skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> actively supported Saddam Hussein

I find Galloway unbelievably annoying, but is this just (Tory/New Labour) for being anti-Iraq War? Because it certainly was in the US.
> Last I read, memberships were like half their profit or something. It's certainly not like CostCo makes no more profit if people buy twice as much. Setting prices to that level would be insane.

You're wrong.

> Through two quarters of its fiscal 2017, Costco has reported $1.06 billion in income (profit). That number is slightly smaller than the $1.26 billion it collected in membership fees.

> If you examine the company's sales, it brought in $56.59 billion in net sales with a merchandise cost of $50.21 billion and sales expenses of $5.92 billion. That's a small loss when it comes to actually selling goods,

https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/05/05/how-costco-wholesa...
Not every college path includes calculus.
Poor decision making. Probably worse than getting suckered into a variable rate loan was to go to a private school. You end up overpaying for pedigree and prestige but various studies have shown there are only minor differences in career salaries when you go to a more affordable state school, certainly if you take into account having smaller loans.
The parent discusses:

>> What cats do? How cats respond to things? How they interact physically with their environment?

Not "how does a cat look on youtube".
For example:

Externalities — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality

Instrumental rationality — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_and_value_rationa...

Cognitive biases of various flavors — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring
That’s certainly a fair way to put it. I guess I don’t encounter the type who really get upset that ”Python is too slow!! I’d rather use C++” because that takes a certain type of person who is technically able but practically challenged. I personally find myself surrounded by the opposite peoples.
GP typoed the year. s/1988/1998/
Would any of the people who downvoted my comment like to explain their point of disagreement? If you believe my statement to be factually wrong, it would be more useful to correct it rather than simply downvoting it.
There's a lot of reasonable reasons to dislike cryptocurrencies, and I say that as someone who's all-in on them. It's kind of like atheism in 1750's Europe -- it makes perfect sense on its own terms, but it threatens to upend a seemingly critical social governance mechanism.

There are also serious technical flaws, but I think there's a good chance those can be addressed.
Yeah, agree, that's a big miss.

Aside: there have to be better user interfaces for attaching dates to articles. Make the date more prominent/visible as it ages or something like that. The color of the date on that page is rgb(170, 170, 170) and seems very easy to accidentally skip over.
Why are the interest rates on these student loans so outrageously high when they aren't dischargeable in bankruptcy?

Shouldn't they be pegged a hair above the prime rate, since the holder is more or less guaranteed interest payments for life?
It doesn't even take one death from a volcano, apparently: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hawaii-volcano/hawaii-rep...
The pollution aspect for online shopping is tough to calculate, because it avoids the environmental cost of running a retail outlet.
The generation is limited to features very close to the ones seen by the network in examples - i.e., to a limited domain.

Here is an explanation of the limited ability of deep networks to generalise beyond their dataset, by Francois Cholet (maintainer of Keras):

https://blog.keras.io/the-limitations-of-deep-learning.html
Asked my buddy what he was using and he pointed me to this:
https://www.enpass.io

Seems to fit the bill a bit better. And might mean $12/year less though thats not a huge problem.
They don't cite "any evidence?" C'mon man, they cite quite a bit of evidence. No-one can read the article and truthfully say this. Size of DNA, sophistication of adaptation, differential body symettry, off the top of my head. Is that weak evidence? Well then by the same token, it's evidence.

This seems to be one of the many, many times when contemporary scientists say "there is no evidence of X" when what they mean is that there is no incontrovertible evidence (the other name for which, of course, is "proof.")

But proof and evidence are manifestly not the same thing and conflating them to confuse one's opponents does nobody any favors.

Evidence that is not defeasible remains evidence. Luckily so - because post-Popper, we know that all scientific evidence is defeasible and proof never actually arrives.
You can buy a car without knowing anything about cars. You can buy a house without knowing anything about them. Do you think the seller is being unethical in these cases too? Particularly when you're buying the car from a manufacturer or the house from a large broker. What about selling a computer to somebody that is computer illiterate?

I agree that what the banks are doing is very likely unethical, but I think your generalization about the bigger guy having more responsibility doesn't always hold.

The other problem is that people will generally say that they understand even if they don't. Maybe a mandatory class on basic finance and economics would be a good idea.
I'm being culturally ignorant? That's rich. Is it US culture to just randomly insult everyone?

>"Do you also really believe gays are being assholes if they have sex in Saudi Arabia? That they should show respect to the culture that has a deep shame about homosexuals?"

More whataboutism. No, I don't think they're assholes, I think they're idiots. Going to a notoriously anti-gay country, with a death penalty for homosexuality, and then completely flouting those laws? Yeah, that's a really bad idea.
I find the produce at Whole Foods significantly better. If I buy oranges, tomatoes, apples, peaches, berries, etc at other stores including those you mentioned they are often flavorless and seem to lack juice. It’s as if they are picked when unripe and treated with ripening agents https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripening
Ask HN: AMP-Free Google News Equivalent?
Until the launch of the latest UI, one could do an end run around AMP using the "full coverage" links at the bottom of each section. The latest version eliminates this loophole.

For someone like me who skims he headlines there every morning to see what's going on in the world and then clicks through to a few articles (in new tabs, dammit - stop breaking the web, google!) this is a sorry loss.

What are some alternative general-purpose news aggregators?
This sort of thing just doest really happen in Europe, or elsewhere for that matter.
This is great. CS50 (http://cs50.tv) is the best course I've taken on any topic, including all other university courses I attended physically. The course packs a ton of essential information into a very well organised learning path with clear and effective lectures and useful assignments. I'm stoked that there is another course by the same team now.
Same with current versions, except on Windows. On Windows, 1Password 6 lost that ability, I believe. It's coming back with 1Password 7 on Windows.
What a coincidence, Seinäjoki happens to be the only Finnish city I know (besides Helsinki), because The Dudesons were born there :)
> and yet, here I am, absolutely incapable of reliably securing a god-damn Wordpress site.

With all due respect, I would claim to be able to secure a god-damn Wordpress site. Versatile knowledge about Wordpress, about PHP, about (F)CGI/mod_php/etc., about Apache, nginx and friends, about accelerators and caches, about the Linux network stack, the userspace tooling, the kernels, the hardware, the network structure -- this is what we dealt with all our life, isn't it?

Some of us learnt it systematically at a university, others as autodidacts. As semi-professionals, we don't earn our money with security and most of us don't do security with such a passion (I'm rather annoyed by SELinux and AppAmor and run "curl | bash" with the neccessary doubts). Most of all, most of us don't apply for jobs at three-letter agencies, and I assume a good portion of us don't do that because they don't like three-letter agencies.

(Sorry for extrapolating from myself)
I don't think I've ever seen a bank offer anything other than compound interest on a loan. It's definitely legal and most likely the default for every account.
Your suggestion is that people who were fiscally responsible at that age should take things less seriously? That people who are unwilling to criticize themselves should be critic-free?

I exaggerate, but while I get your point this article irks me because I know it is an issue, but the author's situation is not typical and she goes to great lengths to distance herself from her own decisions. Here's how I could stomach this better: "I screwed up in not realizing 100k is a metric shit ton of debt to take on even as my mother told me it was a horrible idea. This is something we as a society can improve by....."
My comment was a response to '1Password is making it so you can never buy a standalone version again'. This isn't true. It is true that they try to steer people into a subscription. But if they wanted to kill the standalone version, they would have. You can download the 1Password 7 beta right now and pay for it once.
> in the age of Google

Rose colored glasses.

It's probably worth keeping in mind that the internet of endless information is still relatively new. I went to college in 2003. Google was a freshly minted verb[0]. "The age of Google" probably didn't even really start until after I had graduated. I know that it wasn't part of my college life. I think it was my sophomore year when "wikipedia" started showing up in school ethics codes. The countless blog articles available to you right now simply didn't exist. You assume this info was at everyone's finger tips, but the people who wrote most of those articles probably graduated after I did. ROI of education really only became a conversation topic after the financial crisis started to display a permanent effect on the workforce. My younger brother is about the author's age, and we were still ingrained with the mindset of "that's just what you do after high school". The pro/con list had very few cons until relatively recently.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/the-f...
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It's a useful distinction to make: https://www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/basics/transmission-bas...

I guess using "airborne" with a technical definition is an invitation for arguing though.
Well, Congress hearings are public. And Varoufakis is right.
You should find them, and write articles about them, rather than just assuming they exist.
Macros would solve this problem nicely if they we're available. I sure wish first class macros were on the golang roadmap.
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Yeah, this was a case of being rushed out of an ER after a lumbar puncture (negative). You're apparently supposed to be held as an inpatient for at least a few hours while lying still; I was discharged in 15 minutes.

Mine ended up never self-resolving and they had to use a blood injection to produce a clot and "plug" the hole. Before that they tried IV caffeine – apparently that not only exists, but is actually indicated for spinal headaches. Trip report: meh, drinking coffee is much more fun.
The consensus isn't the thread. The consensus is apparently among those that work on these issues professionally. Here's a better subthread that explains it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9113505
By “changes” they want a free trail option and more money.

On the trials... I don’t feel strongly. Maybe I’d like App trials, but maybe I’m glad they don’t exist because it leads to a level of gimpware that I don’t want on my phone. I’m glad to see trial tactics gone - although I do dislike ad based apps so maybe it’s the better of the two?

I don’t an opinion on money. My apps directly tie into hardware we sell. The apps are free, we don’t want to do microtransactions or pay apps. We’re a Device Company. The 70/30 split does seem high I suppose.

All in all... good luck I guess, but Apple is not a company I would try union tactics on. What is the practical outcome here - these developers are really going to not publish for iOS? I think we all know that’s not the case.
> To me the interesting bit is the underlying study showed exercise increased the dementia's progression and was actually harmful. What mechansism's behind that result?

I'm no expert, but the association I had was a podcast I listened once with someone interested in life extension (I think it was on a Tim Ferriss podcast). They spoke about "mTOR activation" (IIRC), the basic idea was that having muscles is good (because they increase the need for glucose, helping the pancreas and the liver in regulating it), but building muscles is potentially harmful, because it causes a release of growth hormone, and essentially speeds up metabolism (and hence aging).

Don't quote me on this, and I'm sure there's better sources of this information out there than me. Does this ring a bell to anyone?
I think you'd have a fair argument if you considered a complement, i.e. P(sun rises|no rooster crowing) = 0.
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there is a lot of info out there about markov chains, but very little about markov decision processes (MDP).

How popular are MDP? What are their strengths? weaknesses?

Is there really a connection between MDP and reinforcement learning as the author claims, as I've not heard this connection before?

This is a very welcome article.
Plus this particular boy wonder very confidently stood up in front of everyone and said fake news is BS right after the elections.
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Interesting, that's something I didn't know. Wouldn't have helped or motivated me to do this even if it had been possible :P

But I'm not sure which student loans you're talking about, but back when I was studying BAföG was a different beast. You usually don't get much and it all depends on your parents' income and in general I found the bureaucracy very... annoying, because my case worker was extremely incompetent, had to hand in stuff twice all the time, had to point out errors in all the calculations and every time I was there I only heard complaints how my case was so complicated..

That said, it's a good thing and if you find any decent job you shouldn't have too many problems paying it off very soon without a lot of interest payments. (But I also had to pay fees for a few semesters back then, I think they're mostly gone again now...)
Totally off topic aside: I’m seeing a lot of Bloomberg links these days and I’m constantly “over the free limit.” Sometimes the “web” strategy works, and sometimes it doesn’t (like this article for me).

If I add up all the sources that are typical for HN it’s quite a lot. Bloomberg alone is $40/Mo now long term, plus nytimes, Washington Post, economist, FT, etc.

I already pay for two of these — I don’t feel the need for yet another, and I’m not going to start browsing Bloomberg for non-linked content.

What I’d like is the ability to pay for a universal “HN” articles membership to ANY website. If it’s linked from HN, let me read the full article, but it’s ok if I can’t browse the website.

A lot of publishers effectively do this for Facebook for free; why not for smaller aggregators for a membership?
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> Facebook doesn't sell data

Of course they do, and they have for a while now. It's how they make money. In fact, they not only sell data they collect on your use of their service, they sell data based on information scraped by their persistent cookies as you browse other sites:

https://consumerist.com/2014/06/12/facebook-is-now-selling-y...
Sheep logic – We think we are wolves but we are sheep
>Make only minimum payments
>Upset that loan isn't decreasing in principle value
>Blame everyone, but yourself for your dumb choices and unwillingness to change lifestyle to pay off loan
Estonia goes even further than that. University is free as long as you don't fall behind (too much) in the curriculum.
Something as critical as "password infrastructure" should absolutely never be a subscription model. Pay software, sure. But by no means should anybody other than you have the ability to refuse access, especially some company where you are nothing but a $5/month number.

I would be more forgiving if the subscription was for value-added features, like dynamic syncing, or remote encrypted storage. But it ain't.
It's simple enough to do with some version of KeePass. I'm currently using https://keeweb.info/ and Keepass2Android.
This is the beauty of Cython & numba for me. It lets you selectively target just the small sections of the code that need a speed-up for an understood reason.

You can use nice Python profiling tools to gather evidence about which program hotspots truly are too slow, and then just target those for specialization either as extension module functions/classes in Cython (or even a manually written extension module, or a plain C library used via cffi), or as a JIT function or class with numba.

You can use the annotation features of Cython & numba to further profile locations that have avoidable CPython API overhead, and it becomes a very evidence-based and iterative optimization cycle.

At the end, for 90% of the Python code that was more than fast enough already and didn’t touch performance critical sections, you just got to save all the time & trouble of needing to rewrite it (usually painfully) and debug it and re-test it all in C or C++.

This is why, for me, the entire idea that you should start a project out in C++ or C is a giant type of premature optimization in a lot of cases (not all cases but a lot).

Did you prototype the boilerplate parts in Python and actually measure the sort of performance hotspots you’ll have to optimize, to a degree that you know for sure that some light sprinkling of Cython & numba certainly won’t work? If not, it’s probably premature optimization to presume you’ll need C or C++ as the primary implementation language.
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I agree with you. These things, esp refined sugar, are an historic abnormality. But we assume that since it's in the supermarket and on TV (e.g., soda) it's perfectly fine.

It's not.

It's normalized. So normalized that suggesting otherwise make you the crazy one.
> Banks get to create the principal that they loan out of thin air[1]

I’m not sure how you get this from your reference - people deposit money at a bank, and the bank lends (gives!) some of that money out to (e.g.) students. The “creation” comes from both the depositor and the borrower thinking they have the money.
I share your discouragement with the present state of "science" (see the Replication Crisis) but the trouble with your comment that it applies to everything ever written, not this article in particular, not to mention that Theodore Sturgeon said it first, as a still more general rule.
I don't really understand what these new chips accelerate - are they useful for anything else when this current machine learning fad wears off?
Also known as “no (expletive) idea”
I’d rather control the data myself. I view cloud hosted password providers as huge attack targets and they generally get hacked eventually (roboform, lastpass,etc). At least if you control where the data is stored your data can be kept off the radar so to speak.
IBM is a withered husk of it's former self.
Very well said, and I think our system needs to do better for students. The issue is this however:

> I wouldn’t have been able to afford college without a student loan provider.

This sentiment is echoed by millions of students in the US, myself included.

The author's biggest issue is NOT her loan provider. The author's issue is that she made a stupid decision to go to a private university and pay it off with loans. For-profit universities are the bigger criminal in her story, but she either has not realized it or is unwilling to admit it because she had fun in college.
"We can call it a data optimization problem, but that does not tell us anything about how we go about solving it, or even what we are optimizing for."

If you have a time-ordered stream of data, the problem of predicting the output given previous input naturally suggests itself. There are other approaches, of course.

"Alternatively, perhaps what's being optimized is so general that generalized AI is not, and cannot be, 'just' an optimization problem in any useful sense."

- Perhaps you mean this as "the problem is so complex that it can't be naively approached only with conventional, local optimization tools". Because a huge optimization problem is still an optimization problem in some meaningful senses, I mean I could consider my life as a "fun" or "flow" or "enlightenment" optimization problem.

In general, it seems like a lot of reactions to particular AI methods go from "this approach isn't enough to get us all the way there" to "real AI is fundamentally, absolutely different from this, this approach is useless", a jump I don't think is justified.
They mention the discount in this blog post: https://blog.agilebits.com/2018/03/28/the-1password-7-beta-f...

"Licenses will be available for $64.99 when we launch later this year, but are available now for only $39.99."
100 Women: Gladys West – The 'hidden Figure' of GPS
They also sell it with a perpetual license. I own licenses for Office 2003, 2007, 2013, and 2016.

(Office 2016 works well on Linux with Crossover. Just bought a Crossover lifetime license. Crossover has a decent subscription/license working - subscription is for updates, you can continue using indefinately if you stop paying. Although it is a little expensive.)
It's funny how in these type of threads people like to play dumb.

Obviously no one is saying vegans live forever. It's not what this is about. Even if we all die eventually, why not have the best quality if life possible and have as few health problems possible, if any at all?
To be honest, I'm not terribly familiar with the bibliography on learning AS programs, but you could look for work on ASPAL, ILASP and ILASP2 by Alessandra Russo, Mark Law and Krysia Broda. The following are relevant, but not exhaustive and probably not the first papers discussing this but you can follow the refs :)

Learning Through Hypothesis Refinement Using Answer Set Programming

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-662-44...

Iterative Learning of Answer Set Programs from Context Dependent Examples

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.01946v1.pdf

Learning Weak Constraints in Answer Set Programming

https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/bitstream/10044/1/33615/8/Acce...

Finally, this is from Mark Law's portion in the Logic-based Machine Learning course at Imperial College London:

https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ml1909/teaching/Non-monotonic%20Lo...

Full disclosure: I'm a Phd student of Stephen Muggleton's. If you're interested in where ILP is nowadays, our group is currently working on Meta-Interpretive Learning, a recent advance that learns complete logic programs, with recursion and predicate invention from relational data:

https://github.com/metagol/metagol

... and I'm very excited about it :)
> The starting revenue share is 70-30 in Apple's favor, presently. Google offers a similar rate, but Microsoft recently announced a cut to its share of revenue to developers' favor

Apple’s cut is 30%, but this sentence makes it sound like Apple takes 70%
it’s not meant to be taken literally; it refers to any manufacturers of dairy products.
Which is why it wasn't asserted. See Panspermia.
What do we mean when we say “show the thing”?