skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is absolutely true that for a lot of people, having a structured environment with someone keeping you honest via evaluations and social pressure is a real benefit of college.

That said, it's clear that online education has the potential to transform millions of lives for people who have the discipline, vigor, and intention of going into a specific field.

Many people around the world are learning on their own time, be it linear algebra or Python programming, without needing to spend thousands of dollars on a formalized education.

The current explosion in peoples interest Deep Learning is in no small part because of the availability of information on the internet, such as free or inexpensive textbooks, free video and written tutorials from dozens of high quality sources, research papers on Arxiv, and tons of written information by the leading researchers of our time. If you're interested in Deep Learning, going to a local college that isn't an elite institution is unlikely to have significantly larger benefit over spending the next few years studying and learning on your own.

I can honestly say that from my college education, only a small % was truly applicable to my eventual career. Was it worth $40k+? For the social network, yes, but for the practical methods of improving my own skillset, hardly. Most of my professors were quite frankly lesser skilled than the students who eventually graduated. Clearly, I didn't go to Stanford or MIT!

On the topic of the "camaraderie of students," there's nothing that says people can't form their own groups without the need of a university environment, such as through Meetup.com or Facebook. I'm currently part of a study group that's going through an online Deep Learning course, where we meet every week to discuss the weeks work. And we sometimes bring in a PhD level practitioner to answer questions and give feedback.

I'll also just underline this: the level of teaching of particular subjects varies from college to college. You are not guaranteed to get a good professor on the topics you truly care about. A lot of people will never have the experience of going to an elite institution that has industry leaders or excellent teachers. The wonder of online education is that you can find a teacher who absolutely has a style and process that works for you and you may learn a lot more through that process than going to a class where the teacher sucks the life out of the topic. Or just simply makes you do work that isn't structured well.

For example, look at comments written on highly popular math videos on YouTube, where students lament the fact that they're taught basic things in a way that is extremely abstract, pushing them to just learn rote memorization. It takes people like 3Blue1Brown and Sal Khan to open up their minds to the intuition.
See http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783540214939 or Barry Trager's PhD Thesis
Yes, this is what I meant by super cover. Essentially you just rent without any additional coverage and Amex will cover anything not covered by the rental agency's insurance. This saves a good $20/day at least, meaning if you rent cars for just a few weeks per year the fee will be worth it, when considering the discount as well. I've racked up about 7-8 weeks of car rental so far since New Years, and thanks to Amex I saved a bunch of money on it, probably more than the fee.

Another good feature is I've sometimes had to return the cars in different cities, and every time they waived the fee because of the preferred status as a card carrying member. These things add up for sure.

As far as I know, the insurance also works with any agency, so not just Avis and Hertz, so there's money to save even if you go for a more "fun" agency like Sixt, with nicer cars.

Disclaimer: You'll want to verify all this with Amex though, but this is what I've been told and what I've read in the ToS.
That was fun. Note that gfortran supports the coarrays of Fortran2008, which affords convenient SIMD computation. More people should at least be aware of modern Fortran.
God it is so true.

There's such an amazing cultural comparison to be made between I-70 over Vail pass (in Colorado) and I-80 over Donner pass in California.

Vail pass rarely closes and is open for vehicle traffic in blizzard-like conditions - but you're on your own. You'd better be well prepared and be the competent driver of a well-maintained, capable 4WD vehicle.

And so, in a blizzard, Vail pass will be nearly empty and the occasional driver will be well-equipped for the trip.

In California, they enforce chain control on I-80 for all vehicles. This has the (amazing, stupefying) perverse outcome of allowing everyone to drive over Donner pass in a blizzard. Further, they are emboldened by the chains to drive quite poorly in conditions they have no idea of how to drive in.

The result is, during a full-blown blizzard, I was driving next to some moron in a RWD camaro trying to bob and weave through slower moving traffic. Dense traffic. Dense traffic largely made of other rear wheel drive cars operated by drivers with no snow driving experience.

California.
Yeah, and the risk of spontaneous anesthesia death (it's rare, but some people simply don't ever wake up). There's always plenty of reasons not to get surgery, and the only reason to get it is if the outcome for the injury is better, which it wasn't in this case! The default should be to not get surgery unless it has a clearly better expected outcome, whereas the orthopedist seemed to default to surgery for any injury.
Unbiased considerations on how startups use SaaS product stacks
Most do.

Most high school graduates can barely string a sentence together in writing, and are more likely to have similar limitations in reading.
That's not entirely true:

> If we transfer adversarial examples from one model to another model trained with one of these defenses, the attack often succeeds, even when a direct attack on the second model would fail [PMG16].

http://www.cleverhans.io/security/privacy/ml/2017/02/15/why-...
Believe+in+Yourself
There's no wrong place to ask for an almond biscotti recipe.

This recipe I'm now sharing with you has been lovingly passed from nonna to nipotina, generation after generation... until I found it on some random website.

* 250g plain flour

* 1 teaspoon baking powder

* 180g caster sugar

* 1 pinch salt

* 25g butter, melted and cooled

* 2 eggs

* 175g almonds, coarsely chopped

1) Mix the flour with baking powder, then add sugar, vanilla sugar and salt. Form into a mound with a hollow in the middle.

2) Pour the butter and eggs into it and knead to a dough. Knead in the chopped almonds. Form the dough to a ball, adding more flour if necessary. Cover and chill for 30 minutes.

3) Line a baking tray with baking parchment and preheat oven to 200 C / Gas 6.

4) Cut dough into 6 pieces and shape each into a 25cm log. Arrange logs on a baking tray, leaving enough space for them to spread whilst cooking. Bake in preheated oven for 10-15 minutes.

5) Allow them to cool a little, then cut into 1cm slices. Lay on a baking tray and bake for another 8-10 minutes at 200 C / Gas 6 until golden-brown.

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Here are some pictures: https://www.facebook.com/gabriel.gambetta/posts/104917363189...

That's one of my first attempts. Note that the dough has been rolled and flattened before the first bake - I don't do that anymore, which makes the biscotti fluffier. Here's a more recent batch: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=212037919144199&set=...
JIRA, github, google for business, sublime text, aws, broadband?
Google Adwords Simulator
That's not a hierarchy thing.

Docs are the chokepoint in the process. Overseers track very carefully how much time you spend, how productive you are, etc. and surround you with lower-wage employees to do every last thing except those responsibilities that you, by law, have sole power to do.

My buddies are in latter years of residency and no one works <90 hrs/wk (including paperwork they have to finish when they get home, 'cause otherwise they'd never see their families). And that's despite running around like their hair is on fire. I assure you, it's not voluntary.
Because transportation will become a service, rather than a product [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_as_a_Service
Cash itself isn't cost-free for businesses. There's the extra time it takes to count change for customers, the mistakes cashiers make when counting change, there's the time it takes to count the register at the end of a shift, the cost of a safe to hold cash on-site, the risk of counterfeit bills (when I cashiered we'd check $50s and $100s but not $20s and lower since it would take too long), and the cost of transporting the cash to the bank (either in the cost of an armored car or the risk of getting robbed on the way to the bank (which happened at another location while I was cashiering, after that they switched to an armored car)).
I think if there are two sites with the same content and functionality, people would hands down prefer the faster page.
I wrote a bit on this subject just last week, each paragraph mentions the problems of increasingly uncontrolled environments, finishing up with actively hostile environments like the examples you just mentioned.

http://www.aomartin.co.uk/what-robots-can-and-cant-do/
I mean, did the first word processor you use allow collaborative working on documents available anywhere with an internet connection, constantly backed up to Dropbox servers?
Saying women shouldn't be able to full civil rights is like saying gay people shouldn't be counted a full humans, or using the n word for black people. It's just not acceptable, in my opinion, and taints anything one writes. It's beyond the pale.
NO I say this because I have lived both i Denmark and currently live in the US and have had two melanomas and are expecting more because I have more than a thousand of them. So I have a pretty good idea of the capabilities of the US vs. ex the Danish system.
Yes. Confusing as it is, the first digits of the current year (2017) don't align with the current century (21st) because we started counting centuries at one, not zero. e.g. 1 A.D. / 1st, 100 A.D. / 2nd, 1000 A.D. / 11th, etc.
In Italy you'll find fancy desserts in a "pasticceria", not a bakery ;)
I specifically meant the post I replied to (where I'd agree, just that piece would be ambiguous. The full one as quoted in your initial post is not, because the part I highlighted clarifies the meaning)
Do the people and babies who cannot be vaccinated not have a right to their own bodily integrity as well? If that's really what you care about, then it seems better to require most people to get mild vaccines than to force some people to get deadly illnesses.
The thing is that, there aren't.

Only in our wet dreams exists a competitive edge where you copy a website 1:1 but use vanilla JS over their jQuery so things load a tiny bit faster and their users flock over to your website, chanting your name.
This is called "adversarial training" and is ineffective because of transferability. Also the space of adversarial examples is thought to be large (especially as dimensionality increases), making robust adversarial training intractable in practice. See https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.6199 and https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.05328
Very interesting work. 3 Quintillion keys generated, 3 private keys with coin in them. I have to wonder what processing power is being put into it, and if that power would be more effective at just mining coin, if someone were just after the money. At least in the short term. I think in the long term attacks like this might become more and more prevalent. Because at some point it may be easier to do this than mine new bitcoin.
If you want to try something really lightweight (1kb in fact) I made "mu": https://github.com/BafS/mu
A scalable admin ui for your crawling spiders
He covers priority inversion, a high priority task is preempted by a lower priority task. There's a similar neologism, bikeshedding, wasting time on trivial details while important matters wait.
"Unpopular?" That's the word you choose to describe this?

"Men have natural abilities and disposition towards leadership. To deny this, to mandate equality of results, to push women into masculine roles, to domesticate and feminize men, only results in misery for both men and women.
Universal suffrage elections are virtually always a bad idea."

Ad hominem doesn't render an argument invalid, it just speaks to the credibility of the author. So on that note, where are the merits?
Ask HN: Is there a simple HTML 5 boilerplate?
The html5 boilerplates are really heavy.

I was looking for just open graph tags, mobile viewport, facebook tags, and favicon things.
Hmm, that's an interesting concern....and thanks for taking a look. :-)
The author's suggested improvements may not be perfect, but they are 100% in the right direction.
Ah, but those jobs are being eaten away by automation, even if it's happening slowly.

Cleaning ladies are being displaced by disposable products that don't need to be cleaned.

Plumbers and electricians are being displaced by labor saving technologies. A new house contains no copper tubing or sweat fittings -- they use flexible hose and swaged connections. Wiring is no longer done with hard conduit. Framing is done with machine made components such as roof trusses.

Inspection is done by bribery. ;-)
With internet speeds only getting faster as time moves forward, does size REALLY matter? Is there an honest tangible difference between a 7kb and 30kb download? Also what about obsessing over a 10ms difference in render performance? Is that even noticeable? I can't help but think it may be wasted effort.
You're being biased by presentism. In an age where robots are cheap and ubiquitous, we won't still hire cleaning ladies (interesting assumption they're still ladies) just because they'll be able to clean under the rug. Instead, home furniture will change so that it becomes easier to clean for robots.
> and an additional 10% of the people who did get the vaccine.

That's hardly the fault of the people who didn't get vaccinated.

> Also, as noted in another reply, many, many people can't get vaccinated and rely on those of us who can to not be spreading the disease around.

True

> You can't vaccinate a newborn, for example.

Also true, I'm painfully aware of that one.

> There's a lot of value in bodily autonomy, and it's definitely questionable to mandate vaccines, but that has to be weighed against the costs, and that requires understanding and honestly acknowledging the costs.

Yes again. This also includes honestly looking at the other side of the argument: if you want science rather than regular imprecise human reasoning to take over at all levels of society you will end up with a society where freedom of religion and all kinds of other goodies that we have come to agree are good for all of us are going to be thrown out.

I would rather see steps in that direction come about by consent than by force. We're all so tremendously fanatical about protecting life, at the same time those abortion clinic bombers claim they are doing the exact same thing.

Extremist positions (such as the anti-vaxxers) are not going to yield because of a push by force-majeure. The only way you're going to get such a position to be changed is by endless education and information so that finally, hopefully soon but better later than never people will decide that this is for the best of their kids.

And if they don't then all you'll end up doing is alienating that part of society even further from reason and that's the last thing you want.

Science is a good thing, let's not make it seem as though it is perfect and let's not repeat the exact same mistakes that religions perform over and over again, such as deciding how others should live their lives. The miracles of modern medicine are large enough that they can speak for themselves and over a long enough time-span the anti-vaxxers movement will be just another blip.

But if you start to push back you are only making it bigger, better to respect their right to make the wrong decisions than to force them creating even more resentment and ill-will.
The computer market was more crowed in the early 1980's that it is now, goto a library and look at an old computer magazine from that period. Dozens of brands with dozens of operating systems.
> While the rest of Europe engaged in a great battle between Marxism and Imperialism, British politics set about trying to improve the condition of the working classes.

In all fairness, the UK could do that also because it had already developed the biggest and richest empire on Earth...
> Is apprenticeship where you do not get into debt but not remunerated for you work

That is not apprenticeship, it is unpaid internship, and it is much worse then taking on debt to get an education because it creates a vast gap in opportunity based on existing wealth.
Honestly, it's cute but this is somewhat like what you'd expect to come out of a student project at a university, in which case -- the student is getting valuable research experience, student and advisors are advancing their careers, and any IP produced becomes owned by student and advisor.

In this case, Google has spent shareholder resources on a project that really, could be done at any university, on a product that does not put the user first, and Google owns the IP. In fact, wake up -- you the public should view this product as a mechanism for Google to simply collect more data from people. The more people use this, the better Google's algorithms get at drawing. That's all there is to it. Thankfully, this product is not even fun.

There is a dangerous creed currently executed by Google leadership. Consider the Verily Study Watch: https://blog.verily.com/2017/04/introducing-verily-study-wat... . The watch shows to the wearer only one thing: the time. However, it collects all kinds of data, ostensibly for medical research (at least to start). Forget about putting the user first, the Verily blog post literally talks about "user compliance".

Of any project that comes out of Google, you should ask:
Does this project even put the user first?
Does this project even put Google's shareholders first?
And if you are a current Google shareholder (as many of their current and former employees are, if they haven't sold), you should agitate that Google start accepting and focusing on becoming a value company, if all the further growth opportunities they are able to execute is just further user exploitation.
Better outcomes doesn't shield you from in-sustainability if your cost still is bigger than the money you can afford to put into it.

The problem with healthcare is that you can never spend enough money on it. There are always methods, never and better machines. In a singlepayer system the taxpayers pay for that which means there need to be political mandate behind the budgetting. You can only spend money in a singlepayer system.

In a system more driven by market you can actually make money.

It's finding the right balance between those two I consider the most interesting part of this discussion. Unfortunately it's impossible to have this discussion because people either see you as a singlepayer proponent or a 100% marketdriven proponent.
Yes. Especially for resource constrained IoT devices serving up their own web pages. Smaller is always better. My current mission is to rebuild an embedded site into a sub 100k single file SPA. I can't afford bloated CSS and Javascript libs and I can't shove everything off to a CDN that may not exist ten years from now.
> I have the feeling remote works only for people who have an intrinsic motivation to be good at what they do.

Have you met kids? Many (most?) of them have an innate curiousity which is not hard to channel into a passion for learning given they get to learn things they enjoy, and if you tell them how well they're doing, they can get quite competitive about doing better.

Self-motivation wasn't instilled by a system of proscribing to kids what and how they had to learn, but that doesn't mean a system can't be built around nurturing it.
That would be convenient, but even when the machine learning models are implemented differently, as long as they accomplish the same task, the attacks often transfer from one to another. Papernot et al.'s latest research suggests that it is the space of the embeddings within a network, rather than the weights and nodes themselves, which define the effectiveness of adversarial examples. Models which accomplish the same tasks often have spaces that overlap, and that overlap multiplies by dimensions, if I read it right.
<!DOCTYPE html>

<html lang="en">

<head>

<meta charset="utf-8">

<title>HTML5</title>

</head>

<body>

<h1>HTML5 boilerplate</h1>

</body>

</html>
I guess we're going to see this posted every day until United falls out of the headlines?

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=useronboard.com

It's interesting that every account that has posted this story submits multiple times a day.
Perhaps this is related to the more theoretical nature of math and physics? With computer programming especially, you can immediately apply the concepts you learn and get instant feedback and satisfaction from seeing simple programs actually achieve things.

With math and physics, I've found that I am far motivated to learn concepts when having an immediate practical application for them, say in the context of computer graphics. Being able to apply what you're learning to create things is tremendously motivating, while if you remain in the pure theoretical domain, it can seem abstract and aimless without an external structure to direct you.
> Also try going and paying with a $100 bill - a lot of places don't even accept them.

I had a stack of $100's due to a vegas win that I could spend every location I tried (in my home town). The only caveat is I'd ask if they could change it out first, since today hardly anyone uses cash and cash drawers get slim. It's not very difficult to spend them, and that even surprised me a little.

> Seriously? Did you forget how long did it take before to calculate a proper amount of change in the first place???

Man these comments make me feel old. I didn't forget at all, I was a cashier. If you can't instantly calculate proper change for any transaction under $100 you didn't make a very good cashier. Most experienced (with cash) cashiers could trivially beat a chip-based credit card transaction. I do agree today you are correct, but I also find it incredibly sad and pathetic.

A properly trained and experienced cashier can change out a $100 bill for a random say $35.24 transaction in roughly the amount of time it takes to print one of those extra long receipts.

In fact I'm pretty sure with an hour of practicing on a cash register again I could likely match it. A few weeks and I'd consistently beat it without trying.

> but it's nowhere near the transaction time of a credit card, nevermind nfc payments.

You are correct re: NFC, but that is still not widely accepted. Chip card? Cash better be faster or your cashier is incompetent. They are incredibly slow.

I really find it strange so many on HN defend credit cards as a social good - they are not. They are a social evil if anything, exacting a 2-3% tax on all transactions since once they met plurality the merchant fees just got priced into all goods. I do not find this to be ethical at all, and feel it's one of the least ethical systems I contribute to - it's simply a wealth transfer from the poor to the wealthy. Very few poor folks get to use rewards cards, and they still pay the same 2-3% merchant markup we all do. Without that huge 0% cash back customer base, your reward benefits would be slashed.

I also didn't mean my trailing comment to cause such a controversy. I wasn't actually denigrating cards on purpose there, just stating I find the whole 'churning' and 'status' scenes pretty ridiculous and silly. I dropped that prefer cash line in there as an afterthought :)
"you will have 12 months following graduation to find a full-time job." Its actually 18 months.
That might be it. I've honestly been doing it so long I no longer pay attention.
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