skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's what I did when was in my late teens & early 20s, and taught myself.

1. Copy famous artworks that you admire -- even just drawing in a notebook is great, to start.

2. Once you can copy art that you really like, start adding your own flair to things, develop a personal style

3. Experiment more & more

Just like with programming -- there are a ton of great books about how to paint, how to mix colors, etc.

You can buy books and work through them, whatever is most fun.

There are 2 key points, though:

* The only way to get better is by painting... you'll have to paint a lot

* You'll want to paint a lot +only+ if you're having fun.

So don't worry too much. Just grab some paints and enjoy yourself. It's a great hobby.

And try everything you can -- watercolor, oil, gouache, ink brush, encaustic, using the palette knife only, mixing with collage, pastels, all will teach you something. Just be consistent, and you will get good.
That biases admissions for people who can afford extra tutoring and preparation for the test.
> community

Um, welfare, disability, social security, medicare, ... and all of the other "health and human services" related governmental programs are literally our entire country coming together as a community, to "provide for them".

God, you're so close. /r/selfawarewolves is calling you.
How to compare small versions that wrap around
Out of curiosity, how does one go about blacklisting an ASN?
I see you got some downvotes, but no really this is true. Diversity is a frequent selling point, and you get a chance to meet people from around the world at university. Clubs, sports, frats, job networking, are all socially driven. Some people need the social feedback to drive their studies; we're social animals so there's really no shame in that.

Sometimes though, we need instruments to do science, so that's another major purpose for undergrad work. Occasionally. But if the undergrads decided to all take online courses one day, it would sure help the grad get work done.
Yes. Case in point, the daughter of the lady in my town who ran the SAT and SSAT prep courses got all 800s. ALL 800s. She was smart, but not that smart. It is possible to be completely prepared for the SATs.
>> Thank you for being a patron of the Dallas Morning News. Unfortunately, our site is unavailable to European Union visitors

Please learn some basic geography. Norway (and Switzerland) are not in the EU.
Ok, I’m all for strong security and better SSL infrastructure, but the response to this issue was just totally overboard. The issue - one fixed bit in a 64-bit randomized serial field - does not compromise the security of these certs in any meaningful way, especially not before their natural expiry dates anyway.

The disruption caused by reissuing everything surely exceeded the disruption of this theoretical issue. I guess, on the plus side, we get to find out whether the PKI infrastructure is ready for a mass revocation/replacement event...
The real sauce in my infrastructure is simply 'generational' storage. No more clean installs with a backup dir of the system. All my data volumes get mounted into my machine/s as needed. I can swap out all my hard drives with new ones without any downtime too which is nice. I could reinstall my desktop each morning and it would barely set me back 15 minutes. If I also properly stored my general system settings as code (cfengine, puppet, chef, etc) I could practically just launch ephemeral desktop instances and have basically a native experience.
Also you can't drink gasoline, which has a ton of calories, straight up, so CICO is bullshit.

But to steel man your argument: yes, macronutrient composition obviously matters, but you can lose weight with a low calorie diet of any composition and you cannot lose weight with a high calorie, macronutriently balanced diet.
I worked for a team that did maintain a fork. It was an insane amount of effort just to keep up with the commits going in.
You're quoting the phrase "seems likely". It's not a conclusion. It's my guess at what's most probable based on what we know today.

(Also, I don't agree that we only know "wild speculation" about the Lion Air crash. The investigators have told us much about the proximate cause of the crash, even though their final investigation is not yet complete.)
Of course this would happen while I'm trying to submit my thesis at the last minute. https://twitter.com/mholt6/status/1105703745143205889
That's an orthogonal option in my opinion. It still allows you to run a full docker setup. It just influences how you run manage everything. That being said, I really like the hashicorp stack and more people should run it.
Makes you wonder how those kids managed in these top-tier schools - just fine, most likely, even if completely unaware.

And then you wonder if the people behind these fraudulent entrance schemes might have considered it worthwhile to leverage their position further by holding it over the parents/students in future.

Would they stoop so low?

[edit: s/Ivy-league/top-tier]
This is insane.

Between this and Tesla Autopilot I'm left speechless.
> If you must, lower standards for protected classes to even out demographics.

As a member of a "protected class" that is able to get very high SAT scores, I would be extremely pissed if that criterion was applied.
What a terrible idea. Ignoring the fact that not everyone can take the test for economic or mental health reasons, and the fact that being able to prep for this test effectively skews in favor of wealthier folks, there are so many experiences that shape us. How does learning to overcome adversity because you had to survive homelessness show up in the SAT? How does being raised in a multicultural background? How does music? The arts? Your ability to engage people around you and spark imaginations? Or your inventiveness or compassion?

There are so many types of people I would want to be around in college who might not do great in a standardized test. I'd rather have a rich set of people around with different ideas and experiences than filter down to a single test result.
Could you elaborate a bit what generational storage means? If you get a brand new machine - how does it get configured in 15 mins?
up to 10 square acres

I cannot fathom this 4 dimensional unit!
Notwithstanding other reasonable points:

> It was made more solid not recently, but 100 years ago with mechanization

100 years ago is recent for a lot of purposes. Evaluating sustainability of an agricultural practice is one of them.
I looked, it appears to be "management is braindead" so I don't have a lot more than that. I've also tweeted at them so we'll see what they come up with.
Postponement doesn't solve any problems. The Irish border issue will remain intractable.

And not leaving after all won't happen either, British pride and dreams of Empire can't handle that humiliation.

My money is on the no deal exit, even though that implies the hard border to Ireland.
That's a good point - but I don't see how there's any 'economy of scale' to the racket.

An individual cow has a certain cost, produces a certain amount of milk, and as you say, yields a certain subsidy.

The unit costs of that scale up and down fairly linearly - i.e. it doesn't explain why it's better or worse for smaller or bigger farmers.

Now - if there was some sort of 'economy of scale' in this kind of farming, i.e. if you can reduce the overhead of each cow by scaling up, well, then it's possible that the profitability threshold is somewhere near a large amount of cows, in which case, smaller producers go out of business.

That said, in the later case ... well it is all about efficiencies and optimization - not subsidies.

In short - unless the 'big farms' get some kind of special subsidy due to their size, then this actually is about optimization, not about subsidies.

If the subsidies are 'per cow' then it doesn't seem that smaller farms are worse for wear than bigger farms.

Instead of subsidies, imagine if there were simply higher demand for milk, and the gov. stopped the subsidies. Imagine that the revenue per cow increased to the exact amount of subsidy. Well, in this case, the economics would be net neutral, totally the same situation, financially. Well, the smaller farmers are going out of business in this situation, and not the bigger ones. Ergo - this is about scale and optimization - not about subsidies.
As opposed to South America?

You are dumb as rocks.
Great point, would love an answer to this...
A perfect score on the modern SAT is not very impressive. The bar has been lowered considerably in the last 40 years.

[edit: seems I was very clearly wrong about this]
yep, I posted with a different one.
>Seriously, I was staying at the Trump hotel in Chicago (before Trump ran for president -- before I ever gave much thought about Donald Trump). Anyway, there was a looping video on the TV and she was inviting guests to stay at any one of their other Trump hotels around "North America and Canada." It was at that moment I realized that she thought North America was some kind of Northern area of America. I no longer wonder how she got into Wharton.

Who is "she"?
Which would be fine IF the SAT were a useful predictor of future academic or life success.

Since it's not, we could either 1) pick something that is a better predictor, or 2) give up and use a lottery.
Is your statement true, and that is what they are fixing with the software update, or is that just your conjecture?

I have not read in detail yet about the proposed update to MCAS they are working on
> Allow people to challenge students on their score forcing them to retake the test, or randomly sample 1% for a retest.

You want to implement a challenge round for the SAT? Over 2 million kids took the SAT last year[1], many of them for the second or third time. Your proposal forces a kid to be required to retest if they're arbitrarily challenged by someone else. Or it uses a lottery to select tributes who will have to retake the exam again.

The SAT is an incredibly stressful part of an incredible stressful stage of life. Kids already take it several times to improve their scores. Your proposal adds even more elements which are out of parents' and kids' control that can potentially wreak havoc on their time and mental health. It's basically the nuclear option of attempts to improve the SAT.

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1. https://reports.collegeboard.org/sat-suite-program-results/c...
Time to register for a competitor email service that doesn't use google infrastructure. Live.com, maybe?
The title was changed; I can't fault the HN Mod team since they were my coworkers and they're a very solid bunch.
It is super convenient and I love being able to do research at my leisure with the ballot right in front of me--helps keep me from being lazy and voting a party line. The only downside is having weeks to procrastinate about it has caused me to miss a couple votes since we started doing it this way.
likely.
My point was just there are obvious ways to prevent bribery. And considering the amount we burn on higher education, spending much more on tests and verification does seem like a much much better use of money.
Good thing https://send.firefox.com/ was launched today :)
Wow, I can imagine how much fun it is to debug such properties.
Google Maps (specifically Street View) is showing up as a black screen for me as well.
OK, it's been updated.
Except I'd still have to send the link in our email thread!
In Australia the final year 12 exams, which are used as University entrance ranks are standardized. It works exceptionally well.

https://www.uac.edu.au/future-applicants/atar
Goodhart's law: "Once a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
But then how can you follow conversations? Do they somehow only block background noise?
Maybe text the link?
Speaking as a former embedded and now in the infosec space, I think a zero day in VxWorks is trivial. It was used because it is easily hackable (originally in the fun sense now the bad sense).
I don't have their numbers :(
Half of the bribery scandal was cheating on SATs, so the more you emphasize test scores the more you elicit that kind of behavior.

The College Board and its executives make millions selling test prep materials and running a monopoly over US higher education. There's a good chance we're only beginning to discover the inherent corruption here.
In order to paint, you must first learn how to draw. There is a ton of misinformation on the internet and in literature, especially the famous book - "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workbook" [1]. This is a completely wrong way to learn how to draw. It gets you to point where your results may look pleasing but your foundation is going to be weak and it will fall apart.

Let me explain.

In order to draw convincingly, you must first internalize the object in 3 dimensions. You have to learn how to "think" in 3D - more specifically, given an object, you must be able to draw it from any angle, with or without foreshortening, and with any arrangement of illumination and with any camera focal length. Start with simple shapes - they're boring but that is a __must__. Then, start stacking primitives such as cones, cubes, cylinders, etc. Draw 20 different views of the same setup of primitives. Do this everyday for 6 months and you will pickup how to think in "3D" so to speak.

If you follow [1], you won't be able to do this. You will be able to copy a photograph or illustration by recognizing shapes but that only goes so far. If someone asks you to draw the same thing from a slightly different camera angle, you're lost.

Learning how to paint then adds another layer about color harmony, texture and stroke style. But fundamental drawing skills are __critical__ in order to paint well. All bets are off if you're trying to do abstract art or non-representational art.

You can take Jeffrey Watt's classes or a full course [2] or follow a few channels such as Sycra [3] on Youtube.

[1] https://smile.amazon.com/Drawing-Right-Side-Brain-Workbook/d...
[2] http://jeffreyrwatts.com/
[3] https://www.youtube.com/user/Sycra
> I would be extremely pissed if that criterion was applied.

It isn't a matter of "if"...that is the standard now, lower scores for certain demographics...that is why I don't put Asian on anything...as a mixed-race Filipino, I can pass as some kind of Latino which is what I now "identify" with since it helps me in nearly every case imaginable...it kind of sucks, but that is the world we now live in.
>Because a university is a nonprofit that exists only for the purpose of improving the world. (Not necessarily the employees, who work there as a job, but it's why universities exist.)

For something like fifteen years of my life I owed well over a hundred thousand dollars of non-bankruptable debt because of the fees this "non-profit" charged.

A "non-profit" university exists for many, many reasons. Giving the dean a million dollar salary is one of those reasons. Student education is likely third or fourth on the list.
Students have slowly been reframed as customers - it's no surprise that admissions may turn into form of customer screening.
Ah, there it is. The "this generation has it so much easier" mentality.

Got any citations to back this up? Or just feel like grousing about millennials?
Fairly, but the OSCAR protocol was reverse engineered pretty well, and so you could get on AIM through Pidgin, or Adium, or Meebo, etc etc etc
What do you know about the way we publish? David from Hacker Noon here --- Most stories on Hacker Noon are not published by me, they are published by one of these four other editors https://hackernoon.com/meet-the-new-hacker-noon-editors-b375...

Every Hacker Noon story is reviewed by editor. On sites where anyone can publish, I'd guess less than 10% of stories are reviewed by an editor... but who knows?

I heard 7 of the 50 most clapped stories in 2018 are on hackernoon.com https://twitter.com/search?q=most%20clapped%20hackernoon&src... but I don't trust claps these days b/c of the evidence I've seen showing how clap counts display differently for different site visitors. If I go to hackernoon.com right now, "Blockchain Empowering Women Around the World" displays as zero claps on the hackernoon.com homepage, but I am following the author and when I click on the story many people have clapped it... https://hackernoon.com/blockchain-empowering-women-around-th... But if claps are to be trusted as a measure of quality, Hacker Noon outperforms the vast majority Medium posts: https://schleiss.io/2018/07/28/average-hackernoon-claps/

BTW, greatly appreciate the kind words about doing more initiative with my life! I thought a top 5k site in the world was cool, but it is small potatoes when you're neighbors are making twice baked. As the kids say, "CHEEEEEEESE"
I lived sandwiched in between two crackhouses for years, and my own sister and brother smoked crack (later my sister died ultimately from heroin). And? My father was an alcoholic and alcoholics have been destroying families for years.

Locking up 1 out of 4 African American males for drug possession or addict isn't going to fix the problem, it only makes it worse.
Voice Search – Here Are the Reasons Startups Should Adopt It
I get a popup/notification once a month or so, when on wifi. It just asks if I want an update. There are settings to automatically update offline maps and one to control the automatic downloading of offline maps.

Seems pretty reasonable to me, after all roads do change over time.

My main motivation is to make nav less bandwidth intensive (I pay per GB with Google FI) and to ensure I have maps even if I don't have a good data connection.
Before proceeding to eventually learn the modern SQL finally and write a couple of stored procedures to stop pumping terabytes of almost-raw data to your "application server" code to be filtered by ORM that is too complex to understand, and in the same time still too stupid to use half of the features your DBMS provides.
What convinced you that it was Russian forces and not Ukrainian?
Excellent mathematics in secondary schooling and lots of folks with degrees but not high paying jobs is my guess.
No matt, you have not explained it at all from an economics perspective - in fact, your own stated facts don't support the notion that bigger farms have some kind of leverage from the subsidies over smaller farms.

A 'unit subsidy' doesn't at all help larger entities more than smaller ones - there must be some other dynamic at play.

A unit subsidy should be the economic equivalent of broadly elevated demand.

Either 1) larger farms simply do have some economies of scale, thus flushing out smaller ones - in which case subsidies are not super relevant and this would be happening anyhow or 2) there's some kind of direct advantage the larger producers have in yielding a per-unit subsidy, I can't imagine what that would be, but you seem to have a lot of expertise so perhaps you can elucidate.
Sorry, Bill tripped on the server cable
With respect, what in the world are you talking about? A casual search on the topic shows that 2 million people took the SAT last year. Of those 2 million, fewer than 500 achieved a perfect score.

Being part of the 0.025% isn't impressive to you?
Seems to me a location specific breakdown as all services I tried like gmail, photos and youtube all are working for me
And the cut off for course admissions are adjusted up and down based on supply and demand.
I don’t understand. You mention a number of your friends became drug addicts and then blame the gov’t for trying to fight it. Or do you think the gov’t created those addicts? I’m a bit confused.
I selfishly love standardized testing because I have mostly done well on it. but SAT prep is ABSOLUTELY effective. I have my own personal anecdotal experience as well of that of my peers, but there are countless prep courses that boast impressive scores (unless they are lying through false advertising, but I believe it). The price of private tutoring and multiple rounds of simulated live exams is prohibitive and an absolute difference maker.
Same thing in neighbouring Malaysia. Everyone operates under the assumption that you are contactable via WhatsApp. Recently I even had doctor and car service appointments booked through WhatsApp.
For me a long time ago an upgrade meant buy new hard drives, do a reinstall, and copy either the entire old drive or main data dirs onto the computer.

Now my data volumes are separate from the system. I used raid for redundancy on the physical machine with another drive for differential filesystem level backups (snapshot every day for 60 days with only differential storage cost, see rdiff-backup). When I upgrade I just add new drives, assign them into the raid, wait for them to sync, and remove the old drives. By generational I mean my storage and how I do things aren't going to change when I reset things like they used to. All my data is outside the system I'm using and must be attached.

I can for example, spin up an AWS machine, run the package install commands for the apps I normally use, VPN to my fileserver and mount my home directory and project volumes, and in quite literally about 15-30 minutes have the exact same environment as I do at my house. CFEngine et al would speed that up quite a bit.
Here’s a solution. Make college free for all. Anyone with a HS diploma can get in. But, you MUST attend the classes and do the work or you’re kicked out end of semester.

Totally based on merit. No biases on income or anything else.
Isn't the difficulty tuned to produce a histogram close to that of a normal distribution? Yes it's true that the contents of the test have changed (removing analogies, and then recently circa 2016 revamping the writing/reading sections to be more like the ACT) but fundamentally it doesn't really look that different to me. In fact if anything now the reading section relies more on understanding and analysis of passages rather than just memorizing words and definitions which if anything seems like slightly raising the bar.
“75% in-state acceptance, 25% out-of-state” yet out-of-state usually pays double? Are 75% of applicants “affluent”? I’m sorry but a lot of these recent biased articles smell a bit of BS lately...
I moved to Fedora.
In Korea and Japan, they use the one test system and have the highest suicide rate among high school students. It also makes their high school lives hell and their education system lackluster at best. I would advise caution.
Please take this as helpful feedback rather than a rebuke:

None of us are entitled to upvotes or replies on HN, or indeed on any web forum.

Some people have made thoughtful replies to your comment and that's great.

Others have signalled their disapproval of your comment by downvoting.

Chances are it was just one or two people out of the thousands/millions who frequent this site, yet you criticise the entire community.

There are good reasons why complaints about downvotes are against the guidelines [1]: they make for uninteresting reading, and the time would be better spent thinking about how to express your ideas in ways that are better received.

In this case: I replied with a reason why people may have downvoted your comment on the basis that it may not be scientifically sound, but you simply dismissed that response out of hand, without providing any evidence or material from which anyone could learn anything new.

Dang recently wrote a helpful comment about HN's downvoting culture [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19214965
Some other nice intro to ML pieces on the same wiki:

Deep RL
https://skymind.ai/wiki/deep-reinforcement-learning

GANs
https://skymind.ai/wiki/generative-adversarial-network-gan

Neural Networks and DL
https://skymind.ai/wiki/neural-network-tuning

Word2vec/neural embeddings
https://skymind.ai/wiki/word2vec