skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That makes sense. But for me for instance, who's trying to learn about AI and have a math background, I like courses that explain the math behind everything because it makes it easier to understand the concepts. It's also a good way to check that I understand what's going on. And finally, I find it easier to skim over a text has equations, they easier to parse for me since I'm a slow prose reader. So I can go through a text by skimming through the math, and when I stop understanding, I try to backtrack what's going on and only move on once I understand what was blocking me.

EDIT: And this applies to everything. Ex: I've been playing the guitar for over a decade but have been struggling with music theory. I've recently tried to apply the little algebra I know to it to try and find structure. I've found some really cool articles, for instance [0], and it's helped quite a bit believe it or not !! For French speakers that like music, math, and algorithms, I highly encourage a presentation by Moreno Andreatta [1] where he closes the presentation by performing a "rotation around the Do of the Beatles' Hey Jude".

[0] http://repmus.ircam.fr/_media/moreno/BigoAndreatta_Computati...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3528&v=cFiT9StEy...
Instagram traps data without a Download Your Information tool
Yeah, it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

They say they "declined to take down the archives"-- but they didn't in fact do this at all, they just insisted a request to take down the archives come in the form of a robots.txt, and they automatically and without review comply with all such requests in the form of a robots.txt. They don't in fact ever decline to take down any archives, if the request is properly given as a robots.txt.

I don't know why they bothered making statements about "declining to take down the archives" in the first place (to the journalist or to us), making comments about "Reid’s being a journalist (a very high-profile one, at that) and the journalistic nature of the blog archive" -- they did not in fact "decline to take down the archives" at all. The "journalistic nature of the archive" was in fact irrelevant. They took em down. They are down.
I thought the advanced covered a fair amount, basics of transistors, understanding decibels etc.

Everyone is different however and it may indeed not be the right course for everyone.
>Of all the provinces, why Beijing?

Because this guy lives there > https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Xi_Jinpi...
I have no issue at all with the appropriate level of investment in electric buses.

Investment in public transit in general is besides the point. It’s economic fact that paying more for an electric bus and building the infrastructure to support them is more justifiable and will provide better ROI in China where the pollution is 5x more deadly.

If your metric is spending dollars efficiently to save lives, there’s better ROI in the US by spending the money elsewhere.
Crowdfunding helps women succeed in tech because venture capital won't
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> China is the future though. As scary as that is, it’s still reasonable to invest in Chinese tech, at least if your plan is to make money.

I don't have a lot of examples of successful western companies operating in China, they all seems to be blocked of at some point because of ""regulations"".
Linux users might laugh at us but this is still very convenient and according to the upvotes still new for some people.

It might be less polished than this solution but on Windows the same can be done with Chocolatey: https://chocolatey.org/search?q=font
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The ones I've taken did teach but were both extremely basic and much more focussed on teaching the tool than the application domain. And, yeah, they're pretty promotional.

Then again, that's very similar to many of the expensive Microsoft-certified trainings I've seen, so honestly it's still an improvement.
Agree, that is why one should advocate taxation and subsidies which promote green lifestyles rather than moralizing and pestering people. Just make it economic to be environmentally friendly.

Now I don't drive but I use public transport. However I'd be okay with biking if we had a much better bike lane system in Oslo, Norway where I live. When I lived in the Netherlands I biked everywhere. It was often faster to do than public transport. It felt safe and it gave me about 1 hours of exercise each day.

You feel better from getting exercise, you save money and time. So once cities and authorities actually plan for green living it isn't very hard to do so.

Yet in my native Norway, the green shift has been much more about making life miserable for those who drive, while making few benefits for those who use public transport or drive.

A particular bad development, is ever more centralization by the government in the same of efficiency and saving money. It means pharmacies, doctors offices, police stations, hospitals are made fewer and placed further and further apart. This means public services you used to be able to walk to or bike to, now requires a car.

All this happens while government keeps harping on people needing to use their car less.

There is a lot of things I think our government is really good at in Norway, but transport is an area we utterly suck at. I am very envious of the Dutch.
no I don't. but the radio app is a huge black box for everything that the systems sends out and (without enabling root access) there is no way to see what's going on.
The TLDR is that uber operatesas prebooked car service im Vienna to avoid having to use and charge with a taxi meter. Those are required to return to a registered location and not roam.
You are essentially explaining why people and companies need to be held accountable for externalities. If you were taxed on the order of your waste, you’d rapidly change your behavior because you’d actually be paying for it.
Isn't NASA prohibited from using any of its budget for explicit PR, to avoid anything remotely political?

(Honestly as a news consumer it's not all that bad because it means I can trust any communications coming from NASA proper to be purely mission oriented—focused on science.)
That depends a lot on your local trash collection infrastructure. Where I live, I take my household trash to a larger collection bin shared by the whole building (~20 apartments) which in turn gets emptied every few days into a garbage truck.
Emptying my trash directly in the the communal container (rather than containing my trash in a plastic bag) would not be popular at all, and certainly attract rats in significantly larger quantities than we currently have. There's virtually no time when the communal container is free to be cleaned - definitely not often enough that it would be a sound strategy to put empty household trash directly into it.

And yes, we sort out compostables, but a little is bound to end up in the regular trash no matter how diligent you are.
First result on Google & CIA world Factbook are both about 350,000 km.

https://www.quora.com/How-many-miles-of-coastline-are-there-...
Also, ethics provides specific practices and actions that we can take in order to ‘do the right thing’.

The fact that some corporations act ruthlessly and mercenary with regards to human rights and individual suffering (like Facebook in the recent data scandal), does not abrogate our collective and individual obligation to a higher ethical practice.
Any idea why they’d even bother implementing the interface, given it appears to be a step backwards compared to current options that customers have?

They did have a choice to adopt it themselves.
Google is ruining its products with Material Design. The animation is not accessible for people who have difficulty with visual motion. There needs to be a way to turn all animation off. It's bad enough already and keeps getting worse.

Edit: you should learn more about visual motion accessibility before downvoting me.
It's true. Some of the greatest minds have spent 20 fruitless years trying to discover a unified theory of object fields and elementary values in JavaScript.
It would be extremely stupid. Judging by the number of Chinese working tech in the USA, they have already acquired that.
OK so it seems you are conflating "people have been scammed by being offered stock options in vehicles that didn't legally have any [to offer them particularly]" with "foreigners can't own part of Chinese companies". There's a big difference.
I’m not sure where climate change enters the picture in this story. I don’t think China is investing in electric buses to reduce CO2 to head off climate change, but rather to control actual smog/air pollution.
I have the same question! I have a very different set of productivity tools. Does this have the Play Store?
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Zone 3 for me. Prices are stupid high :).
At least from the 1st few comments, it seems that people want to point out the ploy to get you using MS' products/tools rather than give you a wide, general education.

So... I don't mind this. Learning via a toolset is an OK approach, in a lot of cases. I personally like it. Realistically, a big part of basic competency is familiarity with a functional toolset anyway. Some people will expand their toolsets later.

Also, if MS succeed in providing good learning tools as a way of creating demand for their services, this is cool too. Ideally AWS and others will continue to do the same, and there'll be an incentive to create and maintain free courses.

If you want a more general/abstract course, these exist too. This just isn't it.

Based on a quick glance I'd say the course wants to get you to a point where you connect to data, do a little cleanup coding, use it to build a model & then turn it all into a web service. It probably has a little bit of stats & ML "theory," but not a lot. This is useful if its useful to you. If you're mostly interested in theory, this just isn't for you. Try the big coursera course, maybe.
That's hardly a murder, no?
> For decades, America has embraced a civic nationalism over a European-style ethnic nationalism

Doesn't this fly in the face of the contemporary liberal/progressive critiques of society? It seems to me that race has had a central role in both the founding (genocide of native americans), expansion (slavery), and liberalization (civil rights era) of the United States.

>This is that certain notions of freedom and responsibility, not blood and soil, were the real ties that bind...A sense of community can transcend religion and race, and this is what we should strive for.

I hope to God that you are right, I really, really do - but when I look at history in terms civilizations, eras, etc., not in years or a couple of decades, I have little hope that ideas about "freedom" or "responsibility" are capable of sustaining a nation. It seems to me that religion can, or something transcendental, and I say this as an ardent atheist.
If you are willing to pay for support then why not just buy it from Oracle?
Cards and Composability in Design Systems
Using machine learning to color cartoons
There aren't a whole lot of cases where Planetary Society aren't doing the better job. Two that come to mind for me are Marc Rayman's Dawn journal https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/blog/author/marc-rayman/ and HiRISE's outreach https://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/
I don't see how OpenJDK is different from other big open source community-managed projects. If Oracle is not willing to maintain an up-to-date version of the JDK, there are a lot of businesses big and small, as well as individuals, who will be interested in creating a governing body to oversee bugfixing in old releases, potentially even taking over stewardship altogether (which is probably a good idea, given Oracle's dubious reputation and this boundary hostile move).
Nice how they use a notification to ask you to do work for them for free.
Simple `brew install` shell script for many fonts:

https://github.com/SixArm/sixarm_brew_install/blob/master/br...

If you prefer using a `Brewfile` for many fonts:

https://github.com/SixArm/sixarm_brew_brewfile

Feedback and PRs welcome.
The History of the Future – how history on our era might be done
"They" are Peter Norvig. I mention this not to appeal to authority, so much as to remind you that you're not reading the code of a junior engineer.
It's the Goldilocks syndrome. Population density has to be juuuust right to result in American transit. It couldn't possibly be due to any other factors.........
I wouldn't be strong enough to make this work. Quitting smoking was exactly opposite for me. After several unsuccessful attempts to quit, my frustration grew bigger and bigger and I finally had to say to myself "I WILL NEVER EVER SMOKE AGAIN", and threw away remaining cigarettes. Everything was easy after that. My brain switched mode to "NEVER EVER" and cravings stopped completely. That was back in 1995.
I agree. There is really just one smartphone OS out there now with Android gone. I don’t want to touch anything that has been near google.
I don't know why we need these little "trials" when we already have a huge, ongoing, (and I think successful one) right in front of us.

It came out exactly like you'd expect. A great many of them just sat quietly in their rooms taking all kinds of drugs, playing video games and watching TV.

Some of them became community volunteers of envious zeal making huge positive differences for those around them.

Many found meaningful secondary employment that they enjoyed all the more for not having to depend on it for survival.

All of these were members of my own family so I was able to understand well the mentalities of each choice. The experience has made me a whole-hearted supporter of BMI.

The program? Social security retirement.
Sure. That’s even more a reason why Google should be proactive.

Apple defaults to secure if iOS users are texting each other. Google has always done the opposite. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Google is the one who’s business model depends on sucking up as much content as possible.
The trouble with OneNote and Evernote
The vast majority of the value of gold (more than 70%) is purely for jewelry. There is no shortage of gold for its technical uses, and if gold were no longer desirable for aesthetic purposes, there would be an enormous glut. By contrast platinum’s price is more dependent on its industrial use as a catalyst.
This is the sad part I think. SMS being shit is why people actually had obtained some privacy. If the RCS is good, then it is back to square one.
Their strategy is to get you to use the their tools rather than teaching you.

Well you have to use some tool, and to teach a course everyone has to use a common tool, so what would you suggest? Your own favourite editor on your own favourite Linux distro I suppose? What if other students favourites are different? The class will spend its whole time getting their environments set up..

FWIW I’ve taken some of MS EdX courses and they use Python, Jupyter, R, RStudio... loads of open source stuff. See https://notebooks.azure.com for the typical environment they use
One part I can't "translate" is this:

It plainly marques four my revue
> Any idea why they’d even bother implementing the interface, given it appears to be a step backwards compared to current options that customers have?

It's only a "step backwards" if you for some reason don't consider decentralized, standardized protocols implementable by anyone superior to centralized, closed-source walled-garden services.
Fair point - the expedition was intended to prove that the Polynesian migration (or at least the migration to Easter Island) could've come from South America.
Go contact the journalists and inform them of the issue. It's a step-by-step process. The others will get their turn.
TBH, that is a pretty meaty book not well suited to the beginner. It is nice though!
A VPN is beyond most users understanding -- even trivial ones -- and guiding someone to a reputable one will be difficult at best.

ISPs may have regional scale, but the big ones, Comcast, Verizon, etc. run significant parts of the internet's uplinks and switching infrastructure, and you can bet it's not just outgoing traffic they snoop. They have been caught with their fingers in the cookie jar many many times. At least with FB and Google you can choose not to use their services and block their trackers. You can't choose where your packets flow, and in many regions there is literally only one option for bandwidth because of local government sanctioned monopolies over the infrastructure.
Would there have been a land bridge to Australia?
Is there much need for the big ass TianoCore? FreeBSD uses U-Boot's tiny implementation successfully, it even supports netbooting
That's roughly $5000 per Irish citizen. A good day for those chaps! Presumably they will be paying interest on all this borrowed money, yes? As well as late fees for non-payment?
Here's to the next-generation YC-backed censorship tools!
My chequer marks chequer as wrong.
Oh, it's definitely damning. The real joke in the XKCD comic is that, if we assume each panel is a different study, the only study that would be published in a journal is the one where p < 0.05.

Originally it was intended that peer review in published journals and study reproduction would verify findings. In a small community where all results are treated equally, this works fine. In a world without data systems to organize data and documents, this was really the only reasonable method, too.

However, we don't live in that world anymore. The community isn't small, and information science and data processing are much advanced. Unfortunately, since careers are built on novel research, reproduction is discouraged. Since studies where the null hypothesis is not rejected are typically not published at all, it can be difficult to even know what research has been done. There are also a large enough number of journals that researchers can venue shop to some extent, as well.

Many researchers are abandoning classic statistical models entirely in favor of Bayes factors [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes_factor]. Others are calling for publishing more studies where the null hypothesis is not rejected (some journals specializing in this like [http://www.jasnh.com/] have been started). Others are calling for all data to be made available for all studies to everyone (open science data movement). Others are trying to find ways to make reproduction of studies increasingly important.

It's really a very complicated problem.
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That Microsoft decided to pursue this, especially in an instance where the person being sentenced is doing good work, is just ethically bankrupt all around. Even the judge mentioned having a hard time sentencing him because of the work he has done.

I know that my personal protest would do nothing, but this kind of operating corporate policy really just adds to my already strong disdain of Microsoft and companies that act like this. Zero nuance was applied in this case, and restore discs without licenses have zero value- Microsoft arguing otherwise is ridiculous.

I only use Windows for one specific usage case, gaming, and if it wasn't for that (or if Linux ever gets far more gaming support), I will drop Windows permanently for Linux.

I wish there was something we could do about this and the many injustices we say day-to-day, but I sure feel helpless.
I've taken to blocking gifs due to abuse.

Mostly just transparent-until-hover, but still.

https://pastebin.com/m5CEVfhL
Marketers spend billions of dollars trying to get prospects to their website, but are they following up with those leads?

Short answer - not fast enough. There's lots of money on the table.

One thing we know from the 2011 HBR study -- companies that don't respond to leads in five minutes or less risk losing them forever.

At Drift, we've been picking up where that research left off with our lead response studies. This week we launched our 2018 research.

PLUS a free tool where companies can see how they measure up --> getmyresponsetime.com

Check it out and let me know what you think. : )
Or just ignore it altogether. Why bother implementing RCS if you can already ensure Android phones can talk with whatever protocol you want and iPhones will probably only support SMS and iMessage anyway.

What value does it really add to customers? The value to Google is it’s a protocol they don’t have to maintain and an excuse to ignore encryption.
By shaping the culture? That was quite a reach.
Definitely - I tried an HTC Mozart for a while and was astonished at how pleasant it was to use, particularly given that I hate using Windows on the desktop.

There was no decent map for car navigation, but that could have been reasonably easy to fix.
Why would anyone think you need ML or AI to make letters on a page fit a color gradient. Are these investors crazy? I can't even think of an application for that technology in bee line reader.
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I'm curious what will happen to China's economy after another major economic crisis. Especially if it happens in say 10 years, by then robot manufacturing should be much more advanced and many western companies may opt to quit China and go the robot route.
Of course this is true. If anyone is naive enough to believe America is a hellish wasteland of terrible politics, and that that transfers to overall Quality of Life metrics for society as a whole, they might be surprised by this. Any honest look at data on employment, QoL, services available for free or very cheaply in the lives of the average citizen, there are many reasons for optimism.

Personally, I try to cut from my media diet any purely speculative or fear-driven content. Instead of telling us what might happen in the future if this policy comes down the pipe, maybe tell us about what's already happened recently, what the data shows us about the most important issues. To me, these are issues like the opioid epidemic, not what a politician wrote on Twitter recently. Another example would be focusing extensively on negative coverage, like opioids, and ignoring positive trends made in science, technology, and culture - who wants to read about the daily incremental improvements in life?
"It plainly marks for my review"
The plain JS example is nice too: https://github.com/reactjs/redux/blob/master/examples/counte...
I’m living in SG 5 years now, moved in from Europe. You get used to the temperature outside (Took me two months to get adjusted), so wearing long trousers and a shirt is ok now. That also works for inside. When I’m back home now everything < 25°C is cold!
A site gets a new CMS--whether it's a news site or some other organizations--and there's a good chance that they're going to break a bunch of links.
Oh, I'm not talking about the "loosely populated" part. I'm referring to the way that they by and large didn't really consider the inhabitants to be "people". Into the 20th century they were largely denied agency by the colonists, and in the 21st century we still displace Native Americans with roughly the same sort of discussion we have about disturbing turtle populations.

I don't think 16th century Europeans considered the Americas any more inhabited than the Moon. Native populations were just another natural resource the New World was teeming with, not "people".
You are correct. If you switch up the statement:

Then she goes into talking about her daughter who moved back in. Disabled. And when they went to the Social Security office and Welfare office, "those white people always seem to get it". She went off on a soliloquy about 'us poor black and brown people'.

Nobody would consider that statement racist.
Well, in that case Amazon needs to hire better backbone engineers. For anycast they should always be announcing both covering routes and de-aggregated routes.

They should also be constantly monitoring views of AWS network from other BGP speaking networks, allowing them to immediately detect such poisoning. If other important BGP speaking network does not want to provide them the view, they can go to a single-homed with BGP customer of such network and buy the view.