skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually I started this question to hear some oppinions, not to advertize a certain tool, but I'll answer you anyways. I'm one of the makers of Coati (http://www.coati.io/) and I'm using that tool quite extensively. I don't wanna say that it's perfect and everyone should use it (at least not in this Ask HN), because I want this to be a more general discussion ;)
You should go to Berlin, the UK or many other european cities.

You see kids playing around in city parks pretty safely, and people who want the suburbs live in villages on commuter rail about 30+ minutes away. They actually have apartments in the city core that are 2000sqft and can have 3 large bedrooms with a big living room and hallway with plenty of sunlight. The interior of the apartment buildings create a court yard with a little playground and you often see kids there, playing together. They are very pleasant, and all of these people don't need to have a car.
Yes, we are supporting to get telemetry as well as ground truth. We also support multiple vehicles but you will need to then build your controller for them or set up multiple HITL/SITL flight controllers.
RDS is server based - you need to pay to have an instance running per hour. That's not serverless. That's "serverful".
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What do you mean? I think it's pretty clear what this is. Two bots talking to each other. Like two Alexas/Google Home listening and responding in a never-ending conversation.
India’s App Development Market 2020
You can and I'd set that up at least once successfully but it isn't easy. I've created a doc for this here: https://github.com/Microsoft/AirSim/blob/master/docs/sitl.md
If it's half as awesome as twitch.tv/seebotschat was it's amazing.
Bits of Freedom (https://bof.nl) was working really hard on fighting this bill.
If your going to make Riseup decrypt every message on login, might as well have them mirror the email and encrypt with an LE password (They can still claim every stored email is encrypted) for any future incoming mail.

They won't get access to past mail until the user next logs in but would least get access to any future mail the account receives and you are not in control of any email being received.
I take that over risking getting car doored, or cut off by an uber. Let the careful thinking happen at the design phase - or even better, let's have dedicated bicycle boulevards (they don't have to be wide to accommodate staggering amounts of bike traffic)
> think very conservatively when it comes to the female role in a family household.

I think that 'regressive' is a better word for that type of gender stereotyping.
total anecdote

In my MSc in Computer Science in the UK we had 9 international(Chinese) students.

8 of them dropped out after 3 months - they could barely speak English, they definitely could not write in English, and the reason why they dropped out was because for 3 months they used our lab as a place to play League of Legends, and nothing else.

To be accepted, they all must have already obtained a BSc degree in Computer Science or related field from somewhere, and have at least 7 on an IELTS exam to demonstrate their English proficiency. I honestly don't see how either one was possible.

That has nothing to do with being called a man instead of a sir. They literally couldn't speak the language of the course they got accepted into.

I am tempted to say that it's the fault of the university for accepting them in the first place, but in a way, their hands are tied in how much vetting they can do, and things like IELTS are meant to be completely objective.
We are all on our own journey and learned personal and professional things and skills. Except that most of us do not chase an express train that has left ten years ago.
> people who developed that trait had to evolve to do so, no?

The word "evolve" in English means a gradual change, so no.

Random genetic mutation isn't a response to the smoke, and there isn't anybody born unadapted who then adapts by exposure. The species evolves, individuals don't.
The policing of private messages is not new or sudden. Facebook has censored "offensive" (yet legal) private messages for years. One can assume they also already detect and report criminal activity to some degree. But it's understandable that they wouldn't want to shine the spotlight on this practice.
I think he values recent citations more than older ones.
Iran’s Traffic Police Officially Warns the Iranian Ride-Hailing Startups
Sure, but the possession of a real university degree pretty much guarantees you can at least read, write & reason. Most Americans without a University degree can read, write & reason, of course, often better than a University grad, but the University degree proves you can do it at least minimally. It used to be that a grade 8 certificate would provide that guarantee, then it used to be that a grade 12 certificate would do it too.

There are far cheaper ways of proving somebody can read, write & reason but for some reason employers seem to be stuck on that University diploma. I guess it's easy for them.
So, basically, Senior Developer === Getting Things Done?
While living in China I've met several postgrads who studied in the UK or US but speak only pidgin English at best. How did they get through it? With money and copious amounts of cheating, probably.
Support, education and FUN spring to mind!
Ask HN: How to get some practical experience with ML?
I recently did my finished a ML course at my university and I've been also reading up a lot on the subject. However, I need to materialize what I've learned into some practical work, i.e., projects. My ultimate goal would be to become a ML engineer, but I feel like even to get an internship in the area I'd already need to have some projects to show.

What do you recommend? Project-oriented books/tutorials?

Thanks!
See arjie's comment in another branch of the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13666999

Quoting the linked paper:

> Conclusion: The home environment appears to play an
> important role in the spread of influenza in adults,
> but not the use of public transport.

Personally, I find public transit much less stressful than driving in a large city. Probably because I'm used to one, but not the other.
It's reasonable to assume that international students browse the web in their own language and not just in English.
How many people care enough to pay for it?
This is like a secret wish come true!
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Thinking about it, the real problem is that the market is finite in size. In an infinite market, being a monopoly is impossible (although anticompetitive behaviour should still be discouraged). The problem comes when one fish gets too big for the pond.
For a while there it was headline news every time a breastfeeding mother got censored.
Not directly relating to her - but the book "Thich face, Black heart" comes to mind when thinking of "hard"/ruthless business/life philosophies from the Asian region. Depending on how you interpret the advice of course.
>In my view, apart from gaming, it has nothing going for it.

What Windows has going for it is that it supports a lot of different desktop/laptop hardware very well.

macOS doesn't support a lot of hardware. Linux supports a lot of hardware but much of it not very well.

If I list my desired specs for a laptop or desktop and then go ahead and buy the one that best meets my criteria, chances are pretty high that Windows will run best on it.

I have been a Mac user for many years. I'm using a Mac mini right now. But if I had to replace it today I wouldn't know what to replace it with.
While criticizing someone else's English it's almost guaranteed you'll make an error of your own. It's 'pidgin English', not 'pigeon'.
I'll get hammered for this, but the whole, "We'll see a woman president soon" has always irked me.

I want the best person--period.

I heard for years, if a woman was president, we would have no wars. Margaret Thatcher kinda put a stop to that mantra.

I judge people on competence, ethics, and morality--and that's it.

It seems like so many politicians, and way too many people have lost site of their morals--if they ever had any, and don't get me started on ethics.
And not only that, but just consider the use of land. Do you think that a parking lot that charges like $40/day for its 40ish spots, or a mid sized or large tower with tens to hundreds of people paying rent, and businesses at the ground/lower levels pumping the economy make more money? To recoup the loss in investment would take a staggeringly high cost of parking.
Which european city did you grow up in? Some are better than others...
Smoke still is bad for humans though, see this essay: https://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-fireplace-delusion/

>There is no amount of wood smoke that is good to breathe. It is at least as bad for you as cigarette smoke, and probably much worse. (One study found it to be 30 times more potent a carcinogen.) The smoke from an ordinary wood fire contains hundreds of compounds known to be carcinogenic, mutagenic, teratogenic, and irritating to the respiratory system. Most of the particles generated by burning wood are smaller than one micron—a size believed to be most damaging to our lungs. In fact, these particles are so fine that they can evade our mucociliary defenses and travel directly into the bloodstream, posing a risk to the heart. Particles this size also resist gravitational settling, remaining airborne for weeks at a time.

>Once they have exited your chimney, the toxic gases (e.g. benzene) and particles that make up smoke freely pass back into your home and into the homes of others. (Research shows that nearly 70 percent of chimney smoke reenters nearby buildings.) Children who live in homes with active fireplaces or woodstoves, or in areas where wood burning is common, suffer a higher incidence of asthma, cough, bronchitis, nocturnal awakening, and compromised lung function. Among adults, wood burning is associated with more-frequent emergency room visits and hospital admissions for respiratory illness, along with increased mortality from heart attacks. The inhalation of wood smoke, even at relatively low levels, alters pulmonary immune function, leading to a greater susceptibility to colds, flus, and other respiratory infections. All these effects are borne disproportionately by children and the elderly.

>In the developing world, the burning of solid fuel in the home is a genuine scourge, second only to poor sanitation as an environmental health risk. In 2000, the World Health Organization estimated that it caused nearly 2 million premature deaths each year—considerably more than were caused by traffic accidents.
Could also be related to the fact that they need to account for a massive range of storage conditions across all consumers. Some people live in climates where it hits 90-100+ degrees for many months of the year and may not have AC. Some people might keep their bottles on a counter that receives sunlight. And there are huge ranges in humidity. There's probably a big range in medicine lifespan between the best and worse cases there.
> Part of "lowering the rent" in the city involves preventing people from paying for cars whether they use them or not.

You have to be smart about things though. It's very easy to get into a mindset of "cars are bad, reduce cars any way possible" vs. people who have no viable alternative to a car who those policies hurt, and then you get into a fight that nobody wins.

For example, tolls make basically no sense ever. Once you've paid for the road you might as well get as much use out of it as you can. Even congestion pricing is wrong because congestion should never happen if things are designed well, i.e. reasonable mass transit and low enough rents that people can live near work. If you've failed at those things the solution is to fix them, not penalize drivers to make driving as expensive as the failed alternative.

But minimum parking requirements are a scourge. If the expense of having parking is justifiable then businesses and landlords will build it themselves, because parking is hyper-local -- you drive 100 blocks to get somewhere but a parking space six blocks away is useless. And minimum parking requirements prevent the density required to avoid needing a car, so the more parking you mandate the more you need. It's actively counterproductive.

If anything street parking in high density areas should be converted into travel lanes, which both increases carrying capacity and reduces demand for cars there because it allows private parking to be appropriately priced by the free market.

On the other hand, free street parking in lower density areas makes perfect sense, because you neither need the extra carrying capacity nor do you need market forces to price parking there because spaces aren't scarce there.
It depends heavily on what you're doing though, as to what the tradeoffs are. A simple example: remote controls use very little energy and the extra energy required at 40% efficiency would probably easily pay for the energy cost of creating / replacing the batteries. Phones, similarly, use very little actual energy.
Then you should also know that nobody ever trusted the politics since 2000. We should've expected this to happen, to be honest. Looks like we are still okay with their way of representing us.
Sure, I didn't think about my example well enough - what I meant was a generic way of taking a derivative, from series of data to a function that returns a y value for a given x value. E.g. plot derivatives of a normal distribution curve.
Bless you. Seriously.

It's truly refreshing to hear such genuine humility and perspective. Too many people (on HN, in politics, and in everyday life) work hard, hit it big, then draw a 100% correlation between the two. The reality is that lots of people are working hard, and only a tiny percentage get rich from it. Luck -- birth, education, time, place -- is too often underestimated in the rush to claim personal credit.

Like you, I have been profoundly lucky. I've worked hard for my piece, but I'd never be able to honestly look my lower-middle-class extended family in the eyes and tell them my wealth came because I worked harder than them. Because that would be a lie.
I'm not sure how that differs from Azure Document DB? I have no inside info on this, but, I'm pretty sure it runs on a server too.. In the specific context of databases used for "serverless", clearly there are servers involved, it's simply that your application and ops team doesn't manage them.

What I'm getting at is, a hosted DB is a hosted DB.. What makes SQL unsuitable for serverless?
It doesn't say which Ajax is which?
Wall Street Journal Pulls Content Out of Google’s “First Click Free” Program
If macroeconomics was football, then austerity is like focusing the game on keeping the ball on the opponents side of the pitch but ignoring making goals altogether.
More anecdata for you then.

My wife is a lecturer in an English department at a Russell Group university, and whilst some percentage of her students are extremely critical she has had a very hard time getting them to have a basic comprehension of critical English. By this I mean, the students cannot define the words that they use, and do not understand the language that they consume and create.

Their vocabulary appears to be smaller, and the phrasing is reflective of people who are reading fewer long-reads, fewer critical pieces and papers.

She spends too much of her own allocated teaching time raising the standard such that she is able to work with them on more complex analytical thought towards the end of the degree.

The chances that the students may read Adorno in their spare time approaches zero, and so the chances of them comprehending Deleuze does not exist.

If that sounds lofty, bear in mind that the students that she has comprise a decent proportion of foreign students who cannot even pass basic English comprehension tests, and yet are admitted because the fees for them are so high that the university will accept them no matter what.
*I recently finished.

Sorry for the typo.
Somehow the writing style sort of reminded me of the way Thoreau talks to the poor Irish family in Walden.
Only those who care about the immediacy.
News agencies come to mind.

If the difference between being seen first and being seen eventually depends on whether you give Twitter $X,XXX/mth, I think it'd be pretty easy to justify the cost.

For everybody else, few would notice or care. And that's fine.

[edit/addition]: The key would be finding what the sweet spot price to delay would be.
You can switch to Pivotal Web Services[0] (disclosure: I work for Pivotal on Cloud Foundry) and get the best of both worlds.

PWS is based on Cloud Foundry, which allows routing by path. So as an intermediate step towards decomposing your app into services, you can deploy different copies and have them respond to particular routes.

Cloud Foundry uses Heroku's buildpack code, with very minor changes, with additional testing. Your app will stage and run identically.

If you decide to switch to docker images, Cloud Foundry can run those too.

Cloud Foundry is a complete platform, rather than a collection of components. Test-driven, pair programmed, all that jazz. More mature and production-tested than any alternative that I'm aware of.

I think it's awesome, but I'm biased. Feel free to email me.

[0] https://run.pivotal.io/
> Those finding Wall Street Journal content are now getting a “Subscription” label appearing next to its links in Google News...

That is a nice gift for them by Google. Normally, with a thin content like only a title it's impossible to rank. Especially for hot topics.
This maybe true, but the mechanics of it escape me?

Many fake news sites were destination sites which carried ads. It seems unlikely that the margin on that traffic would have been enough to pay for significant Facebook traffic.

The version of this play which I've heard was:

- Create fake "news" site with outrageous stories.

- Cover it with ads (from Google and others)

- Seed it in Facebook groups

- Rely on organic reach to generate traffic.

I maybe wrong about the ability to to arbitrage on this traffic. If anyone has numbers I'd love to see them.
His family was running a Pyramid scheme with tacit support of Administration
As long as people who don't take transit don't have to subsidize it, you have a deal.
I sometimes work with a PM in China who studied (recently!) four years in the UK. His English is so bad that I have to disect a sentence I utter to him completely and test every part every time to know if he even understood. How does that work indeed? How did he surive there? I cannot ask him for obvious reasons.
Not crashes. More like "important" events.

Waiting for takeoff. Turn off the screen. Plane is preping to move. System starts up and your screen turns on again. Turn it off. Safety video requires screen to turn back on. Turn it off after. There's one more event that I can't recall that turns it back on again after that. Turn it off. Now you are good until preping to land... I'm not surprised almost everyone leaves their screen on all the time even at night.
Well, you have a status that could go away if the CBP officer gets grumpy. At least you don't have a living in the USA to protect.

As a client although, is that ok? Also this guy worked for NASA, and knowing many big corps that kind of policy would apply in some indirect way with work devices. But it didn't seem to matter for him.
Replying to myself here, I missed a key point.. the issue you raise is that you're billed per hour, even when it's unused? That makes some amount of sense, but any data storage is going to come with a per hour bill - either for the instance of it, or the data within it.

Anyway, my bad, I now see your point :)
For web, I always have Privacy Badger + Ublock + ScriptSafe (which I selectively disable). For Android, Instead of StockRoms + GooglePlay I use Lineage + F-Droid (only open source apps). And on my ChromeOS labtop, I installed Parabola Linux (free-software-only version of Arch Linux).
>We slight subsidizing driving, but not by much

Must also factor in the untold billions used by the military to ensure cheap oil.
This is not a problem just for Aadhaar but also for any enterprise.

Data has multiple challenges in quality - consistency, completeness, accuracy, precision, missing and unknowns, validity, timeliness, right linkages, conformity and reasonableness.

Once you have overcome those challenges, you will have ensure security, audit, management.

The problem with Aadhaar and anything that happens in India on such a huge scale (e.g. Demonetization) is that while a number of genuine people benefit from the programs, the side effects cannot be ignored - significant percentage of people suffer (sometimes immensely) and other times non-genuine people take advantage.

The solution for any such programs are for all data challenges, there should be a strategy led with right investments and executive support.

Politicians are mostly blamed for not doing enough and now a days blamed even more for doing things wrong. I think the intent of the Aadhaar program is right however there is more to be done by the Indian government on ensuring money support is given to the program to solve these problems.
Most small American towns may have small population, but enormous land mass. There's a video somewhere about how old towns had to be small in area in part because people didn't have things like cars to get around, so although population was low density kept up. Those are the kind of towns we should be encouraging these days.

As for driving to work, I do think that transit into work would be a perfectly good (and personally preferable) alternative; Id rather sparse communities have decent car infrastructure and storage at transit connections to dense cities, which don't have as much space to build car storage and road capacity and suffer from far greater utilization since they catch the traffic from all suburbs instead of a subsection of them. It's just a more scalable design.
> and would probably have banned you had I seen it at the time.

Do you have a tool that lets you know how many times you've given a warning to particular users, and links to the comments you warned them about?
I'm missing a "Enable select from QuickLook". Most annoying that Apple removed that feature.
Otherwise good list.
I upvoted you, but the comma after 'pidgin English' should really go inside the quote. i.e.

It's 'pidgin English,' not 'pigeon'.

:)

http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2011/08/punctuating-around...
AFAIK those are images posted publicly or semi-publicly and getting flagged by prudes, or at least that's how it gets portrayed. But my friend sent a series of Middle East carnage images to me in "private" messages, and they were removed a few days later with a message about being inappropriate for the site. Neither of us flagged them.
I don't understand the point of this. Is there a cultural reference that I'm missing? At first I thought that it was AI robots talking to each other but it is actually a dead simple script which reads a text file and pass it to a text-to-speech command. So clearly it does not interest HN for the technical aspect. I feel I'm missing something.
Personal Investment Monitor as a Telegram Bot
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The trust has already been broken by this project, so I don't see it even getting traction, nevermind becoming competition.
It gets really tricky when they use son-of-this-and-that. I'm working through the much shorter Ilias Latina and it's really hard to keep track of the characters.
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