skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it needs reformed. When there are 11 million undocumented workers in the country, there's clearly a market distortion going on. The problem is, we have a demand-side problem (need for unskilled or semi-skilled labor), but insist on treating it with supply-side solutions (Higher walls! More deportation!). That's not going to work. The nimble small businesses of illegal immigration will easily come up with new ways to bring them in faster than slow government can plug the leaks. Leaving morality out of it, it's not an EFFECTIVE approach.

And it's a frustrating situation, because it turns many ordinary, otherwise law-abiding Americans into tacit criminals, consciously or unconsciously hiring undocumented workers to do basic stuff like wash the dishes or mow the lawn. And the illegal workers live in fear and don't participate in the processes they should, like getting driver's licenses.

A sensible visa system could address the supply side by giving a legal mechanism for a sufficient number of workers, reducing demand for illegals, and would allow those newly legal workers to participate without fear as residents, if not citizens. It would reduce crime and stress.
There's also partial():

1. http://documentcloud.github.io/underscore/#partial
For Sprint, in most areas, 4G means 50Mbit/s when stationary within range of a WiFi access point, and 50 kbit/s otherwise.
CAs solve a very specific threat model, governments or corporations are not included. It is purely designed to protect against Computer criminals with very limited resources. PKI is designed to be about as strong as the lock on your front door, experts and police could pick it or get a key from the manufacturer but many thieves will just break a window and run a small risk of being detected in the process.

If we want real security we have to build it separate from the CA model, but as you point out CAs do provide some security against government inception, just as a locked door does provide some security against police wondering into your house, and we should not abandon it wholesale.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5699748 brings up a good point.
There are no free passes like that in the US patent system as far as I'm aware. You don't have to knowingly infringe a patent to be taken to court by a patent holder and potentially held liable for patent infringement.
I like it, very clever. But doesn't the block chain get unfeasibly large at some point, especially if it gets "overloaded" will all kinds of things?
Excellent, thanks very much. I might be the only laggard left. I'm now following @SparkInspector on twitter to keep an eye out for 10.7 support.
It sounds to me like you're trying to reinvent web analytics. Is there a reason you need user level granularity or is aggregate data enough?
Microsoft releases Webmatrix 3
I don't know about you, but I'm digging these thinclient+mainframe [cloud-based] apps.
Yeah. I wonder if this was not the right test case.
MPAA insists that considering Fair Use before filing A DMCA is crazy
The text in the product images is blurry on my retina macbook.
Facebook Home flagship phone, HTC First, may be discontinued
With HSDPA and 4G a lot of people are using it to replace their home internet (not so much in the US, but elsewhere it's a big thing). Hence the current capacity crunch mentioned in the article
I also second selling it for $250 and using something other than Codecanyon. I'd recommend using Fastspring (customer, no other affiliation) since it has no monthly fee and takes a lot smaller cut than Codecanyon.
Interesting to see the diverging paths being taken by America and a ton of developed countries, where Monsanto has been removed and banned (Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, Madeira, New Zealand, Peru, South Australia, Russia, France, and Switzerland)
Shameless plug: here is a gem I wrote to manage foreign keys and CHECK constraints (and also indexes) in a Rails project:

https://github.com/pjungwir/db_leftovers
> I'd have to first make a sound decision about the software (through the demo, etc).

Which should be easy... Just offer a hosted version.
Did Bloomberg reporters “snoop” on clients?
so sick of this lady still milking her drudgesiren.gif nofollow scoop. We're supposed to believe that Kickstarter is nefariously hiding unfunded projects? That this has nothing to do with new projects and Googlebot crawl budgets or that maybe hundreds of times a day they are emailed/called by unfunded folks with "I'm embarrassed everyone can find my unfunded project on Google. Can you delete it?". Also, she speaks of failed projects.. how is it failure? It's just not yet funded.
Thank you! This is some quality stuff. I just signed up for the weekly lessons.
Facebook's interests are served by trading favors. FB has money and branding - that's its currency in Washington. And in Washington, legislators have complex agendas and constantly trade favors. So in order to get some legislator's support for the immigration reform they want, they offer to support something they don't care about normally (in this case, the Keystone pipeline).

If you only think about your own interests in a narrow sense, you will be continually steamrollered by those with broader minds and agendas.
This is awesome. Everything here (except the anonymous arguments to lambdas, seriously, just use x y and z as default argument names) should be in Python 4 or whatever you'd want to call the successor to Python.

I love love love the PEG implementation.
It would be very useful in production code as well - consider the case of the Mars Climate Orbiter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_f...
>Technology people want to help an issue, like immigration reform, and instead of saying, "Who are the best people working on this issue, that I can support with money and time and media?"

You show true wisdom, the first thing anyone should do when trying to solve a problem is ask a question(s). I myself have practiced in Immigration Law, and if anyone engages me in conversation about what I would do to "fix" immigration or generally about what I would do with immigration reform, I immediately ask what they think is broken or needs reform, then I can address their concern. The one general rule I can say is treat people with dignity and respect, undocumented immigrants may be in violation of the law, but they are not criminals (unless of course, they are actual convicted criminals), there is an amazing book on this point called Storming the Courts regarding the period we maintained Haitain Refugees at Gitmo to avoid them making a claim for Asylum - and initially the US military treated the refugees like prisoners of war, until another commander took over and before he left he gave all his possessions to the refugees including the shirt off his own back. As far as what I really believe, having nothing to do with reform, is that the US has always had "second class/quasi-citizens" and the US always will have that class - it just so happens undocumented immigrants make up the majority of this class at this time in US history.
Probably I was too quick to create the plugin :). The link you mentioned is pretty much doing what I am doing except for the tooltip part.

I think I just took the parent plugin handicap & fixed it. But guess Jquery plugin is already doing it the way I am doing it.

Thanks for pointing.
IP is one of the last economic sectors where the US has a commanding lead. Of course the US government is going to strongly protect IP, and seek more trade agreements around the world to respects its IP, because otherwise its trading deficit would unravel faster and wages in the US would be rapidly depressed towards the average in the world: $75 a day (for official wage earners ... for many people in the world it's more like $2 a day).

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17512040

In turn this would probably lower the demand for US dollars, as the US government would be getting less revenue in $ from the working class whereas the investor class would probably diversify more around the world.

The funny thing is that, even as the US pushes for more countries to work with it to enforce IP (such as the crackdown on MegaUpload), it doesn't enforce many trademarks from other countries: http://www.forbes.com/sites/larryolmsted/2012/04/12/foods-bi...
You can't stick your head in the sand about printing guns
I've seen this solution before:

A free-to-download "test my environment" script could be a good idea to mitigate some of the installation issues. Write a simple one-file PHP script that a prospective buyer can download for free, and run on their target environment. That script can give them a report showing them what works and what doesn't.

This could save you a lot of post-purchase support requests.
I am one of those uses who prefer a self hosted version, that is why I do NOT use Basecamp
Other author here:
Like lihaoyi said, it's true that the way we defined things doesn't match standard Python namespacing, but it saves some typing and I think it's easy to get used to the semantics of our case classes. Our macro just transforms the "namespace tree" that you would normally get from writing code like that into an "inheritance tree", where all the subclasses' names are at the level of the top class. If you wanted to do something like this with proper namespaces, you can probably do something similar without macros using metaclasses.
Comp Time Or Cold Cash. Which Would You Pick?
Stating this is ego-protection at its finest. One of the finest comments I've ever read regarding this was written here, years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1791800):

"This attitude bugs me a lot. There is probably a path for every single person in this country to make a million dollars in the next year if they were just "savvy enough" to take advantage of it. It seems everyone wants to diminish Zuck's success by ascribing luck to it, but let me tell you something. Zuck executed the shit out of Facebook. Did the community and mindshare just come out of thin air?

There's no good reason to believe that Zuckerberg is lucky at all. Saying he was in the right place at the right time has this tacit assumption that if he were somewhere else at the wrong time he would have tried the same thing and fell flat on his face.

It seems because Facebook is an outlier, people feel safe talking about the luck factor, but that's meaningless because we all exist with individual circumstances, and by that measure everything every one of us does is based on luck.

Instead, I prefer to ascribe luck to things that the individual actually had no control over, such as winning the lottery."
The users, the consumers, the parents, the grandparents, the activists, ... don't even know what CAs are. To the degree that people trust computers at all they trust what their browser tells them is safer.

Generally almost everyone has experience with malware, bugs and broken software. No one who has used a computer for more than 10 minutes absolutely trusts computers in any capacity including security.
Were the Victorians cleverer than us?
“The only thing that Apple computers share with NeXT machines is the operating system.”

Which is the main reason why people buy a Mac, so yeah, that’s pretty major. Also inherited from the NeXT platform: Objective-C, Cocoa, Xcode, Keynote, WebObjects, and the plan to switch to the x86 architecture.

However, what was meant with the quote was that the NeXT folks invaded Apple and took the most influential positions, Steve Jobs of course being the prime example. When Steve Jobs took over at Apple, he got rid of the entire Board of Directors, lots of VPs and other upper management. Some people were promoted from within Apple, but many of the positions were filled by former NeXT employees.
Unfortunately, this is the world we live in now. Its only going to get worse, and sooner or later will self-destruct.

Bliss.
Plan to ban printed guns makes no sense
So true. But the worst part is when their software update servers go down. Apparently SmartTV phones home about every 5 minutes or so, and when Samsung's servers are offline for any reason the TV pops up an annoying box in the middle of the screen telling you that your internet isn't working. Even if you're just watching TV or a DVD.

I contacted Samsung and they told me not to use my TV and that it should be fine the next day. In the end, I factory-reset my TV and didn't give it the wi-fi password.
People spend an extraordinary amount of time and effort digging up precious metals, much to the dismay of local populations that are usually uprooted to facilitate this.

In terms of environmental impact, Bitcoin ranks pretty low on the scale. More energy is wasted with people tuning in to "Dancing with the Stars".
Lening simuleren voor een goedkope lening vanaf 500 euro bij Cofidis
The most interesting part about this was that it was 9-0.
Why not just fork the W3C's specifications, and pressure FireFox and the makers of other browsers & rendering engines to never incorporate DRM?

My personal issue here is that it seems that W3C is going against it's own founding principles, running a committee that's biased towards the content-industry.
It seems odd to think that a successful NeXT would have somehow behaved differently than the successful Apple, considering that the same man would have been driving either one.
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Implementing efficient updates of materialized views is difficult. They have to support recursive queries, aggregation, and probably even recursive views that they list as new in "Additional Features."

Algorithms for updates of materialized views exist since at least 20 years but maybe they don't cover all these cases efficiently.
Yes, customers receive all updates for free. I should probably add that to the landing page.
> "In my opinion 4G achieves a decent speed and what we need to do is crack the capacity crunch we are facing."

Translation: "The theoretical numbers we sold LTE with are a good target, maybe this technology lets us deliver that in the real world to all the users who want it."

From what I can tell, this technology isn't about making spectrum more efficient, but opening up new parts of the spectrum (10+GHz) that weren't usable before. edit: nice map of radio spectrum. Being able to use 28GHz seems like a massive leap. http://www.telecomcircle.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Spec...

The short-term solution is to open up more spectrum to mobile use, but things are looking pretty congested. http://siliconangle.com/files/2011/03/spectrum_map1.jpg
I don't have any problems impugning it at all. They had an opportunity to reject the notion that organisms are patentable (which they are not given that there is a billion years of prior art) and they ruled resoundingly for the case of corruption and Monsanto. Some of the stuff at this URL is overly-inflammatory but it gives you a reasonable picture of why the supreme court would rule the way it did. http://www.whale.to/a/monsanto_revolving_door.html
You need to charge enough of a overhead that you can afford to have a person or two that can handle all the impromptu calls, feeler emails, coffee meetings, etc.
Presumably you either show the machine a QR code on your phone/tablet (which represents a bitcoin payment address), or it prints out a private key for you to input into your software (which can then be swept of its coins).
You saying they never show up as if it's directly related to your challenge rather than the fact that they probably have a billion things they'd rather be doing than going to a conference and getting in an argument is pretty laughable.

No comment on the rest, except to say that thinking you could have someone kicked out of a conference for their tone is a bit funny. Felipe is abrasive (though not incorrect, in my view) and not someone I would like to work with but you are not winning any friends for yourself or the project with your attitude.
4G actually means something, it's just not enforceable. The trouble is, the trademark was not acquired in time before it became a "generic term" which means anyone can call anything 4G.
Granted, but at $20/month you only need them for two and a bit months before you're earning more than with the $45 one-off fee sales model.
As long as you don't have kids :-) Or perhaps you're counting on them to pay for their own education. But yes, if you save your money and budget well, retirement is simply an 'if condition' rather than a 'when.'

That said, he doesn't cover variable costs as much as he should (rent changes, taxes, sudden medical issue) this is something that fixed income folks have lived with so there is a lot of stuff out there for managing those events as well.
Thanks so much for the tip! Greatly appreciated.
All Google Play Developers Can Now Reply to User Reviews
"Not just hackers and rogues", well it was billed as a premium device with the full Android experience.

Since when has the whole Android experience included being able to ignore contractual limitations? That's a different experience than I've ever had.
First vatburger is ready to eat
Maybe, but they sue a few here and there to send a message, not everyone doing it.
edit: Just to be clear, it does seem that adiabatic quantum computing can do factorization in quadratic time [1]

http://arxiv.org/abs/0808.1935
So, you'd rather them offer devices that could cause you to lose your contract or that carriers refuse to activate service on? Google has to play by the rules of the carriers or they'd simply not allow the devices on their networks. What exactly would you prefer in this case? I don't believe simply ignoring the flag is an option(if they actually wanted to release the nexus 7 on certain carriers).

Either way, the original assertion that the device is hamstrung by Google in all scenarios isn't true. It's only disabled when used on networks that specifically disallow tethering.
Why? That's an hour's work or less to write.
Big data hits the big time: Datameer triples revenues in a year
This category overlaps (possibly completely) with a similar category: stories that can't be told, but since you don't need the damaging-if-revealed details and won't pursue them, a sufficiently fictionalized account is released - it gets the "truthy" story across without putting anyone at risk. Favorite example is Richard Marcinko's Red Cell.
Spotlight on landing page for marketplace businesses
Hello,

I'm facing a design issue that requires illumination from the HN community :)

My startup works on a marketplace model, delivering products from enterprise customers (medium to large companies) to mobile app users.

Being a marketplace, I need both sides, hence my marketing messages/artifacts have to effective to both enterprise customers and mobile app users.

Browsing through websites for companies with similar business models, I find that often they opt to divide the landing page into two sections/columns, one for each side of the market. However, I find that this makes it a bit less clear and even confusing; do you agree?

My main question is: should the website's landing page (and its message) focus on the enterprise customers or the mobile app users?

Of course, the best way to get an answer would be to A/B test it, but enterprise customers aren't in the plenty and this is still pre-launch.

Thanks for your insights :)
Help my research on mobile music listening habits
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Design is a poor guide to authorization
To be clear, I'm solely focusing on the opportunity for racism. E.g., it's not an accident that the Germans, in the aggregate, that anti-Catholic sentiment in the 1850s was significantly stronger in the North than in the South.
That is a valid point, but I think some power is still retained by the consumer in the sense that they can reject individual DRM implementations and accept others, while with Flash they're forced to install it if one provider they wish to use requires it.

The point of user-hostility is the only point that is an obvious problem to me; if the CDM was sandboxed and had a very limited set of access beyond it - pretty much the same environment provided by Flash - I'd be happy.
I thought 28 GHz signals would be stopped by relatively small obstacles (thin walls). It's not a matter of detection; the signal is absorbed and there is none left to detect on the other side. How could they overcome this with an antenna array?

Edit: According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ka_band this band is used for satellite communications, but it very susceptible to attenuation in rain. So it's very cool that a new antenna tech could improve on satellite downlinks, but it still doesn't seem practical for a cell phone.
Creating Image Galleries with Clipped Images Using CSS Pointer Events and SVG
Title should be adjusted since I'm sure a lot of people don't know what that abbreviation is.

You might even guess it's related to "NiMH" or is some other kind of chemical compound.
Joe Sixpack may not know what "credentials" means in this context, or how to create a database account.
Is there any information about the person that sold the seeds in question?

It seems that Bowman bought seeds from Monsanto, planted them, sold the harvest, bought other seeds at a grain elevator from someone else, and got in trouble when he planted them. Why is Bowman in trouble and not the grain elevator guy that sold the seeds? Is it that Bowman signed an agreement with Monsanto when he bought seeds from them?
By looking at your github logs perhaps?

I am amazed why is it even a thing? How can employers own what you do in your spare time? (Esp. if it is in an unrelated field.)
15 GB now shared between Drive, Gmail, and Google+ Photos
If I'm reading it (the article, not the decision; IANAL, etc...) correctly, it was decided pretty much as a straightforward contract issue. He had a signed contract with Monsanto not to plant that breed via anything but purchased-from-Monsanto seeds. He tried to get around it by buying and planting bulk soybeans bought from the market. The court said no, that's not OK.

Nowhere did there seem to be a serious issue about the reach of patent law or the breadth of Monsanto's IP.
Yeah, without a post-mortem from LinkedIn their switch away from HTML5 is barely worth mentioning. It sounds to me like they engineered themselves into a corner somehow. I guess we'll never know.
You should, it would make people more confident in it.

By the way, you point out that people get the full source-code so they can edit it. Have you figured out how well this would work with updates? It might be wise to add some customisation methods you have more control over (like a box to add custom styles), since otherwise people might edit the source and then break things come updates.
Flat design is the wood-paneled car of the design world.
Design goes through trends. In 10 years, I don't know what websites will look like, but I doubt flat will be it.

Flat design is bad because it gives up visual cues that convey information in return for conformance to a monotonous style. Sure, it is simple to design in, but trading off visual cues is user-unfriendly, and the future is in more user-friendliness. Style does matter. Flat sites offer a limited design space to explore before they seem repetitive.
I <3 the crap out of brogue; I'm currently playing through some roguelikes that I've never looked at before [0], and I keep coming back to brogue.

In particular, brogue's food clock is excellent in that if I forget about it too long and go back to my natural "explore everywhere, kill everything" tendency, the food clock _will_ kill me.

[0] something that jumped out at me is just how much modern roguelike development is windows-first (or even windows-only), and how much of it is distributed primarily as runnable binaries vs source. I had to bend way over backwards to get PrincessRL running: I ended up installing a 32-bit ubuntu userspace virtualbox instance so that mono could run the prepackaged binary.
GM turns your old Chevy Volt battery into a whole-house UPS