skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
why would the company choose someone for the position where they would have to pay a lot more money

Because the system of executive pay is self-serving and broken. See http://www.economist.com/node/2121856.
Empower, don't disrupt
As long as you split the distribution uniformly into categories with the same number of people, it doesn't matter that it's not uniform by date.
Excellent :) Of course there's something to be said about the ability to realistically answer reliably.
From how I read it: Google match all images to a database of file hashes.

I wonder whether they do it for redundancy purposes like Dropbox, or whether it's entirely to crack down on child pornography.
So you no longer consider the MacBook Air to be an exception?
Good riddance. I cut the cord about a year and a half ago and replaced my cable box with a Roku box. There was a brief period where I missed the background noise but now I find broadcast/cable television unbearably grating. Frankly I think the cable companies brought it upon themselves with the constant loud commercial interruptions, the garbage programming, and the utterly miserable cable box interfaces.
I'm going to go out on a limb and hazard a guess that this is a simplification of a more complex story about Ben and Jerry's in order to make a point about trying to constrain executive compensation.
That question doesn't even apply since you can only ask it to two twins, not a single person.
> Thou shalt not kill

IMO, the question at hand is more like: ‘should we keep someone on life support when there is little to no chance that person will get better?’. And is taking someone off life support really the same as murder?
Who needs stats... my teenage kids pretty much ignore 200 satellite channels and instead watch youtube, read forums and IM their friends.

When they were growing up I allowed them to be bombarded with information - TV on, web access, phones from an early age - and they've developed the ability to filter it quite well and just ignore things that don't interest them.

The only down side is:

"awww dad I didn't get anything done today"
"why, son?"
"some Internet happened"
If the goal is to have questions which can be answered only with yes or no. I don't think asking for location of the person is good thing, because there would be so many questions as there is locations.

"Do you live in China, India, The United States, Indonesia, Brazil or Pakistan?" is not good question.
Please feel free to demonstrate that the majority of opposition to voluntary euthanasia in the United States is driven by groups other than Christian ones.
1. Check out clippy.in (http://clippy.in/)

2. Why not Disqus?
On a related note, this has a very interesting significance in the world of privacy and anonymous tracking.

http://33bits.org/about/
Flagged.

The list is badly formatted, badly conceived, and badly executed.

If you're trying to spur a discussion about overly-common stereotypes and tropes on HN, my advice is thus:

Try harder.
Decent breadth coverage, but I'm still confused why people still use screen over tmux.
That's a good point actually. Especially if you could do it with low risk of being caught/convicted. Which should be possible with someone who is dying anyways and you have full access to them in the hospital and could just slip some poison or something into them.

I don't blame the author for not doing that though. Maybe it didn't even occur to him. But it's a good point that if you truly thought it was so terrible you should want to try to stop it even if it's illegal.
> What happens when the company doesn't make money

I'm not talking about company stock, I'm talking about stock in a sort of artificial vehicle used to compensate employees.

I see your point, though, salaries/wages are tax deductible, so it's hard for companies to use other things besides salaries/wages. But...

> If you transfer property (including your company's stock) to an employee as payment for services, you can generally deduct it as wages.

http://www.irs.gov/publications/p535/ch02.html

But then if it's a transfer of property, you can't turn it into a long term capital gain, unless maybe you rented it to them? Hmm... probably wouldn't work.

Turns out tax law is complex and not quite as easy to game as I thought.
If he wants to blames someone, he'd to better to blame usually religious-based lobby groups. But that wouldn't fit into his usual narratives, so I guess the government it is.
Considering this person uploaded explicit pictures of children to a cloud server, is anyone actually surprised that the FBI showed up at his door soon after?

In addition to what federal and international law says on the matter, basically every web service on the face of the earth explicitly forbids these kinds of images in their terms of service. Once he hit the upload button, this guy's 'privacy concerns' were kaput.
> ... or contributing to OSS projects doesn't pay the mortgage either.

and there is the distinction: you are choosing to contribute. when a photo of mine is used without my consent, approval or of my choosing to have it be used, it has been stolen.
Making me turn on the TV at a specific time and date to watch something is such alien notion to me at this point. All of these shows worry about schedules and what's on other networks, but that's eventually not going to matter at all.
Fuck Disruption
I just told myself that learning all of these would be time well spent. Thanks for posting!
I'm more worried the Singularity will result in everyone dying anyways, or possibly far worse.
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In the case of quad-socket, it's actually enterprises running SQL databases and VMware consolidation where the cost of the software license exceeds the cost of the server.
There is a difference if you had a car accident and are 20 years old or if you are having terminal cancer at 80.
USA. It was absolutely illegal, but it was also IMHO, the only moral thing to do.
TV may die, but content will not.

TV shows may die, but our need for storytelling will survive.
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I was called and agreed to be part of poll commissioned by some segment of the media industry a few weeks ago. The caller was speechless that I had no "TV" and listened to no radio stations.

Of course our two-person professional household has high-speed internet and a total of 8 "screens" including laptops, workstations, phones, tablets and a 50" screen for our media center.
No. That's what obfsproxy is for.

https://www.torproject.org/projects/obfsproxy.html.en
yeah if there was a checkbox right under the email field that said "remind me" or something like that, it would be OK. It's kinda scary that a few keystrokes are aggressively saved for advertisement purpose.
There are Hacker News stereotypes: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6747373

The ones in the OP are not them.
I don't think this problem is solvable in any elegant form, but it is solvable. You'll just end up with massively conjunctive questions that you can't even hold in your head at once, like "27: Are you a non-practicing Catholic with exactly three children, or an asian owner of a minivan produced between 1998 and 2004 that isn't green, or a licensed boat mechanic with astigmatism, or..." and so on for the next 6 pages.

In short, you can draw categories to include or exclude as precise a number as you like, you just have to be willing to draw really, really complicated boundaries.
Complex and won't work. Assumes none of your "insurers" are bad neighbors. If one of your washers is a government shill you are caught.
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Slightly offtopic:

"Microsoft also developed Photo DNA to match pictures using just a pixel."

What. So if I give Microsoft a pixel with value #F00 it can determine if that's from a specific photo?

Great reporting with great insights and sources.
> To contribute to the project, open up a pull request and add your question to the list below. All questions are open to debate and discussion.

This is a completely wrong way to approach the problem. Because the questions should all divide the population into two parts the questions should be 'matched' to each other. This approach is a bit like doing a PCA by figuring out one component, then the other, then the rest...

One way to solve this problem is to have a lot of yes/no questions (like a big Karnaugh-table), then everybody would have a long bitstring as his unique ID. Now you need to compress that bitstring -- like the minimization of the Karnaugh-table.

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

-- you need to generalize this for N number of questions (which can be done), then you'd have 33 complex questions like
'is it true that
(you live in NA
AND
you are male)
OR
(you live in Canada
AND you are white
AND
) .. and so on and on.
I don't see a single hint to laravel in the download[0]?

[0] http://fluxbb.org/download/releases/1.5.5/fluxbb-1.5.5.zip
Many people will attribute the "6" in "Perl 6" as the cause, but I attribute it to the "Perl" in "Perl 6". Perl 6 appears to be a sufficiently enough different language from Perl 5, much more than the apparent difference between Perl 4 and Perl 5, that it should have had a different name, not just a different version number, out of the gate. Or maybe Perl 6 changed too much, too soon to just be a single increment in the version number. The object model, the runtime, the syntax, more things were explicitly operators (I never really cared that .. was an operator in perl 5, but perl 6 seemed to make such a big deal about operators that now it seemed like you had to be concern much more with precedence, for example), more operators, more symbol/punctuation use, different idioms, a language agnostic interpreter. Compare the python 2 to python 3 transition/marketing. Calling it "Python 3000", even as just a nickname, early on may have helped indicate that it was a major change. Tools like 2to3 end up producing code that is still easily recognizable as python, because the idioms are not wildly different. People will be able to call themselves "python programmers" independent of their experience with either version. But it's still not a smooth transition and people are still asking "which version of python should I start with", but the answers are less dire than with perl.

The ambitiousness of perl 6 really warranted a different name for the language, and more explicit breaking ties with Perl's established and productioned legacy. This would have helped both projects I think. Even working on (vs in) perl 5 is somewhat considered a dead end, because it has perl 6 looming over it. It ends up doing a disservice to the livelihood of both projects.
This make other questions based on geography useless (as in the second question). Thats not to say the already given second question is better than your one
>> "The Bible has a very ambivalent view on suicide"

I thought the argument against it was simply the commandment 'thou shalt not murder'.
Death to Videodrome! Long live the new flesh!
This reminds me of Akinator: http://en.akinator.com

It's a little spammy nowadays, but it's had enough input that it seems pretty amazingly accurate at "guessing" what / who you are thinking of in ~ 25 questions.
Just add time of birth.
I don't see how you could split correctly with a bit for twins.
33 is not the constraint. If we increase the limit to 50 and these 50 questions can fingerprint an individual then that will be really interesting.

Some hard problems :-
1. Distinguish twins
2. Using characters in names as some like Chinese use non-ascii names.
Fortunately, doctors can still fiddle around the edges. My 96 year old grandmother went into the hospital last Thursday. After some tests it was concluded she would have a couple more months with rehab or maybe a couple weeks without. We decided to just have her loaded up with morphine and she passed on Sunday surrounded by her children. The morphine didn't kill her, her heart was mush, but it likely knocked some time and suffering off the end. It's unfortunate that we dont all get to die so gracefully.

I dont forsee euthanasia ever being legal in the US given the absurd response to medicare requiring just basic end of life planning with a doctor.
Spot on analysis, Thanks for this. I would add that the fact that the researchers came to this conclusion means that they let what appeared a lot of bias to creep into this study.
I don't think TV will ever die because when your kids will be bored with forums, or have nothing on their watch list they will switch on their TV. When TV came, people thought it was an end to the film industry but nothing like that happened. Though, statistically speaking the future seems obscure for television and usage is declining but I am sure something for it will come up that may revive it.
Fun version of that ...

http://en.akinator.com/
But that's equally damning. Dell, SeaMicro, Viridis, and Moonshot combined have almost no microserver case studies after 1-2 years. At what point do we end the experiment?
So this guy freaks out when his servers are overloaded and he has to come up with a solution, but he thinks he's qualified to be CEO? I don't get the point of what I just read.
There's good evidence that Turing machines do capture the right notion of computability. You can enhance a Turing machine in many ways without changing what it can compute. Further, Turing machines, the lambda calculus, recursive functions, cellular automata, and register machines all give the same notion. Even a quantum computer can be simulated by a Turing machine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church-turing_thesis
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is "awry" better or worse than the status quo?
Nice constructive criticism there. If you think it's shit don't apologise, but at least offer constructive ways the creator can improve upon it.
These are actually really good summaries, though in one case it was to commenting policy that was summarized, not the article... Still I think the best summaries I've seen.

I'd love to know what the tech behind this is like.
What are the security implications of adding all domains to CORS headers?
GP meant to ask: how is that relevant?
Thanks for the link.

the rise of the limited-liability shell company made it pointless as there's no point in counter-suing a company with no assets which will fold if any counterattack succeeds.

Wouldn't that get rid of the troll? Also, would it be possible to seek legal expenses from the shell corporation's creditors?
I don't know how I feel about this. Merely looking at CP doesn't actually hurt anyone, and pedophiles are not necessarily attracted to what they are by choice. But there is an argument that it's existence encourages or can lead to child abuse in the real world, especially the production of more CP.

This seems to be demonstrated by this case. They caught the guy through CP but it turns out he actually abused a kid. Maybe he wouldn't have been caught otherwise.

On the other hand is punishing them and throwing them in jail for years actually helpful? As opposed to a lesser sentence or rehabilitation of some kind maybe?

Another problem is that it's incredibly easy to frame people for. Just put some cp on someone's computer or Google account and you can have them sent off to jail with little effort and no way for them to prove they are innocent.
The demise of TV in a single chart:

http://www.bloomberg.com/infographics/2013-10-21/less-time-i...

Younger the viewers, less TV they watch.
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Recently, I dated a nurse who worked on the cardiac floor of the hospital. She had patients who died every day.

One day, the subject of DNRs came up. Interestingly, she mentioned that "they're meaningless". When I asked her about it, she said that if, for example, I had a DNR but an immediately family member told them to "save me", they would disregard the DNR and do it.

The reasoning, she told me, was that regardless of what they did (save you versus letting you die) there was a chance of a lawsuit and that the hospital would rather be sued for saving your life.

(I'm sure it isn't this way everywhere.)
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My 8 year old has only experienced real-time broadcast television when staying at a hotel, where he was frustrated and perplexed that we couldn't rewind it (he has no clue where the concept of rewinding really comes from). He has always experienced media he can control on YouTube or Netflix. I can't imagine he'd ever subscribe to something like cable in the future. Maybe if TV could associate itself with Minecraft somehow they could reach this cohort, but I suspect it's a lost cause.
Law Enforcement have been using the hashes of known child pornography images to find pedophiles for probably a decade. This technique is no different than what anti-virus vendors do to detect malicious software. I'm starting to hate Google in lieu of their new campaign on killing privacy and anonymity but I don't see the privacy concerns here. Server side hashing of images and comparing them to a database isn't exactly gives metadata to the NSA. I think it's good that Google is doing this. Odds are more image hosting providers should be doing. It's low hanging fruit but at least it could protect a child.
I was going to ask what is wrong with the man page (because in my experience they do a mighty fine job of explaining most traditional unix tools). But then I checked the manuals for two variants of tar (gnu and obsd), and I can see how they might appear less than helpful for a new user who has never dealt with gzip before.

I am surprised the xz(v)f invocation isn't in the examples. I could've sworn it's there...
I thought it would be more plausible and probably more interesting to do this in maybe 40 questions. To do this in 33, as several others have pointed out, would require 33 questions that each almost perfectly bisect the population and are almost perfectly independent of each other.

With 40 or 45, we could relax that a bit and use questions that are actually meaningful. Two people who are within a few bits of each other would actually be similar in ways we care about, unlike two people who are similar because their transliterated last names both appear in the last half of the alphabet.
I take it you don't remember the Terry Schiavo thing?
Fun to think about, but in the real world, no question neatly divides people, even the gender one. To quote Reddit's u/tailcalled[1], the exo-software/meatspace world is even less standardized than the software world:

Falsehoods programmers believe about gender:
http://www.cscyphers.com/blog/2012/06/28/falsehoods-programm...

Falsehoods programmers believe about names:
http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...

Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses:
http://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-ab...

Falsehoods programmers believe about time:
http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programm...

More falsehoods programmers believe about time:
http://infiniteundo.com/post/25509354022/more-falsehoods-pro...

Falsehoods programmers believe about geography:
http://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/?p=15187&lang=en

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1fc147/falsehoo...
>"TuringMachineWithNoSyntax.java

>Implements a Turing machine in Java without using control structures, variable declarations, method definitions, or anonymous classes. The main2 method shows the code before I removed variables. Control structures are too controlling for this day and age. Us youth yearn for the unstructured hippie days of our parents' generations."

I like this guy's sense of humor :)
I have read news articles of people getting stuck in those, sometimes for quite long periods of time.
"The quackery of bitcoin is so obviously ludicrous I can no longer justify my time spent pointing it out."

Oh, what a terrible loss for thoughtful discussion, nothing frames a debate quite as nicely as dismissing the topic of discussion as quackery.

"People throwing money around does not make a thing important."

What does that even mean? I'm not sure what makes something important, but from an entrepreneur's perspective "people throwing money around" (to the tune of a couple billion dollars) is at least... significant? something that merits continued examination? Important doesn't seem like a stretch, but I'm sure you have a quintessential example of something important...

"Don't you dare say no one warned you when the whole thing comes crashing down."

I appreciate the smugness in your concern, but just about everyone who invests in bitcoin is aware of the price volatility, you're like the guy who scoffs at lost mountain climbers as if they didn't realize that risk was part of the journey.

"And yes, fine, whatever, you can say "toldya so" all you like when Bitcoin fulfills your fantastic greed and you lot join the 1% of your new capitalist utopia. Real moral high ground you'll have, then."

Ok, right. So if I understand, if it all comes crashing down, you warned us all, but if the opposite happens then we're all assholes for reaping the rewards of our investment in something we were told was unimportant quackery destined to fail.

I'm starting to feel like this is one of those posts designed to trigger a defensive response in gullible readers who mistake your comment for an attempt at reasoned discourse. What do they call that again?
Awry as in: there recently was a case in which a doctor disregarded protocols in several cases; this was undetected for quite a while. This always leads to discussions here in NL, not about euthanasia practice in general, but about the amount of control and the ethical "framework" surrounding the protocols.
I posted this above. Micron is releasing a new NFA card http://www.micron.com/about/innovations/automata-processing

Any guess on which formerly expensive NFA algorithms will be put to use on it in short order?
I'm sure there are people who see it that way; I can only speak for myself and for every other Perl developer I ever worked with.
You had me until hacker pantz.

Flagged. Seriously, some people have nothing better to do than post useless spam all day? Sheesh.
Assuming that the person doesn't necessarily need to know their answer (which is important for babies anyways) the answer is trivial. The first question would be "Given that we ordered all humans in order of the time of their birth, would the 1st bit of your position in the ordering be 1?", continue the other 32 questions with the remaining 32 bits.
As said above, PHP is good when you want something on your own webserver and you don't want your system administrator skills to be challenged.

In both cases, I want the software to run on my own server.
I was envisioning the future. But the iPad model is a perfect console - long enough to make sense, short enough to not stall innovation.

Now I cannot predict the future. But we have had amazing games running on way less cpu, gpu and ram - and install base in a way is king. Right now we are in the GameBoy era of the iPad. The games grew with their auditory - if you have demand for quality writing, deep story and mature games - they will show up.
On the about page it says that it's powered by pyteaser, which can be found here: https://github.com/xiaoxu193/PyTeaser
Sorry for being pedantic, but pedophilia is psychiatric disorder. I'd imagine all pedofiles WOULDN'T think child abuse is good.

That said, the word you were looking for, is child molester. People need to realize that not all pedofiles act on their attractions, nor that all of them would want to. It's important to note that the feelings of attraction, do not automatically mean they want to rape all children...
Perhaps glibly tossing out a country with a strongly collectivist ethos that sees the government provide fully-funded, universal care for those with long term illness, as an example of why voluntary euthenasia would work well in a country where "Devil take the hindmost" appears to be the approach is not the best.

I'm generally a fan of voluntary euthenasia. But pretending there's no scope for abuse, especially in a country where the single biggest cause of personal bankruptcy is illness, is at best hopelessly naive.