skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems kinda dumb to name your project after possibly the biggest art community in the world: http://deviantart.com.
This seem similar to the prohibition of interest or fees for loans of money within Islam. Medieval chrisianity prohibited it as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usury
i've heard great stuff about oauth.io . they try to provide an abstractionlayer that handles the various different implementations (often buggy or not to spec) of oauth.
I would guess that Joseph wouldn't dip due to the huge number of other famous Josephs. (St. Joseph being the most famous). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_%28name%29#People_known_...

Compared to Winston (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_%28name%29) which is only common in British/American history.
I think his work had that unique classic timeless glow that belong to artists since gone.
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Anime has it's own categories like Angst
Ecchi
Battle Royale
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Bullet Time
Calling Your Attacks
Collateral Damage
Gunfights and a lot more. There are multiple websites that only feature Anime, and zero websites with full content about all three TV, Anime, Movies
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I own a copy and also recommend it.
What would happen if Britney Spears came along and asked Google and every other search engine to delete everything about her on the internet?

Even if Google went ahead and deleted every link to every story about her today, she would have a new million of articles about her tomorrow (Most likely about the fact that search engines doesn't give any Britney Spears results anymore)

How does this law affect celebrities? Are they considered in the public eye and unprotected? Or are they persons, as well?

Can anyone clarify?

Perhaps Britney Spears is a bad example, as she is a US citizen. What about Till Lindemann, lead vocal of the German Metal band, Rammstein?
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But your ads, and in particular the careful placement you describe are not at all representative of the majority of ads most people see around the Internet.

And your example about the hobbyist-site-gone-nice-pension is not a startup. It's also just an appeal to emotion, when the argument is just that we could do with less advertising in general, and that it would be nice if startups could find or have a different way to monetize.

A lot of ads are is deceptive (though IMO, 90% is a bit high estimate), but more importantly it takes a very real mental cost of constantly having to task-switch: when I'm merely looking for information (which is 99% of the time I'm on the Internet), there is an army of specifically crafted boxes of information strewn in sidebars across the web, doing their utmost best to get me out of that mindset and into the mindset of deciding-to-purchase.

If I actually were to have to suffer that I'd never get anything done. That may sound extreme, but there's more people like me that need their focus and it's fragile. Thankfully there's AdBlock and similar tools.
I think he's referring to an issue with the European Union laws which state that election results must be held back until all member states have finished voting. However, in the Netherlands, it is law that results must be counted immediately and published as soon as they are counted. So, in the previous election, the vote was technically illegal under Netherland's laws. However, this time around, it seems Netherlands isn't holding a vote until the last day of voting.
The classic signs are usually upfront, presenting the product as the holy grail, in this case "The very last CMS framework you will ever need". Anybody with any experience knows that this cannot possibly be anywhere near true, not even if technology stops evolving altogether.

I think the ", like ever" indicates that their tongue was in their cheek when they wrote that.
I also find the name somewhat ironic.

Xeer clearly comes from خير, or khayr, which is Arabic for good. It is good, but in the higher moralistic and religious sense in addition to the normal sense. So I wonder if it goes back to original interaction with the Arabs, 7th century as noted or prior. The general idea, consensus-based law as I see it, seems similar on the basic principle in Islam to Ijma'[0], or consensus-based formation of jurisprudence. There are varying views, but that idea is that Islamic law (despite outside views of it) is not controlled by one but must be agreed upon by popular approval of jurisprudence scholars (of course this is loosely defined, but what can you do).

Xeer is definitely from the Arabic, as are many loanwords from Somali (as an Arabic speaker, who sat in linguistics courses where Somali speakers presented, I could be wrong). So I am not sure where the "no foreign loanwords" comment in the Wikipedia article came from.

Then again, maybe I am just reading to much into this name/book cover.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ijma
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S7xTS connects friends and strangers speaking different languages.

As you speak in your native tongue S7xTS automatically translates what you say and play it back to your communication partner in the language he/she have selected (and vice versa).

More info/trailer: http://vimeo.com/94150208
You are correct: Rather than racist, the view you express is more accurately xenophobic.

I want to address your assertion that I and others have misconstrued your view, because we have not. You draw a clear link between Islam and gender-based violence, even to the point of finding exceptions (contra-factual as they are).
This approach to thinking about the world is essentially prejudiced, indicative either of both belligerent ignorance and the entitlement to pass judgement without examining facts. Furthermore, rather than exploring the reality of gender-based violence, you contemptuously use its existence as a bludgeon against specific parties.

Your new thesis, that "religions significantly affect how their adherents behave", is undergraduate at best. The topic at hand is gender-based violence, which happens all over the world in many varied cultures and religions. Rather than using this article as an opportunity to take a cheap shot at Islam, you could examine the commonalities between the groups mentioned and other instances of gender-based violence. Consider that one-third of female US service personnel are raped by their colleagues. Does that have anything to do with Islam? Or religion?

I think you should also reflect on the male privilege that is required to regard the subject of gender-based violence as an opportunity to make sweeping judgements about people and religions.
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I posted the following as a comment to the blog, I'll duplicate it here in case someone wants to discuss:

This program is so easy on the CPU that it should be entirely limited by memory bandwidth and the CPU should be pretty much idle. The theoretical upper limit ("speed of light") should be around 50 gigabytes per second for modern CPU and memory.

In order to get closer to the SOL figure, try adding hints for prefetching the data closer to the CPU. Use mmap and give the operating system hints to load the data from disk to memory using madvise and/or posix_fadvise. This should probably be done once per a big chunk (several megabytes) because the system calls are so expensive.

Then try to make sure that the data is as close to the CPU as possible, preferably in the first level of the cache hierarchy. This is done with prefetching instructions (the "streaming" part of SSE that everyone always forgets). For GCC/Clang, you could use __builtin_prefetch. This should be done for several cache lines ahead because the time to actually process the data should be next to nothing compared to fetching stuff from the caches.

Because this is limited on memory bandwidth, it should be possible to do some more computation for the same price. So while you're at it, you can compute the sum, the product, a CRC sum, a hash value (perhaps with several hash functions) at the same cost (if you count only time and exclude the power consumption of the CPU).
I never before heard that this was a big issue; could you please tell what those problems are?
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Well, additionally it takes them a relatively long time in the article to make the connection to common law, which is also "discovered".
If you were curious as to how it is integrated with Mezzanine, here are some links:

* https://github.com/fusionbox/django-widgy/blob/master/widgy/... - the widgy_mezzanine "contrib" app. It provides a Page subclass that has a WidgyField on it.

* http://docs.wid.gy/en/latest/tutorials/widgy-mezzanine-tutor... - a tutorial for getting started with Mezzanine and widgy.

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Pretty naïve, I'm surprised to see it here. Not that this is pointless study, but it's pretty easy to guess up these numbers if you know about how long it takes to use a register, L1, L2, RAM, hard drive (and you should). And exactly how long it would take is task-specific question, because depends more on what optimization techniques can be used for the task and what cannot, so unless you are interested specifically in summation mod 256, this information isn't much of use, as "processing" is much broader than "adding moulo 256".

But it's nice that somewhere somebody else understood, that computers are fast. Seriously, no irony here. Because it's about time for people to realize, what disastrous world modern computing is. I mean, your home PC processes gigabytes of data in the matter of seconds, amount of computations (relative to its cost) it is capable of would drive some scientist 60 years ago crazy and it gets wasted. It's year 2014 and you have to wait for your computer. It's so much faster than you, but you are waiting for it! What an irony! You don't even want to add up gigabyte of numbers, you want to close a tab in your browser or whatever, and there are quite a few processes running in the background that actually have to be running right now to do something useful, unfortunately OS doesn't know about that. Unneeded data cached in the RAM and you wait while OS fetches memory page from HDD. But, well, after 20 layers of abstraction it's pretty hard to do only useful computations, so you make your user wait to finish some computationally simple stuff.

About every time I write code I feel guilty.
At the same time, if one is able to bully people into keeping quiet, it becomes a lot harder to find patterns of misbehavior, and to avoid persons who are better worth avoiding. Mr Costeja González had a dispute with a government agency 25 years ago, most people will not give much notice to that nowadays. However, his attempts at litigating away his past, in my opinion, reflect a lot more on his lack of character.
A truly unique talent. In memory, you should check out Aphex Twin's "Window Licker" directed by Chris Cunningham (HN will probably be most familiar with Bjork's "All is Full of Love" music video). A whole host of talent came together there to make one of the most fucked up things you'll ever witness. Suffice to say a big red NSFW warning goes out on this one!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MBaEEODzU0

[EDIT: I mean MOST DEFINITELY NOT SAFE FOR WORK!!!!]
I liked QnX, currently playing around with Erlang. (Erlang has tons of warts but it gets enough of the moving parts just right that I find it interesting).
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‘No Place to Hide’ by Glenn Greenwald, on the NSA’s efforts to ‘Know it All’
Maybe I'm just oldschool but I found that auto-vectorization hardly ever does what one thinks it should do. I view it as a nice tool in my belt but I don't ever expect it to magically speed things up for me by large factors. If I want real SIMD I get down to intrinsics or assembler myself.
The law can be quite powerful, if you think of the length that corporations go these day to ensure compliance - the word "compliance" alone will probably trigger emotions in everyone who has worked in a large company recently.

When a CEO could go to prison for something, then the organization will adapt accordingly.
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These are two different issues. Yes, Facebook should delete your info when you request them to. However, I find it more than a bit disturbing that someone can use the courts to force entities to pull public information that is less than flattering about them. Would you hold this decision in the same regard if it were about a CEO that was trying to bury that he was sued in the past?
They're probably just making it clear that they'll populate their database with information for anime as well as for western TV shows. There's a very smooth distribution system for fan-translated anime so many people watch a lot of anime before it has aired outside Japan, and would want a database that keeps track of such viewing.
Actually 2038 is scary because it can affect many systems that need to calculate things long (pun intended) in the future. Imagine if you take a 25 year mortgage and the backend system still uses 32bit clock_t...
I tested the program with -funroll-loops (which did unroll the sum_array loop) with no measurable difference in performance. I guess there are no easy shortcuts available anymore, you'd need to delve into the assembly to push for more performance.
To who and in what situations? To businesses(hardware and software) sure, they get products out faster and are motivated to push new stuff out. To end users, not so much, because they wait more and their batteries drain faster. They also pay more for hardware to have a "good experience".
And there is effective slavery in Saudi Arabia (though not in Iran, it's one of their high profile exceptions to islam). OTOH there is real slavery in Mali and several other Saharan islamic nations, so this "truly backward" culture as the other post put it is widespread, geographically and among people.

And of course, let's ignore the fact that there is one reason for this, and the fact that people of the same ideology in the US also by and large support slavery, racist law, religious warfare and so on. We are simply to accept is as socially normal and even desirable that there is a sizeable (several millions at least) voting block in the USA that wants to bring back slavery, destroy the principle of equality under the law (men-women, dhimmi, slaves, ...).

Here's the argument that is defeating equality under the law and bringing back slavery around the world : Tolerance ! (Since shariah law has been implemented in 4 extra countries in the last 5 years, and has made inroads in western nations including the UK and the US, I think it's a very defensible position that it's gaining ground). This would be funny, but it's very real. It's so completely pathetic.

So are you pro-slavery ? Or are you a racist ? This religion needs to be eradicated, to be returned to just being one more book that illustrates just how much of an abomination historical cultures were. It's that simple.

And we generally need to lose the noble savage attitude. The vast majority of human cultures are out-of-date, repressive, slavery-based, anti-equality, ... , and generally horrible abominations to live in. Islam is one of these, but this should be the default position of anyone on any culture, because, well, the vast majority of cultures are horrible for the people living in them, and are moral abominations. And NOT just because of economic conditions. We need to stop the "ooh shiny robes on the priests, and nice buildings in Dubai" attitude towards other religions and look at how they treat people.
So, leboncoin.fr doesn't like my email alert webapp
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Its cool when it works, but besides very simple words, I couldn't get it to work.

Some examples:

It simply doesn't understand a lot of words and says nothing.

I said "My cat is sitting in the window" and it thought I said: "2007 in the wind"

I tried repeating the phrase from the start "a friend has joined the chat" multiple times and here are the various things it thought I said:

fun
friends
friends
gay friend
signs that died

I have no idea where "signs that died" came from!

I tried reading the button out loud "Press and hold to speak" and it said "old poop".

Its a neat idea, but it just doesn't work very well (it failed on about 90% of the things I said) and I wouldn't try to have a real conversation with it.
I agree that the article makes no sense, but I think that modern society "requires diversity" might be some kind of party line in the West and might be no fully true. An example of successful society that is not highly "diverse" is China. (Well China certainly is and was diverse, but not as much as current Western societies).
"Motorola will guarantee an upgrade to the next version of Android"

"Motorola is also using a version of the Android software that has none of the modifications that other manufacturers like Samsung and HTC typically make"

This is great to see! I just hope they continue beyond the next version
Do you know what would make people instantly realise how fast computers are?

Reaction: a program that reads a camera and reacts to some user action instantly moving a robot arm. Add to that an ultra-slow-motion camera so we can see what happened afterwards.
Interesting, but why not use redis pub-sub for the job queues instead of forwarding to RabbitMQ?
[SPOILERS] Yes, just at the end, so the thing you’ve been imaging in your mind for the whole movie is completely destroyed by the shape of a human being. All that monstrosity that gives life to a human-like. And that happens in the exact moment a human-like animal kills it expelling it into space from the ship. Genius.

Edit: whoops, I didn’t read your comment correctly. I don’t remember where you see its full shape, the airducts is the most plausible place as far as I remember.
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In the UK the best channels for new content are the ones provided by the BBC. However, invariably, what is on is a repeat. As for the rest of the channels, then it is hard not to watch a repeat.

The BBC don't sell advertising in the UK, the rest do. So, if I watch a movie 3/4 the way through before remembering I have seen it before, then that is all good to them and their advertisers, I have 'consumed' adverts, which is what TV is there for.

This project goes against the main goal of television which is to show as many repeats (and adverts) as possible. I cannot see Rupert Murdoch investing...
Start from existing data protection rules and procedure: http://ico.org.uk/for_organisations/data_protection/the_guid...

"Information made public by the subject" is exempt, even if the subject regrets that disclosure.

There's also exemptions for news reporting and other purposes: http://ico.org.uk/for_organisations/data_protection/the_guid...

(Those references are to UK law, but this area of law is part of EU harmonisation and should therefore be basically the same in most EU countries)
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This is the sort of improvement you'd see if your program was fully IO bound.
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A couple of questions pop to mind:

- Will that affect the work of archive.org and the wayback machine?

- Is it okay for a politician to "erase" something he/she said 10 years ago?
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Ah yes. I'd forgotten about those. I was thinking mostly of the ocean liner Savannah, and a few other nuclear-powered ships, one of which was built and operated by the Germans (the Otto Hahn, later retrofitted with conventional powerplant), and another by the Japanese, Mutsu. All three have been decommissioned.

The Soviets built, and Russia continues to operate a fleet of nuclear-powered icebreakers.

The US nuclear cruisers were the Long Beach (CGN-9), Bainbridge (CGN-25), California (CGN-36), South Carolina (CGN-37), Truxtun (CGN-35), the Virgian-class ships: Arkansas (CGN-41), Mississippi (CGN-40), Texas (CGN-39), and Virginia (CGN-38). All were decommissioned in the 1990s.

As for solar power: the power requirements for marine propulsion are simply too great. You're much better off with wind (or a wind + powered) design.

The Tûranor PlanetSolar is a 100% solar-powered ship. Virtually its entire topside surface is covered with solar panels, with portions of the deck cantelevering out when at sea to increase surface area. Despite a very high-efficiency hull design, the ship's cruising speed is 8 knots (it can double that for short periods). Its solar output is 90 kW, or roughly 120 horsepower. You'll often find rather larger motors as outboard engines.

The Maltese Falcon yacht discussed above has two 1,800 HP diesel engines -- that's 1,300 kW. The freighter Emma Maersk has an 80 MW (109,000 HP) powerplant. The engine and specs themselves are impressive. You could stand inside an engine cylinder:

http://gcaptain.com/emma-maersk-engine/

The Emma's electrical capacity alone is 29 MW. Note that for a containership you've got the added complication that you're stacking containers on the deck itself -- solar cells would be covere, unless they could be unfurled above the containers, which would be complicated and likely not particularly robust in a marine and port environment. And at 60W/m^2 net solar PV potential, the 22,232 m^2 surface area of the Emma is nearly 22 times too small to provide adequate electrical power alone to the ship.

As for fuel consumption, at a cruise speed of 25.5 kt and 3,600 gallons of fuel per hour, she gets about 0.008 mpg, or 43 feet per gallon. Or 122 gallons per mile.

Wind power is rather more tractable than solar.
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Interesting. Those branchy ridge shapes look a lot like Diffusion-Limited Aggregate patterns. But then, I guess they didn't call it "universality" for nothing :)

They also reminded me a bit of GIMP's "Solid Noise" rendering with the "Turbulence" setting switched on. I rendered one, and turns out it doesn't quite look as good (cough), but now I wonder whether this would give a bit more realistic height map: http://imgur.com/oRlZ191

On the other hand, like you say, for terrains for videogames are always best generated by taking any of these algorithms, and mercilessly tweaking the parameters, post-processing, etc until it just looks sufficiently good. Actual physical realism comes into second place (and it should, like most game physics).
Some developing countries have a much higher ratio of women in STEM compared to developed countries. Not hard to understand if you view it from the angle of STEM jobs being relatively high paying, and money being a way to independence. In the developed world, women don't need a high paying job in order to have independence.

Though I don't know if Iran should be considered a developing country.
I'm not sure I agree with the idea that it's the right to make errors.

That's part of it, but there's plenty of things that I wouldn't class as errors that I could well want to keep out of the public domain, such as illness, working on a confidential project or looking for another job.
"The fist loan was recorded in 1135. Interest was prohibited, so it was calculated beforehand and included in the total amount borrowed".

Funny how people always find ways around prohibition.
Indeed. You can write a letter to your congressman. Comcast can write a cheque.