skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the problem when you're being hunted; you can't slip up even once. The people chasing you can make all the mistakes they want; you have to make zero.
Then build a traditional pickup and delivery laundry service with enough scale to offer competitive prices to in-home laundry services.

Now you can have revenue to fund your R&D departments "automation" goals, increasing your margins...
Reread the very last sentence of my post:

> Since I foresee the definition of dishonesty being the next issue here, that has been defined in case law, but generally where the person intended to take property they did not have a legal right to take.

Intent is a legal term of art and not purely subjective mental state pursuant to the natural definition - so in this context it is fair to say mental state is non-intuitive.

Another example...if you throw your car keys at me and tell me I can take your car for the night, but unbeknownst to me it wasn't your car at all, then I would not have the mental state required to be convicted of theft because while I committed the act (unlawful taking) I did not have the mental state required (dishonesty in the taking or intent to permanently deprive). That would be true lack of intent, whereas, in your example there would be intent to take a digital good, but a moral objection/indifference to the law.

I recall in law school a student once told our Con Law professor, "I don't believe in Judges being appointed to the bench" and supported his position with 5-10 minutes of very strong arguments against the concept, at the end of the diatribe our Con Law professor simple said, "whether you believe in appointed Judges or not, I assure you they exist". The same would be true of laws, whether you believe in/support them or not, that does not negate their existence or ones intent of committing the act, to be distinguished from where one truly did not intend for the act to occur.
I live in New York and have been to a lot of bars and grocery stores that accept American Express.
> 'what is good for business is good for america' mantra.

Except what is good for one business can be quite bad for another. And DRM in general is bad overall for business and economy (same as lock-in, growing monopoly and etc.). So this mantra doesn't sound meaningful.
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What is amazing is the fact people don't realize is that what VW did indirectly caused disability and even death, but hey if it does not affect me I'll just buy a VW anyway.

I'm really sick of these TBTF corporations doing whatever they want. They do something illegal that causes a lot of harm and if they are caught they just cruise the waters of ignorance to safety and then rinse and repeat.

We are just sheep...
Glad you liked it. Unfortunately, core files can be massive and require you to have a lot of the assets from the environment the fault occurred in to debug. Last but not least, it would be good if they gave us more of a head-start on root cause. These are all things we're directly tackling at Backtrace.
http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop Not meant as a snarky reply, if you're new to Linux start with something a little more user friendly.
Not a film, but I'd say we're pretty much there in video games with roles like the one Ellen Page had in Beyond: Two Souls. Note that she even explored legal action against the game company because of an unauthorized scene.

I would be more interested to see where we get with synthesis actors. I could see them creating a single recurring screen actor from 3 or more human beings. One or more for appearance. One for particularly good facial expressions. Another for voice. Maybe another for movement.
"Total investment income distributed for operations represented 26% of University revenue in FY14."
Slightly off-topic but we're in the middle of building an iOS / Android SDK / library to drive improved location services.

Does anybody have any solid resources on SDK marketing directly to iOS and Android developers?

We've found some innovative ways to address the community (doesn't hurt to have an office packed with engineers to ask where they find solutions) but looking for ideas ranging from the best developer events, to publications, to PR agencies focused on devs, to marketing co's etc.

I have been surprised how hard it is to turn up prior-art on this subject.
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£20k/year is exactly what I'm on. My problem at the moment is that I've been working just a bit more than 2 years now, and I absolutely love what I'm doing. I'm part of the engine team on a game that will be one of the biggest releases of 2016, and learning a tonne every day. I got very flexible hours, private health insurance and 30 days of paid vacation days a year. It's just the pay that's abysmal. I've got two computer science degrees and everyone I know in IT makes almost twice as much as I do. But at the same time, everyone I know works for a bank or a financial institution of some kind and they hate their jobs, their bosses, and everything that I on the other hand really like. So yeah, I could quit tomorrow and probably make 2x as much straight away. Do I want to? I'm not sure, and that's my problem at the moment.
The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing (1956)
I really dislike the lack of expertise typical recruiters have with the technical jargon and requirements of our industry. I've had many poor recruitment experiences where the recruiter couldn't accurately explain the role, requirements, or why they thought I was a good enough fit to contact me in the first place. My github simply hits the right keywords and that's good enough for them.

This has been made worse by not being able to explain the interview process. I specifically asked, many times to various recruiters, what I would be quizzed on or what I should prepare myself for. Few could tell me anything beyond, "some technical questions about algorithms and data structures." Inadequate. The interviewer proper would ask random questions about memory architecture, optimizing the brute-force KNN algorithm, or simply how to reverse a string. Meanwhile I was studying binomial coefficients, heaps, tries, and the standard sorting algorithms. I have github projects that implement lattices for a logically monotonic distributed programming language. For someone such as myself this is unacceptable and leads to some dead-end interviews that are a complete waste of time.

I blame the way we "funnel" the "dregs" of candidates and have little to offer in terms of solutions. I agree with the author that companies seem reluctant to do actual head-hunting. I always assumed that if you contacted me for a job there would be a reason: you like some of the projects I host on my github or have seen my contributions to various open source projects -- that you already have an idea of my skillset and abilities and want to get to know me. Recruiters are more inclined to match keywords and send me through the process... they're not incentivized to get to know me at all. All I can suggest is to not use a recruiter or at least choose one carefully: choose one that knows your industry well and can tell a min-heap from a max-heap.

edit: fixed wording implying a specific github project was some sort of library or system when it implements a single programming language, not languages.
...probably not, but it's a cool concept to think about.
"One could also impersonate the facial expressions of someone in more fitting business attire while actually dressed in casual clothing."

David Foster Wallace [I misremembered it as before edit Philip K. Dick] predicated this would happen. First it would be used to make you look like you were paying attention then it would be used to make you more presentable. He then predicts that when everyone does this it will have the effect of everyone abandoning video telepresence altogether and just going back to using voice only. I can't find the quote.
Not that it's better, but Avro is a widely supported format in open source 'big data' tools.
Agreed, at first I thought they were trying to make a point, then it seems to lapse into some sort of cartoonish straw man just-for-entertainment depiction, but then it veers back to a serious conclusion along the lines "and this is why these companies shouldn't exist. The End". It's a bit confusing.
I think you've completely missed the humour in this post. It describes in a funny, sarcastic and sardonic article just about every experience I and my dev/IT pals have had with IT recruitment agencies.

It's not about in-house recruiters like you have at FB/Google, it's about the scumbags that hold potential employees to ransom and act as self appointed gatekeepers to jobs that might or might not exist. As an experiment why not hit up jobserve and try applying for some of these agency advertised jobs (under a fake persona), I don't think you've ever experienced the humiliation and frustration of dealing with these wankers.

It's Friday, go have a beer, relax and rediscover your sense of humour.
I can only compare Ansible to Puppet, but I've had great success with rewriting a ton of hacky bash stuff directly in Ansible and having it feel much more 'maintainable.'

Perhaps if you're already using puppet/chef/salt it's not completely worth it to just suddenly switch to it, but it does feel "simple" to use; in my opinion it's worth use over Puppet solely due to the fact that you can really crank up the errors and get good messages.
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In theory yes - but that strategy doesn't always work. Sometimes the implementation of the data store changes between releases - requiring an upgrade or data migration.

For large datasets that can take hours / days.
Until recently(ish) I was unfamiliar with the ___ qua ___ thing, so I thought it would be good to include a definition here, for the benefit of anyone who isn't aware of the term.

"In the capacity of" "as being"

Those might not make the meaning clear by themselves ... Uh.

Ok so in this situation, drivers qua drivers is like, the drivers in being drivers, seperate from what they might be other than drivers.

I think the idea is like, they might care for other reasons, but they don't care about it as part of their being drivers.

I hope that this explanation is not insufficient for anyone who is looking to it to understand the term.
If his skills were that good they should be able to afford to sponsor him with a new suit.
Since I've never had an account on Reddit, I wouldn't know, and since I rarely post memes on HN [and this isn't that meme], nobody has being seeing a lot of such comments from me.

I submitted the article because it was intellectually interesting. I also find internet memes intellectually interesting and I find the ways and reasons that people argue on the internet intellectually interesting...which isn't the same as finding, to a first approximation, actual internet arguments interesting anymore.

Anyway, the incongruity of the subject matter in relation to popular perception of US history is particularly intellectually interesting. The Lincoln County War, like similar violent episodes in the American West indicates that any group of ordinary Americans could be cast into the role of the people standing in the way of manifest destiny's fulfilment.

History is more absurd than LoL's. Look at the photograph.
>If VW acted in bad faith and degraded the guarenteed performance

Um... That is exactly what they did. They falsified their emission test results. The car you are driving is NOT the same as the one that passed the tests.

The fact that it was possible to deceive the tests does not change the fact that they were blatantly and illegally falsifying them. The performance of the vehicles when they pass the proper regulations is likely to be significantly lower than the advertised performance, because the LIED about the their emissions.
It started selling way before digital photography, that could explain a lot of it.
Yeah, we were only allowed to use the first 30 seconds of songs in school projects. Presumably that rumor started because of iTunes (which is crazy of course because iTunes obviously negotiates extra rights that you and I don't have). Meanwhile we just had to cite where entire photos came from! I think it was just the recency of the music piracy issues that made them care.
Anyone done any analysis on what top 100 apps are using Swift?

Similar to the cocoapods note, my guess is it's catching on much faster with the long tail than the most popular apps.
We just launched Does Not Compute earlier this week. It's being billed as "a weekly chat about the lives and workflows of modern web developers", and we're going to have a new episode out every Tuesday.

I'd love to chat with anyone who's interested or has any questions!
"...what VW did indirectly caused disability and even death..." could ya expand on that or link? news to me
At least here in the US, my perception has been just the opposite. VWs not only cost more, but are less reliable than comparable vehicles. They seem to have the street price of a Honda/Toyota, but the reliability of a Nissan/Chevy/Chrysler, and their maintenance costs have a reputation of being about the same as a German luxury car (high). Hence their comparatively small market share here (3-4%).

The one redeeming factor for VW seems to be powertrain options and selling a station wagon that isn't an SUV or a Subaru (Golf Sportwagen).
in my opinion - successful - nice work!
read the article dummy.
I question the significance of reports like this one. It usually appears to be a claim by a certain vendor that popularity translates directly into usage, but I think that is rarely the case.
>As a normative principle, there is something not quite right about the idea that the women's rights movement had to wait for technology to reduce the burden of the role they were unfairly relegated to in the first place.

There is a major difference between explaining what happened and saying that is what should have happened.

Slavery should not have ever happened, but any discussion of why slavery has become far less popular among people should not be shot down by someone yelling "But slavery shouldn't have happened to begin with!"
Terms such as "theft" and "steal" and similar words have meanings in English beyond the literal violation of a law. Some examples of stealing as correctly used in English:

• Someone says they do not like cats and have no interest in having one as a pet. A cute stray kitten shows up on their doorstep, they take pity and feed it. They fall in love with it and keep it. They might say that the kitten "stole" their heart.

• An actor playing a minor role in a play gives a performance that outshines the performance of the stars. Many would say that the actor "stole" the show.

• An employee of a rival company poses as a janitor to gain access to your lab and takes a photo of a whiteboard containing the formula for a chemical that is a trade secret in your manufacturing process. It would be common to say that the rival company "stole" your secret formula.

• When crackers gain access to a company's list of customer email addresses, passwords, or credit card numbers, it is commonly said that the data was "stolen".

• A team that has been behind since the start of the game but wins on a last second improbable play is often said to have "stolen" the game.
The EFF addressed this today. For SSH, they suggested this guide.

https://stribika.github.io/2015/01/04/secure-secure-shell.ht...

Indeed, the guide recommends generating new contents for the /etc/ssh/moduli file (IFF you keep `diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256` enabled).
Ask players what they think it's worth?

Otherwise, being first of it's kind may increase barriers to value perception. Aggressive pricing may get people in, and if that is successful, perhaps a new genre is started.

Net gain, and worth the pricing investment.

Pricing high may marginalize the value perception, limit growth, and someone else may still see the genre potential, come in with another title and aggressive pricing.

I'm inclined to go with aggressive pricing as an investment into a new genre and play the longer game on overall revenue.
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> considering that the whole scandal is basically meaningless to the consumer experience

As soon as an owner takes their vehicle in to get the water pump replaced, or more Urea added to the system, or a host of "dealership only" maintenance tasks that are cropping up in modern cars, their gas mileage will (presumably) take a very large hit. The dealers will have to install the EPA emissions fixes. A manual 2014 VW Passat TDI can hit 50 MPG in a highway driving situation. Fuel efficiency was traded for emissions. The emissions 'patch' will presumably reverse the trade off, and instead of getting higher fuel efficiency, you'll now have lower emissions output. Having a lower fuel economy directly impacts the consumer experience.
Would have probably been, say, actually correct though...
That general idea is similar to one of the themes running through Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose.
"I say to you againe, doe not call up Any that you can not put downe"
How Tesla's new autopilot update compares to other "highway cruise" offerings
That's not a fair comparison. Environmental externalities are not the same as children being exploited for labor, no matter how you frame it.

I do think that it is highly naive to say one doesn't care about the deals and tricks that big corporations pull off. Especially with the rampant consumer economy in the US, being an uninformed consumer is irresponsible. However, I have to agree with the GP, I was just saying yesterday that I also would still be willing to buy a VW. they are really (subjectively by some measures, objective by other) good cars, despite the recent scandal.
Do you have anything you want to say beyond this or are you comfortable leaving this as a completely desperate falling on your face attempt at insulting a complete stranger?
I toyed with that idea, but ended up just buying a 9v wall adapter with a barrel connector, and then wiring in a mate of that connector into the cmoy in place of the battery. Works like a charm, since I only use the cmoy at my desk (it has Fiio D03k optical dac feeding into it).
>So no more big bugdet commercial BS endlessly re-run and re-sold on DVDs and such. Art would be created by people really passionate for it.

It's possible to be passionate about your craft and spend money on it and want to make money at it. I would be willing to bet that most of the people who worked on Transformers 3 were actually quite passionate. Then again, so are Uwe Boll and Stephanie Meyer. Mainstream familiarity breeds contempt in hispters and elitists but it's not necessarily the case that there is an inverse relationship between the scale of distribution and artistic quality. You can find good, high budget commercial fare as well as plenty of garbage on the indie side of any creative industry.

Making an exemption for software development doesn't really make sense either. Surely, if artists need to starve for the sake of their work then programmers do as well?
By polluting... The various emissions from a diesel engine (the gases other than CO2) are all toxic, and cumulatively affect the health of those who breathe those emissions (ie. people in cities).
I do what I want to primarily because I can. And I'm not going to feel bad about that. Just because a law or contract exists does not make it good or right or moral to me. Look at the world we live in - Might makes Right is the ultimate law in this world. Corporations, governments (all just people really) do what they want and if nobody stops them, then I guess it's fine. That's why it's fine for me to do what I want.

Secondly, I don't care about your moral code or your justifications, I care about mine - but I guarantee you that you personally don't live by the letter of the law or every contract you've ever signed. So, why should anyone listen to you? There are no absolutes and your laws and contracts are basically for people who wish follow them, but they're not for me because I don't live in a fantasy world where everything is perfect and everybody follows the rules.
Please do not use the titles of HN submissions to editorialize. From the guidelines: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Robber almost caught stealing
Just found another article which describes other popular stock photos that continue to sell and most of them are older, pre-digital photos as well.

>The record for a single sale, he says, was about $35,000. “It still brings in some hefty money,” he says. [1]

[1] http://www.pdnonline.com/features/Stock-Photos-That-Ke-1294....
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>As a result, companies such as Apple, Facebook and Google have developed their own coping mechanisms. Apple offers consumers news content in its Apple News app, bypassing the public Web. Facebook's Instant Articles, which allow publishers to partner with Facebook so their content loads more quickly, follows the same logic.

This is the real tragic legacy of web ads: the balkinzation of the Internet. Emerging countries like India are seeing smartphone plans that incentivize the use of entrenched media on the Internet, to the point that the 'open web' might be too expensive to access with any frequency. This is a hindrance to innovation.
I have been an AMEX user since 2005. I love their customer service, and I like that my card is travel ready. I do not have to call up some place to tell them I am traveling over seas. That is a huge benefit for me.
When we had a top 10 app, we had a check for devices running unreleased OSes and showed them a pop-up.
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Couple of companies come to mind:

* Realm.io has successfully positioned themselves as a thought leader in swift development for iOS by producing solid blog content and leading the Swift SF meetups (+ contributing to open-source projects).

* Crashlytics/Fabric.io is more interesting -- my experience with them has been entirely word-of-mouth (but they have a big presence at Twitter's developer conference/WWDC/Google IO, too).

* Parse generally has interesting, high-quality technical blog content: (https://blog.parse.com).
So let me see if I follow. It is completely rational and even considered informational to post some strawmen about 2 or 3 recruiters.

HOWEVER, knowing hundreds of recruiters and talking about their actual behavior is not rational.

"You think knowing a couple hundred means you know how they all act, or even a majority?"

I...what? Are we just coming up with the dumbest, most obtuse questions possible? Again, what shred of your being believes I think this in any way whatsoever?
Your second video "isn't available"
Nice to hear :)

I'm actually working on making rustc easier to contribute to. It's already not very hard to work on (you don't need to submit groundbreaking patches to borrowck for a first bug, plenty of easier things to work on!), but the framework that helps newcomers ease into contribution needs work.

https://users.rust-lang.org/t/mentoring-newcomers-to-the-rus...

(Currently I'm cleaning up the easy issues list and adding hints/pointers to the questions)

If you have any specific feedback, I'd love to hear it!
This video appeared on TV yesterday.How to make science experiment
Anyone know what is wrong with the table? When I try to highlight text (so I can find out what Flurry-iOS-SDK is) it lets me click, but then scrolls rappidly to the top of the page when I move the mouse to highlight something (Safari on OS X).