skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do you assume a geometric interpretation is a given? For graphics, matrices and geometry go hand in hand, but not for other fields. There isn't always a geometric relationship.

Matrices are a notation normally introduced as part of linear algebra, for solving a system of equations. The book I first learned linear algebra from is "Advanced Engineering Mathematics" which doesn't cover anything geometric in the entire first chapter on linear algebra (which usually takes 1 quarter in college to cover). It mentions linear transformations, but only algebraically. What it does talk about is Gauss-Jordan elimination, augmented matrices, homogeneity, inverses, determinants, eigenvalues, unitary and skew-Hermitian matrices.

Most of that stuff isn't geometric, and it seems like it wouldn't be hard for lots of people to have been exposed to the algebra without learning the geometric interpretations.

Everything going on in neural networks today is built on matrices and matrix operations that don't have a naturally geometric point of view.
With streaming, different services have different content libraries based on negotiated deals with copyright holders. Subscribers regularly lose access to movies and shows they like because of disputes over contracts or because the copyright holder is moving their content to their own service.
My brother had a 1991 Ford Mustang 5.0 with a flowmaster 3 inch exhaust system (no cats). It would set off alarms at a specific RPM in 2nd gear (under slight load). He enjoyed annoying people with it (my brother was a hardcore car guy).

View this YouTube video to get a good idea of how the car sounded (my brother's was a bit louder): https://youtu.be/cNWv5WpamPc
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When a minority isn't being hired, it is probably hard to prove that it was because of discrimination... that's probably why a minimum is sometime required
Mine isn't connected but, yep, could certainly see how that'd work. Whilst no fancy auto pilot yet, the AEB and radar cruise are very nice things to have in a car.
I have 2014 3. This system has spoiled me. If my next car doesn't have something similar, I'll probably crash it pulling out of dealership.
Surprise! All of those things can, and do, still happen. Plus, the Internet silently facilitates a lot more of that behaviour despite being in the "safety" of the home.

Citations needed.
This recounts an event that happened in 2004, FYI.
>The gender gap is purely cultural, and we should be learning from what those cultures are doing that's different than us.

The countries with low gender gap in science/tech are also the countries that measure low on general measures of gender equality. It turns out there isn't anything to learn from these cases. In regions with low gender equality and weak social safety nets, technology is seen as the means to economic security and thus empowerment. Conversely, regions with high gender equality and strong social safety nets have the largest gender gaps. There is something to be learned from this, but we probably won't like what we find.
I just wanted to say one thing and I will be quiet because I think the ban on these words is totally uncalled for period but the use of wikipedia for an example is not a credible source as it is written by anyone and may not be factual at some point I would look for more evidence-based material LOL
>What boggles my mind is after decades and decades of truly scummy, bottom of the barrel activity (not only in this case, but in the torture they inflicted on prisoners, assassinations, drug running, overthrows of governments, etc), the CIA still manages to recruit people.

I saw some CIA recruits, they were not bright boys.

Three letter agencies were and are looking for a specific type of personality in recruits, types that are convinced that whatever they do is right, invariably of what they were told to do.

Three letter services are afraid of hiring people with brains, and even if they do hire ones, they favour people who can be said to be "intelligent, but witless"

Google Ryan Fogle.
OT but I grew up in a place where first borns would inherit the land that was good for farming and other siblings would get the less desirable land, usually on the coast. Apparently it would make siblings tear each other apart because the difference in land had a huge impact on a family’s wellbeing. Eventually, with tourism, the value of land flipped, making families that owned land by the coast become wealthy. Talk about external factors affecting upward mobility.
Not really.

This author is paid by advertisers. That's their business model but there are plenty of other publishers out there available to you that would probably carry a version of this story under another business model.

ISPs are paid by end users directly. And now also competing content companies who don't want their content throttled. And a top-up from the end users again to access those services. And whatever scummy deal they can get from selling every last detail about you and your browsing habits.

And unlike this publisher, if you don't like it, you can't just shop around for a well behaving one. Most ISPs in the US appear to operate as local monopolies. There's no separation between hardware and service and that causes issues.
Hopefully Comcast will fix that and block all traffic going to them. (since net neutrality is not a thing)
This isn't true. If you are hoarding Bitcoin and not putting it into productive use, you are reducing the supply. Thereby with constant demand the price should increase. In doing this, you have increased to wealth of others in the economy (of the currency) who can then put that into productive use where they believe they can generate gains above the rate of return of the expected deflation.
> The gender gap is purely cultural...

It may be smaller in other cultures, but it's my impression that it's still there. At least among non-Western immigrants to the U.S., there are still at least 2-3 males for every female engineer.

Dunno about the quality or authoritativeness of the numbers, but this link indicates that India still has plenty of room for growth, assuming that 50/50 is the ideal gender ratio.

http://blog.belong.co/gender-diversity-indian-tech-companies
> The land you inherit is not "justly yours". It was the previous owner's thing. You are getting it but it is not your divine right, except that you won the birth lottery by being born into this family.

Of course those arguments apply to governments as well, since they don't derive their law-making authority by claim to divinity - at least in modern times. Why should a government be specially privileged over a citizens wishes to provide for their family and/or community after death?
One practical point anyone implementing bandits should be aware of is time correlation. Bandits are awesome if your data behaves the same going forward as it did before. But when you change your A/B split on Friday based on what you learned over the week, then suddenly whether someone saw A or B is correlated with being the kind of user that visits on weekends. That leads to selection bias, which is a pain in the ass and screws things up. It can be time of day, day of week, and even season (I bet all of our jobs will be a bit unusual going in to this coming week, for example). The problem's present on many time scales.

You can deal it, but everyone should be aware of this before doing the naive thing of just throwing bandits at things. Sometimes some regret is worth the plain validity of an RCT, and sometimes not.
Not sure why getting roped on train or having organized crime like every other country in the world are related
Instead of hinting at something, why not just tell us how you really feel? Is it because it's a conclusion that is generally not accepted when put in plain terms?
Good thought, but they don't have a garage.
Whether you agree or disagree with it on a moral level, eventually the tides are going to turn where the government is going to tax the rich and give to the poor just because the poor are going to so vastly outnumber "the rich" that they are going to vote a true populist into power.

Red state representatives will only be able to appease the masses by blaming people who don't look like them and quoting scripture for so long.

Once they toughen illegal immigration and can't use the boogeyman of "Mexicans taking their jobs" or the evil Muslim non American former President trying to implement Sharia law" something is going to give.
Maybe the picture you're getting is not from South Indian people? There's a different mentality and situation in the south. The southern states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala have the highest literacy rates in India, with Kerala especially having the highest literacy rate for women. Mallika's perceptions about the cultural importance of education are almost certainly correct especially if she is from the south.
Because many conspiracy theorists are more interested in selling brain vitamins than finding the truth.
That barrier should be much higher for networking devices imho; aviation, container ships, cruise ships, healthcare controller systems, utility controller systems, factory controller systems, parts of banking, parts of payments, all of these And More should not be connected to the internet for their critical operations.

I did a project for an 'embedded' controller software house a long time ago and asked why they used Windows (which was just quite hackable at the time and I wouldn't use it today for critical operations but that might just be because it used to be so bad at a time when I mostly used Solaris which was unbreakable compared) and why it was connected to the internet; answer was obvious; software for Win was easier to outsource to far away countries (in NL you find great engineers but costly and you cannot fire them easily; this company traded quality to be able to do it cheap and be able to do it project basis) and networking because it's too expensive to go to the client and update the software manually. So it was just always connected. The first versions where directly on the internet, the latter versions via a gateway computer but it was both pretty easy to get into. Cannot imagine other reasons to have it open from the outside besides that? Just convenience of maintenance.
This is [also] a [multiple] dupe from a few days ago. An established discussion has already taken place or is in progress.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15941580
'during' not necessarily 'due to'
> The companies have confirmed that is not the case.

Okay, so we can't trust them with data but their statements are 100% to be taken seriously? Slightly contradicting.

> how much more specific can you get?

Well, put their names on it

> Nolita is five square blocks

Umm, yeah in New York City, meaning we are talking about 50k people [0].

[0]: https://www.point2homes.com/US/Neighborhood/NY/Manhattan/NoL...
Can you elaborate on those connections? My cursory googling surfaced some thread-bare conspiracy theories, but nothing of substance to follow-up on.
You are correct.

That's something I've been a bit worried about with people coming to Elixir thinking it's basically a faster/robust Ruby: are they absorbing the full Erlang Weltanschauung?
Places that regularly get snow don't really ever take 3 days to clear it, there is capacity to clear it continuously.

(I've lived in lake effect snow belts most of my life and never had a 4 wheel drive vehicle and have basically never worried about roads)
wow.. someone on here is a hardcore ufoite...
As you note, LEO is very different from geostationary. Moving target doesn't strike me as impossible. A LEO satellite has a very predictable path, a stationary dish has a predictable movement relative to that path and a mobile phone knows where it is at all times.
Yes, states -- and the society in general -- should have a slight preference against going to trial. Trials cost resources, and it makes sense for the body politic to compensate defendants who are willing to save society the expense of a trial that they expect to result in a guilty verdict anyway.

This is why most societies allow guilty pleas in the first place!

A plea bargain is nothing but a guilty plea + certainty about the sentence. If you're okay with guilty pleas but not plea bargains, then you think the introduction of certainty in the sentence makes it somehow worse. That's hard to justify.

I reiterate that the focus on the "plea bargain" part of this whole thing seems misplaced. If anything, it's the part that makes sense; the problem is the high penalties and bad-faith charges, which is what should be penalized.

>if an innocent person has a 20% chance of being convicted, but the offered plea bargain is 1 year and the maximum sentence is 10 years, innocent people will do better by pleading guilty. The "10 years" is a problem, but it's a consequence of wanting to drive plea bargains.

>(The fundamental problem in this case is the 20% chance,

That sounds more like tilting against the windmill of "variance in extreme events". We also have the problem that there's a 1% chance of being in a car accident with tens of thousands of dollars in costs. In most cases, we shrug and say "insure it" -- i.e. trade a small probability of extreme loss for a guaranteed smaller one. Why do we see it as suddenly a problem when people do the same thing in the justice system?

Every legit example of it being a catastrophe turns out to draw its entire badness from some other already-bad part of the justice system, not the plea bargaining.
I can give my own example of an utterly astonishing gob-smacking sight which turned out to have a fairly simple explanation. I invite people to speculate on what it was...

About 7am I was travelling in a ferry on Sydney Harbour about 400m east of the bridge. I saw a giant (50m diameter?) golden glowing ball hover on the other (west) side of the bridge. It was definitely not on the bridge. It maintained its position for over 30 seconds.

Then it changed and the actuality was revealed.
Was this not going to happen anyway (next one in the chain)? Many appointments require some sort of recommendation by someone already in power...
Guerrilla Public Service Redux
sigh. I know...

Skip to 18:50 and listen on for couple minutes.

Love the caller complaining about his brother in law.

https://play.podtrac.com/npr-510208/npr.mc.tritondigital.com...
Fake Conservative Joy Villa Violates Federal Election Commission Laws
Show HN: SSID Ticker – showing current Common Air Quality Index in SSID
Which is just another way to show your group how tough you are. By consumption, unfortunately.
You said "Why would someone like Comcast who fought tooth and nail against FCC net neutrality rules, suddenly be so interested in passing a law that "solidifies" and "permanently preserves" it?"

You seem to be ignoring the obvious response, which is that they're fine with NN regulations as long as it doesn't come with the overhead of Title II.
But then it does not make sense to consider the size of the deceased's estate when deciding if the inheritance should be taxed. And the US does precisely that.
Here's another interesting story from the DOS days:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/larryosterman/2004/11/08/ho...
Children are absolutely large enough to be noticed. The issue is that car drivers think it's okay to ignore them. They're choosing only to look at cars because we train people from a young age to think of the black stuff as a space where only cars go. And because we make it illegal to drive safely. If you knew you were going to get treated the same for threatening a small child with a car as with any other lethal weapon, you'd drive much more safely.
Hot air balloon?
Yeah, thankfully that's hardly the case everywhere else /s
CDR Fravor was a simulator instructor of mine when I went through training a decade ago. He was also featured in the PBS Special “Carrier” a few years ago.

Somehow ends up in the limelight over and over! His callsign is most certainly NSFW.
I am pro net neutrality, and would like to see a completely decentralised internet. It is not nitpicking to question the integrity and veracity of the messenger.
One of the factors that permits Bay Area employees to take risks on startups is the density of alternatives. Few people are willing to move across the country as frequently as a normal startup employee changes jobs.
Or a NiCd in place of an Alkaline battery.
This is the solipsistic perspective of someone floating in the ocean, looking in only one direction and sure they are alone, sure they are surrounded by nothing but an endless expanse, completely unaware that they are just a few hundred feet from the shoreline that lies behind them.

The answer is not different, it is the same for EVERYONE! Turn around and swim back to land!
Would be better to de-anonymise flagging so that we could interrogate flaggers. Show 'flagging's as actions that appear like comments on the page.
Immediately? Surely the reason you trekked all the way in (while actually working remotely) was to have that one-hour, face-to-face meeting insisted upon by some manager.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15944112
An alien vessel?
Making manufacturers liable for the damage their products do is do allows the insurance industry to set minimum standards. (i.e. you would have to get some kind of certification similar to UL/CE to get insurance)
Engines sound deeper when you put them in gear, if he’s driving a muscle car or something, though I’d expect coming home in the evening would do it too in that case.
> I will be paying higher prices for the same lifestyle as my neighbors. At the consumer level this is fine, but at the business level my company will fail.

I don't follow. If a portion of consumers like yourself are willing to pay higher prices to uphold their values, who are they paying higher prices to if not businesses that are conforming to those values?
Here's what looks to be the same document from the senate intelligence subcommittee website:

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/hear...

On pages 123-124:

>
A portion of the Research and Development Program of TSS/Chemical Division is devoted to the discovery of the following materials and methods:

> [...]

> 14. Substances which will lower the ambition and general working efficiency of men when administered in undetectable amounts.
Not a bad guess - warmish. But this glowing ball was far bigger than a flame and far brighter than a balloon could be.
Affordable housing.

Maybe ball lightning, apart from that I got nothing.
A theory... It takes time to create wealth, and a lot more time elapsed before the current generations than has elapsed (or will) during the current generations, thus perhaps it’s not surprising that as time goes on, most of the accumulated wealth around us is from previous generations.

Furthermore, when a person dies, their wealth can either be destroyed/lost, inherited by heirs, bequeathed to some institution, or absorbed into the state/public... by measuring only “private wealth” as TFA does, we don’t see those latter two routes for the flow of wealth across generations, thus biasing our view toward the inherited component of wealth.
Blimp?
This simulates an outgoing link from an article shared on Facebook. Apparently, the WSJ has chosen not to paywall articles users get to from Facebook shares.

Spoofing the referer header to a google search also has this effect, and I think that's what the bypass extension I linked does.
People could alternately rally around strong thought leaders and get them elected. The problem is most people vote based on knee-jerk reactions and there is too money easily in politics.
For B4tman. I don't quite understand why you got down-voted, besides maybe because your question has two opposing thoughts, which may or may not be self evident to your self.

Let's break your sentence down.

"How do you start a new/big project? Lets say I want to read a codebase on github which is written in js. How doI go through it, given that I don’t know much js yet?"

The first part about how to start a new big project has nothing to do with reading a codebase. And the part not knowing much js yet means you shouldn't be starting a big project. You could, if you wanted to. Heck, I've done it but nothing good has come out of it besides learning that, baby steps are sane steps.

So, we have two questions.
1- How to start a big project? (whatever big may mean to you).
2- How to read a codebase.

Reading a codebase will help you understand project structure. It will also help you, that is, if you find a line of code you don't understand, break it down, research what it does and continue reading, improve your coding abilities. In short, how everything ties together. That practice will help you understand how to start a new project.

But the first step you ought to take is, if you are going to go down this road, is to learn how to ask questions:
https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
"and we should be learning from what those cultures are doing that's different than us"

If people are being oppressed/suppressed, then surely we have some things to learn.

But cultures are often 'just different' and one may not be better than the other because more women or men do this or that.

We also have gendered roles in teaching, construction etc., nobody is screaming injustice.
Reflection of some light source in the window?
This is awesome. I'm excited to dive into these. Thanks very much!
The key question here is not if these stories are true, or what the objects may be. The question is... Why does the government want to bring UFOs to the fore at this time?
I surely hope that we will be much less forgiving of machines beating our children to death because they had the temerity to play in front of their own house, then when adults beat children to death because they had the temerity to play in front of their own house.

It's despicable that anyone thinks it's acceptable, but it's different to say "you aren't allowed to beat that child to death when you're trying to get home after an exhausting day of work" than to say "Google isn't allowed to beat that child to death in order to sell a few extra taxis".
I bought a nintendo switch with zelda, and the cartridge wasn't detected the first time I put it in. Took it out, blew a bit on it, back in, working perfectly! Some things never change.
"The early bird may get the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese."
The Sun?
Ahh yes, I missed the subtlety that Bulgaria and Slovakia overlapped
Exactly, there is nothing wrong with individuals not doing anything useful and just modestly living on inheritance but it's a serious problem (if not the most serious for mankind) when people who just happen to win the birth lottery are able to bend societies to their will via lobbying, propaganda or outright hereditary rule.
Some time ago I posted a weird issue I noticed with my neighbour. HN solved the mistery in minutes... =)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11935275
Along the same lines, I had a hell of a time tracking down the reason my washroom GFI (ground fault interrupter) tripped on random occasions; i.e., the electric outlet would lose power and need to be reset.

It turned out that an iPhone receiving a phone call tripped it -- even before it starts to ring! Making a phone call didn't do anything. Here's a 13-second video:

https://vimeo.com/247730625

I'd love to hear comments about the possible cause.