skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mind you, that estimate has remained unchanged since the late 80s, even though about 100 billion barrels have been extracted since then. OPEC quotas are based on a country's reserves. Take with a lot of salt.
I seriously thought that Arabs were good at investment, especially in real estate. For example, the Saudi Binladin Group.
FFS, are they just trying to kill off the tech industry in the UK?
I think you are not realizing the scale of the impact its gonna create.
Funny. I'm exactly the opposite.

I use Lyft only because it is nicer. If I cared about the price, I wouldn't use either. I don't shop at Walmart for similar reasons.

Ultimately, I think that payoff from being nicer is with the drivers, not the consumers. How it plays out is going to depend on which side of the market is the limiting factor on growth.
I'm curious where you are based, as someone in the UK, I'm not keen on going to the US because of the crazy border controls amongst other things.
This info can reveal his identity inside the company, please dont ask
There's more than one asset class, and real estate isn't always the best one.
In South Africa, we have had this kind of legislation since 2003. It is called RICA(Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-Related Information Act). Shops aren't allowed to sell a SIM card without proof of identification. Foreigners can use their passports to register a SIM card.

It takes few minutes. This was done to fight identity theft. We don't have terrorism problem here because people who used to be regarded as terrorists(freedom fighters) by former unjust, apartheid government are now in power. If your SIM card is registered under your name, no-one else will be allowed to do a SIM swap on it. Only you can do such after providing proof of identification.

I feel it makes it easy for the law enforcement agencies to track down criminals if they used the SIM card to commit crime. Our government doesn't have history of invading privacy of their citizens, which makes it easier to trust them.
For me it's certainly bad. Terrorism isn't a real issue, it's an excuse for governments to take freedom from people. I want to be able to use phone and internet without being tracked by anyone.
Don't forget this from 2 months ago.. UK surveillance powers bill could force startups to bake in backdoors

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11265666

These laws WILL affect UK tech start-ups if privacy has anything to do with their business model.

I have said so in the past, don't register your tech startups in the UK. Boycott is sometimes an effective means for change. UK law makers know this could back-fire, they are taking a gamble they have already lost.
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>the same model of cars are used and are distinguished by their colours

Aren't we talking about a B&W film? In that case the colour (or its lack of) wouldn't communicate any information.
I don't know about Germany, but a friend of mine visited London without roaming, and I was surprised that he achieved pretty much constant connectivity. There is almost not a single restaurant, coffee shop, airport or train without free wifi.
Not in the Pi Zero price range, but the AM335x processor inside the BeagleBone Black has an interesting way to deal with the need for strict timing.

The AM335x has a pair of "PRU" units on the die, that are roughly little microcontrollers that have access to the main ARM's memory.

So, you can write to main memory from Linux, jitter and all, and then let the PRU stream it out to anything that needs high speed, predictable data.

This guy put a BB black inside an old MAC SE, and is driving the CRT with the PRU...very cool: http://www.nycresistor.com/2014/02/02/30th-anniversary-mac/
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Actually, that is exactly the claim.

For example, the book "The Computer Boys Take Over" quoted all over in TFA claims that the drive to "professionalize" programming and make it more "engineering like" was specifically to drive women out, after men found out the profession was gaining status and money in the late 70ies and early 80ies.

Which is ridiculous on so many fronts, I am not sure whether to laugh or cry. And of course makes me not give too much credit to anyone basing their argument on that book.
If I want to text or talk to you over a cell network I need to show ID.

If I want to text, call (VOIP), email, chat, message you over wifi I don't.

Sounds very secure.
> One election gone wrong is all it takes and all those data will be used for genocide. Again.

I like to believe we are a bit further away from genocide than one election gone awry. 71 years passed, you know.
I am a huge FreeCAD fan and use it quite a bit. For simple 3D printing projects I like it better than Rhino for example. Used it for the case of this oxygen system http://nortd.github.io/WaveGlide/

The thing to keep in mind when using it is that not all parts are equally usable. For a stable workflow you have to stick with what works. When you start using less polished corners FreeCAD tends to crash. It takes a bit of testing to figure this out.

Keep up the good work.
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So why wouldn't defendants blurt out that this would be their third strike? Or would that trigger death penalty?
I had to show ID in Czech Republic, Hungaria, Ireland and Greece.
This is a game changing feature and I hope other browsers follow suit, I would love to see it implemented in the mobile version especially.
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True. I'm of the opinion that creating the love of reading (learning) could be more important than schooling. From the article, you'll get the sense that the prince could think outside the established ways of doing things in the government. I'd wager that his father's reading exercises caused this.

'I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.' -Mark Twain

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school." - Albert Einstein

As for his mother's actions, I believe children who are exposed to more adults (especially experts), grow up to be quite confident and unencumbered by their age or perceived inexperience.

From my view, those who put the prince in trouble with the previous king were less annoyed by the changes than the fact that a 26 year old BOY (prince) was causing changes.
>Most of the "whoops" tales are people that didn't listen to their scientists telling them not to, didn't have scientists at all, or were from long enough ago that we can discard their stories as irrelevant....

It fascinates and terrifies me that we humans constantly think we know what we're doing and won't mess up again, like somehow we're superior to our ancestors because we have a little more knowledge. "Oh yeah, they put lead in gasoline because they didn't know better. We know better, what we're doing now is perfect".

2050: "Oh yeah, they used to use nasty stuff in fracking compounds, but we know better now"

2060: "Oh yeah, everyone used to carry around little electromagnetic devices and put them next to their brain, but we know better now".

It's it clear that anything major we do now will be looked back on as a complete f-up, once the next generations have more knowledge.

We seem to think we know best, when in reality we have absolutely no idea what's going on. When will we learn to leave well enough alone?
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For those interested, Kanflo wasn't the first to create an Arduino like clone in this form factor. For instance there is the the Jeenode and its sibblings developed by Jean-Claude Wippler.

See for more info on this:
http://www.digitalsmarties.net/products/JeeNode
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How many terrorists are entering Europe using real names and papers? How many have faked photo ids?

Now they know its coming, won't they just stick up on sims first?

This seems stupid to me.
Try lollypop for a modern player with a very good UI. It's still in early development, and pretty fluid, but I'm using it as my day-to-day.

I particularly enjoy its focus on albums as elemental units of playback, as opposed to songs.

https://gnumdk.github.io/lollypop-web/
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Aggregated data means actually publishing the data they've collected not some numbers that may or may not hold any relevance.
For each country they should publish how many questionnaires were issued, who they were issued too (local journalists? foreign journalists?) split abuses to actual abuse of power by the state vs the nature of reporting from conflict zones, and maybe make those filled questionnaires public with or without the actual names?
In 2016, how exactly do you think Uber is unethical? I find the idea that trying to disrupt taxi monopolies as unethical is ridiculous. And sure they had some shady shenanigans back in 2013-2014 (as did Lyft), but that hasn't been the case since then. What have they done recently that is unethical?
It is hilarious that rather than let women drive, the Saudis are building a billion dollar rail system to get around the problem.

Now fathers will teach their daughters, oh you don't have to drive (or even be allowed to ride a bicycle) because you can just take the train.
I thoroughly agree with you. This "denial due to lack of undeniable evidence" has been one of my pet annoyances in discussions on this topic. I am all for skepticism, it is a fundamental pillar of science. What bugs me is the application of different standards when discussing the question "are humans sentient/intelligent" vs "are dolphins (elephants, apes, etc) sentient/intelligent". For both the cases we can only observe their external behavior, and I think all we can measure is whether that external behavior is consistent with our hypothesis. Sure, there are other hypothesis that explains the same behavior, the fault lies in choosing a less charitable hypothesis for animals but a more charitable one for humans.

Till better methods are discovered, I think a Turing test analogue is the best we can do.
Oh, fair enough, I understood a different thesis from the article (of a self-reinforcing stereotype among employers).
It doesn't matter where their ancestors came from, if they were categorised as protected.
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not sure why you got down voted for this
And again, a new measure that will affect everybody except criminals, who pay a drug addict to register hundreds of these cards.
It's likely that an arbitrary metric can vary among groups. This as such is not problematic. The problem with the quoted 'research' is that they are effectively just p-mining data sets and trying to find correlations between IQ and other metrics.
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That might be going a bit far. I was more saying that if firms have to go through all that red tape then there is just no way that they will be able to compete against countries that have technology bases that don't have this level of red tape.

You'll not be buying tech invented in the UK because there won't be much if any new tech developed in the UK!
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Germany is not alone.

In Portugal usually you always need to present you ID card and Tax ID together when some form of identification is required.

To the point that the actual ID cards (Ausweis) have the citizen ID, tax ID and social security ID all together.
Heh, with this money it could work for some time
There are already methods in place to get an anonymous SIM card even if this law gets passed.
There is a SIM exchange service run by privacy activists. [0]

There are also people that register hundreds of cards on their own name and resell them.

This is just another invasion of privacy and not even worth it imho.

[0] http://www.daten-speicherung.de/index.php/kartentausch/
I think you are vastly understimating the cost of gene engineering.
And Scala immutable collections are memory hog and GC nightmare. I find good compromise with Kotlins read-only interfaces and Eclipse Collections optionally immutable collections
That's… crazy.

In Sweden you're entitled to compensation for:

* suffering (starting by default at $3700 for the first month, down to half per month after six months)

* loss of income (including sick pay, unemployment pay, etc)

* expenses (rent not compensated)

Source in Swedish: http://www.jk.se/ansokan/frihetsberovande/

In some extreme cases people who have been wrongfully convicted of e.g. murder and served many years in jail have received up to about two million USD.
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Saudi Arabia recently signed a licensed-production deal with Antonov of Ukraine. The first batch of transport aircraft will go to the air force but it's a huge step for a country that has traditionally outsourced everything to do with aviation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_identity_number_(Swed...
Italy still requires to link a SIM to a person. I don't remember if I had to show my id or my fiscal code last time I got a new SIM. No more than a 30 seconds procedure. They note it down and that's it. It's been like that for so long that I forgot when and why they introduced this legislation.
No it's the consumers being taxed on road vehicles every year. The lower tax makes them quite attractive in comparison to other manufacturers.
In South Africa, we had this kind of checks since 2003. Not only are you supposed to present an ID book, you are also required to bring a verifiable proof of residence.

While visiting Mozambique a month back, I used a passport to buy a SIM card. Seems like Germany is just catching up with the rest of the world.
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Get a car in Berlin, drive for 1h to the first gas station in Poland. This is yet another stupid law. No problem for bad guys, just hurting legitimate businesses.

And obviously no identity theft will happen, since no one ever hacked any provider and you cannot ask a homeless guy to buy you a dozen.
You wouldn't have Facebook, Google, Hacker news, Twitter or even Internet without programmers.
That TIJ cars were distinguishable only by color was made possible by filming in color. A BW movie would not make a film requiring distinguishing colors that filmed as equal shades of grey.

In any case, any such colorizing system would be designed to accept a bit of guidance here and there from the artist. This is much like when an OCR'd document needs a bit of touch-up.

And even if it wasn't perfect, many BW movies would be made much more watchable, like the 1927 Wings, which is crying out to be colorized (and have a soundtrack added).
Looks that way. So now we are going to hunt for rounding errors of the Simuverse. Should be fun.

It's likely simulation would be ended if we beat its purpose by hacking it. End of the world coming?
https://freifunk.net/en/

The largest such network that I know of anywhere.
True, especially for Facebook games. Majority of them are female. Though hardcore PC gamers and console gamers are still male in majority.
It is still required to have your name tied to SIMs in Italy. You are asked to show an ID (or driver's license) and your fiscal code[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_fiscal_code_card
Start with the classic!

Performance Effects of Architectural Complexity in the Intel 432

https://www.princeton.edu/~rblee/ELE572Papers/Fall04Readings...
Is there any new information on the 3DXP technology?
foobar is only for windows..
And the opposing viewpoint, the "blank slate" hypothesis is completely untenable. Steven Pinker wrote a big book on it, and even if you just read the introduction and maybe the first chapter it will become obvious how ridiculous the idea is...and it doesn't get any "better" for the BSH afterwards.

See also: "Anyone who thinks psychological sex diffs are wholly learned has lot of explaining to do" https://www.psychologytoday.com/sites/default/files/attachme...
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Really? I am all for it, but in 2016 putting an extra server in the middle of my request isn't really a game changer. Brave is leading the charge with extensions as a service, and I love them for it. However, I just can't see it being profitable. Brave can def make money, but I don't think people care about privacy. The other usecases make sense, but between opera or brave (both totally unknown companies to non tech crowd) Brave would for sure win that.

In Opera's case, one more person would get "all" the data. In all other cases, 1-3 companies get all the data. So it's good, I just can't call it a game changer.
That's completely different in Germany, because here everyone with an internet access is legally liable for any misconduct done using their connection.
There are movements to change this, but Germany still is the country with the lowest free-wifi coverage worldwide (I assume).
What I questioned is why the author misrepresented who actually developed the ENIAC through vague wording and omission. You can be wrong on the details and still ultimately be right.

I wasn't trying to start a 'who has it worse' pissing contest, I was pointing out that making a broad generalisation about all white men is discriminatory and unfair... a bit ironic for an article discussing discrimination against women. There are people in all ethnicities, sexes, sexual orientations and classes that have faced adversity, you can't use someone's demographic to determine how much. Turing probably looked like your average socially awkward, white, male programmer up until he was chemically castrated and killed himself.

Using the term 'socially awkward' seems more like a schoolyard taunt than an unbiased description of a demographic... especially when similarly alienating treatment is what caused many to want an escape and persue computers in the first place. The shallow see awkwardness, but others recognise it as the detachment and eccentricity that often accompanies intellect.

Showing up to an event to fight cancer will have null effect unless you're doing research or dropping off a cheque anyway, so what's the harm in bringing up heart disease while you're there?
Between the US and the UK, this is just getting comical.

How do these governments not see that the people who would do harm to us will get their encrypted tech from somewhere else and bring it with them.

Just adds full to the fire that this has nothing to do with protecting citizens.
> Turing describes a number of objections that people are inclined to raise to the possibility of AI. One, which he calls the "Heads in the Sand" objection, he characterises thus: "The consequences of machines thinking would be too dreadful. Let us hope and believe that they cannot do so." It is, he says, particularly prevalent among intellectual people, since they most value the power of thinking. Turing notes that this position needs no refuting: "Consolation would be more appropriate." Today the Heads in the Sand objection is alive and well.

(Sourced from https://plus.maths.org/content/computers-ltd ; the paper of Turing's can be read at http://web.cs.ucla.edu/~rosen/161/turing_paper.html )
Sounds pretty good, but I still wouldn't trust it with anything more than a YouTube video.
But you see the polygraph test doesn't have to be accurate. It's not there to actually tell whether the person is guilty. It's there so that the police can save face. Instead of "we made a mistake, we charged the wrong person", they can say "we charged this person, all the evidence suggested they were guilty, but, look at this polygraph test! It proves they are actually innocent". The police must not be questioned, if you believe the police are corrupt as I do then you become very unhappy/restless. Such an attitude does not lend itself to a cohesive society...
It depends on the field, but some areas are more friendly toward this than others.
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> The devil, on its turn, may add a block on any single square not containing the angel.
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I certainly wouldn't want to live in Saudi Arabia. And I wouldn't recommend any one else to relocate there, especially women.
That doesn't make any sense. Did you have a look at how they are implemented in Scala?

Nothing is a worse memory hog and GC nightmare than mutable collection behind immutable interfaces.

- They cannot be implemented efficiently.

- They give you zero guarantees. You got a "readonly" collection? Let's start praying that everyone got the readonly thing, too, and not the mutable instance instead.

- Operations cause full-scale copies (talk about a GC nightmare).

- Collections cannot share structure.

- And the API is a lying mess in Eclipse collections, e. g.:
https://github.com/eclipse/eclipse-collections/blob/master/e...

People have already tried to get these things working for years. It just doesn't work.

Please explain what's different this time around.
Shouldn't the government be trying things that are expected to work? Otherwise this is just another example of the Politician's Fallacy.
> 2060: "Oh yeah, everyone used to carry around little electromagnetic devices and put them next to their brain, but we know better now".

This one is easy to debunk: look at the spectrum:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_spectrum

UV and everything in that direction: dangerous.

Infrared and everything in that direction: not dangerous.

The Sun emits on both sides, and we really know very good which side we have to protect us from.
Worth remembering that this has effectively been in place for some time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6893947
If a polygraph is a filter that just doesn't work, then it's a total waste of time as it won't work as a filter, or anything else for that matter.
IS-IS (in a somewhat variant form) lives on in 802.1aq.
It does make you wonder who advisors these law makers because it comes across as if they don't even have a basic understand how tech works.
If not already, probably soon. Being free and probably popular...this service will hit the radar for Netflix, Cloudflare captcha hell, etc, in fairly short order.
" 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."

Uh, that's not the worst that can happen. The worst that can happen is that those who actually committed crimes are let off because they learned how to 'beat' a polygraph, or who just got plain lucky. And if you know already that your suspect is innocent, then why the polygraph?

Look I understand how adding some voodoo scapegoat to a complicated social construct can be used to change institutional mores that are impenetrable otherwise. So in that sense, I have no rational reason to discourage the use of a polygraph here; just like one can say 'if homeopathy helps people, why shouldn't they use it? And why shouldn't we finance it from the same means we finance regular health care?'. From a utilitarian point of view, there is no denying this. I maintain that it's still bad (maybe not a net negative, but a negative still) to use acknowledge superstition this way.
Actually he is right. Georgia is on the Asian side of Caucasus range.
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This would indeed be a much better form factor, especially if it could be made a two part module.

So you can swap out one part to interchange between BLE or Wifi.
I think you've highlighted an inaccuracy, or at least a lack of clarity, in the Wikipedia article. I guess a Wikipedian could argue it should be interpreted as "for any purpose depending on the chosen licence", but that's definitely not clear.

Re: Open source vs Free software, this is a matter for debate (the tendency being too associate Free software with the more copyleft/viral/gnu-ish side of things), but I would definitely say that both involve explicit licencing, as opposed to potentially implicit " all rights reserved " style regional copyright.