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init-ason Have an old iPad lying around? You might be able to make it run Linux soon

Apple is making better hardware than ever. Like your iPad, devices get at least 5 years of updates and will generally run faster every year. Like you said the biggest noticeable difference is in the battery, but this is obviously a much harder problem to solve.

init-ason Norway to track all supermarket purchases?

Governments can only be trusted when any given individual can be trusted. I understand that Norway’s current government is one of the most accountable and transparent in the world so the damage a given individual can do is limited, but that entails trusting all future governments.

init-ason Facebook Made This 29-Year-Old Rich; War Made Him a Billionaire

Nah I believe it. I’m thinking of the people who switched their entire identity from Social Justice to Ukraine for about 5 minutes.

init-ason WhatsApp threatened to leave the Netherlands due to controversial backdoor law

I think you overestimate the amount that the average person cares about their privacy.

init-ason Introduction to Linear Algebra for Applied Machine Learning with Python

Khan Academy is great, but I mean for all resources on a subject. In other words, a place where people can post curations of resources, not actual content. So say I wanted to learn linear algebra it would point to Khan Academy for the basics part and then other places as well.

init-ason Introduction to Linear Algebra for Applied Machine Learning with Python

Is there a website that anyone knows of for these types of open-source curriculums? Feel like it would be nice to have a place where people could post these and you could reference them when you wanted to learn something in the correct order and with the best resources.

init-ason Ask HN: What are other career options as a CS major?

For the trading jobs, would I need experience in trading particularly. Also, for these jobs in general do side projects and the like matter a lot (like they do for SWE)? Thanks sm btw!

init-ason Ask HN: Should I learn C or C++?

Fair, which one would you recommend picking up first?

init-ason Ask HN: Recommendations of good cybercrime novels?

I just assumed that a lot of them would be novels. If you have any recommendations for real-life stuff I’d love that too.

init-ason Show HN: Router7 – A pure-Go implementation of a small home internet router

Where would a person even begin to learn how to do something like this? I’m a programmer but wouldn’t even know where to start on a project like this.

init-ason Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US

They have over 200 million users in the US.. https://www.statista.com/statistics/398136/us-facebook-user-...

init-ason Turi Create simplifies the development of custom machine learning models

https://github.com/apple/turicreate/blob/master/LICENSE.md

init-ason Turi Create simplifies the development of custom machine learning models

I you're looking to learn about the maths behind neural nets and really understand how they work I'd recommend Andrew Ng's deeplearning.ai course. Starts from scratch and will give you a deep understanding when you're done.

init-ason Volkswagen Official Gets 7-Year Term in Diesel-Emissions Cheating

I’ve always looked at prison as more of a deterrent for committing crimes. If he wasn’t criminally charged maybe others would think committing similar actions would be worth just paying fines. You might say that people in the auto industry wouldn’t copy his actions but I’d say prison works this way on a societal level.

init-ason People Who Speed-Listen to Podcasts

Same here I can’t find the counter in my app although everyone else seems to have it.

init-ason A/B test of banner ads vs. traffic

I just wanted to say that it’s actually nice not to be the only one who is harassed by forex trading ads around the web. Them and Mobile Strike are pretty much all of the ads I see. (I do have Adblock but can’t block for YouTube mobile etc.)

init-ason MessageBird raises $60M Series A

Isn't this kind of something that might be phased out in the next few years. I'd imagine there would be some kind of web tool doing authentication like this at some point just because of how obsolete sms seems these days. Correct me if I am wrong though.