skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If people are willing to trade their personal information for cheap, cool gadgets, then who is the government to step in to say "no, you're not allowed to do that"? By the same token, you could flip it around: could the government step in and say "you don't want this gadget that's always listening to you, but you have to have it because some group you don't agree with tells you to"?

Third question: should you be allowed to trade my personal information for cheap cool gadgets?
Also not what I asked.

I'm just pointing clarifying that, in your moral system, capital punishment must be one of the exceptions - it's obviously a form of intentional homicide, so you make an exception, right?

Just be careful with handing out such exceptions!
my understanding :
Abuse:
Many companies bring in H1b with minimum wage and replace existing Americans doing the same job and qualified enough.
i had this experience with my colleage american who expresed his frustration of me replacing him. He has masters with 6 years experience. where as i have bachelors with 3 years experinece. My company brought me here with min wage required for h1b. This is strictly taking american jobs.

Rule:
While i am qualified enough to get another job where they could not find an american i would apply. So in the end its the companies that are carrying these cheap labor tricks. We as H1b dont know what thier interviewing and rejecting process for an american. If we are offered a job we take it.

How should these rule be made and how to fine companies that replace americans. how to identify skilled labor.

I dont agree that there are few americans with IT knowledge. In my past 10 years experience i have seen many with good knowledge and highly qualified. With my company going there and replacing them just because we quote less.

Sorry but i am frank. I am still on h1b renewal with awaiting GC pending. ( i lost hope of getting GC). SO folks dont blame people/ Just blame the system and companies who pocket profit keepig us in limbo.
But be ready to face the consequence. Because we all said to our visa councellor that we will return back to our home country during our visa interview.
There are 2 options:

1. Try enteric coated fish oil. I think it solves the burp problem.

2. Try a fish oil which is in triglyceride form e.g. https://www.costco.com/Pure-Alaska-Omega-Wild-Salmon-Oil-100...
Major decision factor in buying a car for me is a reliability scores. Mazda's models usually quite low on those scores.
A yoga studio/dance music lounge.
I'm really interested in learning why it would do that. I remember my screen generating some static electricity (e.g. paper would stick), but I would not have expected putting something on the screen to blank the tube. Is it a special property of the x-ray plate? (Is it conductive?) This feels like knowledge that will end up feeling obvious in hindsight. ;)
It’s easy to dismiss the claim that fluoride is a mind control drug, if taken literally.

When I’ve probed just a little the actual claim I’ve heard is that it somehow affects personality, making for easier to control masses.

I don’t know whether that’s true but at least that’s a claim that can be falsified.

The other thing is:

“Tap water? You’re drinking toilet water with birth control drugs in them,”

There’s plenty of evidence for trace amount of estrogen and estrogen-like substances in the water. Maybe that’s not an issue, but it’s also true that testosterone levels in men are declining worldwide. However there can be a number of causes for this, and the two are not necessarily linked.

Not mentioned in this article, but on HN frontpage earlier, there’s tons of micro particles of plastic in oceans, and subsequently wild fish.

I don’t know those subjects enough to make any kind of informed observation… But dismissing all of it as conspiracy theory doesn’t really sound convincing anymore.
No, if demand is slightly elastic, an increase in price will still cause a decrease in demand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_elasticity_of_demand
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Makes me think you Bay area people have been living in your gig economy servent utopia for too many years without an earthquake to remember why this will never be the case.
> I just want to share an observation about articles like this. It's that I never hear the same thing later from my doctor. Either doctors stick with their old methods -- what they were taught in medical school -- or the online information is a little premature.

Why would you expect your doctor to recommend this to you? Unless you're a young, healthy, overweight African-American, this study doesn't really apply to you (and you're probably not at great risk of arterial stiffness anyway).

> but further studies don't turn it into an actionable prescription regiment

They do, but it takes a long time for this to happen, because medicine is incredibly complex, and there are all sorts of confounding factors that need to be investigated before general-purpose recommendations can be made. Otherwise, it can actually be counterproductive.

Hypothetically: 4000 IUs of Vitamin D daily could decrease the risk of arterial stiffness in overweight African-Americans, but taking more than 2000IU could increase the risk of liver or kidney problems in East Asians[0], and it could also increase the risk of congestive heart failure in diabetic African Americans[1].

That's not even a particularly complex situation, because breaking down by broad race categories is pretty cookie-cutter, and diabetes is one of the most-problematic comorbidities. But all sorts of these things need to be studied before we make broad medical recommendations, because if we jump the gun, we could end up causing major health problems across the general population.

[0] This is completely made-up and hypothetical; I'm not actually suggesting that 2000 IUs of Vitamin D is harmful.

[1] Which, incidentally, may still not be a strong enough reason not to recommend it, if arterial stiffness is considered to be a greater risk than CHF.
Terminating the pregnancy is another choice that's not practically available to many poor women in the united states.
I would be interested in reading it... if / when, if you can send me a link, that would be great!
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But what can people do in non-compete areas? Places where legislation already exists preventing municipalities from doing just what Ft. Collins has done?
I didn't make that claim.
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Thanks for clarfying. What, if you don’t mind me asking, makes you feel their gender in this context is worth censuring?

You made me think about it and it is quite interesting. From reading your post I was surprised. Thinking about it makes it interesting. I work in the Healthcare sector and gender definitly is part of privacy information (as is age for that matter). However, I would have not thought about it twice sharing it here. Now I’m in between.
Just don't do this if you have PII, HIPAA, or PCI data on your computer.
Suppose a killer asteroid is coming and we can only save ~10% of the population.

If you do pure random assignment then having a 7 at the end of your SSN could make a difference. EX: We rolled a 10 sided die an a 7 came up. On the other hand if you want to maximizing the number of people saved other things may be considered (Age, weight, vision etc).

I am not going to say a specific system is the only correct one in that case, but rather many of the differences you suggest are meaningless could suddenly become meaningful differentiation in a moral system. Further, those differences are not necessarily inherently important outside of that specific system and situation.
Something like this [1] seems like it might work (just go with whichever's cheapest).

[1] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1080p-HDMI-to-Scart-converte...
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Trump may deport thousands of H-1B visa holders as they wait for green cards
35k/yr sounds reasonable for a professional living a regular white-collar existence in a major US metro. Obviously you can cut out Uber and take the bus, cut out Whole Foods and shop exclusively at Wal Mart, cut out Six Flags trips, etc. and all of that's going to make a difference of about $1-2k/yr.

How's your salary? It's probably easier to increase your salary than it is to scrimp and save to get your expenses down a couple thousand.
I was recommended fish oil as child to help with vitamin D so my parents fed me ton of canned tuna and sardines. Not sure if milk is better source of vitamin D than fish oil.
>I'll use whatever personal assistant gives me the highest quality results

most likely all these assistants will give you the "sponsored" results first. The sponsored products always appear before highest rating ones whenever I do a search on Amazon, Google, etc.
At the end of the article (and in the linked article), the author says that Flex is too immature for production use, but also says that GAE Standard is practically on autopilot and not recommended for new projects. So it seems that the author doesn't recommend starting new production projects on GAE at all. Has this been others' experience?

Given Google's record with other products, I'm particularly worried Google might discontinue or stop improving GAE. Does Google provide any offical reassurance that GAE is a high-priority product that will be quickly improved and not put on autopilot? If so, do their promises seem to match the reality observed by the author for GAE standard?

quote from the end of the article:
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It feels like they only invest the bare minimum anymore. Actually, I have had this feeling for the last two years...It is infuriating if there are known issues but they are not fixed. It is depressing to receive so little information on where the platform is heading. You feel trapped.
...
the 'old' App Engine is on its way out. I do not think it is a good idea to start new projects on it anymore. If App Engine Flexible Environment on the other hand can actually fix its predecessor's major issues, it might become a very intriguing platform to develop apps on.
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A lot of EU security experts (UK included) take time off to make extra money through companies like ours - senseiclub.com - to train corporate in anything from ethical hacking to certified GDPR compliance - they can't be making much at their regular jobs.

Some even register their own company - which makes sense - as freelancing full time, end of the day, is possible. Make your own schedule, decline to go to work, take a month off - it's good fun.
We got some people booked for over 110 days out of 250 for 2018 already.

As for pensions and savings - folks go to wealth managers.

Hit me up if you want some really good training courses for your company or your buddy is looking for extra gigs (GCHQ folks are welcome).

Think productschool.com for cyber security, compliance, cloud and data.

Cheerio
Cool! What do you find is the best advantage and what is the biggest downside working in a small startup as opposed to a big corporate?
Sorry — I don't know what those acronyms mean. I assume they're writing style guides? (Associated Press.. Acronym? Metropolitan Literature... Acronym?)

Also, is this an example of irony?
sheesh... take a joke people
I'd say most of the elasticity comes from people deciding not to migrate to the cloud at all. Rather than people deciding to stop using the cloud.
No vendor can afford to do it at a loss for long. One way or another the customer will end up paying
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Where can I see the source (or at least the Eelo-specific build scripts for AOSP or any other source details)? I see "in the public interest" and see "we already have first results", but I struggle to find links to the details of what work has been done. Help?

> And as a community project, eelo will welcome contributors.

Sure...oh, "will"...well, can I at least watch?
Yes, I would like to see more social features that aren't tied to Facebook. I know it's not their core competency, but it's odd that the Friends feature requires FB even though they support "standard" non-FB user accounts. And a timeline-esque view of who's been listening to what at-a-glance would be neat.
Damn, I dont understand, didn't you guys have a final interview in person.
> The change in trust levels has changed pretty swiftly.

I'm of two minds about this.

1) This is a bad thing in that we don't give respect to authority that it really deserves. And that's quite often a bad thing--especially when related to children and teaching. Sorry to break it to you, Mommy, but your little angel is actually a spoiled, shitty little brat and, no, his opinions don't count.

2) This is a good thing in that people in positions of authority who abuse their power over others are not uncommon. Having greater scrutiny helps cut down on these situations. Apparently most women have dealt with a couple of these people as teachers throughout high school and college.

I really don't know how to reconcile these two.
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>Any ideas about how to turn this into a daily habit?

Pill box, either at breakfast or the office, or similar. It's worked well for me for the last two years, with a mixture of vit D, vit C, omega oils and the like.
More than the median american. But even if I had never touched US soil, all the arguments previously presented still hold.
OpenGL implementations shouldn't be effected by syscall overhead. Historically it's been DirectX that had a syscall per draw call, but I believe both now just write the command to GPU RAM directly.
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you dont need to induce leukemia right? leukemia was the reason why the person needed a bone marrow transplant, but as far as I know it doesnt help in 'curing' HIV.
There are still shops everywhere, who will let a child use a phone.

Or teach the child to approach a stranger; a random stranger is very unlikely to be a threat. (A less random one even better: a woman with young children.)

Not trusting the police for problems a child is likely to encounter seems paranoid.
I think the main issue with structuring a curriculum like this (assuming the classes are sequential) is that it would take 2.5 years of university to cover it all. That's a A LOT of class time to cover only one programming paradigm when the average CS curriculum is already heavy and lacking slots for electives.

Someone would need to start this Sophomore year and not miss a single course until graduation in order to complete this... While that's fine for core classes like Chemistry which have multiple timeslots offered per semester, having such a brittle pathway for a less-taught topic would cause some grief to plan around.
6/10

It's not the job's fault. Good atmosphere, coworkers, and immediate management. I just want to be doing my own thing.

We have had a lot of turnover, though. Perhaps it's not as good for others.

Edit: I think the job deserves 8 or 9/10, it's my own attitude affecting how I answer the question as-posed.
Nothing! GitLab was great. But we had several GitHub, GitLab, & Stash instances, and there was a push to consolidate onto one platform. Not sure why we consolidated onto GitHub over others, but that was above my pay grade :)
I was on the millennial bubble (1999) and I was a total jock in HS. I was so fearful of getting kicked off my teams, I never partied or drank beer, I was a total straight edge.

Fast forward into college and at the beginning of my Freshman year I still wasn't partying because I didn't want to flunk out of college. I was so into my classes and doing well, I just didn't have time. By the middle of Freshman year, my soccer teammates basically kidnapped me and took me to my first real party where I drank, got loaded and flirted with all the girls. It was really an eye opening experience for me to learn how to be in social situations with members of the opposite sex, as well as socialize with other students my age.

With less and less people of the current generation skipping college, I can easily see a huge reduction in partying and drinking overall. Add in the financial burden of being on your own and how much decent beer or alcohol costs and it just becomes out of reach due to financial circumstances.

Not surprised at all by the conclusions in the article.
The major record labels are shareholders in the company.

This allows them to cash out and then go sue Spotify for all the stuff they were previously lenient with.

They will no longer have vested interest in the company and no reason to protect it.
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These all look like physics engines for graphics rendering. They all say 2d or 3d, and that means they surely can't handle concepts like relativistic spacetime.

Do you know of any libraries for doing 'backend' physical simulations, such as calculating scattering amplitudes, making projections of spacetime models onto either space-like or time-like slices, and, especially, using tensor networks for modelling condensed matter interactions?
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So how do their competitors deal with this?
> The ageing mill towns of East Lancashire, UK, still enjoyed a culture of trust and respect for your neighbours such that you could leave your front door open without fear of theft.

That is a strange line to include there, as I am not sure how people staying inside and having very little social life would erode public trust in the idea that your house won't be robbed while you're away. There are hundreds of factors that play into the changing landscape of trust, but I know my small town parents still have no real concern leaving the door unlocked in their small town of ~1000 or so people.

Personally, I'd say the trust issue has to do with the fact that the world population has almost perfectly doubled since 1969, and humanity's short history has not prepared us for the population explosion that has occurred over the last 150 years. We live closer together than ever before -- but cities have never really been safe, and serial killing predates electricity (oddly) without even getting near to modern technology or us collectively being "blinded by everything shiny".

The issue with our population now is that our cities are larger, there are fewer small towns and rural areas, hence the erosion of trust.

I think Dunbar's Number (colloquially the Monkeysphere) kind of covers why we aren't handling the explosion of social circles well. But that can't be blamed completely on technology.
I can't do that once you've applied. Good luck with your job hunt!.
It's not really meant to replace or even compete with IRC, I want to build a community where people talk about tech and startups. Towards that goal, I plan to build a forum and have an option to publish blog posts on the site. A chatroom is the first version of this idea for a community site.
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It's already misleading because the title made me think it happened today or at least this year.
How is this an issue of national security?
> I'd say "or a game," but many are webapps.

Not yet, the though I think this will be true eventually
don't try to catch a falling knife. Let it settle, give it a week or so then see where it is.
If someone asked me for advice, I'd tell them to skip "smart TVs" and hook up a Raspberry Pi with OpenELEC, or an Android TV box — resolution's probably the only thing worth upgrading for.
>We need diversity and diversification in order to have reasonable amount of robustness

Ironically, in human populations it produces the opposite effect.
> Why must the CEO of Google be the most highly-paid position for Google to run well?

That's up to Google, not me. Unlike you, I don't seek to dictate what organizations should pay their managers.

> The point is that the pay for participating in self-interested capitalist endeavors leads to outsize rewards compared to those dedicated to serving society.

You are making two implicit claims here, both highly suspect and probably false:

- Working for Google contributes no value to society.

- Working for the government is synonymous with 'serving society'.

Google's flaws notwithstanding, the government has a terrible track record when it comes to incentives, inefficiency, corruption (particularly graft), accountability, and so on. Equating 'working for government' with 'serving society' is baffling.

> If we value those who serve society, perhaps we should...

Therein lies the problem with your rhetoric. When you say 'we', you pretend to speak for all taxpayers, but you do not. Your claim that higher pay would yield better results is probably true for some sectors and false for others, yet you make no attempt to distinguish between these and speak as if a universal raise would lead to better outcomes rather than more graft.
This isn't exactly that, but here[1] is a talk linked in the post from the other day which shows a PoC breaking ASLR in Linux from JavaScript running in the browser, via a timing attack on the MMU. There's a demo a half hour in.

EDIT: This post[2] discusses the specific speculative execution cache attack and claims there is a JavaScript PoC (but doesn't cite a source for that claim)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewe3-mUku94

[2] https://plus.google.com/+KristianK%C3%B6hntopp/posts/Ep26AoA...
[0] consumption = autonomous consumption + marginal propensity to consume × disposable income

Even when income, disposable or total, is set to zero, individuals still have to eat, to be sheltered, to take transportation.

Then, wherever there are multiple products for anything that would be considered a necessity, advertising can still have a positive return.

[0] https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_macroeconomics-theory-th...
> My kid tells us we did her/him a big disservice by just who were were: an in love couple with a good marriage.

This is just their perception and proposed solution. Ruining your marriage so they will be comfortable in a bad relationship is crazy.

Parents often fail to teach their kids how they got to this point. I have made a point to make sure I don't just take for granted my kids know everything I know.

What to look for? What not to look for? Where does this action come from? Why do I get a funny feeling about this person? What fear causes this anger response. The fact that everyone is nice at some point. On and on the list goes...

Right and wrong, life, is either taught... or learned the hard way.
Curious to know if the source code is available out there? Would love to audit it before putting it to use.
Monopolized ISP services are ripe for local disruption.

Is the future of Internet Service Providing going to be a service of local governments?

What about co-ops?
I think this is something best left to "the market", of all things. If government wants to inflict technical damage on an opponent, have a group of contracted hackers to launch attacks or consult on security. Our government, with its risk averseness and archaic ways are not, in any way, set up to meaningfully fend off or launch digital attack.
I think I saw boxed Trinitron tubes for sale there the other day.
Or the system was designed poorly to begin with and now you're stuck with the design for backwards compatibility reasons.
The article addresses that, albeit with some hand-waving:

> The activation energies for oxidation and reduction of iron are of the order of 30-60KJ/mole, comparable to the figure of 57KJ/mole for ATP, a molecule which is commonly used for delivering energy around our bodies. We normally make iron from its ore at very high temperatures, because the rate-limiting process is diffusion in the solid state. But the body makes materials in a very different way, from the bottom up, atom by atom, molecule by molecule. And of course the fact is that you are already oxidizing and reducing iron inside your body all the time.