skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Doing good statistics" implies doing mathematics. In my opinion the meme that statistics is not math is perpetuated by people who have experience with statistics and not much exposure to other areas of mathematics. It might not "look" or "feel" like a lot of other undergraduate math but that doesn't mean it isn't.

Just because you're not attacking problems formalized with the underlying probability theory doesn't mean you're not practicing mathematics when you practice statistics. It's not a separate discipline.
Now you tell me! ;-)
British sovereignity is certainly closer to the reasons why I voted for Brexit, but it's not the full picture. The main problem I have with the EU is how it's run. I'm not opposed to a union with other countries, just not the union we have, and the structure of the EU makes it resistant to any change that doesn't strengthen the current power structure.

One of the complaints I have about how the media has portrayed the issues is that it's conflated membership of the EU with being European, by focusing so heavily on the immigration angle. I'm still a European if I want to be outside of the EU. The EU is still mostly a trade organisation. Nobody calls people from the US anti-American if they criticise NAFTA (they are of course different arrangements, but certain comparisons can be made). Yet the portrayal of a European who is critical of the EU is of someone who is anti-European.

If you want a view that certainly wasn't emphasised in the Brexit debate, here are some of the comments of Tony Benn about the EU:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQY2CHx4d3U
If you liked the righteous mind you'd similarly enjoy "The Dictators Handbook" by Bruce Burna De Mesquita - he explores how rulers looking to maintain power are all driven by similar incentives, and similarly provided a clear framework for analyzing political or business strategy.
How do they know the hashes are child pornography? Did they get that from the International Center for Missing and Exploited Children? Which is controlled by child porn "artist" Jeff Koons who was accused of his exwife of molesting their son?Once you can indefinitely detain someone for a hash, all the organized criminals have to do is control the body that responds to has requests and they can ruin or exonerate anyone. Too much power to rationally consider this risk, but we're allowing it to happen.
Or maybe he is a firm believer that there is no faster way to erode our constitutional protections than to voluntarily surrender them.

Or maybe he believes that damn pesky constitution (sarcasm) applies to everyone including the government when it comes to search and seizure, and to himself when it comes to right to due process of law, and the protection against self incrimination to name just a few.

Or maybe there is child pornography on there and he does not want to charged and tried and vilified in the court of public opinion. Right now he can stand on "higher ground" by making a constitutional law argument than exposing a secret that he may be ashamed of (guessing here).

Or maybe he truly does not know the password? Despite the governments best efforts they have not been able to crack it so it must be quite secure/complicated.
The real prerequisite for machine learning is a domain expertise.

Otherwise algorithms will learn nonsense and random correlations made from datasets of random noise.

Look at finance to see how it "works".
> but it seems that everyone is trying to kill it off nowadays.

What do you mean?
More and more it feels that self-compiling is not a considered usage for large projects. Instead if you compile at all, you do so as part of a distro maintenance team. And thus should be on all the relevant mailing lists and irc channels, and keeping notes.

At least that is how it feels to me after having spent some years using a distro that is a fair bit more hands on than most.
> There's nothing sacred about science that makes it untouchable or puts it above all other spending.

Well, sure there is: return on investment. If there is one thing history shows us, it is that scientifically minded investment is almost never wasted. Our lives are better in many, many ways because purely scientific (or even engineering) endeavors we're funded by the public.

Unlike, say, funding Nazi political campaigns under the guise of "freedom of speech".

When you're optimizing a program, you identify the biggest performance problems, address their root cause, fix those, then re-evaluate. You don't start cherry picking tiny constant gains out of the system and expect to succeed. All that does is waste time and misdirect effort.
Some things have negative externalities that ought to dealt with. Market forces are such that these negative externalities sometimes exist and so just resorting to, "This is what the market demands" is not sufficient and is bad policy.
I spend a good amount a time answering questions in the Vue StackOverflow tags. While this is documented, it's nevertheless something a huge amount of people stumble over. I'd say the change detection caveats are right behind "this" issues (which isn't really a Vue issue, just javascript) in terms of the most common problems I see in Vue code.
Ah, yes, thanks. In fact, their work on Safe Sulong was more along the lines of what I was thinking of, but this is also interesting.
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How can they validate that he's provided an accurately decrypted hard drive, without the password?
I don't think it's unreachable, and I know plenty of devs who understood COM. I think the issue was a mixture of failing to match expectations combined with very poor marketing (specifically, shoving too many things under the umbrella of COM).

What people wanted COM to be was a way to share binary objects as DLLs—basically what the grandparent was assuming was actually the case on Windows. And at its simplest, COM is almost that. But what it actually did was provide something very different: a way to tell the OS, "Hey, I need you to give me an object that does X," where X was an interface you wanted the object to conform to, and then the OS would give you such an object, which you could address only by its interface. This is nothing more than factories/IoC in modern parlance, but it was new and confusing then, and people got frustrated.

Then, on top of that, Microsoft threw in a pile of other concepts. For example, if you want to use COM for system services, then, in the right situations, multiple people asking for a given interface could be given the exact same object—and this at a time when lots of devs weren't used to working with threading. And also, to accomplish that, you were doing local RPC, so here's also a full serialization framework, which you're probably also not used to. And also because now things are multithreaded a lot of the time, here's a way you can make your COM object single-threaded (think Java's synchronized keyword).

Nowadays, most of this isn't a big deal. Devs are used to RPC (via HTTP/JSON or things like gRPC and Thrift). They're used to factories and IoC. They're used to a single shared "object" being used by multiple processes in multiple services. But at the time, it was a lot of new stuff all at once, and I think it was just too much.
You could say that humans understand the world by building a "model" of it in our minds. When we are trying to decide how to act, we can simulate a situation by running it through the model. For example, you might have a model of your boss that helps you predict how they will react if you give them bad news. And you might have a mental model of your country that you can use to predict what will happen if it goes to war or goes broke. Every time you learn something, you can use it to adjust your mental model. It's like a simulation of the world inside your mind. Pretty cool, actually.

People can end up with very different mental models of the same objects because they trained them with different data (ie, had different experiences growing up) or because other mental models impacted the interpretation of the data, and the development of those different mental models.
Escaping <>"' properly is still enough. Without them you can't create the <script> needed to use a backtick.
> Its a bit unfortunate we don't have something like that today.

Sure we do.

https://www.componentone.com/

https://www.devexpress.com/

http://www.telerik.com/

And given that UWP and .NET Native are COM reborn, we will keep on having them.
The Black Swan. By far.
Hey!

I totally agree, growing up nowadays is extremely different then what it must've been like before. I'm grateful for my parents encouraging me to play outside and make friends, and once they found out that I was interested in programming, they encouraged that as well.

They always want me to try new things and see if I love it, and that's what I found with programming. They do have some rules about it, and can see what websites I visit, and generally what I do online.

I'd say to let them do what they find interesting, like my parents did with me and programming, but still encourage them to try new things. You never know, they might find more things that they love :)
This is another conflation between legal prostitution and the exploitation and trafficking of underaged girls to customers (technically paedophiles) who are actively searching for underage sex. I recommend reading about backpage and understanding the difference between criminally exploiting underage girls and the debate around legalized prostitution.
No, it is the opposite. A 50mm f/1.4 lens focus the light and the heath much more than a 300mm f/5.6.
You were quite lucky with your camera I guess.
I recently spent some time trying to figure out the furthest north you can drive in Canada by car (or at least without a float plane), and what there is to do up there. It's actually pretty interesting. Apparently you can get up to James Bay via the James Bay Road and the Trans Taiga Highway, but there isn't any way to actually get up to Hudson Bay without a boat or a float plane. It's crazy how much of the country is basically unexplored. Apparently over 90% of the lakes don't even have names, so you can name a lake if you want to be the first person to visit it.
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What do you mean by "stretches"? 1km? 10km?

looking around the map near me for an example, there's a section of trans canada "trail" from olds to airdrie that is just highway 2A travelling in a dead straight line for about 100km.
With regards to Vulcan emergence, I do believe we are in for that soonish; it's an archetypal depiction that consumers desire. Biotech, my friend, genetic enhancement. We can make ourselves smarter with genetic enhancement. We can even give ourselves the vulcan mind meld, and everything else exceptional about Spock. I do think the human brain substrate is exceptional, worthy of improving upon. I wish we talked more about so called "brainpower extension technologies", hopefully one day. I bet cats talk in ten years, it's only logical, consumers love cats & the companies can sell them by the millions.
Not even close. The PCH follows the coast and the PCT follows mountain crests: http://www.bigbearhostel.com/uploads/6/9/6/1/6961020/9626729...
This is definitely not true. Are you thinking of the California Coastal Trail?

Highway 1 runs directly on the coast. The PCT runs along the crest of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountain ranges-- more than 100+ miles to the east of Highway 1.
The best argument I've heard is that we can use a computer to model any physical process.....the brain is a physical process, therefore we can use a computer to model the brain.

If you think that there is some process in the brain that would be theoretically impossible for computers to model, that would be an interesting topic of discussion.
> We also implemented support for the sha-native instruction support. […] The new AMD rizon [sic] stuff contains this instruction, though, and the use of it gives another 10% speedup in initial block download for those AMD systems.

Wow, using native SHA256 hashing improved performance that much? I suppose Bitcoin does use an awful lot of hashes.
Why is this a problem?

The author points out that excess bread is given away to those in need or used as animal feed.
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If I may piggy back on this: I've been writing a tiny optimising compiler in Haskell, to show off the problems and cool ideas that modern compiler toolchains like LLVM have: I'm covering SSA, Scalar evolution, and Register Allocation as a first pass. It's WIP, but [here's the link](https://github.com/bollu/tiny-optimising-compiler)
Ask HN: How do you provide on premises integration to your SAAS app?
We need to connect to customers on premise systems like SAP to get data into our SAAS solution. We have a vpn to one client already and a few scripts that call webservices they exposed internally. But what would aid us moving forward where we have lots of these integrations? Is anyone using BizTalk for this as a saas vendor? Had anyone experience of using cloud based integration services for this?
Focal length has nothing to do with it, in fact, longer focal lengths are generally safer because lenses are slower. Aperture is what matters, lenses gather much more light than our bare eyes.
I agree. JSX is supported but in my experience, very rarely used.
It does: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/compile
Sorry, but American bread (at least on West Coast) is really bad. Maybe you can find something edible somewhere, but most of the shops carry only the worst of worst IMO.
In Europe (not including UK) the quality is like night and day. I've noticed bread getting worse as it's produced in bigger batches since couple of years, but american stuff is in its own category of bad.

I hear that East coast has more european style (of cities, buildings and cuisine), so maybe it's better there.
OTH, perhaps just missed all the good bakeries.
> It even has it's own subway covering the whole city!

Not the same I know, but Milton Keynes (a UK garden city supposedly planned and designed like an American city) has a mostly interrupted cycle path network covering the whole city, which to some hugely preferable to a subway network. The only problem with this is that things are too spaced out for the average person to want to cycle so barely anyone uses it, which is strange because Milton Keynes buses charge £4-5 per person to travel only a couple of miles.
4. Because the US is not a military dictatorship. US reps in other countries must remain civilians, not soldiers. No soldier speaks for the country on diplomatic matters. They protect such people, not do thier job when things get scary. That separation of duties is kind of a big deal.
Better tell the Northern Forest Canoe Trail https://www.northernforestcanoetrail.org/

"Trail" tends to imply hiking trail but there's no reason it needs to.
what was the ICO?
Has BTC reached a local maximum at 5,000?
Like Dan Ackroyd's character said in Trading Places, "Now."
Early on I got into a box of my dad's old NLP books (not Natural Language Processing, the other NLP.)

"Structure of Magic" vols I and II, "Frogs into Princes", "Trance-formations", and a couple of others.

NLP grew out of the application of Chomsky's Transformational Grammar to recordings of very effective psychological therapists.
(Virginia Satir, Fritz Perls, and Milton Erickson.) By the way, this is the same Transformational Grammar that leads to the Chomsky Hierarchy of languages. Neat, eh?

Anyhow, the NLP people rapidly developed a powerful model of subjective reality and replicable results in theraputic settings (e.g. the "Five-minute Phobia Cure" algorithm, among many others.) The capability to reprogram belief structures engenders a change of self-definition even if you don't use it.

"Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid"

"System design from provably correct constructs : the beginnings of true software engineering" about Dr. M. Hamilton's Higher Order Software.

Everything by Robert Anton Wilson. (That's not a title, I mean everything he wrote.)
I am 40 plus, and started coding at the age of 10 on a Timex 2068 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Sinclair_2068).

Keep being motivated, curious about all kinds of problems, learn the past of computing and above all, do it for fun!
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isb't it what we could do with vcpkg?
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"A man with two clocks never knows the time" :-)
The brain is a physical entity, yes, so in theory we should be able to model it, assuming we know all the laws it works on with enough precision. This is a big if, but even if that's granted, is there anything which indicates that this is imminent?
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Have you tried Tartine, Josey Baker, ACME, Craftsman and Wolves, or Arsicault for bread in San Francisco when you were in the west coast? San Francisco is considered one of the best bread cities in the world, especially when it comes to natural starters and sourdough...

Bi-Rite Market's bread section has a really nice selection. I'm assuming none of those were to your satisfaction? Some French people have told me that Tartine's baguette is better if not equal to French baguettes, so I'm curious to know why it is so distant to European quality in your perspective.
The Origins of Order by Stuart Kauffman - Reality is autocatalytic of life.

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand - civilization as a struggle of producers vs. looters; selfishness > altruism; the love of money is the root of mostly good.

A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram - Simple rules can yield arbitrarily complex behavior. Therefore reality is inherently computational from the lowest levels.
Being able to give free bread to hungry people at the end of the day is a positive externality. I'm sure there are negative ones too (wasted water from farming excess wheat being one) but bakers pay for that, and if they're not cutting down it's because maintaining a sufficient inventory is worth more.
Neither does yours. You're getting off topic, this is about using/managing/setting up Linux as a desktop. Not checking Gmail. Moving on from this topic, have a good one.
Show HN: Word Puzzle – A word game for Android
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I created this game as a hobby project outside of my normal developer job. Features single player, leaderboard and achievements.

You are very welcome to try it! I appreciate feedback.
Ah the days of DCOM and MTS. :)
Agreed. I looked at Vuex and it seemed unnecessarily complex for most projects. We just have plain state objects that get passed to components that need them, and a convention that components call methods on the state rather than modify its properties directly.
Same here. So much fog cover in SF that you couldn’t even see it through eclipse glasses. Normal sunglasses were just perfect and naked eye was okay for a few seconds at a time.

I mostly looked at it through the display on my camera though. Didn’t even cross my mind it could cause damage. Luckily it didn’t
Adding to this, desubsidize corn to the point where it no longer makes sense to add HFCS to regular bread that isn't meant to be a dessert.
Eclipse is awesome.
Especially with an explicit warning sent out about the eclipse.
You need to escape =. Otherwise if someone does something like:

document.write("<a class=" + str + " href='foo'>xss</a>");

The attacker can set str to "foo onclick=alert(1)".
Right, the water filter makes sense if the fridge deal with water, I guess. Not very convinced about the air filter though.
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Thank you for the suggestion, the premise sounds really interesting. I've just added it to my queue.
I'm definitely pro-capitalism personally, but I think a collection of books that offer a convincing argument towards another perspective would be well received in the HN community. You should consider posting some.
Or rather "probably not, but now you'll never know for sure"
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It's dumping the so-called "XUL/XPCOM extensions", so that's an extension API. The UI toolkit XUL, they'll continue to use.

There are some long-term investigations into using HTML/JS/CSS for the UI [1], but for the moment, the performance difference is still too much.

[1]: https://github.com/browserhtml/browserhtml
Also, at 13 you probably have the time to do lots of projects. You won't have nearly this much time when you need to feed yourself. Enjoy it!
Sounds like he knows what's on that hard drive will be far more damaging to his freedom and reputation than being jailed for contempt.
A JVM language that is a super set of Java. Meaning that java sources are valid iodine sources. Some may find this attractive.
I have found the source video. Here is a link to the relevant part: https://youtu.be/iXXHVZIkw9Y?t=3296

He is actually talking not about AI in general, but about self-driving technologies and drones.
On re-reading books:

The first time I read Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace I found myself unable to determine what was Important for much of the first few hundred pages. None of it made sense and I couldn't figure out what The Point of the book was. I kind of read the pages but didn't really take any of it in.

The second time I read it was a completely different experience: those first pages immediately made sense, and I derived a sense of pleasure in reading them that I didn't have the first time around.