skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Americans are actually enrolling in college at a rate higher than many other developed countries. A good article in the Economist last year (which I hope to track down if I get the chance) pointed out that 6.25% of the U.S. population was enrolled in university as compared to 3.75% of Germany's population. Other developed countries do provide free and heavily subsidized higher education to their citizens, but they're also more selective in which people go on to university and typically decide which education path students will take at a young age.

While I think that's a more beneficial setup as a whole I think it'd be a tough sell given the attitude the U.S. has towards higher education. I think a lot of people put a value in higher education beyond its economic return on investment. In other words, even if it's a less return on investment pursuing higher education provides the additional benefit of avoiding the stigma of not having a degree.

In my ideal world, the U.S. would offer much greater subsidies to attend university but at the same time be much more selective with who gets into universities to begin with. That, coupled with better connecting high school juniors and seniors into technical education paths.
Tell that to Afghanistan. The Russians failed to invade it, and the US has helped the Taliban to that end which cost them another 15 years of war so far. You just need motivated people, just like Finland had in WW2.
Open Listings is hiring engineers in LA make the buy button for homes
That's never been a reliable way to determine what's true for millions of other people, and it never will be.
> Has this been achieved with software components in any niche?

Isn't this what "programs" and "files" do? There used to be a time when computers were really one (or few) trick machines but since the time when anyone could install any program on their computer and have programs work with any file (regardless of which program originally made it), software on the whole is as modular (if not more modular) as hardware.

(which is also why i dislike the trend that iOS created with software being isolated both in terms of execution and file access, except a few preapproved holes here and there)
Yitzhak Shamir was the leader of a self-avowed Zionist terrorist group that directly orchestrated the murders of hundreds of civilians, politicians, policemen, and scientists.

Israel made him Prime Minister and, in honor of his centenary in recent months, has named research institutes and hospitals in his memory to add to the streets and parks that already bore his name.

How much funding and incentive has Israel received from US and UK taxpayers?
s/SVN/SVM
"Anyone that didn't panic sell during the crash has recovered."

That is simply not true.
Google's app maker talks a good game. Haven't been able to try it yet. Supposedly, you are able to script pretty freely on both the front and back end for situations where the canned functionality isn't suitable.
https://developers.google.com/appmaker/
> Because Paragraph told the completion system that it needs at least font and text values set.

If the class needs at least all those arguments it shouldn't have an empty constructor. It should have those as arguments to the constructor and then most good ide today would be able to help you at least a bit better. Have you tried intellij? Boolean return values without context is also an antipattern, how am I supposed to know whether true means success or fail or something else? There is no way any AI would be able to infer that either without annoyingly amount of false positives.
Interesting project, but as op said email modal on mobile can't be navigated out of.
The big issue right now when it comes to the US is where you draw the line between "this person is a politician I don't agree with" and "this person is dangerous to the country and has completely unacceptable views".

If David Duke ran for president, and Elon Musk supported him (using both to illustrate a point, not implying anything), would you still think it just for Musk to maintain the power he has, or would you be concerned with what projects he would power?

Obviously, there two situations aren't perfectly parallel, but it's a question of severity. The point is that Trump is crossing that line for some, and not for others, which drastically changes the way people judge actions related to Trump. So no, I don't think the parent here is saying just any politician.
Well, if all you do is read the title, then what does it matter how confusing it is?
in general no. but maybe ask yourself, is there a politician you can think of in the last hundred years or so that you would fire someone for supporting? if not fire, at least not hire. surely there is at least one. the way you frame your question is not charitable.
I agree. No offence but this is an /r/ethereum quality content.
Conservatism used to/still is the default political persuasion of business so it definitely isn't his views that are the issue. Rather it was the way he chose to express his political views. It wasn't intelligent, nuanced, principled, insightful or constructive.

It was the behaviour of a immature teenager.
It isn't peer to peer. It is connecting to a 3rd party (warp.link, port 4242). It appears you can run your own server though.

See https://github.com/spolu/warp/blob/4d045e7cac70c1af1fcb0abef...
You are right, there's no increased demand. Advertised sticker price and actual price of a private education can be substantially different https://www.wsj.com/articles/private-colleges-see-record-dis...

For decades the private sector has been feeding off the gravitas created by Stanford, Harvard, Yale and other superb private institutions. Maybe time has helped, maybe the Internet made comparisons easier, but it's pretty clear that private schools can be separated into three tiers, with tier one (Stanford, Yale) still being top notch, tier two being a questionable proposition for most people, and tier three (U of Phoenix, Trump U) being borderline fraud.
this is why I'm surprised zcash and monero haven't taken over the markets.
Even some movies about the male giants would be a start (I guess there was one about Turing, but I haven't seen it).

Otoh maybe the subject doesn't lend itself so much to movie making, as most of the action happens inside of people's heads. So far the movies that have been made seem to focus on some other drama going on in the depicted person's lives.
The point of the article is that is more than one path to the mainstream beliefs on climate change.

If you have a single path of research that leads to a conclusion then you have a valid but relatively weak conclusion. But if you have five separate paths of research all leading to the same conclusion then you have a much stronger case. The article claims there are many such independent paths to the mainstream conclusions on climate change. It also concludes that the skeptics do not have even a single path of research that leads to position of the skeptics.

It is like evolution. You can conclude evolution from just comparative biology. But you can also get the same conclusion from genetics. They are independent of each other as research paths but give the same answer. That increases confidence in the conclusion.
If you were ok with Netflix DRM at some point, getting rid of VPNs is only better enforcing what they're trying to do with DRM, preventing unauthorized content access. Probably not Netflix's choice.

Binge-on is horrible, but you can opt-out completely in your T-Mobile account settings page.

Amazon had unbox for a while.. you couldn't watch Netflix on linux at all forever until Chrome on linux added DRM support. I think this was their original wrong, and they've been doubling down since.
Anyone knows when will the videos of part 2 of fast.ai course be uploaded? Their website says "around May 2017". Can't wait.
The situation reminds me a little bit of the Keynesian beauty contest: what matters isn't what I think of bitcoin, it's what other people think.

Do I think the average person buying bitcoin today is even aware of these problems? Not a bit. Are they going to wise up soon? Probably not.

So maybe it makes sense to bet that Bitcoin will be popular and unaffected by these issues for a while. (I mean, you can still use it to buy heroin, right? Growth potential.)

On the other hand, ignoring the long-term problems feels a little like knowingly buying into a pyramid scheme.
I think it's worth keeping in mind that this is the company that poisoned HTML with DRM.

That pretty much sets the bar for what I expect from them.
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The developer behind the real-world app mentioned why they did not use pretraining, and why you can't always use pretraining: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14347513

> We ended up with a custom architecture trained from scratch due to runtime constraints more so than accuracy reasons (the inference runs on phones, so we have to be efficient with CPU + memory), but that model also ended up being the most accurate model we could build in the time we had. (With more time/resources I have no doubt I could have achieved better accuracy with a heavier model!)
"Serverless" isn't specific to any language, and there are options for running PHP in a serverless structure.

Node's bigger advantage over PHP is allowing a single product to use a single language, even if the code bases are divided between the front-end and back-end.
It would be great if there were a feature to notify the user when the limo is nearby, with a range away selector. Awesome concept and story, though!
Pension plans of retired college professors and staff typically include some wildly optimistic investment expectations, and states are on the hook for compensatory payments when those expectations [surprisingly] do not materialize.

This is not limited to education pension funds, public sector or prison guard pension funds typically negotiate the same deal, very frequently with people they themselves have helped get elected, so you know those negotiations are extremely tough.
Plot twist: the developer was working at Reddit
Ouch! I suppose you're the guy who came up with title?

For me, the issue was that I didn't know what a "Grothendieck" was and the title doesn't give you any clues either; in fact it explicitly denies that any exist.

It also flouts the convention for fanciful non-fiction titles, which is something like "Clever-or-poetic-part: plain description." Something like "A country of which nothing is known but the name: Grothendieck and mathematical motivation" would be better, I think.
I wish there was a website showcasing the most technically ignorant politicians
The IT industry needs to shame politicians who make epically stupid politically motivated decisions that impact technology or the tech industry.

Perhaps even with annual awards for the politician who made the worst technology oriented decision.

Maybe there could be "luddite of the month" featuring this month's politician who has decided to make technology their target because they think its an easy political win.

Theresa May could be June's Luddite Of The Month.
Why not just tell the car to find a spot to park and you can call it when you're ready?
It means the education system is design to pump out workers rather than thinkers. Taking this to the logical conclusion, why teach science, history or sport in high schools? Low ROI. Stuff that!

Why not make the coding bootcamp start at kindergarten. And why not let parents pay for such schools so they can choose the best ROI for their kid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nltqM_Q-cwg
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In just about every communist country. No, but I lived in a commie country in the 80s and that's how things worked: microphones in your home, the secret police forever taping your phone line, informant neighbours, state propaganda, different radio bands so you won't listen to foreign media etc.
If you're referring to icons, good and clear icons take a lot of time to design.
It was the East India Company (a multinational corporate)
who owned the tea thrown overboard in Boston and in very very simple terms the whole affair was basically over taxes put in place to bail them out. Sound familiar?

The modern corporate like Goldman Sachs however doesn't have its own standing army and navy. They use their power and influence to cause governments to do the dirty work for them. To quote Friedman - "McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15."

I'd recommend this if you're interested in reading more on their history:
https://www.amazon.com/Corporation-That-Changed-World-Multin...
Zcash is anonymous by option only (transparent addresses and secret addresses). If you ask me that kind of defeats the point. It will raise questions like 'why did you choose an anonymous address?'. Optional privacy hurts the people who need to be private.
Ok, the point was that part one was easily recoverable by the user.

So they could sign up another device by just opening a safe and finding it or sit down with book x and reconstruct it.

So slightly harder but still very much doable.
Yes and Yes. VPLs are indeed specific purpose and its because of information density.

Contrary to what you may believe a VPL is not the evolution of TPL , its actually the evolution of GUI. Reaktor for example is an evolution of VSTs , synthesiser and audio effect plugins that are GUIs. VPLs in 3d are an evolution of the gui properties for material , textures etc (they are not even referred to as VPL). Even in Unreal even though Blueprint has replaced Unrealscript , its an extension of the editor GUI.

VPLs are successful specifically because the information density is so large that a linear GUI is not enough.

The success of TPL is legacy, its just has a lot of libraries. Mainly because its easier to make and has been around a lot longer.

However to be sincere here when we talk about TPLs we also cherrypick , we do not think of Assembly, Pascal, Cobol and Fortran but rather C/C++ , Java, C#, ruby, Python and Javascript. The truth is that 99.9% of TPLs have failed to gain approval of not just the users but also the coders too.

But I am not denying the fact that a TPL will target mostly pro coders than users and that VPL will target mostly users than coders. They are just different kinds of beasts making the comparison more than challenging.
Not This.

Give me a break. There is no relationship between a "power vacuum" and mass murder of innocent people by this so-called "power" you speak of.

If you allowed these "powers" to be in power by way of the ballot box, they'd be finished after the first few votes were counted.

Please don't give any credit or reasoning to these cancerous terrorist organisations. Never forget their idea of justice is to murder cartoonists because "they drew first" and to behead those who insult the prophet.

Don't give them motivating credibility by your political sympathising, you're not helping. When one of these assholes decides to knife someone in the street, they're not thinking "this is for the drone strikes", they're shouting God Is Great as they assume the role of "soldier of Allah". They are NOT thinking of the innocent victims of US drone strikes.
They're great because they immediately go to the best solution. One epoch is all you need, no matter the size of the SVM.

They suck because they're limited to one layer.

But there's a good case to be made that machine learning introductions should always be done like this : linear classifier (when that works) -> SVM (when that works) -> NN -> Deep learning.
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In fairness, inventing a three point seatbelt is not in the same league as designing and producing a working SDC. It's not even the same game.
New Zealand has a reasonable education system where tertiary vocational education is treated on par with a two-year degree, meaning one can still be a professional and then spend just two extra years to achieve a college diploma, if they so desire.
I'm always willing to take the unpopular side, as anyone who knows me knows.

With regards to Luckey's exit from Facebook, and the controversy of his politically-oriented actions:

Persecuting someone for choosing a political candidate or supporting a political group is the exact opposite of a democracy - no matter how "abominable" that group might seem. I am not a Trump supporter, but the way people have treated his supporters sickens me. Can we agree to disagree, rather than launch a witch hunt on anyone who does not share similar views? This has manifested itself everywhere, its not even choosing sides anymore (see: Kathy Griffin).

We are so afraid of free speech it is ridiculous. I say let people speak. If people want to speak and say potentially idiotic things, let them expose their views. They are free to speak, we are free to listen or ignore. We have a huge empathy problem where anyone that holds an opposing view is inhuman.

We are afraid that free speech will incite violence, but ironically a lot more violence has come from trying to suppress free speech.
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From a 21 year old kid

I like how people now get thrown into trash bin for rest of their lives for one stupid thing, and what did he even do? He gave some money to a people making memes. Then he apologized and lost his position in his own company (yeah yeah he had already sold it whatever he was founder) and people still have a stick up their asses about this. I can't tell if it's plain old jealousy or if political climate is just so toxic in US now that you can't even express your opinion(s) without being forever marked (and then these same people dare to speak how we are going towards Orwellian society even though they are already living and implementing it)
That's a valid point, I think, but I am not sure the line is as clear as you make it out to be. What is your definition of 'directly' here? I can think of ways in which e.g. hunting endangered species, owning weapons or eating meat affect others. Note that, of those: I revile one, I am undecided on one and I personally do another, but in all three cases I can think of ways they affect me when others do each of those things. Sure, they affect me in a way that is perhaps different than being the target of murder or slavery would, I'll definitely agree with you on that. But it is a leap from there to saying that those are matters society should not be involved in.

Consider nuclear proliferation: in theory it does not affect people 'directly', until it does (note that any logic about increased potential risk applies to gun ownership too, at a different scale). Now consider pollution: affects people directly, but in a diffuse degree. Vaccinations? (I was born in a country where a specific set of those are mandatory, I approve of that [1]). There is a limit to how much a man is an island.

I am a firm believer in having a right to privacy; a strong, fundamental, constitutional right. I would consider forms of deflection or civil disobedience in a society that aligned itself too strongly against that right. But that doesn't mean is not ultimately a matter of societal values of societal construction.

[1] Obviously they are mandatory to those with a healthy immune system who can be vaccinated, and a number of other caveats, but still, the state makes it its business whether or not you vaccinate your kids, and we are better off for it...
I've also done labview and have to agree that the picture is a bit extreme. Even so, extract the bottom left corner of that picture for something a bit cleaner and more representative of code in the wild but it's still completely impossible to see wtf is going on there.
Transportation is one of the few contexts where the US has adopted the socialist system of allocation by waiting list, rather than price.

Congestion used to be the one inconvenience rich people couldn't buy themselves out of. I can understand the impulse to keep it that way, though the benefits of congestion pricing probably do outweigh the symbolic problems.
What? Are you complaining that people are speaking freely about politicians they disagree with?
> surprisingly little from the likes of haskell beyond self serving academic noodling

Your final statement is demonstrably incorrect.

Facebook (haxl), Microsoft (Bond), Google (ganeti), Target for supply chain automation, Bank of America (Haskell is being used for backend data transformation and loading), standard chartered, Prezi, Android bump (http://devblog.bu.mp/post/40786229350/haskell-at-bump), At&t (automate processing of internet abuse complaints).
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The original NYTimes article was never flagkilled: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=nytimes.com
Can someone explain the apparent cognitive dissonance of popular HN opinion which seems to be:

1) Working on US border security is bad.

2) US Soldiers are good. Even though their job is ultimately for border security and border security in other countries.

Is it that they see the idea of a defensive military as good and tolerate it doing any amount of bad as long as it might also do good too? Are they following the Nuremberg defense of soldiers not being accountable for their actions as long as they're following orders?

Does 1) extend to other countries? Is border security for, say, Nigeria a bad thing? Or is it a good thing if it's enforced by Nigerian soldiers and bad if it's enforced by more efficient technology?
He was making a joke about you using will vs would for your Stasi comment I think.
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Thank you so much! This gives us some good specifics to work toward. Now we need to learn these things ourselves!
Part of me believes what really is causing the most issues are the proposed solutions to fix climate change. Most of the recommendations I have read insist on raising taxes. I will never vote yes on any tax increase, as I don't trust our politicians enough to see them utilizing the extra tax revenue wisely e.g., R&D for renewable energy etc... Climate change is real, but we can't tax our way to a solution.
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I think he's complaining that Trump supporters like Luckey are literally Hitler to a large number of left-leaning people.
If you jailbreak it that seems likely to exist
I have a background as a programmer and recently started using Matlab/simulink. It is good for some things like controllers etc. Can't really say I like it for things I would usually use when programming, like loops and if statements(I know simulink has these but they make no sense).

I also believe simulink has been used mostly for simulation therefore it's name and not programming. However now you can generate code from your model.
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Hey Smerity - I really appreciate your and MetaMind's work, and since you linked NMT, I wonder if you could shed light on a question I've always had about Seq2seq models. Does the decoder side/ phase backprop all the way through into the encoder states? I assume it must (otherwise it seems like it'd be more efficient to do the encoding in its own process outside of seq2seq), but doesn't that mean it creates a weird hybrid state between the two languages in the encoder hidden states, so that then when attention is applied to the encoder states during decoding, it's not even looking at the original/ source words anymore (it's looking at the weird states)... thus I feel like everyone is technically lying when they say "Let's use attention to peak at the source words when you decode."

Is my line of reasoning here sensible?

Also I love the Denny Britz link. Thanks!