skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chimpanzee is capable of learning by imitation and cultural learning. So technically if you show a few of them how to use Instagram, it will spread quickly.

What is more spectacular about this video is the fact that the Chimpanzee is not doing it for a reward!
No, but I do occasionally check https://www.reddit.com/r/HMDprogramming/ to see what others are doing.
Even a person with dementia knows a big, beautiful wall when they see it.
This is just phrasing.

Read as "We at iFixit have"...
The numbers are never very clear - Office 365 is a bundle of licenses for desktop services and a set of online services (Exchange Online, SharePoint Online etc.) that all have dependencies on Azure Active Directory but aren't normally regarded as 'part' of Azure.
The article you linked to requires login, so it's difficult for me to comment on what's written there. -- The viewpoint I'm coming from is this: Go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_rates Sort by corporate tax rate. Look at the ones that say 0%. Notice how many of them are island nations. The list goes Anguilla, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, ...
The most interesting question/answer is the last:
"What does this mean for the possibility of cryonics?"
"No one has tested whether the system would work on brains that have been frozen."

So that should be one of the next steps
> the entire cryptocurrency economy relies on tethers being valued at par, given that they're how billions of dollars of liquidity are denominated.

this doesn't make any sense unless tether is a required intermediate step to liquidating cryptocurrency, which it's not.
Or you do your taxes, respond to emails, call friends/family, plan your next family trip, all that stuff that can be done remotely and that you otherwise would've done on sunny sundays and whatever and come back fully available ? Doesn't sound that simple to me.
Anna Delvey: The Trial of New York's Fake Heiress
Discriminating Systems
I think there's still a fundamental difference in Samsung's focus on competing on hardware, while Apple seems to put more emphasis on building a custom software ecosystem, rarely caring (or perhaps needing) to be at the cutting-edge of phone hardware specifications.
baseboard
Anyone knows if RMS still drinks Pepsi?
The actual bit that catches the eye of enterprises seems to be solving one of these two problems:

* reconciling all the data in one place

* having a tamper-evident ledger of transactions

The second just puts logs in a 1979-style Merkle tree, and the first is 100% getting organisations working together and doing the hard tech-debt slog of cleaning up your data and formats.

If you have both problems, your problem is enough of a human/business mess that applying a blockchain won't fix any aspect, but may well make it worse.

Occasionally "blockchain" will be useful as a buzzword to get funding.
No, it isn't counted. Office 365 is counted in Productivity and Business division. [1]

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/FY-2019-Q3...
Combining Video and Movement Data to Enhance Team Sport Analysis (2018) [pdf]
Hey! Yep, this is definitely something on our roadmap - we're hard at work building better integrations at the moment (Google calendar, facebook etc.) so it's much easier to get all your occasions in.

I'll get a landing page up for people to register their interest for B2B.
"relatively" is underselling it. Indian IAS officers are basically modern day nobility.
As far as I know from my thesis on organized crime, Yakuza is a different breed say than Hell's Angels, Mafia and Vor V Zakone (Russian "Mafia", although I use the word mafia here tentatively because with the exception of providing illegal goods and services they have nothing in common).

The difference is yakuza is accepted as a semi-legal entity in the minds of the people.

Historically first yakuza (which were proto-yakuza, like nobody used the term yet) protected the city against ronin (masterless) samurais who came to loot the city. (Kaplan & Dubro, p.12) In addition to this they carry a Robin Hood-esque theme and one of the well known histories about them involves Chobei Banzuiin who, supposedly, repaired the roads and walls in Tokyo and opened up a casino.

But the word yakuza appears after a century more or less. Their origins involve traveling gamblers and street sellers. Even the word itself, yakuza, is a term for losing hand (ya-ku-sa, cards of 8-9-3)

Another term that's important, and unique if I may say, in Yakuza is the relation of oyabun-kobun. Oyabun acts as a father figure and kobun is the child figure. Kobun provides service and commitment to the Oyabun with no questions or hesitation. and Oyabun protects and helps the Kobun.

Everybody knows about the tattoos so I'll pass this.

Yakuza formalized in the beginning of 1960s with the help of Yoshio Kodama. He was charged with creating a spy network in China and given the rank of Admiral for his war effort even though he was a criminal.

If you want to read more about this, these were the books I've used in my Thesis on this section

Amaruso D. Gangster Incorporated. Glencoe:Free Press

Kaplan, D, Dubro A. (2003) Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld. California: University of California Press

Lyman M. & Potter, G. (2009) Organized Crime, New Jersey: Prentice Hall
If the peg was actually backed by anything then yes, that'd be unusual.
>you must shut up because it's a monopoly

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Two things people don't talk about a lot are Surface and XBox. Microsoft has gone from a distant threat to a legitimate competitor in both these categories, especially with Surface.

People used to think that Microsoft can't do hardware, but Surface has shown that MS can be more competent than most laptop manufacturers.
It's sort of like having MS Word or Git on your resume. It's a signal that you've run out of impressive things.

I do believe you can learn more from nanodegrees than a generic full degree. But nanodegrees are also quite easy to get through. Nobody checks your stuff, and there's much less protection against plagiarism. As a learning tool, it's great. As a certification, it's very poor.
haha am I right?
Multiplayer Mobile Game Servers with a Few Lines of JavaScript
Classes do suffice if you follow the convention of "small, atom-like css classes". I personally hate this style and prefer compositional css classes for a component or a structured object.
Hmm, this may be unique to the Basel airport, and perhaps the airline I was flying on. The gate was actually past a physical barrier with booths for checking IDs, similar to the Schengen borders in airports.
Boolean Circuits are Neural Networks
Scaling Product, with Airbnb Co-Founder Joe Gebbia (YT Video Summary)
Why would you want to buy a device from a carrier ? Just buy a phone from wherever and pop in a SIM.
Belonging to a criminal organisation is commonly defined as an offence in laws all around the world. There is not such thing as "freedom of association to a criminal band", neither in international nor in national or local laws. If you are aware of one single country when citizens have the legal right to enter in a mafia, would be interesting to know about it

https://knoema.es/atlas/Ecuador/Tasa-de-Homicidios

The plot shows that the crime rates sinked mainly in the big scam period. Accelerating from 2010 onwards. The "post-economic war" among europeans caused eventually the firing and return to Ecuador to many ecuatorian entrepreneurs that were working hard in Europe. Really nice and determined people. Therefore, another possibility to explain the decrease in rate crime is that the gangs diluted and lose influence by the arrival of lots of relatively rich people buying houses, acting as a better model of success for youngsters, and creating new job opportunities in Ecuador.

Another possible cause was the government of Correa increasing sharply the money spent in education and sustaining it in time

https://knoema.es/atlas/Ecuador/Gasto-p%c3%bablico-en-eduaci...
Please Google ‘Thanos’ for an Avengers Easter Egg (No Spoilers) [video]
Pretty? Yes!
Practical? No!
It appears to be made with GANbreeder but I haven't seen any hard evidence of that. Nevertheless highly likely.

We should try not to physically mount a meatspace DDOS ... but the creator of GANbreeder is hosting a GANparty in Berkeley May 3rd.... https://ganbreeder.app/party

GANbreeder in turn uses BigGAN.
I was referring to the fact that you can outpay your opponent.

Yes, large corporations can get away with much more in other countries as well, but rarely by outpaying their opponents.
I find that https://github.com/wellington/go-libsass is usually good enough for Go projects.
If the salient thing about "the Mexican cartels" to you is that they happen to be Mexican... well what can I say, that's not exactly being a paragon of openness and tolerance, is it? I'm similarly unhappy about the focus on "Islamic" or "Muslim" as the supposed issue, since as has been pointed out here as well, that whole framing is reminiscent of religious wars in a way that's highly problematic. Islam itself or "Islamic immigration" qua Islamic is not really the point here.
A Technical Debt Avalanche
Congratulation Microsoft employees (if anyone is lurking here)
I had a good old rant about that previously: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2018/06/28/ibm-the-gdpr...

You might come up with a reasonable definition, like "append-only ledger with a consensus mechanism" - but in marketing terms, "blockchain" literally only means "whatever I'm trying to sell you today."

And then there's weasel terms like "blockchain technology", which means "I can't even claim this thing is actually even a blockchain, but it's got a few of the same parts."
Title is definitely about luring people in to get views.
I used to go to a bathhouse in Kyoto that explicitly allowed tattoos. The man at the entrance even had a long snake tattoo on his arm...

The bathhouse was rather nice though and while some of the customers were obviously affiliated with yakuza they were rather friendly and we would greet each other after I had been there a few times.
Chimpanzees are not monkeys.
Decrypt guide: the most profitable cryptocurrencies to mine
Show HN: PersonalRobots – open-source and consumers robots collection
It's really about how much you can convince the employer. I got my first job only because my late father (who was the boss's business partner) recommended me. The degree was enough to convince him I was technically capable, even though I flunked the technical interview (which was all PHP). No resume was needed.

I'd say to get hired, you just need to convince the employer of your personality, current skill, and potential.
Also, 2011, 2007, 2001, 1996 :)

Immediate vs deferred, is just another paradigm that goes back and forth in trends like keyboard input/buffering, deffered/one pass lighting, monoliths vs modules, State vs events, flat vs 3D
Are you suggesting "dumbass idiot 𓅩" with a bio of "shut the fuck hi" is a completely serious account? It's fairly obvious that it's a tongue-in-cheek joke, the linked url doesn't even work.
I can’t help but feel Nadella is playing catch-up, and winning at it. It’s almost like Microsoft had a lost decade under Ballmer.
Realsense T265 tracking camera
> suggest a better title in the thread

Will do! How about:

> Dark Things Are Dark. Film At Eleven!

Steve Sailer suggested:

> Let's Talk About My Face
So now we have open source questions? Really? "open source" questions?
Two things:
- When you do actual product design, a lot of it is basically copy&paste from example circuits in data sheets. Over time you learn to recognise common patterns. The "trick for young players" though is that often the data sheet examples omit "obvious" aspects that should be added for real-life applications.
- You can find schematics of real-life products in "service manuals", though they are much less common now than in the past. A really good exercise would be to take the schematics of a consumer product like an iPhone (they can be found... either copied from service manuals or reverse engineered), and look up the data sheet for each component (sometimes it will be a similar component from the same manufacturer as Apple will be assigned custom part numbers), and try to understand why it was used in the product the way it is shown on the schematic, based on the information in the data sheet.
Facebook stock is going up regardless of so many scandals.
The new kid in town who wants to buy Jet Airways
Too late for that
As a French, I was really confused by the conversation here, until I realized, unlike other words common to English and French, the English word for lard does not have the same meaning as the French word for lard, where it means bacon.

Here in France lard is used a lot, most replaced by butter (and olive oil in the South) in recipes.
As with everything, don't overdo it and you'll be fine.
This looks great! Thanks for sharing. Interestingly enough, from looking at the table of contents, it seems this book starts with a more (and welcome) pragmatic approach, where you write some python code before, look at data visualisation techniques, etc, before delving into stats.

Is there any chapter that stands out to you?
Has there been discussion of renaming Napalm, the Python project?

Napalm is infamous for having been designed and used as a horrific weapon.

Quote from "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napalm#Development":

> One of Fieser's colleagues suggested adding phosphorus to the mix which increased the "ability to penetrate deeply...into the musculature, where it would continue to burn day after day."

Also, the photo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Thi_Kim_Phuc
Part of the reason people on reddit are reacting like that is because the OP on Reddit framed it with the bullshit title about it simulating a stroke.

Frame it differently and people would be more likely to go “huh, that’s weird”
You're right. Picking at random, "Substrate #3" is indeed the same program as "Java #3".
I bet quite a few of them do :)
Downloading a dns black list over http instead of https is not that big a deal
People tend to see performance of CEOs by stock price. While it makes sense as shareholder, it's a very narrow view. From revenues as well as profit perspective Ballmer actually grew Microsoft more than Nadella. Market just decided not to reward that. Current growth centers including Azure, Surface etc were all started and championed originally by Ballmer. It was Ballmer who was willing to pour in investment like crazy in Hololens as well Bing. On the other hand, Nadella has failed to add single new product in Microsoft's portfolio during his half decade as CEO. Microsoft today has simply no presence in home automation, smart assistants, wearable or self-driving markets that have emerged during past 5 years. Nadella has literally missed boat in every single new category that has came around during his time. All the while its rivals have moved fast and picked up top spots in these new markets. Windows revenues is still falling like crazy and obviously there is no Smarthone story from Nadella yet.

The only thing that is compensating all these troubles is cloud and that too had been hazy on actual utilization. The engineering execution in Azure begs a question about how much worse it can get. Out of all providers, Azure literally has been the least impressive from technical standpoint in everything from UX to availability to features to documentation to API design. Once cloud market saturates and race to bottom ensues, Microsoft could have big trouble in maintaining current revenues and profits due to lack of new products. It will take few quarters before stock market reacts but all of these same people praising Nadella right now would suddenly come around and brand him the worst CEO in history as soon as stock dips.
I love the vision, but there are some pretty sizable hurdles not so easy to clear. Dynamic IPs, ports blocked by over zealous ISPs, bandwidth throttling, power redundancy, etc, etc...
I think it’s because it combines 2 factors.

First, those islands hadn’t other ressources to sell. So to attract money in their banks they started no tax laws

And then it’s a nice place to spend a couple of days since they build hotels with the money they won on getting the no tax regulation.
And camouflage coloured burka.
If the rest of the industry won't employ women, older workers, part timers, ex convicts, etc then perhaps there is an opportunity there.
Yes. The source to the code containing the collection is open. Hence, open source.
"There will always be crime, so it's better to have organized crime than disorganized crime." seems to be the idea.
Kevin Drum is banging his "It's the lead, stupid" drum on this:

https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/03/ecuador-phase...
> Major companies like Samsung / Facebook have teams working on PoCs.

Samsung has entire teams working on PoCs for just about anything. Including a lot of terrible ideas that end up in the trash (I personally worked on some of them :)

Facebook wanting to enter payments and money transfers through Whatsapp makes a lot of sense. But the fact it might be backed by some internal and centralized stablecoin is completely irrelevant to end-users.
I take issue with this article simply because photography isn't a technology at all. It is an art that uses technology. There are millions of pictures of people of all races that look perfectly fine. I take issue with stirring up people for no reason.

If a maker of paints in the 1800s owned slaves does that mean that painting (then, now, in the future) is racist? How ridiculous can we get?
Docker raises Arm to make itself handier for IoT edge data pushing
Not really no, it depends on how much liquidity of a certain type is worth compared to liquidity of another type. Given the volatility in crypto markets this tends to change drastically in different times.

Same as why lending rates for crypto & fiat can go from 0.0001% to 0.08% (per day for example) in a matter of hours based on certain sudden price action.
Participating in a Ponzi scheme can be profitable if you get out early enough, perhaps people are expecting Tether to stand a bit longer.

Alternatively, perhaps people expect the revelation that Tether isn't fully backed to proceed like the dollar going of the gold standard. It comes with a lot of noise, but the thing keeps working because people keep using it.
In this scenario, Tether essentially becomes Bitfinex fiat.
That would be a really cool dystopia.
my soul
I'm not sure it is health care because the situation is broadly similar in the UK.
@RenRav Whats your workflow for 'ad-blocking away all the unnecessary elements'?
Sounds like a lot of work to me, but I do not work with the web.
Redundant Array of irritated developers?
Correct me if i'm wrong but postcss is js or node.js only, where's
sass is trivial to add with any language.
There’s at least a jewelry stand in that image you see at a flea market.
One reason is because they work very long hours, below average safety, and have below average compensation. If they succeed, it's a signal to everyone else that they should also work under the same conditions.

Look at the inverse - Henry Ford wanted to pay people as much as possible, improve work conditions as much as possible, and work hours as short as possible. I'm sure people wanted him to succeed.
ARH, sorry I have close to zero experience on Android Development. Thank You for pointing out.
Me too. I like the keyboard and the feeling. But after 1.5 years now I get stuck keys from time to time, and this is just bad for a computer of this price range. It is good if you do not have any problems, but sooner or later everyone will get problems - it is a ticking bomb.
Revamping Nuxt's HTTP Server
You're welcome!

I haven't done the course yet, I've just found it. But, from the rationale video, the course seems to be more about weaving recurrent fundamental data science concepts throughout, emphasizing one particular concept or technique in each chapter, so I guess that it would make more sense to take it as a whole.

It is intended as a "glue" course, having completed CS fundamentals and before core data science courses, like statistics, machine learning and databases, giving students a context for what lies ahead, and just enough to be dangerous and start doing data science stuff.

If this is what you are after, you may also want to consider CMU's "Practical Data Science", which seems to have a similar approach, videos, much more machine learning and big data, and is also very current, but doesn't have such a nice companion online book (but the notes look great) and has much less statistics: http://datasciencecourse.org

Both look like great DS intro courses from top universities, we are spoilt.

And then, also from Berkeley, there is "Data 8", which is intended for those who want an intro to data science, but don't have any programming or college math knowledge yet; it also has a similar online book with working links to Jupyter notebooks: http://data8.org/sp19/ (and videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXbeRfilLvMoC3QZKxRrp...)
It's really a matter of personality. Startups are high risk, high return. Big companies are moderate risk, moderate return.
Facebook's Role in Brexit – and the Threat to Democracy
Dark-skinned faces are inherently more difficult to photograph. Dark skin is in the lowest range of values in most images, but the specular highlights of that skin can reach the highest range of values. Underexpose and you lose all shading; overexpose and you lose the geometric definition given by specular highlights.

Pale skin can be made easier to photograph in challenging lighting conditions by using a matte powder, which diffuses specular highlights and reduces the value range. This doesn't work well on dark skin, because subtle shadows are less visible and you lose the impression of shape; you need the specular highlights, but they greatly increase the value range.

The problem with early colour films wasn't really hue (all human skin falls into a remarkably narrow range of hues), but a lack of sensitivity and dynamic range compared to monochrome films. They coped with over-exposure reasonably well, but even slight under-exposure would obliterate the detail on dark skin. This limitation of chemistry was a constant problem in all forms of colour photography, but the social burden fell disproportionately on dark-skinned portraiture subjects. Later emulsions had far better rendition of lowlights and smooth compression of highlights, which vastly improved their performance with dark skin.
How to Make Sense of Your Impact When You're No Longer Coding
I believe now it's a very good time to reread the book I will fear no evil by Robert A. Heinlein.
> A better abstraction in my opinion is a utility CSS library like Tailwind.css

Exchanging sass with postcss based framework in my book is the worse abstraction for almost any purpose.
FFII: World Intellectual Parasites Day
Haters gonna hate. That's it.
If you're a corrupt IAS officer, you're a big deal: https://www.quora.com/Can-an-IAS-officer-earn-in-crore

If you're not, you are still a big deal, on a different scale.
That’s one of the problems. Liquidating “crypto to fiat” is not that easy.
Stellar charges 0.00001 lumens per transaction, but it has no network effect and low usage.
Homo sapiens whedonum

https://rifters.com/blindsight/vampires.htm
Switching to another browser might help; it's what I do when I've reached my free article limits.