skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> handicapped people, alcoholics, drug addicts, and suicidal people

Not even a remotely fair comparison. The vast majority of those groups are affected by negative (horrible) external circumstances: physical or mental conditions, histories of trauma, and awful circumstances are incredibly common among those groups.

Tourists are embarking upon something for enjoyment while of sound mind and (sometimes) body. Ridicule is one of many important ways to help correct (and, as someone helping, cope with) the damage these folks do to themselves and others. It might not be the best way, but it's a far cry from making fun of someone for being on the wrong end of circumstance.

Seriously. You just compared tourists to alcoholics and suicidal people. You're either accidentally supporting GP's point or you should be ashamed of yourself, or both.
Lifecycle management of functions needs a better story. That said, I use a number of under-the-hood functions to build and power Last Week in AWS, I’ve replaced a number of cron jobs with it, and a lot of AWS billing work (transitioning objects, tag propagation, etc) can be efficiently handled at large scale via Lambda.

I’m just not sure I’d put it inline for anything life-critical just yet.
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If your targeting is machine learning driven and linked to other databases so you can create 100k+ ads with optimized variations all linked to A/B style tests then that targeting is extremely useful. Maybe peoples responses give you enough to then followup with cold calls/direct mail etc.

Frankly there is way too much that can be done by combining different data and ML that the traditional way we think about preserving privacy is insufficient.
How so? In San Francisco there are several local produce markets within walking distance of where I live. Whole Foods and Trader Joe's are pretty common major grocery chains here, and there are two weekly farmer's markets I can think of that are accessible by bike/transit.

When I visited Manhattan/Brooklyn recently I didn't get the sense that they were lacking in locally-sourced foods either. Main problem I can think of are food deserts, but those are more of an economic problem than scale. When I used to live in one in Baltimore though it was possible to find local food, it just took more effort.
K. Let's get rid of electricity and go back to horses and sail boats as our prime travel options, then.
There's Jack's 99 Cent store, which has at least two locations in midtown Manhattan.
http://www.jacksnyc.com/
Algorithms > Big data in this particular machine learning scenario makes it very impressive.
You could use any abelian variety with CM to try something similar but I haven't worked out the details. But you probably will only get special forms very few primes fit.
I don't know if this really matters when it's horrible vs slightly less horrible...

It's like you pay hundreds of dollars for a textbook on a subject that hasn't changed in generations, and it's filled with pictures and diagrams and asides and any other layout doodadery their software can muster, but when you get to the exercises it's a pig's breakfast.

I remember my physics textbook in college was almost $200 ($200 twenty years ago!), I'd grind out the answer with a fair degree of confidence, check the key... wrong!? Then after banging my head against it for hours and giving up, the professor would tell us the next day that the book was wrong.

Next year, we had differential equations. Smaller book, older book, more words, fewer pictures--clear as a bell! Probably learned more physics in a semester of differential equations than a year of physics. Good books make a difference. Unfortunately, the physics book was the rule rather than the exception.
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I wasted far too much time looking through this list.
Yup, Fat growing pulpwood is what they use. 20-40 year cycle. http://forums2.gardenweb.com/discussions/1634930/is-the-larg...

Weyerhaeuser, etc. grow those fast growing pulpwood trees and harvest.
This.

Also, the unacknowledged inconsistency of his arguments is ridiculous: ~"Unpredictable events happen more frequently than people expect. I'm 100% right about this prediction of the future and you are an idiot if you disagree".
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Take time off ... relax ... and I don't mean a week. :) May be travel to a place you always wanted to see .. like Barcelona. As experience of Zuckerberg, Jobs, Gates, ..., Ellison showed college is not a must. If you learned software, you can learn everything on your own. You may look at Thiel's scholarship. Peter pays $100K for young talents NOT to go to college. I have nothing against college. But why pay insane money the system charges, if most of what you need you can learn on your own? As for Berkley, you can meet the same happy people without spending ....
One solution might be to tax university endowment dollars that aren't being spent on research. Just look at Harvard, which has ~$30B under management. What if there was a steeply graduated tax on that wealth, which could be avoided if the university did more research? It would force Harvard to accept more students, fund more research, and live up to its creed as a research university, rather than operating like a hedge fund that offers some classes. Repeat at Yale, Princeton, and other well-endowed uni's and we wouldn't have anything to worry about.
There is no way that the number of years fetal DNA remains in a mother's system is precise to 3 significant figures.
Thanks so much, really, really appreciate it.
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Travel.

Also read some non-fiction and unplug from tech. Your a human, not an algorithm.
I was just stating that its the same timing. i think those things enabled globalization and too many hyper efficiencies but they themselves aren't the cause.
I tried to use the Letters demo on my iPad Pro 10.5 and it wouldn't even let me try. I can't remember hitting another website in months that flat out denied "mobile" access like that.
Why are we 10 years into Kindle's evolution and the renderer still does not draw pages exactly the same way every time you load the same page (paginating forward vs. paginating backward, at the same font size)? I have to expect that this will reduce spatial-visual memory where people remember what position a figure or text had on a page versus a better renderer (PDF, though impractical on small screens) or a physical book and I'd like to see a study which distinguishes this effect.
People are actually seriously proposing that. Very high in protein, and very efficient at converting feed to protein.

I'm not sure it will catch on fast....

More seriously, we need to be pursuing sustainable agricultural practices. I believe that means treating crop fields as the complex microbiomes that they should be, instead of highly-tilled, species-restricted biomes. Read up on how no-till and low-till farming practices change the soil communities of worms and microbes. It's huge. We need to move away from heavy reliance on pesticide and herbicide for the health of the soil and environment neighboring the fields, not to mention our own.

The thing is, we got to heavy chemical agriculture in part because of a drive to lower fuel consumption by making fewer passes over the field doing mechanical weed disruption. Of course, mechanical weed disruption is the kind of tillage that disrupts the soil biome, so we shouldn't go back, anyway, even if you could magically make diesel fuel cost $0. We need a new way forward to feed a hungry planet in a sustainable fashion.
I think it only matters for very large trees. I didn't notice much difference personally.
The primary suspected cause of this is a class of insecticides called neonicotinoids. These are not sprayed, but rather coated on seeds (which is arguably even more alarming). See: https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v521/n7550/full/nature...
I'm not suggesting it's a charity cause. I'm suggesting that there's no evidence that they're print-biased, given T&F is also a journal publisher, and the subscriptions vs. physical units breakdown is literally 50/50
"The number of true cryptography experts beyond [the walls of the NSA] is a dozen in the world at best"?

This kind of logic is super common on HN threads and it's incoherent. If the expertise and capabilities of the NSA with respect to basic cryptographic mathematics is so unknowable that thousands of published academic cryptographers are wasting their time, then what makes you think a random amateur Math Overflow post has somehow stumbled on a deep secret of NSA RSA subterfuge?

For whatever it's worth to you, Dan Bernstein was not sued by the US Government. Dan Bernstein sued the US Government, over export restrictions on cryptography in the 1990s; his suit was mooted by the relaxation of those restrictions.
That's why it's called Cadbury's.
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this part specifically:

> growing your own food

I should have quoted that directly in my original comment.
The average student debt for an undergrad in the US is ~$37K. Few students pay the full rack rate. Most of the six-figure debt loads reported in the media are inflated by grad school debt. It is possible to incur large debt loads by going to premium university/spas like USC, but it's also possible to get a college education from a solid public college for the price of a mid-sized sedan.
Sorry about that.

Do you think that the Secretary of State should be responsible for the actions of the people that report to her?

Does a donation (before or after) from the involved parties to her husband up the responsibility bar at all?
So you're angry that perhaps some of the people that are trying to affect change for a cleaner planet are doing so under misinformation? You seem to be the one politicizing things. I think most of us just want to support ideas, technology, and people that make sense. Cleaner more sustainable energy just makes sense regardless of what you think about bugs and weather.
Ha! That's easy. In California, we call that "drought". A couple of years ago, having a green lawn was Extremely Incorrect in my neighborhood.
That's very insightful and true! But it shouldn't stop wanting to transmute the trash we've already made.
We need to do a better job as humans of respecting and embracing the ecosystems around us.
Seems appropriate to mention controlled burns preceding European settlers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_use_of_fire
Froala is still my WYSIWYG editor of choice https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor
I had the same problem but the abstract uses the term (so I guess it's legit) and it was hard to make a shorter title without it.
W3School is very good to quickly look something up - short and always with a simple example.

MDN is very good for details and in general as reference.
This is absolutely wrong, you can definitely apply to any college you want at any age you want, I went to an Ivy League school and had classmates that were in their mid 20s/30s. I agree that going to college is absolutely the right advice -- but since you already have technical skills, I would study something other than CS, depending on your interests. You have the skills, and the breadth of a more diverse education will make you a more well-rounded human being than more CS.
Right. I am saying that it seems not desirable to live in Capsule hotels, cars, shared shelters. We can do better than that. Why move in that direction?
Likewise. That was a particularly hard title to crack.
Definitely agree we should bring down the cost while keeping or improving academic standards, but your quick fixes are pretty naive. If all we needed to do was dock coach's salary to make a school affordable, or require open access text books, it would have been done long ago. Most professors aren't wealthy. Public schools are huge institutions, limiting their administrations power to set salaries or assign books can cause far more harm, hurt recruitment and quality. I don't have a quick fix, other than making much larger investments in education with public dollars.
Can you go into more detail on your experience with burnout? I’d like to understand how it came about for you.
I went down the Mekong River from China to Thailand in about 2006 and there were thousands of insects that would flock to the boat when it moored overnight. I repeated the trip in early 2016 and there were almost none. Deforestation and the replacement of virgin forest with rubber plantations appeared to be the main factor, but at a guess the use of pesticides was probably also to blame.
Maybe it's time for a career change. Consider that carefully, as the older you get, the harder it'll be to switch careers.
Yes, it has nothing to do with anything based in reason or fact it's just heaps and heaps of angry stupid spewed in an attempt to defend their holy tangerine.

edit: words.
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Which automaker was first? How come there are so many still out there?
I completely agree. The analogy I often use is a lock on your front door. Sure, the lock can be picked or someone can batter down the door. If someone robs your home exploiting one of these weaknesses you will probably respond by purchasing a more complex lock or stronger door. You aren't just going to leave your door unlocked from then on out because your previous attempt at protection failed.
I was in your position a few years ago. A year older than you, I left my job completely, moved to a new city (SF) and live a fantastic new life. What you need is to find your people, be among peers who you respect and feel good about what you do.

The Bay Area is the place to be, if you're not there.
Nah I meant more that bootcamps aren't the "proper path" for lack of a better phrase, that everyone goes to by default. It takes a certain amount of motivation to go out of the norm, or at least a certain amount of comfort with that risk, and that same mindset applies to entreprenership.

I say this as someone who just went to college because that's what you do and only got into software because my degree led to a $10/hr job which could not pay rent and student loans. If I had gotten 25 or 30 an hour there's a good chance I never would have had the impetus to teach myself anything
Hey there. I'd like to make two suggestions: find a therapist, and go to a meditation retreat. As for the later, I can strongly recommend a 10-day Vipassana retreat - I believe the nearest center to you is in North Fork, CA. Check it out at dhamma.org. It won't be relaxing, but it will help you practice putting things down.
Does using `Content-Security-Policy: upgrade-insecure-requests` in addition to HSTS add value?
Amen to tmux+vim. Best combo, especially when doing things on remote boxes.
Microsoft you are doing all the right thing to win the hearts of developers! Great! Thanks for all wise decisions
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Join an organization that's doing something to tackle the root of the problem. Socialist Alternative is where I ended up, and I think they're great, but any group that's got a good understanding of the forces shaping the world and has a job for you that you feel is worth doing. Not that that's easy to find through all the noise. I only stumbled across SA because they were speaking at a NoDAPL rally that I happened to go to during a period of relative hopelessness after the election of the orange one.
Depends on how you define basic research. I don't think there is a tremendous amount of difference in the type of research being conducted at many departments at MIT and Google or SpaceX. I recently had dinner with a Harvard Medical School professor who said he often encouraged bright academically-minded students to go to work at Google rather than pursue the tenure track because Google offered more freedom and a simpler path to resources.
College college college college. Your 20s are when you figure out what you want to do. College is expensive but a great way to dabble in tons of stuff, socialize, and get ready for the next step. Being 21 isn't too late, plenty of people go to college at 21-22 after stints in the military. You'll be popular as you'll be able to buy your friends beer (legal disclaimer: don't do that).
Ask HN: Why Redfin bump the school rating on the property page?
There is a mismatch on the school rating showed by Redfin and the rating for the same school on greatschools.com, the rating on Redfin looks 1 or 2 points higher than the information on greatschools.com
Wow. I also live in a city where tech is not popular. How many people here have found the same thing when moving to SF?
I can think of several things:

- If neuroscientists find that long term memory is encoded in something not preserved by cryonics. (Such as pH levels around certain neurons, or some weird quantum phenomena.)

- If small animals such as mice are trained to perform some task, then fail to demonstrate that training after being cryopreserved & revived. This requires technological advances, but not as much as human-level revival.

- If scientists discover a theory of consciousness that precludes its resumption after cryopreservation-like circumstances. (This would also mean that philosophical zombies are possible.)

Some of these may seem like a tall order, but if cryonics doesn't work, then that would tell us something new about biology, physics, and/or the nature of consciousness.

So far, we've seen all the evidence you'd expect to see if cryonics works: Memories are preserved even after cessation or disruption of electrical activity in the brain. Embryos and other tissues are cryopreserved and thawed without problems. Small mammal organs have been successfully cryopreserved and thawed, and remained functional. SEM micrographs of cryopreserved brain tissue show intact structure, including axons and synaptic vesicles. Most of the problems seem to be in the implementation, not the principle itself. (eg: avoiding warm ischemia when people die suddenly)
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I have had this experience many times in my life. I noticed that I feel burned out only when I am doing something that I don't enjoy. If I work on something that I am extremely passionate about, I can withstand stress and work long hours without feeling burned out.

I think most people underestimate the value of doing nothing. Seriously do nothing for sometime. It maybe a week or a month. Just travel, eat, drink, sleep, etc., You will start feeling yourself back in no time. Once you feel normal, realize that you need frequent breaks to maintain that state of mind. Now that you have an experience of burnout, you have an opportunity to not repeat that again.
this is my APL and J implemention: https://github.com/ghosthamlet/ann.apl
the correct komi number has puzzled Go players for centuries, now we might finally have a chance to figure out the right answer (although not without some reservations). over the last 5 decades, komi has consistently been raised to keep the game more leveled between white and black (black makes the first move, so has the advantage). historically, there was no komi, and people kept an even game by always playing even number of games with each player switching sides after each game.

for whatever reason, it's no longer feasible in modern pro game (not to mention that this could result in no winner if each player wins half the game), so komi was introduced. at first at 5.5, and steadily climbed higher to 7.5 at present. In pro game, even a change of 1 is considered a big deal, so from 5.5 to 7.5 is hardly trivial.

Now with alphago playing "perfect" games against itself, we might finally be able to put to rest the debate of the correct komi (the Japanese Go associations for decades have kept meticulous records of every professional game, in order to find the correct komi).

There is a big "but" though. The correct komi at Alphgo Zero's level might not be the correct komi for human level players (AlphaGo is estimated to be 2-3 handicaps above human play; this is a bigger gap between the average pro player and the best amateurs).

Indeed, the change from 5.5 komi to 7.5 komi also had a lot to do with the change in play style rather than simply zooming in on the "correct" komi number. In the 70s and 80s, predominant play style was more conservative, and 5.5 might well be the correct komi for the time (defined as resulting in 50:50 chance of winning for either side). As play style shifted to become more aggressive and confrontational (actually fueld somewhat by the introduction of komi), it was discovered that komi needs to be raised to keep chances of winning at 50:50.

To make an analogy, suppose one is playing a casino game of chance that gives the house a slight advantage (similar to the first mover advantage for black in go). If one only makes small bets, the house will end up winning only a small amount. in other words, the player needs to be compensated by a small amount to make the game "fair".

If however one makes big bets (i.e. more aggressive game play), then the compensation needs to be bigger too, to make the game "fair", even if the underlying probabilities have not changed.

following this logic, while 7.5 komi is fair for Alphago vs. alphago games, it might not be the right number for human games. I suspect it might be samller for humans.... if only we could calibrate Alphago to the average human level and generate millions of self-play games...
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The best response to 'here's a penny more than you were making' is multiple offers.

The second best response is 'your offer is better, but inspires zero loyalty. If you want me to stay for longer than it takes for your competitors to get back to me with an offer, you'll improve that offer.'
You might be interested in the work done by Mike Matas + Bret Victor for Al Gore's "Our Choice", I was expecting that project would be the first of a wave of digital books, but I guess it never happened. (Or maybe it did?)

http://pushpoppress.com/ourchoice/

edit: Related: https://www.ted.com/talks/mike_matas

(Mike Matas is now at Facebook and worked on Facebook Paper and Instant Articles, probably other stuff not on his website. Bret Victor is now working on Dynamicland at HARC.)
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Well, it might tell us the shape of discrimination is less overt and more structural. Why exactly was it that out of my CS graduating class of 100 there was 1 woman?
" [..] we've known it's coming for quite a while now [..]"

Who is "we" ? A lot of people are about to start calling random tech support numbers asking them why their internet is not secure. However, I think the UI changes coming in are a vastly improved solution to mitm than the cheap hack that is HSTS.

I'm also about 90% sure that in two years, most people will have at least one custom CA cert from a job, isp, or other as-yet-undetermined need to inspect content. I also expect it to become commonplace to ignore certificate errors, as the number of new HTTPS sites also increases the amount of faulty TLS setup.

And what's really annoying is that HTTPS doesn't really affect user security much. It mainly just affects privacy. Most people are not hacked by a man in the middle. They're hacked by a person accessing a database, or running an authentic looking website, or exploiting a bug. So while a lot of headaches will be caused by adopting HTTPS everywhere, people won't necessarily be any safer.
It always seems to take people a long time to figure out vim’s keys and usage pattern but it’s quite easy. I have people ask me how to quit vim all the time and I’m amazed they can’t remember a few simple keystrokes.

CTRL-D

sudo apt-get remove vim

sudo apt-get purge vim

See, it’s not hard at all to learn the proper way to use vim!