skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I cannot believe this misguided crap is second comment. Searle has been debunked so thoroughly and so many times, he's like the Kirk Cameron of AI.
Well, as you see it's not an earth shattering amount, but thanks!

Just checked out your site. Looks cool and shares some similarities with Readlang. Intrigued by the crowd sourced translation engine - is there anywhere I can read about that?
It seems cool, but I don't understand why I can't just click multiple times instead of having to type the command several times. That UI decision makes the site nearly unusable on an iPad.
Out of all those graduates, the number of which we are told is 2-3x the number of open positions, are really qualified to fill in those positions? Passionate about their field of study? Intended to get a job in that field in the first place, as opposed to getting a degree in something they can (afford)?

Our own experience is that even internships do not always yield good results. And the level of most applicants, many of whom are recent graduates, makes me sad. They manage to find work at some other company in the end, but only because we are in IT and IT is big at our place...
What about diluted coins using the same fluorescent compound? Take a coin, extract the metal plating, and create 10 new coins.
Why Not To Let Business Books Shape Your Workplace
This link was submitted a week ago. Funny enough, I only found the time to read it yesterday (it is very long, an hour to read according to Readability). Most of the original discussion focused on how it failed to consider one aspect or the other, but the truth is, I felt it was a fairly considerate, all-encompassing testimony. Reading it at the same time as clips on Google centered Hiring cartels made the whole HR situation in the Valley… interesting, and far from obvious. Reading it with Brynjolfsson & McAfee’s theory on massive obsolescence gives shivers, because it draws a portrait of a small elite, selected at almost random, or according to unclear practices (in addition to the link, PG did mention that Y Combinator needed to take more risk), that is the only one to collect either skills or signals to stay in the market. Then there is the drone-fueled utopia, where I’m not sure which part will be AI operated, which part will be human Uber-operators, although I am sure that even Uber won’t be able to tell because some unsavory characters will hook AI to human-entries…

My nightmare as a twenty-something with a fanstastic diploma and no job prospects (needs experience to get a job, don’t have references because unearthed a fraud during internship, fraud that almost ruined my family) is getting more detailed and deeper. It’s the systemic, sustainable, sensical version of ‘Entry job; needs two year experience’.

I still think that a large group is not mentioned in most of those reference, certainly OP, are the surprisingly large hordes of people who can’t seem to find jobs in San Francisco. Including coders, including very talented ones. No idea what’s at stake: the list of claimed discriminated groups are long, and constitute a pavement of all candidates (as pointed in the article).

Here is a problem in need of a solution, but I can’t seem to make sense of what either are.
Not saying you're not correct, it sounds like from your, and many other stories this is generally pretty accurate.

However, for this particular story? I honestly would have loved to work with/for someone who would just cut the bullshit, stop with the nice words, and just tell you exactly where you stand. If that means tearing up a contract and swearing at me, that sounds wonderful - it would not hurt my feelings in the least. If it did, I'd quickly get over it unless it was obviously personal vs. business.

Can that be done without being an asshole? Yes, of course. However, I haven't really seen it in action. I've generally either been around 'assholes' who seem to get things done via a blunt style I enjoy, or 'nice guys' who get steamrolled and thus churn out a shit product as they are more concerned with feelings than results.
How well does Android fair on x86? (I'm assuming that's what most ATMs use)
> My thermostat has three possible beliefs: 1) It is too warm in here. 2) It is too cold in here. 3) It is just about right.

Translated to the current scientific fashion:

My brain has three possible beliefs: 1) It is too warm in here. 2) It is too cold in here. 3) It is just about right
Google is already executing js:
https://www.google.com/search?q=google+executes+js
This guy wants to row across the Pacific Ocean
You're thinking of Patrick McKenzie (patio11, one of the top posters here) and his bingo card creator.

http://www.kalzumeus.com/
http://www.bingocardcreator.com/

On a slight tangent: his blog rocks!

:)
The import and sale to civilians of new automatic weapons has been banned in the US since 1986. Very few rednecks own automatic weapons.
Mediacrush Transparency
This was exactly what I used to do. The "international edition" is exactly the same book--1:1 content inside, maybe not printed on glossy pages with color, and a different cover + ISBN. A lot of these books are available at sites like abebooks.com, if you just search by the original ISBN. I was able to find current edition books that would sell new for $120 on Amazon, for $30 new on abebooks.

The one (small) downside for me was the resell process, or even resell possibility. You can't sell them on Amazon. Most of the time I just kept the good books for myself, to maybe use in the future. At the end, a lot of the times it cost me less to go with the international edition and keep it, than buy the original edition and resell it.
I'm still wondering if for deployments of new services deploying IPv6-only with stateless IPv6 to IPv4 translation might be best:

http://blog.ipspace.net/2012/10/skip-transitions-build-ipv6-...

The same is possible for the home or office networks, but so far I don't have native IPv6 at home, which I think would makes it kind of a kludge to implement. So I haven't done it.

I think MAP for IPv6/IPv4 is also a great idea, because it too is stateless:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapping_of_Address_and_Port

There are people doing really interesting things with IPv6 as a first citizen or IPv6-only solutions:

https://ripe67.ripe.net/archives/video/3/

https://ripe67.ripe.net/archives/video/61/
I found this article interesting. Being french and living in London, I certainly witnessed the influx of french immigrants.
Very well. It does better than most version of both Windows and Linux as far as smoothing and responsiveness goes. It runs well on much less resources.

It does have some quirks when trying to use it with software designed for swiping in mind and a keyboard and mouse, but that's probably not going to be an issue here.

I say Android could be a good choice, and it will also give them a migration path from X86 should they later on want to.
If you had told someone in year 1800 "computers are impossible, just go ahead and build one", said person wouldn't have been able to build one but you'd still be wrong. You can't just casually ask this in an argument about the theoretical possibility of AI.
Sadly, I guess there's a large subset of people who think investing in more "security" is never useless.
The part that vexed me the most as a student was the constant release of marginally different textbook editions. The one time I tried my luck with an older (and cheaper) edition was with a thermodynamics text that was only one edition out of date. The actual chapter text was almost identical, but the differences in exercise problems and corresponding look-up tables meant I ended up having to borrow other students' books on a regular basis.
The video is pretty dodgy, but the he has a lot of genuine passion. I hope he gets to the start line in 2015.
"Older engineers are not smart in the way that start-ups want them to be..."

Sigh.
What about the possibility that these machines are actually running vanilla XP?
This module is the main cog behind the email delivery service application in my organization, which I built over a year ago, and it has been supremely reliable while handling 40-50 million emails per month. Just my testimonial.
If windows is so bad, we should by now have had a lot of missile disasters, airport disasters, missile guidance disasters, train station disasters, nuclear reactors disasters, etc etc...
I have had my share of sightings of crashed ATMs running windows, but I also seem to remember that sometimes the way things are coded crash the OS, and it's not only a windows issue is it?
> From the company's point of view, desperate times call for desperate measures.

So they're saying "the end justifies the means".

I'm saying: no, stop and don't.

Stop using any Microsoft services (don't forget skype) and better yet any of their products.
nicely written. Thanks for sharing.
There is a big problem with auto-converting images, and its with HTTP caching.

Consider this: I have page.html, with an <img src=logo.jpg> tag. If I'm using Chrome and I request logo.jpg PageSpeed/the web server detects that I support WebP via the Accept header. It sends WebP image for the URL logo.jpg.

And that's a problem. Because the content for logo.jpg is no longer dependent entirely on the URL. It the URL, and the values of the User-Agent or the Accept headers, which determine the response.

This is called content negotiation and it utterly nullifies shared HTTP caching. This is bad because shared HTTP caching can be a huge performance win.

The right way to serve WebP images is to change the URL. The application logic that generates the HTML should detect that browser support webp and rewrite the image tag accordingly. In other words, page.html should include a <IMG src=logo.webp> tag.

This means that browsers that support webp get it, browsers that only support JPEG get it, and shared HTTP caches can be used without polluting the cache.

Sadly, PageSpeed and other technologies like it aren't currently smart enough to re-write the URL in the base HTML page. As always, technology that "automatically fixes problem X" rarely is the best solution.
By using cash, if his/her house gets robbed, s/he would lose the whole paycheck. Hell, for all we know, s/he might not even be able to trust the people s/he lives with.
Given that WhatsApp on feature phones is basically the same, I doubt this.

Oh and XMPP on featurephones already exist: see http://xmpp.org/xmpp-software/clients/
Yea and gamespot might go bankrupt or a meteor could hit him on the head. I mean we aren't talking large sums of money here if he is over drafting his checking regularly.
Freenet[1] does actually have a decentralized social network plugin, sone[2]. It's not exactly user friendly, but at least it seems to prove that if people care about these things enough, they will use a solution even if it is difficult. By making the user experience simpler (less technical), one should be able to lower the bar significantly. It's worth noting that everything in the sone-guide[2] could be done automatically; freenet just isn't designed for simplicty.

[1]https://freenetproject.org

[2]http://freesocial.draketo.de/sone_en.html
The replies to this post show there is no market for humor on HN, even if some seem to lack that exact thing :(
What if you are the network admin tasked with blocking IPs in Turkey?
2 reasons - speed and offline. I use Wordlens as my day-to-day translation app, because it is offline so faster than Google Translate when out and about (not on WiFi).

2nd I travel alot - so I'm often not able to access a data connection, or I'm on a plane, or I'm on the London Underground. This is probably not uncommon for people that are learning languages. Even when on a train 3G connection is pretty inconsistent. Commuting is when I'm most likely to use Readlang. I'd say the captive audience on London Underground everyday is worth it alone.

I've already discussed this offline with OP, so I know that part of the issue is that you can never get the sentence translating power of Google Translate offline, but single word translations (plus the flashcards) might be possible.

You only have to look at the Duolingo community to see how eagerly anticipated the offline ability was. Same for Memrise.
I'm old, Valley-based, and I code. I have a very sketchy resume, filled with inexplicable voids and failed startups, plus one very caveat-filled partial success. I find it almost trivial to find well-paying work coding, and I seem to be able to develop great relationships with engineers half my age. The challenge in my case is to find work that is interesting, challenging, and has potential impact on the world at large, things which I care about more and more as I get older.

My sense is that there are quite a few people, both young and old, who find it hard to break into the 'valley scene'. I've felt that too at times, in spite of my (roughly speaking) successful career. The culture is insular and judgmental in a way that can be very intimidating. However, it should be noted that this is equally true in other areas, especially in what might be called "glamour" fields, such as film, music, fashion, writing, art, etc. In every one of these arenas, there is a clique mentality, where judgement can be swift and capricious, and being "in" is almost a binary value, based on a seemingly subconscious pattern-matching process that can at times feel like the result of a hive mind.

I guess the news flash here is that SV startup life is now officially glamorous. Pretty soon we'll have a raft of reality TV shows dogging our every move, and providing income to those of us who have fallen from the grace of the techno A-list.
So the (rather small) page loads faster but the (rather huge) video files are still the same?
At the risk of sounding negative, I thought the majority of these ideas were absolutely awful. Even if one of these did inspire someone to put the work in, I doubt it would get them very far.
Yes. If he knows that he has never read the book and thus doesn't know what is and isn't in it, then I would consider it a deliberate lie to make a confident claim about the contents of the book.
My fellow European, you've seen this I presume:

http://www.gsmarena.com/roaming_charges_in_the_eu_could_be_g...

It may not happen this year but I reckon the days of roaming charges inter-EU are numbered. Numbered I tells ya! Can't come soon enough if you ask me.
There's a Supreme Court case that just finished up, too, which affirmed that Americans have the right to import these books.

So, import away!
I'm unable to imagine an interpretation of that comment that isn't an attack on Wolfram.
It's not actually a news - at least here in Europe, I have already seen few ATMs stuck in blue screen.

But it's much worse than that, I was amazed when I learned that it's actually possible to dabble with ATM PC without anybody noticing - as presented on last CCC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c08EYv4N5A (basically the researches said that while the money case is in vault, the computer itself is not ... so this was exploited to install malware which would empty the money supply on request).
The Truth you aim to arrive at, is the Truth you started from on your quest for the Truth. There is no escaping the Strange Loop.

Philosophy, Arts and Science create Truths to ride on to new places, like Silver Surfer on his surfboard. Finding the Ultimate Truth itself, I imagine, would be what some call Enlightenment.

The paradoxical wisdom taught in many of the ancient classics leads me to wonder if submission to the nature of Paradox really is at odds with the scientific method and desire for Truth, or if they are just two forms (passive and active) of reaching the same understanding.
Images probably help bypass text-based censorship (i.e. deep packet inspection, proxies)
Ask HN: Why's there a high concentration of assholes on StackExchange
And don't pull that "Hackers are mean" bull crap, I've been a member of forums and mailing lists for frigging years and I've come to notice that it's ironically posers who'll be sarcastic and mean, thinking that makes them good (same way broke people display money thinking it makes them look well off).

What I noticed is this:

People on forums and mailing lists I belong to, want to help you solve the problem. They're genuinely interested in the technical thing. If you're new and you make a mistake, they'll point out a better place to ask your question, resources, etc.

If it's a beginner's question, again, resources. And if he's looked up stuff, they'll help him even more. Pages and pages of awesome people going with complete beginners, not one second making them feel embarrassed to ask even the most trivial of questions.

I've almost never had a "smartass" answer (French speaking forums are almost exclusively packed with smartasses, hence me learning English and never been happier).

People on StackExchange (a lot) on the other hand, want to look smart and talk in a condescending way.

From my experience: There is no such thing as a stupid question. A lot of people assume that a certain answer is probably the right answer, even though it's not.. And I admire this ignorant sourced confidence.

An answer of mine was edited by someone just to gain some frigging "editor" points or whatever (My answer text was in an image. What did that guy edit beats me, because what can that genius change after all).

Any of you have experience of this ? Like the really smart people I met and communicated with have that humble thing going on for them. But I see a lot of cute answers on there.
It's not exactly the whole story. Even in the '60s and '70s the AI labs faced big battles to retain their funding, and IIRC Minsky has a reputation as a pretty rough rider in those struggles.
Incidentally, I've always been a bit baffled by the Gendarmerie units in many Central and Southern European countries. They're typically a military police force tasked with policing civilians, and the concept really rubs me the wrong way from a Northern European perspective.
i'm genuinely curious.

how is that different from gmails privacy policy? do we know anything about googles behavior with law enforcement wrt gmail? even if gmails eula technically allows them to "read"/index all you have in your inbox, does that really legally allow searching for a specific thing? what if there are nlp based triggers?

also while the article deems this ironic:

> In a move that might be deemed ironic, Microsoft will now add its own internal searches to its biannual transparency reports on government surveillance. To top of page

i actually think it's a good idea. does google have anything like this? the real irony is that it reminds me of chinas quarterly human rights report on the united states.

that said i use gmail in spite of hotmail.

by the way, if you want a simple to setup email server, you can use atmail in a kvm. there's a whole host of free solutions, but for those who don't want to fiddle with mail configurations it's worth the 20 bucks

https://atmail.com/
Behold! Some "researcher" just updated his Wifiway for the first time in the last 2 years and realized it comes now with a `crack WPA2` feature! "What's this all about?" He asked to a couple of fellow "researchers". "Oh yeah, it seems we can capture the handshake and try to bruteforce the PSK now. And there is a couple of deauth attacks to force the handshake too!" Now the two-step get-rich-quick scheme, as a fellow slashdot user commented, comes to play:

(1) Publish Paywalled Article Exposing Security Holes in Commonly-Used Security Protocol

(2) Profit!
Well this quote from the article suggests otherwise

"If I were Microsoft, I would have kept XP embedded alive for a few more years, and charged an escalating support fee" for it, he said."
Until now, there have been several different overlapping FAQs, including notably:

Bjarne Stroustrup’s FAQ pages
Marshall Cline’s popular C++ FAQs Online
at least three different StackOverflow C++ FAQs in some form....
and many others

What could be more apropos than multiple inheritance?
TL; DR: idiot ex-MS employee leaks sensitive Microsoft secrets using Hotmail.
Yep - agree it works well on iPads. I find the iPhone a little too small to do good select on the text for translations, but on an iPad mini it was great.

wrt to CRM. Try to consider the $50 as an investment. You only need to add X paying subscribers in one month to get a ROI. If you get them, then anything after that is profit. If you don't, then you have learned a nice lesson for only $50.

wrt to pricing - just experiment - take my least aggressive suggestion - allow users to dismiss the notice. Or if you can, split test it.

I think one of the other commenters here is right - you can probably build more of a sense of community around it. Perhaps it can be the place where people really recommend good books for language learners. You already have the voting etc. That then maybe leads you in to the publisher deals, which I don't think would be as difficult as you imagine.
That's exactly what the web is! It's made up of hundreds of such small standards plus thousands of ad-hoc implementations, solutions, and deep supporting infrastructure.

Again, the point is it's too big to be designed.
When a system is gamified some people take this too serious. They see karma, points, credits - you name it - as something which holds real value and will do anything to obtain it. Though it might help with generating involvement, some people cannot resist the urge to play the game at all cost, even if that requires them to be an asshole.

The problem is the gaming system on the StackExchange-network which some people take too serious.
It has, yeah. Wasn't it behaviour added to Firefox once some years ago? I recall a situation where my less technical other half was struggling to submit a form because of this behaviour. Granted, it was due to a poor implemention that didn't support two dropdowns where one depended on the other, but it was confusing and annoying.

As a developer it's annoying because it slows down testing - again edge case, but I've seen it before, and it annoyed me.

If it was the standard behaviour and all controls were sensitive to it, that would probably be different.

There's also the security aspect to keep in mind. So now when someone comes back to a page on your machine, might they see something you didn't want them to see?
I don't know, but Microsoft made a big deal out of saying they were better than Google with their "Scroogled" campaign.
The dating website where only women can start a conversation has been tried with success (AdopteUnMec in France).

I like the MTurk for cryptocurrency idea.
Your summary is missing the most vital part of the puzzle, after the leak happened Microsoft invaded the hotmail account of the journalist who received the info, not the leaker.
They have their own network, no "internet".
In India, one of the reasons that most college textbooks cost $2-$5 on average, is that the colleges refer books that are reasonably priced (of course with content).

Why would someone buy for example Product Design and Development 5th Edition which costs approx 190$ ?

In West, it is a recommended book in most colleges. But in India, it is not the book our teacher/college refers to as the main content.

By 'main content' I mean that even though on average 5-6 books are recommended reads but most teachers have read 1-2 books thoroughly, and others slightly for non-repetitive reasons.

PS: I have read the above mentioned book in a library, its totally NOT worthy of that price.
Jazz Jackrabbit and Epic Pinball were created by people from the demogroup Future Crew; I'm pretty sure those games used Future Crew's Scream Tracker 3, the tracker that IT dethroned.

It's also worth noting that the original 4-channel MOD format was almost entirely designed around exposing the capabilities of the Amiga's stock audio hardware; it was a grand day when PCs grew powerful enough to do in software what the Amiga had been doing in hardware all along.
also, what about a bit of gamification? It seems to have worked for Memrise and Duolingo. League tables, badges etc?