skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps not the most vulnerable in all senses, but you could make the case that they're the most vulnerable financially. It's no secret that a lot of smaller towns (and some big cities for that matter) balance their books on the backs of their lower income residents via traffic tickets and other such tiny violations. When you're check to check a $50 parking ticket can blow away 1/6 of your biweekly income without breaking a sweat, and for some that's all it takes to put them on the street.

While it's not a guarantee that whomever violated isn't just an entitled clown, I don't think it's a massive logical leap to assume people who live paycheck to paycheck might have a harder time feeding a meter.
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>why is blocking ads but still consuming the content okay?

The alternative is to turn off the adblocker and leave your computer vulnerable to malware. It's an "either me or them" scenario, except it's caused by the irresponsibility of the other side. Why take the risk for someone else's profit? There's nothing positive to gain from this and you can also add performance issues and actual problems with finding information or navigating the website.

>many of the excuses people make seem comical.

>Ads make pages slow

I suppose it was a while since you had the pleasure to browse a modern website on an older device.

>they are ugly to look at

Why is this not a valid point in your opinion? I find it that ugly, cringeworthy ads make it harder to focus on the actual content of the website, especially if these are animated.

>I don't agree with the business model

And I have the very rare occasion to effectively demonstrate my disagreement in a way that affects the company, unlike TV or printed press where I can do nothing about the ads served.
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>No, they shouldn't.

No, you're right. Someone like, say, you, should get to decide, preemptively, what a contract between two parties should or should not be allowed to include. Because you know better than the parties actually doing the negotiation, right? Why should we trust that the relevant parties know what's in their own interests?

>No, there aren't.

Yes, there are.
You're absolutely correct, but I really wish we could get away from this idea that anything on the Internet can be private. If it's on the Internet, it should be considered public, especially if it's on someone else's servers. Maybe some day this won't be true, but today in 2016, it is. Don't put private data on the Internet.
> (which would then allow the US rate to be lower for the same revenue)

While I'm sure it can be minimized, the US doesn't have a particularly low corporate income tax rate.

> And if they paid that tax in the US [...] how would that help Spain and France?

Companies like Google not having to pay tax on revenues outside the US is essentially a government subsidy. One that creates a "slush fund" for US companies to acquire their European competition. We're essentially in a trade war, just that Europe hasn't realized it.
The critical detail here is that this is neither free energy nor free momentum in this setup. Energy is pumped in, and some momentum is generated - that's incredibly boring and not at all something that should raise any skepticism. The question of what in the hell was being pushed against to convert that energy to momentum, on the other hand, is a really interesting question, but not one to deeply pursue until we're actually sure it's happening. Which seems like the cavity wasn't the interesting bit in the end. A shame and a bit boring after so much careful testing, but nothing to get worked up over.

And the experiments didn't make it obvious that the setup didn't work. I mean, I don't think anyone took the inventor's theoretical claims seriously, but the device did generate some small thrust in a difficult to explain way.

Besides, we know that space isn't nothing, so being able to tractor against whatever is there would be a rather intersting engineering find; physicists would then likely take the experiment and go "oh, there's a neat edge case in this system of equations that explains it". There are a lot of interesting edge cases left to find and engineer.
My problem is that whenever I encounter something that requires serious brain power, I start feeling sleepy. Anyone else feel this way?
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Interesting timing considering Twilio's IPO
You joke, but honestly all the web devs that learn a new framework annually will be pretty good at picking up new frameworks after five or ten years. Of course, most of the people who fret about the state of the javascript ecosystem are doing it needlessly from the sidelines and don't themselves ever learn any of the new stuff.
Hi, I agree that the USCIS website isn't super helpful when trying to figure out how the system really works.

I think that what Peter meant, was that these categories are often perceived as unreachable or too hard, when in fact they're a good option for high achievers, especially those who are proactive, motivated, resourceful, and detail-oriented.

You're right, it WOULD be helpful to see a yardstick, and some examples on a continuum of high-medium-low qualifications.

Here are a few news stories I've collected about real people getting their O-1 visas, and what the process was like. They give you at least a few snapshots of successful O-1 applicants.

http://goo.gl/ihb2U6

http://goo.gl/f2NDza

http://goo.gl/nXdX95

I also wrote a blog post that gives an overview of the evidence you need.
http://visabuilder.com/blog/escape-from-h1b-hell-5-things-im...

HTH
Swimming (try also cold water not pools).
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^ This. I don't bother with McDonald's Facebook but the theatre round our town that's somehow still operating doesn't have a website, they just have Facebook and Twitter. To small businesses those social networks can be a Godsend. Solid web presence that's stable and gets their name out.

Not to mention you have a bad experience at a mom and pop and post about it on twitter, it WILL get resolved if the owner has even the slightest amount of sense.
I'd go more with mistake. Properly measuring things can be hard.
Wow, didn't know about that, thank you.
India pricing is atleast twice the price of any decent SMS provider in the country at 0.0045 USD per transactional SMS.
> That's a lot of pixels to push at 90 Hz.

It is but considering the current pace of GPU development it's what 5-6 years away on the really high end and maybe 7-8 on the midrange $200 cards.

VR has already re-invigorated the competition between AMD/nVidia as they both want to get a foothold in the potential new market, interesting times.
Are you referring to something, or just asking "what if"?
None, obviously. If you don't have https, you don't even have the illusion of security.
The change is starting at places like 'The Deck', where they only sell ads that don't track anyone - no Javascript or Iframes.

http://decknetwork.net/privacy/
> Which is fine, but isn't an income tax and isn't a tax on Google.

It kind of is, though, isn't it? The online ad market is theoretically super efficient - if the market clearing price for an ad is $1, and then you add a 10% sales tax, it no longer makes sense to bid / pay $1 for that ad, knowing that you will be out of pocket $1.10. Instead you would bid about 90-91 cents, knowing that it would get marked up to $1 with tax. Net effect is that Google only makes 90 cents on that ad instead of a dollar, even though they aren't directly paying the tax.
..but why? How is this relevant to their business? I mean, I do understand that AWS and Amazon (the e-commerce) don't have anything in common, but why to focus on such a product that already exists (and that's even better)?
The Guardian was arguing that referendums were a bad idea back on the evening of the referendum, when it looked like Remain would likely win: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/23/refere... What's more, this latest article is an excerpt from a book that's probably been months if not years in the making.
if i want to read something that makes me laugh or gives me an escape for a few hours, who are you guys to tell me i'm wasting my time? mind your own damn business.
Given the other comments here and the longtime and blatant surveillance of Muslims by the FBI and NYPD, to name a few alphabet agencies, one would imagine that there is ample market opportunity in providing secure services and communications for Muslim clients. Might even have Islamic-appropriate functionality, such as allowing families to discuss potential marriages but forbidding the presumptive couple from communicating directly, or facilitating Islamic loans in a similar fashion to WeChat Pay.

Or maybe there is and I don't know about it since there aren't that many Muslims in my community or social circles. So if that's the case...success?
Well at least you have some friends that would take your teachings and run with it I on the other hand had lost contact with all the friends that would do that for various reasons.

Now I'm surrounded by people stuck in their ways that ignore everything that challenges their view and I have to say that is even more frustrating.

Sigh... I need surround myself with more interesting people.
If you take a look at the "Ask HN: Passive Income?" posts of the past you'll see a few people who crack 5 digit monthly recurring profits on small, niche SaaS businesses, and who have automated it quite well:

The guy who built this site:
https://www.s3stat.com/

Claims that he only puts a handful of hours a month in.

I'm not saying that I see a lot of these people, but I'd say a handful every year seem to pop up.
I'm getting this all the time, from 3 different accounts. My IP is from Brazil; I wonder if there's any geo relation...
English, Japanese, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Portugese, Chinese (zh-Hant), Chinese (zh), Polish, Swedish, Danish, Korean, Russain, Norwegian, Finnish, Turkish.

It's fun to ponder why they picked that order and why other popular languages didn't make the cut.
Having kids does not exclude you from having a social life. Even one night a week to go to a local meetup would be great for improving one's network.
RaspberryPi-powered AI beats human pilot in dogfight
Holy mackeral, that is cool. I really appreciate the "well, let's just try it" approach. I can't wait to see what happens when he launches his little satellite. If it shows positive results, lots of people will replicate it.

This is win-win: if it works awesome happens. If it fails then you're left with the experience of having built a little satellite!
> I love Haskell but I feel it attracts the most golfy code.

I don't feel like most Haskell code is like that and I've read a fair amount.

> E.g. Yes you apply the dot operator to itself but why would you?

I write a fair amount of Haskell and I despise seeing code that applies the dot operator to itself.

Another lambda rather than a double compose is almost always the answer.
Combining a password strength meter with password rules is the sort of thing where most implementations are going to get it wrong. It clutters up the UI a lot, to the point of being too complicated for "average" users to understand.

I prefer seeing one system or the other, but not both.

If you have rules, don't use a password strength meter. Rules are going to be a binary result - "yes the password is good enough", or "no, this password is not acceptable" - which is represented by showing which rule(s) were not respected by the user, or a green checkmark.

A password strength meter can be used when there are no rules enforced, to let the user decide for themselves whether that red progress bar showing a weak password is good enough for their needs. The meter doesn't need to be binary, with red/orange/yellow/green stages. The only reason I don't like password strength meters in general is that there is no standard across sites/services as to what constitutes a strong password. One site will show "password123" as weak, while another will say it's fairly strong. Each implementation has its own arbitrary algorithm that is likely not representative of "true strength".
Nice.

It strikes me that the example in the blog post is just a general search problem, eg google search could use this: if you type "Brexit" and you want a general overview of a lot of different things, vs you type a specific query and are looking for a specific page.
Ideally, I would incorporate this into my existing dashboards
Plivo seems to be substantially cheaper for US long codes at $0.0035: https://www.plivo.com/pricing/#!sms.

Poland is also cheaper at $0.022.

EDIT: Interestingly, Twilio seems to be cheaper on the phone number pricing slightly in Poland and substantially in Germany and France.
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If I were designing this system, the paths would look something like nytimes.com/e2be6560/d570/xxx-yyy-zzz(.jpeg/.js/.html/etc).
Maybe swimming? Possibly tennis or racquetball if you only use your other arm to hold the racquet. I'm not sure how easy it is to screw it up again, but if you can still handle running it seems like those two might be okay.
Free momentum WAS claimed. Hence the space engine applications talked about everywhere.

Momentum is conserved independently, it can not be created from energy without spilling some the other way (into whatever you're pushing against).

The vacuum is a translation invariant state so you can't push against it to get momentum either, but you can create particles out of it and then push against those. That's what electro magnetic thrusters do. They generate photons. The effect is just super tiny.
Spain, and other Euro countries, have "paper" laws. Everything needs to be printed out and stored to make raids like these easier on the government. It also keeps their tax authority from ever having to worry about modernizing and, frankly, makes it easier for the government to manufacture "irregularities."

I think the financial crisis in some of these EU countries have reached a point where they are politically paralyzed (can't move to the right due to strong leftism in the electorate) so they'll just find a way to milk multi-nationals to keep the lights on. This isn't a long term strategy and is a sign of some bad stuff coming up. I believe in the long run the welfare state is unaffordable and without a move to the right these countries will suffer, especially as business moves to more tax friendly jurisdictions and leaves these markets over government abuse, low sales, low margins, etc.

Currently, Spain has 25% unemployment and almost 50% for those under 25. The GDP is falling at the same rate it is for France and Italy. The sudden interest in these countries to raid multi-nationals for tax reasons is no coincidence here. France just raided Google's office last month. I suspect Italy is next.
the people that will dig through this for negative purposes will do it regardless of who makes jokes about it.

If my info (I'm not muslim) was leaked in a dump I wouldn't care if some intern in an office somewhere went through it to find something useful as long as long as a large fraction of it isn't published all together.
Likely their top internationalized user bases.
This'll be nice to receive SMS alerts on deployment or monitoring failures when using other AWS services. I don't think it compares to Twilio, since it seems to be more for alerts than for your main application use; you could cobble together something that creates a new SNS topic for each (user, phone number), but I'd doubt my ability to keep so many topics organized.
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Thanks very much for your input.

We looked at Drupal 8 a little and spoke to some people in the organization who are using it.

Our concerns are:

1. the need for full-scale developers when working with Drupal. We don't want to the site maintenance to be dependent on hard-core coders long-term, since that requires always hiring programmers rather than lower-level web developers.

2. Drupal upgrades. We've heard that it's very difficult to upgrade between Drupal versions, as many of the plugins/modules don't get upgraded, at least not right away. So you can be left with a Drupal site that can't be upgraded without losing functionality.

Any comments?
Exactly! Basically US companies have a massive tax advantage over local competitors in other countries. Every time you see another local bookshop closing down because it can't compete with Amazon's 'economies of scale', you should realise in fact a large part of its advantages are due to US tax repatriation laws.
I absolutely hated ZF1. ZF2 was completely different story though.
At some point, FaceBook, gmail, or some other instant messaging platform will be hacked and its data leaked, probably ruining lives of thousands of people.

I like iMessage for that reason -- Apple doesn't see my messages. I don't know what's happening with my email on Google's servers, or my instant messages with friends on chat apps for example, but I assume the data is stored for a long time, even if you delete it.

Just today there's news about a dating website being hacked and private messages leaked - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12008234 That's with a smaller site, it's only time before one of the big boys are leaked.
Well, I suppose anyone who is a debtor to the IRS is a criminal . In The Netherlands it isn't legal to use the full name of a criminal in any publication, so it could be that the EU is a bit different in the way it treats criminals.
> This is a serious security threat for many Muslims abroad.

It's not a threat. It's a wake up call. The less you can bury all that goes on under the rug the less easier it is to justify repressive, hypocritical cultures like the cultures around Islam.
Agree! Teaching programming is a notoriously difficult task than doing it.
Exactly. If you have money you're more likely to park in a garage to avoid the hassle of looking for a spot on the street, or maybe you took a cab or an Uber and didn't need to park to begin with.
My random advice from the internet:

1. Talk to your customers.

2. Iterate based on their feedback.

3. Don't intensionally make something kinda' suck.

Good luck.
I don't know. The pure fact I can't be sure I won't have NullPtrExceptions in java code would make it pretty hard to accept not writing those tests.
I already do all these things and can report that none of them are compatible with most corporate jobs. Creative critical thinking and novelty seeking especially disturb management.
> To have knowledge you should have to encode it into some language I think.

What we seem to do is to build concept 'maps' of relating information. The conscious mind has ready access to these maps and uses them to experience the world. I think because most people just aren't terribly intellectual, individual elements in these maps and the very structure of the maps reflect other people around them, what we call culture.

But when we think, we remix and match the map against itself, building up connections between concepts. The more you do this, the less it resembles other peoples'.

A person's definition of a word can change over time. The same basic concept can be represented in crazy-different ways in different people. What I think of when I hear 'Microsoft', is bound to be way different than what someone else thinks.
More likely is that people increasingly have "data-only" devices like tablets on their cellular accounts.
When the API is out, that is exactly what I plan on doing.
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Are you sleeping well? When I don't, things that require brainpower tend to make me feel sleepy. Maybe you have some form of apnea and you don't realize it. Could also be something like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
I feel exactly the same way. If whatever group you belong to would condemn you for choices you make about your own personal lifestyle, maybe it's that group that needs to be condemned. Islam is a threat to the rest of the world.
Those already have government programs to assist them making them less vulnerable than people who make enough money to be ineligible for assistance, but not enough to afford to live in an expensive city and pay predatory parking tickets.
Past discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10096735
Given the current climate of corruption, fraud and tax evasion in Spain, there is no problem in my book with publicly shaming offenders and fraudsters, specially when most of them are elite actors or millionaires.

The problem is that the names are being made public while they are "under investigation", which destroys the basic right of presumption of innocence, and (more importantly) they are being released by a Minister who belongs to an embattled and corrupt government, so it absolutely smells like the tax ministry is being used as a political weapon.
7 things I live by:

1. "Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak."

2. “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”

3. “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.

4. "When cold revenge is served, the dish is always very good"

5. "One man can cut four thousand throats in a single night, if he is continually running."

6. "Only a fool fights in a house that continues to burn."

7. "Pity the warrior that kills all his enemies!"
When I did programmatic SMS for a project ~10 years ago, I just used SMTP and the email equivalent of the SMS address. I haven't done similar projects since then, so I'm curious if there is some reason that approach would no longer work.
I assume you mean Jim Norton (and Marcella Riordan):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-apGqB98RI
That only works if you know the carrier (as every carrier has a different email address), and I imagine it doesn't work internationally.
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How does this game teach artificial intelligence? I can't see that.
We updated the link to the translated version of the article. If someone can suggest a good English article, we can update it again.
That thought is so misguided it doesn't even warrant a rebuttal.
Google Calendar became self-aware today at 6:10am. The singularity is upon us.
>10x more in monthly fees

The smallest droplet is 5 dollars a month, do you pay 50 cents a month for your shared hosting?

>100x more in time

Have you even looked into DO or are you just making assumptions? You can create a ton of apps with one click (One-click apps) and install a full stack with WordPress, Drupal, Django, and much, much more, and it just works. If anything, it's the same amount of effort as some cPanel shared hosting.
>I still have the floppies, though I very much doubt if they'd read any more

I think you might be surprised. Those low-density floppies were remarkably DURABLE.

I have a whole pile of 8" and 5.25" floppies from the late 1970s / early 80s and even after decades of storage in less-than-ideal circumstances nearly all of them worked the last time I fed them to a TRS80 or my old Apple ][ about 5 years ago. (I was just as surprised the computer power supplies were still functional after this time, as electrolytic caps aren't exactly known for their longevity).

Looking at code written when I was 12 is equal parts bemusement and cringe. Text adventures, BBS (bulletin board systems), Video game copies of arcade hits (space invaders in Basic. Donkey Kong in 6502 Assembly, A half-written tempest clone...) all are terrible judged by today's standards, but I thought they were amazing at the time.

Speaking of amazement, I have no idea how I was able to accomplish anything without a search function, autocomplete, or google search. Just a blinking block in a text editor.