skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, yes, the old "train everyone to be a doctor, lawyer, or CEO" mindset (actually, 2 of those 3 are at risk these days too!).

Here's the thing. Not everyone in this country can be a CEO. The WALL-E premise of everyone living the fat life (pun intended) while the robots do the work is not viable. The truth is that this country is made up of people with a broad spectrum of capabilities and talents. Furthermore, these people are not fungible resources that can easily relocate to whatever third world country that has now usurped their former job functions. We have already seen large parts of this country's population essentially permanently displaced with the mass outsourcing of manufacturing. These were good paying, stable blue-collar jobs that people who were not born to be CEOs could rely on, live a good life, and raise families. Now look at the former manufacturing cities. They did not all magically retrain to be knowledge workers. Instead, entire communities were laid to waste. Now extend what happened to manufacturing to skilled labor under your "every job to the cheapest bidder" philosophy. What happens? Maybe plastic crap at Toys-R-Us is 3 cents cheaper. But eventually a large enough percentage of this country is displaced to where society itself becomes unstable. When this destabilization eats away at enough of foundations of our society, even the wealthy will be affected.

Government's job is (supposed to be) to take the longview on what is good for a healthy American society, not to facilitate multi-national corporations in their quest to cut every cost they can.
A slightly tangential question that I have tried looking for an answer in the FAQs but couldn't: what is the required karma to earn the downvote privilege? Couldn't find this documented anywhere. I apologize if I didn't look hard enough.
I find fault that these consulting companies (such as Tata) essentially cheat the H1B system and block actually exceptional workers from coming to the US.
As a frequent commenter on both reddit and HN, the hidden vote counts on HN are far better. Coupled with fresh comments showing up at the top sometimes, they remove most parts of the mob mentality that goes on on reddit.
What I don't understand in all the "jobs are moving oversea" discussion is that the opponent seems to be advocating for economic inefficiencies (creating/keeping jobs in the States at all costs, comparative advantage be damned) as a mean for keeping a healthy society. Shouldn't the correct and proper solution be some appropriate measurements like basic income or better social welfare in general?

Jobs are a mean to create wealth (and by extensions, welfare) for a society. I don't understand the reason for trying to reduce the wealth being created in some notion of keep "jobs", and if the inland American economy can not generate enough wealth for some reasons, then we have bigger problems to deal with.

Essentially, this is a wealth redistribution issue, and should be treated as such, focusing on creating "jobs" seems to be the wrong idea to go at it.
It would also mean less money for Google—or any smartphone maker, for that matter. There’s no incentive for them to offer a feature that would only exist to divert cash flow to other sources and, even if they did jump into the removable storage industry, preclude them from charging a premium for extra storage. Only offering internal storage also encourages “preparing for the worst”, i.e., getting more storage than you will most likely need.
No one is holding a gun to their heads though.

I don't like tipping, I do it when I'm in the US because it is a norm but overall it feels like a scam; as I don't get any better service or quality than anywhere else in the world where the wait staff gets a decent wage.

I get the feeling lots of tip workers hide behind the argument that they "don't get paid enough" because they simply make more money that way. Meanwhile, kitchen staff generally work harder and longer hours and don't often get their share.
Does it come with Sanskrit instructions? Just curious...
Agreed. The abuse of the system is the symptom of a broken system. The real solution is to revise the policy. Policy regulates. The market seeks to circumvent regulation.
Twitter isn't going anywhere, it just might not fulfil the high expectations of the later stage/ public investors. Worst case for Twitter is probably a massive acquisition by Facebook/Google/Microsoft.
>why should I be able to live in a better house than you just because my parents left me money when they died?

you shouldn't.
I don't know what to think of this honestly. How and why did you come up with this idea?
A Linux botnet is launching crippling DDoS attacks in excess of 150Gbps
This version is even better. :) http://www.amazon.com/Bullshit-Harry-G-Frankfurt/dp/06911229...

EDIT: no Amazon referral
Does this mean the Chromebit is dead in the water? Or a poorly timed April fool's joke? Asus and Google have been silent since the april announcement.
Maybe, a little. When I look at Flytenow, I don't get the "we're mis-representing what we're selling" vibe. When I think "fly by night", I mainly think, uninsured.

Charter Flight Service: We have ATP rated pilots who will take you in our aircraft which are inspected and maintained per FAR Part 135 (at least as well as anyone else is); including carrying the right amount of insurance.

Flytenow: A brokering service for some dudes who have their own airplanes and will take you along for a ride if your schedules and destinations intersect, and if you pitch in a few bucks. Also probably has a bit of insurance, though I couldn't begin to imagine how they'd get it.
Wrench, meet plausible deniability: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plausible_deniability#Use_in_c...
Huh? Nowhere did the GP post say that Indians/Chinese are preferable over Syrians or anyone else. I assume Indians were only mentioned because they are mentioned in the article, and are the stereotypical target of outsourcing hate. I really don't get this response; the GP also expresses distaste, or at least skepticism, at treating Americans as entitled to higher pay (having "coolies").
The tech companies know that DRM is pointless. The problem is that they don't get to decide to not use it: it's the content producers who insist on inane maximal DRM, and refuse to let companies license/broadcast the material without it.
Thanks, the last part was the hardest to write, by far. I revised it a number of times. The goal there was really to sort of draw a comparison with the Gawker post, which I found abhorrent when it happened, and getting caught up in your own thing and not seeing the situation clearly. Seems to have come across OK.
> Isn't gerrymandering a much more complex problem than that makes it out to be?

No, its vastly simpler: the problem with gerrymandering is that there is no good way to draw single-member winner-take-all districts, and the solution is just don't do that. Multimember districts with a system that provides proportional representation within each district (e.g., five-member districts with STV) solve the problem pretty much completely.

Algorithmic line-drawing of single-member winner-take-all district pretty much guarantees poorly-representative districts, but without anyone being able to control how and where they are bad (well, except that there are quite a lot of algorithms that can be chosen, so the political choice of which to choose will be influenced by the effect the particular algorithm would have on the particular jurisdiction adopting it.)
That is both illogical and racist :)

What about the success that was siphoned off from Indians due to centuries of colonialism by European powers?
I don't have a passcode on my phone to protect it from my friends ... similarly I don't have a lock on my front door (that I give spare keys to friends for) to protect me from my friends.
I have heard this utopian fantasy before. It's kinda laughable. Remember, greed will never disappear. Greed breaks the utopian hypothesis.
This is a valuable point, though I don't agree with it. Inheritance is really more like giving gifts to people you like. That's part of freedom. Some people give their inheritance to charity or friends instead of their children. So really if you get a gift because somebody likes you, that's because you're lucky, likable, or whatever reason they had. It's not a fundamental right though.

The idea of personal property is completely off the topic. Of course your house is yours, but it's not automatically your children's when you die. That's a choice you're free to make.

As for "we built America". You mean "People of Earth built America" It wasn't done in isolation. It depended on international trade and influx of valuable workers from other countries. You could equally argue that America belongs to Italians because there lots of Italian people helped build it.
I think the article has got one major fact wrong. The Visa program that is most abused is the L1. I don't think those employees here for a few days/months were on a H1B, they were surely on a L1, because they had to leave soon after. An L1 has no cap, and all companies have to do is to have someone on their payroll for 2 years in another country. In fact, if an employee does get an H1B, they will frequently try to keep them in the US as long as possible, since there is a shortage of professionals with an H1B.
CIA pulled officers from Beijing after breach of federal personnel records
I like the ideas of your text editor, that is for writers other than developers.

I would like the features of editing math equations, ways to draw simple pictures etc except for simple Markdown support.
I wonder if rohitab.com/apimonitor would see some kind of call that could be used identify Spotify as the culprit. More and more these days I'm having to turn to debuggers and tracers to find out what my computer is really doing.
I'd flip that question around: can we afford not to?

The consequences of a failing education system are underemployment, unemployment, antisocial behavior, civil unrest, and criminal activity. Even worse, the impact is felt across generations, as children born to parents the system has failed get less enrichment at home than children born to well-educated parents. Case in point, the US's massive educational achievement gap and world-leading incarceration rate.

The word meritocracy was coined [1] to describe a system where resources are lavished on those who have proven their worth. Like the originator of the term, I severely doubt our ability to actually measure intellect/merit/achievement decoupled from unearned advantage and luck.

I'd argue that we should be doing a lot less for the gifted. They'll turn out fine with guidance and resources. If we actually invested the time and resources into the most at risk, we might actually be able to get them up to speed, rather than socially promoting them and kicking them from school to school. Furthermore, I'd posit that an education should be considered a human right, and a bar by which we measure our achievement as a country.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy
Yup that's true, although mostly my fault probably.
Non-hackers aren’t responsible for data security. Well, except for Sony. And every other company that doesn’t deal with data security in particular.
I believe nvbm's demo running Bocko on Android using ClojureScript is actually using JavaScriptCore.

Rhino is indeed much slower; that's why Tahmid Sadik is motivated to covert Replicator to use JavaScriptCore over Rhino.
Doesn't gerrymandering mostly carve out a lot of districts for black congressmen who otherwise wouldn't have districts? I think that's kinda what it boils down to in America. There are conservative areas adjacent to and mixed with majority black areas and they want different representation.
Gerrymandering is an intentional act carried out by politicians, not one of happenstance. It's not something that can be cured with algorithms.
You will all be shocked if you realize the number of H1B's in the federal government. Forget about private business your jobs are guaranteed to be outsourced sooner or later. Just move to management and skip being skilled labor of any sorts. STEM education is a joke. As a tax payer/citizen there are no jobs in the federal sector either. There are a tonne of folks on H1B at the government agencies itself.

I am not making this up....
Where are those laws in place?
And... with React Native for Android, perhaps driven by Om or Reagent. :)
El Capitain only supports OpenGL 4.1 (2010)-seems like Apple is dropping support
Unfortunately the subject of the text precludes me from reading it...
For an accessible introduction to Benjamin (and to an interesting side of novelist Larry McMurtry of Lonesome Dove fame) check out: http://www.amazon.com/Walter-Benjamin-Dairy-Queen-Reflection...
ChromeOS may have the best security architecture in any networked consumer device ever sold.

Android, on the other hand, is not.
Google has Microsoft envy?

This might be the first convertible to lack a trackpad...
It's not any better on Android, and Hulu isn't any better either (but they do have an ad-free subscription now, which makes them actually nice to use finally).
Growing from a Product Manager to a Manager of Products
Well you certainly have a point. I would argue that a working society is a society with purpose and is ultimately healthier than a society without jobs but adequate social welfare. But more pragmatically, I don't think a truly livable basic income program is in this country's DNA.
I completely agree. My ideal H1-B reform would be as follows:

1) The visa holder has no obligation to the company whatsoever as soon as the visa is approved. If the only thing keeping an employee at the company is the threat of deportation then maybe the company shouldn't be employing people at all.

2) The company can not extract any fees whatsoever from the employee, not even for training or relocation. The employee is not obligated to pay anything to the employer under any circumstances, even if he immediately leaves the job.

3) The Visa program is a reverse auction on salary, down to, say, 150% of the median wage for the NAICS code. The auction ends when the cap or the salary limit is reached.

4) The company must hold the first year of salary in escrow and forfeit any unpaid salary to the government if the employee leaves early. This is to prevent hiring an employee and then firing and rehiring immediately after the visa is approved at a lower salary.

Of course you're right that no real reform will happen, because as far as the Zuckerberg/fwd.us crowd is concerned, the only problem with the current system is that the cap is too low.
Shouldn't the space bar work as well?
That is because he is a crank. Anyone who actually has a working device would simply sell electricity at below market rates to earn the money to continue the development. And any system which cannot generate enough energy to pay for its cost of operation and generate at least some profit, is not a working system.

That said, since there is a whole of confusion about just what is going on around LENR type systems, it feels a lot like Sarnoff and Tesla arguing about Radio to me.
Exporting your Dropbox data is just dragging your files out of the dropbox folder or just turning off synching. I mean it doesn't include your event log or old stuff and you have to have separate client applications for the things Evernote does (like web clippings etc) but yeah, Dropbox. I have not lost any data with it and I was able to recover data I did lose through their amazing deleted item retrieval tool.
* Low use of taint mode in perl5?

* no use oo :closed :final and not even having tried to understand the performance advantages? There is a known performance advantage of compile-time dispatch over run-time dispatch. People may remember O(1) vs O(n).
It's impressive to see this level of transparency
Let's hope we can dodge it again in the middle east.
That's basic numeracy, the kind people need every day in their lives. This widget costs $7.99, and I need 7 of them, how much is this going to cost me roughly when I get up to the checkout counter? Is there enough cash in my wallet? That's ~$56, and I've got $60, will that cover the 5% additional sales tax? 10% of $56 is $5.60 (by the shift the decimal point method), half of that is $2.80. Guess I'm good.

Being able to estimate and do mental math quickly is important for everybody, and the key to doing that is rules-of-thumb and having the basic facts memorized. Think of it as caching/memoization and heuristics, if that puts it in a more computer science frame.
As another comparison, on a 3.1GHz Opteron 4386 we get 33s for the first benchmark. I'm told this is not particularly modern either, but it's at least a bit closer to what you were using.
Are you saying the battery is hard to replace in the Nexus 5?
In college I worked at an FBO where there was a skydiving operation. Lots of old cranks would come in and say "It's crazy to jump out of a perfectly good airplane!" to which I would respond "Boy have we got the airplane for you!" or "Wait 'til you see the plane before you make up your mind."
I'll take that as a confirmation of feasibility.

Among the languages who integer types default to unbounded, I can think of Python, Erlang, and Scheme (Others? Haskell has both Int and Integer), but it doesn't appear that BBV has been tried outside of Higgs.

I guess I could get close by changing something like https://github.com/peterolson/BigInteger.js to use native JavaScript numbers for small integers. One of these days.
Dropbox is undeniably better. It gets synching right and this is so incredibly important. People should be rooting for Dropbox, not hoping for its demise. Everyone else has screwed up synching and screwing up synching means lost files! Lost photos of loved ones! Lost ideas, lost important documents! Dropbox is worth the price because it gets this right.
The goal isn't pretty lines.

The goal is maximal competitiveness. Which boosts voter participation. Which gives legitimacy to the results.

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

"While the long-term results will bear out over time, independent studies by the Public Policy Institute of California, the National Journal, and Ballotpedia have shown that California now has some of the most competitive districts in the nation, creating opportunities for new elected officials.[12][13][14]"
I think this marks a step in Google's jump into hardware.

An important one to denote that "Pixel" does not mean Chrome - it means Google.

The previous Pixel, even the first was the "Chromebook Pixel"

This is the "Pixel C"

One might fathom we could see a "Nexus Pixel" in the future.
CloudHQ will migrate to Google Drive, Dropbox or etc. for free.
Are you hiring the right salespeople?
The idea that we can Save American Jobs by preventing foreigners from coming into the country is pure insanity.

I'm 100% sure that India could find some way to do accounting without sending people to the US for 4 weeks to learn. This is pure fear-mongering by the New York Times, probably just because of the political winds against immigration.
Come on...we can be for protecting the interests of our citizens without being racist. The last I looked, American citizens are extremely diverse.
Here is nvbm's article on ClojureScript on Android: https://nvbn.github.io/2015/06/04/livecoding-android/
> After all, is Roku _really_ the best product?

Well, it's not bad at all, it's cheap, it comes with a massive amount of content, it doesn't require a phone or tablet, and it comes with a remote. Considering the market... maybe?
I'm surprised that surprises you, JavaScript is heavily optimized for startup and Java has a very long history of being slow to load. How many cli utilities are built on Java/JVM? JVM's speed doesn't show until it has warmed up, that's why it's used for servers.
One problem with this: it makes sense that district lines could be along natural (rivers, lakes, mountains) or political (towns, county) lines. Trusting a simple line algorithm may bisect a town down the middle.
I wanted to create a competitor ages ago using markdown. But in the end I just resorted to using notepad and wunderlist.

I've had too many problems with evernote in the past. Random formatting and data lost. Support always being hopeless. I threw in the towel.
Great school! I grew up about a 20 minute drive from there, and know a number of alums, including one of my best friends. They tend to be very ambitious, independent, and resourceful people. It's probably not a scalable model, without retooling the pipeline that feeds high school. Most American students aren't trained for the level of independence the school offers at a relatively young age. Heck, most American students aren't prepared for that level of independence by the time they hit university age.
I take it the proposal is that there should be a law requiring that such-and-such an algorithm be used. That would take away the politicians' power to gerrymander.

(Of course it would also need to be voted for by the same politicians who presumably won by gerrymandering. Good luck with that.)
As far as I was aware, in none of the 12 accidents Google's autonomous vehicles have been involved in has the autonomous system been in control. They've all been manually operated at the time of collision.

Do you have any other information?
Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
In the US in particular.

There was a bunch of reporting in the past few days that a Federal District Court in Pennsylvania found that Fifth Amendment rights apply to smartphone passcodes.

Random link: http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/why-the-government-cant-...

That same protection doesn't seem to apply to fingerprints. Random link: http://time.com/3558936/fingerprint-password-fifth-amendment...

Again, I'm not a lawyer, but that seems to be how the law falls out on that issue.

Whether that's an issue for you, personally - no idea. It might be a factor for some.
Yes, but that greencard processes like the EB2 take a very long time. It is difficult for an employer to sign up an employee, with the hope that they begin work 12 months later. This processing period can easily balloon out due to random audits.

Granted, the H1B process is slow too.
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Windows-... provides better context
Volkswagen Ambitions Fueled a Scandal
He didn't publish any material. The german magazine Spiegel published this part you are complaining about.

They explained their reasoning why they published it.
Not just fired though: if they either didn't do it anonymously, or someone outed the outer, they'd be putting future job prospects in jeopardy as well.

The story about them doing this will quickly shoot to the top of search results for their name, and probably stick with them forever. Who wants to hire someone who is infamous for violating their previous company's privacy policy and abusing their access privilege? Who wants to stay on as a customer of a company where that person now works?
rsync operates rsync.net, an online backup company. They have a longstanding professional interest (and expertise) regarding these issues.
The problem with gerrymandering isn't that people aren't capable of drawing simple lines to split states into districts.
Agreed.

But even when the USA sees the light on proportional representation, there will continue to be winner takes all elections. Executive positions (president, governor, mayor), senators, judges, ballot issues, etc.

In those cases, approval voting is the correct answer. Easy to explain, easy to tabulate, most mathematically fair, hardest to game.

Per Duvenger's Law, approval voting would probably also help replace the current two party system with more choices.