skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is more like what I'd expect a 20 minute React version to look like: http://bl.ocks.org/insin/raw/b2f4901d4173677908a8/
It's good that this news report includes a citation to the case decision at the end of the article. That citation is

Authors Guild v. Google Inc., 13-4829, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (Manhattan)

The ruling applies, of course, only to the United States, and only if it is not reversed by the United States Supreme Court. But I think the argument that Google's use of the book content is not market-destroying for book authors is correct, as I have bought books after discovering them through Google Books searches.
And the word "piracy" has been applied to unauthorized copying of books since at least 1735. I own an old copy of the London Magazine that contains the usage.
I've got a friend who used to work in quant hedge funds. He's moved to a company that exclusively trades sports. There's a lot of interesting alpha in there, and you don't get the same portfolio effects (market up/down) that you get in finance.

One thing that juices returns is access. If you know about the new markets opening you run your arbs on them and make good money.

Hours are weird.
I'm fond of the Intercept tone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IC_SIT.ogg
There's probably an emacs command for that (https://xkcd.com/378/)
Dust can be reduced by using air filtration systems, sealing dwellings better, and using low-lint fabrics for clothes, furniture, and carpets.
Is AMEX really struggling... ?

I really had no idea. That's really disappointing, how could that be?
Of all the photos being taken right now, it's odd to think there probably won't be discoveries of old photos in junk shops in 2150.
Congrats to the unmitigated badasses on the Ansible team! You know who you be!
I got my LAMP stack certification and this all went way!

https://github.com/thoughtbot/liftoff/pull/178#issuecomment-...
I have a feeling the reasons listed in that posting hardly even come close to the primary real reasons why the acquisition happened.

What the real reasons are I'm not sure entirely but I'm fairly certain its some what Red Hat getting some talented people back and Red Hat giving money back to its friends and family (much of Ansible's talent formerly worked at Red Hat).
>Because it's illegal is (IMHO) not a reason at all, on its own. I'll also agree that copyright is not an intrinsically moral concept, like material theft. However, I think copyright (in some form, not necessarily in the way it is practiced today) is a key piece of positive law. Absent of copyright, there is no reason to pay anyone for any easily duplicatable product, except out of the goodness of one's heart.

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. From my point of view, that would be progress. Of course some people would lament not having Transformers 3 -- but then again, some people would lament anything and everything, including bad things. The key question is: is it better in aggregate?

Now, for other stuff, like software, that might indeed be an issue. I'm assuming here that "pro" software is a good thing (more features, higher quality), where "pro art" is a bad thing (more commercialized crap).
The authors address the criticism here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wendy-m-williams/women-scienti...

Most of this criticism doesn't stand up to even a cursory reading. For example: "not only are there less women in STEM fields [..]" No shit, Sherlock, I don't think anybody disputed that.

Or the study that shows a disadvantage for mothers vs. fathers. The very same study shows a hiring/renumeration disadvantage for childless men vs. childless women. So yes, there's a dynamic here, but it's not male/female.

Also, the original comment I replied to was that outstanding developers are overlooked. None of the studies I've seen that show gender/racial bias (there are a few), deal with outstanding candidates (the Wiliams/Ceci did, IIRC). And incidentally not sure why you refer to "studies", your two links refer to the same single study.

There was another study (I think it was a different one) touted as showing hiring biases in STEM, except it turns out the study was performed in psychology departments.

Etc. etc.

There's some great information out there on the web in case you are interested, for example the Pinker / Spelke debate. Here's a quote:

"PINKER: But that makes the wrong prediction: the harder the science, the greater the participation of women! We find exactly the opposite: it's the most subjective fields within academia — the social sciences, the humanities, the helping professions — that have the greatest representation of women. This follows exactly from the choices that women express in what gives them satisfaction in life. But it goes in the opposite direction to the prediction you made about the role of objective criteria in bringing about gender equity. Surely it's physics, and not, say, sociology, that has the more objective criteria for success."

http://edge.org/3rd_culture/debate05/debate05_index.html
Seeing stuff like this makes me realize just how far I've come.

A pocket amplifier was one of the first electronics project I undertook, about 10 years ago. It was "hard", in the sense that I didn't know what I was doing, I didn't have the necessary dexterity to follow the instructions correctly, and worst of all, I didn't know enough to know how to evaluate what I was doing wrong.

About a week ago, I finished up a design of a kit, including firmware, custom control hardware, and other goodies, for an FM/Weather Band radio that includes multiple output options, but maintains a very cheap BOM. In short, I've gone from unable to follow instructions to able to synthesize new work based on vague requirements.

I still have problems like this in some of my hobbies, but now I know a little more about myself and I know that "hard" problems often fall into those three categories: knowledge, skill, evaluation.

And once I realized that is how things work, I realized that was what learning programming was like for me, 20 years ago. It has helped me become a more effective tutor.

Turns out, a pocket amp isn't the best "beginner's" electronics project. If I had to teach someone electronics now, it'd start with "all the ways you can release the blue genie from an LED, why it happens, and what you can do about it."
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Healthcare is a benefit in the UK? I thought it was socialized?
>the anti-TPP lobbying/campaigning power of American workers in the general election could be neutralized

That goes both ways. By pushing it to the lame duck session, it gives us an opportunity to neutralize TPP. We can vote out anyone who indicates support for it before they get the opportunity to vote on it.

Make it an election issue. Make the candidate go on record. If they won't go on record against TPP, then we can assume they are for TPP and vote them out. Don't even let them through the primaries.
The Code of Federal Regulation is more than 50 thick volumes. Do you really respect all the law?

http://extent-of-regulation.dhwritings.com/
Great little intro to electricity. SparkFun has some good educational tutorials.
"Recruiter" in UK context means an independent agency, not the actual hiring staff at companies who nearly always handle themselves professionally.
Does this leave it in mobi format and if so, can t still be read on a kindle?
A smart lock that lets you know your home is safe or when your family gets home
That is overall what I have found in the Rust community. Everyone is always helpful and the community is very welcoming. This is good for Rust lang, as by its self, is not the most noob friendly.
Microservices-infrastructure documentation
Tinder Meets Airbnb? RadPad Uses Online Dating Roots for Renters
Your ‘need to make money’ does not entitle you to any of my time or forbearance, both of which are finite.
How Excessive Are Federal Laws in the United States? (2008)
I've been feeling like some of the recent disruption is just somebody taking an existing process and codifying it into well made software. Zendesk, Uber, companies like that, aren't providing anything that didn't exist before (meaning HR onboarding and on-demand taxi services), they're just able to offer it at a larger scale, with a better experience, for cheaper, because instead of paperwork and phone calls being run by people, they have databases and APIs being run by computers. I think if your company relies on exchanging information and enforcing internal rules and isn't codified as software, it's just waiting for somebody to disrupt them and pull the bottom line out from under it.
In Defense of Greed (2004)
Why I Got into Dividend Growth Investing
Generally speaking, I've never had an issue with in-house recruiters.

But I've experienced many of the things this guy is complaining about from 3rd party tech recruiters (I'm in the US), including being lied to (and not coming clean until it came up a few months into the contract), aggressively being contacted, dodging questions about company details, not providing job descriptions, lying about what the company needed so I was unprepared for interviews, not telling me anything about interviews, scheduling an interview for me for THE NEXT DAY at 7 pm that was a 3 hour drive away so I had no choice but to take a sudden personal day to go to the interview (I normally wouldn't do that, but I had two friends working there, and really wanted to check it out), etc.

One agency has been sending me emails and calling me multiple times and LinkedIn connection requests from four people in the company these past couple of weeks. They've attempted to contact me at least 12 times in two weeks, and the most they'll tell me in the messages is "an iOS Developer opportunity". With no information you are not going to make me want to get in touch with you, especially when I'm not looking for a new job.

BUUUUT.... I have had a couple good experiences with external recruiters, in fact my most recent experience was very positive and they negotiated better than I would have for the first salary in my career that I've been satisfied with.
If they interbred successfully, doesn't that make them all part of the same species? Or are there is there a great area there?
I dunno, I feel like porn is one area where society in general really does care about their privacy. People who don't care about most tracking will still use private browsing to watch porn, and companies go to great lengths to highlight their discreet billing/packaging etc.
It can be hot and dry in summer in New Mexico. Not great for leaves.

"The loss of numerous leaves from trees is not uncommon in New Mexico in June." -- http://aces.nmsu.edu/ces/yard/1997/063097.html
I'm curious: Since the problem was clear to anybody in the field - temperature control, and there's a whole field dealing with control where PID is bread & butter,so it's quite simple to ask for a solution , why did it take something unique and tinkering to add PID to coffee machines ?

why didn't companies in the field just implement this as part of their product development(maybe aiming for the higher end) ?
My mistake! I thought by "piracy" being a corrective market force you meant "this has DRM, so I'll just not pay for it and download it somewhere else", not "this has DRM, but my [media player] isn't compatible, so I'll pay it and download it somewhere else." The second is a key part of my own content-consumption strategy ;)

> No one (intelligent) is trying to make a moral argument for 'piracy' or media entitlement

Alas, I've seen quite a few people in this thread make just that argument, and the unfortunate part is that many seem to be quite intelligent.

> I don't think anyone is entitled to anything for free, but I'm a realist and a pragmatist. I will reverse engineer and circumvent the things people say I can't until the day I die :)

Amen!
It's even worse when the digital version is more expensive than the physical book. $4 delivered for a real older book or $8 for the digital version? Why? The physical book is far more valuable; rather than simply recommending it, I can give it away.
How do you use ansible to deploy your containers, if I may ask ? We're looking into the docker module right now, but I don't know if it's good or what. Currently we're launching container via systemd and manage the unit files with ansible.
Your confusing a local optima with a global one. If you added enough rail capacity eventually you run out of people in the country to use up more capacity. Roads are something of a special case in that they scale terribly, but you really could build a rail network in a city that could handle 7 billion people per hour if cost was not an issue.
"Nobody uses pure strategies anymore. They're too popular" - Yogi Berra
Apparently you didn't see the original series of these; I like screwing around with tech recruiters over email. I'm sorry, I guess I thought it was self-evident that with the quotes I am responding in a completely absurd way by implying that I'm looking for prostitution work.
AMA with David Heinemeier Hansson and Peldi Starting
Amazon is only one of many counterparties with which you should be concerned.

Access and transferability are only two rights specified.

Anonymity, open formats, and freedom from arbitrary withdrawal of the book (Amazon famously exercised this capability on 1984 of all titles) are other factors.

And don't underestimate power of law. The computer software industry has long used rampant piracy of their products, often tacitly encouraged, as a lever to squeeze users for as much revenue as possible, under colour of law. That's only one of several such applications of this particular lever.

RMS has been, and continues to be, highly prescient on virtually all areas of free access to information, software or otherwise.
It seems likely.
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As a ""cybernat"" and Wings reader, I very much agree - but that's more a sort of impersonal bulk lying, not someone calling you up personally by name and lying about job opportunities or the qualifications of candidates.
Gravity is one of the most amazing movies I've ever seen. So yes, agreed.
I think you're right about the economics, but I'd hold off on blaming the meat.

While the article mentions meat being more expensive, the rest of the article is filled with quotes like "snacking all day on bits of burger and pizza" and "drink lots of atole – a heavily sweetened corn-based drink". All pretty carb heavy. The article mentions that the dietary changes made are: "eats fast food just once a week, cooks more vegetables, has cut down the number of tortillas".
This is typical modern Bloomberg reporting - telling a misleading, emotion driven story from anecdotal data and rumors.

"The Amex people, most of whom had MBAs, sometimes found it amusing to deal with Costco veterans who spoke about starting out stocking warehouse shelves. Less endearing was the habit Costco executives had of referring to Amex as a “vendor.” That made the Amex people seethe. After all, they represented one of America’s oldest corporations. But they smiled and said nothing, and the corporate marriage endured for 16 years."

Seriously?
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I was really bummed when I found out that the Costco Amex card was getting cancelled, as I was thinking about getting one.

But having read the article: good. I'm glad Costco did not hesitate to tell them to take a hike when they found a better deal.
In London these days you don't have to depend on third-party recruiters, but they will contact you anyway. Wayyyyy more than I saw in either Toronto or Vancouver.
I endeavour to not obviously disobey it for selfish reasons.
You can export as various formats and it is still 100% readable on Kindle (I have experience with both apps and a few devices). It doesn't mangle anything. Not who you replied to, but I've been using this exact setup to protect my e-book collection for a long time and couldn't be happier.
Thanks, I carefully re-read and see that now. (Why I'm not a lawyer I guess!)

So, legal mental state must be a particular (non-intuitive) thing, because if the other posters on this thread think its not dishonest, then they're clear of any wrongdoing re: digital piracy. Right?
I use CFEngine 3 in production and the report collection and instant insight into infrastructure that it provides is quite elegant.

(E.g. http://www.slideshare.net/cfengine/15-nice-reports-with-cf-e...)

For example, I wrote a report to inventory which hosts are connected to Active Directory, and had a pretty pie chart for management in minutes (across 2K+ hosts).
> How this insane person has people listening to them

Whoa. You can't attack someone like that here. It's fine to disagree, but not to personally impugn someone you disagree with.
The More You Know

I've never seen any in California, but the gist holds true. It's a good indicator that it is a poor part of town.
If you had bought this picture for $2 later to find out it's worth $5,000,000, would you feel an obligation to share some of the proceeds with the shop from which it was purchased?
Netflix's $12M Gamble on “Beasts of No Nation”
I hope this is not too off-topic but since we are talking about book-scanning, how would I go about scanning my own books for private use?

For instance, if I have a bunch of books about drawing, I'd like to scan them all so that I later group all of the figure drawing pages in one folder, all the gesture drawing pages on another, etc, so they can be more easily used (and more useful) as reference.

Does anyone here recommend a way to scan books at home? I'm not against buying a contraption.
Yes! I sat through the whole thing, waiting for it to get better. Then the credits rolled, and I was baffled by the people who raved about the film.
It is easy to write a list of upsides of Thing A and downsides of Thing B. But unless you also do the opposite, you can't really come to a good determination of which is better for a given task.

They could just as easily written an article about how printed books are cumbersome, and how you can easily copy text from ebooks.

It's like watching a truck commercial, reading this piece. The Good thing is the best at everything. The Bad Thing is the worst at everything.
Thanks for this. I was amazed the authors offered no comparison to any existing unsupervised DBN/ANN work.
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Because its far more effective. Wire a soldier's brain, and Bing! they're awake when you need them awake.
For something as fungible as credit card transactions, it's hard to understand how a "brand" could be truly valuable. (Or is the grocery store cashier secretly really impressed when I produce my Amex Blue?)
The problem is in my experience is that:

1. Job advertised doesn't have the name of the company

2. Recruiter is CV harvesting with fake job ads - experienced that

3. Recruiter bait and switches - job is real but is an excuse to get you for something else

4. Recruiter gets wind of big company or gov organisation recruiting via competition, posts the same job spec then uses it to try and undercut while passing themselves off as the "official" recruiter. Had this with a NHS development role where the job I responded to turns out they had no business advertising for.

5. If the company is named then it's usually because said company only wants to use a recruiter. I've had this a couple of times where I've contacted a company directly but been asked to file my application with their official outsourced recruitment service.

6. Recruiter threatens "you'll never work in this town again" if you do somehow get to know who the company is simply because you ask.

Ninety nine percent of all recruiters I have dealt with have been the scum of the earth, even the so called reputable ones.

I truly hope Stackoverflow Careers destroys these businesses.
You could physically mail a credit card to your recipient and have them use their local ATM once a week for ~0% + $2 a withdrawal.
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After reading through this thread, it would seem that many commenters from the UK are able to relate, and that a number of people in the US market are judging based on no experience.
I certainly hope you meant to type £30k/year (~$45k/year).

If you're only getting $30k (~£20k/year) as a software programmer of any kind, anywhere in the world, you should seriously consider finding a new employer, even if it requires emigrating. And remote jobs still exist.

Canada has the 3rd largest video games industry in the world--after the US and Japan--and its growth has strained the available talent pool. So you might consider Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver, or Montreal. I have heard that UK-to-Canada emigration is more easily done than UK-to-US, though I had never had any particular motive to investigate the claim.

The "games" jobs earn less on average than the less-specific category of "software" jobs, and "programmer" earns less on average than "developer" and "engineer". So if you don't move, maybe you could pad out your resume to be a "software developer" instead.

I am biased somewhat by working in the US, where software writers are legion, and paid more than elsewhere, but if you have any skill at all, you can probably be paid more for work similar to what you do now.
Hey, it isn't me making straw man arguments. It's the SCOTUS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowling_v._United_States

Face it, you're a fringe view.
>The NFL's army of lobbyists and attorneys will insure that some form of legalized digital sports betting is available mostly-nationwide.

Except if that were true, why wasn't there legal nationwide betting available before DraftKings and FanDuel? The NFL only cares about gambling to the extent it can grow interest in the sport, but once it gets too messy they will wipe their hands of the whole situation. The NFL's lobbyist have more important things to work on than dying on the hill of legalized sports betting.
The Costco Amex vanishing seems like no big deal. However, Costco refusing to take Amex for payment at all introduces far more inconvenience.
Yeah that's the one thing I was hoping the article would explain.
What Americans Fear the Most
Probably not no, they probably picked it up in some bulk purchase. If it came from a garage sale or the like, then maybe? But a junk shop deals in this world, that this, that they should be aware could have something amongst all their stuff that is actually worth a fortune.
Why does it seem likely?
Protecting investors? By making it illegal for most people to actually become investors?
> job hopping is an issue when applying for jobs in locations outside of the bay area?

Short-term engagements are the norm for top tech talent nationwide. Sometimes these arrangements are even preferred by the employer.

To be fair, there are still plenty of Old School hiring execs stuck in the 80s mind-set of hiring the 'Steady Eddy' profile of a long-term, loyal employee. His view is that you're not even trained-up and any good till you've been there 18 months. If you can address his concerns upfront, you might have a good job match.

Here's a recent Forbes article on the state of Cyber Security Talent> http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevemorgan/2015/09/28/hot-cyber...
Other comments are are good starts.

Another method would be to add a headers to the response:

Server-Push: /relative/url

Then have an output filter pull them out and push them -- but AFAIK the APIs to do that don't yet exist in mod_h2 to push like that. Adding headers in the response is nice because it works with any 'backend', and the web server doesn't have to parse the HTML/css/etc going the through it.
Not only financial firms, but many places with a little more of the CYA mentality—think medical providers, other large enterprises, etc. Nobody gets fired for recommending a vendor-backed hardware balancer/firewall solution.
"Art would be created by people really passionate for it."

That's how art happens even now.