skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, Tighter immigration is just one part of the story. India itself has grown up and fixed a lot of its issues. Apart from the current generation, even the generation that saw the first wave of benefits of 1990's reforms has already reaped far more benefits than their peers who moved to US around the same time. Most are disproportionately rich, have had better careers and family/social circles in India.

My guess is as more things get fixed in India(which they will), and more situation improves here, it will be harder by the day to think of restarting your life elsewhere while your peers do better than you back home. At the end nobody wants to end up being worse off than their peers despite doing a lot more of that extra work as immigrant in a foreign land.

Now we are in the second generation of this trend. Among my friends who moved to the US for MS and never returned. Most of us in India have done better on nearly every count.

Essentially today immigration to a foreign country in India has been reduced to a social status issue.

The actual financial reasons have been drying out for a while and very few remain today.
Competition is always good for consumers, not producers. It brings lower prices for goods or services, but provides less freedom for producers.
I think this is a myth being put around by private healthcare providers. The overall cost is not too high - it's much cheaper than the US system - and the main users are the elderly. I'm also not sure what constitutes "abuse" of the system; it's not like people enjoy being in hospital.
Many places require two-party consent for audio recording. So this is clearly illegal in those places.
The devs of Adblock Plus are certainly crooks and I agree their business model is deplorable, but I dispute that "blocking ads alone is pretty bad". On the contrary, it's extremely useful and makes the web bearable. It's not comparable to piracy because nobody is stealing anything.
That quote is from an article published in 2001: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/03/opinion/abroad-at-home-the...

He might have been the only one at the time.
Two points. 1. Peoples tastes are subjective, so while Mr. Grin is likely not going to sell IMO, who knows who else might like it.

The pricing accomplishes two great things that are quite brilliant.

When someone is ready to buy, there are two excuses they turn to to not take action. The first is trust and the second is procrastination. Within the context of trust, is value (is it a good deal).

By having the price go up, and inventory disappearing, you conquer both excuses.

1. Social proof of a) others like these logos and b) others are willing to pay this price for that value.

2. As the price goes up, you get worried about paying too much for something you want and wondering if you will lose out on a logo you like.

Both of these compel you to take action. As you wait, your risk of missing out or getting ripped off go up in a very visual and real way.

This also does a great job of framing the logo value when you order custom from the designer.

All in all, it is pretty brilliant IMO.
That was my point, exactly. [edit: to be clear, that a beat cop may have to deal with a handful of local louts, for exmple. But not the entire neighborhood.]

Doesn't our Justice Department have people monitoring this sort of metric?
That's why I (and many others) need Git+LFS - because I need a lot of versioned artifacts such as images and binary application documents. One example is test inputs and outputs if you have an app that produces and consumes binary data. Every revision of the source tree needs the right revision of the corresponding binaries.

You are right that this is solvable with ftp, with one folder per revision and some scripting to manage committing source changes to git and binary changes to ftp but that is pretty much what git+LFS is!
Yeah, win for Stephen Hawking. Hopefully it gets even better.
You can set up your own domain for free
But why is this decision better than other ones to accomplish the same means? And is it an ethical violation?

I have no clear stance on it at the moment. I appreciate the goal, but this particular solution isn't entirely sitting well with me.
Good questions. I do a lot of M2M projects that use 3G modems on so called private networks (e.g. Verizon hands out a 10.x.x.x IP address for the devices). The argument is always made that this would require a lot of $ and equipment to crack, but if these Stingrays can intercept M2M datastreams then that's now another thing to worry about.
Brown vs Board of education overturned Plessy vs Fergusson. The court eventually overturned itself agreed that US citizens have the right to write pamflets arguing against a draft was not shouting fire in a crowded theater (rather than outlaw that, one would think it would be better to make them safe from fire, but that is an aside).

Point being SCOTUS can even agree with itself. It has the power of the gun, which means we may care about its position, but hardly that it is right.
So what. 95% of the poseurs doing "angel" investing are in it for the scene, the cachet, the parties, the "networking", the name-dropping etc etc. Rothenberg gave people what they wanted....a very exclusive club with ridiculous membership fees and all of the very visible attributes that let the "LPs" signal to their peers that they were "Valley players".
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Oh no, at least not now. Electricity and land so cheap today in Russia, what Yandex starts to build and sell their datacenter to provide "cheap AWS alternative for Russian companies".
No - per the definition of a trapdoor function:
"For any k ∈ K, without trapdoor tk, for any PPT algorithm, the probability to correctly invert fk (i.e., given fk(x), find a pre-image x' such that fk(x' ) = fk(x)) is negligible"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapdoor_function

Note that the definition is about a pre-image, not necessarily the input used to create it in the first place.

Second, that definition is absolutely not correct. "Never" would require that the size of the output of the hash function be equivalent to the size of the universe of possible inputs, which it obviously isn't. There's a very important difference between "never be observed in practice" and "never, period." You're not using the language precisely, and that's very dangerous when talking about hashing and cryptography.
We had an incident in my home state, where despite legal prohibitions to the contrary, a state law enforcement worker provided the government with the entire database of the identities of all those licensed by the state to carry concealed weapons. The legal process used to accomplish this was essentially "calling up and asking for it". Sources: http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/highway-patrol-gave-feds... and http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/missour...
This is very exciting to hear - was so wishing github to go in this direction all these years!
>Nvidia needs a "Ludicrous Mode" overclock setting for these cards. Push the button for 2.5 seconds of super-high frame rate! With some cool down time required.

This actually is a thing with GPU Boost 3.0. The card boosts up automatically if the temperatures are low, though lately there were issues with the GPU clock frequency oscillating because there wasn't enough hysteresis.

(This, by the way, means that GPUs are thermally constrained rather than timing-constrained.)
Steve & Barry's used this model in retail stores.

At opening the whole store would be priced at $5 or so then slowly it would raise the price every few weeks

They did however go bankrupt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_%26_Barry%27s
It's not really different, it's just that Google became well known when it only had Search.
Is there a middle ground between block all ads and each user individually white-listing sites?
Anyone which produced a curated list of "allowed" ads would hit a similar narrative.
His responsibility wasn't to your interests. If your interests conflict with America's interests, then yours lose out in the decisions that the United States makes. Just as if my interests as an American conflict with your government's interests, mine will lose out in their decisions.
Would Snowden agree with you?
It's cheaper to eat unhealthy than healthy foods in America. Only the rich or upper middle class can afford healthy food.
One simple way to avoid something catastrophic:

rm -rfi

lets you get an interactive mode so you can confirm what's happening before it gets erased.
Wait, you've got it backwards. At the risk of stating the obvious: the wealthy older generation are the ones who want the tax cuts for the wealthy. In a progressive taxation scheme the young and poor get more benefits from the government than they pay in via taxes, so what you're arguing for would hurt you and help them.

The real problem is that assets are taxed (sometimes significantly) less than income. We're in a world where assets are becoming much more valuable than labour, but have a taxation and pension scheme that is built for the opposite (post-WWII).

The older generation has assets like houses and stocks. Youth have the ability to work. Here in Canada, the capital gains tax is literally half of what the income tax is. So when old people make their money (house prices go up, investment portfolios increase) while literally not lifting a finger, they get to shift half of their tax burden onto the people that get up every morning and work for a living. /That's/ unfair.

This is all happening in a time when we've got so much cash floating around that interest rates might go negative, which means the usual "oh, but if we tax assets then it will reduce the available investment pool and it will hurt the economy" is complete self-serving horseshit.

Taxes are one of your biggest tools for redressing the screwing over that the younger generation has got. You'd be crazy to consider them the problem. Furthermore, with pensions the older generation basically wrote themselves a blank cheque that the younger generation had to pay. I don't think we should feel obligated to follow it to the letter - and that doesn't have anything to do with tax rates, that's just a contract re-negotiation.
That's not a great strategy to just continue to pump $15 into fiverr hoping to eventually get something good. Does that happen when you get to $500 or $5000. You don't know when you start so you could just waste your money.
Isaac Newton as a Probabilist
> who was trading classified information for sex

That's really not how I read the scandal. A woman, who formerly had clearance for classified material, was engaged in an illicit affair. There is no evidence (that I'm aware of) that 1.) the classified information was ever leaked to someone without clearance, and 2.) that any actual trading occurred.
for me it's pretty much clear why they are so successful on that set of tasks

What's less clear is why HTM has not been successful on any tasks since 2004. I remember a few years ago they entered Kaggle competition to detect anomalies in EEG. Their team finished in ~150th place (out of 500). Even though anomaly detection in time series data was supposed to be their strongest feature.
Woz mentioned something some time ago about how before OSX a whole lot of the Mac OS was housed in ROM.

His claim was that this contributed to the security of the platform, and i suspect it may also have contributed to the snappiness you refer to.

Frankly, the statement makes me think that pre-OSX Macintosh was the last holdout of the microcomputer era.
Fancy dorms aren't the main reason tuition is skyrocketing
I could see that being the case where the little guys aren't able to get the word out about their product, but keep in mind that big advertisers like coke use the "brand awareness" aspect of advertising to get their brand in your mind.
It is more nuanced than that, but you've got the right idea.

Some years ago I tried the Zone Diet(TM), and was able to loose in the ballpark of 20 lbs. For the first month, all carb-rich food was strictly banned, and that did have physiological effects. Later, once the process had been kickstarted, non-junky carbs were gradually reintroduced with little effect on my pace of weight loss.

So... I tend to agree with you. People evolved to eat carbs, but not necessarily highly concentrated, processed carbs.
> If you don't want them "taking" your info, just don't speak to them. That's your right

But that's the point. They're so used to people complying that anyone who politely declines to provide the information when asked is then treated as a criminal, with (perhaps illegal) detentions and escalations.
It seems a little unreasonable to insist on a way of thinking about Constitutional law that has been moribund since John Jay's term and this role of the Court's fits fairly well into the common-law framework we've inherited from England.

It also doesn't seem clear to me how setting up a curriculum (a legal act, after all) can't be covered by that text, unless you want to go back and argue it is only concerned with preventing a church becoming literally "established" like the Anglican Church is in England.
6, if you believe in comScore data.
A few things:

- There are a lot of Googlers on HN, not so many Yandex-ers

- Google, in the general public's minds, is buoyed by positive mindshare that was generated a very, very long time ago (early-to-mid-2000s). Today's Google has appreciably changed from those days, and yet their likeability has mostly been unaffected.

- Google tried to make their lack of focus official by spinning off a corporate umbrella parent by the name 'Alphabet', like Philip Morris Companies the "tobacco" company renamed itself to 'Altria' in 2003 because at the time it owned 84% of Kraft Foods Inc., a large food and beverage company [1].

I maintain that to an American, Yandex is most analogous to Yahoo or AOL rather than Google, because Google is, as of writing, a company that makes money primarily from ads and is under transition to pursue higher revenue streams from business-to-business sources (like Google Cloud Services) more so than by brokering advertising. Whereas Yahoo or AOL are tech-media hybrids. I know Yahoo and AOL don't evoke such positive brand power anymore than, say, Google, but their structure I believe is more reflective of Yandex.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraft_Foods_Inc#Philip_Morris_...
This particular quote rang very true to me:

> If the allocation is hidden to the programmer, she might not realize the expensive operations behind the scenes.

I am a green Rust programmer, and I currently have little insight into the allocation costs of the various things I'm doing, and I haven't yet found a strategy for gaining it. I feel like the actual mechanisms for memory management are so deeply buried that it would take lots and lots of spelunking to get an idea of what's going on behind the scenes. Even something as simple as a "This function allocates <x> memory" tag with stdlib functions would help me immensely.
Yes, many of them have GPU-focused instances available.
Well in the US we have this little thing called "Freedom of Speech", so unless you're prepared to push through a Constitutional Amendment, banning ads ain't gonna happen.

(Nor should it, in my opinion.)

Anyway, I can't give you a sensible argument to keep "brand" ads which strike me as ridiculous also. But if I'm an inventor and I invent a great new X, how the hell am I supposed to tell the world about it without advertising it in some form or another? "Hey, I have a machine that can make your life easier. But I can't tell you what it is or how to buy it, because ads are illegal. This makes sense."
They're probably right. There was virtually no violence in the region before Facebook. /s
It should be fairly live, must've missed it. It updates every time you make any change.
My advice, talk to a lawyer. The attractiveness of paying for legal advice is a filter over options 2 and 3.

Good luck.
To paint with a very broad brush, the U.K. would hardly be in the position it is in if it hadn't imperialized so heavily.

English is the world's dominant language, meaning everyone else has to learn English, instead of the English having to learn Chinese, Polish, Spanish, etc.

The old connections make London a prime financial center, and even that future is questionable given Brexit and the prominence of alternatives like New York and Singapore.

The UK's edge and reach comes from its cultural products. Once the bankers have gone and the techies find better qualities of life away from London's shuttered clubs and the UK's draconian survellience and drug laws, all that's left is James Bond and Harry Potter.

I hope I don't come across as being too pessimistic about England's future, but just as it is in a reasonably good state now, it could just as easily be gearing up for a nasty nosedive.
I don't think of it like that on OS X (err macOS), but rather, they're making the most poweruser features non-defaults. All of the friendlier features can be disabled though; I can't think of any functionality that's been totally removed.
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How do ads hijack your browser and track you against your will?

If you don't want tracking, don't visit the website. Ads don't force you look at things. You're looking at it.
They're flat design!

They are currently "trendy" in the front-end world, but for how much longer, I've been too far removed from front-end development to know. Here's an interesting read in the shift (semi-recently, mind you, 2013) [0]

[0] http://www.ucreative.com/articles/design-wars-flat-design-vs...
An electromagnetic launcher seems to be the way to go. Why is everyone spending time on rockets?
For all we know, these could be throw away's from previous work the designer did with other customers. "One man's trash..."
GL seems great and I'm glad it's evolving. About a year ago I tried GL and it was painfully slow. This was the main reason I chose Phabricator. Have there been any progress on this performance issue? I acknowledge I'm quite outdated here.
Anyone surprised that americans were given preferences?
But how about the bribes (to get e.g. electricity)?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/12/business/global/12ikea.htm...
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the company with the smaller market share cannot make moves so easily because can't afford to lose customers and even more market share, so it will be the nicer guy probably
>It would decrease Snowden's celebrity for him to return from exile.

Why would Snowden retire from the rabble-rouser personality he's become? He's passionate about the issues and I can't see him ever stopping. I also imagine hes deeply indebted to Putin's regime and probably doesn't want to wake up with a forced Polonium tea breakfast if he doesn't continue his anti-US commentary, even post-pardon or post-Russia.

I really don't see any practical way for anyone to do anything with Snowden but leave him in the bed he's made. Snowden won't just go back to work like a nobody if he got this hypothetical pardon. I'd be surprised to see any precedent of someone who fled to foreign power and became an anti-US mouthpiece for a hostile regime suddenly getting pardoned for treason.

Downvote away, but the 'Snowden == Hero' mentality is not shared with most and the idea that this pardon would be no big deal is a bit naive. It would be incredibly polarizing and controversial to the US public.
Adblock Plus finds the end-game of its business model: Selling ads
Yandex.Mail provides custom domain E-Mails for free, the only large company to do so and not to mention how good it is.
It doesn't and I tried to make that clear by starting off with 'yes'. Not everyone (I hope) is always trying to argue and invalidate someone else. I know that's kind of the default position in a conversation, especially online where people don't have any sense that they're speaking to an actual human being. Recipients shouldn't always take the position of sensitivity and assume everyone is attacking either (I'm frequently guilty of that).

I just wanted the inclusion that it's not a US phenomenon by any means. Preference for lighter skin applies in many places without whites at all, including places like Japan. This country didn't spring from pure evil, and definitely not in a vacuum.

I'm unsure there's a place where darker skin is actually desired or socially preferable. Even in Africa. You may be punished for being white in some places, perhaps out of the fact you're clearly a foreigner or maybe out of historical resentment. But I've never personally seem a place where being darker is actually preferred or rewarded other than artificial mechanisms which attempt to counteract this natural phenomenon.
I don't really understand the question. An example outlining a successful use case might help.
> If anything Netbeans should be more attractive if it is released from Oracle.

Until the community around it solidifies and proves that it is committed and capable, it will probably be less attractive than when it was backed by Oracle.
Agreed. From the article, this highlights what kind of shift Blue Origin needs to make it from their current rocket to one on the SpaceX scale:

"Put another way, Blue Origin wants to go from a small, suborbital rocket to one that stands four times as tall and possesses 35 times the thrust. That is quite a leap."
"...those who invented it must believe that there is an acceptable level of suffering that any one person may cause..."

I'd suggest that quantity is one thing to put into the multi-objective optimization problem we all are unconsciously solving. If you choose to interpret it as a threshold, that's OK, but others might treat it differently.

In particular, your construction of "won't make any more than two people cry today" is pure straw man based on your invented threshold rule.

Here's a different analogy. The speed limit on my drive to work today is 65 mph. I drove 70 most of the way. I don't have a hard rule that I can go at most 5 mph over the speed limit, but I do look at [my_speed - limit] as a factor in my driving, and try to keep this difference reasonably small.
The interest compounding on a $30,000-40,000 loan wouldn't really be a student loan issue, it would be a job issue.

The interest on the loan sizes I've mentioned is typically going to be less than $4000 a year, so if they pay $6000 a year the loan will go away quite quickly. That's a substantial amount of after tax income for a lot of jobs, but students should be looking at the debt in those sort of terms, that it is going to be one of their main payments for a while.
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That's actually a very interesting question. I don't know. And I doubt he is currently in a position to be very frank and honest about it.
Sometimes I fall into the "what's left to discover" trap. Great to see fundamental understanding of our universe increasing!
I dont believe the phase of the moon as anything to do with the earthquakes, more the orbital position...
It's amazing to me that people don't understand this. Lumping all rocketry together is a rather grave mistake. Yes, it's all hard, yes they all can explode, but the current Blue Origin landings are the equivalent of tossing a dart and hitting a bullseye across the room, while the current SpaceX landings are tossing a dart, hitting a bullseye in the next room, where the board is strapped to a dog standing on a skateboard, and in the meantime having your dart deploy a second smaller dart that has it's own bullseye to hit. They're just not comparable at all.

I'm a fan of any company that wants to get people off this rock cheaply and safely, but Blue Origin has a long way to go to achieve what SpaceX is doing. I can't wait to see that thing fly though. :-D
What do you propose - more sponsored articles and product placement?

Paying per site will ensure I hear fewer points of view on the news and other topics since it doesn't scale well currently.