skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a college level course offered to high school students. Not sure where you're getting the idea that it's "introductory".

In American schools, the levels of a class on, say, European History would be:

European History -> Honors European History -> AP Euro History

You would just take one of them based on your ability and/or interest in the subject.

Students can complete AP courses and, depending on how they score on the exams, earn actual college credit at whatever school they end up at.
So, then, the social equivalent of privatize the profits and socialize the losses?
Everyone is inherently racist/biased but isn't willing to admit it

If you aren't, you probably make a lot of poor decisions or never lived/worked around ghetto areas. You can be inherently biased and still give people benefit of the doubt though.
I couldn’t get past that first sentence.
That isn't enough to protect from kernel bugs, as discussed at Linux Security Summit, hence kernel self protection project and related initiatives, mostly driven by Google regarding Android security.

If you use Qubes OS then it is another matter.
If a plant can't grow there, I don't wanna work there. (Grow lights & hydroponics are just The Matrix for plants)
You should draw up some numbers based on real scenarios and see if your theory holds.
Anecdotally, the heart rate data they have isn't very good. I had a Fitbit to track my HR while running, and the HR reading would change dramatically based on what I set my stride length to in the app. I would run on the treadmill, and it would guess how much I ran. If my stride length was set to a longer length, it thought I was an elite athlete and told me my resting HR was sub 50 BPM. If I set a normal stride length, my resting HR would be 60+. That's when I stopped caring about health trackers.
I don't agree. I find the problem with YouTube is that there's too much quality content and I need to keep myself from wasting too much time on it.
Since it sounds like you're at a point where you realise you need to do something, do it now because it's not going to get any easier the longer you leave it.
If we get fully cryptographic computation (I don’t know if I’m using the term correctly, but basically no one knows what you’re doing with their cycles), why would we need decentralization?
Couldn’t Isis run their irc server on AWS if it was impossible to know who is doing what?

This is an honest question btw
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Relevant: http://andrewoneverything.com/post/43840346900/we-will-alway...

I don’t think there will ever be a way to make a “big decision” with thorough analysis that will make you certain you made the right choice. There are too many variables to ever know for sure the “right” choice
The problem with stats degrees is twofold:

1) They often lack experience with messy (i.e. real) data
2) They sometimes lack experience with programming.

Data science, as currently practiced requires some CS, some stats (with a focus on experimental design/observational analysis) and communication skills.

These skills are rarely taught together in undergrad, but lots of PhD's acquire them by accident, hence the propensity of PhD's to end up in these roles.
Not that I give any of these two any chance of succeeding, but the fediverse seems to me like it has much higher chances of short term success than Web 3.0.

Small (and a pretty ignorant) comparison:

Fediverse: Fair amount of clients, some users, utilizes existing technologies and creates decentralized versions of already existing paradigms based on the W3C recommendations.

Web 3.0: Uses blockchain, can't access it from your browser, has barely any users but apparently a lot of clients, inherits probably the worst aspect of .onion services (inability to just type in the URL).

However, looking purely at the financial level, Web 3.0 seems to be winning. It's where money is funneled through, because there's a small chance that it will offer something grandiose in return. Meanwhile, fediverse operates on pennies donated by the users to approachable sysadmins with some spare resources.

One of them can afford a summit in San Francisco (sponsored by a few foundations), and the second one will probably never have a summit anywhere.
I think it is clear that "startup" is a word defined differently by different people. Sure, there is the YC/SV/VC definition that it is about grow big and fast or fail. And maybe that is the crowd you run with, which is why you think most people define it that way. But to many other people, including most of my community, it is about starting something new, whether that is a slow bootstrap or a fast funding, and whether or not it is interesting.
We're working on a project to let people discover multiple cultures/areas besides "bestsellers", but with books.

May I ask you a few quick questions on how you see that happening? There's no email in your profile, mine is marius@booxia.com

Appreciate your thoughts!
Many common data visualizations pre-date 1987 -- but it certainly would be interesting to read about how technology has changed our approach to them.
Tim Berners-Lee labeled the semantic web as "Web 3.0" in 2006.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web#Web_3.0
I know Google adding load times into their algorithm for SERP's a while ago. It would be nice if they added the same thing for memory usage.
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There's two schedules based on driving habits in the owner's manual. IIRCC the earliest scheduled change is at 90k.
Its not as if Netflix is the creme de la creme of cinema. Netflix already sucks outside the US. Outside the US, there's far less content, and there is either way a lot of filler content anyway.

What is going to happen is that Netflix will get the rights to stream (hopefully quality) local movies and series. That's gonna differ per country in EU. For example, some movies get broadcasted once or twice on public TV and that's it. Youth however mainly or even only stream. So they can get to see the movies they paid for (via tax) but via Netflix now, and Netflix can acquire them [reasonably] cheap. Everyone wins.

Right now, there's a bunch of quality EU series on Netflix already such as Casa De Papel and Dark.
I think I can use this: thank you for making it.
Yes and no. IMHO Lean has generated a lot of startups that had too much of a narrow focus and optimized away all the potentially interesting parts of their products because they were focusing on a MVP that turned out to be lacking in the V part because they were focusing on the M part.

There's this great presentation by Don Reinertsen "Second Generation Lean Product Development Flow": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6v6W7jkwok&index=55&list=LL...

Which is a perfectly valid way to fix some of the worst offenses of the original Lean movement, which were to throw out the baby with the bathwater by focusing on only doing things that had low option value and low risk. Sort of the opposite of what you need to do in a startup, which is to do something genuinely new and creating value while taking calculated risks.

Don does a great job of providing some nice economic rationalizations of how deal with things that are risky but valuable, planning and estimating these things, etc. He also makes a great argument for shipping value fast, which is to maximize the economic life span of your product and prioritize getting revenue earlier vs. getting revenue later with a potentially better product. Many tech startups get sucked into building the perfect thing and missing their window of opportunity for both raising funding and monetizing their product.

Unless of course your startup is not about the tech, in which case definitely avoid taking risks on the tech front and focus on shipping a product fast. If you are building a market place, the last thing you want to do is reinventing how those work. You instead want to focus on whatever the hell it is you are selling. Lean was always popular with those type of startups. I tend to think of them as no-tech startups. You get a bunch of MBAs, marketing and other non techies and then bring in the full stack hipsters to copy paste a bunch of crappy js files together to fake it until you can afford to hire a proper team.
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Found the Hufflepuff.
In Debian or Arch it's very easy not to install them and still have everything functioning properly. It's not the case with LineageOS, where Replicant needed significant effort to work and its hardware compatibility is still poor.
Lovely article, but grey-on-white and a small, thin display font meant I had to go into developer tools to be able to read it without getting a headache.
Kierkegaard was the original "emo" nihilist.

"Adding your own breth to the winds of fate" is adding 0 to 0.
There weren’t the necessary economic conditions to allow for the development and use of steam engines in antiquity.

See Steve Theodore’s answer on Quora for more:
https://www.quora.com/Why-didnt-the-industrial-revolution-oc...
CERN springs to mind, they have sprung a few decent spin-offs.
I wonder if it would be possible to implement that feature on an Android device that allowed you to flash your own custom appsboot/lk? I've only spent a little bit of time in LK stuff, but it seemed to me that that was where that functionality lives.

From leaked LG LK code it shows that's definitely where their bootloader unlock keys lived [at one point a couple of years ago].

Since the Librem device is a different beast, though, I wonder what their bootstack looks like? Super curious now!
You often can control your data access patterns. Array like access, in order, is often cache friendliest
Sure, but there are plenty of unsigned firmwares out there that could be replaced, but need to be sealed in order to get RYF certification.
Cultural nostalgia. I grew up in the middle east. I watched wealth, and less-wealthy, Saudis pitch their tents on the edge of the empty quarter and pretend to be nomads for a weekend. But look at the tents. They are huge. Look at all the stuff they bring. They are living not like nomads, but bedu kings. Every culture does this. It's called car camping.

Look at what Bedouin life was actually like, life without the 4x4s hauling the tents and coolers. Cram ten or twenty people, and more than a few animals, into each of those tents. Then you understand need for ridged social norms.

Try eating meat when fuel, material to burn, is more precious than water. This isn't crispy BBQ.
> An Even Better Thing is to introduce people to multiple cinematic cultures (and multiple cultures in general), not just the global monoculture that pushes the cultural and political agendas of the country that makes it, and expresses its own preoccupation and worldview as if the rest 95% of the world doesn't matter.

An Even Worse Thing is when we allow a super-governmental organisation to dictate what they deem to be acceptable level of non-culture to be forced upon us.

Yeah, globalism sucks, and preserving your own culture is generally a good thing, especially in a day and age where Americana is encroaching so heavily on every aspect of life. But this is not the way to do it.

> Especially since there are tens of different cultures and perspectives within the EU to represent.

These can be added, or fail to be added, to streaming services, on their own merit. Have you ever seen films from your own country? I, as a Dutchman have, and I can say that most of them suck and there's a very good reason you don't see them on stuff like Netflix.
Smaller self-managed groups (e.g. Tribes) are a better way for people to work and group together than bigger groups (i.e. countries).
Intelligent life does not find a way. But what is the root cause? Why don't we care enough? Money?
To summarize succinctly, KL(q||p) quantifies how badly you screw up if the true distribution is “q” and you instead think it is “p”.

Note that KL divergence is not symmetric! Eg: If the true distribution of coin tosses is 100% heads and your model has 50/50, you won’t mess up big — compared with when the true coin is 50/50 and your model is 100 percent heads (and you would have been willing to bet a LOT of money that there will be no tails in the outcome).

In this technical sense, it is preferable to be conservative than overly confident.
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How do you see the chances of someone without a degree getting an entry-level, low-paid, remote job in this space? What would be things that could help out? Certifications? Nano-degrees like Udacitys? A portfolio of public work?
Well, it’s still theoretical-the multiple choice section has questions of the type “what will this code print out?”

Also, they have a free response section where you write code on paper (it’s 2018, come on, coding on paper?!?).
Regarding fuel cells, I was never able to tell. I remember I was excited when one laptop manufacturer announced a fuel cell-driven laptop, but the project got delayed (which fits your statement), and by the time it got to market, the laptop did not get any more lifetime out of the fuel cell than its battery driven competitors, while being a lot more expensive. Now that you mention it, there is a fuel cell-driven submarine, which of course caters to a market, where money is not quite as much of an issue.

If the established car manufacturers were throw their weight (i.e. money) behind electric cars in a big way, they may indeed make Tesla eat their dust.

But that is a big if. Large established companies tend to develop a kind of inertia that is almost impossible to counteract, unless the company faces an existential threat. I would be glad to be proven wrong, but I doubt the major German car manufacturers are currently in a position to overcome this type of inertia. Maybe, if the state enacted some laws/regulations to push the manufacturers in the direction of electrical cars, but given the number of jobs that depend on the car industry, again, I am doubtful.
This is the only part that I thought could be significantly improved for the use case they have here. But to each his own.
Super complicated. For an insurance company collecting verifiable data on things people can control is way harder then collecting data on things they cannot.

If everyone wasn't so incredibly uptight about paying a tiny bit more than their fair share all this would be a lot easier. Would it be so awful if we all had to pay a little extra so that a smoker could afford life assurance, or so a young man could afford to insure a car?
Web 3.0 will be the browser as universal VM, with everyone directly targeting WebAssembly, re-inventing the UI stack via WebGL or WebGPU.
I did say legally. The Road Safety Act 2006 requires suppliers of number plates to be registered and, looking at the law, I see no provision for the sale of "things that look like number plates but they're really not, honest guv".

UK statute is painful to read and interpret though. I may have missed something.
Let's not kid ourselves. Surveillance moves like this are about control, not security, and especially not about national security. If anything, moves like this actually weaken national security by forcing bad standards and backdoors on people.

The 1946 USUK act that officially created the five-eyes in the first place post-Atlantic treaty needs to be completely re-evaluated and potentially scrapped.
Yeah, don't blame Fiat too much, the EV conversion was done by Bosch! And remember Tesla had a rash of much-publicized propulsion system stalls (as did the Tesla-powered Toyota RAV4 and MB models).

Aside from the few recalls and range anxiety, my experience with EVs has been stellar as well. I wish there was a long-range EV I could afford... (that didn't look like a Bolt.)

Kind of dreading dealing with gasoline engines again. I'm basically treating this new car as an EV with a extra-large REX.
> Not only is is shorter, but it's more readable too!

And won't work on IE. Not just because of el.classList, but also because of the arrow notation. So by doing this change, you either have to ditch one of still used browsers, or introduce a stupidly complex transpilation chain into the mix.
The MySpace effect.
They are actually still on it and are doubling down their efforts this year based on many reports[1].

1. http://www.thedrive.com/news/22429/toyota-to-double-down-on-...
I guess web 3.0 is blockchain, eh

> “the foundation of the freedom of the individual against the arbitrary authority of the despot.”

- brought to you by a humble impartial observer who maintains the blockchain protocols
False dichotomy. Could make a similar (false) comparison between killing them outright, and letting them continue suffering as they do.
There were hardly a dozen alt-coins before Ethereum. I mentioned specifically Ethereum because it was Ethereum that introduced a Turing complete virtual machine that allowed people to execute code in Blockchain. Before Ethereum came into the picture people used Blockchain only for storing value. So Ethereum was a game changer and it is only 3 years old.

Ethereum developers are currently working hard on making Ethereum more scalable. It cant definitely power the web anytime soon but its getting better and better. Read about Sharding, Plasma, Raiden etc if you are interested.
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Great, intuitive explanations with a nice mix of code and formulas. Only I found the GIFs to be very annoying while reading, especially as they do not add to the content.
>That's parents job

Kids aren't solely cultivated (not sure if that's the best term) by their parents (unless in Deliverance style situations).

They are also cultivated (and even more so) by school, tv, parents friends, their friends, the internet, social media, advertisement, society at large, and so on.

>But the state shouldn't set a limit on burgers per month for you.

No, unless I vote for it to do so. As a European whose not afraid of the term "social democracy" I don't believe the state is necessarily some "other", an "enemy", etc.

It can be that but it can also be a mediator for things people want in aggregate and vote to make sure they happen.

So, if we wish we had less fast food, we can very much vote to e.g. heavily tax those burger joints. Especially when they knowingly peddle poison for our health...

In any case it should mandate that other foods are also made available at the school canteen. Which is what it does here.
Cool! I’ll give those a try.
This is a good point, but if you take NPM / Yarn / Bower (RIP) with a grain of salt and secure your codebase against failures, they work nicely as a toolchain.
It is confirming that status quo bias exists, which is an important fact.
Good science is neer "just" anything.
I wish it wasn't so but I do think to the degree you can declare something dead the lean startup is. The problem is that lean startups requires a number of things that aren't accessible anymore.

A) Maybe the most important is time. You need time in a good environment to actually develop something. Which has become a lot more costly.

B) Large companies are controlling more areas than ever. People often wary of regulation as a barrier, but as time goes by the market participants creates their own barriers. Many areas are just harder to have an impact in than it used to be.

C) And then there is just competition, especially for things like talent.

I guess it isn't the lean startup that is dead so much as the environment for it. You can say the same thing about co-operatives, non-profits, community establishments and a lot of other things that are good ideas (probably more so than ever) but not able to flourish because of other interests.
Holmes tried to be the heroine.

Holmes tried to convince people she was the heroine, which is not quite the same thing

I suppose they could also make a movie about Fiorina, boldly destroying jobs and shareholder value at a rate no one had ever dreamt of...
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This Blockchain based startup is changing the way you do money transfers
Proof of work doesn't provide a sufficient number of transactions per second to support ideas of this magnitude.
I would argue that abstaining from voting in a formal setting is significantly different than not "voting" in modern elections. There's significant historical evidence of voter suppression, including suffragist movements. Voter motivation is not something that I think we should brush away lightly, because it has an impact on democracy just like voter manipulation and voter suppression.
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I don't have to sympathize with what I see as unconstitutional overreach. Who funds these agencies anyway?
Seems like it is time to separate the bundling of telecoms. No one that provides internet should be able to provide other services that would be a conflict of interest and promote an incentive of bad business practices such as throttling.

What is the downside for Television companies to be restricted from expanding into separate services in the same space while providing internet and vice versa?
> and so many ideas/lessons from the startup world don't really apply to them

I'm interested, which wouldn't apply? I mean just a couple of examples.
Youtube wasn't even close to first -- it started in 2005. They were more like third or fourth. Youtube (and later google) got the formula and right -- they learned from the mistake the first movers made.

Sort of like Facebook, Dropbox, Salesforce, Instagram, Google, etc. None of them were first. Being first is dangerous.
My impression was that at least one issue is the sample size of blood needs to be large enough to be representative of the whole system.

If you pick 5 skittles out of a bag, no amount of technology can make it so you can reliably determine the frequency of each color over the whole bag.

There are other issues another comment describes well.
I find TeXmacs to be one of the few most amazing and useful pieces of software in existence.
But shouldn't we just hire people based on whatever qualifications we deem an indicator to talent, skill, ethic, etc?

Does being a woman, disabled, ethnic, etc bring meaningful insight to designing a network protocol? Is that a quantifiable thing? I suspect both of these answers are a resounding no.

Lets care what talent and interests people have. Lets give them the education they need to pursue those interests. Creating groups of people by what I consider irrelevant details like what organs they have and then forcing them into certain occupations does not seem likely to make better network protocols. I frankly am always puzzled that people who fight for equality, simultaneously care so much about what's between our legs.

Now, if you think the blind, or women, or w/e are interested in STEM/etc but due to culture they avoid it? Great, that's something we can work with. Lets work on trying to change culture for new generations. Don't force them into STEM, but ensure that children who are interested in STEM can follow it, regardless of gender.
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> (inability to just type in the URL)

You could still put all domains of an alternate domain system behind a X.web3.org that loads the whole system client side, and then connects to peers via WebRTC to load the domain X via webtorrents or ipfs or zeronet or whatever. That way it's (mostly) backwards compatible to normal websites and you can remove the "root domain" trust point later.
They should have left gmail open for a long time. On my workstation (Firefox Quantum on Centos 7), it eats gobs of memory over time.