skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The CIA has overthrown and installed numerous governments

And it has come at the cost of half the world hating our guts, many refusing to do business with us and constant erosion of trusting United States institutions and companies.

There are many debts to counter and credits the CIA has gained. It would be very difficult to do the math, but just having a few more stable democracies would likely have made us all richer by enabling greater trade.
There is no graph of speaker,conference edges that crosses an ocean in which this isn't an issue. Yes: it can be a bitch to get into the US to speak, even at serious academic conferences. I have friends who've been turned away at the border. But the same goes for US->EU, US->UK, US->JP, JP->EU, and even US->CA in one case I'm familiar with.

Major international border crossings just suck a lot.
I plan to implement downvoting but I'm not sure of the logic involved (I don't have enough karma to test it myself). Probably I'll add it to a beta channel and let users help test it.

Performance can be laggy and is something I'm trying to improve.
If America were a year it would be out for all of December.
God I hate helm. Buggy piece of shit
TheOatmeal / Matthew Inman just addressed this, far better than I'd expected, in a comic:

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/unhappy

That might resonate with you.

It's based on an essay by Augusten Burroughs at the Wall Street Journal, and shares much with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's concept of "flow", from the book of the same name.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023047466045773798...

http://www.worldcat.org/title/flow-the-psychology-of-optimal...
We say three years plus for senior engineer. We have people with that experience who are fantastic software engineers and completely deserve the title. You don't need 15+ years of experience to be a good engineer, but it helps.
It's already on my list, just didn't have time to do it yet.
Why can't FB do like Flickr and deploy a system where people self classify their content and then subscribers can set whether they want all content or safe content as well as provide the "take me back to the kittens" if an image offends...
I thought Lisp was the best language though, you're telling me it's the worst? :-p
These articles never mention the elephant in the room, AWS.

How many containers are running on Elastic Beanstalk and ECS?

I'd wager magnitudes more are running containers by reading the docs and clicking around than those that mastering the cutting edge challenges getting running on Mesos, Kube or Swarm.

Another blind spot is Heroku. Every day new businesses spin up containers with a 'git push Heroku master' and don't even know about it.

All these providers, platforms and tools have their place.

I simply don't think the "winning the war" talk is accurate or constructive.

Disclaimer: I worked on the container systems at Heroku and now manage 100s of production ECS clusters at Convox.
So correct, then.
I'm aware of the issue and trying to find a way to mitigate it.
The thing to remember is that, regardless of the views of any particular constituent of the the USA, at the federal level the country is downright hysterical about all sorts of things, including drugs.
I get it, we like 3D printers, but this isn't a good use of them at all.

This doesn't have the same accessibility and is no better than just using a damn syringe. In fact, this is plain stupid and lack of understanding the requirements that the EpiPen is intended to fill.

Take news story. Apply 3D printer. Success?! No, just stop.
relevant: http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2014/04/26/free-speech-and-the...
Could you explain what a rescue acquisition is? I am not familiar with this term?
I think you're being paranoid. Unless your product is aligned against US interests (or you're Middle Eastern), no border guard is going to care about a French national going to a conference. You're not impersonating someone by using a pseudonym, nor are you committing a crime against US interests. The TSA is obnoxious but ineffective. No one is going to detain you over your pornography unless they want to detain you anyway, and there's no clear reason why that would be the case.
previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9803043

392 comments.

Somewhat debunked since:

https://theaviationist.com/2016/03/01/heres-what-ive-learned...
Yes, the labour involved in organising the factory to produce cars is an act, and worth rewarding, but then so is managing a rental property.

What I'm talking about simply owning the factory (or perhaps a better example is owning a car company, without managing it yourself).

I'm familiar with Georgism, but I had a similar confusion about land value tax. I just don't see what's so special about land compared to capital goods. I'd rather have a general wealth tax.
Neoliberal ideology makes the claim that prison is necessary to dissuade working class people from committing crimes. Whereas embarrassment and the tort system is sufficient for dissuading the management classes. Since we live in a neoliberal system it stands that this guy will go to jail and his bosses will perhaps pay fines.
Also,

> Voting isn't some fuzzy cost-free civic participation ritual

Yes. It literally is.
My second protest about posting clickbait titles. Please don't.
This is a simple duty arbitrage play.

For anyone wondering what he actually did wrong, there are a few key points to note. Aluminum (and all materials, really) is exported and imported and duties are paid on the basis of the HS code and (if there is a trade agreement to be taken advantage of) certificates of origin (COO) along with the usual shipping docs.

China is inclined to tax exports of primary aluminum because aluminum is power intensive to produce. Thus, exporting raw aluminum ingots whose production has been state subsidized is basically akin to exporting (even giving away!) power. However, China relaxed export duties on certain 'finished' aluminum products. This opened up a loophole where Chinese companies could make 'finished aluminum products' which are classified under a different HS code than primary aluminum and ship it out of the country, duty free. In reality, this meant that they sloppily made it into whatever shape wasn't ingots or T bars rather than into any concretely useful shapes.

These 'finished' products then made their way out to places like Mexico and more recently Vietnam. Since they were still carrying Chinese COOs, they couldn't be directly re-exported to the US (or any other country without a FTA with China). They needed to be remelted/recycled into 'raw aluminum' and given a new COO (or for the less scrupulous given a fake COO...), hence the need for the Mexico factory.

So...if cost to ship to Mexico + cost to extrude and remelt < difference in Chinese VS Western manufacturing costs + duties on primary aluminum ... this is a profitable (and legal) trade!
> No, the choice to produce cars is not nothing. It's an act; owning land ( as opposed to buying it ) is not an act.

The choice to produce cars seems analogous to the choice to buy land.

Once that choice is implemented, owning a factory (or share of a factory) seems no more and no less active nor noble than owning a piece of land.
It supports Konami code as well :)
Overcast trying ads, dark theme now free
Unlikely to happen. It's one of the few places that phones can differentiate themselves so manufacturers are unlikely to want to lose that option to tinker with.
> "so...I now have two shield tablets"

One of each can explode any time and cause injuries to people around it. Totally worth $150...
Facebook fact-check: from Hillary's health to 9/11, the latest lies we read
We've had a navy since 1775.
I agree that in a world where authorities have such individual power over people, lying is a good idea. But there's no law of nature that says we need to have authorities like that. There are plenty of ways to limit people in positions of power. So let's focus on how we can fix the system instead of justifying why the honest people who are caught up in it deserve what they get.
Looks beautiful!

We made some improvements to the way theme colors work [1] so you’ll want to upgrade your version to take advantage of that. Thanks so much for using EmbedBox! If you have any feedback on the integration process we’d really appreciate it.

[1]: https://git.io/viR8p
git add .

Ugh, no, never do this, never recommend to users to BLINDLY ADD ALL THE CHANGES FROM THE WORKING COPY. I honestly can't think of any worse git usage than this.

Add the single change you missed, or even better, `git add -p`, to add chunks manually.
Sorry I had them on instagram already and didn't think it would be an issue if I used their embed code.
"This week, the company insisted it is a “neutral” platform that needs no editors, even while it censored art, spread false news and deleted a post by Norway’s prime minister because it included a Pulitzer-winning photo from the Vietnam war."

Interesting, probably more transparent example of what happens in print/tv media.
> Koh Dong-jin, chief of Samsung Electronics’ handset division, said on Sept. 2 that the Galaxy 7 incidents were caused by a flaw in the battery cell and had nothing to do with the phone itself.

So, the article answers that.
Making new acquaintances is useless if nobody from your 30km radius is on the network or if it is hard to meet people inside this radius. Friendships decay really fast with distance, especially when there is no real strong bond.

As much as I am disgusted by Facebook right now, they do one thing right -- they make it fairly easy to connect to friends of friends and people that are in your social circles but you don't know them yet. (A large part is the amount of data they have, along with a good friend suggestion system.)

I'm pretty much invisible on Diaspora -- there is no way I can meet new friends from my area unless I start posting a lot with tags like #cityname and #countryname, and even then it all hinges on at least somebody being on the same server -- if they are on a different one, the tagged posts will not get there.
Government Spyware Infects a Computer in This Leaked Demo Video
Heh, well, depends on whether or not the material was hedged in and how much flat price risk he took. He may very well have caught the market at a good time and storage/carry costs in Mexico should be low.
Really cool, thanks for sharing. Any idea how much data this can ingest before the rendering gets slow? I know horsepower on the client will vary, and the definition of slow is subjective, but just ballpark. Or is that an exercise for the reader?
They're going to build ladders with it!
Yep, make it clear the employees have to either break the law or be fired.

See recent Wells Fargo scandal
this is a highly misleading comparison. something slightly more accurate (although this time somewhat more hg-biased):

$ time taskset -c 2 hg grep CUDA >/dev/null
taskset -c 2 hg grep CUDA > /dev/null 25.04s user 0.46s system 99% cpu 25.514 total

$ time taskset -c 2 sh -c 'git grep --cached -l CUDA | xargs -n 1 git blame >/dev/null'
taskset -c 2 sh -c 4.85s user 0.13s system 97% cpu 5.097 total
He is not: http://io9.gizmodo.com/5497556/sf-author-peter-watts-found-g... or http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=1186. Anyone, anywhere can be attacked by U.S. border "guards" for any reason, including white Canadians. It is a nearly law-free zone.
Mercurial was a lot harder to understand for me, and had no staging index -- stuff is committed directly. I found that this made it incredibly hard to use, especially coming from git.
Thank you for that link because this quote is so good!

"It was becoming clear to me that Dr. Forsythe and Dr. Harroit wanted a B5000. But the best that Burroughs would offer was about a 40% discount. IBM was offering them the world to take an IBM 7090. Finally, IBM said that they would give Stanford the 7090 for free plus a gift of $900000 that could be used to build a new computer center. Stanford had a Burroughs 220 and IBM was determined to dislodge us. Stanford accepted the offer and used $400000 to build the computer center and $500000 to buy a B5000. So IBM had unwittingly paid Stanford to buy a B5000, much to their dismay. "

First, a nice illustration of shady practices that get shoddy tech to dominant market share. Windows had its share, too. Second, a rare illustration of it backfiring in an epic way. That the inferior, pretend-to-be-first, mainframe company bought them The Real Deal by mistake is just hard to top. It's better than when Microsoft was called out on NT Server's alleged superiority over AS/400's by pointing out they ran their whole business on an AS/400. These moments just don't happen enough.

The Fortran vs Algol vs people who open mail moment was great, too.
How can you loathe Krokodil without coming to loathe it?
You have to try it first to be sure...
If families are already living in too-small housing arrangements like studio apartments, wouldn't this be because they could not afford larger accommodations? This is actually a sign that more housing needs to be build at the high and the low end.

The article is not saying "build micro-apartments instead of normal ones". It is saying "make it possible to build micro-apartments alongside normal ones".
... I like it ...
You got to see the one linked in the parent to the comment below. I'm linking the comment since it has the highlight:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12466890
Okay sorry I rushed to judgement. We're in the same boat then. Except I just lost a job and am on the verge of having to dip into savings for the first time ever. Very disturbing feeling. Immediately changes a lot of opinions.
In the book he notes that it started out as a derogatory term. Can't find the quote in the book but I found this

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/magazine/16FOB-OnLanguage-...

"When I asked Derman recently about his early years in finance, he said that at first he felt that quant, like rocket scientist before it, was largely a derogatory put-down for the brainy newcomers, many of them foreign-born: 'two-thirds pejorative, one-third grudging praise,' by his calculation."
If you google "internet friendly supreme court justices" you get some results but its very clear why we're seeing harsher sentences for computer crimes than rape or murder in the US.

While google and facebook are courting the Obama administration on K street the general public is seeing precedent set in lower courts like, "Zuckerberg V. Im-not-touching-you" making headlines and setting the tone for international policy (fucking crazy)

While programs written by humans run roughshod over our rights we're arming them. We're driving them.

I still have the picture of my mother arm in arm with Sandra Day O'connor full of pride.

Where's our pride? Where is our classroom? Where is our law?

While Google aims to eradicate Flash from the internet it aught to memorialize Hypercard and the teachers that reached out to students who were more interested in stop motion animation or gaming than the details of a proprietary version of ECMA script. It aught to reach out to those children it yet has time to influence in every school and small town. Every Iowan, every Minneapolitan, every Fairfax and Mclean son of a nobody in a nobody town and replace the infection with inflection. It aught to remember how much money it spends on javascript testing.
this was to address a concern someone had that a CC makes it hard for them to manage their finances. So the idea is to make the CC basically a proxy for their checkbook, so they could get the benefits of cash/checking in contexts where a card was required -- an avoid getting screwed by the debit card rules.
The biggest differences for me are:

* Network effect. Almost any dev can use git, so it's our "common language".
* Staging area. Mercurial doesn't have one, which I find is enough to make me never look back.
It's so if they have a good reason to investigate you enough, and any of these is false, they can charge you with perjury even if they can't get anything else to stick.
Congrats to Ali. Been very impressed with Chariot's mastery of nitty gritty business & logistics fundamentals. That sounds like it should be obvious, but Leap and other competitors couldn't so much as file the right permits, let alone start what amounted to their own public transit network and get regular ridership. This is a hard, low margin, business to get right in a crowded space, and Ali managed to scale it to 40k+ riders per month and that's awesome. Well deserved!
I'd personally agree with the view that small, simple life-forms which prey on humanity -- or on other large, complex organisms -- can be destroyed with impunity.

The Green Party's original manifesto rejected this view; their position has some logical consistency, but I don't think that the continued existence of smallpox and rinderpest, or Guinea worms, or mosquitoes (http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html), or Dutch elm disease (which doesn't really harm humans, but elm trees certainly suffer), is worth the suffering and premature death they cause.

So, I guess I could reduce my position to saying that if a species can only exist by causing harm or premature death to something more biologically complex than itself, it shouldn't exist. Do you think that this is reasonable?

I'd add two corollaries: that predation is natural enough that we shouldn't kill all predators; and that a species should only be wiped out if it has to cause this sort of harm in order to live -- if it's parasitic or infectious, or possibly (as with mosquitoes) if it's an extremely serious disease-carrier. And I'm not at all interested in driving mostly-harmless species to extinction for purely economic benefits...
Yes, way better and using a humble tone, e.g. "Introverts are not smarter than extroverts. According to IQ scores, the two types are equally intelligent. And on many kinds of tasks, particularly those performed under time or social pressure or involving multitasking, extroverts do better."
> "No military" was an actual thing in the United States prior to WWII.

No, it wasn't. A minimal peacetime army and, for most of its history, a substantial navy -- with reliance on that navy, the oceans, sheer size to provide depth, and the fact that only a small number of countries had land borders to provide mobilization time for the army in time of need was a thing for the US prior to WWII.

> See any good bio. of Eisenhower for details

Any bio of Eisenhower (or any non-fiction work more generally) that claims the US had no military prior to WWII is, ipso facto, not a good one.
This is great! My weekend is officially opened up. ;)
Facebook makes me sad sometimes
Yeah, but it allows me to reply, so it's already better than all the other clients I've tried. Good job!

I don't like how sparse material design is, but oh well.
Reminds me of http://atlasboard.bitbucket.org. Nice job!
Congratulations! Will you be sharing details on how your salary negotiation went? Reference: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/
Smartphones Can Steal 3D Printing Plans by Listening to the Printer
I was in the opposite position I was working at a hosting company in 2010. At that time I was heavily pushing containers, at the times Jails, Zones, LXC, etc. Using a full hypervisor stack for VMWare was not the best use of resources. I honestly haven't kept up with containers too much, other than Kubernetes, Misos, etc.

I'm also thinking they're a stop gap. In the CI work flow it definitley helps with dynamic language, or slim executables. Where dependencies are seperate. But often I see infrastructure almost meshing with the code. A block, in the overall program design. I'm not sure the next step either, often as you said you're looking at a event or service driven architecture. It comes from the pain points you're trying to solve, and how you actually get your code running.
The TSA isn't the border patrol/customs. They're airport security.
Statin Drugs Are Safe and Underprescribed: Researcher
Who says this?
Facebook Features 9/11 Conspiracy Theory as 'Trending'
I prefer to know what the apps I install are going to be doing. To this end, OS-enforced permissions for using various services are a godsend. No program should need "admin" rights. And I should be able to know and control what each app I run can and cannot do. This seems utterly obvious to me. Even if most people dont' care, the tools should be there. There've been more than enough cases where apps have collected information they shouldn't have, whether intentionally or lazily. It baffles me that anyone could seriously make the argument you seem to be making.
1st, I am not sure if this is even a good acquisition.

2nd, That isn't how it works. Deal flow is the most rare, and precious, and valuable thing to investors. FoundersClub is trying to get deal flow and they will win some deals, but ultimately, the investors with the absolute best reputation will get to invest in the best deals.

In any event, Founders Club likely passed on Chariot, which I would have to agree with based on how the economics of that business works, regardless of whether they had a great outcome here or not.
I've always felt that of the container solutions available, rkt is most likely to convert me into a seething and unrepentant homosexual.
MiniHack! Been using it for a couple of years. Easily the best native HN client on iOS.
Algorithms can't tell the difference between porn/gore and historically significant graphic images
Wow, it's stunning that an app would install anything suid root.

Admittedly I'm not a Mac guy, but that can't be common practice.

And then the response isn't "we're going to stop endangering our users with this dangerous practice", it's "we're going to stop doing this one particular thing that happened to be called out this time".
> I linked upthread to a Ta Nahesi Coates article.

Okay, I just wasted more time than I'm comfortable admitting looping through trying to look for that link, getting distracted by new parts of the conversation, and starting over. Mind pointing it out?
> We've had a navy since 1775.

That's the tradition, but its not entirely true; the Continental Navy was formed in 1775, but disbanded 10 years later in 1785, and it was nearly another decade before the US Navy was formed in 1794.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law

It's hard to get your n(n − 1)/2 friends and family to also switch.
Can anyone suggest a vetted-along-these-lines alternative (preferably open source) to Dropbox?
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12466352.
Indeed, hydro has pretty bad faikure mode. Still, we're not talking about massively irradiated fallouts, the impact is contained booth in space and in time.
Well said!

Clearly there are cultural differences in expectations here. I respect the way it works in the US, but i personally like the UK approach explained eloquently above, as I get just enough protection and no more.

Avoiding being (indirectly) exposed to the other customers' fickle ordering with scant attention seems a good thing to me (not that I'm implying this occurred in this case, I see this was a genuine mistake). I'm sure some will say that a big company can swallow the costs, but clearly that money has to come from somewhere and it's from prices higher than they would otherwise be, passed on to everyone.
Maybe because

1) 30k contracts don't line up, and you never know when the next opportunity arrives; steady income may be preferable even if it is lower.

2) Money isn't everything. Working on interesting problems with interrsting people is a lot more fulfilling than doing boring work that pays well.