skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or how does 911 know which fire company to notify when you call and say your house is on fire? When the right fire truck is en route, which street do they turn down to reach you?

Or when you ask the local pizza parlor, "Do you deliver to my address?", how long does it take anyone to figure out the answer to that question?

Or when you want to take a taxi from point A to point B, and the small local taxis charge flat fees between different neighborhoods -- as many do -- how do they give you a fee estimate without plotting both points on a map?

Addresses need to be more useful than GPS coordinates as well as more memorable, or else you've just turned every-day life into the sport of orienteering.
Maybe because the Cavendish is so bland?
This is just another propaganda piece to obscure what is really happening.To make sure that no Arab spring takes place, the US has sold all its allies all the weapons they might need to crush any opposition to their fiefdoms. The New York Times never explains to us who those moderate rebels are.
"The alliance says it is fighting “terrorists,” a name it uses for all of Mr. Assad’s foes, from the extremists of the Islamic State to more moderate rebels who came out of the Arab Spring protest movement against his rule." http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/16/world/middleeast/syrian-fo... "Donald Trump Praises Dictators, But Hillary Clinton Befriends Them"
"Clinton has described former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak and his wife as “friends of my family.” Mubarak ruled Egypt under a perpetual “state of emergency” rule that involved disappearing and torturing dissidents, police killings, and persecution of LGBT people. The U.S. gave Mubarak $1.3 billion in military aid per year, and when Arab Spring protests threatened his grip on power, Clinton warned the administration not to “push a longtime partner out the door,” according to her book Hard Choices. After Arab Spring protests unseated Mubarak and led to democratic elections, the Egyptian military, led by Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, staged a coup. El-Sisi suspended the country’s 2012 Constitution, appointed officials from the former dictatorship, and moved to silence opposition. Sisi traveled to the U.S. in 2014 and met with Clinton and her husband, posing for a photo. The Obama administration last year lifted a hold on the transfer of weapons and cash to el-Sisi’s government....Egypt is far from the only military dictatorship that Clinton has supported. During her tenure as secretary of state, Clinton approved tens of billions of dollars of weapons transfers to Saudi Arabia – including fighter jets now being used to bomb Yemen. Clinton played a central role in legitimizing a 2009 military coup in Honduras, and once called Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad a “reformer.” And in return for approving arms deals to gulf state monarchies, Clinton accepted tens of millions of dollars in donations to the Clinton Foundation. Clinton has also boasted about receiving advice from Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who was notorious for his support of dictators. According to records from the National Security Archive, Kissinger oversaw a plot to assassinate the Chilean President Salvador Allende and install the brutal dictator Augusto Pinochet."
> Certainly not going to wipe out a town in a weekend.

Well neither did lead, in the olden days. Not in a weekend, that is.

Of course any fear such as it exists (and regardless of how ill-founded or well-founded it may be!) is not about weekend wipe-outs but rather slowly creeping seeping insidious very-long-term poisoning accumulating and unnoticable from day-to-day, until who knows "suddenly" at some point the entire population has at least half a dozen ailments of civilization, new-fangled "syndromes", mitochondrial or neurodegeneration, and depends on dozen of pills..
ARMageddon: Cache Attacks on Mobile Devices
People claim that they "Spend so much on R and D that they need to be able to charge these prices". My drug albuterol was in use 100 years ago.
Extracting city blocks from OpenStreetMap data
Since he is looking at spacemacs, I'd recommend mapping caps lock to escape when it's tapped, but ctrl when it's pressed in conjunction with other keys. Very useful,

(though I suffer from the same problem when on other peoples computers)
Yes - its quite well done. It is a PBS Frontline Documentary: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/saudi-arabia-uncovere.... Also, more salient to the NYT article, I would strongly suggest http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/the-secret-history-of... . The synposis on the latter is: The Bush Administration was so intent on proving the existence of WMD's in Iraq that they inadvertently gave power to what was soon to be ISIS.
And by the same reason, nobody will give your parcel addressed to foo bar baz to your neighbor at blih blah bloh, would they?
> Demographic shifts like this and the ensuing competition for limited resources

Less resources are needed if you have less people. Ultimately everyone will benefit from it.
This is why we need workplace democracy and worker ownership of businesses.. It's no big surprise that the places where there is the least amount of personal agency and the most hierarchical control of employees are the places that are highest in alienation, suicide, and burnout. Whereas the first few founders of a new company work harder and work better than the ones who come later. Because they are free to make decisions and they own what they are creating.
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I've personally never seen racial discrimination* (in Australia, and have dodged around a lot of companies). That said, I've not been in a hiring position often, but sometimes.

If anything in Australia, the companies I've experienced have leaned towards 457 visa workers, which I suspect work out pretty cheaply for them (and are invariably Indian).

* Edit: With strong emphasis on the hiring process. I'm not saying racism isn't alive and well in Australia beyond that.
I wander how many people still implement their own networks as opposed to use these prepared frameworks. Or do you guys stick to single framework or use some sort of mixture of tools?
Slightly off topic:

Clicking "Simplify Page" on the google chrome printing dialog makes this a fantastic formatted PDF. I'm impressed (be it Chrome's doing or NYT's).
Those are reasonable starting points, but in truth the classification is far more complex than that among linguists.
New attack allows stealy crypto keys without permissions on mobile devices
Surpass Pokemon Go hype: minimizing impact on the infrastructure
I can see that happening to Saudi Arabia but not the middle east as a whole. A lot of them don't really see the benefit of the oil wealth (especially in surrounding 'pipeline' countries that don't have oil), they only get to deal with the fallout.
Regarding the long URL issue, since IRC can be easily customised, wouldn't it be possible to create a filter that, for each message, would send the URLs to a URL shortener service and display the result? It could even be a self-hosted service to make sure the URLs remain private.
Unless it triggers an event that has lasting consequences beyond their longevity.
And what stops anyone from spending a few days making a similar, public domain 3 word addressing system?
> Similar punishments are prescribed by the Old Testament, so not specific to Islam.

Saying that is ignoring the hadiths and the sharia which describe in great details all the aspects of the life of a Muslim. There is no such thing with Christianity. There are no "christian tribunals" describe by the bible. Islam is closer to Judaism in that aspect. The bible doesn't cover in great details all the aspects of life of a christian. Furthermore the new testament is clearly a new covenant incompatible in many aspects with the first one.
The thing is we don't have less people right now. The population is still growing rapidly, just getting older overall. That is going to lead to a massive grab for limited resources(not just physical like food and basic goods, but time for caretakers, medical services, etc.) that could be massively destabilizing. We've already seen rising food prices recently lead to unrest in poorer regions of the world, that could be only the beginning.
> I think that were the Arab world to be green and lush, it would be a better place, because civilization and power would have developed from an agrarian base ... which is more distributed,

We are going to enter a similar situation in the developed countries as the workforce will be replaced by automation. Work has been a great "distributor" of wealth, each person being in charge of his own work potential. But after automation, people will have nothing to trade for. Regular people will become like "muslims in barren countries", dependants upon the state and wealthy. And the riches will collect in the hands of big corporations who operate the robotic fleets.

The only solution I see is to open source and democratize AI and robotics so it doesn't concentrate wealth like it happened with operating systems (Microsoft), search (Google), social networks (FB) and oil (arab countries). People need to be independent from now on. If corporations are to function without hiring people, then people need to function without needing said corporations. We need to focus on agriculture, 3D printing, solar and open source AI. We need to be self sufficient.
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Finally! The term "open source" has become a buzzword. Especially recently by the GitLab guys and their rhetoric. Thanks Stallman. I stand with you.

GitHub is another fine example of a company who preaches open source, but doesn't have an open source product.
Well, unlike Iraq in 2003, there will be a war in Syria 12 months from now whether Hillary tries to remove Assad or not. The question is whether we continue to try to shape the outcome.

In the meantime, we have this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/02/toxic-gas-in-the-...
This is a concern across most industries, not just software as hiring managers are more likely to identify with people who share their background. This is reasonable to some extent. When interviewing non-native speakers, their ability to communicate with you can be a major factor in whether to hire. If you can't communicate well with the person, they're unlikely to do good work. That said there's been a problem in the US startup scene where after the emphasis on culture fit, many companies end up only hiring people that look exactly like themselves.
There appears to be a keyboard layout layer on develop[0] with support for dvorak.

Personally, I started looking into this when I started, but just got used to how hjkl are on dvorak (I still need the ability to be able to pick up with any random vim/vi I find on any random box, and don't find the utility in trading that).

[0] https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/tree/develop/layers/%2...
Often blast furnaces and smelters can't be turned off.
The biggest issue I see when Stallman views get discussed is the ignorance that without the GNU project, many of the projects people take for granted would never have existed.

A good example is the ongoing replacement of gcc for clang, while forgetting that for several years gcc was the only really usable free C and C++ compiler.
1/ Say upcoming CSS feature is privacy hell 2/ Wait for it 3/ Profit
Is there a decent way to save the article as a PDF to read later, say on an ipad?

I tried Safari's 'Export as PDF' but the formatting is too mangled. Safari can also save as a single 'web archive' file but I can't get that file to open on my ipad.

Firefox has a save option of 'Web page, complete', but you end up with lots of files, impractical to move around to other devices. Printing as a PDF also mangles the format.
That's absurd. Everything we do in the modern world stands upon technological, mathematical and scientific success brought to us by the middle east. Don't let you (imo apparently biased) thoughts about islam distort history
> The invasions initial execution was beautiful (first few days)

War is not beautiful. The invasion was a revolting, unnecessary horror from conception to now, where it still has not ended and shows no sign of an end.

As far as Bush not listening to generals, etc. I don't believe Bush was anything more than a figurehead. Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc. were the decision makers. They knew what they were doing, and they didn't have an exit strategy because exiting was never their goal.
Great podcast btw, love 99pi!
What areas of the job are you having a hard time evaluating?
On what topic? The middle-east? If so, probably you want to read "The Modern Middle East: A History".

See: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/books/middleeast...

For some more resources
The geographical spread is certainly there.
If you're criticizing a region for its geographic resources or lack thereof, it makes sense to discuss its history in terms of that geographic region as opposed to using cultural or ethnolinguistic definitions.

I'll also point out that Hammurabi was likely speaking an Afro-Asiatic language (of which Arabic is the most widely-spoken in modern times), so ancient Mesopotamia is as close to the modern Iraq ethnolinguistically as ancient Greece is to modern Western Europe.
When you're correct at the start, you don't have to change your mind.
This service looks interesting: http://locate.world/
Calling them cultural flaws and saying they need to be addressed is one of the worst first steps you can take, but setting aside that there are already many Muslims integrating into Western society without having directly addressed the those issues.

Simply allowing them to participate in Western society is enough to sufficiently "address" those issues, as many will naturally gravitate towards more progressive and liberal lifestyles.

I have seen many Muslim women driving, walking outside, and showing their faces without incident, but I think it's important to point out that there are plenty of non-Muslim cultures that punish unmarried women for public displays of affection (including simply being present with a non-relative male).
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What use is the GPL to someone who is not a developer?

Serious, non-snarky question. If you don't have the ability to modify or interpret the source code due to lack of time or knowledge, what exactly is the benefit?
The Saudis will eventually fall, but thats not gone be anytime soon. If the carrot does not work anymore, they have the stick. Just look at Saddam, he was not popular but managed to remain in power for a long time. The Saudis have more money, and a easier to repress, less divided population.

The Saudis will be fine for a long time.
"many of the great lights were not of Islamic extraction"

... really? many of them ? can you please write "many" more from "non Islamic extraction"

"El-Khwarizmi, who was from a Zoroastrian family and may have converted out of economic or political expediency"

...So one particular scholar is not really a "muslim", soo it must that everything else worthy must be from non-muslim people

"but on the whole the Islamic Golden Age was what one would expect when a supremely wealthy but weak empire (the Eastern Romans) is conquered by poor but strong barbarians: the conquerors are rich & happy for decades, living off of the wealth they have taken."

...So they were just plunderers?

This is textbook western self-propaganda.
These Five Platforms Will Make Your Bots Language-Intelligent
It supports Mongolian and other languages with a separate dictionary (http://what3words.com/ top right you can select a language)
No worries. She will be hired as Propaganda Minister by President Clinton
Actually, scrollanim is a wrapper to add/delete animate.css classes based on the element's position.

Thanks for sharing the repo.
The freedom to deny freedom to others is not freedom.
The Next Generation of Wireless – “5G” – Is All Hype
On this question, ceteris ain't paribus.
> One huge downside would be that older people tend to skew to the more conservative end of the political spectrum

Only a downside if you (a) disagree with them; (b) for whatever reason, feel they are not entitled to their beliefs

> and can end up drowning out the voices of the young.

Funny how when your opinions are the majority it's democracy, and when they're not it's "voices being drowned out."

> Worth thinking about: How many Brexit "Leave" voters have simply died of old age in the two months between then and now?

It's not.
> infrastructure for AC-based indoor living in the entire region and beyond

Thats a huge amount of constant power and infrastructure, which is just not going to be built.

Easier to build an underground city with high ceilings and taking advantage of physics than managing to give AC to everyone in the region, which is to say both options are extremely difficult and require pre-existing infrastructure.

And this still doesn't solve the problem of what precisely people will do for work in the region
projects ML?
All her talk of integrity, and yet HuffPo writes articles on Uber while she sits on their board. Where are the amazing journalists of our day? Where is the modern day Murrow or Cronkite?

On another note does anyone know any good Indian journalists? Or is the term an oxymoron :P ?
The source of data is a lot of simulations we ran ourselves. All of the games can be won or lost - there's also a score measure as well, but that was not used in producing that graphic.
Also worth seeing is "Why We Did It" - The Invasion of Iraq.
Aside from my other comment though, what you've described I think is basically human nature.

Nepotism has been a factor for centuries; perhaps shining a light on it as the Internet is trying to do, will help people understand what's going on in a larger way.

Some might say it's too late now though.
Yeah this can easily be accomplished with a bot (and is fairly common practice)
Complaints made after judge trades insults with defendant in court
Will try them both for visual collaboration, but don't think they are suitable for project management activities.
For non-Enlgish speakers, they have just substituted numbers with letters. And for English speakers, I wonder if they will be willing to use it when their business is in infected.shit.hole or something like that.
Isn't it great?

Work almost all your life.

No more grandparents taking care of children while parents work, decreasing the number of families that might have children.

Less open positions for young people.
A curious side note - hardly a language or even dialect, really - is the effect that having a large number of immigrants from one country can have on a region's language.

For example, in my own eastern Wisconsin, a large part of "Wisconsin-ese" is nothing more than German translated directly into English. So many people settled Eastern Wisconsin from Germany at the same time that their efforts to learn English all had the same mistakes, and became our local "pidgen".

For example -

- to soften an imperative in German, add "mal" - short for "einmal" (once)
- there is only one word for borrow or lend - "leihen".

And so "Leih mir ein dollar mal" is "Could you lend me a dollar?" in English, but,

"Borrow me a dollar once"

in Wisconsin "accent". Many other small examples of this.
There are WeeChat scripts that do exactly that (I think urlserver.py is the recommended one, but don't take my word for it). But version 1.0 (iirc) added bare display mode, which does away with the fancy decorations temporarily. This helps the terminal emulator realise that it's a multi-line URL and let you click it. See http://dev.weechat.org/post/2014/02/16/Bare-display
I live in Sweden at the moment, in a work environment with many nationalities. You remind me of how all colleagues from countries around the Mediterranean Sea agree that the vegetables and fruit are pretty bland over here, and that the selection is pretty small as well. The reason for that is exactly what you said: the choices are limited by export-resilience.
How about an art gallery analogy? Consider the internet a giant art gallery, where open ports are doorways that one may walk through. Closed ports are closed doors, perhaps only open to certain patrons. Still others are closed to everyone.
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> Education curriculum, fairness, equality, social justice, civic duty, personal accountability

The problem is which form they take. Women are clearly not men's equal in the Koran. The Koran talks about all these subjects, it doesn't mean it promotes these. According the to Koran(and the Bible) , slavery is acceptable, the Koran even tells how Muslims should treat their slaves. Is that the fairness,equality and social justice you are talking about ? Or are you twisting the meaning of these words at first place ?

You can argue the Koran is a product of its time,which it totally is. Saying that is a good way to invalidate the fact that it should be taken as "the final, perfect word of \"God\" " if it should be read in context. But it's forbidden for Muslims to criticize the Koran at first place... so back to square one.
'“open source” is, except in pathological cases, also “free”'

There is a substantial category that this leaves out, that I wouldn't call "pathological": commercial or otherwise proprietary software where the source is provided as part of the deal. The license may allow you to recompile for different machines, modify the code for your own purposes, but not redistribute.

EDIT: I may be wrong in the sense that the "access to source" I'm talking about may not be in the "open source" category, depending on how that is defined.
How long is a prayer in Islam ? it's an interesting idea but it's hard to believe that this has such a significant impact.
You are correct if everyone gets to vote. If the elderly with little to do all day have an easier time getting to the polls than the working class single mom supporting them, then you have a problem. I say make election day a national holiday. The AARP likely disagrees.

You don't even have to do that, I'd make July 4th election day in the states for example.
Mongolia is one of the 22 countries in the world that Britain did not invade, so unfortunately they don't have the benefit of the British post code system :)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9653497/British-have-inva...
So the choice is between war hawk and unpredictable megalomaniac. Sophie's choice of US politics...
The article omits the key component of transmitting information between venues. For lines between continents, the improvements are orders of magnitude greater than the ones discussed in this article.
> A native speaker of Danish, I was able to speak with my Norwegian housemate. With my Swedish friends however, it was harder. Not sure why, since Sweden is visible from Denmark but Norway is a bit further away.

Between 1500ish and 1800ish Danish was extremely influential on Norwegian, by virtue of being... well... the formal language of the country.
Don't pin this on western's. There are definitely those of us who have a grasp on history. This guy/gal has a readily apparent bias.
But that would make it harder to remember. "Was it apricot.bubble.morose or apricot.bubble.dejected ?"
A less sensational and more accurate headline might be:
"FCC Losses Battle to Preempt State Law"
No, it sounds horrible - how is email secure? That's way too many people in the loop too. Why would they need it on file if you are no longer a tenant?

And returning a deposit like that.... I always got a check / cashier's check. I only rented thru Foxton's once and that was a nightmare. And I had to threaten them with a lawsuit to get it - and they paid me by direct deposit / transfer IIRC.

Foxton's has the worst of reputations. Do a google search and don't be afraid to issue legal threats (going thru the proper procedure of course). gov.uk has info and you should have gotten some sort of paperwork outlining your rights -- see

https://www.gov.uk/tenancy-deposit-protection/overview
Yeah youtube, the greatest source to get historical facts straight without any actual political bias.