skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you were merely tiresome in the above post?

My post above is of course also tiresome and pretty uninteresting, but it doesn't pretend to be otherwise.
If you use their service, you're subject to their rules. It doesn't matter that in enforcing their arbitrary rules they're killing your business or even stealing your assets. Big companies like Paypal and Amazon can do whatever they want, even break the law, with no repercussions. They can close your account for legit reasons, bullshit reasons, or no reason at all.

As a business, relying on such companies is one of the biggest risks you take. Use Paypal? Risk losing access to your funds. Use Amazon? Risk losing access to your computing resources, shopping platform, etc. You have no recourse if you anger the big gods of the Internet. Best not to depend on them at all or the smaller gods that also depend on them. Paypal's not taking payment from VPNs? Use Bitcoin and cancel that Netflix account. Why pay ten bucks a month to Netflix so they can pressure Paypal into shutting down legitimate businesses when you can pay it to a legitimate business (VPN) and watch whatever you want? Sure, torrenting is probably illegal, but one method shuts down small businesses and is immoral while the other one hurts no one ("losses" from piracy are not real). You may not agree with this conclusion, but there is no doubt that this is the direction of thought companies like Paypal, Netflix, and Amazon are steering their consumers in--on purpose.
Nixie tube calculators and punched cards -> Macbook Pro with Retina display. Encyclopedia Britannica taking up two meters of shelf space (and often requiring a trip to the library) -> Wikipedia over a 4G network. That's my generation :-)
Seems a bit circular. When you define winning as having the most money, then go on to conclude that money trumps all, you're not saying a whole lot.
Yes, I'm one of the authors. If you want to contribute too it'll be awesome and it'll be greatly appreciated!

The quoted numbers are based on the set of sample apps you can find in the repository. Take a look in sample/apps. You'll see the code and the Dockerfiles that go along with them.

I haven't thought about publishing the images. Thanks for the idea!
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How would .gov be able to tell if person "actively looked" and "are available" for work if was not tied to the EI benefits?

If your collecting benefits your filing a report stating that you are/looking & available, if your not collecting EI benefits, your not filing report, your likely not counted as "officially unemployed".

You may fall into the broader U6 unemployment numbers that u/roofus mentions below.
Not intentional at all, that comes by default on Mashape.com

Sorry about the hassle
If it is legal, the problem is not PayPal. Is it?
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> likely to harbor fraud

I have an issue with companies punishing other companies because their customers might be doing something that they don't agree with.
Physical ability and job qualifications are a central issue in the debate about discrimination in hiring. It's not just limited to disabilities, since the same debate has repeatedly taken place around the issue of whether women are physically qualified for certain jobs, as can be seen in the current debate over whether women are physically qualified for special operations roles in the US military.
Codecademy has hundreds of little exercises. Often, first they introduce you to a concept where you just read through the example and press Pass if you got it. After that you always have to write or correct code yourself. Pointing out at one particular exercise can not prove that the approach itself is bad.
eBay had it's own P2P payment system too. It lost to PayPal, because PayPal was superior at many things (eg. marketing), but also because they cracked the fraud problem (which was an existential crisis early on in their history). I recommend reading the book "PayPal Wars" for a better historical accounting.
Well according to this: http://www.smh.com.au/national/is-australia-losing-its-relig...

..while non-religious make up a fair portion of Aussies, most still identify as Christians.
I am an engineer. I do not need years of experience in a technology to assess it. And, btw., you may not know what my "toying around" really means in terms of depth and exposure.

So no, it is your astonishing ignorance here. You should stop pointless personal attacks and provide only rational, technical arguments. This thread is already such a code monkey circlejerk that there is no value in adding anything to it.
Huh? Of course you're not arguing against the update making the device slower. You're arguing that the update not only makes the device slower, but that this is a deliberate action by Apple to make older devices slower. And I'm saying that's ridiculous since it happens to pretty much all software anyway and all Apple would have to do to make this happen is just develop updates the same way everyone else does.
A higher score (this is based on google's PageSpeed) is considered better. The Score ranges from 0 to 100 points. A score of 85 or above indicates that the page is performing well.

The primary focus is the time taken to do an above-the-fold load ie. Elapsed time from the moment a user requests a new page and to the moment the above-the-fold content is rendered by the browser.
if the goal is 'more human lives' you've built a paperclip maximizer.
At this point you might as well try to regulate emotions :)
Nothing wrong with them getting fired -- it opens a job for someone else who was unemployed. The net effect is the same average wages paid into the labor force.
Yes. Found this once on the code from a Chinese developer. Really made a big effort to rewrite the code but then the comments were done in a too perfect English that made it obvious as copied from elsewhere.
I wonder what would happen if those services returned the favor and started blocking PayPal, which surely deserves it.
You attacked my comment based on your misperception of my account. It's the definition of an ad hominem.
VISA is still living in the 20th century.
The UN panel rules Julian Assange is in arbitrary detention
I suspect you are right that this is only the law in Scotland. At a fairly respectable bar in Cambridge, I've set up 20-drink long "Jagertrains" [1] with the Bar Manager on more than one occasion, and he never mentioned that it was illegal to do so.

[1] https://cdn.makeagif.com/media/3-07-2012/ZdwGP4.gif
There are a few examples of councils poorly implementing shared spaces. Any crossings are removed (pedestrians are supposed to be able to just cross anywhere at any time without waiting); but car drivers don't change their behaviour. It's a bit of a problem, especially for people with visual impairment.
Some people approve every request because LinkedIn incentivizes users to have 500+ connections. And your friends are possibly dumb, but almost certainly ignorant of social media data vacuuming/social engineering techniques such as this.
There is a failure in the apple stores vs phone support. I went to two Apple stores to try to get my watch band replaced or fixed under warranty and was told by both of them "no way no how" - but phone support had no problem replacing the band.

I find the stores are somewhat inconsistent in their application of policy. (Particular if the policy isn't well defined ahead of time, as in this case)

(As an aside, the practice of requiring an appointment to talk to a support person or even just drop off a broken computer is maddening.)
It just happened! Not more than 7-8 years ago!

It happened in many, many markets across the US and the world.

We just saw it happen!
Everyone who drives has to buy insurance (except for those few who are too poor/just don't care/etc), so I'm not sure that's a valid comparison.
I would never have guessed.
People start using crack aren't in nearly as bad shape as people who have become habitual. That's why crack dealers are monsters.
Same here. In my area, this is one of the top professions to go into. All of them complain about how hard it is to get in and the obstacles along the way. It's so difficult that the senior ones feel a lot of pride in their position. Seem to earn it, too.

So, the solution is to reduce or remove those obstacles where possible so people can get the jobs and experiences they need. I mean, 80-90% of most nurse activities I see are more about effort than arcane knowledge or skills. Could let new hires mostly do that while bringing them in for other stuff several times a day to gradually build up their experience. Hand more stuff like that off to them over time.

A bunch of institutions doing this with just a handful of people at a time should make a huge difference in the availability of qualified talents starting after a few years.
I'm surprised they hadn't done that earlier.

While I don't how they can prove that the traffic primarily through those VPNs were infringing on copyrighted material, it is easier to prove that traffic through a VPN is attacking Paypal accounts for user or transaction fraud.
What if Watson read Conservapedia thinking it to be factual. That's a startling thought.
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No. That's not the one. "Two objects are equalp if they are equal; if they are characters and satisfy char-equal, which ignores alphabetic case and certain other attributes of characters; if they are numbers and have the same numerical value, even if they are of different types; or if they have components that are all equalp."
Apple remotely bricks phones to punish customers for getting independent repairs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy

Technocracy was also a theme of many communists. It's also reappeared in the form of the Futurist Party, and some other small movements like the venus project.

For an interesting review of these ideas, seriously read this: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/24/book-review-red-plenty/

>This book was the first time that I, as a person who considers himself rationally/technically minded, realized that I was super attracted to Communism.

>Here were people who had a clear view of the problems of human civilization – all the greed, all the waste, all the zero-sum games. Who had the entire population united around a vision of a better future, whose backers could direct the entire state to better serve the goal. All they needed was to solve the engineering challenges, to solve the equations, and there they were, at the golden future. And they were smart enough to be worthy of the problem – Glushkov invented cybernetics, Kantorovich won a Nobel Prize in Economics.

Project Cybersyn was a really cool idea that tried to actually implement these ideas in the real world just as computers were becoming advanced enough to do these things. But unfortunately it didn't last very long:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/planning-machin...
The iPhone6 and F-35 share the same problem trying to detect approved or faulty parts. Funny.
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I don't know what you call the opposite of "right to work" but that's basically the employment situation H1B's find themselves in. My Fortune 500 clients have office building upon office building of H1B developers. These folks will do practically whatever it takes to keep their employer happy. They are afraid to rock the boat and have their family sent back to India. This means bad decisions go unquestioned. You can guess what the result is.
I got a second-hand 5S last year with faulty Touch ID, the seller admitted that it didn't work and didn't even notice because he never used it (at the time also many Touch IDs stopped working after iOS 8 updates). I got a lower price and a friend took it to Apple Store in Germany (had couple months warranty left), where they tried to change the display first, then swapped it for a new unit without issues.
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Cool set for health monitoring
"Vulgar Marxism explains 90% of what goes on in the world." -Bob Fitch
Anonymous coward: explain your downvote, please.
Your options are
a) Government bureaucrat
b) Free market
c) Lottery

Which do you choose?
top 3 of front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11047359
"That’s right. Facebook and Google brought in 900 and 2,800 H-1B employees, respectively, with salaries of $140,000 and $127,000. Cognizant? 3,300 at $72,000. Tata? A whopping 16,435 for a (relatively) paltry $70,000 – literally less than half what Facebook paid."

I still think a good first step is to require a salary for H-1B workers at 10x single person poverty guidelines for the local area[1]. Another measure of base salary would probably work, but something that requires a salary that discourages the body shops[2]. According to the legislation and goals of the program, the people we accept have the talent to be worth this salary[3].

1) https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2016-01-25/html/2016-01450....

2) http://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2016-H1B-Visa-Sponsor.aspx - the top 10 has a lot of consulting / body shop firms

3) http://www.dol.gov/whd/immigration/h1b.htm "The intent of the H-1B provisions is to help employers who cannot otherwise obtain needed business skills and abilities from the U.S. workforce by authorizing the temporary employment of qualified individuals who are not otherwise authorized to work in the United States."
I've always recommended Mozilla's Developer Network (MDN) - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/

It has alot of good resources and a wealth of information. As a seasoned web developer, this is still one of my go-to sites for documentation on web related stuff.
"This small book is divided into three parts. And it is with regard to the first part that I join a very long list of those who have seen and experienced things they cannot prove happened."

I went to Mr. Swann's Las Vegas talks in 2004 and 2006. He told me personally that he should have written more fiction, which paid better than working in the lab, but their first big grant came along at the same time...
I mean in terms of learning to use the exploratory/dashboarding functionality - it's fairly easy to do that with Tableau Public and public data sources (or your own if you are fine with the saved dashboards being accessible to the public).
Bravo, you have done an incredible long troll job, posting in the forum like a telemarketer talks on the phone, pushing BS motte&bailey logic to trick or wear down people.
Yes, a product that "just worked" for the largest emerging P2P market plus making money while doing so is the important part. Not accepting advance payments for shady cruise ship rentals or any of the other fringe stuff that leaks onto HN constantly didn't hurt. An important lesson for the startup crowd here.

They definitely do some dumb stuff but they also process five billion transactions per year and people need to take that into consideration. The scale of the fraud and the scope of worldwide regulations they deal with is way beyond anything you can imagine.
This is the fifth link to that article: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Tech%27s%20Most%20Unlikely%20V...

I start to wonder whether medium.com has a policy of spamming HN since I almost never encounter links to medium.com elsewhere...
Count me in as well, it's such a nice feeling to actually find content worth reading these days.
Interesting note, The earliest mentions of Rig Veda gods found thus far were not in India but in Northern Syria.
Thanks - that's really unfortunate!
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You're spotting the wiseguy aspect but ignoring the other aspect: that it admits I could drop bombs on PHP, even while considering him a real programmer, but kindly and unusually don't due to a rare moment of respect given the story I read. So, the statement both conveys my position and avoids an attack while also delivering a "Hell yeah!" moment of respect.

That you ignored the obvious compliment embedded in that... twice... was tiresome. I won't let it bother me, though. Just helping you follow along. :P
I hope one day in the future the idea of a work permit will be considered just as crazy as the idea that only men should be allowed to vote.

It strikes me as ridiculous that it could be illegal for someone to work simply because they were not born near where their employer is based.
Funny idea, but maybe Watson should take a crack at running a mid-size corporation first?
So you're saying you have no examples, and that the only people privy to any supposed non-public-interest disclosure were the journalists at a few major newspapers.
Everyone who believes that correlation = causation eventually ends up dead.
Some customer bases are just shady. If you don't mitigate fraud, it's not fair to push it uphill to your service providers. They will stop providing service when you're more trouble than the money you generate. Business 101, this is not a tech issue.
Anchoring onto this, but with different requirements:
Are there tightly condensed resources to learn the most important bits of HTML, CSS and plain JavaScript really fast for somebody who otherwise knows how to code and has written some HTML a long ago.

Or is it like with LaTeX that you just start and on-demand google the pieces?
Hard work and change are both forms of suffering (they're unpleasant as you experience them). Why not a more useful goal with the ability to say 'ok, done' -- like 'develop octopus-like mechanical limbs' or 'regrow human arms by splicing in reptilian DNA'.

After all, neither of those experiments has ever gone seriously wrong.
>PayPal is mitigating risky transactions.

How are these risky? Or rather "more risky" than the average online transaction.
Perfect analogy. It makes me wonder how many other "outsider" programmers are out there.
I don't know of one, so let me write up something short:

> embedded http server vs using apache or nginx

For now, put nginx in front of things, at least if you're using one of the non-rotor frameworks. That's because they are synchronous for now. This will change soonish, more below.

> prefered concurrency model ?

If you're using a framework, this is handled for you already. If you're building something custom, you probably want to use something like mio to make it asynchronous. Current frameworks are all using synchronous IO, but work is undergoing to switch that, which will then percolate upwards through the ecosystem.

> deployment issues ?

By default, everything is statically linked except glibc, so you make sure that those are compatible and then copy the binary.

> third-party connectivity ?

Wonderful or nonexistent depending. We're still youngish, so there's gaps. Support ranges from "provided by the vendor itself" (mongo) to "nonexistent" (some random noSQL store that might be popular amongst a certain group but someone hasn't written a binding yet)

> current frameworks status ?

The two most well-known are Iron and Nickel. Crates.io uses its own homegrown framework due to age. The author of Diesel may or may not be working on a new one to go with it...
If everything else you have is in a container not having your Go app in a container means the deployment process will be a bit awkward :)

It's pretty easy to create tiny containers for Go apps. If you build the app separately then you can build your container using the scratch base image. The only gotcha is that your app needs to be statically linked. More complex Go app will have more than a single binary though, which means you need to manually keep track of those dependencies (e.g., cert files if you have an HTTPS server). Definitely doable.

Speaking of Go apps in containers. One of the common patters is including the build step in your container, but it results in big images because you end up including the build tools too. Why do people do that? Because it's convenient :) DockerSlim is a good solution for this. You keep your Dockerfile as-is. Run DockerSlim on your Go app image and the build tools and everything else you don't need is gone, so you have a tiny image :-)
If I remember & stabilize my own situation, I plan to eventually ask you for that story you hinted at that few would believe. I have a few of my own like that which made me say agnostic rather than atheist. It was like... something... was making possibilities connect.

Another time, though. :)
I don't understand. Isn't religion by definition inaccessible to scientific analysis?
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You ignore the option of paying themna decent wage.
The Supreme Court argument is immaterial. The Supreme Court can and does deem a lot of things legal (eg free speech for hate groups), which are a legal necessity. I'm proud that our country embraces such freedoms, even if I personally don't always agree with the messages. For example, I wouldn't shop at any store that actively promotes hate speech, even though the speech is legal.

Maybe PayPal is getting flak from rights holders (even Netflix), which makes VPN traffic too risky right now. Maybe they're really dogmatic about the issue ("we hate VPNs and copyright pirates!") or maybe they really just don't want to get caught in the middle of a political battle that they don't care about.
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In Seattle area, freeways got variable speed limit signage a few years ago. The system uses sophisticated traffic flow optimization techniques to maximize average speed of all traffic. It changes the current speed limit on a stretch of freeway. This is a relatively simple system for humans to follow - but I don't see any cars (including myself) obey the variable speed limit - we all go by the standard 60mph limit. I have not seen any law enforcement because presumably it is next to impossible to give a ticket based on a number that keeps changing. As a whole, the intelligent traffic system is complete failure.

Even if a AI president is in place, providing policy direction to maximize some agreeable set of end goals - the humans around the president would not understand the nuances, nor effectively able to / want to implement the policy given their own agendas. I feel that systems is bound to fail.

Now if only the AI president is able to do behind-close-door deals with politicians and special interests groups, some of the the policies might actually get implemented. But the end goals could shift pretty radically in that scenario.

I am having a hard time visualizing a scenario where an AP president would be effective / useful.

Maybe a human president could use an AI advisor to get data-driven arguments to support his/her policies.
If you scroll up you'll see that we are discussing whether current policy is good, not what current policy actually is. "Is" != "aught".
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I believe its U3 and U6 numbers.

Came across an interesting article[0] about how they are measuring these along with some historical data. It touches on underemployment as well, indicating that the underemployed are included in the U6 numbers.

The articles most recent(2015-06) monthly U3 rate of 5.3% is about half of the U6 rate of 10.5% for the same period.

[0] http://econbrowser.com/archives/2015/07/measuring-unemployme...
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