skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those of us with an academic background in economics call this a change in the quantity demanded. That said, outside of a jargon context the way the word is used here is totally fine and understandable.
Morality is much more than the law.
I think most economists agree that UBI would reduce poverty traps and marginal tax rates on poor individuals even if they don't support UBI for other reasons.

In Finland these traps and marginal tax rates are especially large. Marginal tax rates on poor can be as high as 80-100+% depending on their situation (with single moms marginal tax rate can be higher than 100+ going to work makes things worse).

The discussion about UBI is framed into lazy bums vs. hard-working good people. Lazy bum argument is easy to counter when you point out that half of the low income workforce in retail would already get the same income from welfare programs if they would stop working. If they would be rational and not value work, they should quit. If people would realize that many of the poor people either can't work full time (due to mental or physical illness) and that their marginal tax rates are usually much higher than in any other income group, they might reconsider supporting UBI.
We've actually been trying to back off of HN, but the community posts just about anything that appears on our blog.
> HFT generates and cancels orders on magnitudes like this all day long, but they have to be allowed to do so because it "creates markets",

No, they are allowed because HFT firms have the intention to (and in fact, will gladly) trade.
Physics experiments with phone sensors
This literally happened to me for the first time this week after years with AWS! My site was totally down for 6 hours but AWS still reports everything as green and no notifications were sent.

Any suggestions for a very simple 3rd party "check" that will constantly monitor my site and alert me (email/text) when it's unresponsive?
An app to empower students [article]
The interactive version: https://theappendix.net/special/the-fever/
template <typename Company>
void news()
{
std::cout << Company::ToString() << " employee writes of low wages, poor morale; company denies claims";
}
VyOS, based on Brocade's Vyatta platform (from which Ubiquiti's EdgeMAX platform is also derived).
They're satirizing the inversion of burden of proof embodied in your statement. Its a well known one in the realm of philosophy (Russell's Teapot).

To continue the satirical trend, I've seen plenty of evidence of a teapot floating between mars and earth.
Yeah, large companies don't pay enough.

That said: the more money you have, the more of a game it is. The rules get blurry when dealing with multiple countries.

If you were (or owned) a large company, you'd do the same. Or well, at least I would. Can't blame the game. Fix the rules.
We are all doomed if this quantum computer works and can break stuff. I also say never ever ;)
Ask HN: Good resource to explain concurrency vs. parallelism
I have been looking for some resource that explains the concepts of concurrency and parallelism and differentiates the two.

The closest I have got to clarity is http://berb.github.io/diploma-thesis/community/023_concurrency.html

I plan to read the whole thesis for a good understanding of concurrency and it's different implementation models. Meanwhile, I am interested to know if any other resource has worked for you. I am most familiar with Python. So any resource that leans that way is nice to have though not necessary. If that is the wrong way to do it, pl advise me on the best way to approach this.
I agree with this. WP is amazing.
Would you say that you're Just Asking Questions?
Yeah, no.

I strongly hate this idea that programming is for passionate people only. I interpret this as "You want to find a job that will improve your living conditions significantly if you're willing to put the work in? Fuck you; stick to the coffee bar."

I encourage everyone who is interested in learning how to program and wants to make a lot of money to take this field up. Why? Because at the end of the day, programming is a device whose input is business needs and output is something that makes that business money. Maybe. Better programming saves money and makes those money-making machines cheaper to repair and fix, but if it still makes money, then it still makes money.

If they learn to become good at this stuff, then why shouldn't they take advantage of an amazing salary and usually fantastic working and learning conditions?

BTW: there are plenty of great doctors and lawyers who are in it for the cash. Why? As it so happens, getting better at one's field leads to better chances at making more money. So you get better.
> I would actually argue that this was a by-product of trying to copy/serve the US model at some level.

How?
Because they won't be able to get domestic forces for that money. I'm not saying that it is the way to go, but there might be businesses that can only exist on h1bs.
So we should definitely reform this, but be cautious.
Execution should not be the same as the ban, rolled out without any kind of consideration or preparation.
No, I don't need to make my whole life about X to be decent at X.
Samsung’s Chromebook Pro Gives Me Hope in Chrome OS–thanks to Android
Sure, it works if you're still in school. What if you already graduated?

I got an MS from a top engineering school from France last June. I already did 2 internships (with a J-1 Intern) and lived in San Diego during ~2 years in total. I have my friends, my gf, my life there.

I'm not enough "exceptional" to get an O-1 or a green card though EB-1.

My employer don't want to sponsor me for an EB-2 now because I'll have to stay out of the USA for an undetermined duration (years).

I'm working as a contractor right now in Canada, waiting 90 days outside of the USA to get another J-1 Intern and my employer is also filling another H1B this year. I don't know what I'll do in 1 year if I don't get an H1B this year.

See, it's not that easy.
Of course. I'm not advocating that. But I do think most people assume there's not much you can do, aside from paying up. Getting a decent understanding of basic tax law pays itself back over the years.

I've met self employed people who don't even understand the difference between salary, corporate tax and dividends.
> Turning right on red is one of those idea that once you've been exposed to it you wonder why isn't everybody adopting it...

I believe Jeremy Clarkson once called it, "America's only useful contribution to Western civilization" :)
Good question .. I crafted a piece back in October and another in November on the Russians targeting the US elections (the RNC, DNC and all the candidates in January 2016 were given a warning directly from the FBI to tighten up their cyber).

Re the implosion within the FSB cyber team .. additional names continue to be revealed, and it would appear that the timing is politically driven for the best effect, while the case itself was put together in Oct/Nov and arrests made in December --- but not publicized until post Trump inauguration .. jury is still out on the rationale - I offered one person's opinion in the second piece on the implosion.
CB
You're absolutely right, there is one condition that I've swept under the rug which is necessary.

* The resulting list must be a permutation of the original list.
That's a fairly broad statement and entirely dependent on the context. I'm struggling to think of an example in recent history where "a coordinated effort by voters" got some meaningful traction in the sense of this article. I'm far from omniscient, though, so this could very well be a huge blind spot in my own news information maintenance.
Web-Key: Capability-based security for web servers
Do you know if I have to do that with regular FreeBSD as well? Like if I were to run just FreeBSD and not pfSense.
> I would consider hired protesters in the same class of scumminess

If we're bringing hypotheticals into the discussion, I also can't stand train bandits. They make me so mad.
The military is an entirely different machine based on obedience, mastery-by-repetition, and attention to detail.

The military needs to minimize creative thinking and maximize swift adherence to the rules.

The value busy works adds in this context is to reinforce that precision and obedience through repetition and consistency.
Maybe certain products are sold on the basis on minimal viable profit. This will not change, even if everyone now has more money.

Things sold on the basis of what people are able to pay are usually based on something in short supply (not liquid?) such that if people (now with more money) started to compete (by offering more money) they could not just produce more of that good; hence the price rises instead, like in an auction.

So UBI should probably be accompanied with some kind of plan for affordable housing (increase housing supply).
That is the possibility i worry about yes.

Where i live, Norway, there used to be a price control on housing. But then it was abolished by a right wing government, allowing banks to lend to individuals wanting to buy.

What in effect has happened is that household debt and house prices have risen in lock step ever since.

Similarly, after the unions negotiate a wage rise the prices on good and services will invariably rise to match with a bit of time lag.

Damn it, we can perhaps look at how things work for students that get a fixed government stipend. It has to be constantly adjusted upwards to stay relevant with the price inflation.
These are all shitty arguments, but they're not conspiracies. They're just shitty arguments.

A conspiracy would be more like "Bush did 9/11", which the left was guilty of for a while. Eugh.
Are you saying that people who use pfSense don't know what they are doing?
This whole article is an example of astroturfing.

Why don't you guys ban this shit?
A ramda.pipe-like utility that handles promises internally
> I once found a blog post ... but I lost the link ...

Maybe this one? Python: Writing a Compiler and Interpreter in 160 lines of code

http://www.jroller.com/languages/entry/python_writing_a_comp...
>> What's not democratic about optimizing need based upon projected tax revenue? Are we discriminating against "poor companies"? Would you classify companies that allow their employees to work remotely doing the same?

> The unstated assumption in your questions seems to be that optimizing for revenue should be the #1 (or a high) priority for a government.

> If so, why not just cut all social programs? They're expensive, and the poor people can find jobs, right?

Social programs aren't revenue, they're an expense.

> My leaning is more towards the idea that governments should optimize for something else. Perhaps "the greater good", however the citizens decide that.

The beauty of using something objective like salary or even a pure auction where the USA sells the via to the highest bidder is that it's objective and consistent. "Greater good" is a feel good (no pun intended) term that has no objective meaning. It may make you feel better that you've provided a job to a third-world immigrant but that doesn't mean it's objectively a good thing for the USA. And at the end of the day the foreign policy of the USA is for its own interests (which may align with global ones but not at the expense of USA ones).

> Money is always an issue, but optimizing for tax revenue is a little to inhuman for me to be comfortable with it.

If you don't pick something objective where at least the government can get a fair share of the money, you'll end up with outsourcing firms gaming the system. It's the immigration equivalent of "this is why we can't have nice things".

>> It's in their interests to raise the price of said foreign labor.

> ... to artificially raise the price of foreign labor. Many companies now are trying to artificially lower the price of foreign labor, through lobbying, etc.

It's not artificial at all. It's the price of providing that same service locally which is what the H1-B's salary is supposed to be anyway.

If the foreign labor wants to provide that service remotely, more power to them. Let them do so. But if it's done in SF, or NY, or anywhere in the USA, the prevailing labor rate is what should be paid. The point isn't to provide cheap labor to firms. It's to fill gaps in the labor market (or at least that was supposed to be the point).

> And the foreign labor market is in no way free. When I worked in the Bay area, it was well known that many H1B holders were paid low salaries, and treated like crap. Because they wanted to stay in the country, and were willing to accept hardship in order to do so.

> That artificially lowered the labor cost, and lowered salaries. If they were paid the same as local talent, the artificial low cost would go away, and more local talent would be hired.

Well duh. That's what I'm trying to say!!
Because despite all the hate, GitLab is still pretty awesome to have.
What a clickbaity title... A Google Code-In winner is hardly a 'coding champion'.
In my experience, "passion" usually manifests itself as several hour-long discussions about trivia that have little to do with what's actually at stake.

Very frustrating.
No. He was spoofing orders. You too can have success if you follow his method. It's been claimed there are rooms full of people in Asia who do nothing but make/cancel orders.
I'm not talking about proof of not being paid - I'm talking about proof of the original claims, or at least more detail than you see in the sources here. When stuff like this gets picked up and shared on popular websites because of one disgruntled employee, I'm inclined to dismiss it similarly.
Insider Threat Training: Building the Employee Defenses
People turning right have the same right-of-way as people going straight through an intersection.

No they don't, They must come to a complete stop and yield to all traffic, including people turning left. At least in NJ, I don't know about other states.

http://www.state.nj.us/mvc/pdf/Manuals/drivermanual.pdf
Could anyone see the FTC creating some sort of unit test that crawls IP addresses in the US and tries to find vulnerabilities like this. Maybe printing out a message for the owner to contact some authority on the 'Internet of Things' ?
Ask HN: Our first employee decided to leave. What should we ask him?
Our first employee decided to leave the company to keep pursuing his studies. We want to learn the most from his decision. What questions would you ask him? What do we have to keep in mind until his last day ?

Thanks !
Incorporating turn costs into route planning is actually not that easy! For one it increases the amount of data you need (street layout, type of intersection, etc) and a lookup to add the appropriate penalty. But more importantly, it doesn't play well with many speed-up techniques.

Two papers on the subject, applying turn costs to the two most popular speed-up techniques (I don't know if UPS uses either of these, though):

https://algo2.iti.kit.edu/download/turn_ch.pdf

http://i11www.iti.uni-karlsruhe.de/extra/publications/dgpw-c...

The first author of the first paper now works at Google, and the authors of the second paper used to work at Microsoft Research and now are at Apple and Amazon. Make of that what you will :)
> The reason college tuition is so high is because the government backs those loans.

This is patently false. Which nullifies the rest of your suggestion.
The order book is public. Anyone can go look at the outstanding orders (offers really) for any stock.
Whoops, my bad, the only faint idea about ML I do have is as the "MotherLode" from what I know of modern-day F# / Haskell --- never looked at Scala so far

That then should be the actual answer to OP's question
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GUI editors worked because website content was 100% static back then. In 2017, dynamic templating/MVC paradigms, along with CSS3 shenanigans, make GUIs difficult and certainly not accessible for non-technical users which would be the primary market.

That said, I've seen React GUI editors pop up occasionally.
Well what is your SLO around message delivery? If it's "a successful response means a message will be delivered at least once and in under X time" then you need to verify that message has been durably committed to multiple machines in all of your availability zones. if it's just that the message is durably committed or the SLO on delivery is long enough, then you can drop the multi-as bit.
You're saying the individual worker would then have bargaining power of their own, without requiring the collective power of a union?

I think this is true, but there is still virtue to unions; they will just have to work harder to justify benefit..
The "S" in IoT stands for security :)
Well, one can pay out using bonuses, distributions and any number of other instruments.

I didn't dispute that the job opportunity had to be posted prominently in the workplace with details exactly as stated in the H1 application.

LCA re-applications / H1 amendments are not required unless the location, the position or the nature of the job change significantly. Pay cuts are simply not allowed without informing the government.

Actual base pay >= prevailing wage? Perhaps my using them interchangeably isn't right. However, given a reasonable chance of approval, I would not apply for an H1 auth promising anything above the prevailing wage.

My tax returns / pay stubs are included in H1 extensions, intermediate steps to a green card and in visa applications. They are well aware of the pay raises.

IANAL and I can check with our lawyer again but this was our company's legal advice. If you are a lawyer or know one, this may be a difference of opinion.
UC Berkeley is not a business. It's a public university. The "UC" being short for "University of California".

I was addressing your notion about businesses, "this legal loophole, businesses can do what they want". And I presumed you were actually talking about businesses, because a) you mentioned Twitter, a business, and b) UC Berkeley is not a business.

> sure that's legally true perhaps [...] it's not right and against the idea of the first amendment

No. No, no, no. The idea of the First Amendment is not that you are owed a platform. It's just that the government cannot stop you from saying what you want in public or with your own platform. It starts out with "Congress shall make no law" for a reason.

That is not the idea of the First Amendment. It is your idea of the First Amendment. It's a common one, but that doesn't make it the right one, or the only one.
> Exactly. I rather trust well proven math more than people or infrastructure. One famous example nowadays is Bitcoin ... nobody was able to break the fundamental math behind it.

Well, there was the integer overflow bug years ago where someone could essentially create money out of thin air. But that's the only one I know of and it's a pretty amazing security track record for such a high-profile and lucrative target.

That said, this is just me being pedantic, I agree I'd much rather trust solid crypto than a promise from a person somewhere, even if that promise is in writing.
What is the proper word for "animals minus humans"?
That's the part I don't understand about their feud. (I haven't read the translation, just reviews of Beam's book.) It seemed clear that Nabokov's translation aims at a different purpose than more "readable" translations, and there is a valid place for both approaches.
Latency, cost, and connection quality are usually the three big issues with satellite connections. For those reasons, they're usually only viable in remote areas with low populations (or otherwise low need for electronic communication); at some point, a physical connection ends up becoming necessary.
Zero. If you need coffee you probably lack adequate sleep. That being said, coffee smells, and tastes delicious, so it can be nice to have one in the morning.
I wonder how many people against H-1Bs are also opposed to Trump's worker protectionist policy re: NAFTA. Seems that at least philosophically they're aligned.
training course of last resort?
The encryption tools you are using are written by people, and can have bugs. Being careless and blindly trusting them can get you into trouble.
He violated Buffett's first rule, never invest in businesses you don't understand...
These days it seems to be imperative to use async loaders. Are they more functional? Is there a logical reason to use them?
What about the earned income tax credit in the US? It's a negative income tax.
Chances of Linux-land adopting a NIH tech: .000001%.

They could have used kqueue, but didn't. They could have used accept_filters, but didn't, they could have adopted jails instead of creating i've lost count of how many "container" technologies, but didn't.

So basically they will toss iptables eventually and write something similar but not quite as good as pf.

The Unix world in general would be very grateful to see Linux adopt current tech rather than constantly reinventing the wheel in a "its just good enough unfortunately" incompatible way.
Insist people not working go to the gym/exercise. Either they start working, or they get fitter. win-win?
You didn't answer the Parent Poster. He's asking how can the law determine if the trader was spoofing or legitimately trading. What are the criteria for that.
Really? Okay; tell me, right now, about another field where I can make over $100K per year nearly ANYWHERE in the US, without additional formal education, in a working environment that gives me free breakfast, lunch and dinner, doesn't make me wear a uniform and actually pays me to learn new things.
KasperskyOS – Trusted. Flexible. Secure
The cofounder's perspective: https://medium.com/@leowid/after-6-incredible-years-at-buffe...
the "pop up occasionally" part is what has me stumped - if these tools are any good, they must surely be more efficient than hammering out CSS and HTML (or pre-processor languages) by hand. If they aren't, then why, and if they are, what's holding back adoption? I'm a frontend developer myself and the reason I posted the question is because I couldn't give myself a good answer as to why I wasn't using one myself.
Take a look at http://www.smoothwall.org/.
Since you need turn restrictions if you want to compute routes that users can actually follow, adding different costs for different kinds of turns (left, right, U-turn) is easy.

See my other comment in this thread on the challenges associated with incorporating turn costs and restrictions in gerenal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13616676
I don't know if the legal fees go that high, but it can depend on the lawyer I guess. 10k is normal, 20k seems high.

But regardless, also add the non-salary benefits, of course: non-discretionary bonuses, stock grants, etc.
US could ask visa applicants for social media passwords
I love the tool! Didn't know my MongoDB server had 3 vulnerabilities.
PS: I love that they implemented Material Design on command line LOL
Do you plan to support the equivalent of ~/.inputrc to configure editing options (specifically vi editing mode)?

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Readline-...
Because how would an ordinary person every make the right choice? How would any kind of anti-virus every tell the difference between a "good" program that's connecting to an embedded web server in an appropriate way, and a "bad" one that's intended to take over the system?

Most other checkbox security choices at least can be explained. A word processor probably doesn't have any legitimate reason to use Bluetooth (for example), and therefore a customer has a chance of making a reasonable choice.

But for localhost access -- my word, there's no rhyme or reason for it. As a simple example, I worked on a statistical package back in the 90's (yay RS/1!) that was implemented as two programs on Windows. One was the GUI client and the other the statistical server. There's nothing about "statistics" that obviously screams, "must have localhost permissions" :-)