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Foreword : For someone whom I have met much more time lobbying/selling the virtue of Free Software to the administration to have his private owned companies make benefits from the public money, it is the kind of shaming on Free Software devs I take a moral stance in NOT accepting. I might have heard him on the phone asking our company to rig a market by agreeing on price while on an open invitation to tender. So, I have a strong beef against patronizers that are worth being patronized.

I still am not convinced by modern web development, not as a free software devs, but as a user.

I hate above all ... the design and UX.

I cannot convince myself after years of experiencing CLI as a very convenient way to read infos and automate my task that web is better.

web is about making wrapper around scripts. It is like an animal who has 10 kg of skin for 1kg of muscle. It is RIGID as a dogma. You cannot pipe web applications, unify them, have a consistent information. It is pre-historic IT. I even find curses more interesting.

OS have authentication built-in often done right, but each an every websites recreate their own poorly. Isn't it a waste of effort and duplication?

What is more troubling is the horrible lack of consistency in the presentation and method for getting information. The strength of terminal is : consistency, readable fonts, consistent layout/navigation and fast access to information.
Scrolling the web for information pisses me off. I love man, perldoc, pydoc. The web is as if you had one kind of man per application, one new ncurses, keyboard shortcut, files per apps. Web is inconsistent and would deserved to be questioned as a lingua franca of information technologies.

There is no added value in disrupting a user each an every time he/she does the classical task of ITs: reading/writing.

There is no consistent handling of most keys like copy/paste/tabs.

There is no «typography» of the web. Information deserves consistency.

We are in 2016 the web is resulting in multiplying the manual copy and degradation of sensitive information.

I belong to a country where accents in surname are part of our identity. Most of the web sites still handle this poorly.

And to someone telling me how to exercise my own freedom, I would answer to the author of the article the worlds of another free software actor in France (the authors are french btw) I do What The Fuck I want, don't come patronizing me about how I do exercise my own freedom, especially my freedom of thinking.
Rubik's cube can be used to teach group theory, see http://geometer.org/rubik/group.pdf or http://www.math.harvard.edu/~jjchen/docs/Group%20Theory%20an...
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Does the author mean "Free Software" as in Freedom (free software movement)? Doesn't seem so.
Yeah. Suggestion for OP: register the domain and just mirror the exact same site content.
you'll have to find a lower status company than your previous to up-rank. I.e stop looking at the class A and look to class B where'll you'll find many wiling to give you salary and label.

If it's "want my cake and eat it too" scenario, then I think it'll ultimately come down to dice. You're leaving with your skills but without the years of trust you've built up. You've fundamentally less to barter with on the outside than in.
Everyone's been having problems with them, how can you have had none?

They seem to massively change something every 10 minutes.

I also don't get the 'massively productive' comment, in essence very little has changed since, hell even MVC 3, apart from the obsession with DI and a load of packages now don't work. If you weren't 'massively productive' before, you were probably doing something wrong. They just moved a couple of things around and now insist you use npm/bower/whatever hotness they latch onto next week instead of nuget. I'm sure we'll have another blog post about them ditching support for anything but yarn next week.

And how long before they change their minds about how controllers work again, it's been like 4 times in the last 5 years now. First MVC controllers, then Web API, then Web API 2, then OData, then .Net Core, all very similar but slightly different with slightly different ways to register them at startup and slightly different things available on the context. Apart from the utter madness that is OData, great for data tables, bloody awful for everything else.

It's getting almost as bad as javascript churn but it's one company so it doesn't make any sense.
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People discussing with whom they will or will not associate is, in this very HN thread, referred to as "tyranny", "despotism", "blackmail", "extortion", and of course you yourself went for the oppression/"thoughtcrime" angle.

Yet one satirical comment lampooning it is "jump to police and coercion all the time" and "why is that".

I suggest you get checked out, you've got more projection going on than an overbooked IMAX theater.
I'm also not a fan of pylint - and I just ran it against a small project, 812 LOC of Python.

The code was developed with help of the 'pep8' tool which only finds 12 offending lines we declared ok (all too long, but it's SQL where formatting for readability is more important than 80 chars..) and wlthough pylint gives it a 7.26/10 there's a TON of errors.

So yes, I could now spend a while blacklisting some rules, fixing some stuff, but the defaults are just so bad I won't bother, as usual. Because I think the shape of this code is pretty good.
Yes, without a doubt. The violence in Chicago is confined to a couple of small areas and are a result of racist policies that will unfortunately take years to fix. Most of the city is as safe as the average town in America.
Totally agree, thought I was a solid engineer in my early-mid 20s. Had no idea how much I'd learn. I'm frightened by how much more I could learn now (42).

I waste much less time, still make silly mistakes, but much less often.
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Great example! Without context and potentially experience, you might not understand that the helicopter you see upside down in that tree experienced critical mechanical failures, and the pilot saved the lives of himself and the crew by getting it stuck upside down in a tree instead of just crashing into the ground at full speed.

In other words, yeah, not being a pilot and lacking contextual knowledge of the helicopter DOES mean, at the very least, that you don"t know WHO fucked up - the pilot, the mechanic, the manufacturer, the designer, or whether the poor sucker just got shot down.
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Alan Kay's inspiration for OOP and message passing seems to have come from working in microbiology.

Maybe thinking/finding about how biology does its computation will be important for machines that can scale very well?
Funny. People suggest exercising their right to associate or not, freely as they choose, and exercising their right to use persuasive speech, and you equate it to the use of force, to censorship, to silencing.

And double funny: it started with trying to persuade someone to disassociate from the campaign/supporters of a man who literally talks about wielding the law to silence journalism he doesn't like.
We'll still have created A.I. which successfully made us obsolete

AI itself won't obsolete us. It is my understanding that AI is purely virtual, and can't interact with nature except through agents. For us to be "obsolete", AI needs full production capability to build its own agents, and control the entire production/construction/repair pipeline.

In my view, that's quite a few steps further than simply "AI". An AI with reproductive capability will enslave us before it obsoletes us. And an AI may well decide that human slaves are cheaper (or more useful/versatile) than agents that it can build itself.
So I benchmarked Yarn against the 4 most popular CI tools
>The drudge report has none of that

Because it doesn't need most of them. It doesn't have comments or voting -- just suggests stories the Drudge guy likes.

>What are the three columns?

Just 3 columns.

>Why is there a single column of content above that?

Because those are the "headline" stories -- as evident by the larger font too.

>How fresh is the content?

Quite fresh/breaking.

>Where do the links lead?

To news stories. Just clicking one or two makes that evident.

>Are the links user submitted or is it run by someone?*

It's the Drudge Report -- so, we can assume it's Drudge's report.

These questions are basically just questions someone just landing there might have. Not issues that hurt the actual readers of the site -- like the one's the original post complaints about.
> An AI is essentially a program, and it does what it was programmed for.

Any basis for assuming that we are not "essentially a program" that "does what it was programmed for"?

Being "a program" does not mean something does not have capacity for doing something unexpected. Without being programmed to mimic a human mind.

Case in point: I have some tools that use even just basic bayesian models, and they produce all kinds of unexpected behaviour all the time, because the very nature of it is that they are used to create rules from unstructured data that cause all kinds of unintended effects.

With a sufficiently advanced set of tools, there is every potential that just one small mistake will "set it lose" in an unintended way because more and more of our tools will include learning behaviours and little gleams of intelligence and adaptability.

Consider that it doesn't take intelligence to cause destruction and disruption. Look at the Morris Worm for example. There was not a hint of learning behaviour or intelligence there - imagine if there had been.

In some ways, a "dumb AI" is even more terrifying, because a lot of really nasty things can be achieved with sheer persistance and speed, and requires very little intelligence, and more intelligence might get the entity to realise it's not a good thing to do.

A program mimicing a human mind - or better - might be capable of more destruction, but is also potentially possible to argue, negotiate and plead with.
I'm going to assume both of these options have been considered and ruled out. Also, the article mentions that this Planet 9 explains the orbits of Kuiper belt objects as well.
Read this comment nodding, but it sounds like a zero sum system. There's got to be a better way to attract and enhance talented developers.
This is just idle speculation but it has occurred to me that Thiel may be in the "burn it down" camp. He's rich enough to probably make it through a bit of depression, anarchy and/or world war unscathed, and maybe reckless enough to yearn for that show.
If you think of your time on those projects, did your employer hire in a more seasoned IC to lead you or was it more likely that your manager asked what you needed to be successful and hired in the best / most senior IC's to help you achieve your goals?

Because assuming allocation is done at hiring that is probably where your job title is coming from.

It could make more sense to goto a startup where you get the problems (Probably not the scale) and autonomy / opportunity to own and build out a particular piece of the puzzle
Grsecurity? Anyone use this?
So, I've been doing some research and seeing that no OS is immune nowadays to external and internal threats, the only solution is SUID and strict compartmentalization of processes and memory usage. Upon doing some research on how best to achieve an optimal state of balancing functionality with security I found a group of dev's and some serious minded security experts releasing a project under the name of grsecurity. They've been operating for over 15 years now and are the gold standard in security for UNIX based systems. I find it incomprehensible that popular distro's don't include this kernel patch by default in their releases. I'm wondering about your thoughts on this and what can be done to raise awareness of utilizing and possibly funding this research group along with implementing it in popular Linux distro's.

Thanks.
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I feel sad that actual sensible responses on HN are now downvoted mercilessly because they are not aboard the hype train/zeitgeist

What irq11 has said is valid and important. You cannot just handwave actual engineering problems with some buzzwords
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I did something similar and had a test suite across a CoreOS cluster that would fail machines in patterns for hours whilst checking service and data integrity. One can run the suite against the replica cluster when new deployment features are added or changed.

Doing it on live wasn't possible for me because failover resulted in some down time although I consider the former to have been very useful.
No more so than any of the shells that's already available on Windows (batch scripts, WSH, Powershell). If one was to exploit scripting on Windows, it would make more sense to target the existing shells rather than Bash as they're more widespread on Windows.

Plus Bash on Windows isn't a new thing: we already have Cygwin, MinGW and I believe there was also some native Windows PE ports too. This is just a better implementation than the aforementioned three.
Part of the problem I think is that the image is not fully used; I mean, generally these systems consist of a black-box routine that extracts interest points and then passes it onto to a SLAM routine, which inturn keeps an estimate of the car state and the interest point positions. There is no "physical" model of the world being inferred from images, and I imagine this makes things rather tricky (and also why a LIDAR is so much more useful).

AFAIK deep-learning hasn't really brought much change to this manner of doing things - the mapping part esp.
What's their bonus like?
>If we're going to try to make a universal content platform, we should at least wait until someone does a good job of it.

I don't think that will happen in my lifetime. We have to live with what already have. Yes they are bad choices but everyone pretends it's the best we have because it's crossplatform and you can just type a link into your address bar without installing anything. These two things are great for both the developers and the users.
From their site: "doing so for revenue purposes will only be permissible on the Tesla Network, details of which will be released next year"

This does not leave much room for speculation regarding a), this is basically an announcement of intending to introduce "the Tesla Network" as a player in that market.
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I'm currently in the process of developing a service that will visualize all of your project blockers on a single dashboard, visible by all team members and that will also broadcast those blockers instantly to all team members, and likewise let them all know when the blocker has been resolved.

The idea sparked from becoming increasingly frustrated with tickets being blocked for various reasons and while those tickets were all visible in our project management tools, not all team members were regularly checking the board or noticing that things were blocked. It becomes increasingly difficult when various people are not working at the same location.

I'm looking for some feedback on the idea. Is this something you've struggled with in your team? How did you solve it? Would a tool like this be useful?

Cheers,
Tom
> why do you think you could predict what this supposedly superior brain would think, or conclude?

I don't know if I can, but I can try. Also, I was merely questioning whether it would chose to keep functioning as we do (that is whether it would chose to keep animal features like emotions, pain, desire and stuff).

> We should also be worried about global hunger, rising sea levels, depleted ozone layer, toxic air & water, overfishing of oceans, clearing of forests, diminishing biodiversity, overpopulation, global economic crises, cyber war

Nobody prevents you from worrying about those things.
I suspect Hawkins doesn't because he does not consider them as much fundamental threats as AI.
Let me defend designers here!

While I agree we're overdoing design nowadays, I don't think it's just for the sake of it. I think the problem is there are too many goals a site has to achieve and being readable is just one of them.

I would prefer to focus on specific group of people and cater to them, but very few businesses do this. Instead they want email subscribers, social engagement, comments, ads, CTA clicks, Sign ups, everything. So you end up with a mess, BUT the site satisfies measurable goals. Newsletter modals sure piss of a lot of people, but they work if your goal is getting subscriptions.
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Question.. if employees at a bank are making these kind of salaries, why doesn't everyone do it?
I use Spacy quite a lot for work and pleasure. I also regularly use (deep breath) NLTK/CoreNLP/OpenNLP/Rosette/OpenIE, and I've written bits and pieces in the area, so I have some perspective.

When I want to do something, I always use Spacy first. It's the 95% solution - it does 95% of the things you are ever likely to do. The only downside is that I haven't worked out how to avoid the slow startup time.

NLTK has more stuff. Some of it is crap, but some is useful. For example, if you want WordNet then NTLK is an easy way to get it.

CoreNLP gives you high quality POS tagging and named entity extraction. It's a Java library (but can run as a REST service) so that is good if you are on the JVM.

OpenNLP.. has an Apache license.

Rosette is expensive, and tuned entirely differently to any other text processing library. Has great multi lingual support.

OpenIE is by far the best open information extraction toolkit.

Obviously this misses the 1000 pound gorilla: Syntax/Parsey McParseface. This isn't exactly trivial to run yet outside of Docker. Slowly getting my stuff together on this.
> Try adding a .NET Core project on your build server.

I've done it in multiple projects, only problems I've encountered were nuget restoring which was easily fixable.
Very glad they ditched json. It was completely unreadable.
Regarding the rant at the end about papers being behind paywalls (which, BTW, I agree with):

If anyone doesn't know, CiteSeerX is a search engine which finds, collects, and caches publicly available papers from around the internet. It's invaluable for finding freely-available papers which the major sources (like the ACM) only make available from behind paywalls.

Here's CiteSeerX's page on the paper in question:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.77.5...

I find it fantastically useful.
Well, I don't think of that as our "next great step" at all, so there's that.

Not disputing that it'll happen sometime, BTW - I just don't see this as some great good thing.
May I ask what kind of work you do and what kind of NLP projects on your free time?
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We have a very flat hierarchy and relaxed environment. We work on kind of a mix atmosphere where devs cooperate with quants and sport traders.

We are looking for developers who have solid fundamentals in programming and maths and an ability to pick up new technologies. You don't need to be interested in sports or betting.

If this appeals to you, please send your CV and covering letter to:jobs@mustardsystems.com
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> I'll bite: what kind of news website you don't fine overwhelming?

Traditional blog-like fromats, e.g. Slashdot, where each headline comes with the top para, which you can skim. If you don't skim it, then it's welcome filler spacing out the headlines.

Of course, content matters more than presentation. HN is better than Slashdot, and probably needs to keep its denser format.

>>BTW: I assumed "heavyweight championship" referred to boxing, not to politics. See the problem?

> That's not about the site's design though, just the phrasing of some particular headline.

The problem is inadquate info on the front page. I.e. only getting a headline.
What about "as someone who has had several years of repeatedly dealing with a set of problems and stressors"?
As someone currently teaching college calculus on the side this semester & works in aerospace engineering, I agree. The two math subjects that I notice most people are deficient in post-college are statistics, and linear algebra. In my opinion, we teach way, way too much calculus.
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Emacs on win32 dosnt support daemon mode.
Opera did the whole rebranding-retargetting-identity thing - it changed their marketing focus from technically people, to people playing volleyball on the beach who liked applying filters on selfies while drinking wine on a mid-summers day. It was the start of their sad and slow decline.
There’s finally a place where you can post your photos of private jets, supercars and wads of cash. The person who created this has a Brilliant Mind
The "Burst" design is preferred by their test panel, but they didn't ask if the design represents actually a clear "identity".
That's likely to be self-selecting, isn't it? I know as a 37 year old engineer with 2 kids I value stability and a reliable salary over excitement/'changing the world'/foosball tables etc.
Google is making their cloud offering very attractive compared to AWS.

The issue with Glacier is the convoluted retrieval pricing. I understand they want to dissuade people from using it as a primary storage, but the potential for a surprise bill is hard to swallow.

Interesting how they still offer unlimited storage through their consumer Amazon Drive service.
The gist is this: they query whois information for contact email addresses, which are used for domain ownership verification. For some domains, this information is only provided in image form via a web service to prevent scraping. So Comodo ran those images through OCR. However, the OCR system reproducibly mistook a lowercase L for a 1 if the next symbol as a number, or 1 for a lowercase L if it was followed by a letter. The same applies to 0/O.

The whole concept of OCRing whois ownership info and issuing certificates based on that seems like a terrible idea...
Detecting the face isn't the problem. The problem is detecting which face is attached to the body wearing the badge.

There may be several people in a photo. Determining which face is associated with each badge is no easy feat.
I meant allowed by US/West Governments.
Thanks. Can you explain why that is and why DO is more secure?
Here's the video of it in action, an autonomous drive to the Tesla factory

https://www.tesla.com/videos/full-self-driving-hardware-all-...