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> It would be nice if all surveillance could be traced back to FISA warrants, but Snowden's revelations make it clear this is absolutely not the case

You mean, since the NSA collects data on millions of Americans?

If that's the type of monitoring you mean, Trump's complaint holds no more water than an average Joe claiming "Obama ordered a wiretap on me". More like, "Obama continued policy begun by previous administrations to enable spying to protect national security.". It's the primary function of the NSA.
How do you propose to measure this?
Knowing that explicit white nationalism could be problematic, a white nationalist might speak in code. This is similar to the way someone might speak in code when discussing criminal activity, since it's illegal to surveil non-criminal discussion. The question in court is whether a reasonable person would interpret a conversation as normal speech or criminal code. "The eagle flies at midnight," is obvious code. Other speech is not so clear.

> It could easily just as much imply that he just wants to see more Americans being successful founders in the tech industry in addition to Asians?

First, Asians can be and often are Americans.

Second, why would Bannon bring up this point that more "Americans" should be successful founders? Is it that our schools are failing? No, because Asians attend the same schools. Ah, I've got it. Perhaps there's a cultural problem with white anglo-saxon protestants: anti-intellectualism and anti-education. Is that what Bannon is getting at?
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"Globalist media monopoly" is a line often repeated by nationalist propaganda chanels and, unfortunately, most consumers of opinion are in a rush to disagree with anything that challenges their world view.

I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with the parent comment about sinking ships. I'm simply pointing out how easy it is to form this type of meaningless rhetoric
America also gets a lot done due to that mentality, for better or worse.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" --Upton Sinclair

A lot of people currently in the industry wouldn't qualify if Professional Engineer-style certification were instituted and even those that do would be held to a lot higher standard than they are now.
You could definitely put an RF tag on a floppy and then have detectors at all exits like a retail store does with merchandise. Hell, you could use a "mantrap" like banks do so that you automatically catch the person on their way out.
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I imagine any unicorn in existence would have jumped at the opportunity to have her come in as COO or CEO if it wasn't Founder-led.
The power used by a processor is mostly a matter of performance rather than ISA. You might be able to make a non-x86 processor with similar performance that only takes 95 rather than 100 Watts but that's the extent of it.

The reason that ARM processors are able to take so much less power than Intel is because their single threaded performance is much lower. As single threaded performance increases linearly the power required goes up as the square of that for architectural improvements and as the cube for frequency improvements modulo FO4 delays.

Intel's Atom processors haven't gotten huge amounts of love from the parent company but for DSPish code of the sort that cars are mostly running they should perform comparably to the equivalent ARM options.
Excellent point. If you include first generation immigrants I'm sure the impact of immigrants is even greater.
There's a million studies done about it. Also, the Wiki link I posted contained lots of links and references.

Anyhow, here's one: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTAFRREGTOPTEIA/Resource...

Quote from it: Weakness in human capital and particularly skill deficiency is a drag on investment and growth
in Africa. Progress in overcoming shortages of skilled and trained manpower seems to be
disappointingly slow, despite substantial resources devoted by both governments and donors to
this effort during the last three decades (OED, 1994). This deficiency is sustained at the same
time that Africa is losing a very significant proportion of its skilled and professional manpower
to other markets and increasingly depending on expatriates for many vital functions.

Edit - here's another: http://www.sesric.org/files/article/491.pdf

Relevant quotes:

OIC countries face multiple challenges in achieving their development goals and reducing the gap with developed countries; one of the main challenges is the plight of human capital flight or what is known as brain drain.

In recent times, brain drain has been exacerbated by globalization which has increased people mobility
across country boundaries (see Iredale, 2001; Shenkar, 2001; Stalker, 2000). Furthermore, the
internationalization of professions and professional labor market has led to an increase in the level of
mobility and thus brain drain as documented in the works of Carr et al. (2005) and Iredale (2001)

Like I said, this is a well known, well understood phenomenon. Hell, a generation ago the Canadian government was trying to stop brain drain to the US since it was a drag on growth.

Edit2

http://web.pop.psu.edu/projects/help_archive/help.pop.psu.ed...

A little more academic (ie. more math-y and economics-y).
It's easy to be principled when you're not calling the shots yet and not confronted with all the realities of the choice.

I imagine once Obama was in office, he was told what had been accomplished so far using this kind of intelligence (terrorists killed, plots prevented, lives (allegedly) saved, etc) that the US would give up if the intelligence dried up. Who will chose to accept that attacks might happen on your watch as President when the tools to avoid them are already in hand?
Perhaps the point you're trying to make is that explicitly illegal activity is not free speech? I thought that was obvious, but maybe not. Also, your third point isn't about private citizens.

Though yes, one of my posts was wrong - "incitement to violence" should have been "incitement to illegal activity."
It's less that you're subsidizing others and more that a) you aren't yourself being subsidized, and b) you've (in a sense) opted-out of an economy of scale.

Though if you're reasonably young and healthy you are in fact subsidizing others, but not because you're self-employed.
Wisconsin's university system, for one.

https://flex.wisconsin.edu/
I'm baffled by what form you think a separatist political argument could possibly take, in that case.
I know right, especially after Preet Bharara and all those judges got fired! Can't wait for this week's episode I'm on the edge of my seat
A generous interpretation of Bannon would be that he simply wants to see more domestic workers founding successful tech companies. He might see these statistics not as a reason to get rid of ethnic minorities, but rather as a sign that something about American culture is discouraging Americans from entrepreneurism.
Visual Studio is a great tool for languages that compile to a known intermediate language. From what I know, you wouldn't benefit from switching.
I suggest you read about the cleanup of polonium around london after the alexander litvinenko incident. That is only for enough radioactive material to poision one person. Scale this up to a nuclear weapon and I imagine it would be a nightmare
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As someone that gets a ton of recruiter emails, I really dislike when they try acting like they're my friend or try relating to me. I can see right through those as the person being fake.
The Asperger's comment is completely unnecessary, has nothing to do with the substance of your argument, and may potentially be offensive to people.
Historically, you could do that in the US. They are called 'apprenticeships,' and they were pretty common before globalization made the demand for labor drop to nothing.
Workers indirectly invest in the stock market through retirement funds and other investments. Also, I think higher profits increase bond yields and bank interest rates.

> If living costs raise and the quality of available jobs worsens (e.g. less job security) but your wage stays the same that's objectively a loss.

True, but that hasn't happened.
How was this even a good deal for her? Didn't the fraud she hired and was immediately forced to fire get $60 million as a severance package?

I know I'd like $23 million for getting fire, but I'm just a regular person. I thought she would get significantly more.
Easy, construct your daily todos based on your long-term goals list. That is, a task does not even get to sit on your daily todo list unless it supports a long term goal.
For the eleventy-millionth time:

Most of those accused of being "anti-immigrant" aren't against immigrants, but are against illegal immigrants. There must be an orderly process to entry, primarily to prevent criminals & diseases, and also to keep the numbers assimilate-able.

The headline alone seems designed to invoke consternation where none existed, or to construe a common position as anti-immigrant which isn't.
A few months ago I wrote a tool that scrapes HN and detects moderator activity (and provides interesting stats in general). I posted it twice and it didn't receive much attention, and the database storage requirements starting to get out of hand, so I killed it. It seems like an appropriate time to bring it up again. The source code is here:

https://github.com/SirCmpwn/hn-transparency

Some screenshots:

https://sr.ht/WBEt.png

https://sr.ht/30Tv.png

If there's interest, I can put this back up and start pruning old data so it's more maintainable. The data I collected shows a lot of questionable moderator activity and a lot of abuse of flagging. I'm also unhappy with HN sending all comments on paywalled posts (which are against the rules) to /dev/null, when they're usually at least willing to talk about things.
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Immigrants are people whose lives matter. the should be given equal rights and equal value, because even if they are deemed "useless", their kids or grandkids might contribute to the future of humanity.
Publicly pointing out who flagged a story seems like a bad idea.

Possibly better idea:

Moderators could take a look at unfairly flagged stories and silently adjust flag weights for flag-abusing users.

This is of course based on my unscientific thought that the majority of interesting (IMO) stories flagged of the frobt page are removed by competitors (political or business-wise) rather than moderators.
It's an economic and cultural one, but not in the terms you have described.

So first you have to decide whether you support completely open borders, or borders. At that point we're arguing about who to let in and how many. Right? So my first comment "can't let them all in" is related to open borders. It would be an unmitigated disaster for a country like the US to have an open border policy. I agree with you that immigrants are net positives. But the details of which are nuanced and worth discussing because the benefit isn't a simple more immigrants == better economy. There are other factors at play.

It's also a cultural argument. People don't like change. They really don't like abrupt change that appears that they have no control over, especially if it involves people with real or perceived different cultural values. These are simple facts of human nature. Mass migration of any people to any other location on earth will inevitably cause tension and conflict. The absolute wrong thing to do is to take a large group of immigrants and settle them in a mostly homogenous community. Again, there is a lot of discussion to be had here.

In regard to brain drain, I think you're flat out incorrect. People may take a vacation to see family, but there is a negligible amount of immigrants that are packing their bags and moving back to their country of origin for any reason. Coming and going between countries is just not happening. If you manage to get a US Visa you're hanging on to it. Softening of the number of visas issued just means more immigrants, not that they return with money and skills to their home countries.

The West probably needs a comprehensive, global effort to teach, support, and train people across the planet. Global warming, conflict, and a widening technology gap will only make things worse.
I'd be careful with this information. It did not serve German Jews in the 30's very well to emphasize the fact that they had become important elements of media, finance and science. Instead of showing appreciation, there was a backlash by Germans who felt they were being excluded from these things. It's even easier to see how that same misguided victim sentiment could be applied to immigrants "taking" the opportunities to create and own tech from American.
This would be amazing. I feel a lot of high school kids are forced to decide what field they want to go in without really knowing what it entails or having experience in much of anything else.
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From what I understand, the Dutch are one of the most surveilled societies on earth. It would appear that a holocaust doesn't make a population sensitive to state surveillance.
This could be in response to any number of comments on this page:

I use uBO and a few other blockers. I almost never see an ad.

A few days ago I saw an ad, and I was surprised. It was for Cadillac cars. I hovered over the ad, and it seemed to go directly to cadillac.com. And I was sort of OK with that.

The page, and the ad, seemed to be designed like any other legitimate link to another page or site. I don't know how the image made its way on to the page and in to my browser, but it appeared much less intrusive than a totally ad network-served ad.

Certainly the 1st party site could collect data about my visit and send it somewhere, but at least they appear to be more in the loop than just opening their site to all comers.

And if I clicked through to cadillac.com, they could do the same.

Anyway, that's more along the lines of what I've been wishing for as a consumer in web ads.
Yes. "The research finds that 51 percent, or 44 out of 87, of the country’s $1 billion startup companies had at least one immigrant founder." http://nfap.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Immigrants-and-Bi...
ports put a limit on how thin the laptop can be. a VGA connection can't get smaller, an RJ-45 jack can't get smaller. the dimensions of the laptop define how realistically "portable" it may be, which is ostensibly the main argument for laptops in the first place.
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>I think you're mistakenly assuming the point of public school is to educate. I think it exists more so the proles have somewhere to dump their kids when they're working. The "education" happens to be incidental.

No one you know is a teacher? I can't speak for the US, but many of my friends went into teaching here in the UK. There is plenty wrong with education but the people I know who went into it definitely want to teach and want to teach well. This kind of blanket statement is quite disrespectful to them.
Officer watched too much homeland?
I would define clickbait as articles which intentionally try to disguise what you'll get out of reading them. The information is banal, but the headline makes it out to be revolutionary or shocking.

You might disagree with the details of the formulation, but I think there's pretty broad agreement that something similar is going on with clickbait.
No, they are former refugees ('voormalige asielzoekers').
been on both sides of that one. :)
When a story gets to the front page more people will see it and some may upvote it. Likewise more people will see it and some may flag it. I'd hypothesize that longer term or more active users are among the people who are more likely to use flags. Likewise, I suspect that long term and active users are more likely to not want to see meta posts on the front page.
In the same way that the government pays for part of your salary?
Wonder how many birthright US citizens who support this "useful/not-useful" immigration filter would pass if it were applied to themselves.
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I disagree, in that I think everyone's long accepted that the Queen should be "above" or at least apart from actual politics, and therefore intervening would be an unpopular disaster. Ever since King Edward VIII was forced to abdicate, nominally due to marrying a divorcee but secretly due to Fascist sympathies ( https://www.lrb.co.uk/v10/n16/paul-foot/the-great-times-they... ). It's just not her responsibility and no blame attaches to her.

(I'm also reminded of the line from the Australian constitutional crisis, "God save the Queen, for nothing shall save the Govenor-General!")
universities have limited classrooms and labs to fill. A country is not limited.
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> If that's the type of monitoring you mean

Not at all. I mean that any number of people inside the intelligence organizations could have opted to "wiretap" Trump and there would have been no audit trail and no warrant.

> holds no more water than an average Joe claiming "Obama ordered a wiretap on me"

For what it's worth though, I do think the lowly "average Joe" you mention does deserve to be quite irate about his fourth amendment rights being thrown away.
You may still get more lucky and be assigned better genes and teachers.
Where exactly does Paul stand on issues of privacy like this? You'd think we is against it, but he is also okay with ISPs selling your browsing history.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/gop-senators-new...
It's undesirable because the company shouldn't be forced to allow unions.

Maybe the company thinks unions are inefficient or doesn't like the collective bargaining power (in extreme cases it resembles a monopoly). Companies and workers are entitled to their opinion. Workers can choose to work at companies that allow unions.

Of course management (multiple people) should be more powerful than an individual worker.
Proof that immigrants are stealing our unicorn jobs!
In Keras, it's just a simple model.save() [to a hdf5 file] and load_model(). This includes both the weights and the architecture.

Models with a few million parameters result in a file around ~50MB, which is still reasonable for modern production use cases.
A. The impending death of net neutrality in the US could (though I don't know the odds on this) throw a huge wrench into these works. Does it look likely in the next couple years that ISPs will be allowed to throttle Netflix in favor of their own services?

B. I hate that "the streaming race" is the only race in town. When will we have price-viable options to purchase, download, and own a movie? (Own: have control over, e.g. can store, back up, watch on any platform, etc.). The only options I know of are DRM-controlled like iTunes and even those cost orders of magnitude more than streaming by reasonable measures.*

*Netflix users pay about $10/month and watch on average about 45 hours/month of video (about $0.20/hour), while downloads cost about $20 per movie. If the downloaded two-hour video is watched five times on average, to pick a number out of a hat, that's still a cost of about $2/hour of watching.
Engineers should not brag about this, in fact it's the opposite of something we should brag about. "Our site doesn't go down when we're not here devising ways to break it"
If we did, I'm pretty sure Torvalds would get all the money anyway
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> The screen is also crisp and sharp. Running at 1080p resolution…

This looks like an absolute turd of a laptop and I can't believe we fell for the clickbait.
McCarthy didn't spy on anyone. He was a Senator not an intel agent. Additionally, McCarthy has been proven right. His estimate was that there were around 20 Soviet agents that had infiltrated the US government at the highest levels. Once the USSR fell and their documents became public it was proven they had well over 200. McCarthy was right but people still tarnish his name out of spite.

Hoover was an SOB far worse than McCarthy ever could have been but is still revered by many in the intel services. His name still adorns the FBI HQ building and other than accusations of cross dressing, no ones dug in to truly uncover the evil things that man did.
Here's a school run by McDonalds which teaches you how to manage a fast food restaurant: http://corporate.mcdonalds.com/mcd/corporate_careers/trainin...
So much this. Training a bunch of people for jobs that aren't there is expensive and cruel.
your point is relevant but I think you're missing the conclusion that first comes to my mind. when dealing with revenge-driven mobs of ignorant bigots, there is NOT rational argument that can persuade them. this is implied by your statement and I agree.

what is to be done though?

the only historically proven thing a person in a potential victim class (such as my own Jewish grandparents) could do in those circumstances is flee for their lives. I hope that things never get to that point in America. We've already a few steps in the wrong direction though.
There are a lot of other businesses outside the startup bubble.

> Immigrants are found to have higher business
ownership and formation rates than non-immigrants.

https://www.sba.gov/content/immigrant-entrepreneurs-and-smal...

And let's go ahead and ignore just how unfair Manifest Destiny was to begin with and even more recently Mexican Repatriation.
Whether or not you agree, there is a legitimate & legal distinction between a private corporation and a publicly-funded government organization.
That is just like how we buy things for the lowest price.
The catch here is that it isn't as good - using uBlock in FF for Android for example will properly block all ad frames.

Using adaway or a pi-hole for that matter will not - they will only cause ad loading to fail (in some cases) - which sometimes results in frames showing errors on the page instead of a clean rendering of nothing with ad divs removed.

Personally I wind up using several methods - AdAway to kill most app ads, uBlock for web and Xposed to kill YouTube ads since the hosts-based methods seem to work rather poorly for them as their subdomains change all the time.
> the problem is that we can't afford to "let them all in"

I believe that cost per person in developed counties is very high and if the marginal person is not paying a large amount of taxes then they will "cost" the system.

Think things like policing, schooling (for their kids), infrastructure usage, medical costs, administrative costs (documents, id, various "counting"), city services etc. etc.

IMO we should allow immigrants an option to fund these costs to jump the queue (eg, you can get a 4 yr visa for $500k or whatever). Many people feel these kinds of systems "unfair", but I see it as a way that a new person to the country and full invest their future in the good of their new country. Of course all the negative checks should still apply (criminal history for example).
> On the economic side, there's no evidence that immigration, even mass immigration, has any negative consequences, apart from some more competition at the very low end of salaries

Oh just the low end huh? Why all the whining about H1-Bs on this site then?

> which should obviously be addressed

How? Increasing the labor pool is increasing the labor pool. That doesn't lead to higher or even stable wages.
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