skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some musicians play with this deliberately. Sigur Rós sings some or part of their songs in Hopelandic, a kind of glossolalia that vaguely resembles Icelandic. The album booklet for '( )' contained blank pages for listeners to write their own lyrics into. Elizabeth Fraser of the Cocteau Twins sings in a form of English that is almost but not quite comprehensible. And Lisa Gerard of Dead Can Dance sings pure, invented glossolalia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJhVM930YXY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtBr5JKSuks

https://vimeo.com/3977534
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Idldeword's quote states he'd deport 11 immigrants. It should say he claimed he'd deport 11 million illegal immigrants. In confounding these terms it creates unnecessary alarm for legal immigrants who are not the intended subjects of the policy.

Countries have many policies to keep people out. Do you think Mexico or Japan don't keep people out? They too have policies for who can enter their countries for what. It's normal. We're the outliers in terms of policy non enforcement compared to other nations.
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trans engineers who refuse to work at a place with binary toilets?

If a population of conservative engineers existed who refused to work at a place with non-binary toilets, would you make the same statement? Or would they not be good at their jobs?
What a fantastic site this and the others people have posted on here are. Making this kind of information available to people is a great way to change their opinion of something that otherwise they probably think doesn't do anything for them, or that has a cost, not a benefit to the local economy and environment, and is the kind of information we need to give our kids access to so it becomes de rigeur to understand how important trees are. With all the bad news in the world at the moment, this has been a ray of sunshine, thanks.
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UPDATE: Their latest statements can be found here: https://forgerock.org/topic/where-has-the-trunk-gone/
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This is demagoguery, there are many reason why not to have a biometric database and this isn't one of them.

The biometric db will not track ethnicity, Israel has already a national identity registry and a mandatory national identity card law like many other nations.

For the nonsensical scenario you propose it effectively has already everything in place.

Israel also issues biometric passports and smart identity cards the difference is that the biometric info is only stored on the smart card embedded in those and it's also not stored in a raw form but as a set of fuzzy hashes which are created from the biometric information collected from the card or passport holder.

The controversy here is the proposal of a central db which will hold raw biometric data.

Please bare in mind that Israel has also a national bone marrow databas which covers about 80% of the population, as well as an opt-in by default organ donor program if you take out a drivers license.

And anyone who went through military service also has their DNA and fingerprints on file.

The DB here is basically a proposal to unify all of these, centralize them and make it available to law enforcement which is in gross violation of the laws that preceded it and also a pretty huge security liability.
Relevant thread: "Why did the US and Soviet Union continue to build nuclear weapons far beyond the point where each side could completely annihilate the other ?" - https://www.reddit.com/r/WarCollege/comments/54phhu/why_did_...
IPv6 NAT is generally discouraged and providers can gain huge benefits too from not doing NAT. NAT always implies state which needs to be stored somewhere. The moment you NAT, you very likely won't be able to do the routing in pure hardware any more, so throughput is an issue.

routing v6 directly is completely stateless. It can easily be done completely in hardware possibly not even requiring to store the packet anywhere, nor needing any knowledge of the protocols wrapped inside of the IP packet.

To do NAT, you need to know about TCP and UDP and about the various ports which means you need to look into the IP packet. To route v6, you just look at the IP packet.
Because clearly the only thing important when it comes to trees is their economic value/s

Still a nice project.
There really needs to be a proper social debate about the place drugs (including alcohol) have or ought to have within society. No, the current hysteria and scattershot approach is not sufficient. I'm thinking a one time town hall type event where this damn problem is solved once and for all.

I'm all for medical research, but using medical reasons (aka "medicalization") to legitimize psychoactive substances in general doesn't have quite the integrity I think is needed.

And to try and constrain psychoactive substances entirely to the medical sphere, as so many would like to do I think, is problematic as well.
What is it a dog whistle for?
bold statement, but actually what they do here would be totally legal in the EU. cause they say it's for fraud detection. Basically EU is not better when it comes to privacy. The law is totally crap and doesn't actually defend against anything.
Instead of Google cherry-picking all of the talent out of the pool, why not let them pay corporate taxes, so we can spend the money on education?
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Again, my main criticism of Gluu is lack of a transparent security record (I posted a bit more on this lower down in this thread).
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I mostly agree.

The main path for glucose involves splitting it in two 3 carbon molecules, mainly pyruvate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycolysis From this it's easy to make acetic acid (2 carbons), like the acetic acid in vinegar. And , I guess it's also not very difficult to make propionic acid (3 carbons).

I can accept that they say that fiber or glucose is "break down" to acetic acid, propionic acid, but I think it's misleading. (And the usual definition of fatty acid starts at 4 carbons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatty_acid )

I had to search for the pathway to produce butyric acid (4 carbons). The main path is apparently splitting the glucose in pyruvate and adding a carbon to it, so it's not a direct break down. But there is an additional pathway, with glutaric acid, that perhaps may qualify, but I'm not convinced. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butyric_acid http://mbio.asm.org/content/5/2/e00889-14/F1.expansion.html
NAT gives the same amount of security as dropping all SYN packets at the firewall level. The latter just requires much fewer resources to do as it allows for completely stateless operation.
But now you've just got exactly that for every potential upcoming politician up to the point they take office.
Here's Carmack's 'counter argument':
http://number-none.com/blow/blog/programming/2014/09/26/carm...
And from a 60 Minutes episode I remember, there is no built-in self-destruct. Once it's in the air, if you don't shoot it down, you expect someone - a lot of someones - to die.
Multibinder: write zero-downtime-reload services
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If only institutes like CERN had such good HR/recruitment techniques as Google, this world could be a better place.
Hey, I totally agree! That's why I said a new extension (not necessarily a language extension, maybe a file extension that switches to alternate parser like, hmm, ".phpx") and both ways compatible. Including the "new style" would be possible from "classic style" and vice versa.
It's not, it's just difficult.
Please, not this clown again.

> For avoidance of doubt, any comments arguing this point [my point of view] will be replaced with the phrase "Fart fart fart".

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At first I thought that was sarcasm... but it's unfortunately not.

> no more overflows, no more pointer screwups, no more forgetting to free the memory, because you'll know exactly what will happen in the chip and the memory when that code compiles

To whoever wrote this: are you ready to share the code of a sufficiently complex program in C (or assembler, why not) you wrote and pay $100 for every "pointer screwup", buffer overflow, memory leak and generally every bug people find, which could have been prevented by a strong type system or borrow checking and other such complicated features?
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Apparently Samsung is 24% of South Korea's GDP. That can't be healthy.
Not only this doesn't help, it makes it worse. As the bottle tries to recover it's original shape, it sucks the carbon out faster.
I can confirm this, 2 time intern in the US then London who a full time SWE offer with no conversion interviews.
Pythagorean Theorem is "digging hard" and "not interesting"? Mind explaining?

The language that contains all Turing Machines that halt on all inputs is not decidable.

Or

e^(iy) = sin(y) + i * cos(y)

Are those uninteresting trivialities to you?
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Wow, didn't know that. Good thing I usually block root access.

Thank you!
Estimated value of $500 a tree, especially for a large tree, seems off to me, even if it is the value per year.
"...very large L3/L4 floods aimed at the TCP protocol."

If these attacks aren't simple floods of bogus TCP segments (SYN floods, etc) and they're actually completing the TCP handshake then tracing their source should be trivial (since, by definition, they couldn't use forged source addresses).

I'm assuming that they are just floods of bogus TCP segments w/ forged source addresses, which seems like a simple-enough "upgrade" that could have been deployed to existing botnets.
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It's quite possible that it's mainly using even more surface-level audio features, before getting to whether the genres are formulaic or not. For example, if specific mastering studios have telltale production features visible in the audio (choice of dynamic range compression algorithms, mixing approaches, etc.), and some mastering studios mainly master, say, country, you can learn to classify country with pretty high accuracy by just recognizing a half-dozen studios' production signatures, without learning anything fundamental about the genre. Whether this happens depends a lot on your choice of data set and validation method.

There's more on that (and some other pitfalls) in a paper linked elsewhere in the comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13085651
Governments are such a blunt instrument.
My bet is some sort of synthetic bio-augmented photosynthesis process (if you think about it - that's exactly what plants do - sequester carbon dioxide in carbohydrates). If we are super lucky that process will also generate edible byproducts.
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Agreed. Syntax is not a problem, we bash C mostly for security reasons. And we can stop that as soon as popular C compilers start taking measures to make C code by default as secure as in many other programming languages.
It already is, kind of, it is called Crystal, but yeah it isn't the same thing.
"Then let's meetup in our respective cities."

I just posted my city like it mentions in the original post...thanks for the downvote!!!
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readability is just one small piece of the reason why keep one function does one thing. Understanding how to make your code SOLID is very important.

After all, software development is still a engineering process, in which personal coding style is far less important.
>> P.S. If they really did make you stand and queue up, I would quit for that alone.

I was thinking the exact same thing.
This is essential knowledge you can get from a number of different places: first semester of university, any sort of 3d or image/signal processing, or just plain old wikipedia.

You could still use a deep learning framework as a black box without knowing how to differentiate a function. However, you'd have trouble following any relevant blog post / scientific paper, understanding how it works or developing any relevant new algorithm.
Our neighbor, who started as an elementary school teacher but moved into elementary computer education (a roving teacher with an Apple computer lab cart) had a similar problem. Her title had been changed to something like Computer Education Specialist and her email would be blocked when sending to certain other government entities. When the school district upgraded their spam filter, her emails started to be blocked within the district as well. It turns out her title was being identified as Computer Education Spe CIALIS t.
I don't know that I fully agree with this. I think in even well functioning teams you need at least one person who is empowered to make the call. In the cases of a disagreement deadlock you need someone to break the deadlock. Whether that person is a called a Tech Lead or something else you still need them and they need authority and freedom to make the call.

Maybe his Mediator can be that person but if you give the Mediator the power to break these deadlocks then you need to ensure that he has enough practical experience to make sane choices. And if you have a Mediator with the authority to break a deadlock and the experience to do so with mostly correct decisions you have what most people call a Tech Lead.
If people do things that have no material impact on you, and yet you believe are a "moral affront" then you don't understand where your liberty ends and someone else's begins. Those people need to learn that lesson, and then get over themselves.

You don't get to impose your morality on other people. Morality is a personal belief, and nothing more. It's that simple.
They don't care about stupid routing. Uber in Chicago routes through alleys ALL THE TIME, but trying to talk to Uber support about this is a dead end. My home address is a street address, but Uber moves the pin to the alley.
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I agree there are very few people who know PHP well enough to build large web apps with it. On the same token I doubt, once you get that big to where it really matters, there are many web devs who know how to write web apps that scale well at all.

Everyone else is just taking advantage of a few milliseconds here and there (for example compiled language vs interpreted language) that might "appear" the language is better suited to the task, but ultimately only are as good as the architect(s) of the system made them.

I disagree PHP the language is deficient in any significant way that would prevent anyone from building large, modern web apps with it.
Thank you for your comment, always good to read and learn from other points of view.

I can agree with the weak links. Unfortunately didn't have much time to find better ones. Also, having The Sun as source in HN doesn't give it much of a credibility, but I'm sure there are more reliable sources out there [1].
I can also agree that this point can be made from a bit of a media hysteria. But a company whose business model makes prevail supply/demand rules on a disaster, seems like a bit sick to me. From my point of view, this is not an ethical company behavior. And when I mean company, I mean company as a whole despite believing there are departments within the company where things are done ethically (parent's point maybe?).

Also, again in my opinion, a company shouldn't attempt tax evasion, by any means p.e. tax evasion schemes (most of them arguably legal) as it impacts all country's and overall economy. This said, I classify most big companies as unethical. This can possibly be one of the main reasons the gap between rich and poor is getting bigger every year as big sharks cash out clean out of the exploited marked.
If a company disagrees with a country's taxation model, ethically, maybe it shouldn't attempt to get to that market?

Company name changes can be seen as tactical maneuvers used for tax evasion also and debt evasion in case the company goes bust.
On previous + [2],[3], altogether, this may present no substantial evidence on money laundry but do you really believe investors would be naively burning billions worth of investment on a company which on 7+ years of existence didn't present, neither is close to presenting, any profit?

I'm not saying cab drivers shouldn't be put through similar criticism, maybe they should. But I think we cannot generalize on that. There are good and bad professionals everywhere.
What I can say, based on what I know from my country, is that cab drivers cannot scam you as their fees are regulated. They cannot charge you more that X per Km as their taximeters are regulated by the government to ensure that. They need to have a professional driving license and be identifiable to the customer. And they're also entitled to pay their taxes accordingly. Of course one can always hear a bad experience from time to time, but again, that is subject to happen in every industry.

[1] https://twitter.com/SarahBertolozzi/status/77734731474688409...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-25/uber-lose...

[3] http://qz.com/618022/ubers-ceo-says-the-company-is-burning-1...
What is not widely appreciated is that such laws are not necessary to silence expression or round up dissidents, because due process is so weak in these repressive regimes to begin with. Rather, these laws serve more to deflect criticism from foreign governments and human rights groups.

Also, the law is often a tool of last resort. There are much more effective ways to silence expression and enforce conformity in these societies, such as fostering a culture of fear and of self-censorship. If you say or do the wrong thing, you shouldn't be surprised when well-connected individuals threaten your reputation and livelihood, or when they apply pressure on your friends and relatives to correct your errant behavior.
Some of us do like Java, even if it is lacking in some things.
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Gemstone and high-value industrial. Industrial diamonds fit into a couple different levels. Low-grade diamonds are made spontaneously by the ton, mostly in China. They are generally small (<2mm) with poor color and clarity and are used in cutting tools, drill bits, etc. Mid-grade industrial diamonds are larger (3~6mm) seeded-crystals with good clarity, but color rarely matters, and are used in cutting tools and heat sinks. High-value industrial diamonds are usually higher quality than jewelry-grade diamonds (IF-VVS clarity, D-F color, low stress, etc.) and are used in applications like high pressure anvils and optics for lasers. A large portion of our current production ends up in the last category, as well as in jewelry.

We are currently focused on high-quality single-crystal diamonds. There are many potential research paths with diamond, but slow and limited research capacity and market potential. Element Six (a De Beers subsidiary) currently has the most potential for developing non-standard diamond applications.
That's the bullshit response they give you to anything that isn't solvable with a ride credit.
Would it be fair to say that your personal valuation of the Provençal weather, the wine and the laid back feel of living in the countryside is greater than the salary difference of working in a high-paying US company?
Another datapoint for the Bayesian model?

http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/09/12/its-bayes-all-the-way-u...
I'm not. It's called "price discrimination" and if you don't do that at your business, you should. Whenever you hear a fun story about enterprise pricing, that's what it's talking about. Mobile phones make it more specific.
It's sad to imagine a day when Peter Thiel, Donald Trump, the Koch brothers, Fidel Castro can live forever. Even non-evil billionaires like Bill Gates living forever could be tragic, in that it greatly reduces the motivation for significant philanthropy.
Yeah we all know these guys..
Just to make clear - are we sure we are talking about South and not North Korea?