skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are forgetting that the ability to fire people for performance are very limited in many situations. That places some constraints on it. For example, in many countries it's very hard to fire someone for performance reasons. The same also applies everywhere, for first hires in young companies. You just can't make a mistake.

Discovering that someone is a poor programmer after you actually learn first hand that they are, may be a solution to the problem of aquiring a good team long term in a medium or large company, but it's not a solution to the problem of minimizing the risk of hiring ONE bad programmer.
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We really need definitions of "logical" and "morality". Sometimes what's best for the group is not the best choice for any individual member.

Often economists call it "rational self interest" or just "rational". And most people use the words "rational" and "logical" interchangeably.
Kahneman explicitly studies this and concludes that it makes no difference. The biases apply just as much to people who are aware of them.
Your comment regarding the training of the NN to perceive and action the joint actuators reminded me of an old software project that's remotely related:

http://www.framsticks.com/

It's an ambitious project that wanted to "Evolve" agents made of sticks + joints that ran in a 3d world with physics. The joints had signal inputs + activation functions that are similar to AN activation functions.
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This is great. I'll have to brush up on my C too to port. Two birds, one stone :) thank you!
That’s nonsense. I highly recommend you do the experiment yourself.

Get some whole freshly roasted coffee beans, put one half in the freezer, and grind the other half and let them sit in an open container for two weeks. At the end of the two weeks, grind the beans that were sitting in the freezer. Now brew both sets of beans and do a blind tasting.

You’ll be able to tell the difference, your coffee-drinker friends will be able to tell the difference, fans of instant coffee will be able to tell the difference, and if you have access to a chemistry lab, their mass spectrometers will definitely be able to tell the difference.

It’s completely different from gold-plated audio cables, where you can take very precise measurements and prove categorically that they have no effect.
Thanks for confirming what my untrained SNR filters had flagged (seemingly somewhat correctly) as an incredible advance. The video was reminiscent of watching a child learn.

This technique seems to be the best bet of all the machine learning techniques to be solvable by Moore's law. If it currently takes about three hours to learn to do these simple tasks with no previous spatial data for the objects, then as the article states "In the next five to 10 years, we may see significant advances in robot learning capabilities through this line of work."
I agree the queueing is unnecessary, border on insane. However, the fact that many of the people queued up (whether literally or figuratively) to buy the 6 were using their perfectly good 5S to pass the time is some amount of evidence that people do see some value in buying expensive phones every year or two and Apple isn't doomed.
There are different things that "move" can mean. rename(2) can "move" in a safe way, but not across devices.

> Atomic file system changes are simply a nice side effect.

Disagree.

Also, my article was to show how mv's task is so complex that it can fail and eat your data even if atomicity is not a requirement.
Wow, I'm genuinely surprised that the site was real. I thought it was a scam based on the "these hot horny girls in your area" ads.
Right, but the point is even GPU-optimized animations in the browser seem to tax the CPU. It's something I've experienced as well.
Yeah, I found this pretty cool as well. Plus from inside the iframe you can keep navigating to the Learn tutorial page over and over again inside laptops and create a cool snake like laptop, lol.
Anyone know which rendering engine this uses?
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“Among the 26,939 users with a UK email address,” technology producer Geoff White explains that there were, “just 1,596 who identified as female: a ratio of one woman to every 16 men.”

Seems about the same as bars, clubs, and most of our working environments.
> until I got the first complaints about users not being able to use their computers anymore

They got snow in their browser, and they still complained. People are so ungrateful.

Seriously though, this animation sounds fun and neat.
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Is this happening for anyone else?

I just noticed that Google Brazil tracks my location, even though I turned off tracking for Location History in the US.

https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0?hl=pt-BR

Come on Google - stop beeing so creepy.
Yes. In the video, I was struck by how clumsy the robot was. Not clumsy in the typical fashion of robots, but of young children.

Interesting research.
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So it turns out those ads were true, but they were also married?
An espresso usually costs around 2-3 euros in the northern parts.
It was slower than NFS for me.

I blame it on poor implementation, must be some bug somewhere, but I dont have the skills to find out.
Okay, haven't got that so far. Maybe I'm missing some skillset to understand.
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I'd say it's both real and a scam.
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=blob;f=src/c...
Searching within fields is one example.

WHERE street_address LIKE "%MAIN%ST%"

WHERE xml_blob LIKE "%<deprecrated_feature_node_name%"

to find documents that need to be updated when you remove that feature, etc.

"Just use Mongo" or "just use the latest pgsql and convert to JSON" or "just do XYZ" is often a less practical answer than "just query/analyze the database you already have".
Here is another Massachusetts resident whose life Carmen Ortiz has destroyed that I just read about this week. She finally brought federal drug distribution charges against a family doctor after he lived under a cloud of suspicion during a 7 year "investigation." He was acquitted of all charges:
http://needham.wickedlocal.com/article/20150515/NEWS/1505171...
I am sure that iPhone users are not your target audience, but the site is almost unusable because of the large header and menu bar at the top of the screen.
Sure. A nice error message would clear it right up

https://github.com/Famous/famous-cli/issues/8
What layouts does Flexbox solve that Cassowary[0] or GSS[1] layout doesn't?

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassowary_(software)

[1]http://gridstylesheets.org/
I agree that it's good to understand why a tool is destructive. But in a complex system it's hard to do some things without being destructive. Knowing that "mv" can be destructive, isn't it a logical conclusion to learn how to handle such situations in your bash code? For me that's nearly as important as understanding why mv can be destructive.
For a start, flexbox doesn't require JS.
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This is the kind of remark that always gets me downvotes. I couldn't agree more with your opinion about git. I guess the attraction of git comes mainly from the fact that most of its users are too inexperienced to know any better. And then, git makes any old random directory a “repository”. That's waaaay cooler than to have to get a repo from a central server and having to integrate your commits with it...

[Edit: Clarification]
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It is. And as a part of the general public I appreciate it. Thank you.
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Chapter and verse of this marvelous tale? [Github link] to something that I can pull, throw at it 5k RPS, make it proxy a result from Google?
Fact with more fun in it: Jobs pretended to work, actually he subcontracted all of it to Wozniak for a fraction of the profits.
The core problem with the "just a neural net" idea is how to tell a robot what it is supposed to do; the whole AI currently relays on some sort of external harness either training the model or pushing the control algorithm into a desired operation. You may implement something very thin like artificial pain or hunger, but the odds that it will push the system out of a metastable stupor are likely negligible.
I investigated further into that. The confusion arrised from unclear wording in my memory, I guess. You are right electricity to heat is 100%. The inefficiency of electric heat radiators is in the electricity production being inefficient compared to burning the same resources for heat directly.
The adult world is rife with such leaks, and hardly any of it ever gets published. If you've given your credentials to some adult site in the past you probably could bet even money about whether or not that data fell into the wrong hands.

In part this is because of the nature of the businesses, they're borderline and tend to have operators that try to find out just where that border lies in terms of cost savings, outsourcing and the quality of the employees they hire (so slipshod work is the norm rather than the exception, and quite a few operators built scam sites, the employees of which are likely not amongst the most ethical characters to begin with), in part it is because their systems tend to hold juicy data and make very fat targets for hackers, either external or from the ranks of the employees.

If you do use such a service I'd strongly advise you to use only pseudonymous and throw away data and to make sure that if you pay by credit card that you are talking to some highly reputed processor and not to any of the servers operated by the company directly. That's a huge risk (it is a huge risk in any e-commerce environment but with adult the risk is definitely elevated).

Adult companies have done their bit when it comes to innovation, but when it comes to security most of them are well behind the times.
This is very interesting if it actually works :) I will have to try it before saying anything else.
More information:

http://www.cio.com/article/2925874/leaked-database-of-adult-...

Adult Friend Finder, one of the largest online dating sites, may have been breached more than two months ago, and the sensitive files—include names, ages, email addresses, zip codes and more—are apparently still online....

Bev Robb, who does malware and dark Web research, came across the Adult Friend Finder files in March. She said she held off on publicizing the information for a few weeks before contacting two security experts.

Possibly an extortion / non-payment issue:

https://teksecurityblog.com/blog/2015/04/13/hacked-how-safe-...

During a fit of rage, a pissed off hacker (going by the handle ROR[RG]) posted 15 downloadable spreadsheets (in zipped file format with credit card data stripped) to a week-old Darknet forum stating that he had rooted the adult site database. Why? Because they owed his guy approximately $248,000 USD. He bragged that the company and law enforcement could not touch him because he was based in Thailand. His ransom demand was set at $100,000 (50G to begin and 50G to end).
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it's interesting that in these eco-friendly and health-consious times, nobody here cares much about pouring boiling water over Aluminimum to get a decent coffee...

last time I checked it's not the healthiest compound to work with. anything new in that topic?
The site is real and it is a "scam". You just had to look at the chargeback rates they were getting and how often they were changing acquirers because they were getting kicked because of their chargeback rates.
If you think about this for 10 seconds and realize that (in spite of being told not to) plenty of people re-use their access credentials across multiple sites then you'll realize that it is not very funny because it will affect a very large number of websites as fall-out and that your comment is not just rude but simply stupid. Large scale hacks like these affect all of us, whether you like it or not and the reduced trust by consumers affects all of us as well.
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Even when they're controlled/computed/whatever purely through css as above? Maybe I've just been lucky in my limited experience with looping them infinitely like this.
That's kinda only true at the moment.

With https://wiki.css-houdini.org/ there is a chance you could implement custom layout in CSS.
None, until SIMD appears in JavaScript.
I meant more as in Layouts. Anyway, cleared that miscommunication.
I do the same!

I have "dock" and "undock" apps for switching between mobile, and, ekhem, docked state for my macbook (switching wifi, turning bluetooth on/off, unomounting USB drive, etc).

I also have "move tabs to chrome", because I use safari for everyday and chrome for dev, and sometimes I start something in safari and it turns out it should be in chrome.

Also "Chrome Incognito" for quick incognito sessions (cmd-space, "incognito", enter). Very useful!
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After watching another video posted by deepnet (https://youtu.be/EtMyH_--vnU) there seems to be merit to this method.
As another user says, no js.

Pure CSS runs in the browser without a get request (other than the CSS file you are already using, obv.) so it eliminates the need for a grid system like Bootstrap, 960gs etc. The 'grid' is there in the CSS and html where it is meant to be, without the need for @media queries with 10 decimal points and 15 font sizes. It also provides more layout options than currently exist without the need for hacky solutions.

How useful the linked site is right now is questionable though. If you want a IE8+ cross browser & mobile site to rely on flex-box ... it can be done and quite easily, but not with the skeleton examples on that page (but they do point that out themselves).
Of course, but if we fall back to perceptions and tastes, noone gets to sniff at people for using week-old pre-ground coffee if they like it well enough.
I'm dev from Yekaterinburg and I'd disagree.
Devs here like to watch ICPC. But it is student championship. Most of my colleagues just are not students.
Mature programmers prefer ICFPC (:
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BS, not a lot of people give any F's in Poland, yet 3 regional universities almost always place at the top. Lets face it, its the level of education (socialized = free in regions you listed) versus western broken for profit model.
>> Babies are pre-wired to learn language, recognize shapes, determine "intent", etc.

I tend to disagree. In my perception (as father of two if it counts) is that babies are very poorly wired if at all.

They struggle with basic survival skills like breastfeeding. Some babies get it in the first couple of days, other take weeks of "training" with the help of adults. Awareness of needing sleep seems to be entirely absent (crying is not the best strategy for animals to sleep, huge bug).

Things like language, shapes and intent, are all developed later, and can go entirely undeveloped without stimulation and feedback, so I'd say they are already a product of learning and not pre-wiring.

The only thing I can think of that is most certainly pre-wired is crying. They nail that from day one.

Also don't forget that they are already sensory capable of a lot several weeks before being born, and voice recognition for one thing is something they learn around that time.
just guessing, but multinational corporations might be viewed by some as not very helpful to humanity in long run, since they are capitalistic structures created to earn money to owners in first place. Morals usually comes a bit further down in priorities ladder (not saying anything particular about Nestle, albeit I vaguely recall some interview with their CEO where he stated all water on earth should not be free, but paid by common people, to... corporations)
Just for the edification of the masses:

pthread_create(3) looks something like this:

clone(child_stack=0x7f79d754bff0,
flags=CLONE_VM|CLONE_FS|CLONE_FILES|CLONE_SIGHAND|CLONE_THREAD|CLONE_SYSVSEM|CLONE_SETTLS|CLONE_PARENT_SETTID|CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID,
parent_tidptr=0x7f79d754c9d0,
tls=0x7f79d754c700, child_tidptr=0x7f79d754c9d0) = 31230

(Newlines are mine.)

Of course, those pointers are only that size on a 64-bit architecture. The flags are where the real point of interest is.

fork(2) is like this:

clone(child_stack=0,
flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD,
child_tidptr=0x7f543a9aaa10) = 17978

When implementing fork(2), the return value from clone(2) is the child's PID from the context of the parent process. When implementing pthread_create(3), the return value for the parent is still an integer value which is unique to the thread, and which strace uses as if it were a PID when it's tracing down the system calls of individual threads in separate files, which strace can do because it's awesome.

Some more information:

> Linux has a unique implementation of threads. To the Linux kernel, there is no concept of a thread. Linux implements all threads as standard processes. The Linux kernel does not provide any special scheduling semantics or data structures to represent threads. Instead, a thread is merely a process that shares certain resources with other processes. Each thread has a unique task_struct and appears to the kernel as a normal process (which just happens to share resources, such as an address space, with other processes).

http://www.makelinux.net/books/lkd2/ch03lev1sec3
As far as I know it is rebranded Chrom(e/ium), so I assume that it uses Blink.
>> Adult companies have done their bit when it comes to innovation...

That tidbit gets bandied around a lot. I've especially seen it lately. I'd be interested in seeing real data on this. I recall years ago seeing blog posts from media industry experts saying the idea is an urban myth.
Here is the announcement from the research team (in French, 2015-01-20), with one more photo and a 3D video of the scroll. (fr) http://www2.cnrs.fr/presse/communique/3871.htm

The French mainstream media had many articles on this, notably Le Monde, with added pictures, see (fr) http://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2015/01/20/des-papyru...
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Hi,

Currently working a 9-5. Been doing re-search and planning for a particular project/start (whatever you want to call it these days). I'm not a technical guy, but I would sell fish to a fisherman. I am looking for developers of all levels. Please do let me know if you are interested.

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It actually didn't start out as a site for people looking for sex. It was started by a guy (Andrew Conru) who was looking for people to go fishing with, he lamented how hard it is for adults to find friends. Soon after he started the site, people started posting sex pictures, and it pretty quickly became the focus of the site.
Well, those media industry experts should be disqualified then. I've witnessed up close how transaction processing, video, real time interaction between people and a bunch of lesser innovations were powered and paid for by the adult industry.

But the heydays are definitely over and now innovation comes from many other corners and adult companies are no longer in any way near the frontiers.
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Side anecdote: I get the feeling I'm judged as less capable mentally in person. I wonder whether it's because of my appearance, my voice or perhaps because I am less capable mentally. Confusing world to live in when I get such conflicting information.

I don't care either way. It doesn't get in the way of my curiosity, which takes me on plenty of rides regardless of my ability.
What about sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre?
I think one lesson from the deep learning breakthrough in computer vision a few years ago was that deep nets can actually outperform humans in the engineering of features, and what you are suggesting is basically feature engineering in the output space.
Any ideas on how the interaction shown here is directed, in other words what defines the 'goals' and what motivates the robot to perform the task?
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To expand on this, Famous's Node class [0] is rather like a DOM node, except far more powerful. You could imagine a React component that renders a tree of virtual Nodes, diffs that with an existing tree, and transitions properties accordingly. But that will be built on Famous, just like react-canvas [1] needed the canvas API to exist. Baby steps.

[0] http://famous.org/docs/core/Node.html

[1] https://github.com/Flipboard/react-canvas
Any similar site/book/course available in english?
Supporting once again the rule I live by: assume that everything you do online is indelible and public (or will be).
Another one to check out if you (like me) don't get how to use it just from reading about it: http://bennettfeely.com/flexplorer/
Single-bit output (ok, maybe 4 if you count volume) and multiple confusing stimuli as input and barely functional actuators, you should be amazed at how well babies manage to condition their parents into acting like parents right from the get-go!

Breastfeeding is a tough process, how long does it take a fighter pilot to learn how to properly dock to a supply plane for mid-air refuelling?

That's a complicated procedure with lots of bits an pieces that need to work just-so for milk delivery to take place and quite often it is not just the infant that needs to learn.
I'm quite surprised it is a minority opinion among hackers.
As with the nude celebrity photos scandal from last year, the real wake-up call should be multifold:

There are a lot of people who use these sites. The spreadsheets possibly only represent a fraction of the data appropriated.

This event is making news, many don't. Including other dating services, or non-dating services with online data.

Really: you simply don't know where, when, or how your data might get caught up in a system such as this.

Don't be so smug.
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I think there are debug wrapper for GL; too much overhead to run in production, but should tell you if you're Doing It Wrong (tm). Have you tried something like Regal?
>video was reminiscent of watching a child learn

Yes! this story and yesterdays RNN one with this comment
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9584988 "It's like a child learning to talk"

make me believe we are very close to some kind of breakthrough using "boring" non-magical methods.
Which was the whole point of my question.

Dart has become just another language that transpiles to JavaScript, abandoned even by Googlers.
Do you write anywhere about this stuff? If not, I would love to read it if you did :-) In my minor experience with selling to enterprises, the three points you raise hit home.
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Just started a test project using flexbox and I'm finding myself using it constantly.

In the "individual grid sample" why have you chose to make a 2/3rds and 1/3rd column with divs respectively

flex:1; width:33.3333333%

instead of leveraging the ratio

flex:2; flex:1
You don't necessarily need a million DOM elements. Data points could mean points of a single plot, in which case you have a single path element with lots of points. Generally you can almost always bunch things together in a single path to reduce the number of DOM elements (with other tradeoffs, of course).
I also find Script menu (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9586970) very useful. Perfect for utilities, starting SSH sessions, mounting drives, etc.
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