skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those games are pretty obvious, and they've often been used. We judge by the spirit of the law more often than in US. I know a company of 5-8000 people who's firing 9 managers per month [1] so they don't fall into the "group layout" category. They have to persuade them with a resignation package. They plan a "plan social" in a few months. Here's documentation about it: [3]

It's a job. See this agency, at random: [2]. My godfather was a HR manager specialized in "plans sociaux" (=closing factories when famous tech brands moved to Asia), and his job was pretty much explaining CEO of other continents that they have to put money on the table to be allowed to dump a whole factory, which they couldn't really get, obviously. The mother company has to help refurbish the local economy so workers find new jobs, or hire a job agency to find jobs and prove workers aren't just ditched. When the job is done, he writes the last two resignations: his, and the local director. The length of the process is around 2 years for 500 people. Needless to say, mafia jobs are probably safer.

[1] See "New procedures for implementing mass lay-offs" in http://www.proskauer.com/publications/client-alert/new-labor...

[2] http://www.triplet.com/50-10_employment/50-12_laysoff.asp

[3] http://uk.practicallaw.com/0-503-0054#a362756
If you think human brain is so sophisticated that it can perform its cognitive duties with little data, this is simply wrong. While it is definitely not a simple organic construct, it does get stimulated significantly all the time. See [1] what happens when you cut out this factors.

Regarding artificial systems, I think more data is the only way to reach super-performing classifiers. The data you supply doesn't have to be big but at least the data you extract from raw data should be big. For example, a method called Integral Channel Features [2] is designed to act in such a way.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory_deprivation

[2] http://pages.ucsd.edu/~ztu/publication/dollarBMVC09ChnFtrs_0...
ok - that last line is my new email sig for the next 6 months. replacing "there's no problem so bad that you can't make it worse"
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It's wonderful for rapidly SSHing into a bunch of machines for doing automated things.

It's a fast hacking provisioning tool, I really like it for this purpose.
Hola Unblocker works, too.
Corrected it. But I do think he deserves a mention when talking about AI and Google in particular.
What are the punishments for "taking down a quadcopter? Ever since seeing Bezos on 60 minutes, i keep thinking that this would be a good hobby. If the copter was just re-routed to a different locations and not harmed, would this still be a crime. Most likely.

I assume taking control of the machine with out permission would not be easy, but possible. Also a game show where the copters fight to the death would fill the void of "Robot Wars" being of TV.
Yea, unnecessarily controversial title. The point is that if you want to link to some code, link to a particular version of that code, not the latest version of that code. The whole file could be deleted, let alone a change in line position.
I didn't know this did not exist. Seems like pretty late to release an iOS app for one of their core businesses.
This is probably one of my absolute favorite comments I've read on Hacker News.

I think the scary part is that we have some mild but very real examples of these two dystopian visions in the world today. There are many Orwellian-ish regimes (e.g. North Korea, or to a very small extent the UK and its constant surveillance). But as can be seen, oftentimes this leads to a revolution and the regime falls.

But on the other hand, much of the western world today is more akin to Huxley's dystopia. American culture and society today is a fantastic example of being drowned in indulgence and stupidity, and being controlled by it. Just watch the constant pointless bickering on cable news for an example of this.

This kind of dystopia is much much harder to escape. There's nothing really to revolt against, because our stupidity & indulgence is our own captor.

Now, of course, both of these dystopian visions are extremes, and the real world is much more nuanced. But that's the purpose of literature; to make a caricature that we can use to more clearly see patterns in the real world.
Be sure to check out "autoexpect": it starts an interactive session, and generates an expect script based on that. Then you typically need to edit it for generalization (e.g., skip dates and time strings; often skip version strings, etc.).
Good idea. Can you add a "last updated" info/filter, to show/ignore projects, that not have been updated for a long time.
Web Components Aren’t Ready for Production… Yet
> That's all just because the father never read 'Girls 101 for Dummies -- Boys', and that's partly because I have not written it yet.

I think I'll do without your hateful book, thanks.
Why? My client automatically downloads all new podcasts when I'm at home using WiFi. Later I walk or drive through areas where the cell phone reception is not really reliable, steaming podcasts would stop all time. The download model is still the best by far.
Kurzweil seems more like a master of generating linkbait-like titles.

"The singularity is near: When humans transcend biology"
"The age of spiritual machines: When computers exceed human intelligence"

I'd argue that Stephen Boyd is more of a master of AI than Kurzweil.
Worst "I have a dji phantom" blog post ever :-)
That's correct, I didn't mean to talk about who should be fired first. I meant to say that the company doesn't really get to choose who should leave or stay. There are rules so we don't harm the economic tissue when firing people.

I'm yet to be convinced of how this economy can thrive in the first place. I'm persuaded most French people work in really Dilbertesque comapnies with unpassionnate workmates because of those rules, which correlates with the fact that French people are the first consumers of anti-depressants in the world [1]. I'm not saying it's linked for everyone.

[1] http://www.france24.com/en/20110802-france-world-most-depres...
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Sadly, this is not a universal app (it looks terrible on iPad.)

They just phoned it in, as it were.
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Even if somehow technology led to celibacy, the fact that people that embrace technology leave no descendants, will give selection pressure to Luddites.

Summary: if everyone is boning robots and not having children, then people that don't bone robots will become most numerous.

Note: this is all of course assuming that children can be given birth only via non-technological means.
>About a year later, Google had reduced Android’s voice recognition error rate by an astounding 25 percent.

lol. This is the grand payoff?
Linking to line numbers is practically using goto, which is a coding faux pas. I'm sure they must be on the way out.
Search for "temporary fix" https://github.com/search?q=temporary+fix&type=Code&ref=sear.... 3 million plus and counting :)
It's a worthy practice indeed. Bowing to the virtue of taking on some technical debt instead of deluding oneself that all code must be Pristine.
Y Combinator portfolio value more than doubles to 0B in past year
> Deploying postfix + dovecot with multi domain usage and multi alias capabilities is hard!

Really? I didn't find it so; overall it took me about four hours, including RBL filtering via Spamhaus[1], and I haven't had to touch it in years.

Granted, I've done a lot of sysadmin work. But there are some really excellent howtos on setting up that stack, and I don't really see how adding a poorly documented Ruby API, witb what I found a frankly lousy web UI layer on top of it, does anything to simplify the task; you're better off, I think, spending that time on gaining facility with actually administering Postfix and Dovecot, than dealing with an API that's maybe helpful for a large multihost install but whose added complexity cost really isn't justified on any smaller scale.

[1] The Zen RBL is free to use as long as you make fewer than eighty thousand requests per day. I wholeheartedly recommend it; using it cut my spam to zero for years.
The most interesting piece of this puzzle to me is initiatives like MirageOS, which let you run your application very close to the metal—you give up a lot of convenience when you dump the traditional OS, but you give up a lot of inefficiency, too.
Sadly for me I think I still approach productivity in a very "barbaric" way- I have long periods of idleness and procrastination, then I rush a fuckton of work all at once. I've seen some success in my personal projects from writing daily, but I haven't yet adapted such practices to my work and other commitments... I'm an unproductive person who shouldn't be talking about this, heh.
It looks to me like adding more complexity than it relieves, and I'd worry about the security implications besides.
Actually reading self-help and productivity books is a great way to invigorate your productivity. That is why productivity blogs are so popular.

I will happily read or reread a productivity book just to be inspired to get my game on.
I was partially referring to LLVM segfaulting sometimes on bad input, but its correct to say even without segfaults in the compiler itself, just generating incorrect code via any other bug could cause the same issues.

LLVM is interesting in that it's far less mature as a JIT than as a static compiler. I think using llvm as a browser JIT specifically may raise the bar for how the LLVM people need to consider security in the code.

Though that being said, compilers are already some of our most critical and trusted code.
In my experience “ugly hack” means any technical debt that spans lines of code, as opposed to components of a system.

(Edited for clarity.)
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Bottom line, is that both societies depicted would be vulnerable to some sort of threat. Both societies seem heavily stagnant. Such societies can easily be disrupted by their relations with friendly and hostile neighbors degrading or just being wiped by an gradual or extreme environmental change (for example meteor).

The only way forward is by having diverse societies spread around multiple planets in various parts of galaxy.
Possibly when a brain start getting redundant information its predictions start to peak in accuracy.
Some results normalized by overall language popularity. Specifically, the entry in row R and column C is 1000 * (hits for C in language R) / (hits for "the" in language R) or "---" if either the numerator or denominator was small enough not to make the top-10 list on github.

All the scraping was done by hand and the numbers rounded to a limited number of places in the process, so there may very well be mistakes.

[EDIT: oops, initially I failed to paste in the actual data.]

ugly hack ugly beautiful lol wtf buggy
xml --- --- 14.330 72.775 2.489 ---
c 6.348 35.421 0.670 0.768 3.650 32.009
html 1.359 9.001 34.791 4.233 3.095 5.870
rb --- --- --- 4.483 3.151 ---
py 9.051 35.614 28.506 --- 11.135 15.066
php 3.731 8.333 1.781 39.037 1.792 3.754
c++ 2.851 12.507 --- 0.501 102.657 7.579
js 6.850 16.826 2.643 2.635 7.406 29.761

Tentative conclusions: Python is ugly-hack-iest and (almost exactly tied with C) ugliest; HTML is most beautiful with Python a close second, XML is lolliest, C++ is WTFiest, and C is buggiest.

Tentative meta-conclusion: these numbers have no value beyond idle amusement. But they idly amused me, so that's OK.

(The weirdest result of the lot, to me, is XML coming top for "lol". If you do the search and click on "XML" on the left you'll see why it is. Lots of instances of what I think are the same file, full of "&lol;" entities. LOL, that's pretty ugly. WTF? An ugly hack, I guess.)
Yeah and for the following minute he looked at the table, rather than Vint Cerf's face, when he was talking. Amusing.
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If only there was a convenient way to get from one URL to another URL!

I'm sure Tim Berners-Lee stubs his toe every time someone posts a non-clickable link on the web.
Copyright is something the comes with ownership and is what author of a work normally has; and copyright is what gives him exclusive rights with regards to copying, distributing, modifying, performing, etc. Note that copyright itself is not one of these exclusive rights granted by copyright! That would be circular.

So when you place a license on your work, you are just granting people these rights which would normally be exclusive to you as the owner, granted to her by copyright. Again: copyright is not one of these exclusive rights, copyright is property the author owns. When people receive a copy, they do not receive ownership or copyright.[2] They receive a physical copy of a work but the "intellectual property" is still held by the author. At no point was it transferred. And you cannot on your own claim and transfer the author's ownership of the property any more than you can take his home or car or wife. What you can do (as the license permits) is to practice these rights such as copying, performance, etc. which are normally exclusive to the owner.

Re-assigning or transferring copyright (in the sense that you become the owner and can sue the original author as Alupis intended) quite literally means transferring one's property to someone else. If the author of a work transfers his copyright, he no longer owns the work. It gets a new owner, just like your car would do if you gave it to someone else. Transfer of copyright is not at all the same as granting other people the same rights you have. In the US, such exclusive transfer of copyright cannot happen without black-on-white and the signature of the owner:

[1]

Any or all of the copyright owner’s exclusive rights or any subdivision of those rights may be transferred, but the trans­fer of exclusive rights is not valid unless that transfer is in writing and signed by the owner of the rights conveyed or such owner’s duly authorized agent.

[2]

Mere ownership of a book, manuscript, painting, or any
other copy or phonorecord does not give the possessor
the copyright. The law provides that transfer of ownership
of any material object that embodies a protected work
does not of itself convey any rights in the copyright.

[1][2] http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ01.pdf

EDIT: Furthermore, under the Berne Convention, original authors have the moral right to be known as the author. This right is inalienable: you can't give it away, and it cannot be taken away; you have that right even after everything else (i.e. the economic rights) is exclusively transferred to someone else. I think that makes Alupis' idea of claiming someone's code as his own work illegal.

So, in short, no, you can't re-assign copyright to yourself and then sue the original author for copyright infringement. No, you cannot claim to be the original author and to own the work. No, you do not become the owner of the work when you receive a copy along with a license that allows you to further copy, modify, distribute, perform, etc.
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That would be one option; my preferred, immediate option (prior to Elon Musk establishing civilization on Mars), would be to not elevate things (like sex) to the point where they own us, or can be used to own us.
One of my favorites too, even though I disagree with seeing both Orwell's and Huxley's visions of future as some kind of dead end.

It's hard for me to imagine something like that lasting for more than 2 generations. Quite contrary, I'm seeing it as a possible catalyst for radical change to something quite positive.
Did half of California fall off the continent and sail around the world? San Francisco and NYC have the same time. And why does it take so long for the grey background to change to white?
Carpet may cost $40/m^2 to lay down (actually a bit less than that), but it costs significantly less to maintain.

Yes, there'd be an up-front investment, but you just need to keep your maintenance down.
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It's also a great way to waste time, and fool yourself into thinking you're doing the right thing, when you would actually be better off spending the time working.
Some hacks are just beautiful!
https://github.com/search?q=%22beautiful+hack%22&ref=searchr...
Scientists are this close to finding alien life
On my netbook, Firefox warned me about an unresponsive script.
Surprised CSS isn't on the top of this list
It's actually too general. What I mean with component here can be anything from a line of code to a class hierarchy.

In a sense, using the word 'component' here was an ugly hack. I should have gone for the proper solution and properly define it. You see now that it breaks down when the interpretation changes.
I would say it's not necessarily our stupidity that is our captor, but our self indulgence. Personally, my waistline seems to be expanding - this is not (necessarily) because I'm stupid, but more likely to do with the fact that I like bacon so darn much that I refuse to give it up.
God of Speed Dmitry Vyukov.
I had the same realization a while ago, even started working on a documentation engine built around the idea that I never quite finished:

https://github.com/32bitkid/zang

The general concept was a markdown preprocessor that would include references to commits in git repositories and expand to the referenced content.

Because all the references were bound to a commit, then a) they were stable (if you used a hash rather than brach name), but more importantly b) you could determine when the file had changed and the documentation was possibly out of date.

it would generate a warning/error and one would have to update the documentation accordingly.

Anyway nice to see other people with the same underlying idea.
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> Not to mention many of the people on welfare.

Spoken like someone that has never used welfare, doesn't know anyone on welfare, and gets all their ideas from talk radio and Fox News.
Yea, here is a video about an injury caused by DJI Phantom 2 with carbon fiber blades (warning: some blood dripping):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji3Hii_LZOc

Sure the propeller is not the original, but it shows that quadcopters can be dangerous in the wrong hands.
I would again say that you can think whatever you want, but don't accuse and label me as something that I am not because I disagree with you.

Again to address that particular issue, there is expert opinion supporting that boys are in fact wired differently:

http://www.pbs.org/parents/raisingboys/aggression.html

From the article:

Jane Katch, author of Under Deadman's Skin: Discovering the Meaning of Children's Violent Play. "And that's a problem for a lot of boys. Some boys in my class need to move a lot. I call them 'high energy boys.' These boys simply can't sit still as long as most of the girls. They don't have the fine motor skills girls do, so many will make big constructions like block towers, while girls will work on smaller, more delicate pictures."
> GC scanning and marking phase is 10-20% faster for programs with large number of small objects.

Which is most programs. Hurray, changes in good direction.
Are there any uncurable STDs left? Anyone who wants to be immune to HIV/AIDS just takes Truvada nowadays and even people who are raped get 30 days of anti-virals to prevent transmission. It's not a problem for the 1% any more, that's for sure, and the technology will filter down eventually.
And no other widely used language has that problem ;)
This part about differences in both sexes approach to dating services (guys going into quantity, girls being flooded with messages). It's 100% true. But Tinder is not the only solution.

Before Tinder we've started to work on Elimi project which blocks contact between girls & guys until the girl will allow selected guy to contact her. And how she does that? By simple task-based games with guys (from 1 to 4 in one game). It seems that people like the idea behind Elimi. You can try it on iOS and Android (beta): http://www.ElimiApp.com
Make something people want
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Make something people want
Yes, in a team working remotely it is often useful to link to a specific chunk of code during a (voice or chat) conversation. Typically you're talking about the current code in a branch, and it is useful for the person clicking the link to know that we are in fact talking about HEAD and not a specific commit.

This is the equivalent of calling someone to your desk and pointing at the screen. It is fine if those links stop working a few hours later.
Aha I went on some huge investigative journalism trip.

Finally I found what I was looking for, the entire sex-less youth of Japan sentiment is a sham.

This guy writes about the whole ordeal and how it began.

http://ampontan.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/suckers/

And the relevant quote;

"In other words, the Internet was agog over a report that 22 males and 38 females aged 16-19 said either that they had no interest in sex or despised it. When the Huffington Post spun this story as “a third of the nation’s youth” disliking sex, they were basing it on the response of 60 self-selected people."
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I've seen quite a few career women hire surrogate mothers. E.g. their eggs, the guy's sperm, but a different mother. That's certainly something that's only possible due to medical technology. Similarly, the pill was a huge revolution and there are trials for reversible male contraception as well. If all STDs are curable and everyone controls their fertility by better means, why would you bother with a condom that removes the sense of touch for one of the parties?
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> Contractors can be cheaper than employees, despite paying a higher salary. The reason is that they don't need to do so much legal work or pay their insurances and etc, etc.

Unless they're independent contractors, I've never understood how this can be true. Sure, the company paying the contracting company doesn't have to directly pay for that kind of thing, but the contracting company does, and on top of that, has to earn a profit, and that should all be included in the billing rate.
Interesting point. Huxley's vision of the future would become a dead end when another entity sees our pleasure-induced ineptitude as their opportunity to pounce
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I have been using a Ruby expect-like called Greenletters by Avdi Grimm, introduced on his blog here: http://devblog.avdi.org/2010/07/19/greenletters-painless-aut...

It's available via rubygems or github:
https://github.com/avdi/greenletters
The &lol; entities are the "Billion laughs" attack: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_laughs
It's iPhone only, and looks rather annoying on an iPad.
Having those bottom borders on all their app icons is some serious trolling by Google.
As you said, big grains of salt... It would be probably more helpful if they were normalized by the percentage any particular language is used overall on Github.
Agreed; O'Brien's boot metaphor was purest hubris. I don't know if I'd call civilizational collapse "positive", though. Surely things will get better afterward! Things always do, eventually. But, judging by history, we'll be in for a rather ugly interregnum in the meantime, one marked by the sway of Hobbes's dictum ("...nasty, brutish, and short"), by constant insufficiency in all the material necessities of life, and by all manner of short-lived but violent popular enthusiasms; in general, a world fit only for those young enough to love chaos, and one harsh even for them.

I don't fear for the species; we're tough bastards and can survive anything short of heat death. But I would like to think that some day we'll work out the trick of anakyklosis and finally have done with dark ages.