skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I accept everyone, then quietly delete the annoying people / recruiters every couple of months.
Me personally? Not without asking, no.

I have been in far more close calls as a result of being distracted by my passengers than by my cell phone.
Wouldn't it be the same as using a Google Glass while driving?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Computer+Programming+Is+a+Trade%3B+Let%...
I don't know about you but for me - yes, it's that easy. I don't remember ever working overtime without payment.

Granted I am not afraid to get fired so there is no fear involved. However I never got fired in my life.
> I'm pretty sure the core argument doesn't take several pages to simply express.

It doesn't, but to support it with evidence and examples, it does. That is what makes an argument/position robust and harder to discredit/disprove.
The opposite holds, too, though. Salaried employees make the same amount whether they work 30 hours a week or 50.

That said, most people try to average out to around 40 hours, because they usually agree to five 8 hour days.
Is there no precedent for a warrant like "this whorehouse, address blah blah, and all the whores found therein"?
Nonexempt employees can still work crazy hours, they just get overtime for it.
There is some debate about what exactly an exempt position is too. Companies seem to abuse what they consider to be an exempt position to the point that eventually employees fight back. I believe this happened a few years ago a RIM or AT&T.

For example if you are working a support job that regularly requires you to work 50+ hour weeks you should probably be getting overtime pay.
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> The DOM was filled with things like “ng-click” which reminded me of the spaghetti age of HTML and Javascript.

This was actually my biggest complaint, and still is even after learning to use Angular and Backbone. It always feels like I'm conflating view rendering with data binding, when in my mind those are two separate concerns. Lately I've been playing around with Facebook's React, which feels a lot more like traditional view rendering (but in a refreshing way).
The idea of this is wonderful, but I hope you invite a speaker that encourages cross-platform c++/qt apps w an html GUI. Code once, Code everywhere
A fundamental radio tech breakthrough that could double throughput
Interactive Brokers is your own brokerage account, they are a regulated broker that offers Forex in addition to the other stuff (stocks, options, etc.).

I'm not 100% sure on the fees but they are not even close to 0.3% for forex. It's pretty much around $2 for most trades (their example covers: USD 50,000 daily volume for EUR = USD 2.00). Here are the details of the fees:
https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=commission...

I think the reason IB charges are so low is because they deal with very large customers (banks, trading houses, etc.).
I'm on the latest Firefox, everything is fine. It's smooth enough, even on integrated graphics.
> I am not surprised in the least. If you're able to write then you're in a whole different (much, much more high functioning) class of disability than the people I was working with.

There are (were?) only two 'autism-specialized' treatment facilities in the Netherlands, and their client base is divided based on geographical location, not 'severity'. I've seen everything from worst to best. I have not had any reason to believe that this is different elsewhere.
Not really bitter, just somewhat jaded.

I don't know how it is in Europe, but in the US it is kind of a complex situation where we are externally not regarded as socially lower (from the outside it is all very glamorous and we are all Silicon Valley millionaires) and we do make decent baseline wages (though outside of a few companies like Google there tends to be a glass ceiling on our earnings unless we become something other than software developers, eg become tech managers) and (rather importantly right now) we do have a very high level of employability relative to many other professional fields.

But all that aside, we are still often exploited as a resource (IMO) by the "ruling class" of business people/MBA types/investors/etc in ways they would not allow themselves to be exploited.
Interesting analogy, and certainly an effective explanation. However, the dig at Bitcoin's distributed consensus seems out of place, given the lack of a corresponding observation of the advantage of that consensus. Stellar transactions do not work in the absence of a trust path; Bitcoin does. You can use Bitcoin to complete a transation using a similar process, and in particular several companies have created convenient currency "gateways", if you prefer to transact in your primary currency rather than in Bitcoin.

Effectively, Stellar is federated among entities that (indirectly) trust each other, but does not work between entities who establish no trust relationships other than direct ones with currency exchanges.
Thanks for this! I'm half way through a quick read, and will have to read it again more slowly. I like the style of using user-stories to explain crypto. I've done something similar with a speculative web-of-trust crypto currency design here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-0D75T4_xjMNDdMdgaeRPtNv...
Plain text passwords are bad, don't send it in the email at all. I hope they are stored as hashes and not plaintext on the app's end.
Darn, it looks like it won't be long before photo editing software can
(1) Find stock models for all objects in a scene
(2) Align them perfectly
(3) Let you manipulate them arbitrarily
(4) Render an output picture with all the changes applied that is virtually indistinguishable from a real photograph.

Once this happens (and it doesn't look like it'll take long) photography will no longer be an accurate reference for knowledge about the real world.
Facebook releases Mercurial-MySQL extension
I'm not an optics guy, but I'm an electronics hacker. How hard would it be to learn the basics to do it?
It does not take super strength to lift 30kg.
Really cool, I plan to get something like this as soon as it becomes available, my money is here, please post when you have product I can order and is reviewed by Ars or Engadget.
Yes. Companies tend to abuse this in some cases and in other cases it's more lenient. Currently I will work overtime, without pay, if I project requires it. I will also take a few hours to go to a doctor appointment during the day. So it balances out.

Previously I had to work over 50-60 hours regularly without over time pay. That probably goes against what is expected of an "exempt" employee and I probably should have been compensated. I left that position for obvious reasons.

Generally in the US if you are paid a guaranteed yearly salary, meaning not paid hourly, you do not get overtime pay. One exception I've experience is in retail. For example the manager of our deli department would get paid 1/2 time (not time + 1/2) for overtime.
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How can I make sure that apps accessing a NAS only use VPN connections? By default, such configuration is not available for OS X and iOS.

On iOS, you can use profiles I guess but that is not a standard function.
both of the studies referenced there were from a decade ago - 2004 and 2006. I wonder what the numbers would be today, given that there's so many more cellphones on the road.

The AAA reference is from 2001, and the document it links to is gone. Archive.org link: https://web.archive.org/web/20061020134705/http://www.aaapub...

Haven't seen any actual numbers yet, but the 'human conversation' thing - 11% - how many of those involved children in the back seats distracting the driver?
Could someone explain to me why this and the other comment regarding salaried employees are downvoted?
Didn't that happen with DES? The NSA tweaked it to protect against attacks found by the public many years later?
No, it's purely rumors at this point.
The social origins of intelligence in the brain
Yes and no. I've seen many, many changes that are clearly "right" in some sense and from some point of view. I've also seen quite a few changes that I've thought were odd to say the least, and a few that I thought were down-right perverse.

In short, I freely agree that most of the changes are good. However, there are some that are, to my thinking, genuinely bad, and I find that I really can't predict when either will happen.

This engenders a sense of frustration and helplessness, and occasionally that boils over. My apologies for the tone - please accept it as an indication that while there are many things that have improved, there is still an underlying sense that some things are still wrong.
So let's consider how we might encode this notion into an authorisation protocol.

A given computer system allows access to a set of individuals who, according to some criteria, have been granted authorisation (by some party) to have access that system. This lists consists, at minimum, of:

1) The owner of the system

2) Other users who have been granted access by the owner of the system

3) Law enforcement agencies from one or more jurisdictions

If one were to implement this, then this would involve the software explicitly granting access to the law enforcement agencies in question. And if we assume this is desirable, then the next question to arise would be which agencies should be granted access.

Now, this is where politics and international law come in. Australia, for example, would love to have access to government systems of Indonesia. Similarly, China for the US. And arguably all permutations of these, and every country in the world. And in many cases they likely already do.

If you were to take the transitive closure of the desires and claims of all law enforcement agencies worldwide, then this would result in a situation where all such agencies have access to all system worldwide. If this is the case, then why even bother with exploits? It should be explicitly encoded in the default ACLs of all operating systems, perhaps using a regularly updated list obtained from a reliable source.

Microsoft, Apple, and the Linux kernel developers could then embed this list, and the necessary update mechanisms, directly into the OS. This would ensure that all agencies have access to the systems they desire.

The problem that comes here of course is that which agencies should be granted access to which systems. Should it be only those within the same country? Should it be those of allied countries as well? How do you determine whether country A should have access to systems in country B?

I understand there are legitimate needs of law enforcement. But I also, by default, take the position that computer systems should be secure, and that everyone who's work touches on this should be focused on ensuring this. This is the difference between white hats (the "good guys") and black hats (the "bad guys").

Disclaimer: I'm a computer scientist, not a politician, intelligence analyst, or international law expert. My views have also been influenced by the overreach of the NSA and it's partner agencies.
Unfortunately, the solution is: never find out that you used any version of TorBrowser when the FBI was exploiting it. After all, the vulnerability existed back when that version was the "latest version."
BMW's modern HUDs show you some of that (navigational info, actual speed limits (sign reading), current speed/RPM/gear).
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Please before I can answer you, tell me what is that mythical "complexity" in doing it first, because, we haven't stablished what is it, what is actually the problem?

>is ignorant of the associated complexities

Tell me what complexities?
In the spirit of keeping this in good taste, i'll try to phrase this nicely: Please refrain from referring to TIOBE. Popularity contests are not the best measure for anything from the start, however TIOBE manages to step beyond that failing by employing a known-broken algorithm to generate their results. This algorithm is described on their own site, with the faultiness stemming from the simple fact that results are skewed towards languages with shorter names, or names that overlap heavily with real-world objects:

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/tpci_d...

So please, do not even acknowledge them.

Edit: Also, after browsing around a bit on your website, i can't tell what Parse is. At all. It seems to be some kind of VPS provider, but not. Maybe a mix of all the Amazon remote services? For cellphone apps?

Lastly, your website doesn't handle browsers with increased minimum font sizes (something that is amazing for people with bad eyes) very gracefully. The priving page displays the most obvious styling brokenness, with the slider bar having two rows, and the background jobs counter being offset downwards by one row.
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Healthcare is a high demand field, especially nursing. They seem to be able to negotiate shorter work weeks like working 3 10 hour days and being paid for 40 hours, etc. It's somewhat physically and mentally demanding.

Software is in high demand but still a middle class job (similar to nursing). It's very mentally demanding. The physical demand is different as it's a problem of not being active enough to be healthy. Not to mention that in software you are likely spending a significant time working outside of normal working hours if it's for your company or just to increase your skills/learn something new. How else are you supposed to have the required a super awesome github profile to show when you go for an interview?
You provide multivariate statistics, and this doesn't.
This article is about Stellar, not bitcoin. Edit: although I have to admit it spends a lot of time complaining about drawbacks of bitcoin as well.
Interesting perspective. It's unfortunate that you can get bit even when trying to play fair. Even if LinkedIn's mistake was similarly unwitting, we should try to learn something from it. Maybe the rules have become too complex, or maybe more guidance is needed to help employers stay within the lines.
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It keeps using the word "employee". How does this apply to contractors and consultants? Do they negotiate their own terms? Are high earning ones expected to be exempt like employees?
The Pragmatic Libertarian Case for a Basic Income Guarantee
This compares nicely against Yudkowsky's Harry Potter fanfic, in that it's not nearly as strident and self-satisfied and arrogant.

That said, I have an vague high level technical understanding of btc, but none of Stellar, and I'm still left not really understanding either what Stellar seeks to achieve, or why patio11 hates btc.

I'm actually inclined to dislike btc, and thus felt that the Defense Against The Dark Arts Professor is not an inapt caricature. But, the TLDR I got was: Stellar is some kind of sweet currency/asset agnostic market exchange.

Also, btc boosters mix their metaphors/have incomplete pictures of the economy, warped by libertarianism.

So far, so good. But Stellar still seems… awfully opaque.
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Medical missionaries are a real thing. "Missionary" is a pretty broad term, and "evangelization through works" is the focus of a lot of missionary work. Not all missionaries are involved in preaching as such, and even fewer are exclusively involved in such work.
MySQL High Availability and Workload Balancing with Read/Write Splitting
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2 can already be done using active shape models.

http://www.isbe.man.ac.uk/~bim/Models/asms.html
> Stellar transactions do not work in the absence of a trust path; Bitcoin does

This isn't quite accurate: a lot of Stellar's mechanisms are set up to allow transactions to flow despite the lack of a trust path. For example, this is the main function of the stellar currency. As well, the distributed exchange doesn't require trust between the parties — just a mutual desire for the exchange to occur.
Another anonymous app
> In the spirit of keeping this in good taste, i'll try to phrase this nicely:

TIOBE isn't great, but at least you know what their algorithm is, and it is certainly not worth implying you would normally _not_ be nice to someone for referencing it.
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Let's recurse!

Lo and behold, we have reached the base case, sir: it's `bitcoin'.
Silicon Valley wouldn't exist if those would be paid. It's one of the small 'perks' of making a 6 digit salary. You work so many unpaid overtime hours that your actual hourly wage isn't THAT high anymore. (especially if you also take only 10 vacation days into account etc)
Sandstorm Wants Web Users To Gain More Control Over The Apps They Use
I have a soul-crushing job and I don't know what to do
I love programming and I enjoy solving good problems. Even though I am aware that there is some level of grunt work associated with each job but this one is just killing me.

Most of my job deals with adding CRUD functionality and bug fixes here and there. People don't seem to be tiny bit interested in doing things better. Our front-end developer chooses to re-implement everything from modals, alert boxes, to validation in form of horrendously ugly code because he believes his code will be more understandable to 'him'. The pay is not great and there nothing exciting associated with this job. In fact, out of 8 hours, I barely write code for 2 hours.

I only took this job in order to buy some time and create some interesting things but this job barely leaves me any time to do so. When I started looking for job, I didn't get good response from HN hiring / freelancing threads (maybe because I don't have a good portfolio).

I feel I should know modern frameworks like Rails and Angular to have a better appeal but it would take months before I get proficient in them and I have never been good at learning new frameworks for just the purpose of learning. I have no idea what I should do?
Rotterdam on the coast? That is technically true (Hook of Holland is part of the municipality of Rotterdam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hook_of_Holland)), but I doubt you will find many Dutchmen who think so.

Also, 'where the waves stop' is not where the sea ends. That can easily be 100 km inland. Dordrecht used to have serious tides, and the tidal bore of the Amazon goes as much as 800 km inland (at least according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pororoca)
On the HBO point, that was my thought while reading Gaiman's thoughts. Us readers have no claim to his work. Buying his books doesn't form a contract that means he owes us something.

But HBO is a completely different story. They do have a claim to his work. When they bought the rights to bring his books to TV, they most certainly did sign a contract and I'm sure that, given the series was unfinished when the contract was signed, there were provisions for the possibility that he wouldn't finish in time.

The way things are looking, it's a pretty good bet that HBO's writers will be the ones that finish GoT and he'll eventually have to write the last two books to follow the plot that HBO settles on. Hopefully he'll be consulted on plot points, but HBO isn't going to put the show on hiatus while they wait for him to finish it himself.
I believe the problem is that most social networks don't notify you when someone visits your profile. The only one I can think of that does that is LinkedIn, and there you have to pay for a premium account to have the information. Also not sure if their API allows you to pull that easily.
Better wait for knockoffs ;)
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Two seconds of googling reveals the relevant study:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12...
>'I can't think of many databases which can't export query results to CSV...'

This is pretty much irrelevant as these requests are not going to end up in the hands of a DBA, or anyone with anything approaching direct access to the databases in question.

It's going to end up with someone who has an adversarial relationship with their own IT department as a 'maker of work'. Bureaucracy isn't something these agencies foist on the public, it just as bad if not worse inside.

The request will go up and down through a series of managers, directors and deputies before being put on the schedule for a change control board meeting.

In that meeting, a representative of the database administrators will explain that this request is not only complex, but potentially quite dangerous. He will point out that required data is actually completely accessible via a clunky mainframe interface wrapped in Java.

Some plebe in the receiving office of the request will end up clicking through that Java interface and printing/exporting the requested data one page at a time.

This process will repeat itself until such requests are a weekly if not daily occurrence at which point the plebe might be given a dedicated interface for exporting such requests.

>'...or indeed many civil servants who are so completely inept with a computer that they couldn't redact information as (or more) easily in Excel than they could with a PDF.'

I take it you've not met many civil servants then?

In any case, the mechanics aren't really the issue. It's the game of hot potato behind the scenes and the eschewing of responsibility that takes place at all levels.

I can virtually guarantee that even if all the stars aligned such that someone did obtain and redact a fully electronic copy of such data it would be rejected for release due to the 'unfamiliar' format. Someone in the chain would fear that they couldn't be sure of what they were releasing because it's not in the specific format they're used to.
You don't need to give all the evidence and examples to convey what the argument actually is. That's why it's a summary: you don't have to be as thorough as the original.

Once someone knows what the argument is, they can decide whether it's something they've heard before, or already agree with, or want to know this or that point is supported. You don't get that from "he rips apart that argument, trust me".
You just described CALEA.
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This is a neat approach. Basically it is a combination of:

(1) Fitting 3D stock models to existing models using a simple but interactive ray casting approach.

(2) Estimating soft lighting on objects fairly convincingly.

(3) Re-rendering the stock models using the artificial lighting and textures of the original photographs.

It is a pretty cool approach. There are real limitations to this but I think that the automated lighting estimate is just cool and has wide applications in the visual effects space.
Im gonna miss "The Office" stream.