skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly! Over the years more than a few people have called me crazy for having a setup like this because at the end of the day they try to picture themselves using this sort of solution. The fact is, if you aren't trying to keep track of a large number of things as near real time as you can, nine monitors is absolutely absurd. In the past you'd only find this type of setup on a stock brokers desk; however, when you consider what's required from even a moderately scoped pen-test, going to this point makes a lot of sense from a time perspective. I've greatly reduced the amount of duplicate work because I can see the entire result of an action in real time while sparing myself from switching between tasks to work on code & exploits.
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payouts are not the problem. Payins are :)
Why are tech writers and programmers treated differently in the law? Recruiter lobbying: http://andreas.com/faq-overtime.html

"The recruiters accepted our exemptions because they were going after bigger fish: the engineers. The computer engineers who work as W-2 contractors are generally earning $100-300/hr and often work 60-80 hours per week. The recruiters were afraid that if such workers were entitled to overtime pay, the companies may cut overtime work, and therefore the recruiters would lose their 30-50% share of that money (this can be much as $6,000 per week to a recruiter for a single worker.)

Engineers have always refused to organize or even to be aware of their interests: they think recruiters are their friends. One engineer said to me: "Engineers think they're so smart that no one could do such a thing to them. Wow. They got really screwed." The law is an annual loss of as much as $50-75,000 dollars per each engineer. Yep, it's legal. The recuiters wrote a law to take away their money. Silicon Valley engineers were plundered by their "friends"."

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8137958
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> The meter showed the fair price, and not one being adjusted on supply and demand.

I wonder how you define 'fair.' Prices should rise in response to demand, in order to ration scarce resources—resources like cars and roads.

I'm not hugely fond of Uber rides being logged, OTOH I can see that rider rating are a huge win for drivers, who perceive themselves to be much safer than they would be as taxi drivers.
How does it perform for Computer Vision/ Image Processing tasks? Couldn't find anything mentioning openCL or anything of the sort
> It's not that bad.

Well there's your problem
Since it's tangentially related, is anyone aware of a tool (browser based or Mac-supported) that would take a CSS selector and, rather than spotlight it, capture a screenshot of its bounding box? Ideally, capturing multiple screenshots if there are multiple matching elements?
So cool man, I just added your link to the Readme, thanks for the support!
The key thing to remember when working remotely, or even at home, as the two are always the same thing, is to make regular visits out to see people.
Having worked remotely for a three year spell. I found a certain quota of face to face time is a minimum requirement to stay normal, sane, and most of all, grounded.
> One of the main objections to the pilot-wave theory of QM is that it brings us back to the idea of a "luminiferous aether"

No it does not. We already have the Schrödinger field, without any notion of an aether. In fact the whole quantum field theory is all about fields and does not require it.
Fuck Uber indeed. Stop supporting this company. There are too many questionable things this company has done to get a leg up against its competitors. I'm not against this nascent industry or its lobbying. I simply dislike its tactics and I can't see anyone in their right mind supporting this company, unless you are an investor yourself and plan to cash out when this company goes public.
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"How to make Debian sorta more like Slackware?"

I just thought it was funny how much the end result resembled the default Slackware install. Also for power management I'd recommend tlp[0] over laptop-mode-tools.

[0] http://linrunner.de/en/tlp/tlp.html
Is It Bad Enough Yet?
The recommendations in the post sum up to building a surrogate workplace and surrogate colleagues. That is great for attending to the need for active feedback of human interaction for the extrovert, but it is not the context in which the work is actually being done. Does that discontinuity present any obvious problems?

Due to the absence of any discussion of telepresence robots, do they miss the mark in addressing these needs, or, has the writer not learned of them?
What's truly foolish is believing that not only is disproportionate representation somehow democratic but then arguing that it's preferable to leave the choice of that disproportionate representative up to those who already wield power.
I don't think C++ is anywhere near the state of the art in terms of usability. I wonder what he would do with something like Python + PyGame.
How's that 30hz refresh rate working out for you.

Noticed there was no mention of it.

You want to flash the firmware from the 50" version to fix it a little bit but without hdmi 2.0, it is always going to suck.
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That's because they are open to the public. Jails are not, in general - they're more like invite-only parties.
I have the same monitor, 4k is cool but the input lag makes it not so efficient to work with.
At least I could't get used to.
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You should post something here: http://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue

Or try an arcade related forum or subreddit. I'm sure someone out there can help you.
See: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/snake-oil-salesmen...

They reference Kunin 1989 [1], Shirai 2002 [2], and Shirai 2007 [3].

Chinese snake oil is a reasonable source of omega-3s.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1026931/pdf/west...
[2] http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0271-5317(02)00426-8
[3] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1444-2906.2003....
i think the publicity is probably a bigger factor than the actual money.
Trying to obsolete the needless differences between linux distributions on the basic level.
The differences that everybody just re-implements all the time, but slightly differently and never decides to innovate or make the status-quo better.
I'll remember visual images from tons of places, people, games, music, street names and books. But I'd not have a clue what they were called.

I'd know where my school was, I'd just 'go there', I didn't know the street name.

I'd turn on the TV, I didn't know what brand it was.

I'd just turn on the computer and play Escape Velocity, didn't know it was called that.

There are lots of exceptions, like I wouldn't miss the name 'teenage mutant ninja turtles' or ever forget it. But especially for things like computer games when I was 8, I'd just 'doubleclick the game icon with the picture of a car' not having a clue what that racing game was called.
based on a consultants suggestion

No top management decision is ever based on a consultant's suggestion; it's the other way around. The consultant's job is to provide the appearance of neutral outside expertise to justify whatever the executives wanted to do anyway.
I don't see the problem with open source work, any more than I do with legal folk and pro bono work. I do however take your point on the rest. Essentially we are treated how we let the folks treat us. I think this is partly an endemic cultural thing though in big American firms, and firms that emulate them, where they publically say that tech is the lifeblood of their firm, but privately treat it as a cost centre to be mercilessly cut to as close to zero as possible.
Well, if they end up at the Hague, there's always The Hague Invasion Act - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Pro...
The act or programming is comparable to writing or simple arithmetic.

I have interviewed many people who claim to know programming, but can't program. These same people I think could read and do simple arithmetic.

Like many things, once you know how to do it, it looks easy. I never understood why people have a hard time with pointers, recursion or dependency injection, but many people do. Programming is not some impossible to learn skill, but it does require dedication, a level of abstract thinking not often found in other disciplines, and logic. Reducing programming to writing or arithmetic is maybe true for simple Excel macros, but not what most people on this site would consider programming.
> Who would use Ogg/Vorbis and not expect compatibility issues with third party services and products?

It doesn't matter who, if the only thing you got is Ogg/Vorbis file and you have no lossless original. Normal browsers support it anyway, as well as Opus.

Ogg/Vorbis was a solution to patents sick MP3. It was adopted rather well, except for those who can't stand not patent encumbered codecs (Apple for instance). Opus is in better position though, since it's part of WebRTC standard and Apple will have to support it even if they hate the idea.
>built with C++

And Java, and probably, more recently, some in Go. [1]

[1] This is anecdata :), but I don't think a majority of their work is in Python, though they do have some, and I also read the recent threads about their hiring Python devs.

More like C++ and Java (and JavaScript for the front-end), and nowadays some Go, as I said. This is just based on reading about them on various sites, though, I don't have internal info, so could be wrong.
> Get bad advice from your lawyer as to what is legal and what isn't, go commit a crime, and see what happens.

I should start out by saying that I hope the torturers, their superiors, and enablers are prosecuted by anyone that can get their hands on them: a future US administration, the ICC, a European nation, anyone.

That said the US legal analysis is very tough. The lawyers they were given "bad" advice by weren't just lawyer, they were representatives of the sovereign that would seek to prosecute them. That raises due process concerns that aren't present in an ordinary advice-of-counsel defense.

In addition to Constitutional problems, the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 and Military Commissions Act of 2006 create statutory defenses for torturers. The key language is "it shall be a defense that such officer, employee, member of the Armed Forces, or other agent did not know that the practices were unlawful and a person of ordinary sense and understanding would not know the practices were unlawful. Good faith reliance on advice of counsel should be an important factor, among others, to consider in assessing whether a person of ordinary sense and understanding would have known the practices to be unlawful." To be sure, that's not a unlimited immunity provision, but it does make prosecution more difficult. The Military Commissions Act also changed the substantive provisions 18 U.S. Code § 2441 (war crimes) to make much less conduct qualify.

Finally, except in cases where torture resulted in death, there are statute of limitation problems. Depending on which statute is use the limitation period for non-fatal torture or war crimes generally are either five or eight years.

In sum, there are many barriers to US prosecution. It may be much more practical for the wrongdoers to be prosecuted under the international law regime that began at Nuremberg. Given universal jurisdiction for violations of jus cogens this can happen in any country in the world, and there is no statute of limitations doctrine internationally.
Yes, intro.js is a great lib, I know that, but for me has an important missing feature; you can't interact with the focused element, I mean, you don't have any mouse event or similar... this is the only bad thing I think.
I meant in the sense of the Nuremberg trials, but still: I stand corrected, thank you. I think the sibling comments illustrates the point I was trying to make.
Yes, it's a trade-off; or you keep the tags in a database on which you are dependent or you store everything in the file name or the file itself. Tagging inside the file can only be done if the filetype has support for it (exim or mp3 tags) and you have to program support for the different filetypes. Keeping it in a database necessitates a sync step between moving and renaming actions in the filesystem and the database itself and has to be programmed and tested for every OS.
By keeping the tags in the filename, this way this tag system still keeps working without the tooling itself and across operating systems, but you have to give up some freedom in the naming of your files (so it doesn't really work on DOS).
Why wouldn't you use such a system ever? People accept metadata in the file itself, the file name usualy describes the data - so why not use tags in the filename other then that it seems ugly hack? How are the alternatives better?
Emacs can be made prettier, but that's not its forte - power and extensibility are. It's a better text editor, IMO, than any of the three you mention.

However, it's not particularly suited to quick server admin stuff. If you're using emacs as its intended, you'll have a lot of packages to load on startup, making it sluggish for ad-hoc editing with sudo (precluduing use of emacsclient). Emacs -q or mg would be faster. Personally, I'm fond of joe for this purpose - more functionality than mg while far smaller an install than emacs.
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Brahe, incidentally, was born on this day in 1546: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe
Dextromethorphan seems to fall into the same category- a friend of mine lost his son recently to an overdose of it. I'm not sure whether he was using it because it was more readily available than LSD, or because he preferred it, but he was a frequent LSD user and it seemed tragic that it was cough syrup that killed him.
That's a $1200 monitor !

Has to be something between a $300 sekei @ 30hz and $1200
I think that you're looking for is that http://html2canvas.hertzen.com/ :D
At the same time, it can become a good opportunity to learn about our feelings and our beliefs related to those feelings.
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The other difference is that common law cares for the written intent, while under civil law judges should seek the underlying intent - which can be opposite to what is written down.

One recurring examples I've seen in German law training (but IANAL): two parties agree on the sale of a certain type of fish but use the wrong (Norwegian?) word in the contract. What fish is this contract about? Correct answer: What they meant, not what they wrote down.

This might (or might not) be different in common law - but obviously still isn't an issue unless one party brings the contract in front of a judge.

As for articles about legal cases: Highly popular cases typically make more sense when you dig into the details (eg. reading the actual decision, not just what some journalist misunderstood the court's abstract to be about). Sometimes they remain puzzling - but I fear that's a feature of all legal systems.

And then there's the additional complication that patent cases seem to run under ever-so-slightly different rules to ordinary civil cases, no matter where.
Uber does make campaign donations [1]. To suggest it's all about 'spreading information' seems naive at best, if not dishonest.

Garcetti had a $250,000 campaign contribution from Uber
(or the CEO) in his run for the LA Mayor

Drischler had ordered the apps to shut down service in L.A.
soon before Garcetti took office. But the day Garcetti took
over, his office ordered Drischler to stop talking to the media.

Is Uber bribing state & city politicians?

[1] http://consumerlawmagazine.com/ubers-250000-contribution-to-...

[2] http://www.laweekly.com/informer/2013/09/16/eric-garcetti-mu...
A 39" monitor is too big???

I'm impatiently awaiting the day when the norm is high-DPI monitors that seamlessly extend to take up whole walls.. all my walls, to be precise.

Projectors are nice, but the resolution's not there yet. Not to mention the poor color gamuts, poor dynamic range, and typical lack of 3D.

Basically, I won't be satisfied until I get the holodeck... or a neural jack.

39" monitors. psshhh
Fantastic news. Awesome piece of software built but a very good team.
It sounds like you might have read a few too many narratives from Uber competitors. They're in an industry where entrenched interests (and new competitors) want to spread as many questionable stories as possible. They're reducing DUIs (and saving lives because of it), creating tens of thousands of new jobs every month (people feeding their families who would have struggled otherwise) and do as much for charities (on demand charity events throughout the year) as anyone.

They're the new "IT" tech startup, and they're getting similar negative press that other companies in their shoes got (FB and Google employees are excited that someone new has taken the press pressure of them).

Uber is a company who is changing the way people get around as well as the way that people get jobs (they'll likely create more jobs next year than the sum of all other startups combined). It sounds like you've already made up your mind, and that's fine, but you might have trouble convincing other people of your point of view if you continue to use strong language and a lack of facts.
A 39 inch monitor is not nearly as bad as it sounds.

I am currently using 3 1080p monitors in portrait[0], a setup that I like quite a lot. Here are some measurements:

Width : 39 inches
Height: 22 inches

Avg. distance from eyes to monitor:
22 inches

Maximum head movement to look left/right edge of monitors:
40 degrees

Estimated maximum head movement during use:
20 degrees

It's a very comfortable setup, and allows for a huge amount of screen real-estate[1]. However, I will say that I use it in a somewhat "different" way compared to other setups. The middle monitor is the main workspace, and is where windows with active work on them go. The left and right monitors hold the 4+ windows with non-active or asynchronous information, like chat windows, documentation, comparison code windows, etc.

[0] - http://i.imgur.com/JPY2sum.jpg

[1] - http://i.imgur.com/FEumEXi.png
> The idea that certain groups of people (blacks, women, gays, etc) need compulsory protection at the expense of other groups (white males), induces a sort of resentment as a response to what is perceived to be a witch hunt.

The difference between this and a "witch hunt" is that real witch hunts didn't find a bunch of witches.
Unrelated to your point, but undercutting your conclusion is the fact that the "27 year old rock god" cliche came about in large part due to the # of rock stars who died at 27. Check out the wiki article on "the 27 club" for more info.

Plus, when you're 27, you're probably at or near your physical peak. IE, you're good looking. And that's arguably more important than any skill.
Tried it already a year ago with no luck. Maybe I'll try it again!
Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism but at least its an ethos.
5x the normal price is not what I call fair. It gives a huge advantage to folks who can afford that surge price. The regular client wo needs a ride and can't afford that, is missing out.

If that system would be used in regular cabs, all sorts of folks would have issues. Like the elderly, disabled or injured people who need a ride and don't have other means of transportation.
I care, but we're talking about holding people responsible specifically for the use of torture during the Bush Administration.
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Considering how many software projects have ended as major screw ups I would claim that there are instances where the employer and/or the programmer are clueless about how much skilled design efforts they would really need.

So I would not worry about systems designers being screwed for low pay. Rather I find those situations problematic where employer does not realize they would need systems design nor know what it would look like in the first place.

Having some sort of "guild verified" systems designer licence might alleviate those situations by making the client realize the thingamajic they are ordering might need systems design and would actually require it in the contract. Would it help really? I don't know but it would bring clarity to the profession-client interface by making the client more aware of the skills needed to implement the contract successfully.
This is a great point and one I have mentioned to friends. We are only now getting to the point where there are a lot of older (>35) programmers. I'm sure there is some ageism/easier to exploit younger workers happening, but on whole given the current demand I don't think it really saves companies much money.

For an anecdotal data point, where I work now I'm one of the younger guys at 37.
I'm currently working on this at the wiki, although I've only completed three right now:
https://github.com/zlsa/atc/wiki
If you want to contribute, please do!
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Try bigger companies. Early and mid stage startups won't have the resources for all the paperwork.

But bigger companies lacking talent have no problem with it.
Great, so instead of tyranny of the majority, we have tyranny of the minority.
The main difference between Uber's narrative and Net Neutrality is that Uber is solving existing problems here and now whereas Net Neutrality is largely meant to protect the status quo from potential assault in the future.

This makes Uber's narrative more compelling: it's urgent. And, at least in some ways, their solution is superior to those "outdated regulations."
At first, I didn't understand what this was from the twitter page. [Note: I've used Mechanical Turk before and thought it was an odd experience.] Then I went to the tumblr and it explained it as "These are the Humans of Mechanical Turk, one story at a time." So I got it.

The few people who've put up stories seem to be all in the U.S. I always assumed that the tiny payments for HITs would encourage people from lower wage countries to be the majority of turkers. Interesting to see. Good job.
> Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.

This in my opinion is exactly right. I do not have wide experience with psychedelics, but I have experienced a few, and the common element among all of them was how much it opened my mind up to new lines of thinking, and these paths were tended lead in directions that were not amicable towards our neoliberal capitalist society.
“You can think of surgery as not really that different than golf.” ... The difference is that golfers keep score.

No Golfer don't think they are God.
That's truly great to hear!
Ah, but having a 30+" screen a few feet from your face and upping the font size in fact does help. It's all about the distance, not about the number of pixels or the font size.

So the ideal (for me) is a large high res monitor sitting 3 or more feet away from me. The first hint you're on this path is when your arms start to be too short for reading books and when you are 100% sure that the gray squiggles on that chip used to have meaning.
THIS.

DO has a dedicate team just providing incredible tutorials that are somewhat related but not completely related to DO itself.
cool, opensourcing the platform will give to the world the opportunity to get and create the best backtesting platform for free.
I guess I'm "old-school". Get off my lawn.
There are (at least) two hard(ish) problems involved:
1. Preventing dishonest results.
2. Not disclosing your queries to your friends.