skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have at least some coding experience and you are interested in the practical aspects of ML/DL (i.e., you want to learn the how-to, not the why or the whence), my recommendation is to start with the fast.ai courses by Jeremy Howard (co-author of this "Matrix Calculus" cheat sheet) and Rachel Thomas[a]:

* fast.ai ML course: http://forums.fast.ai/t/another-treat-early-access-to-intro-...

* fast.ai DL course: part 1: http://course.fast.ai/ part 2: http://course.fast.ai/part2.html

The fast.ai courses spend very little time on theory, and you can follow the videos at your own pace.

Books:

* The best books on ML (excluding DL), in my view, are "An Introduction to Statistical Learning" by James, Witten, Hastie and Tibshirani, and "The Elements of Statistical Learning" by Hastie, Tibshirani and Friedman. The Elements arguably belongs on every ML practitioner's bookshelf -- it's a fantastic reference manual.[b]

* The only book on DL that I'm aware of is "Deep Learning," by Goodfellow, Bengio and Courville. It's a good book, but I suggest holding off on reading it until you've had a chance to experiment with a range of deep learning models. Otherwise, you will get very little useful out of it.[c]

Good luck!

[a] Scroll down on this page for their bios: http://course.fast.ai/about.html

[b] Introduction to Statistical Learning: http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/ The Elements of Statistical Learning: https://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/ElemStatLearn/

[c] http://www.deeplearningbook.org/
But instead of keeping your cash in a wadded-up crumple, you can neatly stack them and slip them into a wallet, or neatly stack them and fold them in half and put them in a money clip. Coins are a lot harder to compress.
Yes you misread
PostgreSQL Extended Statistics
I sent an email - feel free to call me to discuss.
Guns and bombs are cheap. Everyone has plenty of them. The power of our military is in force prjoection; that is, the ability to use those guns and bombs anywhere at any time.

That requires massive, sustained logistics spending. To the point it may seem absurd and wasteful. But the alternative is fighting a fair fight on equal footing. I’d rather not do that.
Utterly disgraceful.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17423798
What I'm reading is a monopolist is immune from scrutiny because everyone is afraid of the monopolist bankrupting them by cutting them out of supply from the monopoly. Further through a network of shell corporations, we learn the truth of the monopoly is obfuscated.

What's good about this?
Electronic signage is cheap and can deal not only with changes in tax, but also the much more frequent sales.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_shelf_label
In case you don't want to go to Facebook:

http://www.wect.com/story/38541106/video-accident-with-crane...
If this becomes law, which looks highly likely, it will open a Pandora's Box of mammoth proportions affecting many major industries in a pretty short time. The list of uses of hemp is nearly endless, and this includes fuel and most uses of petroleum. Also, many end-uses of such crops as soybeans and corn can be produced better and much cleaner and more sustainably.

This is really huge news. George Washington would be happy. William Randolph Hearst much less so.....
There is always a reason why something that is obviously dumb is done and it always involves corruption. There is almost zero copper in the modern penny so let's point the finger at the zinc industry.
A large problem in archiving is actually the copyright law. Sites like sci-hub or Library Genesis do a great job in archiving scientific papers and books, but are illegal.

Also archive.org is sometimes on the brink of legal/illegal, e.g. not all material that can be found on archive.org is really legal; though for lots of the formally illegal archived content, the copyright holders do not care or do not want to cause an outcry.
But they dont spend it nearly as efficiently. Gov is slow and bloated. It's why government contracts are so coveted, lots of money, long term contracts, overages are just part of life.
I've worked on TCP full time for a couple years and have to say, the more I learn the more WiFi intimidates the heck out of me. I'm barely smart enough to work on wired connections, and think RF DSP is largely beyond my faculties. There's so much going on down there, and the cards are starting to become effectively what we used to call TCP Offload Engines which is unfortunate. The perceived benefit is lower power usage and optimization by RF-aware companies but the negatives are pretty obvious to me. This means that changes like this to mac80211 code (or moral equiv in other OSes) will be increasingly bypassed and done in opaque closed firmware.
Who wants to live long without staying young? I'd rather choose to die in my 40-es if I would get 25-yr-old body until the end of the life in exchange. Body/health (skin, brain, immune system, muscles etc.) anti-aging is the thing we need first, not longevity/immortality.
Speaking as a gay minority, I totally agree with your comment.
For sure. I use NoScript for browser security, not for fingerprint protection. I would still definitely recommend people use NoScript/uMatrix/etc. It's just an unfortunate side effect.
Google weeps as its home state of California passes its own GDPR
That is how newspapers have been for centuries.
It's annoying that notifications are on by default, but just as with any other app, you can either mute all notifications or go in and disable specific types with pretty high granularity.
If you're going to leave a bunch of $1500 hives in a field, wouldn't it make sense to hide trackers in some of them?

Netflix's Rotten S01E01 covers much of the same material.
I think you’ll find that most conservatives actually just want the NFL to enforce their rules, which already prohibit political speech on the pitch. Something the NFL has enforced in the past against conservative political expression.

So where do you think this no platforming of liberals is taking place?

It’s not happening in the media. It’s not happening on social media. It’s not happening on the campus. It’s not happening in the office.

All you’ve actually been able to identify if _some_ conservative Christian colleges (you haven’t substantiated that, but I’ll accepts it’s probably true to some extent), and the football pitch (which isn’t a political forum to begin with). As I said, you want to have your cake and eat it too.
Embeddable OpenStreetMap-based interactive maps for Wikipedia
Sure. But pointing to this as an example of why someone should wear a helmet even if they're confident in their riding ability is not in any way shifting blame to the rider.

Nobody is actually trying to tell the security expert in this story that he should be more careful - he's dead. People in this thread are pointing out how this story highlights the importance of safe internet usage practices - much akin to how one might point to a car collision as a reason to use a helmet. That is not blaming the victim, that's encouraging others to learn from and hopefully prevent similar situations.
You seem to know what you're talking about, and I appreciate you taking the time to reply to me, but I'm afraid I don't understand how what you're saying contradicts what I'm saying. Maybe we're talking past each other. I'm saying two things:

1. Meta-evolution happens as part of evolution, there's a logical "strange loop" there.

2. We see the kinds of macroscopic evolution among multicellular species that we do (such as the "choice" of having separate species, or the "choice" of having death-and-birth) not because it's somehow impossible to be otherwise, but because these modes of life have meta-evolutionary adaptive advantage.

When I contrast "Darwinian" vs. "Lamarckian" evolution I mean that the former does not have "inheritance of acquired traits" while the latter does. I might be using the term "Darwinian" in a non-standard way and I apologize if so.

When I'm talking about not being able to differentiate the two modes or kinds of evolution in the case of microorganisms, all I'm saying is that there's one process that has aspects of both modes.

Isn't what you just described about LGT obviously "Lamarckian" in the sense that a bacteria acquires a trait from "eating" a plasmid, incorporating it into its own genome, then dividing and passing the trait on to each offspring? I guess what I'm asking is, what do you mean by Darwinian?
Curtesy urban dictionary:

A variation of the bong native to SouthWest England, where a straight tube is used instead of a conventional "gauze type" bong tube.

The end of the shottie tube (also known as a downie or downpipe/tube) is plugged with a small amount of rolling tobacco, onto which a thin layer of crushed or chopped cannabis is applied. The user then lights the cannabis/tobacco plug until such time as all of the cannabis glows red and the plug can be seen to slide down the tube. At this point, the user gives a sharp tug to pull the cannabis/tobacco into the bong water, the smoke is then inhaled, providing the user with a more intense hit than that provided by conventional smoking paraphenalia, this means shotties provide a both economical and enjoyable smoking experience
He means (-40 + 17i)%.

Sorry, couldn't resist :-)
If I already knew how to get around, I wouldn't have opened a mapping app.

"You should already know all the streets" is not what I would call a scalable approach to labeling maps.
A "state actor" focusing on you should be considered at least as dangerous (and semi-impossible) to guard against as a dedicated adversary that wants to infiltrate you specifically. Just as with a dedicated adversary, it's no justification not to make it hard for the average or law-abiding citizen and what they can easily come up with.

We don't have locks on our front doors to make it impossible for unwanted people to get inside our houses, we do it to prevent the average person, deter the interested criminal, and hopefully give us warning when it is or has happened.

> Luckily, I guess, securing yourself against state level actors

To be clear, there is no securing yourself against state level actors. You can harden yourself, and reduce your target area and/or footprint, but there's no way to actually make yourself secure.
I'll bite but consider all I write poorly informed wild speculation.

The person he mentions has been behind a lot of advancements in both getting cheap FPGA based boards to the hands of users and creating libre silicon-proven IP. He recently left his company that was making Zedboards and Parallella among other things to join DARPA.

The last big project he seemed to have worked on was a 1000-core processor of which a lot was open source but a lot of the important bits were protected due to likely an NDA with the factory or the provided of the tools they used.

It hope what he is going to work on (EDA) will finally enable DARPA and others to fund truly open source designs and tools and work with fabrics that would allows access to really cheap ASICs or FPGA based systems, building on all the momentum around platforms like RISCV and his experience creating the Epiphany cores.
"Never attribute to stupidity what can be explained by corruption."
I think Apple Maps is the ideal piece of software to open source and make available for free if the goal is to not let Google dominate geolocation data.
So it costs $500 million every time someone designs a SoC and (before now) nobody has spent $100 million trying to make that more efficient?
I'm not a privacy defeatist, but I am a fingerprinting defeatist. Here's why: I don't think it's realistic for caching and anti-fingerprinting to co-exist, and given those two options users will always pick the former because the latter would be perceived as slow.
The classic example is:

<script src=foobar.js>

Where foobar.js just returns something like "var id=0x1234567", the user who doesn't want to be fingerprinted cannot cache this script because it could be uniquely generated.
I wonder how good it is for public health if Juul is able to grow this market. Do the health benefits from cigarette smokers switching to e-cigarettes offset the young people who never would have dreamt of smoking cigarettes heavily, but regularly use Juul?

I had no idea how pervasive Juul was for college students until my sister told me that multiple people were "Juul-ing" in all of her classes. Highly recommend this New Yorker article to understand the cultural phenomenon: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/14/the-promise-of...
Every few months there's another paper on the arXiv trying to do exactly that. Pretty much without exception, I've found the papers to be terrible -- leaping immediately to QM without first considering more prosaic stories for whatever human behavior they're trying to explain. It's like quantum mechanics is a hammer, and explaining human decision-making is a steak, and all these people want to use the hammer to slice the steak for some weird reason, their strongest argument being that the problem of slicing the steak doesn't map well to their bare fingers. It's amazing what some people think they can get others to swallow just by using the word "quantum"! :-)
I don't really get our reasoning. Clearly some people don't act rationally and everyone should be aware of that. So it seems reasonable to recommend reasonable precautions if the situation warrants it? You don't swim in shark infested waters, or hang out around lions without expecting to be bit. Would be nice if everyone could behave like a sane person and we could live without fear, but we don't live in a utopia.
Apple makes phones, what are phones used for? Messaging, phone calls, maps, and cameras. Everything else is noise.

Of those four things, which has the most potential to monetize? Maps.

People look for restaurants, for gas, for hotels, for rentals, for real estate, Etc. All of those things are being offered by a vendor who would love to know when you're looking and would love to be able to put their pitch in front of you when you are.

Maps is to phones what the browser window is to laptops.
It's a mix. I like having a list I can very quickly scroll through and filter. Clicking places one by one when there's 20 isn't that fun. You can also slide down the list and click on the map once the results appear though.
The narrow part is mainly because of cars parked on the sides, so I can see why maybe they wouldn't consider that. The poorly-maintained part, though, I don't know. I got nothing there.

EDIT: I also wish Google Maps would take into account that your average person will walk slower up tall hills. In my experience, it doesn't seem to do that.
We need an “are we the baddies” moment.
Out of curiosity, how old are you now?
From the chainmail vest to the superconductor – The German Wire Museum
I think you misread/misunderstood the article, the judge used the TSB's to decide AGAINST Fiat-Crysler's argument. FSA was arguing that they had no knowledge of the defect, and that the complainant couldn't show otherwise, but TSB's sent to dealerships prove they did know. That's why the case could proceed.

> However, he pointed out that Fiat Chrysler had issued two technical service bulletins relating to Pacifica’s PCM software before the plaintiffs had purchased their vehicle, and two more following their purchase.

Plus you're also mistaken on TSBs. Technical service bulletins are normally sent to dealerships and other authorized repair centers, they aren't for public consumption (although most leak, if you look on forums, etc). NHTSA notices and TSBs aren't the same thing at all.
Argh. It used to be 2¢ in the late 70s. My 9 year old self went in to buy 50 pieces with my birthday dollar bill - and on that day learned about sales tax. (Tax was $0 on a single piece, 8¢ on 50...) I asked the guy to ring me up 50 times, but he declined...
It's when my "compiler errors" are system outages.
Genius idea
I do not understand why he's using the statistics of Google hiring 61% white as an indicator of lack of representation. The US is 64% non-hispanic white. If the statistic means anything at all, it means whites are ever so underrepresented at Google.
OH! is an open-source library of hardware building blocks based on silicon proven design practices at 0.35um to 28nm. The library is being used by Adapteva in designing its next generation ASIC.

https://github.com/parallella/oh
I agree with all that, but it's also been 7 years. It's just been a long time and a disappointing result.
So do astrology and bioinformatics.

Let's look at (a particular application of) bioinformatics. I sequence the DNA of a bunch of humans and a neanderthal. I apply some statistics and proclaim that humans and neanderthals admixed. Later, I sequence more humans and another neanderthal. Applying the same statistics, things look a bit messy now. So I proclaim that there were two admixture events, but I also change the estimated amount of admixture and pretend that this is still consistent with the first claim. Years later, another genome, another admixture event, more hand waving excuses for the numbers that don't seem to fit the big picture.

Is that science? Some kind of trial is there. It is appropriate given time and setting. Some kind of value (a p-value) is produced. Even the theory is there, even though calling it "formal" is a stretch. So this is science? I don't think so.
Given Fuchsia core design, i think they will probably target this space with it, and use the "Android layer" for more powerful phones.

I would bet they will migrate Android to run inside ChromiumOS, and make a flavor of Chromium running on Linux and other running on Zircon.

For feature phones they would use the zircon+chromium+webish-dart-framework variation and the linux+chromium+android on powerful phone, until Zircon is mature enough to replace Linux in all fronts.

At least its what i would do if i were them, and its how i project their future steps in this domain space.

So the KaiOS would be competing with the Zircon+Flutter variation, and i guess they are just betting in another horse to make their chances even better to be dominant also in feature phones.

Pretty smart move, given they have a lot of cash to spare.
>But countries like the US could absolutely be doing more

They could do more for sure. But it's a bottomless pit. The more you invest the more "poor" people are "pulled" into orbit of the programs requiring more spend, which brings more poor which requires more spend ad inifinitum.

> I am fine with spending "other people's money" (AKA money belonging to people who don't need it)

Oh ok then, I just decided that you don't need your money and I will spend it on the poor. Since I am "good" and I have everyones best interests at heart because I said so, then there's no problem. I will also decide who does and doesn't "need" their money. What an awesome power to wield.

What weasel word language you're using "life for those with the least advantages" just because you are poor doesn't mean you didn't earn it or don't deserve it. What simplistic logic you are using, what gigantic and awesome powers you propose to wield with such little thought.
For those who don't know, Juul is the inventor of the "salted nicotine" vaping trend which makes the nicotine spike much faster in the bloodstream than earlier vape juice, which is more like cigarettes. They have a patent but it appears to be ignored by the vape industry as "nicotine salts" are widely available (added benzoic acid). The nicotine level is also much higher, allowing for lower wattage devices and smaller vape clouds, and a harsher hit that more closely resembles smoking. I think this technology is great if it can reduce the harm of smoking and get people off of cigarettes.
No, in the case of Zeno, we all agree that the arrow would impact at time t, we just argue that you can take tiny timesteps so you never get there. But after time t, the target has definitely been hit.
That is precisely how USA has operated in 19th and 20th century too. Intimidating people you dont like is always.
There is a clear shift on who plays the game the most and how they play.

The first 3~4 months I remember seeing a lot of youngish and very active people, the heavy players being those travelling all day around the city to complete their dex.

Now I end up a lot more with elder people who manage to play during their jobs, do a lot less “grinding” but do it more efficiently and can pop real money here and there when it matters.

I am not surprise by the number of players rising again while there is no huge 30~40 people croud rushing everywhere: we don’t need to rush anymore, and the main events can easily be planned 30~15 min in advance.

If you are interested in huge crowds, public parks during community days might be the remaining attraction.
"Most importantly, we have to change the culture of hardware design. Today, we don’t have open sharing … "

This, to the 100th power.

The culture in the EDA industry is stuck in the 1950's when it comes to collaboration and sharing, it's very frustrating for newcomers and people who want to learn the trade.

As was pointed out by someone in another hardware related HN thread, what can you expect from an industry that is still stuck calling a component "Intellectual Property"?

The un-sharing is built into the very names used to describe things.
I've never been a smoker, but I do like vaping. Nicotine is a useful chemical when it's not accompanied by all the junk that comes with burning adulterated plant matter. I self-medicate with it for ADD. It helps me focus, more than caffeine does alone. I used to use the lozenges that are advertised for smoking cessation, but I switched to vaping about a year ago.
That looks really nice. When I clicked the link, I wasn't expecting a good looking page and all of those docs, it was a nice surprise. I look forward to checking it out :)
And if this were 'eight low-tech ways to keep warm during snowpocalypse' then you could be a super internet badass too and brag about how we're such big babies about -30
I think you have to find the "perdec" symbol on your keyboard. That way you'll get a percentage when you square it.
Senator Wyden Asks NIST to Consider WireGuard to Replace IPsec and OpenVPN
So good. 2 pies = 2 Taus though. Ha!
Who does the US intend to fight, and over what?

This logistic spending is certainly not for national defense - it has two oceans, a navy, and two thousand nuclear warheads for that purpose.
Right. "You don't get worse at living after a certain point." Sounds like big news to me even if the "half life" was shorter.
Tracing paper? That's Japan, dude
Guns and bombs are cheap. The Zumwalt, F-35, B-2, and more are not cheap. I would point out that “smart” bombs and cruise missiles are not cheap, and the cost really starts to add up. Nuclear weapons research, production, and maintenance isn’t cheap.

So really it’s fair to say that guns and bombs aren’t cheap, but they are also a distraction from the delivery systems, which are catastrophically expensive.

the point it may seem absurd and wasteful. But the alternative is fighting a fair fight on equal footing. I’d rather not do that.

Yeah? Are you sure the alternative isn’t to spend 3 or 4 or 5 times as much as any other nation instead of 7 times as much? Maybe the alternative is to avoid boondoggles, and focus on proven tech. Of course the real alternative is that doing so would get in the way of the real business of arms dealing.
It's not an asteroid, but the first in a new class of comets created for interstellar objects. A new prefix, I/, was added to the comet naming scheme. This object is officially I/2017 U1 or more specifically 1I/2017 U1 ('Oumuamua).
IANAL, but do the plaintiffs actually have standing to sue given that they have not been charged under the act? The problems seem to stem from uncertainty and ambiguity in how people think the law may be enforced, not based on any actual enforcement.
No, Erlang can only send messages between it's processes. Java can share.