skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recent report from my mother, who's a physicist with a strong math background, no statistics: Take the coursera intro course.

She said that the first hour or two were a little frustrating for the kinds of reasons you mention. After that, she could skip the "long" explanations & examples by going to the math directly. You'll progress 5X faster than normal after that.

She "got it" by creating ML "proofs" for math problems without doing math. She didn't like all the image recognition examples. Said it's a confusing place to start.

You are probably stuck with learning from a source that assumes you don't know math, because most people (including me) don't. This course is probably not for you if you want theory, as it's focused on "using" ML algorithms, not writing them. That said, this might be useful to you if you already have stuff that you want to do, and need a way of doing the "sticks and duct tape."
Yes which is why efficient public transport start with city planning. American cities are not built for public transport. They are built for cars.

You need to redesign American cities. The most obvious thing to change is zoning laws. Residential areas, offices and stores need to be more mixed.

Another issue is that many problems exist simply because it is too easy to drive. With easy driving you end up with donut cities where anything of importance is located in a ring around the outskirts of the city. That kills the ability to utilize public transport effectively.

If you discouraged driving more activity would be forced into neighborhoods and into the downtown area, which would make public transport functional. It is much easier to feed people with public transport into a downtown area than into a ring on the outskirts.
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>> MRW I stumbbled onto the fact that Gboard has a opt-out keylogger.

Explain?

Edit: I think the parent poster is incorrect insofar as it may be read to imply that keystrokes are sent to Google. While on iOS you can indeed give Gboard (or any keyboard) "Full Access", Google's privacy policy for iOS GBoard is below (Android's is similar). It seems reasonable to me, and only logs your keystrokes _on your device_.

What Gboard sends to Google:

- Gboard sends your searches to Google's web servers to give you search results.

- Gboard also sends usage statistics to Google to let us know which features are used most often and to help us understand problems if the app crashes.

What Gboard doesn't send to Google:

- Other than your searches, Gboard doesn't send anything you type to Google, whether it's a password or chat with a friend. Gboard will remember words you type to help you with spelling or to predict searches you might be interested in, but this data is stored only on your device. This data can't be accessed by Google or by any apps other than Gboard.

- If you’ve turned on contacts search in Gboard search settings, this allows Gboard to search the contacts on your device so you can easily share. None of these queries are sent to Google.
Never and this is an opinion, but I feel racism is getting stronger under Trump.
What do you mean by "regenerate"? Making a new, unrelated hash? That doesn't do anything to a printed newspaper.

(If you could get the same hash then even a block chain won't give you integrity.)

If your list of hashes is huge, you can just print the hash of the entire list. There's no such thing as unprintably large for mere attestation.
What ideologies do you mean exactly?
Are those digital sales? Usually I see numbers quoted as tracking physical sales, which don’t tell the whole story.

And I still feel only publishers would be able to tell what the “norm” is. They have better insight into what their “norm” is in terms of returns for development and marketing based on game type, release date, and tons of other factors that can’t be correlated casually
One of them has just a name: Barbarich Viacheslav Yuryevich
Yeah i actually stopped using gmail, and exclusively use inbox too. Would gladly go back to gmail if I could get a comparable experience!
Did you find anything on their support policy for sec updates for older versions?
Well, my company is hiring. I've been a part of the interview process repeatedly, and I feel it is straightforward and fair.
The real crime was undermining Microsoft's cycle for selling new licenses.
Or that /r/atheism is more popular in christian locations
This post engages in the myth that there exists an America homogenous enough that all of it can suitably be represented by a single media outlet...and when it isn't something nefarious (in this case leftist elitism) is at work.

The problem isn't The Atlantic or the National Review providing specific, sometimes narrow views. The problem is the lack of intellectual curiosity, confirmation bias, and tribalism engaged in by many political consumers.
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What about “right to be forgotten” laws?
Absolutely, but what the British pay in taxes for healthcare is less than what the equivalent American pays in both taxes and insurance.
People buy Windows, because it's hard to buy computers at the store that have Linux on them unless you know where to look (or buy locked-down Chrome OS). People don't need MS Office (Libre Office) or Photoshop (GIMP). Games run fine on Linux (see GOG and Steam), and the number would increase if more manufacturers sold laptops with Linux. Most people don't choose their OS -- they are fed.
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I look at the opioid epidemic as a symptom, not the problem itself. The broader problem is globalization and the local inequalities it's producing. The Heartland of the United States is being hollowed out and turned into a desolate wasteland, economically speaking. The steady advances in economic productivity are accruing to an ever-shrinking proportion of the population.

The media-political circus should also be taken seriously as a problem because it distracts people from focusing on the real issues. The recent focus on privacy on Facebook is a good example of that. The real problem with Facebook is that it's designed to be addictive, that it's making people depressed and angry, and that it's politically polarizing people who ought to have common interests.
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This is the one thing that Blackberry got right - unified messaging.

All messaging apps could feed into the system messages app, you'd see it all in one place and could read/reply/etc regardless of what app was actually doing the messaging. From what I could see it worked really well.
How would eliminating the tribalism subroutine benefit the species? Is a homogeneous global population the most resilient?
I've already addressed that. See "in anticipation of the rebuttal" post.
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The best way to me is just clone https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts and look into the `pateched-fonts` folder, see what font you might like and do `./install.sh <font name>`. That's it.
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Just because people don't care about privacy, doesn't mean they dont deserve or in fact need it. But in fact most people care, or assume they have privacy. why does Google not show a red icon to users that these messages are not protected for instance. something browsers do? A company like Google should care about their user's privacy, but well thats the entire point of the article.
Command line tool that we run on the project: https://github.com/teonite/inspectr-cli
> Semiconductor manufacturing improvements like this really have enabled the whole tech world improvements of the last few decades.

I would argue that for software it had the opposite effect, and has led to layers upon layers of crap. No need to ever fix that when you can rely on the next cpu being twice as fast.
No idea what he has to say for himself in the wsj since it's behind a paywall, but I did google him. I wasn't familiar with any of this but if this is accurate:

It was Mr. Williamson’s hard-line stance on abortion — namely, that it should be treated as premeditated homicide and punished accordingly, perhaps by hanging — that generated the initial controversy over his hiring.

Well, you know, his time at The Atlantic wasn't destined to end well. Their readers aren't going to allow them to turn into Newsmax.

It's mostly distressing that a lunatic like that can get the time of day, let alone a paying job as an opinion writer. Speaking of "tribalism," I don't think his views are likely representative of his own "tribe." It's just that the discourse has degraded to the point where plenty of people get off on hearing something they think will offend the right people.
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Python does LTS, although they don't explicitly call it LTS:

https://devguide.python.org/#status-of-python-branches

Each Python version is supported for 5 years. So if you start building on Python 3.6 you are guaranteed to have a supported version till 2021. Upgrade to 3.7 (due out in June) when released and you'll be set till 2023.

So yes, Python does offer free LTS.
"China is bigger than the continental US. I think the persistent myth about the US's size being some unique problem doesn't explain much."

Sure, China is huge. But the vast majority of it's population is concentrated on or near the east coast. Most of China's western interior is sparsely populated, even compared to the US.

Even including the interior, the overall population density of China (137/km2) is much higher than that of the USA (35/km2).
"Anyone can implement a client" isn't the strongest argument when that's also true for most chat services as well. It's nice that the protocol is out in the open but it's effectively a service provided by cell providers and locked to them.

RCS could have been amazing as a general-purpose protocol for short datagrams that could be sent/received in areas where you can't get a data connection. It would effectively enable every chat app to work when the network is under load but carriers opted for the walled garden.
After I switched to a 3 layer architecture (1. root component, 2. screen components, 3. ui components) I just had to gather data asynchronously in the screens and pass it into the UIs via props and that was it. No spaghetti, no Actions/Reducers.

I'm not saying this works for all apps, but I got pretty far with it.
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You might appreciate a deep dive approach. Rheingoldheavy did a tremendous exploration into the underlying circuitry of an Arduino Uno [1]

I would also check out Chris Gammel's Contextual Electronics [2] as a semi-formal training course. It's also an opportunity to make connections with other EE's you can ping when you get "stuck"

Finally, invest in your tools! Get yourself a decent multimeter- if you aren't sure where to start, Dave Jones' EEVBlog [3] will provide more commentary than you expected. Having a good oscilloscope and logic analyzer also makes worlds of difference when you're troubleshooting a circuit. Digilent's Analog Discovery 2 [4] is a great get-you-started instrument.

[1]: https://rheingoldheavy.com/build-an-arduino-uno-from-scratch...

[2]: https://contextualelectronics.com/

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdGQEVdxmQQ&t=414s

[4]: https://store.digilentinc.com/analog-discovery-2-100msps-usb...
If the messenger was your phone's default sms/mms client, sending email is a new trick for me! I just share to gmail or outlook and send it back to me. In outlook it helpfully tags these messages as "note to self". No google drive nonsense either.
Booting Windows doesn't work with the U-Boot impl currently
People play fast and loose with the work 'brick' now-a-days. They usually don't mean brick as in it turns your phone into a brick that can't be brought back. They mean you have to go into recovery mode and restore it.
>I think Americans are totally done with identity politics based on race, gender, religion, sexuality

I don't see that happening at all, that would be nice, but that's not the general direction. I think things are getting worse as far as that's concerned. Society is polarizing and separating into different groups. At this point it is almost impossible to talk to the "other side" about certain issues. There is MASSIVE distrust of the government and authority that is getting increasing day by day. I think America is becoming a polarized, low-trust society with no common interests and the future looks like regional secession to me. Sub-state entities seceding from other states, states seceding from the greater US etc.
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Code telling? What is that? I'm sorry about the job but that sounds hilarious.
Oh you mean use your network of contacts to entangle governments in wars while financing both sides and then stretch the wars out so the government has no choice but to accept your private banking control of the country?

The Rothschilds figured out a long time ago that lending to governments is almost always a win.
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My main point with Java upgrades is not source code, but different behaviour in production. Or some side effects you didn't get in testing.
Which toolsets does this course rely on?
You could always use a language with a spec and multiple implementations. Common Lisp and C have both been around for a long time with specs that have seen wide open source and commercial implementation.
Redux is more powerful, but the question is simply, do you always need that power?

If you're a single dev who knows Redux or working in a project with Redux pros, I'd say go for it, you invested your time into it, why not use it.
>Are you suggesting that communities can stay frozen in time, unchanging forever?

No
Those asserts seem like a pre-Jupyter form of narrative.
robots.txt has been a de facto standard for over 20 years. Someone might be able to claim ignorance, but the Internet Archive has shown that they know about it. It has a specific format; if it can be parsed, it's safe to assume that it isn't part of a movie script.

In most cases, copyright law requires the reader of a document not to republish it, so the robots.txt standard is actually much more permissive.
Which is a textbook definition of bigotry. They're intolerant of, thus do not want to read, his views.
Author here, feel free to ask me any question!
How does it handle assets like CSS, JS and Images?
Statistical tests, P values, confidence intervals, and power
The power of accurate observations is commonly called cynicism by those who haven't got it.

-- George Bernard Shaw
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This was a solved problem back in the day. Pidgin was a desktop application that let you put aim, msn, yahoo, or whatever chat you wanted together. You had one list and you messaged people on there. It was the same regardless of what platform they were on. It was great.
> I mean I can't imagine these news sites enjoy selling their souls to the Devil, but it's not like we gave them a massive list of alternatives.

It's not like they gave us anything worth an alternative. Most news is garbage and has little to no immediate impact on anyone's life that would make it worth paying for.
1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee, v8 4.7L. Part of it is how it can only use 4wd.

Favorite vehicle I've driven so far.
monocultures tend to be best for societies, so if the global population were a monoculture, the homogenous nature of one would be beneficial.

But since that's an impossibility currently, leaving each nation to be its own monoculture is best.
I find it interesting/good that there’s an ethics course in their track.

At least from the other specializations ive seen I haven’t seen this yet...
I don't think there's any cause to abandon p-values and NHST if you're running experiments with high power and intelligent, deliberate priors.

With power = 0.8 and p(h1) = 0.6, p(h0 | p < 0.05) = 0.04. Even if power = 0.8 and p(h1) = 0.2 then p(h0 | p < 0.05) = 0.2.
That's how I know a date is going well, when she's looking up at me with a deliberately neutral expression.
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This is a valid point. By backing/pushing RCS, Google doesn't have to maintain the infrastructure (servers, protocol, etc) to support messaging as this would be on the carriers.
The UK regulators have done amazing work making it possible to start new "challenger" banks.
We started 3 and a half years ago, so this kind of guide would have been super useful for us at the beginning.

It was a bit more opaque back when we did it, before us only a handful of new banks had been created since Metro bank, and that was the first in 125 years..
...and in 80 years they dead. Just like everyone else :)
Data scientists are hired to create business value, not analyze things
In practice however democracy doesn't work in the US. The system allows a duopoly of two parties which have long ago been bought by corporate interests. You actually need laws in a democracy to prevent government from being taken over by special interests.

In Norway we traditionally secured this by strong limitations on the usage of political ads. Hence you could not fund yourself to political popularity. The other mechanism is that starting a new party is very easy in Norway, so as soon as established parties are not representing the interests of people they will get squeezed out by new parties.

I think what helps Norway, is that we don't view our constitution and political system as an immutable document. We have been far more willing to tinker with the system and improve it than in the US. I think this is down to the fact that getting where we are today is a very gradual historical process.

When our constitution was written it was not a full democracy. It still involved a king with considerably political power. In the US, the country begins with a pretty good constitution very early on. This I think has enforced the myth that there is no need for regular updates and improvements.
I think they said something similar about when cars replaced horses - no more hooves clop-clopping on the roads.
We saw a doctor beforehand who ruled out all the usual risk factors. In fact it was safe.
Given that the indigenous Australian languages hold the record for the longest-running oral traditions (70,000 years worth of story-telling), it would be no surprise to me to hear that there was such an influence...
Research isn't great but it seems to show that home births are more risky than hospital births

I wonder if home births can ever be safer/less risky than a hospital birth.

My wife had emergency surgery (not all cesareans) with each of my kids but even if you just take the first time when she was low/no-risk, she would most likely be dead if she'd chosen to give birth at home. Both me and her were also born by emergency caesarean, so I might be a bit biased in favour of hospitals here though ;-)
So what would you have instead? Less separation of powers? Laws decreed by a panel of nine, unelected justices to make up for what Congress "meant" but failed, or were too lazy, to do? If Congress won't do their damn jobs it's not for the Supreme Court to take up the slack; empowering them to do so will bring us down a dangerous road.

And Citizens United was about the right of corporations to issue private communications about candidates, not campaign finance. The Supremes couldn't have ruled except how they did without running afoul of the First Amendment. Given how easily hate speech proliferates, a strong right to free speech certainly warrants question. But changing things requires changing the Constitution -- much like the case with sensible gun regulations and the Second Amendment. I'm not sure what further public disclosure requirements you think would be necessary, but if Congress didn't pass them, it's not for the Court to slip them in as a rider on a decision.
Who says it's right or wrong for x to be integrated into your product? Should they do it if it compromises iMessage encryption? It's not as if there are no WhatsApps/Telegrams etc people can use as an alternative if they don't like the options.
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As you said: "People have already had years of support for Java 8 including support updates".

What's changed is that this wont be the case anymore for 9, 10, 11, and so on.

Plus, after 9, each new release will be out in 3-6 months (can't remember which) instead of years. And support for the previous n-1 release will end in the same day.

Plus, despite their frequency they'll have major language changes (whereas usually Java did much smaller scale changes + full backwards compatibility).
> That's part of what "the rule of law" actually means. In a nation with the rule of law, the law applies objectively to everyone: crooks, politicians, and yes even do-gooders.

Ha.
If you see Linux Foundation’s EdX course on blockchain of course they teach it with Hyperledger... Everyone uses their own toolset, why wouldn’t they?

(I didn’t take that course)
The Fragebogen zur steuerlichen Erfassung. Every freelancer and small business owner in Germany has to fill it. It's long, it's complicated, and it's full of things that are hard to understand.

I wrote a guide on how to fill it (http://allaboutberlin.com/guides/fragebogen-zur-steuerlichen...), but I wish there was an easier way to fill it.
> whatever happened to doing something because it's the right thing to do?

Taken to its logical conclusion, one could follow anyone around and claim they aren't doing the most right thing. The "right thing to do" is a scale, not binary, and it often conflicts. E.g. right thing to do for self health, vs environment, vs for my customers, vs for my employees, vs for my family (and time with them), vs happiness (for self and others), etc. GP is right, you have to align "right thing to do" with "prudent thing to do" and it becomes viable. Otherwise, to many it comes off as preaching as though they are bad people when they only optimize for other right things.
In fact they used to document this behavior at https://web.archive.org/web/20150411133228/https://archive.o... but they removed the documentation in mid-2015:

""To remove your site from the Wayback Machine, place a robots.txt file at the top level of your site (e.g. www.yourdomain.com/robots.txt).

The robots.txt file will do two things:

1. It will remove documents from your domain from the Wayback Machine.
2. It will tell us not to crawl your site in the future.

To exclude the Internet Archive’s crawler (and remove documents from the Wayback Machine) while allowing all other robots to crawl your site, your robots.txt file should say:

User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /""

Their current documentation no longer says that they stop displaying old archives automatically in the presence of an ia_archiver Disallow directive, but I have not experimented about whether they still actually do this anyway.

Just guessing wildly about similar issues, I know that news organizations which have a publicly documented "unpublish" policy tend to get that policy used aggressively by reputation management firms and the like.
> the law applies objectively to everyone: crooks, politicians, and yes even do-gooders

You started by saying some entities are left unpunished. Then come to this conclusion.