skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You're not entitled to their content on whatever terms you decide are fair or not.

Yes I am. I'm entitled to whatever content their server returns in response to my user-agent's request, and I'm entitled to filter and alter that content in any way I choose, including not running javascript and blocking advertising.

If they want to put content behind a paywall, fine - good luck getting anyone to consider their content worth paying for, though. Otherwise, it's fair game. That's the way the web works, and that's the way it's always worked.
I was bicycling to work today and passed by a cardboard box on the trail that had some books in it. I circled back around to get a closer look and found...a couple of dog-eared paperbacks with a Danielle Steel novel on top and a VHS tape titled something like "Christian Ministry Programs". It's still there if you want to secure them for posterity.
AlphaGo Zero demystified
CLOS is--IMHO--the most advanced object system ever invented. The freedom that comes from CLOS is mind-blowing. Learning what CLOS can do will make you hate every other object-oriented programming system.
I feel really stupid but I don't know how to use it. I clicked the button to open the toolbar in the footer but after that, I don't see where I am supposed to actually input my CSS edits.
I use Zoho and like it quite a bit. It's free for up to a certain number of emails per domain (5 I think?). Surprisingly, its spam filter hasn't been noticeably worse than Gmail's for me.
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Most likely they’re just killing people in smaller cars, deaths from car crashes are higher in the US compared to other developed countries after all. Americans seem to enjoy a good arms race.
Even for the books that are pieces of art in their physical form, writing on them is merely transformative art.

I see it as enhancement, added value - and I say it as someone who can't write in books after a decade of it being drilled into my head during childhood!

For what it's worth, the statement of Fermat's Last Theorem was written in a margin of a book.
The only open source licenses that make sense are the Free Public License 1.0.0 and the Zero Clause BSD License.
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It's a bit of a misleading headline: they weren't offering a bailout, they were offering to exchange money for services from the city. In any other world that would be a bribe. Lyft said "it's a bit astonishing to us" because I guess they're used to their bribes being accepted.

If anyone thinks "bribe" is too strong of a word, they were offering $100m "to help medallion owners" in exchange for the city dropping a proposal that would limit the number of Lyft/Uber drivers and set a minimum wage for the drivers. Again, in any other world this would be called a bribe in exchange for making favorable laws. In this world I guess it would be called lobbying.
Good point. This is exactly what JavaScript does with NaN and the set of numbers, and errors are harder to track down because of it.

Computer numbers in general have all sorts of issues like this where clean mathematical theory is broken. NaN, Infinity and -Infinity, for example, are all similar to absorbing elements[1] under multiplication in the sense that once you get that as a result, you can't do the inverse operation (division) to get back to your original inputs.
Yes. Exactly that. In a short (bibliography or card catalogue) listing, SICP would have been by Abelson et al.
If there really isn't a market, then keeping them could only bring trouble if you're ever found with them. Maybe you really do care about the cultural value of them, but also want to get rich in the meanwhile.
I believe you are supposed to make the changes using the normal Chrome dev tools
A simple photo of the items, and maybe a proof of recency(newspaper) should be sufficient.
Are you referring to using fast.ai library on FloydHub for you own project or going through the fast.ai course notebooks?
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It justifies critical awareness such as is happening here.
For ML, you need both—probability to justify the setup of the problem, and linear algebra and calculus to optimize for a solution.

A simple example is with linear regression: find w such that the squared l2 norm of (Xw - y) is minimized.

Linear algebra will help with generalizing to n data points; and calculus will help with taking the gradient and setting equal to 0.

Probability will help with understanding why the squared l2 norm is an appropriate cost function; we assumed y = Xw + z, where z is Gaussian, and tried to maximize the likelihood of seeing y given x.

I’m sure there’s more examples of this duality since linear regression is one of the more basic topics in ML.
With those comments and your username, you can tell people to CD .. off your lawn.
Almost like Twilio's SMS price, but in the real world SMS in the US is ~$0.0015 (outbound) and free for inbound and that's without trying very hard, can get even lower. Granted it doesn't come with all the ready-made tooling and bells and whistles, which evidently has a high price tag attached if doing via Twilio.
At my job we have to open many small files from NFS. The latency of open() absolutely murders sequential performance (>80 seconds just to open a scene descriptions). Prewawrming the fairly shortlived NFS access caches in parallel evaporates most of the performance penalty.
It's not a review per se, but 4 of the 6 questions are pretty good. Trying to answer them helps think important thoughts.

I suppose a few other proper reviews exist on the book's page, so adding another like these might be not so important.

(Also, Amazon in 2000 was quite a different thing than Amazon in 2018. It was much smaller, and much less important.)
You must make possible for other researchers to reproduce your work, but that does not mean you have to give it to them for free.

I work in an university, but in close collaboration with industrial companies. We use models that we explain with detail in our papers, so that other researchers can write their own implementations and maybe confirm or disprove our results. But we do not make the code available.

This is what I see, that does not mean I think it is the best approach. I would really like to release all the code I write. It would make research advance faster, and I do not think that it would harm the company who pays for my work in any way.

But they pay, and they have strict policies. At least they allow me to share most of my code with other researches in a personal basis and write papers about it. I am quite sure that, if to publish papers I had to always share the code, they would just directly hire me or someone else to do it and there would be no papers at all.
There was an interesting time in the mid-90's when computers and internet were gaining some steam, in which used book stores would pay top dollar for any computer related book, no matter how niche or obsolete. They've wised up considerably since then, though.
A bit of both.
I imagine you could do Morocco to Cape Town in about 15,000 if you tried, but that would be skipping A LOT of countries and beautiful places.
The comment I was replying-to was also putting forth an ideological argument. (Or at least attempting to, via connotations.)
What’s amazing to me is that the thieves face up to six years in prison for this. I feel like in the US it would be 30 years! Note that I don’t actually know, six years just struck me as short.
True. I cannot disagree with any of this.

That said, the math we're talking about (that is, the math necessary for understanding, say, the sequence of transformations that make up a convnet) lies far below the ceiling of complexity you mention.

I'm not sure symbol reuse and overloading are as much of an issue. I've run into people who are quite proficient with Perl and routinely use complicated regular expressions who say they didn't like math growing up.
I never saw any "Single?" signs, but I do wonder about all the signs I see around here offering cash for diabetic test strips... I'm guessing those are given out free by some program and then sold, but don't you kind of need those if you are getting them?
Did you attempt to use any iOS content blocking apps? I use 1Blocker and my mobile browsing experience is similarly free of videos, audio ads, and rediculous ads. Further, because I'm also using 1Blocker on macOS, my custom blocking and whitelists is synchronized. Anyway, I don't want to get into an Android/iOS debate—they each have their pros/cons—I just want to point out that iOS provides a very workable ad/content blocking solution in my experience.
Be interested to know all the competitors in this space. https://data.world/ is one I am most familiar with.
The positive way to think about this is that it appears humanity's moral universe is expanding. I could name a long list of things that we do all day that we are going to be judged extremely harshly for, but it would derail the conversation.
Article Title: LOL wut?

Opens link: "Noah Smith is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist"..oh ok, i get it now
Not sure whether you're saying being stuck in an embassy meant he lacked a backup plan or whether it was one, but I'd side with him being able to stay in the embassy as a backup plan considering WL suspected there was a secret grand jury indictment against Assange.
Cross compiling is doable and easier with the newer versions of Debian. One Qt issue I had is that a bunch of stuff is dependent upon OpenGL, which wasn't well supported with the Pi stuff when I was poking around at it. Qt is also just a beast to cross-compile.

Rust is much, much nicer to cross compile but lacks a nice GUI. I've been poking at Cursive.rs for TUI stuff in an attempt to hack up my own scan tool so we'll see where that goes.
Enums are not JavaScript, and I've never heard of an Enum stage X proposal.
Schoedel be fixed, for right now if you were at one of the big auto companies and you find out that 30% of customers* can’t buy an electric car because of these issues… what does that do to your interest in selling electric cars?

If I could buy something equivalent to my current car that was electric, I’d be happy to. But I would definitely have to figure out the charging situation. And that could easily turn into a mess. That mass, plus premium price, plus possibly limited availability may make it easier for me to just buy another gas car for now.

*Number made up
Of course not, you use it as efficiently as possible to do the thing you used public transit to actually _get to_.

The comment I replied to claimed transit systems don't sell unlimited-ride passes. I was pointing out that some of them do. What you're arguing is they wouldn't have the capacity to handle it if every person bought such a pass and immediately ceased all activities other than riding transit 24/7, which may well be true, but is also a non sequitur.

Though since you ask, it would be a bit difficult for me to "maximize" use of my Caltrain pass in the way you're suggesting, since going "all the way to the end of the line to minimize your cost per mile, then walk back to your actual destination" is not realistic -- the line is ~80 miles long.
My comments are on Indian government, and not Indians or Hindus. Where have I insinuated anything about Hindus? It is absolutely certain to hurt Indians in future, if Google goes ahead and implements it in China. This is what I am doing, bringing in another viewpoint which I didn't see being brought up beforehand. It is a valid viewpoint. Stop getting all nationalistic on me, especially when it comes to defending censorship.

If you have meaningful rebuttal of any of my points I will consider it, otherwise your reply is bringing in nothing except strawman arguments. India has a history of censoring and also vilifying its minorities.
For things like this and high end art it's normally stolen to order.
The LAFF: Linear Algebra class just started again for the "fall semester" https://courses.edx.org/courses/UTAustinX/UT.5.02x/1T2015/co...

Maybe one of these days I'll complete it :)

I really like 3Blue1Brown for a wide range of math topics. He's just a great teacher.

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Frankly, I find the UTAustin linear algebra class less than ideal or optimal, but it's free and lots of classmates, material, so...
Currently as a single mother, you can qualify for more things than you can as a married mother. This puts a financial incentive to stay unmarried. This incentive should be removed.

I don't have as good of an answer for reducing children. It would probably be best to work on reducing the number of children by providing easier access to birth control.
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The problem is that it isn’t all that uncorrelated. Prosper tanked hard in the financial collapse.
We have high order functions in JS. Which are similar to decorators.
Measure problem (cosmology)
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I'd have to say that the General Magic user interface (Magic Cap) was much more similar to the user interface in Microsoft Bob than an iPhone.

>Microsoft Bob presented screens showing a "house", with "rooms" that the user could go to containing familiar objects corresponding to computer applications—for instance, a desk with pen and paper, a checkbook, and other items. In this case, clicking on the pen and paper would open the word processor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob

Here's a short overview of a device running Magic Cap and it's user interface for comparison.

https://www.microsoft.com/buxtoncollection/detail.aspx?id=37
Yes, I see your point.

Deep learning, in particular, is a trade today. If we want to be generous we can call it an "experimental science"... but my perception is that only a minority of papers in the field actually deserve that moniker.

(Speaking as a deep learning practitioner with expertise in a narrow domain.)
I don’t see how it would add anything interesting to the narrative unless that was the focus of the story. At best it would come off as white noise, like most world building details.
Thomas Jefferson also:

- Invented an encryption device: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_disk

- Participated in writing the first draft of the "Declaration of the Rights of the Man and of the Citizen of 1789": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Rights_of_t...
Craigslist is doing amazing, but they are definitely an outlier
"Protectionism has always doomed countries"

I'm not sure if this is true.

Less developed economies that tried to be protectionist obviously were hurt by it (many examples: India, China etc.)

But large swaths oft the economies of most, even developed nations are protected. Banking, telecoms, agriculture, military and in many cases broadcast entertainment and energy - are still protected to this day.

And then of course de-facto protectionism of state-backed or related entities.

Large open economies usually have more to gain relatively speaking than do smaller open economies, which risk being gobbled up.
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> they were offering $100m "to help medallion owners" in exchange for the city dropping a proposal that would limit the number of Lyft/Uber drivers and set a minimum wage for the drivers

The purported problem is taxi drivers bought medallions. The medallions then dropped in value. (Put aside, for a moment, that most NYC medallions are owned by large corporations.)

Uber and Lyft are saying "instead of capping our numbers to help the taxis, we'll help you buy back the taxis from underwater medallion owners." That is good policy. Extending the medallion system to ride sharing freezes market shares. That's a handout to Uber, who have recently been bleeding share to Lyft and Juno. It's also stupid in the midst of a broken subway system and ahead of the L train shutdown.

Of course, none of this matters. This bill's purpose is to hand out cash. Our mayor is in the medallion owners' pockets [1]. And apparently they've also been doling out money to this bill's sponsors on the City Council. The hope is this passes in August while nobody is looking. From ground level, it seems they're right.

[1] https://nypost.com/2014/05/17/taxi-industry-gave-de-blasio-o...
There's still the Golf GT-E which looks pretty sweet, shared platform with the Audi e-tron. Finally a mainstream plug in hybrid with good performance. Now, about the price...
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Chevvy sell the Bolt at an $8k loss, due to the battery. Nonetheless I'd love to have a Bolt, but I live in the UK and they aren't bothering to produce a RHD version.
Sidenote: the author of the post (Chris MacAskill) is also the co-founder of SmugMug which recently acquired Flickr. And apparently he also runs https://advrider.com/. Quite the renaissance person.

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Engineer with an MBA here. My two cents: Back when I was writing code, my worldview was that if engineers ran every company, then the world would simply be a better, more rational place. Because engineering is hard and everything else is easy/squishy/learnable.

During my b-school classes, it dawned on me that things are much more complicated than I had thought. Marketing and sales are very hard, very quantitative, and can make or break a company. Corporate planning from a cost / revenue perspective is super critical. Steering a large organization and navigating personalities and power structures in such a company is difficult and squishy.

Certainly, some MBAs are full of sh but I've also run into plenty of engineers who are full of sh. I think it's hard to stereotype. When I first started business school I thought everyone would be the stereotypical investment banking jerk. Instead, I was pleasantly surprised that most people were fun, very sharp, pleasant, intellectually curious, and they really respected folks with a technical background. Exposure to them broadened my own worldview in a number of different ways. Sure, you don't need an MBA to run a company. But you also don't need a CS degree from MIT to be an awesome engineer.
Tesla only sold 104 Roadstars in 2011.

I'd love to see a Tesla version of the Road Star!

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Stealing the crown jewels probably counts as lese majeste. That used to be a death penalty offense.
I really want a shallow-dive into machine learning and I know I need linear-algebra as a foundation. I would love an interactive course in linear algebra where we could input matrices and see some visual stuff with animations.
There is a large middle ground between democracy and purely top-down command. I was actually talking about disagreement among executives. In an environment where people respect each others' opinions and areas of expertise, you don't need coordinated labor action for that to influence top-level decision-making.

The fact that this all has been kept secret (even from the rest of the organization) and that it leaked are both evidence for internal political divisions. Internal politics does matter, sometimes. I wonder what happens now that more Googlers know about it?
28 years later and Godwin's law still rings true as ever: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Hitler approaches 1"