skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly told Congress on Tuesday the measure was one of several being considered to vet refugees and visa applicants from seven Muslim-majority countries."

This is rhetoric coming directly from the head of the Department of Homeland Security and is rhetoric which should be sufficient to call into question his leadership. Every single thinking person in the security field knows that such a proposition is patently absurd. As just one example, which social media account password? I'm not a bad guy and I have more than one Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc., account, each of which looks reasonably legitimate on their own. Once an attacker knows that the US requires their "social media" password they'll either maintain a clean account free from their terrorist friends or they'll create a clean account. It's trivially easy to do and doesn't take long at all to get a legitimate looking network of friends.
They were scaling vertically because the GHz game was a marketing strategy and not an engineering strategy. But when the pipeline got so deep that it didn't make sense (branch misses would incur huge penalties) and AMD stole the spotlight, marketing finally gave way for the engineers.
Only pattern-based stuff.

I first noticed this with PCB layouts - I'd be moving parts and re-routing/prettifying manually for long straights and only 45deg corners.

Also refactoring code, particularly in an aesthetic way as if making the style consistent/readable before doing something with it - shortening lines, aligning data structure entries, whatever.

It happens if I play something like tetris before sleeping or while tired, too.
Kodi is also a general purpose media player in the first place. There are enough websites on the Internet that would conveniently offer you such content to click and stream (no need for torrent, unpack etc.)
In general Kodi does the same thing - it streams that content over your device (again no torrent, unpacking etc.)

At the end the only real difference is the advertising of that box - meaning if I would somewhat distribute a firefox browser with the proper links and call it the watch any media for free browser I would be in trouble.
The common sentiment in articles like these is to try to appease to the owner; "look, the productivity!". We seem so subjugated by this state of affairs that worker happiness and health is not allowed to be an end in itself.
Rules are made because people want to break them. If everyone agreed, there would be no need for rules. Don't treat those who disagree as if they were wrong. They are just the reason those rules exist, one as legitimate as the other.
Needs a GUI to be useful for any non-enthusiast users. Does urbit need any non-enthusiast users at this point, though?
The market structure for land and its methods of entitlement are certainly wonky and need reform ... but I'm pretty sure we're "wage slaves" because the labor movement was successfully killed off in the 50s red scare along with the rise of classical liberalism in the 60s which poo-poos collective action, devalues communal capital, and encourages uncoordinated individual action.

So when the productivity gains that were promised in the 50s came in the 80s there was no labor movement to force a shorter work week, so instead there were layoffs and bigger profits on top.

We never got the promised 20 hour work week of the 50s because collectively we forgot and abandoned the multi-generational labor struggle which got us the 40 hour one. These things aren't going to just get handed out.
There's a reason why DX had almost zero adaptation outside games. Maybe it is not that good API, if you need to support your app for a few years too. Games are fire and forget.
I'm not saying that eliminating unused compile time options is a bad thing, just pointing out that the real security improvements from hardening something like ntpd come from simplifying and eliminating code that is in the default compile that everyone uses.

Really all I'm saying is that you can't get a reliable metric of progress on something like this from a simple line count.
Notably his wife was a partner in her law firm. It is typically _very difficult_ to get yourself ejected from a legal partnership.

Obamacare-related costs do not pass the smell test.
_Programming_ is more pleasant when you break your codebase into isolated components. Instead of trying to force git to adapt to these monolithic repositories, we should be breaking them down into manageable pieces for developers to work on. If you still need 10 years of history, just keep the old repository around for archival purposes.

[Edit] Not that I'm against GVFS, there is nothing wrong with not wanting to download the entire repository in some cases.
Could you point me in its direction?
I know that, it is just the words that make up their acronym mean something different to me. So I find it highly amusing to have them be against copy right theft but be backed by the very people that are most likely to actually steal copyrights. Kind of like coal and oil company lobbyist using Green in the title.
"War is a racket"

https://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
I was curious, so I found a picture of an A330-200 cockpit here:

http://www.airplane-pictures.net/photo/251517/cs-tom-tap-por...

I'd like to know what kind of camera is going to fall against the pilot's stick and jam it forward!
Swedes typically do 9h days because we take long, unpaid lunches. White collar workers in cities normally do ah hour at noon -1pm. The 9h day is a bummer, but with flexible hours at least I can normally do a 2h lunch if I need to go to the dentist or sort something else out.

Half days off is a brilliant idea, because it makes it easy to know when to schedule kids appointments withe doctor etc.
Why upgrading your brain could make you less human
Good one, will be interesting to compare amazon statistics for 5 days. I didn't think to invest in this project much time like this guys did and didn't expect so much feedback :)
About the capitalist dystopia, I really don't see it that way. What you described as its weakness is actually its strength.

It's the natural mechanism that balance demand and supply, and ensure we'll always have enough food for everyone. It's the natural incentive that draws more people to an area that is under-served (e.g. IT) and away from another that is over-served (e.g. farming). The examples may not be the best possible, but you get my point.

About deregulation: I agree it's not a single factor, but it's a pretty important one on the subject of "creating new jobs". I understand there are several other factors getting in the way of a competitive market, but monopolies aren't all created the same. The kind of monopoly that Facebook or Google have is not the same kind of a state-enforced monopoly which rules out competition by force of the law.
Creative Stages of Efficient Logo Design
too much hard coding books imho. 'the design of everyday thing' and 'don't make me think' should be read more.
Stop trying to put touch controls on headphones
Sorry for the confusion. (I've edited my comment for clarity so people don't think I was insulting SH.) I wasn't saying Hawking's prose was dry. That attribute was intended solely for the DP book. With ABHOT, I was comparing the ratio of readers aware of the book vs actually reading it. ABHOT has become sort of a "poster child"[1] among bibliophiles for books owned for vanity and I thought HN readers would get that reference.

[1] example from WSJ that mentions the common meme about ABHOT: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-summers-most-unread-book-is...
The curve for Selenium on this graph is the weirdest thing:

https://i.stack.imgur.com/LUQei.png

Anyone want to speculate why this may be?
The commenter is deluded and does not care for facts. This case has been running in prime coverage for the last 10-12 years because almost everybody took an interest in it, because they wanted to "Get Modi". Many inquiries were setup, including special task forces, commissions, many US & European based NGO's in the guise of missionaries came to India searching for mass graves, he was banned from getting a Visa to enter the US, the supreme court in India held multiple hearings etc. After all that, he was deemed innocent. This shows that there is plausible evidence that the commenter was not serious, & in fact a troll or he was absolutely clueless, yet does not & cannot resist from accusing someone of being a "mass murderer". So there, that's the joke! You can't get more serious than that about this situation.
I have used Kodi with software such as Sickrage to download tv shows but with Netflix and Amazon Prime subscriptions alongside iPlayer that covers the majority of shows we watch. The Raspberry Pi running Sickrage is now rarely used whereas the PS4 running Netflix is used most evenings. As you say, it's the path of least resistance.
Thanks for the recommendations. Can you provide any links to resources?
Hi Arik,

Quick question: to what decimal accuracy are the visualizations capable of displaying, and are second/sub-second time series possible in the dashboards? The issue our team has been having with other platforms such as Quicksight is the lack of support for extremely granular data visualization. Thanks in advance!
I won too and it said it lost because the next move made the CPU win, although I won before. I think after the user move, the CPU automatically do its move and check after that.
How Facebook designed the next phase of Safety Check
Smart Vision Exam: An Act of Affordable Care
Only when I'm stuck on something.

I find myself working on it half asleep in my bed. It pretty much always results in finding the solution or at the very least a good lead.
I have this happen to me relatively often (about once a month). The best part about it is that I make meaningful connections and actually solve problems related to the code that I am envisioning, and I wake up and I am able to implement what I dream about.

This usually only happens the night after a long day working on very mentally challenging problems, it rarely happens after easy days.
I had one of those. The shop I bought it from refused to replace it from their inventory, all they would do is take the motherboard, send it back and then give me the replacement some weeks later when the RMA process was completed.

Since I needed that machine functioning, I never replaced it (the mobo had some extra SATA ports handled by a different controller, so they kept working and I switched to using them). I suspect a lot of people are in the same boat. I'll never do business with that store again.
Not to mention, this is supposedly a new Microsoft, but this looks an awful lot like steps one and two in "embrace and extend" ploy that they perfected in the 90s.
> bed down and placing a workshop down has completely unrelated keys;

b (build) > b (bed) -

b (build) > w (workshops) > a specific workshop -

I wouldn't say entirely unrelated or unintuitive.
However, other examples, such as organizing a military, are particularly egregious and I would agree, although I do love the game.
If that's the idea, that would make the choice of name directly malicious, rather than just an unfortunate oversight.
I don't see how it would make qarioz's original point any less valid at all.
Get out your bubble, most people cannot work remotely as programmers.
>stealing

>go to jail(for watching)

So much hyperbole. The article refers to people selling preloaded piracy boxes for profit, which is different than setting up your own.
> scumbags

Key operative word.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bannon-explained-his...

FTA:
On a March 2016 episode, Bannon said that restoring sovereignty meant reducing immigration. In his radio shows, he criticized the federal H-1B visa programs that permit U.S. companies to fill technical positions with workers from overseas.

The “progressive plutocrats in Silicon Valley,” Bannon said, want unlimited ability to go around the world and bring people back to the United States. “Engineering schools,” Bannon said, “are all full of people from South Asia, and East Asia. . . . They’ve come in here to take these jobs.” Meanwhile, Bannon said, American students “can’t get engineering degrees; they can’t get into these graduate schools because they are all foreign students. When they come out, they can’t get a job.”

“Don’t we have a problem with legal immigration?” asked Bannon repeatedly.

“Twenty percent of this country is immigrants. Is that not the beating heart of this problem?” he said, meaning the problem of native-born Americans being unable to find jobs and rising wages.

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edit:

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/2/14472404/ste...

A Vox piece provides a more detailed transcript of Bannon's views:

"BANNON: You saw these guest workers. You saw the CIS report yesterday. You saw that, what is it, 61 million? Isn’t the beating heart of this problem, the real beating heart of it, of what we gotta get sorted here, is not illegal immigration? As horrific as that is, and it’s horrific, don’t we have a problem, we’ve looked the other way on this legal immigration that’s kinda overwhelmed the country? When you look and there’s got 61 million, 20 percent of the country, is immigrants — is that not a massive problem? You were with Jeff Sessions for many, many years. Is that not the beating heart of this problem?"
Any advice on how to find a part-time programming job?
I really should. I haven't had the time (caveat from my post above) :)
Cited in my other post about it in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13598624
"She is a Monkey climbing trees "

Brilliant!
A closely related subject is radiation. If you want to explore Jupiter, Saturn, or Fukushima you have some new challenges.

In the latter case, they're talking only a few hours of lifetime for ROV's going into the 500+ Sv/hr environment. I bet the military has a bunch of research on rad-hard equipment they're not keen to share.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/fukushima-reactor-s...
It's there, just outside the top 30. Select the Computer Science category and you'll see it near the bottom.
Global real-time dose measurements using the ARMAS system
People are cowed by their employers, with little to no savings they live month to month and dare not say no to extra work tasks such as email in the evening etc. High rents are squeezing all disposable income leaving people with no financial autonomy.

For me the american dream was all about financial autonomy. The USA had to have actual slaves because they had no land enclosure. Why work as a wage slave when you can walk up the road and work empty land? Land gives labour the choice. Land enclosure is required for wage slaves.
Intent matters.

If Alice's archive gets no traffic, and Roger's recruiting firm does 40% of their business using Alice's data, and Alice and Roger get dinner together every week, Alice seems to be doing something wrong.

Even on his own, Roger is still scraping Github. The defense "It wasn't me, it was the Python program that was in the wrong!" is just as ludicrous as trying to hide behind the fact that Alice's archive is scraping the site itself. They're putting limitations on the information, not limitations on how computers are allowed to talk to each other.

http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
> No, we didn't: the rightful government (the Shah's) overthrew an attempted dictator. Mossadegh lived out the rest of his life in peace, and died in bed.

Only if you define "rightful" as the government that the UK and US decided was favorable to them, and not the one supported consistently by the Iranian people via elections. I don't see how you can argue this point — both the US and UK have outright admitted to their actions (fomenting and supporting the coup) and to their reasons for doing so (oil). And Mossadegh was sentenced to execution, but his life was personally spared by the Shah.

> No, it wasn't reckless: the electronic data gave Vincennes good reason to believe that it was being attacked by an Iranian fighter.

"Three years after the incident, Admiral William J. Crowe admitted on American television show Nightline that Vincennes was inside Iranian territorial waters when it launched the missiles." Is this not reckless?

"Commander David Carlson, commanding officer of USS Sides, the warship stationed nearest to Vincennes at the time of the incident, is reported to have said that the destruction of the aircraft 'marked the horrifying climax to Captain Rogers's aggressiveness, first seen four weeks ago'." Reckless according to his own colleague.

"Throughout its final flight, IR655 was in radio contact with various air traffic control services using standard civil aviation frequencies, and had spoken in English to Bandar Abbas Approach Control seconds before Vincennes launched its missiles. According to the U.S. Navy investigation Vincennes at that time had no equipment suitable for monitoring civil aviation frequencies, other than the International Air Distress frequency."

Obviously the Vincennes didn't commit a brazen attack for no reason at all. They had some reason to believe they might be attacked. But sailing into another country's waters and airspace with no ability to differentiate between fighter and commercial jet is reckless, and furthermore it was done by a captain with a history of reckless behavior.

> The 2 million South Vietnamese who fled their country after North Vietnam conquered sure seemed to have appreciated our defense: while we were there, they didn't take to the sea in boats, fleeing for their lives.

They were forced to fight a war they didn't support for decades, under a brutal and unpopular autocratic leader, Diem. He forced his pro-Christian and anti-Communist sentiments on his people and oppressed those who disagreed until he was eventually assassinated. Meanwhile the US devastated the country and drove the North into a fight-or-flight state of desperation. Of course the people of the South didn't want to stick around to face their vengeance.
This is hypothetically true but I think if you're expecting your manual testers/business to play mad libs with your defined statements they have to be so resilient that they become fairly inefficient.

If that's an acceptable tradeoff for having anyone be able to create new test cases though, it would probably be okay.
That is what the program was designed for. I'm not really a fan of mutating legislature for other purposes.

Lower wage, and high wage workers are different and a VISA program designed for one isn't going to necessarily be fair to another.

Currently, employer influence of H1-Bs is high because they can essentially deport you when you get fired and you lose the life you built in the USA. That's not 'fair', but its at least mitigated if (a) you pay a very high wage and (b) the employees are in high demand globally so sending them out of the USA isn't really a downturn in their lives.
Thanks, I'll probably do that.
Every single State of the Union address has the US President saying the US is the moral authority of the world and an example of what is good
> facts

Last time I checked the meaning of "facts", it meant something else entirely!
Some people are brainwashed into thinking that we are saints. As you can see in this thread, however, there are a fair amount of people that are quite aware of the United States' issues.

(I also think it's not that great to cartoonishly portray Nazi Germany / ISIS / Saddam as one dimensional stock evil cartoon characters; this is also a sort of "brainwashing" from my perspective. Yes, these cultures also have done some awful, awful things, however I feel it is important not to erase the human impulse and circumstances that caused these to develop.)

From a general audience perspective, I'm personally pretty cynical on addressing this though. In theory, it would be nice to see an end to "mass propaganda and willful ignorance". In practice, I honestly can't think of a country in which no propaganda occurs, and there is no such thing as state secrets. The United States may have done some awful things over the last 70 years, but so have other less powerful countries. Were the situation different, and another country dominant instead of the US... well, I personally would expect very similar results. I can't think of any nation / community / tribe that doesn't do some sort of bending and filtering of worldview.

So from my perspective this really isn't a nation problem, this is a core human issue: tribalism. Resolving the issues that come up with tribalism would be great. However, given that it's such a core behavior of humanity, I think this is going to be terribly difficult, perhaps impossible, to do.

It would be nice if I was wrong...
> It makes no sense for Fiji to be awarded the same number as India.

That makes sense, since it's reasonable to assume that high-quality employees are a percentage of the population.

Having a global fixed number of immigrants rather than a per-country pool would also work: If A has a population of 10, B has a population of 20(with similar quality percentage), and the pool is 6, then A gets 1/2 the amount admitted as B. If A's population rises to 20, then they'd get the same amount as B. So it would be proportional to population within the pool.

The only reason to prefer per-country fixed limits is if you wanted diversity. The meaning of "diversity" here is approximated by "variance of sampling immigrants' original home government from a uniform distribution over all governments".
There's a variety of reasons. It's often because our languages are too low-level and the architecture too opaque, such that you need to study a codebase for a long time to understand what works well and what doesn't work so well. The hill you need to climb to reach an epiphany is sufficiently steep that people much rather build their own hill, and learn their own lessons.

The trade-offs come around and around, the lessons are not as inapplicable as you think. We used to struggle to run programs on small machines; those struggles came back again with mobile, and come back again in a slightly different guise in clusters (where the program is too big to fit on any one machine).

They recur on different scales, too. Just the other day I was looking at dependency injection. Dependency injection solves the problem of coordinating dynamic program composition; the reason the program needs to be composed is because it was decomposed for testing. But this is just another iteration of the same pattern come around again. It's been done before in a large variety of ways; sometimes through ambient configuration (global variables), sometimes with patched jump tables (dynamic linking), sometimes statically (module instantiation). The emphasis is different - testing - but the solution is not structurally novel in the least.
Analyzing my own talk with natural language processing
Probably many. Here's a local one for BC. http://linnet.geog.ubc.ca/DB_Query/QueryForm.aspx
I've tried Superset but halted because there is a bug with PostgreSQL ( https://github.com/airbnb/superset/issues/1900 ). I'll be trying Redash to see what's going on.
In the mean time, there is a Django project where I've integrated the sql-explorer ( https://github.com/groveco/django-sql-explorer ) and it was well appreciated. Especially the API endpoint.
According to the Federal Reserve Bank, total employee compensation in the US in 2016 was $10 trillion. [1]

The market capitalization of listed US companies, according to the World Bank, was $25 trillion. [2]

Assuming average gains of 10% per year in the stock markets, which stockholders would be glad to receive, I think, employees receive 4x as much as stockholders of listed companies.

1: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A033RC1A027NBEA

2: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/CM.MKT.LCAP.CD?name_desc...