skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Furthermore, by any measure that matters, the universities in the United States are the best in the world, bar none. So the competition to attend, places further pressure on those seeking degrees that do not immediately translate into a high paying job. We've made a mistake, as a society, by emphasizing "go to college" over "go to trade school".

Maybe a very tiny minority of the top schools, but in my experience as a CS graduate from another country, I have not really found the skills taught to graduates outside of the small circle of Ivy Leagues and top-tier unis to be anything particuarly extraordinary.

Grade inflation and the American bias of universities as research institutions where quality is measured by the number of papers and impact factor does not favor other educational systems where most of the research is done in specialized institutions where undergrads are not being taught.

When you get to make up the rankings, it's generally no surprise that the rankings favor you.
Sure do. Login/password with a self-signed cert. Id have preferred to go with a proper cert attached to hash.onion , but evidently only Facebook can afford such luxuries...

In a side note, I thought about using OnionBalancer, a DB, and Boulder, and making my own OnionCA and talking with the EFF about funding assistance. Frankly, no CA just stinks, and I want to do something about it. I do know that the onionhash is the last 15 characters in the hidden site public key... but there has to be a better way than this.
Swift is like Kotlin
Yes, and the suburbs are dying:

https://www.amazon.com/End-Suburbs-Where-American-Moving/dp/...

Except, of course, that they aren't:

http://www.newgeography.com/content/005610-d-j-vu-and-dilemm...
Lending Club?
How VCs Talk Differently About Female Entrepreneurs
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A good idea but these are 12 year old Iomega portable external drives I'm sure I could try that but they may not survive the operation.
Universities are doing price discrimination. They want to charge rich kids a lot, middle class kids something, and poor kids nothing. That requires a high sticker price for the tuition, plus discounts.

It's hardly a perfect system but the basic idea is not unreasonable. And remember, if one pumps money into the system from the government side (which, IMHO, should happen) the counterintuitive result is that rich kids are likely to be the first ones to benefit.
Instead of having both a Mac and PC which is the only other alternative that's physically legal.

Notice that this is a compile time feature, you don't need to use it for production.
Code for Japan: How a Nuclear Disaster Ushered in the Age of the Hacker
I know Jobs was pretty hands off with Pixar, but the fall of their creative height started when Steve moved on. I was surprised the article made no mention of this.
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No, I understand the Android Activity lifecycle quite well. I think it has severe flaws from a design perspective.
Are you talking about GitLab self installed or the SaaS?
GitLab.com is slow and we're working to improve that in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues?scope=all&utf... and https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues/947 GitLab self installed should be fast with enough memory. I don't know if Allura has a SaaS service.
ELF is pretty generally applicable to all NIX and NIX-like platforms, so I often refer to the Solaris Libraries and Linkers guide which has a lot of generally useful information and guidance:

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E53394_01/html/E54813/glcfv.html#...
EDIT: employees to give you your meds
No, not at all.

There are three players in the student loan game: lender, servicer, and guarantor. The lender is pretty much what it sounds like. The servicer is the agency that handles the repayment process (and any deferment or forbearance) as long as the loan is not in default. The guarantor is where the loan is transferred if it goes into default.

The guarantor will add collection fees of up to 20% of the defaulted balance, and can pursue those collection methods I mentioned earlier. They can also hire an outside agency to do collections. Their main job is to get loans out of default, either by rehabilitating the loan (a process whereby a borrower makes 12 on time, consecutive payments, and the loan is kicked out of default status), or directing the borrower to consolidate.

Navient falls under the category of lender or servicer (or both), depending on the specific loan. Their interest is in stringing out the payments as long as possible, and wring out as much money from the borrower as they can, which is why they got into trouble recently for directing borrowers to deferment and forbearance options rather than lower payment plans.

If that sounds like a lot of people interested in putting 18 year olds in debt, it is. I worked in this industry for a couple years on the consolidation front, and heard a lot of sad tales.
http://nilhcem.com/swift-is-like-kotlin/
Tax holiday for repatriation of overseas dollars held by big companies would account for 2pct.
Isn't Google implementing a global satellite ISP service? That might be competitive enough to challenge businesses like Comcast.
It appears to be registered by google, just isn't being actively used.

blog.google works though
Part of me is also with you - JSON is indeed smaller than XML , but we do have gzip almost everywhere around the web, and with gzip, they don't have that much difference on space. Also, if people really care about this, why don't they use binary format, such as something like protobuf?

And the other part of me is not with you - manipulating XML is not as easy as JSON in most of my development time, and sometimes I even need to write something by my bare hands, which JSON is much more handy. Tons of other formats are more human-friendly than JSON, for example TOML, but they don't have the status JSON has. So I guess JSON is kinda choice under the current state of "web development times".
Didn't know about it. It seems...

"Azure Cosmos DB accounts that are configured to use strong consistency cannot associate more than one Azure region with their Azure Cosmos DB account. "

...it lacks Spanner's ability to work across geographical regions. It's otherwise a full-featured, distributed, DB service. Lots of tradeoffs allowed.
Oh, it will be rejected alright. And then you're forced to override the parser, or to manipulate the XML before parsing it because it makes business sense to not have the source fix their XML for some reason.

People and machines are just utterly incapable of outputting valid XML.
I replaced the back plate, cleaned the contacts, and such. No joy.
Even in this... implausible scenario, the contract would only need to verify the solution to the equation. The party creating the transaction would then be responsible for generating a solution.
You need to be aware that a few things work differently in alpine. For instance: no /bin/bash - it's /bin/ash. And you can't do "sleep inf".

I'm also not convinced that musl and "stock" libc do 100% the same thing. And with regards to using it as a container base image I wonder if we might not be shooting ourselves in the foot - sure, it's a smaller image but if that's accompanied by a less efficient memory allocator then we might not be doing ourselves any favours. Not that I've done any actual research around this btw, and I do use it for a container base image (I'm just not sure this is a good idea).
Ha, sorry about that. It's also been called FAMGA[1].

[1]https://www.google.com/search?q=FAMGA
This isn't the machine's fault, though; for a small number of linearly independent examples there exists an enormous number of possible functions that match the training data. It has no way of guessing, really.
> Things break and leak all the time, even on new ships.

> [...] a pirate demands a crypto currency payment within X number of hours, or they sink the ship

Based on your response and toomuchtodo's [1] it appears we're trying to automate from the wrong end - we should examine automation of defence/security and maintenance before stripping a ship of its crew.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14363456
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> Or totaling my car (While only having liability insurance).

I don't know where you live but in Canada the car dealer won't give you the keys without getting confirmation of comprehensive insurance coverage with lienholder protection. Personally just did it a couple of months ago.
What's in Southern California?
The documentary "Farm to Fridge" pretty much covers the horrible, immoral practices these industries follows.

Sadly, the majority of the population doesn't care about immorality.
A raspberry pi has more than enough power for what they needed.
I've seen a lot of deals...and a lot of messed up deals.

Multi-founder teams with no vesting does happen. I think that's a mistake and advise against it. Things go wrong way more often than people think.

I differ from many folks in that I don't necessarily advocate standard investor-friendly structures (though structures that are easily made investor friendly, yes). But founder vesting is one place where I agree with the standard line - it's really necessary.
>And unlike solar power, wind power and other “clean” energy, hydrogen can be easily stored

Sure it's easier than other forms, but it's my understanding that there are some significant challenges in storing hydrogen?
> Hey, at least they've got nullable types? That's a big win over Java right there.

Can you elaborate what you mean by nullable types?

You can set Object variables to null and with primitives you can do the same with their boxed alternatives (Integer) but I assume you mean something different?

Like the lack of types which can't be null? I can see how that's useful
It's perpetually surprising to me that there isn't more competition in this space. Have you tried flutter.io?
No one has mentioned magic leap.
You have been out of security support for a long time - apps, web pages and video clips can pwn your device.
+1 for Lightweight Django. I had the pleasure of working with one of the authors. The book is well laid out and covers some really great topics that aren't always covered well elsewhere in the context of Django (i.e. Websocket services with Django). It's a great companion for Two Scoops of Django.
No, you didn't read what I wrote: It [Google AI efforts] are not going to regress somehow... I mean, it is probably exponentially increasing in power by the day.

They not only have custom silicon (TPU), they have the software too. Do you have extraordinary insight|foresight|genius or have you discovered/developed a major breakthrough in AI/ML? If not, good luck competing with these companies. It is a resource problem at this stage, as consolidation happened and there is no going back.
OK, since a couple people are curious I'll spend the bandwidth. It really is an issue of personal circumstances, not any failing of the Udacity course.

I like the video lectures a lot, and got a lot out of them. I like the quizes and short problems. The large projects are a little too color-by-numbers for my taste, I really would like to see an incremental exercise step in between in order to flesh out understanding more solidly, but if I had enough time I could probably fill than in myself.

But as I said above, my decision not to follow through is mostly personal circumstances. When I signed up for the course I was casting around for something new to do and thought the course would add to my robotics knowledge and cred. By the time my class cohort started, I was working at a robotics startup. Aside from the startup taking a lot of time and energy, doing robots by day, robots at night, and robots on the weekend just got to be a bit much. Something in my life had to give, and Udacity didn't make the cut this time.
Fantastic article. I noticed a couple of TODO's around, though. Does this hint at a second installment? :)
If you want to cut fees there are a huge number of options, from companies that charge 1% like https://www.redfin.com/about/one-percent-listing-fee
I just learned about these guys, not unique but certainly a great option for saving on 3%, https://www.homebay.com/ they do it for a fixed cost.

But I get it... I have been in my house for the 10 of the worst real estate year but on paper, my head is above water however if I sell I loose money.
Serious question even though as I read and reread it, I am aware it does sound like snark...

How is this a sustainable product/company? (AKA How do you make money?)

Is love to dig in to what looks like an awesome product. But to justify the time investment, it would be helpful to know how it will be around long term.
Most likely because they know it looks bad.

It's just sourceforge.
That's the standard rate for the "federal non subsidized stafford loan"
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say "You might have heard of Artificial Intelligence, a term coined by John MiCarthy in the 1950s to label his study of difficult problems that his computer science lab was working on."

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say "Today we have a resurgence of Artificial Intelligence. You may or may not have noticed, but the Artifically Intelligent are now controlling your lives."

delay 2

say "From Siri, to Facebook, to the Googles, to the Amazon, your data is being fed into 'Machine Learning' algorithms at a rapid pace."

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say "Custom hardware is being designed this very minute to accelerate the training of these algorithms."

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say "Putting the ology into technology."

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say "I am the machine telling you about learning, this is my reference clip and this is where we are going"
Same here. It streams from Vimeo, which has always had buffering issues on my end, despite a reasonably fast connection.
Congrats, really well done. TBH, most graduates would also need to do that to get a job.

> I have no degree in IT

Regarding this; only a very small minority of the people I've worked with had a degree. IT isn't really so degree-dominated around the world.
I appreciate the long response, and I kind of feel bad because I meant my question in a rather different way. And (assuming you even notice my response at this point) perhaps I'm going to take us down a road of talking past each other.

My question is about incentives. An unchallenged organization, I would think, would have the tendency to perpetuate itself, and sing its own praises, and deem itself very important.

Let me put it this way: The analogous question isn't what Microsoft does to maintain quality. The question is, how does the world at large maintain Microsoft's quality (and efficiency?). A decade or so of security embarrassments and OSX's and Linux's better reputation got them to step up their security game. Recently, Apple's design got them to step up their design game. If you asked a manager for a canceled project inside the company they might have a great process plan, a great argument for why they need more time and resources, and a great explanation for why they and their team are important. But they may have no sense of the needs of the outside world. This exchange between Steve Jobs and an (apparent) Apple employee highlights this mentality, vs the mentality of an entrepreneur who does respond to the outside world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF-tKLISfPE

It very well may be that the FDA does a fantastic job of filtering out bad stuff. And, as (I may as well come out and say it) a libertarian, perhaps I am guilty of not appreciating all the work that has gone into setting it up. But it doesn't mean that they have a sense of the correct amount of rigor to apply, money to spend on various aspects of their operation, etc. That's why we like to see competition in the field of certification.

"That a business should go bankrupt before 1 bad drug is approved." and "some of the largest fines against businesses in history" are great examples of perhaps being a bit too rigorous or punitive. You can always apply more and get at least marginally safer drugs. But you may also get fewer drugs through the process, or more expensive drugs, or companies that decide not to even bother starting the process (which you'll never hear about), and (maybe) more people die on net as a result.

I will grant to you, taking your claims at face value, that you make a convincing case that the FDA at least hasn't gotten lax for the lack of outside corrective influence. I guess the mechanism for improvement there is simply human dedication, and I will buy that argument.
I remember when it was first launched and I was surprised to see C# on their Github. They could probably save cost today by running in .NET Core docker containers, and there is an official SQL Server docker container for Linux, but yes I agree, putting the original implementation on an MS platform was probably not the best idea.

On your second point, yes Voat is a cesspool of hate. It's like a more organized 4chan .. or like 4chan and Reddit had a kid that had its brains beat out by Digg 4.0.

I still like to go through it because I think there is value listening to those opinions and trying to understand where these people are coming from. I also stopped using Reddit have the warrant canary removal and after the commenting editing craziness.

Also reading all the threads about saving Voat, it's interesting how few technical people there are (devs, sysadmins, etc.) compared to Reddit. Most of the users commenting don't seem to understand tech stacks, development costs or how web applications are developed.
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Unfortunately I bet this will be the case for the next few years until funding agencies figure out not everything has to be done with machine learning.
To some, it certainly is a valid point of intellectual curiosity whether the current trend of naming people and ideas something they're not is a healthy and a proper one.

But you are right about the 'tedious back-and-forth' (which I called 'unproductive discussion'): Further down, you very appropriately link to dang's ruminations on cognitive bias. Just please remember that none of us are guaranteed to escape the dangers of CB. I certainly know that I don't, despite a decent level of awareness on the issue.

My comment has sparked a lot of responses, many of them apparently assuming that I am somehow attacking Manning. I am not. I most clearly am not. I didn't say a word about Manning or the case. I stated (in perhaps unnecessarily pointed words, I'll grant you that) my sincere opinion on the objective validity of subjective gender change. If that point and its attendant controversiality is not worthy of intellectual curiosity, I see dark times ahead indeed (and for the record: I do).
The reaction seems to be mostly apologetics. How did we get to the point where running your own servers was such an alien concept?
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We are working on acoustic detection of obstructed breathing during sleep. We believe it is a blocking factor in the successful treatment of several of the era's major diseases, including Alzheimer's, diabetes, depression, high blood pressure, and stroke.
Except now there's a glut of aspiring junior engineers in the market. A friend of mine who graduated 1-2 years ago from a bootcamp told me his cohort's job placement rate after 3 months was 90% whereas this year it's less than 50% at the same school.
I was curious how this fits in to the bad blood between Google and Oracle over java, but the 'reporting' I've read on the usual tech sites appears little more than rehashing the Google press release. Does this help them build a road away from Java entirely eventually? Could Kotlin eventually provide a route away from the JVM, especially this Kotlin native stuff on LLVM?
Then we'd all be mad about how poor people with bad credit can't afford to go to college while middle class people all get their loans cosigned by their parents who have assets.
Cloud detectors are pretty easy to come by, right? There's a small cyclotron community, it takes a few years, but people have built them.

30's era tech is DIY able.
I've been a blender hobbyist for about a year now and it's a bit creepy how smooth this is on my iPhone at the moment. Thanks for sharing I hope I remember to dig more into this tomorrow.
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Yes, I would, as there is no way for me to truly compete with Google if I am using their tools. The premise is so flawed that I have trouble even formulating possible counter arguments you may suggest.

I use chrome and little snitch is always telling on it. It calls home so much that I have just given up in order to have a decent experience and gave it full connection rights. I don't know how much of the browser Chrome owns, but I guess it is not insignificant. That is a lot of data that I will never have access to... let alone for my family nor on at Google scale.

Netflix uses AWS and competes with Amazon Prime... I get it. I do think that no one knows the whole story.

Getting back to OP... it has to be damn tiring/frustrating to even contemplate competing in AI/ML space with these big mega corps. I simply would not, that ship has sailed.
Wow, thanks for sharing that link...I was enthralled. What a fascinating person...time shall tell what life has in store.
Well, the probability approaches zero asymptotically as the number of questions approaches infinity...
Oh yes, these are large shipping containers and they are at sea & get checked at every port they touch.
I cannot understand how somebody can hold the title "chief scientist" and simultaneously say things like that.
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The same idea applies for other fruits and vegetables, like corn, peas, and especially peaches and pears. The trick is finding a good canned variety. Most mass produced versions from the familiar large names (Dole, Del Monte, etc. in the US) are not great. However, for example there is a smaller grocery chain near me which brands their own delicious version of canned peaches from a regional producer annually at the peak of ripeness.
Care to present an actual argument?
>How many languages can you name that were built with IDE support from the ground up?

Visual Studio Code is pretty nice with TypeScript. I've enjoyed having the autocomplete for my little Phaser game.
Whatever importance "v0.17.0" might have to the authors, it means no more to me than any other random string of digits. Regardless of the content, the title of this submission is ridiculously poor.
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>[...technological advancements] created a "value gap" that deprives the recording industry of royalties they believe should be theirs.

Creative destruction is healthy and necessary for the function of economic progress.

Recording industry exectutives enjoyed decades of outsized profits (greater revenues as a proportion of sales than the artists themselves) distributing music. Now that the value of the service they offer has declined, due to technological progress, their profits are reduced.

The problem is that while this industry's value proposition has declined, they still have political capital that can force regulatory and anti-competitive actions onto the marketplace as strategies to retain profits.
And https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/