skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't really ever referring to pure academic skill.

I have some graphics programming experience outside of a professional context, and I can say you're not going to get stuff to work by blindly copying other people's code in any complex, new, and non-trivial situation. You've got to understand what's going on to at least some degree. You'll never get the top graphics jobs by copying code; you'll very quickly be identified as someone who doesn't really know what he's doing.

With that said, anybody who's truly got the math and programming know-how for this stuff will be able to easily put together demos. A demo is not a self-published indie title. These are two totally different things. If you've got a new terrain LOD algorithm, for instance, you definitely do not need to build an entire published and profitable game to show that off to the world.
I don't write very often, let me know of anything I missed. I'm keen on general feedback too, if you feel like it.
>This philosophical argument can be answered very simply.

it is not philosophical, it is routine everyday choice everyone of us make. Like these researchers at UCSF - whether to administer analgesics or not before cutting a body part - calling it a philosophical question clearly shows your own philosophy.

>Which do you value more, animals or humans?

By asking such a question you already stated your answer. I don't ask nor answer such a question as i don't assign specific value points on lives of humans or animals. Putting such specific values and compare them has always been leading humans who think of themselves as of higher value to mindlessly butcher, torture, etc... anybody whom they think of as of lesser value, be it humans or animals.
> The worker was grateful for the opportunity

Uh-huh. And if I give you no food for a week then throw you a dog bone you'll be grateful for that too.

What a disgusting way to behave.
While aliases may be great for saving time typing, you can use them to steal from yourself the opportunity to learn how unix commands like 'tar' work. Frankly, tar should never seem like an "incantation", because most of the flags are there as shortcuts. From your example, -f and -z are shortcuts for certain pipes and redirects. 'tar -xzvf file.gz' is equivalent to 'zcat file.gz | tar -xv'; and of course the -v is unnecessary so you have 'zcat file.gz | tar x', which is a lot clearer than 'untar', which won't work for tar.bz2 files, or even plain old .tar files (but, just switch zcat to bzcat and you're golden).
How Can Marketers Use Meme Marketing Or Memevertising?
> So don't feel bad.

It's a disgusting practice that's bad for employees and good for lining corporate profits.

You should feel extremely bad, and make lots of noise about it.
I wonder how one of these Atom powered servers compares to a free EC2 T1-micro instance. This is kind of apples and oranges , since this is a dedicated server, but I'm not sure if you'd really get a lot more out of them.
Until they won't.
It would be good to be able to upvote old links/posts to 'resubmit' them, that way interesting old content doesn't drop off the map.
I have been watching this since launch, I think it is a great concept. Really looking forward to seeing it develop.
Meaning Scales, People Don't
Summary of Q&A with Mark Shuttleworth on Reddit AMA
I would use git for .dotfiles synchronization rather than dropbox cli
Flying a Drone in First Person View Using the Oculus Rift
U.S. lawmakers want sanctions on any country taking in Snowden
some more media : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QoIG7sEBf0&list=TLJpXLs0uN7...
StartupPlays is looking for a new boss
Econ 101 is simple and all, but in the real world the barriers to entry are more complex. I can see I now:

"Hey Mr. VC, do I got a pitch for you! We're going to compete directly with Amazon, but pay our people more! Are you in?"
depending on the streaming quality, chromecast could help zynga port games to the TV and create new types of gaming experiences centered around the TV (where devices are controllers, and a laptop/desktop is the brain).
The outrage at scalpers relates to how people feel what something is 'worth' against what you pay for it.

The existence of scalpers is curious. Artists could get the money they do. There are reasons why they still exist, one of them being that artists use scalpers to get cash in hand.

There is a really good episode of Planet Money that looks at why there are scalpers, how they work and what can be done by artists if they don't want them to make money:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/06/27/196277836/kid-rock...
some actual info: https://github.com/twitter/zipkin/blob/master/README.md
So store your dotfiles on github and then look up the contents of this file even if you don't have access to your home machine.
>I've never worked hard on a public-facing project without hoping people would use it and find it useful //

This is not incompatible with what I said. You can desire people to find and use a package without desiring to promote it in a standard marketing way. Perhaps the Inkscape team are happy with the ecosystem they have of supporters and users - that create such things as http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/, http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/, http://screencasters.heathenx.org/ all easily found and all providing advocacy for the project. Along with their part in LGM.

>global_welfare_added == (value_added_per_user) n_users* //

Like you said that's simplistic. If you encourage users that wouldn't benefit, despite Inkscape being a great benefit for many, then you have a negative addition to your "global welfare".

Sounds like you're ready to take the plunge though ... http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Editing_Inkscape%27s....

Perhaps you'd take inspiration from sk1 (also part of LGM) - http://sk1project.org/.
Social, cultural and political context.

The entire concept in which Amazon use temporary contract workers is seen as an exploitative abuse of the power by the employer the majority of societies outside the US.

The use of the term "wankers" leads me to believe that
pasbesoin is not American, which means there's a pretty big chances he's used to different employer - employee relations and probably stricter laws limiting this kind of thing.

Personally, I don't consider this kind of thing to be "employment". It offers neither the security of being an employee, nor the freedom of being fully self-employed.
No display - don't buy it.

Any network printer without some sort of display royally sucks. You cannot easily diagnose communication errors with a couple blinking lights.

Much easier to troubleshoot a complex device if it can actually tell you something. Sometimes trying to coax it to communicate using button gymnastics doesn't work.

Other than that, yeah, HP laserjets are pretty rad.
Okay, uh, enforcing GPL in this way doesn't particularly seem worthwhile to me.

If the end result of GPL is 1) a few companies completely refuse to distribute GPLed software (Apple, for example) and 2) the rest of the companies use GPLed code without following the rules but with no consequence 3) huge amounts of money and effort are thrown against these forces, with only symbolic levels of success in changing company behavior

... why are we even bothering?

That Don Quixote slide seems especially appropriate.
Still a paywall.
Fun bit of trivia: in a Marxist framework, where the whole 'exploitation' thing came from, it's actually assumed that the worker gets paid a fair market wage. Exploitation doesn't actually rely on someone being paid less than their fair share.

I'm not saying that people here are using that term in it's technical way, but people have different opinions on what 'exploited' means, and it can cause friction.
As far as I understand, having not used VTune, some basic features work on both, but the interesting stuff relies on Intel-specific counters in the CPU.

This doesn't mean it's worthless, though: Finding your performance bottlenecks on Intel will surely be at least a first-order approximation of the performance on AMD, too.

ARM is a little bit of a different story since the memory model is different, and you might be getting killed by something like unaligned accesses, but that doesn't mean the information is worthless; it just means you should probably use more than one tool. After all, not everything is a nail, but hammers are still good tools.
> On an evolutionary scale there hasn't been enough time to determine if modern GM crops (specifically the cross species variety) are deleterious or not.

I agree and what we need is version control. If at a later time we do find that we went down the wrong path, we should be able to revert to a prior state with a click of a button.

I would be quite shocked if Monsanto and the others weren't sequencing all of their products, in all of their iterations. That will allow us to revert to a previous state if necessary.
Google Play has no order cancellation
The difference between this and what you're looking for is akin to the difference between a mini-van and a pickup truck.
Windows Phone 8.1 / 9.0 Concept UI
Again, there's been nothing to suggest that these were sub-par working conditions. Except for the length of the engagement, which is fairly normal, I don't see anything even remotely unusual about this working arrangement.
It's even less hard to believe when you look at what much smaller companies are doing in this department. Rovio (maker of Angry Birds) already provides free Wifi to a larger area of downtown Helsinki than Google is rolling out here, and they're a company that is 1/300 the size of Google (measured by revenue). That hasn't exactly bankrupted Rovio, so it's plausible that, to a first-order approximation, Google could provide free wifi to about 300 U.S. downtowns, if they really wanted to, without stretching themselves that far.
Try Clink and ConEmu. They make CMD.exe bearable.
Uhm, yeah? I'm not sure why you repeat a subset of the things I said as though you're disagreeing. Also, show me your better example, or anyone's for that matter? Because I see zilch, so even my shitty example is the best yet.

The only time that choice should be put aside is if we are modifying ourselves to be a clear and present danger to others.

I'd argue the same for drone killings, and it's already violated there. So this basic human tened should exist, but doesn't, not really, not when push comes to shove. So again, I wonder, what possible good use could come of this? I mean, before I can see about dis/agreeing with it, I first would at least like to hear some stuff. So far we have nothing but "it's exciting" from the article, or "it's a tool" in the post I replied to. Not even "it's exciting because", or "it's a tool for". Geez.. I know it's not rocket science, but still, there has to be more than the fact that fake negative memories is what neuroscientists crave. I don't even doubt there are things to be said there, which is why asked for that. Sigh.
So good. Replacement toner is $25 and there's a reset procedure available for the included cheapie-cartridge. What's more, you can print from Android, iOS, Win and Mac no problem. All for just over a hundred bucks. I own one, bought one for my fiancee and her brother. They love 'em.
I was a contract developer at a very large "shoe and apparel company".

I saw the same thing. Low quality / skilled developers were hired on in droves. Only to "train" other new contractors. (e.g. copy all these files from my machine and do these 30 steps, and then the local environment should work)

They were hiring guys right out of India. Which made team communication difficult. It was a mess, and code quality really suffered.

I immediately started looking for a new job after started.
Pledge To Get Offline With At The Pool
That's a good point that made me think for a second.

In the end, even if I go back to Heroku, I'll have gone from Heroku -> VPS -> Heroku. But it's not full-circle or back-pedaling like it first appears. Rather, I've traded Heroku as a blissful crutch for Heroku as an automator of things I now know how to do.

The pain just means you're ready to reach the next abstraction because you've beat the level and paid your dues.
Wow, I wish all you smart people could teach the rest of us how to run a successful business. I mean, heck, all it takes to be a good business person is 20% of a coder's times? If that is all it takes, not sure why you are partnering up with someone who isn't a developer.
Even if we are 100% clear that there is no evidence that vaccination causes any malady, government mandates requiring that the government chooses what things should be injected into every single citizen crosses a very important line of freedom of action for me. Just like the argument that you may not agree with someone but will defend their rights to say it. I may not agree with an anti-vaccination person but I would defend to the end every persons right to liberty (that is choice) in regards to government mandates as to invasive procedures, pills, or injections. We have to think of the future implications of precedents like that.
They're just basically in a holding pattern until they can do "real money gaming", is what I thought. It's not clear that they have any particular advantage in real money gaming over either new entrants or existing real money gaming/gambling companies, though, especially since there seems to have been a "brain drain" over the past 2 years.
I've been curious, do you know how googlers are responding to PRISM?
I have the same printer. I don't mind the smell. What I do mind is that it doesn't work with AirPrint because it only supports postscript and not PDF files. It's frustrating that Apple doesn't support PS and the printer can't be upgraded to support PDF. I can't fix it unless I create a separate print server. And I can't fit CUPS onto my OpenWRT router.
A quadruple negative! My brain just assploded.
Things can come from bark and still be carcinogenic; that's an invocation of the naturalistic fallacy. Recent example: fish oil.
Which is why I'm trying to figure out what, specifically, is being objected to. I'm getting the sense that there is a context beyond the article that I am not familiar with, which is fair enough, I suppose, but I don't see anything in the article to suggest that this employment was in any way unusual or exploitative, at least, not as I understand it.
I think starting a security consultancy is a business idea that just might work.
I agree that it is nothing any CEO would act on of itself but..

I suspect the point was to put enough personal context into the complaint to provoke sympathy, provoke noise, get it widely read and even hopefully get it across the CEO's desk at some point where the author's thesis will at least fleetingly get considered.

At that point, gathering information to test whether the temp system is a net loss or a net gain could begin.
Use Chrome's incognito mode.
you're not the only one here, so please excuse me - this isn't a personal attack - but what does "poignant" mean in american english these days?

as an english english speaker, it's associated with regret, sadness, etc. yet i've seen it used here multiple times to mean something completely different. what?
Zynga Gives Up Gambling, Hope
> Jews in concentration camps were experimented on with intent of scientific experiment.

No they weren't. They were experimented on with the intent of causing pain. If you really believe that the intent was science then you owe it to yourself to learn more history.

> Intent doesn't matter to the subject of torture

Yes it does. If the intent is pain then pain will be maximized. If the intent is learning then pain will be minimized, or at least not increased.

UCSF seem incompetent and negligent, but why are you using them as an example? There are always bad actors. You need to look at the normal, not the extreme.

> alcohol, 'shrooms, opium, various barks, cola nut, etc... have been known for like thousands years.

We know now that they could have used it. Yet from every account I've read they didn't. They had opium, yet did surgery without it. So despite theoretically having it, practically speaking, they didn't.

> The humanity would probably be much better off if it excluded all experiments on live animals.

If by better off you mean die young then I guess so.

> Our primitive, medieval, violent mentality is that keeps us from developing into advanced civilization.

Our "primitive, medieval, violent mentality" are what is causing us to advance. Peaceful non-competitive societies never progress. And what's primitive about it anyway? Do you consider yourself primitive? No? They why do you think anyone else is?
My ‘meetup’ with Gene Kim (author of Phoenix Project)
I mean, what's to stop people forming their own signing authorities and distributing the public keys via a trusted method as we do anyway?
Old Soviet joke: in capitalist America, man exploits man. In the Soviet Union, it is the other way around!
I'm not a doctor, but having had small kids in the US and in New Zealand I noticed a marked difference in the number of jabs that are recommended. I don't know the reasons for this but the idea that it may be correlated with a larger impact of business incentives in insurance-company US versus single payer NZ doesn't seem wildly implausible to me.
Won't this just encourage both parties to choose arbitrarily wide ranges, which would cause the first filter to always pass? This would just get us back to where we started, where someone has to say a number first.
So you're saying that this company, which is playing by the rules (in that they aren't breaking any laws with their hiring practices), ought to make a move away from the practices that made them a hundred-billion dollar company because you feel that it's immoral. Do you see how that might look somewhat idealistic and, dare I say, foolish?

I never supported the 'Occupy' protests mainly because you can't influence a corporation by yelling at it. Sitting in front of those banks in NYC or wherever didn't actually change shit. You know why? Because businesses are not in the business of making people happy. Shocking, but true. Businesses are in the business of business, which is to say they make money. Some day I'll write down something that I hope will illustrate in simple terms how huge corporations operate, but today is not that day.

My point is that successful corporations, a group to which Amazon.com obviously belongs, are motivated first, foremost, and entirely by the almighty dollar. I'm not going to argue about whether or not that should be the case, but you are an idiot if you don't believe that that is the case. So if you want to alter the way that big corporations work, you need to either change the rules to make it more profitable to support what you feel are moral hiring practices, or you make it actually profitable to retain these sorts of temporary workers for the long term.

But shakin' your fists ain't gonna work.
Still can't figure out, month after month, how this lousy company is still in business. Some truly mind-blowing stuff here. Zynga folding is now expected. Mattrick will be gone in < 90 days and then the ship will finish it's descent into deep waters. Unfortunate for the employees who have been (and are being) laid off. But this company has always been a model for failure. Ripping off and blatantly copying games to monetize briefly using FB's platform and then leveraging the temporary growth into huge VC investments to quickly cash out and disappear is the epitome of scum leadership and vision.

This company has always been and always will be a pure scam. Period.
Raspberry Pi: HoneyPot
Not sure who they're targeting with this. Small guys will go with AWS as it's not worth the risk of using an untested provider to save a few dollars, big guys will likely build their own datacenter/on-premise compute grid.
>For me, the alternative to writing an `untar` alias isn't that I remember `tar -xzvf` but that I have to google it every time (or scroll through dozens of possible flags in the man page). I'm not untar'ing things every day. //

I set up a permanent history and then for important actions I comment them then just use a script "$ hs keyword" to find what I'm after.

Mind I used to use slackware so "tar xzvf package.tgz" became second nature.
They specifically said on the earnings call that they are no longer pursuing real money gaming in the United States. Part of the reason why the stock tanked so hard in after hours.
Zynga folds on U.S. gambling bet
Senate Panel vote is meaningless - basically a small group voted unanimously with respect to the panel they formed.

Nothing more than scare tactics.

The important point is: IF, Russia hands him over its a huge blow to Russian reputation, and a guy like Putin whom is balls of steel probably will not see that happen. They cannot risk a future where they cannot have any more double agents or people second guessing weather to defect or not.
> Source? The article just said they wanted to see if they can do it. Namely, to create a negative, fake memory.

Do you realize how little we know about the brain? Any information we can collect is useful. It may seem minor to you, but considering how little we know everything [that is real] helps.
Hourly rates undervalue consultants. It is a simple price based on quantity that we place on the front of customers, and have nothing to do with value, even more with relationship.

There is an awesome book about that. [1] It tells you how to set the right price and the right relationship with a customer. The philosophy is: firstly to show them the value you will provide, secondly to be able to set the right price, and thirdly the fusion of both with the contract. At the end, it is not a question to set an hourly rate and count the hours; it's about how much value you can give them, and set the right price. Then consultants build a contract with rules that reflect that (and protect them).

You have a lot of explanation inside with different chapters. It is a must read for me; even just the chapters that explain each ways to set price are a gem. You can easily adapt it to any business.

It is also similar to an post on HN some weeks ago. [2]

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Value-Based-Fees-Charge-Youre-Worth/dp...

[2] http://sixrevisions.com/business/earn-more-on-projects/
Chromecast doesn't stream from the device to the TV. It just receives a request from the device, then pulls the stream directly from the web. As far as I understand it, it's useless for games.

Streaming with AirPlay, on the other hand, is a totally different story, especially with controller support in iOS7. It fully supports the scenarios you're talking about.
Usually you're hitting the paywall if you see "&gwh=" in the URL and a huge string of characters after it that is presumably some sort of hash.
OpenStack is Not Cloud
It has only worked for me when I was outside, but even then it was spotty. It would probably work well if you could mount a directional antenna on your roof of your house though..
They do, but there are a lot more people asking for that job than for the engineering jobs.
I don't generally upvote jokes on HN, but I giggled like a schoolgirl at that one.
Johnny Deps, dependency versioning for Go projects
Fuck. I had options :( (part of my "buy long positions in evil companies, especially after bad news; people underestimate the profit potential of evil and overestimate meaningful public or government reaction" -- generally works well though.)