skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are unstable docs for 1.3; they don't exist in today's Rust.
The fairly recent landmark decision in Browning-Ferris[1] should take a few steps toward curbing the abuses of this practice. Not only for H1B workers, but also for many of the kinds of people that tend to get -- in this commenter's words -- "scammed" by agencies. The problem is many workers coming in know little to nothing about current US employment law.

If you are building or working on something that is going on the "asset" side of a company's balance sheet, you are probably in a joint employer situation. And if you are in a joint employer situation, you need to be loud and clear about disparities. Which obviously exist when the middleman temp/outsource agency is shaving 35, 40, 50, X percent of your wages, benefits, whatever.

The theory here is that the company that was trying to save a few bucks by hiring "cheap" foreign help now has to account for the liabilities of being a joint employer: now legally defined to include the welfare of any workers being treated like slave labor by the firms they hire. So... maybe it's not really "cheaper" after all.

Makes a lot of sense.

[1] http://www.acc.com/legalresources/quickcounsel/joint-employe...
To tech employees of corporations whose upper management and/or shareholders have donated to Republican interests: how do you feel about that? If you vote Democratic and contribute to Democratic campaigns, how do you feel knowing that your work directly produced profits which could be used to significantly outspend you and your like-minded colleagues?

I rejected the Valley years ago because I saw the direction it was going in. I would like to hear from the people who are still there.
The EB5 program already exists which allows people to buy permanent residency. Anyone who wants to "buy a visa" can just do that with the full blessing of the government.
Close. In this case, they launched mostly south. Vandenberg was created to give the US a polar launch capability. You can't launch southbound from Florida, as the launch would pass right over Miami.
That a few companies use investor capital to screw customers and service providers alike says pretty much nothing about Silicon Valley. It is sad this guy saw an ad that offended him but why did he watch it in the first place?
Nice picture; could you hear it from that distance?

(I'm very jealous; I'd love to see a launch, but neither Switzerland nor the UK have functioning space programs, and French Guiana is a bit far too walk...)
I've been needing a toy project to dive a little bit more into AWS Lambda and IAM roles & policies.

Only been working on it since this morning so there's no auth and the pledges are create-only, but I'm gauging interest to see if it's worth developing further.

Stack is:

- Serverless Framework
- AWS Lambda: C#/.NET Core runtime
- DynamoDB
- S3 for site hosting
- A $10 bootstrap template

Source at https://github.com/FLGMwt/offset-trump
It can be hellish, but most haven't really worked outside the industry, so don't know anything different.
Depends on the reactor, but very roughly:

$500M on R&D
$3000M on construction
$1500M on permitting and regulatory

Construction delays and supply chain issues have been known to bring construction costs way up.
One that I learned from Mr. Robot: put a space before the command to avoid being registered in the history.
Interesting answer, makes sense. Whether a similar scheme would work across platforms is another question. Thanks.
Actually, since replacing Chimera with the EFI-compliant Clover boot loader, upgrades are a breeze. You can actually use Software Update to install point- and major- version releases just like on a real Mac.

The downside, since a Hackintosh requires the use of unsigned kernel modules, you can't run with module signing turned on.
The NY Times article says up front that tech companies donations in the Presidential race went overwhelmingly to Clinton. It's the House and Senate races where the rightward shift has occurred.
Have heard that before. Outside of software shops the experience seems to be much different than the picture painted by lurking HN posts.
Until someone actually creates a baseband chip, this is all makerspace wankery.

I wish these folks would go grab GNU Radio, a USRP/HackRF/whatever and design a baseband. I'd imagine a bunch of Chinese manufacturers would jump all over it and turn it into chips for them for free just so they could sell the chips.
Whether or not you are a fan of traffic cameras, traffic violations are in fact serious and should not be brushed off. The problem is, one day you make it easy for people to think it's ok to do 30 in a 25, then the next day they're doing 35, then 45 the next.

People don't think that way. The general thinking is 10-over is OK.
Looks interesting, how hard is it to get an invite?
Chinese Tech Giant's Office Party Featured Humiliating Simulated Blowjobs
yes, which is a hell of a lot more than people who work in tech, hence my point that these people don't choose this, it's thrust upon them by our flawed system which sees surplus value flow to the banks who create credit out of nothing to capture said surplus value.
I have been running hacktinoshes as my daily drivers since 2011. Certainly there are trade offs, but I am surprised I don't see more love for them here on HN given Apple's recent lackluster hardware offerings.
Why should Uber driver be considered employees but not taxi drivers driving for Yellow Cab? Pretty much all taxi drivers are independent contractors, and I don't see how they are different from Uber drivers.
Aussie here. This is an interesting contrast to what the state of blood donation and healthcare here is. I have never seen a for profit blood bank here. It's mainly one non for profit that takes blood donations.

I have often tried to donate blood but been turned away due to my height vs weight ratio ( im skinny and tall ). I think the desire to donate blood for nothing may come from the fact that we receive pretty much free healthcare ( you can pay for health insurance and get access to better doctors and shorter waiting lists ).

I've read many things on HN about healthcare in the pass and it always amazes me how much I take my countries health system for granted.

I have put on 10 kgs (22 lbs) since I last tried so maybe I will try again sometime.
The app was done by Apple, not by Google. Apple used the Google Maps API and that API doesn't allow turn by turn.

So no, Google did not screwed Apple, both companies didn't agree to for the terms to use the turn by turn.

That's all, none of them were guilty of anything.
You seem to be confused about the difference between "aspirated" and "voiced". Both these words are unaspirated for native English speakers.
> In the US compensation for donating blood is illegal

Not really: https://www.statnews.com/2016/01/22/paid-plasma-not-blood/
Do women receive more than 40% of degrees in CS (or CS, maths, engineering, physics which I think are the other degrees likely to feed into a programming job)? My estimate is that the figure is more likely to be 5-20%.
We aren't going to "get" a new left wing anytime soon. The neoliberal turn that most left-wing parties took was a direct result of the collapse of social democracy and citizen involvement in he 1970s, which resulted in the neoliberal market politics commonly attributed to Bill Clinton and Tony Blair.

If you want a new left wing, make it happen. Join a local board. Run for local office. Take part in your community. Be a part of something. But don't expect reading news or commenting on forums to change anything. After all, the shift from active citizen to passive consumer is what got us in this mess in the first place.

Adam Curtis has several phenominal documentaries regarding this shift over time. Particularly, "Century of the Self", "The Trap", and most recently, "HyperNormalization."
To be fair, documentation on SELinux sucks. Git is also complex, but there is a lot of good documentation. When I first tried to develop an SELinux policy it took me a month to learn. Too many things are undocumented, or are documented but not clear where.
Can someone give me some context? Who is rachelbythebay? I gather she is probably someone well known for her writing on software, tech culture, etc in the HN community, but I am not that immersed in the community(hence my ignorance). Thanks!
Wow, you would take this opportunity away from them?

As a father this situation would be horrible if my only chance to provide things for my daughter was taken away to "help" me:

"he was giving plasma because his daughter had a birthday, and he needed $7.50 to buy her a bathing suit and money for a cake"

Sure, you can say it would be better if the dad had some other opportunity available, but that's changing the subject. This is what he has right now, that gives him more happiness than anything in his life.
Without it, you would have people just buying their way into 6+ years in the country.
> Can I have a new left wing please? This one appears to be broken :(

I've been saying this since basically after Obama was elected.

I was a HUGE supporter of his, even in the democratic primaries. I donated to him, I was running local groups that were canvassing and phone banking to get him elected. I was ecstatic when he got elected (though I viewed it as a foregone conclusion, I didn't think McCain had a chance).

When it came to the governing, I was not really impressed. Basically from day 1, everything seemed stuck. He got a few things done (ACA though that's of dubious benefit, and was done in such a way that it became a political punching bag and can't get any reforms), but mostly in the first two years. After the 2010 midterms, this shit was just complete gridlock. You can blame whomever you want for the gridlock but a good leader builds compromise and ends gridlock.

I think there are two good examples of this. First, after sandy hook Obama promised that he would pass gun control legislation. Now, I do not agree with lots of things that he would like to do with such legislation, but, I do agree that there are some changes required. He has basically failed to pass any legislation around gun control and his response to that isn't to propose new legislation that can pass congress. His reaction was to go on national television and cry (literally) about his failure to pass gun control legislation.

I'm sorry, I don't want a damn leader who CRYS about their political failures. I know dead children is a sad subject, but, this is ultimately a political failure.

The 2nd one is Guantanamo. When he was campaigning one of his promises was to close Guantanamo, bring prisoners home and try them for their crimes. After 8 years, that has not happened and its become so politically untenable that he's basically letting these people out, without trying them at all. It is a mind-boggling

Withdrawing from Iraq/Afghanistan was another campaign promise that I was personally invested in too, but that is a far more complex one and though he doesn't get a pass from me on that as I have personal losses there, I acknowledge that its more complex.

I do not agree with lots of things that (old) republicans did (though I am hopeful about the new republican party of today), but they get shit done. They wanted to block (stupid) gun control legislation, they did. They wanted to block returning Guantanamo prisoners to the USA, they did.

Sometimes doing something, even if its not perfect, is more important than doing nothing, especially when you don't have a crystal ball and don't know what exact result specific actions/legislation will have. Move fast, break shit.
GEGL supports acceleration via OpenCL, so it's unfair to claim they haven't thought of performance at all. And AFAIK most plugins are already ported to GEGL, and the core seems to be done. I do agree that it took a lot of time, but I find it surprising that the project made any progress at all - whitout a few developers hired full time, aren't we too entitled to ask for such advanced features, and have them shipped quick as well?

There are very few sustainable free/open source projects, which have corporate or some other kind of backing - GNOME (redhat), Linux (linux foundation) and Blender (blender institute) are the only one that come to my mind.
Absolutely! In fact, I spent all of my first 18 years 9.5 miles from a PWR.

Nuclear reactors are currently saving lives, as we speak, by displacing air pollution deaths. By 2013, the world fleet of nukes had saved 1.8 million lives and displaced 65 billion tonnes CO2-eq [1]. Living near nukes is safe because you are more likely to be breathing clean air.

[1] http://cen.acs.org/articles/91/web/2013/04/Nuclear-Power-Pre...
Because remembering the password "horsebattery123" is way easier than "GFj27ef8%k$39"

One way I like to remember long yet high-entropy passwords is to memorise a long, somewhat nonsensical phrase and use characters from it. The reverse is also possible. E.g. that one could become "Gordon Freeman joins 27 electric fences 8% kills $39"
>It's not that rare. It happens anytime the other user gets a new phone, or re-installs WhatsApp.

That, and the messages also have to be sent while the user is offline, otherwise there is no vulnerability--assuming you enabled the currently available notifications. So I still believe it's a very rare circumstance and very few people would get "annoyed" by a notification/confirmation for that specific circumstance.

>It would be nice if they (optionally) offered you a choice to re-send the message, or discard it.

That's exactly what I had in mind.
Thanks. I've been able to catch a few launches over the years. (I even heard the Shuttle's sonic boom once.)

I didn't hear it going up but there was a loud rumble on the return. (Which I couldn't see from my vantage point.)
What exactly does parole mean in an immigration context? Would it threaten future visa/immigration options if you fail to renew?
I use Python for a significant amount of data munging. Dictionary comprehensions alone was worth the switch for me. When I started, pandas did not exist, so I had to develop everything from scratch.
I think that's a fair trade off. If people want to use Java and ruby together without having to worry about that precompilation step then there is still standard JRuby.

I really like the idea of TruffleRuby becoming its own super fast Ruby implementation unhindered by the need to provide the same feature set as JRuby.
Biases in Google's Staged Rollouts and Significance Testing
sell you something as persuade you? is this a bad thing?
Neat! Thanks! It was an artifact of the rendering that made it look westward, but I can absolutely see how it could have been South. Makes sense!
Whatever, man. Personal autarky is as inefficient an endeavour as the type practised by nations. Each man is as subject to the law of comparative advantage as a nation is.

This disparagement of 'mom-tech' is the nth iteration of the same anti-trade nonsense that people have tried to peddle since before we had economists we called economists.

My time is worth more to me than the other guy's time is to him. Stopping me from paying him is going to make both of us worse off.
Instead of ctrl-z and bg why not just do # <cmd> & to push it to the background.
You can also use :sh which just starts a new subshell in the terminal and puts you back in vim when you exit it.
> I like <lots of serfdom economy stuff elided>

The point isn't preventing YOU, the consumer, from doing this.

The point is that most people as the supplier aren't doing Uber, AirBnB, etc because they like it. They're doing it because they don't have any other good alternatives.

Most of the people on the supply side of the serfdom economy are gaining very little benefit. This is a real problem.
The article is about how SELinux helps in mitigating or even blocking paths that would lead to a working exploit.

The article explicitly states the CVE number and the fact that updated packages are available.

The article IMHO doesn't attack nor provoke Docker and its people. Yet the first comment posted here DOES contain direct accusations against Red Hat. I don't think that's helpful nor needed. That's all.

I still think that SELinux and Docker are a good combination and this article helps in understanding why.
Ahhh makes sense
> I think the desire to donate blood for nothing may come from the fact that we receive pretty much free healthcare ( you can pay for health insurance and get access to better doctors and shorter waiting lists ).

Whole blood donations are (almost always) uncompensated in the US as well. This article is referring to plasma donations, which are different and take longer.
Well you should apply the same criteria to yourself then and stop discussing the technology industry. If you're going to say that I have to be as knowledgable about every other city, country, municipality, or whatever, then you have to be knowledgeable about every university on the planet, every company, every hiring practice, every law, and every social/cultural norm, and that's just to get started. It's impossible to have complete knowledge of any topic, technology or otherwise, so your stringent criteria here for what constitutes the ability to discuss something, politics or economic trends or anything else is stringent enough that you basically can't discuss anything.

Anywho

What makes 50/50 gender balance "right"? What makes that desirable? The only arguments I'm seeing from anybody revolve around two things:

1. Diversity
2. The population is 50/50

If diversity is the aim, you have to come with some pretty convincing evidence that diversity = 50/50 male/female split.

If it's population, then you need to explain why technology has to have this split and not every industry, or at least explain why this is unique to technology.
Maybe one should look at it as

WhatsApp: decent security for non-techies, making routine mass surveillance much harder

Signal: even better security for techies
So how come you can't "donate" a kidney and be paid for your time on the operating table?
>Yeah, and microSD cards run at 3V3.

Err, yes. Hence the LDO regulators.

>The problem is that a phone usually has better filtering capacitors, which the Pi lacks and thus any noise from the power line directly goes from 5V down to 3V3.

The RPi has filtering capacitors. In general filtering capacitors are regular cheap X5R or X7R caps. They don't need to be anything special. Look at any LDO regulator datasheet.

> Oh, and people usually buy the 2-5$ range of power adaptors from Amazon

What does that have to do with the designers of the RPi? They don't have any control over which power supplies people buy.
> "unending hamster wheel of capitalism and technology", then certainly shutting up is a bad strategy

Whut? I'm not sure that has ever been effective at reversing course. Sometimes a society has changed course, but that's just because this message got lumped in with the have-nots, which is unrelated. This sentiment has never been satisfied, so I'll disagree that shutting up and moving on is a bad strategy. It's the ONLY strategy since it's tied to frontiersman thinking of having too much after enduring risk.
This could be really cool. Also your stack is rather interesting. Maybe people could pledge cash or votes or some combination to people whose pledges they admire. I envision someone protesting his stance on global warming by planting X number of trees in their say neighborhood by 2020 and then to say fund that people might donate. It could be outside the scope of your project though still it's really cool.
That requires quite a bit more money, at least $500,000. Yeah, people who have that kind of money can already buy a visa. But a visa-reselling scheme here could be much cheaper, targeting people who want to buy a visa for, say, $30,000. The fraudulent investor would structure their investment so they don't actually part with the purported investment money (depending on what checks are done, there are various ways to either hang on to the money or round-trip it), and just charges a fee for agreeing to pretend to invest and temporarily fronting the required investment money.
Web frameworks are rarely part of standard libraries. The closest I can think of is ASP.NET for C#.
Part of me wonders if the whole deal with Brendan Eich is a problem with tech or a problem with California. Would the same thing have happened if Mozilla operated out of New York or Seattle (let alone Denver or Austin)? And if not, at what point do the particular nuances of SV (such as political intolerance) become a burden not worth tolerating within the tech community?
Sounds like Rust follows in the tradition of C. Like you now always hear about hos C has no string type, just a bunch of char, will we hear in the future that, alas, Rust has no native support for grapheme clustering?
If you think someone is a bit of a local celebrity on HN, you can click the domain name on a story like this and see what their blog was submitted for. Usually useful information.
Since you're using C#, have you given Azure Functions a try? Also, I see some pretty nasty things starting to pile up there, so may be time for some moderation.
>The neoliberal turn that most left-wing parties took was a direct result of the collapse of social democracy and citizen involvement in he 1970s, which resulted in the neoliberal market politics commonly attributed to Bill Clinton and Tony Blair.

Oh come on. We all know that's not true. The citizens didn't turn neoliberal or particularly apathetic; the politicians did under the advice of economists who pushed neoliberalism as the solution to the oil crisis.

>If you want a new left wing, make it happen. Join a local board. Run for local office. Take part in your community. Be a part of something. But don't expect reading news or commenting on forums to change anything.

This I can agree with! Not just that, but provide names of organizations pushing a more "Old Left", social-democratic agenda. I belong to the first two of these as a dues-paying member and a volunteer, and we've been gaining hundreds of new members since the election. It's honestly like waking up from a bad dream: all of a sudden, the bread-and-butter issues (wages, housing, health-care, civil liberties) matter again, and the culture wars are getting sidelined.

* Democratic Socialists of America

* Our Revolution (started by Bernie Sanders)

* Socialist Alternative (more "party-line", worse at returning people's calls)

* The Berniecrats Network

* /r/Berniecrats and facebook/Berniecrats

* Jacobin magazine and its associated reading groups

For those looking for a more decent right-wing as well, I recommend Reason magazine, the Washington Monthly (especially this one, it's a hidden gem of a magazine), the Libertarian Party, the works of Henry George, and GK Chesterton's "distributivism".
Wouldn't a better defense be to not re-transmit messages encrypted with the new key unless the originating user clicks a button authorizing it AFTER they have been informed that the receiving user has a new key??
We order a lot from Amazon, have Prime, etc., but my impression is that there's been a noticeable decline in the quality of their services over the last couple of years. It's impossible to find what I want anymore unless I know exactly what I'm looking for, and I hear more and more cautionary tales like this. The speed of delivery has increased impressively, sure, and I've been happy with some of the returns I've dealt with, but more and more often they seem like a delivery service than a shopping outlet. It seems like I'm buying directly from manufacturers more often, as I feel more confident in what I'm getting, and the shipping usually isn't too different.
That feeling when you realize that without the side hustle, you'd have even less, because the rich get richer and the poor, well, they don't have cars.
If only there was a good-looking laptop...

I'm considering buying the MacBook Pro (without their retarded touchbar), but it costs over 1900EUR.

I would really love it if I could reliably run macOS on cheaper hardware.