skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have a lot of sympathy for this man's problems. When you're making your billions from the corruption in the Chinese state, you run the risk of ending up on the wrong side of it. It's no different than any other organized crime.

I will be very surprised if Canada does or says anything of significance, given that these people are politically unpopular and causing issues for British Columbia. China has all the power here. The best I imagine he will get is a diplomat to issue a strongly worded protest that has no teeth.
Is this an industry changing technology? tell us what you think :)
The combination of relationships with Thiel and the ACLU sets a great example and creates tremendous potential for significant progress on issues.

Great mention for Watsi, I'm a fan.
There are tons of of them. Might not be flashy but they're definitely out there. A lot of B2B software is Java/.Net.
Really misleading title, and it's the title of the linked article. I don't see a way to parse the actual title to mean the author only saw 70 cents in profit.
This is right, it is quite easy if you know the procedure.

However, no brake system is perfectly water right because it has moving parts. Flushing the system periodically removes this moisture before it can accumulate to a level that will cause significant corrosion of the internal brake parts.
I think it would be much cheaper and more effective to just auction the the slots (by how much the employer is willing to pay the employee); otherwise, you're just in a quagmire of "is this really a startup for purposes of the exemption", "is this person's role really close enough to Deep Learning Expert", "is this really what similar workers" make, etc -- a hundred loopholes to exploit.
I'm interested in this idea, but I'm not sure exactly what to suggest that companies do. Can you recommend some guidelines on how to treat user data that will reduce the harm caused by the way startups currently treat user data?
How is ACLU involved with my rights?
100℅ this. There are literally millions of news sites where you can go talk about politics all day. I really like the fact that HN stays out of it.
H1B holders don't have student loans

argument fails. you can rent, max out your 401k, and enjoy all the frivolousness you want on a 130k salary. downpayment? yeah not gonna happen. better off than 95% of the population? immediately gonna happen.
Heads-up: This going to be a long-ish, semi-OT rant:

To be honest, I feel kind of dumb these days. How I hate admitting that.

I read all the outrageous things Trump said during the Primaries and his election campaign, and I did not really take them seriously, or him. Otto von Bismarck, a German politician once said (or at least I've seen the quote attributed to him, but it seems like something he would say): "People never lie as much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt." I was hoping that if he got elected, Trump would turn it down a notch. I mean, damn, for once a politician does as she/he promised to, and it's gotta be this guy.

What makes me feel dumb is that I could have seen it coming. There's enough people that said so. Smart people, smarter than me, certainly. I hate pulling a Godwin, but I fear lots of people in Germany must have felt like this after you-know-who rose to power. It's scary.

And I am a German, living in Germany. Let me point out, as an example, that guy in Hungary, whose name I keep forgetting. Hungary is much closer than any US territory (unless you count the military bases in Germany), and quite frankly, I don't really give a damn who is president of Hungary. Or prime minister or whatever.

With the USA, it is different. They are the most powerful country on earth, for better or worse. The risk of a military confrontation with Russia is going to be a lot lower than with Hillary, I think. But that seems to be about the only glimmer of hope[1]. Besides that, Trump turns out to be even more disgusting than I would have expected.

Y Combinator got quite a bit of flak when Peter Thiel donated more money to Trump's campaign than some people make in a lifetime, and with good reason, IMHO. So at least it's good to read about this. I hope the ACLU makes the best of this and makes life as uncomfortable for Trump and his circle of "advisors" as they are able to within the boundaries laid down in the US constitution.

The world has seen much worse people than Trump come and go, and in the long run it's all water under the bridge. But in the short run, people have suffered and died in quantities that boggle the mind. Let's hope the world gets lucky this time.

[1] 'bout the only other positive aspect I can make out right now is that reading the news is not going to get boring anytime soon.
Regarding the Fake News section and trust in media.

I would love to see a tool or company that holds the mainstream news sources accountable. Over the last two days the major news sources have been pushing a blatantly false "truth" ("Muslim Ban"). Intention of this post is not to get into a political discussion of this!

Every time I, as a heavy news consumer, see the BBC, NYT etc push a story which I know to be false or extremely misleading, I lose more and more trust.

I value the benefits that the mainstream press provides (checking sources, editorial discretion etc), but as I see more and more fake or misleading stories, I lose trust. I think this is a common feeling across many in the West.

edit: Could someone also clarify if these are intended for US only? I have a couple of ideas in mind for the UK which has a great amount of open source data regarding Gov.

edit edit: Apologies for mods if my example has derailed this thread a bit. Just used an example fresh in our minds.
I dont believe that's an accurate assessment. If the grandparent wants to run a one off container with reproducible results, something like docker-compose is perfect. If he wants to run a multi-node microservices architecture then the story gets more complicated.
The hard truth is that nobody loves voluntary slaves, and even less of all - their masters.

> These people make it seem like employment-based immigration is not as respectable or legitimate, compared to refugee/asylum and family-based immigration.
> Participating in YC is assenting to American capitalism and working to enrich YC investors, which is a political act.

With a number of layers of indirection, maybe. Capitalism is a system of economic organisation and is not inherently political. The wide variety of both left-leaning and right-leaning capitalist countries speaks to that.

what I mean when I say political is overt politics. You can argue that "the personal is political" or "everything is political" but there's a considerable difference in granularity between agreeing to work with a libertarian or trying to improve the healthcare industry, and donating money to an anti-Trump cause. Donating to the ACLU is an act of political affiliation given their recent spotlight, whereas simply agreeing to work with Thiel or employing a H1B worker is an economic act in the frame of capitalism.
what are units of load average?
Is there a word for when a mass movement rejects a service because of hype, and then comes crawling back looking like a fool later? That is what is happening here. Kind of cringe.
Right, so if I (and many reporters with much experience covering executive orders) read this correctly it was not vetted by the DOJ. It had the correct "formatting" of an executive order, but no check was performed by the OLC on whether it violates standing law.

I mean the DHS and other involved departments were also not consulted, so the idea that the DOJ got to weigh in on the legality is pretty strange/implausble.
To me its clear its about the surge pricing. Because it means they weren't neutral, they picked their side against the taxi-drivers solidarity when they opted to undercut the strike by making a promotion for the passengers. How is this hard to understand? Lyft may have not joined they strike and nobody expects a business to not behave like a business(in the sense: make some press release stating a position or something but operate normally or just don't get involved or do it indirectly like Lyft did of making a donation etc) but they did remained neutral instead of going the disgusting-profitteer-pig-Ill-try-to-win-some-regardless-of-anything way of uber. It's so damn simple.
People receiving UBI still have time to work on useful stuff. That makes it completely different from the keynesianist digging and covering of holes.
Yes, it is a native file system optimized for large number of containers (clones), sharing read only image layers. LCFS also understands the ephemeral nature of data stored in /var/lib/docker and avoids some of the complexities seen in general purpose file systems.
A lot of people don't understand this concept.

People even apply it on a more local level, like "why don't Amazon and MS hire more UW grads instead of bringing in transplants from all over the country?"

Amazon could hire 50% of UW CS grads and MS the other 50% and it wouldn't be enough to fill their needs.
The "right" hates the idea of a minimum wage.
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While every issue you mentioned is important, the very discussion we're having starts with a base assumption that we live in a society governed by the rule of law. Coupled with the reality that YCombinator is not the Gates Foundation and has a finite amount of money and resources with which to attack problems, helping the ACLU seems to me a brilliant move by YC, to make the largest positive difference possible.
Are you not the one dragging mysogyny into the conversation? There's nothing wrong with a 17 year old speaking in this fashion and GP didn't say there was. They only said journalists shouldn't.

They also implied it's more commonly found among females. Again, only a comment on what they perceive; there's nothing illegal or unexpected with a 17 year old saying "like, omg, freaks out".
Not sure what you mean by cross pattern but most cars have their braking system split up into two systems that are diagonally opposite. This way a failure in one only results in a loss of 50% of braking instead of up to 80% if the front fails. The cross bleeding is done to maintain the balance in the system and prevent the sensors from improperly detecting a failure in the brake system.
this culture of abusing your workers spills out into the US workforce as well. i've known people (us citizens) who have had to send lawyer letters to get their invoices paid by these consultancy firms, who aren't used to getting pushback from their servants. sometimes in the tens of thousands of dollars for high end work.

of course the bad behavior stops immediately when they get a nice little letter with an american law firm's name at the top of it.

they're scumbags.
Yeah, I was wondering about that too. They're not a startup... they've been around way longer that YC.

I'm fine with YC supporting the ACLU in some way (financially or whatever), but... are they going to release an app or service? What's the angle here?
What are the advantages of Céu over other synchronous programming languages such as Esterel and Lustre?
Public officials should speak at about a third grade level, because they need to communicate with all of their constituents. Above that level, you are basically saying "I don't care that 20% of people in my constituency can't understand me". https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/p/3/005/0b0/31d/1906029.jpg

A public official who speaks like a college professor is being an asshole, and not a good representative.
The difference isn't entirely rational, it's that one is a sudden shock and one is (a horrifying) normal.

When something is new and shocking, immediate extensive resistance can blunt the impact of new policies. That would work in the case of horrifying normal situations too, but there's no universal focal point, and focal points around which people can gather matter a lot. Given the existence of a focal point, it becomes rational to protest since others will join you.
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>What we use: Create a one time use secret that is destroyed after the image is built and before it is pushed.

This approach has sparked my interest, could you post an example of any open source docker-compose file and/or associated scripts that would do this?
That is being thrown around a lot and actually isn't true. Thiel did not accidentally back Trump and backing Trump isn't contradictory with being a libertarian. (However, claiming that Trump is perfectly adheres to libertarian principles would be.)

Compare Donald Trump to Ron and Rand Paul, which are the prime examples of what libertarianism is (unlike Gary Johnson), there is a lot of overlap: free market healthcare, strong borders, deportation of illegal aliens, deregulations, tax cuts and tax code simplifications. There are disagreements on free trade (and please note that TPP is "free trade", not free trade) and NSA spying.
Basically USA has long history of suing Indian companies which competes with their product in Indian market.Some examples..
(1) The US Said India's Solar Power Plan Discriminates Against American Companies — And the WTO Agrees - https://news.vice.com/article/the-us-said-indias-solar-power...

(2) Indian pharma companies legally trying to make cheap generic version. Nope, big boss USA doesn't like it because it is against 'globalization'.

Pfizer Inc. (PFE) Keeps Suing Generics Makers In India
http://www.ibtimes.com/pfizer-inc-pfe-keeps-suing-generics-m...

and the list goes on.

But when Indian companies tries to compete in the market by providing cheap services, Nope. Sorry, Can't do.

Basically the post world war II history is all about enacting the laws to the maintain the hegemony of selected few elite countries. S. Korea and Japan were lucky in that regards as sympathy of west was on their side but emerging countries like China, India and Brazil are screwed.
What's your source on those new grad numbers?

My total comp was above $100k as a new grad at Amazon, and I think they pay less than Bay Area companies. Plus, that was three and a half years ago.
If you're concerned about jobs and democracy, open an office in a swing state. The way the us electoral system is organized, every young educated person who moves from the heartland to California is a vote for Trump.

Alternately find some way to get uneducated heartlanders to move to Fresno or something.

Also it would help if you show just the smallest amount of empathy people in the U.S. who don't live in one of two half states. (i.e. people whose tax dollars benefit Stanford and the origin of Silicon Valley in defense contracting, people who buy your products, whose stock market investments make it possible for you to get rich, etc.)
Anybody who wants to have a balanced view of ACLU should try to investigate for himself about the connections between the Muslim Brotherhood, an organization with a published goal to dismantle democracy once it democratically gains enough power, and ACLU.
I would whole heartily agree with this. I see a lack of company delegation and trust to give Ownership over to its people when those people are full well, if not more than the company, able to make the important decisions. Ownership and Owning it, whatever it may be (project, product, architecture, etc) is important to driving self improvement for people and advancing their careers. I think it is great that you acknowledge this and feel this way. I hope that your company realizes it and values your drive, opinions, and decisions.
It's easier to complain than it is to fix, but I also think that's why people don't offer solutions more readily. Solutions are iterative and difficult. If you offer small solutions you put yourself out there to be criticized for the solution not being enough, and if you offer large ones, you open yourself up to criticism that the solution is unrealistic. This is why so few people go into politics and why it can be so dysfunctional in a hyper connected society. All is criticism.
I like what New Story is doing. I was born in Haiti. But I'm asking about San Francisco. Seems like a lot of companies talk about helping poor countries, but here in America it's a different thing. Living in a different country you would think homelessness is non-existent in America.

I think there is a danger when powerful companies start going all political and throwing money at a problem instead of talking and discussions. You get 2 sides that keep pulling against each other and it becomes a matter of who has the most money!
This is why people say all lives matter. Because nowadays the black thing is priority. no matter how serious other people's problems are, other people just get ignored because blacks always get attentions.
But opponents, including Pai, said that Wheeler’s proposal would interfere with arrangements that networks make with distributors about advertising, security, and channel placement, among other things.

Well as long as everyone but consumers are covered. I know he was controversial when he joined the FCC but given his track record I think we're going to really miss Tom Wheeler.
>Coincidentally those who criticize it never offer alternative realistic solutions.

The choice to depict, say, Sanders' proposals as unrealistic by straw manning them was a deliberate political attack:

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2016/01/22/What-Libera...

Unfortunately the average Democrat primary voter didn't dig into the substance of the attack well enough to realize that it was essentially bullshit. They simply believed Krugman's lies.

The voters wanted a change from the status quo.

And that is why Trump is now your president.

A similar dynamic is now occurring in the UK. Corbyn's ideas (e.g. rail nationalization/pay caps) are routinely depicted as unrealistic. If people continue to believe those lies, the far right will be seen instead as the 'viable' alternative.

The same kinds of economists who declare pay caps unrealistic and are weirdly enough absolutely blind to unsustainable build ups of debt causing financial crises but pretend that magic robots are about to put 80% of us out of work in the next ten years. That's "realistic" I suppose.
I was sure I would never use it but it is quite amazing how fast my behaviour changed. After couple of days I was scrolling down webpages with my finger instead. Now, It feels so old and unnatural to have laptop without touch screen.
Trump did this before Bannon ever came on.
It's not like Tesla has a bunch of spare Teslas to give out as loaners.

The Russian military during WWI also underestimated wastage of its rifles. (~800000 a month) They were building rifles as fast as they could. In fact, they were stressing their resources so hard, they took up all their gunsmith/worker manpower and were unable to repair broken weapons sent back to the factories, which only exacerbated their problem.

It could be that they feel they've already made their reputation, and that more profit is now their priority. In other words, it seems that they no longer think they have to give amazing service. I think that would be a bad policy move for them. They still have to be better than all the internal combustion engine cars out there.
I don't want to get too into this, but are you saying that calling the immigration order "Muslim Ban" is a false truth? I am really curious on why you think this?
A standing ovation for Ycombinator.May the grace and bless of God be with you all.Keep up the good work.
Yes, the chest will move very slightly in deep belly breathing. But no, this is not a trivial thing, the focus in breathing should be on the abdomen/belly, which is your center; not the chest, which is a source of tension, and especially full of tension if you're breathing up "into" your chest.

Again, this is not a trivial thing, and you can easily check good sources on breathing (e.g., for meditation, singing, running) that will describe how belly breathing works. Chest breathing is actually not proper breathing in any circumstance; it doesn't use the diaphragm (the muscle designed for breathing purposes); it creates tension and doesn't allow breathing in as much air as belly-breathing; it's something we develop in our too-fast, too-stressful, too-nervous society.

These are just two top results that turned up in search for 'chest breathing' and meditation, you could find many, many more:

http://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/meditation/in-dep...

https://yogainternational.com/article/view/diaphragmatic-bre...

https://www.blinn.edu/counseling/Relaxation-Techniques.pdf

As a related note, breathing is of paramount importance in singing, which like meditation requires proper relaxation and deep breathing. Learning to how to belly breathe and get rid of bad habit of chest-breathing is one of the first things you'll learn from any singing instructor.
It took >100,000 years for humans to spread across the globe. Reuniting them in a far shorter span of time was always going to be a messy process.

I'm not saying we're doing everything right, I'm just saying it's amazing that we're able to do it at all.
Well, if we are going by anecdotes, then all the H1B workers I know have been extremely talented, culturally assimilated, make more than 130k workers. Can you see why we don't rely simply on anecdotes in this forum?

I'm certainly not denying the existence of a problem. I am pointing out the flaw in your reasoning that simply raising the minimum salary will benefit American society (Businesses + Workers). It won't, because it will make them incapable of accessing the best talent at a reasonable rate.
I think you're reading too much into it. It was really a smartass comment about how people with degrees now do jobs that people who didn't even have high school diplomas used to do.
"70 cents [in revenue was enough to] put me on the Mac App Store Charts". No different from "100,000 downloads made me #1 on the list".
The content map is the dom, no? I can't see what you described ending up any less complex than what we have today.
> Mr. Xiao’s fortunes rose after his graduation from the university in 1990, where he had been head of the official student organization and stayed loyal to the government during the pro-democracy demonstrations in 1989.

This guy is Canadian and Antiguan in name only, he's Chinese-born and trying to use his resources to escape the government that created his wealth. Of all the human rights/border violations that China commits, this isn't a good poster child.
The billionaires increase the housing supply(see Cityplace) or are buying such high end properties that the worst they do is make life a bit more expensive in the Bridle Path.
Did some maths;

In London, the PM 2.5 per ug/m3 was 17.3 in October ( it was a high month )

According to the study, with those numbers we're talking about a 30 cubic centimeter reduction.
I have a friend that use to live in Orlando, the cost of living is about the same where I live (a major metropolitan city that's not on the west coast). If I were to join a startup as an software architect - the person whose decisions were going to make or break the company - I would be asking more than 130K. My skills aren't really that "specialized" in the grand scheme of things. If my expertise was going to make or break the company, $130K is not that much to ask.
Daimler to build cars for Uber
Heh, I did the same. The mine tracks though had the best coin-to-playtime ratio, so we focused on those :)
Funny how it is this exact blog post, every year, that really sets it in for me how fast the last year has gone by.

Thanks for that, I guess.
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A lot of it is the toxic Silicon Valley "everyone-is-a-rebel-rockstar-Ruby-hacker-with-purple-hair-and-a-skateboard" bullshit perpetuated image of what a "programmer" should be. A 50+ guy in nice slacks who is perhaps not even a (gasp) Bernie Sanders supporter might find himself out-of-place in the typical Silicon Valley shop.

It's a culture thing, not a skills thing.
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