skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've mentioned this on HN before but I think its still relevant to people interested in learning ML who feel they are behind on the math. If, like me, you can't sit thru lots of pages of mathematics text and instead prefer that a human explains it to you via videos that you can replay, here is a list of courses that take you from basic algebra and pre-calculus math all the way to the concepts you need to understand the principles behind the most advanced ML algorithms. All explained by very energetic people who are experts in their fields, and starting from the very basics.

This covers calculus, linear algebra, probability, statistics, convex optimization and a math for ML course thrown in for the HN audience:

(The first two are "MOOCs" recorded in the 1970s! probably the first ever recorded MOOC, even before the internet, and the lecturer is absolute gold)

Calculus Revisited: Single Variable Calculus | MIT https://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-18-006-calculus-revisited-....

Calculus Revisited: Multivariable Calculus | MIT https://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-18-007-calculus-revisited-....

Complex Variables, Differential Equations, and Linear Algebra | MIT https://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-18-008-calculus-revisited-....

Linear Algebra | MIT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK3O402wf1c&list=PLE7DDD9101....

Introduction to Linear Dynamical Systems |Stanford https://see.stanford.edu/Course/EE263

Probability | Harvard https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2SOU6wwxB0uwwH80KTQ6....

Intermediate Statistics | CMU https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcW8xNfZoh7eI7KSWneVW....

Convex Optimization I | Stanford https://see.stanford.edu/Course/EE364A

Math Background for ML | CMU https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7y-1rk2cCsA339crwXMW....
"Don't we then all have the same ancestors and therefore all equal opportunity?"

Just about every study done on the subject shows that the family you're born into has a HUGE effect on how successful you'll be in life.
Island-hopping study shows most likely route the first people took to Australia
The obstacle is lack of demand, the average user still has 4GB or less of RAM: https://hardware.metrics.mozilla.com/#goto-os-and-architectu... . People that need more than 16GB (as of today) are an incredibly niche market and can be better served by remoting into a desktop/server anyway.
Concrete Mathematics

Spivak

Jaynes

All good books, all pitched at a level that is very ill suited for what is being asked for.

To the GP, "math for English majors" is a common enough course schema that I think looking at a few syllabi might score you something.
Yeah, and to a degree that theyre willing to eat the cost of maintaining a much more complicated privacy structure (and, inherently, code base) to not roll it out everywhere.
You're not wrong about the halting problem, but the reality is that most people do simple things that the IDE can extract a lot of information about. I.e. it doesn't have to understand a function to make the function fireable from a GUI button, and that is still actually quite useful.
Honestly I didn’t mean that as negatively as it sounds. It’s good advertising.

Squeezing a full blown ML tutorial into a blog post is a tall order. Of course it’s too thin to really do it yourself without a lot of further research, you can’t really expect anything else. But I think the title leads people to expect more detail, hence posts like this and the owl cartoon above.

Maybe add a breakdown of performance for doing this local on a pi vs using the api? Would make it easier for people to weigh pros and cons.
I actually think that the organic look shows off the fact that it was 3D printed in a very original way. If it ended up being a utilitarian 'boring' construction then there would be no point in 3D printing it in the first place. But there is no other way that I'm aware of short of a huge cast (and that's a big if given the hollow spaces) to make this bridge in any other way.
It is demostrably good for teenagers that liquor stores cannot sell to them, no matter how much they wish to get drunk.

Given the degree of willfull ignorance displayed by your average social network user, with regards to the safety of their own personal data, a case could be made that they should be treated like minors and not be given legal right to decide unless they subject themselves to recurrent awareness education. Of course, half of HN crowd does not give a flying fuck either... so I will not be holding my breath.
How do they validate whether the person requesting “right to erase” is an EU citizen?
Monitor your GPUs whether they are on a single computer or in a cluster
The law isn't in effect yet.

But when it is, being able to delete comments by emailing the admins and asking for them to be deleted sounds like it would be in compliance with the law.

I don't know any specifics, but I expect they would probably do that for you anyway, before the law, too.
Ask HN: Does anyone actually think the EU GDPR is a good idea?
That's because in essence even the most complex sounds change just one environmental variable: local air pressure.
The metadata is most of the story. Certainly, if the stingray lets arbitrary protocols through, you can secure the contents of your communications, including any metadata tunneled through (e.g., if you're using VPN), but not the metadata on the outside of the tunnel. Depending on the VoIP protocol, you may not get any protection for metadata unless you're using a VPN.
Sure it does. Data is an asset from which they derive revenue. Implementation of rules is just a cost. Throwing away a huge asset would also reduce revenue.

Am I missing something?
>They're also unpronounceable - you can't communicate them to other people verbally quickly or reliably.

This is my recent life as I started a (hopefully temporary) phone support role and the place I work has desktops with names like that but also, inexplicably, using all the hard letters in to hear well over the phone.

Ex: HPDHHPDEDPD-TS

Thanks goodness the folks I'm talking to can use a semblance of the phonetic alphabet.
Only if your economy has jobs. Let's say AI revolution brings 90% unempoyment: then it's easier to revolt than to find a job, if:

- you still can: you are not yet a slave, with the ruling class + machines not yet fully in control

- you have a reason to revolt: your life quality is low, because society does not give a damn about the losers

With those being true, a revolution should happen well before reaching those high unemployment figures.
African Ladies got what it takes
I wonder what the minimum amount of work you have to do to get GDPR to apply to you. Is it EU citizens only? Or would residency work?

I doubt it, but it would be interesting if Estonia's e-residency thing would be enough.
The CLOUD act allows domestic or foreign police to collect your data without a warrant, any review by a judge, or any awareness of the individual; and even explicitly allows foreign police to ignore existing US privacy laws applicable to US citizens

>no mention in mainstream media

Terrifying and surreal
It could be that someone bought them or just typed in by mistake your account. It isn't any positive thing about bot followers, they only make your follower number, but their are not alive, they won't like your post and make activity. In my opinion they are absolutely useless.
But trying some type of ads to bring you more real follower can be realy good. With that for your businees can help you City Finances with a Flexible repayment term for up to 2 years. https://bit.ly/2J6Fl9q
What neighborhood do you live in? I live in Uptown with my wife. We don’t have any kids yet but I don’t think I would want my kids to go to school around here. Uptown is sketchy and people seem to get murdered here on a regular basis. I would feel differently if we lived in Lake View, Lincoln Park, or Wicker Park, but those neighborhoods are too expensive for us.
i would guess they would do whatever the minimum is to stay "legal" and maximize profit... er i mean, "connecting people"
These services offer hardware bound keys, are maintained by O(hundreds) person security orgs (read managed auth[n/z], audit, intrusion/tamper detection, backup, etc...), stored in data centers with strict physical security. For the majority of private sector, the benefits of these services outweigh the cost of trusting the key holders.
Let's take a small municipality and play.

I'll take town board/administrator form of government, you take "meritocracy."

In my form of government the board members run for office periodically. The ones who get the most votes win. Then they hire a professional bureaucrat to handle the day to day business of keeping a municipality up and running.

Here's what I've got:

* a discrete (and anonymous!) method to determine who will become the board members

* local community members who campaign and are subject to citizens by virtue of elections

* at least one professionally-trained bureaucrat who more likely than not is competent in the job and given the power by the board to make day-to-day decisions like hiring and firing people

So...
How does your meritocracy function?

What's the way you measure and get consensus on community leaders' merit?

How are those leaders held accountable?

How do you ensure at least one of those leaders is trained in a relevant field as opposed to being trained only in the art of rhetoric (shout out to Socrates for this question)?

Edit: clarification
Well, this new standard is backwards-compatible to the old standards, as in people will understand it, regardless of what they've learned beforehand. So, I don't think this new standard is really competing with the others.
Your original point was that millennials and younger love the Beatles on Spotify. How does this new reply show that?

I’m not sure why I’m bothering because you continue to miss the point and instead use multiple logical falicies to try to belabor your point. I get it, you have an obsession with this and you want to convince the world you’re right, doesn’t make it so.

I’m happy to be proven wrong as I have no skin in the game, but so far, you’ve not done so.
> If you manage to fit two languages, then you're essentially writing the same language in two different syntaxes.

Counterexample: the JVM, which runs quite a few languages, including some that were created without any consideration thereof (python, ruby, lisp, perl).
Does the GDPR prevent the targeting of ads?
* John Carmack said that he used to buy the most insanely expensive machine he could for dev, because by the time he finished the game (a few years), it would be a reasonable spec machine for the average gamer. But he lamented that it was essentially no longer possible to throw enough money at it, because machines are just getting too good, too fast. At Walmart and Best Buy, there are $20 Altec phones that have better specs than the original iPhone. And if you make something insanely good in VR, people will show their friends, and people will WANT it. If it doesn't look insanely good, will it spread? I'm not saying "purposely exclude low-end." I'm saying design for the high-end first, and by the time you're done, it won't be nearly as high-end as you think.

* Sure, "responsive," yes. Want to know the best way to get that? Use an optimized-for-VR game engine. Like Unreal. "smartphone". Yes, sure, here ya go: https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-us/Platforms/GoogleVR/Daydr...

"People with any device should be able to take part, to interact, to share." Nope. Disagree. You're using hyperbole, or you're being nuts. You are not going to target iOS 4. Or Windows Phone. Feature Phones in India.

"My take on graphics is not that it is unimportant but rather that it is not what is lacking in current 3D content."

...you are literally making a "VR" thing. The only new adjective in what you are building is "VR," of which "graphics" plays a huge part. Without tracking devices, "graphics" is all that "VR" is.

"Plus with some polish WebVR can deliver a decent graphical experience."

I think you overestimate their chances. (Star Wars quote.)

"Beautiful is important. It is photo-realism that is not."

Kiiinda agreed... I think being able to scale all the way to photo-realism would be smart. Is it a Requirement? Dunno.

"it has to run on their current hardware or they won't really use it."

Eh. People do buy PSVR and Oculus and... /shrug

"Then by interacting regularly with people with headsets, people without VR headsets will gradually convert into VR users."

I don't really see that working, honestly. Me having a landline doesn't make me want a smartphone more. Seeing what a smartphone does makes me want a smartphone.

"Web browser did not start with WebGL: they figured out text first, "

That's not really true. Web browser started with the ability to have images. Almost no one had the bandwidth needed for a good experience. Many people had machines that couldn't really run a web browser.

"VR Wiki" / "VR Wordpress"

People keep trying to build an integrated thing that is all the things...

Just like the first web browsers could author HTML, too. And be Usenet clients. And email clients.

Rmmmmm...

"HTTP" "HTML" "CSS" "JS" "LAMP"

Make the building blocks. Let people build VR Wiki / VR Wordpress on top of those tools.
There we go. Easier to sell user data in non-EU jurisdictions
Crypico Freelance Gig Market Place and Community
JS is fine for CRUD
In addition, their server-side code is open-source and they claimed that federation support is something they are considering to add: https://github.com/wireapp/wire/issues/160

Overall, I'm also not a big fan of Signal's hostility to federated protocols (https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/), so I'm more optimistic about Wire in the long run.
any examples of templates? I hated the templates provided by vibed they are too implicit for my taste
Grindr won’t share users’ HIV status with app contractors after outcry
It applies to the person and doesn't depend on where you were when you created the account. If you are an EU citizen (possibly living abroad) or a current EU resident, you get the protections.

If you created the account in the EU but are now living outside and are not an EU citizen, it would not apply to you (until, perhaps, you returned to being an EU resident).
If livelihood depends on not understanding something, it is impossible to make them understand.
I like theoldreader.com. It's very similar to Google Reader and worth every cent of its annual fee for premium access ($25 IIRC).
Arielm those are all good points.

1. I completely understand, being a software tester for over 10 years. We are going to build in functions in the software that will make it easier for users.

2. The unlimited plan is limited in the launch phase to certain number of companies already. We are going to shutting down sign ups after hitting that level to avoid disappointment as you have mentioned.

3. TestRise isn’t a replacement for Selenium. While automated tests have their place, using real users with real devices brings up a lot more edge cases.

Would be great to hear your thoughts in detail and swap notes about your experience with prior similar services. I can be reached at analyn (at) testrise (dot) com
> "Do Americans love guns that much?? I mean, there are so many other toys to play with"

- For some of us, they aren't "toys"...your disrespectful tone does nothing to help us debate where the line should be drawn for firearm ownership.

> "Does owning a gun cause a nice buzz? Is it a social lubricant that makes everybody at a party happier when you bring it out? Does it have an ancient history that spans across the globe? Does it result in a chemical addiction?"

- I think your characterization of gun owners and their motivations is shallow and insulting...sure there are your "gun porn" fans that seem to only care about purchasing the latest "tactical" rifle to share pictures of on social media, but many of us who don't live in populated cities, use our rifles and handguns routinely, or at least wouldn't traverse our properties without them on our sides for protection. Turns out predators exist, and the best way to warn off a cougar, coyote, or bear is having protection. I've killed coyotes that would have killed the livestock that feed my family.
Lazada eLogistics | Global Head of Data | Full Time | Singapore | ONSITE | VISA

Summary: We are an e-commerce conglomerate, part of Alibaba. You will take ownership, train and grow the data engineering and statistical learning ("data science") team of the largest e-logistics company in South East Asia.

Likely useful experience:

- Software development (aside from building actual software, you'll need to read a lot of code to understand systems whose logic is not at database level).

- A mathematical bend, including awareness of and respect for the ideas behind the relational model ("predicate logic on sets") as defined by Edgar Codd and Chris Date, and rich data types. If you see a foreign key as a mathematical domain and think in terms of relation values and variables, we are probably on the same page.

- Knowing your way around PostgreSQL, or failing that any large scale RDBMS deployment; there are infrastructure teams and DBAs but they need your guidance.

- At least some enjoyment of the resolution of large, complex problems using more abstract methods as opposed to quick hacks and duct tape.

- UNIX/Linux, but if you've read that far you probably have more than enough experience.

- Speaking Chinese (Mandarin) may help a bit but the team has multiple native speakers.

Interview process:

- Email vanessa.tan@lazada.com to be sent a few quick questions. Include "6h9mYszLTq2Y" in the subject line so we know you're not a bot.

- An hour or two over Skype for probing your technical experience.

- An hour or two in Singapore (if you are there) or over Skype for the C-levels to figure out if they can work with you.
Ask HN: Non-technical employees don't get along with engineer
I'm the CTO of a small startup with 9 full time employees. We have 2.5 engineers - Me, a senior SDE hired a year ago, and a new UX designer who doubles up as a part time FrontEnd Dev. 4 non-technical employees have logged complaints that my full-stack developer is curt/cold/condescending although the designer and I get along with him just fine. I've drawn a pretty hard line in defending him thus far, but have been taking more and more fire from the CEO.
I've tried many process tweaks, 1:1 feedback, etc. Do you guys have any ideas to de-escalate or help the team get along better with each other?
That reminds me of some photos my dad took years ago of a line technician on a crane truck fiddling with some equipment on a utility pole at the edge of our front yard for about thirty minutes. He thinks the guy was testing for some illegal cable descrambler on the line although I suppose it could have been anything since this happened in the DC Metro area :)
And it's unknown which factors here are cultural and which are biological. Society is trying to treat this as only a cultural thing but we're still highly evolved cellular automatons.
Why does this universe have a speed limit? Where does it come from? What enforces it?
If someone opts out of data mining, there is nothing to target with.
Tech's Ethical Negligence
PHP is a bit easier to reeason about IMO.

Even as a seasoned software engineer who has written his fair share of js, the js community finds ways to confuse me.
I pay an inescapable 15% goods and services tax on everything I buy. So yes.
Welp looks like my profile location is abruptly changing to somewhere in the European privacy law jurisdiction then.
Is it really possible to have none?
Someone will give them cash. Elon will if nothing else.
Meant to say "because there's limited supply"
Hard to look at the history of aircraft and think aesthetics have nothing to do with the shapes designers choose. Aesthetics may not be the driver, but it's definitely an input in the process, to varying degrees.
Change Structure of ZIP Archive Folder and Remove Redundant APIs in Cloud Apps
I think you're misunderstanding the point and confusing standards with documentation.

Standards are for one very narrow group of people: compiler writers. If you're not a compiler writer, you have zero reason to buy the official standard document. And if you are a compiler writer, well, it would be very bizarre to choose your target language based on the price of its spec!

Please note that the final draft of the standard is published for free on that website.
The timing is not the best, and the actual process would be treacherous (completely limiting GDPR only inside the EU).

This smells like a simple PR move after the big drop on FB stock following the Cambridge Analytica disaster.
I tend to disable Javascript for news/blog websites. In maximum cases, I get a popup-free, ad-free experience, and no private browsing warnings too.
MIT's official campus guide brags about the hacks as a way to try to attract students[1]. They are advertising the police car on the dome as a positive thing.

I don't see any reason to think they would be upset about him going in an unlocked closet. The previous quote mentions he was part of a puzzle hunt. If he was creating a part of that hunt and used that closet as a part of a puzzle I would think they would have been ok with it. The walls were covered with graffiti. How many years of prison were the students who drew the graffiti threatened with?

[1] https://institute-events.mit.edu/sites/default/files/documen...
Agreed. My new build (15 months old now) has 32GB ECC. Apps and VMs consume RAM like nobody's business. I'm glad that I built it before memory prices doubled.
One of the common argument of the pro-gun crowd is that gun control doesn't work because criminals who would fail background checks still manage to get guns...e.g. they get them from friends or they still them from houses. Or to say "the criminals will easily get guns, while those law abiding citizens will find it hard time getting guns to protect themselves."

Gun storage laws (and smart gun laws if the NRA would allow them) are designed specifically to address that.

If gun storage laws only lead to a 1% reduction in gun deaths, (mostly via suicide via dad's gun), then they are totally worth it. I'm sure the effectiveness is a bit higher than that.
TestRise is a fit for applications that have launched and say do weekly deployments to production which need to be periodically tested. The client can use our service to test their staging environment first and after all their tests have passed, they can get us to test production afterwards as well.

Companies who require faster turnaround times will be able to do so in the future as well. The Unlimited plan with a single parallel test works very well for early stage startups that can execute the tests at the end of their workday knowing that when they come back the next morning they will have their results.

The unlimited plan is not a good fit for people who are deploying multiple times a day and need much faster turnaround times.
This is what will most likely happen (with respect to production rate):

Tesla will continue to draw the ire of the naysayers/shortsellers in the media for the next year or so. Then, by 2021 or so, we'll look back at a company making over a million electric cars per year at high margin, dwarfing the entire rest of the electric car production rate (with the possible exception of China...).

Doesn't mean Tesla will be worth $100s of billions or will solve self-driving or anything like that. But exponential ramp-ups tend to catch people off-guard after hearing small numbers at the beginning of the ramp and early delays.
> What happens if a site operator in Iowa just ignores it.

Other European businesses, will be banned from doing business with them. For facebook they can stop them buying advertising space, for others they might issue orders to block payments to them. Some small players in Iowa may still get away from things but no one notable will.
except that if/when politicians get cozy, either willingly or not, with the hostile intelligence agencies then they would likely want all the benefits of that cozy relationship to continue indefinitely