skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't care about the Great Compromise. I understand why it was necessary. The United States in the 18th century was a loose collection of mostly sovereign colonies, and there was the real possibility that the smaller ones would decide not to join up if they didn't get disproportionate power in the new nation.

It's a different country now. We have many more states, and the role of states has greatly diminished. Most Americans think of themselves as Americans first, and citizens of their state a distant second. Many aspects of our electoral system have changed. The idea of allowing an 18-year-old black woman who owns no property to vote would be as bizarre to the founders as the idea of directly electing the president.

I don't actually feel disenfranchised. I've always lived in swing states, so my vote counts for far more than most. My dislike of the electoral college is not rooted in the fact that I feel like I don't have a voice.

I don't understand this notion that you and your family would be disenfranchised in a system where the president is chosen directly. Your vote would count exactly as much as the vote of someone living in New York City. Sure, there are more people living in NYC than there are where you are, but there are far more Americans not living in NYC than living in NYC. A quick look at the popular vote totals will show you that the 10 biggest metro areas don't overwhelm everyone else.

Sure, a lot of attention would be given to big cities. I don't see what's wrong with that. A lot of people live there! But other places wouldn't be ignored, since every vote in every location would be just as important. Wyoming probably wouldn't get many visits from candidates, but how many do they get now?

As it stands, the swing states get all of the attention. Neither candidate cares much about what voters in California or Texas think, because their attention won't change anything. Democrats just need to not totally piss off California, and Republicans just need to not totally piss off Texas. If Californians have some important issue they'd like to see action on, nobody is going to care about it. That's 65 million people disenfranchised right there, just in those two states.

Why is it better to have the candidates care almost exclusively about the needs and desires of ~60 million Americans living in swing states, and completely ignore the other 260 million of us? You say that people in Kansas City would be disenfranchised with a direct vote. I say that they're disenfranchised now, because neither Kansas nor Missouri have the slightest chance of choosing Democratic electors. In a popular vote system, the candidates might care more about New Yorkers than Kansans, but at least they'd care some.
Ok sure, let's play "guess the name of the competitor that
tptacek is referring to" because he wants to be as vague as possible so as to not be rebutted
It's protecting users from running unsigned operating systems on their computer, protecting the user from a malicious operating system having full access to their computer. You're arguing against the implementation, which both the author and I agree is flawed, where hardware manufacturers are the only ones regularly controlling keys.
I think the definition of mistake should be "was there a different course of action that could have been taken that would have kept the person alive?"

Not all mistakes are avoidable - sometimes there is no way to know if something is a mistake until after you do it, but it is still a mistake.
Found these useful.

https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~bcdean/dp_practice/
Classifying Catholicism as hate group would make my list.
They are just a Jewish group that attacks Christianity in the public square and little else.
Why? Nintendo decided to once again screw over their fans with their supply games. People are getting back at them for it.
Did the FBI lift these requirements or close down new registrations entirely when they ran the sites? If not, it would make them culpable for more than "just" continuing to host existing content.
Bad press.
That would be Concrete Blonde.
It's not nonsense. Monkeys are smarter than dogs, pigs, cows, chickens.
It's not the usage of the mechanism itself, but how the mechanism is used that mandates specific types of policy. It's a matter of where the trust is anchored:

> publicly posted hashes

The method you used to retrieve the hash and ...

> package managers

The method you used to obtain the initial install and ...

> GPG

The web of trust (how you came to associate a given key with an identity) and ...

> TLS

As commonly used, the CAs. Which we're presently having a problem with, because the list is too damn fixed. In the case of TLS applied to other protocols (eg openvpn), then the trust lies in how the keys are distributed. And ...

The "..." is of course the integrity of your machine. Which, unless you always keep it in your sight, is a big if. A large part of this is what boot image verification is aiming to solve. But to do this, one needs to choose somewhere else to anchor the trust. "Secure Boot" specifies that this trust should be anchored in manufacturer-designated entities using public key signatures. On x64 this this would raise antitrust hackles, so Microsoft mandates (for now) that its primary security property be destroyed, leaving the anchor back to possession/integrity of the machine.

What I'm advocating is that this trust anchor could also be something non-trapdoored like a proof of work (or simple waiting time, since we're dealing with trusted hardware). For example, imagine if the specification mandated that all conforming implementations allow changing the keys after waiting in an offline "key provision mode" for a week. The trust root would then be "possession of the hardware for a week" (defeating an evil maid), rather than a fixed set of manufacturer-designated signers.
Because now they get to be on the news with a bunch of stories talking about how hot their new product is.
Codehash.db – A public database for software and firmware hashes
Hah, yes, I remember everyone complaining about "Celda".
Actually it does, and is quite measurable via standard tools like netperf. I have done this, but only because I've worked in Finance as a Linux monkey for the previous 9.5-ish years. I specialize in Linux tuning and reading far too much Linux kernel source code. That and big distributed systems.

In fact, modern kernels support this quite extensively and the RHEL7 documentation[1] has great tips on it for someone new to it.

You can tune an interface for max throughput via coalescing[2] on Linux via ethtool -C to change and ethtool -c to view current coalescing. Setting interrupt per packet helps with latency for certain workload types in addition to SO_BUSY_POLL[3] and the global or per-interface busy polling sysctl. However, interrupt per packet can trivially overwhelm CPUs if you don't isolate those cpus using things like isolcpus= on the linux grub commandline or cpu_exclusive=1 in a cpuset. RFS/RSS and NICs with multiple receive queues make this much easier to tune.

It is guaranteed to use more power, but you can do idle=poll[4] on the Linux kernel boot command line to stay in the highest C state and help with network latency.

You don't really always need an interrupt either as apps can DMA directly to and from the NIC <---> Application bypassing the CPU. How do you think RDMA works at a lower level? Finally, Linux "kernel bypass" networking aka 100% userspace tcp/ip stacks can be written to be truly interrupt-less take a look at Mellanox's VMA or Solar Flare's openonload. Heck, the default openonload config is interrupt-less. The more you know :)

[1]
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterp...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrupt_coalescing

[3] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/socket.7.html

[4] https://access.redhat.com/articles/65410

EDIT: This is a fantastic and simple overview with actual netperf results showing how this helps with latency: http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/...
I would love this
The soldier who operated on himself
I am a trump supporter, and work in tech management. I agree with 100% of what you're saying. I've personally seen the abuses of the H-1B program.

I know that the required job searches prior to utilizing the H-1B program are basically perfunctory. I know that the workers under the program are abused. I know it depresses wages for American workers overall.

Its funny, I generally despise the term "social justice," but, you're dead on here.
Let down in what way?
http://www.barneys.com/product/golden-goose-distressed-super...

You would be surprised.
Many people who are now Americans didn't used to be. Are they job thieves?

Many people are the natural-born children of migrants. Are they job thieves?

Some people had ancestors who arrived on the Mayflower. Is everyone else a job thief?

Some people are descended from the aboriginal inhabitants of the continent. Is everyone else a thief?

Aren't you?
Top Mistakes All Traders Make ( How to Fix Them)
"parties can agree", but I turned on my TV after the legalese was broadcast. The average website or software shrinkwrap has a lot better contract formation than that.
Tesla: An Update to Our Supercharging Program
I generally tend to shy away from trying to convince people that they should change their operating system. I find it quite annoying in the (thankfully rare) occasions that some overzealous Mac user tries to tell me that my choice of machine/operating system is inferior, so I find it hard to believe that other people wouldn't feel the same way if I tried to someone else that their choice is incorrect (even if I feel strongly that it is).

Of course, if someone is interested in learning more about Linux, I'll happily teach them as much as they want to know and give them my opinions of the advantages of using Linux. But unless the person is already open to hearing my opinions on the topic, it tends to be a waste of both of our time.
Watch Erik Demaine's dynamic programming lectures in this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSX2U_ZE4Huk19DPn34oZ...

I learned a lot from them, he gives a methodology and some rules of thumbs for approaching DP problems, which I found very useful.
There's already a "could be" in the title, it seems redundant to put two may/could be's. You don't need to say that something "may be X so much that it could be Y", when you can either say "may be X so much that Y", or "is X so much that it could be Y".
By the responses I would say yes, yes he was.
A Time to Act: Some Suggestions for Silicon Valley
> We need to replace the guest workers with American workers.

I object to the idea that I am as substitutable as a bag of rice or a tonne of pig iron.
I think you have covered all bases. The only things I would add is to forge a sense of strong self-discipline, and understand what it means to be a 'person of honour'.
And you can go one step further using receive flow steering[1] or transmit flow steering. Most modern performance oriented network cards (Intel 10G, Solarflare 10G, anything from Mellanox, Chelsio, etc) surface each of these receive queues differently and can be seen as different on the right hand column in /proc/interrupts. You can distribute said rx/tx queues on different cores (ideally) on the same socket (but potentially a different core) as the application for minimum latency.

Linux has some really impressive knobs[2] for optimizing these sorts of weird workloads.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/382428/

[2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/scaling....
There might be a contractual matter, but news and financial results cannot be protected under copyright or unfair competition theories. Without reading the case I imagine the "free riding" allegation is an unfair competition claim. I wrote a paper on this if you're interested in learning more: http://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent....
Because the value of the free marketing they've just generated dwarfs the value that's being captured by scalpers.
Yes, I'm an idiot.
Thanks for explaining. So what is the inferior product in this case ?
Some of the best, kindest, most giving people I know are conservative. They're your firefighters, your nurses, your doctors, your mechanics, your teachers... Many, many people that are deep and complex and everything they believe is not wrong. This author would do well to acquaint himself with the side he demonizes and get to know people outside his bubble and the lens of propaganda.
Basically, yes. But more along the lines of the terrible things that humans can do to one another and the possibility that those things are brought to us. We can't all just run to safe spaces and hide.
I believe ptmalloc2 is glibc's malloc.
You forget the most viable third option - relocate the job to where engineers are available
Seconding this recommendation. American viewers can watch the film here:

https://thoughtmaybe.com/hypernormalisation/
The only people depriving the market of the signaling tokens are the sellers charging an price where they know that demand will far outstrip their ability to supply the product.

The market way to handle a small supply of a popular product is to charge a high price, so that purchases equal production. All the compensation goes to the people who created the value, and the people who value the product the most are the ones who are able to obtain it.

Of course, Nintendo doesn't want to charge $1,200 (or whatever) for this product, because it would make people upset. So they set an artificially low price and deal with shortages for a while. Or maybe the shortages are a feature, driving demand through perceived social pressure.

They're certainly allowed to do that. But that's Nintendo screwing with the market and trying to defy economics. Arbitrageurs are just putting things back the way they would naturally be.

Note how companies and industries which are not afraid to charge high prices for products in high demand rarely suffer from scalpers.
I am confused. Are you saying that specifically H1B should be ended or no foreign individual should ever get a job in the US ?
It shouldn't take much of an effort as a thought experiment to glimpse how having a global authority calling the shots and not keeping it's own affairs in order comes across as hypocritical and undermines that authority.

Rather, I think what you've done here is mimic the common HN pattern of saying "X is orthogonal to Y, so I don't get what you're saying", which, as I've try to point out above, lacks imagination.

I even went to some length to try to explain why I feel like that.
He's been popular with all sorts for many years. This is from 1984: https://youtu.be/43-wurCmbIE?t=1898
Not just distance. Some ISPs and hosting providers have direct peering with PCCW.

Latency between a China residential connection and a host outside China cannot be predicted knowing just the location of the host. It can vary by up to 5x just depending on the peering/route.
In the US, other copyright laws do allow you to copy right a database or any other compiled work, as long as there was work that was conducted in order to create it.

This means that if you compile a database of open source material the database itself can we protected by copyright even if all of it's content is not protected by any copyright and is in the public domain.

This is why for example in the UK a phonebook can be protected by copyright but not in the US.
Why are you blaming scalpers for people's woes with the 15c, rather than blaming HP?

I see no problem with having different standards for necessities than for luxuries. We'd consider it morally reprehensible to deny food to a poor person, but few people have a problem denying yachts to a poor person.
If Oregon and Washington joined they'd control the west coast which would be extremely valuable. Also, California pays more in taxes than it receives in aid for things like building national highways, funding schools, military bases, etc.

I'm just playing devil's advocate. None of that would justify having separate currencies, adding border controls, and all that jazz. And without California and it's massive amounts of liberal electoral votes, I shudder to think what would happen American politics. I understand politics have become so divisive that many people are feeling alienated from their own country. But this is a childish idea.
Great list! Probably include sales
It's a good point. I did try to exempt myself from being coherent.
> Obama didn’t (and couldn’t) fix everything Bush broke. But we did fix most of it, and made a lot of progress in major new areas as well. Overall, we came out way ahead.

The Drone and Stuxnet programs are far from a step forward. Every president seems to bring us to a worse state then before. It's not a political line that needs to be drawn but instead one of corruption.
I want to see a "Moustache: 3".
India! Its so cheap and hospitable
* Empathy

* Humbleness.
I don't believe my posts said anything about immigration.

For the record, I support immigration, whether general immigration or for other reasons. To this point, I think it would been totally acceptable to allow the entire population of Syria to either immigrate the US ( green cards on arrival ) or grant safe harbor to those who want to return home until such time as it's safe.

With respect to H1-B: in case I haven't been absolutely clear, I think its socially unjust to make American workers compete with foreign nationals for jobs. This has nothing to do with immigration.
Ask HN: Why are there no discussions related to the Trump Administration?
As I write this, none of the top 30 links pertain to the massive emergency engulfing Y Combinator's home country, which will have rippling negative effects around the world. Why isn't this news more important here?

HN is full of extremely intelligent, passionate and capable people. Collectively the readers here could form the bedrock of a powerful resistance to what will very clearly be an abominable and destructive regime. I came today expecting a community making plans to protect the vulnerable, to save the planet from climate catastrophe, to ensure the economic environment that has allowed Silicon Valley to flourish. Instead: "I’m a huge fan of Zelda, The Wind Waker’s graphics."

What does it mean that we as a community are silent about perhaps the most important turning point in society so far in most of our lifetimes?
Werent Sergey Brin and Elon Musk immigrants?

Glad we let them in. Lol.
Seeing how Google have a near monopoly on Search, perhaps they should be required to... or at least be required not to remove search results of already-indexed legitimate websites.
I'm saying end H1-B forever. I fully support immigration. In another post in this thread, I wrote:

"For the record, I support immigration, whether general immigration or for other reasons. To this point, I think it would been totally acceptable to allow the entire population of Syria to either immigrate the US ( green cards on arrival ) or grant safe harbor to those who want to return home until such time as it's safe."
Seems like it, I Googled him to get a better understanding and several prominent links were Breitbart articles about other posts of his that were removed from Twitter and Facebook. Looks like a lot of it is just drumming up support for his completely free speech Twitter clone.
Politics is off topic per the Guidelines. Even then, there have been several discussions about Trump in the past few days.
Agreed. I think "a better society for myself, my family and for everyone else" is what a lot of people want. (I would have said it's what most people want, except for the part about also wanting it "for everyone else".) Unfortunately, strategies for attempting to achieve a better society reside in an incredibly complex multi-dimensional space, but the media and the US political system force those strategies to be projected down onto a single dimension of liberal versus conservative, then discretized into two sides. The end result being that probably most people are unhappy with the way political discourse is carried out, but can't do anything productive about it. At least that's how I feel right now...
Does Tesla have plans for self charging cars, i.e. cars that drive to the closest superchargers when they are not in use?
I don't think time has anything to do with the competition, it just made a catchier title.
Am I missing something, or haven't they voted on it every time?

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_war_by_the_Unit...
Immigration is not the same as H1-B. For the record, in another post in this thread I wrote:

"For the record, I support immigration, whether general immigration or for other reasons. To this point, I think it would been totally acceptable to allow the entire population of Syria to either immigrate the US ( green cards on arrival ) or grant safe harbor to those who want to return home until such time as it's safe."
> It's utterly disgusting to make American workers second class citizens in their own country. How many more Disney's, Qualcomms, and Southern California Edison's do we need to see before we realize that the program is harmful to Americans?

They need to get rid of the fraud at places like Disney. Ban Tata and Infosys and other shitty consulting companies from obtaining H-1B ever again. Make the minimum cost 125k (about what MS and Google pay for H-1B), so it's not profitable for people to replace Americans (you get into the range where people are going to earn big bucks either way). Make it easier for an H-1B to switch jobs and announce that whistleblowers will be rewarded (money, green card slot, etc...).

As someone here on a visa I really, really, fucking hate these consulting companies for abusing the program. The company I work for is big, they create loads of jobs. They want to hire people on Visas because they want to hire pretty much anyone they can find who meets their bar.
Since August, no.

https://moz.com/blog/301-redirection-rules-for-seo
Some less popular ones that aren't on the list:

- Humility
- Honesty
- Life is not fair

More popular:

- How to choose friends
- How to be a friend

Obscure but save a lot of pain

- Don't spend too much on a house or car.
- How to recognize and run away from psychopaths.
People downvote the smallest things. I've found it's not as much of an obstacle to continuing the thread as you might think; certainly compared to, say, any moderately popular subreddit.
Infineon makes electronics for cars and such. Quite likely it is aimed at that, to showcase actuation, etc.
Relativity (YC W16) Is Hiring a Lead Weld Engineer/Metallurgist (LA)
More likely California will be quickly (re-)absorbed as a colony of USA. Why not? Extremely close, easy to defend (from the point of USA), close cultural and economical ties.

All the benefits of being a banana state with no pesky representation!
Patience!!!!!!!!!

You are driving me insane! Go outside and play.
Actually what really happens is that store managers have to decide what to stock in May, seven months before Xmas.

Source: I was manager at a large store.
It seems HP deserves a bit of the blame in this situation as well. Hp could conceivably make more, and at a higher price if needed to cover increased cost, or license production to some other company willing to do so. That they don't/won't speaks to them having a reason to do so. My money would be on not cannibalizing sales from their other calculators (which, let's be honest, are pretty damn expensive). I'm less likely to blame people for taking advantage of a reality than I am HP for making that reality. Let's not forget HP controls supply in this instance.

As for the NES system, what we have are people taking advantage of what is likely a short term supply problem. The cost of these systems is really a premium on people who are not willing to wait for more to come, since I think it's likely that Nintendo will make more.
This is clearly the most grotesque and irresponsible headline I've read all week. /s
Wow, that was an aggressive response. As I've mentioned elsewhere in the thread, I'm talking about independent providers like FastMail.