skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And since it is only the U.S.'s regulations that make a particular piece of property "yours" rather than "no one's", arguing about the legitimacy of said regulations is incredibly daft. In the absence of regulations, you don't have any property at all.
The entire H1B system is a "game" for big business

There is no way they cannot find people already in the USA to fill those positions, they just don't want to pay full wages/benefits.
Trust isn't about outcomes. In the case of AirBnB, it doesn't matter if the "guests" in the apartment or condo next door don't bludgeon me to death. Trust is violated when my neighbor ignores the terms of his or her lease (or legally binding HOA CC&Rs) and decides to turn the community into a hotel for his or her own gain.
That's just rationalizing breaking of a contract. You don't have a right or reason to assume that landlord cares only about 1. and 2. Also, the biggest issue (after 2.) with AirBnB subletting is that in many cases, it affects other tenants and/or neighbourhood - in which case you're dumping an externality on innocent third parties.
> I look forward to a darkly-humorous future in which we pit poorly-paid third-world citizens against each other in wars of call center attrition.

This sounds like a 10 page side story in a Neil Stephenson Book. I love it.
I guess you'd have to count the Palo Verde 10 mile inner emergency zone (200,000 acres). Then you'd be down to 0.02MW/acre, well below Ivanpah's 0.1MW/acre. That's a bit unfair though, since that area does have a small population, so it's not entirely cut off.
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Not sure what this is about. They're 'reimbursing' VW 4-cylinder diesel owners. But they aren't the ones injured, right? Its the public that is choking on their fumes.
That's technically illegal anyway. Can't discriminate by race/nationality.
Perhaps, but I'd suspect that would manifest itself with a BSOD/kernel panic rather than the same user-level applications breaking in a reproducible manner without affecting the rest of the OS.
Flipkart's U-turn on app strategy? Relaunches mobile website
This is a bigger problem than I think people think it is.
My wife has the Lumia WP8 and the Surface Pro 3, which she's quite happy with. I agree that Surface RT is an unnecessary travesty of a concept though.

Microsoft really need to pick a differentiator and advertise on that basis. Maybe two for the consumer/enterprise markets. For years the unofficial slogan was "Microsoft: because you have to use Word" or "because it's the only open games platform". Both have been badly eroded in the past decade.
In theory big capacitors have vents so they should fizzle rather than explode.
Perhaps the airlines should start outsourcing to Cuba.

Cuban mecánicos are world renown for their bang-up work keeping old-timey Detroit built 30s-40s-50s era cars on the road for years.
> The MBA (who has no other expertise) is capitalism's answer to the Soviet "apparatchik."

I'm an MBA. Are you suggesting that I have no other expertise? Do you think that we undergo some sort of specialised lobotomy at business school to remove the knowledge and experience we accumulated before enroling in business school, and to prevent us from learning anything thereafter?
Well, I could have been a little more subtle in my choice of words. But it's really frustrating to know that one simple cartoon character is doing so much damage.

Edit: Actually, I think it's not so much my choice of words, but that this is HN and there's plenty of people here who are interested in copyright lasting infinity less one day.
Slimy. And illegal in most large cities where Airbnb is popular. Renting out a whole unit in NYC when you're not present is illegal whether you own the place or not if you're not a properly licensed hotel or bed and breakfast. But, guess where Airbnb gets the majority of their revenue from in NYC? I'll give you a hint, it's not from nice families renting out a single room in their apartment and making dinner for their guests like Airbnb shows in their commercials.
You say that like it's a simple thing, it's not. Here is a concrete example of what I mean. In NYC rent control/stabilization artificially limits the supply and increases the cost of non-stabilized units. If rent control was eliminated rental values across the city would plummet in non-stabilized units. As a result property values in non-stabilized buildings would plummet as well. You could easily trigger a panic as landlords try to sell off property that is declining in value. There are unintended side effects to changing laws, it's never as simple as just fixing a legal restriction.
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I am not sure how you can reform the labor certification process when the goal of the process is to find 'whether there are qualified Americans' to do this job.

Other than a very few cases, I guarantee you that there is not a single job where you can't find an American to do the job if you are willing to pay the price.
> The root problem is not government. The same thing happens in the private sector. Large corporations routinely spend gazillions on software projects that end up working poorly or not at all. Everyone who has worked in Corporate America knows this all too well.

> The root problem is not bureaucracy either. Companies like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have fairly large bureaucracies yet they routinely successfully complete massive software projects.

>...The root problem, I think, is that the people who are put in charge of these massive software projects -- typically, MBAs or lawyers by training -- often don't know anything about how to develop software at scale.

I don't think these explanations are mutually exclusive. If you're right about the root problem being the technical expertise of leaders, then one can still argue that the Amazons of the world slowly rise to the top and displace the K-marts, but an incompetent government can persist indefinitely because it has a monopoly on governance.
> Not everyone has the money to pay market salaries

Then they can't compete in that market. Market salary is not a high bar, it's the expected fair wage. If you can't pay market salary, you don't belong in business.
Most of us are frustrated with the decline in OS X over the last few years. But I will say to you what I say to all my friends and coworkers that make a switch...See you back in a few months!
> TTIP should come with visa free movement of people earning more than x.

So just to be clear, you're genuinely suggesting a system where you restrict the movement of people based on their salary?

That seems highly problematic. As an ex-EU citizen you probably know the EU allows any citizen of a member country to travel and work in any other country regardless of income.

> Screw H1-B. Can't change jobs, can't buy a house, can't negotiate a raise.

You can buy a house on a H1-B, you just need a credit history which you may not have if you have not been living in the US for very long. I know of several people on H1-Bs who have bought property with a mortgage.

You can also change jobs. Yes, there is legal paperwork involved. In the tech industry this is not normally a problem due to the demand for talent. The fact you can change jobs also means you can negotiate a raise. Again, I know several people on H1-Bs who negotiated raises (myself included).

I am not saying H1-B is a great system - it's not, I should know as I'm on one. But all three of your points are factually incorrect.
Unless of course Windows' update completely bricks your laptop.

I bought a family member an Asus laptop from the Windows Store that was running 8.1, and the Windows 10 update has destroyed it. Asus refuses to look at it, calling it a "software issue". So now I'm in the process of trying to get Microsoft to look at it, and waiting to see whether they will take responsibility or shove it off to someone else.
> Do we systematically repress dissenters as is common Russia, Bangladesh, etc?

Yes, you do. Every time an American uses "communism" or "communist" in a discussion, he is exploiting the systemic oppression of non-capitalist movements in the US. Your propaganda machine is quite effective in deriding any political view that clashes with the extreme right-wing capitalist view that keeps your power structures in place.
Yes i did. Alone it isnt that effective as C. Cobination is the best. Must be megadoze zinc too - 50 to 100 mg.
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>>America may have some great things going for it, but cultural unity is not one of them.

As an immigrant who has lived in both coasts as well as "flyover country", I totally agree. The claim that unlimited immigration would ruin American culture is laughable, because there is no such thing as "American culture". America has always been a melting pot of different cultures, much more so than any other country in the history of the world. That is what makes it unique.
Deep learning, machine learning, and artificial intelligence are all some of Google's core competencies, where the company leads Apple and Microsoft. If successful, Google's strategy is to maintain this lead by putting its technology out in the open to improve it based on large-scale adoption and code contributions from the community at large.
Great article, loved the bits about making the senators uncomfortable, haha.

My significant other works in the field of disability care. It's chronically underfunded, but one of the main issues as explained to me is the quality of the labour pool. It's hard to find respectable people who are OK with cleaning poop and inserting catheters and are also OK with working shifts, sometimes 12 hour ones. And then doing that for minimum wage.

So when I read something like "...they still can't select their own assistants or decide where they live or with whom." I am tempted to think that it's not the fault of the aid organizations. They're trying to make the best of their finances and the labour they have available to them.
That explains why Facebook.M has such knowledge of the local area.
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Because this time the government has large bombs.
Why did they switch? Mostly they miss their Apple-specific software I'm guessing?
Airbnb Plans to Enter the Travel Money Business
Video of the thing here: https://vimeo.com/144356789
"Yes, but I don't want to."
The immigration system is what the tax system would look like if tax payers couldn't vote.
The difference is when you say there are "millions of people in America who don't think women should have rights" you're being facetious and equating not having the right to an abortion with not having any rights at all. But applied to some countries that statement wouldn't be facetious at all.
Good tip, except for when you want to be able to customize your laptop. You can't customize say a Dell laptop in Microsoft Store.
> and waiting for the requisite number of years for the Green Card to come back (it varies, but 5+ year waits happen)

Most of these outsourcing firms are Indian, and in those cases it's actually worse than that. The latest visa bulletin shows an eleven year wait for Indians applying for green cards (the delay between the application being filed and processed). This compares with a three month wait for an EU citizen.

The sheer difference in time scales should give you some idea of the vast numbers of Indian H1-B holders.
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What's the point of putting a cap on highly skilled exceptional labor? The US is in a unique position in the world where it can absorb the very best people from around the world. Surely these people are not going to be a drain on the public funding system or social services. Just let them come in and work for american corporations.
But ... this is wrong. Mickey should be in (or be headed towards) the public domain.
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No. DNSCrypt doesn't set out, on day one, to thwart NSA's ability to hijack DNS records. DNSCrypt's day-one job is to prevent coffee-shop attackers from MITMing your stub resolver, a job DNSSEC is actually incapable of doing.

DNSSEC solves no meaningful problems on day 1. DNSCrypt solves one meaningful problem on day 1. Long term, if DNSCrypt is deployed widely, it will grow to solve more of the NSA problem, as end-to-end chains of DNSCrypt-protected DNS links are deployed connecting clients to authority servers. But over the long term, DNSSEC's problems don't get any better at all.
Heart disease at age 8? Researchers find troubling signs in obese children
Even worse, there are reports that Uber is suspending drivers who register their vehicles with commercial licenses. There have also been a number of individual reports of drivers refusing to serve blind passengers or disabled individuals with service dogs. Of course these are most likely just individual instances, and not some widespread practice, but it is disturbing nonetheless.
Show HN: Joy – a minimalist diet tracker for ketoers, fasters, bulkers, and more
Since Microsoft is clearly aiming at this to be a Macbook killer, it would be nice if the performance comparisons included the various Macbook models.
It's actually destabilizing on societal level. Those companies usually offer very good service for the customer, dumping the risk on third parties. The government tries to step in, and then faces loud opposition from general population who likes the service and cannot for the world understand why the administration thinks there's a problem.
Founder and developer here: as an intermittent faster, weight lifter, and amateur cook, I always found the leading diet trackers very limited. They made everything about my tracking difficult: from logging foods, to counting net carbs, to varying my caloric targets per day.

So I built Joy. The key feature is its flexibility. Joy allows you to track any diet under the sun. This includes diet groups such as:

1. Keto-ers: it automatically calculates net carbs for all foods, and lets you set targets for this metric.

2. Intermittent fasters: you can set different caloric and macro goals depending on the day of the week. You can switch individual days easily.

3. Cooks: creating recipes is very easy. Moreover, modifying or experimenting with recipes as one-offs - while still tracking them - is supported. I've often cooked the same pasta only changing one ingredient. Or the proportions.

4. Bulkers: athletes and people from all walks of life often want to gain weight - in a controlled manner. Most diet trackers assume you want to lose weight and build all UX towards that goal. Not Joy. Calculating what you need to gain weight is even built into the app.

I also identified and developed features that would prove useful:

1. No obnoxious ads slowing down the experience. Instead, charge money for a service that interested people use every day. After announcing these changes, feedback was largely positive.

2. Nutritional data accuracy: I source from a few (commercial) providers, but they're all professionally curated. The actual search algorithm needs work, but once you land on an item, its data is vastly more accurate than many of the user-contributed foods of the competition. Once I figure out a sustainable approach for user-contributed foods - perhaps with a voting system à la Stack Overflow - I will add this feature.

3. Speed: the entire UX is built around being able to quickly log your food. The harder and longer this takes, the more likely you are to deviate from your diet plans. Joy does require some familiarization, but once you get the hang of it, adding foods is incredibly quick. You can copy, cut, expand, contract, and distribute meals in seconds. Repetition soon becomes second nature.

4. Sharing: every individual piece of content should be shareable, not an all or nothing approach like the alternatives. For example, here is one of my favorite recipes, no login needed: https://www.joyapp.com/share/VMsGfhgdzvErmdqvxi8wSf/

It's a web app, as well as an Android and iOS cordova app, see here:

1. https://www.joyapp.com

2. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.joyapp.and...

3. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/joy-health-tracker/id9551727...

I'll be around for questions all day. Enjoy!
Relevant to that, there was a kaggle competition a little while ago on epilepsy using EEGs. The competition/relevant dataset can be found here: https://www.kaggle.com/c/seizure-prediction/data
Here is my personal advice:

Get a good solid 8 hours of sleep. Sometimes a lack of motivation is is simply fatigue. It makes my work day drastically different.

Don't try and cheat it either by sleeping less using caffeine to feel awake.
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"Honestly, it doesn't matter what "idea" America was founded upon."

On the contrary, I think it is of the utmost importance that America was founded by We The People and that if you completely undermine the mandate of government by the people as set in the preamble of the Constitution then you are essentially declaring American government illegitimate.

"We will have to have more centralized security and more surveillance if we want to survive our technological growth." ... "personally I'm rooting for something closer to the United Federation of Planets."

Do you really not see the danger of this? I understand the theoretical justifications globalists/universalists have, because they think the idea of national sovereignty is an old relic of the past, but I think such a viewpoint fails to take into account the primary issue: centralization is a weakness, not a strength. In just about every structure, especially one in which massive power flows, a centralized structure is much easier to subvert, manipulate, and control to more nefarious ends.

"I'd much prefer to live in such "dystopia""

That's your prerogative, and I'm not sure if you are an American or not, but I have personally sworn an oath to defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic, and I'm not about to just give up on the Constitution, the rule of law, or the will of the people and their freedoms and liberties for purported security.

This is what makes America exceptional in an increasingly European post-colonial world.
I remember seeing an interview with Sergei Federov (famous Russian NHL'er) it was one of his last seasons when he was playing with the Capitals.

I was absolutely floored hearing him talk. There was no hint of his Russian accent at all. I remarked to one of my friends about him losing his accent. He told me it was well known after the late 90's backlash against Russian players, many went to great lengths to lose their accents by hiring language experts to help them with their English language skills.

It would appear Sergei went above and beyond in that regard.
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There's plenty vague about those things; by what rules shall the house and senate operate... unspecified and left to the house and senate to figure out just as a thousand other things are. Most of the document is open to interpretation, as is all written word by man anywhere. Even today people can't agree on the meaning of the second amendment.

Just because you can find a few things that seems specific is in no way an argument against my point; I didn't say it had no specifics, I said much of it is vague and intentionally so. The real law of the land is the U.S. Code which is the actual law derived from the framework the constitution lays out. The notion that anyone can understand the constitution is simply wrong; without a correct legal grounding in common law and precedence you have no idea what the constitution actually means or how law is derived from it. Just because you can read a sentence does not mean you understand it the same way everyone else does nor that everyone agrees on what the words mean. That's why we have judges and precedence and a common law foundation, to guide the interpretation in a direction most can agree on.
Victimhood.
Equity investors of all kinds will eventually want to liquidate.
Indian here who topped his university CS bachelor degree. 95% of my class (in a #1 state university) cheated their way through exams and don't give a shit about the beauty of algorithms or programming. Today almost all of my classmates are in the US: thanks to H1B. I want to, but I could not: because I couldn't afford to pay for a Masters degree in USA back then nor did I want to do the shit work that is offered in these consulting companies (TCS, Infosys). I ended up getting a MS and PhD in a top non-US university that funded me and I'm still finding it difficult to join a US company, thanks to H1B being gamed.

There are two ways to game the H1B, the NYT article covered only one of them. The other is the 20,000 visas given to those who finished a Masters/PhD degree in USA. If they break out the numbers for these, they will find something that is an open secret known to all Indians: this 20K too is totally dominated by Indians.

Among my family and friends back in India, how to game the H1B's other 20K visas is also an open secret. These mediocre-to-hopeless students from India just apply to some university in the US for a Masters. Either it is a shit-degree from a mediocre university or a shit-degree from a shit-university (most of them seem to be in Texas). Doesn't matter. They get the admission, pay the fees, pass the course. Then they take internships to stay on after the degree, keep applying and taking interviews relentlessly until something works out. I believe they can stay on in the US for a few years by extending their visa in this way, until they get a H1B.
Link for reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyden_jar
I'm alawys amazed at how much of our ecosystem is powered—and regulated—by microbial activity. And yet we still have so much to learn about these organisms and their effects.
If you don't notice that I've taken $10k out of your account, invested it, and put the $10k back after a year (pocketing the interest), would you be fine with that fact?

edit: thank you for explaining banks to me; I'm talking about stealing my parent-comments' money for a year without them noticing, and investing it.
Let's say I'm sold on Clojure (I am; I think it's awesome) and I want to convince my boss to convert a crufty Java 7 enterprise app to a better alternative. What is the argument for Clojure compared to, say, Kotlin? How difficult is a complete conversion to Clojure compared to other JVM alternatives. My guess, in terms of ease of transition:

Java 8 > Kotlin > Scala > Clojure

That's just my impression, especially if you're risk averse and want to make improvements as incrementally as possible. But I could be wrong. Anyone have a good counterexample?
Cheap windows tablets are a thing: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00YCX7SEW/ - of course every concievable corner has been cut, so it's an atom with little storage.

My favourite which I'm tempted to actually buy is http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00O636WJU , which costs ~£60 and comes with a year of Office 365 + terabyte cloud storage which also normally costs £60.
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How to finally get that sixpack or flatten out your stomach
I think most of you will like this event.
I tried gin, martini and revel and found myself reaching to go back to largely the stdlib after about 6 months of development.

The stdlib with a couple convience functions really is quite good.