skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might find Cap n Proto more interesting. It was the successor to Protobuf from the main author of it.

https://capnproto.org/
Typically they buy land up in like Aurora/Stouffville and build their mansion there.

>There is only one market for housing - over-paying at the top end causes a ripple effect which impacts everyone.

This is wrong. There are lots of housing markets at all levels of cost and very few of them overlap. On the higher end if you can't buy your mansion in the area you want you're not going to be content with a slightly oversized house elsewhere.

>Aside from that, a lot of foreign money is buying existing property and not adding to the supply.

Maybe(reports indicate this is way below the level most Canadians think it is) but this isn't the billionaire class. They have too much money to get away with buying a bunch of houses. They have better ways to invest in property in Canada.
Hoare left Mozilla over 3 years ago.
Only works if you have enforceable non-compete contracts to prevent your workers from leaving after you trained them, since most employers will pay a premium to get workers who are already trained and the original employer will pretty much never give salary bumps that high year-over-year since it would quickly bankrupt them.

Non-compete clauses are unenforceable in California exactly because it's desirable in a macroeconomic sense for employees to spread their skills throughout all the businesses in the economic cluster by osmosis. Bringing back non-competes to deal with a lack of talent (especially when that talent exists, it's just abroad) is regressive.

Companies are just going to focus on remote-only work cultures until Trump forbids outsourcing work overseas altogether.
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Like you say, that's especially true at the local level.

So I don't know what the answer is, but I don't think it's "just" removing the "costly signal".
> given that these people are politically unpopular and causing issues for British Columbia.

so who are you speaking for when you use the blanket term "these people"? Are Chinese Born Canadians and other East Asian Canadians included in your labels?

I'm seeing more and more of these anti-Chinese comments popping up on reddit /r/vancouver and frankly annoyed to see similar fear mongering and FUD spreading fake comments outside of that cesspool of bitter and shut in crowd.

What the hell does British Columbia have to do with this man? He made his money in China and he got kidnapped. What possible blame do you place on this person or the government of BC? As far as I am aware, Canada has never successfully extracted hostages or expats in physical trouble by foreign government or militias.

There's no Seal Team Six and CSIS really isn't tasked with Jason Bourne styled missions which you are thinking of.
Oh, you run it at the full 4K (3840x2160) resolution? Must have good eyes.

Right, nothing works unless you label the relevant HDMI input "PC".
Do you mind expanding on why it's even more dangerous than Trump?
To my knowledge, the number of non-profit hospitals is definitely getting smaller. This can affect the amount of indigent care significantly. I've heard of for-profit hospitals that cut maternity/OB-GYN services because the number of non-paying patients giving birth cut into their bottom line significantly.
my two seagate drives in my nas failed, one in 09/16 and one 01/17. thank god for raid. i replaced them with bigger seagate drives. maybee i should not.
Phineas Fisher “might” have been arrested by Spanish Police
The ACLU is always active and protecting our rights, I do get the crying wolf fatigue and impression that a lot of this might seem questionable, but right now I think a lot of people are more motivated as this is not an issue of one specific group being targeted/needing help, but the very idea of democracy in America that is under attack by this administration. It is something they have publicly said (trump and bannon), everyone who believes in the constitution should be very worried at what is going on.

Hopefully we are all wrong and overreacting, but if trump has shown one thing it is that you should take what he says literally, and if you pay attention to what he and bannon have said you should be worried, no matter your political leaning or origin.

And that to me means we can't afford to get cynical on people's motives that are reacting to what is going on. So good on YC for doing this now.
In a few countries like Kenya and Tanzania, this concept is already in use and is extremely widespread. A LOT of people use this system instead of having a bank account. They even use it to pay bills and buy things at stores.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa
> Firstly, yes, there are a lot of consulting firms

That's true, there are a lot of consulting firms like Tata/Infosys/Wipro that use up a large chunk of the available H-1B visas. They only pay their workers like $80,000 on average, and almost never sponsor a green card. The other thing is that a big chunk (like >50%) of the people at these firms are on visas. I'd like to see a solution that limits that sort of use, and instead provides visas to more legitimate companies, without making it impossible for immigrant students to stay in the country.

One possible solution might be to require higher wages if more than 20% of the employees are on visas. At most of the companies I worked, at least 80% of my coworkers were Americans. But at the same time, I've heard that a high percentage of developers Facebook and Google are on visas. Simply requiring that companies higher wages if more than like 20% of their workforce are on visas, would end the use by consulting firms that are heavily staffed by H-1B workers. It also would not completely shut the door on immigrant students looking for a job after they graduate.

> Tying someone's immigration status to the actions of a single employer makes even basic negotiations like "this work environment is terrible"

This is a misconception. I can change jobs to any employer that is willing to do an H-1B visa transfer. Of course, it reduces the set of companies I can work for, but in tech, most companies will transfer your visa. Another fact is that, before January 17, 2017, you couldn't have gaps in employment, and had to find a new job while working. But this has been fixed, and now H-1B visa holders can quit freely, and have 60 days to find a new H-1B employer. I've pointed it out here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13452381

In addition, I have been in the exact situation you described -- i.e. "this work environment is terrible". This was before the 60-day rule came into effect, and I actually quit my job anyways. I lost my legal status in the country as a result, but it really wasn't that big of a deal. I just had to do find a new job, fly out of the country, and re-enter, to regain my legal status (and start my new job). I've explained what I did in detail, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13361827
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Also keep in mind that they have to use very little funding to fight innumerable injustices that have already happened and those that will potentially happen. Its incredibly tough as others have said on other fronts, but from a fiscal perspective its amazing they are able to do as much as they have.
I think there are two major ways liberals and conservatives think. Liberals tend to come up with solutions to problems they see over and over again. Conservatives are more like, hey look at Joe, he needs some help, can someone get him food and see why he's doing so poorly.

It's odd, but when you think about systems vs single solutions, liberals like to think of the "systemic solution" so it doesn't happen again. A Factory explodes? Regulation is the answer. A baby is switched at birth? We need much more complicated computer systems to track babies. etc...

Conservatives are more like, oh shit, that WONT happen again, we promise. And likely it doesn't or rarely does.

I'm not really arguing which of these routes is better here, but I see more and more that these opposite ways of thinking is the crux of our anti-trusting of the other side. I think the only way they will is if we, as a people, try to sit in each other's shoes more.

What's funny as an interesting parable, I see the liberal route of making rules (to save lives, stop mis-matched babies) as procedural/imperative programming.

The conservative route of simply fixing the problems that went wrong as a social fix as a machine learning.
I wasn't really even thinking about "command and control framework". More about the culture of Star Trek universe - "the future based on science, health, the arts, and shared prosperity", where people respect science, competence, teamwork and humanitarian values.

One thing I always loved about Star Trek worldview is that characters in the show always believe people they meet are competent at what they do, instead of assuming that they're working with morons. Ditto for the bureaucracy of the UFP - it's assumed competent until proven otherwise; not like in our world, where the government is always assumed idiotic by default.
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Just how big do you think the Indian IT outsourcing industry is in the big Indian picture? I wouldn't be so sure to predict wholesale social and economic changes :D
I'm not sure I understand the outrage from India. If you look at their standards to receive a visa to work there:

The applicant should be a highly skilled and/or qualified professional being engaged or appointed by a company or organization or industry or undertaking in India on contract or an employment basis at a senior level, skilled position such as technical expert, senior executive, or in a managerial position, etc.

There should not be a qualified Indian available to do the job that the visa holder would be performing.

The employee's salary must be in excess of U.S. $25,000 per year (seems small until you put it in perspective: $3,168 is the average household income in India.)

Meaning it is almost 8x avg household income for a salary requirement in India. If you equate that to the us average household income of $51,939, the H1B should be at $402,000 here
I think her legal objection was overbroad, in that there is some subset of the order that could have been defended in good faith. And, in general, the right thing for a lawyer to do when she cannot proceed on ethical grounds is to resign quietly so as to not prejudice the client.

But I think Dershowitz ignores crucial situational context. He says: "A responsible attorney general would seek to analyze these complex issues before jumping into the political fire with a blanket refusal to defend any part of the order." That's fine and good in theory, but this order was implemented over a weekend with apparently no vetting by the DOJ. It was almost certainly unconstitutional as applied in many situations. And Yates would have to send attorneys into courts to defend the order right now. She did not have the luxury of taking time to figure out what "parts of [the order] are legally defensible."

Remember, contemporaneously with firing Yates, the White House did a 180 on one of the key legal interpretations: that the order applied to green card holders. You do not go into court and advance a legal argument, and then tell the court sometime later "oh, now that we have had a chance to actually analyze these complex legal issues, we were wrong on A, B, and C." As a supervising lawyer, Yates could not tell her subordinates "defend the order for now, but we may have to walk some of this stuff back once we figure out what is actually legal."
Out of curiosity, what do you suppose are the long-term effects of raising minimum wage?

If you were a landlord managing an apartment building, how much do you charge for a unit? If all of your tenants suddenly make twice as much money as they did, how long before you double their rent?

If a McDonalds needs to pay all of its employees twice as much money, how long before they double their food prices to make up the difference?

I feel like the working poor in this country get a terrible deal in this world - we definitely need to make conditions better. But does raising minimum wage actually do that in the long run? Or does it just increase inflation and destroy any savings the poor might have?
Specifically what issues do you have?
So it can fail again?
does this work with a verizon pixel? It let me enroll mine, but no update yet...
XUL and the entire extensions framework based upon it.
Inessential: First Week Notes
Canada would likely do more if they weren't trying to get a free trade deal with China as fast as possible to avoid Trump being able to dictate their economy. The unfortunate geopolitics of our contemporary world.
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Ask HN: What to do when the company you work at is about to IPO?
Hey folks! Posting for a friend who would obviously prefer some anonymity. They work at a company which is getting ready to file for IPO, and they have options to purchase shares. I'm assuming the first step is probably "talk to a lawyer and/or accountant", but even that is kind of an unknown: what kind of lawyer or accountant? How do you find a good one?

Any tips welcome. Thanks all!
XUL-based add-ons are being deprecated, and Firefox is adopting the same extension mechanism as Chrome (but with more extension points). That means that add-ons that make more or less drastic changes to the UI will need to be updated, rewritten or abandoned. This is being done before replacements of equivalent capability have been added to the new API. And there doesn't seem to be signs of awareness of the risks of destroying an add-ons platform in the Mozilla team's public representations, or in their reactions to bugs reported by some fairly significant add-on authors considering rewriting to the new API.
I don't know, 260 characters per line isn't exactly the pinnacle of readable typography, and those screenshots become extremely confusing side by side against a white background – you can't tell where one ends and the next begins.

It seems they took a cue from http://motherfuckingwebsite.com when they maybe should have looked at http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com instead.
Third-party browsers updated to use the new framework can get the same performance as Safari.

But that framework is missing various things, such as content blocking. (That goes a long way to explain why there's both "Focus" and "Firefox" on iOS)
Well, I think a lot of people are overlooking these "rendition" cases taking place in HK.

When they control the political will of HK, they will inevitably control the economy of HK.

HK is no longer the safe haven it once was. Looks like Singapore is about to get another huge boost in business after banking secrecy is coming under attack in Europe.
It sort of works at 3x the price you pay in Western Europe.

Of course, I don't think people want to return to the period just before privatization either when the rail network was deliberately starved of investment in order to make privatization appear more appealing.

Nonetheless, the majority of the public support this idea. The Telegraph literally called the majority of the public communists for doing so.
ISIS' Drone Documents: Management, Acquisitions, and DIY Tradecraft
Ordering things on Aliexpress as a "normal" customer is not a great shopping experience because:

- there are thousands of sellers selling the same thing and finding the one that isn't a scam is difficult -- not difficult as in, flying to Mars, but harder than ordering from Amazon FBA (although AMZ is getting worse by the minute in this regard)

- shipping times are VERY long (3 to 5 weeks) unless you're willing to double the purchase price for express shipping (which will still take around a week)

Therefore, there is opportunity for arbitrage where you order lots of gadgets and then sell them in your local market with very good shipping times (and less choice between competing, identical offers).
> they don't make films for grown-ups anymore.

This right here is the truth, and it's been known for a while:

> " Adults were treated as adults rather than as overgrown children hell-bent on enshrining their own arrested development."

> "That leaves one quadrant—men under 25—at whom the majority of studio movies are aimed, the thinking being that they'll eat just about anything that's put in front of them as long as it's spiked with the proper set of stimulants. That's why, when you look at the genres that currently dominate Hollywood—action, raunchy comedy, game/toy/ride/comic-book adaptations, horror, and, to add an extra jolt of Red Bull to all of the preceding categories, 3-D—they're all aimed at the same ADD-addled, short-term-memory-lacking, easily excitable testosterone junkie."

> "the degree to which children's genres have colonized the entire movie industry goes beyond overkill. More often than not, these collectively infantilizing movies are breeding an audience—not to mention a generation of future filmmakers and studio ecutives—who will grow up believing that movies aimed at adults should be considered a peculiar and antique art. Like books. Or plays."

From http://www.gq.com/story/the-day-the-movies-died-mark-harris which was written in 2011.
If there's any silver lining in all this, it's that Trump and the alt-right aren't moving in the shadows anymore, and they're moving too quickly. If this keeps up, surely there must be a breaking point when Congress and the people are too alienated.
Sounds like a good idea for a pull request.
Immigration ban – How smaller startups can make an impact too (Checkr CEO)
> A company that expends great amount of money and resources on constant political shifting and backstabbing, and that can't present an unified vision on the market will soon get outcompeted by one that has its shit together.

That already happens anyway. You don't need to have a democratically governed workplace for constant political shifting and backstabbing to occur.

> If you want to leave or they fire you, you can generally find a new workplace.

Which will also be non-democratically governed, so that doesn't work.

> because too much efficiency in a country will make many, many people very miserable.

Can't you make the same argument at organization level? I'm sure many Amazon warehouse workers would agree.
This reminds me of GetEnvironmentStringsW, which used to return the pointer directly but was eventually changed (I think in Vista) to copy.
From another post of mine on the link between depression and nutrition:

"I'd like to encourage anyone feeling depressed to take a good, hard look at their diet and to consider the possibility that they lack some essential nutrients.

I'm not saying that a poor diet or lack of nutrients will necessarily be the only or even the main cause of depression, but these factors could have an impact (sometimes a profound impact) on the severity or frequency of depression.

For most of my life I've had a pretty poor diet, and while I knew diet could affect one's mood, I really didn't realize how profound an effect it could have until poor health recently forced me to make drastic changes in my diet and to consider and study the potential effects of diet on mental and physical health.

What I learned was that many, many nutrient deficiencies could have very severe consequences on one's mental (not to mention physical) health -- including depression, dementia, and even death. Symptoms of a nutrient deficiency are not always obvious, and some of them take a long time to manifest -- so long that they kind of sneak up on you and you could almost feel like what you're experiencing is "normal" or just the way you are (ie. depressed, just because you have a negative outlook on life).

Once I improved my diet and started taking supplements for essential nutrients which my diet still lacked, I felt so much better, and have had much more energy than I'm used to, don't need as much sleep, and my mood and motivation have dramatically improved.

I now firmly believe that many people who suffer mental issues, including depression, may be malnourished or nutritionally deficient in some way. Taking one's diet seriously, reading up on it, and improving it could really change your life."
I think your analysis of the situation is likely correct and I condemn it.

I still believe the mainstream news should Clearly separate the cold hard facts from analysis and opinion.
You can have ad blocking, but you can't have the fast JavaScript engine and ad blocking, unless you are Safari. So you can't have a Chrome or Firefox with both, unless Apple fixes their APIs or allows the "real" versions of those browsers.
I realize this is incredibly naive of me, but I've always thought that there must be something unskilled or lightly trained laborers can do that would scale infinitely and reliably for the company hiring them, something that had to be done in the area for which it provided the service (to prevent the global market from driving price down).

The gig economy stuff is interesting, but it's still somewhat limited, and at least partially physical. I am thinking more like M Turk but... somehow localized. Not sure, maybe I'm sniffing up the wrong tree, I dunno.
> If you were a landlord managing an apartment building, how much do you charge for a unit? If all of your tenants suddenly make twice as much money as they did, how long before you double their rent?

Remember, your tenants are now able to move to gentrified areas, their wages allow that. Some might want to get a mortgage for a house they could not dream of previously. So now your apartments will have to compete with much wider selection of property. You'll raise prices definitely, but not as much as you would think, and you'll spend most of the difference doing renovations and spending on security.
there is the possibility of the breaking point coming too late.
No. One is a logical argument, the others are ad hominem attacks. You're conflating two entirely different modes of argument and claiming they're the same.

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Infosys has market cap 34b, Flipkart valuation is tumbling and now at 5b.

While not as cool as startups, Infosys and TCS are still much bigger and more stable companies.
To me, I think you are objecting to capitalism more than democracy. That certainly chases labor arbitrage however I do think its a poor mischaracterization to attribute labor arbitrage to slavery. That doesn't mean arbitrarily small amounts of compensation don't effectively become slavery, but instead that pareto optimality is not the only way to prevent slavery.
I'm amazed that personal use requires 188TB of storage.

That's more than my employer's Hadoop cluster...
Enable DTN in your browser
Get Ublock origin and PrivacyBadger
Dont have too many extensions as it leads to an easy fingerprint (https://panopticlick.eff.org/tracker)
https://protonmail.com - email
Use https://www.guerrillamail.com/ for anything spammy
DDG, startpage - search
Gitlab vs Github
Use a private browser session for social media (careful of those super cookies)
Dont use facebook and avoid google when you can.
Use an alternative non mainstream browser that has the tracking and privacy bits stripped from source. (SRWare Iron is a good example)
And never forget that your ISP can monitor everything you do, regardless of what services you use.
Setup your own VPS and host your own files.
Use an ssh tunneled VPN/web proxy (self hosted) for anything you dont want linked directly back to your ip
You mentioned you didn't want to selfhost, but that is one of the most private ways of handling these things. (Build your own tools/services)

What other things are you looking to replace?