skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm actually in England. Copyright is pretty international by treaty (although in some countries like France you can't give away your moral rights but you can still grant licenses I think).

Employment (and what sorts of contracts imply employment) probably do vary much more by jurisdiction and may have tax, holiday, and other legal implications so I do agree homework is required.
One issue is that big data is just too big for the small minds that are tasked with gaining insights from it. It is a really weird hysteria that I can't explain. Even network engineers are starting to collect every packet and archive it in some kind of distributed data store like HDFS. What insights are they going to gain from it exactly? If the goal is security then work on better network infrastructure and tools, e.g. libressl. Collecting all that data is not going to get you any closer to making better/smarter networks or allow you to fight DDoS attacks any better because the underlying network infrastructure is what makes it possible in the first place.
As far as I am concerned, a mere user, hacking python for 'academic research' in multiple aspects of structural biology and bioinformatics, I have yet to see a single practical argument for switching to or even investing time in learning Python 3 'right now'. Maybe in six years it'll be a different story, but from where I stand, python vs python 3 is a remote and ephemeral distinction, created by the grand poobahs, of zero to little significance for me.

Why should I even bother with Python 3?
The jobs are white collar in nature. They sit at desks and work on computers, dispatching freight.
Part of the fear that many people have is that you can't always tell the difference between a garden-variety "just angry at chicks" guy and a "one bad day away from taking out a sorority guy" until it is too late.
Could you go over the good solutions then? I have always heard there are about 4-5 "good but complicated" systems, none of which are easily shown to be best due to strategic voting and haven't seen clear "we should do this one because it beats all those for sure" type recommendations.
I have no disagreement with you on the merits of both CHEP and GMA pallets. I have have experienced good and bad pallets of both types, and the cost is definitely the deciding factor in the equation.

Generally, these are the pros and cons I see with the major types of pallets:

Pros
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GMA: inexpensive, standard, lightweight (a VERY big deal when cubing out a truck), easy on the supply chain.

CHEP: pretty consistent, longer lifespan

iGPS: very consistent, easy on automation, they feel indestructible

Cons
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GMA: generally a shorter lifespan, inconsistencies between manufacturers, quality varies

CHEP: expensive, heavy, red tape

iGPS: extremely expensive, heavy, red-tape

And yes, depending on the vendor, the quality of GMA pallets varies. There are excellent pallets that hold up and seem to be built with quality material, and there are others that feel like they break into pieces after a few handlings.
Seems like it needs anti-theft. Maybe a Bluetooth wheel lock if it is away from a paired device?
>Behavior like that is not acceptable for someone in a position of authority at a company no matter what the context.

Says who? It's not like the company is Disney. For some companies such antics are par for the course (e.g a gangsta rap record company).
Tennis player here..ummm... As legohead brought up, there are other things to consider like stance. I can see how this thing can be accurate if we had four of them (ankles and wrists). This can show show most of the moving parts, can replay how the body moves (likely hand location and elbow extention), open vs close stance, how fast were moving from point A to point B.

I don't know how they're measuring ball rotation, purely by the angle of an upward swing? Don't know if this is accurate. Is this an area it would suggest for improvement? RPM has a large range up to ~5,000rpm (Nadal). What would it even cosider optimal to make a shot?

Don't know how the device would know if a ball would land in or not, is this even a major area of concern for the device? Pretty strokes are one thing, but unless the ball lands in, it doesn't matter.

Depending on how accurate this device is (probably would need more than one bracelet per person), it can be used for any sports. More importantly, there's a possiblity to measure bad form and increased pressure on certain joints to prevent injuries.

Looking forward to see technologies brings forth in the coming years!
An important distinction here is that checkers is also only weakly solved (Connect Four, by contrast, is strongly solved). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solved_game

This means that Chinook can play perfectly from the start position against any set of opposing moves, but if you play a move on Chinook's side that it wouldn't play for itself, the resulting position is probably not solved by Chinook.

An arbitrary position is in fact very unlikely to have been solved.
Nice to see the effort for making mobile web apps more mainstream.

There is also http://goratchet.com/components/
I'm only listing the ones which come to mind immediately. There are others (particularly apps with one-off up-front payments) which I don't use regularly and turned out not to be important to me.

One-off (paid or freemium):

Pleco (Chinese dictionary with paid flashcard functionality)
Groundwire (SIP client for iOS, including Push notifications)
GoodReader (PDF reader and organizer for iOS)
Pushover (trigger iOS push notifications from email, IFTTT etc.)
MindNode (iOS mind-mapping)
BubbleUPnp (Android DLNA server)
SnappyCam Pro (iOS camera)
Cycloramic Pro (iOS camera)

Regular payments:

Pandora (streaming radio)
Several different virtual servers (for web apps and VPN)
Newsblur (RSS reader)
DIDLogic (monthly fee to get an inbound local phone number)
The Economist (print subscription includes online/app access)

Usage-based fees:

Rebtel (outbound phone calls)
DIDLogic (outbound phone calls)
I don't think accuracy of IMU's out there vary dramatically, and the noise shouldn't matter too much (all major ones within some +-3 db?) -- sure, if they were a few orders of magnitude more accurate you would get a whole new type of applications -- but with current ranges you're restricted to some kind of pattern recognition (i.e. not full motion tracking), which is quite noise resilient.
That's one of two points. Indeed, humans are a much, much longer-lasting system than the internet. But you can also think about why these kinks in the design of living things arose in the first place; as wikipedia nicely points out, a lot of glaring mistakes in one animal work the way you'd expect in other animals. The "mistakes" arise because they're the fastest way to produce a desirable result, and they persist for great periods because making changes to a working system is very hard. In a certain sense, history does show that adding hacks on to the "outside" of a working system, so that it stays working at all times, can be a superior strategy to trying to revamp the whole thing in an elegant manner.
Unsettling Images of Patients in Hiding After Plastic Surgery (NSFW)
Kids with wheels: Should the unlicensed be allowed to 'drive' autonomous cars
I don't mean this to be glib, but there were already plenty of phones that could serve the internet, and various mobile tools. (in much the same way there were already plenty of computers.)

Apple doesn't innovate by being first, they innovate by being best.
We're solving the bee collapse mystery on average about 2.31265 times a day now. I'm starting to fear that we're solving it so well, we're gonna produce the opposite effect - bee explosion.

And now just think about this for a second - a bee explosion. Is this really a better problem to have, seriously?

My scientific opinion is that some problems are just not meant to be solved. Instead, we should look into quadcopter beebots.
So Slashdot has forgotten to update their security certificate.
Before Apple entered the market, Amazon was selling ebooks below cost.
One of the things that always amazes me is how intensely people pursue this stuff. Which presumably means they are taking the position that you are going to screw them the first chance you get. And the thing that amazes me is that many employees don't take an equivalent stance regarding the company. Wouldn't you think that if a company was that worried perhaps should worry you too?

Love patio11's advice about having the payout be dependent on the transfer of IP, very nice and very appropriate.
What metrics to use to determine if Python 3 is a success
> violently inappropriate

Really? Violent?
Google AppEngine, Amazon EC2
That's an egregious title modification. Please do not do that.
"The platforms provides features to publish projects, trade shares in the projects and pay dividends."

Is running an unregulated "stock market" legal in the U.S. (or whatever country this site is based in)? Is buying and selling shares on such a market legal in the U.S.?
The market isn't the solution to every problem, it is in fact sometimes immoral to solve a problem with the market because money is sometimes not the correct incentive. Healthcare should not be a free market issue, the quality of your care should not depend on the depth of your wallet, nor should it be profitable to deny service to those in need of them.
This would likely make a great natural language data set for compression algorithms.
Ah, I can see now that `map` will return a list of Nones, and also that Py3 `map` returns a lazy iterator. Thanks.

Seeing how my transition to Py3 got hung up on sending bytes in and out of ZeroMQ sockets, I might stop that now.

Back to the for loop or join the strings as suggested below.
Because the people who need contract development probably aren't the same people who would sell software libraries.

Twitter, Facebook, et al, could probably make money off of all the stuff they open source. But they don't, because it's not their business.
We see Golang in production in our practice pretty regularly. Not many shops use it exclusively, but it pops up in backend systems. You're right that there are things Python does that are painful in Golang (SQL databases are a good example), but the things Golang does better than Python/Ruby, it does way, way better than Python/Ruby.

Python is, of course, ubiquitous among startups and west coast tech companies; it is basically Startup Java.
> Well, of course, this list would have only NON glue code projects!

And libraries and frameworks that support non glue code projects. Where is the list of libraries that are glued together by all this Python glue code?

> Glue code stuff is used internally, in companies etc. It's not (usually) something that you put on GitHub or open source.

People don't put their Django websites or their internal SciPy models on github either, so I don't think this means much either way.
That's pretty neat: I discuss an interesting subject with someone on Hacker News that directly affects my current industry, but I am a few levels down in the supply chain. I deal more with product distribution and logistics, while you deal with the actual manufacturing of the pallets they sit on. Thank you for your expertise and insight!
aka logistic map

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LogisticCobwebChaos.gif
Why would anyone want to live on Soylent?
I believe that they're already doing tooling for it at the manufacturing company where I intern. So don't make that bet with too many people
Exactly. Python and JavaScript is a perfect demonstration of "worse is better". Python 2 is a vastly better language than JS, avoiding nearly all of its design misfeatures and having actually useful built-in types and standard libraries. Yet while Python spent a decade to go from 95 to 99 percent purity, JS took over the world through sheer ubiquity.
Things that are "par for the course" aren't necessarily acceptable, as we all know.
> I've never heard of anyone being forced to wait for weeks for this kind of stuff in a normal hospital in the US.

That's because here they can't afford healthcare at all and they just die. Seriously, criticizing better healthcare systems for problems that don't exist while ignoring all the worse problems with our system, c'mon.

You're spewing the same ignorant bullshit you'll find on Fox News; you're brainwashed.
I think he's offended that one crazy person's actions have turned into a generalization about men (yes, "some men" qualifies it, but since you can't tell "some men" from all the other men, any action that's meant to affect these "some men" affects all men, hence nullifying the qualifier. Furthermore, your grandparent didn't even use the "some").

A much fairer (and still true) statement would be "some people do risky, strange, violent things as part of their drive for sex." If you want to further dissect the issue into the different kind of strange and violent things men do vs. other genders' behaviors, that's fine too, but by comparing Rodgers to "some men," the implication is made that his actions are endemic to men (they're not -- they're endemic to violent, crazy people).
Even so with the stakes this high they should not just trust a contractor. They should also be doing constant (not random spot check) testing at the point of use.
"Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning"

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~vmnih/docs/dqn.pdf
Bags get mixed up.
Catching it after it takes the entire facility out of commission doesn't really count as catching it, does it?
This is a great blog series, I'm really enjoying the read. Did you ever consider using an implementation of the Operational Transform (OT) algorithm? Google famously used this for Google Docs, which asynchronously merges a lot of small changes from many clients into a single, real-time document. Sounds a lot like what you built.
I am a little taken aback by their pricing strategy, or maybe I'm misunderstanding it.

If you purchase this, you have to pay (at least) $500 a year, for hosting, and $20 per scan, if you scan more than (say) 6 times in a month?
Complex numbers are the key to complex analysis which is different than just real multivariate calculus (it has certain constraints).
Neither of those guys. Richard Altmaier.
There are interactive plots, along the lines of VCA, here http://puzlet.com/m/b00dd (I am a dev).
This is like Paracosm.io
The knitting machine was denied a patent by the Queen of England because the invention was too good, and she was worried it would put the entire class of knitting women out of work.
"Thou aimest high, Master Lee. Consider thou what the invention could do to my poor subjects. It would assuredly bring to them ruin by depriving them of employment, thus making them beggars."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lee_(inventor)
If you feel frustrated to the point where you fantasize about killing people who reject your advances, please get help.
Is there anything written about the storage lifetime of USB flash drives and memory cards? I assumed that they'd be better than optical media (which I have seen degrade in <5 years)

I suspect a combination of optical media and parity data stored (PAR2 or PAR3 if I can find an open implementation) on flash media might be a good choice
Not necessarily. If you have an index into the posts and you want all the comments for a given article you can find the post quickly and the comments are just one hop away from that. Beyond that it's just like SQL (order by, limit, etc.).
Maybe a more cogent point is, crazy violent people find a ready culture of misogyny to hang their urges on. Again and again and again, its women that are the target. This can and should be changed. I hope one day soon its no more accepted to publish 'player handbooks' than it is to distribute KKK race hate messages.
Because on a small screen the size vs data density tradeoff has a sweet spot that varies from one pair of eyeballs to the next.
My standard answer is that I want to build cool things, and it and it looks like your company builds cool things. Done.
Let's combine the volatility and speculation of the stock market with the complete lack of regulation and security of the Bitcoin market. What do we get? A bullshit Voltron, that's what.
I have a somewhat similar profile to you, background in computer science and design and visual arts. I have been working independently for around 15 years now and I ended up adopting a 'title' of Creative Technologist. I picked it up because... I like it or to be precise I like how it reflects what my interests are.

This being said, I don't think it does much to improve my business which is based on word of mouth referrals and demos of my previous work. That's my brand as the consultant. It's not really the title, but people mentioning my name to new potential clients who ask for somebody who does creative technology... I don't think they actually use the Creative Technologist label in these conversations/referrals.

And in my last full-time job before before going solo I had a title of Messenger. I was the connector between developers, designers and business teams. I thought it was appropriate, but I don't think anybody ever used it in conversation. It was a good conversation starter when handing in my business card, though!
Sure that wasn't a metaphor? With all the "little things" that we can get individually, we have a bunch of ingredients that aren't really satisfying on their own. But if they could be combined in many ways, they can be useful enough to stock up on. But...

> The problem is it's a thousand little things not just one big thing.

Absolutely right. But we start with things that justify a purchase because they complete a worthwhile task on their own. That reduces the barrier to entry.
The Pebble has the potential to be the generic wearable you describe. It's accelerometer and CPU are very similar to the FuelBand, and it's easy to write apps for. I'm not sure why it hasn't taken off as a sport platform. Perhaps there are software limitations or it's difficult to monetize apps.
This is one reason In am delighted the Galaxy Nexus was abandoned by KitKat. I still have the one more mobile Browser that is capable of rendering text properly.
I really really really don't think most clients want all my intellectual property. Even I don't want it all...
This is no more than a crypto play on crowd funding, under the guise of a stock market; with effectively no consumer protection mechanisms.
It's not perfect so start over. Seems like the definition of why v2 is always so hard.
Wolfram Alpha is another place once can search for that data:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=revenue+per+employee+To...
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"I can't pronounce these ingredients" doesn't mean they are bad for you. "Cocoa Processed With Alkali" is, as the list notes, a technical name for "Dutched Chocolate". Carrageenan is from seaweed. Guar gum is a ground bean. And so forth.
I'm surprised there hasn't been more improvement in the scans - I would think given the restricted domain of interiors it'd be possible to straighten out edges and things.
what I pay for, and what value I get

Out of curiosity: How much value do you get out of each of the above services?

(Patrick, Thomas: Please don't turn this into a discussion about Tarsnap being underpriced. I'm asking because I want to hear FiloSottile's opinion about all the other services he uses.)
DigitalOcean (still on the trial but I'll be paying when it's up)

Netflix

Spotify

AWS (at work)

LastPass (at work)

Alfred 2

Namecheap

Dash

Trello

Destroy All Software (not an "app", but a fantastic purchase)

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The most valuable (in order) have been:

Alfred 2 (easily worth 10x the price)

Dash (would have paid double)

DigitalOcean (simplest VPS I've ever worked with)

DAS (still getting value out of this but loving it so far)

Namecheap (great domain service, been with them for years and had 0 problems)

I would cut Spotify but I have a visceral negative reaction to commercials. Can't stand em. I'd cut Netflix, but it's faster than torrenting and the time it saves me is worth it.

This has been a really interesting thought exercise, thanks for posting this!
Dear website developers,

I'm sorry your feelings were hurt when I declined to install your wonderful app that offers access to your website. Perhaps I just wasn't open to the awesome possibilities your app was offering me, but I already have a web browser that works just fine and couldn't be arsed to install more stuff. It's not you, it's me. I'm a bad, bad person. I get it. Now, about your "Scroll Up Bar"... It is indeed a very fine looking user interface, but my web browser already has one. I just can't seem to stop doing things that hurt your feelings, but could you please give me the option to turn that thing off?

If you're really having trouble justifying your job, perhaps I can help you out with a small suggestion. You may have noticed a trend towards wider aspect ratio screens over the last few years. Screens have gotten so bloody wide that practically nobody wants to read a column of text that is fully as wide as their screen! People were designing websites with UI elements on the sides even back when screens were slender 1.33:1 twigs instead of the McDonald's super-sized behemoths we have on our desks today. Perhaps you should take your bar, rotate it 90 degrees, and stick it on the side where there's space for it!

Sincerely,

An ungrateful, lazy, bad person who just can't be pleased.
By "noise" I wasn't just referring to noise in the sensor. PSU noise, for example, needs to be controlled to below some limit. That increases the BOM count and thus $$$.
Google believes tablets are mobile. Heck, with the new maps, Google thinks desktops are mobile!
Oooh? Am I gonna finally get my 4k Retina iMac? Please?
That's an extremely unfair reading of the parent comment. If you want to make that as a general point, at least depersonalize it, addressing to 'someone' or 'anyone', rather than a second-person direct-address.
Doesn't Twitter make a fair bit of money from selling access to various slices of their data? I'd be surprised if they released it all to the general public. I imagine scientists would have to be under some sort of NDA.
I can't understand why these things are so damn expensive.

You can get a longboard skateboard for $100-$300 or so. I'm sure you can spend more but that's a good starting number. That's for the board, the trucks, the bearings and wheels. http://www.daddiesboardshop.com/longboards/complete-longboar...

It seems like a decent, 1000W+ motor can be had for less than $200. http://www.e-fliterc.com/Products/Default.aspx?ProdID=EFLM40...

Controllers are around $100 each, I'm not sure if you could use a single large one or if you'd need a pair of smaller ones. http://www.e-fliterc.com/Products/Default.aspx?ProdID=EFLA10...

One of these packs would be enough juice to get you moving, but it might take two to get you the range you need. http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__45145__Turnigy_na... So call that $300 in parts.

Okay so $200 for the board, $400 for the motors, $200 for the controllers, and $300 for the batteries. We're now at $1100. After that what's left? I can think of:

A charger? $200 max http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__11597__iCharger_3...

Controls? Figure what, $100 for the radio unit and the receiver and whatnot. Probably much less.

Last are all the brackets and driveline parts. I figure you could machine the motor brackets out of aluminum for less than $50 per pair in quantity, the pullies are only $20 each in quantity and the belts aren't terribly expensive either.

So that's $1400 worth of parts if you're buying them at retail. If you're making quantities of these things of at least a few hundred you're going to be getting better deals than that bringing your cost down to $1200 or $1000 each.

If I'm not completely full of shit here (and I recognize I might be, this is 15min worth of googling) I guess I can't understand why these things cost $2k to buy.
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