT could easily be my last choice after the department panicked after the dot.com crash cratered enrollment for the first time ever.)

As for "applicants with MS degrees and published papers", presumably they wouldn't be in the same interview track as gaggles of new graduates.
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That's true. I got rejected from at least one top tech school for not being great enough on paper, despite all the medals from my high school non-athletic competitive extracurricular activites clinking on my chest. If I ever become even mildly successful, I eagerly await the opportunity to throw that back in their faces.

But for now, and the foreseeable future, it would appear that their decision has been validated. Although I'm not entirely certain whether that is because I am not actually good enough as a person to claw my way into the upper middle class on my own merits, or because my accumulated credentials are not prestigious enough for a gatekeeper to lower one of the ladders low enough for me to jump for it.

Like it or not, there may be people out there blackholing my resume just because it doesn't have the right university name on it, or because the year I graduated is in the wrong millennium, or because it doesn't have the right company names on it.

There's nothing that any of us can do about it individually. Stopping that kind of useless credentialism by employers is squarely in the domain of a cartel enforcer--union, professional association, or government--and even then it might not stick.
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Can this model even somewhat accurately predict the current conditions of our climate using past data?
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>We don't throw people in jail because we don't like their business practices.

We do when they're fraudulent*

* Exceptions for too big to jail bankers. Jamie Dimon won't see a day in jail despite running a criminal enterprise.

>The idea that the government wasn't absolutely salivating at the opportunity to throw some bankers in jail is one of the funniest things I read on the internet. People don't seem to understand that the government and banking industry are often at odds on many things.

The banking industry has a meltdown when the government isn't treating them with utter admiration.

If the DoJ were actually concerned about putting bankers behind bars they could easily use Sarbanes-Oxley to make a few bank CEOs do the perp walk in an orange jumpsuit.

They're far too rich a source of campaign contributions, however (see Hillary's Goldman Sachs speaking fees for instance).
This is what you throw when your padLeft webservice call fails.
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Learn to play an instrument. It will help you on later study sessions.
Here's one data point:

* Automatic Generation of Peephole Superoptimizers: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2800
although the practical implication of proving leech and E8 are optimal is somewhat unsurprising (as both have been known to be remarkably close to the feasible optimal), the theoretical framework using modular forms could shed some light on the connection with the monster. but then again i tend to be a bit of an optimist hoping john conway's desire for a connection get fulfilled.
Another interesting page in the site: https://academo.org/demos/perlin-noise/

Made me look it up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perlin_noise

Smooth.
For those who are interested, here's the article (open access):

http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/03/09/molbe...

It's worth pointing out that here "genetic changes" means evolutionary adaptation over many generations, not some sort of mutagenic effect
They used to; nowadays you're apparently supposed to rackmount Mac Pros:

http://www.sonnettech.com/product/rackmacpro.html
My 2004 Corolla is outdated, underpowered, and was "overpriced". It has 250,000 miles, and we use it every day without worrying about breakdowns. Likewise, I use my 2009 MacBook Pro every day without worrying about breakdowns [1]. Quality comes with a steep up-front price that pays you back with a long tail of value.

[1] The native Apple hardware has failed exactly once in the MacBook's lifetime (SATA cable)
OK, how was TARP not a gift?
Author here. LMK if you have questions or feedback. For the lazy, benchmarks are towards the end.
Yeah, but putting it that way it doesn't make Iceland seem like the Socialist utopia that it is. Evil bankers are the cause of all of the world's problems; they're why things aren't free and stuff. #FeelTheBern
More than that: cars.

We have millions of explosive-powered heavy metal boxes running fast on unprotected lanes, their path solely directed by unreliable biological organismes following conventions from blinking lights and painted signs.

But most of the time, it works.
Thanks, might be worth updating the blog post to reflect this, what percent of Google's reCAPTCHA data comes from Cloudflair, and why Cloudflair doesn't roll their own to insure data is not being leaked/given to Google.
I've always had thoughts about this too. I understand that our definition of "living" might be that it requires water and air or something like that but honestly I think that's a little short-sighted.
> If you think of cubicle training as the main job of the university, it follows that large corporations would look for degrees.

If you read The History of Education (1920)[0] which outlines how the American and the Preussian system of education it is based on was created and on what basis, you'll see that this is exactly true. Education has never, ever been about exploration, or knowledge for its own sake. It has always been about increasing productivity for businesses, and tax revenue for government.

[0] https://archive.org/stream/briefhistoryofed00cubbuoft/briefh...
You must stay in shitty hotels.
That reminds me of MythTv's automatical removal of advertisements in recorded TV.

One of the more advanced techniques they use, iirc, is checking for the disappearance of the channel logo, which tends to not be part of ads.
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"civilization is not built upon a mountain of crap, but is the very walls keeping the crap in place" is my new favorite sentence.
> I know we're talking about checking accounts. That was tried too -- it was called Washington Mutual,

Is there evidence to suggest the "free checking account no questions asked" was large portion of it being one of the "Biggest Bank crash in U.S. history". It looks like Washington Mutual crashed for the same reason the others did: it had all this loans out on people who couldn't pay them. Not because it offered checking/savings accounts to underprivileged. It's weird you reference the 2008 collapse then fail to mention that being the exact time when WaMu crashed.
There was outright fraud by some Iceland bankers, who indicated they had assets and relationships that did not exist. Issues include:

- Indicating to the ECB and others that they had relationships with strong German banks (when the Iceland bankers showed up at the German banks, the Germans indicated they had never heard of the Iceland banks)

- Engaging in "next-gen Enron-style" corporate asset-liability accounting deceit, such as counting zero-coupon bonds cross-issued with other banks as assets but not as liabilities

- Knowingly accepting billions in bailout funds from the ECB on said fraud

- Failing to acknowledge, take steps to prevent or mitigate damage, at the point when it was undeniable that Icelandic banks could never cover their liabilities

- Paying their executives on quarterly bonuses in spite of horrific losses

That's just a glossy sampling. If it's an interesting topic for you, I strongly recommend the book by my friend Gudrun Johnson, "Bringing Down the Banking System: Lessons from Iceland".

The Report of the Althingy (Icelandic parliament) is one of the most exceptional pieces of literature of our generation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Report_of_the_Investigatio...). It is the source on which Gudrun based her book, and arguably the best post-mortem on an insolvency ever made, or at least since the Amulree Royal Commission on the insolvency of the Dominion of Newfoundland.

EDIT Fixed list.
It's a good idea to haw a check for memory corruptions at regular intervals to keep your sanity.
>Unpunished...for what? What are the crimes?

Wire fraud. Illegal since 1872.

>Please elaborate.

QE pushed up the value of assets which had plunged in value. Assets which were used by the banks as collateral for loans which were now bigger than the value of those assets and were going bad very quickly. That made those banks what is technically known as "insolvent"... until the stealth bailout.

>Do you know the academic origins of QE?

Monetarism. You can place the blame squarely at Milton Friedman's feet for QE, not Keynes. Keynes advocated fiscal expansion, not funny money tricks to reduce interest rates below zero.

Milton Friedman was firmly of the opinion that tweaking interest rates was enough to successfully manage any economy. Clearly not so much...
You might be surprised how much of your carbon footprint is accounted for by air travel, even if you only take one commercial flight per year.

In carbon emitted per mile it's about the same as traveling by car. But those airliners cover a lot of miles in one trip.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_transp...]
Thanks for the recommendations.
Way back in college I wanted to learn more about robots, so I took a class called 'Cybernetics' taught by David Huffman (who invented Huffman coding). The class wasn't about robots (I misunderstood; it was about information theory and control systems).

In the very first lecture Huffman concluded the class with the statement "It turns out, sphere packing in 7 dimensions is easy! And this has applications to telephone routing..." (he worked for Bell Labs).

I thought it was interesting how he spent nearly an hour explaining something that seemed totally pure math and it ended up helping AT&T scale phone networks.
>Homes may be 13% cheaper

Thats good since you will be spending all of your money buying food since you dont have a kitchen. This article is on par with "blockchains will replace court systems" dribble that is being pumped out by people with some knowledge of technology and 0 knowledge of anything else.
Yes, except other drugs designed to clear the plaques have been tested and they've all shown no reduction in symptoms. So my flu analogy was not great :)

But it's absolutely possible that the prior drugs were all tested wrong or didn't quite do what we thought they did. That is not sarcasm, sadly.
Well, doing a high school olympiad didn't get me into the university I wanted, so why would a university-level olympiad get anyone into the job they want?

It doesn't work as a credential unless it actually produces results.
And? Tablets and phones are not laptops.
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The difference is that in the US, while it would have been possible to prosecute bankers under existing law after the 2008 meltdown, we did not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubberhose_%28file_system%29 is another interesting implementation of the idea.

"Deniable Encryption" is the term.
Indeed, see my comment on how the MIT admissions office looks for evidence the applicant can do projects. If you graduate from MIT without gaining such an ability if you didn't start with it, well, you've wasted your time there unless, say, you're a pure math type (even the theoretical physics types have to do Junior Lab, which I gather is a requirement of the science equivalent of ABET).
I have tried using this exact same model. It didn't make waking up any easier for me. I simulate it now also using hue bulbs but nothing can snap me out of my rhythms.
Really? absolutely reckless user here on all platforms, the only crashes I have on desktop are unexpected cumputer shutdowns, on mobile it sometimes crashes right after launch, looks like the UI
Society is geared against late sleepers on many fundamental levels. Daycares and schools typically start early and let out early. If you have two working parents they can split the dropoff/pickup only if both have early schedules, or can still do productive work at home, with a small child around. Not even the kids want to wake up at 6:30.
You mean like audit?
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> Julia crashes all the time with segmentation faults, sorry, the quality of Julia is super low. I would not use it for anything serious.

I've seen a lot of Julia used in real world scenarios at companies and this is a pretty surprising claim. Segfaults are very rare – much rarer than in code written in C or C++. You may either have a messed up build of Julia or you could be using packages that call C libraries and do so incorrectly – that would certainly cause segfaults.
I don't know about cheap solder - I have done rework on lead-free boards that required an absurd amount of heat - but I love working with Sparkfun's special blend of 96.35% Sn, 3.0% Ag, 0.5% Cu, 0.15% Sb (Antimony): https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10243
60% of the population is below sea level, even. It's true that only 25% of the land area is below sea level (and another 25% less than 1 meter above it), but that happens to be the most densely populated area.

For example, if the sea were to spill over onto all below-sea-level land, Amsterdam would be an island, some 15 km off the new coastline. The Port of Rotterdam would still be there (25km offshore), but the rest of the city would disappear.
Thank you for these.
The shocking part is the number of times:

"This should never happen": 823,044
This should never happen: 16,946,357
vs.
"This is screwed up": 59
This is screwed up: 876,393
No - but it's two button clicks to deploy it onto a free heroku instance on your account (which you can then delete after you've completed the challenges)
Browser vendors could and should block cross-site tracking if they wanted to. The only problem is Google will do that over its dead body, and without Google's Chrome, the other browsers would just look like they are "breaking sites" for using cross-site tracking.

So if you want to stop cross-site mass surveillance-like tracking, keep telling Google to do it.
The analogy is flawed. These proteins might be a cause of the symptoms, or an effect of the disease, but we don't know that they're related. A better analogy might be, that this could be as effective as trying to eliminate a pigeon infestation by sweeping up their feathers and scrubbing out the crap.
If you have time, this is an excellent article that describes where the "12" comes from and the derivation of the chromatic scale and just intonation scales.

http://arxiv.org/html/1202.4212v1
As an Apple fan (but not a loyalist), I tend to agree. Over time, the lust for their products is starting to wane...

The lack of GPU power for the price is ludicrous. I love the OS and the design of the hardware, but it's such a trade off for graphics power. The CPUs don't seem to be all that bad, but probably could be better as well for the price.

They are too focused on thinness/lightness. I'd rather have a slightly thicker iMac or Macbook and higher-end parts.

Integrated GPUs (while much better than they used to be) have really overtaken Apple's lineup and it's disappointing, not to mention the inability to easily upgrade anything (not just an Apple problem, though)
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Yup, those banks still owe me money.
>Jamie Dimon won't see a day in jail despite running a criminal enterprise.

Funniest thing I might read today.

This is just another near-daily HackerNews anti-bank circlejerk amongst people who spend way too much time watching conspiracy theories on YouTube.
In South India, we very rarely cremate.

Every village has a big "Rudrabhoomi". Cremation is a very upper caste thing.
Thanks for the link. Very informative.
How is 1% fairly common? I get that globally, 1% is a lot of people. But that doesn't make it common...
> 88642ba Fix all the conflicts

> fbd2658 Conflict all the fixes

Sounds like some amount of made-up work!
This is a serious question even if it seems like it isn't; how do you handle the real world with such a strong adverse reaction to a mere word?
As gengivas e a sensibilidade
Also 2000 EUR iMacs are shipping with 5400rpm HDD.

I use 2013 MacBook Air and want to upgrade to MacBook Pro, but at the moment I can't justify buying new Mac. All new Macs are outdated at the moment.
Let's be honest, for every overworked DA who is ambitious enough to attempt to prosecute a banker, you will immediately have ten 6th year associates out of their top 1/3rd from UChic, Yale and Stanford willing to put in 90 hours because junior partner at Cravath or Skadden is so close they can taste it. TARP was absolutely necessary (we absolutely would have had a complete and total systemic failure had relief not been provided), but the US government could have dictated far stricter terms at which the T-notes were issued which would have benefited the country in the long-term.

Instead of a simple bond, they could have offered an alternative instrument that ensured less of a .. cavalier.. attitude towards trading. "These bonds are issued contingent upon .. {loans must be underwritten by X% in fungible assets, rather than ISDA 3rd-order derivatives (ugh bad pun); Y% of your profits for the next Z years must be invested in a FDIC-esque safety fund as insurance for the next crash; or hell, 'the US government will offer $foo MM in exchange for $bar equity, the profits of which will go towards this years deficit/national debt/...'. If you read first-party accounts at the time when Mae/Mac/Stearns and AIG when down, absolutely everyone was so panicked the board members/CEOs would have taken those terms.
The main reason is... context switching, also i'm a big fan of python's standard library, but I have yet to do any complete work just with it.
Rather than "Impossible […]: {Exception}", how about "Regrettable and Extremely Rare […]: {Programmer Will Be Fired}"?
Two out of three developers are self-taught, and other trends from a survey
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I was really upset actually that Curry was playing so hard in the 4th quarter against Philly of all teams. He went for a steal w/ 2 minutes left up 18 points. I get it the mentality, but so close to the playoffs? Give your bench more play time 'cause that's what won last year.
This can be followed up by an even "crazier" question: If so, is our Galaxy a living creature ?

I like this, a galaxy-scale Gaia Hypothesis. Why not?

Our perspective is so small and our life span is so limited, would we be able to recognize or even comprehend the thought processes of a galaxy sized organism?
"Never memorize something you can look up" -- Albert Einstein

"I wrote it down so I wouldn't have to remember!" -- Professor Henry Jones

Two of the pearls of wisdom I live my life by. Actually, most engineers do. That's why huge books of nothing but formulas, lookup tables, and reference data exist.
Perhaps. My curriculum (and of most other universities in my country) thought me the basis of OOP, Databases, Software Requirements, Development Processes, Distributed Systems, etc... All these concepts map directly to my day to day to job. Having learned this at college, made my life a lot easier after entering the market. And I still think that holds true after 10 years of professional experience.
That was a mistake. I find it beyond belief that they would intentionally upgrade people without confirmation or notification. As much as they would like people to upgrade, they know this would be PR suicide. At a minimum they would have had notifications that it was going to happen, and made it opt out. To my mind, that it was automatically checked but in the optional updates section points towards it being a weird bug in which an unforeseen interaction of attributes caused the problem. For example, it's possible that selecting that you did want to upgrade to Windows 10 through the popups they showed was supposed to put it in that weird state, where it was optional but checked by default, which would be a non-normal situation for an update. Weird exceptions like that are very prone to bugs.
Thank you for clarifying that the statement "the environment doesn't modify how your genes are expressed" is incorrect. Thankfully, neither I nor the posted article made that statement.