skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm thinking more like warehouse or factory that has a central rack-server and all the robots in the factory are wirelessly connected to it.

People look at a humanoid robot and they see an entity that is similar to a human but made of silicone and steel instead of meat and bone. I think it's more accurate to compare the robots in this factory to the hands and eyes of a large disembodied rackmount brain.
I had to check and according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Emacs , font-lock was added in version 19.28 released November 1, 1994. The movie certainly looks like it was recorded in the 80s.

Some people also still use Acme which AFAIK does not have syntax highlighting.
Would you consider Co-OP if the AI was considered better than humans? Or considered to be like 7k MMR average?
Even the nicest mass murderer is still a mass murderer.
I have never understood Matrix Multiplication - which has always prevented me from doing cool 3D stuff.

Now I do! THANK YOU! :)
I suspect that the hiring process varies quite a bit by role and group, and mostly people talk about the worst cases.

I did part of the process once (a few years ago) and it was very straightforward. Roughly it looked like: Initial call "are you interested" on Tuesday, someone else on Wednesday for 30 min. They arranged a flight & hotel that Sunday, I spent Monday interviewing and visiting with 5 groups if I recall correctly, flew home that night.

So just under a week from first contact to interviewing finished. We started talking positions but I decided to take another opportunity the following week and stopped the process, so I don't know how long that might have taken for approval or negotiation. However, they had seemed confident they could get it sorted out in a couple of weeks.

So just anectdata but doesn't feel at all like the dragged out versions people talk about.
When designing a hiring process one should consider the balance between false positives and false negatives, and the cost of the process. Obviously we all want to hire talent and reject duds. A cheap quick process runs the risk of false positives: hiring duds. An expensive lengthy process tying up lots of top staff will eliminate the false positives, but at cost. So to reduce cost filters are introduced: online tests, homework, phone calls rather than face to face. And the filters increase the risk of false negatives - rejecting real talent.
I think by the time that technology is available to the driver, you may as well add the final 10% (the AI) which just drives the car for you.
"None of the interviews asked about my ability to design systems, how to test or manage large-scale applications, how to gather requirements and work with customers."

No company will ever ask such questions, which is mind boggling. They will all ask minute questions about sorting algorithms which you will never code instead of asking questions related what you will be doing day to day or stuff that is actually critically important.

No one asks design questions, perhaps because it is an open-ended question. But aren't those the best question for a role that often requires coming up with new solutions?

EDIT: perhaps I was too harsh by saying "never". In my experience, companies have occasionally asked about design, but very few and very little in terms of the ratio with algorithm questions. Part of the problem is the "new interviewer every 45/60 minutes" style of interviewing. They all come in and start off with an algorithm question. Each and every one (at least the technical ones).
No, that would be quite insulting to Chomsky.
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Looks very interesting. I have been looking for good resources to help with my daughters education.

It isn't clear if this site is for parents who home educate their children full time or if it is also suitable for parents whose children go to school but want to give extra support for their children at home?
Mostly SEO. The "Bely Tely" has been moving towards more mass-market tabloid for several years after losing the quality market within Northern Ireland to the Irish News.

Yes, within NI a 'southern' paper now achieves about the same circulation as one from Belfast and a considerably better reputation for journalism. Quite a remarkable failure on the BT's part.

As a result the BT has been trying to adapt by widening its news remit and shifting into the tabloid space, as a visit to one of its web pages will quickly show. But most of its 'world news' stories are just AP feed, nothing special.

My neighbour's fiance is a night-club photographer who sells to the BT; 20 years ago such a thing would have been unthinkable in that paper.
casual user doesn't see a reason to care about its privacy anyway.
if it changes its mind, google already has a lot of guides on the first page of like "protect privacy internet".
The power of visualization.
It was my slightly flippant example. I'm sure everyone knows that.
I recall several people on twitter (I follow a lot of distributed systems people / cs professors as it is part of my job to build these things) who agreed with Martin's analysis.
These are very different from human muscle fibers which actually shrink and expand. Seems a little less useful.
> I only have 5-6 untouched games

FTFY :)
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Optimistically your car, perhaps instead their car.
Essentially, that is how I was taught and do matrix multiplication as well. But this sliding window approach is also interesting. Although, it would be a bit complex to understand how to fill in the results based on the sliding window.
That was my thought too - I was taught to do one row of the first matrix with one column of the second matrix at a time.

I found the whole staircase thing quite confusing.
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The surveillance self defense kit from the eff is a most excellent starting point for anyone serious about this:

https://ssd.eff.org/en
Maybe if you had presented some challenges you believe are serious, or contributed in any meaningful way rather than just bitching, people would respond more favorably.
I think all the electricity production in Sweden is either Hydro or Nuclear (+ token amounts of wind), but our hydro also acts as a buffer to Denmark's wind power, so sometimes we get Danish coal power imports instead to make up for it...
I'd think about potentially expanding your audience not only to home educated children but also as a potential curriculum supplement in traditional schools.
I was contacted by a Google recruiter, and she told me how grueling the interview process was. She said I could use up to four weeks to study. No thanks. I have a full time programming job. The notion of coming home to practice balancing a binary search tree, or finding the kth smallest prime palindrome in a linked list or whatever.....is revolting.
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HTTP over SSL/TLS? No, the domain is not visible.

The domain (hostname) you request is inside the encrypted communications between you and the remote server. Only the TCP information is visible (IP, source port, destination IP, and destination port.)

It's the DNS request which reveals the domain you requested.
That is a bit of an overstatement.

If we look at casualties, the US 400k pales in comparison to the to the 26 million of the Soviet Union[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties#Human_...
At this point I have no faith in any of the political systems in place to really represent the people.

People can already be manipulated into voting against their interests.
Not sure what's the best find, the data center article or the author's boy band-esque photo: http://www.detritus.org/mike/pics/inpark.jpg
I don't understand the appeal of slack over IRC.
"View your emails messages and settings"

Unsure about this google permission - Seems like something you don't want to grant access to.

Edit:
Love the idea, tempting to trial but cant grant that permission..
Wherever it is, the Bad Guys will already be rife there, marking you out as a potential Bad Guy too, by association.
China is also extremely interested in economically developing its inner regions, as they've lagged economic development which has come to coastal regions due to high cost of logistics. Anything bought in Islamabad that's 'made in China' was likely manufactured on China's east cost, and arrived via ship.

If it would be economically viable to have the same thing manufactured in Xinjiang or Qinghai, and shipped by road, it would be a huge boost for those areas. Especially if linked through Pakistan's road network to sea ports, bringing easy access to Middle East, Europe, Africa as ships would no longer have to navigate via Singapore.

An in reverse, it would be a huge diversification of import routes for commodities could come in via another route. Not oil specifically, but all kinds of bulk. Bulk carries of commodities are far less efficient than oil ships, the largest with a capacity of 100,000 tons but 30-60k capacity more common (far less than the capacity of a supertanker). So commodities needed to develop the west of China now have a simpler, more efficient route.
Lets face it: in the end, mass surveillance like this is a tool of terror, not of gaining knowledge. It's about injecting fear into society. And it already starts to work, obviously.
> They can call it "anonymous data" as much as they want, but in the end it's still data transmitted to Google's servers.

You appear to be saying that it's wrong to send any data to Google - which strikes me as an indefensibly extreme position. For example if they were tracking a simple count "number of times anyone anywhere has run brew" and it was stored as a single global integer then it's hard to imagine what issue you could have with it as it's basically no worse than a simple hit counter on a website.

So what are you saying? Surely the problem has to relate to what data is collected?
For me, the main reason why I turn down Google's requests for interviews is blind allocation. Google wants you to go through interview after interview without knowing what role you might get. I am far too experienced to accept whatever random job a company might have. The last time they contacted me and told them no, they came back with an actual position of Site Reliability Engineer. Definitely a job I do not want. Imagine going through the interview process only to be offered a position that is not to your liking?

It has been almost a year since I heard from Google. They are due to send me another email soon.
I solved everything with time to spare and they still rejected me. So it doesn't really matter, they can find some other reason to reject you.

For me, they said my C++ wasn't "neat enough" which really pissed me off because we had several minutes at the end of each session where I could have cleaned it up if they had asked.

Anyways it was a complete waste of time.
"Researchers of the University of Central Lancashire and the University of Leeds"

"They recruited 71 sexually active, heterosexual women, ages 18 to 48"

I wonder how long this took, impressive so far, regardless.

"According to the scientists, promoting male self-esteem “may strengthen the pair bond,"" etc.

I'm not so sure these are the most advanced scientists if it took them until 2012 to figure out something which has been constant since prehistoric times. It's not so difficult that a cave man or cave woman couldn't do it.
_All_ this data is stored for one year.
"We can't stop fake news, it's a really hard problem."

"Look at this thing we built to stop real news."
Google puts a lot of work into figuring out how to keep its employees happy.

I'm not sure how you can say this for a company that's notorious for using closed allocation.

Worst horror story I've heard, here on HN, was an EE who was also good at Python. He sure thought he was hired to do hardware, but found himself stuck writing Python to test hardware. Not wanting to end his EE career, he of course had to resign.

And, yes, I know in theory you're able to quickly transfer out of that first position if it's not a good fit, but like the anecdote above, we've heard too many stories where that doesn't work in practice.

As others have noted, the whole thing for non-VIPs seems expressly tuned for new college graduates, who, in the case of this closed allocation policy, generally won't mind working on "whatever" for 18 months.
We (Finns) still use diesel engines for the more remote/less used lines. Mostly for industry or seasonal routes (think lapland during the winter etc.). Just not economically feasible to electrify all the less used routes.
As long as we keep watching - maybe. Once we start acting - maybe not.
I developed the curriculum by testing all the learning activities with home educated children so that's where I've seen the most value given. I would love for some people to use the product in addition to traditional schooling but I agree the website messaging is confusing around who it's primarily aimed towards. Thanks for the feedback!
That's the whole issue though, isn't it? That he prioritizes short term policies over any long term thinking?

If we get to the point where climate change is a short term issue, we've already lost unless by that point we're advanced enough to colonize other planets.
People seem to quite commonly write "Mac OS X 10.6", which duplicates the 10. News articles and Wikipedia included. I don't remember what the machines themselves reported, though. I don't have anything pre-Sierra anymore.
Well assuming no patent issues.
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It is really difficult to select a full black or white on that color wheel. I feel I would never want to use it in a drawing tool for that reason alone.
Aww, he even put on a suit and tie.
I love seeing stuff like this. Though I'd be a happy man if I never had to see the words "Veritas Volume Manager" again. Definitely one of my least favorite pieces of software from that era.

I worked for a company around this same time that had servers in the NJ Exodus data center. Used to have to head up there once a month to swap out tapes in the Sun L11000.
Its laziness for me.
But, this comment has prompted me to get some info on setting up a good local IRC server.
My guess is two things:

1. Factory. Highly customised cars will require a very flexible workforce. Much easier to do by equipping each worker with a hololens

2. Inside the car - turn all the flat surfaces into displays. No headmounting glasses needed. In a driverless car those big windows are ideal for projecting things onto.
And then years later you could download all of Geocities as a few hundred GB Torrent.
yeah, people tend to complain loudly when it goes wrong (and it does happen). I had a very pleasant experience for what is worth.
I can't speak with authority about the origins of that kind of color picker, but I'm 100% sure that is not the reason. It's just for geometrical neatness. The adjacent colors at the "back" corners are not useful or relevant.

Some colour wheels do not put primaries at 120% angles. The "opponent" theory of colour perception from the early 20th C, which has been essentially validated, led to this example:

http://www.greynotgrey.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/h...
There was always a pretty limited range of basic use cases for smart contracts: crowdsales, auctions, debt registries, currency tokens, multisig wallets, etc.

As people begin to use Ethereum for real-world organizations, they will of course prefer to use popular, tested, verified implementations of these basic contract types.

I'm not sure what vision you refer to, but anyway, original visions aren't binding!
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And the last question, "does it matter?"
Same thing by Google in Finland but using the sea water from the Gulf of Finland which doesn't get that warm even during the hottest of summers. They used an old closed paper mill so they had large structures ready to make it cheap too.

https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/ha...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VChOEvKicQQ
No company will ever ask such questions

Once you get outside the bubble where development process is a dirty word and/or meme cargo culted from a blog, they often do. Especially companies with immutable external quality standards to design and test towards.
Curious about any particular pedagogical research behind the curriculum.
When the right wing got so right wing that anyone in any way intellectual would end up left of what they believed in perhaps:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism#Fascism

Have we seen the start of this in the UK with Brexit, or "post-fact politics" too?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/10/michael-goves-gui...
> No company will ever ask such questions

Not true in my experience, and the company that did ask such questions turned out to be a great place to learn a lot in a hurry. It also turned out not to be a good long-term fit, but I'm a much better dev for the experience, and I don't regret it at all.
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Have a look at https communication in Wireshark for example. What you wrote is incorrect. Https reveals the domain at least one time these days. First, ssl extension SNI (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication) is sent, which reveals the domain you're requesting. This happens before the keys are exchanged.

Then, the matching certificate is sent (again in plaintext) from the server so that you can verify it and extract the keys. It will contain the domain again, although it may be a partial one like *.example.com

So no, the domain is public. The full URL path is encrypted though.
" (well, that and the type who doesn't actually need an interview, the famous 'oh, you have literally written the book on X, come work on X here' sort)"

Well, they have a reputation for absolutely disregarding whether you are famous or not:

https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768
You don't see anything even slightly problematic about referring to opt-out (rather than opt-in) aggregate and presumably anonymous usage statistics as 'stealing'?

You don't think that is possibly somewhere towards the further reaches of consensus on what is a reasonable application of the word?

You're welcome to disagree with my position but you're going a touch further than that. You're also accusing me of arguing in bad faith and being somehow aware that my argument has no merits. Considering I think I'm stating a fairly reasonable view I find that somewhat disingenuous in return.
You argue from first principles, not to first principles: normative judgements tell you what you ought to do, rationality tells you how to do it. If you hold different first principles you're going to argue right past each other.
Dear downvoter:

The production and exports of cars, run by foreign owners, is a key driver of economic growth in the eastern European Union member where wages for skilled workers are well below Western European levels.

Daimler workers in Germany, where wages are much higher, took part in strikes earlier this year, which led to a deal in May to lift wages by 4.8 percent in the metal and electrical engineering sectors in Germany.

http://www.euronews.com/2016/11/24/hungarian-mercedes-worker...
My interview for Google as an SRE in late 2009 consisted of well over half design questions around improvements of a system with lots of users.

One of the best series of questions I've ever gotten in an interview. We probably spent close to an hour just on one major aspect of the service.
I agree. Fear of catastrophe is a catastrophe on its own. I have friends that tend to not want children, giving as a reason some of the problems that are stated in this article.

I know ... Life goes on is very shallow thought, when you read article like this, but depression can't help solve those problems. As a matter of fact, that depression by the constant stream of negativity by the current highly-globalized world is the reason people vote against the system.
There is a concept store here in Berlin which only sells food without packaging, you're supposed to bring your own reusable containers of course.

http://original-unverpackt.de/

But I see this more as a political stance against the common package waste, not so much about about selling different food.
I wish we had visualizations like this back in the 90's when I studied statistics.
Perhaps, but this thread (and a thousand like it) don't exactly back up the "great culture" argument.
It's not surprising.

They need to pay a lot because of terrible highering practices. It's a perverse incentive at highly profitable companies where people inside benefit from rejecting talent thus creating artificial scarcity.

You see the same at big banks where even low skilled jobs have huge barriers to entry. It's also a reason many private companies don't go for Ivy League applicants as it can corrupt a functional company.
From the article:
"Those ICRs in effect serve as a full list of every website that people have visited, rather than collecting which specific pages are visited or what's done on them."

And from another site on the same issue:
"When you visit a website you usually start at
the websites homepage such as
www.bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/ the
Government define this part of a website
address (the part before the first forward slash)
as communications data which they consider to
be non-intrusive information." (https://www.bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/0...)
To be fair, do you want a Facebook censorship board?
We used Exodus, too, at Infoseek. I remember seeing Hotmail there as well. Our servers were worse!
Honestly not sure how well those really work either. As long as a majority (or lets face it, significant minority, see US election) can be manipulated into voting against their interests the only thing politicians need to fear are actual threats to their power.

Maybe I'm too cynical :)
> Spying on everyone is just increasing the size of the
> haystack and making it harder for someone to follow up
> on actual hard intelligence.

No no, you see, because big data. Probably also clouds. /s

Seriously, I think this ship has sailed; we can only find new ways to operate under our new circumstances, rather than preventing them from coming about as we could have done up until maybe 15 years ago.

The most charitable interpretation I can find for the nascent global surveillance state is that world governments are (quite reasonably, in my view) collectively anticipating great upheaval in the near to mid-term future, and recognise that they must do something to keep a hand on the rudder.

I do not believe that a unilateral panopticon (i.e. "we are watching you, but you may not watch us") is the right response, and I dislike that it is being presented as an anti-terror/anti-piracy/anti-{localized-name($bad-people)} measure, rather than described honestly. What worries me enormously is that the nationalist right is also on the rise at the same time.

If we are lucky, it may all lead to greater worldwide unity in the long term, but I am not hopeful that this will transpire within my lifetime.
How to start believing in God?
I'm atheist. But I did not want to be an atheist.
I think life would be easier, happier, if you believe in something divine.

It can be a theistic religion, reincarnation, etc.

Is there a way for an atheist to be a believer?

I know the process can be long.
But I think it has to be this way.
I am honestly surprised at the lack of flames in this thread.
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What I mean is, those criminals who did not get caught and but did get photographed are happily smiling in the not-criminal training set.

So the label of "criminal" is over general.
Sounds like Following the Trend

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Uhm... And why would we actually believe Microsoft about that? They have
screwed their customers numerous times already, and they were more than happy
to cooperate with NSA.