skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A concern I have when I see the suggestion to simply set a higher salary floor. There are foreign workers for many other job types (translation, chef, specialty craftsman) that likely fall far short of what we consider a fair base salary in tech. These are exactly the sort of foreign workers, however, I'd imagine we WANT coming in, since they are by definition specialty and non-replaceable.

Would they still have an avenue into the country, without precluding their use to only those with the money to pay exorbitant salaries? (I don't actually know the visa system well enough; I'm curious if they could use a different visa type or something of that respect)

Otherwise I'd worry about the unintended side effects of such an approach, notably because as mentioned above, the problem seems to be more one of the semantic requirements of visa-ship being abused than just salary requirements at the root of the problem. (the latter is certainly happening, but doesn't seem like the core, better worded.)
ok this is what I was really wondering. So Netflix can tell that you are using a commercial connection to access the service? Can they also tell that you are forwarding in the case of a proxy or something?

That is what I don't get, because if I spin up a digital ocean server in London and put openVPN on it, they can probably tell the IP block belongs to a cloud services company. However, they can't just be running ips against a list right? So what is the work around?
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Full employment doesn't mean everybody has a job. It just means that everybody who is looking for a job can find a job.

As far as I can see, only industrialists who profit from lower wages and a more docile workforce would be against this.

>Nor was this even a perversion of Keynesianism.

Neo-Keynesianism was absolutely a perversion of Keynesianism. It was an attempt to marry it to Neoclassical economics, which was antithetical to Keynesianism in the first place.

>It was Keynes himself who formulated simultaneous-equations IS-LM in lectures from 1933-1934.

No it wasn't. It was Hicks and Meade trying to apply some sort of equilibirium fetishism to the theory of interest, employment and money.
I completely understand the desire to want to see physical changes in the real world, but the last 40 years have been extremely important in terms of building out learning infrastructure.

I'm very confident that the next 40 years are going to be nothing short of breathtaking in terms of the acceleration of innovation.
I dunno, I'm from Canada and it's still a major clusterfuck from my perspective
wrong. There are many "lanes" ( eb1, eb2,..) with different speeds even for people from India/China.
"PHP is well worn territory, discussion of who is a real programmer or not is just dick measuring."

I agree on the dick measuring aspect. Far as the language, the critiques of it on a technical, semantic, whatever level are well-worn. Yet, they rarely counter PHP with alternatives and suggestions that align with PHP users' preferences and goals. Same for Visual Basic 6 and Excel macro communities. The bombs I'd drop on it would be from that perspective.

I rarely see people on HN and elsewhere doing that when the subject is PHP. Hard to tell where it would be on the spectrum between working my ego and my usual function of pushing people in directions that meet their goals while maintaining a better baseline in software quality, security, extensibility, and maintenance. Undoubtedly some of both but people steadily benefit from those kinds of recommendations. Often other readers rather than person I'm talking to.
> We don't tolerate physicists or doctors lying ...

Not really, judging from the size of aisles filled with homeopathic remedies. Some people practically have to be dragged away, kicking and screaming, by government agencies so that they stop harming themselves.

It's always people. Stupid people ruining beautiful ideals. (And that includes me, of course.) Until we can fix people, it's futile to wish for "scientific" politics.

I'm kinda optimist, so I believe better education will improve the situation, but who knows.
GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart
There's a chrome://flags entry for that. I've tried them for a week on MacOS and they are not yet ready for prime time.
Check https://thimble.mozilla.org/

Imo it is the best editor you can use to learn HTML and CSS.
I presume Canada has legal tender laws, which effectively create a Gresham's law situation of bad money crowding out the good in the process. There are likely other confounding reasons, as well.

The private organizations are certainly large and centralized. They are this way largely because of legal climates that subsidize their inefficiencies and inhibit the onset of diseconomies of scale.

It's not a proper interpretation to think of the government and the private sector as being opposed. After all, governments do want economic growth and competitiveness in international trade. As such, their actions will often be to help private corporations get larger through protectionist measures that might have good short-term effects (higher employment and larger industry) at the expense of the long-term effects when the propped up large industry inevitably starts to trample on the citizens it was supposed to help. Again, the solution is not to keep engaging in the vicious circle of reform, but settle it grassroots at last.

Gabriel Kolko's The Triumph of Conservatism documents this process quite well during the U.S. Progressive era. Governments and corporations collude for shared ends more often than not. Corporations are creatures of the state, let's not forget.
Which polls will we administer? The ones we believe in? Which statistics will we construct? The ones we believe in? Which knowledge will we choose to incorporate? The ones we believe in?
Isaac Asimov's Multivac stories seem relevant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Multivac_short_storie...
What if each H-1B simply cost the difference between a citizen's average salary and the foreign worker's average salary?

e.g. if a US citizen working at Facebook makes 180k, and the foreign worker makes 150k, that H-1B should cost 30k. Then if there really is a tech shortage then costs are the same, but if there isn't it incentivizes businesses to hire locals.

I'm sure the argument would be that then they'll just pay their US citizens less, but I'd think the competition for the native highly skilled talent would keep rates up.
OMG, they're using hand-written C in this critical code. We're doomed.
When I drive and see a huge truck driving at high speed from the opposite direction, I tell myself "just keep your lane, he will keep his lane too, and it will be fine" (and I probably unconsciously slow down a bit). Without the lanes I'd probably feel a bit less comfortable.

On the other hand: having visited a number of EU countries, IMO the UK seems to have 2-3x more clutter on the roads (lanes, texts for drivers and pedestrians and what not) than any other of them. They have texts everywhere!
>> Provides us with a measure of the quality of any given transformed dataset. However, we still need to determine the optimal such dataset, in terms of minimising E. Strictly speaking, this is an implementation detail and the Sammon mapping itself is simply defined as the optimal transformation;

Somehow its technically challenging to verify the content of this article.
Url changed from http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35502030, which points to this.
Fuck Apple.
That Lennart Poettering (the author of systemd) says things like

I’d really like to see distributions to focus more on stateless systems

seems sane to me.

You may or may not like systemd, but the code that it replaced in distros was often of subpar quality. systemd is not perfect, nor for everyone. But this is all free software, use whatever distro you feel empowers you!
Can you say a bit more about this? How does a quantity of one affect supply so much?
Computers have beaten humans in chess and Jeopardy, now coming for go, I don't think politics will be so hard.
People who actively try to subvert the efforts of science through shit studies, or lobby government officials to skew their judgement in ways that are objectively wrong (public health, environmental health, etc.), or undercut local business by taking advantage of defenseless populations overseas, or take more than they give solely because they can cut a piece of profit out, betraying the trust of the person that hired them or the trust of their clients, and 'who cares if the company goes under, not my problem, on to the next gig', are assholes. By only some definitions are those people winners.

I'd say, given a population of 7+ billion, most assholes simply make a bed of shit and then lie in it, dragging their family and friends down with them. Nothing winning about it.
It's a well known issue and every independent repairmen will warn you before replacing this part or else they would quickly get sued out of existence.
I made a prototype aggregator: https://twtxtlist.cf/

It's written in Nim and is probably good enough.
That does seem possible, but then I suspect that buyer protection is also one of the reasons why eBay "won" the online auction space, and has a strong position in general online retail.
Not sure if they are, but it could be done by having the device measure the round trip time of the signal, and refusing to answer if it's too long.
You're wrong in a very sad way.

When you buy something, it's because you value it more than the money you pay for it.

When you sell something to somebody, it's because you value it less than the money you get for it.

Win-win!

And, channeling Carlin:
Everybody making less money than you is a loser, everybody making more money than you is an asshole.
My favorite quote about Watson is "If Watson is so smart, how come it can't figure out how to stop three years of declining sales numbers at IBM?"

More than anything, this ad makes me think of how long of a way we have to go before this type of AI will be useful to humans, much less able to run a country. Why doesn't President Obama consult Watson before making decisions? Because every decision would require a massive data collection and processing project, training and tuning of delicate models and rigorous testing. And the net result would be what? Processing of factual information that any human could get by reading a brief prepared by an aide?

We're worried about AI representing an existential threat or creating wide spread unemployment, but right now the best and brightest computer in the world can't provide any more practical political value than Monica Lewinsky. This is a good ad campaign, timely and provocative. But it also highlights how the path ahead is as long and arduous as a trip to Mordor. glhf, IBM!
PLoS One and Nature Scientific Reports do exactly this (and I'm sure there are others I'm not aware of), but the list does need to be expanded.
What you are noticing happens here constantly; many tech people I've met are completely incapable of understanding anything outside of hard science or engineering and so they lash out and try to bash it whenever it comes up: pretend there is no rigor, pretend it's not science, pretend it's just "people being PC", try to suggest everyone with a liberal arts degree is a barista, etc.
Will this apply to lists? Please leave lists alone, as a refuge for those who want a time-based feed.

Even Facebook leaves Groups in peace. Keep the algos for mass-audience feeds.
I am speaking only for STEM workers. That is where the biggest conflict lies.

It does seem a bit odd to mix cultural folks in with STEM for expressing a need in the USA. I would rather see them separated.
I don't think technocrats care about the name.
So it looks like this shite really isn't just a bad dream. It really is hear to stay. Maybe it's time to switch careers.
I'd shy away from appeals to "scientifically-based politics" but we absolutely need a politics that is honest, sincere, free from religious influence, and accepts science (even when it's contrary to your ideology).
I don't see where I mention citizenship. I'm just saying there shouldn't be a restriction on who someone can work for. For instance it's unreasonable that a French guy can just come to the UK and work, but a Brazilian needs to jump through hoops.

As for whether someone can vote, that's a different story. You still have your basic rights such as the right to a fair trial. But the freedom to work shouldn't be restricted.
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I think it's utterly reasonable for the device to shut down if it detects what looks like tampering with a high-security component. It's frustrating, sure, and the error message is beyond poor, but the behavior makes sense. It's not about preventing third party repairs.

It is unfortunate but true that high levels of security ultimately require trust, and that means that some things we used to take for granted will fall by the wayside. Third party repair of what are now secure components may be one of those things.
I teach web development in a graphic design program. You’re welcome to check out my resources: https://learn-the-web.algonquindesign.ca/

All the tutorials & videos are available there as well as the curriculum and assignments for each week.
How about you take your own advice then? Just because I and millions of others don't think the web is "horribly overengineered", doesn't mean I "don't know anything about engineering".
>It is a contradiction

It's also a contradiction that the same people that moan about the pursuit of money and say that money isn't everything are the people that advocate increasing taxes to fund this or that program as the solution to every problem.
From the Daily Dot article, it looks like what you described is what happens (TouchID is disabled) and the phone will function mostly fine, but the author also encountered other bugs possibly related to the issue. However, the bigger problem was whenever he tried to restore or update the device, Error 53 occurred and it failed. Restore from backup still worked though. So essentially, his iPhone was locked to that iOS version and could not be modified.

http://www.dailydot.com/technology/what-is-error-53-iphone/
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> Sorting the visas by salary will work just as well.

I would rather have a explicit floor to make sure that simply increasing the numbers allowed doesn't put us back in the same situation or tempt companies into collusion.
Just restrict the scheme to the top n (n <= 50) schools according to, say, ARWU.
You can change jobs while being on an H1B. It is commonly referred to as H1B transfer.
I usually go funds as well. However, if there are individual stocks that are getting hammered not because they're doing poorly but because the overall market sentiment is pushing people to sell, I'll grab those too. I.E. The Apple Bounce from a couple years ago where people would see off right before a major product announcement from Apple and artificially suppress the price. Buy it on the push down and when everyone buys back in because they think $NEW_PRODUCT_IS_AWESOME, you get the delta gain.

I tend to look for things that are strong on fundamentals and get murdered because of market sentiment and not because of business performance.
For plastic 'cans' in the UK, we use green for unleaded petrol. Red was for leaded petrol and diesel is black.
> The vast majority of people want jobs.

only as a proxy for security
Fully funded meaning what? Handing over the money to Wall Street and trusting that they can grow it by 2% a year? 5% a year? -5% a year?

There's no real reason why pensions have to be used to pump up stock market prices. Social Security can simply be expanded, cutting out the million dollar bonuses and ferraris from the process.
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Is it really so real ( the bubble being burst right now )? What the HN community thinks about it?
Nice guide!
Emacs has what you called the hit-one-key-and-access-code-anywhere mentality, and I think part of the reason Emacs users tend to use it for much more than just editing text is exactly the appeal of an OS with that mentality.
If it's for android tablets, why not publish in the Play store?
This comment was perfectly inline with my original comment. My original comment said: "PayPal is mitigating risky transactions." In this case, they stated that the risk is due to copyright infringement. For some unstated reason (eg. directly or via pressure via rights holders), PayPal has deemed that such website operators are "bad actors" and are an unnecessary risk.

EDIT: Instead of making a snarky, low-information comment, I suggest you actually refute what I said. That's considered good HN etiquette.
As it happens, the ability to reproduce and the ability to respond to stimuli in any manner are generally accepted qualities that distinguish life from non-life.

http://www.biology-online.org/dictionary/Life
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/life

Whether a given bunch of cells may be considered human is still very much an open question but whether a cell or cluster of cells is alive should be pretty easy to agree on.
Distinction without a difference. Of course there will always be some unemployment for disability or other reasons.

As far as I can see, only industrialists who profit from lower wages and a more docile workforce would be against this.

Job guarantee proposals are minimum wage. Even if they were not, the idea that industrialists benefit from a "docile workforce" is couching things in a questionable Marxian reserve army of labor analysis. It's not as if state-administered job guarantees are going to be tools of empowering the working class. It's going to be administered as a neutral tool for economic efficiency. Even then, the industrialists absolutely benefit from easy access to a minimum wage workforce.

It was an attempt to marry it to Neoclassical economics, which was antithetical to Keynesianism in the first place.

Nonsense. Keynes came from the neoclassical Marshallian tradition.

No it wasn't. It was Hicks and Meade trying to apply some sort of equilibirium fetishism to the theory of interest, employment and money.

Yes, it was. Hicks and Meade only developed one particularly influential variant, and they were inspired by notes from Keynes' lecture attendees who were taught a four-equation model with almost no major difference other than having an exogenous variable for "state of the news" (expectations). Ultimately this was not a major difference, since neo-Keynesians like James Tobin did focus on such areas, and on financial instability as well.

Robert W. Dimand documents the origins of IS-LM and Keynes' Marshallian roots in a 2007 paper: http://www.unites.uqam.ca/philo/keynes/docs/dimand.pdf
Letting women vote had downsides for certain people too. That didn't make it less right.

As for stability, you need to consider the benefits of having the best people from around the world in the jobs where their comparative advantage is greatest.
Clueless. Twitter has got to start realizing its much more a Wikipedia and not at all a Facebook. Twitter's journalistic and celebrity users are its ONLY value, in the same way Wikipedia's editors are its primary value. Focus on content, incentivizing content and nothing else. Stop treating earnings misses, user growth, etc. as metrics that require your immediate attention. Stay the course and enhance content. Twitter IS important for discourse, democracy and transparency. It is still a national and possibly global treasure.
Feeling less comfortable is exactly the point :)
This may also be in part to more active users of Twitter hitting the "report spam" button on those spam bots. If a spambot tweets at me, I'll go do that. I'm sure I'm not the only one, as I never see a spambot with more than a handful of tweets showing up in my mentions.

So, crowdsource spam detection.
> I don't mind if they're better, but most of the time they're not.

Your employer should make that decision and they seem to think otherwise.

Not everyone wants to shop at whole foods.
I powered through this tutorial in two days and would highly recommend it to anyone - I feel like as though I took quite a bit away from his teaching.
That's the zero sum theory. Fortunately, it's false, and easily shown to be false. If a famous artist sits down and paints a picture, he creates wealth. It is not taken from anyone.
it's not because paypal is better.

paypal is only relevant because they invented the uber-way. They ignore all legislation. push away. and nobody makes them accountable for anything.

they are pretty much a bank for free
I haven't heard the word "retarded" used in earnest to refer to intellectual disability (the replacement term) for at least a decade, and probably closer to 15 years. Note that this is a textbook case of the euphemism treadmill, where whatever term is used to intellectual disability eventually starts getting used as an insult and thus the term is changed. Eventually the old retired terms become fairly acceptable as insults, like "idiot" and "moron."
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> What humanity needs is to put politics (and political science, for that matter) on scientific foundation.

There is a big problem, how do you do that? I thought about it recently on another forum - every scientific statement has a form of implication: If you do A, you will get B. So there is no beginning of it. You may say, I start from some axiom system, but then you have to agree on that. Even in classical propositional logic, even if you consider the same resulting formal system, you can get large (infinite?) variety of axiomatic systems that can lead to it.

So, what I would like to see, would be - equip everybody with Watson and let them vote, direct democracy style.
Does that happen now? There are plenty of poor, desperate people all over America, do they "swarm" the more affluent areas? Do we have poor people from rural Pennsylvania coming to Los Angeles and undercutting hard-working Californians?
>'"I believe the main risk of a publication venue like the F1000 channel is that it becomes a place for “bashing" good science, because biological experiments are complex and beset by many variables that are hard to control.'

Funny how rare it is to see mention of this in original papers and press releases. When is the last time you read a biomed article where the authors said something along the lines of "we excitedly await the independent verification of our findings".
Encrypted libraries leak lots of information in Seafile
Yea, lets cripple thriving american tech industry with bureaucratic/nonsensical rules that you spent 10 mins coming up with.
Article QQ.A.11: {Exhaustion of IP Rights}

Nothing in this Agreement prevents a Party from determining whether and under what conditions the exhaustion of intellectual property rights applies under its legal system [13].

Article QQ.G.10 has the following for Australians:

US/AU: For purposes of greater certainty, no Party is required to impose liability under Articles 9 and 10 for actions taken by that Party or a third party acting with the authorization or consent of that Party. Negotiator's Note: CA seeks clarification of this footnote.

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Basically, most Australians have watched whilst they were considered second class citizens and price gouged by U.S. corporations who don't pay any tax in Australia, and in a rare moment of insight our government forced this through.
What about people who aren't citizens but happen to live there? Their lot can just be ignored? Is it just to enact rules that harm their interest in favor of citizens?
Of course, you'll only be changing text to accommodate people who are vocal about what offends them.