skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you read of the early work that Mandelbrot did on this equation, you will recall that despite having those symbols in front of him, he had to plot it out, crudely at first on a line printer, before he fully understood the implications.

Thus pictures are not only tutorial but a fundamental necessity for understanding mathematics.
Artificial Intelligence Is Creating New and Unconventional Career Paths
Pocket can be disabled by setting extensions.pocket.enabled to false.

Mozilla has admitted the promotion extension was a mistake and is removing it. I cannot remember the last time this sort of episode ever occurred with Firefox, it should be passable as a one-off.
If Microsoft et al. want me to leave Windows Update enabled, they either need to push way less updates (security updates only track) or at least make the install process faster (which would probably be helped by not pushing new features). Losing two days of progress on a video encode[0] due to a reboot when "you aren't using your PC", or pulling out my laptop to do something time-critical to be greeted with 20 minutes of configuring Windows updates, means I'm turning it off ("download and notify to install" Group Policy setting). These are real problems; malware is only a _potential_ problem (largely mitigated by keeping offline backups).

[0] Fairly ridiculous x265 settings on a laptop CPU, as I'm not keeping the source files so want to ensure optimal quality.
Estonia seems to have an interesting take on change generally, the policies (that I hear of, which is few) seem to generally have a light hearted tone. Estcoin is not a threat to the eurozone, so let's not make a big deal of it.

When 10,000 people get their salaries in it, then we can talk about EU-level issues. Meanwhile, let em play.

I'm generally pro-eurozone and I have no problems with this. If they figure something good out, they can share with the rest of us. Ideas like this are not going to come out of Brussels.

Go Estonia!
I like this because it describes fully and precisely the structure of an LSTM cell, in a way which mostly avoids ML/stats jargon.

From this article I can correctly and easily read off the model architecture it describes, as a composition of smooth maps on modules over the real numbers, which is more than what one can say about a lot of papers.
Automatic gearbox cars are easy enough to control, for both electric and fuel cars the input is a throttle.
Since TypeScript is a transpiler, couldn't it output a new "MyLittlePony Lang" for example and then WebAssembly from that?
2 and 5 seconds are far away from 20-40.
Besides the low taxes, Ireland also has the enormous advantage for foreign corporations of being an English-speaking country.
A React app to vote for your favorite users
No one is perfect.
Why is Amazon hiding its ownership of private labels?
> Subsidies don't make sense anymore. The innovation has been stimulated already.

Debatable; subsidies can make sense for other reasons (internalizing externalities unrelated to innovation) than stimulating innovation.
Over the last 20 years a 250+ mile range electric would have worked fine for every trip I have actually taken. (Assuming the current charging infrastructure.) Now, with slightly different habits renting an SUV 0-4 times a year is minimal effort and cost.

So, yea if you do 1000+ mile trips monthly without flying then electric is not going to work, but that's unusual.
This trend of lazily posting a link to your personal blog instead of discussing something on a discussion forum needs to die a swift death. And I don't want to turn this personal because you're the hundredth person I've seen do this, but why should anyone here care what you in particular have to say about crypto, UBI, or anything else? All we see is a username and that you've been downvoted below 0. Short of remembering your username, there is zero notion of credibility to "here's my thoughts on the subject! [link]"
Yes, but many of these issues can speak to the European economy as a whole, maybe even “the west”. I’m speaking comaparatively though. Perhaps unemployment is an issue right now but the quality of the social safety net in Germany should take the sting out of that!
Python kind of cheats, though. Not everything is an object -- most low level things like arrays and numbers aren't. Ruby is from the Smalltalk tradition where everything literally is an object -- and I say that as a good thing. Even the "functions" that you can define are really methods of the Object class -- it just happens to be the case that Object.foo(x) can be abbreviated as foo(x).
On Pro (IIRC it's not available on Home), you can disable the installation of updates via Group Policy, and on Home there are likely non-standard ways on doing it.
I guess you are a Java enthusiast (in my experience Java coders just tilt with Ruby). Anyway you should try Elixir, it is Ruby "The right way" in my opinion.
Problem is, adding to the bl… sorry, richness, doesn't remove the old cruft.

How about having an application platform that would be just an application platform? No HTML, no CSS, no built in multimedia. Just a VM, a viewport, audio, and inputs (and local storage if the user allows it).
I bought a couple 1980s Saab 900 turbos to restore. After driving my Volt for months just the act of turning a key and hearing an engine roar feels anachronistic, very retro.

I think a small number of ICE cars will stick around as a kind of hobby classic experience. A small minority of people will want the experience of having dinosaur juice explode in front of their feet just like some people like to use Super 8 cameras.

Still, the ICE backup on my Volt has been kind of handy and pleasant to have when it dropped below -10C here last week...
250 mile EV's can make 500 mile day trips just fine as long as you can use a charging network. IC's are better if you're doing that every weekend, but most people don't drive over 200 miles a day very often.
The practice was also used in shorthand. In addition to being a phonetic transcription, the secretary would also utilize standard abbreviations and contractions to keep up with the spoken word. The documents would then be sent to a secretarial pool of typists who would transcribe it to long-hand. Schools would train secretaries to write their shorthand identically, so that it was legible to other secretaries and the abbreviations were universally understood.
Beware confirmation bias – it’s clouding your strategic vision
From the conclusion: cases where it performs well and poorly—
both in traditional desktop environments but also in mobile and
proxy scenarios not previously tested

Example: its benefits diminish or entirely disappear compared to unproxied TCP in low loss/latency cases, and
when there is 1% loss. In the case of high delay links, QUIC still
outperforms TCP [...]. Thus, proxies can help TCP to recover
many of the benefits of QUIC, but primarily in lossy scenarios, and
when the proxy is equidistant from the client and server
Oh hell, I live rural, and it's just as bad. Constant industrial type noises from neighbour's skid steers, trucks, tractors, snowmobiles, quads, and dirt bikes.
Another benefit of publicly sharing your learning is that if you misinterpreted or misremembered something, others can point it out so you don't go through life with incorrect ideas.
Before I go any further, just answer this one question. Is there literally any conceivable evidence that could convince you that you are wrong? That there are biological differences between men and women?

This is a basic scientific question. It has nothing to do with politics. You accuse me of "having an agenda" just because I disagree with you. You accuse damore of being "alt right" and defend his firing, just because he believes a relatively uncontroversial scientific claim. You accuse me of "cherrypicking data" when I've done nothing of the sort. Yet apparently cherrypicking a few random countries with different stats to support your bizarre culture theory is fine. But as I've shown your model doesn't make any sense of the data either, which apparently isn't a problem for you.

What even is your theory? Yeah, it's "culture", sure. But what predictions does that make? How can it be disproved?

If I show, for example, that there's the same percentage of female computer science graduates as female tech workers, does that disprove it? Does your theory predict that? "But the sexism is happening before the industry then." Ok.

So what about the same percentage of female high schoolers interested in computer science as female computer science majors. Does your theory predict that? "The sexism is happening before then."

Well we can go back to middle school. Hell let's go back to early childhood, and we find boys and girls show strong preferences for different kinds of toys. That seems pretty damning for your theory to me.

But that's far from the only evidence. Does your model predict neurological differences between male and female brains? That doesn't make any sense if all differences must be explained by culture.

>Female participation in academic culture is way younger than that, with most of the earlier examples (like Marie Curie) being known as "weirdos" in their time because they didn't behave like "normal women"

Exactly! 160 years ago women were excluded from many areas. There were no women doctors, few women at universities, no women lawyers, etc.

Now, in 2017, we've reversed all that. There are more women getting university educations than men! They make up 51% of law students, 50% of medical students, 75% of psychology majors, etc, etc. And yet in engineering they make up 20%. And it's been that way, consistently, for decades. And shows no signs of changing even as culture continues to change.

Think about this. It makes no sense to your theory. Why should culture change so quickly for every other area but engineering.

(And also why the double standard of caring so much about gender ratios in engineering, and not any other area like psychology or university in general?)
> it just modified web pages

That's Mozilla taking another step down a very slippery slope. "It didn't hurt anyone" doesn't excuse ethical or moral wrongs. Given Mozilla's stated commitments to privacy and integrity, their choice here violated them.
I think it's important to measure the annoyance factor of these 'augmentations' along with the perception of speed. The pulse that travels along the new Windows progress bars bugs the hell out of me and I wish I could turn it off.
A few problems with more public transit. First, public transport is not door-to-door; for my commute atm, public transit would take 2 hours (for a 60 km distance), more if there's a hitch on the way. It'll pretty much always take longer because you're stuck on one or multiple schedules.

The other problem in my country is that the public transit networks are already at maximum capacity - train network in particular is struggling. There's pushes to spread people out more, away from rush hour, but employers and the people themselves have to be okay with that too. But yeah, public transit has a maximum capacity, just like roads do.

And of course in the US, the public transit network is substandard, and getting it up to par will take a huge investment - cities will need to be uplifted, etc. But in the US the problem is more political - there's no business that wants to invest billions in a public transit network. And if a government sets it up people will complain that their tax dollars (all three of them) go to things they don't make use of. It's a cultural issue there. The US - and SF in particular - could be in the forefront of public transit for everyone, but nope, muh government.

Full rant mode engaged: The US is the richest country in the world with some of the richest people in the world, but it's not being invested in basics like access to transportation, health care and education to make quality of life for its inhabitants better.

that escalated, sorry.
Well that was a remarkably fast installation & test for something like this. Very fun trying it out directly with my webcam, though rather slow on my laptop CPU, will have to get it installed on a better machine.
In Norway we have a common expression: "Ja takk, begge deler". When given a choice between two things that are implied mutually exclusive, it means "Yes, I'll take both please".

Maybe that's why we have more EVs per capita than anywhere else, and are still investing heavily in improving public transportation. You can do both.

You can even do electric buses. Oslo just got deliveries of its first ones.

I think we'll start to see many smaller self-driving buses, and that more people will prefer these over driving. I know I would. The only reason I prefer driving to work right now is that I have to switch from bus to train when doing public transportation. I don't get enough time in one vehicle to calm down and read something. If it was more or less direct, I'd prefer it, even if I had to walk a bit longer (I consider that a benefit actually). Buses have dedicated lanes here, so it shouldn't take much more time even with a couple of stops along the way.

But that's the future. There are still millions of personal cars sold, and will be for a long time forward. These needs to be EV. Besides, EVs technology will facilitate the development of these self-driving buses. It's easier and safer for a bus to charge itself, than to fuel itself. It's also easier to test self-driving tech in a large fleet of smaller cars.
CVT or many-gear auto transmission is nothing like the experience of direct drive EV.

CVTs are mostly gutless because gas engines are gutless except at a very narrow RPM band.

The 0-60 times on EVs are impressive. But it's their 0-30 ranges that are absolutely mindblowing. My little boring Volt easily zips past even 'muscle' cars straight off from a red light (of course they easily catch up later, but I don't care)
Caffeine can cause anxiety, I gave it up for a while when I started suffering from panic attacks and it helped. I was lucky that I had no withdrawl headaches.

Also, sleep. Good sleep, a bit of regular exercise and a bit of a routine are a great deal of help to stablizing your mood and anxieties.

OAuth and OpenID are completely, ridiculously, utterly, pathetically over-complicated. It's one of the worst specs ever released. You do not need to know it to be a professional developer. Most professional developers will have no clue how it works. Trust me, I have over a decade of experience. If you can get a plug and play library, I really would just do that. Especially while learning development.

I mean, if you're enjoying it, go ahead, but OAuth is basically stupid. A cruel joke inflicted on developers and a lesson in how not to make a spec.
The end game is to have a WebAssembly module that you can load just like you now load a JS script.
When we get there, there will also be (probably[1]) easy methods to access the DOM from WebAssembly.

At the moment the easiest way would probably be to write some glue code in JavaScript (see Let’s write Pong in WebAssembly https://medium.com/@mbebenita/lets-write-pong-in-webassembly...).

[1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/blob/master/proposals/gc/O...
GOLD: Recovers Higher, Eyes 1,270.00 Zone
Futurologist says: build glass domes. On Earth, it is very much in the realm of practicability and costs so little that it might surprise you. On Mars, the biggest costs are transport across outer space and industry bootstrapping.

http://marshallbrain.com/mars.htm esp. chapter 7
That's possible now. You can serve the ad so its indistinguishable from any other image. Redirect it and clicks through your server. Give it an obfuscated DOM path.

Its just a hassle and can't be done with pasting a line of code
It's also a different install process. Chrome doesn't decide to automatically close itself to apply the updates, and they are applied fast enough that you usually don't notice unless something changed. Neither can be said for Windows - the reboots are often unexpected and the install can be lengthy. If Microsoft got it closer to Chrome (no forced reboots and applied without triggering a potential long "Configuring Windows Updates" stage), it'd be much less of an issue IMO.
Confused it with yobit for a second.
The article doesn't have a headline that takes total cost of ownership into account. I mean annual oil change, the odd broken alternator (probably also a problem in electric cars), filters, distribution drive / chain, and a ton of extra moving parts that all need maintenance.

Mind you I wonder if electric cars can get a million miles out of them, like well maintained conventional cars can do.
How quantum computing will change the world
I understand the issues around campaign finance reform but what you are describing is one of the most transparent and open activism that is imaginable. They most likely target smaller elections where it is possible to swing results just by running a decent campaign with a setup that is easily scalable and reproducable across many districts.
All EVs actually are currently required to have a noise added, unfortunately. My Volt makes a weird whirring that you can't hear inside the cabin, but can outside. The Leaf has an odd noise, and even has a backup 'beep beep' like you'd normally hear on tractors or bobcats, etc (tho quieter).
Naive question: If there are no such laws in the US, can one just simply store ALL personal data in Iceland?
Here you go

https://github.com/theodorewiles/org-mind-map
This is an unrealistic law that doesn't matter. It sounds good, but it's futile. If this taskforce takes the decision that an algorithm that is working is unacceptable (which we all know they'll do on the worst possible basis - publicity), then what happens ?

They'll pause the algorithm ? Replace it ? They can't do that ...

The issue is that once you automate something you can't unautomate it without providing the workforce necessary. Because in nearly all cases a bad automated algorithm will far outperform 1% of the required workforce in humans, that's how algorithms win. Not because they beat humans, they don't. They win because they actually take action in 100% of the cases, whatever that number is. A dumb algorithm taking action 100.000 times can easily beat a very hardworking human that takes 100 smart decisions in a lot of cases. So that will be tens to hundreds of people in easy cases, and thousands to tens of thousands in bad cases, and this is New York, easily the size of a decent country. So it'll always be "we need to pause this NOW !", "OK, no problem at all, that'll be $15 million per hour. Under what budget item do we fit this ?" "Erm .... How about you just make it look like it's paused ?"

Keep in mind stopping automation doesn't even just cause damage directly, it will also cause overloading costs onto other departments and even onto private companies. Often in surprising ways. Algorithms respond quickly, under nearly all circumstances, at any time. You wouldn't believe how efficient this makes interacting with organizations. Pausing automation has an enormous and accumulating cost, making the decision impossible.

Also algorithms don't solve corruption (they may make it easier to track though, although there are ways around that).
Regarding logs, I found this quite useful: https://github.com/johanhaleby/kubetail
Online Embroidery Digitizing Is Not About Aesthetics Only
Using org-mode and Jekyll for blogging
you mean like only allowing 6-digit passwords without symbols?
Stock iPhone 4 does not support anything newer than iOS 7 - what morning updates are you talking about?
I see - so in your case you gain from the fact that many of the joins are likely to result in zero matches. And since you're joining on a nullable FK, you can tell in advance whether the record exists without a lookup - I ran a test and I verified that you pay a cost for the below join regardless of whether the FK column is null.

select *
from Person p1
--p1.Spouse is null for the record in question
join Person p2 on p1.Spouse = p2.PersonId
where p1.PersonId = 42

(I understand why it can't do it in the execution plan, but I'm surprised it doesn't 'short-circuit' at runtime since the join predicate is trivially unsatisfiable for that row)

Your other benefit involves conditionally needing data. I will say it's not too hard to structure app code to avoid loading redundant/unneeded data in your email example, but it's certainly easier and more maintainable when property access is fundamentally linked to its actual retrieval - it's impossible for another developer to make changes to your version and 'lose' the efficiency, while the same isn't true for mine.

So it's less black and white than I thought...which it usually is :)

How do you feel about using 'explicit' lazy loading? E.g.

PersonEntity person;
if(IWantToSendEmail){
person.Reference(x=>x.Email).Load();
//use email info here
}

This might be the best of both worlds...
Agreed. Subsidies should continue, but I would couple them with a carbon tax in a few years, when there are many more EV options on the market, the prices have been lowered, and there are EV chargers everywhere.

Then introduce a large carbon tax and launch a "dump your ICE car for an EV" program for lower income people where they can get an half the car subsidized but the EV can't cost more than $20,000. Use the large carbon tax to fund these subsidies. To increase the effectiveness of the program say that by 2030 ICE cars will be banned in cities and no new sales of ICE cars will be allowed.
If only these securities (I mean assets, not cyber) were backed by the government... you know... kinda like bank deposits. (Cue the pitchforks)
Would like to see them try and do this, get the ground a bit more fertile and planting native grasses perhaps to get it going somewhat?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpTHi7O66pI
What you mean to say is that politicians currently take decisions on things they aren't even remotely qualified to even talk about, then force it through with heavy hand, and therefore this won't change a thing ?

That's true, and despite that it will change things.
Programming languages are just tools. People that are finding they are productive with a language/tool are out building things and not complaining.

I'm personally not someone that likes to look at new languages and compare them for the sake of it. There are folks that like to compare compilers or interpreters and the internals of how those work and debate them.

I'm more interested if something new can help me in delivery of working software. Having moved from a Java world to Ruby/Rails, I find it not just helps me deliver, it pretty much gets out of my way (most of the time) compared to Java.

I haven't done much more than read about Python/Django/Flask. If they are mostly similar to Ruby/Rails it doesn't sound like there would be benefit to learning them outside of curiosity (and an affinity to Monty Python).

I suspect that big name bloggers and people that talk a lot about things may find a need to keep viewers coming to their blogs/channels. If there isn't a lot of new stuff to write about but it is still a solid delivery platform, that isn't too exciting to draw viewers.
Well, yes both are then blockers to the success of this approach. And on the other side of the coin, knocking up one of these dependency graphs is reasonably quick and straightforward. Its a thought provoking article - thanks.
Electron will probably eventually die and a light WAsm runtime with canvas/WebGL support will be used instead.
Radicals would say that it's politically problematic to expect individuals to take up any slack with their own resilience/fortitude.

Telling people that they must learn to bear their suffering, rather than receive substantial support from (a possibly reorganized) system, is, of course, a very inexpensive form of wellbeing intervention.
The Screenless Office
Maybe we should start letting the exchanges gamble with our bitcoins?
At least 3 killed after Amtrak train derails in Washington state