skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who lives outside of the US: your political and economic system is at best illogical, and at worst incomprehensibly clueless.

Your government spends billions of dollars on wildly unsuccessful defense projects while at the same time arguing the there's no way to deal with poverty, access to education, homelessness, etc. By cutting back on defence spending, the US could still remain the most powerful military nation in the world and guarantee that every citizen gets a quality education and spends their lives healthy and well maintained. Instead, you insist on going trillions of dollars in debt and then complaining that the poor aren't paying their fair share while the people with so much wealth that it's literally impossible to comprehend use every loophole in the book to avoid paying anything at all. Warren Buffet himself has commented on how he pays less tax than his secretary does.

Meanwhile, your entire government is bought and run by corporations and lobby groups; because money runs the campaigns and the person with the most money wins, elected officials spend a huge portion of their time "in office" not serving their country, their electorate, or even their benefactors, in favour of travelling around, having meetings and dinners and fundraisers, so that they can ensure they get elected again. If you court the right interests then not only will they help pay for you to get re-elected over and over, when you're done with public life they'll offer you a consultancy position where you can make further millions for years convincing your old friends who are still in office to vote the way you want them to because you're old friends.

The entire US system, is, to much of the rest of the world, a farce made manifest. Many of us fail to understand how your populace even got into such ridiculous circumstances, let alone continues to tolerate them year after year.

To claim that someone overseas should pay thousands of euros to tell the US government that they owe no tax while millionaires are using fully legal loopholes that their rich congressional friends refuse to close to shirk millions of dollars of taxes is patently ridiculous.

Fix your system to stop exploiting the poor and giving rights, privileges, and power to the rich elite and you can claim that your system is the envy of the world.

And as for 'how it got that way'? Years and years of economic growth on the backs of slaves imported from Africa certainly helped. Being able to bootstrap your economy by cutting out the business owner's largest expense is certainly an effective way of getting ahead.
Because some animals are more equal than others.
I still probably will stick with Ubuntu as my main system.

I have Windows 10 installed on a separate drive for when I want to play games but even then, I have to cater to Windows. Make sure to save constantly because sometimes Windows decides it is too much and causes my graphics card to flip. And I also have to plug my headphones in or else I get static-y mono sound.

Admittedly I could probably go buy "For Windows" headphones and figure out what is going wrong with the graphics card... but I shouldn't have to. We are talking about the latest operating system whose ancestors have been dominant across the world for decades, developed by one of the largest companies in the world. How are they getting it wrong?
See my sister reply, it's definitely not twice as much now (but was 18 months ago), but is still higher. (For example going from 2GB to 5GB in 2014 would cost you $20 more, and now costs $30 more).
I'm not a huge fan of exclusives either, but (technical reasons aside) how is your example different?
I think it could use improvement. Look at https://api.slack.com/methods/chat.postMessage and explain how "as_user" makes any sense. And it gets more convoluted depending on other parameters used (IM channels, etc.)

Also, why can't I use a secret key with my basic postMessage script? I have to navigate OAuth2 just to make a post? Argh the pain!
That's one of the hopes of Servo: https://github.com/servo/servo
Haven't read all the comments here, but isn't it possible or even likely that it's Remain voters having an "oh shit what next" moment that are Googling the EU and the implications of leaving, as opposed to ignorant abstainers and Leave voters checking up on the consequences of their vote after the fact?

The article doesn't actually take a position, but the tenor of the viral social media chatter seems to assume the latter case.
I doubt it :

@rob_pike

Caches are bugs waiting to happen.

22 Mar 2014

https://twitter.com/rob_pike/status/447202124753952768
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> Did you read the whole article?

No, about 1/3 to 1/2.

I agree that racism was a huge part, I doubt they would have lynched a white person.

But despite that, them stopping after hearing a declaration that the black person was innocent just amazes me, it doesn't fit into my understanding of lynching which I always associated with just simple hate, i.e. "grab any handy black person and kill them".
IANAL. I have been on TN status a couple of times as well as H1-B. Pertinent facts: TN is strictly temporary; you are not allowed to have immigrant intent. H1-B, while temporary, allows you to have immigrant intent. So, the situation as I understand it is:

You can apply for a green card while on TN. While your application is pending, there is no problem. If you apply for advance parole, there should be no problem leaving and re-entering the country. If the application is approved, well, you are on your way to a green card. However, if your application is declined for any reason, you have a problem. You've shown immigrant intent by applying for the green card and that is incompatible with your TN status. For this reason (the possibility of being declined), it is typical to convert to H1-B first. Because H1-B allows "dual-intent," it remains valid even if you're green card application fails.

TLDR: you can apply for a green card while on a TN, but it is risky if you're application gets declined.

Your current employer should hopefully be willing to sponsor you for a H1-B and ultimately a green card. If not, you might wonder why not.
Arizona voters approved an initiative in 1996 to keep low-level drug criminals out of jail. I believe this was the first effort to tone down the war on drugs.

http://staugustine.com/stories/102100/nat_1021000023.shtml#....
No. I'm not obligated to subscribe to your politics, and I won't coerce or bully others, either.

Programmers are not the personal army of any social cause.

I work hard to accurately model engineering problems, and apply consistent ethics in doing so. If that aligns with your definition of "combating prejudice", great for you, but I need the latitude to critically analyze technical problems without the threat of bullying and shaming for wrong-think.

If I need to understand how surnames work across cultures, understand how time works across calendar systems, or understand what "marriage" means to the people getting married, then that's what I'll do.

If I need to support non-binary 'gender' selections because that's what users want, that's what I'll do. On the other hand, if I need to support binary gender for the purposes of simplified data analysis under the assumption of two biological genders with a low probability of intersex individuals, that's what I'll do, too -- politely, and without rancor, and with all the respect for others I can muster.
I wonder if several hundred people like youself had anything to do with their "express" abandonment.
The whole thing needs to be refactored.
You just say that because you never played a single Super NES RPG.
Does it go the other way? Are there people who spend their life as good (a more or less model citizen) becoming bad? Perhaps not, because it seems more natural for humans to want to contribute, so even criminals may have a voice in them urging them to do better. But humans do have thoughts of envy, lust, self-righteousness and unfairness that can whittle away the self control and cause them to cross over and, let's say, murder someone in the first degree.

I'd propose that a complete set of research would learn that there are some personality traits that are malleable and there are some that are not. Moreover, those two sets would not be the same for everyone, and there is likely a great deal of diversity.
The Bloomberg OpenFIGI API is very clean.

https://www.openfigi.com/api
Good question.

A while ago, i had an idea for a "tidal" collector. If you look at what a thread in a typical server application is doing, it's in a loop where it picks up some task (a network request, a job from a queue, etc), then goes and does a load of work on it. If you plot at the stack depth over successive loops, you should see a sort of rising and falling tide - low tide when the task is picked up, and high tide during processing. Along with that rising and falling tide, you should get a rising and falling volume of live objects. Because garbage collection has a cost proportional to the number of live objects, for best efficiency, you want to collect when there are the fewest live objects. Which should be low tide.

To make use of this idea (which might be false, but at least sounds plausible), you'd need two things: a layout where each thread has its own memory (at least, enough of its own memory to hold all the objects that escape eden but become garbage during a request cycle; you might want a shared old generation), and some magic device which watches the stack depth and identifies the moment of low tide.

G1 might provide the right layout. I think every thread gets its own eden region; if you could tweak it so that each one promotes into its own survivor regions, and then be able to find the survivor regions for a given thread, you just need to be able to decide when is the right time to collect. You might be able to do that on the back of the dynamic profiling infrastructure already in the JVM; you would want to sample each thread every now and then to identify the method, even the particular line of code, where low tide happens, and then compile in a GC trigger there.

I am a humble application programmer, so the only work i ever did on this idea was maybe telling people about it on newsgroups or forums (hi everybody!). I'd be amazed if nobody else has thought of it. But i've never heard of anyone trying it. Perhaps it's just a terrible idea.

The proposed Go design sounds really quite like this. With a huge advantage: because Go tends to use these fire-and-forget goroutines, the problem of identifying low tide goes away, and you can just collect when the goroutine dies.
The use of "I" vs "we" has been studied by a lot of people in a lot of different contexts, and intelligent people have arrived at very different conclusions. So I have no idea what a complete lack of attribution means, but I'm leaning towards it being an extreme version of "we". I believe to be an avoidance of personal responsibility and a hamfisted attempt at emotional manipulation, because it has absolutely no influence over logically guided decision making.
EXCEPT for the fact they decided to use .NET date formats throughout their API rather than the more traditional ISO date formats. (I do like that they sheepishly apologised for this in their API docs).

Also, they are usually a few months behind releasing API coverage of new features and modules.

Also, it is a bit fiddly having to specify a 'scope' parameter when authenticating yourself for the API otherwise you won't be able to access certain data.

Lastly, I don't like the way there is almost a separate API for the AU and US version of Payroll. I get that they are fairly different beasts, and that they are actually third party systems that have been 'integrated' in, but I wish they had more commonality.
You want to exercise rights without fully committing?
A Bug in Chrome Makes It Easy to Pirate Movies
There's a difference between something being "offensive" because it's incorrect, and being "incorrect" because it's offensive.

Our job is to be correct. If we avoid offense in the process, great.
> If you were born in the US, then you benefitted. If you are a US citizen and you get in trouble somewhere on earth, the US government will come to your aid.

I don't know why Americans believe this fairy tale. It's simply not true. Case in point: Yemen, last year. American citizens were abandoned by State[1], only to be rescued by India[2]. What's the point of the taxes, again?

[1] http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/world/article24...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/04/08...
This would be worth something ... if it was true. See this, for example: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/world/article24...
I could have become a US citizen long back but I have avoided taking that citizenship for the simple reason that I don't want to expose myself to American Tax Terrorism.
I wouldn't exactly say that the system has let Kim off at all. Sure, he hasn't spent any serious time in jail, but it's just because the U.S. hasn't been able to get him extradited. In fact they've pursued him so aggressively that it's helped his fight against extradition.
Innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
The sophisticated type checker, the borrow checker, and the LLVM backend were all cited in the article and are all things Rust has that Go doesn't.
I suspect you will find that your enjoyment of self harm is not shared by most Germans.

Not to punish the UK, but to firmly establish the principle that leaving the EU is painful

Do you realise how crazy you people sound? "There's no punishment for leaving the Mafia, you just have to understand the principle that it will be as painful as possible".

The EU has warped into an ideological disease that sees European people's turned against one another by an absolutist religion that sees diversity as a flaw to be fixed and believes its own hype about stopping wars.

The EU does nothing to stop war. If turning Europe into a single country could stop war, there'd be no civil wars, but today the only wars are civil wars.
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How come Paris has a "green" air quality at all!
Aziz Ansari: Why Trump Makes Me Scared for My Family
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>"I had a lot of respect for Draper but this is so disappointing."

Didn't you ever read Founders at Work and what DFJ did to the Hotmail guys?
I love the JSON+REST API talk by their CTO - https://youtu.be/hdSrT4yjS1g
Another bon mot from Rob:

My late friend Alain Fournier once told me that he
considered the lowest form of academic work to be
taxonomy. And you know what? Type hierarchies are
just taxonomy.

Monday, June 25, 2012
https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponenti...

Possibly Mr. Fournier meant 'foundational' by "lowest". If not, he may wish to revisit the foundational work performed by "lowly" academics such as a Mr. Darwin in the 19th century.

[p.s. we need to alert the CPU designers that they have been cluelessly using caches all these years. If only they had higher guidance from an infallible mind..]
I've got a 3rd-hand Halliburton case from the 60s(?) and love it. The main issue is that it really freaks out flight attendants on international flights, because everyone knows that you put bombs in aluminum briefcases.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidental_American

Yep, looks like that's true. Seems like US hospitals need lawyers and accountants on staff to explain the liabilities a new born will have later in life and you guys need to have a law that allows parents to officially reject citizenship on behalf of a new born.
Anything scaffolded by rails.
"the murder apparently was not nearly seen as being as heavy"

Sort of like how Hollywood can make a movie in which people fight with fists, knives, guns, lasers, tanks, airplanes and ships, and the audience sees scene after scene full of dead mangled bodies, and the movie can still get a PG-13 rating. But one scene of two grown adults engaging in consensual sexual activity, and the movie is automatically an R or worse.
Still, will never buy from them again.
There are now wheels (binary distributions of Python modules) of numpy, scipy, and scikit-learn for both Linux and Mac OS X, so it should just be a matter of `virtualenv /tmp/v` (or wherever), `source /tmp/v/bin/activate`, `pip install -U pip` to make sure your pip is new enough to handle wheels, and `pip install numpy scipy scikit-learn`. Nothing gets built from source. Unfortunately the same can't (yet) be said for pandas; `pip install pandas` at this point will try to compile it.

Actually acquiring virtualenv on OS X seems not to be super straightforward, especially if you want to use the system Python interpreter. The best option seems to be to `brew install python`, and then `pip install virtualenv`. Or download Python from python.org, and maybe get Python 3 while you're at it.
Yes, I was awarded 1st place 3 editions back in SpaceApps. I have no idea if 2 seconds = 1 first for the relevant administration though.
The Hilariously Terrible Website of Comodo's CEO, Melih Abdulhayoglu
If you are a subscription-paying member of a country club and you renounce your membership, do you expect to use their facilities for free thereafter? No. You will pay a fair price - if they choose to allow you onto the property in the first place.
> If the Article 50 was not sent today, the very day after the Leave result, there is a strong chance it will never be sent.

https://twitter.com/DavidAllenGreen/status/74644174247232307...
That's dodging the issue though... the issue was that relentless is apparently masculine. What if they say the same thing about dauntless?

I don't think relentless has to be as mindless as you say. Someone who gets in the zone and attacks a hard problem 20 different ways until they solve it is relentless in my books.
Unless we see a statement from ISRG or LetsEncrypt, I'm going to assume "collaboration" means capitulation in the face of Internet pitchforks :)
I don't think there is a visa for something as short as a 6-month contract. The closest viable option I can think of is a "New Office" L-1 (intra-company transfer) visa. You'd have to open a new office in the US, and this is a longer term visa (5- or 7- years).

It's also relatively hard to get. You'll need the help of an immigration law firm to prepare the documentation needed to apply for the visa. The application process alone could take 6 months.

Also, just FYI: coming here as a visitor (on VWP/ESTA or the B-2 visa), then working (or doing a contract) here without permission would be violation of U.S. immigration laws, and can get you deported and effectively banned.
I'm not going to get into a debate if you're going to appeal to the “actual crime rate” vs the “racially biased arrest rate”. There's not enough data to know, and too many interacting variables. It's enough for me to accept that blacks represent a disproportional amount of inmates and that black neighborhoods are frequently stuck in poverty cycles. I think the solution actually has nothing to do with correcting variables for race or anything of the sort; rather, help people—regardless of race—out of poverty and the statistics will level out. I'm extremely skeptical that arrest “bias” is skin color related.

Also, citation needed for “studies have found that arrests are racially biased”. That is entirely too hard to measure. Well, it's not that I doubt such studies exist, I simply doubt they're valid in any way, and there are probably other studies with the opposite conclusion.
I'm in China right now... 1GB of prepaid 4G costs about $0.40. Crazy.
There is an interesting story here. More next week probably.
Hotspots for crime? Or hotspots for arrests?
According to the linked page, that would be yes :-)
Here's how you write such a deal:

"As of date X, all existing EU regulations remain in force. Changes to UK law that overlap with existing areas of EU regulation will result in a notification to the Commission".

Done. There is no need to 'replace' detailed regulation on a thousand topics when, as you observe, it is already implemented in UK law.
Article 50 isn't the only way
Not OP but yes they can start it on OPT.
Is Ethereum now censoring dissent?
I recently posted a comment on https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/06/24/dao-wars-youre-voice-soft-fork-dilemma/. This is the comment:

I think you should clarify the 'voting' process. You are claiming that this protocol can be used to 'satisfy all community members equally'. But isn't it really based on mining power, just like any other decision based on mining? In other words, 51% of the mining power decides the fate of everyone? According to etherchain.org, the top 3 miners have 27.3 + 16.7 + 11.4 = 55.4%. So in reality, those 3 mining pools could collude to decide the outcome regardless of what all the other miners do.

If the above analysis is correct, then it's disingenuous at best to try to frame this 'vote' as some kind of egalitarian process. It's not.

On another note, the conflict of interest between Ethereum and the DAO is disturbing. Everyone on the Ethereum Foundation should disclose their position in the DAO. At this point, Ethereum looks no better than any crony capitalist "good ol' boy" network.

It was deleted. The comment by Bubba Pumps was posted after.

Did I hit a nerve?
Thank you! I'll give that a whirl.
It's more to do with people being shamed into not publicly stating their real intention to vote. This will happen in USA with Trump again.
I am really tired of this pro-pangada. It is so far from truth but one google search away from factcheck.

Majority of the Federal government expenditure goes into Military/Social Security/Medicare. All of which can be substantially reduced. These three components cover more than 70% of total Federal spending.

Out of this Medicare can be seen as taxing current generation to pay for the older generation. Almost all debt can be seen as taxation on future generation.

Also, I totally don't understand "public schools" arguments. Public schools in USA are the worst government institutions ever. Not only I paid taxes for this rubbish but now I have to send my kids to private schools paying full fees because the local public school is not differential from a mental hospital.
Even if it was flush, people are so used to seeing ones that stick out it wouldn't matter. I wonder if it's possible to demagnetize certain cards so they only use chips.
With sentences like 'How is that making internet safer???"' I think a simpler explanation would be that he's Posting On Forums While Drunk.
Alright, well, until it's possible to opt out of the phone number requirement, I'll probably not be using B2.

Thanks again for the info!
This is part of the reason I moved all my funds from my Indian account to my father and mother's account just because I dont want to feel 10 other forms.
But the EU is still the largest or second largest market in the world (depending on the source).
There's a huge difference between the chain of custody and the methods used to extract information.

If I'm allowed to use a classified system to extract information (say from an encrypted drive) I could really just be creating that information instead. The defendant can't or won't decrypt the drive so they can't dispute the claim.
Stability has a cost. And that cost is well worth bearing.
I'm sorry, but what does "flush" mean here? I only know it in the context of toilets and computer caches. (I'm not a native speaker.)

Looking it up, you might mean it glows in some color?
For whatever it's worth, the majority of Londoners voted remain.
Existing laws were already signed in. It's only new laws/changes that'd have to be implemented.

In fact, nothing stops the UK following the EU laws that it wants to afterwards as well.