skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is context aware, which is actually really awesome! It understands if it is in a tag, in a script, in quotes, in double quotes, in source, in css, in style and lots of stuff I am forgetting and does the custom escaping required to make it safe for that context. That is freaking magical.
Facebook’s ad network and the evolution of mobile app distribution
University of Lugano, apparently.

I also quote, from the preface, "This research was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation under grants 2100-67712.0 and 200020-107616. Many funding agencies are not willing to support such blue-sky research. Their backing has been greatly appreciated."
D-wav quantum prototype is running a full Lisp OS. I want to work there just to actually witness a working lisp machine
The only interesting point there is: Will people playing with the Steam pad be turned off the gaming experience because they are playing against the more accurate mouse/keyboard users?
The author (https://twitter.com/marisahtaylor) looks as American as it gets. Your smoke screen in the form of Quatar criticism is pathetic.

Look! The leader of the free world is better than North Korea. Everyone should shut up and be happy. Ridiculous.
>this happens very
rarely

Why?
I don't think a public company answerable to investors and other stake holders will ever work toward a SciFi futuristic concept.

But AI definitely has a lot of benefits. Start from self driving cars to automation in manufacturing industries. And that is just the very beginning. Google's line of businesses can benefit immensely from such work. There is endless money to be made. And it is better you grab it when it is a low hanging fruit.

Most of Kurzweil has to say about robotics, nanotechnology and AI. Has a direct benefit to humanity in the immediate future. Humans can have longer lives, the world can have a smaller population, many diseases we know can be eradicated. Problems like hunger, pollution, disease etc can be solved. The list is endless. Why wouldn't any one want a share of that business?

And yes the whole AI taking over the world and making us extinct thing- It won't happen anything like just turning on a switch. I believe even a run away super intelligent will still need biological life forms for their own very survival.

Like some one mentioned in this thread, copies of your self will continue live in the cloud and such copies will provide a great wealth of insight for the machines themselves to survive.
I have a better design than this. It centers around the idea of having the light switch, itself, be near the zone of light that it operates. So instead of having a large panel of switches, we simply pair the switch with the light bulb. This means - revolutionary, I know - that the switch is itself in the same room/area as the light that it provides.

Also, the switches themselves have little lamps in them, so you can find them in the dark.

Problem solved!
Except this time they're ready for the masses.
Glass. One of the most expensive things in the Republic and Imperialist Roman era. That dice would be part for sure of a wealthy roman owner.
If you do a lot of data munging, then boilerplate is definitely an annoying obstacle. Plenty of problems are "embarrassingly parallel", and the map function may be fine for those cases.
At Mozilla's mountain view office, the lights automatically turn off at night. To keep them on, you have to call a phone number and punch in what floor you are on. But of course this was annoying because you weren't always near a phone or aware of the number, so there is an intranet website that uses some VoIP service to phone the building controller to keep the lights on.
If this goes on too long, it might get bad. Manhattan will become a closed island where you won't be able to go onto until you live there because there will be too many protesting attempts. Easy to do with all those bridges.

People will start to assault people in suits. You will either swallow the blue pill and join a select club of salesmen, or die with your dreams.

I don't like to have those ideas and I hope they're stupid, but right now I would not be surprised to see terrorist groups that try to attack individuals who have some sort of a public, very long shadow, like Dick Cheney or the Koch Brothers. Any important kind of people who blatlanty shows their disrespect for poor people in general and their unhidden narrow minded view of the world.

Right now I'm not suprised to see so many conspiration theories, people are pissed and they want to burn witches, and I'm sure you can find some. It's bad, but I don't see any political future that is trying to make things a little better. At least during the cold war, the US had to be better than the communists and prove how markets are liberating. Now it just seems communism had good ideas and that capitalism is going to slowly fail.
Yes, and about time too.
I'd much rather have a joke that doesn't age well than a completely wit-less corporate committee specification.

0xCAFEBABE isn't laugh-out-loud funny (not sure it ever was), but I find it a comforting reminder that Java was actually written by humans. The "Duke" mascot, too. It's not at all hard to imagine an underemployed middle manager learning about it and demanding it being changed, in fear that the Important and Serious people who would write Important and Serious software in Java would think it's not an Important and Serious language.
"Unless you want employees to share the downside of business income volatility, it's unreasonable to expect them to share the upside."

Can you justify that? It seems like one of those statements that is designed to appear correct without provoking concious analysis. Kind of like "truithiness" [1]. Isn't there rather a lot of evidence that properly implemented profit sharing results in more motivated, productive employees?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness
Anti-trust laws are at least poorly implemented, and at worst intended to protect local special interests (against the trusts and their descendants).

>"[W]e have no coherent and comprehensive account that differentiates between legal and illegal practices. Nor do we have any good way of devising remedies in complex cases that don’t create more distortions than the illegal practices they are supposed to eliminate."[1]

[1] http://www.forbes.com/2009/05/18/christine-varney-antitrust-...
The rocket engine section could be made more interesting by going into engines with turbopumps and gas generators.
>Incorrect, the main goal is to prevent the current government mafia allied with government-connected industrial oligarchs in Donetsk region to become even less representative and even more Russian-controlled

It is just a coincidence that that seems to align with the EU goals. Hatred and emotions have nothing to do with what is happening and noone is using anyone.

>So far... < the key word

>Again, incorrect, the protests are driven by resentment against the current tightly-connected pro-Russian ruling elite.

Whose actions are sparked by what is viewed by them as not-signing the deal with Russia instead of EU, because it seemed like the final step of evil controlled Ukrainian government stepping closer to Russia. Who it self is lead by a dictator like Putin. Unlike the benevolent EU.

>There is indeed a party with extremely right-wing views that regularly receives up to 8-10% of the vote. However it is questionable as to whether that portion of the population actually holds those beliefs or simply uses them as signaling to antagonize Russia.

I am sure that all others who also supported nazis also supported them for no other reason but to antagonize someone else, ever. I realize that maybe you are correct i should re-check the history of people who were antagonized by nazis.

>Current Western support is nearly non-existent while that of Moscow is extremely significant and some would say heavy-weight.

I fail to see how "Western", the civilized worlds support against corruption and a puppet who is controlled by a tyrant like Putin is non-existent. It has been running for how many years. Media support, pressure on the government and so on, do not spread lies like those, Ukrainians will not know who helped them later. It is not that there is no help it is just that there need to be found more ways to help. Probably some help on the ground too would be good.
Putin/Russia/Russian EVIL, EU/US/NATO GOOD.
There are only very few exceptions: One are lawyers

The lawyers don't think so.

http://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/20...

"The predicament of so many students and so many recent graduates who may never procure the employment they anticipated when they enrolled in their law schools is a compelling reality that should be heeded by all who are involved in our system of legal education

http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2013/09/18/associate-salaries-essen...

overall slack demand for legal services by deep-pocketed corporate clients has confidence slipping among law firm leaders
Reminds me of WALL-E
This resembles Marx's theory of Surplus Value. This is evidence for Marx's theory of Surplus Value.
It's not an Apple, Nexus or Windows Phone problem, it's a 'free' Phone OS (Android) problem. The price of a cheaper phones has to come from somewhere.
Try Redis
I suspect google wants to port this to their D-wav, probably sell API access to it. Rent an AI
Yes, me too. God, why does anyone pick a project name like that?
In practice it may work out that way, but I don't believe that the majority of actors within the criminal justice system are acting in bad faith or are intentionally advancing a racist agenda. Indeed, many LEOs are racial minorities.

I don't think it's helpful to characterize the actions of officers or DAs as racist per se but rather to point to the racist consequences of drug laws, LEO behavior, and so on. I think the number of people within the system acting in good faith far outweigh the number of bad actors and if we desire change it'll be easier if we can convince such folks into coming to "our side" rather than vilifying them.
As far as I understand SIM cards, there are just like small crypto chips. You cannon really access the private key on the sim card. The phone just uses the sim card API to sign whatever it needs to sign. So no, the company should not have a reason or way to access your keys, assuming the cards are assigned randomly.
clojure/clojurescript has very similar issues. A small syntax error (e.g. forgetting the vector in a :keys unpacking — putting the bare field name) will throw up hundreds of lines of unreadable stack trace.
I was responding to the parent's unwillingness to audit the code, not so much about technical issues with PHP.

The biggest security issue that I've noticed with PHP is more cultural: Developers are far more likely to write ad-hoc pages with subtle security issues than use well-tested frameworks and libraries because it seems easier.

I would never expect to see Ruby or Python code that generates a JSON array like this [0], but I'm not at all surprised when I see it in PHP. It's too easy and tempting to do the wrong thing.

[0]: https://github.com/afaqurk/linux-dash/blob/master/sh/users.p...
Interesting question! I think it's two-strokes that scale best. The company Wärtsilä builds 14 cylinder diesel two-strokes that generate 80,080 kW of power. They are used in cargo ships.

EDIT: Oh, "used in cars". I misunderderstood the question.
0xCAFEBABE is (I can't believe I'm going to do this) vaguely sexist though, so the cringe for me, at least, is thinking about my daughter reading that and thinking her father came up with it, and thus believing "BABE" is the kind of phrase dad would use to describe women in general.

Or maybe I'm over-reacting. No idea.
Useless machine advanced edition
I like your site design. Is it based on some other template? Is it open source? Tks!
And what's interesting is they seem to be hiring a whole lot more [1]. If they are hiring a "growth hacker" they must be close to having something that's out in people's hands.

[1] http://workinstartups.com/job-board/jobs-at/deepmind-technol...
iPad onscreen keyboard designed for LaTeX [video]
It's a tightrope because when it becomes cheaper to automate whatever job they were doing manually, then they make $0 per hour.

That's the case in South Africa with farm workers and their unions driving up the minimum wage. There is 25% unemployment nationally and they are clamoring for more money. The farmers just go "well at this price point, I might as well just buy some more machines and get rid of these people".

Machines have no unions.
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Right, they are, sure.

But what women is going to go out with the team of 5-6 guys to do that?

Of course that begs the question, would a lot of these problems be lessened if there was simply more women?

You can hardly ask guys to stop forming friendships based on things that will often exclude women. It's going to happen. It's a problem when women find their careers suffering because of it, or when they don't get a chance to form friendships they can enjoy at work. Yes, they can be friends with men, but it's going to be harder when it's a bunch of guys who want to go do things that a bunch of guys do.
I hope this doesn't sound too harsh, but I think this comment is a case of "enough knowledge to be dangerous."

Companies certainly do have a duty to shareholders. That's absolutely true and breaches in duty should be taken seriously. A common issue where this responsibility needs to be better policed is lopsided risk decisions where in many cases executives can make large bonuses and on rare occasions they don't make a bonus while shareholders lose big - a complicated mess of scheming and tricky incentives that can in extreme cases amount to theft. This is the main type of abuse that these legal duties are meant to prevent. They do so imperfectly, but that's a different discussion.

"This company pays a fair wage and maintains a high standard of labour conditions. These are core values of this company and an important part of how we do business."

The above statement is completely legitimate position for a company to take and absolutely does not count as wasting shareholder money.* These are not new legal concepts. They have many years of legislation and litigation behind them.
> the US has a strong strong interest of the Ukraine breaking away from US influence

Sure it does. However, don't you understand that all runner-up or would-be superpowers (China, Russia, etc) have a vested interest in portraying US influence as being the driving force behind anything bad happening anywhere?

> Just recently a newspaper in Beijing had a comic showing the Ukraine as a car. Uncle Sam was shown trying to stir the stirring wheel. This gives you an idea.

So that's where you get your news from? How about you learn some Ukrainian and find out what the actual situation is on the ground?
To be immortal is his main goal. Also have a look at any modern tech business and you will see more advanced intelligences serving less advanced ones (but good at schmoozing).
I've never worked on something that I can find a use for personally - as others have commented, its because the software is in a specific niche, e.g. petrophysical analysis, or process control for example. But for side projects, then I make a point of only developing something that I will use or need.
>I saw the article for a brief moment, then it redirected to a blank page. Don't really care anymore.

I had the same problem. I run Firefox/NoScript. Perhaps there's a redirect to some ad site that's blocked?

I was able to read the story in Firefox by using

Tools -> Web Developer -> Page Source

and then paging down thru the vast amount of HTML until I found the story. Here's the beginning. I'm not posting the whole thing, wouldn't want to disrespect the copyright of some Chinese website (the irony of respecting Chinese copyright doesn't escape me):

Scientists may not be able to repair China's lunar rover, Jade Rabbit, that has broken down on the surface of the moon, a report on state media suggested.

The report from Xinhua, written as if it sent by the rover itself, said the problems could prove insoluble.

"Masters are working round the clock. In spite of that, I know I might not be able to make it through this lunar night," the "report" from Jade Rabbit said.

"If this journey is to be suspended ahead of schedule, I am not fearful. No matter whether I can be fixed or not, I believe I have left masters much valuable information and experience."

The authorities reported on Saturday the rover had experienced a "mechanical control abnormality'' and scientists were trying to fix it.
@bluekeybox

> Who it self is lead by a dictator like Putin. Unlike the benevolent EU.

You are trying to sound sarcastic. You are failing.

Reply
You are telling me that Putin is not a dictator? Did you not listen to the free media? Where are you getting your news?
EU and Europeans are benevolent, they are also tolerant unlike the gay hating Russians
"...Al Jazeera accusing the US"

Al Jazeera aren't accusing the US of anything. They are simply reporting the contents of a report [1] published by the US Department of Justice. The accusation is coming from the US Government, not Quatar.

[1] http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=4881
Employees _do_ share the downside, when job cuts are made.
Well, more on topic, I find the opposite strange: that the same people who are outraged about NSA imply that people who are against mandatory government ID cards are stupid - such as the GP.

In Denmark, you can barely sneeze without giving up your CPR (Central Person Registry) number. Taxes, health, public transport travel record, phone records, bank records and more are all indexed on the CPR number. They live in separate databases and the shutters between those databases are mostly solid, but there is much less opposition to attempts to lower the barriers to access of this data that I'm comfortable with.

At the end of the day, why would you trust one end of the government (the above) and not another (NSA) with your data?
Thanks. And in a Connections moment, that's Henry Spencer of "Those who fail to understand UNIX" fame.

I didn't realize the Rover program was so rushed.
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You've linked to the blog, so when a new post is made, this submission will no longer point to the one it does now.

Here's the permalink:

http://mussolblog.wordpress.com/2014/01/26/why-i-only-use-vi...
It comes through just fine. It's possible your detractors have just had the good fortune of not experiencing the 'pesky recruiter' problem, Google or otherwise. You can take heart in the near certainty that, if they work in the technology field at all, they will.
India Lifts A380 Ban to Pave Way for Emirates, Lufthansa Jumbos
Could anyone please explain why top shows one instance of Chrome while htop shows numerous stances of it?
So should police, etc. Footage automatically goes both to the police force, a neutral third party, and the the ACLU/whatever equivalent, so as to avoid any accusation of 'missing' footage.
The way to do that is via profit sharing/bonuses - converting payroll from a fixed to a floating expense, essentially.

I disagree that "companies" have become more callous. The general public want their cheap stuff, and they don't really care. The press is full of horror stories about sweatshops every week and yet, everyone wants their new iPhone and their new trainers and their clothes to wear for a few months at most... What will it take to effect a change in the mind of the consumer?
The title is "Why are US corporate profits so high? Because wages are so low".

Nothing in that graph supports that title.

In that graph wages look "about right", whereas profits look... weird. High, but also very weird.

There's certainly no causal link in that graph!
Siri's Voice: The Woman Behind It
At the time Windows XP was still supposedly supported.
Or it's because of the massive sexist cultural bias against female-on-male rape.
I use WebScrapeMaster API each time whenever I need to fetch data from webpages.

clickable link http://webscrapemaster.com/
Sky parental control system blocks code.jquery.com
He did mention the theory by Jeff Hawkins only very shortly. I think it is very relevant in this context because he gives high-level theory about how the neocortex works.

I can really recommend the book by him, On Intelligence, where he explains it quite understandable.

It explains why the brain has developed the different hierarchical layers of the visual system and how the same principle works everywhere in the neocortex. It's basically all predictions of time series at different abstraction levels.
That makes no sense at all. If anything, the makers of Windows Phones would have more incentive to add crapware in order to offset to license costs without having to raise the price.

And iOS doesn't even have a price tag.
Yes, you're overreacting. Babe is an endearing term. It's sexist only in the sense that it identifies the gender of the subject of endearment.
You're overlooking the huge factor that is marketing, which effectively injects misinformation into the market...
47 Years ago – Apollo 1 launchpad fire: remembering Grissom, White and Chaffee
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The justification is simple - a call option is worth more than a forward with the same strike price. If employees are to receive their market rate in cash (call it $X), they can receive $X worth of forward contracts, or $X worth of call options. If they choose call options, either the value of the contracts or the strike price will need to be lower.

So more precisely, the reasonable choices would be wages, profit sharing in upside and downside, or lower wages + profit sharing in upside only.

Profit sharing works great when employees have the ability to significantly affect profits. Traders/hedge fund managers are a great example of this. For manufacturing employees, a piece rate (rather than hourly rate) would be a similar way to create such incentives.
As a dude whose girl calls him babe, yes you're overreacting.
I am jealous: working on AI _and_ getting rich.
These people did share in the downside: They cut extremely substantial wage cuts. Now they are not sharing in the upside.

Guess why many of these unions play hardball?
There's an open source code dump of two versions on udanax.xanadu.com. "Xanadu Gold" is the most insane codebase I've ever seen -- implemented in Smalltalk but intended for automatic translation to C++.
Industrial interest in the moon is a good thing for the development of space travel and discovering new things. Also, you might find America's human rights abuses to be worse than China's when you count all the imprisoned American people who shouldn't be there and the forced conscription around the time of America's moon missions. America's pollution is certainly worse than China's when summed over the last century.

Low-polluting, low abussing countries like Tuvalu are typically not well equipped to go to the moon.
A lot of those are currently funded (in the US) from local taxes: property and sales tax (at least that's how it is where I live, in a California county). School, police and fire departments are locally-funded. Getting rid of income taxes would not impact these. (EDIT: the GP was proposing abolition of all personal taxes, but the one that comes up the most in discussions is the personal income tax; we could just eliminate that one).
Except that $20K today may not have the same value as $20K in 30 years.
@Schneems has a really good tutorial on this using ffmpeg.
http://www.schneems.com/post/41104255619/use-gifs-in-your-pu...
Blank page for me in FF/noscript, but in vanilla chrome is just plain broken. I get a background colour, an advert, and a couple of broken scrollbars.