skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The relevant paragraphs regarding this new 60-day grace period from the Federal Register:

"Under the final rule, DHS may also authorize a grace period of up to 60 days in the E-1, E-2, E-3, H-1B, H-1B1, L-1, and TN classifications during the period of petition validity (or other authorized validity period). See final 8 CFR 214.1(l)(2). In response to public comments, DHS is retaining this provision while adding the O-1 visa classification to the list of nonimmigrant classifications eligible for the 60-day grace period. To enhance job portability for these high-skilled nonimmigrants, this rule establishes a grace period for up to 60 consecutive days, or until the existing validity period ends, whichever is shorter, whenever employment ends for these individuals. The individual may not work during the grace period. An individual may benefit from the 60-day grace period multiple times during his or her total time in the United States; however, this grace period may only apply one time per authorized nonimmigrant validity period. DHS believes that limiting this grace period to one instance during each authorized validity period balances the interests of nonimmigrant flexibility with the need to prevent abuse of this provision.

This 60-day grace period further supports AC21's goals of providing improved certainty and stability to nonimmigrants who need to change jobs or employers. The 60-day grace period would provide needed flexibility to qualifying nonimmigrants who face termination of employment prior to the end of their petition validity periods. The grace period, for example, allows such nonimmigrants to remain in the United States without violating their status and potentially obtain new job offers from employers that seek to file new nonimmigrant petitions, and requests for an extension of stay, on their behalf. In such cases, even though prior employment may have terminated several weeks prior to the filing of the new petition, DHS may consider such an individual to have not violated his or her nonimmigrant status and allow that individual to extend his or her stay with a new petitioner, if otherwise eligible. If the new petition is granted, the individual may be eligible for an additional grace period of up to 60 days in connection with the new authorized validity period."

Finally, the final rule at 8 CFR 214.1(l)(3) makes clear that the nonimmigrant worker, during either a 10-day or 60-day grace period, may apply for and, if otherwise eligible, be granted an extension of stay or change of status. The beneficiary may also commence employment under H-1B portability per § 214.2(h)(2)(i)(H), discussed in some detail below, if otherwise eligible. To further effectuate the intended purpose of these provisions, DHS is also making clarifying edits to the regulatory text at § 214.1(l)(2), and (l)(3)."

Reference: It's in a Federal Register Document (Citation: 81 FR 82398), under Section G "Nonimmigrant Grace Periods", linked here: https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2016-27540/p-553

The document above states: "This final rule is effective January 17, 2017".
I think the CIA views easily accessible info as the problem, not the creation of the data. I don't think they are looking for a solution to make things more convenient.
A lot of food dyes contain TiO2. An interesting application of TiO2 is that it can be used to build dye sensitized solar cells.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22023080

Armed with this information a few of my classmates in undergrad and I built solar cells using tooth paste and powdered doughnuts as a source of TiO2 and anthocyanin (a dye found in raspberries) as the dye sensitizer. That's the most I've ever felt like McGyver
It's all confusing. From another part of the article: "TACC allows the vehicle adjust its speed based on the car ahead, decelerating or accelerating as needed."

So... it will decelerate, unless you are about to crash, then it will just chime?

I guess it all makes sense because, also from the article: "Though new Tesla cars have superior hardware (according to Tesla, at least), the software that runs on the system is still being worked on. "
Assigning blame to unsafe code
Massachusetts already passed a law that bars companies from asking potential hires about their salary history until after they've made an offer.

(The law is signed, but doesn't go into effect until June.)
Thanks for the paper, very interesting. All the below is total speculation as I am no 1%er ;).

Curious that there's such a sharp change in distributions. It seems like the top 1% participate in a very different sort of financial network than do the remaining 99%. Since the majority's wealth follows such a basic physical theory, their organization must be completely unstructured.

For the 1%, then, the question is what the structure is. It might be 'scale free' network [1], or fractal, so it could be due to preferential attachment [2], which would mean those who have lots of money find it easier to make more money (via things like investments or rent-taking), or due to competition between fit nodes [3], which would make sense in that those in the 1% are likely to be merging / acquiring others.

I guess what this means isn't too surprising: if you aren't in the 1% now, you need to claw your way in before you can take advantage of these network effects to grow your wealth in any meaningful way. If you aren't in the 1%, you might be successful, but it will be mostly due to luck.

But I wonder if the network effects can be taken advantage of without the wealth to start. Following this line of thinking [4], the wealth flows due to social networking, not due to financial networking. If you can connect with the 1%'s social sphere, you stand a much better chance at becoming a part of that financial class.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-free_network
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferential_attachment
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitness_model_(network_theory)
[4] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-effective-yet-efficie...
Clearly; yet it is encouraging that CREST finally ended up online.
(Interview) Encryption and Cryptography in Python
I recommend Feynmans's http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm
They can exit, but they would lose the richer part that stayed to trade in and buy their goods. It's a mess. The private creditors will probably want the opposite of exit, stability and more money, so they would be against any exits.
I agree completely. Of course, rather than rewrite the EU treaties or make exceptions for countries that want to leave the Eurozone, the more likely thing to happen will be the same thing that happened in the USA when a couple countries (see: states) wanted to leave the Union back in the 1800s.
1977 UK documentary on coming job losses due to technology
Not least because their militaries have so atrophied under the aegis of NATO that they would be scarce able to occupy a single province were a European war to break out.
It is well known if you are an immigrant. Daily conversation even. Also applying for jobs in a Country X, and 'Country's X work experience requirement'.
I always wonder why Etisalat or Du even bother to give advertisements.
As an aside, it's worth noting that we bother giving `a -> a` a name other than `a -> a` here because there are other monoids for things of similar forms and there's overlap. For instance, functions of the form `Monoid b => a -> b` can be combined by combining their output, and that gives us a different monoid with `const mempty` as the identity.
Spoken like an engineer. Oracle knows better than to allow engineers to be consulted during purchasing decisions.
As per HN Guidelines: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

In this case, the original source, which is much more informative, is:

http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/tsp/pubs/index.html
Why not Lumo?
Resume gives me a weird feeling because of their "star to use" system. On one hand it prevents abuse, which is fair. On the other it makes you star the project just to try it out, broadcasting to my followers that I used the system, creating an undeserved network effect.
Have you not seen the negative financial consequences Britain has experienced from Brexit? Their currency has lost its strength and companies are looking at moving out. It's not all sugar plum fairies and nationalism.
Greece ruined its own economy through corruption, nepotism and mass tax avoidance. They joined the Eurozone after re-submitting statistics 3 times. Does this[1] look like a healthy economy to you?

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Financial_Audit,_2004
I still hold hope to build something fun and interesting in Perl6 sometime in the next couple years.

Hyper-operators, advanced type declarations and all the goodness that makes Perl Perl is still attractive to me even after years of doing mostly Ruby (after about 10 years of mostly Perl).
I need a good hacker
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Because you have to get someone all the way to an offer until you know what their salary expectations are.

I think it's a good rule, but it is harder for managers. Especially managers who want to find a cheap hire.
EFF and Trump admin on same page on something? What is going on?
Hack Facebook Password
Hello everyone, Need hacking services?
contact: successhackers5@gmail.com
Be warned, most of these so called hackers here are impostors, I know how real hackers work, they never advertise themselves in such a credulous manners and they are always discrete. I’ve been scammed so many times out of desperation trying to find urgent help to change my school grades, finally my friend introduced me to a group of reliable hackers who work with discretion and delivers promptly, they do all kinds of hackings ranging from;
- Sales of Blank ATM cards.
- University or school grades changing
- Bank accounts hack and funds transfer
- Erase criminal records hack
- Facebook hack, Twitters hack
- email accounts hack, gmail, yahoomail, hotmail etc.
- Skype hack
- Databases hack
- Word Press Blogs hack
- Individual computers hack
- Control devices remotely hack
- Verified Paypal Accounts hack
- Android & iPhone Hack etc.
- Sales and supply of Hacking software.
But they helped me;
- Changed my school grades
- Hacked my cheating ass girlfriend email facebook
- The most of it all, they helped me with Western union money transfer and i tracked and confirm the money before i paid him their fees. I have made them my permanent hackers and you can as well enjoy their services.
You can contact them at
successhackers5@gmail.com
for any hacking services and also endeavor to spread the good news on how they helped you.
Good to know. Looks like more of a PR initiative then. Some of my servers have more drives than that. :-)
Like the inside of a tootsie pop the world me just never know.
Yeah, but they have to disseminate data and documents both internally, with sibling agencies (FBI, NSA, DoD), and to legislative and executive requests (Congressional panels, inspectors general). So, ideally they would have these best practices for sending secure documents in a reproducible/batch fashion, and reappropriate them to meet their legal obligations under FOIA.
>Not to mention, ruining their economy also ensures you won't get paid. Will private creditors stand for that?

No, it really doesn't. It may incite a war, but it won't ensure you don't get paid. See: post-WWI.
I read through the Gogs repo and there didn't seem to be any organized 'community' of users or talk of a fork. The author was away for a couple of weeks to come back to this news.

Is open source about contribution or just forking? At the moment it seems the the best way to open source is to be a well funded project with tons of resources and people specifically to manage the community because of intense expectations with projects declared dead even for one week of inactivity by some users.

What I am increasingly noticing with small teams or one man projects is if the project gains some popularity some 'community' folks pop up who first place an oppressive burden of expectations on the author and then try to fork the project. There is some element of misuse of the word 'community' by a small clique of people.

Why are community expectations so high, is continuous development and an ever expanding feature set the only way to develop? I think a culture of undue pressure is being created on open source authors and projects.
I alluded to this a little bit, but I'm happy to clarify further. As I mentioned, if the people want something - they will get it. We saw this with Snapchat. Facebook tried to squish them, buy them, then squish them again. They couldn't take them down. Same thing would have happened with Instagram if they didn't buy them.

Our workaround will be working with the networks we can. There are hundreds of messaging apps boasting over a million active users. If we can get half of the top 100, we become dangerous. Once we get that major market share, we start to make partnerships to get the integrations we couldn't before. While we do that, we will begin to unify other things like email, phone calls, and video chat.
Objectively, do you think the benefit to the greater good of people who can now be insured is worth the impact to people in situations such as yourself?
Haha I am always open to offers, but we plan to build this platform to 'Hootsuite status.'
We did not evolve in isolation, or cope well with it.

Find your tribe, whatever it may be, and you'll be happier.
I run TrueOS for my desktop, and the transition to OpenRC was fairly rocky. Eg, on the "stable" branch, the switch was made without openrc startup scripts for many services (mostly 3rd party), so after the update, stuff just didn't start.

The claim about startup time is a little disingenuous. The only time I ever reboot my system is for upgrades, and that process now takes a LOT longer, due to them doing the upgrade from a single-user sort of environment. For those unfamiliar, TrueOS uses OpenSolaris Boot Environments + ZFS, and an upgrade involves taking a zfs snapshot of the system, making a new fs based off the snap, and then doing the upgrade in the new filesystem. That all used to be done on-line. However, they ran into complaints from users that had, for example, deleted accounts between the upgrade happening & rebooting into the new bootenv. So they started doing the actual snapshot & upgrade in a single-user environment as part of the reboot. This makes the reboot downtime for an update take 10-15 minutes rather than 2, and greatly outweighs the small savings in startup time.
One of the best 'Talks at Google' via Michael Mauboussin "The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck"

Thesis: where absolute talent/skill is high, variance in relative talent is low, thus luck > skill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JLfqBsX5Lc
Hm...theoretically? The thing is, the broad zeitgeist of extremely profitable strategies changes over time. James Simons and Warren Buffett might as well be in different fields for how different their day to day work and peripheral market behavior were during their careers. That might be confounding, because on a long enough timeline all job functions become obsolete and have to change.

Other than that though, sure. Unfortunately it would be really difficult to examine empirically, which is why I use a 20-30 year slice of time.
Haha great point!
I think this was submitted because it was discovered on /r/programming
I understand he is not referring to the whole of the country's debt, but to the debt of the Italian central bank to the ECB accumulated through payments within the EU.

The country's debt would be converted to the new currency of the country if it has been issued under the local law of that country, which I think for Italy would pretty much always be the case. If it is issued under a foreign law, then it will be up to the courts of that foreign country to decide but it is likely they decide that euro means euro, not lira (except if the language in the debt says something like "euro or whatever is the legal currency in Rome"). In neither case would it mean an acceleration of the debt, which would only happen in a default.
Maybe we can talk privately? What's a good way to contact you?
As he studies economics he is probably aware of quarterly GDP growth rates across the EU, including 2016/7 + projections.

Or is GDP "sugar plum fairies and nationalism."?
Even a non-literate white nationalist clock is right twice a day.
Because if they are in fact just trolls, they aren't simple misapprehensions made in good faith that can be corrected by facts and reason. They're either an intentional derailment or a lie told as a catchy tune to be repeated by others. "Obama wants to take away your guns and institute death panels" can't actually be refuted by facts because the problem isn't that the teller just holds the wrong facts. There are no facts or arguments will make that person walk away with their mind changed.

Which one this commenter was is up to you, but actually responding to trolls makes the problem worse, not better. It's a case where only moderation can really help.

Besides, Hacker News is very clearly a heavily moderated echo chamber and you don't have to spend long here to know it. And there's nothing wrong with that, nobody is obligated to go to places that they don't want to go and this is an interest group with a culture. Accosting people in their interest groups to demand that they debate you is clearly not helpful to anyone.
Your preconceptions are collapsing.
Earlier VPN (which is illegal) was required to make Skype->Phone calls, otherwise the calls gets disconnected immediately after the other guy picks up. From last few months Skype->Phone calls are working without VPN in Etisalat elife connection.
What problem, precisely, are you attempting to solve? What right, precisely, are you attempting to defend? What makes that problem more important than the rights of a private association of people to their privacy and the security of their property? If you want to argue that the balance between two rights suggests that one right should override another, you should 1) identify both rights, and 2) explain why no possible approach exists that could preserve both. You haven't done (1), and you haven't made any case for a lack of alternatives.

Such communication (unlike the inspection of on-premises equipment and workplace safety, or the investigation of a possible crime) is already readily possible via any number of other means. You are, for instance, already free to stand just outside of such a campus and attempt to communicate with employees there. You can even get a pile of people together with picket signs, and if others agree with you you'll get plenty of sympathy. Employees who are already members of a union are also free to speak to other employees.

You are free to speak; you are not free to force others to listen, or to force others to provide you with a platform to speak from.

Trespassing on a private campus to tell people what organizations they should or shouldn't associate with seems approximately as appropriate (and about as welcome) as trespassing on a private campus to tell them who they should vote for, or to tell them about a product they should buy.

You'd have much better luck getting yet another mandatory notice added to the list of "conspicuously posted" notices, which would serve the same function of communication. On the other hand, what would you even have such a notice say? Those other notices exist to inform people about corresponding laws that exist.

(Strictly speaking, a government can attempt to pass a law giving itself any power it likes. For instance, a government could attempt to pass a law giving itself the power to enter a private residence for some random purpose it thinks important. Such laws can also be overturned by courts in defense of more important rights, such as freedom of association and private property. So saying that "a government could pass a law" doesn't actually constitute an argument.)

(Also worth noting: this entire argument relates solely to an attempt to imbue unions with the force of law and trample other rights in the process; it is unrelated to arguments for or against unions themselves.)
50 years would still put Mickey Mouse in the public domain.
We can learn a lot from the changing night sky
> I think it's a bit more than a communications issue when they secretly negotiated a treaty

Sure, but at least they made this cartoon to help the plebs see the light:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtNfLixcJO4
It's rarely a high-quality discussion when people who loudly profess their contempt for serious students and practitioners of the social sciences and humanities go on to make broad, confident claims about international relations, economics, and political philosophy.

It's like a homeopathy forum discussing a medical research paper.
It's not the party's decision, is it? It's decided by the state's election laws.
this is a little unrelated but does anyone know where i can find articles or reports that delve into the substance of the podesta emails rather than the circumstances surrounding the podesta emails? ive been looking all day and i can literally count on one hand the number of articles that report on the contents of the emails. and those dont even go very deep!
It is bizarre that so many people tolerate this behavior by employers yet also cling to ideas about compensation being linked to the value of the work being performed (things like 'work hard and you will make more'). If compensation is determined based primarily upon the value of the work being done, prior salary could not be more irrelevant.

But of course, what people are paid has nothing to do with the value of their work any longer. Computers and software unfortunately make that socially untenable. They make employees so abundantly productive, and increase that productivity so quickly, that it would have to translate into very high salaries and high annual raises for many, if not most, employees. It doesn't take a genius to look at the average profitability of corporations overall since 1980 to see the meteoric rise coupled with total wage stagnation for non-executives.

Get 2% more productive, then a 2% raise is acceptable. Get 100% more productive, then a comparable raise is unacceptable. Especially if "the computer is doing all the work."
Trump's cybersecurity tsar Giuliani hacked, passwords leaked
We'll need to conduct a poll to see what people think about this... oh wait.