skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it is indeed an overview of the various VM's at its current stage, with a focus on a short parrot post-mortem compared to p5p's similar management problems, and what to do. I just left out the concrete plans what to do and what is in the works as it was status talk, not a future talk.

It also gave you an perspective to other dynamic languages similar problems when the lead left or is too incompetent to still lead (e.g. php, python, C++, javascript), and what they did instead. The talk had more explanations than there on the slides.

p5p is certainly not the devil, they are just stagnant and mostly incompetent (as most of the other cited comparable langs). some other langs have very similar problems, and got by by doing what they eventually did.
what p5p is doing is mostly spinning than fixing, and they don't accept criticism. I gave concrete examples on the spinning parts and left out the other.

When I make "demands" on technicalities I provide information why and how with very concrete examples. Usually the maintainers don't even read that, there is a general lack of technical ability to understand the issues involved and mostly there is a huge lack of wanting to discuss the problems. So I usually have to implement the "demands" by my own, and then the general community does not benefit from it.
This talk barely mentioned those p5p issues, it focused on all the vm's where they are now.
That's one way to view it. The truth about anything real in this world is that it is too complex to have only one valid explanation. Don't fall into the trap to only believe one. Look at the other ones and find that there is more to it than any single explanation can provide.

Money is a reasonable way to track favours, but it's also a reasonable standard exchange medium, it's also a reasonable representation of value, etc. But for all explanations you can also find reasons why it's not, e.g., it's not a favour because a favour is a one-to-one relationship, while money you can get from one person and use it to get something from another person. (No need to counter argue here, you don't need to convince me. I just wanted to present an example of why the idea of "money=favour" is not perfect as well.)
If this Guardian video is any hint, this drone needs to be worked on to make it perform like advertised https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td5fZhGNz9M
oh you can't watch this video your paid for on your computer because reasons.

You need to use this crappy video player instead.

Oh you can only watch this on 3 computers and you have hit that limit.

the license for this content has been lost, you can't watch it anymore.

Compare that to the pirates life:
Click play -> watch movie.

There was actually an interesting article a while back about DRM not being about preventing piracy, but rather enforcing methods of watching (so 100% to control legitimate customers).
Any low-hanging fruits? ;)
The Twitter storm that inspired a virtual reality game
While I think it's entirely appropriate that she got fired over the incident, nobody deserves the death and rape threats that she received.
Hey! I think you've made a good thing. It should be useful to use. Tell me when it is finished and we will make a post about this in our international social networking.
China's and India's fad of aborting female offspring is not really very helpful. They're setting themselves up for some really, really nasty future.
Lego Datacenter
You agree to pay taxes by continuing to live here.

Taxes aren't theft any more than the check at the end of a restaurant meal is theft.

In both cases, you agree to pay something in exchange for something (a meal, a functioning government, etc).
No, it's a "bug". It is not required for loading specific versions -- those can be kept in a flat structure just as well. No need for the idiotic nesting.
How do you use SugarCRM and which functionality is missing from it? If you are going to build your own CRM based on your experience using it in real world use case (not just with eyes of developer who tests different features) which features are you going to remove from SugarCRM and add your own?
*references

Teaching Deep Convolutional Neural Networks to Play Go by Clarke & Storkey http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.3409

Move Evaluation in Go Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks by Maddison , Huang , Silver & Sutskever http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.6564

Tesauro's TD-Gammon http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~sutton/book/ebook/node108.htm...

Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning , Mnih et al. https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~vmnih/docs/dqn.pdf

Otoro's CNE Bibliography http://blog.otoro.net/2015/01/27/neuroevolution-algorithms/

Neuro Evolution - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroevolution
I refuse to consider it a test, thank you, because I'd end up failing it. I was genuinely curious when I asked the grandparent poster where he was seeing people whine about C++, because I just haven't seen them. And I'm a moderator of /r/rust, so I like to think that I see every Rust-related blog post that springs forth from the bowels of the internet.

In the course of researching this comment I ranked the top-rated posts on the subreddit over the past month, and not only did I not find any that were bashing C++, but the fourth-highest-rated post is actually a criticism of Rust by a Boost developer: https://plus.google.com/+nialldouglas/posts/AXFJRSM8u2t

So I ask again: who is going around unjustly denouncing C++ in Rust's name? I ask because I want to stop them!
At it's core money is merely a concept used to determine deservingness though. It lets us answer the question "does this person deserve X," where X can be providing them services/goods (or not.)

At the moment money is a rather contorted and easily manipulable proxy for deservingness though which is the cause of a lot, if not the majority, of the world's troubles.

There's no technical reason though why we couldn't for example determine deservingness through interpersonal distribution of value; like PageRank but for people.
Your shoes-favor example is a fair critique of one interpretation of the parent comment:

> Money is a piece of token that represents favor or debt the world owns to you, or at least, anyone who takes money as payment

I think perhaps that line might be better stated as something like:

"Money is a piece of token that represents favor or debt the <backer-of-money> owes you."

E.g. <backer-of-money> might be a bank or government. E.g. fiat currency.

If someone accepts my money in payment, that is not because money is some "debt-upon-the-world" that I can transfer to an arbitrary person, and force them to repay, rather, they perceive that a token of the <backer-of-money>'s debt has value, and they are willing to exchange some good or service so that the <backer-of-money> is now in their debt.

Perhaps a more general way of looking at it is that money is a token that one believes has value because one believes that others believe the token has value, and are willing to accept it in exchange for other things of value (which may or may not be other forms of money, or goods/services with "actual" value).

Yet another way of looking at it is that money is part of a system that influences a group of individuals in society to behave in a certain way. From this perspective you could ask things like:

1. are the collective actions of society a desirable outcome?
2. is this an efficient way to achieve the current outcome?
3. what other kinds of systems might produce different outcomes?
4. pragmatically, what other kinds of systems are reachable given that we're operating within the context of the current system?
Trouble is, that for all your dire warnings about the horrible things the ECB might do, the one store of value that actually has dropped in value by a third in recent years is gold (it lost nearly a third between mid 2012 and mid 2013, and its a little lower than that now)

Sure, in the long run, gold holds its value, though it doesn't perform nearly as well as stock markets, or real estate. In the long run, a predictable 2% annual inflation erodes the value of savings, which is why people participating in the dollar economy tend to put their money in bank accounts paying interest rather than burying their cash in vaults,

But it's economically illiterate to pretend that gold price crashes haven't been a far more serious wealth destroyer over the last couple of years than the relatively stable and predictable inflation in developed countries, despite all the predictions that QE was going to make the sky fall in.
Ask HN: First impressions based on Twitter handles?
Do twitter handles affect first impressions? If yes (and I suspect the answer might be yes) how much?

If a project (pre-launch) needs some twitter traction, would HN suggest actually spending time trying to acquire @project or just use @getProject or @projectApp and get on with it?
> What about when a mother kisses her baby's head? What about when a friend offers a hug to someone who has just lost a loved one? What about when a kid gives a friendly smile to the kid who always gets bullied?

Well, there are the obvious ones: evolutionarily beneficial responses. Still transactions, unconsciously working for the benefit of the species.

The others are more selfish. Obviously not angry or malicious, but they convey certain clear benefits for little to no effort. Definitely transactional.

Just because they are transactions, however, doesn't mean you have to weigh them in terms of some sort of emotional "profit", or they're in any way unwanted. It's just a way of talking about them, even modelling them for study.
(Servo contributor here)

No concrete plans. We hope to get a new mobile browser out. For Desktop we're hopeful about browser.html. As a research project we aren't really worrying about any of this yet.

browser.html is intended to be a "normal" browser, though in it's current state it isn't quite there yet :P (It's not pure web HTML, there is a small set of "mozbrowser" APIs which it uses to get sandboxing and the other necessary things)

Firefox's UI is anyway written in XUL (an html-esque xml thingy), so browser.html isn't too far from what Firefox does.
Awesome Hunger Games short film is better and bloodier than movie
It is a limitation of Explorer and CMD.EXE - Windows has had Unicode APIs to access paths up to 32767 characters, but for some reason they have Explorer and CMD.EXE use the older ANSI API which does not support it.
Well, that's the price of gold in USD. Saying that gold has "lost" or "gained" value only works if you hold USD as the frame of reference.

Alternatively, you could invert the graph to say that USD is a highly speculative asset - relative to gold :)
This isn't security through obscurity, unless the DRM implementation being a secret actually does provide security. I doubt it does, beyond the fact that an audit of the source could probably find a load of security issues.

Of course an audit of OpenSSL would do the same.
Perhaps if you explicitly state the FROM and TO components of the direction of favour, it makes sense:

E.g. money is token of favour FROM <government> TO <current-bearer-of-token>.

Your general point about looking at things in more than one way is sound.
> It forces the assertion that "if not for patriarchy, these prejudices wouldn't exist."

Implications cannot be automatically reversed, as anyone visiting this site should know ;) I.e. "Patriarchy => prejudice X" does not automatically imply "!Patriarchy => !prejudice X".

As for your explanation on patriarchy, it is simplistic. Probably all ideological systems that humans have ever followed have been rich with mythology, symbolism, and various ideals. Patriarchy, like any other human system of thought, is not merely such a cold, pseudo-rational conclusion. There are always ideals that come with a system, most importantly, in this case, the concept of the ideal man and woman.

Basically, ask yourself, why was it thought that men would better "manage the organization"? What characteristics were idealized in men to make them fit this role? What is the ideal "man of the family"?
It looks like Intel is developing Bitcoin mining chips
Ukrainian President Beg Zuck to Open Facebook Office in Ukraine
Not when he contributed. the proposition did pass after all.
Sorry yes, Mozilla Developer Network.
Indians can't hold dual citizenship. Does this count as an actual citizenship?
You forget that another significant event happened at the time; he was nominated for CEO. That puts a person under a lot of scrutiny in the first place. I would say that it was indeed a coincidence.
> You agree to pay taxes by continuing to live here.

If we were free to move to a country where we agreed with the laws you might be right. That's not reality though.

We are not (currently) free to choose how we pay taxes in any country and our freedom to move from one country to another is restricted.

So, sorry, I never agreed to pay these taxes, I have little say in how they're used, and I have no alternatives except to go to prison. That's not freedom. That's simply coercion and theft.
Apparently, It's not just the Chinese. I'm from Malaysia and a lot of folks here, especially young adults and teenagers use it this way.
Like the quote from article said, they fear that the home button may break when it's used.
Interestingly the application page/subdomain is not HTTPS, but the main site is.
Have been in a similar situation, including filing an SS-8 (IRS took about 3 years to respond to it).

Everyone's always paranoid about getting blackballed when an otherwise successful stint at a startup ends suddenly and badly; I don't get why. Not like you got caught stealing from the company (that doesn't stop people from applying for jobs; it's amazing what resources a true blackballing requires in this day and age).

New employers (in this industry in particular) don't care near as much about how your last job ended as what you accomplished there and what you could accomplish with a new employer.

A victim of wage theft is not any less hireable than someone who's never been a victim. That is, unless, they're so hung up on it that it dominates any conversation a prospective employer has with them.

What should you say? Simply represent yourself as an asset to the hiring company, like any other candidate, because that's what you are. Interviewers are far too absorbed in more relevant matter (like can you code and can you work with others) than the dynamics of your last week at your last job.

If it somehow comes up, give a one-sentence answer and move on. Don't make this unpleasantness the central point of discussion in your future job negotiations and you might be surprised that it never comes up (nor needs to).
I don't think anyone reasonable has suggested she did deserve them.

The parent link however gives many more examples of her manufacturing and building outrage to try and self-promote, and attempting to whip up the mob to get her way.
The WaPo article (the submission) mentions this bill, but finishes:

"But New Mexico's law only affects state law enforcement officials. As a result, in New Mexico — and everywhere else, for that matter — DEA agents will be able to board your train, ask you where you're going and take all your cash if they don't like your story, all without ever charging you with a crime."
Here's the discussion on the gamedev subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/35poc6/a_pixel_arti...
The old UNCOL dream, still alive after all this time.

You'd think people would learn.
CSS Architecture: BEMCSS – Block, Element and Modifier
wow, it's not even an HTTPS and they expect me to fill my most sensitive data here?
The key innovation would be an investor (venture capitalist?) willing to give out grants themselves, in return for a share of the resulting X-prizes. Then funding the prizes would, through Market Magic™, produce grants.
From https://e-estonia.com/e-residents/about/

e-Residency does not confer citizenship, tax residency, residence
or right of entry to Estonia or to the European Union.
The e-Resident smart ID card is not a physical identification
or a travel document, and does not display a photo.
Sure. Fixed.

For future reference: I fixed it by adding two spaces before the very long line. That makes it be formatted as code and not wrap.
You are free to move to another country. The fact that no other country meets your very specific requirements doesn't mean that you are not obligated to pay for living in this one.

If no automobile maker will sell you the exact car you want, that does not grant you the right to take a car without paying for it.

So, yes, you do agree to pay these taxes by continuing to live here.
If what happened to Eich happened to a peon it would be indefensible.

The only reason why it was acceptable in the case of Eich is that he was in a position to represent the views of the company.

If he was a mid level engineer working on Spidermonkey and got fired over a political contribution it would have been completely ridiculous.
Is it true that governments started to make money to be money? I thought banks started doing that first.

In my eyes it doesn't make sense for governments to start doing that. Classical governments didn't achieve things because they had money, but because they had power and people believed in that power. A painter would come and change the kings walls colour not because he gets paid well, but because he loses his head if he doesn't.

Banks (or banking families might be better) on the other hand trade debt. As anybody who gets value from trade they want to decrease the burden of trading debt, so instead of some infeasible hard, heavy stuff like gold barrels they invent coins, and because that's also quite heavy and hard to track they invent paper money. Paper is fairly easy to transport, exchange, so banks are happy. Then the governments come and try to control money, because their job/desire is to control what people are doing.
May 2015 Patch Tuesday Analysis
They are often at odds, when the pressure to discuss your feelings is external.

Many times in my life people around me have pressured me to express how I feel about some recent event. I often resist this for a number of reasons. I might consider my feelings towards the matter to be deeply personal and private. I may realize that my feelings toward the matter will, if vocalized, cause distress to others. I may not have strong feelings at all, and expressing that may cause distress to others. Sometimes I just have nothing at all to say, and my insistence that I have no thoughts on the matter is taken as me being resistant to share what I think.

Summer camps when I was a teenager, the deaths of distant relatives, and the suicides of classmates that I did not know well are common places to the later examples.
I'm not sure if I get that <government> part. Is that only for the example? If I convince you that I have a cool t-shirt for you, then I give you the t-shirt and you give me the money, not the government, and if I get the money depends mostly on your decision if the t-shirt has value to you or not. There might be cases where I could convince the government that you should give me money, but in the case of the t-shirt that's unlikely.

Using that example can you understand the confusion and explain more in detail? Thanks.
Thanks for the references

So you think basically recording human actions (possibly in some feature extracted way) in part of the 'replay memory' for DQN would work well?

I have also been reading about deepmind's recent survey of combining deep learning methods with actor critic models

What I also want to explore is the possibility to use evolution to evolve q-functions, which shouldn't be so hard to do, rather than evolve policies directly (like in this game).

The possibility to evolve self learning machines excite me, rather than just evolving machines in a fixed state.

I can also explore whether Darwinian evolution (weights are randomized at birth) is better or worst than Lamarckism evolution where weights are passed to offsprings for.

I put some further thoughts and references in my post here

http://blog.otoro.net/2015/04/08/evolutionary-function-appro...

The surviving agents will be born with a better capacity to learn rather than the capacity to do a predefined job. Stay tuned!
Foreign accent syndrome – wake up with a new voice
> You are free to move to another country.

Please explain how I can do that. I would actually like to move to Switzerland, could you explain how I can freely do that as everything I've researched indicates it's neither free nor possible in any reasonable amount of time. If not Switzerland I'll settle for some other country where I can live freely and be safe from coercion.

> If no automobile maker will sell you the exact car you want...

Nobody is forcing me to buy the car with the threat of prison if I don't, and I do not need a car to survive. I do need to live someplace however.
> It's possible, but I wouldn't say it's probable given that the agents seemed to know to search certain emails in order to gather material for a warrant after the fact.

They didn't search "certain emails", they searched all of the emails on the laptop. It's not improbable that there would be interesting evidence in someone's email after a trip when you expect they will have been up to no good, and it's not improbable that a broad keyword search over those .pst's would find something.

> If they had detective work in hand at the time of seizure which demonstrated the content of these emails, they'd have been able to get a warrant for the search on that basis.

Yes, but they evidently didn't think they needed one: the dominant culture the agents were working in seems to say that this constituted a reasonable search, and that applying for a warrant after the fact was proper - that is the real problem here, and the one the judge is picking up on. The opinion describes this: they had enough warning of the guy's trip that they could decide whether to seize the laptop on the way into the country or on the way out, but decided on the latter to give the guy a chance to generate incriminating evidence, because they didn't think they'd catch him in the act otherwise.

Seriously, this looks more like an everyday process that's evolved in a bad direction than parallel construction. They weren't expecting to have to defend this search procedure.
Being suspicious of someone carrying 16k in cash across the country to start a music video business seems logical to me... There need to be better examples (of which there are) of governmental abuse before people will care.

I suppose we have the right to be suspicious if we want, but do not be surprised when someone mistakes you for a criminal.
(shameless self promotion) we've just released something similar, but for Ruby on Rails - https://prograils.com/courses/saas/ch/01-the-welcome-word - our plan is to make step-by-step tutorial on creating quite complex todo-like saas app.
The hole in your argument is that it's much easier to keep finding employment as a lawyer because law as a skill doesn't change dramatically and the more senior you get, the better. Developers skills diminish over time e.g. you're a .net programmer and now you have to learn Python to get a job.
This is pretty rude. You do know I can read your comment too? :D
I often get asked "How many Board members is the right number?"

My standard response is that "an odd number is required, and 3 is too many."

That's the kickoff point for explaining that the right question isn't "How many?", it's "Who?" Who is right for your Board?

I agree with sama that an even number isn't usually an issue if it's the right people.
The Free Money Experiment
>>> Create free Android apps to spread reading, writing, and arithmetic skills, and prove their effectiveness over an 18-month period in African pilot communities.

5 prizes of $1M and a grand prize of $10M. That seems quite viable for the HN crowd. However, this is rather subjective compared to other problems. Many other problems are more like true/false.

Still, that's quite interesting and an app, designed for learning, with heavy optimizations on UX seems like a very commercially viable product. Given you have to do the skills of enterprise sales :)