skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haha..I love debating with you. Your hyperbole gets even better.

>"Why should birthplace of a person be allowed as a criteria for discrimination."

Because that is the law of the land and it is fair since the number of green cards are allotted EQUALLY to all countries [1]. We just happen to be from a country where there are more number of applicants than green cards available. If it were discriminatory, why did the EB priority dates of China move up multiple years? It's because the EB applications from Chinese nationals have dropped considerably, not because the US is suddenly schmoozing to Chinese nationals.

> "you never heard of families under strain because 6 years into their Green Card application they had to suddenly leave"

Life events happen (do you expect your life to be smooth sailing?) and you have to take decisions based on it. Let me tell you something, H1B is way way more permissive than work visas in most of Europe and Middle East. Chew on that for a minute.

> "Or where someone on OPT couldn't leave to visit their dying parents"

This cannot be a regular occurrence. Again, this is hyperbole.

> "Or families torn apart. All that means nothing?"

Were you kidnapped from your family and brought to the US in a shipping container with 100's of other people? All of us "left our families" and came here with our own FREE WILL. No one brought you here against your free will.

I use "I" because these are my opinions and I don't speak for anyone else. I definitely do not empathize with hyperbole, I can tell you that :)

Please read the link below before passing judgments on hearsay.

[1] http://www.uscis.gov/tools/glossary/country-limit
At some point you need to realize that the middle class is also geographically gated.
There's a reason why the classical middle class picture is a nuclear family in the burbs and not on 5th avenue.
The American middle class was never "rich" it was very financially prudent. If you still willing to live in the burbs 250K in NYC will get you a very nice house, a car and even college tuition for your kids.
Even in the golden age of the American middle class there were plenty of areas that were out of their reach, thats why the middle class expanded into new sub-urban developments. The cities were mostly polarized as they housed both the very rich and the very poor.
man, thank you, it is pure gold, you just can't make it up :

>According to Husam Muhammad, an Iraqi police officer and user of the ADE 651, using the device properly is more of an art than a science: "If we are tense, the device doesn't work correctly. I start slow, and relax my body, and I try to clear my mind."[10] The cards were supposedly "programmed" or "activated" by being placed in a jar for a week along with a sample of the target substance to absorb the substance's "vapours". Initially, McCormick reportedly used his own blood to "program" the cards for detecting human tissue, but eventually gave up even the pretense of "programming" them when demand for the devices was at its peak.[11]

...

>The ADE 651 is a descendant of the Quadro Tracker Positive Molecular Locator produced in the 1990s by Wade Quattlebaum, a South Carolina car dealer, commercial diver, and treasure hunter.
Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Supports Bernie Sanders
It doesn't sound like they are trying to profit off of Microsoft's design. They're reacting to the reality that Microsoft has a near monopoly in the word processing market, and many users are much more familiar with that interface. It makes it easier to transition a new user if the interface feels familiar.

If they were actually trying to profit from Microsoft's design, they wouldn't be providing a "Microsoft Word Mode" they would just make that their only interface. The idea is that they would be trying to avoid innovating themselves and would just be attempting to use Microsoft's interface design research to make a quick buck.

You see how this is not about trying to cut corners in designing an interface, and more about user familiarity?

(I'm being charitable here in assuming for the sake of argument that design is a legitimate thing to patent. I don't think that's the case)
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I'm not saying that ClojureScript is for everybody. Obviously, different people like different things and that's why we have so many different languages available.

However, the reason that async/await is difficult to do in ClojureScript as the main reason for leaving it is a strange one. It's clearly still very easy to do, even if ES7 version might be slightly cleaner at the cost of being baked into the core language semantics.

When you compare all the things that are much uglier in JavaScript compared to ClojureScript, it's a bit of a silly argument to cherry pick async semantics in my opinion.

I wouldn't expect ClojureScript to take over the world either. It's obviously never going to displace JavaScript, but it's reasonable to expect that it will continue to grow in popularity and that anybody who wants to work with it will be able to do so professionally.
Weren't there exactly such sliders in Photoshop, like 5-10 years earlier?
Thanks for an honest if likely unpopular viewpoint. I tend to think, personally, that there is some truth to both sides. There is a race problem in America, but it's with the culture and values of both white people and black people, and it cannot be fixed by focusing on just one side. Yes, white people and society have done many objectively terrible things to black people both individually and as a culture. Those centuries of discrimination have created their own cultural backwash into black culture, quite understandably. But while it's understandable and justifiable how that cultural legacy has crept into black culture, it still has to be removed before we can truly integrate everyone, just like how white racism and discrimination has to be removed. Nothing will ever really be accomplished along these lines while we whitewash (sic) all of the issues with black culture and deny any need for it to actively change itself.

It's kind of like many other issues where most everyone decides to be a partisan on one side or the other. Each side can find plenty of justification for thinking that the other side is evil and deserves everything it gets, while ignoring the many sins of their own side. It makes for many bitter arguments and perpetual conflict. The only way towards peace and harmony is for both sides to abandon all claims to righteousness, own up to their own issues, forgive the other side's many sins, and meet in the middle.
Maybe, but this is a DESIGN patent.
To be fair, the proposal (if I've read it correctly) is not for all banks to have a 100% reserve requirements - but it's for commercial banks to have that requirement. The central bank can still create money on a fractional reserve basis.

I agree that this seems like an unusually technical topic to subject to referendum.
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You are analyzing design patents as you would utility patents, which I doubt is correct. These patents are more about "look and feel". You don't break down a design into its components (else taken ad absurdum, everything would decompose to curves and straight lines and combinations thereof), but instead analyze it as a whole. I believe prior art searches for design patents look for almost exact matches of a given diagram.
There are definitely top-notch journals largely serving this purpose. And I know several academics tenured via such a strategy.

I'll refrain from writing a wall of text on this, but my main point would be that the current objective function largely has a blindspot (open source software as intrinsic scholarship), and that overloaded people tend to be forced to optimize their critical path to "success". And software is decidedly not in the critical path, as you have mentioned.
"Negative interest rates sound great, I would get money back on my mortgage and credit card bills!" (Notice the quotes.)
This is not a good article. The relevant context is missing: Corel has implemented a "Word mode" in it's product that mimics the look and feel of Microsoft Word. Mimics too well, Microsoft thinks.
First of all, obviously no one in this thread wants to discredit real people's real struggles. "I have just gotten home from treating a member of Group X who attempted suicide"---these are problems that deserve addressing, and I'm glad that the clearly very capable Scott is working hard on them.

> His counterpoint to you, which I would say has some traction, would likely be that those thinkpiece writers are deploying constructs like "privilege" as a way to discredit the very real struggle of people in groups that don't fall under the accepted rubric of privileged and oppressed, for the very reason that their issues' existence is either ignored or defined out of the category of "systemic oppression."

The problem with this counterpoint is that it's easy to misconstrue, even mischaracterize, "acknowledging the distress while continuing to point out the difference in scale" (from an essay I'm about to extol) as "a way to discredit the very real struggle" of privileged people. While the latter is reprehensible, the former is crucial to the healing of society, as explained in one of the best essays I've ever read: http://weeklysift.com/2012/09/10/the-distress-of-the-privile...
(Maybe THE best essay I've ever read. This essay provided the single most significant clarification of perspective I've had in the past several years, though I guess I'd been on this path for a while due to the people and schools of thought I was immersed in.)

Indeed, while I'm sure there's no shortage of thoughtless "online thinkpiece writers laughing at Group X" that could demonstrate Scott's original statement, the underlying implication that that's representative of "left wing social justice activists" is inaccurate. The mainstream[1] "left wing social justice activists" rubric actually does attempt to incorporate everyone's struggles in an open-ended way: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Intersectionality
The fact that mistakes are still common, that both ordinary as well as widely celebrated "left wing social justice activists" (not to mention "online thinkpiece writers") still routinely discredit real struggles and perspectives, is an acknowledged problem with active efforts to address it, e.g. http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/01/why-our-feminism-must-be...
(You'll notice that the RationalWiki page I linked to doesn't mention so-called "neurotypical privilege", which probably best addresses the examples Scott gave. Like I said, acknowledged problem, active efforts.)

(Note [1]: sometimes people are like "you're just calling the-subset-that-we-both-disagree-with extremists and making an unfalsifiable claim that the 'mainstream' is as moderate as you", so if someone insists on getting in the weeds here, let's be concrete: let's start with the concrete, falsifiable claim that that paragraph applies to the majority of people who were doxed by GamerGate.)
Really depends on what you call an "upper-class" quality of life.
A penthouse with a view of the park and the finest dining isn't affordable on 250K.
A house in a great neighborhood (unless you insist on sticking to Manhattan), private school for the kids and not worrying about most financial decisions is quite affordable on 250K even in NYC.
WW3+CIVIL+WAR+IN+EUROPE+HAS+BEGUN+-+YouTube
'Some' sites also includes S3 downloads -- https://github.com/htcat/htcat
I consider this a basic blogger template, nothing too fancy, just good and solid.

This thing has been sitting on my "to do" list for a while and I decided to crank it out to get it out of my head. Any feedback would be appreciated, thank you.
Yes, that's correct: the bank would no doubt need to have some capital on hand to deal with defaults, and may of course choose to loan its own capital in an unconstrained manner. A prudent regulator would demand that a bank demonstrate at all times that it can satisfy its duration commitments and, as defaults creep in, insist that bank capital be used and/or raised to cover the shortcomings.

Eventually a bank may go bankrupt (although this would be a much slower process than todays panics) and would need to be liquidated via the normal bankruptcy mechanisms.

I would expect a healthy secondary market for CDs (or the like) to exist as well.
"If Corel is found to infringe even one of Microsoft’s design patents through even the smallest part of Corel Home Office, current Federal Circuit law entitles Microsoft to all of Corel’s profits for the entire product. Not the profits that can be attributed to the design. Not the value that the design adds to a product. All of the profit from Corel Home Office."

With such a crap "design patent" on a generic slider, Microsoft tries to extinguish another Office competitor?
I think then we are in agreement that it is /feasible/, then?

I imagine an FPGA in every chipset would go a long way towards writing the software to put them to practical use, though that may also be wishful thinking on my part.
I am guessing you are talking about Bolt XBR? It's a very awesome frame! I was considering adding webs for reinforcement, and may still add them as an optional extra bolted under the main frame in the front and the back. But the durability should be solid, of course I don't want to say much before I test it properly, I have a motto of under-promise and over-deliver :)

What I really wanted to concentrate on in this design is thrust path for the motors. Bolt is pretty good about this, but still not ideal. Many other frames really don't take this into consideration at all. But if you have a prop that develops 1,000g of thrust, but well over 30% or more of the area under the prop is blocked by the body of the quad and the arms, you are not really getting 1,000g of thrust at all. This is also my main objection to tilt rotor designs. I tried to slim down the arms as much as possible while maintaining rigidity, and still being able to place ESCs in the thrust path to keep them cool. Again, I don't want to say much until I build a few final design prototypes and test them though :)

If you would like, could you send me an email through my blog. I would love to talk to you more, perhaps see if guys from your group would want to test a prototype when I have a few done.
New Google Glass model leaked from FCC filings
Hmmm... I read the espn article and nowhere it says that the drug possession charges were dismissed.

So my statement that passengers are held responsible for thier possessions in their carry on still holds.
I don't have to read this clickbait crap

The article is a short read, and the guy makes IMO prescient observations. E.g. here's one of them:

The zero interest-rate policy broke the social
contract for generations of hardworking Americans
who saved for retirement, only to find their
savings are not nearly enough.

Edit: someone else pointed out another great observation from the article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10805431
Mark Zuckerberg can’t believe India isn’t grateful for Facebook’s free internet
Are Colleges Not Welcoming to Young Men?
While this is a textbook example reserve requirements haven't been a significant constraint on bank monetary creation since the 80's. The Bretton Woods system put in place after WWII and Nixon closing the gold window in the 1970's made reserves a less unique.

The creation of non-bank demand deposits like money market funds put the nail in the coffin of using reserve requirements to manage the amount of money in the economy.

Today the biggest constraint to monetary creation is bank capital ratios. Under current rules banks have to have roughly 1 dollar if equity for every 12 dollars of loans and that can vary based on the type of loans the banks make.
"Cable and satellite TV subscriptions cost just $2 or $3 a month, which makes paying even 50 cents for a movie seem expensive."

India's per capita income in 2014 was $1,570. In the US it was $55,200.[0]

That's a factor of over 35.

Even if we assumed people spend the same proportions of their wealth on everything (a pretty stupid assumption), then we should expect the average Indian to tolerate maybe a two or four cent fee for a redbox rental.

Even that's inflated though. People spend on needs first, entertainment second. When you're at a certain level of poverty, a higher percentage of your income is devoted to basic essentials, like food and shelter.

According to the BLS, the average American devotes 6% of their annual expenditures to entertainment, mostly to audio-visual equipment. 34% on shelter and 13% on food.[1]

In India, your outside of city center rent is 6700 Rs / month, or around $100 USD / mo. And your cheap restaurant meal is 125 Rs, or $2. $120 USD per month for two meals a day, though you can probably eat more cheaply than even at cheap restaurants, so let's generously slash food to $50 per month. So while the average American can get food and shelter and have half of their money left over, in India we're at $1800 / year in expenses from just food and shelter, already something like 115% of annual income.[2]

Sure, you can bring that down by putting more than one person in an apartment, or separating out outliers living in much worse poverty in India, but you're still not going to have a lot left over for movies.

If you want to make money selling intellectual property to the masses, you have to start by addressing inequality and poverty.

[0] http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GNP.PCAP.CD/countries

[1] http://visualeconomics.creditloan.com/average-american-spend...

[2] http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?coun...
Please. Stop Using Git. (2011)
Ace of Spades https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iwC2QljLn4
Is it possible to identify all network interfaces with WebRTC on a machine?
Does anybody has a machine with two network interfaces or with installed virtual machine? I need to check how WebRTC works in case if a machine has two interfaces, physical or virtual, does not matter. If anybody has, could you, please, look here https://diafygi.github.io/webrtc-ips/ Will the servise identify only one interface or both?

Thanks for answer in advance!
$250,000 a Year Is Not Middle Class
children have penmanship work in the earlier years of learning the chinese language but that stops within a few years. what about all the characters that they pick up after penmanship work ends? there is some intuition to the stroke order that guides the writing of more elaborate characters, that is maybe picked up in the formative years. and the intuition seems extremely consistent among users of the language.

i have not met anyone who did not learn the chinese language without doing penmanship work, and so i cannot say what it means to ignore the stroke order when writing chinese. if one were to pick up the latin alphabet with an unusual stroke order and were to carry that habit to adulthood, will we find his handwriting difficult to read? if he managed to train his hands to write with a most unusual method will he still write perfectly legibly, and can we even distinguish his stroke order if we were to inspect it carefully? i don't know the answer to this. out of curiousity i wrote the alphabet with a totally unfamiliar stroke order (e.g. starting the y's and g's from the bottom) and it looked as if i wrote it with my off hand - unsteady and unpracticed - which seems to suggest that maybe with some effort it could look totally similar. i can believe that without stroke order guidance one could still achieve legible chinese writing.
I think the point that needs to be made is that there is very little incentive for a bitcoin owner to store their bitcoins with a bank. People store cash because it's susceptible to being stolen and inconvenient to spend versus a debit card. Banks have complete control of our cash and we can only get it back on their terms, but that doesn't deter most anyone from lending it to them.
> If you are sued by a giant, the lawsuit will probably bankrupt you alone. Plus, that giant will come at you with multiple infringing patents, because chances are you are in fact infringing multiple patents.

Actually, in practice this "patent predation" is rare (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1396319):

> This Article also reports on the other major narratives of patent litigation. 4% of the suits were initiated by individual inventors (David v. Goliath), 18% of the suits were brought by small private companies against public or large private ones (small v. large), 16% pit one small-or medium-sized company against another (limited stakes), and in 8% of the suits, a large firm sued a small one (predation profile)

This study also finds that patent trolls are behind a minority of patent lawsuits.
Seymour M. Hersh: Military to Military Intel Sharing in the Syrian War
> Anyone who argues that the key to “economic opportunity,” aka a decent job, is to have a college degree is in effect arguing that it’s OK for a large majority of Americans not to have a decent job.

I agree if we're talking about a four year degree, but a trade school is a great option for someone "not suited" towards academics.
Those damn Swiss, what they know about banking, right?
Very controversially.
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Mike, your work never fails to inspire. The cubism slides (http://bost.ocks.org/mike/cubism/intro/#0) read like a revelation. It astounded me how much data you manage to beautifully convey.
> The idea usually is that the presence of an H1B means that someone local does not exist to do the job

The way it works with large bodyshops is, let's say, HP runs a software team of 20 paying everybody $100k. Infosys or other "consulting" company then shows up and offers to run the same project at the cost of $1.6 mil. Immense savings, so HP signs the deal.

Infosys then runs the H1 posting advertising 20 position paying $45,000 each. Their US operations are headquartered somewhere in NJ, so it passes the US Department of Labor snuff test of adequate standard wage. It's also understood that a consulting company might have its consultants deployed on premises, all depends on the client.

As very few locals apply for $45k jobs in NJ, Infosys staffs the project with its own H1 applicants who are then immediately to start work at client's location in Cupertino or Seattle.

* Usage of names like HP, Infosys and New Jersey is illustrative, not factual. It just helps to understand how margins are made in bodyshop industry.
These days a great deal of game logic is scripted in a language with GC: C#, JS, and Lua mostly.
Foursquare's Valuation Is Getting Chopped in Half
We already know that cancer is not caused by a virus (at least in the general case), so it can't be fixed in the same way as vaccines.

And we've already been looking for cancer drugs for more than half a century to know that the logistics compared to vaccines are different. Let's put it this way: if they knew of a method to make cancer prevention drugs as easy and effective as vaccines, they'd have made them.
Hersh: US government knew it was arming Islamic State