skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd personally prefer to have a car thief going around, than someone who thinks a minor property crime is sufficient grounds for locking someone up for life going around.

> And what's even more crazy is he stole a car, knowing that it would be his third strike

At this point one should stop for a moment and ponder why that might be, and not be satisfied until you have an answer.

When society is so broken that someone is willing to risk life in prison over a theft, then to me the problem is the society that left him without better alternatives first and foremost, not the thief.
Is Apple's next product an electric car?
Here's something I never thought I'd see in my lifetime: "The men spoke for an hour about the de facto alliance of Israel and Saudi Arabia..."

I went through the article, hoping to discover how the prince got his education.

* "His father is an avid reader, and he liked to assign his children one book per week, and then quiz them to see who’d read it."

* "His mother, through her staff, organized DAILY extracurricular courses and field trips and brought in INTELLECTUALS for three-hour discussions."

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His mother's practice of matching intellectuals with her kids supports John Holt's theories of proper child education.
Wow, did you even bother to follow that link?
Red tape, costly, lengthy & opaque approvals process - exactly what the UK tech industry needs to flourish. /s

The chilling effect could be that compliant companies are fast tracked, while those who insist on due process get quagmired.
Exactly. It's good to see that young people today are taking interest in coding, be it a girl or a boy that doesn't matter.
The Royal family can diversify, but the Saudi people still have little to offer the world economy after such a long dependence.

http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore/tree_map/export/sau/all...
Anticipating such tests to be on the horizon the Baltimore Ravens drafted this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Urschel
Only in America would 'actual innocence' be treated as a novelty!!
Then it should depend on the orientation (and altitude, geographical location). According to [1] this was tested for.

[1] http://emdrive.com/faq.html
The idea that some people are born for some things is very prevailent. Usually, it is called "talent" and nobody cries foul. As a completely tech-unrelated example: Art schools usually ask you for a portfolio when you apply to show that you are "talented" in art, which would be as if I needed a certificate as a doctor to study medicine. Sometimes these things seem to be accepted, sometimes not. Weird.
I had to bring my passport to get a pre-paid SIM card in Germany over 3 years ago, this isn't anything special.

The policy seems to be inconsistently applied tho, if you buy it at a large store they'll ask for an ID but you could also get the SIM cards at smaller kiosks and even stands at the airport (Libre mobile which is pretty much the provider for cheap migrant labor across Europe) they didn't seem to care that much.
Netflix blocks you from accessing all content if you are behind any sort of proxy or VPN.
Humans are invasive in, arguably, all of the world.
It comes across as you are more interested in being angry than trying to understand what the original poster might have been saying(?)

> If it surprises anyone that a boy can ask a girl for help with maths, then that person is a sexist

I think everyone here agrees with you. My understanding of the original post's point was:

"I asked a girl for help in math and it was nothing special; Just like asking anyone who is good at math for help regardless of gender because we weren't socialized to view girls as somehow inferior here
Definition of anthropomorphism (noun): "the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object.
"

A common example of anthropomorphism is in voles (and other rodents). [1,2] Very long ago, scientists noticed that bank vole pups frequently cry when their mother leaves the nest. The scientists assumed that the pups were afraid, and missed their parent. Eventually, it was discovered that the absence of their mother drops the temperature of the underground nest, and that the pups cries are actually a mechanism to generate heat. When scientists took their mother away, but increased the heat of their den to normal levels, the pups did not cry. The animals were not communicating or displaying anything resembling "human" emotion, but were innately responding to environmental stress.

No matter how much we want to believe that animals are sentient, have emotions, and communicate to each other via language, science indicates that's just not the case. In fact, there have been numerous studies that indicate anthropomorphism is a byproduct of our complex social structure.

Nice job bringing racism into a discussion about dolphin vocalizations, by the way.
On Location Based Services
"The Winged Scourge" is an interesting piece from that time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y68F8YwLWdg
change of 50 in two bills and change of 40 in three, is less optimal than change of 50 in three and 40 in two?
Nah, at this point, UberX is Uber's main business, and is generally what people mean when they say they're "taking an Uber".
Is there anything that's still closed-source on the board and if so, what?
Alright, I forgot about this. For some reason I've seen B&W still shots lately and forgot how I saw it.
PR fluff piece. He's working 16 hours a day to make the world a better place? Gosh, what a saint ... I wonder how much the Saudi-Arabia's PR agency had to pay to get it into a mainstream publication. See also: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

No meaningful questions of 'marginal' topics like the pointless the Yemen war, the support of ISIS and other unsavoury organisations. And exactly why does the interview accept him has head of state at all? Why should the House of Saud govern, and not be replaced by a democracy?
Thankfully because there's no roaming in the EU, there's absolutely no other way to get an unregistered SIM card to work in Germany..
If you use a non-EU passport they'll take a copy of it and ask you to register where you are staying.
Let me guess: Ubuntu?
> Is this so bad?

A better question is will this stop terrorism? If the answer is no, or unlikely, then it's just yet another inconvenience (and invasion of privacy) for lots of innocent people.
How do they detect that you are using a VPN?
No, they are saying there is a difference between a defendant saying "I did not do it" and a defendant saying "you didn't have a right to search my house, so the evidence you found there is inadmissible" or similar. E.g. the defendants asserting that they did not do the crime vs. those who assert they should not be convicted of the crime.
I think this is a good move. Whether it can solve terrorism issue or not that does not mean the government can't even try.
I'm currently a grad student at NYU, and previously Cornell Tech, plus I worked in San Francisco at a startup for a couple years as an SE. Let me say, I had my doubts about NYC in comparison to SV, but something is changing. There is a lot more interest in programming in the city than there ever was. Lots of initiatives by schools to introduce programming at the high school level, and lots of people in finance, fashion, marketing, etc. who want to learn how to program. Accelerators are popping up left and right. The research community in AI and VR is super active. There's even a hacker community that's constantly demoing cool stuff they're working on. It feels like a renaissance. I need to write a blog post to give more details, but NYC is definitely making moves so don't be surprised if some the power houses emerge over the next few years. All things aside, I'm having much more fun working in NYC than SF, and recommend it as the top place for anyone entering the tech workforce.
Why Mass Incarceration Doesn't Pay
"Why should the House of Saud govern, and not be replaced by a democracy?"

That is a very, very naive question tho, don't you think?
Not OP, but---I've been in software and OSS for a long time now, and I never knew this. I thought the term for that was Free Software.

In fact, looking closely at that definition, isn't practically nothing open source?

"Open-source software is computer software with its source code made available with a license in which the copyright holder provides the rights to study, change, and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose."

I.e. public domain? Any other license lives precisely to limit those rights of distribution, no?

Anyway, just pedantry. I see your point. Learn something new every day.
oh yes I agree /dev/urandom is the way to go, but the original comment said that the paper's suggestion that a container could exhaust the pool on /dev/random was false and that's what I was curious about. I thought it was possible to exhaust /dev/random...
Who knows, maybe my junk code is gold!
Underlying causes include: in many US states, the District Attorney (chief prosecutor) is an elected position. In many US states, local judges are elected.

A major winning strategy of the last hundred years or so is the "law and order" platform, in which the politicians exploit racism, classism and even ageism to provoke fear of violent crime. The politician promises that they will increase arrest rates, win trials, and impose higher sentences in order to protect the [white, middle-class, elderly] citizens from the [black or hispanic, lower-class, teenaged] hoodlums.

And they win, and they put these policies into effect.

Do they work? Well, they work at getting the politicians re-elected, and that's the only real success criterion.

It turns out that if you ask Americans what to do about most issues, and you phrase the questions in non-aggressive ways, and you invoke empathy -- they mostly agree that treating people kindly is important. That innocence should be an absolute defense. That everyone should get necessary health care, and nobody should starve or be cripplingly poor. That people should work if they can, but not be abandoned if they can't.

But those positions are not very effective for the media and politicians, so they go with what works for their goals instead.
> (if I'm interpreting correctly, a trigram index would still speed up the initial search)

Your trigram approach is roughly isomorphic to the FST approach. The main benefit of an FST is that it can store a huge number of keys in a very small amount of space that is still searchable without a separate decompression phase. In the case of trigrams with a low alphabet size, an FST probably isn't a big win. But say if you wanted to increase to a bigger N-gram for some reason, then perhaps an FST might help you out. It's true that Rust's fst library has a way to apply regexes to the FST for very fast search (Lucene also has this), but its subjects are terms in the FST, which in your case corresponds to trigrams. This means you still have to go through the "extract a set of trigrams from a regex to pre-filter on" dance.

And yeah, using the regex-syntax crate from Python would have been a fair amount of work. In particular, it still needs a C API before you can use it from Python, which would probably be a fair amount of grunt work.

In any case, as a computational biologist in a former life, this is very cool work. Nice job! :-)
GDB now builds as a C++ program by default
There is barely any information other than the two sentences you quote about how the Prince was educated.
I used them for a while for ML, works ok. I also noticed the these spot price spikes with both g2.8xl and g2.2xl. Not really sure why someone (or multiple players, since the prices spike) have set their max bid so high, surely it's worth running an on-demand instance at those prices.

Ended up going between two regions to avoid them but it's some hassle, just got a gtx970 in the end.
This article has be to read next to the articles about SA and 9/11, and Obama veto.
This is pure bullshit.
SA have the same system of the Catholic Church and the European kingdoms during middle age, they protect each other.
Some vendors require you to show an ID but right now you can get many SIM-Cards that can be registered online or via phone call and the data provided doesn't get verified.
That's the thing they want to change.
How would this solve terrorism?
> I think these checks are probably already pretty common in other parts of the world.

Germany is a bit touchy when it comes to measures like this. After the experiences of the Nazi regime, even things like a census or introduction of a TIN met massive, years long resistance.

One election gone wrong is all it takes and all those data will be used for genocide. Again.
Nope, that's just how it is.
The micro-controller HDL files.
> Had she failed the polygraph, she'd still be prosecuted.

The article does not support that claim. It might be. But they also specifically acknoledge that polygraphs are unreliable and seem to use it mainly as a filter to deter people who are worried they might fail it, and in parallel they carry out a case review.

> No judicial process should have a decision point that is stochastic by design.

In an ideal world, no. But adding an extra decision point where the worst that can happen is that the prosecution that was going forward keeps going forward, and the best that can happen is that the case gets dropped without the ordeal of a trial sounds like a substantial improvement even if it doesn't always work.
It should be mentioned that the paper was originally published in 1998. This version, from 2005, contains an update from the author, Dr. Richard Barbrook. The original paper was itself a remixed extract from The Holy Fools: a critique of the avant-garde in the age of the Net.
collateral intrusion is a wonderful neologism.
> Why should the House of Saud govern, and not be replaced by a democracy?

How would that fix any of the issues that SA is facing right now?
Intel Celerons even the embedded ones are currently based on Skylake.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Celeron_micropro...

Intel licenses allot of things they still have ARM licenses and probably even Power PC ones.
> It might even be a better world, ingrained with the idea that programming is just another skill to be mastered through persistence — with or without a Y chromosome.

I have never heard anyone, in my entire life, suggest otherwise. Sure it's cool that they win competitions but by consistently focus on women, treat them differently, create special groups etc is basically fighting sexism with sexism.

If we shouldn't focus on the sex but the achievements this sort of article is exactly the opposite of that. I am confident that these "women can also" articles/groups/company messages creates more sexism than it solves.

Why can't we just treat each other equally?
Not sure I'd put the Convair as the pinacle of piston power. Constellation sure.

P51 Mustang, or Hawker Typhoon perhaps have more claim.

So it depends from where you look. Much like I don't think I'd say that everything possible has been optimised in the laptop world.
Where I can get funding to research short-range telepathy and other mumbo-yumbo science? :-) I was very skeptical myself just few years ago.

I had similar feeling ("burning skin") only two times in my whole life, so, IMHO, it is very rare. However, woman told me that it is no so rare, and staring of some "hungry" mans is similar. IMHO, it is sort of "I love you", but for silent animals.
They have a list of VPN providers.

Probably they also have some heuristics that look closely at people who geoip in a different country than their billing records, and whose IP address seems to be in a colo rather than a DSL subscriber block.
Reactotron – Control, Monitor, and Instrument React and React Native on CLI
The brain on LSD revealed: first scans show how the drug affects the brain
in security where breaches can cost a lot of money, relying on heavy use as an indication of trustworthiness may not be a great idea.

For example OpenSSL was and is used by lots of people, this has not stopped it having a lot of security problems...

And true once the vulnerabilities get published you get to know about the problems more quickly but then in a world of targeted attacks and professional exploitation that might not be great comfort..
Mandela: Why should we have apartheid, and not equality?

eric001: That is a very, very naive question tho, don't you think?
I think it is sort of pointless. You have free wifis pretty much everywhere now. You don't really need a SIM card to communicate - even by voice - with other people.

What will happen then? Starbuck will need to ask for your ID when you connect to their wifi? Russia is doing pretty much that with internet cafes.

These control freaks need to get over the idea that they will achieve electronically a level of government control which would be absolutely unacceptable in the physical world (the "I want you to report to the police who you talked to during the day and you also need to check their ID to ensure that your reports to the police are accurate", even the Soviet Union - or the Stasi - didn't go that far).
Exactly. Amarok was one of the few pieces of software I looked at and thought, from a feature perspective... that's perfect. Was so glad Clementine appeared on the scene and rescued the player from its well intentioned fall from grace.
Yep, those things were throttling like mad due to heat issues and performance was not on par with its competition, the A9 and the Exynos processors.
Facebook is controlled by Zuckerberg who had 56.9 percent of the shareholder voting power and can tell the shareholders and advertisers to get lost if he really wants.
If country is blocking websites, they probably will block that VPN service as well (and possibly Opera website).

Why this thing is called VPN anyway? It looks like HTTP proxy should be enough for browser.
It says functionality is represented in a wireframe. Doesn't wireframe simply shows structure? That is, which elements goes where. The functionality is shown in a prototype.
Anon SIMs are already banned in many EU countries. It does not really work, some homeless people have thousands SIMs registered on their name.

Also opposition in Germany says this might be discriminatory to refugees, since some of them have no documents.
I didn't realise it wasn't possible. I've always been asked for ID.
If even if there was roaming, there isn't any internet to order foreign SIM cards online.
I swear by my menstrual cup. I know it's a niche product but I have no idea why, a possible explanation is that some people are uncomfortable with their body or perhaps they've never heard of it - I had never heard of it until I saw a mention of it on reddit in my mid-twenties. Cups have much higher capacity that pads / tampons, you can't feel them, they are clean, nothing irritates your skin, it's impossible to run out as you only need one and it lasts for up to a decade.
Say goodbye to the tech industry in the UK!
Do you know any UX designers who want to volunteer for such a thing? I'll bet you a shiny nickel that the Clementine people would be happy to accept contributions in the form of graphics and patches.

But because they are an all volunteer project, they probably can't accept sketches, wireframes, and color swatches as useful contributions, because you then need to organize people to implement these things.

The gap between "do this, it will work better" and "here's my pull requests" is large.
Richard holloway onetime bishop of edinburgh
Free Wifis are a lot more scarce in Germany though.
Could this be applied to browsers I wonder?
>Gamers are overwhelmingly MALE.

This used to be true for decades, but by now the majority of people who play computer games are female. Social games and mobile games were a game changer in this regard. It will be interesting to see how that affects interest in programming in the future.
PaperJs – MatterJs interaction
FYI: the TIN is a unique number associated to each person living in Germany. New born babies are getting a TIN faster than most of the congratulation cards... It is issued by the tax authorities and as a foreigner living in Germany you also get one.
By my count, most "regex" engines implement things more powerful than regular expressions. I'd say the majority of regex engines use backtracking instead of a DFA. Backtracking does tend to be slower in my experience, but PCRE2's JIT is definitely competitive with even the fastest DFA engines in my experience.
An example project that mixes PaperJS drawing with the MatterJS physics engine.
Oceania wants all your data.
Given VOIP, what is the rationale of making this distinction?
These results: http://richzhang.github.io/colorization/ from Berkeley are much better than this model (and the code is open source as well).

Furthermore, those better results have the advantage of a much simpler model. This model has a fairly complicated architecture (a complex residual concatenation setup) and many more parameters (I would guess anywhere between 2x-10x as many, but I'd have to take a closer look), which means it's much slower to run and takes up more memory (disk and RAM).

I'd also say that in general the better model does things that are a lot more common sense: using the CIE Lab color space (perceptually uniform), omitting pooling, using a classification loss instead of regression (regression in generally performs poorly in deep learning), etc.
Pretty much anything!! Java, C#, Rust, Go, OCaml, Lisp, ... even C++ would be a much better choice.

Check this out: http://tobyho.com/2008/03/30/how-safe-is-your-programming/

There also used to be a website that ranked programming languages according to various parameters (which is faster, which is safer) by asking visitors pairwise comparisons (Which is faster - Matlab or C?). I was going to link it but can't find it unfortunately. Anyway I'm pretty sure C would come second-last in the safety ranking, right above assembly.
Is there any detail regarding how the requirement will reduce terrorism?
I never said it will solve terrorism. I said it's a good thing that government is trying at least.
And what about open source software that anyone can download from the internet? How does Govt UK intend to manage / police that?
ha ha good question! Its still a taboo that is being followed by many villagers. A lot of societies keep women's rights at the lowest priority. So many people living in the cities often deny that these things exist whereas the majority in our country are actually rural and poor. The taboos are being very slowly weeded out at the moment. Needs a huge push from the govt for educating the people about it.
The part about rate of improvement following an S-shape is interesting and I'd like to see it empirically researched, but the fact that the last exemplar of a given technology is always the most advanced is quasi tautological. Why would you build a new plane if it wasn't better (in some way) than what came before it? Or a new computer/phone?
If I'm really a bad guy, I just steal a bunch of SIM cards or entire phones.

This is another measure that endangers the innocent and still does nothing to stop the baddies.
This "nurses or teachers" stereotype is awful. There's plenty of women who are both smart and not people's person.
Indeed. Won't be buying British at all from now on. In fact, I'm putting UK on my blacklist of places to go, and places to buy from/invest in.

Sorry Brits. You are letting your state fall into absolutel disaster. I'm putting you in the same bag as North Korea, now - your state cannot be trusted one bit.
The economy was so inefficient that they had to utilize everything they had to sustain it. There is also communist narrative about equality.
Couple with native adblocking I'm very tempted to switch browsers (from FF) and probably do so when available. But it just sounds too good, what is the catch?
In which ones? I have manu prepaid sims from all over Europe and the only one with a name on is an old italian one when they required it. Which i think they no longer do.