skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of your arguments are factually incorrect.

> At well over $50K per year per student the university-as-a-business (rather than an altruistic entity) is concerned about a drop in revenue should immigration policy change. Let's not pretend this is all about good intentions, pink unicorns and ice cream.
> A school like MIT (don't mean to focus on them, pick any school) can charge exorbitant tuition to foreign-born students and make millions. And the students pay for it.

Most international students do not have the resources to pay for graduate school and are either funded via grants, teaching or research assistantships or personal-loans. In particular students from these 7 countries. They might have been doing well in their respective countries but the same money after conversion into dollars doesn't have as much purchasing power in the US.

> The other problem I have with all of these articles/arguments is this image being painted that the US would be dumb as a rock if it weren't for the influx of immigrants. I'm sorry, I don't buy that one bit. We already have great talent in this country.

Sure, all international students and faculty are evaluated at par with US citizens. Any bias here is counterproductive to competitiveness and research output of top schools who've signed the brief. So yes, great talent, enough to fill 60% capacity. That is not equivalent to dumb as a rock.

>This idea that we better let-in hordes of immigrants for fear of not having businesses launched or any innovation is, well, repulsive. That would mean we are a wasteland of a country, and need to be rescued by immigrants, which clearly isn't the case.

According to the article, "It cites one estimate that international students directly contributed $32.8 billion to the U.S. economy and supported or contributed to the creation of 400,000 American jobs in the 2015-2016 academic year.". So unless you mean that the total contribution to US economy was $32.8 billion and only 400,000 jobs in total were created in 2015-2016 academic year, the article isn't saying US is a wasteland of a country. Moreover students, post-docs and professors doesn't exactly mean hordes of immigrants.

> They should be honest and say "we are going to lose a ton of money because we make a killing with foreign students".

Again, most PhD students are funded via grants, which depend on good research output, which depend on a competitive admission process which selects the best talent.

>On the other hand, if MIT had no foreign students and charged a LOT less for tuition it would be full of wonderful, capable, creative and eager-to-contribute US residents.

If you say that MIT makes a ton of money by charging more from foreign students, I don't see how you can argue that by taking in none they can charge a lot less for tuition.

Bottom-line: I agree with the general idea of verifying what you read and reading between lines, but based on facts and not assumptions.
Anyone know how Debian is handling this? Debian packages are not allowed to access the network on build, and (normally) are not allowed to depend on non-Debian binaries.
Swift officially supports Linux, and there is unofficial Windows support (and I remember them saying they planned to support Windows officially, though I don't know if that's still a goal).
You didn't e-mail your list? I certainly imagine that would have made your life a little easier?
smart contacts are just code, they are not 'legal documents', not everyone (most?) subscribes to the whole 'code is law' meme.
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That's motte-and-bailey.

Since "feminism" has no actual fixed definition, people arguing about it will define it as they see fit at any moment. When feminism is under attack, its defenders will retreat to a safely defensible position like "feminism is about equal treatment if the sexes". Once the attack has gone away, they will expand the scope of "feminism" considerably to encompass far less sensible and uncontroversial positions.

The "feminism" which gets attacked is not the same "feminism" that gets defended, making the word useless in an argument. Like "racism" the word "feminism" has become so overloaded that it no longer has any use in actual communication.
Well that article was FAR too long then.
FYI, Kubernetes can do HA: the issues you pointed to are both about client connectivity to multiple API servers, which is typically solved today either using a load-balancer, or by using DNS with multiple A records (which actually works surprisingly well with go clients). The issues you pointed to are about a potential third way, where you would configure a client with multiple server names/addresses, and the client would failover between them.
If I own a huge amount of a successful company, getting that asset liquid makes a lot of sense. Aside from being to sell at any time, being public means more bidders = probably a better price.

I don't see it as a progression so much as two motivations in balance. Sarbox &c make being public less appealing for a company. So, when one force gets stronger, the equilibrium moves.
Yeah, I was thinking of the more general case; gcc and such don't need to deal with this aspect, but I think you're right with Rust.
two words: Gerald Ford.
You aren't the only one. It was not good form to write a headline that is only interpretable by a minority of the audience.
America's spies anonymously took down Michael Flynn. That is deeply worrying
This seems like a clear case of letting the best be the enemy of the good: had the shipwreck not been salvaged, looters would have destroyed everything.

And how the heck can a scientist claim in good faith that there is knowledge people shouldn't be allowed to see?
Which movie are you referring to?
If you're being paid $900k/year, why would it matter if you could sell your $500MM asset? I mean, I lead a simple life, so _I_ wouldn't care. But some people _do_ want that, and I see the appeal.
While many people disagreeing with the parent's logic have valid points. The threat to a major profit center is not a small concern to MIT and they are rightfully interested in doing what they can to fight it.
salty?

"Please read immigration order. Lmk specific amendments. Will seek advisory council consensus & present to President." https://t.co/qLpbsP4lEk

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 29, 2017

you know what this sounds like.. "Where in the world does it say that it is un-constitutional, show me proof"

try to read between the lines..

now please send me into a downvote oblivion
Past articles[1] have gone into detail about how bad the churn and cost of customer acquisition is with dating sites. At best if you succeed at bringing a couple together, you've lost two customers at once.

[1] http://andrewchen.co/why-investors-dont-fund-dating/
Considering it cause the GP to read the article i think it actually is a very good hook.
The university gets some income from graduate labor. Grad students write papers about work their PI gets funding from the NSF/whoever for. PIs then write a new grant awarded based on their proposal and prior work. The university then takes some percentage of the grant off the top. How that compares to expenditures needed to pay for the education of PhD students by the school, I do not know.
Fair enough. I just kinda wanted to play with it on my next project :)
It's awesome to hear about a swarm of bots replacing millions of dollars worth of labor overhead. Are you worried about the maintenance and QA at all? Is there anything about the problem that lends itself especially to automation?
I heard an interesting segment on NPR one or two years ago that delve into "David vs Goliath" and they made the point that we have the situation completely backwards.

Some scholars believe that Goliath suffered from a genetic disorder that may have left him rather "simple" in intellect. And slingers during that era were vicious killers capable of hitting birds in flight along with other examples of their prodigious skills and lethality.

The segment made the case that David vs Goliath was a stone-cold killer against a relative 'innocent,' it just happened to be David who had the distinct advantage.
Vitamin D 'will help 3M escape colds and influenza'
Hah, the party that actually tries to make healthcare available is ignoring people... Sure.

You're just clinically suggestible and have fallen for the "Only I know what you need" line. You might as well be a well-conditioned battering victim.
Big 10 universities are ~$15,000 a year for in state tuition (for undergraduates). They include excellent research schools.

What schools are you pricing there?
Counterpoint: I did not and have no desire to based on that headline.
Lots of exceptions to the rule though. This startup just raised a massive (private) round: http://mashable.com/2017/02/02/hater-dating-app/
I think that would be the eventual goal, Objective-C minus C. Objective-C in a lot of ways was a vehicle for AppKit/UIKit, and that experience does not necessitate the C compatibility in my opinion. Don't get me wrong, the C compatibility is nice and allows some cool features when you need them, but I think it was more useful back in the day when performance was more of a concern, and a good FFI layer would be sufficient now.
We all know what the travel-ban was. Elon didn't have the sacks to come out and speak against it, rather tried to "play" the public..

Now he has deals with NASA and the govt. and is directly being profited. You dont see the conflict of interest ?
> What we need are some jolly clever OSS licenses that have clauses in them 'not for military use'.

That may be 'open source,' for some definition of the term, but it wouldn't be free software.

Nor would it be right: it is the right of any people to band together in their own self defence, and munitions are part of that. The rights to own a gun, encrypt a file and operate a computer are one and the same.
I suspect people who understand the reference are not the minority of the audience. I've never even used Tinder and I'm familiar with the idiom just from reading tech news.
This is consistent with my experience in college.

The alcohol doesn't care what language you speak.
I was under the impression that this was a particularly American problem. Nordic countries (at least Iceland, where I was) seemed to have no expectation for workers to be overly cheerful. Japanese customer facing workers are super (robotically) polite and employ fake personas, but they aren't exuding a happy exterior.

I guess I could see Australia as a place where they might have this issue though.
There’s a reason that no one can tell you exactly how Google’s search engine or Facebook’s news feed works. Sure, the PR folks will tell you that it’s proprietary code. But the ugly truth is that the code has been patched to smithereens to address countless types of manipulation and gamification

I'm pretty sure the real reason no one can tell you how search works is because doing so would make it much much easier to game the system and do exactly what this author seems worried about.

Oh right, and also because it's worth billions.
Because ice floats to the top of the water, and insulates the water remaining down below beneath the ice.
> To me, the business of software development is way too complex to apply a simple "no jerks" policy. Brilliant jerks are often to be found at the beating heart of successful software.

That's what you replied to with "but survivorship bias!". And the article itself says:

> A “no jerks” policy must be preached and practiced from the highest levels.

... which is a universal and normative call to action.
Fun to be in a context where I'm not meant to be working on my usual projects. Totally greenfield. If I were at home or in the office, I'd just work on my normal work.
There's probably room for a service that doesn't just match people up, but helps to manage the relationship indefinitely into the future. A sort of dating plus relationship coach. I am also reminded, more cynically, of letter writing in the movie Her.
5-figures means 10s of thousands of dollars.
I'm halfway through [1] and it seems to capture the spirit of the times very well. I'm interested in a better understanding of US politics. Do you know any more classics in this genre?
I wouldn't say Tinder usage and even understanding how the app works is a 'minority audience'
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Also seems weird to talk about the epidemic now vs 2008.

I guess the economic cycle moved this way: housing got cheap -> everybody got adjustable-rate mortgages with balloon payments -> rents got cheap -> ARM rates increased or balloon payments came due -> massive foreclosures, former buyers moved to renting -> rents got expensive.
The truth is somewhat in between. In war you have to make fewer screwups than your enemy, or if you can't then you need a good feedback system so you can recover more quickly.
Be wary of letting constructors throw exceptions in Java
IAC seems to be doing just fine with Tinder. IAC had Ask Jeeves, now Ask, one of the early search engines, and they run About.com, Vimeo, and some similar sites. They keep lumbering along with those.
In dating, they're #1. They own Match, OkCupid, Tinder, Meetic, Twoo, PlentyOfFish, OurTime, BlackPeopleMeet and FriendScout24.

IAC is a spinoff of Barry Diller's Home Shopping Network, moderately large, somewhat boring, and profitable. Not a bad place to end up.

Someone to approach if you have a working online business and want to sell out.
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That is a superb quote.
what percentage of the population do you think uses dating apps? And that is to say those who are not married, looking for relationships, and of the mind to use a dating app? Don't forget to include people happily married in their 60s, or with kids in that estimate. I would posit a guess in the very low double digit percentage, even in Silicon Valley.
Nice phrase - "brings a data-gun to a knife fight" - that encapsulated the idea quite well!
rustbuild can optionally build from vendored (in-tree) source of all cargo dependencies, where it does not touch the network, and that's how we expect packagers to build Rust. I believe Debian has their own bootstrap lineage where they bootstrap from Debian's own prior builds, and rustbuild supports this mode; but they also have a fallback for rebootstrapping, with the corresponding policy exceptions.

If you are interested, here's a draft Debian Rust packaging policy: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/debian-rust-packaging-poli.... It is not about packaging Rust itself though but the challenges of packaging software written in Rust.
And now we have completed the circle.
You don't need a technical co-founder?
and it looks like she's already written a few :)

http://www.danah.org/
I actually meant economic majority because that's what gives the token its value. A >50% hashrate majority in a PoW blockchain can censor transactions, but it's powerless if most users (or most precisely, the users who own most of the tokens) collectively decide to hardfork.
There's a great book title that plays off this idea:

"Enough Rope to Shoot Yourself in the Foot: Rules for C and C++ Programming" [0]

It's also perhaps the best mixed metaphor I've ever encountered.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Enough-Rope-Shoot-Yourself-Foot/dp/00...
Increased levels of active vitamin D can help to optimize muscle strength
Andrew Ng class: A.I is the new Electricity
Why do I need to run executable code in order to read static content?
Of Google? Apparently enough to make O($billion).

(I knew Andy back when he was a grad student designing SUN-1 (Stanford University Network) boards, pre-Sun, etc., when we were sharing his design for the Imagen image processor (TeX project spin-off.) An extraordinary fellow even back then.)
Who said anything about time as a metaphor for currency?

Health care and quality of life disparities still won't get you anywhere near the level of inequality seen with money.
Is this a digital-only endeavor? I don't see any mention of physical product services such as pressing CDs & DVDs, printing covers/liner notes/etc. And what about marketing materials like posters, flyers and so on. There's still a market for that stuff, and it could be another revenue stream. Merch is also pretty big for some artists, you could explore getting t-shirts and hats and stuff printed. (just an idea, i've no idea if it's profitable, or more trouble than it might be worth)
Ah, so the secret to launching without previous audience is to build up an audience prior to launch.
Why?

Sarbox 404 compliance costs hundreds of thousands per year on the low end and low millions in the typical case.

It adds basically nothing productive to a non-fraudulent company itself. (Maybe it makes you write down some policies and management controls and audit your compliance to them. Great. At what expense? At what RoI on that expense?)

"You're worth billions; you can afford to casually light a couple million on fire every year for an epic Sarbanes-Oxley auditor-led bonfire." That isn't obviously a good thing (or even a true statement) to me.
> Do you really want to hinge your case on Congress' ability to delegate power? I mean that COULD be a fun court case if you want to have it and make it a constitutional issue, because the whole executive branch, and the executive branches of every single state, would be ripped to shreds :D

Trump's argument is not so much that Congress delegated the executive broad powers to decide eligibility of immigrants and visitors but that the powers are literally "unreviewable" by the courts (see https://www.unitedstatescourts.org/federal/vaed/358386/80-0...., I am not making this up). The response of the judge to that argument was basically "nothing can prevent the courts from reviewing constitutional arguments".
I use and love Distrokid - thanks for the product!
If you have a bad manager for sure.

But otherwise, it is like saying a car is more valuable when it lacks a steering wheel and seat belts.
What's the biggest downside then?
There is nothing in the VC model that says you have to run your business like an idiot if you take VC money... You can still run your business lean and keep your dignity. However, if you take VC money you need to realize that the VC wants liquidity and a ROI in ~7 years. So, if you want to run a small business that brings in ~$2M a year, don't go try raise a huge VC round at a high valuation. That probably would not work out well for either party.
They weren't vital components but useful for the user. We moved most of the "excess" buttons to the top bar and overflow menu but still had to remove a button here and there completely (we still had the functionality in a different part of the app it was just more tedious to use from our testing).
I usually just multiply the yearly income stream by 20 rather than futzing with rate-of-return calculations. It's way easier for napkin math and gives about the same answer ($10M in this case).
FOSS projects which are still active, yet already abandoned by their founders?
I'm curious whether there are such projects. By "big" I mean something like VLC, Perl, or Firefox.
Look up "redflex bribery" and you'll see why.

But yes, city hall is slimy as well. Citizens do not get any say in the matter. Citizens do not get to vote to add red light cameras. You just see them going up, and fighting them is a long, hard road. Some cities in Texas have finally banned them, fortunately.

Redflex/etc are definitely profiting plenty off of the devices. No question about that.
I am American and could care less about football, it does limit a lot of guy relationships if you don't care about watching sports. Playing sports is so much fun though, and a way better way to meet people.
Everyone sees the world through their own eyes, filtered by what their past and what know.

A peculiar perspective of Smalltalk programmers is to consider that "code in files is dead code". External tools are needed to query it, modify it, compile it.

In Pharo you can evaluate...
Integer methods first inspect

and in different tabs you can see this method's source code, the AST, the compiled bytecode.

Or in a similar way we can look at how PLUS is implemented by evaluating
(Integer>>#+) inspect

Or look at all the methods that use PLUS

#+ senders inspect

Within Smalltalk, classes and methods are themselves objects. You can operate on them like any other object. They are ALIVE!!! AHAhahaHaaaaa :)
> I suspect people who understand the reference are not the minority of the audience.

You might be right, because they've selected an audience that knows what they're talking about by using that headline.
"Interactive case studies" is a value-add that might be worth paying for.
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There is a huge difference in how universities treat their Masters vs. PhD students. Indeed, universities are not making loads of money off international PhD students (most receive free tuition, a stipend, etc). However, international Masters students are cash cows for most universities (most pay full price -- or someone does for them).
As I said, it's not only kubectl that has the problem. None of the services implemented by Kubernetes are HA: kubelet, proxy, and the scheduler. For a robust deployment you need these replicated.

Using DNS might work for the K8s services, but at least in version 1.2, SkyDNS was an add-on to Kubernetes. This should really be part of the deployed K8s services. Hopefully newer versions fixed that, I didn't check.

Preferably, the base K8s services implement HA natively. Deploying a separate load balancer is just a workaround around the problem.

FYI Google's Borg internal services implement HA natively. Seems to me the Kubernetes team just wanted to build something quick, and never got around to doing the right thing. But I think it's about time they do it.
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"Funding for the past year is down [to $47M] from $280 million invested during the prior 12 months. (Though to be fair,the lion’s share of that, $240 million, went to China-based dating app Baihe, a decade-old category leader.)"

In other words, when you throw out one outlier, funding actually went up from $40M to $47M.
Most NSF grants and the like are for PhD students (the university still welcomes the funds they bring in, but they are a relatively small portion of income).

Universities make much more money off their Masters students, most of whom are international, and pay full tuition (or someone does for them).
> This idea that we better let-in hordes of immigrants for fear of not having businesses launched or any innovation is, well, repulsive. That would mean we are a wasteland of a country, and need to be rescued by immigrants, which clearly isn't the case.

Go to any research lab in the US; you'll probably see more immigrants than native-born. Far more, in many places. If America cancels visas and closes borders, it will still launch businesses, it will still occasionally produce a unicorn, but it will be crippled in basic science.