skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's cold-hearted, but if scale is an issue, then some of the alternatives can seem equally horrifying. Is it really more humane to send a couple of axe-wielding Bobs to the office, set them up in one or two rooms, and then steadily parade people in and out over the course of a day, the rest of the team trembling and gossiping and worrying about when and whether their turns will come up, their eyes locked on every colleague and friend to slink back to his desk from the abattoir?

Think about that at 1,000-person-layoff scale. If we apply some basic Little's Law math to the process here, we quickly see how "by-hand" firings would drag on for quite some time, perhaps needlessly prolonging the inevitable, and almost certainly disrupting work at the entire office for days on end.

There is no "good" way to do this. I've never had to do it myself, and I can only hope I never have to. The thought of how "best" to do it would keep me up for weeks. At the very least, I suppose in-person messengers are better than automated voicemail recordings, or sealed envelopes. But even if using a human messenger, a mass layoff is not going to go down well for the people being laid off. There is something to be said for ripping off the band-aid (though perhaps in timed batches, so you're not just dumping N people out into the cold, to fight over the same jobs on the market all at once).
That was my experience.

1) Fill out web-form

2) They print it for you and mail it to you

3) You sign it.

4) You do the Post Office's "Check and Send" which is pointless.

5) You eventually get a passport.

It is from the dark ages.
Yep, they have a free option which I've used before.
"At the same time, when I was young and just getting started and didn’t know what I was doing, I had a freeness and a looseness and an energy that I don’t really have anymore. I didn’t know how anything I was doing would turn out, so I just threw everything in there, and through some weird alchemy, it worked.

A lot of it was just, by modern game design standards, broken."

This totally resonates with me (replacing "game" with some other domain). I feel like I'm 100 times better at programming than in my early days but unfortunately also 100 times slower. I'm probably too much aware of what can possibly go wrong with every line of code I write (or maybe it is just getting older and/or losing interest).
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I'm working on a project relevant to this. Does anyone know if the author has shared this data set anywhere? Or does anyone know of any data sets that could be used for developing mixture models to classify users into interest groups (like photographers, programmers etc)?
Maybe 10 or 15 years ago I had a VAIO laptop that came with a cheesy 3D file browser. I can't find a link to it or screencap anywhere. Anyone remember this? Files were spun around like a tornado thing.
Thanks. That book is a great resource.
There's also something to be said about the margins realized by being a monopoly. There's a reason you see fewer companies in cut-throat industries doing stuff like Microsoft Research or Google X. Research is expensive and that means you need big profits to support it and having a monopoly is a great way to guarantee big profits.
The "about" text says they're geographically correct routes, but direct great circle paths between departure/destination airports of flights. Not to say there aren't any, see sibling comment.
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I am with you up to letting people use unencrypted HTTP. I assume people in this can use telnet instead of ssh because it is simpler. No, browsers should drop support for unencrypted HTTP soon after Let's Encrypt goes live.
Yes, there seems to be a massive obvious correlation here: people who are good at learning difficult skills over time (an instrument and musicianship) are good at learning difficult skills over time (a new language). I doubt there's any real link/cross-sharing between music and language here.

Some people enjoy investing time into something that they will be bad at for a very long time and then become good at, and some people hate it. If you went through that with music as a child, you're probably more likely to have the confidence to want to go through it again as an adult with a language, because you know that it's something you've done before successfully. Programming's in the same category.
So envious of this dude, even though I never want to be an indie developer (I can't even program). He gets to work the way he choses, on something he cares about. I commute to a shitty open office where I write bullshit that my boss approves. I'm sure his life isn't all glamorous, and his success didn't come easily. But still.
> Now, 30+ years later, it's a bit rusty, but I can still read it pretty well, and can sort-of understand written Portuguese as well.

I don't want to be picky. But I would not attribute your ability to read Portuguese to your musical background, but to your Spanish. My experience is that most Spanish speakers can read Portuguese to a certain degree and vice-versa. Never having studied French, I was able to read some child comics.
This should probably be viewed as an extension of the Ukrainian conflict. Everything else is garnish.
> How about writing your own OS and creating an ecosystem for hardware vendors and developers first?

I think it would be better for society if smaller companies will be able compete with monopoly without requirement to spend billions.
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Yandex Search is couple of years older than Google, and specializes in Russian market from the beginning. It provided much more relevant results for quite a few years.

Some services mirror Google's while being tailored to Russia/CIS audience: mail, yandex.direct=adwords, chrome-based yandex browser, maps, news, social stuff, cloud storage. Some services, like yandex market or rabota (job search), have no Google counterparts.

Also, their support is more responsive. So no, it's nothing like Baidu and more like Intel vs AMD.
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> you cannot do overlay blurring like iOS, for example

this may change in the future - the backdrop-filter CSS property should allow you to do exactly that, and support has already landed in chrome
1. What you quoted itself a far cry from "any electronic device that communicates in any way", a statement that mischaracterizes the patent as much as the title of TFA does the actual claim. Note that it says the header may be modulated using one method whereas the payload another depending on the header. Are you sure this applies to any of those you mentioned? (Except Bluetooth of course, as it was just found to infringe :-P)

2. The synopsis does not define the scope of what a patent claims.
How many of those are voting shares tho?
> Where do you see hate against capitalists in Marx works?

The need for proletarian revolution. And I am talking about marxism, not Marx works. Marx himself mostly hated local socialists (they wanted practical stuff and found him ridiculous).

> Not past the October "revolution". The Bolsheviks played with it as long as it suited them...

Bunch of guys have this bible about how revolution is necessary, how it will solve everything, and how heaven on earth is coming. And when majority disagree with them, they just apologize, step down, and quietly leave to deserted island to build their version of Utopia alone?

> After he had murdered and exiled the opposition in his own party, yes. Which against followed the murder and exile and prohibition of Marxist and other socialist groups years earlier.

Personality cult raised in every soviet country. It is very convenient to blame everything on single person and not on the system itself. If anything famous Trockij loved 'doing paper work' even more than Stalin.

> Maybe whomever downvoted could bother replying

I upvoted and hate this on HN as well.
Seen from the outside, he seems an ideal person to me to be the finance minister. The issue is whether Greece can get a bit of runway to let it deal with the corruption problems or whether it should just be confined to the modern equivalent of the workhouse.
I used to work in wireless R&D (at a startup). It's frightfully expensive, and we would have never be able to do a whole stack with original technology, so we licensed and built on top of WiMAX. I'm not sure why we should've been allowed to build on all that technology for free.

Patents are a huge boon to standardization in capital-intensive industries like that. Getting your patent in the spec is what creates the incentive to contribute to this joint venture that's going to be opened up. Otherwise you're doing R&D for your competitors for free.
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No, no, no.

It would make better sense to rephrase as "Does fluency in a second language make it easier to learn a third?" and assume that music is a second language in that question, and that "fluency" in music is more than just "can carry a tune".

Singers have no more connection to music than any other musician (and it could be argued that they, as a group, have less connection to music than musicians of more harmonic or chordal instruments, but let's ignore that for now).

Music, as a language, has considerably more depth and scope than the words that someone sings. Suggesting that singers are the only musicians who would benefit linguistically is entirely missing the point.
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> Bill Gates is Frodo. Larry Page is Bilbo.

Well that certainly doesn't bode well for what the next five years look like...

Edit: Assumed you'd put them in chronological order. Bill Gates as Bilbo and Larry Page as Frodo is terrifying.
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I hope this doesn't come off as flamey or troll-like. I've been researching Symbolic Regrssion for 5 years, currently writing a dissertation on the subject.

My second paper has the better comparison between GP and PGE. Both papers compare to the most "state-of-the-art" implementations, per Korns. The only domain-specific knowledge PGE uses is the associativity and commutativity of addition and multiplication. Add partial ordering on the node types, non-linear regression of parameters, and techniques for memoization. All of the above is applicable to, and should be a part of, a GP implementation. They are separate from the actual search method, GP, GGGP, Cartesian GP, (insert more GP variants), and PGE.

PGE uses a priority queue to progress the search with local exploration functions. You basically end up with a variation best-fit search. One could use PGE on circuit board optimization or "atomic-regression" by observing that associativity and commutativity can be likened to symmetry and rotations in these spaces. The vast majority of my work has been in Symbolic Regression because it is the most useful of the GP application domains outside of research. Imagine scientists having a microscope for their data!

Fundamentally, the application problems you listed are all graph search problems. They all have domain-specific solutions which outperform a more general problems solving technique such as GP. We have many graph search algorithms (Prim,Djikstra,best-first,A* and variants) which are widely used outside of the academic research environment. Why omit the structural information about the problem, that is embedded within the problem definition and partial solutions, only to perform a randomized search? This is a question I have yet to hear a good answer to.

One of the main problems in the GP field is the difficulty in making legitimate comparisons, for several reasons.
1) Reference implementations, data, and code are scarce or don't work as well as the papers claim.
2) Benchmarks and metrics for comparison vary widely, see the GECCO 2012 paper titled "GP needs better benchmarks"
3) The reproducibility of GP literature is largely impossible, because of point 1&2, but more inherently because it is a randomized search.

I am skeptical that any randomized search method, such as GP/GA/EC, will find wide acceptance outside the research community due to reproducibility concerns and that it doesn't have a solid theoretical foundation on which to stand.
In my opinion the only way they could have made it work was to start small and iterate. Start with a health record which was: NHS no, name, dob and make sure everyone is using it first, then start to build APIs which let people add data from the various services to that record and control access etc.

You simply can't design a system from the top down to deal with something as complex and multi-disciplinary as a birth or a lifetime of health records, in fact no one system could probably cope with all those demands, even if it only catered to a few medical specialties - even just between GPs, Surgeons, Anaesthetists and Dentists there are huge gulfs in requirements, let alone bringing in other public services like the police. On top of that people are happy with existing systems and will resist change to some centralised system if you try a big bang approach. So I disagree that it is all or nothing, or even could feasibly be done as an all or nothing project.
In my opinion Galaxy Note 2 is just too large for using it with one hand. Still, it has a comfort zone where you can reach UI elements with one thumb (either left or right), so maybe the developers should take this into consideration when designing layouts.
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This is only kind of true. Much of the > 50% of shares that are owned by employees are owned by executives and former executives. Think about how equity is distributed at any startup. The average "worker" still doesn't own the means of production or capital. Definitely not by Marx's definition of ownership, and not by the common usage of the term in our day either.

Points for political snark, though.
First of all, yandex is a very old search engine (launched in 1997). For a very long time yandex was way better for search queries in Russian which was obviously a deal breaker for domestic users. Like google and yahoo, they have a full suite of internet services (mail, search, news, virtual currency, etc), so you wouldn't gain much by switching.

Yandex also possesses some unique domestic services that google doesn't have (market, taxi, traffic jams).
A company exists to make money. It is not a vehicle for comfort or compassion. It does not matter one bit how much effort you put into it, unless you have a material stake in it, it is simply a job. You always have a updated resume. You always reinvest in your skill set and network. And when there are rumblings in the press, you hit the payment ASAP to secure a new role elsewhere. Being naive to the nature of these things is foolish and immature. I'm not being harsh, just honest. Challenge every raise and every bonus you get to check your value. Leave on your terms, or make them pay to keep you. When you realize this, being laid off is a completely enjoyable experience. It means you can travel, work on your startup, and move on.
Nice, very nice. I remember years ago I thought that I could do gaussian blur by copying the transparent layer in photoshop and repeating the tile in html/css. I think html/css/js would benefit if it just recreated everything that flash could do 10 years ago. Is that whats happening?
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Many think that the spec itself is crappy, so there's not much an implementation can do to fix that. Witness, for instance, the number of hardware vendors like Logitech that eschew Bluetooth in favor of their own proprietary wireless protocols.
the link in the title is a combination of a reddit and 4chan link, remove the 4chan partwhere they join "alcohol/https" and the reddit link works fine.
> Network data access costs a lot of money in some countries

Very much this. I live in a country which has country wide LTE coverage in populated areas. While the network is fast, data is very expensive. Here 1GB of data in a bundle is around 35 USD, where as back home I can get 25GB for the same.

I have mobile data turned off for most apps because of this. Everytime I open one (even if it works perfect offline) iOS pops up "Mobile data is turned off for XXX".
>>Patch hacked salaries, to the point most editors hired after 2012 were making less than $30,000 a year.

>>You could almost make that flipping burgers. And this job required a college degree and experience.

So is 'flipping burgers' not "no skill, minimum wage, part time" now? Maybe a cook in casual dining restaurant can make $30k, but nobody 'flipping burgers' at the Burger King is.
Ya. That said, flying a repair mission to install a corrective lens on a space telescope is/was totally in the realm of 'sexy solutions'.
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This probably comes from overconfidence. If you're pretty sure you can handle whatever comes up, it's easy to see reading documentation in advance as a potential waste of time.
I believe it was Margaret Thatcher that said "The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."

Yanis should feel right at home in Greece, seeing as essentially they have run out of money from Germany.
Thanks for the observation. I'll fix this UX issue :)
The article seems to mirror my experience: simple and common tasks are streamlined, but anything less common can be an exercise in frustration.

In particular, looking for information (say, on immigration rules) can be almost impossible: between the seemingly random "see also" links, overuse of pdfs (and pdf landing pages) and lack of coherent indexing, I've wasted a lot of time trying to find what I needed.
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Doesn't this make commits too big? On the team I'm working with right now, most people are making really small commits, but it makes git's history mechanism really useful.

A single line change can be linked to a relatively small commit, it's extremely useful to figuring out the "why" of something. Having one commit for an entire feature would make that utility completely disappear
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Yandex.Market kinda corresponds to Google Shopping. http://www.google.com/shopping Curiously enough, Google doesn't provide Shopping in Russia: there's no 'Shopping' tab when searching through google.ru, and when browsing via Russian IP, google.com does redirect through google.ru.

While we are on AdWords/Yandex.Direct, is there any alternative to Wordstat from Google? http://wordstat.yandex.com/#!/?words=iPhone
It's a rather general problem. It has ads, requires scripting (to view text!), breaks formatting, doesn't have sensible syntax highlighting available, etc. Imho, it's probably the worst paste client anyone could use for anything. http://ix.io and http://sprunge.us are significantly better alternatives.

But, if one is dead-set on using pastebin.com, the least they could do is post the raw link so users can escape some of the horrible.
The /r/piano FAQ (https://www.reddit.com/r/piano/wiki/faq) is a great starting point. There's a ton of resources available online, so the trouble is actually in picking the really good ones. Still, if you want to play well, you should probably get a teacher.

As for myself: I've started lessons about 6 months of trying on my own. The teacher's role is to point out the small things one does not even notice when learning on one's own -- and those can really make a huge difference. But in the end it is all about the learning process -- seeing what works for you at any given stage, filling the gaps, re-evaluating periodically if your approach should change. And it's a long-time project. Most people become comfortable after 10 years or so of daily practice. So either you're extremely committed/desperate/forced/enjoy the learning process with the long-term goal in mind, or you quit.

The specific resources I can recommend are:

- Lypur's video courses on youtube (both piano + music theory)
- "Piano Handbook" by Carl Humphries
- "All About Music Theory" by Mark Harrison
- http://www.musictheory.net
- Willi Schneider's "Klavierfibel"
> As an individual, I find that gov.uk is far more useful than any of the sites that preceded it - especially DirectGov.

I think I have to disagree. With DirectGov I didn't always find what I was looking for, but when I did find it, I trusted it. It was reliable.

With gov.uk, even if I find the information, I don't trust it. For example:

https://www.gov.uk/exchange-foreign-driving-licence/y/yes/ca...

Only the form they propose says the cost is £50, not £43.
Only the EU says that an EU license remains valid without exchange.

So now where do I go?
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FWIW, in the Netherlands many collective bargaining agreements DO stipulate a minimum notice for firings (barring special circumstances like gross neglect, committing felonies, etc.). For example, my first system admin job had a contract mandating 1 month's notice in both directions. Usually the notice given by the employer is longer than the notice given by the employee and the notice duration for the employer increases with seniority (so after several years I'd be owed 2 or 3 months notice).

I think the main reason there's no notice by employers in the US is the lack of unions/organised labour to fight for rights like these.
Is it a news that corporations are creating "ecosystems" to make money, not to benefit third-parties?

What if something wrong with the "strategy" of being able to be a very successful third party in someone's else ecosystem?

Google is no monopoly. There is windows mobile, of course.
Have you tried writing anything more than a very simple HTTP/1.1 parser/server? It's actually not as easy as it seems at first - edge cases everywhere, different user agents doing subtly different things, etc. etc.

Your argument is invalid in my opinion. HTTP/1.1 is not simple to implement to any decent level of completeness and correctness, and HTTP/2 does fix a fair few things.

Anyway, there are already plenty of good tools for debugging HTTP/2 streams (Wireshark filters, etc.), and there's only going to be plenty more as time goes by.
What I can't understand from this is why would there be a lawsuit about the default search engine in a browser built by a search engine company?

If you install Google Chrome, you do it voluntarily. It's not like the browser was forced up on you. I do understand why they sue for Android issue, as it is quite hard to find a good phone, running Android, that is not bundled with all the Google services.
Your post is not really much of of a response to my point about not using AJAX or CSS, but anyway: I image they'd rather not re-do a separate UI for a single platform. You can deploy a single MSI for a local web app just as easily as you can a .net app, and doing so isn't entirely uncommon.
How do “banners in Shodan [...] resolve to localhost”??? WTF??? This is quite cryptic. Luckily, I live not on Shodan, but on planet Earth where `localhost` resolves to 127.0.0.1.
Where 'this or that' can only be something more dense than gold, which are not cheap: http://m.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=10+densest+elements
The problem here is that messing up the mirror on such a project in the first place was not very sound engineering.
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