skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To supplement your point about L being the most important ordinate for distinguishing bordering colors: that is certainly true, but there are three other properties one wants for data visualization:

1. Once you've seen a colored element in the graphic, you want to quickly match it to its corresponding element in a legend (or vice versa). Having distinct hue and chroma is more important for this, because lightness is so vulnerable to your brain's tendency to 'correct' it based on contextual cues.

2. Hues should be aesthetically pleasing.

3. Lightness tends to impart connotations to an visualization: class X is more important than other classes if it is substantially darker or lighter. Same goes for chroma. So one wants to bound lightness and chroma to within a specific range when using them for class labeling.

Another deep complication is color impossibility, which is another way of saying that for any reasonably perceptually uniform color space like CIELAB, there is no straight-forward parametrization of the space that is both linear and avoids impossible colors.

My gut instinct is that space-filling curves could play a greater role in parameterizing the valid portions of such color spaces. Desiderata 3 is suggestive: we want some parameter that 'wiggles' within the allowed range of lightness and chroma to achieve both good distinction between nearby parameterized colors, and good global uniformity of color and chroma.

This wiggling could also 'absorb' the 'nooks and crannies' that color impossibility produces.

Still a research project, though.
> The state is a mixed bag.

No argument there :-)

> They currently take 15% of my income to pay for my "retirement" when if I had been able to save that I'd end up far more secure in my retirement than I will with social security.

You would, but many others wouldn't. The point of collective plans like this is that it spreads the wealth around to people who otherwise wouldn't have any. Whether you think this is fair is another discussion entirely, but that's what it's meant to do and it does it reasonably well.

> Mix that with the constant wars

This is a problem, yes. The state has little incentive not to be wasteful and the US state has been particularly wasteful in this regard.

> There are a lot of other odd statements in here too such as describing the state as a risk taker as if the state is ever punished for its' failures.

Which is the point, I think. The state can afford to take risks precisely because it won't ever be punished for failures. This leads to waste, but it also allows for investments to be made in endeavors that would be far too risky for a party subject to market forces to take on.
It is a personal decision though, right?

Some choose more leisure and others don't.

Go talk to some ski "bums" or surf "bums" to see what I mean
A little more of the same thing:

http://feministing.com/2013/08/20/the-skyler-white-problem-c...
The negative type I was referencing would more appropriately be called "Action Faux Girl" -- plenty of in-combat competence, but the only thing that identifies the character as female is her large bust. Her personality and dialog sounds like it was written by a man, possibly as a target for his own adolescent fantasies.
Starting with the before and after GPS positions, one could estimate likely connecting paths using accelerometer and microphone inputs.
Bella from Twilight was written by a woman, and consumed mostly by women.
Depends on city, try finding a cheap apartment in Stockholm, not to mention car and gas costs. Etc.

"Extremely" low...
It's a book called Save the Cat! by Blake Snyder.

Here's the HN discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6072524
The best rebuttal I've heard against posting on Monday morning is that it gives employed job seekers more time to read through and respond to the ads. It doesn't seem like significantly less ads are posted on the weekend, but I'm sure the owner of hnhiring.me (or someone similarly ambitious) could run some quick stats.
As I said, I've never seen the movies (or read the comic books, for that matter), so I don't know what in the bonkers you're saying. It's just the fact that it was a female character being portrayed in a particular way. I probably should have been clearer about that.
When you work for 7.75 an hour to support a family, you don't have enough money to "manage," much less gamble or buy jewelry. That's what it means to be working poor. I don't think you could hack that.
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What language is your color library for?
This is Samsung’s Galaxy Gear smartwatch: A blocky health tracker with a camera
Funny sentence in the first paragraph: "I agree that female characters in pop fiction rarely get to be full, complex people".

Maybe she shouldn't be reading so much pop fiction if she craves complex characters...
Judge Says Search Warrants for E-mails Must Be 'Limited'
Nice project. Do you know about HCL? http://hclcolor.com/.

There is also uniform perceptual LAB: http://www.brucelindbloom.com/index.html?UPLab.html which is a slight tweak to LAB to reduce the 'blue -> purple' effect that happens when you tweak chroma.
The Worst Programming Environment in the World?
If you are in London, contracting is big here and many 40+ folks prefer contracting. This way you are also usually less involved in politics.
Note that in Python you usually use the syntactic sugar of for loops rather than interacting with StopIteration manually.
My understanding of BI is that it's a flat amount paid to every person (adult? working age adult? I'm not sure) without consideration for any other factor. From the Wikipedia article on the topic, "Basic income is entirely unconditional: the only requirement for receiving it is to be a citizen and/or resident of the country."

State welfare programs have a long list of conditions for who is and is not eligible for welfare assistance. If you're just talking about liquidating all state welfare and distributing raw cash instead with no net change, then sure, okay, no big loss there except for the elimination of thousands of government jobs. That's not what BI is, though - BI is Oprah. "You get $1000! You get $1000! Everyone gets $1000!" Unless I grossly misunderstand the concept, liquidating existing state welfare services wouldn't even begin to approach the financial needs of BI.
This is the whole reason for formalizing the media type that ember-data expects into JSON API. That way, you can implement whichever side in whichever language and know it all works well together.
What is "feminine personality" in that context, though?
Average rent for a 1-BR is $2990/month in Castro? Come on.
Some day they might even support proper wireframe rendering (without third party plugins)!
Code based .unity scenes for easy version control? Anyone?
Unity3D, what a love hate relationship I have with this thing. I will admit though, that the love grows with every day!
It still boggles my mind how few issues I had developing a major project with Unity3D+C#. No stack overflow or segmentation errors, hardly any crashes. The ability to play and pause in the editor is just as great as the multi platform ability.
WRT the Whoa Whoa thing, the biggest problem with social engineering is most people think we're at a space age era of it, whereas its virtually impossible to evaluate fully but we're probably closer at social engineering tasks to the invention of the wheel than the invention of the starship.

A reasonable conclusion is making things as simple as humanly possible seems to be reasonable. The longer and more complicated the regs, the more likely to be gamed and screwed up and unintended consequences.

Given that, I'd stick with "Were you breathing this month? Yes, you say? OK here's your basic income... good luck see ya next time". More or less. There are still ways to game it, just much harder.
The money could come from a number if sources, like all existing welfare programs, or public pensions, which are already incredibly high, and could be substantially lowered. Or we could cut our ridiculous military budget by a tiny fraction.
Living in an RV is innovation? Then living in a mobile home must be absolutely bleeding edge. ;)

I'm not saying that it's bad. As a kid I thought of traveling with friends to every ski resort in North America and living out of an RV. I knew a group that actually did just that and I still envy that opportunity. But I've settled down since then and I like having a foundation.
No, I think there are compelling arguments in favor of basic income that are entirely practical. For instance:

* In a capitalist, money-driven economy there are many socially beneficial activities that are not compensated (or are under-compensated), and therefore disincentivized. BIG would allow more people to partake of these activities (for instance, staying home to raise children, caring for elders, performing volunteer work, creating art, receiving an education).

* If any social welfare programs are to exist, they are most efficiently delivered through a direct cash transfer, rather than through a means-tested or other qualification-based process, reducing both waste and corruption by eliminating bureaucracy.

* If a BIG were high enough, no minimum wage would be necessary to reduce poverty, and it could therefore be eliminated. Thousands if not millions of jobs that do not exist today because of the minimum wage would come into existence.

* By ensuring a life-long minimum earnings level for individuals, a whole host of poverty-related social ills could be reduced including crime, addiction, illness and under-education.

* As more and more tasks otherwise performed by labor are automated and mechanized, existing social welfare systems, and society itself, will be strained by the needs of formerly-productive workers, as well as their families, who are affected by this transition. If such changes happen fast enough, the economy itself will not be able to adapt in creating new labor opportunities, and more worrying, in replacing their reduced purchasing power.

A BIG could make even long-term economic transitions less volatile, in large part by keeping consumption rates stable even in the face of massive and sustained unemployment. Furthermore, it should prove more adaptable to new economic and social circumstances than means-tested and qualification-based social welfare systems.
Flawed, ostensibly objective tests for subjective, volatile, potentially unkowable information (ie polygraphs, job interviews, school aptitude tests, IQ tests, etc) adre all about passing the buck to the next guy. If it ever turns out that someone is an enemy spy, then the person who hired him can't be blamed, because he "passed the polygraph". It's about plausible deniabiltlity and CYA.
Oh wow I didn't know about that notation! For anyone stumbling onto this, I wanted to elaborate on what I was getting at with regard to functional programming in c. When I learned Scheme back in the 90s, they had us do a lot of expressions like this:

(* 1 (+ 2 3))

=> 5

But I always thought it was a kind of obfuscation. They didn't mention the "define" keyword or that we could break things up into multiple lines until later in the class than I would have liked. They wanted us to think in terms of transformations on the data instead of sequential operations on it. So we were writing these enormous functions enclosed in a single parentheses that were terribly hard to decipher. This can be written as:

(define a (+ 2 3))

(* 1 a)

=> 5

So I always wanted something similar in c, being able to write code in a functional manner without having to have these unreadable one line functions. I just wanted to store the result of a computation in a temporary const variable to break things up a little. I also didn't want intermediate variables polluting my scope. For example:

const int test;

{

const int a = 1+1;
test = sqrt(a);

}

=> "Read-only variable is not assignable"

But your notation makes this possible (slightly embellished to show the power of it):

const int someOtherResult; // 41

const int test = ({

const int a = 1+1;
sqrt(a) + someOtherResult;

});

=> test = 42

Now we can break up our statements and as long as we use only const variables and don't use any global variables, we are programming in a functional manner, for the most part. Cool! Unit tests become trivial to write, static analysis finds most of our bugs, we don't have to use as many templates..

Then if we add lambdas/closures from C++11, we can pass around code as variables and we are getting most of the benefit of pure functional languages without being so restricted in syntax. The main drawback is that we lose lazy evaluation, but in the real world that hasn't hindered me except when I was dealing with databases. Supposedly java can retrieve database results lazily but I don't know quite how that works. Perhaps something like it could be adapted for c.

P.S. does someone know the name for the "({" notation? I couldn't find it anywhere thanks!
I've had a squirrel segment my Christmas lights into easy to carry pieces twice now :(
> They recoup their losses by raising prices

I thought BI inflation would happen due to people having more money to spend, not because losses had to be recouped for. Am I wrong?
So, off the top of my head I can think of these female lead roles who are 'strong' and a whole lot more, including sometimes vulnerable, weak, contradictory and even capricious:

Carrie from Homeland //
Sookie from True Blood //
Sonya from The Bridge //
Sarah from The Killing //
Jackie from Nurse Jackie //
Tara from United States of Tara

All of those are TV shows, not movies. But I think that is just my own bias, I have a hard time remembering characters in movies because I only get ~90 minutes of exposure, compared to 450-1000 minutes a year with TV.

One point in support of the argument though -- Sucker Punch which was primarily a female cast, had to cut the most pivotal scene in the entire movie where the lead choses sex & death of her mental self rather than fighting because, despite not being explicit, it was the difference between a PG-13 and an R rating.
I recall seeing some work on fingerprinting phones that are off by the differences in passive radio signatures of their communication circuits.
When we are discussing about screening at international US border, we can discount the cases that you are talking about even though you may call them terror attacks.

The point here is :

- Does screening at border reduces terror attacks : Yes

- Why? : Count the incidents

- Is it the best solution : No
Read Lean Analytics, there is a good example of a company offering the exact same service, look at what they did.
Am I the only person who thinks they haven't though the OFF Pocket through? Any phone inside that thing will go from 100% to 0% power in a matter of hours.
Done. We'll see what kind of shreds the HN community tears it into. This ought to be fun.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6311717
NYC can get really cold in the winter. RVs are not really well insulated; they're designed to be used in the summer; few people go camping in the winter. It would be expensive to heat at best, or you'd have to add a lot of insulation.
If you park the vehicle on the street and the police have decided they want crack down on "vehicular housing" in an area, they will ticket or arrest people for being inside their RVs at night.

The police won't usually break into the vehicle but will bang the vehicle and shine light into them to force people out.

I suspect that the West Coast's mild weather makes it much easier to live in an RV here. On the other hand, people are probably doing in NYC. Most people who do this aren't young professionals and keep the lowest possible profile.

It seems like the housing crunch and the recession have made police a bit more tolerant of vehicle living too.
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We are seeking experienced engineers in:

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> Realistic films try to portray the reality.

Heh. No, they don't. We call it fiction because it's fictional.

What you're really saying is that, as a culture, we're incapable of believing something if it doesn't conform to certain expectations. Which, yes, includes being unable to believe that women might be undercover cops, might be notorious gangsters, might be bank robbers.

Funny story: that's exactly the problem.
moka5.com redirects to https://mokafive.com/ which is not responding.
Testing code performance by compression type
my 2cents

either
a) you do not care anymore about the success company and only care about job security

b) you do care about the success of your company

if a) is the case, quite now! you are part of the problem. you are blaming them but are at the same time not willing to take the consequences of doing the right thing.

or

b) speak up, all the time, to anyone, not just with your peers, but also to anyone else. call this "to change the dance" you are changing how you behave, to other have to react. they will be pissed, they will blame you. they might fire you (good for you, then) or they will change their dance.

there is no alternative, everything else will just go downhill.

recommended reading: http://www.amazon.com/Seeing-Systems-Unlocking-Mysteries-Org...

buy it, read it, understand what is currently happening and what your role in it is.
Note: I only have experience with my one-man Clojure projects.

My favorite poor-man's test-feedback-loop in Clojure is to use the built-in core.assert function to put tests at the bottom of the source file in combination with my editor's eval-buffer command.

Test DSLs, test directory/file boilerplate, and setting up an autorun cycle are the three things that constitute enough of a barrier to prevent me from testing, so those are the three things this example eludes.

Here's a file of a `to-slug` function that normalizes drug names into URL slugs.

;; Production code

...

(defn to-slug [s]
(hyphenize (simplify-name s)))

;; Tests

(defn assert-slug [a b] (assert (= (to-slug a) b)))
(assert-slug "ocusert pilo-20" "ocusert-pilo")
(assert-slug "ogen .625" "ogen")
(assert-slug "ogen 1.25" "ogen")
(assert-slug "hydralazine hydrochloride, hydrochlorothiazide and reserpine"
"hydralazine-hydrochloride")
(assert-slug "hydralazine hydrochloride w/ hydrochlorothiazide 100/50"
"hydralazine-hydrochloride")

;; Sandbox

(to-slug "00-d-amphetamine")

Every time I hit C-c C-k (eval-buffer in Emacs w/ nrepl), the asserts are run which will throw an error on failure.

And since eval-buffer always returns the result of the last expression evaluated, the above "Sandbox" section represents whatever case I'm currently trying to extend `to-slug` support for. The result of which is returned on every eval-buffer.

In this case, `to-slug` doesn't correctly handle "00-d-amphetamine" yet, so as I modify the production code to handle it, I can mash eval-buffer after every change to (1) see if my change introduces regressions and (2) visualize my progress on handling "00-d-amphetamine". Once it works, I add an "00-d-amphetamine" assert-slug and move on to the next case.

As to-slug matures, I can then move the asserts to a dedicated test directory if I want to and replace the slime with minimal case tests. -- Things that otherwise slow down my exploration phase.

----

I think core.assert fills the chasm of a function's/file's lifecycle between "I'm not even sure if I want this function or what its input/output will look like" and "my source code definitely needs this and this is its API".

In Ruby, I like https://github.com/sconover/wrong.
What about Bell Labs?

Innovation can be done by the private sector. Just avoid going public so that your company can make long term investments without Wall Street pressuring your short-term results.
But the "hard working" middle class should support the society that allows it to exist, no? And society is made up of every person, no?
Shove an RFID patch in it that causes airplane mode to turn on
I think the existence of a market equilibrium would require the existence of a market. The existence of a market would preclude the existence of a truly Marxist economy.
The article implied that he had an arrangement with someone to let him park his RV and tap an electrical supply.
I'd like to see an equivalent for parsing common shell commands and their arguments. Just converting the short form to the long form would be a good start
B&D?

edit: Oh. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?BondageAndDisciplineLanguage ? Makes sense.
Test 'reveals Facebook, Twitter and Google snoop on emails'
Sorry, but I fail to see how an app locking you out is more overkill than wiping all of your devices every time you cross a border.
> Necessity is the mother of innovation.

It is, but it is not the driver of it. China was an agrarian country with insane population growth before Deng Xiaoping took office and yet the remedy of the government at that time was to increase population growth even further and spur on the youth in some sort of whack job ideological frenzy.

At some point, some people took some responsibility and turned the ship around. To my mind this is the most important thing to keep in mind about the current Chinese government: it may be staggeringly corrupt and have an absolutely frightening human rights record, but for the past thirty years it has done a surprisingly good job in reducing poverty for hundreds of millions of people. This does not mean they should be forgiven their abuses, but their successes definitely deserve credit.
Maybe it's just me but having it written in English doesn't actually help me understand complex declarations.
> Perhaps a separate list of books for "Game Designers" rather than developers would be helpful?

I contend that the difference is rapidly shrinking except in the superbloat of AAA studios. The sort of person who is going to read this list strikes me as much more likely to be an indie developer.

(That said, I've read all those books you mention and they're fantastic.)