skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's impossible to use AI to detect implied profane meaning, and this is not limited to French. You could slip your cucumber in your mother's oven and still not trigger any profanity detection software, as the implied meaning is only innuendo.
But it's useful to tease out obvious content in a fast efficient way.
Unfortunately the author didn't use mitmproxy (or sslstrip).
Why do you need to tell people your gender on a communications medium that doesn't require you to? I don't consider anyone to be male or female on IRC, they're just users.

The thing I always loved about IRC was that even when I was 12 years old, people took me seriously, not because I was male, or white, or an adult, but because I was thoughtful and intelligent - age in this case being the key differentiating factor.

Disgusting sexist people exist. If you tell them your gender they may well attack you for it, because they are terrible people. What are we debating here? The only assertion I've made is that IRC is inherently gender neutral by definition.
A Price of Zero Is More Profitable Than You Think
Agreed.
I like the simplicity of HN (though the expired link thing is quite annoying.
And then, programmers will be like john carmack, building spaceships and rockets, while the computer does its job.
It is also explicitly another prediction Marx made about capitalism: That the most successful (read: surviving) companies eventually by necessity will start to squeeze wages as the barriers to further expansion increases (that is, the population and disposable income does not grow fast enough to provide sufficient increases in profit) - those who don't will be unable to compete with those who do.

Marx believed that the end-stage of capitalism would be when increasingly profit comes by driving wages back down instead of expanding the overall market, and that the result will be a reversal of the gains made by the working classes at the same time as increased production, resulting in increased poverty and overproduction as the working classes can eventually afford fewer products.
Actually CAFE is the sexist part, given how it's the choice of drink for macho herd-rearing cowboys who famously see women as little more than trophies. And really, 0 is obviously a vagina, while x is a symbol for a butthole. 0xCAFE then, is two cowboys gangraping a barmaid. BABE is really the least sexist part of that signature.
Germany, Freelance Java/JEE Developer

Here for permanent positions you get 24+ days off but as a freelancer I obviously don't get any vacation unless I take a few days off myself.

- Usually every 1.5 years ~10-14 days: traveling in Europe
- Every 3-4 years ~20 days: traveling outside of Europe
- In addition to that I take a Friday off every ~2 months for a long weekend with the family, visiting places in Germany

I do my side projects at night and on the weekends, if the family allows me to. I outsource A LOT, so I think I actually get a decent amount of work done.

In Germany we have lots of official holidays so we get an extra day off here and there. The official "calculation" is ~220 working days per year (for permanent positions).
Recursive includes can be useful. For example Boost Preprocessor [1] uses them to implement iteration.

[1] http://www.boostpro.com/mplbook/preprocessor.html
It is interesting to think of this in terms of basic computer science problems. A package is a cache of the developers master version which need to be invalidated. It has to be named in such a way that you can decide if it is the correct version. And sometimes it needs to be handled in a transactional way so that you have a view of the data that is consistent.

Put like that the reliable solution would be a locally replicated SQL database. Perhaps the PostgreSQL or SQLite would be a better target for development than the underlying OS?
We just added a new page in our admin panel labelled 'dog food' and will be using that as a testing lab. The product we sell is a technology for sales teams and now that we are out selling ourselves we have a greater need for our own product.

Although the conventional wisdom is to build things you had a need for yourself, I believe this is one of the riskiest ways to create breakthrough innovations.
Far easier to go find people who have a problem and who are not developers and get them to pay for something.
They very fact that we are now treating being contacted by recruiters as 'spam' shows the attitude of how we treat opportunities.

When being contacted for a >$100K an year job looks like annoyance you know we have lived too much in luxury and have no clue about the kind of problems ordinary people face.
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.0.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>window.jQuery || document.write('<script src="path/to/your/jquery"><\/script>')</script>

Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1014203/best-way-to-use-g...
I didn't argue that no Americans from poor families become part of the elite, only that it seems to happen at a lower rate than in Denmark. That's what the quintile-mobility figures are measuring, after all.
I'd be interested to see if the initial blocking was part of an automatic system - block everything in this malicious page - and was fixed when the competent people got in to work to see all the complaints and reports?

That can't be true because it would make reputation attacks really easy.
All risk is controlled until it's not.

In my country to ride the bus you buy tickets in the shop. Once you get into the bus you invalidate the ticket by printing date and hour on the ticket with the device installed there.

Once in a while (once in few weeks or months depending on your luck and how much you ride) the guy shows up on your ride who checks if everyone has properly invalidated tickets. If you don't have one, you'll get a fine.

If you wish you may never buy the tickets and just pay fines when they happen. Every time you ride without the ticket you earn but you take the risk of the fine. You might argue that it's contolled risk since you estimated how often fine happens on average. But everything is awesome until one time you encounter streak of fines that eat up all your previous earnings and some future ones too.

It's the same game that those banks that invested in derivatives were playing.
Why some people are more cautious than others
> "I believe I saw a study that recommended shorter, more frequent, vacations as the best way to recover from mental fatigue but I assume that there is a lot of opposing opinions on that matter."

As for myself, I find that I don't manage to totally disconnect from all things work until nearly a week of vacation, so even 9 full days (which is what you get when you take an entire week off) is kind of "not enough" because you only really enjoy that for 2 or 3 days.
You will find flood stories from around the world, from peoples with no contact with each other. You're looking at some combination of common unconsciousness or events at the end of the last ice age.
We've come a long way, but it's a bit tragic so many of our eggs are in what amounts to two baskets. One is the "Unix-ish" basket, where we have Linux, *BSDs, OSX, Haiku, and even Hurd. The other is the heirs to VMS, where we have Windows, which is completely opaque to research, and ReactOS.

It's nice to have people exploring OS ideas in other spaces as well.
If You Used TorMail, the FBI Has Your Inbox
Also interesting that Google agreed to DeepMind's proposal to create an AI ethics board. Wonder how Facebook responded to that stipulation during negotiations.
circa 1999, GTE Internetworking (which had been BBN and would be part of Verizon later) moved to a new office building in Burlington, MA. There were several design failures there (the carpet patterns had moire effects, the main corridor was curved so that you could not see what was up ahead) and the biggest failure was the automatic motion-sensing light switches in every office.

They were designed to save money, because nobody would forget to turn off the lights. They did an excellent job of keeping people in the dark, partially because of the above sensor problem -- typing on a keyboard doesn't provide enough movement to trigger the sensors -- and partially because of their incredibly high failure rate.

At about $50 per sensor module installed, they had to keep an electrician on full-time replacing sensors. I heard that eventually they stopped relying on trouble tickets and just swept the building over about a two week cycle.

Meanwhile, people bought lights that they could control by themselves. Many of them were halogens running on 150 to 450W.

Failed all the way around.
While investigating a hosting company known for sheltering child porn last year the FBI incidentally seized the entire e-mail database of a popular anonymous webmail service called TorMail.

Now the FBI is tapping that vast trove of e-mail in unrelated investigations.

That says pretty much all about their methods.
Their unions do, however. I'm not anti-union, but do tend to be anti-police union.

The California Correctional Officers union is routinely accused of pushing for harsher punishments as a job guarantee, which of course is a problem in a state with such over-crowding of its prisons like California. I would accuse them of gross moral indecency but it takes a pretty indecent person to become a CO anyways.
US here. I prefer to take frequent, short breaks (3-day, 4-day weekends) for occasional battery-recharging, with periodic longer vacations (9-day excursions somewhere), especially to go somewhere I've never been.

I try not to work on side projects during vacations. It's mostly about travel or doing something I haven't done before.

Vacations are a strict "no Internet" policy for me, to the extent that I can manage that. I usually cave and will leave notifications on my phone on, so I'm not as pure about it as I'd like to be.
Deploy more robots! For every robot that is damaged send out two to replace it, one in a "get the job done" mode and the other in a "cover that guy" mode
I think he/she meant that the FreeBSD documentation is complete, although the styling of the site is somewhat dated.
Looks like a relatively decent implementation of .NET's Parallel extensions.
DnD is so much more satisfying than almost every computer game I've ever played. (Note, I've never got into MMORPGs, not sure why, so my main comparison here, possibly unfairly, is Skyrim et al.)

Fighting with/against humans is so much more fun than fighting with pre-programmed enemies; the challenge is much greater. Additionally, rules can be bent for beginners, and even for experienced players to make the story more interesting.

Also, the sheer geekery of it, the terrible puns, the amdram atmosphere... it speaks to something deep inside me. :)

If anyone knows/wants a London group, with or without homemade accessories/costumes, check out my post on LFG[1] (thanks to rndmize for introducing me to that subreddit!)

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/lfg/comments/1w9ubp/offline_any_dnd_...
You will be hard pressed to find any serious miner who is keeping mined Doge instead of converting them to BTC or fiat. Serious mining farms pay for their electricity, thus they will not have amortized their GPUs solely from Doge.

Sure, if you are a gamer with "pre-paid" graphics card AND "free" electricity, you may elect to keep your mined Doge.
Is Sherlock Holmes a Good Detective?
You have no more basis for claiming this than AI reseachers have for claiming the opposite. More research is required, and it will be a well spent effort if the probability of a bad outcome in AI development is nonzero.
it is a variant of "the fiddle game", or "the glim dropper". They are standard conman tricks from back in the day. All work on the principle: "you can't con an honest man".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_confidence_tricks
Located in The Netherlands, but mainly doing business with US/UK. I go on one holiday for an extend period (~ 14 days) and a couple (~ 2) of short 3-5 day trips.
omg hackers everywhere..
Error 505....
I do something similar, I've commented on it in the past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6466150

Although not mentioned there is that I exclusively limit work-in-progress to one item.
How Facebook helped us evolve our Product Thinking?
Youtube would have died by itself.

Or imagine what Yahoo would have done to it post acquisition.

I know Apple would have called at iTube & put a price tag of $0.99 on all decent ones :)
I'm from Slovakia, a little country in the Central Europe.

Regular employees here are entitled to 20 days of vacation, or 25 for those who are 33 or older. In addition to that, there are 15 days of public holidays (that includes New Year's Day, 2 days Easter, 3 days of Christmas, plus other holidays such as Constitution Day, and so on). You have to negotiate with the employer when do you take your holidays, and employer has the right to specifically tell you when to take half of those days.

As for me, I am a freelancer, and I like to travel a lot around Europe. Usually for 1 - 2 weeks, with first week off and the second week I work at the location and let my wife and little boy enjoy the warm weather for a bit longer. In the recent years we never took holidays during July/August, because we like to travel a bit more off-season, when the sun is still (or already) warm enough to still have a great time.
Surely businesses and the people who run them (i.e. board level) should have a moral and fiscal responsibility to bank cash to cover for the lean years rather than splashing out their profits on shareholders and senior board members.

Most employees (other than trying to be more productive) have no control over what decisions business owners make (such that they roller coaster between profit and losses year by year) so why should they share the downside? It's not as if they get the same magnitudes of rewards as board level staff do to allow them to buffer themselves financially for downturns.
Google Announces $2.7 Million Bounty For Hacking Chrome OS
We're not commenting at YouTube level. We're in sheer awe at someone having the chutzpah to dump hundreds of millions of dollars into realizing their scifi fever dreams.
I wonder how the Tibetans and Uighurs feel knowing that despite being part of different ethnic and linguistic groups, they're "being the same people" as the Han.

Probably warms their hearts these days to know they're being exterminated by "their own kind," as the Han are busy eradicating the native Tibetans and Uighurs and their cultures at this very moment.

"Thanks" for your insight.
Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?safe=off&hl=en&...
Mobile OS/app development also has excellent dog food potential among geeks.
505? That's exotic ..
Post mortem – startup failure lessons learned
EU here. Last year (full-time employment): 12 days in total. 5-6 workdays/week, 9-10hrs/day.
So they've never heard of jQuery, but they won't think that googleapis.com looks like a dodgy site as it's trying to pretend to be google.com?
The problem is there is no way to know for sure the government isn't keeping all the data needed to generate keys. To make the process secure, you'd need a protocol where people get to generate their own keys (open source implementations) based on some entropy under their own control.
More fundamentally, they've completely rethought how to teach maths: http://www.computerbasedmath.org/computer-based-math-educati...
Static Analysis with OCLint
The complexity is not horrible as far as communications protocols go.

Anyone know what working implementations exist currently?

Ideally, it'd be nice to see actual real world data showing the benefits over http 1.1.
Link to the exclusive interview: http://www.ardmediathek.de/das-erste/ard-sondersendung/edwar...
My answer is either zero, or one that is 365 days long... I travel and work continuously. In 2012, I was in 20 countries. In 2011, I was in 12. I enjoy my work, and don't really wish for time apart from it. My Brazilian girlfriend is trying to convince me to take longer (off-grid) vacations. We'll see how that goes.
Has anyone used similar techniques?
The instant autocomplete feedback of the UI, which is a big strength, isn't visible to the user when they type a search term in news.ycombinator.com.
Another person thinking it was about MITM.
Data preprocessing | Garbled Notes
Roostrap is now 3 years old. How long have you supported your framework?
Neat HaCSS, or let's de-JS the Web a bit
Summary: High Performance Browser Networking | Garbled Notes
Lua Power: LuaJIT binary + source distribution and module repository
Why documentation is copywriting (for hackers)
Better yet, host it locally. More privacy for the user.
Serbian freelancer here

Last year I was to USA (10 days), Mallorca/Ibiza (14 days), Greece (4 days), a bit around the country for a few days, and during winter I tend to take every 3rd weekend or so to go to skiing. That sums up to around 30+ days/year.

This year, my plan is to mainly have active vacations, travelling & working, Thailand for a few months, and some mountain during winter for a few months.
Is your analysis able to answer the questions "Is a sentence true?" and "Is this paragraph true?" That's something I'd like to have.
At least someone pushed for it. It's reassuring to hear that the thought was on the radar at all.
A separated economist gets discriminated against -- online
Android ends the year on top
I uninstalled the 'HP Print Service' on my Nexus 5 without an issue ...
<- PyPI Administrator.

I have plans for either turning PyPI into a build farm, or making a secondary service that acts as a build farm for PyPI. We've just been more focused on cleaning up other issues.
The recommended way to install pip has not been via easy_install for awhile. Generally we recommend using the ``get-pip.py`` script. Which with recent versions will also install setuptools for you.
If one can write a program that can generate any program, the world as we know it would be such a different place protecting my job will be least of my worries. This is basically the equivalent of a run away program what can create better versions of itself automatically.

Nearly every human's job is at stake here.
Sky user here[1].

Turn it off then!

This is entirely optional. It asks you when you first install and connect the router via the WiFi landing page if you want to use any blocking. If you don't answer the question or select no, there is no blocking at all apart form the IWF firewall stuff. Every kind of blocking comes with problems of some description. You either live with it or trust your users.

[1] £7.50/month for ADSL2 for 12 months with line rental and calls included was too good a deal to throw away. I'd go for Andrews & Arnold if I could afford idealism at the moment.
DeepMind seems awfully close to DeepThought - maybe its $400m for the answer to life, the universe and everything? Would seem to be a good deal on those terms..
very useful. thanks!
Why Entrepreneurs Need To Stay Buoyant
"The only winning move is not to play" - index funds, and get back to creating wealth via a startup or something.
Code to stop android device from going to sleep
Fun fact: jingoistic Chinese claim (without documentation of any kind, as far as I know) that Zheng He (= the guy you mention) actually visited the Americas.

Also, wikipedia indicates his expeditions occurred 1405 to 1433, not 1500s.
SOLID – OOPS/OOAD Principle
5 Dutch startups to look out for in 2014
US here as well. My family takes a 4-6 week road trip each year (we go to points west to rock climb). I will typically work 5-8 day remotely during those trips (usually in a block at some point mid-trip), and unless I know something is brewing, I won't check my work email outside of those blocks (typically, this isn't hard, as we tend to camp in areas without great cellular coverage).

We will typically squeeze in a few four day weekend as well at other points in the year. If I've burned all my vacation time on our road trip, I'll just condense my work weeks.
At my previous employer, a small browser vendor that decided to abandon its own rendering engine and browser stack, I stopped using our product because Linux wasn't a priority. Numerous reasons were given, such as low market share, “only geeks use it”, all journalists use Macs, &c.

This was to the point of ridiculing the platform and the people working on it, frequently citing “Linux jokes” such as “you'll probably have to recompile your kernel first” whenever the question was seriously raised about when we'd start at least getting the core libraries working.

And when I say it wasn't a priority, I mean that we didn't even have something that was in a compilable state. A few people had started fixing up the broken code to get something that would compile on Linux in their own free time. After a few weeks of hacking, they were told by management to stop what they were doing and instead focus their volunteer efforts on the project goals, being to ship a Windows and Mac version.

So the company began the process of forcefully moving developers who'd worked on Linux for over 15 years to platforms they felt uncomfortable and unproductive working on.

This is a much longer tale, but it tells the story of a company alienating not only their loyal user base, but also a significant proportion of their own developers. The result? Lack of motivation and resignations.

Well done.
Video Games with Emergent AI, and Machine learning will be next mainstream AI thing. Academic AI and Game AI might somewhat merge...
Having a simple site could also be backed by psychology studies. Hick's law states the more choices available, the more time it takes to make a decision. To test the theory, two jam stalls were set up in a market. One with 50 choices and the other with 3. We can all guess who sold more.
Το Cluetrain Manifesto: το τέλος του εμπορίου όπως το ξέρατε
Very nice! Would love to take a look at the code, if you feel like putting it on Github or something.
You're also forgetting that Python itself is a core part of most modern Linux distributions. This means that even for a minimal install of an OS there are often times packages already inside your site-packages that your operating system depends on for a minimal set of functionality. Docker won't isolate you from these. It's a special kind of pain when you require one version of something, and your OS itself requires another version.
Same with intoxication. Technically speaking, any sex under the influence of alcohol is non-consensual.
Bits or GTFO
Zonino – Get emails when London startups post jobs on their sites
Identity management is a very big and very problematic piece of any large government-to-citizens programme; solving this once, up front, is an excellent idea that does not seem to have occurred to many other nations.
Good news! Hannes updated the graphs to fix this.
In Austria it's 25 + bank holidays, and Austria has a large amount of bank holidays so some years it can be around 35 days free. I was pretty shocked when I first started working here how much time was given free. I'm going to have a hard time readjusting when/if I go back to Canada.
Nevron Released NOV
Nevron has released NOV (Nevron Open Vision), which allows developers to write code once and then ship to multiple .NET frameworks (WinForm, WPF and Silverlight). The framework features a UI toolset and a word like rich text editor.
Google Buys UK Start-Up
Wonderful Engineering
There is a way to make a virtualenv relocatable but it has some issues where it doesn't always work very well. I'm not sure offhand what those issues are though.
China Moon rover Jade Rabbit in trouble
Unfortunately most linux systems do not support multi-version installs or installs local to a user or path.
On the contrary, a synth is the most complex instrument and the easiest to play, that's my point.