skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disinclined as I am to use Apple's "Retina" marketing term, it is a conceptually useful distinction. On a given display at the real world distance you use it for work, you can't see the pixels.

That is what we as users want, and it is also the limit of what is useful: packing additional pixels into the same surface area doesn't help anything.

This monitor isn't quite there. But it is still a big leap in terms of progress over the standard 2560x1440 27" inch panels currently used by Apple, Dell, etc.

We already have similar monitors in Japan for like $4000... it will be interesting to see how this one is priced.

I have a couple 30" and a newer 27" monitors, but I'd trade all three of them for one 24" truly retina monitor.
It's maybe me being subjective, but the last one seems to have a bit of meaning too.
I was actually referring to https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/graphs/contributors , didn't check the Authors file. It's very cool to have been a part of this.
Was it responsible for the police to chase them at this time?

two vehicles full of people involved in some type of criminal activity

Was this yet another incident where the police self-escalated the situation?

I sure hope there was a precise reason this happened and not that "they smelled pot".
I think the post might be old (though post 1998). Tie wearers haven't been the majority in any tech setting I can think of post dot-com boom (although I have no experience of academia where they may well remain hot.) I'm a frequent tie wearer and tend to be the odd one out nowadays even in management-heavy situations! :-)
If you had absolutely no idea for what kind of salaries people got around here, then this data would be useful. Is it $25k or $250k? This can answer that question.

But what people are really interested in is "is $125k high or low" and this data is useless for answering that question. It is worse than useless because it may lead you to believe something that isn't true and think you have a valid reason for believing it. It's worse to know something that isn't true than to correctly know what you don't know.
"I have several free web browsers on my laptop, but I generally do not look at web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites operated for or by the GNU Project, FSF or me. I fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see git://git.gnu.org/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly."

Source: http://www.stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

Maybe because he's just interested in the textual content.
Apples and oranges are in the same aisle in the grocery store. Good enough reason for you, I suppose?
Doesn't stock affect the money you get from investments? Be it seed or later series.
C++ has a lot more than 4 pointer types. Rust just moved some of them from the library to the language.
If we posit that society should be free and open, then what is the problem with the government obtaining this information in the first place?

By analogy: I walk down a public street freely and you can take my picture freely, and follow me, and make notes about my whereabouts. You're under no obligation to notify me that you're collecting that information about me, since I'm moving in public.

Not that I'm arguing in favor of this government power. I'm just saying that I think the heart of the matter is that we feel that some aspects of society should not be free and open. There should be a significant legal burden on the gathering of certain information.
> RMS has thought deeply through these issues for decades, you aren't going to discredit him with 5 minutes of snark.

But he has weird personal hygiene. Certainly that invalidates one or two of his moral/philosophical points!

/s
So it seems - http://www.dol.gov/elaws/faq/esa/flsa/011.htm - that if you're a software developer in California earning under $81k and you work more than 40 hours per week, those extra hours should be paid at a minimum of 150% your normal rate, if I'm to understand correctly. Or is it possible for an employment contract to specify a higher number of hours as the "standard" work week?
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If they can't afford to pay a market salary, you should be getting at least 0.5% (and probably more like 1%). Still not life changing at 40mm with no dilution (200-400k), but a little more meaningful.
It's more California, they have some pretty interesting laws on their books.
Given you know his current salary, would you offer 2-3x bump?
hardly even new car money.
Then, don't do it?
That would be interesting to know. I'm pretty sure he only uses cash for transactions since it's easier to stay anonymous.

I wouldn't be surprised if he gets compensated with briefcases filled with bills...
massive. AFAIR pedestrians aren't even allowed on this bridge, correct?

other pic https://twitter.com/SerkanBALBAL/status/340711369617833984/p...
The book details building ML systems with Python and does not necessarily teach ML per se. It is a good time to write a ML book in Python particularly keeping in mind efforts to make Python scale to Big Data [0].

What material you want to refer to is entirely dependent on What you want to do?. Here are some of my recommendations-

Q : Do you want to have an "Introduction to ML", some applications with Octave/Matlab as your toolbox?

A :Take up Andrew Ng's course on ML in Coursera [1].

Q : Do you want to have a complete understanding of ML with the mathematics, proofs and build your own algorithms in Octave/Matlab?

A : Take up Andrew Ng's course on ML as taught in Stanford; video lectures are available for free download [2]. Note - This is NOT the same as the Coursera course. For textbook lovers, I have found the handouts distributed in this course far better than textbooks with obscure and esoteric terms. It is entirely self contained. If you want an alternate opinion, try out Yaser Abu-Mostafa's ML course at Caltech [3].

Q : Do you want to apply ML along with NLP using Python ?

A : Try out Natural Language Tool Kit [4]. The HTML version of the NLTK book is freely available (Jump to Chapter 6 for the ML part) [5]. There is an NLTK cookbook available as well which has simple code examples to get you started [6].

Q: Do you want to apply standard ML algorithms using Python?

A : Try out scikit-learn [7]. The OP's book also seems to be a good fit in this category (Disclaimer - I haven't read the OP's book and this is not an endorsement).

[0] http://www.drdobbs.com/tools/us-defense-agency-feeds-python/...

[1] https://www.coursera.org/course/ml

[2] http://academicearth.org/courses/machine-learning/

[3] http://work.caltech.edu/telecourse.html

[4] http://nltk.org

[5] http://nltk.org/book/

[6] http://www.amazon.com/Python-Text-Processing-NLTK-Cookbook/d...

[7] http://scikit-learn.org
How are Canada, the U.K., Australia, or New Zealand not comparable? Have you never heard of the Anglosphere?
This is just the base pay though. Total pay could indeed exceed 150k
Gang members are absolutely not equal humans, as they make their life by taking, not creating. Janitors do.
"And, developer-friendly features make it incredibly easy to transform your existing, normalized schemas into liberated JSON ones!" Ugh

I love PostgreSQL, but now it seems infected with a strain of this NoSQL bullsh!t. The quote from the MongoDB documentation is telling, because it is junk, as is this 'liberation' of schema. PostgreSQL is sufficiently flexible and powerful to not need this abrogation of proper design to succeed, except in some imagined competition with 'noSQL' solutions.
Generalist vs. specialist is a question of org size and, on a personal level, whether you want to be a manager or a practitioner. It's basically a 4x4 matrix.

1) large org, practitioner: be a specialist
2) large org, manager: be a specialist or a generalist
3) small org, practitioner: be a generalist
4) small org, manager: be a generalist

Even if it's arguable that small orgs would perform better with specialist practitioners, in reality few have the budget to hire large teams of specialists.
one of my favorite XKCDs speaks directly to this -- http://xkcd.com/927/
This happening so infrequently in tech makes it less of a loss. There are communities terrorized by criminal- and police-related violence, that lose so much more. Events like this should be a wake up call to be aware that tragedies happen all the time outside our bubble. And what can we do to prevent them?
It's so easy to focus on the bad in a situation like this but I wonder how many successful police pursuits that resulted in lives being saved. It reminds me of airbags, if they save 99% of lives but end up causing 1% of deaths then it is seen as a bad thing, but in reality it is really saving lives. It's just a terrible situation that's hard to understand, there is no black in white right answer.
I remember having a cow when rounded corners came out; it might have well been the second coming of sliced bread. Then I realized I didn't even really like look
So, host a known-safe copy of the code somewhere in the cloud with https access (e.g., one of your appspot apps). Then you'll know where to find it whenever you need to regenerate a password.

Of course, you'll still need to trust that the machine you are using isn't logging your keystrokes. You face that problem in any case, but it's worse if all your passwords are exposed instead of only one or two.

You probably should have two or three pass-phrases. E.g, one for banking and brokerage, one for other business use, and a third for fora, social networking, etc.
Interesting color palettes..but what does the color mean?
That's a stretch. If he's allowed to post his opinions, we're allowed to post ours. The strength of HN is in the dialectic.

He has some clearly strange habits - I wouldn't call him extreme, radical or militant per se, but he obviously doesn't carry himself like most people.

I don't think the majority of us are trying to diminish his contributions to the internet community. Rather, we're commenting on how odd he is. That's okay, it's just humorous in a nutty way.

RMS takes the cynical beliefs people often think when they hear Christmas music and hate it, and takes it to actually doing it (to provide one example).

"Ugh, fuck the holidays. I hate always having to spend money on people I pretend to like."

^Most of us get over it. RMS has the anti-social (I don't mean that in a DSM or pejorative sense) solidarity to actually stop celebrating holidays. It's admirable, just weird.
The conventional (conservative/economic liberal/libertarian) wisdom is that employers are reluctant to hire new youths because these states mandate so many employer provided protections for any new hires. Employers become risk averse, unwilling to give anyone untested a first shot at the labor market.

Evidence is somewhat mixed based on this chart. The UK has traditionally had lower severance ("redundancy") pay requirements, and is lower on the chart, but close to the EU average. Germany is fairly low on the chart as well, so... maybe youth unemployment is driven more by GDP / worker productivity / promotion of internships / demographics, any number of confounding factors.

The risk of even discussing this idea, even agnostically, is it can beg attacks on the social safety net, so everyone drowns in the quicksand of passionate partisan shouting.

Maybe there's a way to sidestep the traditional arguments and get something out of the discussion. Say we assume the European safety net is non-negotiable, but say we also believe that employee protections may make employers reluctant to hire. Is there a way to implement the same social protections that would blunt the unintended consequences?
How can we even judge? The police back off often when they sense that a chase is too dangerous, they make a judgement call. Sometimes they don't have perfect information however, and shit just happens. It is not like the movies.

I'm sure the officers involved are second guessing their behavior now, its not like people die every day like this. But really, its a tough job, we aren't really in a position to judge.
Agree! I just finished reading his "speaker visit pack" - https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/pipermail/developer...

what an ideal nerd :)
And they even let the driver recover in a hospital, at tax payers expense.

And of course no mention of the officers name.
Sadly enough, he actually has a point:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/sto...
Awesome work.

My only disappointment was not seeing the Twilio logo in there.. but realized it would be too easy to be challenging. :)
Maybe I'm missing something, but doesn't this mean Reddit has to register as a money transmitter (I.E. what Mt. Gox didn't do)?
You can leave the package on your porch, and they pickup sometime that mail day, same effect as taking it to the post office. Takes about 4 clicks to request the pickup.

It's a pain if you don't have boxes and tape and whatever, that's true -- looks like your service handles that for you which is pretty sweet.
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This might be misleading. Germany has something named "mini job" or "400 euro job", where you are paid exactly 400 euro which barely covers the groceries and the rent for a room. A lot of young people have such a job, and this keeps the unemployment rate low.
After watching police chases on TV my whole life, I really want to know:

What's the logical strategy in a police chase? Just keep driving after each other? It risks the lives of hundreds living and walking in the path of the chase all for the sake of punishing 1 or 2 individuals. It just doesn't seem to add up to me.

What a shame we lost someone so brilliant for nothing.
What makes someone more significant, then? What's your measure?

People aren't equal, you can't make it so by saying it.

The man who died was more significant than the man who killed him.
> things would be a little rough

Can someone else get access to all the company-owned code the developer was working on? Is someone insisting that the developer doesn't keep three months of work on a laptop? Who else can get access to the passwords and keys for company-owned servers and services maintained by the developer?
Police in the US are notorious for causing chases in dangerously crowded areas and endangering innocents.

So much so they had to pass laws to make it illegal for police to do chases in many cities/situations to stop them.

http://www.pursuitsafety.org/

http://kristieslaw.org/

http://abcnews.go.com/US/police-chases-california-injured-10...

More bystanders are injured or killed during high-speed police chases than by stray bullets. In California, more than 10,000 people have been injured and over 300 people killed because of police chases in the last decade, according to newly released statistics from the California Highway Patrol.

Nationally, it's estimated nearly 300 people die each year as a result of high speed police chases.
Yes they are not allowed. The people from the biggest district on Asian side are walking to the European side.
his priorities are more to do with freedom then they are to do with tracking. I don't think he would use those phones because those phones do not have their source available.
If you are anonymous why not?

This is the elephant in the room that everyone wants to know.

I doubt this story would even have made the front page of HN without the outing by Rap Genius.
Cheer up! It could be worse, how about u$s10k/yr, 20yr experience... an american software engineer working in the south, very south, so south it's spelled as Argentina! Have a nice day!!
> how much does it cost? Will I have to travel to the Post Office? How long will I have to be there? Do I have the packing material? Should I insure the box?

Simple solution: use flat rate USPS priority boxes. Order a few of each size for free and stick them in your closet with a roll of packing tape.

You know exactly what it will cost, you can get a free next-day pickup from your house, and you can use newspaper for packing material.

Only works if you ship small-ish stuff, but it's brilliantly easy if you sink 10-15 minutes into the prep.
That's pretty much entirely false, at least as I can see it. Employers can and do hire young, inexperienced people on contracts that say "we can fire you when we want and we don't owe you". Those aren't proper long-term labour contracts, true, but it's precisely what you want for someone who's getting a job for the very first time in their life.

Edit: for the record, I'm from Bulgaria and our unemployment rate for under 25 years-olds is 28%, according to latest Eurostat data. Back in 2008 we were at nearly German levels (11% vs 10%). Interestingly, Germany is the only country whose rate has gone down rather than up in the last few years. Their graph is almost perfectly asymmetrical with the ones for countries of Eastern Europe.
Would-be Chicago backpack bomber gets 23 years
Works pretty well compared to some similar ones I've tried, nice one!
I don't think tmpfs is involved at all; it's just moving things out of the way instead of deleting, first. The actual delete runs in the background, so you can get an interactive shell back and keep working while the delete happens without blocking you. I usually do an approximate equivalent of just renaming the directory itself and making a new one in its place (and removing the renamed one in the background).
You can learn a lot about a man from his CSS :

http://stallman.org/stallman.css
This. Now, I don't actually understand statistics at all, so please correct me if I'm missing something, but as a European I find this poll pretty telling, and a good indication of what to expect if I'd consider moving to the Valley.

Clearly, at least the maker of the poll seems to assume that I can expect to earn at least $80k-ish. I earn a bit over half that now. This is a very big difference.

Additionally, given that most people in this poll earn well over $100k, and I'm a pretty experienced programmer, this poll teaches me that asking for, say $120k, at an SV company, isn't an odd request. People won't frown or laugh at me. They might not want to pay me that, and just as well I might be undercharging, but it's not out of the question.

Can I draw these conclusions? If not, why not?
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Egad! No wonder so many Bay Area companies are going remote.
Poll: have you ever had thought of killing yourself? 
I sometimes get those thoughts..really want to know how common they are. You can write down why you have those thoughts in the comment section
You can't use Reddit to cash out your Bitcoins to dollars.

This isn't something that reddit is doing, it's something that reddit users are doing on reddit.
And from BBC : http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x10fa2s_bbc-in-az-onceki-ya...
Let me get this straight - you think military influence on a government is what can preserve democracy? Because you think that in the case of a government that is heavily military based, that military part of the government would be for people?

You're free to believe that, I suppose, but you'd be ignoring most of the world's history. Revolutions happen when normal people rise up against the government, no the military. The military is usually busy shooting those people.
> I feel badly for his family and coworkers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2_d6Hwvh5I&t=36s
The book "Elements of Statistical Learning" can be downloaded as a free PDF : http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/

It does not discuss "big data" but offers a statistical perspective on machine learning / "data mining" techniques.
The HN headline's grammar is ambiguous and could be improved. It could be read to mean "The co-founder was killed by a gang while he (the cofounder) was trying to escape police," or it could mean "The co-founder was killed by a gang while they (the gang) were trying to escape police." (According to the article, the latter meaning is intended.)

The HN headline is still many times more informative than the linked article's headline, "Santa Ana police chase: Pedestrian identified." Even considering the newspaper's audience (who, unlike HN, might not know or care enough about Oculus Rift to merit its mention by name in the headline), the fact that the pedestrian was killed by a gang while the gang was trying to escape police would presumably still be of interest.
Oculus Rift Developer Killed, A Bystander During a Police Chase
I believe a lot of departments have moved to giving up those chases for just that reason. I'm sure there are situations where they will/will not pursue though I'm not sure what the criteria are.
I agree with everything on the article, but:

If you have authorship markup and you are the #1 result or the only result on the page with authorship people will skip you and click on something else

Almost no one at all in the SEO industry is going to agree with this statement, almost all of us have example after example after example of where the exact opposite has happened. I’m sorry but you’re wrong on this one.

Care to share some data? I for one am discouraged by happy faces next to an article.
I prefer, a lot, writing my own.

Simplicity and clean understanding of the code always beats an APi with 3000 lines of code behind it I have never read

Then again I'm not typical
According to the article they killed a police officer and ran, if you don't pursue them how are you going to catch them? Aftersll, they did murder someone, and apparently they had warrants, so it seems reasonable to assume we dont want them out running around anymore as they sre likely to commit more fiolent crimes. Furthermore, if have a policy to not pursue, then every criminal is always going to run.

The fault is on the criminals, not on the police trying to apprehend them or the pursuit.
I don't think so. The users are sending Bitcoins, but Reddit is only receiving dollars. It's the merchant account provider, Coinbase, that might have to do that.
China’s Food Deal Extends Its Reach, Already Mighty
Stupidity is ubiquitous!

I do not think you can segment Engineers different from the society & Humans in General ... There are Arrogant people everywhere, those who think they are in some way better than others. Not just that, they think everyone else is stupid :)
Notorious? None of those links provide evidence to support that generalization, do you have a source that can?
> Revolutions happen when normal people rise up against the government, no the military.

because when the military does that it's called a coup not a revolution and takes 2 days not 2 years.

but I too didn't get his point about the military.
This reminds me of this important video, in which RMS can be seen taking advantage of down time to use his computer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pube5Aynsls
Not easy to sell in schools for ed-tech startups
Here's Evernote - http://i.imgur.com/EeXRsNA.png
and Apple - http://i.imgur.com/ufutrhZ.png

I think they actually look pretty cool, almost like pieces of modern art.
Actually, his father said it. It is often misattributed; most notably by Steve Jobs all throughout his life who never admitted he was wrong.

http://www.fastcompany.com/40565/cdu-gretzky-puck-stops-here
Normally I'd agree, but if you read the entirety of the article (or even half of it) you'll pick up the bit about the fatal shooting at the original scene of the crime (not sure if an officer was killed or one of the alleged criminals).

It's debatable what to do in the aftermath, pursue (the instant gut reaction) or sit tight and hope that other officers in the vicinity can intervene. Usually it's the former, and the consequences seem to involve carnage in one way or another (obviously tragic in this case as an innocent bystander was killed).
I've never had any problem making critical comments about Heroku's load balancing design under my real name. I honestly don't know what you paranoid people are on about.
I can only speak for a city called Rosario, in Argentina... it's actually a sixth of that: u$s10k
The U.S. has not followed a program of austerity, and our economy and hiring is recovering faster than Europe's.