skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two video cameras allow stereo vision for placing obstacles, etc., into a map for motion planning.

This robot also uses a laser range finder for mapping, but there are trade offs between the two approaches, so often they are used together.
After you cancel netflix you might spend some of your newly free time reading the public domain versions of chicken little and the boy who cried wolf and pondering what their relevance might be to modern audiences.
Usually, they say they can/will share data with their "affiliates" -- you know, pretty much anybody they might enter into any type of agreement with.
Upcoming talk on hijacking Dropbox accounts
In the U.S., this could get the company in trouble, since letting you work for free violates federal and state minimum wage laws. Even interns, if they're doing work that benefits the company (as opposed to being primarily of benefit to the intern), need to be paid at least minimum wage.
Not sure of the reputation of Bose in the US but over here in the UK 8/10 people would know Bose as a high end, high quality audio company.

I'm not sure any other audio company could make such a claim in the UK.

Every electronics megastore has an elegant Bose section showcasing the hardware in an Apple-esque way.
It was a little more than 100K, but I'm being purposefully vague on the exact #s.

But let's do some back of the envelope math:
$800 day * 250 days (10 holidays) * 75% (3/4 billable)
= 150K
- 10K ? Social Security
- 5K No more 401K match
- 10K Health Insurance (Multiply for a family)
- 5K Training
- 5K Other benefits (leave, sick days, life insurance, etc)
------
115K

Some of these numbers may be off, and I've missed some things, but this is roughly in line with the original post.
I know, I've used your script in the past actually :)
Shooting in SOMA 1 Block From Zynga, 2 Dead
ability to sort by Top this Day/Week/Month
Manhattanhenge today and every day of the year.
Mpesa can be loaded with online banking which means fraud potential if you can convert it to BTC. Converting BTC to Mpesa is no problem because they are guaranteed funds, so money remittance is a real possibility but yeah no evidence this is happening
Thanks. Though ultimately it's not a moral choice or about doing the right thing, it's not the kind of environment I want to work in. And that comment absolutely was not where things began or ended with that guy.
People KNOW the meaning of diet?

Diet definition 3 from Merriam Webster: "the kind and amount of food prescribed for a person or animal for a special reason"

(by the way: who the hell thought it was good idea to put on your dictionary site a ad for wallmart with sound, and REALLY LOUD sound, that plays automatically?)

Diet products were intended, and advertised, as sugar-free stuff, for people that need sugar-free dietary needs (ie: diabetics mostly)

It was the weight loss desperate people that figured that it might result in weight loss and generated lots of confusion.

Here in Brazil the government even passed a law, that to market anything as "diet" the requeriment is that it has 0% sugar, for safety of diabetics. And whoever decides to sue a company because their "diet" product has more calories or more fat for example, is their problem, because "diet" was not meant for that.
I've been hoping since early days of Bitcoin that it will eventually get used in some countries in Africa, where inflation can be rampant, and something like Bitcoin could actually offer "stability".

The only problem was that you need at least a smartphone to make it work - and electricity to keep charging those smartphones. But I think some of the countries are getting there and are starting to meet the prerequisites.
For many countries any sort of American degree is a huge credential for any candidate returning home. Even if people bother to check the reputation of the course, which they usually won't, study in America indicates some level of aptitude in English (and for those developing countries further establishes them as being from a wealthy, high status background and capable of getting past US immigration.)

And yeah, I'm confident that the PhD from Dead Squaw would get them senior academic roles in the top national universities of some backwater countries.
Do you seriously value convenient on-demand entertainment more than the abuse of technology by the powerful to hold onto their power?
The footnote sums up everything that is eyeroll-inducing for me in this post:

We encourage users to do their microblogging
with Web sites that do not include nonfree
JavaScript, like identi.ca and other
instances of pump.io. If you prefer Twitter,
you can use the mobile version of the Twitter
site which works with JavaScript turned off,
even on a desktop computer.
Can't be any worse than the Zimbabwean Dollar
> These are the TA's we can afford.

Almost. It's more like "At Doldrum Hills State a fair amount of undergraduates are decent, but their graduate program is shit, and everyone in there is awful."
Thai Buddhism: much deeper things have gone wrong
Their main problem is that Netflix are pushing for DRM to be in the HTML5 standard.

This is indeed a complicated issue and could end up badly for the internet as a whole.
WxPython: Updating Your Application with Esky
This is a very true and real problem, and there is significant data and other studies to support her assertion.

That said, the title is a little misleading as it's "Job Inquiries" that skyrocket, not offers. Of course it takes one to get the other....
> > Neither the absence of finite resources nor the absence of capitalism are consistent features of the economy in Star Trek.

> It is in the earth economy. Other cultures still have money, but humans do not.

Well, yeah, that's claimed sometimes, but at other times the Federation does have a currency [1][2], and at least some resources are apparently rationed on Earth aside from the use of money [3].

If you want to rationalize the presentations into near-constitency, you could assume that the Federation has a monetary system but also has (or at least, core worlds like Earth have) a (by early 21st century standards) extraordinarily generous ration of most commonly used goods and public services, such that most people rarely bother to acquire or use money, though some non-hobby style jobs (including Starfleet!) exist that pay money, and interaction outside of the Federation (and, quite probably, off the core worlds within the Federation) frequently requires money (as occasionally might interactions on the core worlds.) But that's just a rationalization of what is pretty clearly an incoherent body of fiction, rather than what the designed reality of the fiction is.

[1] http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Federation_credit

[2] http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Money

[3] http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Transporter_credit
In practice, you can add a sprinkle of static to your dynamic language, adding a preprocessor that requires declaration of method_missing patterns that are acceptable to the application.
word is it's a robbery attempt at the jewelry store. at least the perpetrator had a motive other than senseless destruction.
This is scary. I go out of my way to remove gender hints from my CV. In particular I use a shortened version of my first name which is slightly more commonly associated with women. And I have had problems finding work recently. Now, do I change things because I need work? I could even pretend it was a bit of research to give a second data point to this story.
Freedom for me means a happy wife and an extra $110 in my bank account every month from not having a cable bill.

I do think that fighting the inclusion of DRM in future HTML standards is worthwhile, but this isn't going to get me to pick up a sword.
Two Dead After Gunman Opens Fire In San Francisco
Java: Methods selection with Overloading and Overriding
You're right, but people don't even read the spec. No where in that spec does it say DRM...

This specification does not define a content protection or Digital Rights Management system. Rather, it defines a common API that may be used to discover, select and interact with such systems as well as with simpler content encryption systems. Implementation of Digital Rights Management is not required for compliance with this specification: only the simple clear key system is required to be implemented as a common baseline.

https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/encrypted-med...
Yeah, I get that from the post. It's not a definitive solution though, docker is of limited use and doesn't excuse Graphite setup being broken in the first place.
300kcal a day is a lot...

For example my mom only managed to lose weight (and very slowly) after having a very strict diet of 1500kcal

This 300kcal for her would be 20% more than she needs.

Mind you, my mom already exercised regularly when she adopted that diet.
> Aside: Why would someone who makes a principled stand on free software ever have signed up with Netflix in the first place?!

Maybe some people who didn't take a principled stand on software freedom, and therefore signed up for Netflix, can be convinced to take a stand and cancel.
Someone hasn't even read the spec, it allows you to implement DRM. But it in itself is NOT DRM.
Maybe if he was using Google to host his site, it would still be up.

(Yes, I'm being glib, but with a point - there are real downsides to moving away from services like Google that have industrial-strength cloud services behind them. Just because you can move to other things or self-host to improve privacy doesn't mean there aren't major tradeoffs.)
What I get in Chrome on Windows 8:

Unable to make a secure connection to the server. This may be a problem with the server, or it may be requiring a client authentication certificate that you don't have.
Error 107 (net::ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR): SSL protocol error.
I totally agree with this. It's one of my pet peeves... dynamically generating method names so you can't actually search for them. Personally, I think code readability is one of the greatest goods in programming, and in general I would tend to place it above DRY as a priority (within reason)... particularly for mature, large, complex projects that require large teams (meaning lots of new people). And for the most part that's what I'm always hoping I'm building.
How long until they're declared a monopoly for the 2nd time?
Hey can't I do both?
Have you been to Brazil lately?
I've met people who survived Auschwitz.
Open Web Interface for .NET - Decouple server and application
The examples shown in the post aren't wrong because they fail the grep test, they are wrong because they A) capture an uninteresting abstraction that is not likely to see much usage as the program gets more complex

My understanding is the point of doing the grep test is to avoid capturing uninteresting abstractions not likely to see much usage as the program gets more complex. If you are a programmer who sometimes loses sight of the program's real goal because you're worrying about code duplication, the grep test might be useful for you.
Bob eats more calories than Bob burns. Bob gains weight.

Ann eats more calories than Ann burns. Ann gains weight.

You can make a rough comparison between Ann and Bob - they eat extra calories, they gain weight.

There are some bugs that help people gain weight; there are some bugs that help people not gain weight. People do different amounts of exercise. People are lousy at recalling what they actually eat everyday. But, really, calories are calories.

> And thus it's entirely possible that a calorie-free substance, which has impacts on metabolism and how your body decides what to store, can impact weight gain.

I disagree, and I'd like some credible references. Unless you're talking about amphetamine sulphate.
Snowden's location is not a secret. Announcing that yes, he is indeed where everyone knows he is, does not put him in jeopardy.
Don't you like that part about technology/disruption? Normally, it would need to trickle down, which means some countries would always be decades behind others when it comes to a certain type of infrastructure or technology.

But thanks to disruption, not only can some countries completely skip one or two types of technology at once, and jump straight to the latest one, but sometimes they can actually get ahead of the "developed" countries, especially if those countries are too "entrenched" with a certain technology, and it resists moving on to the new disruptive one (so basically the same rules of disruptions that apply to companies, apply to countries, too).

If Bitcoin keeps going to achieve its true potential, I could see how the first country to declare Bitcoin as its national currency, wouldn't be a "developed country", but an African country or something.
Bose.com have a pretty nice tribute running right now:

http://www.bose.com/remember/index.html
Here in Brazil soda is called "diet" too, yes, in english even (correct porgueuse would be "Dietético", wrong portuguese would be "Dieta")
Thank you for a great explanation/analogy.
I hope that didn't cost serious $$$. Looks like a freebie font turned into a logo.
It saddens me to know there are people who think the presence of women infringes on their right to make sexist remarks. And that making sexist remarks is such a vital part of their everyday life that hiring women is the unacceptable route.

It is a problem when "sexist remark" has a much more vague definition in court than in everyday life.
I'd like to read that. Do you have a link to the spec in question?
Watch low level racism evolve in realtime on hackernews
"I understood gender discrimination once I added “Mr.” to my resume
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6033567"

I noticed this title on the front page and remembered a similar story but based on race.

The link below was flagged as not being worth hackernews, but i found it a contradiction that the above link was so much more welcomed and people related more sincerely than this one:" Unemployed Black Woman Pretends to be White, Job Offers Skyrocket (2012) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6034800 "

Therefore i decided to search for the link and resubmit it to see the comparison in compassion and tolerance. So far the difference is night and day, the top comment on the thread dismisses the whole article, despite the amount of comments and points, the article is already kicked off the front page of HN yet the other one has over 300pts and is trending really well! Why is there this lack of compassion and disdain for discrimination based on race vs gender? I am currently scraping the comments to run sentiment analyses so that i have facts to back up this point. I kind off feel bad for black people in the U.S. it seems like anything race based is automatically pushed off as whining and not worth the tech communities time.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
Getting started with Docker and Owncloud
If you don't want to get it, I can't explain it to you.
I haven't played with Firefox keywords really but isn't the saved search still going through whatever the default search engine is (in Firefox, Google)?

[Update] I guess my point is that DDG has it ready to go and the syntax is usually easy enough to figure out without building up one's own keyword list.

Maybe I'm missing something, but it just seems that DDG offers a better solution.
>Since from his charts it looks like the bulk of his processing time is due to the database connection and transfer, what other framework/language is going to eliminate that. I am sure many alternatives have faster routing, serialization, and response generation, but that doesn't seem to matter with a database involved.

Oh, it really does. Not all database drivers, not the rest of the pipeline from DB to your data object, are the same.

Take a look here:
http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r6&hw=i7...

and here:
http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r6&hw=i7...

Particularly interesting is how PHP, from being quite low as raw speed is concerned, gets way higher when multiple DB queries are used (due to the heavily optimized MySQL, 3rd generation IIRC, drivers I'd assume).
> Is it an impractical position?

Only because our consumer culture places such a high value on entertainment. There are way more important things, though.

And no, I don't have a Netflix subscription; haven't for years. Flirted with Spotify some months ago, but canceled that too.
Only game in town, in Canada.
There is a difference between gratis and libre software.
What I'd like to see is their analytics showing how many unique users are playing the game compared with sales numbers from the App Store, to get the actual percentage of piracy that's occurring.

Bonus points would be to show how many jailbroken users have purchased vs how many have pirated. Not sure how'd you detect this without IAP and receipt validation, though, given that that's the point of piracy...
http://xkcd.com/1234/
Docstrings are (generally)available at the runtime, comments aren't: they are bypassed early in the parsing. They are completely different beasts (in python like in other languages).
First, "crazy" isn't automatically a negative term. It can even be seen as positive. Apple used the word in a ad campaign[1] early in Steve Job's[2] return.

As to the infrastructure, it really has nothing to do with some fear of socialism. It is very much the problem of cost s, regulatory hurdles, and (increasingly) lack of skilled workers to carry out the construction. Court costs are the biggest killer. Every group is going to bring a lawsuit in any big infrastructure project. China doesn't have to worry about that[3].

For all the talk, if high speed rail was $1 million per mile and we had no lawsuits, we would have the things all over the place.

1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjgtLSHhTPg

2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syhEFKuX5yI

3) sometimes this hurts more than helps when problems arise in the project
Done.

http://i.imgur.com/TEmlmpw.png
> Do any brands really advertise drinking their diet soda as a method of (actual) weight loss? I can't think of any that actually present it this way.

Diet brands are pretty old. I guess when they were introduced the advertising regulations were less strict.

Here's a horrible ad-infested 23 page collection of diet coke ads for the past 30 years.

(http://www.tressugar.com/Diet-Coke-Commercials-From-80s-2434...)
Wow, one block from the police station?
I'm going to regret this joke, but: I posit the difference lies in how much cache you need.
"The truth may be an offense, but it is not a sin."
Look at the picture of the showroom - the Apple store of its time perhaps?
http://idreamlo-tech.blogspot.be/2012/07/olivetti-studio-44-...

Their Venice showroom is a museum now:
http://www.negoziolivetti.it/photogallery-0
" I have to take time out of my day to do something I'd pay someone for. "

But apparently you wouldn't pay enough to have them do it, so it's more valuable to you to use your time to do that job.

If you paid more, you could more effectively utilize your time.

"So, if you get $20k per year as a livable wage (figure just chosen for easier math) and a job would've paid $25k, you get the $5k difference in your paycheck. This would help keep the low-interest, but easy, jobs staffed."

So you would only be getting paid 5k then. If I don't work at all, I get 20k. If I work, I get 25k.

I think that's what you're suggesting. Unless you're suggesting you get nothing if you don't work, at which point we don't have a basic income anymore, and this idea is moronic.
You say it doesn't work on Linux natively, as if this DRM solution will.
"In the end there's no way around the first law of thermodynamics."

The first law of thermodynamics only applies to a closed system, and doesn't automatically have much of anything to do with whether something as complex as a body stores fat or not.
Exactly. If DRM is necessary for Netflix to function, that's fine... but then Netflix should not run through pure HTML, it should require a native binary program separate from HTML to run the Netflix video stream.

Flash and Silverlight are bad programs, but they're better than corrupting the HTML standard itself.
I said it in a similar thread a few weeks back, and I'll say it here: Netflix isn't the problem. They're stuck with DRM if they want to exist because the people they get their content from won't license without it.

Stop consuming all media produced by the studios who have been driving DRM forward if you value freedom. That means stop going to the movies, stop watching TV, cancel Netflix, don't patronize Redbox, don't even torrent the stuff you want to see. Just completely reject it. Go read a nice paperback book instead. Yes, that means you don't get your entertainment, but you can't have your cake and eat it, too.

Kvetching that Netflix is the Big Bad Bogeyman here is like blaming your grocery store for the nutritional content of the food you buy from them.
Is there a way of testing for websites' existence on Reddit by a hash?
I would argue that Dota is just tower defense which predates the common form of tower defense made popular on mobile phones. There are towers, creeps follow established patterns, and the creeps attempt to destroy those towers. That's tower defense.
And that's what they are apparently pushing for, to be implemented in the spec (maybe so it cannot be blocked? I'm not up to date with the details).
The entire purpose of EME is DRM, and EME plugins (that are actually used) will only be used to implement DRM. I believe the spec is deliberately obfuscated to try to defuse opposition, but that only worked for so long.
Thanks, Mods.

Thmods
Basically what Netflix wants to do is standardize the use of DRM technology in HTML and web applications. Currently, most "premium" content from Netflix, etc. is delivered via proprietary plugins such as Flash or Silverlight. What the new "DRM" extensions to HTML5 do is standardize the interface between your web browser/video player and DRM modules.

The DRM module itself would probably still be a closed-source, black-box piece of software, but the playing of the video would be handled by the browser natively w/o the need for plugins like Flash or Silverlight (since after decryption you end up with a standard H264/WebM stream in a <video> tag.) Now, sure, you can argue until you're blue in the face that DRM is bad, but the good thing is that you're separating the DRM from the presentation/rendering layer. This is, without a doubt, a step forward.

In theory this would make things even easier for pirates wanting to capture content since now there's a standardized way for the browser to interface with the DRM layer, decrypt the content, and play it.

The FSF's argument here is null and void because Netflix never was a free service to begin with. They never claimed to offer Linux/free software compatibility, and as a private company they have no obligation to.
This.

Netflix would like to add DRM to HTML 5 so they can migrate away from Silverlight. Right now there is no way (without Wine) to use Netflix under Linux. So in practice the FSF is campaigning against a more open web in which the #1 FOSS OS can run Netflix out of ideological reasons.
Good call, they will probably now offer you a free month to entice you back!
Looks like the mods got this. Thanks, Mods
Seriously. How did this get past the USDOJ antitrust division?

(And for that matter, are large M&A events like this approved by the DOJ beforehand, or are they investigated after the fact?)
Any suggestions or feedback ? :)
The problem isn't Netflix - it's going to use DRM regardless of how hard it is. The loss is the smaller and user-generated content sites who would have chosen to not mandate weird plugins, but will end up crippling videos to force people into sanctioned methods of viewing. Most cable companies set the "don't copy" bit on rebroadcasted over-the-air channels - they have little reason not to.
What's the alternative?
How do you get DRM into browsers that don't support plugins or extensions?
Game of Life in Javascript and Canvas
Considering that a large number of people who frequent HN work near there, I think we can make an exception.