skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The price of strawberries will go up by 10% then.

Labor is a small part of the total costs of farming. Large amounts of costs are in capital equipment, land, packaging, retail location selling and transportation.

If you are really worried about high priced items that affect poor people, then perhaps we should be getting more immigrants that create these expensive things like healthcare.

If you are a doctor, they should automatically approve your visa application. Lets drive down that price of healthcare! If you make 100k+, auto approval as well. More tax money please! NOT strawberry workers though.
JFK.
Attributing a deep network’s prediction to its input features
> pick up flowers here, then get my son from Judo practice, and practice his French with him in the car

This would basically turn them into a private driver service and finding qualified staff would be a pain for anyone wanting a french tutor for the drive. Ignoring that as an off the wall example though they'll still hit a pretty hard wall with trust. Even if the fear is unfounded trying to get a huge number of people to sign up for random (to them) people to pick up and drive around their kids is running into a lot of child abduction/abuse fears that run kind of deep in the US.
Which upgrades to Caltrain? CBOSS? San Bruno grade sep? You really want to defend those?
I'd venture such a dividend scheme would immediately get hit with lawsuits by the federal government.
Ask HN: What granularity are your microservices?
I'm turning a side project into a production application, and I was wondering how other people split up their apps into different internal services, and what those services are. I'd also like to hear about any negative consequences anyone had from their decisions on where to draw the lines.

I also have some more specific questions:

1. How do the microservices map onto the unix security model? Does each service get its own UID? How do you keep the user databases in sync in production?

2. How do you handle debugging these systems?

3. How do databases integrate with your architecture? Do you use the same communications bus as the rest of the system, or do the services communicate with the database using its native protocols? Do you treat the database server as a microservice too?
Here's another perspective on Snowden's claims
https://www.thecipherbrief.com/article/exclusive/first-ciphe...

He was a Sharepoint admin with access to Office type files. This is why you don't see raw intelligence from his leaks.

From my own experiences working at the agency, GP is correct in that very few people can task FISA data.
This is primarily a concern regarding the average Macbook user that would not know to encrypt their data and only uses the standard OSX user password.
> To be fair, the new apps do suffer with reliability issues in periods of high loads

Doesn't this count as first-mover advantage?
A major flaw in your argument is the implication that undocumented individuals in CA (or the US in general) do not pay for the services they use. While in certain cases that might be true, in others they are net contributors. See social security taxes [1].

I also think you're making a fairly inflammatory argument without providing much data or grappling with the practical implications of your argument. Even if we were to take all the money we spend as Californians on undocumented immigrants, would that actually come close to the funds we should be receiving for Caltrain electrification? I'm not sure. And what damage to our communities would be done by removing that money from the system? Immigrants, undocumented and fully documented, grow the larger economy and are meaningful parts of our community, and I'm pretty sure we'd be worse off without them.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/09/undocum...
You're extremely lucky. Most of us have to deal with the fact that people are more interested in local time than some idealized time.
The buzzword is "mobility", and yes GM is already in the game, through pilot programs (Maven), Lyft and Cruise Automation.

Disclaimer - I work for GM, but not on any of these things.
> the Grauniad is hardly an unbiased source these days

The surveys in question were compiled by Markit.

> we can choose what low skilled workers we let in

You seem to have missed the point: they don't want in, they are already leaving:

The June 23 referendum vote to leave the EU has already affected Gorton’s business: About 10 of his Eastern European employees have gone home.

“They were coming to us the next day and saying, ‘Crikey, this is not good for us, we’re not wanted in the U.K.,”’ he said. “Within a week of the vote, we saw people leave and go back to Poland and Lithuania. Ever since then, it’s become a lot harder to find the people we need.”

> your third source contains only predictions about the return of Polish citizens

Based on trends already observed.

> your fourth source reflects a mixed picture

Because it covers the period in the year to September, i.e. only 3 months after the referendum vs 9 preceding it. The trend break is quite visible in the chart:

https://interactive.guim.co.uk/charts/embed/feb/2017-02-23T1...
Akka Persistence as a configuration datastore
Ask HN: What are the benefits of working for the government?
I am upset about the whining. Suck it up California. You elected politicians who use your tax funds on people who are in the country illegally and then you whine because you aren't getting federal funds. Since money is fungible it simply means that you want federal funds to pay for people who live in the country illegally. If you really want funding for the rail which I agree should exist, simply elect politicians that are fiscally responsible. It really is that simple. If you're unwilling to do that, stop whining and suck it up.
Angular 2 – Define Routes Dynamically Using UIRouter
Many workers in the Central Valley do commute to the Bay Area or LA.

http://kvpr.org/post/two-hour-daily-commute-thousands-valley...
Probably all of them, but interestingly enough that's a list of countries with varied climate (hot summer, cold or cold as fuck winter) while Canary Islands are between 20C and 30C all year round.

You might like one or another, so choose wisely :) also Canary Islands are incredibly touristy (albeit there are a couple of proper cities, too) so "only English" won't be a problem in pretty much none of the islands.
Do they also provide source code for GPL-licensed parts (Linux kernel, u-boot)?
I wouldn't say that he means what he says. I think he says what he believes, without using reality-checking or diplomacy filters, which is a distinctly different behavior.

It is kind of refreshing, because while I have a sneaking suspicion that most politicians are secretly despicable people behind their masks, Trump is a despicable person right out there in the open. I know exactly where I stand in relation to him.
[I'm the CEO of Fog Creek, which made Glitch.] I don't think we intended to indicate it's a new product launch so much as our community features and focus are new. It's a hard balance to strike without confusing people who've never heard of any of it.

And yeah, the renamings are embarrassing because they're mistakes that were on me to catch. Won't happen again, but fortunately I have a team that is very understanding and I hope our community is, too.
> Building the middle part where no one lives is easier and will make a lot of jobs in a lot of poor areas

The planned initial operating segment has one endpoint in the third largest city in the state, and passes through the fifth largest city in the state, so the idea that it's in a place where no one lives is, well, what recently has become known as an "alternative fact".
That 400-pound basement-dweller called 4Chan really knows his cyber, huh?

You'd think LaBouf had enough experience with the Internet to know this was always going to be derailed.
A slightly more moderate proposal favors an 80% land tax to allow for some margin of error in assessment.

... which, of course, is unconstitutional (Prop 13).
Google has SOX controls for this type of thing, that should allow them to prove that the requests came from a specific user at a specific time.

Also, if he actually did the queries, the defense team is incredibly unlikely to claim that Google may be forging evidence.
There is a point where money becomes fictional status points, but everyone I've heard say this is a relatively wealthy person, often multi-million dollar net worth. For the majority, money is often more of a limiting factor than time.
Project Loveday – Tesla Commercial Contest Idea From 10 Year Old Kid
Slack vs. Yammer Growth Over 3 Years, a Case Study
I know this is not the focus of the post, but my favorite part of the website is the book he wrote. Fantasy right wing fantasy dribble in the form of "The Constitution Convention of 2022"
> 200 illegal aliens are allowed to attend at in-state tuition

Even assuming your premise here, take the differential between in-state and out-of-state UC tuition and multiply it by 200.

That's going to be something on the order of like 3 million dollars? Versus 650 million in transit funding? I propose that "illegal immigrants" is a pointless red herring with respect to this issue.
tl;dr OP submitted a misleading title implying Apple is on the wrong track, but then presented evidence supporting the opposite conclusion. Joke's on you, those who think Apple is on the wrong track. Should be flagged for immaturity.
Wow. The story of the sec attorney sounds even juicier than the story of the original CEO. Are you in the bay area? Drop a line!
Miami real estate-tech startup raises $3.5M in funding
What happens when Google, Apple, Amazon or other company with a solid cloud app team steps in?

Austin's homegrown competitors may not be fearful, but one of the existing majors could single-handedly shatter Uber's image with a half-decent app, esp if it's integrated with something like Google Maps or Apple Wallet or equivalent feed.
The previous scheme would have lead to 3.3713 and 3.3714, which does not really help mental representation
I recommend reading They Write the Right Stuff[1] to anybody interested in NASA's approach to writing software.

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff
How would Pacheco duplicate the extant ACE?
This could do without the "Why learn computer science?" section entirely.
For those curious about the acronyms at the end.

Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) and the Foundation of Digital Games (FDG)
If there was a hard fork, shouldn't they report numbers for both versions? Or which version went up by 50%?
I think an idea is f@<&led by design if it so quickly leads to an irreconcilable catastrophe. We already have mutable contracts. And we already have hard, distributed ledgers. If you're taking your contracting distributed ledger and making it optionally soft, I don't see a place for it other than for internal political purposes ("Look ma, I'm doing blockchain!"). That, admittedly, has value, but only so much.
In fact I first left Australia (with my parents) because of the WAP, which impacted me even before I was conceived (one of my parents was neither "W" nor "A" so the "P" caused problems). I still have an (older) Aussie neighbor around the corner in Palo Alto who has told me I'm a wog.
tl;dr - reasonable man has non-reactionary opinion.
This sounds very useful. I used to have something similar in a smaller scale on a whiteboard a couple of years ago. I guess a Trello board is just a better iteration.

I'll be trying this the next couple of weeks.
i never understood why something like food / grocery delivery never took off with lyft/uber. they could partner with costco and do deliveries. I would love that.
What are people's feelings towards React Native vs actual native mobile development these days? Are people starting to get the sense that this is the future and coding in Swift/Objective-C/Java for mobile is dying off?
> The logic for starting in the middle is that it created economic assistance (as a side effect) in an area with a jobs problem. Why not start that part sooner rather than later?

This is much like the broken-window-fallacy. The reason not to start in the middle is because the middle (especially on its own) doesn't have a lot of inherent value.

Heck, if the train here (minus wages) costs more than it is worth this is a straight-up broken-window-fallacy.
I looked at doing this several years ago on Windows and I seem to recall that Python had a lot of global state. So you could only have one instance of the Python VM and therefore only Python script running at once. Is this still the case?

In the end, for me, it was easier to share file formats between the C++ and Python and run the Python scripts out of process.
My wife's manager at big tech company used to get an email whenever she inserted a USB stick.
Exactly. We could just import that list into our blocker.
Politically it would've helped the project much more to have had tangible success in the economic heart of CA, impacting shitloads of people (and voters).
Thanks for the recommendation but the shell script i have works good enough and has been for a few years now. Plus the container (FreeBSD jail to be precise) is pretty low footprint so while i don't have an issue with Python itself, it's an additional package I don't really need.
You didn't get my point. I was alleging any kind of screening will keep those away which you would deem desirable.

Also, despite having probably the most easily "defendable" borders, Canada has quite the population of undocumented immigrants and refugees. Sure they talk a great game of selecting immigrants. But that mostly applies to those who don't come over the southern border or just overstay their visa.
Some spot in the south of Spain, where there's so much to choose. Málaga and surroundings for international community (avoid Marbella if you don't want to burn your money in 2 days), but Cádiz and Granada are probably awesome too. Almeria has some very nice spots (Cabo de Gata) and Sevilla is worth visiting often.

Bonuses:

- North Africa round the corner. Actually there are two Spanish cities in North Africa, so you don't even need another visa to step on the continent.

- You also have Huelva and the Portuguese Algarve somewhat close.

- Very cheap flights to anywhere in Europe (my last Málaga - London Luton was £24) and easy to jump to Madrid or Barcelona for long haul.
Depends on the government but in the US govt jobs come with stability, since it's hard to fire govt employees, and the govt never goes out of business. Govt jobs typically also come with great benefits like great health care for the whole family, generous vacation and sick days, pensions, etc.
So at this point, Uber's name is mud, and they're getting tons of bad press. Does there exist a contrary interpretation of recent events in which Uber is still somehow OK as an employer or a business? In my news bubble, I haven't seen any.
so? If I fuck up, I burn my reputation as well (It may be easier to hide, but it still stands) and I don't get a giant payout
Working with slang doesn't seem to prevent people from moving around to other top-tier banks. Having financial knowledge is much more important.
This is a good object lesson for the common advice of "do what you love". If you really love working with computers, then it is really hard to resist messing with them all the time. So you have a side effect of constantly improving your knowledge. But if you don't love it, but are only into programming because you can make money at it, then you won't be driven to constantly learn (even if that learning is just a side effect of "playing"). Now that doesn't necessarily mean that you will be an expert at everything, but people who have a passion for this type of sport will be in a position to pivot when needed.

I've run into people in similar situations, they used to be a systems administrator or a developer, but are completely out of it and no longer able to write any code. In some cases it is burn out, but I couldn't imagine ever going so much as a week without experimenting with something that is intellectually stimulating.

Now it may be that the protagonist in this story really did have a passion for translating business logic rules into Cobol. But was he really doing programming, or was it more following a set of procedures that ended up cranking out the needed code, without having to really invest a lot into the process? Because if there was a strong passion there, I'd think it would have extended to continuously tinkering around with other technology. (Or am I getting dangerously to the "no true Scotsman" fallacy?)
Nintendo Switch Jailbreak Has Been Achieved
> In all honesty, I'm waiting for a "Trusted Computing Chip" to have a key that can be set and reset.

The "trusted" in "trusted computing" is used as it is defined in IT security (but not in the sense how an "ordinary user" understands it).

In this case "trusted" means that one can trust the computation since the user has no option to change it/have control over it. Because if they had, we could not trust the result of the computation since the user might have modified something etc.

In other words: If the user has such a freedom, we cannot trust the computation, but we have to trust the user.

Thus "trusted computing" that gives freedom to the machine owner is impossible.

If you buy a PC or laptop this is often not what you want (at least for the HN audience). IOW: Here in most cases you don't want trusted computing.

On the other hand, if you rent a server, you would love to have the trust that the data center provider cannot intercept/modify etc. what you do on the server. For this situation you consider the machine owner (datacenter operator) as potentially malicious and want technology where you can trust the computation.
Based on my experience, it's likely that he didn't work on it personally. Is there something wrong with a statement like that?
Why is it that progressive income taxation is so awesome for everyone else and sucks when applied to you?

(FWIW, I've looked at the report that purports to back the 'CA pays more than it receives' and it isn't super accurate)
Neither. It was to prevent establishing a legal precedent of being treated the same as taxi companies.
Yeah if anything /pol/ is driving the success of it as a catalyst for thought, they're keeping it relevant and worthwhile. Idk much about Shia's intentions but never underestimate an artist's awareness of how such things can play out.
> I could not find the quote from Bannon or Miller saying that "Camp of the Saints is my favourite novel"? Where can I find this?

So you are able to dig up quotes supporting your spin, but couldn't run a Google search finding a quote on Camp of the Saints?

Here, this HuffPo article links directly to SoundCloud interviews where you can hear him say it: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/steve-bannon-camp-of-the...

Re: This is about "merit"
>He is talking about H1-B visa abuse, just as the OP says.

Trump: Trump [...] asked him about keeping “our talented people in the country,” especially international graduates of Ivy League universities.

Bannon: “When two-thirds or three-quarters of the CEOs in Silicon Valley are from South Asia or from Asia, I think...” Bannon responded before trailing off, according to the Post.

Yeah, fake news, from the horses mouth himself.

Do you really think American citizens are having tough time finding work because of H1-B abuse? The unemployment rate in the tech industry fell to 2% in 2016, well below the level of full employment. The median salary is $90k nationally, and >$100k in major tech centers (CA, NY, TX, etc). Sure, H1-B abuse should be reduced, but more because it hurts companies truly trying to fill requirement positions to build products, by fly-by-night consulting firms.

Speaking of someone in the tech industry for 20+ years, I'd say the biggest problem isn't the immigrants, it's the education system and the culture. It is not the fault of immigrants that Americans aren't getting advanced degrees, or that entire Phd departments are F-1 Visas, or that so many native born candidates are lack luster. American culture's "melting pot" could benefit from an infusion of immigrant culture from those who are still hungry and have a very high valuation placed on education and grit.

Keeping them out just makes us weak and complacent.
There is no doubt she had lost in her last round of executive intrigue at Google, but still, she was employee number 20. Even shunted aside, she was making millions of dollars.

There was certainly a group of engineers who didn't respect her, but there was also a very large contingent who did. On the product level, many credit her work on the look and feel of early Google products with a broad portion of Google's early success. (And indeed, one reason she was shunted aside because Google had decided to abandon her vision of Google's look and feel.)

Your last paragraph is pretty much pure speculation. It's pretty clear she was unhappy at Google, but what would have happened if she hadn't taken the Yahoo job? She could have bided her time until a better situation came along. Google wasn't going to fire her.
The amount of money spent for K-12 education people who live in California illegally as well as university education and healthcare far, far exceeds the < $800 million federal grant for the train.

> "I also think you're making a fairly inflammatory argument..."

I don't believe I'm an inflammatory argument. Fiscally responsible politicians would not spend tax money on people who are not legally in the country except on law enforcement.

The solution to the train and other fiscal problems is simply electing fiscally responsible politicians. The newspaper article mentioned the problem of federal funding and I mentioned a levitate and proper solution. If Californians don't elect politicians who are fiscally responsible and who feel that it is OK to spend taxpayer money on people living here illegally, they only have themselves to blame.

I don't see any argument that says that the Federal gov. (again because money is fungible) should be funding people who are living in the country illegally.
building really tall buildings on a fault line seems like a great idea
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