skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Author here.

Thanks for the feedback.

Regarding the concern of this substituting the Arabic script, I addressed this in the intro section of the project where I laid it out plain and clear that the target is novice learners of Arabic as I noticed that they suffer with pronunciation and reading skills and I wanted to help them overcoming this gap to make the transition to the Arabic script smoother and less painful.

As far as I can tell, the project was not ideologically or politically motivated but to be honest with you, the Turkish language was an influencing factor on the development of this project whether which parts to use and which parts to pass but I am not sure if you know that Turkish throughout its history was not written only in Arabic script but in other scripts like for example Armenian but the Ottomans adopted the Arabic script for their official communications until came Mustafa Kemal and introduced his reforms and switched to Latin which was a good idea since writing Turkish in Arabic script was a nightmare.

Re your last concern, like I said in that part, it's for regional languages/dialects not the standard variety and I outlined the reasons for that.
When I said "our media is intervened by the government" I meant -local- media in Venezuela, under direct influence of Venezuela's government. Local TV channels (Globovisión, Televen, VTV...), local newspapers, local radio stations, etc. I do get the point that US media doesn't cover our stories in detail because US audiences aren't that interested, I just don't understand why you keep pointing that out in this context.
Ask HN: Dutch AIVD Puzzle
Hi guys,

I'm wondering if any of you Dutch folks here are trying to solve the puzzel the General Intelligence and Security Service of the Netherlands (AIVD). And if there are some of you would any of you be willing to cooperate, and try to solve all of the questions?

URL to the puzzle
https://www.aivd.nl/onderwerpen/informatiebeveiliging/documenten/publicaties/2016/12/12/kerstpuzzel-2016

Cheers!
Defending Eugenics [pdf]
>Laws are not something that corporations or citizens have to agree with. They apply regardless.

That simplistic reductionism is not true. There are concepts of civil disobedience.[1] History has shown that many laws (e.g. copyright laws, sodomy laws, Jim Crow laws) are more like an ongoing dialogue/battle between the citizens and government for universal compliance. Other laws such as homocide seem more stable for straightforward compliance without controversy.

The DMV didn't write the autonomous vehicle laws -- they are interpreting it -- to their benefit. Likewise, Uber didn't write the law either, they are also interpreting it -- to their benefit.

Those 2 interpretations differ. I have no idea who is "more correct" in their interpretation. The DMV may have the last word and win. We don't know yet.

>This is the equivalent of Uber deciding not to pay its federal taxes.

No, the analogy is somebody disagreeing with a government agency's interpretation of the law. An example would be a taxpayer who disagreed with IRS and won the case.[2]

It's similar to one entity claiming that early VCR users taping shows were "breaking the law."[3] If VCR consumers and Sony disagree and say it's "fair use", responding to that with "copyright laws apply to everybody regardless" doesn't actually analyze the differing interpretations. Eventually, the consumers and Sony got the Supreme Court to agree with their interpretation by a very close 5-4 majority ruling.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/07/arts/design/tax-court-rul...

[3] Betamax "fair use" Supreme Court ruling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Unive....
What a great article.

Two things jumped out at me. First, I love the resolution in the opening story about the machete-wielding mob. The power of a single old woman to defuse a dangerous situation is fascinating. As a person in an industry built on the backs of youth, I sometimes wonder how wasteful we are being by focusing on the future and forgetting about the past.

Second, it seems that Rosling's great superpower is communication. I love the Radio Lab podcast and am a firm believer that for a scientist, being able to tell stories about what you do is almost as important as the science.
I just explained that. He misrepresents the data by presenting it as an either or (either we fight climate change OR we fight poverty) when it isn't. That misrepresentation distorts how you interpret all the data in his talk.

I'm not interested in nit picking back and forth. Go defend Rosling to someone else.
> It's less than half the speed in Germany. The extra stops do not account for the difference.

You sure about that?

The non-stop train takes 4 hours from beijing to shanghai. now they stop once and it takes 4hr48 (reduced max speed from 330 to 300km/h). At the same distance, DB stops roughly 14 or 15 times. if a stop costs you 10 minutes, you save an additional 2 1/2 hours just by not stopping.

Took the info from wikipedia [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing%E2%80%93Shanghai_High-...
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> I think you mean - you can always reparameterize things to have a 'pilot wave' around. That doesn't mean they're 'there', really.

The wave equation is always there, or you wouldn't get quantum behaviour. There exist no-go theorems demonstrating that the wave function can't just be a reflection of our ignorance, it must be "ontic", ie. exist, in some real way. What's disputed is whether the particles need to be given separate existence from the waves that are necessarily there.

> I would think that the 'default' interpretation would be excluding them, since (clearly) they're not necessary (evidence being: interpretations without them exist). That would be the definition of superfluous, right?

No, because the interpretations you speak of can't actually explain the measurement problem without positing additional axioms which then make them less plausible. It's well known that pilot wave theories are more axiomatically parsimonious, meaning that they require fewer assumptions overall to explain all of our observations.

For example, the Born rule must be assumed by most interpretations of QM, with little rhyme or reason other than we know it's empirically valid. But because pilot wave theories posit real physical entities with well understood properties, we can actually derive the Born rule. This is just one example that demonstrates how pilot wave theories positing additional real entities can make for an overall simpler set of assumptions.
I concede then. It's not unique (and indeed, Austin is absent from my experiences).

I like the way you phrase this though: "logic ladders" of "years of social conditioning and assumptions". There are a lot of odd assumptions about mass transit and public service floating around.
>> A percentage of every purchase made on your Linux Foundation credit card goes back to Linux Foundation <<

Would be nice if they actually mentioned what that percentage is exactly.
That's what we actually did, however RADAR was a new thing allowing a small number of British aircraft to regularly intercept Bombers. Without any evidence it must have seemed probable for something similar to be locating subs.
I too am excited for this, along with the rest of their movement towards adding support for Linux. I know I'll be a die hard C# guy forever (though I still can't help but enjoy learning other tech), but I want a non-windows option. I'd add that though it's nice to have SQL Server on Linux, I'm still waiting for them to make DocumentDB an on-premise installable package. For many people heavily invested in SQL, it is the only tool in their toolbox. Having a Microsoft supported NoSQL option would only help people invested in the Microsoft stack of products. I hate to be cliche, but when you know only SQL, every data problem looks like a SQL nail to be hit with your SQL hammer.
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>> Much of the web still assumes that you're using a mouse.

Not everything is mobile friendly yet, but do you really meet many mobile unfriendly web sites?

Most problems I have on phone/tablet are company internal products, where they literally designed the UI before the iPhone existed.

I haven't tried those 2-apps-on-the-screen things with iPad Pro. Maybe it works well enough so I could work. Maybe.
This is precisely what functional programming does. Purely functional abstractions are just that, abstractions.
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>Abstract thoughts about death, while depressive, don't motivate me. What does end up "motivating" me are developing habits. In order to develop habits, I use pathetically achievable goals

This. I was chatting with a friend and he asked me about how I get motivated. My answer is that I abstract away the motivation with a process.

For instance, I used to work out a lot when I was younger and then stopped.. But when I wanted to work out recently, what I did to start the habit wasn't to go to the gym because that's a "new thing", an action and I'm a "procrastinator"..

I incorporated working out with the act of taking a shower and they became one, so each time I was about to take a shower, I'd do a few hundred push ups, then get in the shower and do a 100 successive squats and that was it. It's not much but it beats nothing. If I imagined I had to wear clothes, go out somewhere, work out, then come back and take a shower, I wouldn't do it..

As a side note, when I was in college, my commute was 6 hours and arriving late to class. Then they added a university bus. I had to take a bus to get to the Uni bus and I had to wake up early, so I said "why not work out while I'm at it". Woke up at 4h30 and a good work out, shower and food, and about 30 minutes of review study. The energy I had through the whole day was amazing.
Same thought. Metadata won't count for them, obviously, or the answer is "all." Probably they won't count storage of transcribed content either (again the answer might well be "all.") Here's guessing that they won't count multiple bots scrutinizing transcriptions of every word you've said in emails or on the phone as "surveillance", either. I personally wouldn't be shocked if the correct answer in this latter case is also "all."

I might add that for those who think that they have nothing to hide, that's the wrong question. As I've found out personally, the real question is whether every single friend of yours you contact, let's say by phone, has anything to hide. When interrogated, they won't be told that surveillance was the source, they will be told or led to believe YOU were the source, and turned them in. Then the fun really begins. [Note that in the incident I just described, an acquaintance's wife was dragged in for what was a criminal offense at the time, but this offence has since been removed from the criminal code, so I don't feel bad about not reporting it at the time. She was not, to the best of my knowledge, prosecuted. Surveillance on me has since increased, however; and my circle of friends decreased.]
His writing is pretty dense, so even native English speakers have to take it slow in order not to miss something.
Would be nice to have an option to see the answers, for people who don't have high typography skills. Or did I miss it?
I am very much in line with your general thinking.

I thought both that Bush was one of the very worst presidents in US history AND that he compared favorably (above average) to other world leaders in his time.

Before Trump, we could take it for granted the US president was a serious person who cared about having the country do well and wasn't interested in anything resembling an authoritarian takeover. (Even Richard Nixon had plenty of lines he wouldn't cross, some of which Trump already has.)

Trump is incomparably worse than Bush as a choice for President.
SQL 2016 Enterprise 2-pack of Core Licenses	$14,256 ($7,128 per core)

SQL 2016 Standard 2-pack of Core Licenses	$3,717 ($1,859 per core)

Not cheap, but perhaps attractive compared to Oracle.
They're smart audio streamers. But they work very well at it. Everything else is a bonus for now.

Home automation is more of a chore than a benefit. There are always exceptions and you have to deal with those and they happen more frequently than expected. I bought a few smart plugs but they regularly disconnected from the network or crashed.

I replaced them with a remote control switch and a few timers. They worked much better for a third of the price plus no Echo needed.
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This is a C++ coroutines framework( https://github.com/markpapadakis/coros-fibers ), but its trivial to “port” it to C.

I ‘ve also written a few things about coroutines and fibers(e.g https://medium.com/software-development-2/coroutines-and-fib... and https://medium.com/software-development-2/high-performance-s... ).

Coroutines based on stack manipulation(as opposed to simple FSMs) are extremely powerful and are particularly useful for implementing fair scheduling across runnable ‘processes’ and concurrent execution contexts.
Fair scheduling in particular can be really important in the domain of distributed systems that need to process potentially long-running and/or expensive request which would otherwise stall processing other cheaper requests indefinitely.
Combined with async I/O, this gives near optimal concurrency and resources utilisation.
Coroutines are often associated (literally and figuratively) with futures/promises. See SeaStar framework for a great implementation of those ideas.
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Even if evil will win, it must pay fair price for every human life it takes. Otherwise, value of human life will be too low.

You are not passed my quick check, so I assume that difference between us is fundamental. See [1] if you want to understand West.

[1] http://www.justiceharvard.org/
No, you'd just develop automated processes for identifying the most common mistakes. Home-growers would still likely all be using the same building blocks. And making the same classes of mistakes.

The dragnet probably wouldn't be nearly as effective, but the NSA would be far more likely to be able to compromise all priority targets.
You assume incorrectly and should read the Information Assurance section on their page:

"NSA to secure National Security Systems, which includes systems that handle classified information or are otherwise critical to military or intelligence activities."

That does not include civilian networks or non-DoD government networks or any system that isn't designated a National Security System. It definitely isn't "protecting USA government assets" in general.
Why would you be interested in it over Linux? If you are comparing it for 2016 state of PC computing Linux, nothing. There is no killer app on BeOS/Haiku that could justify it.

But if you want to compare it to 1998-style PC, BeOS was a really high-performance, POSIX-compatible OS. It could do things that neither Windows NT, Linux or MacOS (pre- OSX) could do, and it could do it even on very limited hardware.

Nowadays, I think that if Haiku could be ported to ARM, it would become a very interesting alternative for any kind of SOC-based appliance where you'd need more than a microcontroller but something like Linux/Android is overkill: smart TVs, audio/video receivers, smart home hubs, some cool guitar sound effect pedal, etc...
How exactly did you communicate with them? My wife had a very nice experience with Bahncard re-subscriptions that she cancelled after the fact.

But even then, you know what you get into when ordering the service. Yes, it is a subscription.
> Borrow and spend on public infrastructure projects.

That's a little hard to do when you're currently facing hyperinflation.
I have met people who were already earning a paycheck as professional C programmers, who didn't fully grasp what it meant to return a value from a function. If I were teaching beginners these days, I would do what SICP does and tackle the substitution model of evaluation head-on at an early stage.
I really wonder if fitness is a big market. The size of Soda and fast food giants vs. "fitness food" indicates it's a niche industry.

Seems to me that the real issueay be the technology is not good enough/fast enough to provide a seamless substitute to watch/phone functions and the fitness people are really the early adopters who are willing to trade off quirky tech for their niche needs being met
Introducing something like the Unit of Real Value could be a good start.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/10/04/130329523/how-f...
In which TED talk did he advocate against doing anything about climate change?
Oh, I see. Venezuelan media is controlled - sure.

My bad, I guess - but it's really not clear from that post that you're referring to the Venezuelan press, as opposed to the US press. When you say 'our press' I didn't know you meant 'Venezuelan' , most people are not familiar with the acronym you used there on the first line. I assumed it was American, actually.
I'm very sorry for the common folks in Venezuela. Can anyone shed light on how life goes on in these situations? It seems that basically all ones savings would get wiped out. A reasonable first response for those with cash would be to buy physical assets - property, cows, cars, etc. But why would anyone sell those?
I mean your child gets an education either way, its do you get top 5% private school or public school? You can't give everyone free access to a top private school, or it is no longer a top by definition ;)
While I am not committed to it yet, I have found it pretty easy to move a lot of my development work to my iPad Air 2. Pythonista, Working Copy, and Textastic cover local dev/testing cycle, Blink lets me connect in to a mosh session on a cloud dev server, and with Screens I can VNC to my laptop sitting on my desk, etc. I still prefer my MBA for dedicated coding sessions, but I have been pleasantly surprised by how far you can get with just a tablet and bluetooth keyboard or keyboard case for the tablet.
Vector addition means you save energy, but not one to one. EX: if you add 1 going north and 1 going east then your final vector is 1.414 going north east. So, it might only be worth 1% or 5% of the final velocity.
So basically your perception is that an insider with access (Snowden, Manning) can leak more info than hackers? That's the most obvious and difficult security threat anywhere, something even Google/Gmail is susceptible to.
As other posters have mentioned it is not that clear. Lots of people are using the problems with one rail franchise ('Southern' which is key when our media is so London centric) to justify their ideological opposition to private ownership. For me rail pre-privatisation was terrible. By the end of WW2 the railways were worn out and the the response was to close half of the network! Outside of London Underground, trains were in massive decline. this has been largely reversed. Virgin trains for example are by far the best on the network due to their significant investment in the best rolling stock and pushing for improved tracks. However there are massive problems in the way the franchises are awarded and where profits and subsidies go, but these are not problems of ownership. The government controls the infrastructure and awards the franchises....and regulates the ticket prices (which are a joke not least in their variability). However, now there is a huge increase in passenger numbers on UK rail. This is a success story. Yes bad operators should lose their franchise, but lets not punish the operators who are dong well!
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Every interpretation of QM has its own story for quantum computing. However, other interpretations have a challenge: where does quantum speedup come from?

Copenhagen can't actually explain where the quantum speedup actually comes from.

Other interpretations try to explain it, but are similarly problematic. For instance, in many worlds, Everett tried to argue that pieces of the computation are shuffled off to other worlds and then brought back, but this is problematic because information isn't supposed to be shared with other worlds, and since other worlds also shuffle off an equal amount of computation to those worlds, how is overall speedup achieved exactly?

In pilot wave theories, quantum computing has a simple story: because the world is deterministic, the entire history of time leading up to your computation was predetermined and part of the computation. "Programming" a quantum computer simply creates the conditions where you can read out the answer.

The apparent quantum speedup is actually part of an illusion that we and our equipment are separate from the rest of the universe, but quantum computation is really a classical computation that had lots of time and plenty of resources (all particles in the universe) to run.
Pythonista, Working Copy, Textastic. Now I have local python environment, git integration, and a fairly decent editor. Of course, if I was a complete noob I might need a full-blown IDE but it has been quite a while since I needed training wheels when writing code.
Those are fine points - but - it's way beyond policy at this point.

The only thing that will start to restore confidence is the removal of the current regime.

If there is a 'new entity' that has some credibility, and it basically stops the most obvious forms of totalitarianism ... then you could move back into a 'very bad but stable' situation. From there - it would take massive re-working of all levels of government because ultimately it's the culture of corruption, cronyism that is the root of all those 'bad policies'. If the systematic corruption is entrenched (i.e. government insiders holding large chunks of debt, insiders making money off the exchange process) - then there's no hope.

But step 1 has to be Maduro out. There's nothing he can do.
On the server Linux was basically carried in by LAMP, as it allowed people to spin up websites at only the cost of the hardware (or rent on server space). Never mind that this as the dot-com bust, and thus there was a whole lot of cheap capacity to be had (kinda reminds one of the microcomputer getting a boost from excess capacity of CPUs thanks to the moon race).

On the desktop Linux have a twofold problem. No prominent presence in stores (observe that Android, being a Linux derivative, have a massive presence, and the rise of ChromeOS) and a lack of commitment to API stability from the major lib devs (again contrast Android, where you have versioned APIs going back to the early days).
thank you :-) i needed your empathy :-) my earlier attempts to respond sooner to your comment failed to get posted. :-/ i would have thought my saying that apple apologized would be enough of a reason to believe me, but i think they are just not thinking this through.
I'm currently debating to use an iPad Pro for my main workflow. This article is 12 pages long. Lots of solid perspectives. I'm surprised I haven't read more articles like this yet.

I'm a math student. I hate the sheer volume of paper I have to lug around. I know the iPad won't replace 100% of my activities as a college student and as an autodidact but I have a sneaking suspicion that the iPad Pro is a solid device, localized control and overall a replacement of my laptop (primary computer) for 95% of activities.

P.S. I went to check out a Microsoft Surface, a family member got one for xmas last year and she loves it. It crashed on me within 1 minute, namely OneNote, which would be apart of my primary workflow. iPad Pro never crashed and had great response times.
If you are Turkish and opted-in for religion classes in the school, you learn some parts of the Qoran reading them in Latin alphabet. Because we don't know arabic alphabet, but Turkish one (Latin alphabet with 3-4 extra letters). Actually one of the letters in "extended Eskéndereyya", "ş" is a Turkish letter, created for Turkish language. I don't understand why Eskéndereyya is different than the alphabet we used to use in high school.