skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
here they come, crawling out of the woodwork...emboldened. and this is just the beginning of who knows how long a time period..at least 4 years , maybe indefinite.

both this and parent comment who mentioned he is gay.

both pretty much saying, as long as it does not affect us and our group, let us disrupt the lives of people who came here legally and have paid taxes etc and throw them back.

its not that you are saying change the policy for new guys coming in who can then decide whether to come in- you actively want to disrupt the lives of people you probably see and work with everyday, maybe go to happy hour with.

who came here and have built a life with some long hard path to a greencard implied when they chose to take the H1 path.

today this group, tomorrow another, then the next - attack the non-enfranchised and weak, weaken the next group, attack.

and so it has begun...

i am a bit nervous of having typed this out.

fear.
I'm not clear where you're going with all this. Clearly Clinton lost. Clearly she made mistakes. That's indisputable. But based on the fact that the populace elected Trump, I'm not sure there's anything Clinton actually could have done to win. What Trump had was a message that apparently appealed to a very large section of the population (plus a xenophobe outreach campaign that built him a base to get through the primaries), and even if Clinton wanted to sell that message, I don't believe she could have, because she actually has a track record that the message clearly doesn't align with.

You seem to be convinced that experience and qualifications necessarily lead to winning elections, and therefore Clinton's loss proves that she has neither. But this is fundamentally untrue. Many times voters have chosen someone with less experience and weaker qualifications. I'd argue that Clinton was more qualified and more experienced than Obama when he beat her in the primaries. McCain was arguably more qualified and certainly more experienced when Obama beat him in the general election, too. He won because at the time voters preferred his message and his vision.
Oh, really? That's really interesting! Do you have a reference for this?
Thanks, ive read the docs but its still not clear. Il reach out to the coreos community
If someone gives you a 1/3 to 1/4 chance of something bad happening, relying on that as "secure" seems ... risky. Criticism of specific mistakes they made are good and well, but just saying they predicted the wrong percentage (when we have no good idea what the real one was) seems to me like faulting somebody because they lost a coinflip.

The bigger issue IMHO is how much attention is given to polls and predictions, when they try to amplify useful data from tiny differences in key states. Results that indicate "we can't really know" seem likely, but make for really bad headlines. And worst case, some people actually think 70:30 means they can stay at home and not go vote or something...
I tend to have issues with the web link on NY Times. Opening the article in incognito mode bypasses the paywall though.
Is the author unaware that you don't need to click activities, you can just mouse to the top left corner of the screen? This is Linux, it doesn't have to say activities if you don't want it to. You can get themes with OS logos and such, if you want.
Bernie Sanders: Where the Democrats Go from Here
Minimalistic memory pools in C
The sad thing is, had any other GOP candidate besides Cruz won, sentencing reform would be on the docket.
If there are more comments than upvotes, a story will rapidly fall off the front page. It’s supposed to be a measure to prevent “flamewars”, but often results in good discussions being black-holed.
The exact calculation is notoriously unclear (presumably by design, or you could game it) but there is a penalty for what the algorithm deems "flamewar" topics which cause many comments in a short time.

There is some analysis here:

http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...

And it's certainly true from experience.
The key is to reward people for doing good valuable work and route more of society's resources to them for productive use. The consequence of working badly or not at all can be a very modest life, it doesn't have to be starvation or homelessness.

Communism seems to assume everyone will want to work, and send out the murderous thugs when it doesn't go to plan.
>I'd prefer if you just said it's because you'd like protectionism to lead to higher wages for American citizens.

If he does want "protectionism to lead to higher wages for Americans", why is that wrong? The purpose of any government is to advance the interests of its own citizens first and foremost.

>Oddly enough, right now, the USA skims the world's talent this way. You get to tax the brightest, you get to profit from the companies they found here, the people they employ here, the business they do here.

I agree with you that inviting the world's brightest to come here certainly benefits America, but the system is being abused to bring in average foreign employees to the detriment of American tech workers(e.g., the Disney case). This practice should end, with H1B focused on extraordinary candidates only.

>I'm here on the E3. Australia has turned up for every US war since Korea. Our blood is mixed with yours in the mud of a dozen nations on four continents, including ours.

This is a bizarre comment; what relevance does it have? Should H1B favor military allies rather than the best candidates? Why does someone else's wartime sacrifice justify your presence here? Does their sacrifice nullify American sovereignty? If the people or their representatives decide to limit the flow of foreign workers, that is their right and that right supersedes any non-Americans privilege to come here.

>Our reward, as one of my colleagues quipped, is that the US gets to take our brightest people.

America isn't "taking" your brightest people, like some form of intellectual impressment. Those people are exercising free will and -choosing- to come here, as you seem more than happy to have done.
Huh. Makes sense. Thanks for the reference!
Facebook jobs
Ask HN: An idea that you could not implement?
We haven't had an idea thread in a while. Can you share what project you wanted to implement but you couldnot for some reason.

What ideas and projects will take over communities and in turn the world in next 3 years?

I personally think- adtech is very saturated. DSP have become commodities with each company coming up of their own. There is a good chance for innovation in this space.
First, lets look what happened right after the ACA was announced (Ratigan tears Wasserman a new one, its too bad this point didnt get taken more seriously. Instead everyone said "lets take what we can get, compromise is better than nothing.) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxjQckmSaSc

then https://www.greatagain.gov/policy/healthcare.html

>To maximize choice and create a dynamic market for health insurance, the Administration will work with Congress to enable people to purchase insurance across state lines.

>Maximize flexibility for States in administering Medicaid, to enable States to experiment with innovative methods to deliver healthcare to our low-income citizens

You tell me if Trump and Ratigan are on the same page.
Go doesn't really use libc all that much. Syscalls are also implemented in pure go + as, so there aren't really header files to provide. That makes for a great cross-compilation story.
I'm more convinced of his sincerity than of Clinton's. Let's face it: he doesn't _need_ presidency. 400K a year is pocket change for him, he's not a politician and he did not spend 30 years of his life converging on this goal. Moreover, he partially financed his own campaign with tens of millions of dollars. Truth is, all politicians lie to get elected, he's no exception.

But I believe he did not lie about the core tenets of his campaign: wars, immigration, globalism. He will do something about those at the very least. That's good enough for me.
Corollary: it's not a question of "how do we preserve the current system given some change in media technology?" It's "how will our current system change given some change in media technology?"
>I understand that they'd want to hesitate though-- the people who might sue them are the surviving family.

It's also the family, not the person having written the will several months or years ago, that has all the latest details on the condition and the options.
The Taste Makers (2009)
I am a H1b worker and a Indian national, I did my masters in one of the top universities in US and in the past 10 years that I have been in US, have worked at 2 of the big 5 companies. Yes for past 10 years I have been on H1b Visa, why you might ask ? because you see, Indians don't get green cards for decades (vs a Australian national or an Irish national you can get a green card in less than 3 years), so we are forced to be in H1b visa, until we get a green card.

But I agree with you, go ahead and remove the H1b visa and send all of us back home. All I then ask is that Indian government enacts laws similar to China (which I think it will, given the current Prime Minister of India) and blocks US companies from operating freely in India, so Indians get a shot at building their own Google, Facebook and Uber. Force local companies to use homegrown cloud rather than the one that Amazon and MSFT sells. After all why use services of these companies if you don't get a chance at building them. Make it a patriotic mission not to use IT from US firms and build it ourselves. To steal your words, anything less of a response than that is deeply and tragically wrong.

Remember, europeans built ships and explored the world because turks closed access land route via Constantinople. Go ahead provide us with that impetus, we will compete with US firms on a global stage.
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HN Guidelines: (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics ... unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. ... If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

"If you think a story is spam or off-topic, flag it by clicking on its 'flag' link."
The Holy Roman Empire: A Model for the Future United States
I wouldn't mind seeing that.

Every attempt I've seen, though, has either failed, or fallen prey to the lock-in-based lure of Microsoft.
Getting down to work on a few apps, hoping to make enough to supplement Social Security to enable moving to a cooler climate.
Ask HN: How do you perform Usability testing?
How you perform usability testing for your web application mobile/desktop.
Any online tool ?
Process ?
Alibaba sees record breaking sales on Singles day, expects to clock $20B
I actively avoid Maps and Gmail because of the ads (and surveillance). Similarly Google search itself.

Which means that when I am open to suggestion I am on other services.

By not maximising the short-term ad-impressions (or other short-term) metric, Google increases odds of being there when people are interested in its money-maker: quality suggestions for commercial goods and services.

They've lost me. I suspect they'll lose others.
Scala calls the monad bind "flatMap". Java actually implements it for Streams.

If you have a `Stream<Deck> decks;` of card decks, and want to get all the cards from all the decks, you might try to do something like `decks.map(deck -> deck.getCards().stream())`, but that will give you the type `Stream<Stream<Deck>>`. That sucks, we just want a single stream, not a stream of streams, so we call the function that flattens at the same time. `decks.flatMap(deck -> deck.getCards().stream())`.

Nondeterminism is just a standard use for this construction: given one choice, generate more choices, given that choice, generate more choices, do some computation with the choices, and then return the list of possible final results.
Author is Brad Smith, Microsoft’s president and chief legal officer.
A discussion of that article would have been quite likely mostly a duplicate of the discussion on the 100 day plan itself, because it only supplies additional arguments for the existing discussion. So it might be better to just quote it in comments.
Maybe California, Oregon and Washington could split off as an independent country. I would have a large enough economy population and other things needed to be viable. If it is put to a vote via initiative it is not out of the realm of possibility.
That's a widely held opinion. A few years ago Antonin Scalia said, more or less: "we settled that question 150 years ago". So yeah, this is silly.
What if I think the comment threads are starting to go off topic?
This tip (and use of the web link, for that matter) might make a useful addition to the FAQ.
I would guess that means their religion.
I agree that avg salaries is not a good indicator. Unfortunately glassdoor shows average salaries instead of median salaries.
I managed to pick one up on the Amazon mobile app. I had to do it exactly at the right time, but there wasn't an issue other than page load slowdown.
I've seen others make such comments. Does this mean you flagged it, or the post itself was flagged?

If the former, the guidelines include

"If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Thanks for the downvote - good to know that you're not interested in improving the UX on HN.
You could add a comment noting that (though that might not be received well). Another option would be to down vote the off-topic comments, if you have the requisite karma.
(Physics actually seems a hodgepodge of random philosophical assumptions no one bothered to ever review because they're deep in the model. Not unlike code suffering from code rot.)

This..
The Finnish news sources I follow paint this as a pilot initiative trialed primarily in Helsinki, and even then limited to a few courses. A country-wide scrapping of subjects seems still a long way off. The following passage from The Independent article seems the closest to the truth:

"Finnish schools are obliged to introduce a period of “phenomenon-based teaching” at least once a year. These projects can last several weeks. In Helsinki, they are pushing the reforms at a faster pace with schools encouraged to set aside two periods during the year for adopting the new approach. Ms Kyllonen’s blueprint, to be published later this month, envisages the reforms will be in place across all Finnish schools by 2020."
If this post weren't full of vague legal risks for Google, you would likley get a (private) explanation of the cause. As it is now, no employee would risk such communication for fear of it being used against them in an anti trust case, even if it were well meaning. Anti trust cases are worth billions, and a single email saying "we messed up because your URL contained an apostrophe and that caused a bug in our crawler" might well tip the case against Google to a non technical judge or jury.
I think the fundamental issue here is that some people think the USA is already imposing its will upon California to a level which a percentage of people deem "too far".
Reminds me of the initial release of the Wii. Seems like a strategy to create scarcity and increase demand.
I can confirm that this is a thing... a bigger thing than one might think. I run an IaaS cloud provider and I know off the top of my head several customers of ours who each maintain a fleet of VMs to do this for a variety of products. Eg: Limited edition shoes, show tickets, etc. Some of our customers who do this keep the VMs running and some fire them up only when needed. Some use custom software and scripts and some use purchased software designed specifically for the sites and products they want to beat others to.
It's been a while, but I seem to remember there was an additional indirect texture unit for doing just this kind of stuff.
This article is partly true. The headline is not. The changes came into effect few months ago (planned since 2012). Major changes include:

1) Some topics are introduced earlier (like Swedish, our second language)

2) More topic based learning. Learn multiple subjects for example during a project. (So subjects still remain)

3) Change of roles. Teacher should be seen more of a guide and the student should be more active in how the learning should take place.

4) More IT. For example programming is introduced in first grade.

5) "Extensive learning". Learn about learning, thinking, communications, taking care of yourself, working, entrepreneurship, sustainable future etc.

Source: I'm Finnish and checked from the official "Board of Education" site (in Finnish) http://www.oph.fi/saadokset_ja_ohjeet/opetussuunnitelmien_ja...

Edit: Subjects are not completely gone but there will be more topic based projects that combine multiple subjects
This is gonna sound like some crystal healing mumbo jumbo, but here we go anyway: I had tons of issues with my wrists, fingers, shoulders, and back when I first started programming. I tried all the ergonomic gear. It made a difference, for sure, but the thing that finally made the pain go away was getting strong with barbells.
I don't get how "World view" relates to religious beliefs, hence my query.
Havent tried this on coreos but it should work anywhere that has docker https://github.com/kubernetes/kube-deploy/blob/master/docker...
I wouldn't be so sure there's no code shared between different versions of chrome.
This story is a testament to the poor quality of current journalism.
I would drop the fade effects if I were MS. I can't be the only one who notices how bad most "effects" look in the browser. It reminds me even more that I'm not in a native platform.
Hopefully we'll liberate you soon.
Analysis of Facebook Posts about Trump and Clinton
From your link: "All sites hosted on a server in the Chinese mainland must, by law, apply for and receive one of these babies [an ICP License] before their site goes live, a rule enforced at the hosting level."

The West doesn't require websites to display their licence number in their footers. They don't require printing presses to be registered with the government. True there's widespread surveillance, but there's no official and intrusive "great firewall": encrypted connections aren't throttled, there isn't widespread use of proxies just to simply _access_ popular sites in other countries. You can use whatever VPN you like in the West. Western movies are routinely banned in China, whereas I can't find a single example of a Chinese movie being banned in the Western world.

Are you seriously making the claim that censorship in the West is literally at the same level as it in China? Because that's all I've said isn't true. I'm not saying that the West doesn't censor or propagandize, I'm saying that it (at least so far) hasn't engaged in to the same degree. I'm as angry at the media and the government surveillance in the West as anyone, but hyperbole does nothing to further the debate.
Back then I wanted to implement an internet provider, since my country sucks on providing it with a proper plans
RealVNC. They're the ones that invented the protocol in the first place. The team started out at AT&T then left to form their own company.
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Entanglement doesn't require non-locality.
Which source is this? There was a big change starting from this semester. It might not be as dramatic as the article says but it's still considered to be a huge change.
Possible, but Nintendo do not seem like the sort of company that needs to use direct marketing tactics to sell their products.
At least in UK, I think that example is better classed as 'database right'
"we suffered through that horrific administration"

Thousands of Americans died and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi's and Afgani's died. You obviously weren't one of them. Your weren't part of that. You went to college and lived your life in peace, but somehow you suffered as much as the people who watched their families die and their countries fall apart because your "conscience hurt".
I'm very sorry that you are upset by the fact that American citizens believe Americans shouldn't have to compete with foreign nationals for jobs.

I can totally understand how you might feel like it's an attack against you personally, but it isn't.

Abuse of the H1-B system has created profoundly unjust outcomes for American workers, and as an American citizen I feel like I should speak out against programs that are harmful to my fellow citizens.

>> But I agree with you, go ahead and remove the H1b visa and send all of us back home. All I then ask is that Indian government enacts laws similar to China (which I think it will, given the current Prime Minister of India) and blocks US companies from operating freely in India, so Indians get a shot at building their own Google, Facebook and Uber.

>> Make it a patriotic mission not to use IT from US firms and build it ourselves.

I wish you and India nothing but success and prosperity no matter what path you and your country choose!

India should absolutely do what needs to be done to protect its citizens and put them first in line for economic opportunities. Just like they do right now!

>> Go ahead provide us with that impetus, we will compete with US firms on a global stage.

Competition for US firms, in concert with ending the H1-B would produce best of both world results for Americans, both as employees and as consumers. I absolutely welcome any alternative to companies like Amazon, Google, and Facebook.
If you have enough cheap energy, you could refrigerate earth and send excess heat to space.

I think we're a long way from that yet though.
Search engines unsurprisingly have different bugs.
Practice on online judge helps! You can go to http://codeforces.com/problemset/tags/dp for instance. There are people that could help you also. Just solve and ask if you don't get it. Hope that helps.
Would be great if it used the swipe up/down/left/right to do arrow keys. Super handy feature in a competing terminal/ash iOS client. Swipe up for quick access to history, and swipe left/right for quickly moving your cursor around.
Fzf (https://github.com/junegunn/fzf) kind of does what you want.

If you type
svn commit ./path/to/<Star><Star><tab>
It launches a fuzzy Finder (within the terminal) that you can use to recursively search through `to`. You can use the arrow keys and enter to navigate and select. Imo it's faster than a gui would be.
Hm. Who gets to decide what is racist, offensive, etc ?
While practical this creates instant monopolies.
Manage your personal relationships like a sim game
I'd actually bet this isn't going to be monetized that way since Stream is using the reader to showcase the personalization service they sell.
Fair enough, but this system isn't intended for end users who, as you point out, are unlikely to bother checking the hashes of their downloads. Quoting Joanna Rutkowska:

"Also, in case it wasn't clear: the primary audience for such a DB should be
developers or admins (e.g. IT department in a large organization), I think. Not
users. Users are always somehow fated to trust the 'last mile' vendor, and there
is little feasibility in implementing any form of trust distribution for them."

https://secure-os.org/pipermail/desktops/2016-November/00014...
For me, it was a brain for my brain. I slung a lot of code to get what I wanted, but at the end of the day the encryption options are just not robust enough - or do not fit with other toolings needed.
That's a great idea. I still think we have a long way to go for wireless peer-to-peer network that can act as transreceiver with something cellphone like device.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12926678 (543 points, 1 day ago, 1246 comments)
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