skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
would be nice if I had a url to send with items already tagged. ;)
Thanks for the info, highly appreciated!

Do you think it will get decent traffic through SEO in future?
It's ridiculous that your previous comment got instantly flagged - apparently some things are not allowed to be a discussion.
They're even looking at cracking down on family visas outside of spouses and kids.
Hm, do you really believe, that Apple wants to artifical cripple the web?

I see, that they hypothetically might have motivation, to do so ... but this is not valid, since the web is inferior to native implemantations in the first place!
The "only" advantage of the web is, that it is more or less, cross plattform.
Just to point out - I think you meant 'flouted' not flaunted
Essentializing and exoticizing much?
But where have the repetitive stress issues gone?
Civilian lives? A more persuasive argument is that primarily it's a tool to be used when popular opinion at home would simply not allow another full-scale military adventure like Iraq or Afghanistan. Secondary consideration is saving US military lives. Foreign civilian lives is by far not the primary concern.
Naruto Season 1 Episode 14 (English Dubbed)
> first thing I've heard from him that was abhorrent

Respectfully: you have not been paying close attention.
I'm not fundamentally against UBI. It's a different form of social welfare, and it could be more or less efficient depending on how it's applied.

My point is, until recently, I believed it was absolutely the only way forward, we wouldn't be able to avoid it, because this time "robots will really steal our jobs". My realizations imply that this is not the only way forward, even if robots take 100% of the currently existing jobs.
A letter to POTUS on infrastructure
Fantasy. The vast overwhelming majority of corporation valuation is in stockholders' hands. By what measure can employees be seen to benefit from this? They are given a tiny stream of revenue for their labor. That's it. Explain.
Some sources claim that in the 1980s USSR already developed instruments that were capable of operating at surface environment of Venus as part of their Venera program. From [1]:

While never deployed, a seismometer and thermopile battery were developed and tested, capable of operating indefinitely on the surface of Venus.

[1] http://mentallandscape.com/V_Venera11.htm
This seems like a giant security hole. Please send us your password and don't change it for 2 years while we "vet" you. might as well be like here criminals here's your list of passwords.
I would love to have the possibility to be able to hassle free download movies, and I would be willing to pay up to 5 bucks (for certain movies) to do so. But I don't have that option, so instead I have other ways of getting my movies.
I'm curious about this topic. How do you write such documents (ToS, Privacy Policy, etc)?

If you release a side project or a startup and you can't afford a lawyer like GitHub probably does, what are the solutions?
>To outsiders, this may sound alarmist, and perhaps more than a little self-righteous.
It does sound alarmist -- so far the only changes to immigration have been the 7 nation EO and some talk about H1-B.

>They’re looking for the LeBrons and Bradys — the best people in the world

The LeBrons and Bradys of IT would not have any trouble obtaining a work permit or even citizenship from any country in the world -- but given the statistical rarity of superstars (by definition a superstar exists at the top of their profession, even one dominated by highly-skilled people), why would the US need to admit 85K (60K H1-B and 20K master's exempt) immigrants to find them?

Source: https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-worker...
Why Meditation Is the New Caffeine [talk at Google]
US trade balance statistics visualized with Axibase Time Series Database
I don't think you understand the lyrics to 'Holiday in Cambodia'

'The song is an attack on a stereotypical, moralizing, privileged American college student. '

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holiday_in_Cambodia
Or, one of your friends had previously been targeted for Campari ads; FB knew you were with your friend, and now serves you some ads it knows would be appropriate for your friend.
> In 1953, we overthrew their democratically-elected government in favor of the opposition

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.

> Or you've probably never heard of Iran Flight 655, where in 1988 a reckless US cruiser drifted into Iranian waters and shot down an Iranian commercial airplane in Iranian airspace.

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

> Our "defense" of Vietnam.

The 2 million South Vietnamese who fled their country after North Vietnam conquered sure seemed to have appreciated our defence: while we were there, they didn't take to the sea in boats, fleeing for their lives.
Against what repository? There's no github/github.
Thanks for that, I've deleted the first one. I have safeguards in place to prevent legitimate senders from being hassled, but I have to add them first.

That second one is hilarious, though :P
I don't think that makes sense. They expire because they are disclosed, i.e. published, manufactured and sold, etc. Without a government granted and enforced monopoly, creators and inventors would have no protection against being immediately copied without compensation. There is no question of a "right" in this. It's a government granted monopoly, explicitly authorized in the constitution because, otherwise, such monopolies were considered abhorrent. In that, it is a unique part of the US constitution, and does not resemble in any way the rights protected by other parts of the constitution.
> I really don't see what they lose financially

Uh, a lot of money?

There is no way that a torrent with a $1 tip function would make the same amount of money they make through all the distribution deals, advertising, $6 24-hour HD rentals through cable providers and Amazon, etc.

> Technologically it's a weekend project for a small team

Famous last words.
This is precisely the solution. Maybe some kind of points based system would work too: "do you meet qualifications X, Y, and Z? Ok, great!" - that could even work to limit silly magic numbers of visas, as well.

http://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-optimal-number...
With a sub-millisecond GC pauses there are many overlapping use cases.

For example, while you might need Rust to target a PIC or a ESP-32 class processor, Go will run perfectly fine on a ARM Cortex-M3 which also has hardware vendors selling Java compilers, e.g. MicroEJ OS (http://www.microej.com/).
That network topology is actually quite logical and doesn't say much about politics.

P2P connectivity almost always requires a third party to do a three-way handshake. In IPv4 this is because of NAT, and in IPv6 it's usually still needed due to stateful firewalls. Having stable upstream nodes allows rapid bootstrapping of a P2P network by providing known stable points to act as introducers. You can do it in a less hierarchical fashion, but at the expense of performance and stability and possibly security unless you are very careful (see: sybil attacks).

Curtis' political views are what they are. I fundamentally disagree with the core thesis myself-- while I do have problems with pure democracy I see no evidence that aristocracy is in any way superior. But at the same time I believe in treating others' views with respect and respecting their right to hold them. I also must point out that Curtis' views are often hysterically misrepresented and exaggerated, and I doubt he has much to do with today's alt-right which is more of a populist phenomenon. In fact I could see a neo-reactionary calling the alt-right "demotic", which as far as I recall is the term they use for rhetoric of that style.
IPsec VPN Server on a Raspberry Pi 3
Everyone old enough to vote for the politicians in power at the time must be at least 78 years old now. How many people older than 78 are running our country right now?

Yes it was a long time ago when nearly every adult alive at the time is dead now.
"The argument against H1B isn't an argument against immigration or immigrants..."

Whatever the "arguments" may be for or against, the policies that fall out of those arguments have an impact on immigration and hiring practices.

-- So are you saying we should let H1bs start companies and not be reliant on the job?

-- "It isn't surprising that many companies are founded by immigrants or children of immigrants."

50% of the company is not immigrants. 50%! That number is mind blowing. That is much higher than the country as a whole.

-- "startups valued at more than 1 billion dollars? OK..."

?

-- "those dollars in the economy are concentrated in hands of the very wealthy"

You think immigration is to blame for income inequality?

-- " I have a hard time believing "

This is not an argument. You're just asserting that he is lying without any argument.
This reminds me of Black Mirror "The Entire History of You" (2011) [0].

[0] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entire_History_of_You
I couldn't find the video, i suppose the soundcloud link on Verge has the audio where he does say we should not keep people who went good American schools.

link : https://soundcloud.com/breitbart/breitbart-news-daily-donald...

The part where he says, "a country is more than a economy, it's also a civic society" in the context that there are more south asian CEO's in silicon valley is terrifying.
See, you say one might get to "nonsense conclusions when attempting to use logic but ignore context", but you used "They will decide if you intended" without flinching. Or did you flinch?

"They will decide" I thought the intent was mine. How can my intent be decided? My intent was to kill time.

And I have read "What Colour are your bits" before. "The trouble is, human beings are not in general Colour-blind." They are. Truth is, they are. There is no "Colour sense". You can't tell if this pipe was from your grandfather, mine, or if it was 3D printed 10 minutes ago. I could lie to you, you would believe it, and be Wrong. We pretend we see Colour. We tell each other the Colour of everything all the time, because we can't see it. Just as we pretend family matters, and borders exist, and anger is something we must act upon and the sky is up and the floor is down, and fashion is a thing. We pretend these things all the time. I sometimes pretend to want to work where I am right now.

"This idea of Colour is a problem for communication between those of us who work in the world of computers, where Colour does not exist, and those of us who work in the law, where Colour exists and is important." Colour does not exist anywhere. If everyone forgot it, no one would be able to find it again. Other Colours would be created. And we would pretend to like them with the same strength.

When you buy a combat knife, are you buying a killing artifact? Are you buying a weight? A memento of culture? Army supplies?

The world functions because we agree on a lot of things. You seem to agree that Colour exists and the Combat Knife is deadly, but the Americana Knife is not, and the metal assembly is just scrap. Only by force you will convince anyone that Colour exists and it is important. So you will never be right, you will just have won. And the Federation Against Copyright Theft won, and we pretend they are right. I disagree.

Also,

> "Set-top boxes loaded with apps and add-ons allowing access to copyright infringing material are very much illegal and anyone involved in selling these boxes should not be surprised to receive a knock on the door," Kieron Sharp, director general of Fact

The box itself is illegal. An illegal computer. My computer is also illegal right now. Let's pretend this makes sense.
One can split hairs like you do, but in the end they're both part of a new generation of statically typed languages aiming for good performance.

People looking for such a language will take a look at them and pick one.
Didn't see SICP (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs) on that list. Surprised considering how often I hear it quoted on SO. You would think it was the bible of computer science. A little old in the tooth i'd imagine.
I've been doing sub-20 hour work weeks for a while now. I'd like to never go back to anywhere near 40.

To the workaholics out there I say stop working extra for free. Those additional hours are unsolicited gifts to an employer who would fire you if it was possible. Stop giving your labor away, seriously.
Additional nurses were brought in to spread the workload for the official study, and the general feedback was positive.

In the private sector that informally participated, apparently no staff adjustments were made (or at least not mentioned).

I'm not sure it depends on the sector.
I couldn't agree more.

The article seems to imply that only those opposed to Trump/Brexit/etc. are worth marketing to, and those in support are inconsequential. That's nonsense. By basing marketing efforts on political stances they are creating as many detractors as fans.

Most people who view this negatively aren't going to tell them about it. To this day, I don't shop at Target, Starbucks, or Whole Foods because of their political stances on certain issues that are important to me. Uber and Lyft have now joined that list. I don't care to convince others to do the same, but I can't in good conscience support an organization that actively works against my interests.

My family once spent an average of $600 / month at Target. In 2014, they issued a statement [1], saying in part: "starting today we will also respectfully request that guests not bring firearms to Target." I respect their property rights so I now take my pistol with me to Kroger, along with my wallet.

[1]: https://corporate.target.com/article/2014/07/target-addresse...
CTO, Developers, Agency? What’s the Best Way to Build Your Startup?
I was hoping for an actual quote from Bannon that supports that claim, instead of an article that admits:

> While Bannon didn’t explicitly say anything against immigrants,

then adds the partisan spin:

> he seemed to hint ...
So basically:

* if you have a job that requires X work be done. The more productive, happier employees still get X work done. If I'm happier and suddenly don't spend 2-3 hours of work time on reddit or hn, I can actually get MORE work done in less time. I imagine a lot of HN style jobs fit into this category. I know I can write more code when I'm well rested and thinking clearly.

* if you have a job that requires Y hours be worked. You have to hire more staff to cover the extra hours. For example, hospital care (like the lady described in the article). If you need a hospital staffed 24/7, you now need 4 people to staff a single day instead of 3.
> But in general it is the rise of anti-immigration sentiment, and the instability with respect to immigration.

I guess that makes sense. If you have a low opinion of Trump starting out, then hearing about his upcoming "immigration reform" is like the Pointy-Haired Boss telling you not to worry about that race condition in the billing server because he "fixed" it: It just makes you more worried.

> Under the current system, Indians and Chinese workers who start the process of getting a green card today must wait at least 13 years to get it.

That sounds terrible. Would plans to make the requirements more strict(such as requiring them to work a high-paying job, or sorting them by the salary of the sponsoring employer) help alleviate this, since the queue will be shorter?
Distributed File Systems and Object Stores on Linode – Ceph
If they're security-minded and have 2FA, do they also need to hand over a yubikey?
I think what you are saying is that the readability of a language is more important than how easy a language is to learn. I heartily agree. Languages that encourage simple, readable code trump pretty much any other language out there, in my opinion. I can't tell you how many times I've looked at my overly abstract Ruby code and just thought, WTF?!

I like Go for this reason. It has more noise (err) than I'd like, but when I look at most Go code, I find it relatively easy to follow and modify. There's no other language I've used that achieves this so consistently.
The larger problem is not so much people leaving, but those not coming to the Valley in the first place.
http://mcfeely.areavoices.com/2017/02/01/bannon-legal-immigr...

"Isn’t the beating heart of this problem, the real beating heart of it, of what we got to get sorted out here, is not illegal immigration, as horrific as that is and it’s horrific, don’t we have a problem and we’ve looked the other way on this legal immigration..." -- Bannon
Memory management? Most Lisp implementations have a GC, while Tcl in its simplest form has no concept of a reference, and thus there is no need for a GC - everything is passes by value. For example, a simple `sl5.c` example below leaks all the memory it ever allocates.
Most movies can be downloaded easily by people who know to use computers. There are tens of millions of fully functional adult Americans who can barely operate Word, they certainly cannot start torrenting movies.

Well, they might be able to once, at which point they're going to get some ransomware or become part of a botnet.
Great Advice by Akira Kurosawa
This is mostly wrong. Lisp is mistermed "functional language" due to schools which teach freshmen some subset of a Lisp dialect which they must use in a pure way to solve homework problems: no variable assignment, no loops. The second thing you hear from people after "functional language" is things like "oh yes Lisp. I remember all the recursion; it was elegant".

Lisp is in fact organized around the idea of a function being a pure function and it was that way from the beginning.

This is why the sequential execution of forms with side effects has dedicated macros/operators with names like prog and progn. These provide "the program feature": giving step by step procedural instructions that tell the machine what to do, rather than an expression which computes a value. The only reason to use (progn x1 x2 ... y) is that x1 x2 ... have side effects. If they only compute values that are discarded, the whole thing may be optimized down to just y.

Also, there is a funny quirk in the terminology whereby Lisp people still refer to the arguments of cond as being "cond pairs", even though you can write procedural bodies consisting of multiple forms, and it has been that way for decades:

(cond
(this-condition do-this and-do-this yield-this-value) ;; triplet, not pair
(that-condition do-that and-do-that yield-that-value)
...)

The "cond pairs" terminology persists because cond was originally restricted to pairs! Except for the aspect that it evaluated the conditions in left to right order, it was inherently oriented toward handling the cases in functional programming: upon finding a true expression, it evaluated its result counterpart, and yielded that value. In "pure Lisp" programming, cond will still be used that way.

Of course, even ancient Lisp had rplaca and rplacd to mutate conses, and set and setq to mutate variables. The 1960 Lisp 1.5 manual describes arrays (indexed from zero (damn it!) and mutable).

Calling Lisp "least functional" is completely silly, since it was the first tool which enabled computer scientists to translate pure recursion on paper directly into executable code. There are countless languages which might take such a title, by virtue of having no support for functional programming.
> Our guy shot down a passenger flight, murdering 290 human beings, we gave him a medal but we then paid USD$213,000 in blood money per passenger to Iran without ever admitting fault.

Vincennes believed it was shooting down an attacking Iranian fighter, not a passenger jet. It wasn't murder; it was an accident (due to faulty electronic data). We didn't give the skipper a medal for shooting down the plane; we gave him an end-of-tour award. And I don't know what the big deal with paying weregild is: that's what you do.

Has Russia paid anything to the families of the Malaysian airliner shoot-down?
If you cant afford a lawyer then you probably cant afford the side project. Some things you simply get what you pay for. Start an LLC, pay a lawyer a couple hundred bucks and you'll be set for quite a while.
Great use case for "duress passwords"
I wonder what will happen with visitors who don't use social media. I don't have a Facebook account. If I were a foreigner, would I be under extra suspicion because I can't provide an account like most people? Will people start manufacturing social media accounts to paint a picture the U.S. authorities want to see?

The end-game seems to be a social media account that functions like a multi-purpose credit score, à la Sesame Credit[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Credit
Well, yes, people here sometimes forget that not everyone sits behind a desk for 8 hours a day(in which case, sure, you are only productive 3-4 hours a day).

There are jobs which require 8 hours of being present, doing something or not, and by reducing that time you simply have to hire more people.
Writing Google cloud functions using clojure
> The argument against H1B isn't an argument against immigration or immigrants, it is an argument against corporate welfare.

Which argument against H1Bs are you referring to? Because Steve Bannon's, which may well be the most influential in government policy right now, was embedded against an argument that also specifically called out the overall proportion of immigrants in the US population as a problem. It is, quite directly, an anti-immigrant argument.
Describing people as "high quality" is part of the problem. Are people from Syria low quality? They are human beings just like us, fleeing a conflict which has destroyed their lives.
How to test software that's a pain to test
> Default Contributor License: To address growing confusion over licensing and contributions to others’ projects, we added a simple default contributor license. If it does not suit your needs, you may add your own Contributor License Agreement to your repository.

That is much needed. Does anyone know what the new default contributor license is?
> The military also didn't go out of its way to punish recklessly shooting down a civilian aircraft.

It wasn't reckless: it was the right call based on the data Vincennes had, which showed that an Iranian fighter was able to kill it.
But in the context of privacy is power, who is your real adversary? Clearly it is the state. And they have shown time and again that they are watching all ISP traffic, with their consent, whereas Google is making a sincere effort to resist.
Business owners happy to get a payday, banks happy to loan money to a successful business. PE firms happy to be a middleman.
What if you're downloading just the git repository and scraping that. In theory you're not scraping github but the files github allows you to download.
As a Senior programmer, over the years, I've bought eight copies for Juniors to help them cope and learn to deal with other types of programmers (or stop being fucking hero-programmers).

Should be mandatory reading IMHO.