skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There seems to be something that catches the imagination, but I suspect it's closer to that whole class of perpetual motion machines which consist of moveable weights on a wheel, than to a revolution in physics.

There's lots of unbalancing wheels, and none of them work.
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Love it! How about NaaS? Null as a service? You'd need to make the return value configgable somehow, to yield a NULL, Null, None, Nullptr or 0 depending on the consumer.
excuse my potential ignorance, but I thought that /dev/random was at risk of exhaustion in the general case, with /dev/urandom not being so...

e.g. http://www.onkarjoshi.com/blog/191/device-dev-random-vs-uran... or http://security.stackexchange.com/a/14293/37
That were my thoughts too .. if they had ignored her "You see, nerds ignore women and make them feel unwelcome", now "see, they are creeps, that makes woman feel unwelcome" - and if you ask "what is your solution?" "They should behave normal." which is the most useless answer ever. If I ask ten people about normal behaviour in a given situation I get ten answers and if I drill a bit further more like 40 answers, almost all probably starting with something like "Well, in this context .." or "If you frame it this way .."

One could almost think that human behaviour is complex, but only almost .. everything is black and white, go on, nothing to see here. /s
It appears from the article that if you're wrongfully jailed in the US, you're not automatically entitled to compensation for lost income and other expenses caused by the jail time. Surely this must be incorrect?
They are like prisoners or 90s Apple fanatics.

You can't say it sucks, because you spent $150k on a shitty car, and the legions of fans who don't have one will shout you down.
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They didn't pick the day because of 4/20 they picked it because of the UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs, where multiple countries raised complaints about the current state of prohibition and Canada went one step further by announcing this to the other nations.
The boy at the beach looks very orange/blue to me and reminds me of this:

http://www.slashfilm.com/orangeblue-contrast-in-movie-poster...
As a German: why not? What else would it be?

The geographic absurdity of splitting up Afro-Eurasia (and Eurasia in particular) aside, Georgia lies at the exact edge of Asia and Europe but the Georgian people have always been more European than Middle Eastern (ethnicly, politicly, religiously and culturally).
interesting read about that http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-07/too-big-to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
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I don't think anyone's claiming that.
surely, saudi arabia is already working partly as an investment in activities other than oil. Do we have a measure of how well those investments have worked so far ?

i mean, investing requires skill, and you can get burned if you're not really smart and knowledgeable and agile. All things in which many states ( not just oil states) are not very famous for.
AFAIK if app uses NDK it has to have compiled code for every architecture. If developer didn't make version for x86 you won't run it.
I'm not that bothered by them personally, but I would rather see these international taxi brands gone. They take away income and entrepreneurship from local economies.

The world is slowly becoming a boring homogeneous place run by multinational brands. It's like fast food outlets, coffee shops and so on, most of them are run from another country and look exactly the same - there's no character.
Perhaps to test this, you could have two sets of identical statues.

Two dolphins need to interact with the matching statues together to get food.

If you followed the 'five monkeys and a ladder with a banana' experiment and found two dolphins who worked it out. Replace one with another. Presumably one will try and teach the other.

With enough dolphins and statues, you might be able to use the similar methods you'd use to break simple cryptography to work out what part of the communication is about the statue.

Or, you'll find out every dolphin talks to every other dolphin differently. And then and then the government bans dolphins out of fear of being unable to intercept dolphin based communications.
According to the text, they want to achieve this by forcing vendors/providers to check the ID of the buyer, even for prepaid SIMs.
To be fair, Israel is included in a lot of European competitions for cultural-historical reasons, too, and few people would call Israel part of Europe.
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Main points of the article: For purposes of terrorism prevention, the current German government wants to require sellers of SIM cards to check photo ID and ask for current address. If this happens, it will be (theoretically) impossible to own a German phone number that isn't connected to a name.

The address data is supposed to be put into a searchable database allowing security officials to search for names even if the exact spelling isn't known (which appears to be a problem with current systems). For privacy purposes, they plan to put a limit on the number of records displayed in response to a search query.
I got schooled about this a few days ago. Here's the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11485832. The tl;dr is that basically you should just use /dev/urandom unless you're in very weird circumstances. Entropy doesn't "run out" in that sense.
Yes, I am a nerd. Yes, I am socially awkward, and I did start programming around 10. And here is yet another article pointing out that all the fun I'm having in my career now is something that should make me feel ashamed or guilty. "People like you are the reason why women won't program! Why can't you go to a bar like everyone else?"

I know it's my own bias, but no one was writing articles for me when I was "sticking out like a 'sore thumb'" in HS for being smart and nerdy instead of cool.

I totally agree that there's a problem of disrespect towards those who are new (apparently more if they are women), and I'm cool with focusing on fixing that. But describing the abundance of nerds in the field as "what can we do about it?", as if that was a problem? Give me a break.

</rant>
Wikipedia says there are an estimated 268 billion barrels in Saudi Aramco's proven oil reserves, with maybe 90 billion more undiscovered. It produces somewhere between 3 and 4 billion barrels annually. If a barrel of oil is worth about $50, then the total value of Aramco is about $18 trillion. We can put a discount on that for time, but you might also want to consider that oil will get more difficult to pump out of the ground and price should increase faster than inflation. CPI is pegged to the price of oil, so all this stuff gets complicated.
No, they are saying it filters out some portion of the defendants. The article also says they carry out a fresh review of the case, and:

"The ASA shall confirm that no other probative forensic testing can be conducted and that no other witnesses can be identified and interviewed," the protocol reads. "At the end of this review, if both the ASA and supervising ASA(s) either no longer believe there exists a moral certainty of the defendant's guilt or believe there no longer exists a reasonable likelihood of conviction, then the case shall be dismissed without prejudice."

So, basically: The defendant asserts they're innocent and are prepared to take a polygraph and there is insufficient evidence or no real prospect of prosecution anyway.
Maybe it made more sense for the business to have you as a developer writing code and her as a manager rather than you as a manager and her writing code?
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From that article:

"The use of the ordeal in medieval England was very sensitive to status and reputation in the community."

Sounds like that part hasn't changed much.
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On the other hand, just because the solution is unclear, doesn't mean the problem doesn't exist.
I thought Arabs are really good at investing money. The tall buildings in Dubai and Saudi Arabia had Arab investors.
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I can see the Cutty Sark out of my window at work (barely), I've never really thought of it as technology really.
Also, real estate.
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Not only is it this week, but we already know that the outcome document is not going to see any real change to the current state of prohibition - the only sign of progress was a number of countries saying they want to explore different approaches and Canada saying they'll be doing this anyway.
If you do some research on the event you might get a different perspective. This appears to not be the only panel.
>Any specifics of what type of VPN protocol its using?

According this chart of vpn's, OpenVPN

That One Privacy Guy's VPN Comparison Chart

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FJTvWT5RHFSYuEoFVpAe...

edit: Name of the service is SurfEasy
Their sovereign wealth fund is currently sitting at $700M. The Aramco IPO will hardly be the only contributor on the way to $2T.
>But why is he stealing cars? If he's going to go around doing things like that we don't want him in our society do we?

Well, I want him alright. There are tons of examples of people who have done such things, including repeatedly, that include some great artists, writers, inventors, businessmen, etc. And of course tons of people who went to to change their ways, become great parents, etc.

We could lose some people thinking like your statement above from society, though.
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Many, many other people on this thread have already pointed out the glaring ommissions and biases in this study.

You don't need to hold a magnifiying glass to see them.

For example - see this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11538812):

> From the RFS entry on Surinam, position 22: "“public expression of hatred” towards the government is punishable by up to seven years in prison under a draconian defamation law. The controversial Dési Bouterse, who became president again in 2010 in an election, has managed to be amnestied for the 1982 murders of 15 political opponents including five journalists."

> RFS on Jamaica at 10: " The very occasional physical attacks on journalists must be offset against this, but no serious act of violence or threat to media freedom has been reported since February 2009, a month that saw two cases of abuse of authority by the Kingston police."

> Or even Ireland at 9: "... defamation lawsuits are common. Finally, interviewing police sources has been virtually impossible since the Garda Siochana Act of 2005, which bans police officers from talking to journalists without prior authorization."

> Not a little biased are we? Amnesty for murdering journalists isnt my idea of freedom of the press, nor are defamation law suits, or a prohibition against interviewing the police.

Whilst everybody loves a good US-bash, if you're actually trying to tell me reporters have it harder there than any of the above, then you are seriously deluding yourself.
Sentry -- can't say I've used the others you've mentioned.
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Recently I talked to a 20 year old kid who didn't know that Apple existed before the iPhone...

Microsoft and Intel got big for one and only one reason:
IBM chose them as suppliers for the IBM PC. Had IBM used their own in-house chip or licensed CP/M as operating system computer history would have been different (the Kildall link is especially interesting, Microsoft got really lucky here):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_801
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kildall

For much of the 80s the Intel chips were inferior to other designs like the Motorola 68K. That is why the Macintosh, Atari (today only known for Pac-Man, but yes, Atari made computers rivaling Apple) and Commodore Amiga used more powerful Motorolas.

http://www.skepticfiles.org/cowtext/comput~1/486vs040.htm

But the "IBM-compatible" architecture won despite its inferiority through path dependency and the clones driving price down.
It may be interesting to investigate using this for image compression/decompression. ie starting with an image having a greatly reduced color space, could the NN reproduce the original image?
I really like working with Ruby. But then I think about the way I use it. Web applications under constant flux. When a new version is released, I'm looking to start using it ASAP.

But when I think of embedded devices, I'm looking across my desk at a Cisco router with an eight year old firmware, and an HP LaserJet I recall updating at least 12 years ago. I shudder at the idea of writing Ruby and having it run in production for 12 years.

This doesn't criticise "dynamic" languages directly - but I can only possibly think of C, and similar languages, which wouldn't suffer this issue. Hopefully Rust can improve this situation.

That said, I'm on the fence about Erlang in this situation.
Nice demo, but it will never get real adoption for the same reason that 3D viz never got trading floor buy in: https://etrading.wordpress.com/2006/05/31/visualizing-the-ma...
Maybe keeping up with the Jetsons is their personal equivalent?
I am thinking that announcing this feature may be a tactic to win back consumer trust or in the least attract new customers who are not familiar with the potential buyout.
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Definitely. Oil wells are drying up, because "demand." So it's sure a good time to evaluate. If SA should be thinking of change on that front, others shouldn't waste any more time in following suit. Good stuff
If he had taken the plea deal would he have avoided life in prison?
That moto G had great battery life I could tell you.
Side note: "some countries" actually encompasses almost all the countries in the world, since source code falls under the Berne Convention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention, which automatically grants the author copyright on anything they make, unless they explicitly give it up...
I feel you. I moved to Seoul, South Korea a few months ago, a city of many thousands of coffeeshops. Among the natives, Starbucks is really popular -- meanwhile I go out of my way to avoid going there, because it's frustrating to move 8500km and not feel the distance traveled after putting the effort into it. The rising popularity of IKEA, which arrived in Korea about two years ago, is concerning for the same reason.

It's really not about naively craving exoticism (which inevitably wears off anyway), it's just a desire for an environmental confirmation of a major life change, the absence of which is psychologically disconcerting.

Luckily there's still a boatload of little unique, charming. non-chain coffeeshops to go to, too.
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When you surprised by Singapore - I assume you mean how low it is?

I may be able to shed some light here - Singapore is considered a "kindly" dictatorship - basically, the ruling party is efficient and has a historical track record of running things well.

Corruption, in the normal sense is near zero.

So the population is happy to keep the status quo.

However, opposition to the ruling party is next to non-existent (or was before, this may have changed), there is little to no freedom of the press (that includes web blogs), and if you try to challenge the government too loudly, they tend to either jail you or file defamation suits against you which they are guaranteed to win, and bankrupt you.

I think it was William Gibson that described Singapore as "Disneyland with the death penalty" (although this was some time ago).
You need to measure how much profit they'll make from the oil, not the revenue it will generate.
> I know no other player that lets me search a big heap of files that fast.

foobar2000?
Maybe - they do actually mention one case in the article where the review yielded more evidence and made their case stronger.
The point is we are deliberately trying to eliminate their existence and we will be directly responsible for that.
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When I was a teenager I found a baby crow that had been attacked by something and was in a bad state. I took it home looked after it for a month or so feeding it on cat food and keeping it in a garage. Maybe not the best move but I was a teenager. It grew up and lived in the wild in the end but would sometime fly down and land on my shoulder as I walked to the shops etc. I would stick it on a post box buy a few things and it would hop back on my shoulder when I came out. Made me feel quite badass ;)
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I found this https://atom.io/packages/python-debugger

Cool, last time I checked (~5 months ago) there was no python debugger for Atom. I'll try it right now.
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Certainly, but almost everything can be redefined as a problem, because almost everything can be a problem. In a given context.

For a problem you need a problem definition or things get very murky, very fast and you end in "just do the normal thing" territory, which is what I wanted to highlight with my comment above.
Uber is definitely a tech company. They have internal software infrastructure that would rival any other, and attract similar talent as other tech companies. American Airlines is probably as much a tech company as Walmart is...
They are both propaganda pieces. The first was paid for by lyft, the second by Uber.

PG wrote an essay about this type of thing, but I can't seem to find it right now
Scala tried to do the thing Kotlin invented for years.
The effort was abandoned, because it just doesn't work.

Mutable collections plus readonly interfaces gives you the worst of all imaginable worlds.
Here's some interesting info...

"Based simply on its oil reserves and using a conservative valuation of roughly $10 per barrel, Aramco could be worth more than $2.5 trillion." [0]

Then:

- $45/barrel (current price) --> roughly $11.25 trillion

- $100/barrel --> $22.5 trillion

etc

Thing is, where will the barrel price go? Any major or minor [1] event can move the price up or down.

[0] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-07/too-big-to...

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilan...
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Exactly that, yes. Spatial information encoded in acoustic information - audio pictograms, almost.

The really interesting question then becomes "is it always literal, or do they have abstract imagery too?".

If it's the latter, that is, in my admittedly inexpert opinion, a slam dunk for dolphin sentience - abstract symbolism allows art.
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I can't tell if this is sarcastic or not.

I live in the Gulf right now, and hang out with investment professionals occasionally. The prevailing opinion appears to be that local investors are shrewd at a tactical level, but terrible at long term planning because of a tendency to go after flashy, high risk/high return prestige projects.

There is also the distinct lack of local sophistication: almost all investors are reliant on non-local agents for due diligence and investment lead generation. I guarantee that this is going to come back to bite them down the road: incentives need to be aligned, and right now, they simply aren't.
So you make the best decision you can knowing what you know at the time. The non-utilitarian alternative by definition consists of making a decision that you think is worse.
Which is still irrelevant here. The willingness - or not - to take the test acts as a filter. Beyond that, a case review is carried out. If the case review finds they have sufficient evidence, the test does not matter. If the case review finds they have insufficient evidence, then you should not have been charged in the first place.
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I think these checks are probably already pretty common in other parts of the world.

For at least the last three or four years in Australia there is a requirement to present Photo ID before buying a SIM card. I was quite surprised by this when I tried to buy a SIM at Sydney airport a few years ago.

I have no idea what the government is doing with the data nor how it is protected. At the time, I just wanted a local SIM and to be on my way.
Yup, I thought it was worth pointing it out.
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Then it wouldn't be a problem that there are few women writing software, wouldn't it? Because .. maybe it just makes sense?

No that is NOT my opinion, I just want to highlight the logic flaw I see here. You cannot say that the same thing (underrepresentation) is a problem in one case and not in the other, that's just .. weird.
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Planet Money says they are estimated to be worth $4T total [1]

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/02/03/465476188/episo...
Sure, although the reason I raised it in the context of Africans is that not so long ago this was used as a justification for all sorts of horrors - any Explorer worth their salt would keep a stuffed pygmy as a coat rack - I mean, "it's" not really sentient, its family only gave the appearance of being distraught when you "culled" it. And, of course, slavery and all that begat.

Ota Benga is a nice (not so nice) case study in the impact of this sort of thinking.
So I guess this an attempt to add value to push the deal through.
Is this so bad? I remember back in 2012 when I visited Berlin I had to register my SIM with my Belgian ID and address too. It only took a few minutes, it's not that much of a hassle. At the phone shop in Belgium where I work we were required to ask for a name and address too (but didn't check ID's for prepaid cards).

I doubt this will solve much terrorism-wise though. You can't expect phone shops to verify the validity of every foreign ID and address, just supplying fake data wouldn't be hard (and probably go unnoticed until it was 'too late').
It's not gross, if anything it's much less messy than pads. Menstrual cups are awesome.
Experiments have been done that control for this. Here's an impressive video of a Crow solving an 8-step puzzle to get a reward.

http://fb-192.dailymegabyte.com/wild-crow-shows-incredible-i...

It's more than just digging and pecking.
Just tried out the developer version (http://www.opera.com/developer - built-in VPN and ad blocking is currently only available in the developer version of Opera). Both the ad blocking and the VPN works great in the few sites I tested. I especially love that turning the VPN on doesn't require any type of login.
Removing a native species carries a much greater risk of causing ecosystem collapse (massively reducing biodiversity) than removing an invasive species. Biodiversity is practically valuable (e.g. drug candidates) and some people feel it's inherently valuable. (Also some people feel that preserving the natural ecosystem is inherently valuable, though I don't have that feeling myself).