skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I RDP'd to a Windows server an hour's drive from my office at a public library in another town. I had right-clicked on the network connection to check out some settings....and accidentally clicked DISABLE instead of PROPERTIES (or whatever it was called in Windows 2000 server) and disabled the network connection. It was a long drive...with my phone ringing the entire time. Never made that mistake again.
It's usually not except within in the context of Xi Xinping appointing himself ruler for life. The combination is cause for concern.
As tome says, no the article isn't mixing anything up. So why are you insisting that it is?

You seem annoyed that the original creator of the formula used a symbol that you wouldn't have expected. So that's your beef. Not with this article, or any assumptions of "mixing up."

As for why the original creator used "ß", I don't know, but perhaps it related to the "S" in sharability. Or he's not a mathematician and he liked the look.
But the artical says theyre getting 50f temperatures.
> If however, you are choking to death, there is no obligation for me to help you.

Mandatory reporting laws throw a crimp in this logic--for various sorts of crimes, some or all people may be obligated to report these crimes depending on state/federal laws as well as their profession. At least 18 states have no restrictions on profession, meaning anyone suspecting crimes such as child abuse is obligated to report.

https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubPDFs/manda.pdf#Page=1&view=F...

Enforceability isn't something I'd know. Just making a point that we have plenty of cases where people are obligated to go out of their way to save someone else's life.
You and I understand this distinction. The general public that has been told public networks are unsafe probably does not.
The fundamental similarity however is that people living in cars are still citizens.
Python 3 has some architectural decisions that make working with data difficult; mostly ///my opinion/// is that it completely botched Unicode handling.

The idea of data being encoded should be an extremely high level idea, with foundations that are supported by the internal libraries and maybe even compiler.

I feel that golang has a much more data-structure friendly view of Unicode.

* The ancient paradigm of bytes remains
* Strings are immutable sequences of bytes; but are trivial to cast back and forth.
* 'runes' (distinct Unicode code points) also exist

However to actually validate or do anything fancy to a Unicode sequence a programmer would need libraries from https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/text which shows how truly complex /proper/ handling of Unicode data is; instead of just the simple copy / append / search (is this inside of / a match to it) operations that make up 99% of my handling of Unicode data.
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Cheapfaremart.com is a USA based online cheap flight booking website.
Likely explanation: Not updated in a while and mostly meant for internal use, where developers will mostly interact with Google's legacy systems. I'd also take a guess here and suspect that Google might have a larger than usual share of 2/3 incompatible code (binary-text-boundaries are notorious).
The difference isn't just the price. It's that all of these phones are also running an optimized version of Android that is going to run on the lower specs better than anything else. It doesn't matter if the specs seem the same between devices, if the vendor adds a bunch of crap or just drops aosp without optimizing for the hardware, the phone is going to run terribly. This is the current state of most low end android phone's which they appear to be addressing with Android Go phones.
Does Portugal have taxes?
> buying a house can be an opportunity itself. Although the new tax law makes it somewhat less tax-favored as an investment, it still offers the ability to escape capital gains taxation

This is what I was thinking. There's nothing stopping a person from moving and keeping the house and renting it out, often at a profit over mortgate+fees+repairs+etc.
I completely agree.

I do find it interesting though, as someone who through work has deployed a lot of cell phones for field ops - the situation seems to be kind of, sort of getting better in that respect.

We bought a ton of Moto G4s and G5s in last 18 months, and for the first year, I saw maybe one OS update and a couple security patches?. In the past six months, it's been noticably different (and these phones are only getting older, mind).

I'm writing this on a Moto G5+ which has 7.1.1 and the January security patches, including fix for KRACK vulnerability. G4 models have the same patch level and 7.0. Updates have been deployed fairly regularly lately (if still not quite on a monthly cycle).

This from Lenovo, who have historically been terrible for issuing updates in a timely manner.

I wonder if the message is finally getting to these OEMs that they can't afford to let current models wither on the vine in this IT security climate, even if only for their own selfish ends (e.g. avoiding bad press).

I really hope so. It's way overdue.

Disclaimer: total anecdata, handle with gloves.
Totally agree. The word “protect” is in the title. The p in VPN also stands for “private”. People could be forgiven for being mislead here.
How a solo founder makes $33k/mo selling courses and SaaS products
If you're looking to get more context on exceptions in JavaScript, you could try LogRocket (https://logrocket.com). Similar to how Crashlytics' breadcrumbs feature records user actions leading up to a crash, LogRocket records user actions, network requests, console logs, DOM, and application state in web apps.

[disclaimer: I work at LogRocket]
On the other hand, tens of millions of Americans also take the polar opposite stance:

Nobody is responsible for anything. If anyone is in a bad circumstance (health, money, job, housing, debt, drugs, addiction, abortion, sex, crime) it was not their fault; it can't be. It was therefore a failure of the system, and therefore the system needs to fix it. Either they didn't get the proper mental health care they needed, physical health care, or education, or <insert system failure>.
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Sri Lanka declares state of emergency
A couple of friends of mine worked as hardware engineers in Russian military (or, to be exact, some subsidiary). They later moved on to Intel and Nvidia, and overall you can consider them quite capable CPU engineers (I never got the hang of what exactly they were doing, and a lot of it was under NDA).

While working there, they got less than $10k annually. If they would be able to get H1B, it's my understanding they'd get at least $100k.

While a lot of folks move to commercial sector and other countries, there a lot of people staying there, despite low salaries. Doing essentially the same job that their counterparts in US are doing, quite often for 10 times less money.
What business does a software company have to go into tunneling?
It's a public facing resource that positions Google as being out of date and backward looking.
I want some of what these people are smoking! Until you've built a prototype you have...nothing. Don't tell me it's feasible, show me. While you're showing me a functional prototype let's discuss the costs involved with scaling-out the technology. That will lead us to feasibility - how much are people going to have to pay for a ticket and are they going to be willing to pay it? How will the cost and experiences compare to airfare? If it's not substantially cheaper then why would I choose something untested and potentially more dangerous?
Yes, a career in law has earning potential. We still don’t recommend it
Could greater personal responsibility have kept anybody out of homelessness? probably so.

Could greater personal responsibility have kept everyone out of homelessness? highly unlikely.

For every person who is able to climb up using their bootstraps, as they say, are more resources freed up to help those who truly can't help themselves? Yes!
Its unethical because if you use shops just as a showroom you're getting a service for free. If everyone did that the shop would close.
You're willfully ignoring the obvious classifiable difference between a vehicle used as a dwelling vs. a vehicle used for commuting. There could simply be a registration category for vehicle dwellings with increased fees to offset the difference. This could even translate into states providing facilities for pump outs and showers for those registered for vehicle dwellings to improve the sanitation of what's going to be happening regardless.

The reality is the law, as always, is lagging behind reality. Things have changed substantially in the last few decades in terms of how realistic it is to live a fairly normal and connected life from a vehicle. There is essentially no practical need for a mailing address or land line anymore for example, smart phones, internet, efficient solar panels...

Drug addicts/cooks living in squalor who happen to be in vehicles will be committing myriad obvious and easily policed crimes. Why those police are not doing their job is entirely orthogonal to if a vehicle should be considered a potential legal residence.
The solution to this is simple: allow the USPS to offer banking services to the unbanked. This is what other first world countries do, but for political reasons, we don't do it in the US [1]. Financial regulation is not going away, and the issues you see with cryptocurrency make it glaringly obvious why regulations exist in the first place.

That's what's so discouraging about a lot of these issues. They're hacks around political apathy, the chances of success are low (to this day I still use the Standard Treasury and BankSimple outcomes as what happens when you go up against the banking industry).

Why YC doesn't stop skirting the issue and align with political representatives and parties that are congruent with the values they're attempting to push through funding is beyond me. They've already chosen a side (looking for solutions for climate change, animal welfare, support of the arts/creators, sustainable use of planetary resources), embrace it fully. If YC wants to create a legacy, they should aim to obsolete themselves by working towards public policy that removes the risk inherant with becoming an entrepreneur (funding, health insurance, derisking opportunity cost, etc).

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=usps+banking+services

[1a] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/10/bernie-...

Full disclosure: I work for a financial utility in risk management.
The majority of US military spending is on soldiers and things related to soldiers (VA care, housing, retirement, education, etc). Most people think the US is spending all of that money on hardware, when that's not the case.

Incomes and general costs related to soldiers in Russia are even lower proportionally compared to the ratio of the per capita output gap between the US and Russia. Russia doesn't take very good care of their soldiers in most regards. If you divert a higher share of your military spending to R&D and hardware, as opposed to soldiers, you could close the gap some (and the US wastes plenty of money on unnecessary things; so if Russia is more careful about that, and chooses to focus more on what they can really afford to make a dent in, they can further close the gap).
I think you ruined your point at the end there by implying this attitude is unique to those that are religious. It definitely isn't and the "fuck poor" sentiment runs deep throughout every part of western culture.
My understanding is that zoos in the west started as an imperial project: showing the citizens of England and other European countries exotic creatures from the far off lands those countries had colonized. Similarly with botanical gardens, interestingly enough.
Why do you assume they are full filled now or that they decision to stay at home was not pragmatical? Or not sacrifice for what they believe is best for children?

Some are fullfilled, some are not.
Python 2 is still the only Python installed by default on many systems, Mac in particular.
You have other manufacturers like Ulefone, Doogee, Leagoo, Wiko, Bq, Archos, Zoji, ZTE, Bluboo, Cubot, Oukitel, Fantec, HomTom, Kazam, BlackView, Elephone, Umidigi, Wieppo, GigaSet, HiSense, Gretel, Nabo, Siswoo, Hafury, Coolpad, STK, Keecoo, Meizu etc. offering better specs than any Go phone. Go just seems like a rebranding of what couldn't sell and got outdated.
This is a sign that Xi Jinping wants to become a dictator, and it concerns other countries if a giant country like China with a massive military is controlled by a dictator with unlimited power. China has every right to have a large military to defend itself, but a dictator might use the military to be aggressive to other countries.

China's GDP is several times bigger[1] than Vietnam, Korea, India, and Singapore, so spending a smaller percentage is still a larger absolute amount. Even India, the closest competitor that you listed is only 1/5 as big by GDP, and in absolute terms has a smaller military.

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?order=wb...
China has been getting aggressive with India, sometimes it feels like somebody needs a war to manage economics.
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My first thought was that it was part of Google Fiber's efforts to make running cable cheaper. Looks like another moonshot though.
Shipping is already cheap. Especially bulk shipping.
I feel the same applies to Prime Video. Horrible, horrible UI and user experience to find programs and then stream them. This is no small thing, either, because the ease of use of Netflix I believe is probably the single biggest reason I use the service, even more than the quality of programming which I believe to be more of a commodity by the day.
Amen! Especially when there's so much technical debt that you can't predict whether you'll need to fix two or five unrelated issues before you can accomplish what you originally set out to do (if you can still remember what that was by the time you get there).
Ask other people on disability how they got on it.
See other articles cited in the parent comment regarding human rights abuses and censorship for reasons as to why any military increase in China is not good.
Kde Neon because I like all the new stuff the Kde team is doing. I have previously used Arch for yaourt as a package manager, but I value the reliability and compatability of an Ubuntu based distro, while getting all my obscure packages and tools through the repos myself.
HN users.
The Ultimate Guide to Mobile App Localization
I find good music on `Discover Weekly`. Why are suggestions idiotic?
I read Twitter almost exclusively via my custom personal news reader that I developed like 5 years ago. It allows me to do a variety of things to increase the signal/noise ratio of tweets. For example, it aggregates tweets by person in chronological order [1] - making the daily aggregate of a person's tweets into a single post akin to David Winer's original blog. What I also did is stop following non-humans except for rare instances. Both helped me cut through the noise by quite a lot.

Then recently, I excluded all retweets. It's quite amazing how little actual new thoughts and opinions are shared on Twitter - getting rid of retweets cut out easily 80% of the tweets I'd see. And I'm OK with that - I think too many people retweet reflexively, without real thought and it ends up being a waste of time.

1. https://photos.app.goo.gl/kdQyqzWXDIvV0VfR2
Holden Karnofsky on how philanthropy succeeds by being like venture capital
Comparing production-grade NLP libraries: Accuracy, performance, and scalability
Are we ready for a machine economy?
Scotty.js: single command deployment for single page apps
Funny enough, the word "retweet" used to refer doing exactly that. Twitter only added retweet functionality in 2009, before then the convention was to write "RT" followed by the handle and then paste the tweet.
I wonder if internet shopping will one day help small towns rather than hurt them. One of the things that really sucks about living in small towns is that its difficult to buy the stuff you really want due to limited products available. When small town residents have access to unlimited ranges of goods and services at cheapest prices, its one less reason to travel to, or even move to the nearest city.
The people that voted for Trump didn't vote for him because he was a reality TV star.
There's no scenario where China doesn't get Taiwan, unfortunately for the people there.

People have been saying that for 69 years. I'm not saying it's a disturbing possibility, or that people shouldn't be preparing for it. But it's not as likely as you seem to think.

There's no comparison to the Crimea situation. Crimea was overwhelmingly pro-Russian, and had a strong independence streak (see: the sovereignty referendum of 1994). An amphibious invasion against a largely hostile population is an entirely different matter, and would not be pretty, even for a large power like China. There's also the small matter of the US navy and Air Force.

I also don't think the US (or Japan) are keen on moving the focus of Chinas expansion from Taiwan to the Senkakus, which is what would happen next.

There's a lot of factors at play, it's a larger issue than just comparing two mismatched militaries.
The return isn't adjusted for inflation, so it's not that far off. That's probably misleading though.
Yeah, the requirements are pretty different than most Data Science teams, especially the very low latency requirements.

The constraints force us to use simple models like linear regression and logistic regression some of the time or at least as a version 1. The inference here is straightforward, multiply and add then take the sigmoid if doing logistic regression.

What we tried to do initially was integrate with C/C++ APIs where possible. We ran into some issues with speed and bugs doing this though, which is why we wrote the inference ourselves. Where we had issues was calling the XGBoost C API from Go. It was extra overhead and too slow. In our benchmarks our implementation in pure Go was many times faster than calling the C API. We also found the multithreaded version to be slower than the single threaded. We found this to be true when calling XGBoost from Java and from Go. We also found this to be true in our own inference implementation it was always faster to walk the trees in a single go routine rather than create some number of worker go routines to walk the trees in parallel.

We were very careful implementing the inference ourselves to make sure the predictions matched. What we did to verify this was create a few toy datasets of about 100 rows with sklearn's make_classification function. We then trained a model using the reference implementation, saved the predictions and the model. We then loaded this model into our implementation and made predictions on the same dataset. We wrote unit tests to compare the predictions and make sure they are the same within some delta. We were able to get our implementation to be within 1e-7 of the reference implementation, in this specific case XGBoost. It was actually more time consuming to deal with parsing the inconsistent JSON model output of XGBoost than it was to implement the GBDT inference algorithm. We also had to make a slight change to the XGBoost code to write out floats to 18 decimal places when writing out the JSON model in order to get the two implementations to match.
That is a rehash if old information.

My post includes new information:

- The app will track when your phone screen is on and when it is off, and send that to Facebook

- The app will track your daily Wi-Fi and cellular data usage, even when not connected to the VPN, and send that to Facebook
Sort of. It looks like a car does about 4x more damage per axle because of using a single narrow tire[1]. If you compare a pretty typical 4000 pound car to that maxed-out truck, you would then only get a 64x difference (maybe closer to 100 depending on weight distribution). Oh and then multiply by the number of axles.

It would be interesting to look at the costs and savings of 6 or 8 axles in the back. There's plenty of room to fit, and you could drop wear by a factor of 10.

Let's also not forget that the truck probably has over a hundred times as much payload as an average car.

[1] http://www.nvfnorden.org/lisalib/getfile.aspx?itemid=601
The connection is of course famously the theme of Max Weber's Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism[1], so it might be more accurate to say the origin of the attitude was religious, but it has now become more widespread.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protestant_Ethic_and_the_S...
We use DeepDetect everywhere. I started coding it up in 2015 out of immediate need for my customers in production at the time and waited for something else to come out. But until now, we've sticked to it and customers ask for it when they see us using the pre-configured pipelines. Some run their production with the DD server. So three years later we're still putting down some time on improving it, and support for caffe2 is coming up among other things. It already has built in semantic search due to customer demand. Welcome any feedback an comments btw. Also we're hiring, contact us, we're at http://jolibrain.com/
There's a whole ecosystem around it though - advertising agencies, video production equipment, etc. Then there's things like GoPro exist largely as a side-effect of social media networks like YouTube.

The real effects of YouTube on the global economy are pretty big!
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Come on, I'm not a fan of Uber and their shady history, but you can't just invent claims out of thin air based on your feelings.
I agree. If consumers actually prefer local businesses, they'll shop there and those stores will stick around. If the stores close, it's because people preferred a different business.

The actual agent of change here isn't really Amazon, it's the average consumer deciding that Amazon is better.
It doesn't just disturb the US, but every country surrounding China that is dominated by the strongest power in the region. The weaker countries have no choice but to accept unfavorable trade deals, give up ocean territory away from what is the accepted as international convention, etc.

China is big. China being ran by a dictator becomes a big bully.