skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never been to college, but I guess I would say it seems like college is as much about figuring out what you want in life and finding people who can offer perspectives you may not have considered as it is getting an education. I grew up in small town and this sort of thing is attractive to me.
The policy network is a function from board states to a scoring of moves. The policy network with the greedy heuristic, ie pick the highest rated move with no explicit look ahead method, plays at a high amateur level.

This was... unexpectedly good.

It effectively reduces the branching factor of Go from the number of moves available, to the number of moves actually worth considering.
I setup fasttext to run in a serverless environment (AWS Lambda) today:
https://blog.codefor.cash/2017/10/19/an-aws-lambda-serverles...
Really? I describe a specific way YC could use their unique access to a proprietary dataset to gain a competitive advantage in the tech venture capital marketplace. One literally couldn't be more on-topic for HN.
Consider that you're spending $X on college, when you could probably just as easily buy the text book (or not!) and do courses online for free. So what is it that you want to get out of college? If you don't know, why are you paying?

I'm not hiring, but I'd personally rather see someone who self taught themselves some specific discipline, and then used the money they would have spent on college to apply their knowledge to build something for themselves (whether that's taking knowledge of math and building an investment portfolio, or taking knowledge of software and building a business/app, etc.)

If I were you I'd just ask "am I getting what I want out of college?" and if not, change that. If you don't know what else it's about, observe, ask, research, ask people on HN, whatever.

Disclaimer: never went.
It's possible to switch careers. Medicine was appealing to me.
>> Digital textbooks can offer so much more than print textbooks.

I agree. I was recently in China lecturing. I took about 100 textbooks on a portable hard drive. It was magic having immediate access to that knowledge. By way of comparison, there was no way I could have taken more than a couple of physical textbooks with me.

BUT I still needed to make my own notes on paper. Physically writing notes on paper seems to me to be the best way of summarising material that I need to remember.
Freedom of capital movement without freedom of labour movement privileges the capital class over the labour class.

The only equitable free trade agreements include the right to follow the jobs, such as the EU.
I'm not sure based on the description if this is a burnout. (When I think of burnout I think uncontrolled crying, physiological reactions etc.) If you have a real burnout you should seek professional assistance if that is an option.

If it is just a lack of motivation then things are a bit easier and I think you have at least two choices, maybe more:

1. (I've done this when I was just a few years older than you.) Accept that your current work is boring but otherwise OK. Do side projects. Build a portfolio.

2. (I've done this as well.) Or you can start applying for every job that looks interesting. Since you already have a job you have a great starting point.

3. (Not always an option.) Go back to school as others have mentioned.
That was meant a joke about Java being a worthless language.

It's true about a lot of languages. But C isn't one of them. You can do a lot with C, you can do almost as much with with python and a lot faster as well. I can enumerate more, but those are the only two relevant ones.

With Java, you can get a job where job performance is measured in LOC.
That's not true. I have friends who had court cases last years (literally, two years) because the prosecution promised a video tape that proved guilt. They repeatedly failed to bring the evidence to court. I forget if the charges were dropped or if they were provided the option of accepting the original plea bargain, but the evidence was never produced.

There is no requirement for the prosecution to provide a clear case (or even a weak one) at the time of presenting a plea bargain. They often use the extremity of the charges as their hand.
For the unenlightened, who is Derek Sivers and what does he do?
I came here to post the same link! I'm always amazed at the number of programmers who pooh pooh blockchains as a fad (they probably are a bit oversold at the moment) but when they realize what they are and how they work, go hmm.
Do humans have mating seasons?
Why is the transcript a PDF? It's unreadable on mobile. Do they think people are going to print it out, like Knuth reading his email?
Right. I also am a self taught programmer working in industry since straight after high school, although in my case it has been closer to 20 years.

This has never been a problem in terms of skills or employment and advancement. The only part I feel I missed out on is the networking aspect, and perhaps doing a minor subject, some language, literature or general studies unit or two would make one a more well-rounded person.

It's hard to justify the time and expense just for these benefits though.
Who can tell me the differences between IBM Watson discovery vs. Google search
I tried to ask several questions on Watson and google, such as "how parents help make academic success?","how parents do if students fail?". Google search can give more accurate answer.Why and when should I use IBM Watson discovery？
I definitely agree that your perceived goal of "changing C" is not attainable. And it is not something I proposed. You could add a flag to a fork of a compiler/toolchain and if it is useful, others will eventually catch on.
Love the non-fiction advice, I wish it had been a bigger push when I was in school. I didn't enjoy reading until I picked up non-fiction as an adult.
Now I'm wondering if you could embed an out of band protocol in all your TCP traffic on the internet at large by misusing those mostly ignored, but accessible, bits.

At worst just to eek out ~16 more bits per packet.
I saw your other comment about starting something of my own and thought that was good advice. As far as college goes, I definitely wouldn't go unless I was serious about it and social aspect is especially attractive. Most people I interact with are 15+ years older than me and it's getting a little boring. It's also hard to make friends when everyone your age is in college.
Once we are gone, they’ll all come back: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/23/wildlife-returns-...
As others have pointed out it's a very expensive place to figure out what you want in life. I feel like figuring out what you want in life is just a product of growing up and being open to different experiences. College is probably a very good bubble to experience a lot of things in a safe environment where room for error is high (and I don't mean not passing your courses). But you could probably replicate this in other ways for example in the work place, talking to a lot of people, etc,.
There are definitely abuses, and what you describe definitely constitutes an abuse, but that hasn't been my experience.
Too expensive.

Make a source code release and encrypt it. Put it somewhere accessible to the customer, e.g. an S3 bucket owned by them. Arrange for the key to be given to the customer under the terms of the escrow agreement, e.g. send a letter to your lawyer with the terms of release and the key.

I can see value in having someone handle this for me, with a nice UI. It's fundamentally a clerical job, though, with some legal process / responsibility. So $50/month is already a fair amount, to say nothing of $1000.
Is this the program where you literally build a computer from scratch, starting with a transistor, and working your way up. If so, you're comparing a top down approach, to a bottom up. Each with a different end goal. My comments are only meant to apply to a intro to CS top down approach, with the goal of creating programmers, not complete system engineers.
Universities [in the UK] told to guarantee free speech
Yeah this sucks - opposite to my current role I used to DM people on slack and the tech lead told me to keep it in the appropriate dev channel because all questions are important to everyone and everyone should be able to chime in.

I'd look for an exit plan - good luck!
pop-ups and ads?
I use uBlock and I don't disable JavaScript. I don't have any issue any more.
The alternative Kotlin compilers are currently at the "proof of concept" stage, but aren't usable, or supported much by the community.

Scala's JavaScript compiler (http://www.scala-js.org/) on the other hand is production ready and supported by the whole ecosystem, with plenty of libraries being cross-compiled to both the JVM and JS.

Scala Native piggybacks on top of the work made for Scala.js — it's harder, due to not being able to piggyback on another platform this time, so they have to deal with things like concurrency or garbage collection, but it's progressing nicely.

Scala Native isn't production quality yet, but it's at that stage where it's fun to play with it and the Gitter channel has some friendly folks you can interact with: https://gitter.im/scala-native/scala-native
CppCon 2017: Jonathan Henson “Naivety of Cross-Platform, Modern C++ Libraries”
Two problems with that.

Firstly: climate change is only one of the problems caused by a culture based almost entirely on the ecocidal fantasy of stolen-from-the-future 'economic growth'. We are losing topsoil at a dizzying pace. Fresh water is disappearing. The habitats on which natural systems depend are being ripped apart. Novel substances are being created and released into our air, water and land with unknown consequences. Climate change is a single crisis piled upon multiple others. Case in point: Australia's Queensland inner reefs are almost completely gone, and the outer reefs have only a few decades left. Causes: multiple, from nutrient-rich agricultural runoff (largely from pointless vanity sugar cane production), to wholesale destruction of coastal ecosystems including mangroves, which are crucial nurseries for many reef fish. Increasing ocean temperatures deal the final blow to already critically weakened ecosystems. This is our planet in miniature. Climate change isn't the problem. It's yet another symptom of the same fundamental dynamic, delivered as just the latest and largest of a series of blows many ecosystems will not survive.

Secondly: the changes needed are not only (and perhaps not primarily) technological. They require planetary coordination and cooperation to handle on political and social levels, and the defeat of a crazed unthinking ideology of unhindered 'economic growth'. Fundamental changes of attitude and societal organisation need to be agreed upon in the next few decades, and implemented without delay. Yet we can't even agree on obvious tiny measures like removing nuclear weapons, and rogue wealthy nations resist nearly every attempt to do anything meaningful about any of the critical issues. We just don't know how to do what's needed, and there are no solutions on the horizon. And we are still locked into fantasies of national government and sovereignty, despite being (factually & physically) a global civilisation.

Look at the political convulsions happening now as a consequence of current worldwide refugee crises. But that's minuscule compared to what's coming. Imagine what happens when ocean level rises cause two billion refugees to seek somewhere to live. Given our level of global immaturity, what do you think will happen? It will be all wars and walls. And our capability, in the midst of such convulsions, to make (and keep) difficult international agreements? Nil.

I'd absolutely love to be wrong. But all physical and social indicators are pointing in the same direction.
Ex-Google exec: Sun may be setting on Silicon Valley
You're 21 years old? Have you ever heard of the grand tour?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Tour

Nowadays just condense your life to a backpack and travel while you can.
Making money or going into debt for school is great and all but your true wealth is your time and your's alone. Sure you can hawk it out to the highest bidder but you can never buy it back no matter what you do. You code so go experience the world and find over looked problem facing real people and solve them. By not having a schedule and being self reliant you'll be forcibly giving yourself the time to do so.
That has only been my experience. Every single person I know who has ever been arrested has been strong-armed into a plea bargain, regardless of evidence or guilt.

John Oliver did a piece on public defenders that talks a lot about plea bargains, amongst other problems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USkEzLuzmZ4

Here's a study from the Department of Justice:

https://www.bja.gov/Publications/PleaBargainingResearchSumma...

According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics
(2005), in 2003 there were 75,573 cases
disposed of in federal district court by trial or
plea. Of these, about 95 percent were
disposed of by a guilty plea (Pastore and
Maguire, 2003). While there are no exact
estimates of the proportion of cases that are
resolved through plea bargaining, scholars
estimate that about 90 to 95 percent of both
federal and state court cases are resolved
through this process (Bureau of Justice
Statistics, 2005; Flanagan and Maguire,
1990).
Ouch.

"Through a few simple steps, a stranger can take control of the watch and track, eavesdrop on and communicate with the child."

I wonder what this means: is it a vulnerability that can be triggered remotely or are we talking about the possibility that the watches can be reprogrammed if an attacker has physical access?
Fast mass price update in Magento 1.x
Looks like you're right; first year of the 85D was 2015. And yeah, not necessary, but nice in northern climates.
Shannon Luminary Lecture Series – Stephen Fry
I know what it is about to me, I was curious about what it was about to him.

Now in terms of math I can only speak for myself but it would probably take me 10x longer to learn what I have learnt, if it wasn't for being surrounded by professionals and a peer group where I can have my assumptions tested against.

Now I'm not saying it's impossible to self teach yourself advanced mathematics, but without tutorials, office hours, students to talk to, professors to talk to, it's going to be a very difficult road and one I'm not sure I could do the self-taught method.
Out for Young Blood: Science has given new life to an old thirst
"Plasma is generally bad for lasers"

The plasma is the best part. With plasma you can print current carrying channels into mid-air, with plasma you can transfer electric charges on them. With plasma your mid-air printed coil can put a force on things.
1st, are you sure that's a good thing? I don't mean diversification, I mean graduating students who can't grasp concepts that experts are sure is easy/simple. Pointers, like everything else, is hard... until you understand them. (Perhaps CS 101 needs an additional prerequisite)

2nd, sure, then pick something easy, like [any of the thousand of other languages] Don't hand them a "broken" version of C, just because it's easier.

2nd part 2... What do you think CS is if not about programming?
Consumer officials everywhere should be doing proactive software stuff like this.
John Moser's Identity Theft Protection Proposal
Is it just me or does it seem like people glaze over how hard it is to land a job with the major players. I have a degree in CS and every time an article popups about their interviewing process or a random comment on a successful applicant I am extremely discouraged. Graph theory, cutting edge technologies, bit shifting and IEEE 754 are not things I use on an everyday basis and topics such as these always pop up. I interviewed with Microsoft coming out of school and the high level discussions were great but when it came to white boarding algorithms in c for finding substrings and palindromes recursively I fizzled out. Believe it or not I am actually one of the "stars" at my company but feel woefully inadequate compared to people hired by the well known SF companies. If only it were as easy as Hacker News makes it seem.
Exactly!Thank you.
Rust is in a different league altogether.

Scala, Haskell, OCaml are garbage collected languages. This makes them easier to use, but some problems are out of reach.

Embedded development, kernels, native apps requiring performance without frames dropped, real-time systems actually, including consumer stuff like decoding video, these have been the domain of C/C++.

Of course, there are projects out there using these languages, pushing the boundaries, like MirageOS (https://mirage.io/) which is built with OCaml. But those are like the exceptions confirming the rule.
And real software engineering experience isn't a Berkeley degree. There are many reasons to do this. Your career is only one of them.

You could take Trevor Murphy for Classics 10B, Intro to Roman Civ. You could learn to sail or windsurf down at Cal Sailing.

BTW, applying to Berkeley from out of state is more dicey. And expensive (Tuition and Fees: $13,509 (in-state); $40,191 (out-of-state)). Again, moving here and going to a CA JC will dramatically improve your chances.

Big point: you really need to learn a LOT about the application process and requirements. Not a little, a shit ton. This is not for the faint of heart. It isn't an easy path. You have to take it very seriously. You're probably two years away.
Can anyone summarize the numerical results? The abstract states 30 cases and 30 controls, but what was measured, and what was the breakdown of that measurement by cases and controls?

Here's the paper. Yes I'm being lazy/incompetent, I was hoping to get the gist of the numerical results within 5 minutes and failed. Like, a table would have been nice.

http://sci-hub.io/10.1098/rspb.2017.1380
Consider a day job at an NGO that you identify with.
Wow, the Maine accent in that Marden's commercial is thick enough to spread on a slice of bread.
As someone who has served in a European army infantry unit, I also find it very strange.
Yes of course you can if you're sensitive and observant. That's why I limited my observation to those 'entirely swaddled' within the built & busy human world. I don't know what it's like where you live, but here in Australia, there are millions who never notice anything that doesn't happen on their pocket screens.
I think this is federal numbers, but about 10%: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/11/20/why-innocent-peop...
> ... the main problem of WYSIWYG editors... a terrible end-format for stored content.

In many cases having the editor store HTML internally is the best solution, especially if the output will eventually be HTML anyway. Think of a Wordpress post submission page, or a website comment page.
What do you mean? I can use a browser incognito mode and still login
The impression I got when this aired on national radio yesterday, was that this simply was part of the feature set of the watch; the root problem was that the access code you needed to pair the watch and app was printed on the watch - thus enabling anyone with access to the watch to stalk the kid like only its parents were supposed to do...
Magazine uncovers reason for Audi engines' high oil consumption
> I also think it's unlikely that a future society will allocate resources to revive these people

If society could re-animate a Roman citizen from 1000AD, historians and social anthropologists would be climbing over each other to push the button. Just look at the interest (and money spent) around Otzi the Iceman.
I think the point is that the system was created with the understanding that the game was rigged, not that they figured it out after God didn't save a few people they truly believed were innocent.
He's already talking about a biological phenomenon, and describing it using an analogy to machine learning neural nets, so the analogy is not biological.
Is today's system better?
"Only invest what you are willing and able to lose."

Never thought I'd hear the government give positive/neutral investing advice on Bitcoin.

I think all the agencies are going to fight to classify something they can control. Is it a commodity, property, stock, a digital gold or something else?
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Yep: HSTS only applies to your site, while upgrade-insecure-requests applies to every resource your site loads, even on third-party domains? Meanwhile, upgrade-insecure-requests does not replace HSTS because it doesn't help secure links from offsite or direct entry, which HSTS solves especially with preloading. Monitoring CSP headers and actually fixing bugs would help fix things in browsers that don't support upgrade-insecure-requests.
Java is doing quite well in such domains, including real time control of battleship weapon systems and missile radar controls.

The ongoing NLL work proves ergonomics are still not there, and it doesn't cover all scenarios like internal references as done typically for callbacks in GUI widgets.

It will surely improve, and the best thing for polyglot developers is that we can easily pick the best tool for the job.
> Let's get rid of electricity and go back to horses and sail boats as our prime travel options, then.

Too late for that. And I don't see anyone offering easy answers.

But pretending that what's happening in the real world isn't happening, or frantically waving totems of electronic consumer satisfaction about, won't make those physical realities go away.
I'm curious, how does the 1st Amendment play into this?
Japan is way overpopulated. In the case that agriculture stops producing as much as it does now and food imports also dry up, Japan will be a very bad place to be. The country is mostly forest and mountain, arable land is rather scarce.
> which has come in handy

How much support can you really get for $9 a year?

Let's encrypt is basically set and forget (making sure to also set up appropriate notifications for when things go wrong).
It's really all the same, HTML is already a component-based system but the parsing and tooling for it is poor when used through javascript. Maybe WebAssembly will change that but using a content-block approach is definitely a way to get around some of the complexity. Medium's editor uses a similar approach, probably the most common and there's Mobiledoc which is a standardized JSON format and editor framework: https://bustle.github.io/mobiledoc-kit/demo/

Side note, list of various editors: https://gist.github.com/manigandham/65543a0bc2bf7006a487
Sorry for being obtuse, but doesn't Python do the same thing? I just tried in ipython

y = 2
def mult(x):
return x * y

mult(6) # returns 12
Could be useful for nuclear fusion:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_confinement_fusion
This should be good for their fusion efforts. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/high-powered-lase...
Well, I punch people and take their money. Most people complain about morals, but hey this is how I earn the most money. You can't blame me for trying to maximize my profits.