skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Taliban don't in any way threaten US national security. The might pose danger to a limited amount of people that for some strange reason still hang out in Afghanistan.
Dutch police use augmented reality to investigate crime scenes
What is a problem geometric mean solve? That was my question the entire time.

When people ask "why machine learning?" the answers are "machine learning can do these things blablabla", not "you must specify the problem you're trying to solve".
1) is a famous tried and tested Sega/Sony $299 strategy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExaAYIKsDBI
> the meat sauce served on tables across Britain is corrupted by herbs such as oregano and basil, sometimes – gasp – even garlic

Changing the pasta type is fine, but when you add ingredients that drastically change the taste of the dish you better give it a new name.
perhaps this isn't the worst idea. The FCC seems to be a lot of bark but no bite these days.
True, good point. I just have many MSP430 boards lying around, so even blowing up and giving away a few 100 I would be fine hence I go for them when trying something out. I worked on a few projects with low powered bluetooth that had mandatory MSP430 usage so I again something I go for if I have to try something quickly and has the potential to turn into something I want to give away/sell.
Sorry you're getting down-voted, I don't think it's an unreasonable question.

In the sense I think you're using it, "statistics" are really methods for dimensionality reduction - we take means, and medians and standard deviations with the hopes that they will capture the parts of the data we care about. This is important for two reasons - for one, for anything even moderately high dimension we'll never have enough data to be able to forego some means of aggregation due to the "curse of dimensionality". Secondly, the human-machine interaction information bandwidth is annoyingly low, so we need some way to compress any information for human consumption. "Statistics" are one way we do so.

"Statistics" is also a field of study based around understanding how multiple data points relate to each other - that is of course critical to machine learning, and I think the terminology collision is why you're getting downvoted.
Yes I did, sorry.
OTOH, there are some very good parts of Wikipedia. The bits that nobody actually cares about, mostly.

If you want a general article, especially a political one, good luck. But if you're looking for some kind of hardware/software information, or details about a problem or algorithm, it's very good.
Cassandra is not row level consistent
Given that app developers need to actively use those iOS features, the obvious question is: How much of my app data is actually encrypted that way?

It's much harder to get these things right (e.g. you want your fancy sync and notifications to work even if the phone is locked, etc.) thus I suspect that most apps would just use the Protected Until First User Authentication class and that's about it. Is there any way to confirm or refute that?
Looks pretty interesting and my initial excitement for this soon dulled when I thought that if I'm taking this device somewhere I might as well just take my laptop.

Still, it looks like a very cool gadget. What's the battery life like on it?
Indeed. It's remarkable how accurate it is (IME, fairly, provided you avoid anything political).
I don't think you can legitimately say that Google are hampering open source by releasing more open source software. You might argue that they're stepping back from the GPL, but that's different.
How do you distinguish between a real ballot and a fake ballot?

How do you know if someone decided to throw away some of them?

(While also ensuring voters remain anonymous and allowing voters to verify their votes.)
"if the best model is not differentiable, you should still use it."

I'm not sure I would say that - neural nets are "near everywhere differentiable", for example. Without differentiability we're stuck with, for example, discrete GAs for optimization, and you can throw all your intuition out the window (not to mention training/learning efficiency).
Not just plausible, it's pretty damn sure.

Still, major props to Hideki Kato, who's developing cutting edge AI at the age of 62. I wish to have his drive at that age!
Not as painful as trying to correct it.
Backup 20+ very old hard disks with very old stuff on a new hard disk, trying to de-duplicate files.
They are from windows 95/98 era.
When copied, smash them with an hammer and dispose of them.
And in addition to deficit and currency controls, also price controls which have destroyed markets. Then you have a political police enforcing silly laws about companies will have to continue to produce something even when it is economically unfeasible. In the short term you get some physical deliverables like bread next week; in the long term you get a dysfunctional economy.
Chavez enjoyed popular support and had no problem maintaining power, because the economy was doing great due to Oil.

Maduro is barely holding on to power. Maduro would desperately want the Chavez era.

Point being: Maduro is not creating this crises opportunistically, he's and idiot, and doesn't know how to manage things after the oil crash.
Thought so :)
I think this comment wins a prize for "most creative way to explain away the massive difference in murder rates between the US and most other developed countries".
I've written a bit about this in context of companies which use a palindrome detector as a phone-screen question. My current implementation does normalization and uses Unicode character categories to strip out characters which should be ignored, but also comes with a free half-hour lecture about why A) this is a hard problem, B) no programming language I know can easily solve it, and C) this is a bad phone-screen question and indicative of bad process at the company.
I think you are confused about MV=Py.

You can never reason from a price change without knowing the reason for the price change. 'When he price level increase', how? why?

We know that money demand is non constant. That just has to do with the flow of money. We know that base money is constant unless the central bank act. Thus causation goes from changing V or central bank action to changes in price or output.
Not just plausible, it's pretty damn sure.

Your certainty is based on what data?
Great clean guide. Here's a couple more that often offer extra tidbits of certain properties.

- https://css-tricks.com/almanac/
- http://tympanus.net/codrops/css_reference/
I don't know. It's not ideal, but it has made approximately accurate knowledge that is very up to date incredibly accessible.

I think that's a pretty major win. But I may be biased by the fact that I have used wikipedia a lot.
It will allow country to pay its bills (i.e. wages).

Never mind that by paying their bills with freshly printed money they make all existing money cheaper.

Average Venezuelan can now buy less for their wage, but at least they've got some wage and it is stable or even grows number-wise. That's what makes this trap so dangerous.
Well let's see, I use a 6x10 font. 1280/6=213 characters horizontally. 720/10=72 characters vertically. I think that is more than enough for a screen that size. Sure I would miss being able to have a zillion terminals open at once, but you pay for portability.
If this is an area of interest to you, I encourage you to take the time to review the work that's already been done in this area. The example you provide doesn't even address the concerns in your parent, much less others that have been identified by those working in the domain.

As a starting point, you can review Rivest's slides for an overview.

Ron Rivest, "Auditability and Verifiability of Elections", March 2016.
https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/Riv16x.pdf

Edit to add: I see I've already suggested this to you earlier today.
I think they should push the Project Astoria part. I know they are worried people will stop developing Windows Apps but I believe if they can gain a significant mobile market share going down the Astoria part, developers will soon start to think "hey, I might just make a native windows app since so many already use my Android app emulated on Windows".

The duopoly is being abused. I am a iOS developer and I hate the 30% cut they take off my income. Their appstore algorithm favours established actors even when their product is far worse. I have seen apps that doesnt even boot on iOS9 ranking higher in the search results page than mine.

And lets not forget the Spotify vs Apple case.

The consumers need a third mobileOS to bring some competition. It is becoming stale with Apple and Android.
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If you haven't run Linux on a laptop recently, I suspect you'll be pleasantly surprised. As long as you're not buying a really cheap consumer-grade machine, or a bleeding-edge high-end machine, the chances it works out of the box are very high. Furthermore, the level of software support has improved drastically from even a few years ago.

Look at it this way. You're going to wipe and reinstall anyway, right? Might as well give running a real *nix a shot before you settle for less.
Is there any way to do what a HSM does, in software? (Maybe with OS support)
That solves the boss problem. What about the government?
That's French toast...

...with French herbs.

French toast to me is normally eaten sweet - say with maple syrup, but that works too.
Transit format: An interactive tutorial
Sanders praised it. As a Venezuelan in SF, I've had my fair share of arguments where I've had to defend the perspective that Venezuela isn't a socialist paradise.

"These days, the American dream is more apt to be realized in South America, in places such as Ecuador, Venezuela and Argentina, where incomes are actually more equal today than they are in the land of Horatio Alger. Who's the banana republic now?"
- http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/must-read/close-the-g...
A few percent error rate, but no single point of failure.
I kinda understand you very well.
Sometimes I wonder if google should just scratch Android and start over again. I mean no matter how much optimizing and tweaks they come up with, it will never be able to match iOS or Windows Phone in performance.
> between machine learning methods and applied statistics (...) often there is not a clear distinction between the two.

I would say applied statistics draws a line just prior to implementation concerns (say, real-world resource usage measured in time, space and energy) whereas these would be fully within scope and of interest in machine learning.

As an example, applied statistics could provide a useful approach to a vision/image recognition problem, and this approach might be provably unrealizable in practice using real-world execution units (e.g. CUDA cores). Nonetheless, it might still be a very worthwhile theoretical result in applied statistics, although of no immediate interest within ML except to hint at potential new area of research.
>> ...with paper voting, you as a single actor can only influence one voting booth, while as a hacker, you can manipulated thousands of voting machines.

That depends where the person is. The people managing the process, those doing the counting, have plenty of opportunity for large manipulations. There are safeguards, but the possibility remains and must be accounted for.
Perhaps, but it won't be anywhere near as active on reddit.
In the UK, you could just go to the desk and ask for a blank ballot in exchange for your "mistake".
Agree, too much risk for indie developers.
But for companies like SnapChat its all about being anti-Microsoft and preventing anyone creating a snapchat app for its phone platform.
Yeah, almost all of those accounts look to be the volunteer moderators for the default subreddits.
The concept of large and small pieces of work, and having developers rotate between them in naturally forming teams I found to be excellent for morale and hence productivity.

Also once a cycle is locked in, it's rarely adjusted. And no timesheets.

Really basic things that IMO Basecamp is doing a great job advocating for in an industry that still needs it.
The author of the email wrote Motherboard to say that he'd been reached by police and is feeling better

Note this part of the article. If you publicly say you're suicidal, you have policemen at your doorstep. And sometimes other consequences like being forced to go to checkups and therapy. It may also have concequences like not being eligible for gun ownership anymore, etc. So think twice before you discuss your mental health in public. There's a place to discuss it, but that place is not the internet under your real name. The last thing someone who is suffering from a breakdown needs is police waltzing into their home and taking away their rights.
I'm not sure how the US can be any softer on Russia and the Ukraine than they already have been. Trump has also publicly stated he wants to shoot down Russian warplanes that approach US assets. I think Putin just likes to see one of his rivals in a time of uncertainty.
This kind of role can be felt as a struggle, something that can't be ignored or put down.

It's too easy to dismiss this as something you can take time off from.

"Feeling depressed? Have you tried thinking happy thoughts?"

That's just as absurd and dismissive.
Yes. We're literally reading a Bloomberg article reporting on the black market rates. It means the black market is so huge that prices have a centralized market with a unique, well-known rate, information chains to communicate that rate and third parties monitoring it through Bloomberg. I would be joking if I asked Bloomberg about bribe rates variations for IPOs in China or the indexed cost of obtaining the presidency of a country, if only it didn't mean a major governance issue.
The page almost crashed my browser

Thanks for the report. Hopefully the author will almost fix it.
It takes time and money for an open-source DB to become established. I think Arango is taking the right steps and this investment will help a lot in getting there.

PS: I only started using ArangoDB recently for the first time on a client project and it was refreshing to say the least. Being able to do complex joins, coming from a Mongo environment feels so much better.
Perhaps this list will help: https://www.udacity.com/wiki/nd009?nocache#!#preliminary-res...
I used to eat mayonnaise sandwiches when I was a kid. Can't say I would eat these today, but a blt without mayo is not much of a sandwich.
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Astoria was amazing, I have a phone with the dev build it worked on at home with some Android apps on it. Ran great... Well, as great as Android apps run.
A few misconceptions I should correct in this comment.

- There is plenty of existing technology for handling non-differentiable function. Functions like the absolute value, 2-norm, and so on have a generalization of the gradient (the subgradient) which can be used in lieu of the gradient.

- That functions are "almost everywhere differentiable" (i.e. the non-differentability lies in a manifold of zero measure) makes these functions behave pretty much like smooth ones. This is often not the case as optima often conspire to lie exactly on these nonsmooth manifolds.
Some examples? Other than obviously subjective topics like biographies, what are some kinds of subjects that you think are largely in error on WP?

I hear this criticism a lot, and it's usually about something subjective like politics or biographies.
I love this feature about CircleCI - Pretty sure your builds are limited to 4GB per container however.
Here's a recent, long New Yorker article on Venezuela, Maduro, Chavez, Polar industries, crime, China, oil, inflation, Cuba, America, Colombia, taxi drivers, Halliburton, and a bunch of other things I don't remember.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/14/venezuela-a-fa...
I run it on OpenJDK just fine.
At least Facebook is something you can actively avoid. Wikipedia, for better or worse, has become the de-facto source of knowledge on the internet.

Is there a way to solve the Wikipedia problem of toxic politics and it being a battleground for opposing groups?
Consider that each dollar they print physically goes to someone, who can then spend it. The money trickles through the economy in this way, so for a while the people that receive it can use it to buy more good than they otherwise would have been able to.
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That's what the edit button is for. Use it.

I'm not an expert on many things, but I've corrected factual errors where I've seen them. Most of my edits are to link together two pages that were, for whatever reason, not properly associated.
Is the prevalence of fast food chains unique to the US? I spent three weeks in France earlier this year, I saw 1-2 recognisable fast food brands from afar and that was it. In 1-2 weeks in the US, you would see multiple franchises each of 20 brands comfortably? Here in Australia, there might be 5-8 quite common ones.

I know why they are popular - predictability for one thing - but why significantly less so outside the US? Regional populations? Developed earlier?
So perhaps one can only practicably rig close elections.
Your handle reminds me of the word 'cutlasslessness', the state of being without a cutlass...
The problem is that Venezuela imports everything, the policies are very hostile to national production and there is a mafia with access to government sponsored dollars that profits from the whole situation without moving a finger, in other words, corruption that actually pyramids to all society: people enters the game by reselling scarce goods and believing in a cardboard opposition - that never delivers any concrete result - obviously linked to the government and its corruption mafia.
We've been doing self-contained app distributions, with all third-party dependencies bundled, for well over a decade, especially on Windows. But Electron does make it quite easy to package an app that way.
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"You know, comrades," says Stalin, "that I think in regard to this: I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how."

Original in Russian:

Каменев. стараясь снизойти до уровня Сталина, говорит: "А вот по
вопросу, как завоевать большинство в партии". - "Знаете, товарищи, -
говорит Сталин, - что я думаю по этому поводу: я считаю, что
совершенно неважно, кто и как будет в партии голосовать; но вот что
чрезвычайно важно, это - кто и как будет считать голоса". Даже
Каменев, который уже должен знать Сталина, выразительно откашливается.

На следующий день Сталин вызывает к себе в кабинет Назаретяна и
долго с ним совещается. Назаретян выходит из кабинета довольно кислый.
Но он человек послушный. В тот же день постановлением Оргбюро он
назначен заведующим партийным отделом "Правды" и приступает к работе.

В "Правду" поступают отчеты о собраниях партийных организаций и
результаты голосований, в особенности по Москве. Работа Назаретяна
очень проста. На собрании такой-то ячейки за ЦК голосовало, скажем,
300 человек, против - 600; Назаретян переправляет: за ЦК - 600, против
- 300. Так это и печатается в "Правде". И так по всем организациям.
Конечно, ячейка, прочтя в "Правде" ложный отчет о результатах ее
голосования, протестует, звонит в "Правду", добивается отдела
партийной жизни. Назаретян вежливо отвечает, обещает немедленно
проверить. По проверке оказывается, "что вы совершенно правы,
произошла досадная ошибка, перепутали в типографии; знаете, они очень
перегружены; редакция "Правды" приносит вам свои извинения; будет
напечатано исправление". Каждая ячейка полагает, что это единичная
ошибка, происшедшая только с ней, и не догадывается, что это
происходит по большинству ячеек. Между тем постепенно создается общая
картина, что ЦК начинает выигрывать по всей линии. Провинция
становится осторожнее и начинает идти за Москвой, то есть за ЦК.

(Stalin faked election by printing reverted votes in «Pravda»).
Good point. I just took the phrase I tweeted (as #coder is less cumbersome than #softwareengineer).
I'm interested in knowing how similar ArangoDB is to Google Cloud Datastore in functionality and scalability.
I don't see what's basically wrong with functional approaches to array programming; see the APL family and SISAL?

There is, or was, a definite problem with recursion in gfortran (when I looked some time ago). You can't (or couldn't, then) get tail call elimination in functions. I'd have hoped GCC would have been able to see through the structure of the assignment/return.
> On a related note, I find it very sad that Suu Kyi has failed to condemn the repression of the Rohingya. Makes you wonder what quality of leader she really is.

It's because she is complicit in what the government is doing. What a waste of a Nobel Prize. Of course, nobody knew what would happen to Burma post-democracy.
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Venezuela is a country that is simply being looted and there isn't a lot of economic theory needed to explain simple theft.

The Bolivar isn't freely convertible except on the black market so there isn't any market (from free or otherwise) to talk about.

How it works is pretty simple. A connected businessman applies to the government to import medicine at the official exchange rate. He then takes those USD and contracts with a shell company he controls in Panama to buy antibiotics and provides all the paperwork. A small amount of those funds are then used to buy antibiotics on the open market and ship it to Venezuela. The profits are distributed around to othe shell companies controlled by various government officials to keep access to the favorable exchange rates.

Once they arrive in Venezuela the local paper writes up a story about the shortages and mentions the connected businessmen and officials as heros for importing needed medicine. Pictures are taken showing them inspecting the cargo as its offloaded.

But it there is still money to be made! Prices on antibiotics are regulated so a lot of the shipment is diverted into the black market which siphons up bolivars at the black market price.

Those are then traded back at the official favorable rates and the process repeats.

It's a brilliant scheme because the masses don't understand enough to understand how they are being robbed. Pick their pockets and then blame it on the "market" or "imperialist." Doesn't really matter as long as its a convenient.

And it gets better! Eventually things get so bad that people start sending relief supplies and cash which creates new opportunities to loot.
The government has obligations in bolivars -- staff wages, pensions, payments to private businesses, and (in countries with trustworthy currencies) loan repayments etc.

They can print money to fulfil those obligations, effectively giving public sector staff a pay cut, pensioners a reduction in the value of their pension, etc.
> Because you can solve the equation to minimize squared error using linear algebra in closed form.

Exactly right. It has nothing to do with probability distributions.
Squared error because the uncertainties in independent, normally distributed random variables add in quadrature. I expect that this could be proved geometrically using Pythagoras's theorem, so in that sense the comments about orthogonal axes are vaguely on the right track.

Normally distributed variables because the central limit theorem.

It isn't all that complicated.
plz keep posting and upvoting these kinds of stories (foss on hardware), great read.
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No, that's Parrot.
It also allows the government to pay off non indexed debt issued in Bolivars.