skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't need to cover the whole desert. The Sahara desert is HUGE: almost the size of China itself. We would probably use only a small fraction of the desert for energy production, and (hopefully) use the regions which affect the environment least.

As for security, I think its a tough question but not without solutions. Instead of treating the nomads as enemies, maybe we could explain to them the purposes of the project and reach some kind of understanding. This is a problem for diplomacy: not something that interest most HN readers.

As for Faraday not being recognized: there are tons of scientists who've made important contributions that are required for everything that we take for granted today. Franklin is probably more famous for being an astute statesman rather than as a scientist.
> And yet Healthcare costs more in America than any other developed country. So the evidence is clear that when the government does it, it is cheaper.

When the American government does damn near anything it costs more than when any other government in the world does something. Showing that other governments can do something cheaper does not demonstrate that the American government can as well. I have much more faith in the ability of a European government to set up a social program than I do my own.
"Crucified" is an obvious exaggeration, but the article does contain "Last, I wanted this developer removed from the project and the IRC channel."

I don't know anything about what happened here more than what's public, but it's totally imaginable to me that if you make that an ultimatum, and the project leadership hasn't given itself a reasonable way to do that, it's difficult for them to respond usefully.

Maybe the lesson here is that good projects should give their leadership the explicit ability and the political authority to do that, including for forums like IRC. There are many examples of projects / communities that are wonderful places until things go wrong. (This is, essentially, the argument for having a written code of conduct even though nobody would be violating it.)
Until tomorrow...
Because the increase in wages vs Guatemala wages makes it worthwhile.
Say Arizona doesn't have universal healthcare, and California does. Someone gets cancer, so they move to California. Under the privileges and immunities clause, California generally cannot say "hey, you just moved here, so here is a bill." Consider also a company that doesn't like the extra taxes used to support universal healthcare. So they hop across the border to Arizona, and continue selling to California customers. California cannot, without violating the Commerce Clause, say "hey, you get the benefit of selling to healthy Californian consumers but you moved just to evade the tax that pays for it, so here is a tariff on your products."

The Constitution imposes an open market on commerce and movement within the United States. The Commerce Clause exists to give the federal government the power to address the economic issues that arise as a consequence of that.
That's definitely on the agenda. Curious, what are you interested in a JSON serialization for?
Very much like Crystal Ball - an Excel add-on that's popular in the finance and energy fields.
>I've been a hiring manager for over a decade in Silicon Valley and my experience is that the market is very competitive now. Most candidates I've spoken with are talking to multiple companies and many have offers pending. Compensation seems to be steadily rising.

The market is always competitive for the top 15%. But that's not usually the case for the rest of the labor pool.

What the H-1 program means for companies is they never have to train anyone, they never have to hire anyone over 40, and they never have to make offers that include moving expenses.
I think that the difficulty immigrating to the United States is a relatively recent development (post-9/11). Lines for green cards have become very long for a lot of people and for some there isn't an option to get a green card (due to non-dual-intent status which is basically "Hey we want you to come spend the best years of your life contributing to the American system and then you have to leave!")

One of the bigger problems is that there isn't an entrepreneur visa in the US, which basically means that you can't be on a visa and start a company in the USA. At least in theory. With something like 50% or more of companies being started by people who weren't born in the USA, it seems a bit problematic.

It's not impossible to immigrate here, it's just very difficult compared to other developed nations such as Canada, the UK and the EU.

I feel like a big problem with tackling immigration in the US is it's so tightly coupled with the partisan issue of illegal immigration from latin america that it's basically impossible to have any sort of reform for legal immigration.
It's actually above US individual (not household) median income, so it's perfectly possible to live on this amount.

And yes, I wouldn't expect someone with a family in the Bay Area to be interested.
A woman wanted recourse for feeling unsafe because of the horribleness someone was spewing. Any real recourse. I outline this in my other comments. I was there for the entire ordeal. They tolerated every infraction with no consequence.
Glad to hear something official on this...5 or 6 days is way too long to go without something more than "We're working on it" and some light details. I understand that it's likely an all-hands-on-deck hair-on-fire situation over there, but those of us who rely on Linode for our own businesses have been largely left in the dark.

When our customers are emailing and tweeting us and they just want to know when we are going to be up, and all we can say is "We have no idea, we don't know why this is happening or what's really going on", that's pretty much the definition of a worst case scenario from a customer service standpoint.

As someone whose business relies on Linode currently to function, I am sympathetic to Linode's plight...this is the equivalent of someone coming and setting off a bomb in your factory; not exactly something that you can always plan for even if you have prevention measures in place. But they would have kept a lot more of my sympathy long-term if they would have communicated better with their customers in the first place...

EDIT: And it looks like the attackers decided to start things back up again, as Linode.com is unavailable...
> Healthcare is not a finite or tangible resource, it is a service provided by medical professionals.

Medical professionals and equipment are finite, tangible resources. No matter how capitalist or socialist your health care system, you are subject to limits on how much time, energy, and money you devote to health care.
Well said. I was surprised that this link wasn't higher on HN, but after all, it's new years eve.
Article 25 of the universal declaration of human rights.
I'm not sure about the specifics of your plan, but I have to commend you for figuring out how to give your employees actual equity (instead of options).

Stock is so much better for employees on almost every possible dimension and it's a real shame that more companies don't give it out, even when it's quite possible to do so (ex. early stage companies who have only raised convertible notes).
Well it's a fairly obvious drama bomb. I'm not sure the nature of the drama factors in so much as how loud it is.
I noticed that myself. Such actions make the moderators look like they are taking sides.
> It's strange that this disappeared from the front page so suddenly

Users flagged it.
I was consumed with a product I launched in 2014 :)
No. This is about women wanting their safety prioritized over others' "right" to treat women like garbage.
It's not like Pong where you have to line the paddle up with the ball. You can hit the ball as soon as it crosses onto your side of the court, using a button. You use the knob to change the angle you hit the ball at. Hitting downward increases the speed of the ball, but increases your chances of hitting the net.
Huh, I stand corrected.
> Those were the oligarchs who came to power in the 90's.

This is a simplification that putin's propaganda machine loves so much. Today's Russia isn't much different from the 90s, except the portrayal in tv and the fact that instead of looting soviet relics, raiders destroy succesfull companies that have been built in the last 20 years.
It's probably being flagged by users, not admins.
No moderator touched this post.
Maybe you couldn't always expect an explanation, but having one would certainly be useful. Methods that could get the job done while also providing enough information to explain or at least shed some kind of light on why the solution was chosen would likely be preferable.
> You can't just contribute and consider it done. You have to be prepare to fight your way through, engage in edit wars, learn about the battlefield (the bureaucracy, the article sourcing) and in the end, if you fight long enough, you usually win.

And this is why only fundamentalists and paid editors edit Wikipedia. I spent days with such battles on a certain Wikipedia page only to have one "senior" editor come around and essentially say that I was wrong (no explanation given) and revert the changes. It's a completely useless waste of time. :)
Thanks for the prompt reply. Are you planning to open source all of it in the future or will it remain SaaS?
Well React is a templating language. I assume you mean client-side templating.
Legal or illegal it doesn't matter. We don't have enough low and un-skilled jobs for the people who live here. Adding more labor to that pool just means those people have no hope of increased real wages.

Especially under current conditions, when a guest worker gets a job all the bunnies roll over and a citizen ends up on welfare.
That's probably because the flame detector triggered (maybe lots of downvotes and upvotes, indicating a highly polarized discussion). I doubt it's been a manual intervention and wouldn't be surprised if a moderator manually reinstated the story on the front page, instead of having buried it in the first place.

Disclaimer: I know next to nothing about how HN really works.
Why do you believe this was a mod and not users flagging? Given the [flag]-fest below I'd expect the submission itself got a few flags as well.
Oh, it wouldn't have to be that format in particular, I was just guessing how you might represent the worksheet in some useful, repurpose-able manner.
It should be university because it originally was. It evolved towards being a very elaborate vocational school. The actual vocational schools are uncool now, so you get basically the same thing from Ivy League, only less efficiently and for more money.

I think both approaches are fine; what messes things up is the dissociative identity disorder the university suffers from. On one hand, it is expected to carry great traditions of scholarship. On the other, economic incentives create strong pressure to do vocational training instead. If we could split it (back) into two separate institutions, things would be much better.
how to make wealth http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html
Malcolm X would give several speeches about "the ballot or the bullet," talking about how history is full of violent revolutions, but he lived in a privileged time where revolutions can actually happen peacefully.

I think there's a lot to be said for the idea of elections as a pressure valve, as well as a way to displace leadership once they cross certain lines.

EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9BVEnEsn6Y&t=37m56s

Admittedly, he talks up the bullet as an inevitable fallback if the ballot didn't work, so maybe this isn't the perfect example...
I like that she didn't, since it emphasizes that this is not about that particular conflict, but the way it has been handled. She could have mentioned his name in an effort to make him look bad (this post will probably get a lot of attention), but she didn't.
Interesting how many people forget there are more parts of the world than just the US, or even the Bay Area...
> will influence your relationship after the offer is accepted.

It will influence your relationship, positively.

Executives and managers always pay attention to these details and negotiate them when joining a company. The fact that you're paying attention signals that you actually understand what's going on and demands respect.

Some companies will refuse to give you this info and resent you for asking, but you should automatically reject such offers.
An unemployed guy in Michigan isn't making any more than an unemployed guy in Guatemala.
I think Belgium got the poor end of the deal.

https://goo.gl/maps/byhcGJeHsKS2
Medical professionals and hospital rooms are absolutely finite resources. You can certainly build more, either by incentivizing their construction (capitalism) or have the state build them as part of some 5 year plan. Medical professionals are somewhat harder...we get them now by paying them handsomely...you could continue to do that, or conscript people into service. I'm not sure I'd want my heart surgeon to be a draftee..but ok.

How about donor organs? is there some infinite source of hearts and livers out there I'm unaware of?

Once you accept the fact that a given resource is rivalrous, you have to come up with some way to distribute it. Currently, that mechanism is money. If you get rid of that, then you have to replace it with _something_..whether it be algorithms, favor-economies, or central planning.

Now if you want to argue that insurance companies distort the market, then I probably agree with you (though I think there is room for interesting discussion here...). Certainly I think a single-payer solution is preferable to the current status quo, which mandates that individuals purchase insurance from private companies.
It's not clear what the difference between mod and user flagging is. It's not clear that it matters. If the users are flagging it, then they are taking sides.
You have a talent for seeing the trees and missing the forest. Apple isn't changing anything by borrowing against its foreign cash horde. That just gives it access to the money without having to pay taxes.
[Citaion needed] for public compaines or high value stock that's one thing, but this is private companies and small amounts of money which have very different rules.

PS:
https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc427.html

Statutory Stock Options
If your employer grants you a statutory stock option, you generally do not include any amount in your gross income when you receive or exercise the option. However, you may be subject to alternative minimum tax in the year you exercise an ISO. For more information, refer to the Form 6251 Instructions (PDF). You have taxable income or deductible loss when you sell the stock you bought by exercising the option. You generally treat this amount as a capital gain or loss. However, if you do not meet special holding period requirements, you will have to treat income from the sale as ordinary income. Add these amounts, which are treated as wages, to the basis of the stock in determining the gain or loss on the stock's disposition. Refer to Publication 525 for specific details on the type of stock option, as well as rules for when income is reported and how income is reported for income tax purposes.

...

Not Readily Determined Fair Market Value - Most nonstatutory options do not have a readily determinable fair market value. For nonstatutory options without a readily determinable fair market value, there is no taxable event when the option is granted but you must include in income the fair market value of the stock received on exercise, less the amount paid, when you exercise the option. You have taxable income or deductible loss when you sell the stock you received by exercising the option. You generally treat this amount as a capital gain or loss. For specific information and reporting requirements, refer to Publication 525.
Something caused the post to vanish.
I love FreeBSD! I have a GitHub record to show that! :3 It's my sweet little darling angel. But it's sick. :<

We need routes to ensure safety and respect for everyone. If someone makes others feel endangered, it is not unreasonable for there to be immediate recourse and resolution. That's what a Code of Conduct is all about.
tl;dr lighthearted sociological exploration of lectures in university
People can read their manager's mind
I began reading this book yesterday. So far it's a good introduction to analysing and manipulating ASM.

You'll need a windows system though. I found that the GCC examples didn't match up with what I was seeing on my Debian VM.
This is why no one will ever take them seriously, by spamming this thread out to their followings in this way they are attempting to create outside focus on the HN community not within it.

I invite you to see how Hacker News responds to an inherent problem with misogyny in open source. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10819778 …
https://twitter.com/LilyLemmer/status/682688557018828802

Admittedly really curious to see how the HN community responds to this.
https://twitter.com/randileeharper/status/682683554447265792
> It's not clear what the difference between mod and user flagging is.

I don't know how many mods there are, but it's a tiny number.

There are very many users who can flag. I think user flagging needs a karma level of 30.

It's a bit rude to say the mods are taking sides if those mods haven't done anything.
And? Or? Not!
Couldn't someone just win by pressing the button the second it crosses the net and never letting the ball reach the edge of the screen?
The top marginal rate was 91%, yes, but that rate was for income over $200,000 in 1950 dollars, which is (adjusted for inflation) nearly $2m in today's dollars:

http://taxfoundation.org/article/us-federal-individual-incom...

Meanwhile, the median household income in 1950 was under $5,000 (in 1950 dollars):

http://web.stanford.edu/class/polisci120a/immigration/Median...

So although there were very high marginal rates at the top, they applied only to people making over 40 times the median income. And just to pay a higher marginal rate than 2015's maximum of 39.6%, one needed to be making around three times the median income in 1950.

So you'll need another explanation, because it's unlikely that the risk of being bumped to an ultra-high marginal rate was an issue widespread enough to spur the offer of untaxed health care. And as others have pointed out, it's well-documented that the actual reason was a reaction to wartime wage controls -- given the choice, companies would have simply offered more cash.
I think there are some border shifts that happened after WWI that I'd consider more along the lines of the biggest mistake in the universe, but the melange of Belgium and the Netherlands is pretty egregious.
A mod has said that user flags caused the post to vanish. And it hasn't vanished, it's just dropped off the front page. It hasn't been closed or deleted.
It's not just a way to write them, it's a way to do inference. Probabilistic programming is extremely powerful in terms of representation but inference is, in general, intractable. Yes, you can express all those ML models as probabilistic programs, but the sampler isn't going to perform nearly as well as the original algorithm.
"It has become evident in the past two days that a bad actor is purchasing large amounts of botnet capacity in an attempt to significantly damage Linode’s business."

The timing of the DDoS was pretty interesting too, happening when not everyone is available.
Not in the magic world of VC funding! There will always be at least one dominant firm and a few others setting tens of millions of dollars on fire by offering five dollar Lyft Lines in Manhattan hoping to get traction.

It's a bit like restaurants - you have to compete both with established, profitable competitors and upstarts willing to take a temporary operating loss.

It may be unsustainable, but I've gotten hundreds of dollars of discounted stuff from companies operating at a loss looking for traction... thanks, pension fund VC investors!
Surely they will have to change that. Right?
It can't last long.
Maybe I need to read a bit better. I don't deny that they are different people, but I guess I thought the linked article was more important than just a side comment.
I highly recommend downloading your router/modem firmware and having a look at it. Even running `strings` against it should be quite interesting.

If you're interested in unpacking a firmware then have a look at `binwalk` [1]. It might even work against your Blu-Ray player!

1: http://binwalk.org
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You seem to be asking whether it is possible to derive truth a priori by logic, or whether truth is dependent upon the physical context in which it's found. Perhaps the answer is a combination of both. Perhaps I just paraphrased Kant - and perhaps you just asked an interesting question that was raised hundreds of years ago by people in armchairs. ;)
If there was a priest who was homosexual, and involved himself with gay-pride rallies on his own time, would you say it is acceptable for the church to excommunicate him since he had "freedom not to associate" with the group?

If don't feel that disallowing personal thinking is good for society.

I also feel that it is possible for people to agree on some topics while disagree on others. Guilt by association should not be the measure we use to judge people. I'd say it is very unlikely that the person who "attacked" Harper also supports the "legalize rape" comment from RooshV.

In my opinion, attempting to draw a connection between RooshV's legalize rape comment and the person the article is about is a slanderous tactic to automatically make him "the enemy" with no evidence. This seems evident when you notice there is no source for any of the tweets made to Harper. This is contrasted with the readily available links provided to support deplorable comments made by RooshV.

Harper makes statements like "He started enlisting the support of his neo-nazi friends." which are obviously being used to create an us/them dichotomy for the reader. "I'm not a horrible racist like the Nazi's, that means I must hate this person who must be a Nazi." the readers would think to themselves.

I have no doubt that some of the content in this article is correct. I am just taken aback by the lack of sources provided, the attempts to slander the "opposition" and the wording of the piece. Being well read on the past of Harper, I would say that the claims have merit, but were blown entirely out of proportion.

I'll happily, and publicly, eat my own words if someone can source proof for her claims. I have no objection to recanting any of this.
Syntax highlighting and code folding in editors/IDEs kind of killed the argument for if/fi or Pascalesque begin/end... even in C++, to terminate heavily parened expressions, I can just thrash ) until my editor tells me I'm done, then run it through clang-format to clean it up.
Not being particularly interested in the moderation processes at hacker news, all I can say is that this flagging and it's effects does not reflect well on hacker news or it's users.

In fact, this sort of feature looks like it's used for supression.

Edited to add, since reply now seems to be broken for me: There is no "enable showdead" in my user profile settings, despite having registered more than a year ago.

I presume one must gather sufficient "community support" before such features are enabled.

What's most here dramatic is the enormous number of downvotes I've gotten for rather mundane and straightforward remarks.
@freebsdgirl, thank you for sharing your story. Hope it helps in improving the community to handle this better in the future.
Google does not have my location history and I very much plan to keep it that way.