skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I submitted my vote on their home page poll and it came back with an "SQL syntax error message from their MariaDB server".

This doesn't inspire my confidence in their systems ability to run the nation.
India's Outsourcing Industry Is Slowing and It Might Just Be a Good Thing
This article pulls me both ways, because on the one hand I sympathize strongly with the libertarian idea that people should be left to judge their own risk, but on the other hand I don't buy the argument that the only reason for having white lines on roads, traffic signals, etc., is nanny-state control of people's behavior rather than letting them judge their own risk.

To me, the lines on the road and the traffic signals are not there to make me feel safe; they're there to provide Schelling points. If I have two-way traffic on a road with no line down the middle, how do I know where the division between lanes is? And more importantly, how do I know all the other drivers will think it's in the same place I think it is? The line is a simple solution to that problem. Similarly, if I come to an intersection and there is a 4-way stop sign, how do I know when it's my turn? And more importantly, how do I know all the other drivers will think it's my turn when I think it is? Traffic lights are a simple solution to that problem. The article just assumes that the root cause of accidents is drivers behaving recklessly, rather than drivers making different judgments about where boundaries are. But it presents no data to support that.

Also, at the end of the article, we get this:

"Traffic engineers, who maim and kill us with their regulations, lights and paint pots, merely go on dreaming up ever more of them. They pretend they are making our lives safer when they are doing the exact opposite. And we let them."

This suggests a completely different root cause of the problem: the people who put the boundaries and regulations in place bear no responsibility if they turn out to be badly placed. If that really is the root cause, the solution is obvious: make the people who place the boundaries--the traffic engineers--legally liable for making the boundaries function properly. If painted lines down the middle of the road, or traffic lights, increase accidents, make the traffic engineers pay. That would give them an incentive to only make regulations that are net benefits. But of course the article does not talk about such a solution at all; it only talks about fighting one one-size-fits-all regulation with another.

Btw, I am not advocating the above solution; I am merely saying that it is a logical consequence of the observation I quoted from the article. To me, the correct solution to what the article claims is the problem--lack of incentive for personal responsibility--is to increase the incentive for personal responsibility. You don't do that by removing obvious Schelling points for coordinating behavior, like lines on roads and traffic signals. You do that by making people suffer the consequences of wrong decisions. If you are at fault in an accident, your insurance company should raise your rates. If you are at fault in a serious enough accident, you might not be able to afford to drive at all. If we have a problem with personal responsibility in our society, it's because we refuse to acknowledge that responsibility has to work that way if it is to work at all.
Nope. That's not protecting the technology.
A while back I read a study that agreed with your assertion. It examined intersections that had traffic lights removed. They found that in the short term, accident rates went down but after some time passed the accident rates shot back up. The authors theorized that the temporary reduction was due to the novelty of the change.

Edit: typo
You're combining work permits with citizenship. They're vastly different. Do you want neither to be a requirement? How ethical is it to allow someone to work in a country where they have zero civic participation in its government? Or do you immediately get participation rights because you work for a company based in XYZ? Then you vote for things that affect the future, you move, and you're no longer affected by the votes you put in. Where do your loyalties lie?
I thought about it. Where did the people that I extracted the money from extract the money from that I extracted?
I support that removing markings is fine for areas that are lower traffic or lower speed: country back-roads, neighborhoods, etc.

I'm highly dubious that it's a good idea for high capacity or high speed areas. I cannot even begin to imagine how effective the over capacity freeways in the Seattle metro area would be without their stripes. Nor can I imagine what other major metro areas would experience.
Well, it is working, but I didn't notice any obvious changes.
Close but not really what I said. I speculated that it is possible to do so, I didn't wonder why one couldn't. Think about who is calling you. The people working those phones aren't and never will be Kevin Mitnick. They're poorly educated, morally apathetic, have no real options, are unlikely to be employed at the same place in a few weeks anyways, and may in fact be being scammed by the people running the operation as well. People fitting that profile are prone to believing that they've gotten/will get lucky despite the evidence, see lotteries. They're basically indistinguishable from their ideal marks.

Also, yeah supervisors might be listening to the call/the call is recorded, but it would be uneconomical to monitor them all live all the time. Any attempt to turn them would hinge on their expectation that their remaining time at the gig is going to earn less than what they expect to get from you. If you can convince them that they could make $1500 now, that's a month's salary for them. If they expect to be fired tomorrow then even a chance that you're telling the truth starts looking worth it.
Most management can't tell the difference between the two.
I think the argument might just be that radical disenchantment requires proposals of radical change.
Nevertheless, the goal here is to build an ORM for Rust. Why waste time describing what you think it can't do?
Verizon's video app gets special data privileges
The solution is easy: convert all H-1B Visas to Green Cards. If an H-1B employee is underpaid, they can jump ship. If we really have a shortage of engineers, then what harm is done? When H-1B expansion was first proposed, this is exactly what the IEEE advocated.

Too many companies, as evidenced in the linked article, claim there is an engineering "shortage" but who really mean that there is a shortage of engineers willing to be underpaid and badly treated.
The care and feeding of software engineers (or, why engineers are grumpy) (2012)
Maybe: run a command, see what it does to your files without actually doing it
Except I want to learn how to connect to a cube, and learn how to use the software fully so I can implement it in a company.
They could just put a cap on the number of H-1B workers that can go to any one particular company. Say 1k. You can hire whomever you want right now, but after your 1k, you get no more. It'd force companies to prioritize the most important workers they need and limit the damage companies like Tata can do. It's such a simple, elegant solution, no wonder it wasn't implemented by the idiots who wrote these laws.
what are some durable assets? I was just planning on buying index funds
It most likely is. But it gets chosen because people know how to use it.
Rumor has it that two of the original UNIX guys (Thompson and Ritchie, I think) once wrote the exact same ~20 line program in PDP-11 assembly.
https://github.com/shakacode/react_on_rails/ … over 900 ⭐! Help make it to 1000 ⭐!
Ask HN: Does HAProxy Enterprise solve zero downtime reload?
In the feature description [0] it says "Smooth server shutdown and startup", but provides no details; not sure how to interpret this.

There's an older thread discussing workarounds [1], particularly Yelp's, but there doesn't seem to be a complete solution.

[0] http://www.haproxy.com/products/haproxy-enterprise-edition/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9369051
Today, people get upset when the car ahead of them is driving 25 in a 25mph zone. I mean, how dare this idiot ahead of them slow them up on their way to the Walmart?

In the unmarked road case, people will eventually learn to act in their own self interest, which probably means zooming around the slowpoke.

This will result in (a) very little, (b) a head on collision (c) the sudden termination of the 8 year old that was riding their bike in the road - which is why the original idiot was driving at 25 in the first place.

There's a solution that takes the best of both worlds: clearly marked and enforceable road markings made to deliberately slow traffic by requiring more attentiveness:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2569375/Council-clai...

I seem to recall hearing about this approach in the mid 90s; I wonder if it came about as part of the same research mentioned in the article.
Shadow government

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Securit...

No place to hide

http://www.amazon.com/No-Place-Hide-Snowden-Surveillance/dp/...

Democracy Inc

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverte...
Ask HN: What's the best documentation you've ever read (or written)?
I've been thinking a lot about documentation and how to get a user up to speed on a code base as quickly and effortlessly (on the part of the user) as possible.

I know "best" can be somewhat arbitrary or subjective, but use whichever metric you think is most relevant (organization, clarity, etc...). And, if you'd like, let me know what you think "best" should mean in relation to documentation quality.

Also, I know this question has been asked before, but those threads are all several years old, so in that time the documentation pool has obviously changed (and hopefully improved).
We have no scientific evidence of the contrary. There are some studies pointing to mass migration being (slightly) detrimental to the wages of low-income natives, but that's pretty much it. You will find a lot of opinions though.
Clinton's 30-point lead vanishing
it's just a IDE for a programmatic manipulation. Nothing else.

the very thing they show on the 1st video as a flaw of the old approach (run script, then delete some random nodes) still can't happen on their solution.
Here is perhaps a controversial suggestion:

don't! Just use boostrap studio ( https://bootstrapstudio.io ) or something (there exist free alternatives if you don't like paying 25 bucks) :)
I am guessing more VPN accounts tend to be purchased using stolen credit card numbers than an average online transaction. As crackers use VPN services to render their own services.

The number of chargebacks or fradulent transactions reported on your merchant account usually raises red flags and calls for account review. I am sure its pretty easy for paypal to identify such accounts with the data they have.
I don't think it's even close. 9 times out of 10, a man with a cudgel should be destroyed by a large dog (especially one much closer to its wolf ancestry).

Even now, watching my very gentle Golden Retriever have an exuberant running fit, it's clear that dogs are much more agile than humans. All it takes is one miss of that cudgel, and teeth are locked in on the human's delicate skin, cutting in with hundreds of pounds of pressure.
Countries looking out for their citizens' welfare is not crazy.

H1-B is subsidy for the already rich. These billionaires can afford to train Americans.

Civil rights leader Professor Norm Matloff has a good summary of the issues : http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/h1b.html
> How ethical is it to allow someone to work in a country where they have zero civic participation in its government?

And yet it happens all the time under NAFTA with contractors and "service" companies.
First, man wanted God to be his Daddy.
No, no. We need accountability in politics. Consequences. Real ones.

If my company violates ITAR rules when we do aerospace work we can go to jail. A Secretary of State handles classified email without regard for security and on servers she controls, and she could be the next President. A President lies and manipulates facts and he suffers no consequences. A Senator makes-up shit, lies, cheats and makes promises he will never fulfill and is not held accountable, ever. A Mayor changes a vote and nothing happens to him. A Government organization spends lavishly and goes so far as to use their migt to punish people who do not align with their politics and nobody is fired or goes to jail. Politicians launch us into bullshit wars and they are not held accountable for any of it. They give money lavishly to other countries (and brutal dictators) while our own kids suffer and schools have to lay off teachers.

No, the elephant in the room isn't the lack of science (although some would be good), it's the lack of consequences. It's the lack of honesty. It's the lack of accountability and restraint. It's that and more. And it won't change until people wake up and demand it, which is unlikely until things become FUBAR.

The system is utterly broken and needs to be adjusted if it will be effective in the next 200 years.
See also my web Development resources list http://g14n.info/2014/01/web-development-resources
Primary curator of the program here (https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/blob/319cb...).

"Moving" is a bit of a strong word. It would be much more accurate to say "providing alternatives". For example, the "golang" image now has an "alpine" variant for each supported version (https://hub.docker.com/_/golang/), but the default variant is still Debian-based (especially given that switching the base outright would break far too many existing Dockerfiles). Additionally, the documentation calls out that there might be libc compatibility issues in the spirit of trying to ensure our users are properly informed about the potential problems they might run into in their quest for the smallest possible base: https://github.com/docker-library/docs/blob/b7b6b86124682ef1...

I would definitely welcome PRs to make this verbiage more accurate or more informative of pros and cons.
Roughly 60% of that $2B in transactions in 2002 that you are referencing came from eBay.
I think the friend in question is trying to get a job. At that point, knowing flexbox or using grid classes might not be enough for an interview. Naturally, I'm guessing on both accounts.
That wouldn't work, you can create as many shell companies as you want and outsource employment to these companies.
I drive full speed on a highway with a traffic light, so when it's green I go through at about 55 mph. I get a little nervous because a wreck at that speed would not be fun.

If that traffic light were removed I would go a lot slower through that intersection, as would most people. Perhaps there would be fewer wrecks, and at low speeds any wrecks certainly would be less harmful.

But that would come at the expense of backing up that highway.

Some road design decisions are made to facilitate speed and throughput, not safety.
More whining by people who would rather lay blame on Tech Companies rather than doing their job and coming up with a solution.
Display the weather information on CLI and Slack
Simple CLI displays the weather information. Try it out https://github.com/vinhnglx/weer. Or you can setup a SlackBot for that https://github.com/vinhnglx/slack-weer-bot
I favor minimal restriction on immigration: let in anyone who has a job or who has immediate family with a job. As a result, there's lots of young people paying into Social Security. Unlike the federal government, the states currently spend more per immigrant than they get in taxes from them, so the states need to raise their taxes, or the feds need to share the revenue.
If you think SV is greedy, go work in New York at an investment bank for a couple years. SV is full of naive do-gooders.
If you could literally sign an order right now to completely remove any control on who could come and work in your state (setting aside criminal records, diseases etc), would you do that?

I think you would probably not, because you know it would be a war zone within weeks, with the poorest and most desperate people from all around the world swarming to your small part of the world, bringing with them huge social issues.
Show HN: 1200-piece, 4K-resolution jigsaw puzzle for Android tablets
I play online the game Paranoia.

The game backstory is that during cold war, it became a hot war, nukes were launched, and in the US was built one (or more) underground cities, that are administrered by a paranoid computer that hates and fear communists.

My current Paranoia character works on "TechServices" and sometimes make his opinion known (something that is actually illegal to do) that "The Friend Computer" ins't the real ruler, his designers and programmers are.

It is fun to see the implications in the game, specially as the mindset of players affect their characters and behaviour, some people are loyal to the computer, some people consider the computer the enemy, and some people consider the computer only a tool, and are loyal (or enemy) of the "High Programmers" that have access to the administration computer code.
Fingerprint scanners are useless for security. My fingerprints are everywhete, especially all over my phone. Touch id merely buys time, which can increase security but if they get my fingerprints, make a dummy finger then they need very little time to open my phone. If they are determined they'll do it. If they are not, probably they won't care about the data in my phone.
I don't think you can excuse something as "a security measure" when it is clear that it is not a reasonable security measure and the reason for disabling device is something else.

Anyway, this confirms that I'll stay away from Apple stuff.
Yeah, there's the source of that quote, 'sub dermal ridge flow angle mapping', which at the time was described as 'how we know it's really your finger', along with supposedly measuring 'micro RF fields' to ensure it was a live finger.

Except it could be defeated by a laser printed fingerprint on a piece of paper (initially).
Note that even for large codebase, the Go compile is faster than Rust up to typecheck. Not much faster, but when I use Go I get errors immediately; whereas in Rust I often context-switch to wait for errors (both for large codebases). Some planned improvements to Rust may fix this.
Just want to point out that http://flexboxfroggy.com doesn't work properly on Safari Version 8.0.8 (10600.8.9)(Mac OS)

On a side note, is it okay just to know Flexbox, or would a requirement be that you can manage without? Without ready made grid classes as well?
Yes. Religious beliefs are fundamentally non-scientific because they stem from a non-falsifiable root truth (e.g., God is only visible when He wants to be, and if you can't see evidence of Him, it's only because He doesn't want you to be able to).

Scientific beliefs are objectively testable and falsifiable. Religious beliefs are neither (though they are often subjectively testable). This doesn't mean religion is bad, but it means that it can't be understood in scientific terms.
Fewer humans are seeing web ads
Perhaps one can take the notion of "fewer markings = fewer accidents" in a different way- perhaps it's simply the number of things to look it is more than humans can handle.

The town I grew up in is about a 10 minute drive from the main highway, along a country road. Between the highway and the town there are something like 50+ signs, in a 15km stretch.

Local attractions promoted by the local government; speed limits; directions to various villages and towns; that this road was recently improved by the Provincial Government (sign coincidentally in the most recent political party's favourite colour); warning that there's a traffic light up ahead; oh don't forget you're on provincial road #whatever.

The result is one of two things: you either spend too many brain cycles focusing on them (and not the road), or you completely ignore all of them (possibly to your detriment).

I anxiously await the coming of the autonomous vehicle so that these problems go away.
Your idea is bad for many reasons, but on the other hand I'm sure it'd be nice for a lot of Americans with underemployment and liberal arts degrees to be able to move around the Anglosphere.
WW3+CAM+MORONS+LIES+-+YouTube
Unfortunately politics is the poison element. Politicians lie because it benefits them. If we integrate science with politics, we'll end up with far more incentives for scientists to lie just as much as politicians.

It's no different than what happens when religion gets mixed up in politics. The separation of church and state protects the church as much or more than it does the state. Politics and power corrupt whatever they touch.

There are ways to improve the impact of science (and religion and education, etc) on the political world, but mixing them together too much will just poison the positive traits, rather than lifting up politics.
Politics will always be like that. In part because voters will never be informed enough about the issues. Look up "Rational Ignorance" for why.

More realistic is to get politics out of as many areas of life as possible.
Another reason to torrent instead of pay Netflix. Another reason to use Bitcoin instead of PayPal.
Docker revs up Engine, hits 1.1
1. I think the comment was meant to be sarcastic.

2. Analysing religions seems to be within the domain of sociology.

3. Determining the truth of different religions is kind of tricky, because a lot of them are about the afterlife and unless there is a way to return we can't get any information about it. But if the local priests claims that "anyone who desecrates the temple will immediately be smitten by lightning", defecating on the altar seems to be a surefire way to find out. And of course, if a valkyrie hands you a mug of mead after your death, you know you shouldn't have prayed to Cthulhu after all.
If yo use chrome, google has released an extension called personal blocklist which allows you to create just that. You may find, as I have, that blocking w3schools allows MDN to often become the first result and things get dont much faster.
Asteroid mining could be space’s new frontier: the problem is doing it legally
When carding, which means using stolen credit cards to buy things online, people usually use two layers of security: a VPN, then a SOCKS5 proxy. The latter is usually geographically located in the country/city your card is from to circumvent CC provider checks. Both components are commonly bought from traders who again use stolen CCs to buy/rent them.
The writer, who appears to be a political scientist, doesn't know much about political campaigns, or at least how political campaign polling works. This wasn't a push poll. A push poll wouldn't waste time asking the voter for demographic information or about likelihood to vote - they would get to the negative info they want to spread within a few seconds of the call connecting. Instead, this sounds to me like the common format for a campaign poll that is used to measure the effectiveness of negative messages (so, calling a small # of voters for the purpose of fine-tuning negative ads, etc). If he had kept listening, he likely would have heard the pollster test negative messages on Clinton as well (this is also common - you're trying to figure out what messages work against you at the same time that you test your opponent's negatives). I imagine the Sanders campaign is conducting similar polls (almost any campaign with more than a couple of million dollars raised would conduct a poll like this) and, in fact, this very poll could have been coming from the Sanders campaign.
A lot of municipal debt is a result of people who voted for things that affected the future and then left. It's not just a hypothetical problem.

(Basically, pensions. They were offered to make municipal employment more attractive, which made the cities nicer places to live. They were not totally funded at the time the services were provided, even though the benefits of offering the pensions were largely consumed at that time.)