skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Startups

Curious if the overwhelmingly-Jewish editorialists at WSJ would likewise rationalize unlimited non-Jewish immigration to Israel based on spurious "greater good" economic arguments.

Maybe there's something more important than the economy at stake when deciding the fate of a national inheritance?
Listen up captain purity... there are two parties in our system. You have to deal with them to actually make change. Its easy to reply with a quote that seems to make you out to be more moral.

How do you get anything changed then? Riddle me this... the right has been doing what I said for decades now and they Have been successful. should we not try to be successful as well? Of more accurately, what is it about the republican party that makes you think that you can work with them?

EDIT: I didn't see your username until after I replied. Never mind. Lets build a market for organs instead.... then well all have jetpacks.
I'm recommending we don't move to VS2017 at work. It's much slower to open and it's laggy. 2015 compiles about 5 seconds slower but there's no lag in the IDE for me. Hopefully the issues get resolved in update 1.

It doesn't mess with project files tho which is great.
Nah I think most people that drug their kids to sleep use liquids.
OK, so indeed, no features in between major releases.

It's also somewhat unfortunate that, in their words, "every [six month] release is also API breaking". How can you create a stable product that targets a constantly breaking API (short of picking a version and sticking with it)?

Of course, I'm a biased, since I consider stable to be measured in years, not months; certainly not the current trend.
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I think your logic is flawed. You have selected an arbitrary point in history, i.e. establishment of Spain as a sovereign entity, and used that to determine that Catalonia are not a sovereign entity. Couldn't you just as easily rewind your point a few years before establishment of Spain and say ok, Catalonia is a previously sovereign entity that was absorbed into Spain, and they merely want to revert to their previous situation?

Quite apart from that, the fact is that history is never as clean as your argument suggests. If people in a certain area begin to develop their own separate conciousness, feelings of separateness, culture and so on, there comes a point at which imposition of rule by an external power becomes tyrannical.

Good luck to Catalonia, and good luck to an independent Scotland. I'm sick of the ingratitude and whinging from north of the border. I don't think I'm the only one that wishes we could have a referendum in England to boot Scotland out first.
> 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).

How many people do you know that pay $500k in taxes over 4 years?

You may as well make the cost $500 million, you'll get the same number of applicants.
At least one filtering mesh. Hopefully two.
Some MUMPS based software use the EAV model cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity%E2%80%93attribute%E2%80...
Pretty much anyone who pays more taxes than they cost could be considered "useful", which is not a hard thing to accomplish and therefore a strong argument for allowing a lot more immigration.

In other words one of the basic premises of anti-immigrant policies is nonsense.
> I've noticed among "hacker spaces" and the machine shop company is that they have very few ties to higher edu, but they're doing VERY similar things.

hacker spaces and universities strike me as nearly polar opposites. what do you think it is they're doing that's similar?
I'm glad you had such a good time interacting with Ian Murdock's friend in need. He hellbanned me on a whim and I saw him hellbanning someone else just for daring to downvote him after being told to stop.

Maybe you're a special snowflake ;-)
Yes, this is evil. Installing software off of <insert platform store here> can be evil too.

Buyer beware.
You're right. It is easy to rationalize this sort of behavior. But I think there's a few things going on, that mutate normal action/response.

1. Family. Doing this the "right way" would mean fessing up. And that means alienating and testifying against family. Unless they're Hannibal The Cannibal, or other absolutely horrible crimes against humanity, you're not going to want to destroy your family and the business.

2. Inertia. It was already done, we're just doing it how it was done before. (Insert "Cause everyone else does it").
The comment I replied to made it sound as if the state had some kind of position on the matter, but the linked evidence was only that a particular office ruled on one single case.

>california most definitely thinks they're workers,

This is blatantly wrong.
It's one thing to read a book and be able to follow along the central themes and ideas. It's a whole other can of worms to be able to write that book.
Yeah, that's definitely a step in the right direction, I certainly wouldn't say that Google does nothing to protect their interests in advertising - especially given their recent actions on the Chrome store with AdNauseum.

However, what I'm trying to get at is that, for example on iOS you still can't block in-app non-Safari ads at all. On Android you can do that if you want to, and a lot more, you can also block specific connections, block device-specific identifiers, APN lists, accelerometers, wake state, etc - it's a better compromise for someone concerned about privacy than other platforms even with this considered right now.
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Start a business is really hard here (Spain). With my last one I learnt a lot, but I also lost a lot: all my savings and money from family and other people. I invested a lot of time so I didn't spend that time with my family and friends. Here, you can lost the rest of your life if you fail. I failed and now I have a lot of problems for this reason. For example, I have some open cases with government yet. I knew that it was a possibility but I chose and lost.

With all of this, I don't think that an idea is really important. Execution is more important. Nevertheless, I know that I will start another company someday, but I need to be sure that I regenerate my self before value a new idea or start the execution of one.
She lost some of her expected bonuses due to the repeated security breaches that compromised user accounts.

http://www.recode.net/2017/3/1/14783686/yahoos-lawyer-ousted...
The goat testicle treatment reference is grand,sir!

I'm not so sure medicine is the best example in managing a rational body work. It's still riddled with eminence rather than evidence based treatments. The disparity between the stuff that works - which is friggin amazing - and between what is at best invasive placebo is quite large.

But yeah, I agree, licensing if done properly can cut the tail of total nutjobs and incompetents. I'm not still sure if that can be the foremost motivator, though.
Spoken like a true non American. It's not like people don't think it's possible for criminals to do this. The issue is that they don't expect the government to be doing it to their own citizens. It's a legal and moral issue, not one of technological capabilities.
Which of her bets would you say payed off?

All that comes to mind for her tenure is overpaying for a bunch of acquisitions and then destroying what's left of them.
Well those are the flagrant cartels. I hear there are pure-human cartels too. I see emails and Facebook posts and en-masse emails asking for Product Hunt up-votes from time to time from some VC associates. I imagine there is a similar thing going on on HN (but what do I know...i'm just a tiny startup staring at PyCharm most of the day.)
Crowdsource is an amazing thing to do
I believe it already has started and now it's a break until :30
How about this comment that is both condescending and irrelevant in response to mine? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13856422
Citizenship isn't clear at all. There's no clear concept of English, Welsh, Scottish or Northern Irish citizenship -- we are British citizens, and European Union citizens. During the previous independence vote in Scotland, the people who voted were British, Commonwealth and EU citizens resident in Scotland.

Around 800,000 people born in Scotland live elsewhere in the UK. Millions more presumably have a parent born in Scotland, but weren't themselves.

I was born in England. I emigrated from the UK in 2015, and briefly considered registering as resident in Scotland (rather than England) just before I left, on the off-chance that Brexit went ahead without Scotland. However, the likelihood seemed remote, so I didn't consider it seriously.
I only got about a third away through this but the beginning doesn't make me want to believe/empathize with the author at all.

"my nephew was set to graduate from Maryland’s Towson University with a degree in political science. After six long years,"

Six years for a degree in political science. You have to actively try to take that long to graduate. Maybe he changed majors.

"Holding up their son’s transcript, his adviser pointed out that he had taken the same economics course twice—one year apart. My nephew hadn’t noticed."

Really? I've met plenty of people in college who would do things like this. They all had no motivation or interest to graduate. They were there just because their parents made them and could afford it. I think this defends the authors point. However, using two people who clearly have no idea how to pave their own path to a successful life should be used as an example to argue against universities and trade schools.

Maybe the author is trying to say its the high schools fault for not teaching them. I disagree. Everytime I've seen behavior like this it's because the student just doesn't care or their parents have plenty of money and know they'll be fine no matter how bad they do.
But it works sooo perfectly in the current vote count...

https://t.co/5cLU9F5MCh
Agreed, it's been really nice to run at home. Took about an hour to set up from a diskless Pi I had sitting around, to a fully running system. Maintenance has been zero so far, and haven't had any downtime or anything.

The best part was when I first fired up the web interface and saw that it had already blocked 14 requests after hardly being up for more than 5 minutes. Nobody was home at the time, so it was kind of a wake up call to see idle devices reaching out to potential ad servers.
It can make a difference. For example, if this was written in ruby I might not bother using. On every device I'd have to get the correct ruby environment setup, install any dependent gems, and make sure if I have the gem path set correctly.

If it's written in go I know I can drop a static binary in my PATH and be done.
> The number of high paying doesn't change simply because we're increasing the number of degrees per capita

It should. Not necessarily in proportion to the number of degrees, but having more degrees out there should increase the number of high paying jobs. Superior education should make people both more intellectually malleable and capable of creating value in unforeseen ways.

If it doesn't, it would be evidence there's something very wrong with the degrees.
Germany, and all of continental Europe receive significantly more sun than the UK.
why not opt-viewer-demo?
> This is kind of rude and condescending and I don't see how prepending it to your comment improves the discussion.

Apologies. No condescension was intended. I was amused by the insinuation in the comment that Mayer was chosen for wholly irrational reasons by the board. I removed the mention of my chuckle from the comment.
> But it's immoral. Rich host countries are poaching productive individuals while selecting against people who are most in need of help, leaving them to be taken care of by their (usually) poorer country of origin.

I'm failing to see how these economics work. Host countries have an incentive to acquire productive individuals. And subsequently they have a negative incentive to acquire those 'most in need' (need metric assumed).

A rough attempt to try and square up the two has me thinking we need two immigration systems. One that treats immigration as an altruistic endeavor, and another that treats immigration as an economic endeavor.

> The fair thing to do would be to accept a random sample of would-be immigrants.

I couldn't disagree with this more. Even with pretending that fairness is a thing, I have to argue that the 'most fair entry path would be some form of earning entry by establishing the criteria up front. Much the same as public universities do in the US.
They could declare war on the US.
>Sounds great! It might be good to distinguish between "moderator activity" (which to me implies that a human reads and makes a decision) and "moderation activity" (which covers automatic adjustments such as the frequently faulty "flame detection algorithm").

Unfortunately this information isn't made available. More analysis of the data is necessary to identify trends that can be used to distingish these.
Simple example? Before finishing the first paragraph, it says

"The slope and y-intercept of the line are determined using gradient descent."

What on earth does that mean? Maybe they should teach mathematics in english at universities outside of english speaking countries. German mathematics does not help here.

I wish there was a 4GL like SQL for machine learning using dynamic programming for algorithm selection and model synthesis like a dbms query planner.

PREDICT s as revenue
LEARN FROM company.sales as s
GROUP BY MONTH
ORDER BY company.region
Are you sure about that? MS and Windows came about in a world with his attitude. If we had had a guild, would Windows have become the dominant desktop OS? Or would UNIX have persisted instead, and Linux never been invented (as a reaction to MS's dominance and the demise of UNIX)?

Besides, isn't the argument here that a guild would enforce more conformity upon professional programmers? Linux wasn't made by professionals, in the beginning; it was made by a college student who then collaborated with other academics. A guild can't prevent that, any more than it can prevent people from buying copper pipe and fittings from Home Depot and fixing their own plumbing. And further, how long did it take before companies really started taking Linux seriously? It was ages before free and open-source software finally got (mostly) past the attitudes that hindered its adoption in corporations. I don't see how a guild would have changed this at all.
Are there any devices (on the public market) that allow for high-density whole-disk imaging/scanning with one rotation of the floppy? Feels like it could be useful for bringing "dead" floppies back to life for e.g. retro computing enthusiasts.

Scan it once at insanely high resolution and later analyze the data...
This case is literally an entire Android phone that you attach to your iPhone
Jesus Christ. Who do you think you can influence? Do you honestly believe that you can sway enough republicans to get anything important done?

People who don't see the republicans for what they are is pretty bizarre to me. We have a two party system. Which one do you think you could have an impact on?
See the response to the lack of an ISO from the Microsoft Visual Studio team here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13810821#13814975 It links to an install guide for enterprise deployment.
(re: your too little, too late edit)

How a public apology for implying that we are conspiracy theorists[1], since you are the one with the ability to "fact check" us, and you failed to do so, most notably, and conveniently, after it was too late. Your attempt to debunk us, combined with lowering the weight of today's article, effectively censored the entire conversation.

While we're at it, how did somebody accidentally add a 2010 tag to a clearly brand-new article that was just published on the day of the post? Here's an actual conspiracy theory: this was the first attempt to censor the article, which failed when people immediately recognized that it was not from 2010. It's one thing to originally post something with an incorrect date (e.g., a typo, etc.), but this was a moderator adding a date. That is a deliberate action, which means more than just a passing glance would have been given.

1. I have arrived at this conclusion by logical deduction: A) Confirmation bias is the cognitive bias being described by your quote, "...how easily people can find examples that fit any belief...". B) One does not need to confirm something other than a theory. C) There are many moderators, therefore making it a conspiracy, if it was deliberately done. D) It would therefore need to be a conspiracy theory in order for cognitive bias to be relevant.
McCarthy's name isn't being tarnished out of spite. It's because he started a disgusting witch hunt with blacklists, demagoguery, etc to hunt down anyone who committed thoughtcrime (i.e. communist sympathy) that ruined the lives of many, many innocent people and turned the country down a very dark path.

The fact that there were soviet agents in the government is mostly tangential. It was because he went around saying there's a secret list of enemies, and that anyone who is left of center is probably one of them, that he was so horrible. It was because he made disgusting personal attacks and aired the dirty laundry of anyone who crossed him. It was because of his deep hatred for homosexuals and anyone who wasn't right wing.

He was one of the more vile characters in US history. J. Edgar Hoover was much worse, I'll concede; Hoover was actually a traitor, the worst in US history, and should have been jailed or executed. But McCarthy deserves every bit of tarnishing he gets, and a whole lot more that he doesn't get because people have forgotten.
I used to do a lot of work in dBase & Clipper and because of that I got projects in other 'language integrated databases'(?) like DataEase, MUMPS, Cache as well as Access, Foxpro and Informix. Besides Access (I guess?) these are mostly jobs for life without stress. I still get requests and it has been 15-20 years since I touched most of those.
It's extremely disingenuous to characterize his role as "continued policy begun by previous administration" when his Vice President wrote the core legislation of the Patriot Act, he was actively working to expand those policies for 8 years, and one of his very last acts was to issue an EO further entrenching them.
My retirement plan of maintaining old Perl code doesn't look as viable as it used to, perhaps time to learn MUMPS.
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"No one is trying to stop legal immigration."

You are misinformed:

"GOP Senators Move to Limit Legal Immigration

A pair of Republican senators are teaming up with the White House to introduce legislation to restrict legal immigration by slashing the number of visas and green cards available each year."

https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2017-02-07/sen...
You know who's actually doing the most for sustainable local agriculture here? Walmart. It just plain freaks me out. But they have an angel fund to support local farmers, and preferentially deal with them. They're the only chain I know of where you can get bagged coffee that's not produced by a Coca-Cola subsidiary.

Thanks for the link! MeFi FTW!
> Applying for immigrant visa of Canada under the Independent Class. Canada Immigration.

> This class has become very popular and also known as professional class or skilled worker class and the application is assessed based on a point system. An individual should make an application under this class if he/she wishes to come to Canada based on his/her qualification, work experience and knowledge of English or French language. [1]

Canada's doing just that.

[1] http://www.canadaimmigrationvisa.com/visatype.html
> With all the ad blocking technologies that are coming up, I wonder if Google is devising something to counteract these efforts.

AMP
That was my initial thought - however after rereading his post he seems to refer to changing files quickly on a single system and seeing the changes replicated to multiple additional systems. This reading suggests Dropbox fails to keep up and eventually decides some of its own yet-unfinished syncs in additional systems are conflicts.

Sounds worth finding out in detail.
Others think wow, we really need to bring citizens up to par with those we import.
When I was a medical student I was assisting on an operation when I let loose with a horrible sulfurous fart. I was sly about it and made no noise. At some point the surgeon made a comment about how "it didn't smell too good in there" so I had to come clean; didn't want him further exploring and maybe cutting the abdomen to track down the smell.

I tell this because that story is rarely relevant in my life and also to tell you that farts actually are relevant in a surgical context. The study is not as silly as it sounds
Trump's Deportation Plan Is Economic Suicide
A VAT and tax on currency exchanges instead of income taxes would probably work out better all around... But that would be a huge shift. But in general, corporations serve as collective ownership and have dividends, labor, and other purchases and expenses. These can/should be taxed.. but income tax on a corporation is kind of counter-intuitive to me, only because a "corporation" doesn't actually pay tax, it's their customers. It doesn't come from, or go to nowhere.
> What is the point of government if not to act in the best interests of its citizens? Why are our governments now apparently obligated to act in the best interests of foreign nationals? This has nothing to do with alleviating poverty or humanitarian ideals. It's blatantly obvious that this advocacy for open borders is part of a power grab by the left to ensure that they stay in power for decades to come, at the expense of the people who actually built the society that they want to invite everyone else to live in. What party do they think these people are going to overwhelmingly vote for? I don't understand how people can openly advocate for destroying our society just for political gain.

I self-identify as a neoliberal (fiscally conservative); is that part of the left?

Economics research says low wage immigrants are a net economic benefit, so it is in the interest of its citizens, but not completely objectively as some people are harmed. Also, I think the extreme poverty in parts of the world can justify help, just like how 1000$ is more to a poor person than a millionaire.

No, immigration alleviates poverty as Americans are much richer than the average person. Why do you think so many people want to immigrate?

I don't think it's a power grab by the left (open borders are not popular, as you can see right here) and that's irrelevant to the merits of open borders.

> the people who actually built the society that they want to invite everyone else to live in

This criticism seems to be for leftists.

Well, I am against forcing racial diversity, so you can stay with your ethnic group/society in my proposal.
>At the same time, we have a public school system that after 18 years with a child...has not actually prepared them to get a job.

Maybe I just went to a great public school, but I could have easily done by first professional job at the age of 18 with no college. However, having a BS was a requirement, so I wouldn't have been able to get hired without that piece of paper.
Well, that's a tricky argument since at what point is a population "established"?

I concur, however, since I'd prefer it to be distributed among all residents, whether born in that country or not. But that's another discussion entirely.
an article written in english assumes familiarity with english vernacular? who would've thought!