skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If a permanent change in your psychology did not correspond with some permanent change in your physical person, then what would there be that was causing the change in your psychology? Some non-physical "soul" or "mind"?

All psychological facts have physical correlates (in philosophy of mind, this is called "supervenience"). The only limit is our ability to measure things. As our ability to measure our own brains and bodies increases, we should expect to uncover more and more physical correlates of psychological conditions.
These Carly Fiorina-style arguments that no one has a special right to a job are ignoring a lot of context. In a world with even handed regulation and no borders, that could make sense. But that is not the world we live in. The current situation is not that trade is completely deregulated and labor is tied up in red tape. What is really happening is that there is a complex surface area of varying degrees of regulation and deregulation that in most cases benefits an elite class at the expense of others. Companies in America take advantage of rights to purchase land, subsidies, government contracts, military protection, tax advantages, tariffs, etc, all funded by American tax payers. Why wouldn't it be fair for Americans to have an advantage in the American market place? I actually agree that in an ideal world nations and borders wouldnt exist. But as long as the majority see benefit in their existence and they are being propped up by the powers that be, why would you kick the legs out from any small advantage you have from being a citizen of one?
> The italicized portion is what we should find troubling

I do too. But I also realize that, right now, scrapping the H1B program means higher barriers to immigration, rather than replacing it with full work-and-residence rights for qualified foreigners. If the choice is between H1B or open-borders/conditional-green-card (e.g. skills-plus-clean-record based), I'd take option number 2, of course. Right now the national dialog seems to be H1B vs "go back to Mexico! We will build a wall!".
The problem is it's one sided.

The main issue is US employees are fortunate enough to have protections under the law, protections hard fought by unions, literally. Those protections cost money but are sensible, such as safety regulations, child labor laws, the right to not be discriminated against, minimum wage, no harassment, physical violence, etc.

When using Indian labor offshore, or any underdeveloped economy really, those protections are mostly gone because India doesn't protect their employees like the US does, which is also unfortunate.

Companies also benefit from the US legal system and infrastructure, including the liability protection from corporations, tax breaks, roads, public utilities, police, etc, all which are paid for by taxpayers.

Of course, to be fair, US corporations who benefit mostly from foreign labor should move their corporation to the country of their labor. Of course they don't want to do that, because of corruption, subpar legal system, infrastructure, etc. They want it both ways. Protection and benefits from the US government and cheap labor where the labor doesn't have the same protection.

It's not just wages US labor is losing. To compete, US labor has to give up all our labor benefits while still paying for corporate benefits through tax dollars. Taxpayers are also on the hook for people who can't find jobs while corporations do nothing but benefit. It's really another wealth transfer from the bottom and middle, up.

Besides it's against the spirit of the law. I'm ok with offshoring if US corporations are OK with losing all their tax breaks. I didn't think so.
I thought the idea was 0% H-1B labor? You can't replace an American job with H-1B?

The requirements seem very stringent in writing but apparently utterly useless and ineffective in practice, or clearly both executives for Abott and Wipro would be facing criminal prosecution. You should not be able to circumvent the restrictions by a single layer of contract work.
My downloads:

- ac-005: Analytic Combinatorics
- aofa-006: Analysis of Algorithms
- neuralnets-2012-001: Neural Networks for Machine Learning
- nlp: Natural Language Processing
Most places are wildly uneconomic for geothermal.

The Great Basin is composed of Horst and Graben [1] (i.e. Mountain ridges separating basins) geology. H&G happens when the Earth's crust is stretched. The stretching also makes the crust much thinner than normal -- that's why there are tons of cider cones and old lava flows in the Great Basin region.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_and_graben
For me personally, the one change from the current "standard" layout that helps the most is remapping caps lock to control, so the control key is immediately to the left of 'A'. I'm a little surprised the designer of this layout didn't consider doing that. (It can be remapped in software on most systems, though the last time I checked Windows still made it unreasonably difficult.)
I mean if you're willing to accept that the best teachers are the ones that improve standardized tests the most then the research on VAM shows that good and bad teachers exist, it's just not able to reliably differentiate between them in a reasonable amount of time.

A more straightforward 'proof' would just be looking at all students who take a class on something random like mycology and then seeing what percentage have had some level of engagement with that subject five or ten years later.
Most academics do not get funding or tenure. Most funded academic mathematicians lose funding at some point. The funding rate for NSF grants in mathematics is certainly less than 33%, and one can only submit a standard proposal once per year. The competition is FIERCE. (I've been on panels: it is terrifying to see who doesn't get funded.) Ask any mathematician -- theorem prover or software writer -- about excellent people she knows who have lost their grants. You will instantly get multiple examples.

Mathematicians who write software are no more likely to be "truly making the world better" than those who prove theorems and teach hundreds or thousands of students every year.

I'm not saying anything about Stein here. He's a rare mathematician: strong on theory and practice, a passionate advocate for his causes, and a respected teacher. But there is a danger of missing the real point here -- most good things don't get funded or recognized. This has gone on for centuries. The funding situation now in the US (for both theory and practice) is better than it has been almost everywhere for almost all time.
Historically; people like Edmund Burke and Issac Newton. In more recent history people like William Buckley and Milton Friedman. I would also say that somebody like Stephen Pinker is strongly approved of in right wing intellectual circles although I doubt he'd characterize himself as such.

There exists a large 'grey tribe' that doesn't classify itself as a purist left wing or right wing, but has strong elements of both under it's banner. I think of somebody like Eliezer Yudkowsky or Scott Alexander as continuing the Enlightenment tradition which has strong right wing influences. There was always a strong link between classical liberal thinking and the Enlightenment scholars.

In HN's own backyard we have Curtis Yarvin and Peter Thiel. Our history is of course very recent but there are still people who stand out with their ideas and are mostly on the right.

In the more public sphere we have people like Julian Assange and Edward Snowden who are more easily claimed by the modern right wing intelligentsia than the left.

Obviously there is some noise with the signal but you've got to anticipate it is not often that a human being is a ideological purist to the degree of say: William Buckley or Noam Chomsky.
I vote close to extreme right in EU. The only people I want deported are illegal immigrants. I also want talent/work-based immigration and fewer visas for familial regroupement (as in, get one member in EU, get all your relatives in EU).

I have been a migrant in Australia. I know what that is. I expect my country to require the same respect from people we welcome.

Mainstream parties do absolutely nothing in this direction.

I do not mind about nationals who have been French for more than one generation, who belong here, provided they don't burn the French flag like they do so often. Burning the flag is only the emerged part of the iceberg for the little respect some have for their host country - They feel like they belong to the Arabic cause more than they belong to country who provides the free schools they've been to). Burning the French flag should be cause for prison or visa cancellation, but y'know, "we need diversity"...

Even our French Minister of Justice refuses to sing the Marseillaise. I'm really fed up with the floppiness of mainstream parties.
I hope you are right, but I am also halfway expecting to see someone complain at some point that sex bots are just another form of automation taking our jobs and yet another reason why we need basic income.
If you have something built in Flask that you want to run on your own VPS rather than Heroku or another IaaS, it's incredibly easy using gunicorn or uwsgi with nginx. gunicorn is a bit faster and easier to get started with out of the two.

Here's super rough instructions in a gist, and you can find plenty of great guides on Google of course: https://gist.github.com/mcescalante/5db616b9a826605f1df35f79...
Loading JavaScript (of which JSON is a subset, of course) has been explicitly permitted for a long time now, as long as it's downloaded and interpreted by the built-in WebKit engine.

Phonegap/Cordova has a developer app that works similarly, allowing you to hot-load code updates without forcing you to reinstall the entire app.
Much more straight forward. If I'm reading it correctly, True and False are subclasses of Boolean and each of which implements a complementary pair of ifTrue and ifFalse methods? Elegantly symmetric. :)
Or as Intel put it: Our customers expect that they will get a 20 percent increase in performance at the same price that they paid last year. Which is less half as fast as they used to be.
So where are the photos, like Gawker had on their front page?

All I see is a report that it exists. Neither of the two links in the tweet were to stories showing the photos.
Set up Docker and run a multi-service Flask application with Docker Compose
Listen, there's no point claiming the H1 situation isn't a rampant clusterfuck. Actual skilled laborers lie in limbo while busloads of cheap, disposable foreign workers are brought over to get exploited and depress domestic wages. It's a full on disaster.

If you have to have temporary worker visas, fine. But don't tie them to a company. If there's a legitimate need, and they're legitimately skilled, they'll find work, and they'll more than likely find work that pays comparably to a native worker (or they'll get poached, because good help is always hard to find).
I still do and I beg to differ. I'm not saying he's the most personable human being I've met but he's certainly not autistic like Sheldon.
Finally Algorithm IntFact
Yes. Psychological trauma can result in repeated and excessive flooding of the synapses with neurotransmitters, which can cause lasting physical damage much like drug abuse can.
For proteins, at least, there is a lower limit on sequence length below which it is less likely to form a folded structure. Most proteins are around 200-250 amino acids long (see http://www.umich.edu/~zhanglab/publications/1996-2001/Zhang_...).

There is a reasonable theory that I remember discussing/reading once that proteins may have started out as long sequences and were then selected for shorter more stable versions. Presumably the early proteins were partly disordered, and only optimised for having stable cores and domain structures later on.

In any case, it is not as simple as the number of bits in a program, as macromolecules are not 'just' software, but actual physical devices that have to (self)-assemble and carry out functions at various temperatures, pressures, pH, etc.
You missed social media. I know people who spend hours on facebook each day!
At this point, with both Corporate abuses from American corporations and the H1-B holding companies along with the frequency with which we've seen the more expensive American work replaced with a much cheaper "guest" worker, I believe we need to ask ourselves, do we not have enough surplus American workers that are unemployed such that the H1-B program might not be necessary for a year or two until we've managed to get the unemployed American workers back to work?
Quite. as far as programming (hell even just prose the way I do it) swapping the various sigils into the tyughvbn cluster would save me more contortions than any rearrangement of letters.
Think about it like this: Overall improvements concentrate slowdown in the bottlenecks, so it makes each hour you spend optimizing your site more productive, which in turn makes it more likely that people will actually do it.
I should also point out however that AMD PSP don't have access to the network.
Hi, I am a Clojure committer and I just closed http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1013. Even though this issue is not a bug, explaining why is not entirely trivial. I have already spent 15 minutes on it, and have not yet found the best place to update the docs so that developers wanting to consume Clojure from Java find the information they need.

If you have a chance, could you please take care of updating the docs? Thanks in advance! Let's make Clojure great together.
I'm skeptical that there wouldn't be a single foreign Wipro staffer there on a different visa (e.g. L1).
> .. slightly different ...

https://handwriting.io/
What is the grit in the gears?

Hoarding of capital is probably a part of it. Downward pressure on wages is incompatible with creativity in the workplace.
Intel ME is a blob written by Intel however and all OEMs uses the same one. I'd bet on UEFI code being worse than the Intel ME firmware.
They've put people who've had extreme childhood abuse into brain scanners, and seen differences in the amygdala.

I think they took a different group of people and predicted differences in the amygdala based on psychologic symptoms, and then checked that in MRI scans, and found the differences they predicted. (Although I'm having trouble find the links at the moment.)
Why not just modify the glyphs programmatically on draw so every character is unique?

I thought of writing a word processor where each glyph created a bump map so as you type the characters are slightly indented as if stroked by a type writer.
>can purely psychological events (i.e. what you observe and contemplate) cause permanent alterations to that chemical balance, cellular dysfunction, structural damage in the brain, etc?

I think so. Amblyopia is an example of structural changes in the brain based on what you observe. It generally happens early in life when the brain is more plastic but it proves it is possible. There is also evidence that amblyopia may be able to be treated in adulthood.
Isn't your Slack channel link going to a Mailchimp list subscribe form?
Agreed, it is certainly worth the skepticism, but also worth the skepticism behind the medical communities insistence that it wasn't related. One aspect of history that always concerned me was why 'modern war' had the effect it had compared to antiquity. The horrors of war have been repeated historically, but not like this.
Paper PDF sent via e-mail.
It's easy to build a cheap fab. You just target 45nm and use the old tried and true tech.
Did we actually do that? I'm still being sarcastic all the time. I really don't know of any other way to be.
From a cursory glance with my limited knowledge, that sounds like a very naive approach and one which will not pass a vote.

The problem is that of lower skilled (not low skilled) but cheaper labour from the body shop consultancies mixed with higher skilled ones in the same H1B pool.

As someone somewhere suggested, instead of a lottery, an auction of the seats would in a sense lead to lesser pay difference between the native and outsourced worker.

This is just theory that needs to be given a deep though.

The bottomline is that the H1B serves as a competitive advantage to the US. Software, now that it is eating the world, is a very important part of the economy... and the US needs to invest in giving it's corporation whatever advantages it can w.r.t technology.

The consequence of stopping the H1B altogether would be a shortage of technical workers, leading to the rise in software expenses for companies and maybe resulting in the US & US corporation to lose their technical advantage & leading positions globally.
It's not that rare - it's made it to UK government national strategy advice over five years ago in "No Health Without Mental Health" which talks about the importance of improving physical health for people with mental illness[1] and improving mental health for people with physical illness.

[1] for a variety of reasons people with severe mental illness die about 20 years earlier than the general population.
Worth noting the headlines of the 'related coverage':

Lawsuits Claim Disney Colluded to Replace U.S. Workers With Immigrants JAN 25, 2016;

Large Companies Game H-1B Visa Program, Costing the U.S. Jobs NOV 10, 2015;

Toys ‘R’ Us Brings Temporary Foreign Workers to U.S. to Move Jobs Overseas SEP 29, 2015;

Pink Slips at Disney. But First, Training Foreign Replacements. JUN 3, 2015
Seems like an awful lot of the 'internet hate speech' cliches in one long article here. Talk about Bernie Bros, about right wing extremism, about Twitter not enforcing its rules, etc. All it needed were some calls to 'censor' the internet, and it'd have been perfect.

Not saying there aren't horrible people on Twitter and other social networks, and that personal attacks don't happen, but it's been a somewhat tired subject for articles recently and pushed like its the end of the world by the press.
Oh, that's an interesting idea!
And what about platforms they don't actively support a "photo app" on, like Windows 10/10M?
> I don't know, (1) Why you care about

The points stand on their own or they don't.

> Things which perhaps bother us both to a tiny degree are, (1) Putting words in each other's mouths

You just discovered that?

But seriously, it's more that you're shooting in the dark when you guess that I'm anti so-and-so. You're looking for an easy win. Ditto the "Respect" angle. Since when did emotion make 2+2 = 5? And if you say it does, you're right that I will disrespect you, but falling back on that in an argument is dishonesty.

> (3) You care about Austin, its riders, U/L, and fingerprinting

I must need to write more clearly. The part I care to discuss is that the people who we elect and pay to guide us are knowingly lying, and spending our money to propagandize to us, then claiming a victory at the polls represents the people's broader will.

Fingerprinting is a non-solution. It's like homeopathic medicine or faith healing. Largely irrelevant in theory, but in practice it prevents real solutions from being tried.

What would make people safer? Well, if there was an actual risk, then logging which vehicle was dispatched to each person would. And having the app phone-home GPS data from the vehicle in realtime. And that's all stuff Uber and Lyft already do.

If rape really was a threat in taxis, etc, then the elected officials have decided to keep subjecting their people to this by forcing out the actual safer option.

By denying actual solutions they're increasing the chance of rape. Why? Because they don't have their name on it. Better ten rapes, one of which the mayor is involved in rescuing, than no rapes at all. You can't claim responsibility for there not being any rapes unless you freak everyone out and are seen doing something, loudly.

The only saving grace is that the threat isn't actually real.
Perhaps this is a good point in history to create an open repository of problems authored by contributors with some sort of CC license. Basing it on the material of existing MOOC courses would provide focus and relevance. Also long term insurance against changes in openness of MOOCs.
Problems need to be original authorship and not copied from textbooks for obvious reasons. Thoughts?
> Actual skilled laborers lie in limbo ... good help is always hard to find

Sounds contradictory.
Said in another way, capital is fungible but labor is not. This means capital can flow readily to the lowest cost suppliers and workers but workers cannot flow readily to higher paying employers.

This leads to a mismatch where, temporarily, employers can capture higher-skilled workers at lower costs.

Another comment, how are anti-disparagement clauses not a violation of first amendment rights?
I see, but my point is about the transportation and handling of the wafers.

Extreme UV is mentioned in the article, but they'll use that for the 5 nm process. I don't think ultra UV exists.
As with so many other things, it depends on what you want to do. If you just want to serve static web pages with high availability and relative immunity to large traffic surges, it's pretty hard to beat S3. A simple script will push any changes you make locally to your S3 bucket. Yeah, you do have to figure out how to write the script, but that is a write-and-forget task that's orders of magnitude less complexity than playing sysadmin for a dedicated server (also, unless you're made of money the dedicated server is going to have far less tolerance for traffic spikes).

I have some static pages that I used to host on a shared hosting service. I moved them to S3 years ago and haven't looked back. Zero sysadmin hassle, and the cost is actually less than I was paying for the shared hosts (which would invariably fall over if I got a link from a high-traffic site).

Edit: yes, at some traffic level it's going to become more economically efficient to run your own server, but that level is pretty damned high. Note how many gigs of S3 traffic you can purchase for the cost of one sysadmin salary (hint: a lot of them). And if you're doing it yourself (the "small team" that the article is talking about) your time is probably better spent working on your product than on spending your days monitoring security mailing lists and screwing around with apt-get or whatever.
On another note, I found a more interesting comment about quitting Twitter from someone with a similar amount of followers that I used to follow on the site. They said they quit because it became an addition that took up more and more of their time and drove them to become a more and more negative person in general.

I'd say that would make a somewhat more interesting article to read about Twitter and why people might quit.
Exactly. There is no cleanliness requirement, but if someone gets injured because of snow and ice on your part of the way, you are liable.
I definitely can't live up to the expectations women might get from some of those ancient stone dildos.
Euro 2016: Γκολ εκατέρωθεν στο Γερμανία – Ουκρανία
Let me make this totally clear. The top OEM hardware manufacturers couldn't give a CRAP about your security.

https://duo.com/blog/out-of-box-exploitation-a-security-anal...

e.g.
http://teletext.zaibatsutel.net/post/145370716258/deadupdate...

But you're totally fine that THESE are the people with unfetted power to fill your system with backdoors? (Not to mention NSA etc who'd almost certainly have access).

What's wrong with you having zero care about the world's data security?