skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Projectors are nice, but the resolution's not there yet."

You could just use multiple projectors to get higher resolution, but i agree the color and the dynamic range is a problem with projectors.

http://www.scalabledisplay.com/

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/graphics_cards/m_...
> For example if you want to play games in native, it will require dual GPU at least which is a very pricey overkill otherwise. Current video cards don't cope with such resolution well yet.

Can't you just set the games to a lower resolution? Wouldn't that lower the GPU load?
Yeah, it would be similar to shared GPU memory.
He is proposing increased state control and taxation.
I think the point tsax meant to make is that the NCVS tracks most crimes besides homicide. For crimes besides homicide and burglary, the victimization surveys agree well with the arrest rates.

I suppose this data doesn't rule out the possibility that the UCR is not very biased for robbery/rape/assault, but is biased for murder.

If you are interested in this topic, Scott Alexander has a recent blog post on it that's well worth reading: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/25/race-and-justice-much-m...
I think the video looks great. It conveys the purpose very clearly for those who don't even know that they need something like that. Although it's not my cup of tea, I think the music is very current in this context. Nice work!
I can't read that paper (because of the paywall) to figure out how how they determined the cause of death, beyond simply measuring LSD in the body. http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/lsd_death.shtml says "LSD was listed as a cause of death by a coroner where more plausible causes of death were the injuries received in fights with police officers."

Assuming it were true, it's odd that a PubMed search finds no more recent papers. No matter what, it's decidedly rare. Renee Honaker was believed to have died of LSD overdose. Quoting http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201303090102 :

> Downey said his initial research into LSD-related fatalities hasn't returned very many reported cases. ... Dr. Elizabeth Sharman, head of the West Virginia Poison Center, hadn't researched the case but said it's the first fatality she's heard of in the state.

Later, "It turns out that the drug Todd and Reneee Honaker took was not LSD after all; according to WSAZ, a TV station in Charleston, it was an NBOMe compound." - http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobsullum/2013/10/21/lsd-did-n...

NBOMe is also a psychedelic, so falls under the general thesis of the OP. However, it's a rather recent psychedelic so cannot be the reason for the prohibition.
Copyright law defines a public performance as one which occurs outside of a family and it's normal social circle. So any performance at an invite-only party is regarded as a public performance. For this reason, although a jail is not a public place, any performance there would be considered a public performance.

This makes sense when you think about it: an invite-only party could be held in a fancy hotel and have many hundreds of guests, or it may be a business event.
This is actually a really good datapoint.

UK: Has software union. Developer salary in London =~ $65k

US: No software union. Developer salary in SF =~ $200k

I'll be sure to pull this out next time I'm trying to explain to somebody why unions are such a terrible idea for software developers.
What will actually happen: your washing machine will get pwn3d by Russian email spammers.

Seriously. If you see the phrase "internet of things", mentally translate it to: "UNFIXABLE HEARTBLEED EVERYWHERE FOREVER."
> To better understand why, in McKenna’s view, psychedelics are illegal, it may be helpful to examine why the world today operates on a dominator instead of a partnership model, and what exactly these terms mean.

What?? No! That won't be helpful at all!

Why not start with the discourse at the time they were banned. What was said? Should we take it at face value? Did the illegality emerge once and spread, or did it "evolve" separately, in lots of different places?

Plenty of policy gets passed due to specific, contingent circumstances right at that moment. It often comes down to the judgment of a few people thinking on a very short time-horizon.

Before reaching for some sort of grand dialectic theory, we should at least find out whether the "reasons" aren't wholly contingent. What if we just got stuck with this policy because of some specific set of circumstances, and we still have it due to sheer inertia?
I wish the planes continued to generate rather than having a fixed amount. I don't like when I run out of planes.
He makes a point that he uses tiny fonts and that they work for his eyes. The photo of the screen just behind the keyboard is further evidence. I'm guessing it's at the same distance as his previous setup.
> Don't let the naysayers get to you.

Clarification of facts is not naysaying.

I think what they did was impressive and interesting.
In case you didn't understand the subtext, the point of this is to register offense that their music was used in this way (the opposite of what they would want). It's a form of passive resistance. This story isn't primarily about copyright and it certainly isn't about money.
This, is a really important point. LCDs are NOT CRTs. So it isn't that the top left pixel of the screen is getting dimmer and dimmer while the CRT is painting lower pixels, on an LCD it is simply not changing.

What "30Hz" means in LCD terms is that if you go to change a pixel, the fastest you can do that is once every 33 mS but during the whole time it isn't changed, it stays the same intensity.
It occurs to me that a downvote is also a comment that provides even less added information.
Not just lawmakers. I recall reading about the MPAA offering judges free "courses" in copyright law. Fox and the hen house, anyone?
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Has anyone stopped to ask why to regulations exist?
With lots of 64bit ARM chips coming to the market in the near future, I would wait just a little bit more.
If you're getting neck strain from using 2 monitors try moving them further away. Ideally you want both screens in your front facing FOV, with only your eyes doing the moving.
Hailed a cab? I live in Seattle so I'm not sure what those words mean.
Gift wrapping math and algorithms
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I don't know why this was downvoted, everything you say is true.
> The professional educator dialect of English is not very approachable for the layman.

I think Dan's blog is largely pitched at other professional educators. All professions develop their own technical vocabulary.

As an analogy, I recently enjoyed an article about the implementation of the v8 garbage collector by Jay Conrod: http://jayconrod.com/posts/55/a-tour-of-v8-garbage-collectio...

Here's a sample paragraph:

"Distinguishing pointers and data on the heap is the first problem any garbage collector needs to solve. The GC needs to follow pointers in order to discover live objects. Most garbage collection algorithms can migrate objects from one part of memory to another (to reduce fragmentation and increase locality), so we also need to be able to rewrite pointers without disturbing plain old data."

I think the article is an excellent piece of technical writing, but it would also be reasonable to say "the professional compiler engineer dialect of English is not very approachable to the layman."

That said, good communicators need to be able to change their presentation based on the audience, and it's too bad that the people at the meeting you mention couldn't find a common vocabulary.

If you want to see something by the author of this post that is pitched at the layman, he made a very nice TedX presentation a few years ago:

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_meyer_math_curriculum_makeover?...
Darren Wilson is also 6'4" 220ish pounds. It's not like he's a wimp.
Author here.

- I wanted to be a realistic as possible, hence the long callsigns. However, all you have to type is the shortest unique callsign and that aircraft will be selected.

- If the aircraft has a red strip, it wants to land; if it's blue, it wants to takeoff and depart the area.

- The fix names are now bigger.

- The runway names are bigger. I'll make them more obvious, too.

- You cannot send delayed commands, just like real life.

- You can type "baw1234 tu 90 d 3 sp 2"; like callsigns, you only have to type the unique first few characters of the commands.
That would present you with a great business opportunity: transporting people at specific prescheduled times, since current options are failing. Hopefully you won't have regulations preventing you from doing so.
Seeing the systemd removal steps, it seems like a lot of what has been said about systemd being 'optional' is becoming less and less true. It's spreading tentacles rapidly in the core. If systemd is the direction they (Debian majority) want to go, then go for it, but they falsely placated opposition to get it in and it's not surprising to see the departure of developers. I've been left with a bad taste and am jumping off the Linux train for good.
Do you really think the government is trying to protect humans and not their self interests?
Glad I could get my first open source effort up after all these years. There are few if any modern OpenGL ES 3.0 / 3.1 demos for Java with Android and this is important tech. I spent a good chunk of the last week pulling out code from my commercial middleware (TyphonRT) to make a lightweight and concise GL framework that makes working with modern GL much easier. I also provide a few demos with more forthcoming though this is a spare time effort. The nice thing is that the demo code is separated from the framework, so the framework can be used separately. Eventually I'll be porting the NVidia Gameworks demos to Java / Android. Lots more to say, but I'd be glad to answer any questions about modern OpenGL on Android. I'll be expanding the wiki on the repos linked here in the next week.

If you think the code above is useful or cool it's the basis for where I'm headed with building a next-gen video engine for Android. I have ~9 hours left on a crowd funding campaign that will help me get it out sooner than later having bootstrapped to 95% of the way there spending 2.5k hours over the last year building it. I'll keep it short as there is a video available to check out of it in action. Also bumped into Robert Scoble a week or so ago and he gave me a couple of amazing endorsements:

"It's the first app that makes me excited about Android in a long time..." -- Robert Scoble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ0kYC4sFo8

"This Android app makes me jealous. Video effects. Feels like a new age in video." -- Robert Scoble
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152876836024655&set=v...

KS here: http://kck.st/1xA3R61 At this point I'd really just like to connect with interested early users as the funding goal is well... yeah... Thanks folks!
This has been brought up multiple times in different places. The basic consensus is that a claw system would require more infrastructure on the ground as well as a more accurate guidance system.

The F9v1.1 cannot hover when landing as the TWR with an engine at 60% thrust (the minimum) is almost 2.
Possibly off topic, but what do you think about the Dell UP2414Q's color? I saw the 32" version in a store and the viewing angle was pretty bad.
How often do you boot?

I'm of the old-skool Unix generation when 500 day uptime on a SPARC or similar was normal and even 1000 day wasn't considered particularly impressive. And we never worried about what was or wasn't started at boot, cos that was easy.
Consider a well designed test of an important curriculum. This means the topics are important for $REASONS, and the test is highly correlated with knowledge of the topics. If a student asks "why is this important", you can reply "$REASONS". And you can "teach to the test" secure in the knowledge that you are teaching useful materials.

Now, if you believe the curriculum is poorly designed or the test is poorly correlated with it, I encourage you to make that argument. But explaining why "Know relative sizes of measurement units within one system of units including km, m, cm..." should not be part of the curriculum is a lot harder than making emotional pleas about "love of the subject".

(I've skimmed parts of the common core on a few occasions. It looks pretty good to me. http://www.corestandards.org/Math/Content/4/MD/ )
You are making a general statement, right, and not something related to my estimate?

The bias you mention should only serve to increase the number of reported cases. As I cannot find statistics anywhere near the scores of people who must die each year for the OP's comments to make sense, nor historical justifications for the prohibition of psychedelics that were based on scores of people dieing per year, your comment doesn't seem relevant. That is, I could ignore it completely and still draw the same conclusion.
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Yes but this comes from Geek Feminism wiki, so you have to read it as such:

Someone I like is forced to not be anonymous: oppression.
Someone I dislike is forced to not be anonymous: justice.
> I realized that my work was technically obsolete as hell, and not really of any value.

For all of the benefits of the internet, I see this as a tragic side effect. Rather than just trying something and seeing if it works, the first instinct is to Google it to see if anyone else has done something similar. Even if you manage to start on something, eventually you'll be exposed to someone who's done it so much better and more thoroughly than you and get discouraged and give up.

Of course, plenty of innovation still happens and people can find inspiration in superior implementations, but the loss feels similar to the loss of biodiversity, or language diversity resulting from globalization -- that is, isolated populations create vastly different solutions to the same set of problems in ways that aren't possible without those barriers.
In the late 1990s, my parents divorced, and my mother took my brother and myself and had us go live in a very rural area of Australia with a psychopath who was wanted in 3 states. This was our new stepfather, so we were to remain in isolation so that he wouldn't be found. This being said, we were not allowed to leave the house after school hours, nor use the internet, nor own mobile phones.

Truly shocking that this could happen in Australia. Where were the child support services? Why didn't the teachers notice anything?

The rest they say, is history. Mum finally ditched the guy who made our life hell. I was allowed to move back to civilization and had my mind absolutely BLOWN away by Crisis screenshots.

I wonder how old the author was when this happened? Was he still being kept captive as an adult?

This story raises serious questions about the adequacy of child protection and law enforcement in Australia.
This is an interesting idea.

However, their timelines are too short. It makes me feel like they don't really understand what it's going to take.

A good start would be the C++ library libdynd which was designed to potentially be used from Javascript.

NumPy has much more than vectors and matrices. Does Javascript have operator overloading?
Even if you don't, pixels near the edge of a flat display will look smaller because they are further away from your eyes.

For example, for a 20 inch diagonal monitor at 10 inches distance, the corner pixels have about 0.7 times the angular extent of those in the center of the screen, or about half the solid angle.

Replace that by a 40" diagonal monitor at 10", and that factor drops to about 1:sqrt(5), or 1:5 in solid angle.

So, I guess you will need larger fonts, _if_ you keep your eyes in the same position on your larger monitor. There probably are publications on this in studies on airplane ergonomics.
Mine too - All the stability of Windows NT 4, but with the addition of USB so I could use "modern stuff".

Of all the versions of Windows I've ever used 2000 was my favourite.
Could you then label a nightclub as "Aural S/M Experience" and avoid paying any royalties from the used mu^Wtorture tracks?
Quite likely. Many early x86 programming environments had limits around 64K due to segentation (e.g. early Turbo Pascal), so I'm not at all surprised that someone stuck with crappy old books and little access to information would think the machine had 64K RAM.

As an illustration to those that don't seem to understand, there was that year when I was a kid when my friends and I decided BASIC on the C64 was not good enough, and we tried to figure out how to get started with assembler....

Something that started with us trying to poke the character codes for BASIC statements into memory, unaware that we were not only still writing BASIC, but had "invented" a storage method substantially less efficient than what BASIC on the C64 already used (it was stored tokenized).. It took a long time before I managed to get hold of an assembler, and months more before I managed to get hold of a tutorial that got me anywhere.

This was with a group of 5-6 of us that all wanted to learn, but none of whom knew where to get the information, nor had parents that knew. My dad was programming, but only BASIC, and didn't know where to get what I wanted - few books were available, even fewer translated.

People really shouldn't underestimate how vital easy access to documentation is.

We're talking about a time when e.g. when I (years later) finally got hold of precise cycle counts for raster interrupts for the C64 (understanding precise cycle counts in the presence of sprites etc. was vital for many more advanced demo effects), it was a 3rd or 4th generation photocopy of a handwritten diagram that someone had partially learned from others, partially reverse engineered through countless hours of adjusting interrupts a cycle at a time to study the results.

None of the books I'd managed to get hold of contained even a fraction of the amount of detail.
JavaScript is planned to support operator overloading with value types in ES7. We're following those discussions very closely and intend to support it as soon as it possible with a macro-transpilation solution interim.

We're going to port some stuff directly from numpy and scipy (directly from source with the required legal attribution).

I understand this is a huge undertaking but we're standing on the shoulders of giants and we are optimistic about those deadlines. Of course if it'll take longer it'll take longer we're still building it - any help would be really appreciated of course.
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This is a typical response from someone who doesn't understand what's necessary to manage workflows requiring the real-time monitoring and interpretation of complex data across system components. I'm more than familiar with multiple workspaces from my HP-UX CDE days in the early 90's to more than a decades use of LiteStep. You'll also note that next to the laptop driving all those monitors is a Retina MacBook pro in which I utilize multiple workspaces. Honestly, it's the only thing that allows me to do my job when not sitting in front of a multi-monitor environment, but it's much, much slower because of the need to swipe across workspaces and requires a fair amount of processing overhead in my mind to keep everything in context.
A magic pill that could curb obesity would deliver hundreds of billions of dollars worth of improved health outcomes in the US, regardless of whether getting everyone to put on more muscle would be preferable. (And that's not even accounting for the fact that people who hate exercise lose utility even if you can convince them to do it.)
All of my points are based on the parts of the event that have no clarity. They are open to interpretation. That's why I'm offering plausible and reasonable alternative explanations. Because how those events unfolded directly relate to whether it was a just shooting or not.

As to your last line. I realize that legally you are correct, but I just can accept that you have to be compliant because of a badge...especially when we live in a society that has a horrible track record of justice when people with brown complexion are involved. Action after the fact, especially with the rate of discipline and conviction of police officers, is just not a very realistic option.

And pie definitely beats cake! ;)
The optimal viewing distance for reading is called the Harmon Distance. It's normally the distance from your knuckles to your elbow. Of course, vision problems and aging can require adjustments, but that's a good starting place.
I'm not terribly familiar with UK law, but it seems like RepricerExpress would be at least partly responsible for the lost money, assuming that minimum prices were set and not respected by the software. But if it's just a case where competing users of the software were automatically undercutting each other with no defined minimum, then maybe not.

Not a good situation to be in.
Male physicians outnumber female physicians in the United States. 66% are male.

source: http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/physicians-by-gender/

Worldwide, it varies from country to country, but the are more male physicians than female physicians in every country except Algeria, Cabo Verde, Czech Republic, Estonia, Guinea and Mongolia.

source: http://apps.who.int/gho/data/?theme=main&vid=92400

Are you only referring to recent m.d. licenses? If so, what are the numbers there? I couldn't find them.
I still keep the Casio fx-7700GE on my desk and I still use it for quick calculations. Hasn't failed me since ~1990. Faster than using my tablet. The programming language was useful for some tests that involved using a formula. For example, I took a business statistics class a few years ago and stuff like this is still in memory: NCX x (P^X) x (1-P)^(N-X)
INAL, but it depends. If your business is based on offering tortures, and their music makes you perform your work better, get better results from EITs and as a result, make more money, and they can prove it in court then its irrelevant that its been a "torture"; whats relevant is that you used in in a commercial way to gain something.

And that "something" would be very important to the court. In vast majority of cases, companies want to make more money. In case of Gov, CIA would argue that they dont make any money thanks to using your music. Heck, they could even claim non-profit status because AFAIK they do not produce monetary value; they produce intelligence.

Besides, in a light of recent developmentS that many important influencial people claim the entire program is illegal and some agents should be even in jail, some small claim suit from a tiny band is a peanuts to the CIA. And Im sure the Puppet knows this.

I feel its a PR stunt, because it takes a specific group of people listenning to dark music like this (other example Marlin Manson). So in this very busy and competitive business, I cannot imagine a better free advertise than "hey did you hear about Puppet?? Their music is soo cool they even torture people at Guantamo with it! We got to get their album asap!!"