skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My other comment addresses some of this but you're overstating things a bit. Throwing more data at the model is one solution. Its just not the only, or even best, approach. Properly measured performance on good holdouts and the application of regularization avoids the worst of overfitting. This is standard practice is most of machine learning, not just deep learning.

Deep learning gets a lot of hype because for many applications they perform better and scale better without a lot of tricks and extensions which are now possible with SVMs. You can even use a large margin loss with deep models to get some of the benefits of SVMs.

Adversarial examples are way overblown. First, SVMs are not immune to them either. Second, very few applications are threatened by things like adversarial examples.
It's not as efficient as having a single national language. When my mom was growing up in Bangladesh, English was taught in school alongside Bengali, and was used in important official business (e.g. legal opinions of courts were all written in English until 1985). But English wasn't her main language, and to this day, after living in the U.S. for 30 years, she still struggles to communicate complex ideas in English. People will never speak the national language as well as they could if they speak a different, regional language at home. (Any given person might, but many people will not.) And that will impose transaction costs on your society trying to deal with language barriers.
Creating a Culture of Privacy
I'd like to know the answer to that. I'm curious how it's legal to call something a "pension" without legal guarantees and professional oversight. Otherwise it's less a "pension" and more a "vague promise".
@dang

Recommendation: I saw the black bar but this post was already fairly far down the page, maybe make clicking on the bar take you to the post that precipitated it.
Good points, and thanks for reading!

You're definitely right that "educating undergrads" is not the "primary purpose" of these institutions. I definitely did not & do not believe that. If that came through in the essay, I apologize for being inaccurate. If anything, I expected the response to be that I was assuming the primary product of a research university was Investment Returns, which is at least closer to a point I tried to make.

Regarding Research: "Research" in the abstract is -- I believe -- considered a tax-deductible expense in America, and the IRS treats it pretty favorably and that's probably for the best.

However, engaging in "research" to some capacity does not -- to the very best of my knowledge -- allow you to claim a full tax-shield on the Investment Profits of $10 billion+ merely by virtue of the fact that you engage in "research" (compare: Big Pharma, which actually has to write off expenses in order to reduce taxes, or Google or Boston Dynamics).

That is VERY different from how Education works today. To be a University is to be a Charity operating in the Education space. Additional Revenues and Expenses in Research areas are not important for this designation. Once the designation is established, the returns on your Investment Profits (invested in both the open and closed markets) are tax-free, forever.

That's a pretty big deal in the finance world as it relates to your ability to accumulate capital and build Wealth.

Whatever the "primary purpose" of that Wealth might be, the fact remains that (at MIT) that Wealth has grown 1,500% over the last 25 years, while the operating budget has grown ~250%. I believe that is somewhat noteworthy, and I could not avoid noticing how critical the Education-Charity tax-shield was to this compound growth.

The question I tried to raise was: "if your Education was affordable, would we allow the service provider to be considered a Charity?"

Regarding finances & more data: every institution named in this essay has it's 2017-full-year financial report linked, which I spent some time going over to better understand revenue sources (i.e. to understand the truly minimal importance of Tuition) and expenses (to understand the nature of the costs involved).

Sadly that data doesn't appear to segment anything by "research intensity", but it usually pulls research out at least research in all forms. And you're right, that Research usually dominates both "Instruction" and "General & Administrative" in terms of spend. (Quick example here: https://web.mit.edu/facts/financial.html, the other institutions have their fully detailed reports linked in the bullets at the start of the essay )
But if you did find something, you wouldnt drop everything else? Finding any serious evidence of ET would bring the entire scientific world to a hault.
The big advantage of SVB is that they are familiar with the capital structures used by start ups and are willing/able to structure the credit line in a way that is compatible with the covenants held by VC investors.
JavaScript for Cats – An introduction for new programmers
I noticed the keyword for dash-separated-words is spinal, I always thought it was called kebab case. I guess it's different for different people
There's the same problem with Google insisting on VP8/9 for YouTube in Chrome. If your Mac only supports h.264 in hardware you'll get better battery life in Safari.
React.js cheatsheet
Ask HN: Getting into NLP in 2018?
For someone with a reasonable background in software development, what new skills might need to be acquired to move specifically into NLP (natural language processing)?

Does doing NLP essentially mean having to learn ML at this point?

Also, how to showcase skills to potential employers?
I see one of these everyday during my lunch but I never connected the dots that these were likely special made and are likely very old.

I will look at it differently during my lunch today.
In addition to payment processing fees, there is some small accounting effort and liability risks for each donation. To see how this is true, imagine that 10,000 people donate $1 to a cause per year. (This is purposely a huge overestimate for an organization like arXiv, who I'd guess will only attract 50-200 donors.) It will then be likely that 0.1-1% (10-100) of people will cause some sort of trouble due to the donation such as

- creating complications on social media because they claim they have some stake in your project

- requesting custom legal documents to prove that their donation is tax-refundable (ridiculous for such a small amount, but people still do it, especially if the donation comes from a bureaucracy machine)

- asking for refunds

- arguing when you say the policy disallows refunds

- considering your organization a paid service and asking for special technical support

- thinking of an organization as having less moral standards due to the idea that it has lots of money

All of this becomes difficult to handle for a single part-time employee funded at $8,000/yr by those $1 donations. From experience, all of this happens to charities. Even if you don't believe it, the fear of these risks is often greater than the salary earned by it.

This is due to the unwritten law that "all transactions have a minimum and unavoidable customer support cost."

At around $5, the above risks suddenly become worth the salary.
> People are going to say mean things to other people. This is never going to change.

This case is not about saying mean thigns to other people -- US first ammendment allows people to say mean things to others.

This case is about credible threats of violence being sent via a social network. One of the features of that social network was that you could only see messages from people who were geographically nearby.

--begin quote--

We first address the University’s expressed apprehension about punishing students
for their speech. Put simply, we are satisfied that its First Amendment concerns about
penalizing speech lack a proper basis. The University could have vigorously responded
to the threatening Yaks without implicating the First Amendment because “true threats”
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are not protected speech. See Virginia v. Black, 538 U.S. 343, 359 (2003) (recognizing
that “true threats” are not constitutionally protected and describing them as “statements
where the speaker means to communicate a serious expression of an intent to commit an
act of unlawful violence to a particular individual or group of individuals”). 7
The Supreme Court and our Court have consistently recognized the principle that
threatening speech is not protected by the Constitution. See, e.g., Watts v. United States,
394 U.S. 705, 707 (1969) (upholding constitutionality of statute making it illegal to
threaten president with physical violence); United States v. Maxton, 940 F.2d 103, 105-06
(4th Cir. 1991) (“Threats to kidnap or injure persons are legislatively proscribable, falling
within that group of expressions, such as fighting words, which are not constitutionally
protected pure speech.” (internal quotation marks omitted)). Moreover, both federal law
and Virginia law criminalize the communication of threats to kill or injure others. See 18
U.S.C. § 875(c) (prohibiting transmission through interstate commerce of threat to injure
another); Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-60(A)(1) (criminalizing electronic communication of
threat to kill or injure another if threat recipient is placed “in reasonable apprehension of
death or bodily injury”).

--end quote--
No doctor would suggest "eliminating" fiber, a low fiber diet puts you at risk for developing a bunch of diseases. A no fiber diet sounds downright dangerous.

The composition of the elimination diet almost certainly has nothing to do with the resolution of symptoms, just the feeling of being in complete control. We know that people report a wide range of foods as "bad," and one person's "bad" foods are another person's "good" foods, so any particular suggestions are going to be useless. Its been my observation its entirely about perception, not anything to do with the foods they consider "bad," most people I know with extreme diets that have cured all sorts of illnesses actually eat foods that are on their "bad" list because they don't realize it can fit into their "bad" category.
> Huawei stole a Canadian company's technology [1]

I can believe that. But how is this related?

> markets products in America

> has issued dollar-denominated debt

> and then went and violated sanctions in dollar-denominated transactions.

I don't believe any of this is true for Huawei incorporated in China. US subsidiaries of Huawei most likely follow the US law or otherwise their execs would get arrested.
For these engines, the only new option is the type of custom-made billet crank normally only seen on high-level drag engines or Bonneville cars. Otherwise, a (inspected) used crank is installed. But for something like a crank, to try to farm it out to a Chinese supplier with no oversight is insane.
> innovation of the Virtual DOM

Virtual DOM is rather a desperate move - to support components life time constructor/destructor events componentWill/DidMount / Unmount.

What if you will be able to define in standard HTML/CSS something like this (as it is supported natively in Sciter)

// css
div.mycomponent {
behavior: MyComponent url(components.js);
}
// script in components.js
class MyComponent : Element {
function attached() { /*constructor*/ }
function detached() { /*destructor*/ }
… other custom component specific methods …
}

With that simple mechanism you don't need virtual DOM and its overhead at all. Component binding requires only inclusion of that CSS.
Are you looking to do your own startup or just find a job someplace? The deal with most ML type jobs is that you have to be working at a company that has a need for that sort of thing then pivot into that role because you understand the data really well already. You're not going to find much success any other way.
How Not to Be Afraid of Leadership?
I do not drink anymore.

I use to be quite an alcoholic(about 14-16 beers or .5 to .75 liters of whisky) and it caused me quite a few problems in my life. A few months ago for my two year sober-versary, I wrote a little bit about it, and alcohol culture in development.

https://dev.to/samuraiseoul/alcohol-and-developer-culture-19...
In the UK you can buy an annuity with the proceeds of your pension fund at retirement. Is the same not true of a 401(k) in the US?
Sure, but so what?

Imagine you could only bind services to their standard ports. What's the difference between a service running on my computer having a unique ip address, or my machine having a unique ip address and only running that service?
historical inertia?
Time to send a telescope into distant orbit?
Lots of good, accessible points here, but I think it's easy to overestimate the moat around [business] data. [Google] data includes pretty much every aspect of human activity, since they keep their platform in your pocket, in smart home devices, and somewhere in the path of so many online intents. Chinese surveillance and shared platform data is a similar asset - both are everything-adjacent for a massive population.

And that's the big guys. A couple of years ago, this article might have said that MasterCard and Visa have all the spending data... But then Paribus proved that a scrappy startup with a free service could get tens of millions of people to share all their online receipts in record time, and give Capital One a great way of catching up through acquisition. That's not an equivalent dataset, but it's good enough for a lot of applications.

I definitely think proprietary data exists, and that companies will benefit be exploiting it with ML. But they should be very careful about assuming their data will uniquely cover an industry, or even a wide swathe of applications, for long. And they might not have to simply leverage ML, but actually reorganize their business around what can remain unique about their data (like they do about every other asset).

And for VCs evaluating new data-oriented startups, I wonder if they will need new thinking about the time horizon on which investment pays off. Once an application for a new data asset proves valuable, it may turn out to be much more replicable than expected.
they were also all the rage in pretty much everything else as well. In the problems not pushed out by DNN, gradient boosting has pretty much replaced SVMs as GBMs are faster training and better accuracy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_continuity_planning

https://www.cmmiconsultantblog.com/cmmi-faqs/what-is-service...

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ab601z/what_if...

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...
Fake-porn videos are being weaponized to harass and humiliate women
What is Anchoring in Negotiation?
In a similar boat as the parent as far as turning out alright. But in college I saw more people who gamed as much as I did flunk out than people who made it through with me.

The games we used to play had some degree of extension like modding or scripting that at least caused me to branch out. The same can't be said of the current generation who will grow up with games like Fortnite that have no depth outside of the game itself.

I guess there is minecraft but I don't know how that is doing and will probably be an exception not the rule in the future.
The great thing about hypotheticals is you can just say "wins the lottery, leaves the job, and never comes back" and it's implied in the scenario that you shouldn't read too much into it.
Ask HN: What was your experience using a graph database?
I have an idea that I want to work on during the break. And I think this is something that would suit a graph db, (a service that would link users together depending on their choice profile). So what was your experience of working with one? Which graph db did you use?

Edit: What sort of problems are well-suited to graph databases? In other words, what are some scenarios where something like Postgres is not suitable anymore?
Unfortunately, they all exist in parallel. So unless we figure out how to cryogenically freeze humans for hundreds of years, we'll run out of Torvaldii (which I think should be the plural for Torvalds) very soon.
I believe that there is a gap in your argument. We have to hustle to hit our Paris Agreement targets, but missing them isn't exactly equivalent to dying - at least, I don't think you've shown it to be. That's why it's not "a race for our lives".

But, you may say, a lot of people will die from climate change. (And a lot definitely die from pollution.) A lot die from malaria, too, but we don't have a "race for our lives" on that one. Cynically, most people don't consider a bunch of other people dying as a "race for our lives".

(We did more or less have a "race for our lives" on AIDS, though. It seems that we start to care when it's hitting closer to home, and we think that it could be us. That's the problem with your argument. You haven't shown people enough evidence that they think it will be them dying, so they don't think it's "a race for our lives".)
Would be interested to hear the state of the art with quantum computing if anyone on HN can speak to it. Seems strange that people are getting recognized for using cryptography to ensure that some degree of “quantum ness” is being used in (quasi?) quantum computations?
Even more dangerous was that he was selling cast cranks as billet. Without doing x-ray good luck finding occlusions in a Chinese part. It could look fine and even measure out fine (these did not thank God) but have bubbles within the casting.

There is a reason forged and billet American performance car parts are expensive!

There is a huge amount of testing, engineering, and quality control that goes into a crank made by Bryant or Callies.
Click-bait? That's from South China Morning Post, a Hong Kong newspaper that still tries to be independent from Beijing. Also, did you know that Chinese in mainland can't access this very article? since SCMP has been blocked in the mainland for several years?
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How on earth could a retirement savings have been totally wiped out by the 2008 financial crisis? If you had bought at the peak and sold at the bottom (unlikely for a retirement account), you'd have lost at most 50% of your value. Holding on 5 more years and you'd be totally recovered.
I sometimes take solace in political issues, that “at least the people who believe that will eventually die”.

If that stops being the case it will lead to more political action. And potentially more force. Not sure if that’s good or bad for society.
Whoever flagged this: why did you flag??
The arrest happened because of the change in foreign policy concerning china by Trump. It's meant to send a message and apply pressure on the chinese and on iran. This has nothing to do with the rule of law no more than north koreans arresting christian evangelists and tourists is about the rule of law.

There is no misunderstanding. Everyone involved knows exactly what is going on. It's international politics. The only question is how this is resolved. Will it escalate or will the US and china achieve a compromise?
With respect, how should I think about them? Just dream up whatever I want? Okay. My Paleolithic people ate mostly fish, and supplemented with breadfruit and coconuts. Is that right? You don't have any idea, because you weren't there.

Also, WHICH Paleolithic people? I must imagine that those people ate varied diets that were contingent on their locality. People on the tundra would maybe not be eating so many nuts.

Encouraging people to construct their diet by imagining the past is a useless exercise.
For context, Victor Mair is one of the foremost Sinologists in the English speaking world.

> An impressive amount of traffic on the internet in these areas is being carried out in English, and parents are eager to have their children start learning English at younger and younger ages.

This was also true in the 1920's. Lin Yu Tang is probably the best known example: a Chinese author, living in China, who wrote his essays and novels in English. He was also heavily involved in the Romanization projects of the day. Like modern attempts, it foundered because of the forces that wanted one Chinese language in spite of reality (I had a good citation for this that I cannot find right now, I apologize). You either a) accept that there are lots of languages that have a place at the table in such an endeavor, b) bar everyone from the table except for a specific language and impose that everywhere, or c) give up and continue the ruse hidden behind the ideograms.

What's really weird is that the Japanese continue to use the kanji, hiragana, and katakana when they do have one language, most of their population knows the Roman alphabet, and the language fits better in the Roman alphabet than in the native syllabaries.

But then, who am I to talk? English's spelling hasn't made sense for centuries.
Newspaper are an excellent example as well.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-03-26/alden-...
I have a second recommendation: Since Nancy Grace Roman has also died, it's not clear whom the bar is for. Possibly for both? It would be nice if there was a way to find out. Maybe something in the footer, or as you say, by making something clickable.

I have this problem with flags at half-mast in my town, also. It's at half-mast quite often, but people seldom know why.
Any language with networking in the standard library should have a data type for IP addresses. There's no good reason for API bindings for database libs to not use them, and no good reason for you to not use them even if you're not using a database.
You are now largely placing the effort to fix the problem on the victims.

Sometimes the platform really is the problem. It’s the old mean rime before dick issue, if you let people share content you will see verious kinds of content. Nintendo for example gets around this by limiting what messages you can send to other people.

I am not saying it’s nessisarily appropriate for collages, but it is a real issue schools need to deal with.
Some people wouldn't dare speak to their former employers, let alone help them, if they won the lottery. Death or not, winning the lottery can be just as effective in getting rid of someone.
Who will win the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination?
$3K gets you a crank for a niche application advertised as "the finest Corvair crankshaft available, showcasing meticulous attention to detail and surface finish".

A (reground) 50-year old cast crank sounds like a poor substitute in aviation applications.
I have seen the product development and manufacturing processes in one of the Chinese sites of the second largest CM in the world. They sure know how to develop and build products no worse than any other nation. On the other hand, I've worked with a factory there which cuts corners at every opportunity (the path of least resistance) and requires someone on ground to communicate what is the expected end result.
>Why should something be banned because someone somewhere might be offended or their "brain might break"

Certain activities are banned in sports. People playing American football wear helmets; you can't stamp on your opponent's head during wrestling; you can't do high tackles in rugby.

And certain activities are banned in speech, even in the US. In this case credible threats of violence were made and the University (wrongly) said that they couldn't block those because of 1st ammendment.