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> Last time I crossed the border I was even warned that my passport doesn't show proof that I left the US, it only shows every time I entered it so technically, they don't know if I am staying there more than 90 days.

This boggles the mind. "Hey, I'd love to have an exit date stamped on my passport. But I don't make the rules." First time I went to the US I got apprehensive because I didn't see an "exit" stamp. My passport was full of such stamps, mostly from Portugal and so I expected one. Only after arriving back at my country and turning the data package in my cellphone on is that I discovered that the US issues no such stamps.

> the US is still seen as dreamland, in particular to those many who don't connect the dots between the root cause of the problems in their homeland and the 30% tax that will be taken away from their income once they start working in the US.

Only 30%? That's nothing. Were in the world would you pay less?

> The thing is: I hate the idea of working in the US so much that I can't even talk honestly about what I feel fearing I would be arrested.

You give crap to law enforcements, specially immigration officers, and you are in for a bad time, anywhere. I bet your attitude has something to do with it too. Try to be polite.

My experience with US immigration is that they are cuddly teddy bears compared to Japan.
Right to work is completely different. Right to work says that employees are not compelled to JOIN a union in the first place. I have never heard of a union where some employees are required to pay dues and others aren't (and in fact, I have never heard of a union where employees pay no dues at all.)
Oh, for the love all that's holy.

Why does this raise so much excitement?

Add some jammers to the responder's equipment. RC control units are on frequencies that don't conflict with radios used by anyone with any business being there.

Drones tend to crash or land when they lose the control signal.

The politicians will push jammers as a solution after they've all milked it for as much publicity as they can. They will, of course, shout and rant to have the "pilots" found and arrested, event though that really isn't feasible. But it has so much bullshit headline potential for trials/failures/etc., that they won't be able to resist it. Elections are coming, remember.

So I predict that jamming will be pushed as the best solution towards the end of the 2016 Bullshit Election cycle.
On the plus side, this abuse of science is being reported in a major newspaper - which is the way most of the public would consume such a scientific study anyway.
Hug of death there.

Google cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5gBAj1...
It seems that any implementation would need to use the closed source NvAPI.
The Ocean Cleanup, technologies to extract, prevent, intercept plastic pollution
Look everyone, its the clickbait hero!

The clickbait hero has the superpower to comment on all the clickbaity titles, denouncing the content (of said title) as a wretched hive of scum and villainy!

Such a shame about the fear of long texts and coherent arguments though...
Even less if you use AMD GPU's -https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/2zgpj8/15000_nvidia_...

I wonder why the popular deep learning frameworks are using mainly CUDA instead of OpenCL. Is because of better Linux GPU drivers? Wondering why AMD isn't jumping on deep learning

The Altera FP capable FPGA's sound real interesting too. 10 TFLOPS, OpenCL support?

http://www.slideshare.net/embeddedvision/a04-altera-singh

Looks like they're about to be bought by Intel?
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/altera-import...

Does this mean FPGA co-processors in the future from Intel?
.co is pushed hard in the startup world. I can't stand it though. It's way too close to .com, and results in a lot of messed up traffic.
I actually think the worst bad habit of unions is taking over managerial functions -- eg scheduling, vacations. It effectively turns the union into a subcontractor, and employees start needing a union to protect them from the union.
> I would have preferred plant-based but does it really matter?

I struggled about my comment because I don't like being negative for the sake of it, but here's why I think this issue might actually matter.

Let's say you really care about selling this condoms as a mean of helping, and you have two alternatives: BoringCondom©, which is pretty much just a condom, and the AlternativeCondom©. If AlternativeCondom is provable better than BoringCondom and people buy more of those, then by all means sell it and everyone will be happier. But what if AlternativeCondom is actually putting people off your product? Wouldn't your help more people by doing it the boring way?

Based on votes number here, my complaint seems to have resonated slightly. If we take those numbers to be The Absolute Truth, then "vegan condom" may actually be hurting their statement, which is why I pointed it out.
"processed food" has a very specific meaning. Basically, anything that comes in a factory sealed bag or wrapper. So, not a burrito from Chipotle, but a cliff bar or a twinkie or anything that has a long and confusing ingredients list.

"Food science" has advanced to the point where companies explicitly try to hack tastebuds and desire receptors (dorritos optimizing for salty+sweet to induce more hunger while you eat) thereby increasing desire for their product and, they hope, reducing self-action of restraint towards their product.
I stopped drinking alcohol completely about 5 years ago. I was drinking a lot of pop everyday and couldn't figure out why I couldn't lose weight. I was still playing soccer four times a week and working out at the gym the other day. I had changed my diet pretty drastically and still no major weight loss.

Then I started cutting back on pop so as not to experience caffeine withdrawal. Within a few weeks, I was down to one can a day. After two months, I lost 10 pounds, almost all because I stopped drinking so much pop.

It's pretty amazing how many calories and sugar pop has and how negatively it affects your body.
That aircraft is more properly called the 367-80, or "Dash 80". While it did serve as the prototype of the 707, its fuselage isn't as wide.

The KC-135 tanker and its derivatives also derive directly from the Dash 80, rather than the 707. It retains the 80's more narrow fuselage.
Online Hackathon Seeks Innovative Uses of Handwriting Recognition
For those who think this article is too long, here is summary:

This gist of the article is that the hacker impulse or ‘hacker ethic’ is a natural human response to large alienating infrastructures that allow little agency on the part of individuals. Hackers take different forms, but are identified by 1) a tendency towards creative rebellion that seeks to increase the agency of underdogs in the face of systems that are otherwise complex or oppressive or that limit access to experts 2) a tendency to acting out that rebellion by bending the rules of those who currently dominate such infrastructures (this is in contrast to the open rebellion of liberation leaders who stand in direct defiance of such rules). They thus are figures of deviance, seeking to ‘queer’ boundaries that are otherwise viewed as concrete and static.

Having set up a definition of what the hacker ethic is, the article goes on to argue that the ethic has been corrupted due to its association with computer culture in the public eye.

On the one hand, in a world where people increasingly rely on computers for subsistence, the bogeyman figure of the criminal computer ‘hacker’ has emerged, a figure of media sensationalism and moral panic.

On the other hand, the increasingly powerful technology industry has honed in on the desirable, unthreatening elements of the hacker ethic to present a friendly form of hacking as ‘on-the-fly problem-solving for profit’.
This is described a process of ‘gentrification’: In most gentrification you have twin processes: On the one hand, a source culture is demonised as something scary to be avoided. On the other hand, it is simultaneously pacified, scrubbed of subversive content, and made to fit mainstream tastes. This has happened to rap culture, street culture, and even pagan rituals. And the article argues, it is now happening to hacker culture: “The countercultural trickster has been pressed into the service of the preppy tech entrepreneur class.”

The article concludes with a reflection on whether you abandon the gentrified form, or whether you fight for it. There is reflection on whether the hacker impulse perhaps has always been an element of capitalist commodification processes, but argues that it is an ethos that needs to be protected: “In a world with increasingly large and unaccountable economic institutions, we need these everyday forms of resistance. Hacking, in my world, is a route to escaping the shackles of the profit-fetish, not a route to profit.”
Explain why writers and actors are so different to engineers.

Did Ronald Reagan fit your description? He was a union president.
You're not counting the losses that would be negated by the union: low median engineer salary, low turnover, anti-competitive clauses, no overtime, terrible ranking schemes, low chance of advancement compared to management.

Not sure if being located in the bay area is a straight-up loss for everyone—it's necessary for some businesses—but I would argue ratio of salary to median annual rent should be included. You should not have to move to the earth's anus to find employment.

Finally, those stupid fucking engineers who are "high performers", whatever that means, unfairly weight compensation packages, lowering average salary, and draining the market of competition, and encouraging "investing" in acquihires and getting nothing in return. I'm looking at you, Sparrow. You were supposed to fix gmail and it ended up getting worse to the tune of millions of dollars.

So you have two points, but you haven't addressed whether it's a net loss. Very few things in the world are truly free.
If Coke funds 1000 studies in to the effect of exercise, and they all demonstrate "not exercising enough" is a contributing factor to obesity then the media will be full of stories about how no exercise makes you fat, and Coke will have successfully made it look like their products aren't to blame. The 1000 studies could all valid science but there's still a problem because it's skewing the amount of evidence away from diet and towards exercise, when the reality is that both are important.
I've been using adblockers for a few years. Something happened at work, I had to reinstall a browser, and I only install addons as the need arises, so it takes awhile to get a new browser installation up to speed with the ten or so addons I eventually end up with.

Ad blocker was first, and almost immediate. To paraphrase Arthur C. Clarke, "My God, it's full of ads!"

Not to mention the risk to my employer by allowing ads across the firewall.

EDIT: And there's an opportunity for people who want to sell into the enterprise. Businesses should be blocking ads at the firewall. My employer blocks egregiously non-work related sites, but they don't yet seem to care about ads riding in on allowed sites. I expect that to change.
Slightly OT, but there's an interesting phenomenon at work now that so much of the internet depends on Amazon's infrastructure. When it goes down you might not even need to worry about it that much, as so many sites/apps will be broken that most users will just assume that the internet is broken.
Ask HN: How do you deal with getting older?
As hackers, do you feel like you can hack life and get more years out of it then the average joe?

Or do you feel lost in a culture that hails 20 year olds that are dreaming up the next big thing?
ip route get 8.8.8.8 | head -1 | cut -d' ' -f8
This unremarkable essay is another one of hundreds repeating the theme about "money destroying true hackers". One can rewrite the same article using other synonyms such as "Silicon Valley Has Lost Its Way" or "How Greed Is Ruling Silicon Valley."

This theme can be further generalized into "money is ruining <insert_whatever>".

"Money is ruining music. Bing Crosby was a true artist; Today's performers like Lady Gaga is a commercial pandering."

"Money is ruining movies. The 1970s had auteur directors but now all we get at theaters is superheroes in spandex and Disney princesses because they need ROI from international blockbusters."

Writers, thinking they have something new to say, like to write on those themes. Readers, with a predisposition to seeing what's wrong with the world, like to read them. I suppose it's some sort of 1st-World ritual of commiseration. Personally, I find those essays devoid of any insight. I can acknowledge that there are undeniable trends there but I try to avoid categorizing them into value judgments of "good vs evil". I understand the economics of why Disney's "Frozen" is the type of film that theaters prefer to show rather than Michael Cimino's "Heaven's Gate".

An example of force-fitting his observations into categories of Hackers-vs-Yuppies (aka good-vs-evil) is his claim:

"I’m going to stake a claim on the word though, and state that the true hacker spirit does not reside at Google, guided by profit targets."

That broad-stroked brush is amateur writing. Google is a big place with ~57,000 employees. Sure, there are probably engineers doing soul-crushing work of parsing logs for server reliability or optimizing ad click conversions. But I'm sure there are other pockets of engineering where "hackers" are innovating and trying to change the world: driverless cars, balloon wifi, etc. It's the same contradictory pockets of bored employees coexisting with passionate hackers in different areas of large companies like Lockheed, AT&T Labs, Apple, etc.

As far as "yuppies" ruining the hackers, I'm not sure who's supposed to be an exemplar of the "hacker" that he wants to run SV. Steve Wozniak & Steve Jobs both came from middle class families. They weren't hobos living out of their cars and overturning the world with their hacker ethos. Apple took money from VC investors within 1 year of its founding. Even Richard Stallman's family background can also be considered "yuppie".
Looks like it's Apple only?
As living in China, it doesn't seem they were crossing a line. Things gone mad here.

If you want to type Chinese, you'll need an IME. Most of Chinese people relies on them. It was indeed an exploitable point, that you slip a lot of stuff into it:

- News pop-ups of course;
- System information gatherer? Sure;
- Search engine, convenient;
- Anti-Malware software, certainly;
- Anti-Virus software, you'll have it;
- Homepage? Come on, let's make a bolder move
- Browser!
- A PC Manager. It's a combination of AV/AM and a software catalog, and the sweetest feature is to tell you how many seconds it took to boot up to your desktop, and shows a % of population you've beat across the nation, people can be bitchy over this.

Not just one major software vendor did this, everyone capable did, and still doing. There's also large internet companies that used by people on daily basis uses 0day exploits to push their desktop software. Like if you browse the Chinese part of the internet for one day, you'll end up with bunch of cute little Anti-Virus/cleanup/tweaking goodies rest in your notification area, some times they fight each other and cause BSoD.
Another side of this, is that if you buy/drink sugary beverages a lot outside of those social situations, you're also likely to get criticized about this. Every other peer tries to remind how unhealthy coke is, how one can clean rust with it and so on. And this is not out of health concerns, but just the same case of social situation conformance stereotypes - one's expected to drink while partying, but don't they dare to do the same alone at home.
https://pando.com/2014/03/22/revealed-apple-and-googles-wage...

I mean, I guess, if you think you'll always be able to get lawyers to take cases like this on spec you have a point. I don't really think that is the case. We need a legal defense to deal with bullshit like this and a union is an effective way to get it.
I turned off notifications for FB a long time ago, so that's not a problem. Thanks for the link!
Important reading for everybody:

http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2011/04/linux-securit...
The comment was a civil answer to an accusation of ageism. I suggest the post itself is in violation since it is political in nature and non-technical. I respect this forum.
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michaelochurch is not hellbanned: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=michaelochurch

EDIT: Didn't see dang's comment. So I'm not sure.
Nope, that's pretty much all it takes. Society decides itself what rights its members have which is why they are not the same everywhere.

Or can you suggest a better authority to define them?
This actually happened to us. We were unionized by the government, and they've taken over our vacation, fitness, and various other gift benefits, which they are slowly taking away from us (vacation just got nipped). Otherwise, they just take money from our paycheck and do nothing useful. I personally think something dodgy is going on, but you don't argue with the government.
Prompt: Mental Health in Tech Initiative Seeks Funding
Is there much high quality, original research left to be done around "sugary diets cause obesity?"

It's not my field, but I suspect that the only original research left to be done examines other potential causes. There's lots of good work on the Microbiome, for example.

Can someone from the field tell me, if they had a big fund to counter-balance the bias caused by Coca-Cola, what original research it would fund?
Thank you, I've been here for a long time, still a noob though. I figured if I wasn't sure there had to be others thinking the same thing.
Both articles are correct.

The helpful drones are operated by fire services, not by some nosy civilians or news vultures.

That's why there was almost a mid-air event: Some idiot felt he was entitled to ignore existing flight rules because he wasn't actually "in the cockpit" and thought it would be cool to fly right in there to watch.
There are two possible things happening in the article and neither are explored (yay NYT!).

Case A: the school already had this research happening. Coke saw the research could help their arguments and decided to pay them to do more of their already existing projects.

Case B: Coke started from a marketing perspective, interviewed scientists at different universities, then commissioned the studies and created the departments themselves using the "shadow funding."
Just FYI that Gamasutra article is almost empty of any real details beyond the basics of client-side prediction and the actual linked magazine article from 2012 is a broken link. :-(
That's interesting, could you elaborate?
Whoa, whoa, whoa, hang on a moment. Let's not call parsing logs and server reliability soul crushing, some of us in the ops world enjoy that kind of daily excitement.
While it can certainly make a big difference dropping soda alone probably won't have the kind of results you're hoping for. I think when I quit drinking soda with every meal I lost something like two inches off my waistline -- significant but not really the difference between obese and normal weight either.
The most beautiful plane never flown is nearing its maiden flight
"In 1925, the Masquers Club was formed by actors discontent with the grueling work hours at the Hollywood studios.[6] This was one of the major concerns which led to the creation of the Screen Actors Guild in 1933."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_Actors_Guild

EDIT: I'm pretty sure that if "grueling work hours" and low salaries were enforced by employers to engineers there would be grounds to create a union.
> Back in 2008, Google started to use OCR to index the full text of scanned PDF files. Now Google extracts images from PDF files and makes them searchable.

The astounding rate of progress of Google! In only 7 years they have gone from extracting PDF text, to extracting the embedded images. When will the miracles of those technical wizards cease to astonish all who gaze upon their brilliance ?

I wonder if there were some other reason Google waited so long to include PDF images? Perhaps something legal. Since the actual technical requirement is really clear, the photographic image bytestreams are simply stored in the PDF, and the utility for people seems quite large, there being a lot of images stored in a lot of PDFs.

Perhaps it was simply overlooked or not on the roadmap until they made a lot of other perhaps judged as more-important changes to their image search such as changes to their image representation indexing ( which they do by majority color it seems ) and image content indexing ( which it seems they contribute to using DNN generated descriptions ).

It seems likely they would have rolled this out in a limited fashion maybe a few times over the years before waiting longer to do it, pending whatever was missing for a general release.
What did LinkedIn do?
According to whom? I have seen the hacker culture straddle the line of the traditional definition and a little bit of this newer corporate definition of which the author speaks. My experience is obviously anecdotal, but other than this article, I've never seen nor heard anyone say that hacker culture is being co-opted by corporate.
It's a difficult method of throwing to learn, but if you can master it it has the advantage that you don't have to worry as much about distance to the target. With the traditional spinning throw, you need to make sure the knife will reach the target at a point in the turn where the blade is pointed toward it.

I think it's probably a much more appropriate throw for use during hand-to-hand combat. My understanding is that the shuriken was primarily intended as a weapon swordsmen could use to gain an advantage by distracting their opponents.
I'm not sure when this section of the US Code became law but back in the 1990s, I was looking at some adult material and I followed a link to some .ru site that had material that was highly suspect. I made note of the domain, closed my browser and opened the phone book.

I called the local FBI office and reported the site. I never heard anything else on the matter. To be honest, I was more worried that it was a honeypot and I wanted to make sure that if they were watching, they knew that I didn't go there on purpose.
<typo-1> and we are good at it :)

<typo-2> who is in America are not technically
Ask HN: How to discover potential for a website globally
I am responsible for online marketing for a global company, we have a reasonably small budget that has always effected the way we work i.e. completely ignoring markets that have a high cost to enter and focusing on smaller markets with proven ROI. Our company is potentially changing drastically in the net few months and I need to put together a report on what I'd do if I had an unlimited budget (whilst still being held to ROI/P&L). I am able to pout this together, however it will take me days/weeks to identify the opportunity for each of our products for each country on the planet, and how to sell these. Has anyone had to do a similar thing, or reports regularly for a larger company that is already in most markets? Long shot but thought I'd give HN a try. Thanks!
Why My First Time Ghost Writing Was My Last
One thing Dropbox does which I think is pretty easy and yet noone has done is their Apps.

As a developer you can create a dropbox App which means there is a specific subdirectory in the users dropbox folder which you have access to. That's it, really simple. This lets me create for instance a purchase order distribution system in which the company drops their purchase orders in a folder and they will be distributed to their vendors with email notifications. What other system facilitates this?

In contrast Google Drive apps are all or nothing. You cannot ask for permission on a single folder!

Are there any other services that can do this like Box.net?
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