skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would vote for a ban on regular church bell noise as well if I had the choice. In Germany they also ring at ungodly hours in the morning for most programmers. Just as you wouldn't be able to pass a ban on a mosque's call for prayer in Turkey, you'll have a hard time enforcing a ban on church bells in Europe. That's the reality and I wish religious freedom would extend to not being bothered by any other religion's ritualistic call for prayer/mass.

How is this in the USA? Outside certain districts in Boston, NY or the bible belt, I have this feeling there isn't regular church bell ringing going on, is there? Given the many flavors of Christianity in the US and their possibly differing schedule, this could easily turn into an annoyance, I would guess.
| went on to found WELL, an early, hugely influential online community.

Is Kevin Kelly just rewriting history now? I was a kid at the time and have only second-hand knowledge through aging hippies I used to know, but pretty sure he was brand's employee, and had heard that brand was the driving force. As someone who's been written out of the story of my own startup by a sad narcissist, this stuff really irks me.
Basic Income + Open Borders = National Suicide

This proposal probably wouldn't pass in USA as well, especially given the fact that it's easy to get a Green Card and citizenship.
You can call it an artificial neural network (ANN) as soon as you have two or more artifical neurons connected to each other. As simple as that.

A small amount of neurons might already solve some problem you're having. The XOR problem can be learned by 4 neurons connected to each other.

When you want raw images or similar as an input and have it be classified into 100 classes (e.g. look up CIFAR-10 or CIFAR-100), you will need an architecture with many more neurons.

After all, ANN are simply a tool. Depending on the task, that tool might need to more elaborate. And when you have all those different possible architectures, you want a common way of naming them. Labels such as Deep Learning are simply nomenclature of talking about certain groups of artificial neural networks.
>The majority of population isn't in place to make honest, rational choices unaffected by feelings, culture, religion

In a real democracy, they're not supposed to either. If their culture, religion, etc is important to them, it should definitely affect their decisions, and that's the democratic way. Same for their feelings.

Democracy is not about voting what's "right" (who is to say? you?) but about getting what the majority wants. And there's nothing unhonest about letting culture, religion and feelings affecting your vote.

What you describe as your ideal democracy where people only make "rational choices" is rather the old republican idea of sages who know better than the people (like the "founding fathers" in the US) and encode some norms forever.

"Rational" used in this sense, is totally normative -- "what I think is rational" or "what those experts say it rational and good for you", and in the end undemocratic.
There are two major sources of error. One is in using 2.7 as the value for e. That's wrong by about 0.677%, and then that's raised to the power of 54. That makes the result too big by about 44%.

Then it approximates 2^10 by 10^3, which is wrong by 2.4%. That's raised to the power of 5, and the result is too small by 12.6%.

So we divide by 1.44 and multiply by 1.28 to get the corrected answer of 7.8 * 10^67, which is extremely close to the actual answer of 8.066 * 10^67.

Finally, I used sqrt(2.pi.54) as 18, whereas it's closer to 18.42, another 2.3%. We should then get 7.8125 * 18.42/18 which is about 7.99474.

Nailed it.

Those corrections can (mostly) also be done (or at least approximated) by hand - maybe I should write a follow-up.
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Yes, that's a thing in Switzerland. http://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/politische-literatur/stochern-im-e... (German).

Even the 'Ndrangheta from Italy has a branch. http://www.thelocal.ch/20160317/mafia-suspects-refuse-to-lea...
Question, how does Switzerland avoid becoming more polarized country with so many referendum questions each year?

Do you think there is a risk passing a referendum resolution that passed just by a small margin?

I have been thinking about this since the result of Austrian presidental elections, and how more polarized the politics in Europe is becoming, while trying to figure out if there is a way how to move politics to a a place where it would strive for finding society-wide consensus and compromise on most issues.
Obligatory: "What Every Programmer Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic"

http://floating-point-gui.de/
It wasn't 2500 bucks. The text Switzerland voted on today said something like:

> 1. The Confederation has to implement a basic income.

> 2. This basic income has to be sufficient to live in dignity and participate to public life.

> 3. The basic income amount and financing are regulated by law.

Nothing regarding the exact amount. Swiss people were asked to vote on an idea, not on a specific amount.
They're voting for asylum reform, but against UBI. What's the point? In a generation, they'll have UBI.
All the trendy people have already moved off of Twitter to FB

Wait, the trendy people moved to Facebook??? Facebook is the most uncool social media destination I can think of. Are we talking about the same group of people here? It sounds like you have a very unique, shall we say, definition of 'trendy.' When I think trendy, I see people with lumberjack beards, nerd glasses, quiff hairstyles, sleeve tattoos, and fixies. (Though I'd concede that you could be right about migration to SnapChat).
ANN is a description about structure, not size.

XOR (an input layer of 2 neurons, 1 hidden layer of usually 2 neurons, and an output layer of 1 neuron) is a classic toy example of an ANN.

The minimal would probably be something like a NOT gate - input layer with 1 neuron connected directly to the output layer with 1 neuron.

In practice you either use whatever size your problem needs (for small problems) or match the network size to match the RAM amount in the video cards you're using.
I don't buy it. Even DL researchers will point to representation learning systems like word2vec, a shallow NN, as as examples of the success of DL approaches.

My take: "Deep Learning" is performative (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performative_utterance). An approach falls under the header of "Deep Learning" when used or developed by someone who identifies as a Deep Learning Researcher.
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The downside is that the people who vote are not necessarily informed about what they are voting.
The price of food in Switzerland was insane when I was there.
Are you sure about the rent? I rented a 2 bedroom, with windows on 3 sides, next to a park and public transport, and a large balcony with BBQ, for 2 months (so short term let, higher rates), 20 minutes by tram from my office near Seefeld, for 1,500 CHF/month.

The landlady did keep my deposit (sorry, "had a professional cleaning done for the exact amount of the deposit", and sent me the detailed list as proof in German which I do not speak), bringing that to 2,250 CHF/month. A quick back of the envelope on real estate inflation since then brings me to around 2,500 CHF/month (1,700 CHF/month if you ignore the deposit trick).

That's not as cheap as a small town in Europe but it's quite cheap, I think, for a major international city and definitely when you take into account the starting salaries. Vaguely remembering, a graduate from a good university starting in strategy consulting could expect 90-110,000 CHF/year in Zurich vs 35,000 GBP (49,000 CHF) in London despite higher COL and higher taxes (same companies, which may or may not start with M or B). I have no idea about the numbers in San Francisco but I bet they are not so good either.

There's other issues with working in Switzerland if you come from Anglo-Saxon big cities, but COL isn't it if you are paid locally, unless you are dealing with an employer exploiting the unemployment rate in your home country to underpay you substantially (which is definitely the case with some French speaking companies in Geneva).
Agreed. And it's so easy for uninformed residents to vote "Sure, let's issue more more and more bonds for x, y and z" without having the ability or will to make a sound decision about the state's budget.
Because its all fun and games until the "majority" suddenly realize they can just say "oh, and also, how about we vote to take all the money of that 10% here".

There is such a thing as tyranny by the minority, and tyranny by the majority. The second is in fact much easier to do, since the first requires a modicum of power & ability for someone to keep himself in that position.

The minaret thing is irrelevant, as a minaret thing, but relevant as a right to construct the things you damn like thing upon your private property.
If you worry about a high percentage of foreigners, you shocks probably stay away from Zurich or Switzerland in general … yep, Schwamendingen is apparently not where the rich live but it looks like a decent place with many green areas around and good public transport.
> 1500 CHF for a 1-bedroom apartment

That's cheap compared to London (zone 1).
If you're referring to restaurants, that is because the waitress makes around 4000 CHF per month; if you're referring to food in supermarket that is because the clerk behind the counter gets 25 CHF / hour and not 7 EUR like in Germany.
> how do you justify this preference?

One is helping the ones that are already in the country, the other one isn't.

I'm not against helping, but there is a limit.

How do you propose to help "millions" when a lot of them can't even read http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/syrian-read-englis...

> Do the prospective brown people who might want to immigrate just not count?

Sure. Let's open the doors so we have more harassment of women, homosexuals and increased Anti-semitism.

Which is funny, because some of my ancestors came from the same region that is in trouble today (maybe they were "Infidels" and were kicked out because of that, who knows)
Not sure "ungodly" is the mot juste here... :p

Anyway I've personally always found the call to prayer quite musical and beautiful.
I agree that presenters should put most of their effort into their verbal presentation. But also having the essence of what's being said displayed as text is a good enhancement. Comprehension and retention is improved when information is conveyed in multiple forms (e.g. audibly and visually). The combination can be particularly useful when the presentation is not in the audience member's first language. Also in the video you linked to, the presenter was speaking and displaying English which is not his first language and while he's quite fluent, his accent might be a barrier to some in the audience, one that may be overcome by displaying the essential points. The text can also help the hard-of-hearing.
SpaceX are working on a low orbit constellation to provide low latency satellite internet (for consumers). Presumably that could serve the purpose of an "Iridium 2"?
Didn't Duo Security already expose this?

https://duo.com/assets/pdf/out-of-box-exploitation_oem-updat...
Yes, I agree. However you should have seen the propaganda bills. http://www.dici.org/en/news/switzerland-poster-campaign-for-...

Just this leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Now as a staunchy Swiss I accept this outcome. I have to. The people have spoken. I just bemoan the construction regulation in the constitution. This goes against my juridicial instincts.

1999 we Swiss cleaned the constitution. It's the third constitution since 1848, and I am not happy to see weird rulings tainting the core regulations. It's like programming: after some time the source code gets messy.
I go to the gym each morning for a swim. Before I do I hang my crumpled shirt on a hanger, take it into the steam room and shake it for like 15 seconds, then take it into the sauna for a moment if no one is in there, then hang it in my locker. After the swim it is beautifully crease free and totally dry.

Saves ironing at home then having it crumple in my bag.
How does the 2^10 to 10^3 approximation come about? All of the others made sense to me, but I couldn't figure that one out.
Don't assume that there is any decision process. Those hardware makers are famous for not getting software. Probably the intern who wrote the downloader did not know who to talk to to get the certificate purchased.
Really hope it doesn't fade into a glorified RSS feed

I don't know, that sounds kind of good to me. RSS is a largely unrealised technology. And it's what Twitter was trying to key into at the beginning, back when they really had a vision for what the app would be.
I think in many cases there's no conscious decision not to implement TLS or code signing. It could just be that no one who cares enough about security is in a position to drive that change. There are many organizations that quite simply lack any kind of security culture.
Personally I did feel a little cheated when I realised that the article was an advertisement.

Content marketing like this blurs out what is someone's genuine opinion and what is advertisement.

I do not like it. Where I live, in Norway one has to clearly mark content marketing as advertisement or risk some steep fines.
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> are simply unable to take advantage of capabilities the rest of the world takes for granted

A major argument in favor of PACER is its high-availability. Hopefully this makes it easier to build a better system with the same high-availability but a much better UX.
It's used in a negative sense when liberals don't like the outcome of a direct democratic decision.
No because you have to look at were we came from. 10 years ago people either didn't know what it even was or was against the idea. Only small groups of people here and there even thought it as a potential solution.

Now countries like Finland is looking into it.

I am pretty confident we are going to end up there, but like many other major changes in society it takes time and thats fine.
As a Swiss I also live in a high foreigner area. My sons are playing with children from Peru, Eritrea, Ecuador, Czechia, Sri Lanka and Italy. It's a really nice place to live, there are many children. Additionally, my wife is Asian.
There are lots of other unsupervised learning methods in machine learning.
But the swiss have guaranteed health care right?

I'd like to see the USA get basic healthcare guarantee someday.

If you are a human being, you get $2000 per year in healthcare regardless of proof of income, etc. Just being a human being in need.

I hope the Bernie Sanders movement now focuses on the 26 states that are preventing health insurance for millions of people instead of trying to change the USA from the top down.
Compare 1000 with 1024.

As I say above, 2^10 is bigger than 10^3 by 2.4%. When we raise it to the power of 5 we are wrong by 12.6%.
Democratic countries should live or die on the decisions they make. I think that is the ultimate freedom.

On the whole, most developed countries have broad consensus on core issues. I don't believe gap between left and right is large enough to destroy a country, there is a lot of common ground.
2 ^ 10 = 1024.

That's one of those "shout it from the rooftops" approximations for programmers. I use it constantly.
Anecdotally, the cleaning of rented flats in Switzerland is one step down from operating theatres. (While yes the keeping the deposit is a landlord trick the world over, the reasons given are very Swiss)

A friend of mine tried to keep their deposit by cleaning it themselves ("took two days and was spotless"). Because the landlady had not got a note from a cleaning firm saying it was clean, she literally could not rent it out again. And so charged my friend for the cleaning firm to come in. They did do a better job :-)
It has an unusual use of "we" instead of "us" in a few places. "... that helps we to detect features ...". I wonder if the author originally used "you" and "your" then did a search and replace to "we" and "our" because 2nd person sounds too informal? I notice the former two words don't appear anywhere.

Re-reading it with "you" and "your" and I realize that it works just as well. I guess it's really just a fashion which person you use. It used to be 3rd for academic writing. Now it's 1st, but I guess the most informal way is still 2nd.
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Make sure you have the number generation on the more secure option. I'm still using the accounts but only my machines are whitelisted to connect to each other, plus I turned on 2FA. The next step may be to turn it on to LAN-only mode and get my VPN working properly.
Is there a shorthand for calculating how much X% of error will become when raised to the power of Y?

For relatively small powers, simple multiplication seems to give results that are close enough, e.g. 0.677% * 54 = 36.6%, and 2.4% * 5 = 12%. But this is obviously not going to work once you start raising numbers to even higher powers.
How? So far, the anecdotes are all over the place, and back date to weeks ago.
Edit: below is irrelevant, I RTFA and it's even worse than I thought

Would it be possible that UEFI does that check (against a built-in signature) instead of relying on HTTPS?
Astonishing. Is there any PC maker left that hasn't been found to be grossly negligent or actively malicious?
Yep! The addition here can overflow, too, just like in the integer case (though you'll get an infinite value instead of wraparound).
Sorry, but isn't the premise of UBI that it is paid for everyone, including children? That mother of 3 would receive $40.000, wouldn't she ?
I'm not sure what kind of relationship the US has with the country you are hoping to move to, but in my case it went like this:

- Ukrainian living in Australia on permanent residence Visa, eligible for citizenship but hadn't bothered to get it. I wanted to move to Europe.

- Went through the Australian citizenship application process. As an Australian citizen I would be eligible for a working holiday visa.

- (In the meantime) Saved up about a year's worth of living expenses from running a business in Australia.

- Also in the meantime spent a year locked away in my house building a small portfolio of games. Freelancing meant I could work largely from home and set my own hours.

- Applied for a working holiday visa to Sweden. Received approval via email in about 2 weeks.

- Moved and started applying for jobs. Started work about 2 months later.

I did try to apply for jobs remotely but that didn't work out - though I had prior experience in my chosen industry I was not senior or experienced enough to justify a company relocating me from the other side of the world. Physically being there and not scaring a company with the prospect moving expenses and arrangements helped.
Switzerland 'rejects basic income', poll projections suggest
Agreed about open borders. I'd rather focus more on removing the limitations for complete emigration. Ubi might be marginally better than the slew of welfare programs currently in existence but it doesn't solve much more than removing political inefficiencies. "Let's solve government inefficiency with another government program."
Changing the way the ID / password generation is done and requiring additional verification when a new device wants to connect to an existing TeamViewer install
I read this and had a bunch of trouble understanding. I'm mostly a Python/C++/Java programmer and quite familiar with graph algorithms. When I started reading this post, I quickly got confused by the code dives quickly into set theory and ring theory, etc.

Does using those features really help? My guess is that, by implementing it this way, the various applications (RE finite automata conversion, etc) are more straightforward, presuming you understand ring theory, and that the implementation uses the theory directly, while implementations in other languages that don't expose this kind of functionality would have to refer to derivations in the literature.

Is it also "faster"? I used to work in HPC and implementing ultra-fast versions of graph algorithms was a major research topic, so I'm curious if the implemention has faster runtimes.
I don't put any Facebook software on my phone, including Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, and Facebook Messenger. The reason they are forcing people to use Facebook Messenger is to force people who only use the website to install software that tracks you.
Direct link to PDF: http://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/bps/BPS-Searchable.pdf
Because democracy and "people voting" are all fine and dandy until the outcome is one you don't like. So "populist" gets thrown out when the outcome is the majority deciding on something that is seen as "wrong", but popular. It's quite a disconnect from the definitions themselves. As most people think democracy means "everyone get's a say, and the leading opinion is the one that the ruling-body should take".

On the other hand, when people complain about "populism", they expose another problem with democracy I've long complained about. Opinion gets swayed by all sorts of reasons, actions and emotions.

E.g. In the Brexit vote, the vote-stay side is trying to use fear and no-doubt some will be swayed by that. Does that mean that they actually want it? Would they have voted it if they weren't exposed to that influence? Must we keep the voters in a sterile-bubble until they decide? What about making informed decisions? Who decides what is fear-mongering vs informing the voters?

Next up, you have influential persons. This can be everyone from your local community activist, your overbearing and opinionated family member, to public figures such as actors and artists. You can see it now with Donald Trump's campaign. Every single person that has any wide "reach" to the public is using it to promote their view of Trump, whether good or bad. I call them vote-multipliers; their singular vote means a whole lot more than yours or mine, no matter how valid or factual our arguments are. When opinion and emotion sways voting, the "one-person one-vote" mantra doesn't hold up anymore.
But the alleged dns hack only happened a few days ago?
I'm pretty sure they've had a Hong Kong endpoint in the past
No discussion of 52! is complete without [1]. A somewhat condensed version of one of the illustrations from the site.

52! is the number of different ways you can arrange a single deck of cards. Let's try to wrap our puny human brains around the magnitude of this number with a fun little theoretical exercise. Start a timer that will count down the number of seconds from 52! to 0. We're going to see how much fun we can have before the timer counts down all the way.
Start by picking your favorite spot on the equator. You're going to walk around the world along the equator, but take a very leisurely pace of one step every billion years. Make sure to pack a deck of playing cards, so you can get in a few trillion hands of solitaire between steps.

After you complete your round the world trip, remove one drop of water from the Pacific Ocean. Now do the same thing again: walk around the world at one billion years per step, removing one drop of water from the Pacific Ocean each time you circle the globe. Continue until the ocean is empty.

When it is, take one sheet of paper and place it flat on the ground. Now, fill the ocean back up and start the entire process all over again, adding a sheet of paper to the stack each time you’ve emptied the ocean. Do this until the stack of paper reaches from the Earth to the Sun.

Take a glance at the timer, you will see that the three left-most digits haven’t even changed. You still have 8.063 × 10⁶⁷ more seconds to go. So, take the stack of papers down and do it all over again. One thousand times more. Unfortunately, that still won’t do it. There are still more than 5.385 × 10⁶⁷ seconds remaining. You’re just about a third of the way done.

[1] http://czep.net/weblog/52cards.html