skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If by "improve" you mean "allow for skyrocketing rents and push the poor and most of the middle class further away from the city," yes, it did. I'm currently moving from Somerville, which adjoins Cambridge and is often called "where everybody moved when the rich people pushed them out of Cambridge" to Malden (some distance away by bus or car) because the rental situation has continued to deteriorate for everyone except the landlords.
If you're using Terraform, why are you having problems with the interconnectedness? That's exactly the benefit of Terraform. Parameterizing all the configuration dependencies is its brilliance. Nothing I've come across is as simple and easy to use and understand while still being able to fully managing an entire infrastructure.
Irwin "Whistler" Emery would like to have a word with you.
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> The comment isn't talking about local workers.

I think you and I are talking about different comments :-)
It probably won't happen anyway. But I don't think this is a good argument for these non-disparagement contracts.
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Here's a post from a year ago about how a blind person interacts with computers: https://medium.freecodecamp.com/looking-back-to-what-started...

(Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8965048)

From the comments there, here's a fascinating example of how quickly a blind person can absorb information. 525WPM in this case: https://soundcloud.com/freecodecamp
> I also feel guilty that got this incredible opportunity while much of my extended family and friends rot in third world hell holes waiting for their lives to be over quickly so they can be put out of their misery

Goodness - I know it's probably hyperbole, but what kind of fucked-up country do you come from?
then why do they kill themselves more than anyone else on the planet?
only their metro can be this clean after a flood : https://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/chinese-citi...
Sorry, I don't feel bad for any of these people. Even the poorest Americans have better material conditions than a lot of Indian workers. Why do you think the Indian workers are willing to work for less?
> I'm nearly certain you meant switching power reduces as transistors shrink, which has been true so far.

Yup. Thanks for the correction.
Thanks. I use and love Sublime for a few years, I'm really curious about how the product found its audience. On Textmate forums? Did Jon post there himself?
I really enjoyed that movie! For reference http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/

"I want peace on Earth and good will toward men."
-- Whistler
Question: in Silicon Valley, considering the fault line, is it even safe to build up?
The userspace is compiled to something kind of like Java byte code, that runs in a VM. A hardware kernel exists that provides this VM, but it also has implementations that run in userspace on the big three OSes.
> Today it wouldn't work because they now have frame-breaking

Yeah. I just want to see what the original vulnerability looked like.

I bug hunt.

Thanks for the offer to email you, but, I'm transitioning away from E-Mail for security reasons.
> Larry Becraft Jr, an attorney who has fought the IRS

Becraft doesn't want to pay income tax and has developed some lunatic theories which, to his mind, allow him to not pay income tax. He's done time in prison because, surprise of surprises, his nutball theories don't change the actual law. He "fought the IRS" in much the same way as an ant might "fight" a ten-pound sledgehammer.

> According to the US Code, the United States organic law is comprised of the Declaration of Independence(1776), the Articles of Confederation (1777), the Northwest Ordinance (1787) and the Constitution (1787).

"Organic law" apparently does not mean what you think it means:

The Declaration of Independence does not have the force of law and it never has. It was a justification for the rebellion, and that's it.

The Articles of Confederation have not had the force of law since they were replaced by the Constitution, so saying they have force of law along with the Constitution is incoherent. The latter totally superseded the former.

The Northwest Ordinance was an act of the Congress under the Articles of Confederation which was subsequently recognized as valid law by the courts after the ratification of the Constitution. As an act of Congress, however, it can be modified by further acts of Congress and by the courts. It is not on an equal footing with the Constitution by any means.

> While mainstream academia says these have no legal or constitutional force, I'd disagree.

It isn't just the academics which disagree with you, but the government itself, and the government gets to decide what law is. You lose.
> There's no hypervisor that'll let you power up a halted server, change bios settings, change boot device or order, boot the system of pxe, etc, etc.

Wake on LAN is a 20th century technology that requires no other privileges to implement and can be access controlled via managed switches. Pretty much every hypervisor will allow you to turn on a VM, change its boot device order or boot PXE and can change BIOS/firmware settings on any platform with an API to do that.
I agree with the sentiment of this post. I have also worked at small startups in the past for which AWS is overkill but they insist on being on AWS because they use it as a selling point to investors (I know, this sounds silly), i.e. they are using it to name drop "cool" tech, something investors seem to "love".

My perception of AWS is that it is an infrastructure environment onto which you can build your own hosting environment. AWS isn't just designed for web based applications, even though most of the AWS users will use it for that purpose. It's a box of parts with which you can piece together the environment you need and that requires skills, knowledge and a good grasp of how it all works (on an AWS specific level).

Another issue I keep running into is that developers use some of the AWS services as integral parts of their application, SQS is a great example of that. I'm convinced that SQS is not for developers to use on an application level but it is a service that allows infrastructure engineers to build complex and scalable environments on AWS.

The other issue I always struggle with when using AWS is the cost thing. You never quite know how much you're going to pay at the end of the month. For small startups the difference between $500 and $1,000 is massive whereas for larger organisations the the difference between $15,000 and $20,000 isless of a problem.
>Parse.ly may run on 200 EC2 nodes across multiple regions

DevOps has become "developers doing operations" but thats a misapplication of the term. DevOps started as Developers and Operations working together.

If your running this many EC2 nodes, and you don't have an Operations person or team, then your running on the razors edge.

>At the time of our conversation I had crashed an AWS instance and we were having trouble fixing it. Among the points I made to Sean was that the problem was specific to AWS. If we’d been in the Rackspace cloud, I simply would have rolled back to yesterday’s image. A problem that would have taken 5 minutes to fix instead dragged on for 2 weeks.

Honestly you have already been given the sign post that this could go very badly for you. Imagine the case where "crashed instance" was expensive critical infrastructure. How many hours or days of outage before your business is irreparably harmed?
Fair that it was abrupt of me to put it that way.

But to make clear what I was saying, I really should have responded to the parent, who says: "It's extremely hard to believe that even a malicious scientist could convince himself that a horse cannot be ridden into town."

My point being that a malicious test-giver could certainly deny that as a valid answer. I don't know that I believe that anecdote happened, but it is assuming good faith to think that it couldn't happen because no one would ever reject "horse" as an answer.
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well said! I had these as items 73, 75 and 76 in my cheatsheet for performance and scaling:

http://synisma.neocities.org/perf_scale_cheatsheet.pdf
> He also points out that doing a task that a machine or computer do is pointless.

This is true for some tasks - but not true for others, even if AI could in theory do them better.

For example, a medical doctor. It is easy to see this as just a job, but it's so much more than that - it's the culmination of 20 years of studies, a childhood dream, the feeling of being important and useful to society, the "thank you" from the patient, the social circle, the social status...

There are many people who actually enjoy their jobs, because it gives them meaning and satisfaction.

Another example - musicians. I see so many "AI composer" projects out there - algorithms which compose music... I think these people are kind of missing the point ..

It's easy to see music as notes and tempo, but it is much more than that. It is a medium, a tool, through which the listener can connect to the artist and experience his emotional state: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kPXw6YaCEY

Having an algorithm on the other side feels so fake.. artificial..
They really need a "don't be evil" slogan or something...
It's not so much that I don't care, more that it's nothing new.

I just don't understand why people are suddenly railing against IME instead of Dell, SuperMicro, HP, etc when there is far more hardware out there with far, far less secure BMCs and it's been that way for ages. IME is probably closer to the best of the bunch as far as security goes.
I was just thinking about this. I have to wonder if it's possible to create/run a personal matrix integration server.

Edit: which if course wouldnlet you use any compatible chat app, including Vector.
One of my friends is a blind coder (and he sometimes comments here on HN), and he's had a very hard time getting regular work as a coder, even for things that seem obvious (like testing and fixing apps and sites for accessibility). He's bright and built his own screen reader for Android, among other things. But, I think that's a common experience for folks with disabilities; they begin to feel like they have to apologize for their disability, even in cases where it does not inhibit them from doing the work.

Even worse, there begins to be a notion that hiring someone with a disability is a charitable act, rather than just making a hiring decision based on their competence for the task. It seems like that would be kinda soul-crushing to always wonder if you were chosen for reasons other than your abilities.

I've seen so many interesting/disappointing behaviors from people when it comes to people with disabilities. Once I was helping with an event that was organized and led by a woman with cerebral palsy and in a wheelchair. Media showed up to cover the event...and kept trying to talk to me about it (the able-bodied white guy who was mostly there to handle technical stuff and had very little interesting to say about what the event was about), even when the organizer was right next to me and clearly bossing people, including me, around. She also has had difficulty finding regular work in the past, despite being really impressive in a lot of areas.

I'm kinda just ranting here, as I don't have good solutions, but I do think it'd be cool for folks to stop assuming that just because someone can't work the way most folks work they can't do the same kind of work. There have been blind developers (that I've been aware of) for about as long as I've been using computers (and that's a long time). We should stop being shocked by it; though it's cool and impressive, it tends to lead to thinking they might not be able to do the job as well, just because they're doing it in such a different way.
My experience (a few periods in the late 90s to mid 2000s) was high pressure for locals working for Japanese firms, less so for foreigners or locals working for foreign firms. The informal drinking (where junior workers can "say anything" to the boss and blame it on the alcohol) was a counter-balance to the formality of the work, where juniors would never contradict their seniors. For the formality to work, you need and outlet. It's the way the culture balances formality and relationships. Bosses are expected to be available to hear from their employees after hours. If they aren't, they won't be respected, or know what's really going on.

In some cases the family relationships have a strict division of labor: Dad works and Mom raises the family. Two very distinct lives. In more traditional companies and families it can look bad to come home from work by 6. (Are you no longer important?) In other cases the forced socializing eases up somewhat over the years, or the parents find work in smaller or foreign companies.
> What I don't see is why this is worthy of an article on the NY Times. You left Twitter for various reasons, none of which are newsworthy.

Lets be honest here. It's newsworthy because a jew is affected. The writer is jewish and he mentions other jewish workers of the media industry. The jewish domination of media isn't a secret. They are used to controlling and forming propaganda/opinion/etc using the bully pulpit of established media organizations. But social media is less controllable and they are lashing out.

> Also, I don't understand how Bernie supporters are misogynists for criticizing Hillary.

Because the NYTimes and the media elite are pro-hilary. They have been spreading propaganda against sanders forever now. I stopped reading the NYTimes and listening to NPR months ago because of their constant and relentless propaganda.

It's a shame that these writers are slowly gaining traction on the internet with their appeal for more censorship and more control. It's funny how a writer for the NYTimes would stealthily advocate for more censorship and control.
Japan has bigger earthquakes than California and build up just fine.
You might feel different if you were a celebrity. I know one, and it's sad to see the curtains always drawn on the windows of the house, the paparazzi camped out in front, etc. I could see a nanny being hired and then threatening the celebrity with a tell-all book, or just cashing in on it anyway.
H1Bs allocated via a typical auction, would not do much good. Except mean that companies with the most money, could buy them and then under pay their employees.

The best approach I've heard is the stack rank based on "minimum yearly income"[1], the top X number of potential employees are awarded H1Bs.

At the end of the year, the immigration office checks with the IRS. If the employee was fired/quit or was not paid more than the "minimum yearly income" the sponsoring company is forced to pay the difference in fines. i.e. At the end of the year, that H1B has to have cost the company at least the disclosed "minimum yearly income".

[1] "minimum yearly income" is some value less than: base salary + cash bonus + stock awards
Are you using Javascript for that? I thought the API needed to have a server that's always running so the chats can be instant, but is it possible to do that with Lambda?

I'm currently using Modulus and I think it will get pretty expensive if I keep making more bots, so a cheaper way to do it would be nice!

Edit:
Found a tutorial: https://medium.com/@igorkhomenko/run-facebook-messenger-chat...
Wouldn't that be nice? If SF is unreasonable, we'll just take our ball and play elsewhere. :)

But how to make it happen?

There is an awful lot of resistance to hiring remote staff. I checked the latest "Who's Hiring?" post here at HN and of the top 10 postings, only 2 were open to hiring remotely.
Because despite all the talk about "disruption" tech is still surprisingly conservative. Things are changing though. I've seen a huge increase in the number of companies willing to consider remote work in the last couple of years.
It's not hard to adapt. He regularly improved it based on our feedback at Schneier's blog. I speculated that a higher bandwidth would allow audio and video using same architecture. It's a great desigm regardless due yo strong confidentiality despite endpoint attacks.
See the Workflows app. Would the way they do it in that app work?
"Marco Peña was among about 150 technology workers who were laid off....." Going on a limb but guessing Mr.Peña might be of hispanic origin. Most talk about Trump has been tone, but little of substance. Sizzle vs steak, and all. My hunch is that most of Pundits&Pols class focus too much on tone and too little on what Trump would actually likely do. And that there are many Mr.Peña's for whom, while the would prefer nicer words coming out of TV set, are more concerned with what their wallets are saying. And that while Trump might take us to uncertain unknown, Clinton is doubling down on a crappy known.
The country has no natural resources to export, and had to start from scratch in 1945, so they're not doing that awful. They're not the be-all end-all, but it's still impressive what they've accomplished. The biggest problem they're facing is demographics: very few babies, and very little immigration.
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I've been using programmer's dvorak for almost a month now, and most of my RSI pain in the wrists went away. It took me a while to get use to it (about two months to get to 80% of the speed I had before on qwerty), specially the numbers. But right now I just love it. This layout looks ok, but not too big of an improvement over dvorak, plus programmer's dvorak comes installed almost everywhere (at least the platforms I use the most).
The point is that writing such a book is not always "disparagement".
So you're saying because I've run into these bugs in my own code, I clearly don't know what I'm doing and I should be using a language for someone of my intelligence?
Hi everyone! Thanks for the support and reply. Wasn't expecting this kind of response when we wrote the article.

Herwin is visually impaired since birth so he definitely picked up coding with a screen reader. I have notified him of the comments here so he can share more of how he initially picked up coding himself. :)
Also a syntax pre-parser to support more "standard" mathematical notation (one among the many: exponentiation using ^)
Multiplan was also sold for the Mac in 1984 or 85. I still have a copy of it.
> Please don't be like Udacity

Huh? Udacity has numerous free courses. They've never made a free course non-free. Any new paid course is developed with new material, and they're still churning out free courses.

Here's one of the gems from the early days of Udacity - Peter Norvig's Design of Computer Programs: https://www.udacity.com/course/design-of-computer-programs--...

And here's one of the early machine learning courses: https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-machine-learning--ud...
Anti-semitism and racist speech is free speech. Hate speech is free speech.

If we are going to censor "hate speech", then we would have to ban atheist speech for being hateful to the religious or pro-gay speech for being hateful to traditionalists. Is that the kind of world you want to live in? Considering how much power social media organizations have, do you really want such companies to control speech?

Rather than shutdown free speech, I'd rather the NYTimes be shut down.
Trinity demolished buildings by civic center, but were required to move the people there into the new buildings at the same rent controlled rates. So it isn't true in a strict sense, but effectively it's true.
Too bad that. Persuasion was a vastly superior program.
I still don't understand if you're really claiming what I feel you're claiming, that is, saying that "forming this memory doesn't cause any meaningful changes to the general physical functioning of the brain" is false?

It's not a question of being able to measure - I believe that we can measure e.g. synapses being strengthened and weakened as a result of learning skills; but that these changes don't change the physical functioning; it's just part of their normal functioning and it functioned exactly as well before and after - the behavior is different but physically equivalent.

For what I mean as a "meaningful change to the physical functioning", consider your computer - deleting all the software and installing a different operating system would not be a meaningful change to the physical functioning; the temperatures, electric charge and magnetic properties of the involved parts would be very different, but that doesn't matter as all the physical parts would still function in the same normal way although the screen would be displaying very different signals.

On the other hand, a software program that manages to physically disable or re-enable parts of some chip in a way that's not normally possible through software, blow a fuse in a hard drive or trigger a processor bug that "bricks" the processor - those would be the kind of changes to the general physical functioning I'm talking about. In what cases do we have such changes to the physical functioning of (parts of) the brain? Changes that are substantially different from any changes that the brain "does to itself" in the course of normal operation?
Comparing Wake on LAN to a BMC is like comparing a text editor to an IDE. Most platforms don't have a way to change BIOS or firmware settings, and if they do, it's via the BMC anyways.
Outgoing, secret data plus incoming, malicious data sharing hardware is where security problems start. Ottela keeps those separate physically. Prevents many types of attack or unnecessary complexity.
IME is horrible and we should be railing against all horrible implementations. I can assure you I let my OEM know full well how I felt about insecure automatic update software (even though I wipe the system as soon as I get it, something I can't do with ME). I'll be taking my next purchase elsewhere. Unless people speak up, it's guaranteed to only gets worse.
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The product would be a SAAS marketed toward property management companies.
"If this was Israel, they'd blame they exceeded their limit, deported them and blamed them for working too much and accepting less than minimum wage, resulting in no compensation paid out."

-- and you assume all that because?..

You provided zero facts to substitute your anti-Israeli claims, but you still feel comfortable making them. This is exactly the kind of FUD I've been talking about. It started as a campaign of lies by the Palestinian media and has since spread to the liberal circles around Europe and the world. All based on false assumptions, lack of knowledge of history and actual situation on the ground.

I suggest you watch this video before making any further claims: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL8ANySuSuk

But you know what the worst part is? It's that you feel you don't even need any proof of alleged horrible things that Israel does, because you are so confident that "Israel is one of a kind" in the worst sense. This, gentlemen, is the modern kind of antisemitism.
My experience is that Sublime looks/works great out of the box, colleagues actually asked "what's that editor?" before monokai/solarized were widely known.

Recommending it is pretty easy: Less crashes than Eclipse/Atom; less setup, tinkering and learning curve than vim/emacs. Just works, cross-platform.

Finally, in a professional setting, the cost of Sublime is completely negligible vs e.g. losing work from crashes or even messing around with vim for two hours.
> "Bernie Bros"? seriously?

The NYTimes endorsed Hilary 6 months ago...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/opinion/sunday/hillary-cli...
> The only example given for a bug is not even a bug but undefined behavior triggered by undocumented API usage

You only saw one example bug? He linked to 5 tickets in the section "show stopping bugs remain untouched".