skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The system here in Israel is roughly as follows:

The gov sponsors universities almost to 100%. The means going to university is almost free for me as a student - about $2500 per year. I can acquire a law degree and become a lawyer for less than $8000. The government is involved in the way the public universities are run so as to keep the subsidies manageable. Total government funding for university education in Israel is about $1.5B [1]. Since universities have high admission standards, many colleges have sprouted to service those who can't or don't want to go to one of the public universities. However, since university prices are so low, even private colleges are forced to operate with tuition fees of roughly $5000 per year, which means they are also very manageable for students. Even so, the quality of education in Israel is amongst of the highest in the world, especially when considering its tiny population. Hebrew University, Israel's best institution, has been ranked 26th in the world [2].

This system has attracted a lot of snark here in Israel, but from what I gather it's actually pretty effective. Israel is the 2nd most educated country in the world, with 46% of its population possessing a university degree [3]. :-)

Sorry for the Hebrew sources!

[1] Hebrew: https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/אוניברסיטאות_בישראל#.D7.9E.D7....

[2] Hebrew:
http://www.calcalist.co.il/world/articles/0,7340,L-3693018,0...

[3] Hebrew:
http://mako.co.il/special-mako-news/Article-6489f432bb2f9310...
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link to davis camera please?
AOL, Compuserve &c. were built on top of the CCITT standards (V.21 &c.), and the PSTN, which was a fairly open platform post 1968.
Additionally, they are likely trying to capitalise on the fact that everyone is calling this product (real or not) "Photoshop for voice", in order to keep the spotlight on their brand.
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In all seriousness, what do you figure they intend to do with that list of muslims? You seem very relaxed about the whole thing.
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Many times in my life I've looked around at all the factory manufactured things and have been amazed first at the amount -- that so much of my material life is made in a factory -- and then have wondered, how much of earth is covered in factories? in that, how much does it really require to produce soooooo much, as it is not just around me, but around most of the world's people. It is probably only a small bit of the earth's total land area, but I do wonder.
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As jack9 proposed higher up in this thread, you could put the EmDrive on the outside of a rotating system to provide constant torque, which accelerates the rotation. Then wait until the system has sped up to the point where the kinetic energy increases faster than the power you put in. Then use the whole thing to drive a generator.
I used to work at Pivotal and have many friends still there. The 9:06 and reasons here are correct.

The line "Then the firm's programmers hit their computers, with no other meetings or distractions for the rest of the day," is absolute rubbish. Most teams have at least an Iteration Planning Meeting and a Retrospective each week, as well as generally a team-specific standup the majority of (if not all) days. As well, there are of course manager 1 on 1s, the rare company meeting, and ad-hoc meetings as a project sees fit.
Sorry, I just had to comment because the quoted line is absurd.

Edit: and the line about leaving work 6pm sharp is just as ridiculous. In the consulting side it tends to be true that your workday is over at 6 PM, but you're not going to get shoved into an elevator before you finish your commit message at 6:01. The limit is there so you don't overwork and so that the client companies know they can't push their consultants arbitrarily late.
Agreed! I've looked for alternatives but they all miss the mark. I was considering building my own but haven't found the time.
>We don't need student debt reform (and I say that as someone who has a lot of student debt). Student loan debt is a middle/upper middle class problem. 2/3 of millennials don't have a college degree, disproportionately in the lower and lower middle class. The majority have no student debt

You comment basically boils down to "not too many people even go to college, let's not do anything to improve that".

What a shame, you really don't want to improve anything.
I've found that the Advanced Custom Fields solves most of the custom needs I get from clients.

I'm not a fan of Wordpress' innards. I usually avoid themes or plugins (other than ACF and a few 'crucial' ones). I'm not a fan of the theming system to the point where I often override or circumvrent the out-of-the-box queries and templating rules. I use my own get_partial() function that properly isolates my template variables and have even used React for the view layer once.

But I still use Wordpress quite often because 1) so many of my clients need exactly the features that wordpress offers, 2) they're familiar with WP and often insist on using it (and it saves me support), 3) I've found that the CMS-part of the whole thing is by far the most work, and building something as slick as WP' admin interface is just too much reinventing the wheel, and 4) there's still an advantage to being able to just run the site on 'typical' hosting (speed, pricing).

Furthermore, the inconvenience to me is a huge advantage to the client, because if they need small changes or additions they're now free to hire any (shitty) 'webmaster' to make css changes or install crappy plugins that magically offer them the features they need. These webmasters are a lot cheaper than I am.

All that said, I generally prefer the kinds of projects where I don't feel Wordpress is the right solution. But for a number of reasons the WP projects are still the most common and relevant ones right now.
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But at the same time it seems to casually reduce Notch's effort to "used perlin noise". He didn't need perlin noise per-se; there are countless of other terrain generation techniques. But perlin noise, in part, made minecraft what it is today, that's true.
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It is like every year one reads that this time AMD beats Intel or NVIDIA, but when it comes to "showing the goods", AMD products are not much more than eccentric room heaters.
AMD is a red mage. No one uses red mages.
This has probably been said before, but I feel the decline of quality reporting and rise of clickbait is largely due to the SV business model of "make everything free and support it via advertising". The only thing that matters in this model is engagement, therefore reporters and publishers optimize for engagement only, and clickbait is the natural consequence.

I am not quite sure why we can't operate like the rest of the world and charge for services - as a user, I would always rather pay than have my data sold to advertisers.
Growing up, the first thing my friends did when they got audio software on PC was edit recordings of people to make them sound stupid. It was basic swapping answers from different questions.

Years later, I edited dialog from a movie (for my own use) to shorten or rearrange sentences in a way that very few people can detect, to remove profanity from clips I wanted to show to people who can't handle it.

Also, AIUI Hollywood has been splicing dialog for decades in ADR. Star Trek TNG had an episode in which a vocal resynthesis device played a role, so the idea is old.
Uh, wtf? Capitalism requires capital, which is exactly what you are railing against. A monopoly over using a thing.
For the record, the relevant Podesta e-mail is [1]. Which interpretation you subscribe to is another thing.

[1] https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15893
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All of the mentioned products seem to be produced by iniLabs:

http://inilabs.com/products/

http://inilabs.com/products/dynap/
People's inability to service/pay their loans, due to not having enough income, due to the job market collapsing, due to a recession (which is already overdue).
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True words spoken, even the bastion of free high quality bathrooms - MC Donalds - nowadays uses recipe scanners in a lot of its bathrooms.

The poor people simply don't have a place to shit and nobody wants to give it to them for free.
small mobile computers suck.

Give me a Xeon 3Ghz 24 core.
Does anyone have a good guide/article on hardening wordpress from an hosting perspective? What is listed at wordpress.org is too thin for me. What tools are available that can be run on the server instead of in wordpress (WordFence alternatives that I can run on the CLI via cron etc)?

For example I have fail2ban rules to catch break-in attempts etc.
A 300-word HN comment does not encompass everything about my life and my decisions. Please understand that there are good reasons for what I'm doing - I am a rational human being, after all, and I'm not going to write essays that go over the hundreds of hours of thought, deliberation and research that lies behind my decision.

I'm very glad your parents (and you) succeeded here. And the US is undoubtedly a great country.

However, in my particular case, in my particular circumstances, I have made this decision.

If you feel that I'm being silly, and "good riddance" to me, that's your prerogative. People are complex beings, and I will afford you the courtesy that you denied me.
This is a misleading title (both on Backchannel and here). I have no idea why the author chose to use it (other than as clickbait) when it misrepresents the content of the actual article. The article points out how much verifiably false information there is on the internet and how quickly it can spread. Clearly this is not good. The article itself and Snopes' editor, the primary source for of quotes in the article, both agree with that. And the actual quote from Snopes' editor is that social media isn't the problem. She does not say that fake news isn't the problem.

What we should say is that all aspects mentioned in the article are problematic: the decline in the media, the rampant levels of fake news on the internet and the way social media can so quickly and pervasively spread patently false information. None of them are necessarily the problem alone, but they are each serious problems and all the moreso when in tandem as they are today.
Sounds like an app version of https://xlinux.nist.gov/dads/

There's not much regarding explanations there, but as a list of connected concepts (most pages have "see also"), it's really good.

The idea is interesting. I would be tempted to try it if the price wasn't high.
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> Is there any evidence for a government having a backdoor in Cyanogen or another Android OS fork? Or, for that matter, a backdoor into iOS?

They don't need to, if they can put malicious code into the hardware, and bypass the software stack entirely.
really good work on using these cameras for robot vision from Davide Scaramuzza's lab: http://rpg.ifi.uzh.ch/research_dvs.html
Click bait for the most part. Companies and languages are paired, but there is no discussion.
Ask HN: Raise funding even though startup based in germany?
Does is it make sense to create a startup-profile on AngelList and raise funding, even though my startup is based in germany?
Great! Also, thank you for a previous link (which is amazing) - I don't know why you deleted the comment.

This would be great only if they are grouped by topic.

What price? It would be free and open source.
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+1 on motorcycling. Add a little zest to your life.
Which is false, and why Trump won, even though he's rough-shod, crude, and otherwise not suited to being president.

Most of MSM has a soft-left bias and a lot of it is hard left - and not in the classical 'socialist' manner (i.e. representing working class) - they're now fully onto race and identity issues, and enforcing PC culture.

There was an article in the Guardian today - written by a woman, lambasting how rude and crude and disgusting the male habit of 'stag parties' (UK bachelor parties) are. The comments section (and this is a fairly left wing site) lambasted the author, because were the roles reversed, she'd be chastised, she's never been to a stag, and the female version of stags are equally as bad. But in the Guardian, they need an article every day to hate on white men. Even their readers called them out.

Every day there is an article in the Huffington Post or the Guardian or MSNBC that could very well be in the Onion. They are easily just as bad as anything alt-right. But in the article - only the 'alt right' was mentioned as being of poor quality. Again - this is obvious bias.

Fox News - at least the news items (not the commentary, which is bad) is actually looking reasonable these days, which is shocking to me.

Watch the local news only for 10 days. You'll feel something is 'too normal'. It's relaxing. It's just the news - that's it. Then - when you turn back to cable news - you'll realize how full of spin and ideology it is.

The only reason I watch CNN is to try to grasp what kind of spin they are applying, and why. CNN is soft about it (Fox and MSNBC are blatant), and probably the trickiest, but it's there if you look for it.
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> While the percentage of misinformation is relatively small, we have much more work ahead on our roadmap.

Wow. This just reminded me of Joeseph Goebbels.

"If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself."

Why does 'Zuck' continue to lie? Has he started believing it himself? Several independent organization and scribes have proven that as much as 35% of links and stories on Facebook are fabricated, click-baity and outright FALSE stories. 1 even as recently as yesterday.
The main thing this guy seems to want to do is curtail abuse, or in other words he wants to restrict the ability for people to say things to you that you don't want to hear. Given that, I'm surprised he's advocating a distributed system where this would probably be an even harder problem to solve.

But frankly I don't understand why "Twitter abuse" is seen as such a big problem. In general if you wish to publish something and provide a channel for people to respond, it's practically impossible for anyone to guarantee you'll be happy with all the responses you get. This is one of the hard parts of being a publisher, which is what you become when you sign up to Twitter. It's sad if someone is hurt by the responses they receive, but it's not really Twitter's problem. Twitter does provide ways to shield yourself from hostile and abusive users but the expectations being placed on them seem unreasonable to me.

It's interesting that this exact same conversation is going on about Reddit (how people are offending each other, and we need to "fix" this). It's as if no one grasps that this has been going on since the beginning of time and if there's more of it at the moment that might point to a deeper problem in society which needs to be resolved through dialogue.
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Do you also keep your zfs snapshots around?

(they're a lot more efficient than lvm snapshots. One machine I use took snapshots every half hour, and we accidentally filled it up with >3000 snapshots before anyone noticed that the reaper script for old snapshots wasn't running :-P . No performance degradation!)
(Germany) well all taxes together, I'm not sure the social part is probably not a tax, but over the years it feels more like a tax, since you actually get less and less per year, but you need to pay more. I mean just looking at my rents or healthcare...
The system is broken by design, since actually people that earn better could actually use a privat healthcare/rent. Well some could argue that people who earn more would abuse the system anyway or would leave the country, however at the moment it is worse since if everybody would pay, all people would need to pay less and actually letting people have a private healthcare/rent makes the system anti social especially if you get better services while inside a private system.
The same with our taxes, they are too progressive, which means that if you are like me you are inside the worst part of the curve which is a little bit unfair.
Oh, jeez. That's a blatant backdoor alright.
Facebook to increase UK employees by 50% in 2017
When you alter you contradict your own fact checking to include partisan interpretations and equivocation to bolster an agenda, you lose credibility.

Snopes is no longer a wholly credible source for fact checking when they don't stick to facts as stated BY SNOPES. Now I have to suspect every analysis on editorializing. Snopes provides their own custom narrative on judgement re: http://www.snopes.com/hillary-... [snopes.com] - she did laugh, she did plea bargain him out, etc. Don't say false when it's true, but you are trying to meet your own overall conclusion. It really soured me. Yes, the story is basically false, but the fact checking there is factually incorrect by their own measure. Her behavior isn't all that strange among defense attorneys (backpedal apologizing), so whatever.

That being said, the idea of "fake news" is tricky subject when real news can be spun so hard. Facts get blurred when put together in unexpected ways to form a new headline which is almost always to meet some agenda. On the other hand, a news story always starts with a perceived context, so which is more correct? The more factually correct or the more coherent/recent narrative?
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I was distracted while reading the post and though you were looking for resources to learn yourself. I didn't think my response matched what you asked :)

For the record the link was to http://rosalind.info/problems/tree-view/ which is a good way to learn both graph algorithms and bioinformatics in one go.
Those universities in the seventies served far fewer students. In case you haven't noticed enrollment is up as a proportion of the population. Funding as a portion of GDP should've matched it as well.
China bypassed US export laws by licensing from AMD and creating a partnership which re-capitalized AMD. China wants to have the fastest and best of everything to show up the United States that China is the new world power.

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1329517
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2109703/amd-moves-desktop-pc-...
I'm grown up enought to have so much aesthetic that i don't wanna life in a shithole anymore.
Well, I agree that the article can annoy some people. But... as an avid Smalltalker with a LOT of experience with it - and a lot of experience with Javascript too (and tons of other languages) - there is a "truth" in here.

Smalltalk is immensely cleaner and gives you IMHO a much deeper more gratifying experience working in it. Yes, it's OO all the way, while Javascript is... well, not sure what to call it these days ;) A hodgepodge perhaps. But the real magic in Smalltalk is in the live environment.

It all boils down to the Right Tool for the Right Job. If you are looking for a really powerful tool for abstraction and working interactively with advanced domain models, often using meta capabilities - then Smalltalk totally rocks. The more advanced, the more it shines.

But of course Smalltalk has its negative sides too, and it depends on your specific use case. It's (if we consider the Cog VM which is the most common one) pretty fast, but comes short of V8. It can interoperate with other languages, but it's not as easy as in some other languages. It has a decent community, but not as large as Javascript/Python/Ruby. And so on.

But when your use case fits - it's really good. So my advice is learn many languages, it will make you a better developer, and its fun!

<promotion>Personally I am trying to evolve Smalltalk by merging it with ideas from Lisp, JavaScript and Rebol: sprylang.org</promotion>
Pivotal has nearly 100% of developer time spent pairing. This requires entire teams to be in sync on in/out and lunch schedules, else there will be non-pairing time. That's not the end of the world, but most teams don't have code review, favoring the live review of paired development.
While at Pivotal, I did observe the rare team with an 8AM start instead of 9, but as far as I know everyone opted into being on an alternative schedule, and it was for out-of-time-zone client work to enable better communication with the client.
It sounds like in some cases its not succeeding at either.
On the std::abs function
So..

Here's a vulnerability which completely owns the phones it runs on. This is the kind of thing which a few years ago would have been the scandal that would destroy companies - the pre-SP1 Windows XP Microsoft vulnerabilities were much, much less serious than this and yet Gates saw them as an existential threat to the company.

But apparently vulnerabilities now are so common that - even when they are deliberately put in - the company neglected to pay the ~$20/year to make sure they kept access.

Additionally, for all the talk of how state-sponsored agencies are continually grabbing every resource they could, here is one where they could have taken over a large number of phones and yet failed to.

Additionally, for all the talk of how organized the PLA is.. clearly this wasn't them.
Just out of curiosity, is there any child labor involved in this? Also, what proportion of local population is doing this (considering both workers and business owners)? Why this city, but not other cities around? Anything special of your hometown? Thank you!
It was implemented but then removed again. Fortunately, it can be implemented as a library in Rust (https://github.com/oli-obk/rust-sa).
" as a user, I would always rather pay than have my data sold to advertisers."

Most people would say this. But then when it comes time to get out their credit card and buy a subscription - they don't actually follow through.

Only entities with a highly educated and conscientious readership can get away with firewalls: FT, WSJ, NYT - and not much else.

Arguably, some news outfits were designed as profit making entities, and 'news' was just a vehicle to that profit. CNN is a relatively latecomer in the news world, and because they were formed primarily as a cable news channel ... they went about their business very differently that more classical print houses.

One thing we don't talk about enough: 'information consumption habits'.

People checked out the news every day to keep up. Now - they can read FB/Instagram and keep up with things that are possibly more important to them in their lives. So - the new social opportunity is literally grabbing 'waking hours' from regular news sites. Bloggers - good or bad - can report on events in some cases somewhat reliably - and so there are other outlets.

If you live in Toronto, you used to buy the 'Toronto Star' or 'Globe and Mail'. Now you can read NYT, Guardian, Washington Post - so there's a degree of consolidation as well.

Sadly, it's a mess and I hope someone can figure it out :)
Agree.. twitter is far from dead. Looking at reddit data,

Mention of twitter is skyrocketing (election driven).

http://searchreddit.net/?relevance&direction=desc&view=analy...

Twitter rules in sports and politics..

http://searchreddit.net/?relevance&direction=desc&view=analy...
The Trump = Racism thing is a media lie. http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/11/16/you-are-still-crying-wo... Trump gained more of the non-white vote than the last two Republicans to run, has a Jewish daughter, and constantly talks about how he values other cultures. Just not uncontrolled immigration.
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