skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...and if you're not careful when ordering Siemens Simatic software, the accompanying licence file arrives on a yellow 3,5" floppy.

Don't ask me how I know. It took AGES to purge our ERP system of any reference to the Siemens item# which resulted in a floppy showing up.

On the other hand, it resulted in some business for both DHL and whoever still manufactures floppy drives nowadays - service engineers opening a package somewhere in the world, finding what kids today would assume was a 3d-printed 'save' icon - and order a drive, double haste...
I have a question about this whole government intrusion thing. Perhaps a lawyer can explain:

Suppose the government gets a warrant to wiretap some guy. He happens to get a call from his lawyer, and the government overhears that he's committed some crime.

Now there's an attorney/client privilege preventing you from directly producing the tape (is there?) so you can't just do that. But the fact that you've heard this means as an investigator you'll probably pursue this guy much more aggressively, and perhaps gather other evidence rather than give up.

How does that work?
Meh. I get by just fine without Amazon. Probably order about twice a year from them, and feel kinda bad for doing so... I instead support different businesses for different needs. (Novel, I know...) Newegg for hardware bits, element 14 and adaFruit for more interesting computer bits, Sweetwater for synthesizer bits, local shops and AK Press for books.
I'd say tech culture is 100% fair game for Hacker News. In fact, it's been the subject of a fair number of front page articles recently (look at the Fowler stories, for instance). The flagging suggests to me that they didn't like what was being said, rather than they thought it was off-topic.

A good test for this that the moderators could run is to see if those that flagged this article flagged any other articles about LambdaConf's policies and if so, which.

Another one is to compare its performance to other, similarly political articles by the same author (e.g. his free software posts) and see how they performed.
Not really the same. One of the main issues with curl pipes is that the server (or MITM) can detect that the request goes into a pipe.

This allows an attacker to display one (safe) source when you view it in your browser on your workstation, or wget it, and serve a different (nefarious) source when you curl/pipe it.

So, a more complete analogy would be: a bottle that gives you a safe chemical compound when you extract it for analysis, but throws in some VX when you go to administer it.
This seems like a "MacBook Pro Alternative" in that it is a "Laptop computer".

>Design wise there’s nothing spectacular on show here. It’s almost but not quite ‘generic laptop’ but that’s fine.

>There was a point where I was considering digging out a mouse to help drive the OS.
It's not when there's already evidence that we're slipping down the slope. We have verbal interviews of Steve Bannon's intent and philosophy and leaked drafts of policies aimed at slashing legal immigration by 50%.

Supporters of Trump and his policies go out of their way to try and soften and explain what he "really" means by saying to ignore what he or his advisors literally say. I think this is dangerously naive and the time is past giving the benefit of the doubt and sticking to rigid logical standards. This isn't philosophy class and this stuff poses real world dangers.
Just to be clear, they actually made this. Not only that, but it appears like they had 3 different versions.[0]

[0] https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_1179700.html
If you're not a persian scientist you have nothing to worry about I guess. If you do, man... That sucks.
Please do measure and elucidate.
The "web infographic" version is much more readable... in a web broswer: https://vs2017poster.azurewebsites.net/
Thats just the unprocessed hippie shit. Thank you stereotypes.
While I appreciate the recognition of the fallacy, just because the reasoning fits the template for a fallacious argument doesn't mean that it is. The slippery slope argument is only a fallacy if other evidence doesn't exist to suggest we're on such a slope.

There is historical precedent in this particular instance...
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> Think Manhattan project

So established scientists from Western countries?
Some might distinguish between leftists, and liberals.
This was the very first version of app engine that rolled out in 2008 or so. It showed some type of "incompatible version" notice in the admin ui when I noticed it, and when I tried to redeploy the sites using the command line deploy tool. I switched everything to s3.
It's John Rawls' Veil of Ignorance!
Isn't 30% is more than enough? If 3-4 people apply for a single position and 1-2 of them have a degree, then it's a fairly reasonable decision to ignore the other two.

And the ratios I've seen are far more than 3-4 applications per position.
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This. so much this. Forget leaks, just stuff he's said in public is alarming enough including the fact that he takes issue with the headline OP posted here [1]. The book he keeps quoting is 'Camp of Saints' and you described it in the nicest way possible[2]. This man sets the agenda for the president :|.

As an immigrant in America, if Bannon and Miller were removed, Trumps policies are not that much different from any other boilerplate republican.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/16/13653490/steve-bannon-tru...

[2] http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/03/06/steve_bann...
We have a web interface with a whole host of tools to easily identify and whitelist the domains that may or may not be causing issues with sites you browse.

Everyone's mileage varies, but I have only had to whitelist 5 or 6 sites using the default blocklists.
They lost me at plastic and the plethora of ports I would never use.
This is super cool. Thanks.
Good studies must discuss denominators as well as numerators. The 51% is misleading. What would be important to know is how many immigrants were founders with a denominator of how many founders were there.

Moreover, there is some (wrong) assumption that an American could not have been a founder in place of the immigrant founders of a similar company.

H1-B visas were created for the intent of not displacing Americans but rather filing jobs for which Americans do not have the skill.

Americans have skills for almost all of the jobs that are filled with H1-B visas. There should be a independent committee that verifies that there are absolutely no Americans available for each individual job.
No, but it changes it.
> I want to illustrate the point that we intervene less, not more, when judgments about ourselves are involved.

Given "ourselves" is all of us here, a way to illustrate that in a trustworthy way would be to expose the meta data around the story. Which articles were flagged and removed, who flagged, how much it mattered, etc. If not in real time, due to possible exploitation for ranking tweaks, then perhaps in an acceptable offset of time.

I also recommend implementing a cost of suffering flag type for articles which use negative emotional responses to spread the information in the article, especially when it is dissonant and viral in nature. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc for context.

This article seems reasonable, but here's one indication it's flirting with recursive irrational behavior:

> I have to admit that I found it a bit comforting that I wasn’t the only one who thought this all seemed a bit fishy.

Confirmation bias is still a bias. Making an argument with bias prevents exploring other explanations, such as errors in HN code, activity periods (lunch for example) and sharing of stories within other aggregates which elicit a negative response (a large company monitoring the comments may not agree with post, and consensus there effectively moderates it down).
>Apart from the idea of sorting people into useful and useless being inhumane, it also seems to be counterproductive.

I think this is already subtly done with investor visas. They don't outright deny you obviously, but there are different lines to stand in depending on your usefulness to the country you're going to.
The middle class can already bequeath to their children tax free. Only the extremely wealthy face restriction and it's very easy to avoid (via capital gains step ups, lifetime gifts etc). With a little planning, you can give $5.5 million tax free.
If you gather other evidence, it's called "parallel construction" and it's A Thing. It doesn't just apply to wire-taps; all sorts of evidence would be inadmissible, but of course once investigators know something there are often other ways of figuring out a means to get evidence (or, at least, getting to the point you can justify a warrant).
Let me get straight to the point I mean to make -- what is it that Facebook has done that is literally "incorrect" in the same way flawed math is?
It doesn't "cost" anyone much. Immigrants pay for goods and services and provide labor, so they economy just ends up expanding. It's not like taking "too many" immigrants will make you poor because it cost too much. More likely the cost would be social and political rather than economic.
This second attempt is a huge success of the far left wing candidate, while everybody was and is still babbling about an unstoppable right wing trend.
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I'm not sure how he can define what clickbait is and what's not.

The NY Times isn't immune to publishing clickbait, and buzzfeed sometimes posts really solid journalism.
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> the post is completely wrong

I take a little bit of offense to this statement. The article identifies stories that had sudden extreme drops in position and then speculates that this could be caused by a hidden flagging threshold and/or moderator intervention. I strongly suspected that moderation was responsible in some of the cases but I also emphasized that this was because I didn't expect those stories to get heavily flagged and that we couldn't know for sure. All of these stories were effectively removed from the front page whether it was due to a hidden threshold or a moderator. I thought it was interesting to look at which stories were removed even if we could only speculate on the mechanism in each case.

You've confirmed that there are hidden thresholds in place that severely penalize stories and that the moderators make manual adjustments. I don't think that that makes the post completely wrong even if the moderator adjustments tend to be smaller and all of the stories I looked at were affected by automated means.

Do you have any thoughts on whether any of the listed stories are appropriate for the front page? As I said before, a few of these stories seem like "bad" posts but most of them appear fairly typical to me. Flagging is obviously necessary but maybe there is an issue with the user-specific weighting or how one of these thresholds kicks in if there seems to be a high percentage of collateral damage? I'm sure that you've spent a lot more time thinking about this than I have so I'm genuinely very curious to hear your opinion.
What percentage of those actually participating in the workforce have one?
Would there be a way to be a bit more specific about flags? E.g. "inaccurate title", "duplicate post", "advertising"?

There's been times when an older article is posted and adding the year in the title might give better perspective. Or other times where it's clearly a PR post for a company and we just want it off the front page.
We're fighting an uphill battle against fear peddled by various media outlets to attract viewers and clicks. Fear that is useful to the surveillance apparatus.
Can you please share the details on the tax benefits? I am an immigrant and have started and sold companies and I didn't find any tax benefits.
The Connectify Hotspot app added a similar feature recently. It'll block ads for all clients connected to the hotspot. It's Windows-only though:
https://www.connectify.me/blog/block-annoying-ads-connectify...
For the people saying why an article from 2016 is on the front page, here is why this issue is still relevant:

"Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies." - Congressman Steve King, Republican Iowa, 12th March, https://twitter.com/SteveKingIA/status/840980755236999169
I had to stop using syncthing on my MacBook and MacBook Air because it was using far too much ram/cpu.

I wish it could be made more efficient somehow.
It's not a slippery slope when it's supported by evidentiary claims: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope#Non-fallacious_...
But companies use anti-competitive practices to their great advantage...
Haven't we been spying on our own citizens since WWII? Or at least since J Edgar Hoover and thr McCarthy era?
The distinction often is more akin to "promising" and "not promising". Universities, employers, creditors, those looking for a spouse, etc. Everyone does it to some degree. Why can't a country?
Are you against criminal records checks for immigrants?
Also of note is that MobileEye is the company that built the sensor and software suite for Telsa's Autopilot generation 1 system. Tesla threw it away due to disagreements and Tesla now uses Nvidia Drive PX 2 (a customized version no doubt) for the number crunching and their own camera suite.
Given the current composition of Congress and appointees, checks and balances are hanging on by a thread at the moment. That is what has people worried.
I think much of the "useful" college experience can be shrunk to two years for most majors. May be not more specialized fields like aerospace, physics, or the like but even those can do just fine with a 3 yr undergraduate degree. But CS, finance, any arts/commerce majors, liberal arts should totally not need four long years.
> All of them were weird domains.

such as?
I love nuclear power, but there is a huge gap between how the Navy runs their nuke fleet and how the civilian maritime world operates. Navy nukes are some of the most insanely anal and uptight professionals you will ever meet. It's a zero-defect culture, because it has to be.

The job of civil maritime is to provide commodity supply - the only way to make money over the long term is to be a low cost operator. The best (usually Greek) shipowners will milk every last dollar out of an asset, which down in the bilges means fixing boilers with duct tape and bailing wire. That's not how you want to run a nuclear plant.
They often are definitely doing so, at least for sensitive calls. Did I miss something in the article indicating otherwise?
You haven't made any argument to indicate that the cost of tax enforcement would be larger than the revenue the enforcement would generate.
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How is this a useful statement?

It was common for dysfunctional parents to teach racism in the 1960's -- but parroting back this statement of fact didn't end racism. Simply stating "universities do it" isn't helpful, unless you're indicating where you'd like to start affecting change.

People need to be accountable to "the better angels of our nature" in order to affect useful change.
I think you're being over-literal..
How about Canada? They have a point system. Should they have even a higher percentage?
Parallel construction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
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The blank lid is actually pretty cool. That being said, this doesn't look like the killer machine that will finally make 2017 the year of Linux on the desktop. It's a little too bland and unsexy.

It seems as though the average user would be better off with the Ubuntu-pre-installed version of the XPS 13.
I'm all for laptops that come with Linux as an option, but calling this a MacBook Pro alternative is a big stretch. People either buy the MBP for the build quality and materials, or for macOS, neither of which this seems to have - I'd give that title to Dell's XPS range at the moment.

Having said that - this Orion does seem like a decent laptop for the money, and I'm sure there are plenty of people who want a decent Linux machine without the price premium of Dell's XPS range who will happily go for something like this.
Steganography actually causes distortions that are noticeable. Unencripted data often has very odd patterns, encrypted data looks unusually random.
I had to look this up :). But I would have to disagree on that. Trump/Bannon have a recorded history of anti-immigration, anti-muslim rhetoric. And they also took a pretty long time to openly call out against the antisemitism.

The Obama administration has deported many many illegal immigrants and yet I've never felt that way for them.
If you get caught with a hidden floppy drive near a place that uses floppy disks for any interesting purposes, it is pretty clear what you were up to. Being able to conceal whether you already copied anything and if, what exactly, wouldn't probably make a big difference. You are almost certainly in some serious trouble at that point.
What a surprise, a request for citation of an outrageous anti-Trump claim results in an avalanche of irrelevant links.
I find this completely unreadable - here is a screenshot:

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/images/UnreadableLightGrey.png

Seriously - why do people do this?
Here's another one I spotted recently:

- Android apps like YouTube and Google News use a built-in browser frame to show navigated-to web pages, rather than opening them in an external browser. The built-in frame uses Chrome tech, without add-ons. They used to allow you to open links by default in an external browser, but not any more.
Are you also against interviews or technical tests while hiring people? Do you suppose that jobs should be offered on a first-come first-serve basis, or through a lottery, since number of applicants would be higher than number of positions?
Or they'll stop visiting the site.
>But you are going to be better than somebody who practiced only 1,000 hours no matter how talented they are. //

I disagree. You'll probably be better than the average 1000-hour practicee but not necessarily any particular one. Some people really do have a knack [innate talent] for certain things.
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Actually I've had jobs like that, and hired roles in that way. It works better than you think when those references are really there.
The core of the definition is subtly wrapped in "main purpose" -- once the attention is attracted and the link is clicked, the clickbait's job is done. So the content of the article will be lower quality and less intellectually satisfying than non-clickbait articles.

For example, if you charted "interest on clicking this link text" vs "satisfaction with article after reading", I think clickbait would be clearly in the high interest vs low satisfaction quadrant.
I don't know what people mean when they say 'the near-term possibility of autonomous driving'. Some people mean a car that can go everywhere and do everything a human can. I'm thinking about robotaxis in the Bay area that drive along established circuits and do pick-ups and drop offs in designated zones like bus stops. That's what I'm expecting to see in the 5 year time frame, and being able to apply autonomous driving technology to that limited extent opens a very lucrative new market.

Any way you look at the autonomous driving problem it's a hard problem, but every few days it seems there's some paper coming out that demos a new optimization to one aspect or another of the autonomous vehicle development pipeline.

The world of modular deep learning systems, where you have various parent and child subsystems that can be quickly trained and swapped out is very much an open and field of research and my bet is on agile teams that can build and test models faster, and can take things from research to implementation in less time than the competition.

Drive.ai's best trade secret is the system they have for vastly reducing the amount of training data they need to get a result, and vastly reducing the amount of human labour needed to annotate or clean up said training data.

I don't know what the hype is. People are expecting terminator robots or something, that's not going to happen anytime soon. But progress in Machine learning has been steady and driving for a decade and shows know signs of letting up in the forseeable future, because we just keep opening up new frontiers to explore. There's so much to do.
The same reason that you can't see the number of votes for comments. If you see [flagged], you're more likely to flag.
> by the Republican party.

By some members of it, anyway. The Republican party is no more a united front than the Democrat party at the moment.
There's also B, P, L, and other visa types. There's a lot of different lines to stand in depending on how useful you are and the temporaryness of your stay.
> for starters there are significantly more tax benefits for starting a business if you are an immigrant.

What, specifically, are you referring to here?

I think a pretty easy explanation for the difference is that, almost by definition, if you are an immigrant you are someone who is uncomfortable with the status quo, and you are going to take a considerable risk to change it. It's not surprising those people would also be more inclined to be an entrepreneur than your average person.
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I'll take bitcoin and NN advances as highly valid and true responses to my query (although tbh I think btc is a bit older than 5 years). To answer my own question, I think Rust is a substantive improvement.

But, that really doesn't affect the vast bulk of programming: what we do isn't changing that fast.
Because the populist parameters used to define usefulness of a person is incorrect.

You think a person from Mexico is more useless than a person from Canada?
SPAM = the meat product

Spam or spam = unsolicited emails
Anyone who was born in the US is not an immigrant.
You can always review the code for yourself over on our github repo (https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole)! As well as the devs, there are so many pairs of eyes on the code that if anything fishy were to happen, everyone would know about it (not to mention it would completely undermine the hard work we've put into it over the past couple of years!)

Updates are manual, too, so unless you intervene, there is no reason that a working system would suddenly become compromised, except if somebody had access to your network. But then you have a different issue...
Not sure where the "Northern Ireland is quite likely to join Ireland" is coming from. The longstanding narrow majority in favour of the Union in N.Ireland was heavily skewed towards Leave, and the country's political map is defined far more by sectarian concepts of political identity shaped by decades of hostilities than pragmatic concerns about trade links.