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Ask HN: What are your favorite foundational learning 'crash course' resources?
CrashCourse, Kurzgesagt, Veritasium and SmarterEveryDay are several great YouTube channels for foundational learning. What are some of your favorite resources for high level learning of new and varied topics?
Agree. those two lines become one in 37 via standard "breakpoint" function
You're losing a deception war on the fed up taxpayers, morons
"Soto’s team analyzed the retention of CWD and other infectious prion proteins and their infectivity in wheat grass roots and leaves that had been incubated with prion-contaminated material. They discovered that even highly diluted amounts of the material can bind to the roots and leaves. From there, they fed the wheat grass to hamsters, which became infected with the disease."

https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2015/06/researchers-make-surp...
Okay, I am confused here but perhaps I'm missing something. It's a TV show right? So if you download something wouldn't it be an AVI file or a MKV file. How do you do malware in an AVI or MKV file?
Yes. It's completely valid, since their borders, their laws, and the identities of the people were constantly in flux.

You've both made a good point and refuted the absolutist position at the same time. In general, if monarchs change and the borders, the laws, and the identities of the people remain the same, then it's really a continuation of the same regime. Really, "it depends."
Canonical says LTS are for polish and non-LTS are new features: https://www.ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle

> Interim releases will introduce new capabilities from Canonical and upstream open source projects, they serve as a proving ground for these new capabilities.
Can you explain how each point is in play in the current case?
I agree with you completely, but Oracle vs Google is still going through the courts on this exact issue - copyright on APIs. I've seen product roll-outs delayed because that case isn't settled yet. For VCs to jump in knowing that's what this was seems risky, but maybe they factored that in.
I don’t think so. If the garage did not exist that is more space for apartments and store fronts that would become available. There is also the noxious gases and flammable liquids that have to be dealt with.
"Does this seem right to you?" isn't really an argument; it still seems crazy to me to blame everything but Amazon for Amazon's lack of success. China is a different market and American companies shouldn't just expect to walk in.
For comparison, here's Dog's Life, a 2003 PS2 game that I worked on. You get to control a selection of dogs. I think the quadruped animation system was pretty good for the time it was made. https://youtu.be/yi0-9ut1cEk?t=216
> From my understanding though they're just a wrapper API around the car manufactures existing apis?

Yep, think EasyPost for car functions
Could be useful for surfers as well!
Very smart people have tried for a very long time to show one way or the other. We don't know if P = NP (seems unlikely) or if P != NP (seems likely). But there is no proof either way.

If P = NP, then we can generate solutions to very hard problems as easily as we can verify given solutions to those problems (both in polynomial time). Again, this seems very unlikely.
Node.js Is Strong
I haven't experienced whole-day upgrading sessions in a long time. YMMV.
On one of the Planet Earth's (IIRC) they showed a seal on a floating slab of ice and the orcas would slap their tails and bump the ice to get the seal to slide off, the seal wore itself out and they eventually drug it into the depths.

They're uncanny smart hunters. I wonder if it was curious about you being food and trying a tactic like that? Or just curious in general and indifferent to whether you survived that curiosity?

edit: the below comment linked a video which then linked to a producer explaining the exact moment I was referring to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1VEwsI4SlY
> This has nothing to with government interference

> Local players in China are very strong with likes of Alibaba

Funding a local competitor is not interference?

Chinese Government Has A Huge "Stake" In Alibaba

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jaysomaney/2015/10/18/chinese-g...
> content predicted to evoke reader sentiments like self-confidence or adventurousness

I'm not convinced that is different from Facebook's model - it's just less powerful.

Advertisers have always tried to place their ads alongside content that favors their brand identity, sure, but that's about the style of the content. That looks like Burton sponsoring top-tier snowboarders or Chanel advertising in Vogue. Watching Olympic snowboarders might make some people feel adventurous, but Burton's placement is also aspirational and cultural, a way of simply forming an association between the brand and high performance.

The NYT model didn't just put content alongside stories about adventure, it put content alongside stories expected to evoke adventurous sentiments. If a story about a daring Arctic expedition makes you feel relieved to be comfy at home, it could still associate a brand with adventure, but it's outside the sentiment target. That is inferring the emotional state of users, rather than of content. The main difference is that the NYT was making session-level judgements, rather than long-term ones. I find that much less objectionable (even if it's only out of a lack of data), but it's still in the category of mind-state targeting rather than content alignment.
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Military does far worse all the time, thousands of planes and vehicles that do not have to comply with any civilian emissions standards and are on the move every day for no reason at all. Ferrying employees on a civilian jet will be one of the most efficient things that the airforce is doing every day.
Wow, hats off to you and that would have been so terrifying for me if I was there. I doubt I'd would've been able to even tell anyone such as your girlfriend to go below deck. Such a great story to read.
We get that a lot actually. We do quite a few 'B' and later rounds (43 deals last year!) and apparently we're the hardest exam to pass for, but the people we work with are generally really happy that they finally get to show off all their hard work to people who really appreciate what they've done.

It's five of us for a week with a super intensive interview on the Wednesday and it is always the highlight of the week for me. What is also neat is that most of these turn into very long term relationships post deal, not necessarily financial ones, just that the interview day makes the whole thing a two-way street where the tech team will occasionally reach out when they are stumped on some problem or need outsider perspective.
Nice writeup and diagrams. Ironically I was just cleaning some notes I have for using iproute2 netem qdisc to simulate network conditions, that I use periodically.

Here's a good overview (not written by me) http://wiki.linuxwall.info/doku.php/en:ressources:dossiers:n... that I think ties in nicely with OP's page.
This almost scares me away from even trying to start a business - I have no idea how to compete if someone with more money tries to steal it. It seems the solutions are:
1. Do some accelerator to get connections and money.
2. Just do it and hope you don't get stomped.
New Jersey used to have a PDF form with JavaScript that would copy around all the duplicate values automatically. The only annoying thing about it was that it only worked in Adobe Reader. This year they went to a poorly designed plain PDF form that only let you fill in individual digits for each line item, with tabs needed to shift each place value.
The tone of the post is that way. The comments here suggest quite the opposite.
> I don't see how Roman gladiatorial combat is so different from modern sports.

If someone were to properly incentivize you (say, by offering to give you $10000 or whatever) I bet you would be able to come up with few more very important differences.
> What likely happened here is a remote team was paid to generate docs with a directive like, “Smartcar has a good API,” and stole them directly. Then the management team didn’t bother checking.

If a remote team is writing your API documentation by copying and pasting, then what is the actual implementation team building from?
> Does the opposite result coincide with a commonly held preconception?

The only reasonable answer is "It doesn't matter." As long as the result is reproducible, coinciding with commonly held preconceptions or not is of no relevance whatsoever. All results need to be equally validated for reproducibility.
>The reality is that if an idea is really good, the people who came up with it know it better than anyone and that gives them a tremendous advantage in terms of knowing what is important and what isn't.

I have to disagree with you emphasizing this point. If someone/entity manages to get your idea or code, they may be able to sell the solution at a fraction of the cost since their R&D was lower than yours. When the entity is 10x+ your size, they can also afford to gather the resources that increase their odds of success (e.g. marketing specialists, engineers,etc) at a rate which you can't compete. By then, you may have spent 2-3 years creating a business that is destroyed by an external entity acting in bad faith.

These things happen quite often.
I think we agree on those points. Most people don't get to negotiate, especially younger people earlier in their careers, especially when it comes to things like incentives, base/bonus, and milestones. If you negotiate, you're the exception. I know I am.
> "bias" is as much a problem in science

what burden of proof was required to come to this conclusion and why is that burden so much lower than the one required to conclude there are gender differences in human brains? Liberal universities are some of the most politically-correct, left-leaning bastions in the world. Members are imediately called to resign if they dare state anything against the progressive groupthink [1]. Yet you state as if it were well-established fact that "bias is a problem". this is not even counting the programs, scholarships, and active recruiting for more women in science.

I see 2 problems with accusations of "bias". For one, they're never levelled at an individual so the problem can be addressd at the source. It's always something nebulous, like "bias exists in science". So it's kind of like accusing all scientists of being sexist (or implicitly, male scientists, unless you want to clarify that women, too, are part of the problem), while at the same time accusing none of them. It's a tool that conditions its accused members to atone for something they didn't necessarily do, or if they did at one time, they're never forgiven. It makes everyone in the group feel guilty, regardless of whether they actually did something they should feel bad for.

The second problem with bias is that there's no bar for it "being a problem" ? In otherwords, if "it" exists in even one person somewhere in academia, one time, is it a problem ? If so, how long of a period does there have to be without bias for it to no longer be a problem ? If, say, a CMU professor makes a sexist tweet, how long is there a "sexism problem" at CMU? Forever? Until he is fired? Until he apologizes? None of these terms is defined, because I suspect it's not a problem intended to be solved. It's a social manipulation tool.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/08/us/yale-lecturer-resigns-...
I don't think corporations shouldn't have _any_ rights, but I don't understand why they should be allowed to donate money to politicians. They can't vote, so why can they buy influence? All of the individuals owning the corporation _can_ vote so why does it not suffice that they themselves can donate with their own money?
Lower income people with cash business are far more likely to cheat than wealthy people. (Of course the return for the IRS going after the small player may not be worth it.)
Deciding it on your own before the court battle might save you millions of dollars of your own invested money.
It really depends on the job, doesn't it? If the job is, for example, a dock worker physically lifting heavy crates / boxes all day, is it unreasonable to expect there to be a gender bias in hiring for that position? How about a bouncer at a bar?
Every airport would have to be renovated. Airlines would lose significant flexibility in which Gates their planes can depart from.

On a lesser level it would feel a bit intrusive as there’s a right to leave the country.
Exactly, I don't understand what is their objection.

Since when copying some API docs is illegal? We don't even know yet if API are copyrightable, right?

Ever since Facebook copied snapchat's features like it was nothing it became clear for everyone that the best clone will win. You have a product? Expect a clone of it.

To me this post is just "they stole my idea" whining.
An exploit in the codecs.

https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-europe-08/Thiel/Wh...
...or with the fact that they're constantly being created and destroyed as some tests/build tasks finish and the new ones are spawned.
Sounds really interesting, but it seems like this is all due to the graph extraction algorithm needing to use static analysis. Is this such an important requirement that it requires switching languages? I'm not too familiar with how PyTorch works under the hood, but I suspect it doesn't builds a graph (correct me if I'm wrong) and they seem to get good perf. I'm all for new tech, but just wanna get a sense of how impactful this change would be.
Mate, even when you do pay for services, you're still getting your data sold to third-party vendors.

So you might as well utilize companies that provide an actually good product.
Clearly he was challenging you to a race.
This is taking a bit too far, but if someone offered you a fully-paid trip to the Caribbean* would you say no?

* with money from dubious origin
I wonder if this in any sense reflects the Gen-X cynicism I associate with the 1990s, the expectation that the system that bore up their parents would crumble before their turn came. Had perhaps already crumbled. Were they right? Is this self-fulfilling prophecy?
Nice handling of reactivity - I think this should already be in language as well.

I'm not sure I like this single components approach and embedding JS in HTML.

The problem with this is that it's too frameworkish.

The big benefit of JSX/React rendering is that it's composable and declarative (as it's just functions), but it's also simple to get - render just returns wanted structure, given the state and you can use simple assert to verify that.

Solutions like angular/vue/svelte rely on custom template parsing which IMO sucks, because it's hard to extend/test without specific template compilers. JSX in contrast is embracing language.

I think that render functions written like in react and data reactivity is the simplest approach to describe application. Seems like VueJS with JSX is closest to this right now.

It would be cool to keep similar API but maybe use compiling to have smaller bundle/older browsers support/different platform support etc.

To be clear by similar API I mean just pure JSX components, where you plugin reactive data, that could be tested without any frameworks and without rendering. This is the simplest way, yet nobody build it yet - MobX + pure React components is close to this (problem is that still rendering is done by React, so rendering isn't most performant - depends on components hierarchy) - with compilation/integration you could make it more performant, but I would keep declararive nature and simplicity of JSX.
Amusing. Couldn't someone on the other end automate this, then cash in on it? I wonder if there's some potential in this thought: paying for automation as a service, based on the volume of output...
This is how every payment provider/processor I've ever worked with works, going back more than a decade.

In fact Stripe and Braintree (and I'm sure others) have systems where the implementing service doesn't get the credit card number at all- the payment information is sent directly to the processor from the client and the implementing service only gets a vault token.
On a related note, Scott Aaronson once wrote up a few heuristics he uses to quickly evaluate how likely a P/NP proof is to be incorrect: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=458

Aaronson’s rules are more technical than the ones given in this article, the latter of which can be generally applied to most claimed (dis)proofs of famous open problems. In particular, poorly typeset papers from a solo, unknown authors are highly unlikely to be correct when they’re claiming to resolve well known open problems.

In regard to the P/NP problem specifically, Aaronson’s examples of weaker open problems which would likely be resolved first - or at least accounted for in some nontrivial way - are analogous to this article’s point about proving weaker theorems first. It would be very suspicious for a proof that P and NP are separable (or not separable) to work at such a high level that it doesn’t prove also new results about the lower bounds of a litany of other problems.
In the US, whether APIs are copyrightable is a question being currently litigated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_America,_Inc._v._Google....

The latest decision in that saga is that yes, they can be. Whether that holds up in the Supreme Court is an open question. Most of us hope it doesn't, I suspect.

Copying documentation is definitely a copyright violation. Similar situation exists with recipes - a list of ingredients can't be copyrighted, but the wording of the steps can be. You have to at least put it in your own words.
Thanks for sharing! Looks like Jacob has open-sourced a svelte-based rich text editor based on Quill. Link below for anyone who is curious.

https://github.com/typewriter-editor/typewriter
There is a lot under 'SaaS' that you could use to further illegal schemes that do not fall under 'chrome extensions'.

Off the top of my head: anything payment related and two sided market places (money laundering, false binning), anything that allows large volumes of data to be moved around (copyright violation, child pornography, exfiltration of data from corporate networks), proxy services and spider services (DOS attacks, harassment, TOS circumvention and copyright violation) etc.

So nothing that would require legal theories, just the usual abuse of service.
I think it's great, just make sure to have plenty of cpu and ram for your elastic cluster because it uses a ton. Additionally, I suggest skipping logstash and shipping logs directly from filebeat -> elastic. Filebeat is very simple to set up and runs on tiny memory allocation.
What's the purpose of the Content field? It doesn't seem to do anything
There is nothing to do with government. As someone shopping online almost everyday in China, I can tell you taobao.com, jd.com are far more better than amazon.com on every aspect. In JD.com if you place your order before 10 am most of the time you get delivery same day or the next day. In taobao you have way more stuff than in Amazon, you can find a live person to answer your question instantly. Amazon is like something from 5 years ago or even older. You have to send a email for customer service, it's unacceptable, the web design, the functionality are so dated compare to it's competitor. So no one use it here.
For even more context here: they're part of a biotech incubator called 4Catalyzer. The other companies are also working on potentially life-changing products too, including cancer drugs and seizure detection.

Lots of possible roles, take a look!
Concurrency on the JVM Is Complicated
I'm just getting a 404 from Medium here...
LibrePCB 0.1.1 Released
Yeah,so still ignoring the rules I'll copy and paste it for ya, speaking of not reading things, "Blog posts, sign-up pages, and fundraisers can't be tried out, so they can't be Show HNs."

And sorry, I initially failed to see the difference between monitoring service and a status service.
No, verbatim copying of the docs, API or not, is obviously not right. However if they are claiming to aim for API standardization, the specs should be in public domain from the start.
Introduction to Text Wrangling Techniques for Natural Language Processing
It was from MormonLeaks, I'm sure. Look through their history. It was at the same time as the "bubble" PPT that listed the church's largest "adversaries" or "problems" and John Dehlin was one of the bubbles LOL.
Agreed. I really appreciated him not assuming I know -fucking everything- and his WHAT included the WHY. ‘WHY’ (intent) is far more important an is missing from many different technical industries.

Tell me how you intend it to be used and I’ll see if that matches what I think I want (miss-wanting a different topic!).
So was I, something more like this:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.32....

Still, I thought it was a nice post.
Only if it's a very competitive market, and even that effect will only happen over time.

Product differentiation introduces pricing power for individual firms, and depending on the style of competition you think will occur (e.g., Cournot oligopoly vs. Bertrand), you may very well never approach anything close to perfect competition with the small number of firms there are in this market.
That's not at all what he said....
it seems like they took it down.
Actually, many of the otonomo docs were saved to web.archive.org, last week:

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://docs.otonomo.io/docs/*

And many were saved to archive.fo today:

https://archive.fo/docs.otonomo.io

The screenshots look accurate to me, what discrepancies do you see?
One-word quips sound good on paper, but this is an open source project with engineers as the target audience. It's not seeking (at this time) to bring revenue or make sales, so I'd argue that speaking truth to the problem is more likely to drive up adoption.
Robotic Process Automation in Simple Terms
I suppose to some that NYC would seem like a prison but to others they find it invigorating. The important thing is not to project your own preferences onto others. People see the world in different ways and one man's prison is another man's paradise.
Have the outcomes been studied? Are those kids better off with the medication?
> Many successful monarchies began as the equivalent of dictatorships, and then opened up further and further over time.

And then there's the Roman Empire, which started as a dictatorship (in the literal sense to which all other uses are metaphorical allusions) and went the other direction.
Question about the download - I see you have it labeled "win32-x64", does that mean it runs on both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows? Asking because my only machine with a good copy of bgb is an x86 / 1Gb RAM unit.
There was a German VC firm that was, as I recall, very upfront about this. Clone a successful US company before it got to the European market.

The Chinese also do this. (As in, the government seems to encourage it outright.) The culture and language barrier do make for an effective moat. It usually takes significant effort and even some cultural change for a company to get its legs for international operation.
It's very useful to read Girard, not least to steel yourself against the influences of directly Girard-inspired social networks. But I'm increasingly seeing this idea that any time someone powerful or influential is held accountable for something they're being made a Girardian scapegoat, and it's ridiculous. It's becoming a myth people tell themselves when they don't want to take ownership of the ways they've messed up. "Oh I haven't really done anything wrong, I'm just being made a scapegoat to resolve the mimetic violence of an unthinking mob. Really, I'm the victim here."
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But not their API documentation. They even copied the exact example UDID.