skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone know what that keyboard is? I need that.
Most of the new financing is debt, which I referred to above. The new equity is only $472M for the first nine months of this year.

Their operating loss over the same period is $570M. As I also said, most of what they're spending is capital expenditure, amounting to about $3B.

I.e. the basic story here is simple: they're borrowing a bunch of money to build new factories, which is exactly what you would expect a new car company to do.
Nice point. Will keep that in mind.
This hasn't been true for decades. There are no milk lakes anymore because of the CAP. Spreading lies doesn't help matters.
Python for Data Analysis – A Critical Line-By-Line Reivew
I once tried to use that trick, for nVidia optimus integration.

Didn’t work because that recompilation step broke debugger, and invalidated .PDB debug symbols.
> I think you are significantly underestimating the theoretical innovations contributed to the field every time these models are substantially improved.

I think you are overestimating, there isn't a single interesting theoretical insight in AlphaGo's papers.
They'd probably pay me to cut off their kids' wi-fi. ;-)
yeah this is cool, until you make a single map...
Fake News and Facebook Ads: It's Shockingly Cheap to Influence Elections [DATA]
It must be quite fun for you to read so many armchair financiers here reconstructing modern economics from first principles on the one hand, while throwing in gems like “economics is not a science” because “not all participants are rational actors as usually assumed” on the other :)
Laptops are tools that can be used to help you with your tasks, or to waste time. I'm sure the article is correct that many people use them poorly, but that doesn't mean banning the tool is the right answer. Maybe training better usage of them would be wise.
I found the discussion sections to be the real value proposition of university - after reading the lecture material, got to spend time with a grad student and ask questions about the material.
The mother planet reaps no material benefits from colonizing another star. Those groups who colonize it get a world if their own.

So interests of Earth governments are not aligned with star travel, and only marginally aligned with colonizing e.g. Mars. Those groups who want to ho there will have to do it themselves. (See Elon Musk.)
I've only been using Gatsby for a little over a year, but before I started I did wonder about performance as a potential problem, so I tested it. It generated a clean build of a site with 1000 source files in about 3 seconds on my 5 year old Mac Air. I don't imagine I'll ever actually write that much.
Groovy Scripts on Steroids with picocli 2.0
Sounds like ADHD.
But that is the issue. They aren't selling enough cars to keep things going. Instead they tap capital, which is largely funded by the middle class. So it isn't the wealthy subsidising anything.
The push came most likely from the pressures of the cold war. Now that it is long over, threats like Russia/Syria/ISIS/North Korea/China don't provide the same level of urgency to compete as before.
I found that the usefulness of lectures depends very strongly on how good the lecturer is, as well as the topic being discussed. When studying physics I found that the lectures were incredibly useful, because it's quite hard to get in the "zone" of understanding the derivation being discussed when at home. However, with mathematics subjects the textbook was almost always a much better learning tool, because the derivation did not require a discussion of the physics that justified said derivation. Computer Science lectures were almost unilaterally a waste of time.
> It happens every time there is a biology topic as well.

Let’s add cryptography and quantum complexity theory while we’re at it :)
This story was posted 5 times within the past 3 days (never by me). I was wondering why it never took off because it’s one of those HN stories. Anyway, Monday morning at 7am EST seemed to do the trick.

For anyone wondering why their stories don’t initially gain traction, timing is important.
or when they then proceed to laugh at you after getting you to dance.
The word "crypto" is a synonym of cryptography, not cryptocurrency.

Ref: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crypto
It's up to the maintainer to offer up an SLA and price it accordingly. Try to figure out the SLA you get for your windows or office license: Many companies would already be happy with "our payment places this otherwise uninteresting issue that we desperately need fixed at the top of the queue", even if no guarantee for a time frame was attached. If a company expects 24x7 with short response times, price it accordingly. If you find customers willing to pay for this, great, you just validated a market :)
A lot of these comments are focused on the merits of Coq and some of the mathematical details of your post. As someone who has no experience with Coq and little experience with mathematical proofs, I want to add an additional perspective. This is a pretty cool hobby. It's really nice to hear about hobbies that aren't motivated by ambitions of profit or fame. Thanks for sharing!
I think it's better to take notes with a pen and paper, because you need to summarize what you hear, and you can't just write everything.

This helps a lot the learning process, because summarizing makes you understand better the content, and the relations between concepts
I think this will destroy some dreams :-/ Mine included, I am/was working about something similar.
For a very long time in university, I never took notes and suffered nothing for it. Near the end, the only exceptions were classes taught from very succinct paper material where a lot of supplementary examples were only treated in lectures and so complicated as not to be (easily) found on the internet.

Beyond that I always got a much better return on paying more attention to the lecture, and trying to see how what is told fits with what I know rather than how to fit it into my notes.
Note taking exists to combat what you're talking about. You can improve your note taking, and how you use your notes, on paper or on a device.
This is a really tired meme. It's not any less accessible than minified js.
Including race as a parameter should reduce the impact of those correlations on the output of the model (by allowing the model to measure and control for the bias that exists in the input data).

Incautiously using race just because it reflects those existing biases would be a problem. This is what lots of humans do, overestimating the information provided by their own inferences of race. Like internet assholes who blather about how it is rational to be afraid of black men because of their higher rates of assault. Never mind that the absolute rate is still so low that there is ~0 predictive power from the race of a given individual.
This is just a thinly-veiled referral marketing link.
Like most people, I'm sure no two conservative billionaires are alike.
> Edit: will rust-lang.org take a PR changing "guaranteed memory safety" to "memory safety story"? ;)

I hope not. The value proposition of Rust is that if you stick to writing code without unsafe, then you have a guarantee that you will not fall victim to memory unsafety unless there is a bug in the language or in some unsafe block in a dependency you're using.

Personally, I find your quibbling in this thread pretty strange. Rust very clearly provides more memory safety guarantees than C++. For starters, you could not take the guarantee I just stated above and apply it to C++ because there is no such thing as "C++ without unsafe blocks."
> Does this really bring a lot of value?

In this particular case, none whatsoever. It’s egregious abuse of macros.
Seems very similar to "4K is for programmers" which was written when 4k monitors/TVs had just been released.

http://tiamat.tsotech.com/4k-is-for-programmers

I, personally, own one of those TVs (Seiki 39") and both love and hate it. I've always seemed to buy TVs for day to day computing because you generally get more cutting edge features for better prices (My first flat screen was a 27" WestingHouse TV. First 4k, Seiki. ETC).

Economics of scale factor in heavily - more TVs will be sold than computer monitors leading to better prices. Which is why I could get a Seiki 4k for $400 when similarly sized 4k "Desktop" monitors were going for $1000+.

The most annoying thing has been "Turn of monitor, Computer considers it unplugged". So you go from 2 monitors to 1 - and all the icons rearrange. Computer goes to sleep? Monitor turns off... disconnects... Annoying.

The price of saving $600+ for 4k (At the time).

I've recently upgraded to a smaller "computer" monitor that's better suited for gaming and desktop use... and the Seiki is now my computer room Plex Player.
What about the BBC is openly impartial?
Building a Serverless Image Processing SaaS
>No, actually that was not the question. The unsupported grandparent statement was that the US is "crazy about race as always." Well, the US is also a lot more racially diverse than those countries.

Well, the US also didn't have any history (as US) before 1942 or so, so of course it got populated by "more racially diverse" population -- not because of the benevolence and multiculturalism of people already living there, but because people came in from all corners, grabbed land, and established a new country (in the process giving the real native population the short end of the stick).

And despite that, the US had slaves long after European countries had abolished that practice, it had segregation long after Europe has done with it (which was rarely an issue here), and is still uptight about race in ways Europe isn't.

Let's not even get into how 25% of the world's prisoners are in the US that only has 4% of the world's total population -- and how many of them are black compared to the whites there.

That's what makes it "crazy about race as always".

>1. It's rather convenient for your argument, isn't it, that some of the aforementioned countries (the Scandinavian ones) don't have any substantial black population.

Well, sorry that Sweden didn't abduct and bought people from Africa so that it can now have more blacks... They do have a 5-7% of muslim immigrants, does that count?
if I am taking a course on a new unfamiliar subject I copy relevant material from the textbook into a handwritten journal before each lecture, which makes it much easier to pay attention to the teacher and catch all of their side comments (such as caveats on when to use various methods)
Hey all,

I wrote a very detailed review of the book, Python for Data Analysis (2nd edition) by Wes McKinney.

Here is a high-level summary:

PDA is written very much like a reference manual, methodically covering one feature or operation before moving on to the next. The current version of the official documentation is a much more thorough reference guide if you are looking to learn pandas in a similar type of manner.

There is very little actual data analysis and almost no teaching of common techniques or theory that are crucial to making sense of data.

The vast majority of examples use randomly generated or contrived data that bear little resemblance to what data actually look like in the real world.

For the most part, the operations are learned in isolation, independent from other parts of the pandas library. This is not how data analysis happens in the real-world, where many commands from different sections of the library will be combined together to get a desired result.

Although the commands will work for the current pandas version 0.21, it is clear that the book was not updated past version 0.18, which was released in March of 2016. This is apparent because the resample method gained the on parameter in version 0.19 which was absent in PDA. The powerful and popular function merge_asof was also added in version 0.19 and is not mentioned once in the book.

There were numerous instances where it was clear that the book was not updated to show more modern code. For instance, the take method is almost never used any more and has been completely replaced by the .iloc indexer. There were also many instances were code snippets could be significantly transformed by using completely different syntax, which would result in much better performance and readability.

One of the most confusing things for newcomers to pandas are the multiple ways to select data with the indexers[], .loc, and .iloc. There is not enough detailed explanations for the reader to walk away with a thorough understanding of each.
Technically yes, most often it's about stacking more layers in neural networks, making them "deep". However, there is some merit to the new hype since stacking more layers worked way better than anyone previously working with neural networks and ML thought it would. But in theory you could generalize deep learning to other methods than neural networks, it's basically about creating way more complex models than those used in previous research and feeding them lots of data. Thereby assuming less about the problem and letting the model figure it out.
Hi everyone!

Monedas is my first web app. Although still very bare bones, the idea is to use different data points to explore crypto assets.
Like I say in the about page: "I think crypto assets are a different animal. Instead of looking at projects solely by traditional standards (like we look at equities), there should be more information on the code itself. Being that the important projects are protocols vs businesses that use blockchain, I believe data points on the code base should be considered.

With that said, I don't think commits, repo age or any one data point is a good determinant for the quality of the project. I do believe that, at the very least, it can signal something interesting. For example, a $X00M project with little to no activity on the repository should raise some flags."

You can find more on how I went from nothing to now here:
https://twitter.com/espitia7/status/918260378777407488

Feedback is welcome :) !
Agree 100%. I went to college before tablets and affordable laptops became ubiquitous, but the same problem applied to handwritten notes. After a few tries to keep notes and re-read them at my leisure I gave up, it was exhausting to take them and in the end I was missing too much.

The best solution is audio/video recording. I think every lecturer can record their lectures and publish them online later in the college's database or wherever. Cheap, easy and you don't have to worry about taking notes and missing anything
Norvig's Python programs to practice or demonstrate skills
There's also manly, which is a cli tool for interpreting commands and showing you what they do.

https://github.com/Zaab1t/manly

Screenshots:

https://i.imgur.com/fdTCZRK.png
https://i.imgur.com/Yx0PXTS.png
I'm not voting you down, but can you explain to me why EOS is (or could be) better than Ethereum? Everything I've read has been more negative than positive.

Do they have something up and running yet?
Ask HN: Why are larger e-readers much more expensive than tablets?
Looking at larger e-readers (8-10inch) I am surprised how few options there are and the prices $300+. Yes the regular 6" Kindle is cheap but larger sizes are not.

I would rather read text books on an e-reader not a tablet.

The specs of most e-readers are low. Is the screen that costly? Is this the reason for them being that expensive? Or is it lack of demand?
Interesting use-case , can you share a link. Thanks
>They suggest to use a steering lock to avoid this, which would indeed help, but it's quite cumbersome.

atleast in my non-keyless car the steering lock is quite easy; pull key, rotate steering wheel until lock, done.

Once you've done it a couple times it becomes second nature.
All of which are strongly correlated with factors open to bias.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/07/politics/blacks-wrongful-convi...

https://www.law.umich.edu/newsandinfo/features/Pages/starr_g...

While people complain about the racial bias in the courtroom, the sex bias is substantially larger.

Heck, the Supreme Court of Canada recently gave a woman a complete pass for trying to have her husband killed. Because after she was charged with attempted murder, she conveniently remembered that she was the victim of domestic violence.

Despite her claims being provably false.

i.e. claimed incidents occurred when they lived hundreds of miles apart. There's no record of her ever calling the police, despite her claims of multiple police visits, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq2WWsY8Rmc

As was noted in other comments here, such a "data driven" approach just continues existing prejudices.
There Is No Big Data
Yes, but still: I buy jamon leg almost every week, it’s always Iberica, and I’m sure there is a lot of Iberica Bellota in shops. You are welcome to check it yourself :)
> publish them online later

Note that you also need to have someone add captions to them for accessibility.
Humans evolved there. The conditions there are better than the rest of the world, not worse. The only reason we have nutrition and access to clean water in other parts is because we invented the technology to provide that.
"Money laundering," because of all the regulatory attention attached to it, has become a catch all term for shenanigans.

If the scam is to get money out of stolen CCs and into your pocket, this is theft and fraud. The money isn't laundered if you can trace it back to a stolen credit card.

Money Laundering is taking money that you have, but can't justify having, and giving it a legitimate source. On Airbnb that might be pretending someone is paying lots of money to stay in your apartment. You pay yourself in dirty money. Now your dirty money looks like legitimate Airbnb income.

I'm sure Airbnb have the first kind of fraud. Anyone accepting CCs on the internet has it.

Actual laundering...? Seems likely. Real estate has always been a popular route. The article (like almost anything money laundering related) mixes and matches, so it's impossible to tell.
Funny that up until 2016 go was regarded as one of the most difficult games that computers could master, and now that it is solved it becomes a PR stunt? Would you claim the same in 2015?
Is there any significant benefit of thinking tens of long-term/short-term goals and planning, and managing different funds for them (emergency, travel, house, card, kid's college education..). Why not just have a 1-2 funds to dump your savings in and be smart about withdrawing from it? One could consist of conservative investment vehicles, other could have more aggressive ones.
When Bond enters the offices in Shanghai there is a Chinese security guard, but the actual office is quite distributive and is just north of Liverpool Street station in London.
So does that count as “set in China”
I really don't understand how this is Airbnb's problem. Why do people attack these kinds of services so often? It's not their fault people are paying through them and then having people send the money back. What are they supposed to do? Send someone to the home to check that the person is actually staying there?

I mean, the way this works you could literally use any service ever. Why is AirBnB, in this case, any different than like Paypal, eBay, or Amazon or literally any online fund transferring for goods service?
I realised we went through all this nearly two years ago and failed to get anywhere!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11907547

I'm afraid I still can't understand your position.
That's very apt. Except it stops being fun pretty quickly.
> Chess and go don't drive innovation, they are just a side effect of real innovation.

I'm not certain this is true. Take OpenAI as a potential counterexample. While not chess or go (at least, at the moment), they are likely to be considered innovating while still working on problems that would be considered roughly equivalent. Much of the field that has been called AI for a long time (not the current deep learning approaches) were pioneered by working on chess and go. It may well be the case that proving that a new class of techniques work on these well studied games is the first step in the innovation process, where those techniques are taken and applied to other problems.
There really should be at least a mention of Minitel in articles like these.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel
Economics of scale - many more TVs sold than computer monitors.

Add to that the different features - higher DPI, refresh rate, contrast ratios, etc. Cutting edge features such as NVidia G-Sync and the similar feature from AMD don't come cheap.

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/hardware/145753-why-computer-...
Possibly it's a problem from a batch of them, but such batch seems rather large. I don't like that myself, because the BDM4064UC would simply be a great monitor for programming work at that price point.
Or a too hard course. Or a bad lecturer. Or you skipped the previous lecture and it's all gibberish again.
That's too bad. So other item courseware have videos?
Also I'd say you _can_ pause a lecture. Simply lift up your hand and ask a question: That's the great thing about person-to-person teaching.

Painting all lectures and meetings as 'broken' because one would prefer to have video for everything (that's how I understood it) is pretty hyperbolic.
I'm from a country with very strict gun laws. That's why I know the data on illegal guns, there is apparently no such thing as "illegal gun" in U.S.A.

The only thing that facial recognition would help in my country would be those cases when licensed gun collector gets robbed and his guns taken by organized criminals. In that situation it would only slow down the illegal use of those guns. Therefore it would possibly ramp the price up to a point where manufacture of illegal guns becomes profitable.
I am not sure about meetings since I do not have much experience with them. But if you do not want people to use laptops during lectures
1. Record your lectures and make them available later (course website, internal network anywhere).
2. Create PDF of your own notes and distribute them BEFORE lecture.
3. Ideally, though this is a huge amount of work, so not always possible, write down in detail the steps in your lecture like a book chapter and distibute this BEFORE lecture. Alternatively, assign a book chapter pre-reading.

In short, if you want people to pay attention to the content during the lecture, remove the incentive to take notes during the lecture.
I share your reactions, with the exception that examples first or last seems irrelevant when using a man page—Sometimes it’s better first because you simply need a reminder how to use the command, and other times you need to read more of the description to catch the warnings before you use the command for the first or infrequent time. But if you follow the General best practice to read the whole of some documentation before you use a command, then this too seems irrelevant.

That said, if you’re writing, reviewing, and editing documentation, the traditional structure is hierarchical and consistent—-which is good.
Yes.

It makes your funds easier to keep track of (what did you spend your money on?) and it makes overspending very difficult (without noticing).

I keep different buckets of money in different accounts with auto deposit.
This depends on what you do with the results. To qualify as a charity, such an org should probably make all the results public domain, instead of e.g. patenting them.
That's what Hamachi does. They're still called VPNs.
I suspect its your use of the phrase "social agenda", as if nuclear war might be a thing that it was unreasonable to be against.