skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are insufficiently cynical to understand immigration reform.

The current state of immigration reform, where politicians demand (and are getting) increased enforcement without any expansion of a legal right to work in the U.S., works great for companies in labor-intensive industries. On the one hand, you get a workforce willing to get paid less than the legal minimum, and you don't have to pay things like worker's comp, social security, etc. On the other, enforcement has increased so much that those underpaid workers live in constant fear of being deported or having their families split apart, so they don't report their employers breaking the law.

For companies that have access to that pool of precarious labor, the situation is great, and they've invested a lot in not changing anything.
This Deadspin article does a solid job explaining it: http://deadspin.com/draftkings-employee-with-access-to-insid...
Yeah, there's no scare-quotes "legality" here, it's quite explicitly and and intentionally spelled out as legal. It's not some clever interpretation, it's what the law says.

It's pretty obvious this was a planned process.
Easy fix 1 - Vote on the god damn weekend. I can't vote because my boss won't give me time off is the sort of shit that should have been on the scrap heap alongside slavery.

Less easy fix 2 - make voting compulsory, with a small fine, like $20/$40 for not showing up to vote. Remember I said showing up, not actually voting, since you can simply cast a blank ballot and then leave having done nothing just as if you didn't vote.
Context is dangerous to news & politics. Numbers are even more dangerous. So the likelihood of your wish coming true is almost nothing, at least in the mainstream news outlets. You'll get tons of context in long-format blogs and podcasts, where the purpose of the content is to educate. The primary purpose of media news is to make money, hence the bent toward entertainment more than anything.

Data from the FBI[1] lists information about murders, including weapon types, circumstances of the murder, relationship to the victim, etc. (2013 numbers)

Going through those numbers is enlightening and will augment your CDC data, which gives great context to overall death rates.

[1] https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/...
This discussion never ends in changed minds. Best to abort it before you waste too much time.

Remember that there is a camp who thinks that they can do what they wish with the data sent to their computer -including refusing to process said data-, and there is a camp who feels that one has a moral imperative to process all data sent by a website to one's computer.

These camps rarely see eye-to-eye.
> The number of extremely poor people (defined as those earning less than $1 or $1.25 a day, depending on who’s counting) rose inexorably until the middle of the 20th century, then roughly stabilized for a few decades. Since the 1990s, the number of poor has plummeted.

I assume this is adjusted for inflation, but I didn't see anything in the link. Does anyone know?
Really, you have never heard American progressives call for reduced military expenditure?
You could argue that they were the party tampering.
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I read a summary from one of the rulings in the last story, which you can find here: http://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/opinions/10/10-6244.pdf

I do not think they should go for the death penalty on this case because it's too indirect and because parts of Sneed's story are suspect, not to mention because the death penalty can't be undone if there's a mistake. However, I'm also convinced this guy is actually guilty based on the evidence currently known to me (and I will modify it as more evidence becomes available to me, as any rational person should).

Both Glossip and someone sharing the bed with him (the docs aren't clear on there relationship, but I'm going to guess 'girlfriend/wife') lied to investigators to give Glossip an alibi and he appears to have split a large sum of money with the guy who actually held the murder weapon (Sneed). Moreover, the alibi is given as it may be evidence knowing the perpetrator ahead of time. He also told lies to keep people away from the body all day and they only found the body after realizing that he'd been telling lots of lies to people.

I would like them to investigate further and gather physical proof--for example, it sounds like there should be hairs/fingerprints at the murder scene if he helped dispose of the body but it's not clear how hard anyone investigated this, because they didn't review the evidence collection practiced.

So I can agree with the "we shouldn't execute this guy" part of it, but I am not convinced of his innocence and I'm reminded of the Reiser case where there were a lot of techies who were surprised when his guilt was proven when he led investigators to his wife's body. Back then, almost everyone just ignored the fact that they spent all their time lying to investigators even before they should have known they were suspected.

Could learn a thing or two from watching Keyser Soze hustle and learn to spot all the lies that were hiding in plain sight. I mean, I almost never see people reasoning about things like "an innocent person would have no way of knowing that" in particular, how one would know to lie about things before they should have known the hotel manager was dead. We have multiple witnesses saying that Glossip lied about the manager's whereabouts. I don't trust Sneed at all, but Glossip's involvement in the murder seems solid.
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Some ISPs block random accounts from using VoIP services in Egypt
Not everyone is affected at this stage, but a massive number of households are (mostly Vodafone subscribers). In a move to try to block all VoIP services later by the government as they claim is used by terrorists to plot their attacks. Another weak reason to sensor the internet and profit from the local government-owned telecom network.

My personal Facebook about this[1]

[1] https://www.facebook.com/bghaly/posts/10206918860357355?ref=...
"There have been several past attempts at doing this, notably Web Intents, which is no longer under development, and Mozilla's Web Activities, which is proprietary to Firefox OS and Firefox for Android."

https://github.com/chromium/ballista/blob/master/docs/explai...
There would be no problem, perhaps, if Facebook allowed you to compartmentalize your relationships like you can in the real world, but it doesn't as far as I can tell.

In the real world, the fact that I need to communicate with my children's teachers has no bearing on the fact that I need to communicate with my co-workers, which has no bearing on needing to communicate with my family. I can use different e-mail addresses, different phone numbers, and even different postal addresses (P.O. boxes, say) for these separate groups, and people often do. This is most prevalent with e-mail, but not uncommon with phone numbers and I know several people who have a P.O box or two for some parts of their correspondence. On Facebook, these all get hopelessly conflated, which is great for Facebook but not necessarily great for users.

> I'd love to hear an argument over why access to Facebook is a right

If your child's teacher sends all communications via Facebook (which is true of some of them), then Facebook access becomes rather required just so you know when little things like parent-teacher conferences are and whatnot. Yes, the teacher shouldn't be doing that. Good luck convincing them.
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No. (well, I guess it depends on your definition of 'possible').

(have degrees in software engineering & law, have during law school reviewed much of the existing literature in this field from several societies/journals, of which one of my professors was a prominent contributor; there has been much published on this type of stuff, and none of it is deemed (even by the people working on it) remotely feasible for implementation or actual use.)

Start searching e.g. by reading the publications of http://jurix.nl and the literature referenced therein; or google scholar'ing on 'legal ontologies' and going from there.
> Has this kind of thing happened before?

Yes. To many of us. You're definitely not alone there.

Unfortunately, that feeling rarely goes away on its own. If there is someone you can talk to (a mentor, an older sibling, a good friend, or even a therapist), I'd recommend seeking out their guidance. Don't underestimate the scope of the meaning of this problem. In other words: you may think you're just unsatisfied with this job, but there could possibly be much bigger factors at play here, that should be addressed (purpose, happiness, self-actualization, etc). Low job satisfaction may just be a symptom of a larger issue.
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FYI, you can get all of the NYT's content for free by browsing the site, clicking on the link to any given article, and scanning the article title (still visible through the paywall, and often different from the headline listed on the main site). Enter a few of the headline's keywords into Google, add "nyt", and search [0]. The article you're looking for will be at the top of the Google results. When you click on it, you'll be able to read it in its entirety, right there on the NYT site. Same goes for all of the multimedia content, as far as I know, although I don't really delve into all the offerings there.

The Times and the Journal have this backdoor. Interestingly, the Financial Times does not; their paywall is still tripped if you come in through Google (and you only get one free article per month). I would imagine that in making their content free if it comes in from search traffic, the NYT/WSJ are optimizing for highest total combination of ad revenue (pageview-driven) and subscriber revenue. I would further surmise that their overall readership is heavily weighted toward older people who are not super technology-savvy, which is why they can still make money with such an easy-to-defeat paywall in place.

[0]: Example Google search string - "crew 33 ship sank caribbean nyt"
> preserving you and your children's life and health is more important than futzing about on Facebook

Not having Facebook may cut you off from your support network.
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I know what you mean and there's surprisingly good content on youtube along those lines. Some examples:

(1) How to Start a Startup (by Sam Altman et al): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxIJaCMEptJjxmmQgGFsnCg (2) CS183C: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnsTB8Q5VgnVzh1S-VMCX... (3) PreMoney conference: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOStnEM8wBOYdQ6FFXTnY...

And of course a lot of great podcasts.
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What part is contended? In your example, the person is making a profit from willful copyright infringement. If this is the most sympathetic hypothetical 'victim' you can come up with, you're going to have a hard time convincing anyone of the 'injustice' of this agreement...
This was previously shared a few months ago, but we added a little bit more (thanks to feedback from tptacek, et al.).
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I want to ask you a question but I don't want you to take it as sarcasm. It is a genuine question.

How is locking content behind paywalls not exactly the same as closing the web? I don't think there will be a point when all content will be available for free, but if paywalls are the norm, then how is that web still considered free and open?

I don't have a solution for what would be a perfect model, but I don't think paywalling is the answer.

And yes, if news providers have to rely on ads, they will eventually converge into clickbaity buzzfeed. I don't think that is the solution either.

I think we still have to find a good balance that works for everyone. But just because ads don't work, doens't mean paywalling works. That's what I meant with my comment above.
I disagree. I think that qualifying every single news report with statement about how it fits into larger global/national trends would be annoying at best. It's assumed that journalists report on things that are out of the ordinary. Of course this creates a generally macabre view of reality, but on the other hand do you want everything to sound like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-8FB6k8jik
I would not romanticize your friend's pain and suffering.

My take on the article is that hearing voices does not equate to suffering in all cases. There may be cultural or other influences involved.
Are you British? Because outside of the UK, changing your name is much more difficult than just printing off and signing a piece of paper.
Here's another "secret":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine
I ran into that problem with compiler development a few years back. I still love it and I'm still good at it, but there's nobody* left paying people to do it.

The funny thing about the applications vs. operating systems idea is that I think you're both right. We're just shifting the system stack over by one level of abstraction while doing the same old things we've always done and always will do: the hypervisor is the new kernel, the virtual machine is the new process, and paravirtualized PCI devices are the new POSIX.

(*I would have to be homeless and begging on the street before going back to Microsoft and Visual Studio would start to sound like a good idea, and Apple has become such a black hole that I have no idea whether they still employ compiler people or not.)
Exactly. I've seen beautifully written Java and I've seen (and written) ugly Java. The language syntax is by far the least contributing factor to the 'prettiness' of the code. With the exception of BF. :)
previous thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3394546
" you can't really spin an agenda on Reddit;"

LOLOLOL

Because Reddit's reader/membership is obviously a balanced and unbiased sample of the world's population, right?
Bubbles always go higher than anyone expects, and those who attempt to call the top always look like fools for a time. Fossil fuel extraction is a bubble. That's just grade school math: finite supply, constant and increasing demand.

But when will it pop and what happens then? That's a lot tougher to know, and so far all attempts to call a top have been wrong.

But a crash will come. How bad will depend on just how far along we are in developing alternatives and how abrupt the crash ends up being. If alternatives are in full swing it will be gradual phase out and few will notice. If an abrupt crash came today it would be Cormac McCarthy's "The Road."
This would be a great option, non-lethal stopping force, that is small, less expensive, safer to carry, repeat shots, integrated so 911 is alerted so police can come to the area right away to sort things out provide assistance.

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The namespace separator in PHP is \. It seems like a horrible idea at first, but in practice the only place you ever see it is at the top of files:

use Psr\Log\NullLogger;
use Psr\Log\LoggerInterface;
use Psr\Log\LogLevel;

…and then the rest of the code just uses NullLogger, LoggerInterface and LogLevel.
I am a part of a startup that reviews resumes with real people, not software
An interesting perspective on this from Japanese culture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honne_and_tatemae
I have done no remapping but Ctrl-[ is very good for my wrists.
http://indie.vc/ maybe?
> So what? Your micropayments platform makes it easy to create an account with a website, put $5 into their payment bucket...

That's it right there. That's the "what". :)

Paying 0.01 cents to someone is quite different from paying $5 to that same someone that gets delivered in tiny portions over some span of time.

In the first case, you're out a tiny fraction of a cent. In the second case, you're out $5.

Because (AIUI) the money movement system makes it prohibitively expensive to move fractions of cents around, micropayments don't happen.
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Yes IBM couldn't open source OS/2 because there were at least 300+ third party commercial licensed pieces of code that it used to make it happen. They would have to get permission from them all to open source their code.

Besides OSFree there is also the Voyager project:
http://voyager.netlabs.org/

Voyager takes on a Star Trek name because OS/2 3.0 was named Warp and IBM tried to use Star Trek to market it.

I'd like to see the OS/2 API calls in a WINE type environment for GNU/Linux to run OS/2 code under Linux and other operating systems. It would be easier than providing driver support for modern hardware.
Indies thrive on sharing...
There is no such thing as "plausible deniability". It's a nerd's fantasy of how they think things work, starting from the faulty assumption that "law" in the broadest sense of the word is a closed rule-based decision tree.
This is the point that needs to be made, that most people seem to be missing, including tfa. Well said.
Everyone seems to talk about what MS should do, and why it's bad. But I wonder why the people working on these systems do not think or feel the same, and want to fight internally to fix it etc.
True, but he does paint an interesting, if not accurate picture of a significant proportion of the managers out there.
Unfortunately you don't really know they're legit until their first check clears. With new clients, I'll only do a small amount of work before I see the first check (2-3 hours of setup, just to show good faith on my end). Once payments start coming in then I feel more and more comfortable making progress on their project.

You can get all the contracts you want... but if you're not prepared to enforce them in court, they're not worth anything. And even if you are prepared to sue, good luck getting any money from someone who doesn't have any.

Go with your gut. Don't work with anyone you have a bad feeling about. And most importantly: be prepared to walk away at any moment if something goes bad.
I understood the question to be "what's a sentence you can defend from first principles". In fact, the deaths of Silk Road drug users played a huge role in his sentence.
This is true, but major leagues have a hostile relationship with sportsbooks in Nevada since the latter keep all the vig, rather than share it with the respective leagues.

It appears the DFS executives are paying the right people, whether in broadcasting, sports leagues and/or lawmakers.
The term you're looking for is steganographic filesystem, or steganography in general.
No, this is not the case, and is in fact something you can only say if you haven't read the transcript of the sentencing hearing.
I agree with your point, but if at least 4% of people sentenced to death are innocent, that doesn't mean that 96% are guilty, that means that at most 96% are guilty.
It's the classic tragedy of the commons. Nobody owns the waterways and the air, and hence individuals have neither the power nor incentive to protect them.
The reality is that the parser is absolute shit and that sort of necessitated the character not being '.'

But you get used to that kind of stuff writing PHP. At least Facebook is making things better.
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Large companies and MNCs opt for security as a service
Maybe a 10 fold is a little optimistic, but I’m pretty sure they won't be coming down.

And since CEO currently get such obscenely high wages, even a small annual increase amounts to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

As to whether the TTP having no effect on the USA wage system, that may well be true, since the US wage system is already so inequitable.

However, it will effect counties like Australia that sign up to the TPP.

Our wage system still has a level of fairness built into it, but the TPP will bring in those same US wage market forces and apply downward pressure to out minimum wage.

Here in Australia, we already have a government itching to cut into the minimum wage and cut away at the social welfare system.

With the TPP those changes are made easier as US market forces will be doing all that dirty work.Maybe not 10 fold is a little optomistic even, but I am pretty sure the will still rise from their currently obseen levels
Do you really suppose so? I suppose it's technically possible for both to try, but imagine the resistance one side would be met with.
I once proposed that ReactOS, AROS, HaikuOS, OSFree, FreeDOS, and others all share source code to make a complete operating system that could run apps from different operating systems so they don't all have to reinvent the wheel each time a new OS is written.

Imagine an OS that can run DOS, Windows, OS/2, BeOS, AmigaOS apps and have them interact with each other.

The thing about OSFree is that it is an alpha test and not a full OS yet. Some other operating systems are farther along and if they shared source code they could make OSFree more complete. Using ReactOS source code on OSFree would add in Windows driver models and the ability to run Windows apps like Win-OS2 did on OS/2 2.0. It would make finding drivers a lot easier if they had a Windows Driver.

I've donated to Haiku and ReactOS in the past, I hope they finish one day.
EDIT: Clarity

There are regulations around FB, as well as civil remedies for violations of their terms, privacy policy, etc. They lay out how they will treat users and are beholden to follow it, lest face civil (and possibly criminal) penalties. As a user, you decide whether those terms are sufficient. If the people with whom you communicate can't be convinced to communicate with you otherwise, then why would you have a right to demand that FB accomodate your preferences?

That's a sincere question.

And, honestly, we have more choices than ever to communicate with people. Personally, I refuse to upload my life to FB for their monetization. But, much as I dislike some of FB's practices (and its fundamental revenue model), I don't see why people believe they should be able to dictate nuances of their various policies as if Facebook owes them the right to use their service on their terms. If people think that that what FB offers is worth the price, then they are getting exactly what they paid for. If they don't think it's worth it, then they should simply move on.
Moreover, online gambling will be legalized within the decade. It is already legal in NJ and NV.

The only reason why we banned online gambling was banned was because of Sheldon Adelson's lobbying, not because of some inherent moral corruption.
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Get over yourself! ed(1) is the TRUE text editor.

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> Again, my comments are more about how people actually use the web, rather than how they should use the web.

Which is why I addressed each of your points, before adding a new point.

> whereas when you write: "But is that really what we want to be supporting?"

In this case, I was adding a new point.

People DO go back and engage with content more than once. The assertion that people don't do that is wrong. Your reply alone is evidence of that.

The additional point I was attempting to make is that bad content is "one and done." Not only does bad content leave the reader unmoved, it is quickly forgotten, usually anonymous, and does nothing to build a relationship with the reader.

I'm not sure why you bring up newspapers. 1/3rd of a cent for a newspaper article "view" is in no way sustainable.
Not everyone is getting richer. People aren't getting richer because of inequality. Even if they were they don't lose their right to a fair share. "What ultimately matter" is a weak argument that could be said to justify anything e.g. security over freedom.
I skimmed through it but couldn't really understand why they couldn't coopt one of the existing operators (for example, by making classes have a namespace for their methods)

Couldn't they provide a clearer explanation than simply dumping a huge IRC log like that??
Both are terrible. Which weekend? Jews who can't vote on Saturday are screwed. Why not simply let people vote via an app? Better yet eliminate voting!!