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Re:We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @11:22AM (#18543635)
> Certain EU Nations want to prevent fat right nationalist radicalization via censorship. I think that's clumsy, but good.

But, who will be deciding what is considered as ultra-nationalist? Some liberal government that might be overly corrupt and is about to lose the election could just label their political opponents as modern day Nazis and have them be censored on Google search. For example Germany treats the AfD as a far-right party, but in other countries they would be centrist at best. There is no middle ground, because morals wary from individual, we might try a consensus, but that would destroy individual rights. To me it seems that it's best to have a censor-free search engine, perhaps only censor stuff that is related to illegal activities or terrorism, but make everything else be publicly available.

Ask HN: What are some good beginner data science projects?

I'm taking a data science/machine learning course and we were given a few project ideas, but also the freedom to choose a project for ourselves, provided it meets the criteria. My initial ideas were:* tweets sensitization * solving equations from a photo, by recognizing them (we have yet to learn about neural networks, so I'm not sure whether I'll manage to do this).Any suggestions?

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I'm still living in my home country until I graduate. I'd rather move to some other European country (I'm fluent in German and proficient enough in English, although some more practice wouldn't hurt and I'm working on it as of now).

Thanks for the idea, I'll try to do something that is related to data science for my bachelor thesis.

Ask HN: What can I do to get into a good MSc program from an unknown university?

I will graduate from university in mid-2019, with a CGPA of 8.6/10. Thing is, I don't have anything that distinguishes me from other candidates. Undergrads usually don't do any research here and my CGPA isn't exceptional.But, I'd like to pursue a data science MSc from a good university. So what can I do to improve my chances?So far, I came up with the following ideas:- Improving competitive...

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