skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But of course. The EU is Germany, France, Holland and some other 25 countries that don't really have a say, now that the UK is out. 40% of Germany's exports are vehicles and a hefty part of them are diesel. So don't be surprised if VW is getting away with it. I am glad they at least got busted in the US.
No. And you can't make me.

My commits drop into the repo like I save. Frequently and often, out of sheer paranoia.

There is no plan, and there will never be a plan. The goal is to preserve work, not weave a tale, and tickle the reader's intuition.

My commits land multiple times an hour, Sometimes minutes apart, and they all have only one thing it common: they don't break the build.

They don't tell a story. They don't reassure you, that someday it will all make sense. There is no elegant pattern to it all.

Be glad you get any of my commits at all. Be glad I make useful changes that move the needle in the right direction.

I'm not here to play into someone else's pedantry and neurotic preferences.
Yes the remain campaign was very negative. However it is also true to say that a lot of people voted leave on the promise of £350 million a week extra for the NHS (as painted on the Brexit Bus). Many people feel this is a straight-forward lie because a) The number is wrong (the governments own figure is £199m). The number of 350m is something like the gross contribution and could only be acheived with widespread cuts to services currently funded by the EU.
b) The money was never going to get govern to the NHS.

I think this alone serves to demonstrate 1) your assertion about what caused the Brexit vote is a gross oversimplification 2) Why many people still won't accept the result.
>A pretty dick move on her part for wanting to be included in a complete strangers personal circle?

No, a pretty dick move to piss on her for asking to reconnect with an old schoolmate with a rude response.

FB is not some "personal circle". People connect to wide circles of accountancies they barely meet once in a decade and old schoolmates from way beyond and such all the time. And if one doesn't, it's still perfectly fine, given the widespread practice, for others to assume that it's ok for them to ask.

No other motive needed other than we're all humans, and we tend to think of people that passed through our lives in some way or another, and might want to occasionally catch up and/or share some old-time story.

No further need to "question the motive" (as if she's some huge scammer) than to question "high school reunions".

In the end, one could just ignore the request, or reply politely ("Sorry, I only add close friends and relatives on FB").
Yes, it is. The commission have said article 50 is reversible, and intermediate arrangements can be indefinite. One party is campaigning for another referendum. And so on.

Your original comment was about mandate; that is what I will be voting for.
Having a lot of math involved does not mean that it is mathematically elegant. As a mathematician, I ask myself several questions. First of all, what is really a neural network? Is it an approximating function? Is it a geometric separation on a space, such as SVM? Is it a manifold classificator? (see http://colah.github.io/posts/2014-03-NN-Manifolds-Topology/, which is very interesting)

Also, what are we approximating? Continuous functions? Non-continuous functions? Are they even functions and not probability measures? Are those functions arbitrary or do they represent something like a manifold?

And the most important: how well are we approximating whatever we want to approximate? The universal approximation theorem gives uniform convergence for measurable functions, but do not specify at which rate or depending on which parameters. It is a strong theorem but not that surprising from the mathematical standpoint, where you already know that you can approximate any function by continuous, compactly supported functions.

Finally, how do you mathematically define the problems that arise in neural networks? What is overfitting? How does the learning algorithm affect the results?

The fact that some techniques are justified by mathematical explanations does not mean that it is mathematically elegant. For it to be mathematically elegant you should have at least clear definitions of the objects of study and the problems you want to solve. I don't think this is the case in neural networks.
TL; DR
See:
http://researchmap.jp/takamizuno/?lang=english

Work on criminal networks still unpublished?
There are a variety of silly things under Irish law, not least of which is that a pornographic film/image may be classed as 'child pornography' (and prosecuted the same) even if the participants are aged over 18, but one or more of the participants is made to appear as if they are a child, or with child-like characteristics.
Currently in a MS in Statistics program. This website is definitely on my favorites now. I've been collecting class-contained resources before my start of the program next semester. Here they are, in order of depth/difficulty of the subject:

Stanford
https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/course-v1:OLI+ProbStat...

CMU
http://oli.cmu.edu/courses/free-open/statistics-course-detai...

UCI
http://ocw.uci.edu/courses/math_131a_introduction_to_probabi...

http://ocw.uci.edu/courses/math_131b_introduction_to_probabi...

MIT
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...

Harvard
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/stat110
It also helps when houses are being depopulated because people are aging out of houses.

There used to be an Australian guy who went around buying and fixing undervalued houses in Japan. While out in his searches, he'd point out the many unoccupied houses.

As an aside, when is Japan going to reconsider how it calculates unemployment? As it is, their unemployment is like 3.7% yet many many younger people work for as temps, which is sort of counterintuitive for a very tight labor market.
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The problem is that the author wanted to learn Rust. Your comment? "Use Nim."

Can you see how that it's not helpful, or a good addition to the conversation?
I think it might be worth pointing out that catastrophic "technological unemployment" is far from a sure thing at this point. We're still speculating that this is a thing which may happen in the future.

So far, labour force participation rates in developed economies is still in the same 60%-70% band that it's ranged in since women joined the workforce en masse in the 60s.

I'm not saying it's impossible, just that we're not in any better a position to judge than 19th century people were. These things are pretty hard to predict. Ultimately "AI" is not unique economically (short of Kurzweil-esque machine consciousness). The industrial revolution massively reduced labour needed to produce spoons or cars but actually increased employment rates in manufacturing. It was trade that reduced manufacturing employment rates. The communications revolution replaced the need for secretaries, typists, errand boys and many other clerical roles. There might be more people employed in "administration" today than at any point in history^. The relationship between labour saving technology and the demand for labour is complex, difficult to speculate about.

^The administration boom (pointed out by David Graeber) is baffling to me. I'd love to hear some theories on it.
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The GAP8 is a real product based on the pulpino. It's a cpu, more of a low-power embedded dsp/mcu, and a good one at that.

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1330188
>I like reading the newspaper -- print, rather than online -- specifically because it comes out only once a day. It's not an endless stream of pretend-immediate attention-grabbers, but a curated collection of the important stuff that happened yesterday.

If that was true, newspapers would have variable length. But they don't.

They fill in the same BS arbitrary number of pages day-in, day-out.

Edit: Downvoting as if this isn't self-evident?
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Isn't a raspberry pi, or an esp-32s exactly that ?
Conversely, I really hope it doesn't. error-chain doesn't implement `PartialEq` which means that I can no longer write tests for my failure types. I'm a big believer in quick-error instead.
I think Germany is a bit of a special case here, for obvious reasons. Consider that the Republican party in the US is nationalistic, but nothing like the Nazis. The conservative party in the UK is nationalistic (queen and country and all that), but isn't Nazi-like.
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> Unless you're using something like Emacs which lets you point at a character and ask the editor to tell you everything it knows about what's there, this kind of identification becomes a daunting task to contemplate.

If you already have the character in some text file, it would be much easier and reliable to copy and paste it into some unicode table lookup tool (e.g. https://unicode-table.com/en/).
Can you also justify murder with that or only destruction of property?
It was actually a bit of irony, but I suppose it's was too close to the bone for some.

I was a proud Marxist back when I was a teenager. Only now do I realize how swivel-eyed I was.
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Yes, it is. The commission have said article 50 is reversible, and intermediate arrangements can be indefinite. One party is campaigning for another referendum. And so on.
Your original comment was about mandate; that is what I will be voting for."

I have no problem with that.
I certainly did not get the sense a year ago that the average person in Britain really wanted there to be a referrendum at all. I just don't think your average person wanted to discuss it. In the end the referendum forced people to make a decision on a subject they didn't really care about. It is a bit like posing the question to a random passer-by. Do you want less bureaucracy? Well of course I do!
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I've been using Shape Catcher for a while for my non-CJK needs, but the best tool I've found that for Unihan characters has been the one from LINE[1]. Specifically, unlike others I've used, it tends to do a good job with semi-cursive/calligraphic writing. That makes it faster to look up complicated characters (because you can scribble a bit), plus it's useful when you don't actually know exactly what the "original" form of a character is, and have to just draw it from sight.

e.g. if you see [2], and don't recognize it, but can draw it into the tool, you can get 而 correctly, without having to draw the very specific stroke order[3], like in other tools.

It's made for Chinese, but I often use it for Japanese, too. :)

[1] http://ce.linedict.com/dict.html#/cnen/home

[2] http://www.ryuurui.com/uploads/1/5/4/8/15489306/6738815.jpg?...

[3] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/%E8%80%8...
I use Pocket, and one of the things I wish I could do is to break books down into chapters and feed the individual chapters into Pocket. If I ever want it bad enough, I'll hack together some kind of solution. But getting text out of an Kindle ebook seems like it'd be tricky.
I guess people consider your comment not really helpful. Everyone could come into this thread and write "Use <favorite language here>".

If you'd have provided some good advantages of Nim in this case, or in general added to the discussion at hand, you might have gotten less downvotes.

Maybe you want to stop attacking a community directly, aswell... last time I checked this site wasn't Rustacean only.
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Ask HN: How much have you saved for retirement?
This blog post says as a Software Engineer working in the US you should have $4 Million in savings to have the same income, in retirement, as a fresh software engineer.

http://chase-seibert.github.io/blog/2014/01/01/saving-for-retirement-as-a-software-engineer.html

How much have you saved for retirement, and at what age?
it now mangles property names.

but still to see if as good as the custom solution we have. it's something we did since early 2000 and save us a good 30% of size. but dangerous as hell.
I have a seperate git gui open in the background all the time.
It shows me all the changes I made since last commit.
So coding without commiting a long time will result in lots of changes piled up there.
When that gets to much to overview or I feel the need for a savepoint (to do some experimentation) I commit.

When I didn't commit for a long time (mostly during long refactorings) I break up the changes into logical groups and commit them seperately using the interactive commiting feature. Using a good GUI to help me there improved that workflow a lot for me.
> Which often boils down to are you doing a terrible job or not.

Or even "you are doing a terrible job, but that other person would be worse".
Ask HN: Best startups, product and business books of 2016/2017?
I am hunting for next few books to buy and read from Amazon. There are a lot of new books on this topics, some of them have great reviews but I am always suspicious of books with <100 reviews which are all 5 stars.

So I would like to know which new books on this topics do you find best and valuable?
4 chained function calls from config -> read a key from it is quite an ask. Though I realize there's reason for it. There are many cases I'd be happy to have panics occur for invariants.
config.strictString('foo') or something of that nature seems like it could be a more ergonomic choice in cases like thise.
Hi CossieRay. Nice to meet you!

>I think politics and not tribes is the culprit here.

AFIK there's nothing historically (pre-colonial era) that could shed light on why these two groups can't seem to get along. May be examining a similar setting outside Kenya could provide some much needed clarity.

But coming back to our situation, politics could be to blame. As soon as independence was attained there was a scramble for power and resources that has left many with a bitter taste in their mouths. The communities that 'lost' out, so to speak,feel like they need to eliminate the apparent victors in order to thrive.

This to me speaks to a deeper issue that is the mindset of scarcity. In the minds of many there is a finiteness in the magnitude of resources available and as such they need to be acquired by all means necessary and as quickly as possible. Obviously this isn't the reality but it is perceived as such.

One way neighboring Tanzania solved this issue is through standardization; it came at a cost though. TZ adopted some fiscally irresponsible nation building plans because they adopted communism and this affected their economy adversly to the point that their then president Mwalimu Julius Nyerere(who had initially introduced it) admitted to its failure and opened up the economy by allowing people to own businesses. However, hidden somewhere within these nation building plans was also a certain sense of nationhood and brotherhood. They all spoke the same language(swahili) for instance as opposed to their tribes' languages. Even today, it is the same case and you'll never ever hear of negative ethnicity there. Their economic plan had a calamitous outcome but their social cohesion is incomparable to that in Kenya.
Agreed, I've never liked 'expect' either; 'or_else_panic(msg)' would be much clearer

Edit: 'or_panic(msg)' would be shorter and also good.
Nahh, that sounds hard. Rebase till it hurts.
I've recently been looking into this. Here are some recent similar stories: https://www.edtechstrategies.com/blog/should-we-send-student...
It is, but also quite long, which I do not think suits Rust naming conventions.
Better source from UC San Diego:

https://health.ucsd.edu/news/releases/Pages/2017-04-25-novel...
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a press release masked as opinion piece masked as news. oh wait, the verge... what did I expect?
"Death to.." any actual person should be criminalized. Disallowing calls to kill certain groups, but not people generally, makes the law turn on the definition of what is or isnt a protected group. That's too vague for free speech. Calling for the extrajudicial killing of any actual person is the more workable and just approach.
I've been wondering this too. My work monitors trending topics on social media and "whatsapp down" experienced a gigantic bump on Twitter Wednesday — we're talking hundreds of thousands of people within minutes. Wish we got a better explanation.
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"because they can."
Their problem is arable land. It's mostly mountainous and practically inaccessible. They don't have munch in the way of large plains.
> Consider that the Republican party in the US is nationalistic, but nothing like the Nazis

Would you bet on this still being the case in four years? With Bannon (of Breitbart "fame") and friends in the government, plus all the open xenophobia and what I can only summarize as "politics for old white men"... the Republicans have always been right-wing but after 8 years of opposing Obama (including the rise of the Tea Party) they've went very far to the right already.

For what it's worth, some of the most vocal Trump supporter base (especially in the Internet, /pol etc.) are outright Nazis. And no, I don't consider smearing swastikas as "for the lulz" but as open worshipping of Nazism instead.
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I loved this concept. I understand that practically we generally first write the whole code and then think about commits. By my manager always says "Coding is the last and easiest part of the job. Hard and creamy part of the job is to think about solutions and choose the best one among them." And this approach (given in dev.to) of thinking of the commit messages before actually coding gives a framework to that thought. That means before hand one is clear what to do (definitely during actual implementation we will find some extra nit-picks here and there and will add some extra code).

So with this style one can follow the style :-

Jot down the requirement/problem ==> Think of all solutions for the problem ==> Evaluate solutions ==> Choose best one ==> Jot down commit messages before hand ==> Implement solution ==> Use "git add -p" to separate logical units of your commit as per your commit messages already prepared ==> Tada !!
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> At this point the cognitive load required to read and understand Rust implementations of "typical" practical problems is rather higher than it is for C++.

I code in Rust and C++ every day, and am mostly equally experienced in both (maybe more Rust now, but this wasn't always the case). I disagree. Rust has some ergonomics issues that C++ does not, but the reverse is true too. Looking at rust from C++ you'll only see one and not the other, because you're used to the other.

(And as burntsushi said your characterization of the thread is inaccurate, people are suggesting things that are best for different use cases)

Rust hasn't really tried "hard" to make error handling simple. We have what we had during 1.0, and then we have the ? operator, which always existed as try!().
>"much less severe than many people thought"

I don't think so. There's a second bug that allows local non-privileged users to provision AMT.

And, once it's up and running, you have a full remote KVM where you can boot recovery disks, edit the local files then reboot, etc.

Having AMT on isn't that unusual either. It's not the default, but lots of people use it. I know some digital signage units using NUCS have it on, for example. Also, some large company data centers use it instead of IPMI. The ports aren't exposed to the internet, but if hackers get inside a different way, they are off to the races.
Many times revolutions have been murderous for that very reason.

I think many Americans agree with the bloodshed of the American revolution.
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> Meals like ramen were $8.00 USD including tax and tip

There is no tip in Japan. And 8 USD for Ramen is super expensive, in Kansai you can get ramen for 5 USD or even less. Ramen should not cost that much anyway, it's super fast to make and ingredients are super cheap too.
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What he is showing is how someone who knows Rust well, would potentially approach this problem.

What you're point out is that it's a large bar to ask a new comer to the language to do this because it requires a deeper understanding of the language to use.

Is it not appropriate to show that you can reduce the complexity of a program by using other features of the language?

It's not significantly different from reducing

x + x + x + x

To

4x
> I consider dismantling environmental agencies criminal in the ethical sense, but US law obviously does not consider it criminal.

I don't understand that. Surely this was plainly clear during the election ... and the electorate made it's viewpoint clear. Therefore in my opinion it is not just morally right, but an actual moral duty for the US government to at least tone down the climate research.

We live in a government for the people, by the people. It is NOT a government for the climate. US government climate actions are predicated upon a majority of the US population not just agreeing in principle, but willing to pay (a lot I might add) to make it happen.

> Does Erdogan ever actually violate Turkish law?

Yes.

> As an aside, Trump and his staff have removed press from press meetings and refused to let certain question be asked. Those actions aren't arrests but they don't particularly cultivate a climate of open debate either.

I fail to see how this is even a little strange. Did you know Obama did the same ? And so did Bush and Clinton. All have removed reporters and refused questions.

And frankly, in most cases, for pretty good reasons. At least in the Trump and Obama cases I've seen the videos, and ... I mean sorry. I may not agree with Trump, but I agree that those reporters went too far, were warned a few times, and when they insisted, the president walked away. That, to me, doesn't seem controversial at all. I don't think I'd have similar patience, I especially would not have the patience Obama had with reporters (remember ? The birth certificate. Perhaps (being flexible with perhaps) it was a newsworthy question for a week or two, but 2 years later they were still pestering him)
> median price for a home in Tokyo and its surrounding three prefectures is 28 million yen

For this price you get a shack in the far suburbs of Tokyo. Anything remotely close to the center goes to 100 million yen. And prices are going up before of the Olympic Bubble, too. It's completely crazy.
No-fly lists as well.

reinforcing trends we would rather diminish

Well, of course they are, at the end of the day all any predictive algo is doing is extrapolating a trend. It usually requires serious regulatory intervention - such as men being charged more for car insurance because "the computers said so" until legislation was passed barring sex as an input to the model.
I read the comment you replied to several times and couldn't find where it said that technology was only beneficial.

Now your claim that is neutral is the strong one, but also one very easy to test: Don't use or consume anything made possible by technology, if your life isn't impacted in any way then you're correct... In this isolated, anecdotal case.
And yet that's the same way the US calculates unemployment for U3 (the most commonly reported rate), leading to the same misrepresentation of the actual unemployment situation.
is there a browser extension or plugin that can do this for everyone?
In 20-30 years an accommodation loses about 50 to 60% of its value in Japan. The only thing that is stable or gaining any value in Japan is land. The rest is just a deprecating asset.