skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I don't really care if people want to relocate from one country to another. I just care that they do it legally and the two countries know about it.

The problem is that requiring them to do it legally is requiring many to not do it at all because those who do care if you can do it have made the laws so burdensome.

>If you are paying a coyote to sneak you across a lightly patrolled stretch of the border in the middle of the night... you should know you are doing it wrong.

If you see people paying someone money to take them on a very dangerous journey instead of going through your legal process, you should know the legal process is broken.
There actually is concern that triclosan resistance may confer resistance to other antimicrobials:

http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/mdr.2006.12.83

(as far as I know, antibiotic and antibacterial are largely synonymous)
It absolutely it not normal. If there was ALWAYS a 15% pop, then IPO prices would be 15% higher.
Of course. And every time you leave your house, you should file a plan with the government so that bureaucrats can evaluate whether your travel plans are justified. The state needs documentation of your comings and goings.

If you find yourself going down the road without a proper plan, you should know that you're doing something wrong. And a proper plan is one the government has approved as valuable and that justifies all the time and effort the government puts into evaluating plans.
It's taking your connection 7 seconds to ping google.com.

No, we're not going to prevent and/or stone-wall encryption just so a connection with an average 7+ second latency works marginally better.

As an aside - this satellite connection is one of the worst ones I've seen. Old satellite connections are supposed to be on average about 1 second of latency[1] (and that's considered bad).

[1] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/02/satell...
hehe, I see this every time on an HN post about a new Elm release. At some point I'll have to look into that old email client, I'm curious what people are talking about.
Zurb Foundation 6 Released
Here's a random idea, why doesn't the government just pay companies to employ people? (Obviously the payment should be lower than the salary, and it should be a fixed payment rather than a percentage tax break.) This way unemployed folks don't get the handout, which makes right-wing folks happy, and employers become more willing to hire minorities, which makes left-wing folks happy. Has it been tried?
People also tend to throw out a lot clothing because they're bored with it, not because it gets worn out. There does appear to be a pretty big opportunity there.
As I said in the last part of my statement.
The outbound number was inflated by counting U.S.-born children as "Mexicans", going "back" to Mexico.
¡ya esta reestablecido!
i's restored!
This isn't a binary, just because those things are true, and because they tend to happen doesn't mean they are certainties or worth betting your whole net worth on. Anything could happen. There are outside market events to consider.
Actually, from my personal observation, Hollywood seems to have toned down on sex scenes significantly in the last decade or so. Actually, I can honest-to-god say that Hollywood blockbusters are now higher culture than theatre in my country is...
hah! didn't catch it! thanks
I don't know. Seems like we have plenty.
Yes, all of the wifi stuff we add in the future will be only possible on comcast-provided wireless gateways (XB2/XB3). We have some other nifty ideas that would use our gateways too. Most of the existing stuff I mentioned is not specific to comcast-provided devices, or wireless gateways.
Knowing how a given market situation works does not mean you should spend every penny you have betting on it. False signals do happen, and not many things are 100%, especially in finance.
We all have to breath way more than we need TV, yet oxygen isn't a 60 billion market.

It's just a nonsensical statement.
knowing what people will probably do and betting your life that it will happen this time exactly as planned are different things.
I'm not entirely sure this belongs here, as it's not entirely 'interesting' but I suppose it does have the word database in it.

Really hard not to break Godwin's law here...
6% were 3.x in April 2014
https://caremad.io/2015/04/a-year-of-pypi-downloads/
INSERT INTO "muslims" ("first_name", "last_name") VALUES ("Donald", "Trump");
Great concept! This is definitely going to go very far!
While I have no direct experience with the business side of Comcast business customer support, I noted that when we reported an issue yesterday at work, it took them over 6 hours to fix it at which point they might as well not have bothered. The operating hours were over.

- Don't care about blocked ports. I don't personally host anything, our company also has a separate hosting service.
- I'm sorry, but... data caps? Is this a joke? In this day and age of services like Netflix and digital content distribution like Steam there's a place for data caps?

- $150/month is a ridiculous cost to put on a guaranteed 50/10 line. Don't care about the static IPs personally as I don't host anything.
- Comcast, right.... you hit it on the nail there, it looks like. My experience with their customer service so far has been horrible. I'm usually empathetic when talking with technical support as I used to do the same job myself, but there's empathy and then there's people trying to intentionally annoy. So far I've felt like bashing my head against the wall after just three sentences from Comcast tech support. And they claim they spend millions on customer satisfaction? Please.

I was an UVerse customer too. I had only one issue with them for the two years I was their customer and I'm seriously considering going back. Better have a slower connection I can rely on than having a 'blazing fast' connection that craps out every 5 minutes.
First - Great job finding this report. Thank you for that.

So had a look at the report.

There was one more problem actually. This machine, the MCO, had asymmetrical solar panels which would cause solar pressure ( force by sunlight ) to create a very mild spin ( angular momentum ). Now this angular momentum had to be desaturated time to time in order to keep this machine stable. Now, one module called SM_FORCES calculate this adjustment and feeds to AMD ( Angular Momentum Desaturation ). Now, this SM_FORCES & AMD uses different unit system, which was ignored by whoever wrote this connecting piece of program. Due to this error desaturation was not enough ( or more ) and it kept building over the period of 9 months.

Now, I notice that NASA has a separate team to navigate this machine to mars. There data showed this angular momentum adjustment event occurred 10-15 times more than expected. It was like a man walking with one leg shorter than another. It's a 9 months journey from mars to earth. They must have seen the first sign to inconsistency with in first few weeks only, just guessing though.

In this report, out of 8 possible contributing causes, at-least 3 are attributed to navigation team. I think success of such mission depends not only on meticulous planning but also on thinking on the feet ability of the team. ( Any Apollo 13 fans? :) )
It's really a mix of over-regulation and under-regulation, with a lot of regulatory capture. In this case the monopolies are not illegal, they're actually protected by regulation.
Considering we killed off the largest single intelligence asset on terrorism in the world (OBL), instead of interrogating him, this doesnt surprise me at all.
True, but I thought that was obvious.
This is demonstrably incorrect. That's not to say OP should definitely not go to college, but plenty of developers succeed without a degree. You do not need to be a savant, you just need to learn enough on your own that you are a net plus to a business in their eyes.

In particular, Google explicitly does not have a requirement for a college degree. I also know from experience that Microsoft doesn't either.
I wonder in terms of ethics. Why don't they tell the bosses it is unethical? Like bankers software engineers need some ethics treatment. I look at you who add multiple trackers to websites.
It's highly unlikely that retail investment made up a significant portion of the traded volume today. I'd be amazed if it was more than 0.5% and thus its impact on price would be very small.
Meh. What matters are the principles; even if you could show that 100% of terrorists always used encrypted communications without exception..I would still not be in favour of outlawing encrypted messages.
G-Free: Defeat Return-Oriented Programming Through Gadget-Less Binaries (2010) [pdf]
I didn't say we needed to track people as they move about the interior of the country. That would be ridiculous. But it is not too much to ask that we know who is coming and going across the border. When I leave the country my passport is scanned. They know I have left. They know when I return.

Think of it this way. You have a door on your house. When people come over, they knock on the door and you let them in at your discretion. You know who is in your house. But once in, you don't have to follow them all over as they use the bathroom or get a glass of water. You have certain amount of trust that they won't slip away and try on all your underwear. However, if they do, you probably would ask them to leave and might not open the door for them next time.
The Space Doctor’s Big Idea – Relativity, Thing-Explainer-Style
The value proposition is that girls can show off a new dress for each (facebook picture of) event they attend.

So they're not renting dresses, they're renting the dream/perception of a huge designer dress collection.
It's incredibly difficult to short an IPO within the first 30 days because the SEC requires the underwriter to wait at least 30 days to lend out shares for shorting.

So then you'd have to get a retail or institutional investor who JUST PURCHASED shares to lend them to you to short.

In which case, why would they bother buying them in the first place.
I agree. Spreading it over multiple releases would have been better.
People aren't really hiring. They're going through Kabuki theater of the process. It might be as simple as this reinforces the ego of the hiring team.

in a company there might be two narratives - we're all WORKING SO HARD ( you're probably not, really ) and WE CAN'T FIND ANY HELP ( because we're too special.)

This being said, I make a good living cleaning up after mishires/onboarding failures.

They economy is divided into Big Player high profile firms and firms milking some old cash cow into a middling slow Schumpeterian/thermodynamic death.
Why is an IdP necessary for a system where you have multiple identities? Why can oneself provide the identity one wishes to use for the communication with the other party?

I do agree that Persona with a personal domain is a much better system, but why should it be necessary to have one to avoid being tied to a third-party IdP?
They're probably referring to Tricolsan, which does show up in hand soaps and other products:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triclosan
I think Mexico will probably do very well over the next 20 some years. I expect we'll see most of the war on drugs come to an end, with Canada / US / Mexico all legalizing pot and decriminalizing some of the other drugs that drive a lot of the drug violence. Their GDP per capita will probably double in just the next 10-12 years, essentially catching up to mid-development European countries like Portugal, Slovenia and Czech.
It looks like the word he was looking for is sapiosexual, though I have a hard time understanding how intelligence could _not_ be an important factor in every relationship.

> sapiosexual (n.): A person sexually attracted to intelligence or the human mind.
The internet should be designed for 99% of users in 99% of cases. One edge case, while unfortunate, is not a very strong argument for why everyone sitting in Starbucks or McDonalds deserves to have their internet activity spied upon by anyone with a copy of Wireshark.

You may wish to get Opera browser and utilise their "Turbo" service (it is an optimising proxy, it compresses the page content, removing several round-trips, etc). Should have smooth out the issues a little bit.
Right, fine. So perhaps I should re-state my criticism as:
If you know this is the case, then why not bet 2% of your net worth on every tech IPO that you magically know will pop and make huge gains vs the wider market.

The answer is that you cannot do this because it is NOT TYPICAL. Plenty of tech IPOs flop but cognitive bias means you only remember the googles and apples and squares and not the 50% that go south of ipo price straight after launch.
I went to RIT. A year of co-op is required for most majors. I wouldn't have had my great experience at Apple or such a fantastic job now if it weren't for that degree requirement.

I still think college isn't for everybody. My grandfather was a combat engineer in WWII but the GI Bill college track wasn't doing it for him so he started a successful restaurant instead.

That being said, co-ops are the only reasonable strategy for colleges to expect job placement upon graduation.
I love it how you mentioned "The C Programming Language" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language), the book commonly known as "K&R", without doing the K-reference and instead doing that for AWK.

In my tiny little world, K&R is like a bazillion times more well-known than AWK. Always fun with different perspectives. :)
The substance was so valuable that dishonest traders,
al-Safi said, often trafficked in fake red mercury. ‘‘In
my village at least 15 people trade in it,’’ he said.
‘‘They buy normal mercury, and they color it. They use
red lipstick and put a little on a spoon and heat the
spoon...

I think I see the problem.
As much as I want to love this, I'm wary — how's SeatGeek protecting against fraudulent tickets? How is my purchase protected? Does (can?) SeatGeek validate the ticket themselves?

TicketMaster, the monopoly that they are, can do this with their resale marketplace (of course, the ticket needs to come from them in the first place), but since SeatGeek aggregates, I don't think they have this superpower.
Besides myself? No, but I work in IT at a large investment bank and about 75% of my coworkers are on these same visas and I know what most of them are making. I also know a handful of recruiters that are recruiting them, their offers are significantly lower than ours and their expectation for performance based raise is far lower than ours.
Honest question: what exactly do you think is great about the 65816? Because I don't know much about the 65816 but I don't really see the appeal, even compared to the 8086.

The 65816 had even less general purpose registers than the 8086, the Direct Page stuff seems like it would be a pain in the ass to use manually and a nightmare for compilers and the instruction set was already saddled with a rather awkwardly implemented backwards compatibility with the 6502 (set this two processor flags and now you are running on a 8bit processor instead of a 16bit one!)
> Using utf-8 as the internal unicode representation is flawed too - index and length operations are slow.

And this perfectly illustrates what I posted in another comment elsewhere. Thinking that doing operations on code points (indexing and length) is the proper thing to do. You need to use a unicode library to work on graphemes and take into account grapheme clusters.

> For regexes, \w matches any unicode word character

From what I've read, \w just matches code points. I did find that the https://pypi.python.org/pypi/regex module supports \X which matches graphemes as per the unicode spec http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr29/.
But that implies (to me) that congress consider that they are allowed to say that mining in space is ok. They are granting a usage right to resources that is not within their jurisdiction.
Curious that there's no comparison with the other stream processing platform of choice, Apache Storm.
When you "short sell" a stock, you're betting that the price is going down. Now, for you to actually profit from the downswing the transaction has to be structured in a certain way.

The way this works is that you place an order with your broker to "short" a certain amount of stock. Let's say a lot of 100 shares. What they do is immediately purchase and then sell 100 shares. Let's say the price at this point is $100 a pop. Your account is thus credited $100 x 100 = $10,000.

Now, a short sale entitles the broker to the equivalent number of shares to close the position (this is called "covering"). So, since in this case they purchased and sold 100 shares, you now owe them 100 shares.

Let's say the price drops to $50 and you want to close. You simply buy 100 shares @ $50 and pay 100 x $50 = $5000. Remember how your account had been credited $10000? You're now left with $5000 which is your profit to keep.

But... what if the price had gone up to $200? $400?
In that case, you still owe them 100 shares. So you'd have to pay 100 x $200 = $20000 (leaving you with a net loss of $10k) or 100 x $400 = $40000 (leaving you with a net loss of $30k) respectively. As you can see, your downside is theoretically unlimited.

This downside is particularly relevant with very small stocks. With a stock valued around $2/share, it's much easier for it to 10x in value than a $50-100/share stock.

For this reason, you need to have one of the following tools available to you when shorting:
1) A great broker that will monitor and close out of huge losses
2) An opposing limit order (an order that triggers when a stock reaches a certain price, allowing you to cover)
3) A computerized trading system that will react to an adverse situation instantaneously.
Draw the Owl and Other Company Values You Didn’t Know You Should Have
REMOPLAY has launched its Beta website
You are equating getting a "permit to work" with immigrating. How many of those foreigners have a right to permanent residency?
See my explanation above on albright's comment
The Mexicans that have stopped coming and started returning are more than replaced by Guatemalans, Salvadorans, and Hondurans that have started arriving in much greater numbers.

Mexico's fertility rate is down to replacement level and the country won't be sending more.

Guatemala is packing 16MM people into a place the size of Maine, half of it malarial jungle and half volcanic mountaintop. The fertility rate is 4.0, setting population to double every generation. Honduras and El Salvador aren't far behind. Those Central American countries are desperately poor with illiterate majorities, the world's highest murder rates, and low educational attainment. Nearly half of Guatemalans don't even speak fluent Spanish.

Meanwhile Mexico is a well educated nation on the verge of first world incomes.

So the quality of migrants is not looking up. But the quantity certainly is.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10588576
I agree 100%. Getting into arguments over practicality with these slime balls lands you right where they want you, debating with them in order to earn rights you already have.
>> Education is irrelevant

I partially agree.. I think that one of the challenges is that lots of blue chip firms use a degree as a gating process to get an interview.

Faced with tens/hundreds of thousands of CV's, there probably has to be some kind of coarse filter to get past that and get them down to a meaningful number that a person can review. I know some companies in the UK still use UCAS points (A-Level results) as a gate to get from one stage in the process to another.

If you don't have a degree - even if you are a superstar/10x person, then it's going to be hard to get through the scripted screens that will block you from getting your CV in front of a hiring manager.

Generally after 7 or 8 years of experience, I guess a degree counts for less and its more about peoples experience.
This is a highly volatility stock, (because it's in the news right now) which a lot of retail investors are playing. News happened in the overnight that sent the shares soaring, then the algorithms sent the shares even more.

Basically, the trader was betting the company was going to go bankrupt, it went the opposite direction and he lost money.
What does "fireworks" mean here? Actual literal censorship, or just people loudly complaining and criticising the expressed sentiment? Because that is the opposite of censorship.
Ex-Subway pitchman Fogle gets more than 15 years in prison
Curious if anyone else is currently taking the class (Underactuated Robotics, Russ Tedrake @MIT), or has taken it previously? Through edX or at MIT? Any comments?

I have not completed it (on edX, and not sure if I will due to constraints on my time) but I think I would recommend it.

Also: Russ says they are running Drake (in MATLAB) directly on their Atlas robot (an android robot from Boston Dynamics, now owned by Google.) As they say, this is borderline crazy but seems to work and allows them to make rapid changes to their control code. If I recall correctly he said their control loop was in excess of 300 cycles per second, is this right?

Anybody out their want to comment on this or chime in with a comparison to another robot control system?
Also Etrade will collect interest on the margin debt.
Something about the interview leads me to believe he's not really a "sapiosexual"...
Carnegie Mellon University breaks silence on FBI payments allegation
I think it's a codification of a quite natural and sometimes reasonable thing.

Imagine I said something completely disgusting in a HN comment. I'd have it flagkilled faster than I could say "freedom of speech". We accept that because a community needs to be curated and maintained. Now extend this sentiment to the society at large, and you have an argument for some kind of obscenity laws.

That those laws may have gone too far is another issue though.
Spotted on Twitter:

"If banning encryption would stop terrorists using it, why don’t they just make terrorism illegal and be done with it?"
Google weren't that happy with how the auction IPO turned out, actually. Their second offering a year later followed Wall Street convention.
I was a US born baby once. Shouldn't they have counted me when I moved to Mexico? That's how you get a net migration rate. Or don't US Citizens count?
From my computer's thesaurus:

1. the final phase of the election campaign: stage, period, chapter, episode, part, step, point, time, juncture.

Pick one, and run with it :-)
Do you happen to remember what was the idea of that approach alternative to Elm Architecture?
To me, sarcasm is a form of a riddle, albeit one highly dependent on the trust and relationship between the two or more parties involved. A sarcastic statement does not always have to convey a "belittling" or "malicious" overtone, but can be much closer to a maxim, a form of wordplay, a metaphor, or an allegory. Or, in the case of the following Futurama quote, sarcasm can be a container for one of the above literary devices:

Professor Farnsworth: Is it true that stem cells may fight the aging process?

GeneWorks receptionist: Well yes. In the same way an infant may fight Muhammad Ali.

I like how the article points out that the over-arching caveat to the benefits of scarcasm involve the 'human capital' of trust. That reminds me of why my friends and I would use sarcasm with each other as games of wit, and why, on occasion, I'd cringe when one of my friends would be sarcastic, sometimes in a not-very-nice way, to a stranger who was simply trying to do their job. Or, in other words, sarcasm is a very powerful weapon in the "put down" game, and a large swath of the population isn't really mentally equipped or practiced in the contest, so it's a belitting thing...but when sarcasm ace meets sarcasm ace, holy cow it can be some funny material.
Note: "Oakland" here refers to the neighborhood near University of Pittsburgh.
I've had an eye on this space for some time. Scout was pretty high on my list, but didn't offer a one-to-one comparison NewRelic. This makes the market more interesting.