skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a popular response whenever the topic of education is brought up...I hate to trot out the now-hackneyed term "privilege"....but really.

Very few people in society have the privilege of treating education as a route to becoming cultured. The storied universities you cherish were built by the rich for the rich, it is only recently that we have determined that the masses desperately need a grounding in romantic literature. Is it important to you that your accountant know Chaucer? Does your favorite artist really need to know chemistry?

In the end you have to feed yourself. I don't want to be responsible for feeding you and you don't want to be responsible for feeding me. If that means you learn something applied that is only useful for ten years and requires you to learn something else useful in the next ten years, so be it.

As it stands, why do people put such an emphasis on what someone studies as an undergraduate? Personally, I love reading history...read dozens of dense history books a year, and consider myself a decent self-taught historian. My degree is not in history. Why does it need to be?
As a computational biologist, I'm not so confident that Simons can make a huge impact in my field. At best, I would expect his institute to find a niche and impact on the scale of a typical lab, but this pales in comparison to, say, the Broad institute which is a better peer with the Flatiron, what with lavish funding and a distinctive research philosophy than following NSF/NIH grants.

He prefers problems that aren't hopelessly complicated, but I suspect this is exactly where computational biology falls into if you don't have the ability to perform causal experiments. And wet lab experiments aren't being funded by the Flatiron.
I'm trying to find the feature set compared to slack (since they are trying to put it against it) but can't seem to find it on their site or anywhere ... ?

I can see that this is newer so it's probably not feature complete. Do they have webhooks? Calls? Screen sharing?
People on the Internet say this all the time, and while I agree in theory, in practice it's very hard to translate: https://jakeseliger.com/2011/01/24/why-dont-students-like-sc....

The whole Willingham book is excellent.

Teaching taught me that the number of students who want to learn how to learn and think is small, but the number of such people who congregate on sites like Slashdot (and now Hacker News) is quite large.

Schools will worry when their funding sources are at risk, and we're (realistically) so far from that world that I doubt any of the powers that be in schools give a damn.
It's got nothing to do with his age, as far as I can tell Don Knuth has always spoken this way (though I suspect it may have gotten more pronounced [ no pun intended ] as he has gotten older).

I agree with what others have said. I think he just has 50 things going through his mind at any one moment, and the part of his brain that is controlling his speech just isn't always sure which of those 50 things it should be sharing at that moment.

I think any of us would be fortunate to be half as brilliant as he is. And the best part is, it is so obvious that he is one of the most humble and likeable people on the planet. Always generous, patient, and never arrogant. I personally would travel a great distance just to have lunch with the man, if ever given the opportunity.

A prime example in this video is the person who keeps interrupting him to tell him he had missed a line in his diagram. To be honest, my first reaction (after the guy had repeated it for like the 4th time or something) I was a little perturbed, and wished the guy would just shut up and let Don continue. But what was Don's reaction? After he finally understood what the guy was saying, he saw the error, corrected his mistake, and thanked the guy for "saving him 20 minutes".

Thank you Don Knuth! Not only are you brilliant, humble, hard-working and kind, you are a gentleman's gentleman, and the the world needs more men like you!
Everyone keeps asking for a "try-before-you-buy" model, Apple gives us a "buy-before-you-try" option...
Fun project! The title is descriptive. Your girlfriend is right ;)
I find it unlikely... You would effectively have to implement a browser in webassembly, as people will expect to be able to select text etc.

The degration in detach indexing and user experience, load time and battery usage would quickly make a first mover loose users.
The history of humanity clearly shows that men want more sex than women.
"first messages appear on the profile of the sender and only on the profile of the sender"

Then, two short subheads later, we have:

"That’s because first messages now only appear to the recipient."

Even they don't understand their own new monstrosity. It's like the worst features of OKC and POF rolled into one.

And don't even get me started on the obscene number of trackers[1] in their app now.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15885321
Yeah and then someone puts something fake on the blockchain. Now what?
> Ok - so accessing C libs is useful?

Yes.

> Are bindings from other languages to C considered to be really an important things for those languages?

Definitely!

> Was there a specific set of libs that we were angling for?

No, there are too many to count. For example, I am looking forward to using network visualization libraries that no one here has heard of. They would be very difficult to port from C++ to JS.

> Does it even make sense to do those things in the browser?

Yes.
> do whatever is best for the survivability and growth of the company

I don’t think there is any doubt about that. But I think it’s very difficult to have such a clear mind to know/understand/accept that another CEO will drive your company better than you.
They're taking the ICOs to Estonia!
playing devil's advocate: it is easy to claim discrimination doesn't happen when you aren't affected by it--the claim that it is the cause of the individual, no the system, is the usual go-to argument. Try revisiting similar arguments above, but changing them to be about women or black people, and see how they play out.

And for a little flavor, mix in neurodiversity differences. In tech you have people who literally think and act differently. They could be brilliant, but if you expect them to behave and schmooze like your sales team, they are going to wash out. https://hbr.org/2017/05/neurodiversity-as-a-competitive-adva...

Then add to the mix privilege. People who start a few steps ahead, maybe they had better schooling and networks. Somebody who spent 20 years learning the job but starting further behind might be just as good, but just not beginning at the same starting point.

Or, it could just be the fault of the person being old and they should have already succeeded by this point in their life? Don't ask questions, just notice the age and move onto the younger candidate.

Bias and prejudice exists in everybody, we cannot avoid it.
The Bible, citing the eternal God. Can't get longer term than that ;-)
Not OP and no examples at hand I can share, but I'll try and describe my process:

While not pseudocode per se - my offline coding is predominantly outlining structures and data flows; so how I would structure the application (classes etc - where what code would reside etc). Then I expand from the structure to start moving the data objects themselves around (also giving an overarching structure to the data objects as well), where the flow / control logic starts coming again. Sometimes I'll write a few transformers / mappers there as well if they're needed when sending / fetching data from a few places.

Usually you can speed this up greatly by following the conventions of a framework; for webapps I would design the models/controllers/routes/views, mobile apps would be navigation tree, views (screens), components, and if there's a lot of data, then mappers/reducers etc. So it's usually small descriptions (even one or two words) of what a given class/object/action is doing, where it's coming from and where it's going. I can then expand this to be very specific with fields, routes etc, and what they're all doing.

Having that basic, overall structure done offline means I can approach the coding with purely an implementation mindset and don't have to worry about the "big picture" when doing all the small bits - when you start coding immediately you're on a bit of a discovery path with the big picture, and the implementation details, and changing stuff on the fly etc, which can be rather time consuming / side track into different places and so forth.

Most of what I do is just take data from one place, change it somehow, and present it somewhere else - so it makes the above fairly easy and effective for my work.
> I feel awesome after watching internet porn

Well then... wait til you try cocaine!
> If Wall Street money is coming in it's mostly to take advantage of the dumb money for a quick profit,...

Examples? Is Goldman playing in the current bubble?
What's the 250k limit? (If you're speaking of Accredited Investors, the limit is $1m in net worth not including primary residence.)
The best introduction to this kind of computation that I've seen is Eric Johnston's SIGGRAPH 2016 talk[1], and the associated interactive simulator[2]. In the talk uses quantum superposition to implement a type of "quantum supersampling[3]".

[1] https://vimeo.com/180284417

[2] http://qcengine.com/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersampling
Delayed ejaculation is a sexual dysfunctional now? After decades (more?) Of jokes about chronic premature ejaculation?
Tellingly, this is effectively the "dumb pipe" version of the web that Alan Kay so voraciously advocated for.
Wow... this is pretty evil.
Herin lies the problem with your bait-and-switch pseudo-tolerant stunt. Telling him to keep his opinions to himself is bleeding into his rights to express them.
Just grabbed one! With tons of non technical product people floating around, I figured this would be nice a fun gift for the office.
Don't feel too bad. I never even thought about it for a long time after being introduced to his work, and I had made the same mistake.

I believe at some point I heard someone pronounce it correctly in a video lecture, and I thought the same thing "surely that can't be the correct pronunciation". Alas I did some searching and found the FAQ on his Stanford page and was proven wrong.

:D
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Partners have been objects of gratification for millennia
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15900551
Didn’t this begin with Mario Run? I had it preordered for a few weeks and Apple notified me when Nintendo finally published it. I’m surprised there’s no mention of this in the article.
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You can say that but the press (whether because they have no money or they can't afford to be second with the hot news) is complicit in the perceived decline and real decline.

It used to be you had to have two independent sources before you took an individual source's word. Now rumor becomes newsworthy --it's like the Enquirer won.

They are also owned by big cos (Amazon, Conde Nast, Carlos Slim, Murdock, etc.) and have very clear biases. NOt that biases didn't exist before (Hearst papers) but on day to day stuff they played it pretty level. Now, they go for the incendiary whereas before they were focused on big issues --the issues that mattered to society at large rather than smaller divisive issues. But divisiveness gets you clicks.
And yet he isn't donating all the money he made from it... He's just shilling for his new company
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Haven't you learned by now? Science that goes against the will of the people is invalid.
It's sequestered off into "IRL" which is buried amongst other titles of games. Earlier today, among the dozens of front-page feeds of people doing random things there were maybe three, now I see one (and its one of the same people as before). So unless the demographics of streamers have shifted in the past couple of days since this popped up on reddit, it's hard to consider it a takeover?

Reiterating OP, the momentum of this thing looks more like -- whatever it was before -- it is becoming or has become an generalized attack on sex appeal in a realm where AO/R/18+-rated content is still frequently a kiss-of-death, if not something needlessly danced around. I get that some gamers may not want this kind of thing but, c'mon, let people be people. If it's really bothersome then leave the site and maybe management will make a change after enough follow suit. It's already buried in a ghetto of other banners under "Browse" and I didn't see and there doesn't seem to be any other way to get to it besides search.

Also the twitch community should really evaluate it's complaints about outsiders given that it exists in the husk of justin.tv's corpse.
I have two suggestions:

University of the People: https://www.uopeople.edu. It's accredited, nonprofit, and has several 'big name' partners like Microsoft, IBM, and Intel.

And Western Governor's University(wgu.edu), also nonprofit and accredited.
I read it as "good design is looking at a problem with new eyes": try to understand the problem and build a solution that grows from that newly acquired understanding, rather than blindly follow what has been done before.
Which specific resources do you think will no longer be cheap to mine? Because mining technology seems to be improving at least as fast as resources are depleted.
Samsung's $26B bet
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Yes, a degree make a massive difference, particularly if you aspire to work in an established technology environment. Decide what you want to do, and then work out what you need to do to get there.

If you dont want to do a degree- what then do you do? Basically you have to somehow get experience. But if an employer is willing to take you on without any experience, then that is probably not a place that you want to work. They will have low standards and poor pay and conditions, and therefore churn out poor products. So it is unlikely that this will create a "stepping stone" that will get you where you want to go.

To cut a long story short, since getting up to speed is realistically going to take you a year or two anyway, you might as well go to college.

I dont mean to sound grumpy here, but I just feel that there is concerted effort from some quarters to talk down the value of a good education when clearly if you look at Silicon Valley, education is valued really highly.
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> Basically, almost all ICOs so far are illegal.

They are only illegal in the US if they allow US citizens to participate, and the majority ban US citizens. So I think you have it backward.
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The US recruited actual members of the Nazi party[1], so a few files is not much in comparison.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
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Well, I’m interested in understanding how valuable deep learning is and if lives up to the hype.

Better translation of European languages (which wasn’t a totally unsolved problem anyway) doesn’t seem to be something that really lives up to the hype.

Particularly as the article cited doesn’t seem to back up its statements very well.

So... anything else?
that was only a "notify me" sign-up, not an actual pre-order.
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Who says it is making apple park carefully? A bunch of apple teams are really mad about Apple Park not having offices. I’m really starting to believe that Bezos acquired the post to manage his PR campaign.
> almost all ICOs so far are illegal.

a lot of them are offering to sell you an asset that they advertise as being sure to appreciate, with the subtext that you will sell the asset at a later point for a gain. Selling something purely to be a store of value and appreciation is basically the textbook definition of a security, isn't it?
The title is a bit misleading. Election hacking is maybe 10% of the article and I admit it’s easy to read the first few paragraphs and drop off (it’s quite long).

As a Russian, I think the article does a good job to describe Russia’s foreign (and domestic) policy of the last decade or so and it’s effects and likely outcomes long term (or lack thereof).

TLDR; Russia is/has always tried to stir the pot (especially after it never has regained the title of world power after the fall of USSR) and recently has found clever ways to exploit the naïveté of “the West”, however it seems doubtful it will bring anything good in the long term for Putin mainly because of bigger issues he faces inside Russia.
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Ah.. you left out a lot of important parameters on the initial query.
You nailed me - I do enjoy all the privileges, home, wife, pay checks. My son is two years younger than you are, working on a masters computer engineer.
So now the real important things appear, citizenship - girlfriend, Both are very important to you so these are now the determining factors for your decisions.
1. Forget Famous company, you can't live without the girl.
2. 2019 go to New Zealand and get your citizenship.(w/girl)
This is what you want, right? so now this is the plan, every small and large decision you make should move you toward this outcome. Everything else is noise, twist it and turn it over if it can't be converted to your goal then discard it.
Agreed. The paper treated having a Microsoft-only sample as being good since it's a "large sample size", but the skill set of an engineer can be perceived as good or bad at different sizes of companies, and not addressing that seems like a huge oversight.
Legally speaking, are they on the hook if they merely say that and don't take preventative measures against US citizens? It could come back to haunt them if they ever want to expand to the US down the road and didn't take precautions.
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Unless they're using expensive KYC procedures, I doubt that many ICOs have done enough to exclude US investors that the law will excuse them from SEC regulations.
If super human translation doesn't impress you, what will?
This seems to be indicative of a problem with them not with porn. They probably come from heavily religious backrounds that makes them feel guilty.

I have seen no evidence in myself or my friends that porn affected our expectations for our partners.
I guess my point is, the socialist movement in the USA seems to favor things like taxing income over 1MM USD at 90ish percent. At that point, what would possibly be the point of risking a 1MM investment to only make 10% if the company doubled in value?
Title needs to be updated: it’s MDN web docs, not Mozilla web docs.
> If you follow the right folks on Twitter, you'll get to overhear a lot of conversations about the important issues in Python, R, or what have you, and gain a context that eludes most people who learn programming languages from books.

I've tried this a few times, but discoverability on Twitter is impossible. I don't know who's an authority, digging through someone's past posts is hard, following a discussion is really difficult. It feels like I'm tasked with digging through a SMS chat log looking for content. Am I just doing it wrong? I can't keep up with twitter. I follow 20-30 accounts and inevitably every time I open up the app and there's 600+ unread posts. I couldn't imagine following any more than that.
Yes, they are on the hook in that case. (Not lawyer, not legal advice.)
Mice evolved to eat almost completely different food than humans so I'm skeptical about the value of this study.
People used to complain how a desktop PC had a 24 month lifespan and now that a 4 year-old Mac Mini still works fine people think it's too old.
It clearly shows nothing of the kind. Point me to the large swaths of recorded history where the men and women are treated equally in their society and the women express less desire for sex.
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Apple Park is "for us" — that is, Apple employees, for values thereof that don't include parents.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2017/05/16/apple_s_new_...

https://www.ped30.com/2017/12/05/apple-park-childcare-daycar...
If you have experience/more info around this area I'd love to hear. Never having attended a board meeting, I'm reliant upon others' pithy quotes.
Because Apple knows that the majority--by far--of its customers aren't buying hardware so much as they are buying into a culture, that they are loyal to the brand, and that it would take something truly monumentally terrible to drive any appreciable fraction of them away.

They could package Dan Aykroyd's "Bag O' Glass" in a bag with their logo on it and sell billions of dollars worth.
Using a premade product lifts the burden of trial-and-error experimentation and research. That's the point. I don't like soylent either, but the reason is there's too much soy in it for me, not because I've stereotyped everyone who likes it.
If anyone can mine a thing for themselves (i.e. create more supply of it), then that thing is a commodity. (Gold, for example, is a commodity.) By definition, no one entity can really restrict the supply or trade of a commodity; and thus the government can't really make useful laws about what any one entity does with their holdings of a commodity.

Any valuable thing that isn't a commodity, is a security. Every fiat currency is a security. Stocks and bonds are securities. Etc. The government can regulate securities (or rather, regulate their issuers, because there is a clear issuer), and so they do.

The definition of security isn't really vague; it's just a definition of exclusion. Replace security with "non-commidty" whenever it comes up and things might be clearer.
rate-limiting is not what captcha does, that's for DDoS protection and even in that scenario I feel HashCash and crypto mining is a very terrible idea.
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not mentioned in the article, the institute he founded 10 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simons_Center_for_Geometry_and...
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This headline is quite the clickbait. Architecture is a five thousand year old industry. Mobile phones are not. Apple will continue to push the envelope at the risk of bizarre and difficult hardware issues. We so easily forget that cell phones are a nascent industry, barely a drop in the bucket compared to buildings.

Also, Steve Jobs was wrong about open floor plan offices. Sorry, Steve, but it turns out that without doors some of your best and brightest are turned to mush by distraction.
A significant portion of Apple employees are not happy with the Apple Park campus design at all. You might have noticed a whole other "R&D" building was built on the lot, with a more traditional design. That has a story apparently.

> Gruber said that Apple's internal critics included high-level employees, and related a third-hand, unconfirmed account of Apple's senior vice-president of hardware technologies Johny Srouji refusing to work in the new facility.

> "When he was shown the floor plans, he was more or less just 'fck that, fck you, fck this, this is bullsht,'" Gruber said. "And they built his team their own building, off to the side on the campus... My understanding is that that building was built because Srouji was like, 'fuck this, my team isn't working like this.'"

https://www.dezeen.com/2017/08/10/apple-park-campus-employee...
"These days, we associate the Soviet era with bleak images of scarcity and repression:

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