skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honest question: First time reading quarter results. How do I interpret these results?
Sorry for the inconvenience. You can also find the install instructions on the help screen of the app.
Unfortunately connectivity is only one property for models. Biorealistic models are lacking sorely in modeling plasticity, which is prerequisite for understanding learning. We 're way behind on mapping that and it is a very complex problem.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11127835
Worked at university as researcher and on my PhD, unsuccessfully. Should have had kids and spent more time on my side projects instead (one of which got turned into a very successful business 2 years later).
Back to your original query. Its easy to find sources that mesh with my choice of words.

'Renting carries a stigma. "There is a social expectation to own a house at a certain point. You're made to feel like a second-class citizen if you rent."'

'But in the UK it can feel like a second-class system. There are limited protections'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22952667

And the ad would have no poignancy unless there were something recognisable about there being status attached to property, would it?

Anyway I think you are being deliberately obtuse or picking up on my choice of words whilst ignoring the main point, which is that property ownership is a critical differentiating element in life chances in the UK, and with that I bid you adieu.
Other people have it harder than they do but that doesn't mean that the process want still very stressful and difficult for them.
Not OP, but Harvard, Yale, and Penn are three that I can speak to with firsthand experience.

I will also say that, depending on the specifics of the applicant, you might be shocked by what admissions standards can be bent/broken based on the desire of a faculty member to have a specific student. It’s not common, but it happens.
$5B in EU fines. Ouch.
Finished my masters and working my first software eng job at a mid-sized company. Had loads of money (relative to my needs back then), bought my first car, I decided that it was too boring and wanted to challenge myself. Enrolled in a PhD program the following year.

Advice to myself - better work out a balance between all the different sides of life.
Strong headcount growth versus other FANG-like companies.
Nope, because you'd be relying on the fraudulent phishing page to tell you that.

Real page: Give me login
You: Login
Real page: Good login, press your 2fa to authenticate
You: Press
Real page: Good 2fa, enter your password
You: Password

Versus:

Fake page: Give me your login
You: Login
Fake page: Good login, press your 2fa to authenticate
You: Press
Real page: Good 2fa (wink wink), enter your password
You: Password

The fake page wouldn't have a working login to the real page because the 2fa would be wrong, but it would still have your password.
It's time to let go of your entertainment backlog
Concurrency ideologies in Java, C#, C, C++, Go, and Rust
It has been just downright spiral for Scott Adams since that 2011 post.

His blogs for the past couple of years have just been shameless non-stop pandering to Trump and pretending about how he "gets it" and truly understands Trump's brilliance, and how he will explain it to us morons. Trump of course has changed his positions so often during those years that poor Scott has been reduced to a babbling idiot trying to explain the hidden brilliance of the latest sudden and half thought out 180 degree turn from his dear leader.

It all kind of dovetails with his (Adams') self described expertise in the art of persuasion. For Scott Adams, the "art of persuasion" means convincing someone to do something against his own interest and in favor of Adams' interest. Most people would call this cheating and manipulation, but Adams gives it a positive spin by referring to it as an art. Adams has pitched several of his startups utilizing the full blast of his self described "art of persuasion mastery", yet all of his startups have been failures despite the massive free publicity he can give them using the Dilbert platform.

Adams uses the "art of persuasion" concept to compliment Trump. Instead of a lying politician, Trump is apparently "a master persuader." Well if he is that, at least he is much more successful than Adams.

But of course I mostly ignored the blog posts, and just looked at the cartoons. I have been following dilbert cartoons since the late 90s and it is just too hard to stop. He smartly tried to keep his political babbling away from the cartoons. So I would mostly ignore the blogs except for a rare forays (maybe once per month) that would just piss me off. But last week I think the something really cracked in poor Scott's mind, and his troubled hatred filled subconscious started spilling all over the comic.

He had a comic sequence that started with an amusing joke, proceeded to some unusually nasty and pointless racism and then ended with multiple comic repetition of the idea that Dilbert (i.e., Scott Adams' alter ego) has a death wish. You can check it out yourself at dilbert.com. It all starts at the comic for monday, july 16.

I cannot help but feeling a little schadenfreude. It all makes sense, I think, the hatred towards humanity that he has shown in his worshiping of the "art of persuasion" and of Trump is really a manifestation of a hatred towards himself. What can a person that has spent the latter part of his life trying to perfect the "art" of cheating innocent people have to hope for than a quiet death?

But then later I feel guilty for feeling the above. Who am I to say that I want fall victim to depression either, even if I do think I am a better person than Scott Adams. And even if he is a bad person he has not committed any crimes that I know of, he has freedom of speech. I have a freedom to ignore him and not believe him (I doubt many people believe him) but that doesn't mean I should wish him misfortune.

Well either way I do hope Mr. Adams gets some help with counseling and suicide prevention. Last week's comics weren't comics they were a cry for help.
I had been working on a really cool map viewer tool for Windows 3.1. It had a C backend doing the rendering and map file parsing (Intergraph design files, PITA to parse), and a VB3 UI.
It was a huge improvement on existing tools for viewing IGDS files at the time. I saw it demo'd on stage at a MS dev conference in front of Steve Balmer.
Basically peak of my career. In 1994.
After that I quit the job, for no good reason. Moved across the country, and did next to nothing for a couple years.
And I regret that decision every day since.
Yeah, it was a few years ago. That's amazing, though. I'm going to have to show my wife this map!
Omega-3 pills and fish oil ‘useless’ for preventing disease
I'm 25 and I should say: invest more money, take risks. And think about your health. If you got money, try to get personal fitness asap. It can only improve you and your body.
Oh, and take more risks. Years go by fast and investing in stuff that give you a fixed interest is better than putting it (and keeping it) on your bank account.
Sure, I agree, but the larger point is the same: some companies choose to go overboard to protect their brand. The ways they do it is different, but the reason is the same.
Results that aren't disseminated are functionally useless.
Awesome! And if you improved in it we would love a merge request back :)
Mass surveillance of billions of people pays off handsomely.

Google and Facebook are the only two businesses that prosper on ads, while your local newspapers, specialized websites, and journalism in general are dying.
You mean on a VC run forum, crypto gets a lot of hate because it is an alternative? Color me shocked!

Personally, I think bootstrapping + ICO is far less trouble that even bothering with VCs, but I am sure many people with Stockholm syndrome will explain me why I'm wrong!
What's make you think they are unsuccessful?

Sure, a TV station can't annoint a President of whatever. The power to destroy is a weaker power than the power to create, but is still an immense power.

Rupert Murdoch's lifelong business philosophy is that all information gatekeepers should be destroyed, so that no one's opinion (or facts) are elevated over any other's. It's pure libertarian-democracy of ideas that throws the baby (education and critical thinking) out with the bathwater (suppression of outsider voices). The modern "Internet of Trolls" is the culmination of his philosophy.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2011/jul/18/reb...
If you buy ultimate you get free guest users. Would that help?
25 years old right now, 3 year old son, and my marriage just ended several months ago. Not my choice. Would have done anything. Hardest time of my life.
This ^^.

I got a masters at one U, and was ensconced at another U for the Ph.D. by then. Actually that was the year that I started at the new U, and they told me, 2 weeks before I started, that they expected me to take and pass the Ph.D. qual exam. Which was in 2 weeks.

I did, but it was not a fun 2 weeks.

That was ... er ... ah ... 28 years ago.

I've used the Ph.D., outside of press releases and presentations, mebbe a few times since then. Has nothing to do with my career.

My advice to people considering Ph.D.'s ... if you seriously want to be called Dr., then sure. If you want to pursue tenure track, have your head examined, and then sure. Just remember, similar odds to lottery games. If you want to do industrial research, sure.

I actually wrote about this recently, with some observations about Ph.D.s in industry[1].

More seriously, I do occasionally reflect upon the opportunity cost, the lost earning time, lost wages, the later start to my family, ...

[1] https://scalability.org/2018/07/typecasting-and-the-trust-us...
most definitely
Still, what I hear from some PhD students is that even with decent pay, it's not a great career. The chances of getting tenure are tiny, academic freedom isn't what it once was, and if you enter the job market, the PhD mostly cost a lot of time without adding a whole lot of value. Unless it's in Machine Learning, maybe.
Strange, I'm 35 and I feel like I can write code faster than ever, I have started many more open source projects in the past year than in my whole career, and they are in late stage development at the moment. Also, I'm about to launch my first mobile app, developed in React Native. At the age of 35, I am more responsible & less distracted than I was at 25.
This. My PhD program wasn't a sweat shop, and I actively make an effort to make sure the lab I run isn't either.
From what little, and indirect, contact I've had with the US criminal justice system my impression is most defense lawyers are paid for by the state (e.g. the public defenders office).

A quick search turns up this[1] report from 2000 that says:

Over 80% of felony defendants
charged with a violent crime in
the country’s largest counties and
66% in U.S. district courts had
publicly financed attorneys.

Having said that, the report is from 2000 and it seems the data is from the mid to late '90s. So things may have changed since then but I don't see any evidence of that.

I'm not sure that combining the prosecutor's and public defender's office would work, but having a system where the lawyers end up switching between prosecution and defense cases does seem like it may help avoid pushing them into extreme views for either side.

1. https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/dccc.pdf
you're great! :)
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We have been working in our startup full time for the last 18 months.
We have a MVP.
We have paying customers.
We are working with cutting edge web development technologies.
We failed to raise $100K.

So I'm sorry, but this is not an advice for founders, this is just plain stupid humblebrag. You don't have to do this, seriously.
26% revenue growth for such a large company is astounding. Google's growth machine seems to have lasted much longer than people expected.
I don’t think a business would actually do that, if they purchased something they would likely not put it up on GitHub immediately, but I think the key to selling free software is customization. Red Hat makes a good deal of money from free software, but as you say, much of that is from support.
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> I would much more value the distribution of the source code along with that purchase.

Everyone would until they realize how exceptionally hard and draining it is for a vendor to deal with blatant rip-offs and trivial repackaging of said source code, sold under a different name for a fraction of the price by some random outlet in China.
Is that something that's usually rewarded by Wall Street? I would think being more efficient (ie. making more money with less employees) would be viewed as more successful.
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Except that CLEARLY wasn't the case. Cell phone mfgs were making garbage, Apple came around and without question revolutionized the industry overnight.

Let's be honest that Tesla hasn't revolutionized the car, they have a clone of existing cars but with an electric powertrain.
FWIW, Firefox's "Reader" mode is an absolute godsend for Medium articles. Works great on mobile too.

(not disagreeing with your statement at all, just pointing out something that may increase your QoL in the interim if you haven't yet given it a try)
There's been data science/machine learning bootcamps around for awhile (Galvanize/Metis being common examples in San Francisco), but apparently job placement is not in a good place (as with normal bootcamps).

Indeed Machine Learning/Deep Learning has become much more accessible thanks to the number of free guides such as this. But that means data science job placement will become more difficult as competition increases, with more gatekeeping/requirements (e.g. Masters/Ph.Ds)
I would pay $50/mo for a website that showed me apartment/real estate listings within some driving time of a specified location.
Deep learning and blockchain noise seems to be dying out slowly. Are we going downhill on the hype curve, is it time to short those buzzwords?
Ask HN: How would you proceed educational/careerwise?
Hi guys, lately I am busy with some thoughts that would love to hear your opinion. I will try to keep it short - I am a 23-year-old guy that had my CS undergraduate and the past year, I am working for a software company as a databases/back-end developer. Although I like what I am doing, lately, I have the intention that I am not satisfied with the conditions and the environment. More specifically, I feel that there is not much personal and career development going on around and that keeps me in a stationary/demotivated position. After work, I am usually trying to program and study, but I feel that my progress is slow. I also thought of moving to a different position in a new company. However, though, the market standards are quite high, and I feel that I am going to land something similar. I am familiar with the following technologies; Docker, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, MySQL, Java, Python, PHP, Web Frameworks such as Flask, Django, Phalcon and JavaScript (now into the process of learning React). Usually, I am doing tutorials about Web and ML. If you were in such a situation, how would you proceed? Thanks in advance!
How does the average user know whose signatures to trust? If Facebook censors videos by signatures, people will scream censorship and ignore the signatures.
This is such an interesting response to me as it's a little different than a lot of the other ones. Why do you say you "should have had kids"?

It's interesting to me because many I speak to wish they had waited longer. Is it just the value they bring to your life? Or a timing thing?
"We" can, but 99.99% of the public won't.
The proposed syntax allows for a precondition which can evaluate an expression and return that.

So if you wanted to format the error returned you could do `returnif error : formatError("Error context:", error)`
May show, especially with such a strong company, intended growth and development within new territories which in turn, can mean new opportunities (Cloud, Waymo, etc.)
"I became a fucking millionaire at 19. I finessed my way there and I didn’t give the time of day to anyone who wanted to stop me. Now I’m on my way to becoming the youngest self-made billionaire..."

Self congratulating, self promoting. It's 90% about his life story.

How to become a millionaire? Apparently "Be Real to Yourself", ignore doubters and there's a paragraph how it's fine to lie to others but never lie to yourself.

"It doesn’t matter though, because if you want to win, you’re going to fucking win." ... yeah, great advise /s
There are also large mega-corps who have vested interests in ensuring that their products don't get eclipsed by these kinds of solutions. Don't underestimate the shilling force.
This exactly, the rules around usage do nothing to curb actual usage and only to prevent anyone else from making cigarettes. This increases prices and hurts cigarette consumers.

The only outcome here is that well-meaning therapeutic e-cig / nicotine quitting businesses will likely be stomped.
This lawsuit has nothing to do with legalization of drugs. It's about a company profiting from users' addictions, and those users are suing the company.

In this case, Juul engineered a product that causes a nicotine spike that increases the chance of addiction.

This isn't unlike any other lawsuit where consumers sue a company for engineering a dangerous product without proper warnings.
In St Petersburg you can find bars and restaurants on Rubinstein Street. Tsvetochki (Цветочки) is a nice and cozy cocktail bar.[0] If you like coffee and books, swing by Podpisnyye Izdaniya (Подписные издания) and buy both.[1]

Wish I could say more but I had very limited time in both cities.

[0] https://goo.gl/maps/GXG46qDKYG62

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/HWmNTADox8o
pure art, this website lit AF
I'm 25 now, so can't really answer the advice question. As for what I'm doing:

* Just ended a 5 year relationship that I felt was ultimately going to hold me back in life
* Saying yes to more things that scare the hell out of me -- those things are often the most fun (a way to beat the anxiety out of me _shrug_)
* Working as a machine learning tech lead at a large tech company and considering the possibility of going into management soonish
* Working on being really intentional with my time and who I spend it with
* Working on health in all aspects (physical, mental, emotional, and financial)
Dumb question I’m too lazy to effectively google: what is FANG? (Assuming we’re not talking vampires)
Merits of Living in a Student Room in Seville
For the most part, prosecutors are government employees or even elected officials. It would be difficult to defend accused people without running into a conflict of interest with your employer.

While defense lawyers are frequently appointed and sometimes claim from a government-funded pool, again, it would be nearly impossible to defend accused people in the same jurisdiction in which you prosecuted similar cases.

For example, a DUI client's best defense might be to attack the county crime lab as unreliable. Once the lawyer does that, his words would be fed back to him if he tries to prosecute a person accused of DUI.

Thus, you tend to get lawyers one one side or the other -- either defense/prosecution, or (for similar reasons) plaintiff/defense on the civil side.
I've had this idea in the bucket of "crazy things I'll never do" which is similar to this, half art-piece, half serious:

- Users sign up to an ad network and they insert all information about themselves, the more, the better.

- They are periodically prompted to add or update their data (like facebook asking you if you're still living in the same city).

- An adblock-like browser extension, replaces all ads they see with the own network's ads, which are highly targeted, and hence get much more money than regular ads for the ad network.

- The ad network is setup as a non-profit foundation which pipes all the revenue into donations to institutions doing work related to privacy initiatives (EFF and similar).

- Users are shown how much money their willingful lack of privacy has generated for privacy initiatives.

It's a play on using the argument of "I have nothing to hide" in order to advance actual privacy legislation and protections. If someone builds this, I'd sign up and use it.
Interestingly, they found it necessary to present income with and without including 2017's $2.7B and 2018's $5B in fines.
Your digital star would need to work to achieve fame comparable to a real star. It's possible, but a difficult competition against the existing human social systems.
> given the time, resources, and scope triangle, it's hubris to assume three of those are fixed (and fixed at 40hr/week) in (m)any cases.

No, it's not "hubris"; it's a common belief that, when looked at closely, might not be on the firm ground that many people seem to believe it is. But that doesn't justify a blanket statement that anyone who has this common belief is therefore guilty of hubris, or "should be deeply ashamed and possibly fired", which is how the post I originally responded to in this subthread put it.

To me, it's you and the person who posted "deeply ashamed and possibly fired" who are guilty of hubris, for claiming that your own personal opinion about how all jobs should be organized outweighs everything else.
This read to me as if you were putting my thoughts and life into text.

I am currently 24 and an exchange student in München, Germany. I will soon leave Bavaria and return to Sweden in order to finish up my masters. Been working on the side in a field I am interested in but I feel like I am so incompetent that I can hardly contribute anything useful. It is demoralizing.
Yep, and they are doing their thing in new territories, with their stronghold (ad) still going up, and technology changing allows for even further opportunities there (voice, home, and so on).
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At 25, (just before turning 26), I had been working for a startup for 5 years. I lived in an apartment with my brother who was in school. Kind of had a girlfriend. Good savings (10 - 20K). Car that had aged faster than it should have, it was like 8 years old, but was more like 15 in issues.

I was burnt out at work. Too many long hours. I would go to work and I could not motivate myself to do anything. Went to my boss and asked for 2 money leave without pay. His reply was I was too valuable to have gone that long. Not surprisingly my salary did not show that. So I quit. I was not really getting anything done and I hated going into work.

Packed up stuff on my bicycle and rode from Florida to Maine in 6 weeks - should have been faster but I was not in a rush. During which I turned 26 so I guess I need to stop telling my tale until you ask for what I was doing at 26...
Not that 25yo me would listen to any advice (I'm 45 now and I still won't listen to any advice), but my advice would be: forget about your career goals. Move to an island and be a bartender/scuba instructor/tour guide/beach bum. Get tan, get laid, and enjoy your 20s. Or 30s. Or the rest of your life.

Or you can burn yourself out in thankless failed startups, soul-sucking corporate offices, and an endless stream of high-paying jobs and then some day realize you're old and never had any fun.

Or you can be like me and alternate between those two extremes every couple years.

Or figure out some way to do both. And then let me know.