skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I was for many years a libertarian (big L and little l...card-carrying member of the party, worked for ballot access, etc.). I just don't believe in the premises of libertarianism any more.

What took you so long?
USCIS will accept H1B petitions from April 1 to April 5 in 2016.

Those who have advanced degrees from US institutions will be considered to be eligible for the first lottery that will pick 20,000 petitions.

Those with advanced degrees but not picked in the first lottery will be added back to the applicant pool. A second lottery will pick 65,000 petitions.

http://www.uscis.gov/news/uscis-will-accept-h-1b-petitions-f...

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The parent comment, or the one stating that this is the parent's first post and asking for more details on the OP's credibility?
Venture Capital Returns to Pre 2014 Levels in Q4
Sundar Pichai – Let’s not let fear defeat our values
Uber offers free lifts to women voting for first time in a Saudi election
The sentiment that schooling is fundamentally broken seems much more prevalent in the US than in my native Australia, where I grew up attending public schools.

In my opinion this is a US problem and not a western world problem.
Ants keep other animals (aphids) as livestock, too.
The near term danger of AI, as I point occasionally, is a Goldman Sachs run by an AI. Machine learning systems are already making many investment decisions. We're not far from the day when society's capital allocation is controlled by programs optimizing for return over a few years, and nothing else.
I mean, obviously, I may be wrong, I am bad with people, etc, etc... but my feeling on the matter is that this isn't really fear. It's hate. We use the language of fear, the language of defense, because that's how you do war these days, but this isn't about safety, not even a little bit.

After the far more serious 9/11 attack, we decided to attack a country full of people who.... looked a little bit like the people who perpetrated the attack on us.[1] To the best of my knowledge, there was no evidence that Iraq had anything to do with the 9/11 attack, and most of the justifications at the time seemed to focus on "weapons of mass destruction" - something that I don't think is traditionally a legitimate casus belli. Even before it was shown that said weapons were largely fantasy, I don't think there was a coherent non-race based reason to attack Iraq. In spite of this, the move had extremely broad public support at the time.

A lot of people conflate hate and fear, probably out of some attempt to make those who hate look "less manly" or something equally ridiculous, but I think you have a better handle on what is actually going on if you call a spade a spade. Maybe it's just me not being able to understand normal people, but I don't think we're actually afraid of something that kills fewer Americans than sharks most years.

I think that a lot of the American political landscape makes a lot more sense if you understand that for many people, how someone dies is way more important than how long they live.

Both sides of the isle do this. Cars kill more people than guns, and way more people if you remove the obvious suicides from the statistics[2], but while the left goes on about guns forever, they never talk of, say, increasing the requirements for operating a far more dangerous motor vehicle.

All that said, I don't have anything like a solution. I'm just saying that I don't believe that it has anything to do with fear. Fear is what I feel when I bicycle on the same road as cars. This is different. There's very little danger actually involved, from the American side.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War

[2]I think you can't really understand the "pro" side of the gun debate until you understand that for many people, the right to own a gun is actually the right to a suicide they control; the right to death on their own terms. It puts "From my cold, dead hands" in a whole new light, doesn't it? The difference between suicide with a gun and doctor-assisted suicide is an interesting example, because in America, the people who think one should be a right usually think the other should be illegal and vis-a-vis
> what I know is that the original issue in the tracker was created in bad faith

I think it's unfair to the Django people to make that allegation without substantiating it. Otherwise it's just a mean rumor.

> all I'm claiming is that the direct results of these actions are producing the exact negative of the effects they intend to. ... If people see that you'll cave in to any form of "political correctness" pressure, they'll double down and find more faults, and if there are no more faults they'll create them for you.

It's hard to tell if you are making a prediction or saying it has happened. Could you provide evidence of these consequences happening to the Django project? Also, perhaps those additional faults are real to others but not to you - returning us to the orginal discussion of how one judges what is 'offensive'.

> "political correctness" pressure

I think today's "political correctness" is to criticize people pointing out any kind of prejudice. They are automatically assumed to be in bad faith and attacked, with the same criticisms almost every time, regardless of the content or merits of their complaint. It's an attempt to intimidate into silence anyone thinking about complaining, which I think is unhealthy and disrespectful.
Why is Yahoo still coding anything? They're focusing on dumping everything other than their stake in Alibaba.
UPS hikes pay to $28.50 an hour to hire more seasonal workers
I think they make the bulk of their money* off of Atlas, which is a subscription service that ties together and automates a lot of their free products. They also have a paid add-on to Vagrant for VMware support.

* I would also bet they do consulting & support for companies that are using their products, and/or other automation advice. Whether that accounts for more or less revenue than Atlas, I have no idea :)
I don't recommend Redbubble, I just ordered some and they're cheap but the printing quality is just not very good.

I have a few from Unixstickers though, they're printed properly.

(no affiliation, just a customer)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10721596
The way people "follow" you requires you to add them as a contact. Your contact card is basically a public key, but in a more human-understandable form.
If I'm sending contents of a website to client in .xz format, will browsers be able to decompress it?
So, should I tell them that the Internet is post-Nation State? Or do you want to?
>3G networks use the KASUMI block cipher instead of the older A5/1 stream cipher

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3G#Security

I don't see any exceptions for this. Can you link to a source that states it's still possible for 3G to use A5/1?
In my opinion the biggest danger is letting AI to sort our news and search engine results, social media feeds etc. There was research on Facebook how they can affect people's moods by using different weights for posts. What happens when intelligent bots start writing news, blogs, comments, tweets?

In essence, I mean the dangers of using AI for large scale propaganda through Internet services. The best tools of the most dangerous people and movements have always been manipulation and propaganda; what if a perfect AI does it? Could we even notice it?

Even when the AI is given a seemingly safe task, such as "optimize for clicks" in a news web site, something dangerous might happen in the long run if that's optimal for clicks.
If I'm actually doing something with my data, gzip -1 beats out lz4 for streaming, as gzip -1 can usually keep up with the slower of the in/out sides, and gzip -1 is higher compression ratio than lz4 and faster compression (but not decompression) than lz4hc.
It could expand out a big frill along a plane perpendicular to the shot when firing to transfer the kickback momentum to the air.
I'm from Australia.
Next up is a biotech company.
Embracing Secure Boot and Rejecting Restricted Boot: Matthew Garrett [video]
The dataset of all towns in the world with > 1000 inhabitants is bundled into Kloak. The GPS location was originally highly accurate, but we rounded down to 2 decimal places. So if your GPS coordinates match the center of the city (rounded down), a place name can be generated. It basically will place you near the center of the closest town, again, its naively rounded to 2 decimal places. I want to go back to make this code a bit more sophisticated, with more choices for the user.
What do you think is broken about schooling in Australia?
That knowledge is very widespread.
That is an unfortunate naming problem. Kind of ironic as social media can be such a sewer!
The source/tracker is here if you want to file issues, etc: https://github.com/Crypton/statusapp
Does this work for sending money to prepaid debit cards?
I had to explain the same thing to an engineering team the other day. There was a push to switch from a "fast but ok" compression algorithm to a "faster and better" compression algorithm. This seemed like win-win, but I explained that:

* The faster compression made a difference of about 100 milliseconds to a user experience lasting minutes.

* The better compression made a different of about 1 second to most users.

* The change of compression algorithm would take time away from engineering teams, and ultimately introduce bugs.

So in the end it was sidelined until other fundamental changes (file format etc) made it able to be coat-tailed into production.

Same story as yours: don't fix what ain't broke. Tallest working radio antenna in the world -> longest lying broken antenna in the world.
Saying that climate scientists should qualify their findings using risk & mitigation models is like telling an olympic athlete that they should train if they want to win gold. Not only do they know, not only have they been doing it all along, but they have invested such monumental effort in doing an extraordinarily good job of it all along that the fact that you aren't aware is depressing. Doubly so because, in contrast to athletics, the point of the exercise wasn't to win a contest but rather to achieve the very public awareness that, evidently, they haven't.

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/
The link to the source code is in the about screen in the app. Hardly buried. I will have it added to the site, I was unaware of this.
PayPal's original business was that you could "email money". Merchant processing came later. The "viral" feature was that you had to sign up for a PayPal account to receive money.
> In the latter half of the 20th century

This is an odd statement. In my reading of historical battles, I've never seen a mention of the idea that soldiers before 1950 did not shoot to kill when ordered to.
Holy batman, I didnt know (certain type of) microbeads are made of plastic. Everybody knows plastic in general is non-biodegradable etc etc, and they're making it in small particles? Who in their right mind?

What I don't understand is, they get the profit, everyone else clean their shit. And they can get away with this? Sigh
That is not the premise. The premise is that this is a parallel network for your trusted friends and family, off limits to the data-miners at FB and TWTR
> if there wasn't [a real problem with the word], the outcome is extremely negative: Something which didn't use to be a problem, is now a problem. The community appears less inclusive.

Here's where I lose you. I don't see how it's more than very slightly negative. To whom is the community less inclusive? People who like to use the word "slave"? People who think this issue is a waste of time? You can find people like that for every issue; if that minor detail turns them away, they weren't going to stay long. People who ideologically object to the attention paid to prejudice or actually are prejudicial? The latter are an easy case; the former - anyone working on a team must learn to respect others' views and accept being outvoted, with regularity.
Be aware that XFS will lose more data on a kernel panic than ext4; for example, all vim buffers saved in the last few seconds before the crash will be of size zero on reboot. With ext4 and reiserfs I find that I'm more likely to have either the old or new data in the files.
LEDs are great, and I'm happy they're gaining popularity and their price is coming down. But I'd rather have kids break a 20 cent lightbulb instead of a $5 bulb. Still, a lot of LED bulbs now seems to come in plastic casing, so perhaps they would be more durable - good point!
Pretty sure a group like that will be looking for postdocs etc.

Andrej Karpathy only completed his PhD this month, so I guess he'd fit into that category. I imagine he had a few options to choose from.
The system made me
At that level, yes. But those neurons are not doing high level symbol recognition tied to a grammar.

This is like pointing to the billions of transistors in a typical modern CPU and claiming it is massively parallel despite being single core.

For many things the brain clearly can do multiple things in parallel (I can write one thing while talking about something else, for example). But it most certainly can't usually carry out many high level tasks at the same time.

When it comes to things like recognising words/symbols the question is how high level that actually is, and whether or not the brain has capacity for recognising more than one at the same time, and if so how many.
Steve Jobs, the son of a migrant from Syria
Modern Microprocessors a 90 Minute Guide
When programs grovel into undocumented structures…
> a predator imaging drone telling a human
> operator falsely that the current image
> is a terrorist?

I think you're missing how this can be a really good thing. Right now this is happening but the "algorithm" is some unpredictable twenty year old in uniform.

Are we going to have hearings auditing what the algorithm is like? is there going to be a scandal because isBrownPerson() is discovered in there somewhere? Is someone going to run it against a video collection of regular daily life and discover the drones would be indiscriminately bombing innocent situations if given the chance?

The end result is that we're going to have to effectively have to come up with rules of engagement for every scenario. I think this will lead to war being fought more justly and with less collateral damage than ever before.
OEMDrop
I don't see how you can trust any of these sorts of privacy apps without compiling and side-loading them yourself. Even then, it's risky on a device you really don't control (f.e. Are we sure that the wi-fi radio that the FCC requires manufacturers to isolate from apps can't itself backdoor the device? Will we always be sure that the app developer won't ever update the software in a nefarious way?)
Is it likely that a user has gzip on a system but not tar itself?
From the article:

What about tooling?
OSX: tar -xf some.tar.xz (WORKS!)
Linux: tar -xf some.tar.xz (WORKS!)
Windows: ? (No idea, I haven't touched the platform in a while... should WORK!)
Data Modelling with Document Databases for the Relational DBMS Minded Folk
FreeWAF – High-Performance WAF Built on the OpenResty Stack
My impression is that "rockstar ninja" keywords indicate that they are paying entry-level wages, and really want someone who is willing to try really hard - and, of course, talk big about how awesome they are.

I suspect that most "rockstar ninja" positions actually end up being filled by people like what I was when I was 17, by which I mean, smart kids who aren't afraid to bite off more than they can chew, who don't necessarily know nearly as much as they think they know.

So yes, if I'm right, entry level positions are still there... you just have to convince them that you think you are a "rockstar ninja" (I like to think I'd be embarrassed by that, even at 17... but realistically? 17 year old me would probably eat that shit up.)
The solution to this is to require a bug/ticket/tracking item as part of the change. Since QA knows that dev needs to create one anyway, they might as well get the credit.

Where this starts to break apart is that QA can get overzealous and file bugs for different incarnations of the same bug.

It's a bit of give and take.
It is committed. There is a big difference between committed $1B (which is a proposal really) and funded with $1B.
That is obviously a joke. Mattel would never produce such a crappy ad.
From what I've heard, they are handing out ads in the Bay Area and targeting a small crowd, starting with Mountain View. I've had friends who got one, they come with a 25$ coupon.
Building xnu for OS X 10.11 El Capitan
Limited exposure to some parts of the real world. I read a lot, worked a lot, and didn't make time for travel. I had few friends who were significantly different from me in terms of money/education/class/race/etc. Kinda like most people. A few years traveling full-time, getting to know homeless folks and undocumented folks, and seeing how class and race plays out in our "free market" system changed my mind on a few things.

And, I think dismissing libertarianism out of hand, as though it has no interesting/valuable ideas, is somewhat silly. The LP was literally decades ahead of the curve on LGBTQ rights, ending the war on drugs, and opposition to war (of all sorts). All at a time when those ideas were extremely unpopular in mainstream politics. I disagree with the premises behind their economic policy ideas, but it doesn't mean I don't understand the allure of the non-aggression principle (I just think they're mistaken about capitalism being free of aggression).

So, how about you? What took you so long to come to your views? Why weren't you born with the correct ideas on every issue? Or were you? You reckon you're right on everything now? How embarrassing it'll be when you find out in five years you were wrong about something today.
How Nasa brought the monstrous F-1 'moon rocket' engine back to life (2013)
I am from Peru and I have a software engineer degree, I'm currently taking a Dev Bootcamp in San Francisco and will look a job here after that. I am currently with my Tourist visa. What are my real chances to get a H1B visa?
But you don't change the GPU yourself :-) you use it as a service. That's the good part, although the spec is not very good.
I hate to nit, but do the applications really not need special code? Most applications require secrets in one of their own config files, or through some other mechanism that is not some file in some format. If you need to write the code to get this secret off the file system and to where the app can use it.. What's the difference between using a simple client to fetch from vault vs fetch from the file system?

I don't currently use either vault or keywhiz(we rolled our own solution using KMS and dynamodb) so I'm not really knocking either method. The current state-of-the-art with configuration management and secret distribution(particularly for container stuff) still requires a lot of customization code specific to each wrapped application, unless you wrote it all yourself to suite.

At the risk of sounding like a fanboy though, I will say that my own solution and others that have come out feel very itch-scratchy compared to vault. From what I have read about vault it has a much more thought out and productized vibe. Lots of cool features beyond delivering an encrypted blob from point A to B. I get this impression from a lot of Hashicorp components in general, and feel it's a shame larger open source projects like Kubernetes aren't integrating them while letting scaling to 200 hosts be a blocker to their next release... But I digress.
Ask HN: What free photo hosting service should I use for my GitHub projects?
I am looking for a reliable free photo hosting service where I can host images for my blogs and github projects.
It would be nice if that service has album feature so that I can categorize uploaded images a/c project.
So far I have tried Imgur and PostImage but they didn't appeal to me.
Imgur wasn't user-friendly (no direct way to upload to existing album) whereas PostImage was buggy.
MIRI is basically an organization surrounding Yudkowsky's cult. He's a senior "research fellow" who hasn't published anything in respected peer review generals, and generally holds some pretty questionable beliefs.

http://laurencetennant.com/bonds/cultofbayes.html
Tar does not implement decompression. If you don't have xz installed it won't work.
I used that very computer a couple of years after these events occurred. It was a CDC 6600.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_6600
It's on here http://zcomm.org/wp-content/uploads/zbooks/www/chomsky/rab/r...

Simple searching on google showed me on the first page (third result).

The amount of truth we see is relative to the intension we're having. The rest just seems invisible to us.

Few more thoughts from Chomsky related to the theme of our discussion regarding truth:

“Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.”
(Exactly fit for responses I got re my geo-political remark)

“Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.”
(Yay, so true. But we're more concerned about how perfect and moral our regulation structure is, that it punishes the right people with right evidence... but evidence can be shown when it's the most convenient time to show them)

“It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.”
(Who likes truth anyway?)

“For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.”

("Hey, Germany ministers are towing the line and aren't repeating our propaganda, how can we show them their place?" "Well, let's call our regulatory depts., we must be having some violation reports waiting to be show light of the day at this opportune moment. Find the one with biggest potential impact, and, and we'll have the compliance of Germany without shotting a single bullet." "Yeah, this will also set example for other European vassals, who lately tries to have independent voice. They must be shown their right place before it's too late.")
After the UK, Australia and Canada all have this implemented, I'm sure we'll see it in the USA because "the rest of the civilized world" is doing it and they'll probably just conveniently reinterpret or otherwise dodge the First Amendment.

After all, it doesn't really say anything about website blocking. And people are still technically free to "speak" ... even if the government ensures that nobody can actually listen to them. And perhaps we can simply rope the major ISPs into it as a liability dodge. You know, we're not saying that you really have to block these sites, just that we won't guarantee that you won't get in trouble if you don't.

Or any of the many other ways one could claim to uphold the First Amendment in some technical sense while eroding it in a real sense.
SO MANY FUCKING PEOPLE TRYING TO CREATE ONE APP FOR ALL SOCIAL NETWORKS?
There are literally so many people who keep trying to make one app to 'rule them all' or simply, one app for all your social networks.

So many people have tried like Ben Pasternaks 'One the App' (props for the bomb marketing though), Fuse: Social, which pretty sure was removed, Hootsuite to some degree, but its more for business, Tappfeed, Bindr, there are legit so many. And they are all flawed with bugs and shit and some don't even come out. And not to mention awful design.

Honestly I really need an app like this. Hopefully it works out. But we will see. You can register on the waitlist which only has 167 people right now so I'd get in early.

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