skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The posting account probably triggered some kind of spam classifier. No comments and a bunch of submissions in relatively quick succession.
You mean the same report where they cleverly omit the actual situation about updates across Android devices, by only mentioning flagship devices sold in 2016?
More supply of senior engineers will decrease salaries. The visas used to be taken primarily by junior devs preventing (some) senior devs from getting one. Senior devs may no longer be blocked which increases supply. Demand is unchanged, at least in the short-term.
> "Hitler wanted X" and "Germany wanted X".

Well thats the point. Because even if todays borders are considered "untouchable" through international law, that was not so much the case in the beginning of the 20th century.

In fact re-drawing borders was exactly what seemed a completely legitimate way to "penalize" Germany/Austria for the Great War. So it is no wonder that Germans had no hesitations about the "land-grabbing" part of Hitler's policy - land grabbing was totally legit, ey?

Of course, putting those guys in charge of operation land-grab which had the most vile hatred of them all was on part of the German populace naive at best and complicit at worst. But then, what opposition to expect, if the Nazi-genocide's first victims were Germans, basically muting almost all opposition by emmigration or death.

Also, about the in retrospect outlandishness of the Germans for wanting to grab land from its neighbors - what did Germany's contemporaries do right after WW2?
Demanding to shift some borders: The USSR+UK at the expense of Germany and Poland with Germany loosing 30% of its territory. France incorporated itself the Saarland. The Netherlands wanted to increase itself by ~30% at the expense of Germany. Belgium had plans for annexation and even tiny Luxembourg saw fit some expansion.
> I would like to suggest that we try fixing the rent-seeking zoning density restrictions and if that for some reason doesn't work

Again, this was already done years ago in multiple different cities and hasn't worked. (As you already mentioned yourself).

But sure, do a few more. I'm not against it, It just won't fix the problem alone.

> If a developer can make a profit, I don't see why some enterprising firm wouldn't go ahead and do the construction

If the empty / unused property appreciates in value more than the profit from construction would provide, then the housing won't get built. If the needs are greater for housing, but the profit is greater in other uses (like retail or tourism) then the housing won't get built.

This is a big reason why "filtering" doesn't happen in housing, but does for other things like automobiles. Developers can often make more money misusing property than using it. Eliminating zoning actually makes that problem slightly worse by incentivizing developers to speculate like this on even greater portions of every city.
It might be interesting to see what mathematicians-in-the-wild think about higher category theory, which is viewed in a somewhat similar way by people who don't work in certain fields.[0]

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/169187/what-non-categorica...

I suspect the reasons are broadly analogous. To paraphrase a quote of Atiyah's, the usefulness of theory is that once a field is complex enough, a little bit of it can serve to provide "organizing principles" (quoting Qiaochu Yuan from the MO post above) that help both learners (who can exploit similarities in different fields so that unfamilar things feel less alien) and experts (for whom many things are made easier, or even possible, by working at higher levels of abstraction[1]).

Knowledge just keeps piling up, and abstraction is one way of increasing the "density" of information one takes in so that one doesn't have to spend one's whole life trying to learn enough to work -- or, in the researcher's case, getting to the frontiers of current knowledge.

[0]: Roughly, my understanding of it is that it's what happens when you don't require properties like associativity, but say that (ab)c should be "deformable" into a(bc) in some way. Complications arise, interesting stuff happens. The usual.

[1]: Akin to the birds of Freeman Dyson's "birds and frogs".

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=1506
Of course there's a way to confirm what security updates Google releases. You just have to go to the Android Security Bulletin site [1]. You know this, but it would conflict with your agenda of spreading Google/Android FUD because of your perpetual grievances with Google surrounding the Google/Oracle trial.

[1]https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/
Make sure to check out the accompanying "Here’s what we know so far about Team Trump’s ties to Russian interests" -- https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/trump-russi....

Well beyond a few business contacts of one or two people. It seems doubtful Trump's team can work for the interests of the nation or our Constitution without serious personal conflict.
While true, you are protected from some types of retribution from others. For example, someone cannot kill or rob you because you express an opinion in defiance of the political or religious leadership.
Graphene oxide protects sperm from ice
> The only necessary assumption is that 51% of the hash power is not conspiring against you.

That's not true. Even if a miner has 51%+ hash rate, they can't "steal" your coins. They can, however, prevent you from moving your coins but that puts them at risk of getting forked. (unless they have way more than 51% of the hash rate)
We can thank our lucky stars by design or accident of history the PC remains the only true open platform for end users.

Linux and its wide adoption, the ability of users to pick and choose hardware and software would simply not have been possible if Microsoft and Intel took the Google-ARM model to 'openness'.

Google and ARM pay lip sync to open source but users are locked tightly to their devices and OS. Users cannot even install updates let alone things like Linux which Android is based on.

The drivers work perfectly on Android yet users trying to install Linux on ARM socs cannot use these drivers? Open source developers struggle for years with ARM and Google with no results. How exactly did this come to pass without by design? There can always be myriad 'reasons' and excuses but the fact is ARM completely controls the hardware and Google completely controls the software and it's their design and decisions that drives net negative results for users and open source.
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Much of the work on HiDPI goes into the low-level toolkits (GTK/Qt) that all desktop environments benefit from.
You seem fairly free with your criticism of American free speech, considering _they_ didn't birth Mussolini, Hitler or Stalin.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14027330 and marked it off-topic.
>may things improve for you, though I really have no idea how that will happen.

I think a good first step would be changing attitudes towards drug use. We should treat users as patients instead of criminals. And waging a 'war' against dealers and smugglers has only made them more violent and dangerous, while driving up prices and making those who survive even wealthier. There needs to be smarter policies.
He's probably hoping now he won't end up stuck with the doors that only slide back and forth made of bars.
I don't think that will do what you're hoping.

I do agree, taxes on labor income should be lower than capital gains, rather than higher as it is today. But the division is between those who own capital and those those who don't. The lower capital gains tax favors those who make money by investing, rather than producing. Laborers are producers, but so are manufacturing companies. A person who buys himself a robot or two and produces more with it is more productive, but he's still going to pay the labor tax rate, not the capital gains rate.

IMO, the answer to taxation is to tax capital gains highly (significantly higher than labor), and also have very strong progressive tax rates for both labor and capital gains. So, some laborer saving his money in an IRA will (eventually, when he withdraws it) pay taxes on the capital gains, but not that much because he probably didn't save that much anyway. Some laborer investing a few $k into some stock and doubling his money will pay higher taxes on that gain, but again not that much because it's still not that much money. A billionaire making a huge gain in stocks OTOH will pay a much higher tax rate on that gain, and a lot overall in taxes. A millionaire who owns a privately-held manufacturing company will pay a much higher rate than one of his laborer employees, however he won't pay as much as a millionaire who just lives off of investments (unless he sells that company).
1. "Tesla delivered over 76,000 vehicles in 2016" [1]. My math may be rusty, but I'm pretty sure I'm right that they're outselling everyone combined with $100k cars. They're tracking to over 100,000 for 2017.

2. Several billion dollars worth of capital investments disagree with you. And what's important isn't the current market, but the future market - these things are growing and production bottlenecks kill growth.

3. Again, look at the trend lines not just what it is today.

4. A golf you buy today will keep lanes, and will never do anything better. A Tesla has all the hardware needed for Level 5 autonomy (which they've demo'd, but requires regulatory approval), and it's a software update away. And their whole fleet is sensors-on all the time, whether you're using it or not to enable that, which is not true for any other vehicle manufacturer. Google is the only other company that's close.

I'm no disciple, but I can see where the puck is going to be.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/3/14159292/tesla-q4-2016-deli...
As a systems guy who only occasionally pokes his head into this web stuff: have we now completed the circle? For well over a decade I've seen generations of web hackers rail on about the evils of tables for layout. And now I look at this thing, and... it's a table. For layout.

Oh sure, it's a table defined externally to the components. So your screen-reader enumeration of the document structure is unpolluted by the physical layout which is stored in a separate data structure in a separate language. And that's... good, I guess?

Meanwhile I see that native app development continues, as it has for like 30 years now, to shamelessly put UI components directly into hierarchies based on physical layout. And they still haven't tripped over the paradigm.

I know it sounds glib, but it's a serious question: tell me again what was wrong with <table>?
If debtors could get organized and all stopped paying at once, it seems likely that Navient would run out of money before they got the spigot turned back on.

The consequence of course would be that student loans would cease being made, or be made much less frequently. This would have effects, some good, some bad.
… and even if the technician does the right thing, there's no guarantee that the charge won't mysteriously show up on your bill next month unless you live in a city/state with very consumer-oriented regulators.
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Can you draw any lines between what you've listed and speech issues? I wasn't asking for reasons you hate Donald Trump.
Has research into F-35 tech produced any externalities in the civilian sector? At this rate I'm thinking of calling the project "basic research" and call it a day.
Why would I want to install an app from a carmaker on my phone, complete with privacy-invading spyware, when I could just use the keyfob to do it?
Yeah, well, tell that to people living on mercury contaminated land, drinking mercury contaminated well-water, or who worked in factories that used mercury in their manufacturing process.
Passed this on to some biochem buddies and got the following response:

"There are plenty of constructs I'd love to have but don't have the time or expertise to make them. However, could this tool make them? There's so much expertise that goes into "if i hang this tag here, will the protein still traffic to where it needs to go/will it interfere with other domains/will it hang on the right side of the membrane/if I change literally one other amino acid the new tag will work but not if I leave it normal." The experts can already design proteins, but if this tool democratizes that, who's going to do QC?

AFAIK the real way people make substantive changes to proteins is to make 10 variants, test them all, and iterate the designs that worked best. Feels like we're miles away from being able to drag and drop functions."

And "In principle proteins are modular but I can give you ten examples where that principle ruined someone's life. The QC is hard and is case-by-case."

What is your editor aiming to help with? Is QC still the rate-limiting factor to innovating new protein designs with your tool? Does your tool help with QC in any way?

Thanks for sharing, I'm always interested to see new tech in this area.
The American banking system is still in the 1990s. We have no direct person-to-person transfers here.

When you use your bank to pay a bill on-line, unless it's a major utility that worked with your bank to setup an ACH payment means, the bank will typically still print a paper check and send it to its destination.

We have electronic transfer (ACH) using the bank (ABA or routing number) and account number, but it's not available to regular people. People often keep these two numbers secrete to prevent identity theft.

Most other countries, you put your friends bank num, account num and name and it will show up in their account the very next day (even on holidays!) for free. In the US, you have to use 3rd party payment systems like PayPal, which charge fees and don't really do bank-to-bank transfers.
Some people are too lazy to individually forward ports (I am guilty of this in the past myself)
North Korea sells things to foreigners...coal, opium, food&services, etc.
If anything, Fedora is closest to having it working. It's not like it already works on other distros.
Yes, the paper is almost entirely focused on learning because it is a paper about applying somewhat recent research in social psychology into the area of debugging. It is not a paper about debugging. I can see how you might be disappointed if you expected a paper on debugging, but that is not what this is, and it says so at the top, in bold letters, above the abstract.

Anyway, I disagree with the rest of the points you make here, but I don't really feel like arguing about things that my paper is not (and was not) intended to be. I'm sorry you couldn't get much out of it, and thank you again for your feedback!
My friends are thinkers and challengers of the system: it's for them I am more worried, that they can't speak freely. I could move to Condesa and live a protected life, but that's just colonialism (using my spending power to put a cocoon around me with Uber and private parties). That's not the México I'm interested in. I've also been mugged rather violently there anyway on Calle Amsterdam, (though no worse than Barcelona for example, being in the wrong place or time) and I've had Mexican friends sitting in traffic going to work, having a gun pulled on them for their wallet.

I'm not really sure how safe Mexico City really is, once you get out of the ex-pat bubble.
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I will always remember him for making the classes very fun and not boring. He was really funny and made learning interesting. http://i.imgur.com/EAj14JR.png
This is how bio-bloat ware starts.
Similar situation with Narco News[1] (though I know nothing of its journalistic standards)... I had a friend who was working for them in Mexico about 15 years ago, and he ended up quitting and leaving the country after a co-worker was killed.

[1]http://www.narconews.com/
US has never had problems with putting 1% of their population in jail. If every student, even the children of billionaires, massively refuse to pay back as a group, the banks would be too happy to strike a deal with the children of billionaires in order to put the 99% others in jail.
Fuzzy logic is good for fuzzy things. Dealing with nature, in the widest sense of the term.

Category theory is good for making extremely watertight conceptual arguments for discrete properties being preserved under transformations: it's "general abstract nonsense", yes (a famous characterization of the subject) but it really does elucidate the underlying structures in common across a lot of different mathematical settings.

If there's something wrong with the computational flavour of category theory, it's probably that it lacks fuzziness and is too much part of the linguistic/logical picture of the world. Giuseppe Longo, a category theorist, has a paper about this:
http://www.di.ens.fr/users/longo/files/PhilosophyAndCognitio...
The issue is more to do with mercury as a persistent environmental toxin, or you know... if you happen to cure your hat's felt in it you'd be in real trouble. Honestly, if it were a more obvious and rapid killer/debilitator, it would have been less pernicious and abused over the years.
Freeman Dyson on “birds” and “frogs”
LTE Categories explained (infographic)
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Tables are for tabular data. The layout functionality is perfectly fine for layout, but the fact that you're semantically describing the page contents as tabular data goes against the original intent and meaning for the <table> element.
What he's saying is not that Hg is safe, just that acute exposure is less of an issue than chronic exposure. What you're describing are pretty much the dictionary definition of "chronic".
>there are not small groups of people running around with Hakenkreuz flags and SS uniforms in the US

How 'not small', particularly in relation to a nation of over 300 million people?

>Please do not tell me you find this acceptable in any way.

I do not find such content acceptable in any way. But freedom of assembly and speech is baked into the United States' DNA, and rightfully so. Take a look at the Skokie case[0] - offensive stuff, but the ACLU stuck up for them anyways, and it ended up setting a legal precedent in the Supreme Court.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Liberties_Union...
Presumably not, since the wifi chip in those cases is usually powered down entirely (hence why it can't be used for geolocation).
And there is no interest in exposing your GPU architecture in order to help people write better compilers and programs?

Just as on a GPU, the whole interaction between the CPU and the application is abstracted by APIs[1] like C and Python.

[1] Yeah, we don't call them APIs. But then we don't call GLSL a "API" either. They're all languages.
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The consulting firms have been abusing the H-1B system for years. I've been documenting it for couple years here: http://www.jobsintech.io/immigration_companies#name=&city=&s...

You can clearly see that the top companies using H-1B visas are consulting firms.
At work I'm parked down the street from the car so the key fob wouldn't reach. But that's beside the point; you can't even do it from the key fob today on a new Audi.
I think solar is the future, but these claims are stupid.

> "to the point that it no longer makes sense to not have solar everywhere. It's cheaper than coal, and will soon be cheaper than all the other fossil fuels as well, and will continue to go down, never up."

Then the market should automatically have shifted to 100% solar by now.

Solar is getting cheaper yes, but it is dependent on hours of sunlight available, which like wind energy, is unreliable and doesn't work at periods (like night). Further, the capacity of a solar power plant isn't its produced electricity, because the capacity is mainly peak capacity, which is only reached a few hours a day.

> China now employs over 1 million workers making solar panels

Don't know where that figure is from, but I guess china must be covered in solar panels by now. 1 million is large number of people. Unless your figures are deceiving. For example, walmart sells solar panels. So, you will count every walmart employee as a solar panel retail employee.