skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi, I'm Noah and I head BD for Better Work World, the organization I have started with Brooke to help firms hire the way he did. As for the above comment, this is true but the larger point is that, if the job isn't explicitly a sales position or doesn't require gaining internal agreement (like, say, many managerial roles)`one's ability to sell one's self in an interview is somewhat irrelevant, wouldn't you agree? Think about it: if you are a coder and happen to have several social anxiety issues, you would probably be an awful interview. But who cares? The market for coders is so hot it seems that has been largely accepted, albeit implicitly, but for less hot positions, not so much. We believe candidates win and hiring managers win when you focus on getting people to DO the work as opposed to talk about doing the work. When Brooke hired this way he found people he would have never hired through reviewing resumes, so thats a win for both of them, and those whom he did not hire-- many of whom had been unemployed-- would usually quickly find jobs elsewhere because they were given the opportunity to do relevant work, network, etc. To me, that beats the standard, "what's your biggest weakness?" line of questioning any day of the week.
pg "investigated" that crapware company a couple of years ago [1], but they still apparently exist, and continue to collect MAC addresses.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5062133
The wages paid to prisoners for their (required) labour means someone somewhere is saving money/making a profit.

How that interacts with the costs of keeping them etc I don't have any feeling for
Hey! This is my first (design-wise) b2c product.
Hope it'll help some of you guys to set and plan your goals for 2015.
Does a fantastic job of threading a very thin needle. I was surprised at how perfectly they pulled that off.
This could be nice if well supported in the future. Incanter is kind of 'too little, too late' to be a serious contender in the data science panorama. And incanter seems to lack momentum. It feels that python/R/Julia have too much momentum for anything else to enter the market, unless it's trully revolutionary.
Because the character is depicted similarly as in a previous cartoon by the same cartoonist: https://i.imgur.com/Lm4p71F.jpg

I don't get why you're being downvoted though. Have an upvote.
Makes you think about their motives for adding such an exceptional warning.
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The Charlie Hebdo attacks show that these days, real satire of Islam can't be done without significant risk of violent reprisal. If you doubt that statement, remember The Book of Mormon. (The play, not the actual book.) Could you imagine Trey Parker and Matt Stone making an equivalent Broadway play about Islam? Could you imagine them calling it The Qur'an to Google-bomb the original? Even if they disregarded their own safety, dozens of organizations would do their best to stop it. Venue owners wouldn't take the risk. Insurers wouldn't accept standard policies. Audience turnout would be lower, fearing attacks. And yet, both religions are similar in their ridiculousness. One just happens to encourage less violence in its hosts.

For a little while, we'll all pile-on the cartoon Muhammad bandwagon in show of support. But after this dies down, who will be the first to step forward with some new blasphemous ridicule? Who will single themselves out, risking their life, their family, their friends?

Whoever does so will certainly be braver than me.
From the article --

Omer el-Hamdoon:"what’s happening here is not that different from what we witnessed back in 2005 with the Danish cartoons when media outlets went into a cycle of just publishing the cartoons just to show defiance. And what that caused is more offence."

It's pretty clear that the likes of Mr. el-Hamdoon want it both ways. They want to sound supportive of free speech, but they want that speech curtailed to their liking.

No, they wouldn't kill anyone themselves. Yes, they are fostering a dangerous notion of "incorrect" speech that is very dangerous to the whole idea of free speech. Those dangers are so obvious that it is very hard to assign good faith to those preaching it.
There's also MSYS2, we are on SourceForge, but we'll never bundle or allow bundling crapware with our installer (and we release .tar.xz files for people who don't like installers).

https://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/
Breivik isn't a Christian terrorist. He described himself as not being overly religious. He is also very critical of modern (I think that's what's meant by Western here) Christianity, both in the Church of Norway and Catholicism.
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Ball gripping fear?
To the Guardian's credit, they did actually publish the cover. As did Libération in France.

US news outlets, as well as some UK outlets, and certainly many more elsewhere including France, cannot be said to have done as much, e.g.:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/13/arts/international/charlie...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/1134...
> book a ticket in the home supporters area

How is that related? They didn't book a ticket in Mecca for all I know.
Sorry but I don't see any details in your profile on how to reach you.
Hm, the 'fi' & 'fl' ligatures seems to be replaced as a middle dot in the text, making it a bit funny to read at places.
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This sounds like a publicity stunt...

My real concern with all of this is always the uncontrolled ecosystem of steadily evolving viruses and malware. We will never have control of that... and there is no telling what it can become in the future.

I think it will be a simple error induced by some random mutation in one of these malicious progams, not some vast artificial intelligence, that causes us problems in this arena first.
I don't understand how anyone could claim that CH published those comics "just for the purpose of offending". All of the CH comics had messages, very valuable messages in my opinion.
It takes a great deal to stand up against the advance of political correctness on free speech. Other countries haven't nearly done as well as France.

At the end of the day the situation was tragic but the defence of free speech against prevailing winds is incredibly important.

As for religious extremism... I don't think we will see an end until enlightenment spreads and religion fades into historic irrelevancy.

This is happening faster than people think, especially religious people as they can't see out of their bubble.
At least here in Australia the vast majority of people may "identify" as Christian but they don't actually practice any semblance of faith. That being said the Christian lobby parties still have an unreasonably large amount of sway due to being a very vocal minority that leverages this weak "identity" of Australians to further their conservative agenda.

Nevertheless there is less and less children becoming indoctrinated into this nonsense and gaining access to real information sooner through the Internet that by the end of my lifetime I expect religion (in it's current form) in developed countries to be all but extinct.

I think extremism will still be around, it will just be over more real issues and less fairy tale beliefs.
"Within the margins of law"

So it's not completely free.

There is a hate speech law in France. So there are limits to speech and many people might find them acceptable limits.
"One of the most significant findings is that low doses can be more harmful than larger ones."

Wait, what? This jumped out at me, but the article doesn't really elaborate on the surprising claim.
Here's a great interview with Luz, whose signature you can see on the cover drawing. The interesting thing is that Charlie was at heart an iconoclastic magazine, and yet ironically has now become an icon of free speech - something the staff aren't particularly happy about.

http://www.lesinrocks.com/2015/01/10/actualite/luz-eyes-us-w...
While there can be some trivialities that waste huge amount of time on every OS, however, installing Linux and setting up dev environment is not one of them.

Certainly not compared to Windows, where you must consider VS/msvcrt version, if you are using third party SDKs. It gets into "really not funny" territory when they have conflicting requirements.

Compared to that, Linux development environment is a piece of cake.
It was also possible to record by sampling one of the parallel port pins. Lousy sound quality, but we manged to record a song and play it back over the speaker, and have it be recognizable.
I understand that.

But, say I propose to stefantalpalaru to write an engine supporting Linux from scratch. And if that's too hard, wouldn't it be fair to say, that it is also a problem between the chair and the keyboard?
I think he means it this way: "...if you're talking to corp dev (as opposed to anyone else, or the person you expected to talk to), it's because they're the ones in charge of buying other companies...."
What's the best course of action in this case? Surely, it isn't to ignore the email.
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Oh, please don't take this to such a stupid extreme. Being a deliberate dick to people isn't something to be lauded; be respectful and thoughtful, even when you disagree.
I believe that this warning here serves as a comic relief.

Furthermore, it could reasonably be that Guardian here follows somewhat common trend not to sit silently and subdue to terrorism threats but to at least display subtle retaliation. Or it was author's take at this while still getting published. Could be flat-out wrong on this one, though.
What is the specific difference between a true Steam Machine and a PC with Steam installed?
Explaining Broadcast Anonymous Routing (BAR) in Five Minutes
David Cameron wants to turn off encryption. Instead: Let's fight for privacy
UK Prime Minister Considers Banning Popular Encrypted Online Messaging Apps
Unfortunately the concept of having the right to be offended, but not the right not to be offended doesn't seem to have been explained to Muslims.

Every other faith (and other large group of people) seems to have accepted it however.
I think neals meant "modern" Christianity, as in what has become of Christianity thanks to the age of reason. This excludes some Western (especially US) branches of Christianity.
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And, to make it even worse; the cover is depicted on the side of the article, 140x187px... it's like not printing it at all, because it doesn't look like it's part of the content at all.

The Office 365 ad that is actually inserted inside the article text has three times the screenspace relative to the cover picture.
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No, it really doesn't come across as that.
I would expect Real Madrid fans to not break the laws ...
Pharrell Williams' Lawyer to YouTube: Remove Our Songs or Face $1b Lawsuit
Every sane piece of Mac software: download a big disk image (dmg), mount it, copy the application folder to /Applications. To uninstall, drag it to the trash.

Adobe software: download a tiny disk image, launch the hideous Adobe installer program, give it root, have it download and install God-knows-what to God-knows-where. To uninstall, open a terminal and go medieval on everything with a name containing "Adobe", "Macromedia", "Flash", etc.

Adobe creates the most user-hostile software that is not pure malware.
Yes, it isn´t working even in Chrome.

Thank you for your time!!
Charlie Hebdo? I'm pretty sure they'll keep mocking religions.
If your Whatsapp or Google Hangouts has an embedded elliptic curve public key in it, will criminals eventually discover the private key? Are we using an especially generous definition of "eventually"?
I don't think one Christian terrorist is enough to say that Western Christianity "certainly" is violent. I wouldn't even say that about Islam even though I think Islam has some problems with violence that Western Christianity doesn't have.
Does anyone know what the plastic lids of coffee cups are made from? I drink out of those things all the time :(
Actually, Eric Lengyel is a well-respected guy and programmer. If an OS takes him long (and by long I mean more than 10 minutes) to install and configure, that doesn't speak all-too-well for that OS.
You do have to do that, at all times. It's called "being a functioning member of society" – and that means being considerate of other people's views and feelings, as ridiculous as they may be. Everybody does this, all of the time (well, maybe some people don't. Those people are usually dicks.)

Remember The Guardian isn't a satirical magazine, but a newspaper. It doesn't have the defence against purposeful offence that comes with the former.
Which established players did NSA give competitive information to?
So this is the world you want for your children?
The problem is that most founders would sell for the right price. Everyone's got a price. How do you know what someone will offer you if you don't engage in these conversations?
Thank you for the upvote. If the downvotes were due to religious reasons, then I have to admit it is rather sad to see them on HN. On the other hand, if they were due to perceived ignorance or stupidity, then I accept them.

From the link and history of the cartoons, I've reached the rather odd conclusion that anyone named "Mahomet" or "Muhammad" in a cartoon is automatically assumed to be the prophet Muhammad.
We need more AI working in the domain of computer security. Stuff that learns under specific guidelines to restrict computational behavior, given specifications of expected behavior.
> Freedom of speech means exactly that - the freedom to say whatever you want ... regardless of how it could be perceived by some specific group of people

No. You can't publish porn freely. Why? Because some people find it offensive. It's not that simple.
> I assume the IBM engineers who came up with these ideas had a lot of fun.

IBM is incompatible with fun

It was about cost mainly and backwards compatibility
Man, I hope you're trolling.
> Could you imagine Trey Parker and Matt Stone making an equivalent Broadway play about Islam?

Team America: World Police? Durka durka?
Nothing like the ol' pal "Glass" and/or Stainless Steel...
Read news about the biggest gathering in paris ever as a tribute to the legendary cartoonist, terrorists are failing in their objectives.
Voxatron is amazing. You can actually play the user mods in the browser now if you want to give it a try: http://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?cat=6&sub=2&mode=cposts&order...
You are correct in that you accurately describe the problem and human behavior.

What Jeb taught me that day was that I should put a lot more effort into thinking about what is right and wrong and not assume that just because everyone around me is doing something - or it has always been done that way - that it is right in a moral, legal, or ethical sense.

But if it is not illegal, immoral, or unethical in its implementation or in its consequences then why not try? All you risk is failure. So what?

Many people's sense of ethics really boils down to their selfish interests. They don't blow the whistle until they are denied a raise but until then they don't mind lying to clients, for example.

There are people who tell me that how I hire people is "wrong" because many of my job prospects put in a lot of work learning something that did not lead to a job.

But, look guys, I'm a nerd and a maker. I love learning things for its own sake and making stuff of no use to anyone. I was just looking for fellow nerds and makers and I started out saying that as long as we were not doing anything illegal, immoral, or unethical let's just hunker down and do something hard and fun together.

Some people thought that was BS and dropped out. So, "bye bye." The rest of my candidates just wanted to learn and yet many didn't cut it. So what? Trying to learn something and failing is no sin.

And then they take grief from friends, and the general public: "You loser... you wasted your time and nothing came of it (i.e. no job)."

That's another thing; we nerds take a lot of shit from idiots.

I did not care then and I still do not care that much what people think of me. I care whether I am doing the right thing or the wrong thing.

And I did not care about EVERYONE I did not hire.

But I sure cared about those people who put in the effort whether I could hire them or not because they are MY people.
Who will raise the bar?

Ouch for the down-votes. When I say raise the bar, I don't mean to incite violence, I mean to say who else is going to take on the task that so little are willing to risk their lives for.
By "measures" you mean "murders", right? You know, it sounds awfully like what you hear when somebody gets raped. "Oh, of course, I don't approve of rape, but have you seen how she was dressed?"
I wonder: Why should we care about what Musk and Hawking mean about AI? This article doesn't mention too much bad stuff, but earlier they have said that we should be afraid of AI/singularity.

With my thesis now in AI, I probably know far more than those two about this. And we're sooo far away from AI being a superforce destroying mankind.
There is a thing here.

You apply a dozen different fixes and test. Something breaks badly. You now have a dozen different root causes to check when, if you applied one at a time and tested (or applied one at a time and let your users test it, which is more commonplace than it should - automated testing tools exist for a reason) you'd know what broke.

I'd prefer to have fixes available for rollout as soon as possible and to decide whether I deploy them or not based on my tests. Automatic mandatory deployment could be on a fixed schedule, for those who can't test or don't care much about it.
The basic problem with systemd is that its "dependencies" based design result in all manner of nondeterministic behavior.

And i suspect this has little to do with the original complaint. I think that is more in terms of "lib version X-1 do not support the feature i need, X+1 breaks a different feature in a subtle way, and version X can't be found in any distro repo out there".

Sadly the above is not a problem of Linux or libraries, but of distro package formats balking at having multiple lib versions installed at once.
Couldn't have put it better. I was among the millions participating in one of history's largest pre-emptive protests—against the Iraq War¹—and I really felt that the people had spoken. Our message was loud and clear and they would have to listen. Well, we know how that turned out. I suspect disenfranchisement (what is having a vote if that vote is ignored?) is a general feeling everybody has, but that also the complete dismissal of our views at the time was quite shocking and has perhaps made a generation of cynics, when probably a generation of outrage is needed.

Local politics can be quite satisfying with real results. The people are there, contactable, accountable and they listen. But at the national level I don't have any feeling of connection whatsoever.

¹http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_the_Iraq_War
VMs just add another dimension to the pain of incompatible or buggy components. I don't know if VMWare provides modern OpenGL support (3.x or better). I have only experience with Virtual Box, and only ever got OpenGL 2.1 (8 years old) without extensions running with hardware acceleration, but with bugs (e.g. vsync never works). Right now I can't update to the latest VBox version because its display driver is incompatible with my Linux version.

I work on Linux running in VMs every day, but can't recommend this setup at all for OpenGL development.
I’d also estimate that of all the `write` calls the first is by a considerable margin the most likely to fail.
AI would, and should, succeed human intelligence properly implemented. We are nowhere near even understanding it as a problem, much less solving it. I attended an AGI conference a couple of years ago (summer of 2012 iirc). The general feeling was that we are still a lifetime away from a solution.
I don't think that the religion is the issue, I think that desperate people with desperate lives will always find something irrational to fill their life with and kill for.

As an example on a smaller scale (smaller as in less desperate) in Italy we have people whose life revolves around going to the stadium on Sunday to watch their football team and getting into fights with the fans of the opponent team. That's the only thing that keeps their life together. And they are ready to kill other teams' fans, we have people killed every year.

Likewise we have extreme right or extreme left groups who fight and kill each other... desperate people filling their life.

Religion, political faith, football team, doesn't really matter, the issue is the people, not the ideas.
I don't get why it's cool? What am I missing?
I'd like to point out that Far East cultures (China and Japan) do not have the same religious instincts. For them an almighty human-like God who wrote a sacred book is not conceivable. I don't think they can understand what religion and faith represent in the lives of Christian, Jews and Muslims. And unsurprisingly, religious wars have been quite marginal in this part of the world. One could also trace this important cultural difference to the figure of Confucius, who was not atheist, but refused to speak about what he called the Sky.
Try that argument with yet another topic :

If you, as a woman, go out wearing a short skirt, to a bar with all of these men, then what do you expect to happen?

I mean, I don't approve of the measures taken by the rapist, but they had it coming, and they seem to have been wanting it.
I nominate slack.com for the most complex sign up/in process in the wolrd
"In the short term, this could mean research into the economic effects of AI to stop smart systems putting millions of people out of work."

This seems unfortunate and somewhat challenging to do. Our current economic model encourages improving efficiency of systems. This seems like a good thing. Its really too bad that people "need" jobs. Jobs should be creating value or they shouldn't exist. Artificially "creating" jobs to prop up the systems feels like fighting against reality and a bad long term plan.
This is useful, but I am not sure at scale (i.e. a constellation of micro-services working together) I would want some of this functionality abstracted behind a library. I prefer gulp and wrote a couple articles talking through a simple process for local development, testing, and deployment if anyone finds it useful:

* https://medium.com/@AdamRNeary/developing-and-testing-amazon...
* https://medium.com/@AdamRNeary/a-gulp-workflow-for-amazon-la...
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> racists

I fail to see how the attacks have anything to do with racism. Islamophobia is not racism.

> Send me some photographs or your mother or spouse and let me modify those images. Let's see if you are able to ignore or laugh them off.

Well, I'm not sure they would consent to me sharing photos of them, but you can have mine :) Just add me as a friend on Facebook (Tom Primozic), and you'll have a collection of photos you can use! I'll gladly laugh at them, I promise (unless they're not funny or are disgusting or such, but I will evaluate them on purely objective standards, without taking any offence).