skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- "The real world" is not the workplace.

- Generally, puberty is by far the cruelest time of life

> "personally embrace opportunities to learn [...] it enriches and challenges me[ ...] makes me a more whole and well rounded person."

You're getting awfully close to getting me to use the p-word :). Anyway, what you're describing may be an abstract debate about the benefits of some policy. What some people (apparently – I'm not among them but consider the idea plausible) experience is debates about them, personally. So if puberty was a bit difficult because you wouldn't sing along to the (completely voluntary) praises to the lord, and you're so happy to have found likeminded people at the big-city university, it probably hits you a bit harder when the Campus Christian Campaign holds a rally outside your dorm-room window.

That's not to say the examples from the article aren't ridiculous and excessive. But all too often these articles are used as arguments by people who also consider it "liberal excess" when (one example I remember) a female presenter at #largeITConference complains about dozens of tweets commenting on her appearance.
Also the author Matt Ruby is a circuit comedian and vlogger: professional complaining is his own personal form of brogramming: he has no actual solutions provided, he hasn't organized any communities, and the advertisement promotions on his startup comedy site "vooza" are indistinguishable from ones on the sites of some of the startups he's complaining about.

Those who spend time consuming tripe like this or Silicon Valley, over some internet service, and then bitch about brogrammers are the problem. The efforts of greater people past are rotting under the asses of loud observers and you're no fucking Cesar Chavez.
Responsible disclosure.
> I believe if a bill was introduced to reform the legal immigration process to permit more highly skilled workers to immigrate more easily, neither of the houses (nor the public) would have a problem with it.

I disagree. I think that a lot of politicians would refuse to sign any legislation with the words "permit" and "immigrant" in them. The public at large as misinformed enough that they're probably right to do so, too, if they want to be re-elected.
Look how easy it is to do from their end as well. Just don't create a "process" for citizens to win and make it no one's responsibility to deal with when it happens. Everyone just shrugs their shoulders and "not-my-job's" it and there's no one to blame!
I wonder how much difference surfing with Adblock would make while connecting over a modem?
They will always try to "maximize shareholder value" :)
Your last note shows what the UK lacks - constitution as a supreme document.

In UK, the Parliament is the supreme authority, and can amend that unwritten constitution simply by passing an Act of Parliament, which only requires a simple majority.

In effect, this means that the Parliament is not really bound by the constitution. Which makes it largely useless for the purposes for which it is heavily used and relied upon in US.
The H1B program needs to be ended immediately. It's an outrageous giveaway to corporations. It represents deliberate attempt to reduce the relative price of labor in the American economy.
The World Needs Unified Messaging
All these browsers have that darn Modal dialog alert that lets the code below the line of death trap you on their site. Definitely a disconnect with the plight of their users.
Broadly speaking, this is allowed now, no? There is a route to an EAD for H1B holders (and various advantages and disadvantages to each).

https://www.murthy.com/2012/10/26/using-the-ead-as-an-option...
I can't speak to other states in the nation, but I don't think this is a problem that is isolated to tech specifically within CA. One of the things I learned from my time in an ultra-liberal high school in the Bay Area was to keep my mouth shut and my head down if I had a differing opinion.

To set the background, my high school invited prominent speakers from time to time to speak about various issues. Not a single conservative voice ever came to talk to us. When the case for the Iraq War was being debated in public, the school invited a panel of speakers to debate the topic in front of us. They didn't invite a single person in favor of the War. When they invited Daniel Ellsberg to speak, he went into a long profanity punctuated rant about GWB which ended with the entire auditorium (including all the teachers and administrators) standing on their feet to applaud him for minutes. This is just a small sampling.

It was around that time that I began to realize how bad the indoctrination was and started reading other points of view. When I began expressing those views to share what I had learned, I started getting a lot of funny looks or outright hostility. I remember as a member of student government, I was part of a meeting to discuss changing or adding anything to the student handbook. I mentioned that rather than a focus on racial diversity, that perhaps we should readjust the focus to include a diversity of views as well. The dismissive reaction from everyone including the chairman of the school cemented in my mind where everyone truly stood.

It is hard to express how frustrating it is to be surrounded by people who claim to be inclusive and open minded, yet are utterly unwilling to seriously entertain any point of view that comes in conflict with theirs. The totality of their certainty and the violence with which they express it is right on par with the kind of fanaticism you see in deeply Christian communities.
It needs to be much easier to switch employers on H1B so that workers are not abused.

There are also needs to be a bidding process. It's absurd that a small company that is desperate to hire someone for $400k needs to participate in the same lottery as a megacorp paying $60k that doesn't really care whether or not they can hire a particular candidate.

It is, supposedly, a program for highly skilled workers and not a low wage worker program.
The CDC did that years ago which is why donations stopped being monetary transactions. The current risks are lower in large part due to testing, but screening questions are still a significant part of the blood safety net and history has shown people lie when money is involved.

They do have the if there is any reason you suspect their might be an issue bar code because people still lie even without money simply because of social pressure.
Compared to what was achieved in the 60s it doesn't seem that impressive.
> or hmmm saudi arabia.

The place where the rich have alcohol (illegal) fueled sex orgies (illegal) without any consequences?
This is a good comment. The left saw much success after the New Deal because of its pro-labor stance...as society evolved, it came to encompass a whole bunch of rather polarizing issues rather than simply being "labor v/s corporation" and that seems to have reduced their appeal to the rural populace.
This isn't even true.
The badge, which was a joke btw, said "I say no to systemd specific PRs."
The take-away about Seamless I overheard in real time in a frightening way. Sitting in the smoking area, waiting for a coworker to come grab me for work, two of my neighbors were talking about how they actively avoided becoming friends with other neighbors, they just didn't want that kind of connection and preferred that neighbors just stayed in their lane as people who ostensibly share a dwelling in the same high-rise.

And it wasn't the first time I'd heard people expressing that viewpoint. In a completely different part of town when I rented an apartment I hard that same conversation.

Maybe I'm overly sentimental or looking at the idea of 'neighborhoods' and 'communities' with rose-tinted glasses but that shook me, it bothered me to my core-deeply. I've always looked at neighborhoods as the bedrock of citizenry, the most basic form of what it means to be among people who shared your at least some of your interests of home and hearth because of said proximity.

People now actively avoid those kinds of relationships. I still think about it to this day, despite having walked to pubs with the very people I heard talking about this. Maybe I'm thinking too much about it.
Here it is to disclose affiliation, which else people would forget to check due to nature of 'battle'.

Also, there is an assumption that the signature contains up to date information and/or does not change over time. The latter situation would else impact historical purpose. The signature has changed and does not refer to the position/information related to the moment of writing.

I agree with how both jwildeboer (Jan) and shykes (Solomon) approached this. Much appreciated in this case.

But yes, in a normal situation, this is irrelevant and the username signature is sufficient.
If you want to be that loose with the definition, passwords and private keys are "security through obscurity".

Giving people time to patch before releasing the details of how it can be exploited isn't a bad security practice.
If economists want to be trusted again, they should learn to tell jokes
EU proposes new rules that could put an end to the cookie banner
Won't such people find other ways of getting in trouble or losing their money? How many such avenues can the government block?
My father taught me to play using this chess set:

http://www.bonanza.com/items/like/239031639/Tag-Collector-s-...

Somewhere, I also have a carved onyx chess set from Mexico in a sort of Mayan motif.
I think that his point is that, if he didn't know enough to take it to the trial, the original "conviction" (not really, since there was no trial - but in effect, enough to force the payment of fine) of him would stand, despite all those blatant issues of lack of evidence that are inherent in traffic cameras - in particular, the lack of the ability to prove that the driver is the specific person charged.

In other words, the city wanted to fine him under the "civil" rules, where they claimed simple preponderance of evidence (car being on video, and its plate number establishing him as owner, and therefore the most likely driver) - even though the infringement itself was that of a criminal law, and no harm was demonstrated to pursue it as civil. But the moment he did challenge them, then - and only then - the new higher bar applied.

Logic would dictate that either the bar should be applied from the get go - i.e. that no-one should be fined unless there's clear evidence that they were the drivers (which would likely result in all traffic cam evidence being summarily thrown out as inherently incapable of meeting that bar); or else, if we want the low preponderance of evidence bar for fines, then actual harm should have to be demonstrated for the fine to apply.
English wasn't my first language and I'm having a bit of trouble understanding your analogy, would you mind explaining it in a bit more detail?

Irrespective of were one falls on the illegal/undocumented immigration debate, and what the possible solutions could be, what does your post have to do with immigrants who spend considerable time, money and energy navigating the US immigration system that may feel it a tiny bit unfair when others don't have to abide by the same set of immigration rules?

I would add that for many immigrants to the US, especially those who are on the lower rungs of the economic ladder, the US immigration system isn't just a minor bureaucratic announce, it can be a significant source of financial and familial stress.
A redesign is in the works. They are confident that the change in fueling procedure will prevent the conditions which lead to the failure. They just don't want to ground for a year waiting for a new version when they are confident they can make the current one work.
I don't hate JS, but I do find it a bit taxing to write JavaScript that might have bugs due to unexpected behavior in the language. I'm in the process of rounding out my self-taught programming mojo with some intro to CS courses, and the professor started talking about syntactically correct code. He gave the example of something like `3 + "hi"` being syntactically incorrect, saying it wouldn't run (in Python). My first thought on seeing that example was "JavaScript will run that!", and I didn't mean that as a compliment.
for osx peeps: `:w !pbcopy`
I had three semesters of QM in grad school and I still have trouble with it.
All agree that higher level (e.g. C) is easier to reason about than lower level (assembly).

Now, you say that open source (e.g. C) is not only easier, but qualitatively different: open source good, closed source bad.

tptacek points out: higher level (e.g. Haskell) is easier to reason about than lower level (e.g. C) - maybe even qualitatively.

So, why are people only complaining about closed source, when they should (by analogous reasoning) be complaining about code written in C? Granted, it's possible to analyse, but it's obviously easier when it's written in Haskell!
I don't think they are overhyped at all.

I own a Mi4i, converted from a Nexus 5. My biggest worry was unfounded, I ended up loving MIUI. It is, in my opinion, way more usable than vanilla android and they seem to do significant updates once every few weeks. The design is very nice, its routinely assumed Im using a high-end smartphone. The screen is great, battery is ok (relative to the times), its occasionally laggy with lots of apps open but nothing that really annoys.

Of course the pricing is absolutely insane, cant comment on them as a business. Worth saying that while Im not an a typical user I would pay double the price before even considering another brand.
Thanks for sharing that Facebook post, it makes the case far better than I did. The professor makes it clear that the conclusions of the study are totally ignored by the NYTimes author and the figures are not only cherrypicked but misquoted.

Apparently the percentage for soda is actually 5.44% not 9.3% (the bigger figure includes juices and other sweetened beverages).

Attacking SNAP families for wastefulness strikes me as one of the sleaziest ways of trying to solve the problem of sweetened soda overconsumption.
I knew you were the poster from the other thread ranting about this system being rigged by immigration attorneys who are apparently making a "killing."

You are misguided on this matter and the criticism of immigration lawyers is misplaced
That's interesting, why not just do `git commit` at the command line?
My mommy used to go to the store for me: Amazon
My mommy used to do errands for me: Task Rabbit
My mommy used to sell my stuff at garage sales: OfferUp
Due process is not a "small technicality".

If you can be charged with a crime, but the standard of proof is significantly lower than what it normally is in a criminal trial, that's a very bad thing with large potential for abuse, no matter how you slice it.
If they say no to the real thing, the site can't ask again. But of course they can present the fake one on every page as many times as they want until the user acquiesces. So once they click "yes" on the mini dialog, the page opens the real permissions dialog, because you can be much more certain that they'll allow it.

Good TC article on the practice: https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/04/the-right-way-to-ask-users...
You make a very good point, and my problem with McKinsey study was its bundling of various industries without subsequent breakdown by field. While it seems natural that customer-facing enterprises benefit from diversity (sales people, nurses, customer support), where a customer might seek out a familiar face, the analogy seems to stretch when you stretch it to other areas (tractor manufacturing, winemaking, etc.)

P.S. The McKinsey article is behind a wall, not paywall, just a registered account with mckinsey.com
> But I trust Moxie a lot

What does trust have to do with this? The trade-off has been clearly explained. As it stands, WhatsApp is great for protecting sexts and low value conversations if you're not famous (99.99% of everyone), but if you're snowden, or hillary, there is no protection - contrary to what has been advertised.
> How about we put a distinctive icon in the trusted zones, which the renderer won't allow under any circumstances in the untrusted area.

So in the blogpost announcing this distinctive icon, what does the screenshot look like?
Your dismissive tone is not warranted.

Look into the 20-point list the IRS uses to make the W2/1099 distinction yourself, and you'll find Uber drivers as far (or further) to the "contractor" side as many yellow-car cabbies are.
> I should never see an "access denied" error on a host I control, unless I misconfigured it.

What do you mean? Even stock UNIX will give a permission denied error if you try to run an executable without `chmod +x`-ing it or `rm -rf /boot` as a regular user.
I wasn't suggesting that the beneficiaries would be named plaintiffs, but that in order for the state to sue a red-light runner for running a red light, the state has to be a plaintiff, and if they cannot prove any injury from someone running a red light, then they have no standing to sue.

Apologies if I didn't make that clear in my earlier posts.
About 15% of my gaming guild has either rift or oculus. A guy at my 100 person office picked it up over christmas. Basically 100% of gamers say they want VR at least eventually - they at worst think that the current tech is cumbersome (wires or space concerns) or that there aren't compelling games out yet. Contrary to your reasoning that "most people don't want this", I find that everybody does want VR. How do you reconcile this?
Misbehaving binary and no source?

xxd -> vi -> xxd -r

Fierce. Love it.
From the release page:

"Please note that this update does not constitute a new version of Debian 8 but only updates some of the packages included. There is no need to throw away old "jessie" CDs or DVDs but only to update via an up-to-date Debian mirror after an installation, to cause any out of date packages to be updated."
PowerRay drone can track fish underwater – and even drag your hook to them
This is a great point! Because of google services being blocked in China, the play store is unavailable so people download their apps ('A-P-Ps' if talking to someone in China) via 3rd party sites. Trying to become a substantial app distributor is a nice idea but also very difficult between Apple have a locked down platform and serious competition from antimalware companies and others who already have a solid foothold in this space, but I can certainly see the value in trying.
Not the best text, no.
I think they mean "SELinux was stopping this vulnerability from being exploited before it was even discovered."
I don't understand H1B visa program. Shouldn't we be forcing the H1B grantees to become citizens? Instead, we're training them on how to be a modern tech worker, and then shipping them back to where they came once the job is over (assuming that they can't line up another company to foot the legal bills of taking over their visa).

Why? We have 700,000 new citizens every year. Let's make H1B part of the path-to-citizenship... either they're a citizen within 2 years, or they're done. It'll add 10% increase to citizens every year, but these will be high-salary, well-trained, employed citizens.
Relevant for those who are interested in the topic:
Two rather unusual interpretations if quantum mechanics:

- De Brogle-Bohm theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Broglie%E2%80%93Bohm_theory

- Gerard 't Hooft - The Cellular Automaton Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.1548 (see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdeterminism)
:-) I'm sure they were a better read.
Not likely tape. Looks like evidence points to BXDL

https://storagemojo.com/2014/04/25/amazons-glacier-secret-bd...
> Swap the knife with a gun. You're probably an accessory to murder.

No, you're not, unless you (or rather, a rational person in your place) had a reason to believe that the person you lent it to was going to commit a crime with it, and the fact that you knew can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.

And that is how it should be.
Seems like an odd thing to say if you're running for governor:

"At one point, Thiel said, perhaps jokingly, that he’d be “fine” with California seceding. “I think it would be good for California, good for the rest of the country. It would help Mr. Trump’s re-election campaign,” he added."
Government votes to ban real fish in sea, replace with robot fish
That only works if $HISTCONTROL includes "ignorespace" or "ignoreboth".
As the article notes, He supports #calexit the California Independence Movement. I wonder if he's really making a play for President of California.
Why? Did the democrats not know how it works? Were they aiming for the popular vote?
It saddens me that y'all seem to think that Obama and his people somehow stand for the left wing in the United States.

We have a small, but distinct left wing here. You can find it in magazines like Jacobin or Current Affairs. You can find it in many backers of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Or in Occupy.

But Obama? The left in the United States has spent eight years yelling bloody murder about his spying, his favors to the banksters, and his corporate giveaways. Obama's era has feature apthe combination of "not fighting hard for the good stuff he says he wants" and "fighting very hard for the bad stuff he wants". Don't lump him in with us.
Like most mind altering drugs the effects are relative to your personality and mood when you take them.
That is the sense I got from the Legal Immigrant Advocacy groups who directly worked with DC Immigration Officials.
There should be good companies and attorneys (for e.g., Murthy, etc.) probably they are out numbered?

P.S: I did provide the twitter handle of fwd.us for anyone not convinced to verify
True, but establishing residency is at least some barrier against exploitation. I suppose it sorta breaks down when you try to determine whether a homeless person is a resident of the state. :/
I liked Gruber's take [1], commenting on the NYT interview [2]:

"Peter Thiel may well be smart, but he’s also dangerously foolish and solipsistic. You have to be a reckless fool to be that smart and get into any car without wearing a seatbelt, let alone a McLaren being driven by a daredevil like Musk."

[1] http://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/01/12/dowd-thiel

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/fashion/peter-thiel-donal...
Were bad != are bad now

I am no moral relativist when it comes to civilizations: some are more humane than others.

On the other hand, how is it fair to judge a person or persons based off of their ancestors' actions?
Isn't the restriction on investing in IPOs imposed by banks and not the government? You're just not going to get an allocation if you're not a "good customer".
I aded this to page: BTW This is not saying we will not teach you. We still want you to apply. And installing linux on your pc is a great first assignment. Seriously, our teaching style is we through you into a working web company as an intern. If you were to show up for your first day with a windows laptop, your very first assignment would be put linux on it. You will learn a lot doing this. But this thread on hackernews makes it seem like I hate windows people and don't want to teach them. This is not true. Just complete assignment 1 and you can apply.
Windows 10 lets you pick a "custom accent color," and it allows you to make a few other custom tweaks as well (should the titlebar be white or colored?).

Since this is part of the initial setup wizard, I think it would be pretty hard to fake a Windows 10 dialog from inside a web browser.
I saw an example of that with shellscript files you're supposed to run with 'curl http://example.com/script.sh | sh' or something, where if you pipe it to cat instead, it looks harmless enough, because it contains control characters that erase the dangerous parts. So you have to download the script, and load it up in an editor before you can see what it actually does.

...which of course is so much work that noone does it.