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I don't agree that it's obvious. Smart people who aren't motivated can be pretty good at pretending to be productive. I've worked with a guy who hand waves everything even slightly technical, doesn't know what version control is, and generally has no real insights.

But it seems I'm in minority. He has a phd and is presented as the brains of the company. Due to historical chance he's also held important sounding titles. He acts friendly, too.
I don't see the difference. If you want to be free of censorship that also means free of moderation. Every community needs moderation if only for spam for a reason. That's why this doesn't make sense, there will have to be some choices at moderating the content thus choosing what is displayed or not.
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The taxis unions threaten the government with strikes and airport blockades every time the topic of opening the licenses comes to the table. The mafia is strong.
I love simply raising my arm to have a driver arrive to take me anywhere, having a conversation in a way that two only two total strangers can, & arriving at my destination for the equivalent of one hours work on minimum wage (Sydney).

Cabs.

I love that this is profitable, and is a job that lots of folk can get. One cabbie I talked to once used to program VAX machines.
I can think of a few responses to this question. First: The enter key is not actually that far away from tab for the left hand, so hitting enter would not involve moving the left hand that much farther. Second: I was at one of their road trip events, and one of the things the creators mentioned was that keeping your wrists perfectly still is apparently not that healthy, so having certain parts of the keyboard "recommend" that you move your hand to use them might help reduce strain on the wrist/hands. Third: The same problem exists for normal keyboards already, except worse. Looking at the keyboard I'm typing on, if I wanted to hit enter while using a mouse with my right hand, I would have to move my left hand all the way across the keyboard to an awkward angle in order to do so. Fourth: I can't remember very many situations where I actually want to press enter while using a mouse with my right hand. I'm usually either on the home row, or using the mouse to move around a file to find a new point to start typing from the home row again.
Humanist among machines
Related discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9776613
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Coming soon in Paris: www.strike.taxi
A coworker had great success using Ocropus (which uses neural nets under the covers) extracting test from the backs of many photos for Old New York.
They need to be careful of calling their shareable wifi credits "Karma", seems confusingly similar to: https://yourkarma.com
It definitely gives me pause. ESR clearly doesn't know when he's out of his depth (classic Dunning-Krueger).

I'm not enough of a programmer to judge his programming texts, though I am enough of a sysamdin to find his Unixy sysadminish stuff generally valid.

I've found CatB itself aging poorly and question a number of the assumptions behind it, particularly as concerns anthropology. It seems shaky. Though I think the general principles behind Free Software and the open source model have their merits. Just, possibly, not quite those ESR describes.
Photoshop does it in software (unless you import from an existing file).
Less "move fast and break things", and more "maximized maximization" overkill.

You see it all through these threads: any turnover costs money, a sub-optimal employee costs too much, everything comes down to cost.

Okay, I get it. IT is a cost center. A good company should minimize those costs. There's a point of diminishing returns for everything, and I think we've long since passed it in compensation.

I think things would work better if various managers and leaders could accept that they just aren't that smart. Rather than try to squeeze every last bit, accept that they can't, and build it into their businesses.

That would mean scheduling time and money to handle turnover. Which would mean running a little "fat" all the time. Since the only metric that matters is "cost", then that doesn't happen.

So, an employee leaves, everyone else falls behind trying to not only make up their work, but make time to hire and train someone else. Schedules and budgets are blown. Everyone says "we have to do something", to justify being called "leaders".

We've reached a point where everybody is out of ideas. There may some tweak here and there that can be made, but this is it. This is as cheap as things are going to get.

The sooner employers figure it out, the sooner things will get better.
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I took my wife to Paris last year. When I turned up a taxi tout (I assume for an un-licensed taxi) offered to get us to our hotel (about 6 km away) for 100 euro. When I demurred he kindly lowered the price to 60 euro. I ordered an uber, which picked us up in ~10 mins and the total cost was 20 euro.

So while I sympathize with taxi drivers, they really can't expect consumers to not prefer something that's manifestly better for them.

BTW in London, before uber a black cab might cost me £60-70 to get home if I'd missed a train. An uber now can be as little as £25, which is low enough that I can just not worry about the terribly unreliable and sparse trains and plan my trip home that way.
> A good translation is supposed to replicate the experience of watching something in its original language.

I disagree. I prefer to have the literal translation and then have the reference explained. I want the purest, most literall translation possible.

Imagine this situation. A character says "He is like a modern Nobunaga". I want the translation to say exactly that and, is the translator feel the need to, have a quick note explaining who Nobunaga was[0]. It would be unnaceptable to have it 'translated' to "He is like a modern Napoleon".

And I believe most of the hardcore anime fans would prefer it like this.

This fenomenon is called Culturalization[1]. It is as disrespectul for the hardcore fans as it is for the anime's creators.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oda_Nobunaga
[1] Page 4 - https://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.igda.org/resource/collection/6...
Me too, mail didn't arrive. Not possible to continue.
But the quality of chalk for your driveway doesn't need to be that high; and there big and lots of colors probably matters most.
Again, I'll help a candidate by letting them know what type of interview to expect (whiteboard, grilling, pairing, etc.), but not specific questions. I'll also mention if there is a drug test, and I can't help them pass that either. I don't think anyone would consider that cheating, especially in this day and age where candidates can find actual interview questions and answers in a ton of places.

I'm sure other recruiters may be inclined to try and let their candidates cheat. My reputation is worth more than that, and since my work isn't contingency I don't have the same incentives to cheat as contingency recruiters do.
As castell pointed out, I was actually making reference to the Xbox One there.

I did reference the original Xbox in a later post, and I mostly had the GPU in mind there. The NV2A is close to the GeForce3 in design, but it's still not quite the same chip that was available to consumers. It was kind of a stepping stone between the GF3 and GF4 and was designed to support some things that would later show up in DX9 while not truly being a DX9 GPU.

Close, but not quite the same as standard PC hardware, and that in-between generations nature of the hardware and APIs means that optimizing for it as a target platform is going to require extra time to get it working as well on "true" DX8.1 or DX9 hardware.
You recommend doing nothing over doing something quite interesting?

I've done it three times with people visiting me.
Not everyone wants to spend half a day underground.
They're going to be double-angry when self-driving cars take both of those jobs.
Thought this article was really interesting, giving space to reflect on the role of that humanities could/should play in guiding how technology is used. It does seem to be a message that society at large has forgotten.
If people will be eating off that floor, or conducting surgical procedures on that floor, then yes: You're supposed to send samples to a private lab, and you would be negligent if you were buying soapy water without checking.
Sounds like it can be summarized as "shorter feedback cycles".

Doesn't sound too dumb, but IMO you the real issue is that you can't get people to talk candidly unless you have some good man management. Sure, allowing people to talk more often is good, but what happens if they don't feel they can say what they want? It doesn't always seem like a good idea to blurt out your real feelings about work.
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I think the problem is, its a bit more complicated than that.

There are a myriad of factors that might influence that IQ score, and I haven't looked at the studies. Lack of wealth/opportunity I think is definitely a factor in the healthy development of the grey matter, as is access to good education.

Long/short, not sure. I'd be surprised if the colour of your skin objectively made a difference in IQ. Same with gender. Though, if the latter is true, I would probably use it with great exuberance on certain people I know e.g. my ex.
I guess everyone and every group finds certain truths uncomfortable. It's especially sad that the theory of evolution seems to make literally everyone uncomfortable.

"Of course humans and chimps have a common ancestor! We have looked at the genetic code, and found that more than 95% is shared. Give up, it's over." The right will hate you for saying that.

"Of course there is inherited variation in intelligence, no matter how you define it! Otherwise evolution, in particular evolution of intelligence, could not possibly work. Give up, it's over." The left will hate you for saying that.

"Of course our moral intuitions come from game theory, not apriori reasoning!" And now everyone hates you, both the left and the right.
The tone of the comments at the time when I replied was more like "fool and his money are easily parted" and I framed my reply focusing on why not allowing the fool being parted with his money is really good for everyone.

But you are right, I overdid it.
Right on! Down with Uber. Make them follow the same rules as taxis!
We're using them on £5 notes from some issuers in Scotland. And they'll be rolled out on all UK banknotes over the next few years.
"If it is factually true it's disingenuous to label him as a racist."

Not true. Something can be factually true but uninteresting or of no consequence; pushing that 'truth' forward as something that other should acknowledge betrays an agenda beyond just 'the search for truth'. (Note that this is not a judgement on ESR per se, just a comment on your specific point)
Uber is an unlawful business that tries to by-pass Labour law. If Uber model is imposed workers will be working for big companies without proper rights or protections. I want cheaper and better services but never at the cost of other people's rights.

With time driverless cars will be the norm. Until then I want that the people that drive me home have as many rights as them deserve.

(What will happen when machines are able to do all manual work is another more complex discussion)
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(Disclaimer: I work for creatale GmbH)

As you mentioned ocrad.js I assume you search for something in js/nodejs. Many others already recommended tesseract and OpenCV.
We have built a library around tesseract for character recognition and OpenCV (and other libraries) for preprocessing, all for node.js/io.js: https://github.com/creatale/node-dv

If you have to recognize forms or other structured images, we also created a higher-level library: https://github.com/creatale/node-fv
That is completely different. The TSA is there to make passengers feel safer. As long as you don't read news stories about their failures then it works.
The demo UI feels like a mashup between Trello and Myspace... not sure if people logging in as admin are to blame, or the demo theme itself.
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Both the Xbox One and the PS4 are running on very similar AMD APU platforms, with Sony opting for a variant with considerably more GPU power.
This actually does present a dilemma for working class folks. The article indicates that taxi drivers have experienced a loss in income of 30-40%. I don't imagine French taxi drivers earn a whole lot of money. Moreover, an idea could be that the French taxi drivers could just switch over to Uber. The tax driver may be stuck if they have already paid a certain amount of a car, registration, etc.

Also, they may not be able to make as much with Uber. Buzz Feed News estimated that US Uber drivers can make $34,164 per year. French laws may also include benefits for driving a taxi vs. being an independent contractor with no benefits with Uber.

Services like AirBnB and Uber can be great for entrepreneurs, investors, part-time workers, and consumers. We should be reminded that disrupting industries sometimes creates losers in the working and middle class that don't have an easy way to switch jobs in some countries or economies.
Whatever reason that is doesn't seem to be working :)
According to another article it appears the taxi drivers use of violence and road blocks has worked, the France Interior minister has banned UberPop from use in the city and enforced by the police.

The verge article stated that costs for licenses can be nearly quarter million. How is that even remotely reasonable to anyone?
Many developers and startups do one or more of those things.

Because trusting large companies that are trusted by many others and have invested in a large infrastructure makes it much more feasible to accomplish their goals. It is possible to trust no one, eg build on the blockchain or freenet, but there is so far much less audience, and it's only recently become feasible to go to marketwith that stuff.

If your goal is to attract millions of customers who can understand how to get started with your technology, trusting large corporations is usually an acceptable tradeoff.

And if you want to be competitive with what's out there using the features of native iOS or AWS or gmail or whatever these services offer that you can't simply get without trusting them, then you HAVE to trust them or users will use another product which did.
If they're worried about people throwing the word "film" around too flippantly, they probably shouldn't do the same with "celluloid". Acetate, please.
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We open-sourced the library that we use for exactly that purpose: https://github.com/creatale/node-fv
Some actually do that. Either have a note saying that they'll explain the reference later during the credits(like the "[0]" we do here) or preemptly give context in the intro or bumper[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumper_%28broadcasting%29
Because that's worked out sooooo well for taxi drivers in the rest of European cities...
> Ditching annual performance reviews has paid unexpected dividends.

> At an annual “rewards check-in,”...

It looks to me like this is old wine in a new bottle. Instead of calling it a bell curve you give it a new name. For a corporation to change a system like this where performance reviews are tied to fixed budgets is next to impossible.

Most feedback that I give my employees are during a lunch conversation or a code review. Trickle feedback works quite well. I'm against annual performance reviews too. Adjustments in compensation are not mapped to fixed goals for a year or 8 week reviews. Whoever gets more shit done in the interest of the company gets a pay hike when we can accommodate it. Simple.
Even the "art project" use may be illegal in some jurisdictions. For instance UK law (Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981 s18) states:

"It is an offence for any person, unless the relevant authority has previously consented in writing, to reproduce on any substance whatsoever, and whether or not on the correct scale, any British currency note or any part of a British currency note."

(This is separate from the actual counterfeiting offence, which requires intent that you or another person will pass off the copy as genuine.)

The art project would probably be OK if you get permission from the Bank of England first: http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/Pages/reproappform....
So, because you live and travel around populated places, you don't see the problem. Therefore, it must not exist.

In SF, it's great if you life in the mission, bad if you live in the Richmond. (Actually, there's a good app that works with the cabs there, but before that...)

In Boston, don't live in Dorchester or JP. Calling a cab here is unreliable.

Living in a more sparse city, the only way to get a cab is dispatch. It's terrible.
When it uses my bandwidth and my battery, they already are bad players.

I'll raise a glass or two to the end of the ad muppets!
It's not just EURion though.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7006848

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/projects/currency/
Exactly. That's one of the biggest problems with text-only interfaces.
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It's a bit like open source software in that regard. Often times the work is not professional, but it's a whole lot better than 'professional' commercial offerings.

The greatest fansub group there ever was in my opinion was dattebayo, mostly famous for their Naruto releases. Their public attitude was as unprofessional as you could get. They would often make fun of their viewers in announcements, and if you'd miss an announcement of a skipped episode due to Japanese holidays of studio co-ops or whatever you'd unsuspectingly download a troll episode. If episodes were filler or had a cheesy storyline they'd make fun of it in the sub of the title frame. But even though their public attitude was unprofessional, their actual subbing was the most professional operation I've ever seen in a sub group. They were always among the fastest, never missing a deadline. Their translations were always top notch, better than Crunchyroll, unlike other speedsubbers that would have frequent imperfections.

They basically held the entire Naruto community hostage with their high quality releases, while making fun of them for being the kinds of person who enjoy Naruto (which wasn't very highly regarded in the community at the time). When they had to quit because crunchyroll took over Naruto it really was a great loss for the community in my opinion.
Normal banknotes, being made of cotton, are also machine-washable.
That https://ocr.a9t9.com/ link worked pretty impressively. I did a screen shot and uploaded it to to test it out. Nice.
In the times that I've worked places that did this, it always completely exacerbated any underlying petty feuds that were going on between co-workers and lambasted managers for doing things like actually managing instead of being totally cool with someone playing WOW all day.

Your peers are not the best judges of your overall positive contributions to the company. Peer feedback can be important, as evidenced by some of the posts upstream, and I think it's good for a manager to get an overall feel for the team dynamic and if there's unanimous rumblings about one member that might need to be addressed. But ultimately your manager is the only person who's going to understand what positive contributions to the company that you're making, because your manager sees a bigger picture than your peers.

Reviewing a manager can be a good thing or it can be a double edged sword- truly anonymous reviews are pretty much impossible so it's inevitable that you're going to be tied to your review somehow. In a perfect world managers would be adults and you'd be able to have conversations about management styles and communication styles and both parties would come to have mutual respect and understanding, but in my 15 years in the working world this has only happened to me once so I don't hold my breath for it happening again.
Except important stuff like passing a new surveillance law.
Disclaimer: I'm one of the organisers

I thought the vibe of the conference was the best we could have hoped for.

Python is crazy popular now — the number of people we had from big blue chips and the fact that Sainsburys (a nationwide grocer for you US chaps) sponsored us was telling of just how deep Python has penetrated the enterprise market.
What has helped me was working on side projects during my commute.
I feel the same about most Japanese games with dual audio as well, except Metal Gear Solid.
This is really interesting, I'll keep an eye out for Mondo in the future. Thanks for sharing the link.
The thing is, the Karma system directly collides with your goal of becoming ubiquitous.

I live in a small residential street where every neighbour who wants Internet has cable or fiber, so the chances of gaining significant Karma are very low. Let's also suppose I'm not a geek.

So, why would I pay $20 (+shipping?) for a new router, ask a friend to come by my house to install it, pay the electricity costs, etc, when in the end I'll still have to pay more to actually use it?

The Karma system eliminates the incentive for almost anyone except those living in busy streets to purchase and run their own router.

And this is helped by the fact that metered connections have all but disappeared around here, so a person with high Karma isn't actually "paying" anything for it, it's merely a rent that she can extract from the location of her property.

So I predict you'll mostly get users in city centers, which is where they are the less useful, since it's also where you can usually already get free or cheap Wifi.
I was in Iraq when these were first starting to hit police checkpoints and the article's description of the utterly absurd spectacle of the technology in action is not exaggerated.

The article made me wonder whether McCormick eventually started to believe the technology actually worked. The fact that he spent hours trying to patiently explain the science behind it when first arrested suggests that either he started to believe his own story or was really, really confident in his ability to lie to others. Of course, the best liars to some extent do believe their own lies to some extent, which is what makes them so good at it....
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> They decided not to pay artists for a trial period...

Small nit to pick on this one, but presumably Apple had negotiated this with the artists' labels. My (totally unfounded) assumption is that record labels saw the return on Apple Music being better/more consistent than album sales, and worth foregoing those initial three months of revenue.

> ... they've decided websites don't deserve to advertise.

I think that we're only seeing adblockers this late in Mobile Safari's lifecycle because advertisements have become such a pain point for users. I'd imagine that Apple saw an opportunity to make ads less intrusive, more consistent, and add them to their revenue stream in one move.
It was not done in hardware for the scanners and printers I've owned so far.
When they constantly mix technology and politics, yes it does matter. Open Source is a political movement, and that requires taking ESR's version of it with a grain of salt.