skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How big of an influence towards not eating cheap chicken anymore should the overuse of antibiotics be in your ethical framework? Relating to "buying fair-trade coffee for the plantation worker's sake", "not driving (combustion) cars because of environmental impact", etc. I find it hard to estimate.

For me, the antibiotics situation had only sub-conscious influence; the concrete, formulated reasoning was more like this: Before becoming completely vegetarian, I started preferring big animals like beef and pork over chicken because their amount of meat per animal killed is higher. Then I stopped eating beef because of its climate implications. Finally someone told me pigs are actually quite intelligent so even though it's just few animals per kg of meat, their ethical weight weighed more heavy again. Luckily at this point it was not a big step anymore and pretty easy to stop eating meat altogether.
So many, many workers are monitored by human supervisors already. Not shown to be significantly different.
Companies own the governments that create those opportunities.
"The sensor uses a new industrial version of Bluetooth "

I hope its more robust than my BOSS headphones (beep beep connected to Deb- BEEP BEEP lost conection to Debian)
Even some military aircraft like the SR-71: http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/17207/sr-71s-r2-d2-coul...

Does star navigation work once you’re far beyond locations where we’ve previously been able to map stars from? Or put another way, is our "3D" map of the stars sufficiently accurate, or is it more of a "2D" map.

Perhaps you could update the map as you move (SLAM?)
Sure I've managed software crews, but programmers need down time. I'm sure these workers have breaks too.
^^ We've got another one guys.
Nice. Could you tell wich fork is your on Github[0]?

[0] https://github.com/codelucas/flask_reddit/network/members
> My takeaway from the article was less that you should have each one of those roles filled out with a dedicated person, but more that those roles can be fluid and accomplished by many people on the team.

I guess that wasn't really my takeaway, and even if it was I wouldn't agree with it really.

Why it wasn't my takeaway is quotes like:

>> If you need advocates, evangelists, analysts, persona specialists, domain experts, coordinators, strategists, stakeholder herders, project drivers, etc. then hire them, and give them the right title

>> Consider hiring in apprentices/interns to fill “mixed” hats — research, data science, UX, etc.
My reply to parent got downvoted, which tells you all there is to know. I too like history, but this is stretching it.
Streaming of computer screens is quite different compared to real life footage. UIs contain very shallow gradients (thus you want 10bit+), lots of flat areas which are easy to entropy-encode without any frequency domain quantization at all (so a modern codec that has passthrough blocks) and font rendering engines use subpixel anti-aliasing so you want 4:4:4 chroma. And that annoying effect where image quality refines gradually after large-scale changes on a screen (not enough bits allocated to an I-frame?).

Screencasting is basically quite a different beast compared to live-action or even animation footage. At a minimum you need higher profiles of a modern codec and tweak the encoder settings for low latency AND different bit allocation compared to the usual.
When I shop, I want oragnic meat. But it remains a myth to me whether one brand is “more organic” than others. Can I trust the simple “organic approved” stamp? What’s in theirs anyway? What about the organic soil in my backyard I use to grow my delicious tomatoes? Free range chicken are completely organic? Not necessary, a misconception. What exactly is “organic”?

Antibacterial resistance is becoming more evident. Beside regulate the use of antibotics (and pesticide) in food source, we should not overlook the overuse of antibotics in medical treatments [1][2][3].

Patients often do not understand what antibotics are for, and they would ask their doctors to prescribe antibotics even when antibotics are absolutely unnecessary. Some doctors will give in because the prescription would avoid confrontation with the patient and therefore will give the patient an illusion he/she is receiving the full treatment.

Antibacterial resistance affects now and our future generations. Look up “antibotic resistance” in Google News and you will find hundreds of news articles over the years.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/features/antibioticuse/index.html

[2]: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170509121924.h...

[3]: http://www.utswmedicine.org/stories/articles/year-2017/antib...
What about people with physical or mental disabilities? Do they deserve to be fired because they're less efficient than an able-bodied worker?
Look at this map for plastic pollution, and tell me the most effective locations in the world to implement your suggested "call to action" solution (ie, lower consumption) to pollution.

"Now a study shows the top 10 rivers - eight of which are in Asia - accounted for 88 to 95 per cent of the total global load because of the mismanagement of waste."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4970214/95-pl...

It does not appear to be an educational or a consumption issue, but instead a lack of focus on proper waste management. (Or perhaps the funds, or desire to spend the funds, to support proper waste management.)
I work at a fairly large engineering company and we've started to roll out Windows 10. The policy here is that no existing hardware will be upgraded to Windows 10 (at least during 2018), but that all new machines will have Windows 10 starting this year.
I think you have more faith in companies than I do. Jobs can have a lot of unreasonable expectations, especially if it is a low wage position with high turnover. And Amazon already has a poor reputation for it's low skilled positions.
The immune system is reactive and takes both energy and nutrients. Antibiotics reduce this expenditure which adds up over time.

Consider how many of these steps involve cell growth and or tissue damage that needs to be repaired:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQGOcOUBi6s

TLDR; Low dose antibiotics don't eliminate infections, but by reducing their growth the immune system puts far less effort into defense.
Well, the first question that comes to my mind, and I'm not sure if it is the right question, is how can I use Minimodem for side channel analysis? Reading about it gives me a faint idea that I can carry out a timing attack / acoustic cryptanalysis / electromagnetic attack. Would anyone here knowledgable shed more light on my line of thinking, please?
Management won't have trackers on their every movement. You can take anything out of context to make the best worker look terrible if you look hard enough with that much data.
physical product?

https://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon-vets-develop-20-wyzecam...
Yep. They are going to fire up Chrome, find it works, and go from there.
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I would have thought it would work the other way? Surely ISPs will have difficulty switching off v4 access to consumers, because of all the old v4 devices out there. But at some point soon the vast majority of servers will support v6, a which point some big ISP will say 'we will no longer support v4-only servers after date X, we will NAT to v6 for comsumer devices if you want to talk to our customers you need v6'. Some time after that IPv4 will effectively no longer be a global protocol.
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Unlike JavaScript, Java requires classes.
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The text does not support your interpretation. He says that data in the United States almost always has a racial bias, and that even when you explicitly remove race from the data, you and your ML model can still inadvertently make predictions that fall along racial lines because of how other data points strongly correlate to race.

He then goes on to talk about COMPAS, which was accused of being racially biased even though COMPAS explicitly did not include race as one of its inputs. The author argues that COMPAS still mad predictions that were racially biased because of how strong the correlation is between race and housing. On top of that, the author argues, COMPAS asked the wrong question (who is likely to be more convicted, vs who is more likely to commit crime).

The author does not, as you seem to do, celebrate the Justice system algorithms for making harsher, but objective data-driven recommendations for minority groups. He argues that this is unjust, that the AI is missing the necessary nuance and context, and that the courts should not have been so trusting of AI:

> There are obviously many problems at play here. One is that the courts took the AI model far too seriously, using it as a direct factor in sentencing decisions, skipping human judgment, with far more confidence than any model should warrant. (A good rule of thumb, also recently encoded into EU law, is that decisions with serious consequences of people should be sanity-checked by a human — and that there should be a human override mechanism available.) Another problem, of course, is the underlying systemic racism which this exposed: the fact that Black people are more likely to be arrested and convicted of the same crimes.
You must not be very experienced in this language. I write all my large applications without "this". Thankfully, this isn't Java and OOP is entirely avoidable.
It's a great idea, but I believe they should use a collar with a name tag attached. That would make it easier for managers to identify people.
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My point being even the best workers will need a moment now and then.
It's last and first men:
https://books.google.com/books?id=ubHmCQAAQBAJ&lpg=PT351&ots...
Updated the question.
Already these folks have a different metric for success. Why would that be different here?
Working with Stripe and PayPal are essentially the same if you use best practices. Stripe can do the payment page and redirect if needed and can also capture paying info from a static page that is submitted via JS in the background. In the end you'd get a simple token that's just a reference to the payment details in Stripe (just like PP). If you integrate with the Stripe payment page then they will even remember you across sites (again, just like PP) and you won't have to input payment details.
Makes me remember learning how to do sprites on my C=64 using graph paper. But, then I got a proper sprite editor and never looked back.

I kinda think this would get old quick like the graph paper did for me.
The M1 (Crab Nebula) pulsar slows by 38 ns per day. But it is very new, less than 1000 years old.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_Pulsar
agreed, different people reach the tipping point of desperation at the different times, and sometimes not at all, and sometimes the decision to (or not to) migrate is a bad one, or even a fatal one.

History is replete with stories of refugees who have succeeded in their quest for a better life. Yes, survivorship bias says that for every success there are many failures. I'm not judging but merely observing facts: lots of people do in fact migrate despite the many daunting problems they face in doing so, because they believe it is the best possible option for themselves and their families. No one can presume to judge what is best for them but themselves.
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Honestly, whenever I've wanted to teach people how to get into programming, I usually just try and teach them the "real" tools for it; something like Unity or Scirra Construct is powerful enough to actually make something commercial, but simple enough to get started that it's not super intimidating (in my opinion). While it's (rightfully) lambasted nowadays, I actually feel like Flash was a good way to get started as well, since it's a lot more interactive than opening up Vim and writing C++.

That said, as a grown-up I quite like these "intro-to-programming" kits for myself. I spent more hours making little toys in Pico-8, eventually leading to a simple raycasting engine.
I remember being excited about Windows 10 a few years ago because it got people on a modern browser.

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/07/29/why-everyone-should-...

Microsoft needs to jettison more legacy so they can move faster.
> ...it might be a good opportunity to re-evaluate your choice of language. Transpilers for more easily-statically-analyzable languages do exist, after all.

I find TypeScript does a pretty good job of allowing as much static analysis as you want without preventing you from using all the features of JS that break it if you wish. In an ideal world I'd work in a fully static language that transpiles to JS but the reality is it's usually necessary to deal with legacy JS libraries. I haven't seen a fully static transpiled language deal with that gracefully, but I'd love to be wrong about that!
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The politicians will never bite the hand that feeds. The mega rich both write the laws and benefit from them, this does not excuse the behavior morally, only makes it legal on paper (which, apparently is enough for some of you).
None of the attacks on your position really answer your question, which I think is a reasonable one.

If I'm hiring someone to stack boxes, what's wrong with hiring and keeping the best box stackers? Why should I be limited in the non-discriminatory tools I use to measure such performance?

The wristband isn't monitoring an employee's attitude or beliefs.

If anything, the tool would make racism or favoritism generally less prevalent. I'd say it's the managers who are affected most by this, not the workers.
Great idea - just like the badges or nametags everybody in corporate wears? Like that?
Not everybody feels the same that you do about government. Hell, I feel differently about different layers of government. I would probably not seeking to minimize my city or state taxes any more than is convenient, but I'll never give the federal government any more than it takes to keep my head.
The reason these particular laws inspire such revulsion is that they are bought and paid for by the fabulously wealthy. The law itself is immoral and illegitimate.

Even those of us who are sure that after cutting down all the laws, we could not stand in the winds that would blow then (to paraphrase Bolt)... can feel appalled at such laws, their originators, facilitators, and apologists.
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A badge is not a monitoring device and a watch is not forced one you. You wear it voluntarily. Its not that monitoring employees is wrong, but there's a way to go about it. You can't force spy devices on a person's body or close to them constantly and win the approval/loyalty of your workers.

Why not install CCTV in the loo while you're at it? Staying inordinately long in there is also a form of slacking. How about microphone to monitor the conversation between workers?
> If by "loophole" one means a legislative mistake that catches legislators and lobbyists by surprise with its unintended consequences, then it denotes something that has never actually existed.

Yeah, no, it happens all the time.

Church of Satan uses Religious Freedom law against anti-abortion legislation.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/25/satanists-say-missouris-abor...
Faith routing, amongst those who are underserved or disenchanted with incumbent faith routing providers.
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I've been coding professionally since 1992. I've witnessed the gradual decline of this profession from a fairly respected research-and-design type position to a clock-punching, time-tracking factory-assembly-type job - at least in the minds of the hordes of project/product managers who see their position as making sure that they squeeze every ounce of "productivity" out of the "lazy, slacking" programmers by accounting for every single minute spent in the office and making sure it matches up with an estimate from two months ago.
Sort of misleading:

Both Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 are still in extended support (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/windows-lifec...), and of course the older versions are no longer in extended support.

So Windows 10 is the only version not yet in extended support.
There's a narrative here that says we got into this situation by the little people being uniformed and complicit.

OTOH, it is rarely so simple, since many of the little people work for those companies. When your employer does this stuff, it is probably good for you.
The perverse incentives this instills will be worse than any supposed "efficiency" gains it brings about.
You're far too trusting about how companies treat their workers:

https://twitter.com/CollectableCat/status/932738863449214976

http://www.nelp.org/content/uploads/2015/03/BrokenLawsReport...
Microsoft abuses it's monopoly position with Office to support it's Windows Monopoly to force some users to upgrade.

Hardly surprising, but in theory this should be illegal.
The problem with this isn’t the tracking, as many have pointed out this isn’t _that_ much different than human supervisors, but rather the hugely limited scope of the tracking. There’s a lot more to what makes a human a valuable employee than can be tracked by a wristband, and while you can say all you want that this won’t cause humans to be treated like robots, if you entirely disincentivize the things that humans do well, then you already _are_ treating them like robots.
finally, someone's using an AI to get rid of all those stringy tech recruiters
if the display can handle 10 fps (the VR headsets are), there is no issue. That said, I found it easier to navigate, cycle and walk with no visual distraction and switch to high speed audio and leave the occasional map, graph, wikipedia entry or image for the monocular. For example, it was very nice dancing on the beach being my own VJ.
Yeah... the cardboard not made for consumption is definitely safer.
A lot of people have trouble with the idea that quantitative technological shifts over time can lead to a phase change. You boil water and it becomes steam, you measure someones work time at a fine enough grain (invading a privacy that some argue never was theirs but in practice has been) and suddenly you're in a dystopia.
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Big highlight note: Folks on Windows 7... probably not in a huge hurry to have the latest and greatest version of Office either. Except for the lack of security updates, Office 2007 would still be "good enough" for most users today. 2010 is still a supported, secure version of Office that does everything most people need it to.
Old sophisticated tools in India? We talking about Xcode 6?
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Very cool :) Please let me know if you get it working.
No wonder, there was no significant advances in the market since several years, only bells and whistles

I personally do not feel any need to replace my current phone (even though it's 4 years old) - the new one simply will not really add any significant value to my everyday smartphone experience

Yesterday I've replaced the battery because the old one was slowly dying (cost me around $8), and that's it
There are qualitative and quantitative differences between requiring weekly progress meetings, daily updates, and microchipping employees.
As with all things in life, it depends on what you mean by slacking.

(And the malleability of the definition of "slacking" after the practice of measuring it is established.)
No one knows, but it had an effect for every antibiotic tested in this study http://time.com/4082242/antibiotics-obesity/
Wait, is this Ai to get a job in Ai? This is getting meta...
Even Homo Economicus might change behaviour if presented with accurate information like requiring treated meat to be labelled as such. After all how can you make a rational, self interested, decision in the absence of complete and accurate information?

Given the amount of industry resistance to any and all changes in labelling regulations I think both sides are well aware of this.
And just to be cute, this uses 2 pipes and is shorter (but I would not write it this way).

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use English;
use autodie;

sub f { open(my $h,"/bin/ls $_[0]|") ; print "--\n",(<$h>),"--\n";}

open(my $o,">/tmp/out.txt") ; select $o ; f("/tmp") ;
open($o,"| wc -l ") ; select $o ; f("/tmp") ;
Am I missing something or couldn’t a big enough company just buy out 51% of the owning companies and take over/shut down IKEA?
This way his family still could get a fast payout if they all work together.
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Gold has a myriad of uses outside of it being a heavy rock. If it's price were to drop substantially it's use in industry would increase substantially and we know what happens to price when demand increases.
As companies develop more ways to ensure consistency of behavior and performance of their human assets, humans need to develop more ways to collectively bargain for their welfare against companies.
Yeah, one that strangles my wrist when it decides I slack too much or if I go the the WC too often...
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