skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the purpose of having a control person on the ground, can't the control be the same person before they went to space? I don't suppose a person changes so much in one year that aging would be a significant factor.
Clearly I didn't know we had a one world government.

If American liberties are a concept to apply over the whole world, the ACLU should be encouraging the whole world to a adopt the Bill of Rights and our Constitution.
McDonald’s New Big Mac ATM Requires Zero Human Interaction
IMO a great game. Learned to code by making mods for it.
> However if you google news search Muslim Ban on the day it was announced, this is Not what the majority of news sources were doing.

Are you sure? Here's the google search you're talking about: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22muslim+ban%22&safe=off&bi...

The only "muslim ban" usages are opinion articles or quotes.
That's Focus, actually :-/ Firefox for iOS can't use content blocking.
> corporate democracy that increases inequality

"democracy" makes the sentence an oxymoron.
>> 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.

Honestly, I think you could. Actually, this is something I was thinking about a lot in context of employee rights. Making workers happy - good office conditions, paid leaves, healthcare benefits, regular schedule, etc. - is a cost for a company, and creates inefficiencies that, if eliminated, would let the company do more while spending less[0]. So many companies are indeed happy to make employees as miserable as they can get away with[1]. Enforcing worker rights is purposefully introducing inefficiency, in order to avoid the market optimizing away all human values.

So let me rephrase my original point: you can get away with much more efficiency in companies than in countries without making a lot of people miserable.

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[0] - subject to dynamics of market competition, in which all the gains you earn by introducing a change are quickly cancelled out when competitors follow suit.

[1] - not a problem for companies that don't need specialized workers for which there's more demand that supply - i.e. not a problem for most companies and a huge problem for most people.
Let's compare two quotes from you:

"They dispatched drivers to break the strike."

"They created, maintain, and profit from the platform through which the scabs were sent to break a strike."

These are two very different shades of meaning. The first is active, the second is passive. So Uber passively broke the strike, but not actively. I think the difference is appreciable.
dupe, please check before submitting!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13529790
Sometimes it's worth it. A real pain with tables is that you can't have it be positioned relatively. So if you want to display an absolutely positioned tooltip next to a row it becomes a gigantic pain and i'd argue impossible — or extremely hacky — without using JS.
That I wouldn't know. It's not capacitive.
Was there a particular problem you were trying to solve by creating Ceu? Or was it just to learn things about compilers?

EDIT: found the answer in the paper:
"Despite the continuous research in facilitating programming
WSNs, most safety analysis and mitigation efforts in
concurrency are still left to developers, who must manage
synchronization and shared memory explicitly. In this paper,
we present a system language that ensures safe concurrency
by handling threats at compile time, rather than at runtime."
Look for problems. It's hard to sit and think of ideas, even if you do, most of the ideas will change on contact with potential customers.

Look at what you're strong at and what you enjoy. If you're seeing customers struggle with other businesses solutions, then there might be a way to solve that problem in a better way.

Being a good listener helps - get the feedback loop going as quickly as possible. Don't take anything personally if a customer doesn't like what you're doing. They could be right. Iterate on the initial idea. Don't spend too long building the first version of anything as it'll probably look different in a year.
Bills Across the Country Could Increase Penalties for Protesters
already a discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13522044
I have been thinking about how to approach this in several projects, and while scheduled lambda calls do the job, besides being AWS specific, do not integrate well with the "old way": launching shell commands.

The beauty of shell commands to me was that you can launch them both with cron and manually. Arguably you could do the same with lambda, but here we go, another service to set up (api gateway).

I built http://croningen.io - which is a hosted version of cron that schedule jobs on clusters of servers, with central error reporting. It is in my opinion as easy to use as cron, with most annoyances removed. Early days, but feedback welcome!
If you don't qualify for the family-based or refugee route, employment-based immigration is the only viable pathway. The amount of hate I see piled on people trying to come here via the employment-based immigration seems insane to me. These

Clearly the rate of family-based immigration is insane. And the lack of requirements for any kind of skills that would benefit America for relatives is costing America. Outside spouses and minor children, family has no special right to follow immigrants into the USA and privileging unskilled family migrants reduces the chance for a community to assimilate.

That reunification migration program should be regulated and limited severely.

But there is no right for employment based immigration either. There does not need to be a pathway for every single person on Earth to come to America. America is already crowded.

If there's no viable visa category to come to the USA, there are 200 other countries for a person to migrate to. And staying put is a fine option for most migrants as well, though there are exceptions.

The idea that the USA and only the USA is the acceptable destiny for every person is ludicrous and has to stop. We have the highest proportion of foreign born people in hour history already and it's time for a long immigration moratorium to help us absorb the immigrants we have.
This argument is often repeated, but I think it's a matter of perspective.

Were all servers, mainframes and dumb terminals counted too? Back in the nineties I'm sure those counted for something compared with PCs.

Apple has a complete monopoly on the iPhone / iPad market and that market is bigger than Microsoft's market in the 90s. You cannot change the OS without changing the hardware. You cannot change the browser without changing the OS. PCs and Windows never had such restrictions.

So what's the difference? If you answer that the PC was an open standard whereas the iPhone is Apple's own toy, I personally don't think that's fair, given that Microsoft too has built the PC market ;-)
>What you're seeing is not the most reliable, but the most reliable under their particular set of bad conditions. The reliability under your circumstances might be wildly different.

You do have a valid point but I also wanted to add that my harddrive failures in my gentle home environment matches BackBlaze's more hostile environment. I have 50+ harddrives in various capacities from 2TB to 10TB and my differences from BB include drives being iso-mounted on rubber grommets and they also do not run 24/7. (I only power them up when I need archived files off of them.)

Even with those stark operational differences, my harddrive failures exactly match the generalization of Backblaze's data: More failures with WD Green and Seagates especially the 3TB drives. My HGST drives purchased over the last 4 years have zero failures so far.
That's not what I'm getting at. I'm referring to technology specifically. Cost of living is dictated predominantly by the cost of housing, healthcare, education, and food. Food cost as a % of income has decreased significantly since 1960 according to the USDA [1].

Technology and globalization have impacted food a lot. Education, and housing? Not nearly as much. Healthcare is more complicated, and I'm not an expert, so I'll refrain from speculating there.

One might argue globalization has hurt people, but so far, technology seems to be making just about everything it touches cheaper for everyone.

[1] https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery...
Personally, I'd like to be given time for continuous learning, rather than having me utilised (at least) 100% all the time.

This would be a win-win, since I can keep my knowledge current and my employer gets someone with skills that our clients want. But instead, all the current management cares about is utilisation figures and overheads.
Here is an interesting paragraph from wikipedia:

```
The ACLU has been criticized by liberals, such as when it excluded Communists from its leadership ranks, when it defended Neo-Nazis, when it declined to defend Paul Robeson, or when it opposed the passage of the National Labor Relations Act.[62][63] Conversely, it has been criticized by conservatives, such as when it argued against official prayer in public schools, or when it opposed the Patriot Act.[64] The ACLU has supported conservative figures such as Rush Limbaugh, George Wallace, Henry Ford, and Oliver North; and it has supported liberal figures such as Dick Gregory, Rockwell Kent, and Dr. Benjamin Spock.[18][65][66][67][68][69][70][71]
A major source of criticism are legal cases in which the ACLU represents an individual or organization that promotes offensive or unpopular viewpoints, such as the Ku Klux Klan, Neo-Nazis, Nation of Islam, North American Man/Boy Love Association, or Westboro Baptist Church. The ACLU responded to these criticisms by stating "It is easy to defend freedom of speech when the message is something many people find at least reasonable. But the defense of freedom of speech is most critical when the message is one most people find repulsive."[72]
```

Also I found this article:
http://www.aclufightsforchristians.com/

Seems like ACLU historically has not cared about partisan politics, left vs right, and care most about their mission of defending civil liberties, and individual rights.
Hover state on an article changes the background. Took me a minute to figure out, def distracting.
As I recall, early Rust versions used lowercase for non-built-in type names, too, which I found unnerving. I'm glad they changed that, though I wish they'd also moved to use camelCase for non-type identifiers.

(As an aside: Surely the capitalized version of snake_case is Snake_Case, not SnakeCase. Very few languages are consistent here.)
Did and do, this very site uses nested <tables>
They legally aren't allowed to check but if a staffer or politician recognizes someone's name and remembers that they met at a fundraiser, it obviously influences them, at least subconsciously.
I think conservatives could stand to learn a few of those lessons as well. I'm referring to the massive amounts of spending and the creation of the TSA and the DHS under Bush.
I can only speak for the Boston tech scene, but I've gotten to work with a number of highly skilled women, people of color, and people born in other countries. I'd say ~80% of the women I've interviewed have been offered jobs. The biggest problem is that it's hard to find candidates who aren't white guys. I can't hire people who don't come in for interviews!

Unfortunately I have seen some solid 40+ year-old engineers turned away by other team members due to "culture fit." Fortunately my current company has been great about this.
You have actually illustrated 90% of the problem - none of the the above represents liberal behaviour but rather the very opposite. Liberal fight such behaviour, these things happen DESPITE OF liberalism. You have just validate my post.
Technology is also inevitable. Nothing you mention can be stopped. So standing up even more technology to help balance things is at the very least a noble effort.
That game is already being played. It's very lucrative for private colleges catering to third world (and second world) kleptocrats that want to plant their children and their dirty cash in the USA.
BTW Jorge Aparicio is working on a std that doesn't need a libc [1], at least for those supported platforms.

[1] https://github.com/japaric/steed
It's our fault, in tech. We've created a world where there's no good role for anyone with an IQ below 100. That's half the population.

This is a new thing in history. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, there were more smart people than jobs for them. Strength and robustness were more valued than brainpower. That lasted well into the 20th century.

The big change started during WWII. For the first time, war started to become more technical and bureaucratic than macho. There had always been some military heavy thinkers, but only a few were needed, at command and general staff level. In WWII, there were a lot more people turning knobs, reading dials, making calculations, and writing plans, and they were moving up in authority.

Post-WWII, there was enough work for everybody for a while. But automation and mechanization were starting to be widely deployed. A milestone was reached in 1974, when auto companies in Detroit started requiring a high school diploma for new hires. Until then, they'd hire anyone who could tighten a bolt, and paid well enough that employees could afford a house, car, and family.

1974 was the peak year for the American working class. It's been a slow downhill slide since then for people with high school diplomas and less.

This was all before computers were widely available. Computers accelerated this process, but more than that, they broadened it. Detroit was highly automated by the 1970s. Now almost every business can be. Businesses that couldn't keep up went under. The US is full of abandoned factories in small towns and cities.

This has taken away the support system which provided stability, and prosperity in the developed world. That's where Trump voters came from. The system betrayed them. Of course they're angry.
I am not American, but I believe your first point to be incorrect. The AG is supposed to defend the constitution (including from the president). In her confirmation hearing in 2015, senator Jeff Sessions, who is to take her place asked her:

"Do you think the attorney general has a responsibility to say no to the president if he asks for something that's improper...?"

Ms Yates replied: "I believe the attorney general or the deputy attorney general has an obligation to follow the law and the constitution and to give their independent legal advice to the president."

She was confirmed 84-12 so it seems that they were happy with the response. I would also note that any lawyer who is tasked to defend you also has an obligation to inform the client of poor chance of success, in this case the AG not only thought the chance of success was poor but it was unconstitutional also.
are you saying that those API's are accessible to Google Chrome and not to other browsers

Those APIs are available to all Android apps, including other browsers. The only complaints I've heard are about Push-style APIs and power saving essentially forcing you to use Google Services.
Maybe a little glib, but this came up on Reddit from Twitter:

> The left protest about Trump, but they're strangely silent about King Raedwald's invasion of Northumbria in AD 616[1]

It's a bizarre way to argue in favor of being politically detached.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/5r6zw0/the_left...
That's the point. It's to discourage employers from using H1-B visas to hire people to make CRUD apps and instead hire domestically.
Likely a machine with a group of Xeon Phi coprocessors, each a PCI card containing 64 fully-capable x86 cores: https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/xeon/...

The idea is that you can run embarrassingly parallel workflows without needing to recode for a GPU; just launch processes with appropriate affinities. NERSC has compute clusters with thousands of these beasts. They make astronomers very happy.
This, but make sure they have enough skills to be useful in the long term!
I have carved out 1 hour in my morning before work to do things that I consider important. It's not quite enough time. I'm going to try to improve it to 1.5 hours. But either way, it means the best of my brain goes to me. Sometimes I give it to my employer, but not always. Most likely, you don't need the best of your brainpower to do your day-to-day work.
Great to hear, I was thinking the same thing.
A lot of startups don't know how much they can save on taxes with an R&D Tax Credit. We built a calculator and answered FAQs so the startup community could see what they could save. The tax credits can be applied to payroll taxes in 2017 which is a big change so worth checking out!
by that measure all other startups suck and only microsoft or yahoo/alibaba is worth anything.

I'm talking about aspirational reach - a H1B+TCS is not aspirational anymore.
Imagine living under the fear that your visa can be canceled the next business day and you have to leave US soon before you have enough time to make alternative plans. Especially when you are a newcomer in the USA, a overwhelmingly unknown land. If this happens, then you have I believe 30 days to find another company who is willing to sponsor you and then you have to go back to India to reapply for another H1-B visa with new employer. Also, your outsourcing company keep a close eye on you in terms of if you are job hunting, in some s=cases there is some sort of collateral kept backhome as well. Also, if you are an average skilled employee then you don't have much leverage to jump ships.
I'll have more to say after work, but the timeline itself of tech companies' actions is telling.

First/day one (and same day as Muslim ban): The companies and people that actually cared stood up (Google)

Day Two+: Transition Period (when Lyft rushed in to capitalize on Uber's bad PR)

mid-this week (after Muslim ban): The companies that are pressured into doing so or are solely after PR karma stand up (Bezos, YC)
>What would that gain you?

This is a deterrent and would be very disruptive to the owners conducting business. It would discourage investors from elevating questionable people to boards of directors.

It could be something like this:
1. Sell/auction assets
2. Pay fines and damages and debts
3. Split remaining proceeds amongst non-legally culpable share holders
My understanding is that the staffs keep their bosses informed about the volume and tone of constituent feedback; if many people are calling in with similar views on an issue, the congressperson will do whatever the constituents want. Being a big donor, or even better, a representative of big donors means that you can influence the congressperson when there is no strong public sentiment, or if you have a very strong policy point.
Reading what you wrote... It almost seems like facts in news is a dependency management issue?

I mean, it's going to be a way more complicated dependency situation than with code - imagine a fact determined by a study which had to make decisions about categories - but the gist remains:

An interpretation of facts depends on those facts, some of which themselves are collections/transforms on facts, but ultimately, there's a physical reality from which they stem.
I think the argument is that if a company didn't get more value from its programmers by locating them in San Francisco, they wouldn't pay more to locate them there.

For instance, christmas tree light manufacturers don't locate their assembly plants in downtown san francisco. If they did, they would certainly have to pay the workers more. You just can't generate enough value this way to justify that kind of pay for christmas tree light assemblers, so the work is done elsewhere.

And if it turns out assembling christmas tree lights doesn't pay enough, and the workers who are capable of assembling christmas tree lights find higher paid work, that's not a shortage, that just means people have found higher value things to do. If the price of christmas tree lights doesn't rise to a point where it is worth hiring people, that just means people don't really value christmas tree lights as much as the other things they an spend their money on. I see no problem here.

Same with code. If you can't pay enough to convince the people capable of writing code to do this instead of something else, I have trouble believing the code you want written is all that important. Certainly not so important that you should have the power to force people to write it for you as a condition of living and working in the US!
I'm sorry, but your interpretation is simply wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddhi

> Siddhis are spiritual, paranormal, supernatural, or otherwise magical powers, abilities, and attainments that are the products of spiritual advancement through sādhanās such as meditation and yoga.

Incidentally, these are some siddhis mentioned in that article:

* Reducing one's body to the size of an atom

* Expanding one's body to an infinitely large size

* Becoming infinitely heavy

* Becoming almost weightless

* Hhaving unrestricted access to all places

* Realizing whatever one desires

* Possessing absolute lordship

* The power to subjugate all

* Knowing the past, present and future

* Tolerance of heat, cold and other dualities

* Knowing the minds of others and so on

* Checking the influence of fire, sun, water, poison, and so on

* Remaining unconquered by others
The weirdest OCaml syntax (to me) is the way that that exceptions are essentially reversed camel case mixed with snake case (e.g `Not_found`, `Division_by_zero`). I assume that this was to try to imitate the structure of English sentences, but it feels bizarre to me when I see it in code.
I've played in this space! A few years ago, I half-assed the world's worst startup for asynchronous political debating that focused more on identifying and understanding opinions as opposed to expression and dialog, because dialog necessarily breaks down to dichotomies and outgroup homogeneity which are exactly the problem. I never really figured out how to elevator-pitch the damn thing, but here are some blog posts I wrote back in the day: http://blog.agreethepeople.com/
If you do follow that link, start at the bottom and work your way up. And let me know what you think!
It is indeed.

Chrome on iOS has some neat UI innovations, though-- when you drag down on a page you see three icons; a + sign for a new tab, a refresh icon, and an X to close the current tab. So you can drag straight down to refresh, down then left to add a new tab, etc. I really miss that in safari.

It also syncs history, logins, open tabs, etc, with desktop Chrome.
Bookmark/tab sync, for one. Desktop Chrome users can access tabs/history originating from the iOS client.
I would like to know how many people in the tech community are actually impacted by this. A temporary ban on immigration from a few unstable counties is not an embargo.
Thank you for being open to a different perspective.
The problem is that the benefits of globalization are offset by the centralization of the remaining jobs, and is adding to the inequality seen in America. There are some parts of the country doing fantastic, but a lot of the Midwest is seeing lower wages, fewer jobs, and a lower quality of life.
Kudos for even thinking about the long term and sustainability. So many people just create a project with nothing more than the first/next release in mind.

Good luck, whatever you do.