skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There you go with the 'muslim countries' thing again. It's not like you can lump a whole load of different countries into one basket and make sweeping generalisations.

"How can you even compare holocaust denial laws to what muslim countries do?" - Very easily. The holocaust was over 65 years ago. The perpetrators of this egregious act are mostly dead. The victims of this egregious act are mostly dead. The modern German of today had nothing to do with the holocaust. Their mother and father had nothing to do with the holocaust. What does making holocaust denial do other than prohibit a form of dissent? Does it bring people back to life? No, it does not. Does it stop it from happening again? Just because a crime is unmentionable does not mean that it would not happen (and the holocaust is not the only genocide, nor the most efficient one, there have been many more before and since).

When you remove the right to say fuck, you remove the right to say fuck the government. In Germany any debate on the extent of the holocaust is stifled due to the law, the same (but opposite case) as it is in Turkey with respect to the atrocities referred to by some as the Armenian Genocide. In both cases the law is wrong and stifles free speech and people go to jail[1][2] for dissent against it.

> Religious headscarves should be banned for the same reason slavery is.

You really have no understanding of the purpose, origin or practice of the headscarf in countries around the middle-east and mediterranean whatsoever. Would it come as some surprise to you to know that in the early 20th century Irish women would wear headscarves to protect their modesty? Oh those poor oppressed Irish women, whatever became of them?

[1] - http://www.rense.com/general78/dsdde.htm

[2] - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/4205708.stm (although in this case one of Turkey's most celebrated authors' trials was cancelled at the last minute)
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Last time I wen't to Pakistan I was pretty happy with it and I'm not even a rich dude. Carefully check how the Muslim world works because it's quite similar to how the Western works: it's a bunch of different countries that share common interests and disagree on a lot of other things.

Trying to make a story with three links pointing at different countries.. Try the same with Hungary, Spain and the USA. You will hardly say anything interesting.

As far as Pakistan is concerned, make sure that you don't consider the Tribal Areas the same way you would consider the country itself. They are independent in many regards.

Knowing is understanding. I suggest you say no to your condition and discover other cultures and people. You will certainly become a much more interesting person in the process.
In PHP every code is amateur code.
A ligature is a glyph that is inserted when two or more letters are used. For example, LaTeX inserts ligatures when you type "tt" to make the lines of the two "t"s join. It's a separate symbol that's "activated" when you type the right combination of characters.

Here, the combination "user" has a "user icon" ligature. It's really very simple, and clever.
Israel maintains the Gaza Strip and West Bank as administrative regions under its domain. It does control the conditions in those areas, and does in fact impose apartheid conditions on millions of inhabitants of that region.

No, fresh water is not available to the Palestinians in Israels camps. Israel regularly diverts water from those populations for use by its settlers.
I do actually sometimes do that - move the work over to the afternoon but I don't want to do it as it means staying longer at the office. The work efficiency difference is massive but it's my time.
I quite agree. It doesn't cost a thing to behave like a gentleman, and people usually respond well to it. And if they don't, being rude is unlikely to work any better, and could just leave them feeling justifiably resentful. Rudeness is not the winning strategy.
Well? Did it understand "f*#(@&F!!!"? Don't leave us hanging!
From the bug thread that this story refers to, Rasmus states "Most of PHP was using this already, but there were still some stragglers like number_format()". I think my arguments regarding impact of the change are a reasonable extrapolation from that.

Why was it pragmatic? Why was it an issue? There was inconsistency in the ways that functions handled parsing, and many people didn't want that feeling it made it harder to code correctly/consistently, thus it was an issue (part of the greater issue of inconsistency across a number of aspects of PHP). For others it wasn't an issue, which is why a pragmatic solution is the best that could be hoped for, not everyone would agree/like the outcome whatever was done (or not done). I can't see any other way of taking the language forward whilst causing minimum impact to users, which is why I (not you) think it was the most pragmatic way.

Every piece of code we write is "implementation-defined", including the bugs. It wasn't coherent with most other function implementations. Users couldn't reliably treat functions in the same way. I agree it wasn't coherent with numerical operations, but to get that consistency you would have to change a whole load more functions, and you would get many more complaints like this one.

"For all intents and purposes" - I think this discussion (and the many others that have featured on HN talking about similar issues of the weakly typed nature of PHP, such as == vs === ) show that it there are real world consequences to treating strings and numbers as compatible.
It seems like they're missing some Chinese dialects which are mutually unintelligible from mandarin. Maybe they aren't endangered, but China only teaches mandarin in schools.
Thanks. I am currently discussing the problem with Jan Schneider (the core developer and a founding member of Horde LLC) in the #horde IRC channel on Freenode.

[edit] They've confirmed the bug and intend to fix it by making "image/svg+xml" attachments download only. This is the same fix that FastMail used. Of course, everyone will need to upgrade when this has been done.
Blade Runner: Which predictions have come true?
I stand corrected.

For some reason, I remembered reading it already in 1992, that should show about trusting my memory...

Still, he was discussing these things before "The right to read" (in which the ideas were well enough crystalized to put into literature), and modern DRM is inline with "right-to-read" (e.g. Japanese penalties passed this week) and dissimilar to anything that was there (in theory) before 2000 and (in practice) before 2005.

> That said, I remember several copy protection measures where en vogue for games, on Amiga and Atari, and even business software. It wasn't called DRM at the time, but DRM is just an acronym describing any similar practice, not a specific technology.

I see a huge difference between software copy restriction (a.k.a "protection") and DRM. With copy restriction, you owned your copy and could do anything you wanted with it, including lending and reselling it. Many of these schemes would still let you make a backup, so long as the dongle/original was available for a 1 second check. That is, the restriction was on distribution.

Modern DRM restricts use.

> From Wikipedia we also learn: "A very early implementation of DRM was the Software Service System (SSS) devised by the Japanese engineer Ryoichi Mori in 1983 [135] and subsequently refined under the name superdistribution. The SSS was based on encryption, with specialized hardware that controlled decryption and also enabled payments to be sent to the copyright holder."

That's more in line with modern DRM. But Japan had always been in the future :)
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The problem is not the theoretical peak teraflops. The problem is actually achieving those teraflops with useful work. Due to architecture that is easier on a CPU than on a GPU, so you can't directly compare teraflops and conclude that GPUs are superior. Getting something to run fast on a GPU is very difficult.

And actually the thing that does 4.5 teraflops in single precision does only 95 gigaflops in double precision per GPU. A good x86 CPU does ~100 gigaflops in double precision as well, and you're much more likely to actually achieve that number on a x86. Although another one on the page you linked to theoretically does 665 gigaflops double precision.
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I think it's also called racism.
Who isn't using javascript?
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"After 20 years of working you should be in a position where you could have no job for a year or more without screwing up your life."

We call it - "Go fuck yourself, boss" money.
Integers only? Fail.
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Gotta love Rasmus. He makes me proud to be danish :D
Yeah, like we organise a crowd-sourced taboo and censorship?
This is a Troll response, and gratuitously insulting. HN readers may be broadly technical (or not, who knows?) but few of them have the insight into AI provided here, especially if they got their IT experience or education during the AI Winter referenced above.
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> I'm not disagreeing, but I am pointing out that Turkey really wouldn't have gotten there for a freak chance in getting Ataturk who specifically modeled the country to be viable to enter Europe, and that process is currently being reversed gradually by the those elected in power.

I see where you're coming from but when you look into it the whole thing isn't so clean cut. Ataturk was obviously the singularly biggest influence in modern Turkish history, but because of it's geography Turkey has always had prospects to do well. It's position in control of shipping between the mediterranean and black sea, combined with it's black sea and mediterranean coasts and position as a gateway to Iraq, Russia and Greece has meant that it was always going to be a major trade centre.

Ataturk never modeled the country on being able to enter Europe, he died decades before the coal and steel treaty and the Euro region didn't exist until 1992 depending on your views on EU history. Ataturk's foreign policy doctrine was one of strict neutrality, "Peace at home, Peace in the world" (Yurtta Barış, Dünyada Barış). The decision to keep Turkey out has been largely made by the French and German governments who are worried about uneducated Turks coming into Europe and flooding the labour market and (particularly in the French case) not integrating into their host countries' cultures.

Ataturk modeled his country on the Austrian system as the best way of modernising a new country widely regarded as extremely behind the times. This was a continuation and radical acceleration of work that had been going on for nearly 200 years prior (with the help of the Germans, which is why the Ottomans were forced into the war on the German side, that and an alliance between France and Russia being seen as a threat). The acceleration of that only occurred because of the destruction of the caliphate and the establishment of a secular republic.

Later in Ataturk's life and in order to maintain territorial integrity a personality cult was built around him, this was to keep the revolution going, to ensure that the country didn't sink into religious backwardsness and that they could keep themselves as an independent state without having to deal with external interference. Other leaders who included Ataturk's principles of Kemalism to some extent included Nasser and Mossadegh.

In the end Ataturk's models became so fixed by subsequent leaders that his party CHP lost it's relevance and AKP, the current party gained power. Now AKP is putting it's people into various positions to ensure it's longevity. While it has a much more pro-Islamic agenda, AKP cannot afford to overstep the mark and betray it's financial backers, who'll pull out the rug as soon as someone more moderate comes along.

If you're interested in reading about Ataturk, Andrew Mango's Ataturk book is the definitive English language book on the matter.
$51 or $51,000,000 a client is a client, and you have a contract (or you fucking should do) to provide a service.

3 weeks is breach, esp. without informing your clients so that they can at least investigate other avenues / allow them to mitigate your issues as a business.

This isn't high school ~ running around saying "But he's only posting to get attention, waaa waaa" is pathetic, and not how businesses (should be) run.

~ General levels of business acumen here are severely lacking.
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The neural network in this paper, an autoencoder, doesn't require labelled data.

Autoencoders take high dimensional input, map it to a lower dimensional space and then try to recreate the original high dimensional input as closely as possible.
The idea is to learn a compressed representation for the data and hope that this compressed representation works as a high level featureset.

As the model is just trying to represent the original input, no labelled data is required for the initial part. Labelled data is later introduced when the high level features are used for classification.
What's most interesting about this paper is that one of the features learned by the model maps quite well to "image contains a face" without any prompting by the researchers.

For more details, check out http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs294a/sparseAutoencoder.pdf
I read another article about Pakistan, from a more-or-less US military perspective: http://strategypage.com/qnd/india/articles/20120622.aspx

"The U.S. is openly accusing the Pakistani military of collaborating with Islamic terrorists, particularly the Haqqani Network, which has long enjoyed sanctuary in North Waziristan. The U.S. publicly agrees with many Pakistanis that the Pakistani military of being out-of-control and a threat to Pakistani democracy. Pakistanis who express these beliefs openly in Pakistan can get arrested or killed."

At least the western countries don't build and finance terror networks to attack neighbours. And so on.

It is a pity for the country, the economy should go like India or China if the place was better managed. I hope the article is correct in its optimism.

(I read that site for fun and to get the opposite perspective from my local Swedish media, which aren't that dependable.)
And yet there is no Vietnamese version of Windows (or any other Microsoft major product as far as I can tell.)
My argument is that if the original material was written in the language that translation is in, as will be the case if there is one universal language, there would have been no loss of 'feel'.
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You need at least probability/statistics, linear algebra, calculus, and numerical methods. Once you know this machine learning is a relatively thin layer built on this math foundation. The real problem is learning the math foundation.
Im not talking about education as in, "can you perform open heart surgery?". Im talking about education as in, "can you write your name in Urdu?"
Why is not a good idea to have more than one product in your startup
You're correct that was incorrectly worded and invalidates the statement. I will correct that as it should have said "travel in multiple directions over time". Thank you :)
But that is .com.au, not .com. It's not a gTLD.
color association is an evolutionary development and wasn't invented by Ferrari. look at the world of nature for evidence.

the first Ferrari was yellow anyway, their first racing cars used the Italian national racing color which is "Rosso Corsa".
This is awesome. I'm glad to see Apple breaking their rules to enable this functionality.

Inter-app communication is a hard thing to fit into the iOS security model, but I hope this small and controlled incursion is the beginning of something Apple has been working on for a long time.

This app looks great too. Repetitive manual testing in the simulator is not my favorite part of the day.
The past few decades show that when Pakistan has some problem (no food production, etc), they will solve it by attacking India. Lets see what the future holds, history tends to repeat itself. India has bee under external attack for thousands of years.
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try python's scikit.learn library
I'm fine with you not supporting my browser but if you use a whitelist and block me from the website just based on my user agent string then I'll spoof it. Some websites already do that and it pisses me off when the website turns out to be working fine and it's just the webmaster pushing their agenda.
Just because it's a standard doesn't mean it's spelt correctly ;) HTTP referer [sic] comes to mind http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer
Here's a fun toy project using neural networks.

http://slowping.com/2012/self-driving-lego-mindstorms-robot/
You architect the backend very differently if you need to scale on day one. Unless you positively absolutely sure you will, I recommend going the single server route.

Amazon AWS is free for a year, it'll give you a rough idea how much money you'll need to spend.

If you have the time up-front, spend it wisely and automate server orchestration. Puppet, Chef, etc. (For me Salt works best.) It pays off the first time anything goes down, by the time you should have a plan to expand and hire a sysadmin.

Good luck.
If you extrapolate that way you'd conclude that naive Bayes is the solution to AI. Improvements tend to tail off fairly quickly as you add more data and computation, unfortunately.
Change Never Sounded So Obvious
Fifteen years ago I thought of Pakistan as "that other India". Now I think of it as "that other Afghanistan". This doesn't seem like progress.
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More accurately, anarchism, difference being:

>Anarchy is a condition of life without the intrusion of governance and the mechanisms and institutions of the state.

>Anarchism is the political philosophy which has anarchy as its goal.
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What does "protect their modesty" mean?
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Are my negative internship experiences respresentative of the real world?
Unfortunately PHP is consistently inconsistent. It lets people do that, and it won't ever break. Until they "make it right".

Sure the guy didn't test the parameter as being empty, but if you pass a string instead of a float, an error should be raised, and that never happened until the fix. That's the big problem with PHP :/
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O it was a bug, and they patched it.
I think you have to understand that corruption in the UK and in Pakistan are likely two different things. In the UK corruption, any corruption is about Greed. In Pakistan and similar countries not all corruption is about greed, it's about an alternative system of taxation.

Your average police officer, or fireman or customs official probably gets paid a tiny amount of money per month maybe $30-$50. But as an official of the government they have the opportunity to levy "additional taxes" during their day to day life. That's why often you'll find such countries have thousands of official regulations which on the face of it make no sense, how can anyone get anything done legally with all these regulations? The answer of course is that these regulations merely exist to create opportunities for the relevant officials to "collect taxes". You pay the official directly, you don't need to comply.

And their superiors know, their superiors get a cut of every bribe, it feeds up the chain of command within the relevant organisations. The officers on the beat or the fire department official who checks building fire regulations collects the "taxes" for himself and his superior.

So when you talk about stopping corruption in these countries you've got to replace this system of "taxation" with a real one that works. But that's easier said than done because the real corruption (fuelled by greed) also exists here and no one in their right mind is going to pay serious tax money to their government because it will disappear never to be seen again.

I can't claim that I know what the solution is to that, I thought I'd just put a different perspective on it.
Well, the defendants also admitted doing all this, but still didn't though there was anything wrong about it because they were expert investment bankers. That's quite amazing too.
I'd hoped to see more discussion on the specifics in HN rather than sweeping statements with an undercurrent of racism.

It's a sweeping statement but it clearly has nothing to do with race. For instance, this dude would be happy in Singapore or Thailand but not in the bit of Malaysia that lies between 'em. I doubt it's because of the marginally different racial mixes you're likely to find as you cross the borders.
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Regarding the subject of denying crimes against humanity, how is the Pakistani education about the mass murders in Bangladesh 40 years ago -- by Pakistani troops?

(Afaik, Pakistani students coming to western Europe haven't heard about them.)

>>Oh those poor oppressed Irish women, whatever became of them?

They got their freedom and human rights a little later than other countries in western Europe -- Ireland had a bit of a tough history, for a while. When does that freedom come to the Mid East and Pakistan?

Edit: "You can find X everywhere" is easy, for most any X. But it is often dishonest and lazy. E.g. rapes happens in prisons in most any country -- but a serious argument would note that it is totally different if it happens to 5% of the prison population or 0.1 promille. And if it is a "job bonus" for the guards, like Syria.
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I am happy that the Chinese invest this much in Linux. This obviously motivates big hardware makers to release quality/OS drivers for their products, and in the end I benefit from that as well.

I remember the times I had to hack around for days to get some particular piece of hardware to work. That happens less and less, and now most of the stuff I buy just works.

Video cards and capture cards are the big exception for now, they somehow work sometimes, but this is getting better every day, and this news takes us in that direction even more.
Blade Runner predictions that came true
You don't even need to imagine!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812

Though I'm not sure whether this supports or refutes your point... because we did start to get along pretty swimmingly once it was all over.
They patched the ability to make ISK in this way but everything these players did were within the rules of the game.