skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The MLK quote is such a red herring. It's a nice statement, but what one guy said 50 years ago doesn't define a culture or society."

You misunderstand my point entirely. I am not "advocating" for that position today. Nor am I not advocating for it. I am staying neutral on the "ought" in this series of posts.

I am saying that when I was 10, that was the "left-wing" position. Many people still think it is, because they don't keep up with all this stuff. As you are rather handily demonstrating, it is not today. (I was a bit concerned when I mentioned it that people would just be contrary and deny the patently obvious fact that it is no longer an acceptable left-wing position, but now I don't have to worry about that.)

I will also say that the prickliness you've been programmed to fire back with, as evidenced by the rest of your thread, is a non-trivial part of the problem. You've been left unable to understand what anyone is actually saying, instead of what you think they are saying, as evidenced by your reaction to what I wrote. You may prove me wrong by replying to this without bulldoggedly arguing about whether implicit bias exists. Should you succeed I promise to acknowledge that.
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I included that as a PS specifically because they don't change overall numbers much. Yes, it's true some cancers are becoming less common, but ~50% of the population get's cancer it's very common even if the numbers are shifting around slightly.
Just to be clear, holding modern Germans accountable for the actions of the third reich is also absurd, and and I would speak to defend you from those sorts of attacks.

The sins of the father should not condemn his children.
We just open sourced a easy to use library called Magnitude that handles out-of-vocabulary words and uses Annoy indexing for fast most_similar queries for word2vec, GloVE, and fastText:

https://github.com/plasticityai/magnitude
Good to see somebody's done the "this is good for Bitcoin" post without intended irony...

There's a tenable argument the UK simply isn't a big enough influence on BTC prices to make much difference and the regulation probably won't go very far, but arguing that making Bitcoins more difficult to acquire, spend or turn into something spendable is going to drive demand for it is just silly.
Can we get the word 'american' inserted in the title. It's a very local problem.
No, but the waste heat could be used. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_heating#Sweden for more info.
To be fair, there's always a dividing line. Usually, "knowing how a computer works" for a programmer is equivalent to knowing the programmer's model for a cpu. A programmer's model is most definitely not how a computer really works (cf. recent cpu security flaws with speculative execution), but it's usually good enough.

Knowing more and deeper information is usually a good thing, but students don't need to learn it all at an introductory level which I think this article is focusing on.
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I've been wondering for quite some time just how much of Bob Mueller's investigation into the President and Russian collusion is a meticulously produced example of parallel construction.

I'm not saying Trump and his people are innocent or that there's no Russian involvement, I just think it's highly unlikely that the set of evidence that we will see in these cases was obtained or produced with the publicized methods.
C++ is interpreted?
The study was discussed yesterday at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16496898, but I guess we'll not treat the current article as a dupe, since it's a bit better.
I think it is more about increasing your "luck surface area". If you are well prepared in your craft you will be better suited to exploit a potential opportunity favorably when the moment comes.
Stories like this are offset by positive news in other regions. For example:

- Germany just excluded small purchases with cryptocurrency from capital gains.

- The heads of the CFTC and SEC recently testified to Congress, both with a very positive view on cryptocurrency (though the SEC intends to crack down on ICOs).

- People worried about a shutdown in South Korea but instead they're just moving to better-regulated exchanges.

- Japan has officially recognized cryptocurrencies as valid payment methods.

- Switzerland just released official guidelines for ICOs.
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"Computer scientist Roger Dingledine developed Tor under a contract with the U.S. Naval Research Lab; today, the software is distributed by the Tor Project, under the fiscal sponsorship of the Electronic Frontier Foundation."
> You can’t make people richer by printing money and just handing it out, tho’ that doesn’t stop governments trying it (quantitative easing being the latest example).

That actually does work pretty well, because it causes people to spend money. If you had none before and the government prints some and gives it to you, now you have some and can spend it. If you had some before and you know the government is going to be printing more, you want to spend it before the inflation reduces its value.

As long as the things people are stimulated to buy are economically productive, it increases real wealth.

The thing you have to be careful with is combining it with policies that cause people to spend the money on unproductive things. See housing bubble.
> PhD study hyper-specializes people

I want to dive into that a bit, if it's alright.

If the world is becoming more complex as time marches onward, which I think we all think it is, then we should expect people to specialize and then hyper-specialize with more time. I'm sure most grad students have seen this illustration: http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

It's an informative idea, that the PhD takes a lot of effort and accounts for not so much. However, it's uninformative in the representation of science being a circle or any other uniform mass. I know I'm nitpicking a quick drawing, but I see this illustration all the time in PhD-land and it makes me a bit frustrated.

The circle misinforms the reader that at large scales, the sum of human knowledge is countable, known to all, and accessible. But even more pernicious is the idea that, in the local area, where that zit on the face of science lies, the field is moving outward/progressing uniformly. That there are no holes, or that if there are, they can be seen and worked towards.

In fact, I'd say that the sum-of-knowledge-circle is more of a fractal, something like the animated Mandelbrot set: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set#/media/File:Ani...

The boundary of science that a PhD pushes outward is a fractal portion of some previous portion. The circumference is always increasing and may do so until infinity, though the surface area is finite (like Euler's horn). Your doctoral work is just making more questions to be asked, though in a smaller and smaller way, like a fractal zoom. As the timestamps count up, the fractals increase in complexity, the questions science creates increase.

But it's not just science, as if 'science' can be locked away from the rest of humanity and just doled out like a communion wafer. Science is human, all of us (eventually) share in it's flowers and thorns. That includes the general populace. They are part of that fractal too. So i think that in fact, yes, given enough time, most folks will be a the level of specialization of today's PhD, because the world and the science will need for them to be there because it will be so advanced and difficult.
> College is incredibly useful, I fail to understand why detractors insist that it has no value.

This black and white approach is silly. Of course it has value. The question is whether the value that it provides is sufficient to offset the cost of the tuition, housing, food, books, AND opportunity cost of not working. You're easily looking at 150k at a public institution for an intelligent kid per year.

Are you saying you can't figure out how to acquire all those skills you mentioned for less than 600k and 4 years spent? And are those skills necessary for everyone?
Any gunshot would at a school probably includes a very different pattern of behavior. If someone wants to murder (or maim) a specific person, or small group of people, they may carry that out with a gun, because it's expedient, but might switch to a knife if guns aren't available. If someone wants to murder (or maim) a large number of people, guns or explosives are really the only practical means; mass knifings have happened, but are even more rare than mass shootings.
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At the opposite end of the spectrum is modern self-help culture seems to focus entirely on hard work, habits etc. I routinely balk at stuff promoting 7, 10 or 100 habits of successful people, CEO, leaders or otherwise, as if following them blindly will get you any where.

While hard work helps, it takes some luck to succeed.
Thank you for this very helpful information, and I have just one more question:

"Often the w2v embedding layer will be the first layer of a network, through which a document of word representations will be passed. The output of the embedding layer will be a 2 dimensional tensor with the embedding dimension in one direction and the number of input words in the other. The next step is often to apply zero or more convolutional units over the word direction before some kind of pooling to get a 1 dimensional output. The output of the pooling layer will be a document representation based upon the word vectors.
Other approaches like doc2vec are also used."

I thought the approach you described was doc2vec. If not, then does it have a name/citation?
I can provide 100% assurance of that. We choose projects based on "Doing the most good, for the most people, in the most need". It could be easily argued that the vast majority of our work, focuses on helping vulnerable populations. I've been here 10 Months and never had a single ethical concern. Furthermore, I firmly believe this is the kind of organization that would be fully supportive of anyone vocalizing any ethical concerns they personally had, in fact this would be encouraged.
Sure, it is, insofar as a corporation cannot physically quake in its boots. A fine is designed to discourage an entity from doing bad things. TFA says Uber is working with Clearwater, which indicates to me that the incentive of a potential fine is working as intended.

One can try to argue that uber is lying about its hipaa compliance efforts in order to save the few hundred thousands that they would be paying Clearwater and in dev costs, and one can counter argue that that accusation has no reliable sources to back it up and is fueled by a desire for internet karma points.
This stuff is not that fast. Give it 3-5+ generations.

The tipping point is IMO what language people start conversations with. That shifts language skills and feeds off it's self.
Twitter CEO wants to study platform’s “health,” but is he ignoring the cancer?
> they billed her regardless of correctness of timeliness until she was dilated to an 8.

This has to be contestable in court
I'm not sure what do you need on OCaml's website? stdlib docs in ReasonML syntax is here [1]. IMHO, it makes sense for Bucklescript's documentation stays in Bucklescript website. But I get your point, Bucklescript and ReasonML is often mentioned as a single unit.

[1]: https://reasonml.github.io/api/index.html
There's an old joke about emacs standing for eight megabytes and continuously swapping.

But I think it's more useful to think about the percentage use of RAM for a given application. If you're running on a machine with 32 MB of RAM, then using 20 MB for a single application is obscene. But if you're running 32 GB, it's insignificant.

Even so, a single application shouldn't be using a significant percentage of system RAM on an average consumer grade laptop/desktop (4 to 16 GB of RAM).
Only if you have enough resources to continue.
12 mg patch - it's non-selective at this point. ( Fwiw, due to it being the patch, I haven't been watching my diet at all. In a post market study of ~40,000 people over and extended period, there were two hypertensive crises reported, which IMHO, are more likely to be misdiagnoses than anything else.)

Fwiw, you may want to try it with 1-3 cups of coffee next time - it may make the difference for you. Ritalin is, well, crunchy. I don't like it either. It's less unpleasant than adderral, I suppose.

The downside of the patch? The US is the only country where a drug invented in the 60s, and a delivery system invented in the 90s, that would have cost $250/month out-of-pocket in 2014, costs $250/month after insurance. The out-of-pocket would be $2300/month. Obscene.
How did you choose who your parents were going to be?

What part of your carpe diem attitude helped your mom not do drugs and destroy your gestating brain before you were born?

How did you bootstrap your country so that you weren't a victim of war or starvation at a young age?

What part of your attitude ensured you were born into a modern society at the right time to be educated, instead of being a pre-agrarian human ancestor?

What part of your free will in life ensured you'd be the sort of tech person who'd post on HN rather than perhaps an ascetic who'd be living a life of poverty on the streets of Bangladesh to combat consumerist attitudes? Would that be a wrong choice to make?

That said, correlation and causation. The movers and shakers of society are likely to believe they had more control in their life. Not necessarily the other way around. But it can be helpful to envision yourself as being in control of more of your life than you really are.
That's why you should try you best to enhance your luck factor.

http://www.richardwiseman.com/resources/The_Luck_Factor.pdf
Not only dogs, but also cats. I was quite shocked when I first heard what‘s going on in our neighbor country :)
You can't position yourself to be born a white male, which I believe affords the greatest advantages, and opens the most opportunities of any personal attribute you can have.
No, plus the question is a kind of false dichotomy...they present it as either you're college educated and productive/capable/smart or you aren't...it turns out you can be very productive/capable/skilled/smart without ever having gone to college.
It's definitely easier to do when it's your primary job.
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No one is suggesting that CS students shouldn't learn about low-level machine architecture - what would they do for the last 3 years? C++ is just not made to be a first programming language.

Aside: I'm not convinced that Python is a perfect first language either - its error messages are very unhelpful when you're learning. Also I think a "NAND to Tetris"-style curriculum could work, but C++ would still not be the first step for this.

Also, look at the second half of that sentence. This is not about "developers". If you're a business or physics student who's taking one elective programming course over a bachelor's degree would you be better served if that one course was in Python? Yes, absolutely.
> It is very racist to treat a group ("whites") by their skin color in this day and age.

How convenient, as the end of apartheid was less than a generation ago (1994). What's done is done, right?
The parent is the shell that called the theoretical /user/bin/cd. It means that a cd program would get launched by the shell, change its own working directory and then terminate, which is completely useless.

What you want cd to do is change the caller's (or parent's) working directory, or in this case the shell's working directory.

There are hacks to do it that you can find elsewhere in this thread (process injection and debug APIs to name two) but frankly the shell changing its own working directory via a builtin is a much simpler and more reliable solution that is also cross-platform.
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Hmm. I think I agree with you that it isn't practical in HTTPS. I can see clearly why you can't do anything like this in TLS 1.3 because it has this nice simple ordering - the client and server do DH key agreement - we now both have encryption but no certainty of who we're talking to - then the server sends a certificate and uses the key from that certificate to sign their DH transcript, the client optionally also sends a certificate, they too use the key from that certificate to sign the transcript. Since I don't know Alice's Private Key I cannot sign transcripts while presenting the (Bob,A) certificate, and if I let Alice do the key exchange so that she'll sign, I'm cut out of the loop entirely. That's easy to follow.

But in TLS 1.2 and earlier it's murkier to me because there are cases with and without DH, and what gets signed, by who, and when varies. I think you're right, but I started doodling the possible cases out and I filled two A4 pages before I gave up. Certainly even if you're right as to how the protocol is designed it will not astonish me if somebody implements it wrong and doesn't check a signature somewhere given the many cases.
"The harder you work the luckier you get..."
If everyone put in the hours learning something that go into the average PhD, the population would be much more skilled in general. No it's not the only way to gain skill but what you're ignoring is that the overwhelming majority of people stop learning economically valuable skills in their teens. Even just continuing to do some of that throughout your 20's would be a big difference. Academic route isnt the only one to learn but empirically it's a good one because it involves making your life and schedule revolve around it -- something most people need in order to pull it off.

I've never heard anyone claim that "schools are the only way to learn" or that "you must have a degree to be skilled" -- I always hear it framed as "school's a great environment for learning" and "degrees are a useful heuristic for skill"

The good observations of the school-skeptics are not helped along by the ridiculous distortions and exaggerations.
Convincing users to grant access to a USB device when they're attempting to log in to a service using said USB device sounds like something that would work more often than not. We wouldn't need phishing-resistant authentication methods if humans were good enough at making those kinds of decisions.
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Mueller directly states the he doesn't believe any of this affected the election.

I have read that IRA spent about $500 each in ad buys in the 3 borderline blue/red 'purple' states that went to Trump in the Nov 2016 election.

Even if we assume the 100k they spent on ad buys went directly to the 3 purple states, and generated a million CPM... ads paid for by the RNC and DNC and the PACs generated several trillion impressions.
Check out this full analysis of the DDoS attack: https://blog.thousandeyes.com/how-github-successfully-mitiga...
That is a great example of confirmation bias. The person who positions themselves for luck deserves credit. And in my experience usually get it. The person who positions themselves for luck and is unlucky, is usually considered less capable.
Huh? It's only zero sum in the sense that corporations and the top 1% are taking the gains. Technological progress has increase productivity in real terms and brought about new advances for what we can actually do. There also have been plenty of biotech and other engineering companies born out of the "glut" of PhDs.

Learning what not to do helps you discover what you should do and technology increase our resolution to discover scientific principles and put them to use. A PhD is an expert in research. Yes you can learn this on your own outside of academia but why? You have to put the time in anyway, may as well get the degree.

An undergraduate education prepares you for the job market whether that be graduate work, corporate work or something other activity. It may be bad at teaching automative repair, construction, plumbing, earth work, electrical work etc... but that's OK. There are other paths for that and those are not bad jobs. Even computer programming at some levels can be seen as a trade skill (wire X to Y), debug operating system. It can also be seen as a professional skill (hence the focus on algorithms/complexity etc... that we see in interviews).

At big research institutions in the sciences you get to see the future and you get to work on it or invent it. That's a nice place to be sometimes.
There are probably many on HN who can answer this better than me, and it of course depends on what role you are interviewing for . But IIRC, for Engineers the process involves a technical phone screen, followed by a second technical interview plus a behavioral/EQ interview. After that, your application goes before a hiring committee.
> The irony in all this hoopla is that literally every engineer who has been so bad that I wondered how the heck they made it past the interview stage has been......drumroll ... white or asian male.

I work with a lot of engineers of all backgrounds, and no group has been without bad apples.

> But this argument that there are floods of under qualified minorities and women engineers getting jobs is hilarious.

You are misrepresenting the argument. The argument is that there is explicit discrimination in the hiring and promotion process which comes at the cost of equal opportunity.

In addition to this the people that experience this or feel this is unfair say they have experienced illegal retaliation when bringing this up. I personally experienced such retaliation.
Just read this article. Very cool how the researchers simulated the role luck plays in society with some neat models. The conclusions they reach are fascinating and counter-intuitive e.g.

>"[I]f the goal is to reward the most talented person (thus increasing their final level of success), it is much more convenient to distribute periodically (even small) equal amounts of capital to all individuals rather than to give a greater capital only to a small percentage of them, selected through their level of success - already reached - at the moment of the distribution."

My two cents from being an entrepreneur: everyone needs luck to succeed but those who are fortunate to have wealth and a support network get far more opportunities for luck to come by. Or, put another way, those with a fortunate background have more chances to fail and find luck eventually than others. Life is not fair but so it is.
That's what I wanted to do. Thank you for the guide !
Yup I'm a JS Dev and I use webpack (3). I get the entire thing. However I think this is still all so complicated for no sake but for a small benefit. I'm currently looking for a tool to find out how much is seen/used vs how much is delivered.
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