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It's not the only ML course that starts off with decision trees: https://courses.cs.ut.ee/2014/ml/spring/Main/Lecture-1

Yeah, that is not a machinegun. Looks (and should be, because France) like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAMAS, but I can't find the proper variant.

And I think that when we demand respect towards proper terminology from people in other fields, we should have the courtesy to do the same. It is similar to calling a monitor a PC or a computer case a hard drive. And being afraid of weapons does not matter here, quite many people are afraid of computers also.

Depends on how good of a spam filter you are using. On Estonian mail host zone.ee, about 10 spam e-mails get through every day. Talking purely about Estonian e-mails: on GMail Gsuite, nothing lands in the Inbox, but about 2-4 spam mails per day land in the Spam folder.

Yeah, sadly it is legally allowed to spam company contacts.

The Tax and Customs Board does not look too kindly on that, because those would be considered costs not related to your business and you would have to pay all the ordinary employee taxes (fringe benefit taxes) on that. If your company's office is located in the same apartment you live in, then you could argue that at least partially your costs are entrepreneurial costs - it is how sole proprietors (FIE - füüsilisest isikust ettevõtja) operate. Do not know of a way to get around food costs though, it is not as if you could mark down every lunch as marketing/sales/client meeting with the limit to representation expenses - 32 EUR per month + 2% from gross salary per month.

As an example, the latest hooplah around enterprise taxation is related to using company cars during private time. If an employer does not allow to use company cars for private purposes, then they will be marked as such in a public registry. If you have a feeling that your neighbor is using his company car outside of work, you can check it and report it to the TCB: http://www.err.ee/643218/erasoiduks-tooauto-kasutaja-saab-na... But if the company car is not registered as such, then you will have to pay fringe benefits tax 1,96 EUR per engine kW per month for newer cars and 1,47 EUR per engine kW per month for cars older than 5 years.

As an exercise to the reader, think about how flat taxation per kW affects companies with electric cars.

1. Mobile-ID requires a pretty good cellphone connection to work properly and avoid getting timeouts.

2. Mobile-ID requires you to pay for signing up and after that, 1€/month to your mobile provider.

Am Estonian. The remote upgrade system is still working, but only enabled for high-priority users right now because of the high load - medical professionals, social workers, people who used the card more than 100 times over the past 3 months. It will be re-enabled for all users at the start of next week, maybe earlier if the high-priority users have all been serviced.

It always seemed that South Korea's attitude was harsher thanks to the manhwa (especially Lookism). But now that I think about it, Japanese manga do not even feature fat characters unless they are completely irredeemable social outcasts.

A correct system disallows abuse to happen in the first place. I would draw a parallel to buggy software, that loses the trust of its users. I feel that the same thing can happen to a legal system: and then what will happen?

It's said that it's a very bad idea to do that. Women go to those activities to have fun, not for single guys to hit on them.

IIRC not from humans, but some Minds still did abuse their power in Excession.

Because in many languages, this is trivial to the level of calling .reverse() on the array.

One of the usual complaints women have about their husbands is that men don't take their fashion advice into account. Sometimes this gets to the level of women dragging their husbands into clothing stores to buy new clothes that are presentable.

I have noticed that these things matter only when someone has been burnt by it once already. So before your class, nobody in their life had even bothered to check for plagiarism.

Had to fail the projects of 1/3 of the class in a community college because of plagiarism. Although to their credit, they at least put in some effort by shifting sentences around and re-drew other students' diagrams. They did keep the same node names and relationships between nodes, though.

That is the crux of the issue, isn't it? Actual productivity does not matter that much on a grand scale, the perceived productivity and therefore sales is what matters.

Agreed, agile seems the only way, but does indeed require experienced managers. A lecturer once pointed out that business/normal people would always expect some kind of point estimate, they are never satisfied with some kind of distribution or interval. Personally, I would say that this is even more sad than that: the point estimates are always taken at the extreme values, which ever suits the person wanting the estimate more, never the average value.

Of course, all this leads to bad blood between techies and business side: how long will it take? -> probably about 3 weeks, but this requires using a library we haven't used before, so in the worst case even 2 months -> what? so long? get it done in 4 days, this is required the next week -> no, that's not really possible -> make it happen -> it happens and it either sucks when it's delivered at all, so the deadline gets extended anyway to iron out all the bugs or it causes lots of problems in the future.

Is it actually the law though, not just lazy officials? We had that problem in Estonia too, but some procurement officials have actually begun to write scoring systems for proposals and so being the lowest bidder is sometimes actually negatively scored.

I wish that you could explain that in Estonia. Around here, anyone doubting e-voting is viewed as part of the fifth column and mocked like a 9/11 truther even by fellow techies, who really ought to know better.

The current claim is that the passenger was a doctor and had appointments he had to make the next day. So I can't say that this was unreasonably escalated at all.

Actually, scratch that - the profession does not matter. Flying is an expensive form of travel and most people travelling do have a schedule to meet. Military can get very severely punished, businesspeople can lose critical deals, tourists can't get on connecting flights or get fired for being late back from vacation, and so on.

United just handled it completely wrong - instead of raising the offer as long as necessary, their staff decided that it would be simpler and cheaper to forcibly remove someone from the flight. It went wrong and now they must face the consequences.

It might be some kind of weird older generation disdain for computers. Graduated high school in 2005 in Estonia, some of my language teachers and relatives pretty much looked down on anything computer-related and saw it as only 'playing around with widgets'. Of course, come 2009, that attitude had changed a lot after seeing that the IT-sector was the only one still hiring.

Is it true? From what I heard, people with degrees from Fachhochschule are very much looked down upon. Also, anyone with a degree feels the need to add it as a title to any kind of correspondence.

IIRC, the best thing to do was to apply clustering to the rows/columns (k-means and hierarchical both worked, but I think it was hard to find the appropriate tree height for hierarchical clustering) and then to apply seriation: http://innar.com/Liiv_Seriation.pdf

I got the original source, it's from here: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2016/jun/...

Not too sure that I'm interpreting the diagram correclty, I'm just checking my assumptions:

1) What's the significance of circles? Do they represent voting districts or something like that?

2) What does the size of a circle represent? Is it the population of a district, perhaps on logarithmic scale?

3) Does the position on the x-axis represent how strongly that district was for remain or leave?

Of course, you could give the link to the original source too, Google Image Search shows nothing yet.

Oh come on. Like, don't 50% of Estonians have a misdemeanor because of traffic violations? Unless you wanted to work for Kapo or military, you should have no issues with that fine. Guys who have drug offenses still get work as software developers.

Why are you lying? You didn't get a criminal record for that: [removed link proving his lie by request]

Also, automatically starting the Windows 10 upgrades without permission: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/4a5edx/psa_window... Any goodwill they gained this week by other actions, such as porting SQL Server to Linux and R tooling for Visual Studio, is now lost. How do you trust any company that starts behaving like that?

I'm not American, so I'm probably missing a lot of cultural context with the last 2 quotes in [2]. With regards to 3), what's wrong with saying that you would much rather be at a fancy hotel than spending time arguing with city officials? Same for 4), I agree that it's not a good thing to say out memes in real life, but not something to the level of having to bring a PR person with you or have it quoted as proof of you being sexist in an article.

2 examples that affect me every week when serving SMB clients:

- old IE installs

- PDF printing functionality not included in older versions of Office and Windows

More experienced people/sysadmins can probably bring out lot more issues. And I totally agree with you that Java didn't suffer in the end, but how many lawyer hours were spent on stuff that shouldn't have been an issue in the first place?

No, it gets brought up because the after effects of that philosophy are still felt even today.