skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Football coaches are helping students achieve their dreams.

Math teachers are living out hell - teaching a broken curriculum to students who don't understand why they have to suffer through it.

Name 5 superstar athletes. Name 5 superstar scientists. Fix that first, the rest will follow.
Apparently the co-founders met while in Lithuania: https://money.cnn.com/2016/04/22/news/economy/coal-workers-c.... Given the overall tone of this article I’m guessing it was a vacation dressed up as a business trip.
You're assuming fish and seafood and quality goods. Fish is known to have lots of heavy metals for instance.
Or you could attribute that to Hanlon’s razor and explain their stupidity as them trying to simply appear modern thus spending money on “new” things.

Not everything is so black and white.
I have two recommendations for you Duckietown (https://www.duckietown.org) and AWS DeepRacer (https://aws.amazon.com/deepracer).

Hope that helps!

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because they didn't have a neo nazi on their board of directors. do you have any more questions?
I would expect it to be similar to native widgets. After all, native widgets still need to be rendered somehow.
Name This Fallacy
Desktop development was a dream with Delphi but Microsoft decided to compete against it and then undermine it instead of supporting it. Not just a dick move, but DaF.
What if they were made of lead? Or do you need a thick layer of lead to shield from ionizing radiation?
https://github.com/imperador/chromefy does a good job at that.

After trying it out and looking into it more, as well as trying out a normal Chromebook, Chrome OS just doesn't seem very interesting to me. You can't even disable mouse acceleration or set a hostname, and the devices are stuck on the same kernel forever. Bit of a let down, although the A/B root is nice.
It's kind of true that you can't transfer all rights in the US, where while you can nominally transfer all rights, any such transfer can be reclaimed 35 or 40 years, with the required notice of he reclamation provided after 25 or 30 years.
That seems to assume that Bitfinex can repay them, which is in no way clear.

If Bitfinex can't cover the loss, they're insolvent. If everyone redeemed their Tether, it's not a delay it's "you're not getting all of your money back"

As Bitfinex's finances are far from transparent, it's not clear if they're insolvent or not...
What always amazed me about Cambridge Analytica is that the media onslaught only started almost a year (cant reclal excactly but a long time) after the presentation was shared online, it already garnered quite some views when I saw i for the first time. I remembered watching the entire presentation and was amazed by the depth of it all, but amazed as well how almost noone else seemed to care about the presentation.

I couldn't find any news agencies reporting on it whatsoever and I didn't understand why. I still have a hard time to believe that it took so long for the media attention to catch on.
Note: if you want a meaningful discussion about physician salaries, you need to be discussing lifetime income after tax and after debt repayment, and compare this metric to other professions. Comparing the yearly salary of a vascular surgeon with 10-15 years of post-high school education, training, and compounding debt interest to the yearly salary of a junior developer ignores the very different lifetime shape of the careers.

Any substantial change to the pay structure for physicians needs to address the cost of education and training, and not screw over a large cohort of physicians saddled with debt who see a massive pay cut. They will significantly oppose any attempted changes that don't address these two things.

Doctors in Europe are paid a good bit less than here in the US, but their education is paid for (and then some) by the state.
Given how Carver Mead is a father of neuromorphic computing, a more relevant book would be https://www.amazon.com/Analog-VLSI-Neural-Systems-Carver/dp/...
The entire point of the article is to make them more comparable.

Learning the basics of snowboarding is the equivalent of learning how to count or do basic arithmetic. Most everyone is capable of counting and finds it immediately useful, as soon as they have money and see prices of things.

You're comparing snowboarding 101 to advanced math, of course they're different. Most people will not be able to do advanced snowboarding either, nor will they be motivated to do it.
>Cambridge Analytica's impact on 2016 is significantly overstated.

What about the other 100 elections in the other 30 countries that were claimed to be won by SCL Elections, CA's parent company?

edit - and what do you think of CA's effect on Brexit? Am in the UK, so have been thinking about CA in light of that, more than any involvement they had with Trump.
Wasn't for me
Same is true in the US.
Targeted ads are extremely effective, in general. You'll never see a scientific study because nobody in ad space wants targets to realize this.

I used to run a campaign so well targeted that we had an 8% buy rate. That is, 8% of the people that saw the ad not only clicked, they actually bought the product.

Google charged us $35 for every click but the product was so expensive we still made a killing.

Targeted advertising needs to be banned for the good of society. It's evil, inisidious. All about trying your best to manipulate the worst traits of human nature for profit.

I can pretty easily find out if you're an addict, ex con, a gambler, in debt, illegal immigrant, bad English, maybe a minority. I'll find something you're probably insecure about and use that to sell you shit.

Also, I don't wanna waste money showing my ads to poor people. Can't do that directly, but there's plenty of proxies. Just add a bunch of "interests" to your audience. Things Like horse racing, wine collecting, yachts, expensive rugs.

I wish I was kidding, but everyone does this on targeted advertising platforms. It's a discrimination minefield, but since you use proxy characteristics for everything and everyone covers their eyes it's totally fine.
That is a false equivalence. You are spreading lies by equating two very different things.

> Cambridge Analytica was not the 1st time this was done.

is not supported by the link you supplied. If you want to equate the two, then go ahead and do it, but you'll need much better sources than that.

CA/Trump is very different from what Obama's campaign did.
This. Also did they work with them for only 2 months in at least a 400 person company.
> The artificial behavior would be fine if the pilots actually knew it was artificial and how it was being done.

If I remember correctly, the behavior you promote as "fine" is forbidden by the regulators, and not accidentally.
In what respect. During teaching you constantly have to evaluate your students to establish feedback so you can adjust your teaching. Evaluation is an inherent part of teaching.

IME high-school teachers (my parents, wifes parents, and all my parents friends are teachers) could always predict the grade a student would get -- though sometimes public predictions were given differently as a motivator "you need to put a bit more effort in to get a C [minimum pass many employers used to look for]".

Maybe if you're seeking objectivity?
How did the Civ guy drive himself nuts? That game seems pretty tame in comparison. If it's "I got PTSD because the violence was too real!" that would fit the article, but seems a little unlikely. If it's "I worked 80 hours a week every week until I ended up in the hospital", then that makes sense, and is all too common in the industry.
Big Tech CEOs, 3 ways of spinning privacy
An Easier-to-Use Sine Bar
Coding jobs in Appalachia...wow I've heard it all.

The people living in these places are still semi-barbaric, they need a long civilizing process before they can cut it in the modern world, 2 months long boot-camps is definitely not going to do this.
It's a process that should start from childbirth.
Well, if the bootcamp is going to spend 3 months teaching you how to make a website using the industry-standard tools and frameworks, you're going to know absolutely shit at the end.

Consider a typical front-end developer setup - with IDE/smart editor, linters, transpilers, packers, package managers, project generators. These are all useful tools, but to be even a marginally competent developers, you have to know what they do and why. Otherwise, you'll be completely lost when some default changes. You'll be flabbergasted when you discover that the project structure you're used to isn't "how the web is made", but just an opinionated pattern that was sort-of fashionable at the time you were learning.

I've seen this problem happen with code camps teaching people RoR some years ago; I believe it now happens with Node/React.
> they did the exact same thing at the exact same time.

They did not do the "exact same thing" at all. You are spreading lies using logical fallacies and that causes harm to the community here; please stop. Your false equivalence, presented without evidence, is harmful.
Google Announced All the Android Q Features
The Gameboy & in fact, all games consoles completely passed me by - my experience of hand-held gaming was Donkey Kong and TomyTronic. Now I'm going to have a chance to see what I missed out on - sort of :)
His immateriality is immaterial :)

The point is he exists and his existence cannot be falsified (while immaterial) but his existence can still be confirmed.

Let's call him person X. So, the statement "person X exists" is empirically meaningful even though it cannot be falsified.
Tint – minimal terminal styling module for go
This is quite a bizarre article coming from someone who exerts virtually complete control over the rules in Ethereum.
Getting started guide available here - https://ashishshekar.com/projects/tint/
I was reading an interesting Twitter thread on why Trump is spending insane amounts on ads on FB right now (roughly $500k a week!) with many purposefully breaking Facebook’s own guidelines on what’s acceptable. Basically the person was saying Trump is playing a game of chicken with Facebook daring them to remove them so he can play the victim card and claim bias against conservatives. And if they don’t take them down then he gets to spread ads that clearly violate the company’s policy and make them look hypocritical either way.
But how can it not come down to judgment calls? We're essentially trying to define the contour of a new right. If we stick with the axiomatic approach, then it feels like we can only end up essentially right back where we are now - data collected by companies is theirs to do with as they like.

FWIW are you sure it would be a race to the bottom (companies going to the least-restrictive state) ? In the context of salestax/cookie-nexus, I would have hopes that it would be a race to the top (users benefiting from being in a more-restrictive state). Which is why I'd think the worry would be every random service demanding to verify your address to keep you from claiming to be in the more restrictive states.
> An adjustment in stick pressure is not a notable new threat, they just need to be trained for the plane's behavior.

It seems that what you claim is "not a new threat" is actually forbidden by the regulations, because it was recognized to be a threat.
Didn't something similar happen with Obama's campaign and social media? I don't remember any sort of outcry in that case.
The pin on signal is not secure at all. easy to brutefoce bypass on existing signal users
A reporter wouldn't reveal his source. Then police came to his door with guns
what's wrong with him posting ads? not allowed?
No (since High Sierra IIRC)
Check out https://pyre.chat (pre-alpha) and signal-weechat for a non-electron based desktop client that won't nom all your ram.

https://github.com/thefinn93/signal-weechat

Signal makes for a decent SMS replacement, IMO they have put little effort into being a group chat competitor. Some bots like https://git.callpipe.com/yosl/repost4privacy can make groups more user friendly, but group management is still poor.

Edit: added last paragraph about groups.
In this specific case, however we’re talking about Mali which is a modern nation. The borders aren’t the same but that’s true of many nations which still get mentioned by name.
It seems like they're following the "Donald Trump" strategy of publicity: (1)do something scandalous (2)get picked up by mainstream media for a cycle of handwringing/counter-handwringing, (3)profit (in form of outsize impact): you have the left angry, the right banding together in indignation, and the truly undecided unsure if what they're seeing is this "fake news" they've heard about. No billions required.
Reminds me of Google Web Toolkit (GWT) back in the early 2000s. All of a sudden Google lost interest and kind of pulled the plug. This technology seems too risky for me to use in production right now.
On a slightly related note: I've never been able to get into the "start your day with a cold shower" thing, and find myself skeptical of its health benefits. I find that I need a very warm shower to massage my muscles, while a cold shower leaves them cramped and sore, reducing my ability to heal from exercise and engage in extensive physical activities through the week.
How am I not right? I'm saying exactly that. That a PWA will be much more lightweight, compared to native apps that are unnecessarily large.
Yeah, sorry - a modicum of sugar is allowed :)

(I love my Saturday morning Turkish)
It really did seem to lose something after MK3 and never seemed to get it back. MK9 seemed to get the closest out of all the newer ones to that old feel, at least for me, although the X-ray bone breaking special moves it introduced got too long and annoying after you did them every single match. Seems like they've doubled down on those and they've just gotten worse with MKX and MK11.
I'd say that simply suggests boot camps for people without STEM backround should likely take longer.

(Best, they should take as long as they need to until the student demonstrates competence, but that would break the "pay up-front, train a fixed amount of time, get a nice job" business model / marketing strategy.)
As someone who worked extensively with Dart in a previous role, I'm not sold on Flutter.

For the vast majority of use cases, JavaScript (or TypeScript) is going to be a better solution than Dart.

Like it or not, JavaScript is the #1 player on the web and if you're trying to scale and share resources or code at all, you want your engineers to be proficient in JS. Yes, Dart is similar, but it's not JS. And it's not _just_ the language: it's the ecosystem. Linting, formatting, package managers, debugging issues, Googling problems, Stack Overflow answers, etc.

Also - Guess how much of that Dart specific knowledge was useful in my current role? None. It's gonna be hard to hire devs who want to work on Dart IMO.

My opinion: You can have Android, iOS, Web & Desktop with 95%+ code sharing between them using React Native + React Native Web -> https://github.com/devhubapp/devhub
This is extraordinarily generous of github, but I don't think having a hundred maven repositories is a good idea. We have central and a process for putting signed artifacts there
Big talk, no walk. They didn't succeed in building a piece of software that would allow more economical targeting than Facebook already has with its custom audience system. If they helped win, which I would be intensely skeptical of, it's because they ran digital ads at all in places that weren't accustomed to doing so, but their supposed tool for targeting didn't help.
Interestingly, not for the newer versions of OS X http://osxdaily.com/2018/07/18/get-telnet-macos/
I find Signal on Android handy since it can be used for sms as well.
Are you speaking as a Googler/Xoogler? They come out with impressive projects like Kube and their build system, I would be surprised if their in house stack can really be described entirely as "tech debt".
So, after the 6 months of "grace period", does only students with and a minimum wage get to pay it? I thought you just had to start paying after 6 months.
If you use them constantly. For example, most of my Gmail use is on an android device, which has a radically different UI than the web mail. When I use the web mail, probably once a month or so, I have to use tool tips every time because I've forgotten which tiny grey on grey button is reply, which is spam, etc.
When Lower Load Triggers Higher Latencies
What’s more secure? Dot notation or bracket notation (JavaScript)
> Their MacOS desktop app insists on updating multiple times a day.

They got the memo on pushing to production several times a day.
Telegram is a native Qt app written in C++. It's very smooth because of it
Advertising a painkiller in a hospital is also targeted advertising. The question is whether digital is somehow dangerously more effective than other forms (which are ostensibly considered "safe"). I m not surprised by your data point, you are obviously selling something to very specific to people who really need it, but this says nothing about the ability to change people's opinion on something.

And as counterpoint, if it was really so effective as you claim, why haven't we seen huge increases in ad spending lately?
Greenhouse gas emission factors for recycling of source-segregated waste materials

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092134491...

"With the exceptions of soil, plasterboard, and paint, the recycling of source-segregated materials resulted in net GHG savings"
One thing to keep in mind, you don't owe your current company anything. (Well assuming you don't have a signing bonus or something)
Somehow we got a culture where it is ok for a company to fire people in a heartbeat but it isn't ok for them to leave in a heartbeat.
Do what is right for you. This isn't something we can answer. Is the compensation significantly better? Do you like the people you are working with, what you are working on, where you are working? What is the work life balance like? How is your current commute?

Finally I'm not sure why you want an MBA, but i don't think having Facebook on your resume is going to help you get into an MBA anymore than any other job.
I went to a bootcamp. I won't say which one. It was in a major city, and it was a residential program (anybody who was in the bootcamp but not local lived together in apartments included in the cost of the program). The program was structured beginning with a quick review of language basics (you were expected to know JavaScript, HTML, and CSS to a reasonable degree before the course began) and layouts, then moved on to Angular (this was a few years ago during MEAN stack hyper) and its associated patterns and best practices, then Node.js APIs and Mongo (the program has since shifted to PostgreSQL instead). Along the way, students were given assignments to augment these areas, such as reimplementing popular javascript libraries (like Underscore) against a test suite. The mid-point of the course culminated with presenting a solo project to the class, which was a good indicator of who was and who wasn't excelling. By this point, several students had dropped out and returned home or just stopped attending. After this, students were funneled into groups, with the higher performing students clustering together. The groups were given suggestions for projects to work on, typical web applications built on a combination of your own backend and third-party APIs. My group's project, for example, was a hybrid mobile budgeting application using Plaid and APN/GCM for push notifications. We had an exploratory phase where we tested the limits of the Plaid API (response times, features, webhooks, etc.) and determined user stories and requirements, then had stand-up meetings every morning and worked off of wireframes and ERD diagrams that we had designed. We were required to use git versioning so that we would inevitably experience merge conflicts and integration issues. There was about a week towards the end of the program that was focused on practice interviews (though these were admittedly somewhat half-assed) and resumes, in addition to the daily toy problems. At the end of the program, recruiters and local businesses were invited to see group and individual projects at a showcase day and this led to interviews for most of the students.

A "Hi I'm Bob" page seems like it would not be the product of an actual full-time bootcamp, but maybe a short part-time bootcamp? Even the relatively lower achievers were capable of hooking up some sort of front end for a public API by the mid-point of the course, putting it on github and getting it up on Heroku.

That said, many of the people I attended with had higher education or experience. My group was a former QA engineer, a bioengineering bachelor, an MBA, another biologist, and myself (Masters in Information Systems). By the end, we were relying more on the members of our group for disbursing useful information than on the instructional infrastructure of the bootcamp. I think subsequent jobs came mostly through networking between the groups of whoever was left by the end rather than the bootcamp itself.
Holographic reduced representation in AI and cognitive science (2004) [pdf]
What kind of ML research are you doing?
For people struggling with paying their student loans, their federal loans offer the option of being able to go on an income based repayment plan[0]. I haven't done it personally.

The biggest problem with the US higher education system is that the universities have very little skin in the game. The government more or less prints money and 'loans' it out to students and props up the universities. If the government wasn't propping up the universities there wouldn't be a 1.3 trillion dollar student loan bubble[1] and the degrees that aren't worth the paper they're printed on would disappear.

[0]:https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/understand/plans/in...
[1]:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-17/u-s-stude...
Also, why is it on Google Play Store but not FDroid? Tryin' to protect my privacy, here.
I always like to have a look at what is being usurped, when choosing fun/apposite ports: -

% grep 1989 /etc/services
tr-rsrb-p3 1989/tcp # cisco RSRB Priority 3 port
tr-rsrb-p3 1989/udp # cisco RSRB Priority 3 port
#mshnet 1989/tcp # MHSnet system
#mshnet 1989/udp # MHSnet system
Yeah I used to enjoy the sub too, some interesting discussions that were usually polite. You are 100% correct it was overnight, there was nothing organic about that.
Very timely article, as I'm currently sitting in the doctors office waiting room to be seen for a sprained ankle.

> The resulting vasoconstriction from cooling, not only reduces tissue oxygenation with necrosis if extreme, but inhibits the inflammatory response needed to initiate healing.

Wondering if this means applying heat would speed up healing due to increased blood flow.
I wish Google would develop protocols instead of frameworks, and only then put Dart (and others) on top. This way people would be able to choose their language on top, e.g. I'd love to use Elm, for one. No runtime errors, no mutability, opinionated built-in FRPish architecture. Dart has none of that.
"Closed-source stuff is just a black box expected to do magic"

Open Pilot is about as much black box as all the other self driving applications. The interfacing is open source.

The machine learning is closed source. I've looked into the repos and didn't find any sign of the actual hard self driving parts, as it were last time I checked comma.ai.

But sure, you can tune the steering P-controller for your Subaro if you would like too.

https://github.com/commaai/openpilot/blob/devel/selfdrive/ca...

apply_steer = apply_std_steer_torque_limits(apply_steer, self.apply_steer_last, CS.steer_torque_driver, P)

Or maybe you can patch using "volatile int" for thread concurrency in the machine model inerface (I guess it is that).

https://github.com/commaai/openpilot/blob/devel/selfdrive/vi...