skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something I believe is that college tuition isn't high because maintaining a college is expensive due to the unnecessary expenditure you state. I think it is high so that the money can be used fund other, more important parts of the university.

One of the primary ways a college gets 'ranked', and thereby attracts better students is by research efforts of the university. Now research needs money, from equipment to paying post docs to retaining good professors. State universities get federal grants, but is that sufficient to compete against private universities that charge $40k+ each semester?

I think lack of research funding is the reason college tuition being so high. I also think driving down costs will only drive down the quality of education, since lower salaries mean less resources for research & sub-par profs (because they'll be at $TECH_COMPANY) -> lower ranking -> less 'good' students -> less research. And at some point you'd be stuck in the same situation as the public middle and secondary schools, where administration has to pinch pennies and reduce programs that benefit students.

Sounds messed up, but the only way out is more funding from the state if you want a cheap college education. Or just avoid the costs and get yourself an Internet Education.
A key design goal is to make all workers within a zone symmetric, broadcasting/executing to specific workers is an anti-pattern. Please see: https://github.com/Microsoft/napajs/wiki/introduction#zone
Just to clarify in understanding why recruiters are so adamant about this information. For said job they are trying to fill the budget pays $X dollars, if you're asking for $0.85X then they have a 0.15X margin to work with. Depending on how much that is reveals how lucrative filling you into that role would assume and whether it would cover their costs and what not. It's not uncommon for recruiters to retain 25-30% of the billing rate the company dishes out.
I've personally always lied about how much I was making... they think of you as an easy employee, and you can get a nice multiplier on your current salary.
Symfony 4.0.0-BETA1 released
I'm not certain that the "growth mindset" research is solid, lots of psychological science isn't that certain actually. But I think it's supported more than not.

The key point here: saying "you have a fixed mindset" and "you have a growth mindset" are THEMSELVES statements of a fixed mindset in this perspective! It's not strict in that it doesn't imply that you can't change. but my favorite part of the perspective is the broader thing that can be divorced from "growth mindset": that we should focus on the actions and intentions rather than on personal judgments.

There are reasons outside of "growth mindset" (such as plain improved interpersonal communication) to avoid focusing on personal judgment.

If you say, "I don't like that 'growth mindset' stuff", consider how much better it sounds for me to say "That's doesn't seem like an open-minded view of the idea" instead of saying, "You don't seem like an open-minded person."

The "growth mindset" is just one framing. I'm asserting that we really do need to get away from things that encourage kids (and everyone) from taking everything so personally. We can all respond better to both positive and negative feedback when it isn't seen as a personal judgment. We need to go away from the entire emphasis that personal judgments are something to focus on.
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I recently heard of CKEditor because of the dev log on tweakers.net ( a popular dutch news website).. They mentioned CKEditor, so they actively use it.

Here's the link: https://tweakers.net/plan/1385/finetunen-van-de-lay-out-en-h... ( dutch)
This issue has been addressed on ruby-head

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/8b182a7f7d798ab6539518fb...
One assumes that there would be some degree of corruption involved when any person gets to decide whether anyone's guilty or innocent with impunity. Perhaps the rich would sometimes bribe the priest, or the priest would decide that that ugly jerk probably did steal that horse. Plus, getting the water to cool was probably pretty inexact, and as much as you might want to declare a hand unburnt, really bad burns all over your arm are pretty hard to hide.
Many European countries had or have mandatory military service.

- Finland [0]

- Germany (until 2011) [1]

- Sweden (until 2010) [2]

- Denmark [3]

- France (until 1996) [4]

- Greece [5]

- Switzerland [6]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_Finland

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_Germany

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_Sweden

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_Denmark

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_France

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_Greece

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_Switzerland
I also use i3 and customizing it is a lot of fun :D

This(http://abhirag.in/articles/org/i3_setup.html) is my i3 setup with literate dotfiles, hope you find it helpful in switching to i3 :)
Annd logging is about 3 times as likely to kill you than the military. https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/03/15/dying-for-...

Also there are many, many jobs in the military that do not go anywhere near combat.
I really miss the old MSDN Library. The 5GB installable one you'd get as one of the 200 DVDs in that giant case they'd ship you with your MSDN subscription back in the day.

It was awesome. You could hit F1 and it would instantly pop up good, detailed, documentation for whatever method or keyword was under your cursor. In any of their developer products, so it worked as well in SQL Server Management Studio as in VS.NET. Every language, every technology, updated monthly via Automatic Updates on your dev box.

But they stopped shipping it in favor of "web help". That's the thing where you hit F1 and it spends several seconds opening a web browser (a custom one in a new tab in the IDE for some reason), then several more seconds opening a "meet the mouse" style page telling you how to use the code editor window (which it had helpfully detected was your context when asking for help).

So in one stroke, they switched from the worlds most awesome help system at your fingertips to "just go open Chrome and type your search into Google, since that will at least get you something relevant".

Today, they've improved that workflow by trying to ensure that something relevant exists on MDN, provided you're searching for web-related stuff.

We're still about 10 years back from the state-of-the-art in 2003.

Shame.
To all kinds of software, including getting the same fines as in other industries, instead of constraining it only for specific areas like medicine, aviation, cars.
i was on both sides, if somebody does not have a lot experience or does not know how much they are worth, its easy to exploit, you ask them what they currently earn and what they expected salary is, and on that you can judge the new salary. the last candidate that i hired said something even under the lover range that i expected, so i offered him a decent bump (20%) on that as i did not want to underpay him.

if i end on the other side again i will ask for the upper range for myself and see where it gets me.
Sorry but - however inspiring this story may be - I as a citizen don’t want to abdicate my role in society in the decision process and suffice myself to consume.

Google may be top “freedom of research” today but it’s a private property I have no influence or stake whatsoever; one day they take a u-turn and “spring clean” all.

I can’t trust a couple guys just because “they’re nerds”, that’s not a long enough guarantee. You actually used Bell Labs as an example... is it still as prominent today as it was? Why not?
As a former Vim user I'm happy to see a post like that ! Some old problems mentionned in the post like asynchronous processes mostly, but also the lack of smart indentation with the TAB key that also takes into account the type of file you're editing really drove me out of Vim. I've since switched to Emacs (with Evil mode because modal editors rocks), and I haven't looked back since.
In that case you just nuke the shit out of everybody or create army if autonomous suicide bomber with nukes, biological and chemical weapons of all kinds. Once all humans are extinct the harmony on earth will be restored and everyone will leave happily ever after.
(Not a CPA or tax attorney, consult your regionally certified folks for specifics. Just parroting what the IRS has published for consumer-consumption.)

At the national level, the IRS declared Bitcoin pretty clearly in Notice 2014-21 for 2015 onwards as strictly a capital asset and not as a currency backed by a foreign nation state. Q/A #7 is the most pertinent.

The implications on ICOs for an investor under the dominion of the IRS would be nearly nothing, as it's treated as a capital asset (valued upon purchase at FMV, and then again upon sale, once again, at FMV). Think of it like buying MSFT at $foo, selling at $bar, then paying capital gains on your gross less fees. Relevant publications are the 544 if you're trading, the 525 if you're mining. All service/product based income Bitcoin must be declared in a 1099-MISC.

The last page is dedicated to a love-note saying "hey, so listen, you're 100% subject to the standard "failure to report (correctly or not) tax evasion penalties, so uh pay us".

If you're offering an ICO yourself, things are going to get an order or two of magnitude more complicated, I'd imagine. No idea how it's classified but I'd imagine your regulatory reporting burdens will be somewhere between pink sheets and a publicly traded NYSE post-Sarbox company

Edit: On second thought, it might be higher since you're very arguably operating a FinEx. "Know your customer" rules a la banking regulations might apply (i.e. filling out a SAR and filing with FinCEN). I'd definitely speak with a tax attorney who's worked on FINRA secondary market filings though.
"You can lay the seats flat and sleep two 6'+ individuals side by side."

I did read the article. It said this: "However, the flat bed on the compact Model 3 is long enough to accommodate only someone who is about 5 1/2 feet long, stretched out."
That's correct. Think about a scenario that each worker needs to access a 1GB hash map. In node cluster, we have to load this 1GB map per process, but in the same process, all JS threads can access the map via an addon.
And Swift if targeting Apple devices is enough.
Atmosphere is only transparent to infrared in 7-13 mkm window. Yet I expect the fireball to producing heat at above 500 C that gives peak of radiation below 4 mkm.
Have you read the article? It says the effective recruiting pool is 1.7 million, and the goal is 180,000 recruits. That means you'd need to convince every 1 in 10 eligible person to enlist. Even if the military was a glory-filled job, I doubt you'd get those numbers.
How to Recover Deleted Music Files from iPod Touch
Firefox? Check out something like VimFX. No need for the mouse on 80% of the webpages.
Well, let's see, 80% of insects, 60% of birds, 75% of fish have disappeared in 30 years (a blink of an eye). Climate change is already bringing famine and chaos around the world. We have absolutely no credible alternative to fossil fuels. The financial system is in complete disarray. Economists proved GDP is strictly tied to energy consumption (that seems obvious) therefore, they indirectly proved that GDP growth is radically unsustainable on the long term (that made absolutely no doubt to anyone understanding physics, but hey, at least that's proven now). Several specialists announced not only "Peak Oil" (conventional oil peaked years ago, "all liquids" will peak in 2018/2019) but "Peak Everything" (even if we had some magical technology to solve any of the listed problems, we won't have the resources).

I deem probable that civilisation collapses before 2020, and almost certain before 2030. What's your bet?
as a protestant by cultural heritage I can't help but snark at this comment in light of the bail bonds discussion upthreat :)
It depends on the user base. Customers of the company I work for mostly use IE or Edge and only Chrome because we highly suggest it. Without decent IE/Edge support we would have less customers.
It's a lot easier to read when a data format is written in JSON, when a document format is written in JSON the reverse is the general order (minus incidents where the format is obnoxiously constructed so as to defy understanding by outside parties)
I assumed (not a laser expert) that the plasma that forms out of the gain media is what is problematic with a typical solid state laser, while in this case, the plasma is the medium.
An interest plugin I've found recently (Neovim only) is Deoplete, which is basically Ctrl-n on steroids. As you type, it shows a list of completions without any kind of slowdown (on my 4 yo MBA). For some languages, such as TypeScript, it even shows type definitions. It's close to being on-par with the smart completion in IntelliJ.

https://github.com/Shougo/deoplete.nvim
My understanding was that you can get some savings from keeping the sparse matrix and running sparse SVD via scipy.sparse.linalg.svds(PMI, k=256). I am not certain about the exact time complexity however.
5 Minutes on the WPA2 KRACK Vulnerability
Biggest single problem is obesity. There are just too many fat teen-agers. Second is a criminal record or drug abuse. Third is inadequate education; the US military requires high school graduation now. As of 2009 [1]:

- 27% - too fat

- 31% - other health problem

The Army used to run fat recruits through a "fat farm" phase of 6 weeks of exercise. But they no longer do that. There's talk of bringing it back.

The Marines want you in shape before you enlist. Marine recruiters help promising recruits get in shape before they enlist.

[1] http://cdn.missionreadiness.org/MR-Ready-Willing-Unable.pdf
https://bicyclesafe.com/images-collisions/wrong-way-wallop.g...
How to avoid this collision:

Don't ride against traffic. Ride with traffic, in the same direction.
"I don't suppose you tow your travel trailer around everywhere with you?"

No, but a motorhome was my only motorized vehicle for about six years. Spent plenty of nights camped on city streets.

A trailer is certainly less amenable to that sort of camping...but, is stealth camping really what these folks have in mind? In the most noticed car on the road, that doesn't have an enclosed sleeping area?

I'm all about stealth camping, but a Tesla isn't the right vehicle for it. Again, if you have a Tesla and want to sleep in it, more power to you. It's just a silly thing to make a trend out of.
AFAIK CKEditor has theming support and one of bundled themes is MSWord.
Makes sense, enjoy your travels :)
It's better if you read this https://bicyclesafe.com/#wrongway
I think that argument is often made because it is easy to make. Just because one reads from a paper textbook means one is avoiding distractions? What about phones and their incessant alerts?

One way you can avoid distractions is to limit the features of the device. Pull internet access. The problem here is with the student more than the device. I tend to get distracted a lot when reading a digital textbook too. It takes effort, but also does not looking at your phone when you are reading a textbook.
> I wanted something (Free or paid) like what's shown in the above video, that's independent of WordPress. Couldn't find a darn single one, if you can believe it.

I can, because I've been looking for one. I believe there's a market for well done components like this:

* Drag and drop page component builder (think Leadpages, Unbounce, SiteOrigin Panels)
* Drag and Drop email builder (a la MailChimp et al)

There's no need for every SaaS and startup to build their own - better to have a component (or even a dedicated service to integrate) to provide these JS-heavy timesinks than waste time while validating the idea creating them.
I disagree. I think we make too many provisions in life for cars already.

The potential for fatal accidents would increase.

X is speed of cyclist, Y is speed of vehicle

Assume Y > X

Opposite travel direction collision speed: X + Y

Same travel direction collision: Y - X

For example, at Y=40km/h, X=20km/h

Opposite direction: 60km/h

Same direction: 20km/h

I'd much rather hit a wall at 20km/h than 60km/h.
I know I previously enjoyed working at a games company as an employee because I valued the process of making something people would enjoy. Even though I was working 12 hour days 6 days a week I still enjoyed most of it.

I suppose my example mostly reinforces your point. To prevent burnout you really need to derive joy in the day to day rather than some external situation you can’t control.
JSON has data types built into it, XML needs its data type understanding defined by an external technology - often in the form of an irritating schema language that is hard for many people to understand, extraordinarily verbose, and which also has the downside of not being able to describe many of the constraints often encountered in actual XML formats.
> Are you saying that in order to have a high self-worth someone needs accomplishments?

I'm not sure what you even mean by "high-self-worth". I used different terms in my reply to try to make my original point clearer and make sure I was clear to reject the way that some people treat unsuccessful people condescendingly. I think condescension is rarely warranted, certainly not based on what we typically call "success" or "failure".

As to "self-worth", I dunno. I'm not sure how we all take that term. I'd rather we drop it entirely and not have any ego about anything. I appreciate the way pride is seen as a sin. All forms of egotism are obnoxious and pathological in my view.

People should just accept that they are as they are, focus on being loving and kind to one another while doing all the necessary things to care for themselves and their own well-being.

I know I'm being tangential. I'm trying to say that I don't advocate for any idea where I ought to feel that I'm a more valuable person because of my successes. I'd rather the successes be only about their own value. If I succeed at expressing my thoughts to you, the value is in the communication itself and not in self-worth for me or anything.
Rabobank, U.N. launch $1B fund to boost sustainable farming
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We keep learning about elliptic curves, and the more we learn, the more we glimpse the edges of a massive and deep symmetry which relates primes and polynomials (Fermat's Last Theorem, RSA, AES) with elliptic curves (Birch & Swinnerton–Dyer Conjecture, ECDSA, Ed25519) and modular forms and L-functions (Riemann Zeta Hypothesis). This is known as the Langlands programme [0].

The significance of this result is that it is yet another brick in the wall of the Langlands programme's immense and daunting blueprint; overall, it is only a tiny tiny fragment. The L-function database [1] is far more interesting if you want to get a good look at a collection of stuff that we know about the topic.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langlands_program
[1] http://www.lmfdb.org/intro
Maybe you feel middle class among the people that you're friends with, but the facts are that in the US, $85k puts you in the top third and $120k in the top fifth, so $250k which is top 4.3% is far from middle for most definitions of it.

https://dqydj.com/household-income-percentile-calculator-201...
Did you guys try PyPy before deciding to switch? If yes, what was the outcome? If not, why not?
>If the problem was that there are so many eligible people, but nobody wants to volunteer, then you might be on to something.

They way I read it this is the problem:

> Once you take into account whether or not the remaining 9.7 million are enrolled in college — and that the Army doesn’t want the bare minimum for its future soldiers — the recruiting pool shrinks to just 1.7 million.

The biggest contributor is 7 million college students not wanting to enroll even though they can get the military to pay for college. I bet bullshit wars on the other side of the world affects this number.

Alternatively, maybe they just need fat camp as a pre-boot camp step.
Numbers don’t line up. There are 30 million people in that age group in the US. 30% of that is nearly 10M. There may be fewer volunteers than that, of course, but that problem is fairly straightforward to fix: pay more, and get the hell out of the Middle East.
Except most of them don't expose themselves to any danger. The average fatality rate per 100k in the military is far, far, far below the rates incurred by fishermen, loggers, steelworkers, farmers, garbage collectors, landscapers, roofers, taxi drivers, etc. The military isn't in the top 20 for dangerous jobs.
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Along the same lines, maybe a future people will consider them as a good source of organs for transplantation.
>Physically writing notes on paper seems to me to be the best way of summarising material that I need to remember.

Re-iterating what I said elsewhere in the thread. It is a false notion that writing on a paper is somehow superior to typing it out on a keyboard. I feel the only reason people feel better when writing paper notes is because they're used to it. Taking notes on electronic devices is fairly new. It is alien to our brain which have known the other way for a long time.
Since everything is in a single process, they can be shared via native structures. Each JS thread has its own heap, there will be a cost to transfer the shared native structures into JS object.

For complex objects, usually JSON is used thus marshall/unmarshall is needed. But for objects like UTF-8 string or ArrayBuffer, the same layout is used across JS and C++, thus at almost no cost.

Another thing is that between addon-modules, they can pass pointer of native structures (like Buffer) using 2 uint32 through JS. In this case, JS works as a binding language.
I wouldn't worry about it. This phenomenon is true, maybe to a lower degree of mania, for technologies past (trains, exploration, gold rushes, every tech bubble) and present (crispr, biologics)
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WSDL -> JSON schema is the wrong mapping, obviously should be XML Schema (WSDL is an awful web services things - so is there some combination of a router and JSON schema spec somewhere out there?)
He's arguing that if you want to develop some custom word embeddings (trained on whatever data set you have specific to task at hand), the SVD approach is often much faster

That depends on your corpus and vocabulary size. word2vec is O(n) where n is the length of the training corpus. Vanilla SVD is O(mn^2) for a co-occurence matrix size of m x n. I have been training word2vec and GloVe embeddings on 'web-scale' corpora and training time is usually not a problem.

the SVD approach is often much faster and almost as effective

SVD-derived embeddings does bad on some tasks, such as analogy tasks (see Levy & Goldberg, 2014).

I agree with your parent poster that the author does not really provide good arguments against the use of word2vec et al.

Moreover,

But because of advances in our understanding of word2vec, computing word vectors now takes fifteen minutes on a single run-of-the-mill computer

Which advances in our understanding? SVD on word-word co-occurrence matrices was proposed by Schütze in 1992 ;). There have been many works since then exploring various co-occurrence measures (including PMI) in combination with SVD.