skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would take both. deeplearning.ai focuses more on math fundamentals, fast.ai takes a more coding oriented approach. It also has 2 classes: a beginner and advanced one. I personally prefer the fast.ai approach.
> 2 years of headbanging

Shame the backgrounds gave me a headache anyway
I know what a bank run is, why it occurs and how it is being prevented (probably better than your average bear) and I see no correlation between that and bitcoin.

The only problem I see, if you could even call it that, is that bitcoin "banks" (exchanges?) are restricted to being 100% warehousing operations since there is nobody to bail them out if (when?) they decide they can make more profit earning interest by loaning out the funds they are contractually obligated to hold.

If you want to avoid a run on your bitcoin exchange then simply don't engage in fractional reserve banking...or, I suppose, don't lose all your holdings to hackers.
It's more but not even 100MB: https://archive.org/details/pirate-bay-torrent-dumps-2004-20...

This does not include the descriptions though.

Also check out https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo
Still up though. I use it every once in a while because its on TOR. My ISP has to block some pirate sites now.

I'm from the generation that grew up with digital piracy. I am accustomed to have all media available. From nineties anime shows to strategy guides for videogames.
Business as usual, but better the bully than the psychopath.

From Wikipedia's "1954_Guatemalan_coup_d'état":

"[..] The United Fruit Company (UFC), whose highly profitable business had been affected by the end to exploitative labor practices in Guatemala, engaged in an influential lobbying campaign to persuade the U.S. to overthrow the Guatemalan government. U.S. President Harry Truman authorized Operation PBFORTUNE to topple Árbenz in 1952; although the operation was quickly aborted, it was a precursor to PBSUCCESS."

Reading about those things, one get the impression that the Department of State works for the Camber of Commerce, instead of the USA citizens.

(1). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A...
The best part: The vast majority of all Scandinavians honestly believe that we have almost no corruption and that out justice system is so close to perfect that it is hardly necessary to discuss improvements.
Not OP, but I highly recommend checking out ChessNetwork's recent videos on the games: https://www.youtube.com/user/ChessNetwork/videos
Authentication in Skype is awful. At one point, for reasons beyond me, I ended up having two accounts:

* One account required me to log in with a username, and was associated with my main email address.
* The other account required me to log in with my main email address.

In a way, they were both related to the same email, but different accounts. This shouldn't even have been possible, but it seems that one was an old MS account, and the other was an old Skype account. My roster ended up being split half and half between the two.
I wonder why isn't there torrent-search-over-DHT yet?

I mean, this is known point of vulnerability.

Maybe it's because owners of popular bittorrent software don't want that feature?
You do know he was found innocent.
How is it better than babel? Why is it innovative?
But who does it redistribute the wealth from? Is it broke people, people working several jobs on minimum wage, people who have to use food pantries, people trapped in debt? Not at all. It's people who already have a bunch of liquid assets to play with. People who have earned decent money, saved it and previously were invested in the stock market, gold, savings accounts. Not necessarily rich people (not just rich people), but well-off people who have money they don't need sitting around.

I am young, have a high income and a tiny net worth. I got lucky by buying a tiny amount of bitcoin a few years ago purely because I was interested in the tech. There's lots of things about my situation, and the situation of other people in my society which are unfair. But baby-boomers with nest eggs cashing me out because they feel entitled to make an easy buck and are buying something they don't understand doesn't seem like the most important injustice.
And you assume these two countries would help the baltic States if a Russia fakes a Russian minority uprising?
My two cents is Banking and Financial Institutions Law in a Nutshell by William Lovett. He was my law professor on this subject, and had a knack for teaching the fundamental forces at play.
I think this will depend on the overall efficiency, but I can find portable reading lights at 1W, and I've got a 5W bulb in my hall. 20W is quite a lot for LEDs.

In general I agree, though I'd be interested to see the overall efficiency and output, whether your could get that kind of output from a larger plant.

I'm concerned about the (even theoretical) end to end efficiency compared to something like a solar panel + led setup.

> This technology could also be used to provide low-intensity indoor lighting, or to transform trees into self-powered streetlights, the researchers say.

Streetlights that glow up significantly sounds like a horrible idea for light pollution.

While interesting, and I'm happy seeing research done without clear monetisation, I'm not sure what key problems glowing plants actually solve. An honest question, as lots of smart people working on this I assume know a lot more about the issues than someone who's been thinking about it for 5 minutes.
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Your example is in fact a good example why you should always rebase before merge. Only then would the reviewer have a chance to see the (potential) problem before it is merged.

I'm not sure I understand why rebasing would confuse blame here. Have you tried it?

If you rebase your "foo6" change on top of the "!foo3" change, the state of your branch will be exactly the state of your code base going forward. And that is the useful history to keep, not the order in which the actual keys were pressed.
I would recommend some analysis videos by
agadmator. Here's a good one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb3_eRNoH_w
> Support for the Yugoslavia effort was mainly based on the genocide there and some people felt some obligation because of the holocaust and German war crimes in Yugoslavia during WW2.

The breakaway Yugoslav republics Croatia & Slovenia were recognised first by Vatican & then by Germany. At that point, no fighting has started. It could be argued that their recognition ignited the conflict.

A good comparison would be if Vatican & Germany recognised Catalonia and started to arm them.

> It's exactly the opposite with Russia.

Well, NATO bombed Yugoslavia, in 1999. under the made up charges of ethnic cleansing, but it was only after the NATO offensive started, that the people started to migrate, to avoid the conflict.

An interesting fact to consider is that the bunkers built during the Hitler's German occupation of Serbia were staffed by German soldiers, in their first military action after the WW2.

Comparisons with Russia are not applicable in this case.
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T-Mobile called me back one time instead of me waiting on hold. This was after I went through the song and dance of giving the automated system my details. The first thing this representative wanted to do was, again, confirm I am who I said I was.

I said think about what you're asking for a second. Should I answer your questions? Couldn't get them to understand. Wound up hanging up and calling again and waiting on hold.
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Under german law, yes, notice-and-takedown is basically all you need to adhere to; if you are aware of illegal activities, you must take measures to stop them. (But unlike the DMCA for example, you are allowed to verify any notices thoroughly before taking action, you only have to listen to verified claims)
Freelancer was a great game, I really enjoyed playing it.

I'm not sure how much Chris Roberts had to do with the final product but I don't think Freelancer was a failure when it was released.
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It's mostly was they can control over the animated titles the Marvel franchises. Next is Sony studios.
I don't work there, but it seems naive to think that YouTube hasn't worked with law enforcement or these industries directly to remove these copyrighted works. If your rip is simple or obvious enough, YouTube blocks it immediately before it's published. That seems very different from hosting a site specifically for pirating copyrighted works.
I remember the first time reading this book, or rather the 30 year update -- https://www.amazon.com/Limits-Growth-Donella-H-Meadows/dp/19... -- thinking, "this is the approach to take to understand how the economy, ecology, pollution, and so on interact."

Everything else was just looking at elements. Technology is important, for example, but exists within a system. They looked at the system. They had to simplify and assume a lot, which the media didn't understand (probably benign ignorance) and critics blew out of proportion (probably maliciously), but I found their approach the most meaningful.

Sadly, I know many people who care about the environment but don't understand the (relatively simple) math in their approach, and many people who understand the math but don't care about the environment, but almost no one who cares and understands. So in about a decade since reading it, I haven't found anyone I can talk to about it meaningfully.

A great companion by one of the authors is Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows -- https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Systems-Donella-H-Meadows/dp....

Both changed my views more than almost any other books.
Unfortunately I can't say I'm highly convinced. But being part of NATO means chances are much higher then if they only had some bilateral agreements. Even considering NATO (let's be honest) is not in a great shape.
Can you really get to the moon with just $90M? My impression is that SpaceX is just about the cheapest launch provider currently available, and they charge something like $50-60M to get to orbit. And then you need to do all the tech required to land on the lunar surface as well.

Do they anticipate getting additional funding or decreasing costs?
I have a Tor relay (not an exit node) running in Germany.

Once I started reading other people's experience of running an exit node through that ISP (Hetzner), it turned out that the hosting company was the one receiving these reports and forwarding them to you. After it, the consequences can range all the way from warnings to physically shutting down your server until you do something ridiculous (IIRC send them a physical mail).

Since I didn't want to risk my server being shut down for whatever reason (there are some other uses of it non-Tor related, and the rest of the monthly bandwidth goes towards Tor relay), I've decided to just not run the exit node.

I'd say it's still very useful to the Tor network, since it handles something like 400 GB of Tor traffic per day.
I think the author meant "banging my head against the wall" while getting it all working but didn't realize the term has a very different meaning...
what's with the separation of w3c & whatwg? Are there now 2 HTML5-ish standards? Also, I thought HTML5 was going to be the "final version"
I don't agree. Polish Government is under attack by the western propaganda because it finally wants to remove the post-colonialism which started after Communism collapsed. How would you explain that food prices are almost same in Tesco or Lidl in Germany and in Poland but a Polish cashier earns £400 a month and a German one £1200?
If anyone wants to meet a good chunk of the Circles team, we are having an informal get together at a bar that will hopefully become one of the first vendors accepting Circles - in Berlin, Germany, tonight (Thursday, December 14th) at 19:00 http://meetu.ps/e/DwzBg/CNd94/f

Would love to see you there :)
Property development conflates building construction which does provide tangible value with land value rent extraction and speculation, which does not.

The latter is largely how Trump managed to grow his wealth; he's pretty bad at the former.

This provides a good summary of this principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
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International Master Daniel Rensch made a very informative YouTube series about the match, I highly recommend it. Here are the highlights:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z1o48Sgrck
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I’m going to clear this up really quick because what OP said was extremely weird. People do not go to malls for AC and I live in the Deep South where it humid as hell.

Safe Area is a weird choice of words. I guess it means parents can drop kids off at a place that has decent rent a cops. Generally keeping kids safe from themselves or weirdos I presume. My parents would’ve never said I like dropping my kids at the mall because it’s safe.
Netanyahu: Banks Will Disappear, Possibly Due to Bitcoin
And to avoid Microsoft edge. Why do I have to open Windows store for an add-on to my browser? Why can't I do it from the browser like in Mozilla Firefox or in Google Chrome?
If the defendant isn't wealthy after distributing all that content, is the content worth millions? Or is the government-enforced business model worth millions?

I don't think he should go to jail, but this is an odd rebuttal. If I steal your car and sell it for $300, because I don't really need more money, will you claim just that amount as your loss?

Obviously copyright law pushes up the price, by introducing scarcity, but that doesn't really have anything to do with how much he made.
It will be by same people who organized Targowica in the 18th century 'helping' Polish people by giving up Polish Land to Prussia, Russia and Austria!
You mean they didn't look at the stats and see how low the average pledge is, and the many, many users who pledge $1-2?

Whilst it's a nicely worded apology, they F'd up being greedy, and are now trying to recover by maintaining that closeness with the users. I'm not buying it.
The ‘go to person’ is probably the best bet, most researchers are willing to learn new things so hopefully this would lead to improvements. I saw this formalised in a group in KTH where a person’s job was to help researchers and students get the most out of their computational resources.

A bigger problem is the stop start nature of software development in academic research. Students and postdocs come and go and tools are frequently abandoned to the new inexperienced student or are kept frozen in time on that one old machine that still works. Many researchers are simply afraid of coding.

We recently had a student from my former lab interview with us and he presented all his Ph.D results captured and processed in a tool I wrote several years earlier. It had seen zero development even though the commments through listed possible improvements. I doubt anyone even looked at the source code because it just worked and he had no idea I had wrote it even though my name was in the header comment.
Maybe because it combines the functionality of Babel and UglifyJS (and maybe others) while being faster than all. (I don't really know, I haven't tried it)
ReCAPTCHA has a "Security Preferences" parameter where you can set the level of difficulty of the test. If you set it to "Most Secure" most or all users are presented with the multiple image identification scenario you describe. Easiest will simply present the "I am not a robot" checkbox modal which does some browser fingerprinting and other tests in the background. I believe there is also a heuristic that determines the difficulty of the test to present users if you leave the setting on the default medium difficulty. Could be mistaken, but this is my takeaway from implementing reCAPTCHA a few times.
It's pretty much in the (sub)title of the page: "Because once you have enough money, money doesn't matter."
Yes it might be very much fine from the US perspective to do this. Things change however once you look from the other side. It can easily be in the economic interest of other countries to not pay the US copyright holders, especially 100 years after something was created.

So this is not so much about claiming the US is doing something against the interest of US citizens. This is about other country politicans/judges/police being corrupt, taking benefits from USA and acting against the best interests of the people they promised to defend.
Reading normally, and skipping the videos, the whole deck takes about 15 minutes. The last 3rd of the slides are basically promotional material for the various Cloud ML services that are out there.

It's nice deck, but I'd hoped the blue slides went more technical without dropping out to various videos. If wanted videos, I'd go to youtube directly. Not everyone wants to learn through watching people talk. I learn best when I read, it's unfortunate that youngsters these days think that the written word is now a poor cousin to flashy video.

<rant>

In the same way that new clothes are no longer for me, and new music is no longer for me, and all good TV shows and films are full of people half my age, I also now feel that I'm being aged off the internet.

I was here first, you young whippersnappers! It's MY lawn.

</rant>
Ahhh, the American Dream! "No one is forcing them to do it."

There's a plethora of well paid jobs out there that they could be doing instead but, for reasons unknown, they prefer to be under-dressed roller skating companions.
> ...I have yet to work with such a person...

I have absolutely worked with bad architects who dreamed up giant frameworks that had basically all the features of an operating systems. In the end, the whole project had to be scrapped. And all the other developers had to be (slowly) retrained to learn that <smart architect> was wrong about many things.

I have absolutely worked with bad individual contributors that likewise wasted other peoples' time through shoddy work or a lack of empathy for other individual contributors. Often they ended up working on infrastructure groups, but they could work anywhere.

I have also worked with egotistical engineers that liked pedantry and debate over actual work. If you wanted to get things done, you basically learned how to avoid their input before shipping.

There are lots of other examples here. I didn't even go into different kinds of net-negative managers.
Are you considering B2B partnerships as well?
Also Coconut looks interesting: http://coconut-lang.org/
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> Why?

Occam's razor? If the majority of large, coordinated attacks and malware come from those countries it seems reasonable to suspect them initially, doesn't it? He said they were "guesses". He straight up told you he was speculating. That's not xenophobic, that's statistical probability.

> Even if there's a good chance it is them, should we not believe in innocent until proven guilty?

Yes, but if no speculation is allowed until after a conviction then how would anyone ever be investigated? We would never be able to accuse anyone of anything!
For one state in the Northeast, crushing debt load of state pensions. For a couple of decades, state leadership promised generous pensions and kept kicking the can down the road.

Something has to give and (higher) education funding is an easy item to cut.

"The current speaker of the house, Joe Aresimowicz, works for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, an amazing conflict of interest even by blue-state standards."

"The erosion of Connecticut’s suburban tax base is a more dire prospect than the continued weakness of its cities."
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Your never going to get into the high double digits, as is most postal services have a pitiful catch rate for drugs, expanding that to cover electronics doesn't mean that catch rate will magically improve.
I don't want to enter my password on the phone, I have fingerprint or pin in mobile banking app.
How can you say all reviews that have pictures and multiple paragraphs offer zero value? I have reviewed 100+ Amazon products and go in-depth whenever I can, and always provide value by providing hands on experience of using the products where I think it will help other people looking to buy that product.
Citi just had a terrible IT team. Their website is always broken and their back end computer systems, until recently, were filled with reward loopholes.
I've developed my own golden rule: if something is 5 years or older its public domain.

TPB and digital piracy in general functions as a library of Alexandria. Nobody in our society gives a shit about keeping things available. It's all about NOW and MONEY. So much entertainment would be lost without the internet.
What I really want to know is whether the leaves keep growing after you cut them: I want to eat some glowing salad!
The organizations also play a game of the Boy Who Cried Wolf. Remember Home Taping Is Killing Music? By their propaganda, the music industry should have died multiple times in the past few decades.
If I want to donate $1 per month to somebody, cashing out $20 in advance is quite a bit -- it'd probably discourage a lot of people, since the initial investment is too much.
"Basic" does not mean the same thing everywhere.

In Germany part of the basic rights granted by law is human dignity. Part of human dignity is participation in culture and society. As such the closest thing germany has to UBI includes a budget to permit participation in culture.
While I agree with your basic premise, everybody gets things wrong sometimes, I still feel this was needles dramatization by Schneier when I read it back then.

Somebody with his experience should know better than to throw guesswork attribution haphazardly around like that (at least not without a very big disclaimer), especially in a climate that was, and still is, pretty hawkish on "cyberwar turning hot".

Because it's exactly his experience and prestige which gives the uninformed the impression that his "Russia/China" attribution was based on something solid, and not just mere guesswork without any basis on evidence at all.
Scott Adams is a pathological wannabe genius, not a racist.
Because AWS is already deeply embedded in the games industry. Where do you think all of those multiplayer servers run for big AAA titles? This is probably just a move up the vertical for them.
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This is a deeply unfair, unreasonable and arguably abusive comment.

It's entirely reasonable to talk about yourself and your achievements on your resume, and Mr Mayes' site is rather a good example of doing so.
On one side, this is irrelevant: international relations are the wildest arena, where even written contracts can be casually swept aside, so a bunch of “reassurances” will never be worth anything.

On the other, every action has a reaction. Many in the ‘90s predicted that abusing Russian weakness was risky: it was akin to what France and Britain did to Germany at Versailles, which was a critical contribution to the rise of Nazism. Surprise surprise, we now have a hyper-nationalistic leader in power whose entire platform is “getting Russia respected again”.

What is really shocking, imho, is that a lot of the players who were around back then are still on the conference circuit, write editorials and teach at universities. Somebody actually listen to people who compromised the best chance we’ve had at global peace for a hundred years.

I wish somebody started something like theyscrewedup.com, a website where people in power get reminded of when and where they got it so wrong that they should just shut up already.
Does anyone but Star Citizen use it Amazon Lumberyard?

Unity and UE4 really are the current leaders in game engine technology, CryEngine, while great, has suffered in the last four years or so and isn't a significant competitor.