skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When people graduate from college, they basically have nothing yet. They haven't had time to acquire anything. This would make it trivial to get free education at the taxpayers' expense. Declare bankruptcy on graduation day, and then move on with your life.
Torn by revolution, gasping at the quick pace of technological change, divided by debates over racial equality, early 19th Century Europe produces a crop of batshit-crazy writers, and Mary Shelley. She writes a book that treats on themes of parenthood, which is completely misunderstood for two centuries.
Most likely re-submitted after being mentioned 2 days ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16327918#16328912
881 deaths == $331 million in lost productivity due to overdose deaths?

That's like $375k per person or something.
That's probably not measuring what you think it is.

It includes people who had 50k in debt and paid it down to 13k not just people who graduated with 50k. It even includes people who failed out an now owe 10k without getting a degree and people that went to Trucking schools.

PS: Parents take on 10k of debt and kid takes on 50k, that's now 2 households with debt etc.
Great answers so far! Somewhere between Computation Architectures and AI / ML. I think getting a solid foundation in Distributed Systems really pays off. There are plenty of grad level courses online. That read and discuss papers on BigTable, Spanner, MapReduce.

But a more practical example would be to watch some of the AWS:Ignite videos on the Netflix stack. And try to implement a basic clone of Netflix. Thereby getting hands on experience with routing, load balancing, ec2, s3, red shift, solr, lamdba, and so on.

Good luck!
> simply allow for direct corporate sponsorship at the undergrad level

It's hard for me to express, but I really don't like this idea. It turns education into training.
It's even got bindings for Chicken Scheme: http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/nuklear
Heuro - The Social Learning App! (New phase of Education)
Web apps are broken and always have been. The whole model was designed to serve and display static hyperlinked documents, not to recreate Excel in a browser.

The lure of web apps was serving them from a centrally controlled location thus eliminating the problems that existed with pushing out and updating software on many computers.

However, that problem was solved many years ago and I point to iTunes as that inflexion point. It's been easy to push updates to desktop clients for years so the main problem web apps were attempting to solve hasn't been a problem for, like, 15 years.

The ultimate irony... The phone app eco-system and how it dwarfs mobile web apps.
It's often more pleasant to have more passive heating than more insulation. I prefer a reasonably well insulated house, that leaks a little air vs an insanely insulted house that's practically air tight.

Passive solar / solar hot water heaters let you have the best of both worlds with ~zero monthly heating costs and plenty of fresh air.
Do you write software? I don't get trading and I want to. I get programming. If you understand both that's great. I even took one masters course (as part of my bachelors degree) in financial mathematics about options, future, derivatives etc. but it didn't click at the time.

I have funds to invest but every time I look into getting into I cannot bring myself to do it because I cannot stop my brain thinking it's gambling. Without insider knowledge I don't understand how I could beat the market short term. In terms of long term investing in an index fund or ETF, that supposedly is more sensible but that sort of feels like gambling too, in a way everything is I suppose, buying a house is too, but I suppose you have to just get your brain to get over it. There's no guarantee of anything.
None. I used to read Loaded back in the 90s, when the whole lads mag thing was new.
I have a vaguely related story of a baffling segfault bug a few months ago. It was in some reference-counting code deep inside the Boost shared pointer implementation. It wasn't deterministic, and from correlating the crash log with the Boost code, i couldn't see how there could be a dodgy memory access at that point. Poking around with GDB, it seemed fine.

Eventually i realised that i had compiled my application against one version of Boost, and then dynamically linked to a library i had compiled against a different version. This was all due to bad library path hygiene - my OS had one version of Boost installed, and i was trying to use another that i had installed locally, but GCC was ignoring my path options and getting seduced by the system Boost. After this, i learned about the --sysroot flag to GCC, which has helped to prevent this happening again.

So yeah, protip: know what it is you're actually running. Also, never use C/C++.
> My stance on the smart home and privacy phenomenon is optimistic... Surveillance is unstoppable at this point, ...

This seems like a clear contradiction, unless your username is unironic. I'm basically pessimistic: surveillance is stoppable, but we probably won't, because we get free cat pictures, and Google has figured out that lobbying is the best thing it can do with its cash hoard. However, thanks to lazy idiots like Equifax, some people are slowly realizing that the surveillance economy may cost more than they want to pay. There are a few crumbs of hope for a positive outcome.
The XIV security, which had fallen roughly 85 percent in after-hours Monday, closed down 93 percent Tuesday.
(and you think Cryptocurrencies are volatile)

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/06/the-obscure-volatility-secur...
> Whatever time is chosen is a moving target since kids would go to sleep later if school started later.

That is obviously not true because then no school-starting analysis or experiment would show anything but a zero correlation or effect.

> The real fix is to get kids to sleep earlier.

'The real fix to poverty is to get people to spend less and make more.'

> artificial light lets them stay up very late without them feeling sleepy.

The problem existed long before smartphones were a thing, and the effect of artificial light can only be so great. And again, if this were true, no study would ever show any benefits (or age-related differences, for that matter, between teens and adults).
I find it interesting that Facebook still hasn't found a way to deal with what I call "spotlight aversion", the unwillingness to expose ourselves to the public on a regular basis, and yet its entire financial model revolves around it with sponsored content attached to what our friends are doing and likes as an engagement metric.
Yeah, you just need put a wide margin between "high" and "low" states. The bitrate will be low, but it would work.
Ok for the privacy perspective, but from the employment perspective, this highlights a problem:

Part of the challenge, scientists say, is that there is so little diversity within the A.I. community.
Thank you very much for the thoughtful response! The parallels are interesting. Farming sounds a lot like writing assembly! Start over every time, have to know about wildly arcane and disparate concepts, hard to get help except from somebody who has encountered something very similar perhaps a long time ago, and takes many years to feel productive.
Or a commerical display, for triple the price.
Etherum was really nice to the guys who made the DAO that was hacked? What determines when a cryptocurrency decides to cooperate to undo a hack? Does it come down to connections between those affected and the cryptocurrency management?
I disagree. The average student loan debt from a public college is around $35k and that excludes private colleges, who are not required to report. Keep in mind that a great many students (who are not all wealthy) attend private colleges.

It certainly is not "fake news".

http://www.ibtimes.com/student-debt-crisis-2016-new-graduate...
> How do you allow machine to machine payments in a trustless manner without some sort of value transfer protocol?

Can you explain to me why this is needed? I genuinely can't think of instances where machines need to pay each other, let alone in a trustless manner vs a centralized solution. People, sure. Machines, no. I'm not trying to be difficult, I've spent weeks trying to think of a situation I've worked on within the IoT space where the machines need to pay each other and haven't been able to come up with one.

> How do you make these transactions with periodic internet connection?

Again, why would you make such transactions with periodic internet connections? What is the size of the market for semi-connected IoT devices to bill each other, as opposed to the organisations or people using them?

> Are you saying IoT devices will not need to pay each other?

I'm not saying that. I genuinely haven't been able to think of a situation where a decentralized payment mechanism is necessary. I'll give you a quick rundown of some of the things we can consider IoT that I've done security work on over the past 15 years, and perhaps you can give me some use cases where decentralized machine to machine payment is needed.

1. Process control system for natural resource management - so there's pipes, stuff going through the pipes and PLCs managing the flow.

2. Home routers connected to the Internet with Wifi networks (Think Linksys etc)

3. The Sphero Spiderman kids toy (This was for a third-party, I didn't work for Sphero on this).

4. An Internet-capable TV running different apps like YouTube, Vimeo etc.

5. An in-car location tracking device used to reduce car insurance payments based on speed, areas driven in and types of road driven on.

I can kind of see some sort of situation where some of the above might have payment integration useful, but none where it needs to happen on the device itself. If you have any use cases for IOTA where a centralized alternative won't beat it or doesn't already exist, I'd genuinely love to know. It's my biggest stumbling block.
If you don't have a dehumidifier, all of those big bags of mostly water that inhabit the building will expel some of that water with every breath, and going to increase the humidity fairly noticeably.

I'm also going to guess that the MVHR is also not 100% efficient. It's either going to create heat to completely cool down the incoming air (hey, look, an AC, complete with dehumidification), or the incoming air is going to average out with the out going air, creating an increase in temperature.

Plus, all of those bags of mostly water are going to be expelling heat, too.
What fraction of borrowers end up in a decent professional career?

> That's easily paid by most working professionals over a decade or so.

So most people can start saving money around 30? That's a regression from past generations. When are they going buy a house, start a family, and eventually retire?
The average American uses twice as much energy as the average Briton, five times more than the average Brazilian and eleven times more than the average Indian.

Is the problem that we've got too many people, or is it that the resources we have are being distributed completely unequally?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_energy_co...
JavaScript Is Always in Fashion
I agree that shrinking sheet music is a bit painful. But it does have in built page cropping, which I use a lot to fit A4 pages onto it.
Is this the most effective and most moral way to spend a trillion dollars? The benefits of such a policy would accrue primarily to households that don't really need financial assistance, and would do little to help those who really do.
Chattanooga has gigabit municipal fiber and is a lovely place to live. Nashville is very nice also.

I can’t imagine living in the Bay Area and having any chance of owning a home, seeing abject poverty throughout SF, and unrealistic tech employer work expectations (50-70 hr work weeks).

Tennessee, in comparison, sounds straight up delightful.
Does Far Transfer Exist? Anti Evidence from Chess/Music/Working Memory Training
Ask HN: What’s your biggest challenge as an engineering manager?
Hi. I was recently promoted to an engineering manager position and I’m beginning to get my bearings. I was hoping to hear from others and learn from their mistakes, warnings, etc.
TreeQN and ATreeC: Differentiable Tree Planning for Deep Reinforcement Learning
GWAS for male-pattern baldness finds 71 hits explaining 38% of risk
bcrypt and scrypt are inherently salted.
Yeah? So where are they currently employed? Homelessness takes time to reach after your income goes to zero. It's not instant. But it is certain
Show HN: Coinwatch v0.15 released – now feature complete
A major difference here is simple economies of scale.

E.g. a particular technology feature might cost $100k to implement in your business and get you a 10% revenue increase. For a large business, doing so is a no-brainer; for a one-person business doing the same thing is clearly a waste of money and effort. And there are many things like that, causing the bifurcation between the needs and common practices in large companies vs small.
Detect unused Lambda functions
The only magazine I read is The Week.
Yes, it’s stealing afterall. Taking screenshots using one’s phone is still possible to steal the code, although the effort would be tedious for a large codebase. But for an active adversary, if that’s the only method, he/she would do it. I fear there is no way around that, even with logging enabled (there will be thousands of accessing the codebase per day). If the proposal is to lock down the repository and requires approval, that will make the development very slow. Not even in the banking would a manager want to ask “why” all the time...
Not the best name in times of Trump...
To preserve compatibility with old clients you have to want to do so. In the case of Calendar Google did not want to do so.
Perhaps, but if so, it's being applied very inconsistently. For example, the Op Ed page has recently been printing pieces that have upset the paper's leftest elite champions.

e.g. a piece challenge climate change orthodoxy

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/28/opinion/climate-of-comple...
And paying on a mortgage yields a house you can live in. Paying on a student loan yields an ongoing exploitation of older generations on younger generations.
> the point of this article is that moralizing about who "deserves" it more is a waste of time that is destroying the economy

That was arguably the point of the NY Mag article, but the paper that the article is based on goes a lot deeper, and doesn't claim that student loan debt is destroying the economy.

> Is it really worth it to hold back everyone else just so you can finger wag at people that wern't responsible?

The last part of my comment addresses that. If you believe that (at least cost-effective) college education can have a net positive impact on the nation's economy, as I also believe, then put the money one would put into eliminating debt into making future public college free (or subsidized in whatever way maximizes impact for the subsidy).

Since they're both very expensive changes, the chances that both can happen is unlikely. Moreover, until at least some college is free, future students would still need to borrow. They'd re-create the same debt problem.

(Less important: it's not "finger-wagging" to not want to change the game underneath someone. It's trying to create a set of circumstances that reward good choices. Large swaths of our society exist to try to make incentives reward good choices.)
> I was responding to the point about using AC all year to remove humidity.

That's not something I claimed.

Most people in the US are only using AC in the summer (or warm season), to remove humidity from their home when the humidity outside is much higher than indoors.
From a competitive ML point of view, this is actually great news (hear me out here!). What this means, to me, is that there's a large space of room where the algorithms can improve, and likely all they need is better training data to do so.

If we can get 99% accuracy on a subset of the data (white males) while there isn't any real difference in the difficulty between that subset and another then with better data the other subsets should perform equally well.
> Paying off debt early at that point in one's career is more profitable than investing, even.

Not necessarily true. My student loans had an interest rate of around 4%. The market is about double that. This means that if I invest everything, and pay off my loans slowly, I eek out a few extra bucks.

I actually did that math and decided it was wiser to eliminate my debt. Total net worth isn't really the goal, not worrying about money is the goal. And not having to worry about monthly payments, and knowing I have no outstanding debts is much nicer.
Maybe these are the numbers the lawyers suing big pharma on behalf of WV came up with?
That seems like the... wrong issue to highlight. In this case it's all about the skin color of the people pictured in the data sets. E.g. the potential "victims" when this stuff gets inevitably gets misused. Not about the skin color of the developers.

I don't think anyone in the "AI community" is against having better data sets.
> Usually these things aren't vanilla options, they're some sort of quasi-option derivative.

Options are derivatives.
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. -Thornton Wilder

That’s always seemed a bit cynical to me, but it seems to be more of an essentially realistic statement with every passing day.
Your knowledge is broken then. There's literally an example in the Spectre Whitepaper. Here is the example from the whitepaper: https://react-etc.net/page/meltdown-spectre-javascript-explo...
This just in: Automatic Speech Recognition is much more accurate if you speak English than Swahili or even Spanish because most engineers in the field speak English and we've devoted more resources to collecting data because it is more economically viable.
Sure, and the only way you're incentivised to do such stupidity is if the cost of education is unbearably steep. Do you do that for a school that's 100k a year? Probably. For one that's 10k a year? Probably not.

Also it wouldn't be taxpayer expense, if it were a privately given loan.
I was introduced to the book "Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners" on HN[0] and it seems like a really good book (from the bit I have skimmed so far).

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3177815
Wow, they did some substantial work on the git repo referenced in the talk. Being able to ‘git blame’ and see code attributable to Richie is pretty cool.

There are a lot of Unix history articles out there, but this appears to be a genuinely new contribution. Kudos!
Some of my family recently lived in Croatia, and were forced to do this in colder weather (closer to ~10° C median). They didn't care for it at all, since they had to remain constantly bundled up in their winter gear. Which, a jacket or heavier pants, OK... but gloves and hats too? Ugh.

14° C (just under 60° F for us yanks) is tolerable with sweats and movement, or even just direct sunlight, but you're living in a pretty temperate place if you can keep it there with an uninsulated building. Vancouver is not such a temperate place.
The market is astonishingly good at solving problems if you make the status quo more expensive than the solution. If we abandoned cap-and-trade in favour of a carbon tax, we would undoubtedly see huge reductions in carbon emissions. The problem with our current system isn't that the market is failing to respond to incentives, but that we haven't set the right price.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_Rain_Program
Also some for Common Lisp:

https://github.com/borodust/bodge-nuklear

They are purpose-built for a particular engine though, so I'm not sure how generally usable they are.
I guess if you start using nth-order functional compositions and everything is a recursion, it's super difficult to figure out what is going on from e.g. stack traces or just simple log statements. And often FP programs are more-less solutions to "puzzles" and to understand the solution you need to keep that "puzzle" on mind. Now what are you doing if you have multiple levels of "puzzles" at the same time and you need to connect two separate subsystems via some deep-level information exchange, given there are no mutable variables/singletons for you? I am sure anyone taking FP seriously hits this kind of problems regularly and they often take long time to come up with satisfactory pure implementations.
We must cancel everybody's debt for the economy's sake, but we also have to do it in a fair way. Thankfully, we have Steve Keen, who has already worked out a solution:

http://www.ideaeconomics.org/a-modern-jubilee/
Have you gone to college in America? Did you hang out with somebody outside of Science and Mathematics departments? Plenty of people go to college here just for the fun experience. They go there for the bars, fraternity/sorority parties, sex, drugs, alcohol, etc. They don't have a single care in the world about what happens after college. They don't really care what it costs because they don't pay it. One way or the other.

To summarize, it wouldn't be about purposefully defrauding the taxpayers. It's just that that thought would never even come up.
> We don't score intelligence with cardinal numbers, which would be required for "twice as intelligent" to make sense as a concept.

We actually do score intelligence with cardinal numbers if one wants to. As I mentioned in my other comment, a number of subtests have absolute scales with true zeros: digit span, vocab, and reaction time come to mind. Quite helpful for cross-species comparisons like humans and chimpanzees...
one could say the same about housing
But if you wish to use a name GitHub will mediate between you and the owner. Never worked for me but it can happen.
Seems like a good use of crowd funding. I'll commit $10.
We've Already Thought the Unthinkable
I suspect something that wipes out hardware many times without magnets would still be very safe. Only when it is decommisioned does it make sense to use physics to destroy it fully.
What is this intake made of?
Why are student loans special in this regard? Is the reason different than your standard communist/socialist talking points?
Exploits are such aheadache my friends and I just quit playing pubg. I am not sure how bad hacking is in FR with only a week of gameplay time, but so far I haven’t encountered any really strange kills. FR shooting is actually very lax. You don’t need to aim very precise to get a hit mark.
The figure appears to include the current year economic impact of deaths in previous years.

There's a bunch of write ups of the talk the article is based on:

https://academicmediaday.wvu.edu/media-coverage

This is the best one I looked at:

http://www.timeswv.com/news/opioid-use-hurts-state-s-economy...
The Self Authoring Suite
Hopefully we will start looking beyond how something is said. What is said is more important.
The maximum a dependent student can borrow is $31,000.

https://financialaid.umbc.edu/types-of-aid/federal-loans/sta...

Unseen in the $13,000 number are the Parental Plus loans that parents (and grandparents) are taking out that aren't in the student's name, but are just as unforgivable.
This says the price of mousing in SF has only increased by 78% since 2000. I spot-checked that, and the first alternate source of data I could find, https://www.paragon-re.com/trend/san-francisco-home-prices-m... , says the increase has been much larger.
> There’s a lender on the other side of every transaction and they may not have had anything to do with the policy decisions you disagree with.

Part of the argument was the government owns 90% of outstanding student loan debt. Don't know how true this figure is but that's their claim.

One would think if this were a viable plan Helicopter Ben would've done it when things were really bad since they were giving away money left and right to "kickstart" the economy -- I personally got like $4200 for nothing due to the way I was discharged from the reserves.