skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do you assume false rape accusations are rare? They seem to be fairly common:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_accusation_of_rape#Rum...
(I'm the lead author of spaCy)

spaCy 2 is reconfigured for deep learning. It's still in alpha, but there's already a lot there:

http://alpha.spacy.io/docs/

I wrote a whole neural network library to get this done, because Tensorflow and Theano are terrible for the type of models NLP needs. Joke was sort of on me, because PyTorch came out just as I was finishing :). But it's actually very good to own the dependencies of the library anyway, since it's such an important part of things. Having our own NN library has made it easy to make lots of small innovations along the way. The best one is hash-kernel powered embeddings, which have just been published as "bloom embeddings". I've been using these for the last six months, with great results.

You can read my thoughts about NLP best-practices here:

https://explosion.ai/blog/deep-learning-formula-nlp

Like Sebastian (and pretty much anyone else), I think the two improvements to emphasise in NLP are sequence models like LSTM, and transfer learning. That's what's better now with deep learning: what we used to call semi-supervised approaches and domain adaptation now work much better than they did before. Incidentally Ruder et al. (2017)'s sluice networks are an important recent paper on this: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.08142

Going forward I think it's important that we get past just using word2vec to pre-train vectors, and start making it easier to use pre-trained LSTM and CNN models. Side-objectives in multi-task learning are also very important.

I don't think the APIs in spaCy around these things are quite right yet. There are also lots of trade-offs in sharing weights, that make things complicated for people. Sometimes weight-sharing gets in the way, because you want to just train this one part, and it's really weird that your updates are affecting other models you don't think you're touching.

For more idea of where Ines and I are going with all of this, you can read this: https://explosion.ai/blog/supervised-learning-data-collectio...

Basically I think the main problem people are having with NLP is that they don't want to commit to a problem and create training and evaluation data for it. Teams that don't bite the bullet and commit to their problem thrash around and don't get anything done. Even if you're using unsupervised techniques, you need repeatable evaluations.

We're preparing to launch an evaluation tool to address this problem. You can subscribe to our mailing list, RSS or Twitter to get the announcement when the beta is ready: https://twitter.com/explosion_ai
That's a legitimate response when someone says "this doesn't work and could never possibly work".
No, but it is still quite fast.

On chromeOS network bring up is extremely fast. We are talking 1-3 seconds from cold boot to your emails have been synchronized.

My Ubuntu is almost as fast, if we subtract the 4 seconds the ugly bios screen adds.

No idea about Android, but did you read the end of the article?
Or, you know ... just a joke?
Not a very kind way to dismiss the point of someone who might not be a native speaker, yeah?:

That is to say it's understandable.
> An instruction like that is why I don't use Linux as a desktop!

How often do you find yourself needing to run a DHCP daemon on your desktop, Linux or otherwise?

Some might say that Windows' DHCP setup being authoritative by default is one of the reasons they prefer Linux on the server. It is not the safest default: sending NAKs when you shouldn't could cause significant disruption, not sending NAKs when you could correctly do so does nothing worse than delaying new connections by a few seconds.
It's the same for Proximus residential gateways, they all have an ipv6.
This smells like a "pass something to make it look like I'm doing something so I get re-elected, but take effect far enough away that it either gets repealed or becomes irrelevant so I keep my donors"
Maybe I am missing something, but how does this differ from www.programmableweb.com? Seems more complete and more used
Sorry, I just can't agree with this.

IRC had servers decades before IPv4 address scarcity became a thing.

Skype was popular before they had to ditch P2P, and most users aren't aware of the issue.

DropBox is first and foremost a backup service, and you always want backup to be off-premise.

[..]

Cloud services are awesome and we would all use them even if we could accept incoming connections.
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I drive a classic Toyota Supra and agree that I don't want to see ICE-powered cars banned completely. Where the government screwed up was with diesels; other than higher CO2 per mile, petrol-powered cars are actually quite clean, and we have ways (at least theoretical) for dealing with CO2. We have no idea how to deal with diesel emissions - NO2 and particulate matter are a big question mark.

Hybrids are also very silly - while on one power source, the other is dead weight, which requires more energy to propel, dragging the efficiency down. They're a stopgap measure, nothing more. I agree that public transport needs to go pure-electric/zero-emission very soon - as soon as a bus pulls away, it spews a visible cloud of black diesel smoke, no matter how old it is or whether it's a hybrid.

A major problem I see is that many young people (myself included) are totally priced out of homeownership and therefore dependent on renting housing, meaning I cannot get access to a charging point at home. Even as a petrolhead, I would be interested in driving an electric car day to day or purely as a mode of transport, keeping my Supra for recreation only.

I checked the Supra's most recent MOT and it almost meets the 2008 (most recent) petrol emissions standards, with CO emissions off by a mere 0.2%. Larger, port-injected engines are clean enough to remain in use. Direct-injection petrols also suffer from higher NO2 emissions just like diesels, due to the higher combustion temperatures, so not only do these small engines use more fuel under boost (where they are most of the time), they produce worse emissions too.
German police will be able to hack WhatsApp encrypted messages by end of 2017
Makes me wonder if Belgium is used as a technical testing playground for Liberty Global

Not really, UnityMedia Germany is also owned by Liberty Global and we have had IPv6 for years (since I moved here in 2013).
I'm exactly the same. I often type out replies to people, then just go 'nah not worth it' and close the tab.
No, they couldn't, because that would be illegal. An ISP cannot just record the communication of their customers because it makes thing cheaper for them.

Also, that easily generates petabytes of logs, so it's not really cheap either.
UK Government to announce end of the diesel and petrol car
"Their current hybrid buses are a joke. They spend about 5 seconds between stops on battery mode and then almost immediately start up their diesel engines on leaving each stop."

Getting a heavy vehicle moving from a stop is the hardest work the engine will do. Having the high torque of electric motors to do this (or even just help the engine by working together with it) is probably the highest impact point for reducing emissions. It will probably allow for design changes in the engine to improve efficiency too since it now has a narrower range to aim for. Since busses stop and start a great deal, they get a double-win by using regenerative braking to store the energy of slowing the massive bus for use on start.

So, not as cool as fully electric buses (which are rapidly rolling out in many areas as the make a great deal of economic sense, even without taking into account externalities like air quality and climate change) but an important stepping stone with some thought and engineering behind them.
The problem with a password manager is that you don't have easy access to one when you're on a different machine.

A better way is to use a scheme that hashes your username, service name, and master password to generate a password. A problem is that this doesn't always comply with the arbitrary demands on your password.

This is why these arbitrary demands need to die: they make the only way to securely and conveniently access accounts from different devices impossible.
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By 2040 you can probably hail autonomous EV taxis whenever you need one.
Also note that you choose to increase your carbon footprint (an externalized cost hitting everyone) so you could have a cheaper home. It's not exactly unfair that people who made such a choice might end up with a slight disadvantage.
Still PROPOSED STANDARD, eleven years on. Though that says as much about the IETF as that particular RFC.
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You're comfortable with CLI tools, but there are other considerations. Do you like "appliances"? How much do you value "stability" as in running old stuff?

I would recommend HardenedBSD 12-CURRENT but maybe that's just me :D
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Before the 1960s and the Beeching Cuts, it was fairly easy to get everywhere in the UK — tiny villages included — by rail. I live in tiny village in Devon with a population of 250 people. It had a train station until the 60s. Today, my village has excellent bus service: two or three buses an hour into the nearest large cities and towns. That's likely because it's a big draw for tourists and hikers, and the roads around here aren't designed for lots of cars (many of them are too narrow for more than one vehicle at a time), but it's certainly possible.

If the government had the will to invest in infrastructure, public transport is a reasonable option in the UK.
It seems like they actually
Your last paragraph is interesting. Never quite heard it described that way, but it makes a lot of sense. You drawing from any sources in particular for that?
1) Difficult, but may be necessary; the health cost of particulates pollution is getting harder to ignore.

2) Not great but better than nothing. Buses spend a lot of time idling. Maybe we should bring back the trolleybus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_trolleybus_systems_in_...

3) Sadly the market is going to have to be converted from the top down, because at the moment electric cars just have a higher sticker price. That leads into (4): this change will be a lot more popular if the "aspirational" car segment converts voluntarily first. Having a petrol performance car needs to become as socially unpopular as smoking.

In fact, maybe we need more extreme engine downsizing. Cap engine size and horsepower aggressively; large petrol domestic vehicles should be sluggish.

We'll have to address the commercial fleet as well, especially lorries.
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I live in Devon in the middle of nowhere and the public transportation is excellent. I also don't drive, and I have no trouble getting where I need to be.
I don't think future governments will back down on this. They see the writing on the wall all too clearly.

I think people just won't want to buy ICE cars long before 2040 - they are simply more expensive to run than EVs. I also think if ride hailing, ZipCar alternatives and so on increase in availability, fewer people will actually want to own a car anyway.

Personally, I can't wait to not own a car, it's been one of my life ambitions for a few years now. I am very much looking forward to that day!
I think the point of those kinds of small grants is not to revolutionise anything, and not even to evolve anything necessarily. Rather I think the purpose is just exactly what you experienced. Get people off the metaphorical couch and start tinkering with the technology you want them to tinker with. If the grant can motivate them to spend their time on learning that technology then the grant-giver's goal is accomplished, for the very small price of $5000 per person.
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A percentage can't double indefinitely. There is an upper bound. You'd need to look at the raw number of hosts supporting IPv6, rather than the percentage, to decide how fast it is doubling. I don't see the raw numbers on this site, so we can't say from this information.
Let me past something that I posted to Calico Slack about a week ago:

> Has anyone tried running IPv6 in AWS? It kinda seems like using it for containers is still very messy. IPs are assigned via DHCPv6 and you cannot actually turn off src/dest checking, so to assign public IPv6 address on each container, you would need to assign each IP address one by one on the interface via AWS API and use a hook in host's DHCPv6 client that adds the IPv6 address to NDP proxy (not 100% sure if this is required) and disables assigning it to interface. With this, you would get 10-30 IPv6 addresses per interface and with some additional hacks to use multiple interfaces you could possibly get 240 IPv6 addresses per instance on larger instances (or well, 16xlarge instances give 15*50)

Though admittedly even if there was a support for getting prefixes to instances, it would still take time for other things to get support for it (e.g. Kubernetes)
I think Jan Koum personally donated 1 million:

http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.de/2014/11/freebsd-foundat...

https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/foundation-announces-...

Of course, that is completely awesome!
I live in a town in Germany, with two kids and no car. Zero problems. If I order furniture online (or even in my town), a truck delivers it to the doorstep.
The Mario Kart 8 item probability distribution information from the wiki: https://www.mariowiki.com/Mario_Kart_8_item_probability_dist...

I thought they changed it in 7, but apparently it was 8 so only the Wii U and Switch versions use these distributions.
Which suggests an obvious course of action:

- true accusation - punish the perpetrator

- false accusation - punish the accuser

- unable to confirm either way - nothing happens

I still don't understand why some people have so much trouble with this concept and want to bias towards "guilty until proven innocent" thinking.

And yes, I know that in civil cases in the US, it's "preponderance of the evidence" and not "presumption of innocence". It still means you should get punished only if your deed is proven (in Bayesian sense) more likely to be true than false.
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Your suggestion is bad for a ton of reasons. For example, how do you change your password for a specific site after it had been compromised or due to normal password rotation?

Another downside is that changing master password means you need to change passwords for all sites or have multiple master passwords.

Another is that an attacker can use the knowledge of your password on site A to bruteforce your master password offline.

And so on...
A bank transfer happens pretty much instantly when I do it (First Direct, UK).

It can occasionally take up to an hour, but it's rare.
APIs, like do they start doing it for fun and then hope it turns into a business?
4. does not make any sense (especially considering your quite sensible 1-3) beyond: "I like it, therefore it should be so! Let's have the masses take care of the environment so we can have more fun on the expense of it."

I think if wasteful petrol performance cars are banned or at least prohibitively taxed it would open up a lot of innovation to get fun cars (or driving experiences real or virtual) to the market.

Don't get me wrong, I like the thrill of a performance car too, but I can't take this line of reasoning seriously if we are talking about tens of thousands of premature deaths a year of pollution in London alone let alone the much bigger environmental topic.
I just got out of my burnout phase. It's similar - I've done a lot of startups.

It took me well over a year to get out of it. I spent practically a year playing games (thanks acquisition money!) My only job was teaching for a while.

I honestly don't know what worked.

The games, travel, spas, and idle time didn't help much. If anything, they made me feel worse about spending lots of money and time. They pressured me to do more.

Freelancing was such a terrible idea. I ended up losing money and getting even more burnt out. After that, I refused to do any coding at all for a while.

The teaching assignments helped quite a bit. It was well paid and I got to achieve my bucket list of visiting every state in the country. Teaching is also really easy with enough years under your belt and it's relaxing to have a lot to say. It's even more relaxing if they pay well.

I did a lot of exercise. Felt better than ever, but didn't cure it. Same with meditation.

I think what finally got me out of it was working 7 days a week on low difficulty tasks. It sounds really dumb to treat burnout with more work, but it worked for me. Maybe startup people have their comfort zone working 60 hours a week?

You might not even want to do hard work coding. Try working in F&B or some other grunt job. Somehow it was like a meditative process. Just do something that feels like it's not a total waste of time.
It's not hard to work finance into all sorts of interactions. Take making cardboard sandals on a blanket outside. You can bring out all of the raw materials: cardboard, string, tape, paint, etc. List the prices for each. Then, figure out how many sandals were made. Add up the costs, and compute the average material cost for each pair of sandals they make. Girls get into it. One might even say: "yea, but we worked on this too; doesn't that count?" You can then factor in labour cost. Then, comes a few eyes that get big: "wow, $2.45 in materials and $5 in labour" (they debated and agreed it'd be great if someone paid them $5 for the hour they spent). Lots of lessons emerged: labor can be the dominant factor in product construction; and noone was really going to pay $7.45 for the cardboard sandals.
This is slightly meta, but I'm curious about this concept of legislating for the distant-ish future.

My immediate reaction is "cheap" trick, quite literally. It's cheap in the sense that the political/public opposition will be pretty weak on legislation that happens 23 years from now. The authors won't be around to deal with the consequences.

It also feels a little wrong to deciding things They will presumably still have a parliament in 2040, shouldn't that parliament decide on laws? Conversely, if future parliaments will decide anyway by altering, we're back to cheap, empty gestures.

OTOH, maybe this is a way of de-politicizing.. focusing attention away from the short term, horse trading, and vocal interest groups.

Any thoughts on highly delayed legislation like this?
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"Fortunately for women who just want to get their work done and go home, we do not live in the world of Mad Men anymore"
Yes we can all be happy about that, but it's not an either/or situation, lots of relationships start at work and they can work out just fine.
I have like 80 KB/s of upload. Having an external IP (which I do) does not solve anything for me.
Weirdly, incandescent bulbs are one of the things that keep coming up on the list of alleged reasons for voting for Brexit. I think it's a bit like the Imperial-metric transition; there are holdouts with strongly felt views.
hey, can I get your routing and account number?

Why? That's what they are for.
It cuts both ways. Bias toward cracking down on false accusations, and real victims might be afraid to file charges. Bias toward assuming accusations are always accurate, and you enable weaponizing them - which is the whole point of this story. There needs to be a balance here.

Also, note - you mention filing charges. But the problem with sexual harassment cases is, they don't even get to that level. It's usually enough to "file charges" on a blog and post it to Twitter to do 90% of damage.
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Mobile carriers here are bringing back NAT on ipv6 now. Wannacry fears? NAT for the sake of firewalling?
Phones still seem to get individual addresses.
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Interesting. Not trying to say it's not possible, but are there any sources on that other than the article calling Luna probes "Luniks"? I've never heard this story despite reading quite a lot about the soviet space program. I see a lot of speculations on this story on the net without citing the original source, some are even claiming that Luna-3 engineers kept the use of this film in secret from the designers, which is absolutely impossible. Seems a lot like a typical urban legend from after the fall of USSR...
This is the impression I have reading reportage from writers like Chris Arnade, where it seems like the poor and the majority of those writing about them are speaking at cross-purposes (not Arnade, but others in the genre of 'explaining the left-behinds'). I have heard that a similar argument is made in the book Seeing Like a State, which I have put on my reading list.
Hi Brad,

Great, I am flying over from Scotland for the Berkeley DeepRL bootcamp.

I too am a big fan of Abeel's lab. His papers with Levine and Finn - very far sighted stuff. I have been working through the CS294-112 Deep RL course materials [1] recently.

A bio might be a touch off topic for this thread, very happy to enthuse about Neural Nets, Reinforcement Learning and Robots though - I can be emailed at deepnet at jmhz dot net

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4gKhK8Q6mY&list=PLkFD6_40KJ...

The above links to Pieter Abeel's CS294-112 lecture on Adversarial Nets and his Thesis on Helicopter Contollers with Andrew Ng.
Unless your DHCP server is an old Commodore 64, that's not the right diagnosis. The ISC DHCP server was rock solid with negligible CPU load with many thousands of clients even 10-15 years ago.

If your network is really having problems, either dig deeper if you want to learn more about networking or buy something like a Google WiFi device if you just want something known to handle much greater loads without issue.
I've been writing all my socket code (this is embedded so plain C) to be automatically compatible with either IPv4 or IPv6 for, what, ten years? I thought everybody did that (it's best practice).

Don't most higher level languages also just do this by default under the hood?
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Hopefully the purchase rate of EVs will go up in the meantime, and over the intervening 23 years the vast majority of cars in existence today will be scrapped through natural wearing out. The UK scraps something like a million cars a year already.
> IRC had servers decades before IPv4 address scarcity became a thing.

Because it's a group chat, where a server is much more natural than for two parties communicating. Plus, it has DCC, so you can actually efectively use IRC without an IRC server.
Does someone know how to ban single users based on IPv6? Is this even possible? What is the alternative?
Anything but the actual point of comparison between two compared things is usually very different.

It seems you pretend to not understand how a comparison works until you make one yourself, let me demonstrate:

> I would compare that to having a phone back then, when it was kind of the only way to contact you.

Come on! It's just a set of credentials and bytes in databases, not a bunch of plastic and metal. And don't you know that packet switching and circuit switching have like nothing in common? Also, since when were all phones the same shade of uninspired blue, is there any part of this you're not straight making up?