skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His website contains a lot of gems:

http://norvig.com/

I think the course to which you refer is on Udacity, with Thrun; I found it easier to read the book.
Be aware that a lot of problems can be transformed with a linear transformation into basic and well know problems like SAT [1]. This automatically means that a lot of problems can be solved with the same algorithm. Using problems as chess or go is more about fun when doing research that other thing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_satisfiability_problem
Absolutely. I'm poor. It takes all my will to stop myself from buying a huge desktop computer.
>Create bank accounts under fake names with the "illegal" cash.

In USA, I don't see how this is "scalable" with the stringent "know your customer"[1] laws.

Using a fake drivers license + fake Social Security Number to open a new bank account with a false name is not trivial. Many banks also require a thumb print for identification. The customer's face is also captured on security cameras as he walked through the bank to open the account. All of that can be cross-checked with the FBI.

It seems the preferred method for criminals using banks to wash money is a "shell company" instead of fake personal accounts. E.g. Open a business account for a car washing company or restaurant. But then the criminal has to be careful and make sure his "pattern of deposits" does not raise suspicions. Any unusual banking activity could trigger an investigation for racketeering and money laundering.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer
thanks for the advice, I will delete this post and resubmit it as an article
According to your other comments, you opt in to getting paid in bitcoin. That's your choice. So you're creating the hassle.

Do you think your answer is in the spirit of the question?
The decline is fairly small on a percentage basis and the reasons are debated--although it's definitely happened. A fairly sharp increase in audiobooks seems to be one reason. I suspect that people have also figured out that eBooks are good for some materials and not for others. Once you get away from books that are mostly flowing plain text, fiction in particular, eBooks don't generally work nearly as well.

I haven't seen pricing given as a major factor. Used books certainly compete with the eBook back catalog but they aren't usually counted under physical book sales.
Funny enough, the linked site praises the Guardian's approach then hits me with a popup to subscribe to their newsletter...
as there is a project aiming to "bootstrap the world"
https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/stage0/
and they hand wrote a FORTH http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/stage0.git/tree/stage2/f...
and a compacting garbage collecting lisp http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/stage0.git/tree/stage2/l...

and their opinion was that it was easier to do the lisp than it was to do the FORTH.
Although right now they are trying to improve their C Compiler prototype https://github.com/oriansj/M2-Planet before they convert it to assembly
It's not a technique, it's a natural outcome of statistical modeling.

It doesn't get used because people are innumerate and reactionary.
The actual title is "Inside Airbnb’s Russian Money-Laundering Problem", which is more suitable IMHO, as it highlights this is a local issue in Russia, not AirBnB as a whole
Strongbox was designed prior to AWS Parameter Store, and took its inspiration from projects like Fugue CredStash and similar AWS KMS based projects. While there are certainly pros and cons with the different approaches, which you can see in the linked comparison table, I think one of Strongbox' strengths is that it is easy to set up, and you get a lot of convenience functionality related to secrets management. Not having to maintain running services, and natural compartmentalization using both AWS IAM and AWS accounts was two of the drivers.

$1 per group of secrets, e.g. a service. In many cases I think this is fine, but it is certainly not a strength.
IMO college is there to provide you a well rounded education and opportunities to mix across your own social boundaries in education. I changed majors 3x and ended up with 3 different degrees and an ungodly amount of just for fun learning hours (so many my University said no more, which was irritating).

The background in computer technology from a university level is the "why" behind what you're implementing. Not the "how" you implement it. The hands on exercises are more to apply what you've learned than to give you skill training like a technical college.

I've worked with 1000s of developers over my career. The more knowledge you have, the more well rounded you'll be. This tends to lend itself to better developers in my experience. Where self taught is fantastic, but typically those coworkers (not all but most) tend to be pigeon holed into technologies instead of concepts.

Developers could learn a lot about business too, accounting, finance, marketing, etc.

I loved college and feel it really prepared me for figuring out my way in the world, much more so than simply reading Programming in C.
Standup meetings will be dead soon
What are these trackers? Can you give an example? Are they GPS transmitters?
> $25k/yr ($12 per hour) for your entire life, you can afford to save $5.5k per year.

Man, I'd love to live in a world where that would be possible.
>Behavior determines successful outcomes far more than circumstances.

Well it sure does for the kind of people who go to Stanford and emerge with no debt. For everyone else circumstance is a heavy weight.

>Even if you earned say... $25k/yr ($12 per hour) for your entire life, you can afford to save $5.5k per year.

...How many people over the age of 30 do you actually know making $12/hr? If you have kids on that kind of wage there is absolutely no room for any saving.
I started programming in my (very) early teens, and by the time I hit 18 I had enough skills to land a full-time programming gig. One internship before college and, in my best year, a (admittedly very) lower-middle-class income's worth of freelance work in-between homework assignments (though high 4 figures was more typical).

I loved programming and still do, but I went to college because I knew -- by the time I was 18 -- that I really wanted to do something more with my life than build other people's boring websites.

My advice to extremely bright and/or motivated high school students who have the option to get into the programming profession right away: consider whether this is going to be as intellectually stimulating in 5 years (or even 5 months) as it is now. There's no "right answer" to this question! But consider it carefully.

And don't under-estimate your potential.
> but the concept of having to pointers moving at different speeds did be pretty clear no?

> this was an open problem in CS for 12 years before someone came up with the tortoise and hare algorithm.

So, empirically, "no".
In a digital age, where we should be recording lectures, we still talk about the merits of note taking (whatever medium) vs. learning.

I agree the value is in the teaching itself and learning in the moment; however, I would still like to go back and access that lecture/class.
This. We used credstash for a while (same concept as this, at a glance) and now we're running for parameter store
I'd like to add to this another word of advice. I'm only a hobby/shareware programmer with no experience in the software industry and it also depends on the country, but generally speaking in many countries and many professions not having an official degree can mean less long-term career chances and a risk of earning less money than less competent colleagues with fancy degrees for the rest of your life.

My general advice is to get a good degree for your dream job and to work on a portfolio that illustrates that you're also practically good at it at the same time. Don't fall prey to the false dichotomy trap.
Mass speculation
After I decided to not go to university, but give my 110% to programming instead, I went to a coding bootcamp for 3 months in Tampa Bay, Florida

Is this another success story where the secret is, be born to wealthy parents?
Technically, yes - but I feel like they target very different users. AWS targets technical people. Cloudflare targets product people. The difference is clear in pricing - Cloudflare never has never charged for bandwidth.
Perhaps it wasn't, for you. It is for the VAST majority.
They didn't say science fiction is form the 1900s aka, the twentieth century. "XIX" is "19" in roman numerals, as in, nineteenth century. 1800-1899 was the nineteenth century.
Why only 40 inch - get whatever fits on your desk. 4K monitor will not be painfully pixelated up close. If you coded through the past decade, you will likely see an improvement from some of your recent monitors. At the end of the day, it's about getting the work done, not DPI competition. Although you may use only the center for an IDE, sides are perfect for e-mail, calendar, IM, device emulator, stackoverflow, other source files for reference. A quick side glance is way better than moving windows back and forth. I wish I had attached side panels at an angle for more space.
You’re kidding, right? This is grade A trolling. “There is always a way.” Ah yes, millions of low-wage workers hate their jobs, but it’s onvioisly some kind of personal, moral failing that they don’t pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

Don’t play with a ouija board so much because I think you’re possessed by the ghost of Ayn Rand.
What resources are you concerned about being consumed?

- There will only ever be one running kernel with docker.

- The base filesystem layer, if identically hashed, will be shared as an overlay filesystem.

- The memory footprint of whatever each container runs (which will generally not be a full from runlevel0 system) will not be shared, except in the sense that binaries loaded into ram from the same overlay filesystem will have some of their disk pages shared.
The sole value I got out of lectures was the ability to raise my hand and ask questions. Other than that, yeah. It's a pretty bad medium for learning, I'd say. And even the one benefit I mentioned is now arguably better accomplished via a good forum / community.
Progressively Migrating from AngularJS to Vue.js at Unbabel
It's proprietary tech, sorry.
Yes. I mean, I still think it's kind of odd to have an entire Instagram feed of just pictures of yourself in front of code. But somehow Instagram's algorithm decided to show me tons of these types of pictures in the "Explore" tab.

A huge amount were, like another commenter mentioned, girls in yoga pants or short shorts posing with Sublime Text in the background. And they're hugely popular.

In no way do I think the original poster's feed is like this. She seems genuinely interested in coding. It just led me into this entire apparent subculture of this type of thing.
Really depends on what you're making and who your base is.

I've seen some Patreon projects that pull down £16k a month.
Itself a cover of the 1967 song by Tommie James and the Shondells:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkMFLUXTEwM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Think_We%27re_Alone_Now
Thank you will try :)
Not even Elon Musk on meth could write this:

https://github.com/EOSIO/Documentation/blob/master/Technical...

"The EOS.IO software introduces a new blockchain architecture designed to enable vertical and horizontal scaling of decentralized applications. This is achieved by creating an operating system-like construct upon which applications can be built. The software provides accounts, authentication, databases, asynchronous communication and the scheduling of applications across hundreds of CPU cores or clusters. The resulting technology is a blockchain architecture that scales to millions of transactions per second, eliminates user fees, and allows for quick and easy deployment of decentralized applications."

Praise to the horned one! I could spend the rest of the day just listing the number of grotesquely hard problems that spring forth fractal-like from that paragraph. A lot of them are unsolved problems in computer science and engineering, as in "armies of hackers and Ph.D candidates have not done these things."

Let's just start with "blockchain architecture that scales to millions of transactions per second," or that one word horror "database."

The streets are lined with the festering corpses of those who thought they would just go and build a (non-trivial) database.

Grab some popcorn. A lot of dumb money is about to be vaporized.
If you're all in on AWS, just use parameter store. This scheme is just CredStash, and so is parameter store under the hood.
If something that looks obviously true is hard to prove using some given language, couldn’t that be a sign that we’re using the wrong language to construct the proof?

Could there exist a language where these sorts of proofs become easier to write, because that language captures the problem in a better way?
I bought an iPad Pro 2 this september and it immediately replace my laptop for meetings. Light computing when I need it, but primarily a note-taking advice. Really great.
>It is sometimes about turning dirty money into clean money and getting it legally into your hands.

It is not sometimes that, that is literally the definition of money laundering. Stolen cards have nothing to do with it.
I'd argue that this sort of project would solve the same problem that net neutrality tries to.

The root problem is that if an ISP starts throttling content, a lot of customers won't have another ISP they can switch to. Something like a mesh network (high-latency, high-bandwidth) would be perfect for what most people want (Netflix, Facebook, etc.). Mesh networks being widely available would force ISPs to provide actual value to their customers.
AWS Parameter Store certainly has merit. As you can see from the comparison table there are certain functionality that is supported by Strongbox which AWS Parameter Store does not currently offer, like larger secrets, more secrets etc.

You can use the assume role functionality with Strongbox. The examples don't do this for simplicity.
Thanks, will try this one too
Great. Now apply that argument to singing and see how it works out.
For AWS Elemental MediaLive there is no MPEG-DASH output. It's also limited to Ireland, Singapore, Virginia and Oregon.
What may be more helpful that a definitive list of arguments is a definitive list of valid responses to those arguments.

As a random example, mining does use more energy than some nations. Why this may be a good thing in a medium of exchange/value store tends to receive somewhat hand wavy responses. If you have a great answer then it might be helpful to share it.
https://maxto.net/

https://www.online-tech-tips.com/free-software-downloads/spl...

And there are 4k monitors that can work with 4 inputs at the same time:

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/5/2/15513200/lg...

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3074246/displays/dells-4-scr...
I don't really see the room for demand beyond 8 inches ever growing, largely because most bigger books are just far more complicated to transform to a digital format (e.g. textbooks with multiple sections on each page and tactically positioned images)

...but, Kobo in the last two years seem to have done pretty well with h2o and aura one models. I'd be very interested in seeing how the h2o in particular performs compared to their smaller models; 6.8 inches seems like a pretty ideal compromise between size and portability for me that 6 inches does not.
Yes, so they are basically GPS receivers with a GSM module, constantly broadcasting the location to a central server. They usually have their own battery backup in case the main battery is removed, and have a VHS broadcaster so the vehicle can be found even underground or in a container.
For example:

https://www.trackerfit.co.uk/tracker-locate.html

I have a service called "MercedesME" in my car and that provides real-time location of the vehicle at all times by using the built-in GSM modem in the car - but stupidly, in the UK it's not classified as a "tracker" for insurance purposes so having it does not get you an insurance discount.
Everything Must Go
> Haven't read the article

Wow, so you are complaining about, and asking questions to the author of, an article based purely on your perception of its title?

> I don't care about reasons why you don't like Milo. I'm suggesting they're a person with different opinions, respect that

Just a cursory search into who Milo is, what he says and does will show you he is a deeply, virulently intolerant person. And in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance [1].

> It's been getting obnoxious that platforms have been used to push political stances.

It's the personal opinion column of a journalist. I also don't see anything wrong with her "pushing political stances". Unbiased journalism is a myth. People who call for it are either looking for journalism they already agree with or stuff that is so mundanely unimportant that couldn't possibly contain any stance and therefore news value.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
I mostly agree with this, but I wouldn't call coding a "blue-collar job." That has a lot of social implications that don't really fit.
Yes. And it would be nice if we could train a reinforcement learning algorithm on top of it :)
Technically No, they are just rendered on GitHub (using nbconvert internally, so more like nbviewer.org). What you see on GH is the result of last run by Peter (which may be forged, or out of date). But thanks for pointing it out.
>But for most moderately smart people college is the best choice.

I just don't think this is true anymore, given the financial burden of modern academic education and the fact that they teach so little useful skills

programming is increasingly a trade, and can definitely be self taught better than any college will teach it.

the rest of the education may have other value but IMO not worth the time + money + opportunity cost
This position is not indefensible but it is hard to defend: it implies that you could not possibly construct a state of comparable complexity to modern governance if the topmost layer were a libertarian paradise. But that position is very implausible. If you can construct a model of a state then you can easily analogize to whatever that is, instead of theft.
Some larger companies have policies requiring degrees to become a manager or stuff like that.
I don't know where you live. But buying houses (as investment) is top priority for most people I know in my area (Boston). I would imagine the same goes for the Bay area.

In areas close to the city (Somerville, Belmont, and Cambridge), every new house listing is a bidding war. All contingencies waived. Because the demand is so high, a lot of people don't sell houses as a whole anymore. But instead opt to sell multi-family houses as condos. And these condos still sell quickly.

The reason for the demand is that house buying is actually a very stable investment. Rent money covers the mortgage. Remodeling cost always repays itself (and in most cases actually give you a net gain). House itself appreciates year over year. Even the last recession did not slow down the appreciation much.

The risks you mentioned actually only apply to people who are new to all this.
There's reMarkable (10.1"), which does a bit more than a traditional ebook reader and you can get it now, but it's bloody expensive (630 euros): https://remarkable.com/
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I don't see how that makes the reference more useful. (I see two purposes for linking to other submissions: point out duplicates that mean the current discussion should be marked dupe (post the link and flag = [dupe] if it's the first comment, otherwise mods add it later), or point other commenters to old but maybe still interesting discussions. Neither case applies when pointing to empty discussions)
Perhaps the Soviets wanted to know how hard it would be for the US to replicate one of their birds, and got an embedded spy to commission an investigation to find out for them.

Only half joking.
Off-topic:

What do you hope to achieve by expressing domain names with a dot at the end? That's only required in zonefiles. No one else does that in hyperlinks and I wish you would stop doing it. It's annoying because your alternative notation is so rare that browsers don't normalise the equivalency, and now I have multiple divergent entries in the browser history.
"Now some 13 inch models even accept video input, so you can potentially use it as a terminal / PDF screen."

Do you have a link/suggestions for a device? I've been wanting an eink monitor for text tasks for years (I'm not a gamer).
There seems to be a mismatch between the headline and the article itself. I see this quite often, and I think it is often due to headlines being written by editors, or even editorial assistants.

The author's choice of examples, featuring a counter-example prominently, seems odd - perhaps it is to capitalize on the interest in AlphaGo Zero. The article is something of an anachronism, in that it would have worked better immediately after Deep Blue (or even after Watson/Jeopardy).
The value of a college education isn't purely economic, but the salaries of graduates are still, in aggregate, higher than those of non-graduates.
A lot going on here if I said anything I would get torn to shreds, so I'll just smile and nod and say "cool"
this site does TV review with a category for monitors, this is their current best pick for 43

http://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/sony/x720e

definitely not as cheap, but still way cheaper than a comparable monitor.
Where's the proof that it doesn't scale to local level?
OK GO uses 567 printers and stop-motion animation to create “Obsession”
Yeah, but I think the point is that in Sweden you don't need to have wealthy parents or personal wealth.
Agreed. It’s also an issue of time management. If I can find a YouTube video that explains a concept better in 5 minutes than the hour long lecture explains it, I would rather spend my time working during the lecture than taking notes.
> Well, neo-nazis are humans, and we should never forget that fact. They're not mindless monsters

I'm not sure that being mindful monsters is better.
yep! it's the standard now for new dev boxes where i work. the samsung mu6300 40" is the best option from our experience. how to config:

https://medium.com/@keredson/using-the-samsung-mu6300-40-4k-...

stay away from the LG TVs. they don't have true 4k RGB.
It's not about being "flag waving neo-pravdas" - incidentally their example of egregious reporting that I gave an example of, was aimed at someone who's compared the soviet union to fascist states and was fiercely critical of Lenin, Trotsky and Marx.

It's about their documented antipathy against anyone left of Blair and New Labour. Call a Bush-allied war-mongering neoliberal "soft-left" if you want, but it's risible to claim that the grassroots organising and activism that Momentum and Sanders represent is Stalinist.
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I just use Facebook as a public directory, to find people and exchange email ID's/numbers so that I can message them on, say, WhatsApp.

I find it better than connecting with people though Facebook. Facebook chooses what I get to see and not see, and I really don't care about the "news" or the memes from pages my friends and family like.
I think cigarettes should be legal for adults in private. I think it shouldn't be legal to smoke in public (because that's affecting other people), or to require employees to work in a smoky environment without protection. I'm not sure if there's a useful Facebook analogy there.
The straightforward resource isolation is a big deal. CPU/Memory quotas are necessary for distributing containers among a machine pool.