skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There was also no partisanship as each senator made the moves that benefitted them or their people the most.

How would you describe the populares and the optimates?
Some of the coders from Lovoo (dating site/app) may be next. They created fake bots for male customers which the german IT magazine c't reported on last year based on a set of Outlook mailbox dumps they were handed. Now the police raided Lovoo HQ.

https://mopo24.de/nachrichten/razzia-grossaufgebot-polizei-s...

http://www.heise.de/forum/c-t/Kommentare-zu-c-t-Artikeln/Int...

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.de/2016/06/fraud-wi...

What's the thought process behind documenting the illegal activities in email threads? It makes you wonder if they honestly thought they were just developing test bots for QA purposes.
Except the chain of custody involved easily MITM-able unencrypted data:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/fbi-our-malware-sends-unenc...
Conglomeration of power is very useful in some situations. For example, global environmental problems.

Have one conglomerate force everyone to do better. If each country acted independently, each country is incentivised to not think about the bigger picture and act in their own short term interests.

This was my main reason for voting in.
Well, yeah, but the fact that that is also possible lets you have those automatic refactoring tools because it's easy to understand what's going on with the code in static analyzers and compilers, etc.
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This isn't a question of transparency with regards to the data, but publicly drawing conclusions from statistically insignificant data.

Given the major issue of reproducibility in academic research, I'm not sure "withholding inconclusive data" is a major issue with academic research today.
Regarding the banking system in the UK:

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-36617969

"UK banking stocks have plunged after Britain voted to leave the EU.
Barclays and RBS were among the hardest hit, with their shares sliding nearly 30% at the start of trading before staging a partial recovery.
Meanwhile, Morgan Stanley could relocate up to 2,000 London-based investment banking staff, the BBC understands.
This could add to fears about potential job losses in the UK financial industry, which employs 2.2m people.
Shares in the FTSE 100's five big banks fell 21% on average as markets digested the results of the referendum, with Barclays suffering the biggest one-day fall in its share price. The price eventually recovered to stand 16% down in late afternoon trading.
Shares in Europe's other main banks fell heavily, with Germany's Deutsche Bank down more than 13% and France's Societe Generale more than 20% lower.
"The UK and European banking system has been hit particularly hard as there was already fears about their health, and now there are worries about the linkages between European and British banks," said Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Markets."
Build a dirt cheap, tough-as-nails field computer in a Pelican case
"The US is only sending pieces of paper"

Yes, but not in the way you meant. Much of the outgoing US container traffic is recycling, mostly paper and steel. Container shipping to US to China is very cheap, since there are so many empties going back.
That's very encouraging. I'd like to ask, what kind of extraordinary abilities are behind these cool-companies and their owners (employment, investment capability)?
Also curious about this.
Skype's onerous ToS for broadcasting or podcasting an interview
It's impossible to draw a line in the sand for those who haven't won major awards or received major recognitions. It's really fact-specific. That being said, if one has a degree and several years of experience doing good work, it's always worth looking at. There's oftentimes more to an individual's background from an immigration perspective than he or she realizes.
If by anything you mean certain things.

"[Imperative] [subject or object]" is interpreted as "[Noun] [noun]," which makes no sense.
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Copy-and-pasting an interesting response from user Asooka, who is hellbanned for no obvious reason:

> I guess it has a bit to do with Nintendo's choice of architecture. They haven't moved past the Gamecube architecture - the Gamecube, Wii and WiiU all use the same PowerPC CPU, the Wii is just faster and the WiiU has two. Same for the GPU - they keep using pretty much the same Radeon, just newer, faster, etc. This has allowed the project to remain relevant (able to play mostly current games) for three console generations and find the support of qualified individuals.

> I agree that it's a bit weird though - the best, most well managed emulators seem to be for Nintendo hardware. From the NES through to the Wii (and I expect Dolphin to support WiiU soon), every console is reasonably well supported and emulated.

> Part of it might be due to Nintendo picking architectures that aren't too alien to emulate on a standard PC.
Let's compromise.

I hope that Oculus still gets some shit for attempting to lockdown their ecosystem. But less so than before this.
That's something they share with South Korea, Ethiopia or Russia. I would not call them as a culturally coherent group - thus I would not hold having a major christian population in a country very uniting. Especially since parts of those are protestant and partly catholic - and that creates hugely divisive cultural views on e.g. womens rights even today. So one could claim 'christianity' a thing which culturally divides them as well.
> It was created as an amalgamation of post-war globalist trade deals.

To deincentivise countries going to war with each other...
Like I said, I hope the best for them. You can throw political propaganda at me all day long but I respect them for leaving.
He's flip flopped on in several times now, going from banning to allowing to ending it completely.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/03/...
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Sure, if you view things as being about Westminster as an institution independent of the present factions in power (not just the majority forming the government, but the dominant factions in both major parties.)

OTOH, if you see it as about "Westminster" as the an institutional consensus that unites the notionally opposing major parties, then its easy to see the Brexit as a vote against that consensus and for a radical realignment of power, not just in terms of dominance between the existing parties but in terms of the divisions around which major policy debate and partisan divides should be structured.
Seems like recruiting has the same basic problem as every other human-to-human matchmaking in that it is possible to identify potential, but not to predict the future.

There are some advantages to employee-employer matchmaking in that the relationship is primarily based on money and there's a one-to-many pattern that repeats frequently.

I didn't know that the spammy recruiters were literally stealing your identity to apply on your behalf. No wonder they're hated. Still, I wonder how low the response rate would have to drop before spam is no longer profitable. Seems like that industry runs reasonably well on extremely low response rates.
Thank you, but to clarify: while the criteria look alike, the standard for EB1A is much higher than the standard for O1. So, for example, while a handful of media mentions might be enough for O1 purposes, they might not be enough for EB1A purposes.
I assume you're referring to Stefan Molyneux. He has some very interesting ideas and presents them articulately. However he gives off quite the "cult leader" vibe and tends to deride or mock counterarguments, rather than critically engage with them.
Why should the people of England care what globalism "demands"?
He did not suggest doing away with the H1B program. He did say he wants to end abuse of the H1B program.

H1B abuse typically involves posting an absurdly specific or unappealing set of requirements in a job ad tailored to the person you're trying to get a visa for. If any qualified US person actually does apply, they are rejected for whatever spurious reason. The employer can then claim "no suitable candidate can be found" and get a visa for their immigrant.

I'm not sure how this can be prevented.
So no companies have announced they are moving. They are evaluating the situation, as any responsible corporation should.

The UK banking system is not about to collapse.
Hi Peter,

I have two simple questions:

I am on H1-b and I have my I-140 approved (eb-2).

- I want to switch my job and before taking up a new job in USA I want a break. Is it possible to take break of 2,3 months w/o being un-employed? If not, is there a way to achieve this?

- Once I move to a new firm, what process I can follow so that my GC application continue in normal pace?
They have the right to be upset. The losers in any political system have the right to be upset. But they lost fair and square in a democratic system, and do not have the right to slander that system and its institutions.
The most important difference is the presence of encryption in the case of chip cards. Magnetic strips offer their data in plain text form when swiped through any card reader.
So you can browse the web on your own terms.

The power button only disables it for one site at a time (or even just a single page, if you Ctrl-click it).
Can the title be changed to "Whitelisting by adblock plus declared illegal in Germany" to stop the confusion.
The EU will make the UK pay a price for Brexit, and rightly so, otherwise all member states would leave and still enjoy the free movement of goods and people.

You make the EU sound like an abusive spouse. "Don't leave me or I'll hurt you!"

Do you believe that if the UK leaves the EU, France and Germany will go to war? If not, I don't see how "created to prevent another world war" is relevant.
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Shenandoah[0]. From what I've read it's contributed to openjdk by redhat. Their claims about pause times aren't quite as strong as those of Azul, but <100ms pauses for 100GB+ heaps will still be leagues ahead of most GCs.

It's probably also be less CPU-efficient than azul's, since it uses forwarding pointers instead of page table trickery. But if you have such a large heap you'll also have many cores. Here's a performance comparison to G1[1].

[0] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/189
[1] https://rkennke.wordpress.com/
My understanding is that the strip essentially encodes the credit card number, and that when you swipe it, you pass the number. Therefore, "stealing" the card is as easy as MITM-ing that (with a skimmer).

The chip, on the other hand, answers a query that proves that it knows a secret. If the attacker listens to the exchange between the card and the reader, it doesn't learn the secret itself, and the next transaction will ask a different query.
And the average web page size is double that of 2012 ... at least we have ad blockers in iOS now.
> Related question, would Donald Trump actually be able to do away with the H1B as he suggested he would a couple of months ago?

The President can't do much, including defining or eliminating visa categories; most of what Presidential candidates campaign on are legislative priorities which would need to be passed by Congress.

Congress absolutely could eliminate the H-1B.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_trade_agree...
It can go the other way as well. If you have a large conglomeration of power it's easy for a few people with capital to take over and make all the rules and potentially destroy the environment. See the United States for an example of this, especially in terms of fracking. People who don't necessarily suffer due to bad policy but profit from it.

For instance this quote from the Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_fracturing_in_the_Un...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_fracturing_in_the_Un...
"A majority of the EPA's Scientific Advisory Board advised the EPA to scale back proposed toxity testing of fracking chemicals, and not pursue development of tracer chemicals to be added to frack treatments, because of time limitations. Chesapeake Energy agreed with the recommendation."

Conglomerations of power benefit people with power the most. That can be a positive or a negative depending on what policies those people want to pursue.
Not with Condi Rice on the board. I'm sure her appointment was strategic, but I've refused to use their services since then. My principles don't allow it.
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Impinj say the tag can perform reads with RF power levels down to -19.9 dBm and writes down to -14.1 dBm.

-19.9 dBm is about 10 uW (micro watts).
-14.1 dBm is about 38 uW.
The EU is a vast bureaucracy, not a "framework for interdependence." You don't need a limitless bureaucracy to prevent war, you need free and open commerce. Otto T. Mallery, a late 19th century liberal, in his “Economic Union and Enduring Peace” states, “If soldiers are not to cross international boundaries, goods must do so. Unless the Shackles can be dropped from trade, bombs will be dropped from the sky.” Are you suggesting that without a central leviathan like the EU, free trade and cooperation is untenable?
That's more of a payroll/tax question but from an immigration perspective there's no issue - no immigration requirement - with putting people on the payroll of a US company if they are living/working outside. They can be employees without US work authorization. The challenge is when they need to come to the US because once they step on US soil, US immigration law applies so it's problematic for them to enter as a visitor under ESTA.
> but you can't do that itself as a lambda. And I consider modifying the ast cheating :P

No disagreement, really depends whether you're a "rules" or "spirit" kind of person though.
Say I have a bunch of Wii games... how do I play them on my Mac?
I wouldn't agree to your analysis. The French financed the US Independence movement. The Founding Fathers looked to the French for inspiration when drafting the US Constitution. From before its independence until roughly the Vietnam War, France was arguably the closest ally to the United States.

The shared dream did, indeed, mean exterminating the current residents. The current residents were often described in news accounts from the time as inhuman savages, not unlike how Africans were viewed. While it's not something I'd want to put forward as key to our identity, it most certainly was key to our identity. Predating the Manifest Destiny, the people of what the United States saw themselves as the right, God-given rulers of the land. It's disgusting, and lead to one of the few "successful" genocides in human history. But it most certainly did unite the early United States of America.

Shared culture? Yes, there were many different religions in the early United States. However, they all had a united cause--they were fleeing religious persecution in their home country. This includes the Catholics (fleeing England), Lutherans, Calvinists, Quakers, and Unitarians. It is so much a part of US history that the US Constitution guarantees religious freedom as its first Article. Religious freedom is at the very heart of the founding of the United States, and it is a result of this realization that many American immigrants were fleeing religious persecution in their country of origin.

So, basically, the differences between the US and the EU are exactly as the GP mentioned. They were very strong allies to France--the US constitution even includes almost direct quotes from French writers of the time; France both financed the US war of independence and the US bailed out France from the Napoleanic wars by purchasing the Louisiana Purchase. And while they didn't share the same religion, many fled from religious persecution--it was such a common cause that it was enshrined as the first Article to the US Constitution. The US was, indeed, actively engaged in genocide. This, at least, is one thing the US shared with Europe. Europe, from at least the time of the Crusades, but continuing through the slave trade and the many genocides in the 1800s and 1900s, most certainly shares this thread in common with the United States. Congratulations on making the point so clearly that the two cases, in this fashion, were very similar.
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People complain about console exclusives all the time. It's kind of receded into the noise floor, but they're still there.
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Exclusivity has been horrible for consumers in the console market. Speaking for myself, I'd like to put my foot down and say "No, you aren't going to pull the same crap here". I personally really want VR, which means I want it done right. I fear that if it starts off on the wrong foot, it won't get anywhere.
I do not live in Europe, but this line struck me:
"force everyone to do better". Which I interpret as you can't make decisions on your own, big daddy government must make those decisions for you.
> 1000

That's about a fraction of the number of muslims killed by islamic terrorism. Here in Turkey we had about five or six major ISIS suicide-bomber cases in the past twelve months, e.g. 30-odd dead in Suruc, 100-odd in Ankara, and in Istanbul, 10-odd in Cemberlitas, 5-10 in Taksim, 6 in Vezneciler (the most recent). In the recent 10 years there have been many Hizbullah attacks (I recall the HSBC bombing, tho vaguely). And I don't even talk about what the ISIS is doing in the levant at the moment, we'll learn the numbers later. I'll just add: there are about 3 million syrians here in Turkey, a couple million in Lebanon, and a minute fraction of that in Europe. And all that we have today is thanks to post-WWI european imperialism and imposed borders in the middle east.
As a hacker news reader, you should understand the difference between business and personal bankruptcy. One is a business tool, the other is a statement against your financial capabilities.
Because it's so big, there's a lot capable engineers, but also deadwood. I think Watson has attracted many capable devs. There's definitely too many execs flailing around with buzzwords.

It's a great brand, it has potential. The problem is that a) it's being overhyped and b) yet again IBM doesn't understand that if you want it to be used for truly mind-blowing stuff, you have to make it easy for developers to use (or maybe they do, but suck at making it easy to use, see [1]). Then it generates its own, real hype.

For an example of this, I'd say MQ vs MQTT/RabbitMQ, DB2 vs Postgres et al., NoSQL, analytics, Bluemix vs Amazon/GCE/Heroku, Softlayer vs Amazon/Google/Azure. I get that selling to traditional, conservative, and very rich/big firms is a viable strategy - but one that's failing for e.g. Bluemix, Softlayer.

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[1] The Google search results for "Watson API" suck. The documentation sounds like it was written for managers (" Representational State Transfer (REST) Application Programming Interface (API) "). Stop getting me to use Bluemix, Amazon/GCE/Heroku work better. Just look at this mess: https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developerc...
No, free trade did that. The EU does not have a patent on free trade. In fact, they are pretty horrible at it.
Why can't you get the $$ through your home country?
> The EU is a vast bureaucracy, not a "framework for interdependence."

Frameworks for interdependence and vast bureaucracies aren't mutually exclusive (in fact, they often go together: the US federal government is both of those things, too.)
I should have put this in my opening comment but one way to deal with this is to "upgrade" the green card application - at the I-140 stage - after the PERM application is approved through the "exceptional ability" route. This is a reachable standard for many professionals and can transform an EB3 filing into an EB2 filing.
You put a period in that sentence where there wasn't one. I said "darker roasts are easy to achieve consistency with", and as you said, to help better facilitate the commodity approach to coffee.

Dark roasts are not more shelf stable than lighter roasts though. The oils in dark roasts become rancid substantially more quickly because a darker roast has expanded more, and therefore has more surface area to come in contact with air. Starbucks and other big companies say their coffee is shelf stable for about a year, but the reality is coffee peaks 24-72 hours after roasting. Burnt notes grossly outweigh staleness though. That with the benefits of consistency is great for bigger brands exactly for the other reasons you mention.

To add a bit more perspective, green unroasted coffee beans are considered fresh or in season for about 9 months. The more you get away from this in a roast profile the shorter the shelf life.
OpenEmu (multi-console emulator for OS X) is also really polished. No great technical write-ups though.
How's that? An American company doesn't charge VAT unless they have a EU subsidiary. UK would be closer to that treatment
A few cents. Still much more expensive than printing a barcode on the side of an item but can pay for itself through better inventory tracking.

See WalMart's use of RFID for some examples of how RFID is already used in the way you ask about. http://www.rfidjournal.com/articles/view?7753
This is described as a Tor Browser exploit -- a vulnerability in the browser that people normally use with Tor -- rather than a vulnerability in the design of Tor or a way of performing traffic correlations. This vulnerability can probably be fixed permanently for all users with a tiny software patch.
I can't help wondering if there's an effect here like the one that produces anti-vaccination attitudes. We're running out of people who have direct experience of a world before routine vaccination for childhood illnesses, and so the downside of taking the anti-vaccine stance simply isn't apparent to people until their own children die of preventable illness, at which point it's too late to help.

Similarly, I wonder if it's simply been long enough -- when the UK joined the European common market, today's pensioners were too young to have much if any experience of the business/labor world -- that the people of the UK are in a similar situation of not realizing just what a risk they're taking, or how bad the consequences can be, since they have no direct experience.
They posted a write-up of their development infrastructure last year - their system for regression testing rendering bugs is especially impressive.

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2015/01/25/making-developers-mo...
Yes the statistics suggest that older, less educated voted more for Leave.

But aren't those also the ones who have been hit hardest by Globalization? Isn't that the big divide we're seeing here: the fact that high skilled and well educated have greatly benefited from the EU. Meanwhile the working class have faced stagnation.

Leaving the EU gives up power, economic might, and so on, but I don't find it so surprising that so many would risk such a decision in hopes of breaking away from the status quo.