skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very much the same (also as daodedickinson wrote), and I hope I didn't send you on a (short) wild-goose chase with this. I was pleasantly surprised to see that the author took resizing / zooming the window into account and I thought it gave some nice insight on how the features of the pixel art change with scale (without the canvas actually visually shrinking).
Singapore, Indonesia and many other Asian countries have more draconian drug laws than the USA. Their drug usage and crime and rates are far lower than the US, Portugal, Netherlands, Canada and other countries with more lenient drug laws.
So at a micro level, this may seem like a good idea. I believe we need considering such activities in a larger context.

For example, there have been multiple laws passed/proposed in various countries because "think of the children" or "terrorism". The Patriot Act was written before 9/11 and passed in a hurry. To the point, where the original architect of the act now regrets his actions [1]. Or the fact that the act is now overwhelming used for prosecuting drug activities instead of its original intended purpose [2].

> "Weather the surveillance is manned or unmanned isn't of ethical concern"

I would disagree with this statement. It's the difference between a police stakeout and them planting a webcam [3].

I repeatedly stress at work to people involved with big data projects that want to advance the notion of a data lake. "Just because we can does not mean that we should". I'm not convinced that the legal route is sufficient to check such activity and is why I'm a proponent of systems that prevent bad actors from intercepting (zero knowledge?) instead of "we promise not to look" solutions.

I'll end with:

"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."

[1] http://reason.com/blog/2013/11/15/patriot-act-author-meets-w...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/10/29/...

[3] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/cops-illegally-na...
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Anything written. I'll be particularly happy with higher "quality" sources -- books, quotations in newspapers, etc. -- but honestly, I'm not that picky and will accept an anonymous comment on a random forum.
Ice Cream Sandwich, which is 5 years old, has about vanished.

Jelly Bean still has 30% market share, but are owners of 4 year old phones a significant portion of app revenue? I'd wager the people spending money have at least KitKat.

Lollipop, at a year and half old, has another 30%
The last time I was in the hiring side of the process... I had what I considered a pretty easy assignment... it was for a full-stack JS developer (node). The assignment was to read in an XML file (preferably via an input stream) and write it out to a JSON file of a predetermined object structure.

There were no other limitations put.. "bonus points for stream based input" "bonus points for test cases" ... only a couple people actually delivered a "working" solution (one that ran and outputted anything), none of which had the correct output (one was close enough), and none had any tests.

It was truly something that should take a "skilled" developer a couple hours. And not something that should be entirely alien. To say the least, I was really disappointed with the results. I did the project myself in about 2 hrs, with test cases, 100% code coverage. (before I even gave it out, it was as trivial a challenge as I could come up with for a real world problem).

Why should I have to pay the couple dozen people for their 3 hours, when none delivered a correct solution?

In the end, the person with the closest to correct solution, was the one with the least experience... that person got the job.
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Does this work on anyone else's phone? I just get a heavily pixelated virtually unrecognisable picture. (iPhone 6 - same for both Chrome and Safari)
This article has changed since the last time I read it, minutes ago. It didn't used to have that link, and it used to speculate that the supposed linux distro would be MIT licensed.

...There are several things I don't like about this article.
I think most people do. We did a couple of things to get out of that state at Conjur.

First, we made all of our builds into docker containers. Under this system, slaves (we call 'em executors now) only contain very basic software - docker, git, and make to be specific. This means that our builds are entirely self contained, and we don't have to worry about, for example, messing around with RVM on executors. If the containerized build works locally, it pretty much always works on Jenkins as well.

Second, we started using the job dsl plugin to manage configuration and brought in some autoscaling and machine identity. Beyond what I do as a platform engineer to turn my projects into jenkins builds, I don't completely understand it (nor do I have to, which is a good thing!), so I'll let our DevOps guy take it from here:

https://blog.conjur.net/scaling-jenkins-with-machine-identit...
Legal != right.
I wouldn't say the argument falls apart. We have an obligation to help these people no matter what. We already spend lots of money trying to help them, even though we don't do a very good job of it. That would not change.

The libertarian argument against prohibition boils down to this: The government can't stop people from doing anything, it can only punish people after they've done it. Substance abuse is something we'd really rather people didn't do, but punishing people after they've done it doesn't help anyone. Therefore, substance abuse shouldn't be punished.

It's also worth noting that most libertarians aren't fiscally conservative capital-L Libertarians. Most of them do not have a problem paying for social services.
What happens? I can't notice anything, on Safari..
Being very sick, and even having liver problems is generally better than death.

I would submit to you that deliberate contamination of a drug for the sole purpose of inflicting harm in search of a greater good is an outrageous policy.
could also use non-military-grade satellite photos and this technique: www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA458753
Agreed, we have a basically arbitrary number of runners (near releases it gets into the hundreds), and one master handles it just fine.
"exactly once" is actually pretty common. You can read about how Google does it in their MillWheel paper: http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...

They also compare their guarantees to other streaming systems, and they're not the only one to offer exactly once.
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My school spent too much time on barely functioning students to have any concern about assigning too much homework. Your school and mine were in different strata. And the people with children in schools in that stratum cannot even fathom what the bottom stratum is like.
Caveat to your statement: Reported usage and crime rates. How many of the Asian countries you mentioned have a free and robust press industry that investigates government claims without fear of retribution? I'm of the opinion none, none you mentioned. Therefore I question the validity of your statement at the core, before moving on to other issues which might be a factor of comparison, notably homogenous versus highly heterogenous societies.
I would trust the fairness of the polling system even less than I do, now.
Police helicopters aren't easily configured to launch Hellfire anti-tank missiles.
"While its primary mission is preventing terrorists and terrorist weapons from entering the United States, CBP is also responsible for... protecting American businesses from intellectual property theft."

That's news to me!
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I don't understand why it matters whether it is "always listening"... any device with a microphone and an internet connection has the same attack surface. To me there's no difference between a device that says "always listening" on the box and one that simply has the latent capability to do so.
KitKat is three years old at this point. And I still see new phones and tablets with 4.1 or 4.2 on sale.

Digital Signage platforms especially (the part of the Android market I actually care about) seem to be largely stuck on 4.1.
> People have agency. And should be allowed to make their choices.

That also includes physicians. Their asses are on the line for every patient they treat. If one of their patients OD's, a full death investigation will be done, possibly including DEA, possibly including the medical board.

If any perceived misconduct is found on behalf of the doctor, s/he could be sued, censured, fired, or perhaps even jailed. When you study for 12-15 years to get a single job, the emotional pain from losing it all isn't far from the physical pain of what your friend went through. Not to mention that doctors have empathy, and would also feel guilt and remorse if their actions killed a patient.

Even though it was a painful, humiliating ordeal for your friend, that's better than cavalierly throwing opiates at her which could have possibly killed her.

> People have agency. And should be allowed to make their choices.

I am not trying to sound like an asshole here, but with pain pill addiction, you don't have agency. that's precisely what addiction is ! You lose agency, willpower, and even develop narcissistic defenses (in some cases) to provide a psychological pathway to defend the addiction. You become a slave. This is exactly why they are regulated!
> dropping UTF-16 altogether (well, already, because there are plenty of extended codepoints above 0xFFFF)

UTF-16 can handle stuff above U+FFFF just fine, it encodes that with surrogate pairs. Are you thinking about UCS-2?

The 21-bit limit for Unicode comes from the limits of UTF-16's surrogate pairs.
This is great. Beginners can also join 33k users world-wide on https://www.hacking-lab.com/ for free :)
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agreed, it would look much better with flatter lighting as well
> Where did you detect this suggestion?

From evincarofautumn's post:

> However, while proceeding with legalisation, we must also establish better social support systems so that people can safely enjoy drugs in moderation.

Those social support systems will cost money. They will have to be funded by taxpayers. Unless they are cheaper than the current system of enforcement and incarceration, people will not support them. Furthermore, it is more politically palatable to punish drug users than to help them. People will be morally opposed to these support systems, and will use them as a reason to oppose drug legalization.

> That's also where the libertarian case falls apart for legalizing cheeseburgers, and motorcycles.

Drug legalization is a political debate. This is about practicality, not pure logical argumentation.

There is no political argument for legalizing cheeseburgers and motorcycles, because they are already legal. Nobody is attempting to change the status quo.

If we want to legalize illegal drugs, we will have to convince people to change the status quo. Changing the status quo, which is the default position, requires evidence that the suggested alternative is superior.
>any use of military drones for civil authorities had to be approved by the Secretary of Defense

Gee, what oversight. I'm sure they'll be denying approvals left and right.
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How [much] to bill out a Junior developer
I'm an independent senior developer, and looking to slowly grow a small team of devs. A common theme I've run across is people want to mix a senior, and junior dev to produce a lower "mixed" rate for a team.

1. What's a fair rate to bill out a Junior Dev at. My focus is on devs who have little to no real-world experience, and a 2 year degree. (Recruiting from a local, technical college).

My thought is that with some of the very "green" junior devs, fresh out of college, I would bill them out at (common rate) / 2.

(i.e. $125 / 2 = ~$62.50).

With 6mo-1.5yr experience, and/or depending on the individual, I would nudge the formula to be (common-rate) / 1.5.

i.e. ~$85

Eventually, they would fall into the mid-senior category, and demand the common rate.

Just curious to hear thoughts on this approach, and what you've encountered in the industry.

Location: Mid-west / Wisconsin
Primary technology: Web / .NET

Note: I know rates are very relative, but I'd be curious on the formulaic approach.
If you need something US side, one of my ventures, microservers.io offers C2750 using Supermicro MicroBlades starting at $25/mo (with coupon code LAUNCH) out of Seattle. Includes full KVM over IP access so you can install any OS you like. Most popular distros are available via local samba.

We soft launched over a year ago and have a number of hosting industry insiders for customers, but are still working on the main, public facing website (domain just goes directly to an ordering page) as well as automation on the back end for near-instant provisioning. We'll be doing our official launch after that.

$0.05/GB may be cheaper than Amazon, but is rather expensive for bandwidth these days (would work out to approximately $10/Mb 95th percentile using a 200GB:1Mbps conversion ratio). With us, 2TB of bandwidth is included, and additional bandwidth is $0.002/GB or $0.40/Mb using a GTT/Tinet, Hurricane Electric, and Cogent bandwidth blend provided by my main hosting company's secondary/value network (AS63213).
illegal drugs encourage abuse and addiction, not the other way around.
This is prominent in the experience of doctors, which is what's relevant to how they behave. People who aren't seeing a doctor because they have nothing wrong with them and aren't in pain rarely complain about how the doctor treats them, and have virtually no effect on doctors' worldview.
Never heard of AOLServer - pretty interesting read on Wikipedia! Thanks.
> "I actually think voxels might look way cooler than attempting to generate smooth 3D objects with the original sprites textured mapped on top. It would retain more of the original character of the game, while adding some depth."

Do you mean like this mock up?

http://cdn.ubergizmo.com/photos/2008/7/3d-smb.jpg
Can you provide more details, which model ?
Replace "drug use" with "mental health" to broaden the discussion and it eventually becomes apparent that societal issues such as individual well-being, whether drug addiction, mental instability, or a morbidly obese inducing lifestyle has costs that even a staunch libertarian would be wont to address at a systemic level, not just a notion of letting 'the private sector' or charity do the work.
Or privatize it so there's profit/loss.
Oh please. I do that 20x a day without R Studio. Saving a chart is as simple as png(...). You are clearly too mouse-bound. I reject your comment out of hand.
s/hyperbolic/historic/

http://www.npr.org/2015/05/13/406505210/philadelphia-marks-3...
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If that's true...they really just hate the Koreans LOL
Agreed. Right now we make drugs illegal and spend loads of money to prosecute and jail people who use drugs. Instead, we could make drugs legal and spend a fraction of that money helping people reduce dependence on drugs and heal.
I think it's a big issue in the US because of how easy it is to obtain. Anecdotally, I have talked with people in foreign countries (I'm from the US) who say it's much harder to obtain Vicodin even with prescription. I know one who had to steal Vicodin from the doctor's office where they did clerical work because they had insomnia that had not responded to any medication they were prescribed. If they were easier to obtain abroad, I imagine other countries could have as big an issue with painkillers as the US does, and as the article says one of the main reasons painkillers were so easy to obtain in the US is the push within the medical and pharmaceutical industries to treat pain.
Yeah, it's a projector. pre-recorded projection mapping, custom electronics as a triggering mechanism. Automation for the projector and underlying computer. flask-socketio + Chrome for the media player.

You saw what the article was claiming was the total budget right? If we had done "mischief managed" levels of wizardry on that budget you would have heard about a very different aspect of what we did.
who put the pressure on the Drs to treat pain as such?

I don't have evidence of this, but I expect the patients. People don't like pain, and they want a silver bullet to make it stop.
Yes, this is true in a number of areas. Even other Montessori schools in our area usually stop at Kindergarten. We're extremely lucky the one our son goes to runs one or two classrooms (based on demand) up through 5th grade.

There are some very good private schools available after that, but those are 2x-3x the annual cost we currently pay. Luckily, we have a few years until we have to make any decisions.

That said, I agree with you: It's worth every penny. I would work nights at a fast food joint, scrubbing the bathroom floors with my own toothbrush to keep my son there. He loves it more than we do.
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I agree, this is the kind of thing you'd have in an authoritarian regime, not a democratic nation.

I wonder, which do we have?
This has been possible for some time with retrolambda.
It's an abuse of HN threads. Comments here are supposed to be substantive.
I really enjoyed Myungwan's down-and-dirty commentary, and watching him get lost in some variations, and it was just incredibly exciting to see him get won over to AlphaGo during the game. From about move 50, I was just viscerally excited to see where things went, and the game did not disappoint in any way.

I've read a few different reviews and watched Michael Redmond's live commentary as well, who obviously has a slower Japanese style of play than Myungwan, and his variations all exhibited a very thorough style and sensibility, but I think he missed the key moment, and Myungwan called it -- the bottom right just killed Lee Sedol, and it was totally unexpected.

And, Sedol was thinking about it too, because right after he resigned, he wanted to clear out that bottom right corner and rework some variations. I presume that's one frustration playing with a computer -- they'll have to instrument AlphaGo to do a little kibbitzing and talking after a game. That would be just awesome.

If you are very, very inspired by AlphaGo's side of this, it's really incredible to imagine, just for a moment, that building that white wall down to the right was in preparation for the white bottom right corner variation. The outcome of that corner play was to just massively destroy black territory, on a very painful scale, and it made perfect use of the white wall in place from much earlier in the game.

If AlphaGo was in fact aiming at those variations while the wall was being built, I would think at a fundamental level, Go professionals are in the position that chess grandmasters were ten years ago -- acknowledging they will never see as deeply as a computerized opponent. It's both incredibly exciting, and a blow to an admirable and very unusual group of worldwide game masters.

I loved every minute!!
I hear that interviewers are really interested in seeing how you think and communicate constantly. Yet in my experience, if you solve the problem exactly the way the interviewer is looking for in a reasonable amount of time, you pass 9/10 times. If you don't, you fail.
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This is frustrating for the many engineers who have no open source work. You're shutting out a massive amount of talent that has only worked on proprietary software.
This is absolutely bloody amazing. The cleverness with the `Zeus` artwork was equally entertaining as it was bloody amazing ².

I'd love to hear about the inspiration behind the project.
Do you geddit that VS binds you to the inferior Windows builds of R? I use R every hour of every day. I started with Windows R with zero bias.....until I was forced to learn Linux against my will just to get the full, stable, all-libraries-work, experience.
Relevant discussion on the nesdev forum: http://forums.nesdev.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=13552
How about from a hot air baloon? I'd like to visually inspect the Playboy Mansion pool.
I first learned about this after starting https://neocities.org and seeing a bunch of really garbage pages that were full of random text that linked to a derpie site somewhere.

We get pagerank SEO spam from time to time, and it's pretty annoying. I have the tools to take care of it within 5 minutes every day, but I do worry that if we grow to a certain point it may no longer be possible for me to handle the problem alone.

I'm sure many other sites have similar problems with comment spam, and I'd love to hear some advice on how to deal with this from sites that have the same problem.

Right now our main lines of defense are a recaptcha (our last remaining third party embed, ironically sending user data to Google I'd rather not send to deal with a problem Google largely created), and a daily update of an IP blacklist we get from Stop Forum Spam.

I tried to do some Bayesian classification, but didn't make much progress unfortunately. And nofollow really isn't an option for me, as it would involve me manipulating other people's web sites and I don't want to do that.
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Sure, but ask yourself if that's a market you want to target. Do you care if digital signage terminals can run your app?
how is this different(better/worse) than Pinterest?
No this is how you do it http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/32448103/mystery-artis...
The cumulative amount of person-hours that went into training Lee Sedol (All the hours spent training his instructors, sparring partners, developing Go theory, playing out, and drawing inferrences from the outcomes of long-dead expert players) is probably more then 500 years. AlphaGo, on the other hand, had to start from scratch.

Given the rules, and a big book containing every professional go game ever played, and no other instruction, it's not entirely clear to me that Lee Sedol would be able to reach his current skill level in 500 years.
Might try this out as I've had nothing but issues with the Windows version of RStudio.
> energy efficient and more cost effective ... engaging the industry to identify better disk solutions for cloud based applications

My pet issue w/IT infrastructure is the management modules. Finding a server w/a management module that works everytime is nigh impossible. Do google and Facebook design their own or do they somehow just work around their quirks?
Not true, humans are better than computers at Starcraft, even despite AI's tremendous APM advantage.
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The guy was a very bad person according to his indictments. A judge signed off on it as long as there was no way to arrest and try him, and given it was Yemen, there wasn't.

Now his son on the other hand is extremely questionable and smacks of revenge.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-drone-memo-...
I really like the idea of moving somewhere outside the US with better work-life balance norms, such as the fabled 6 weeks of vacation mandated by Germany. Has anyone done this?
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