skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh god! Robert Ver got a passport from St Kitts and Nevis.

I remember reading this book about survivalism ("Emergency" by Neil Strauss--a really awesome read in investigative journalism btw), and he had a whole chapter on how to get a passport from St Kitts and Nevis. Basically, the point was that you need to buy property worth about a million, and if you don't get screwed over by real-estate agents or the government, you'll get it pretty quickly.

My main concern was that once you have it, it's not very likely that many countries would take it seriously. It's like a running joke that if you're a shady millionaire/mobster trying to dodge taxes and stash money away, you'd always have a St Kitts and Nevis passport.
Me neither, but the TouchID is terrific.
This sounds really cool. How about you are working for amazon or google and you have 1M production boxes? A nice prompt wont save you, change management will. Writing down the exact steps and reading it yourself and get others to read it and you execute it line by line. In my experience this is much better approach than avoid production boxes or have a red prompt and also scales to larger infrastructures. If something goes sideways (and in some cases it will) you can pinpoint the root cause quickly.
It's very rare that I say this, but go Microsoft!
Forgive me for being thick, I read the first page and ran the "demo" but what does it do?
>Girls are weak when it comes to software and boys are strong?

That's precisely what you are implying by supporting coding camps "for girls"!

Any time you create an event restricted to some group unrelated to skill level, it makes it sound like something inherent to the group makes their abilities different.

Okay:

Python for beginners

Python for intermediate users

Python for data scientists

Not okay:

Python for girls

Python for Jewish people

Python for Black people

Python for Gay people

Python for White people
Instead of buying internet points for someone who figured out a little hack to access journalism, maybe you could instead pay for journalism?
Same thing for firefox. And you can right-click the bookmarklet to edit its properties and make a nice name.
I don't think federal government employees working in various technology aspects have the ability to directly influence US foreign policy
Yes, it seems you're right. Canada has the higher tax rate, so the USA gives a credit and you are not charged extra on employment income.

But the US has higher capital gains and estate taxes than Canada, and you may be charged there: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/delays-costs-mo...
Stripe website
What UI web framework does the Stripe website use?
This is probably because it is hosted on GitHub Pages which doesn't give you a way to serve the document for any URL. I would expect it to be a trivial fix for any self-run server.
My favorite von Neumann anecdote from the wiki page you linked to came from Edward Teller who said "von Neumann would carry on a conversation with my 3-year-old son, and the two of them would talk as equals, and I sometimes wondered if he used the same principle when he talked to the rest of us."
I was responding sarcastically, but forgot the /s afterwards. My bad.

He renounced his US citizenship and then got pissy when the US wouldn't let him back in. It was hilarious.
You're not going to be renouncing your citizenship unless you already have another one... these people aren't going stateless.
> "Have you done this before?"

Very nice. And to estimate robust competence, perhaps:

"Have you focused on this? Long-term, with reflective practice, and embedded in a critical community?"

I don't know how to make that pithy. "Is this your thing?", "Is this your life?", "Are you a contender?", ...?

I'm interested transformative improvement of science and engineering educational content, through greatly increased use of domain expertise. So I've spent a lot of time scraping against the limits of people's expertise.[1]

The steepness with which people's expertise drops, as you move away from their primary focus of effort, is greatly and pervasively underestimated.

There's a news story genre, an example of which is "Harvard MBA's confused about what causes Earth's seasons!" But why is this surprising? If the last time someone focused on something was in middle school, then their having a middle school understanding of it shouldn't come as a great surprise.

A professor wizzy in their own subfield, may have a graduate student's grasp of nearby subfields, an undergraduate's grasp of the rest of their field, and a high-school grasp of other fields.

A non-biology MIT professor may have no idea what DNA is. An MIT chemistry lecturer no recognition of dimensional analysis. A Harvard physicist, hard-nosed and empirical, in teaching "just has a feeling for it", "intuitively knowing" what will work and not and how well. If you want to find out what crayon color to use for the Sun, don't ask a random first-tier astronomy graduate student - they will almost always get it wrong.[2]

The unadorned adjective "smart"... has startlingly large negative utility.

[1] http://www.clarifyscience.info/part/MHjx6 Scientific expertise is not broadly distributed - an underappreciated obstacle to creating better content

[2] http://www.clarifyscience.info/part/Jw6yo "What color is the Sun?" - An example of science education pathology.
Edward Snowden claims report Russia may ‘gift’ him to Trump
> Since the 1920s we've had one president (HW Bush) who fits the bill under normal circumstances.

> The following were all oddities:

> Nixon -> Ford

> ...

Ford wasn't even elected to the presidency, NOR the vice presidency-- he was appointed VP after Agnew resigned. And then lost to Carter in '76.
Why do programming language maintainers for a front end to LLVM (rust) need to consider/patch/modify their front end to properly support a llvm backend, like AVR?

(My mental model was that once you add a backend to Llvm, every programming language that uses llvm should magically work with it.) Does LLVM's design fail to capture the full problem space? Are there out of band concerns that do not lend themselves to be generally expressed?
Yes, Therac-25 as an example.

The code will run and corrupt data without crashing, due to off by one error.

In the proprocess a few people got cooked.

Although the code was in Assembly, the situation wouldn't have been different if it was coded in C, due to the lack of bounds checking.
People who are renonouncing their passport already have a passport from one of these countries.
The idea of free access to news is relatively recent, since wide-spread web access.

Not really. Radio. TV.
Having read obamas book audacity of hope (highly recommended), I strongly disagree. I presume that what he describes in his book was what he was referring to as change: ending bi-partisanship in Washington and constructively making things better by bridging the gap between republicans and democrats.

In the end, it seems he was more gridlocked then any of the prior presidents in recent memory and had to resort to more executive orders than previous president. Though potus 45 seems to be following his example in that regard..
I suspect most of the others would be better just posting teaser material on the web and trying to make the rest up in the paper edition.
The C++ server itself was my side project. I made it long time ago. I tried to create a blog with it.

https://github.com/shi-yan/Swiftly

Right now, I'm making a deep learning library. I want to create some simple dashboard ui for it.

I investigated few options. I don't like go. I know some node.js. I really wanted to use swift. But the swift framework, called perfect, crahes on my mac. So I decided to use my own framework. It integrates well with my deep learning library.
Interesting.

On larger doses of acid where I'm suffering immense mental agitation, the common visions are spirals, coils, and snakes.

In particular, a snake with no head, but rather attached to itself to form a hula hoop. Trying to turn over, but it can't. So it's there writhing infinitely.

The futility of it is a good representation of the abject overstimulation I'm feeling in my head. And, of course, a nice feeling of terror to go along with it.

Whenever snakey things are on the mind, I know that it was a bigger dose than I intended, and I'll soon be holding on to a panicking brain.
Just want to add here that using tools like safe-rm[1] across your infrastructure would help in preventing data losses by running rm on unintended directories.

[1]: https://launchpad.net/safe-rm
Can someone at bloomberg do something about those annoying videos in there. Not even giving you an option to close the damn thing.
Nice work, although there are already a few options for safer microcontrollers when one bothers to look beyond C.

More options is certainly even better.
For shared accounts, it's really annoying if others mess with settings. For that reason, I use the following piece of shell code that I put in .bashrc. Explanation: you configure the MYMACHINE variable as the IP address you usually come from.

# If we're logging in through SSH, write this down
if [ -n "$SSH_CLIENT" ]; then
# Alternative settings
MYMACHINE="172.16.140.14"
FROM=`echo $SSH_CLIENT | cut -f1 -d" "`
case $FROM in
*$MYMACHINE)
export TMOUT=180 #Logout after 3 minutes
set -o vi
# all sorts of other settings
;;
esac
fi
All the things you say are equally true for holders of passports from any first world country, which the overwhelming majority of people renouncing US citizenship have.

And regarding "a lot of money", we are talking Eduardo Saverin levels of wealth here. At that level, if you really really need to make the US your permanent residence again, you can make probably pull some strings and make it happen.
5 Lessons by Bill Watkins, CEO, Imergy Power and Ex-CEO Seagate
The Guardian's tactic actually got me to pay for news for the first time in my life. For some reason I'm really turned off to the idea of buying a ~$100 subscription to a single paper, but I'll gladly toss $25 here or there in response to good journalism.
Ask HN: Any open source alternatives to Intercom?
Arguably just like "Make America Great Again"

Slogans without specifics are just that, slogans.
Mostly that people now move between countries and tend to live and work in different countries than the ones the grew up in (obviously this is not the majority of the population, but is a higher proportion than even a few years ago), and the the US makes it very painful to be a citizen while living abroad. Plenty of people are fine with living in the U.S. and paying taxes in the U.S., or living in country X and paying taxes in country X. But living in country X and paying taxes in country X and the U.S. sounds very unattractive to a lot a people, especially if you have not lived in the U.S. for 20+ years...

If you are looking for a commentary one way or the other on recent political developments in the U.S., well, we have no clue yet, because all the data for H1Bs/GCs and citizenship renunciations both are probably from last year. Also, assuming someone moves to Canada tomorrow, it will take time for them acquire a Canadian citizenship and then from there to the point where they are ready to renounce their U.S. citizenship permanently, specially if that is right now their only citizenship.
Both of which are commercial-supported and transient. Print news is a different beast.
Always worth checking the school library database first as it might be available for free (well, 'free'... not including tuition..)
Ah, yes, this is also why the US has no sweat of the brow doctrine, with the prime example being "trying to copyright a phone book".
I am just wondering what would be equivalent to scanning some articles not reading them, conflating two destroys potential value to offer this proposition. I don't often read articles but I want to see if its worth reading. So it is a bit of a hardsell on part of wsj, but they do cater to more of the affluent public so my guess they stand to gain more from playing hardball with people who do have more disposable income than rest of the internet public.
Sure, I'll write something up this weekend.
A man became the most powerful person on the planet using Twitter, so yeah, it is very effective!

Trump doesn't do Snapchat videos. He does 3AM tweets.
FATCA is a mess. For example, some non-US (e.g. Hong Kong) bank will assume you are a US person (and presumably share your account info with the IRS) if you opened the account with a US phone number unless you prove that you are not a US person by doing some troublesome paperwork. (So what if you have a US number? It could be a Google Voice or Twilio number.)

The onus should be on the IRS to prove to the bank that the account holder is a US person, not the other way round. They want the money but they won't do their share of the due diligence.
I don't understand why this is being downvoted - its all true.

Reagan to GW Bush was the anomaly really. Even with Obamas popularity its not surprising there was a party changeover - unfortunately the candidate from the other side was trump.
That never happened to me and my machine is nearly ten years old. You must be a really heavy Thunderbird user.
"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people," former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman told Harper's writer Dan Baum for the April cover story published Tuesday.

"You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities," Ehrlichman said. "We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-r...
I think the only fair comparison however is from Theodore Roosevelt on (the modern era).. in which that kind of change over is very very rare.
I totally agree with you, it would also make me read the article worth the money spent. As a company they must pay salaries of established staff, that sort of stands at odds with per article revenue. Its like this, if business hires people for at least 6months they ought to make an effort to get those people paid and projecting income from penny articles can be substantially difficult.
It's been said that Obama was a better campaigner than a politician (not to say he was a bad politician), and I think that holds up decently well. Keep in mind the book you cite is partially a campaign/marketing piece.

I mean the Democrats had control of government prior to 2010 and the ACA was still a compromise with lots of infighting between Democrats. Obama of course didn't help the divide by making pointed insults (clinging to their guns and religion). I don't have an article on hand, but even Democrats criticized Obama for having trouble forming cross-party friendships in a way someone like Bill Clinton did not.

He may have had the best intentions, but his difficulties were a little bit of obstructionism and a little bit of his own personality traits.

edit:

This is the kind of cross-party criticism that Obama got:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/08/a-brief...

http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/04/opinion/takiff-obama-fatherhoo...

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/19/us/aloof-obama-is-frustra...
Why aren't OKR scores used as an input to performance appraisals?
Not quite true, or at least not so baldly. Job describes the "satan", or accuser, in a manner that clearly anticipates his later depiction as "the accuser of the brethren" in Revelation. And while not providing a name, the descriptions of the mythical falls of the kings of Babylon and Tyre in Isaiah and Ezekiel seem to draw on legends similar to the later Christian elaboration of the story of demonic rebellion and exile.
That does not happen at Google.
https://thecontrol.co/meet-sia-a-user-owned-amazon-s3-challe...
.. and by doing so POTUS 45 will likely end up restricting the power of the president to act via Executive Order - this will likely bring to a close the era of the Imperial Presidency that began with TR.
...had to resort to more executive orders than previous president.

Sorry, you've swallowed false propaganda there. Look at the numbers at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal_... and compare.

The last President to issue fewer executive orders was George Bush Sr. To find a President with fewer executive orders per year, you have to go all of the way back to Grover Cleveland. That was in the 1800s.

This said, Trump is indeed on pace to average more executive orders than has been seen in the last 60 years.
...and that's coming from Teller, who wasn't exactly an intellectual lightweight.
I am just wondering if sites can have affiliated material subscriptions like with hn have free clickthrough for 2$ a month or 5$ a month to all sites from where the articles originate from.
I would disagree. Their opinion pages have become more conservative, but their business news and investigative reporting is just as good as it always has been.
The main reason Bill Clinton had no trouble forming these cross party relationships is because he was white.
And therin lies the situation. WSJ is worth very little to the very many. I see it as just another editorialized website. Was it always that way? No. Paper editions of the wall street journal were very good, on occasion. Web editions in the new age of journalism, not even close. No where near worth even trying to go around their paywall.
How the Mighty Fall – Jim Collins (2009) [video]
Since October I've had to wear a jacket at work inside because of the air conditioning moreso than outside because of the weather.
Are you saying venus atmospheric temp is due to heat from the core leaking out? This is not the case, the heat absorbed from the sun and the heat radiated by venus is basically identical. Its atmospheric temp is pretty much entirely due to greenhouse effects mostly from co2.
Thanks, this looks fun and useful. It is worth checking out the artwork created by members of http://blocktronics.org to get a feel for the type of art that this tool is intended to help with, and for inspiration.
Which makes him an oddity, right?
Hello! I (as a non-politically-connected technologist) have been bouncing around ideas for how to become more active. Would you be amenable to my sending a note asking for advice?
There are some factual errors in the introduction.

> Python has been around for more than 30 years

The license says that development began in the early 90s.

The factual errors continue in the explanation of the language, such as describing a triple quote string as a multiline comment.
Yes, actually. I have also directly seen people with high levels of wealth get one in < 24 months (perhaps even 18).
Bill Clinton is incredibly personable; I don't think that has anything to do with race.
I use Keyboard Maestro for exactly this purpose. For the most part, it is great. However, it does just stop working every now and then, at least for me, which is mildly irritating.
Glad you read it till the end.
> The grassroots discontent that Obama had harnessed so skillfully in 2008 would soon belong to the right.

It could have belonged to the left as well. Has anyone seen Sanders' rallies, the enthusiasm and energy there? A relatively unknown, old, white male somehow got college kids, minorities and many other groups to follow him.

People like to say that the primaries weren't rigged and he lost fair and square. Ok, maybe. The problem is how close he was to winning. He got so close despite a media blackout, despite the DNC being against him, despite POTUS rooting for Hillary, despite Saudi Arabian and Wall Street money. DNC should have really stopped and paid attention to what had happened.

At the very least, Hillary should have quickly moved to embrace those supporters. Maybe make Sanders Vice-President, issue apologies for all the back-dealing and talking against him, adopt his policies and so on. (Well and not go and setup private email servers years before, but that's another story).
Yes, thats what I'm wondering - when you have a fully automated supply chain that builds houses with 0 labour (probably never be 0, but near enough for the sake of argument). Lets say we have a world that everything is automated to produce all the stuff we need.

Then how do you pay for that stuff because no one will be working. Also what will prompt people to make new machines to build new stuff?
It's supposed to be illegal for the USG to use propaganda against its own citizens. Curiously the "Lobbying Restriction" in the US tax code for IRS 501(c)(3) describes lobbying as "carrying on propaganda or otherwise attempting to influence legislation": http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/26/501.shtml.

Step 1 would be to regulate lobbying -- lobbyists don't just lobby politicians, they create propaganda campaigns (PR, pose as pundits, etc) to pave the way for the vote by manufacturing public support for the issue.
1) Make a better version with extra features tailored to celebs and businesses.
2) Charge for the better version.
I always cd to the parent directory, ls with tab complete to check, the rm with the same tab complete.
> arbitrary complexity (recursive structure) of human language

Interesting, because I was reading this paper yesterday, where they argue that recursivity is the key to generalization power.

"Making Neural Programming Architectures Generalize via Recursion" - https://openreview.net/forum?id=BkbY4psgg&noteId=BkbY4psgg
You are winning an argument against strawman. Accenture will not claim "occasionally our clients are interested in having our developers work on site".

Their business is outsourcing and their clients always want their consultants 100% on-site. If on-site presence is not required, why acquire an H1-B and cover travel expenses instead of just sending the project details directly to India (as I'm sure Accenture does for projects that do not require direct on-site involvement).
H-1Bs do not have to pay US taxes for life no matter where in the world they go. It's just one more way that foreigners in the USA are privileged again and again over American citizens.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13620744 and marked it off-topic.
> of the world's biggest tax heaven

As a European, I've always thought the US had extremely high reporting requirements, power of investigation, and anonymity was dead since the NSA was invented. What makes it a tax heaven? Is it the Delware loophole only?
wait just tried the code again, you were right, I don't need the second empty string. I was using [] with get and it wasn't working.

so it seems the right way is
form.cleaned_data.get('formfieldvalue')

or

form.cleaned_data[formfieldvalue']

if you don't want to use get
> It's not that controversial.

It's certainly controversial if used as a defense for why a party 'couldn't win,' which is how I read the original comment. It's not like there is some magical system that conspired to elect the opposite party for Clinton, Bush Jr., Obama, etc. but didn't act for Reagan, Coolidge, etc. The fact of the matter is that poor presidencies (or presidencies that the public did not correctly identify as poor) played a large part in re-election of the party, perhaps more so than the running candidates. And on average, we have had a lot of presidents who leave much to be desired, so it flip flops as a result.

If it's not being used as a defense, then it's just an incorrect point, because as you said, there is nothing statistically significant either way, which is basically what the original comment asserts by declaring it impossible.
nope serious. I was at a place that the dba did exactly what happened at gitlab but in sql

select * from table > script

@script.

(drop all the tables)

It was in prod, he thought it was a dev db, the backups had never worked. After this the edict was all terminals for prod will be red. A simple solution