skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
May I suggest Germany? At least in regards to your first point, they have recently relaxed barriers. Right now all you need is a four-year degree in order for you to come and look for work for up to 6 months. The chances of anyone reading this finding work are extremely high because there's a shortage of skilled professionals.

http://www.make-it-in-germany.com/en/

Or, start out studying for a Master's degree first to get comfortable with the country. (Many are taught in English,and would be free. I can recommend certain programs if anyone is interested).
As one says: "USA is the country of Liberty. They put a statue where it has been buried!"
I want some answers Ja Rule might not have right now.
I don't understand the var hatred in c#. Why type a type name twice? I can understand a function result needing to be explicitly typed but why do this?

StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();

That is horrendously redundant. Var is handy shorthand and should be used!!
When was this? Heathrow doesn't currently use back scatter [1].

[1] http://www.heathrowairport.com/heathrow-airport-guide/heathr...
I'll agree with 2 of your 3 worst travel experiences only because I haven't experienced one of them personally, but for the other two, I agree 100%

The funny thing is, in CDG, what was bad was the immigration exit control. Entry was a breeze and I was asked exactly zero questions even having presented a non-EU passport.
I've been allowed to keep my belongings with me when I opt-out in the past. This has helped alleviate the stress of opting out considerably.
8pm? that's late...more or less everything (apart from the supermarkets) shuts in the UK at about 5:30-6:00...
I just signed up and I'm in a web interface with no new client side certs. Looks like my mail is encrypted on the server side, not too hot as I prefer client side encryption.
Or if you want to have a population with a dogmatic rigid attitude then you make everything a symbol for "who they are and what they believe in." I have been to countries that are more nationalistic than the USA and many minds are closed when it comes to even realizing that questions can be asked. The sphere of what is the truth is so large it obscures all vision.
Avoid the NSA with Mesh Networks
Making race maps in Europe would get you shot, your family hanged and all your friends deemed social outcasts forever.

For example: the Swedish crime prevention board (BRÅ) no longer publish crime statistics containing ethnic background information. They stopped a few years ago (2006) when the PC media found out that africans and arabs were way, way over-represented in all crime categories.

This is due to political correctness - something that the US seems to have been spared from. So far.
Ask HN:Does this new responsive design work on all devices?
I Don't have all access to all tablets or devices so Would be good if people could let me know?
How Goya Brought Ethnic Food to White America
Funny to read knee-jerk reactions in the comment section. Many commenters missed the point completely.
Leaving your own country is never "simple".
HN has a policy against numbers in titles as they come off as link-baity...I wish a similar policy applied to titles with such absolute statements as "the best ever" or "what you never knew about..."

This map is not the "best" map ever of racial segregation, though it may be the most comprehensive. I'd argue that a more effective map would include some kind of time element, to show how formerly integrated areas slowly became segregated.
SSDs Are Here To Stay As New Memory Technology Is Still Years Away
Ethics? Ad blocking is facilitation of content stealing. Not one inch better than, say, a torrent site where the vast majority of torrents are copyrighted material.
Exactly; same same with "fuck"
> tens of millions of realtime events daily

Does it means hundreds per second ?
One Week Job Project
Montreal has at least cheaper rent went compared to Toronto. Also, the startup scene is arguably more interesting than Toronto if that's something you're interested in. Plus Montreal is a pretty fun place to live. (I lived in Montreal for a year and a half working for a startup.)
That is the first thing I did using the web inspector. One could also use a js-beautifier I guess.
same here. (probably, they've not made the repository public yet)
you say that, until you get proxy everything'd
Let's Make Robots: Bob v1
This is not quite true in the US, since the FBI classifies Hispanics in the "white" category, obscuring crime data between non-Hispanic whites and Hispanics.
That means you recognize success, not talent, which is the case for most people. Most people see success, success on top of success, and the ability of someone to string the right words together, not whether they are talented or not.
I too got the same error. Seems like there is some issue.
Lock-Based vs Lock-Free Concurrent Algorithms
"I won't be opting out again"? What? Give me a break.

I fly weekly for work so I know the routine. 99% of the time the TSA agents are perfectly happy to do the pat down. I have had a few that have given me a hard time but then I've also had others come and apologize and emphasize that it is my right to opt-out.

Keep opting out and next time someone gives you a hard time calmly ask for (1) a manager and (2) a comment card. They have both and they are eager not to have you make an official record that there has been a problem. An agent should never express their political opinion to you or try to influence your decision to opt out. Instantly when one of them does this you should ask for a manager and a comment card and refuse to talk to him anymore.

ALSO (jeez) don't send your stuff through until you go through! I have been told this repeatedly so most agents actually know this already but even the ones that won't prompt you to do it won't prevent it either.

Anyway, man don't give up so easily.
Really excited to see Aaron Levie writing for TC! Awesome post.
That would be great. The first time they do it to someone like John McCain the program will end. The ADA is easy to violate and the penalties are severe, challenging people to raise their arms would be a plaintiff lawyer's wet dream.
Not sure if you're taking a literal line or listing the government as the intimidators. Maybe we have differing judgements of "winning".

I don't think the government is "winning" here. They're just doing their thing.

And I don't think terrorists are gleefully watching the increase in security theatre and thinking "Falling right into our trap! Now where's your freedom?" Entire generations have been raised with the US as an adversary and the destruction, not lockdown, would be the goal.

However, I do think commercial interests are gaining influence/control "by exploiting fear, anxiety", but I think it's less about political purposes and more about simple monetary gain. Expos, conferences, big budget tenders and sales to government. Literally millions of dollars.

As another example, consider the fake explosive detection devices being fraudulently sold to countries like Thailand, etc. They're little more than divining rods. Government isn't winning. Terrorists aren't winning. Sellers of fake detection devices? Winning.
The Next Generation Communications Privacy Act
I've always suspected that the reason I'm such a good driver is from my Need for Speed III binges.
They got tons of coaching from a renowned script writer. Their original project was to be a spy movie.
"well educated, highly trained American's"

ironic...
Drone Crashes into Crowd at Bull Run
Conversely, if the machine was in a hospital there would be a $1000+ charge for your scan and another bill from whoever "reads" the scan.
From what I recall, the US blamed the chemical weapon attacks on Iran and used them to justify continuing international sanctions which denied them access to the equipment and materials they needed to defend against the attacks. That's pretty damn evil.
If you want something similar to this and you're on the JVM, you can use open source Atmosphere[1] which handles this flow exactly (websocket with fallback, multiple 'tags', etc).

[1] https://github.com/Atmosphere/atmosphere
I think you are massively over estimating the power of this "social pressure", especially when up against the obligations of NSLs and the like.
Could someone build this into DD-WRT or Tomato and then build this on top of WIFI / WLAN? In a built-up conurbation, you have a high concentration of WIFI routers that have a short range but with such a large concentration, maybe it doesn't matter?
Oregon looks like a nice place to live </sarcasm>

Cool and interesting maps.
Indentation is optional in Lisp and solely exists to make code more readable by expressing the structure of the syntax tree. In contrast some languages, such as Python, require indentation due to attaching syntactic significance to the size of white space.

Because Lisp communities tend to eschew an imperative programming style, sequential operations tend to be composed of nested functions (and therefore indented) in lieu of passing values by mutable variables to blocks of sequential instructions.

Though arguments about programming styles are always going to remain unconvincing because the benefits of one over the other or vice versa are revealed when programmers are actually writing programs, it is objectively the case, that Lisp's indentation idiom can be used to express the sequence of execution for programs written using a functional style in a consistent way.
my thoughts exactly when I read the headline.
Ask HN: Why tech portals are writing about attack on UN convoy in Syria?
I follow several tech portals quite daily, and today it stood out that several, The Verge and Fast Company among them, run a story about sniper fire on UN convoy in Syria. Is this deliberate? I mean, what's so special about this news that it made into tech space?

It's not a breaking news in the sense of "we interrupt this regular program to bring you the breaking news". It's not even surprising (the shooting), given they have a regular civil war out there, and the rebels are not strictly under a chain of command (so any freemen could have done that, for any reason).
Upvotes by 86 people in an hour suggests that people think it's of interest.
I agree with you, though the longest wait I've had was about 15 minutes. My girlfriend has had about the same length, since they didn't have any women clowns at that station and had to call one from another station.

The TSA clowns aren't there to make your life hell, they're there to do their useless jobs. Like any other position, sometimes the employees are bad at their jobs.

I am confused about this, though:

> ALSO (jeez) don't send your stuff through until you go through! I have been told this repeatedly so most agents actually know this already but even the ones that won't prompt you to do it won't prevent it either.

I always wait in the line, send my stuff through, and then tell the clown next to the scanner that I'm opting out. Do you approach the clown first, carrying all your stuff? When do you put your stuff through the scanner (i.e. how do you "cut" into the line)?
Should entrepreneurs use last-drawn salary as benchmark?
I just don't get the deal with the millimeter wave scanners. Did everyone raise a fuss like this when airports had you walk through metal detectors? How is a millimeter wave scanner different than a high-tech metal detector? Aren't we always talking about how the law needs to "catch up to technology?"

Don't get me wrong, I think the TSA is a huge waste of money and I hate being ordered around by flunkies who can't get any other job every time I go to the airport. But I don't see anyone raise a fuss when you have to walk through a metal detector to get into the local Barnes and Noble...
The problem with this kind of statistic is that it doesn't really teach us much: "Hey, impoverished communities have a higher rate of criminality! Who would have thought!" while at the same time giving arguments for the far right to simplify the issues and reach simple conclusions.

Maybe there are cases where these statistics could be legitimately useful, but I'm not aware of any.
Well, a double walled enclosure with vacuum inbetween would seal out a lot. Plus you could market it as "the double vacuum". Profit!
If that data could be collected/found/cross referenced. I doubt that is a possibility, and thus this probably is one of the 'best' maps of segregation (for some definition of best).

Also, this is what a history of segregation looks like. Its worth remembering that small towns, at least in places like Ohio, were so inhospitable to African Americans that they were referred to as "sundown towns" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town ).

When people think that racism is over, maps like these serve as a pretty good starting point for asking them to reevaluate their POV.

Of course, there's always this you could start with too:

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/08/13/white-definiti...
Weird, I'm also on PCCW. Results from tests I just performed, over Wifi though so not that accurate:

- Japan: http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/2924783412

- US: http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/2924790093
Here is the actual map, which you can zoom into, scroll, pan, explore your neighborhood, etc. -- http://demographics.coopercenter.org/DotMap/index.html

EDIT: Exploring, I see the island I live on -- Manhattan -- has the four main dot colors well represented, though mainly in blocks. The main mixing is between whites and Asians and between blacks and Hispanics. Notably parts of the Upper West Side, East Village/Lower East Side, and Midtown west show significantly more mixing, at least by eye -- it would be interesting to quantify the data.

Some parts of Queens and Brooklyn show mixing of all four dot colors within the same city block.

Still, on the whole most dot colors remain in blocks with less mixing on the edges. Some dot colors rarely mix with other dot colors.

EDIT TWO: How they made the map is here -- http://www.coopercenter.org/demographics/Racial-Dot-Map -- which describes the data sources and links to the code on Github.
> It does mean that the benefit of easy installation will be negated for self-hosted installations, though.

...and that's OK. You can offer self-hosted for the paranoid (or those who are not paranoid but merely reasonable and wish to engage in straightforward and legal activity like communicating with government whistle blowers), and offer the hosted version for those who value the ease of use. As a consumer, the fact that you offer both would increase my confidence in the hosted version.
Hong Kong's Startup Scene [Infographic]
Is #iDoNotCare also banned?
You can go too far from reality with political correctness but you can go just as far in the other direction with the "lack" of political correctness.

The US has a much higher tolerance for what in Europe would be considered pretty blatant racism.

I think that Political Correctness for the most part says we should treat everyone equally whether we like them or not which is the rational approach as I'm sure there are groups that don't like me (I'm a white middle class hard-line atheist so that probably gets me on a few lists right there).

I'd sooner live in a country with "political correctness gone mad" (a frequently cry of the right wing press here) than one where it hasn't.

We have politicians here condemning the Human Rights act because it makes them guarantee the rights for everyone even people "the majority don't like" which is exactly as it should be since the people "the majority don't like" can change so rapidly.

Of course in America you have been spared the political correctness gone mad but you are still executing mentally retarded people in some states so maybe you could do with the political correctness going a bit "mad".

“You can judge a society by how well it treats its prisoners”. - Dostoevsky
How is that a solution? If you're about to take a flight, you already spent a bunch of money, which usually means you really want or need to get to your destination.

Leaving doesn't solve anything. You think TSA gives a crap? No, they get paid either way. You think airlines give a crap? No, they already got your money, and now they have an empty seat that they can resell (via the overbooking process).

The real solution is to sue.
Starcraft has codified openings too. Even casual players use them, and on high level these are almost mandatory (except for a few players that develop their own buildorders). First 3 or so minutes of proffesional games are usually played "by book" with very small variations, and you can recognize from minor details how the game will look until someone make a mistake.

The difference is - in starcraft the metagame isn't stable - in a year buildorders that were very strong become almost useless (because of balance patches, better strategies discovered, and most often because the popularity of buildorders make them weaker - more people blind-counter them).
Yep, that's the rationale behind the open-sourced version. I'd like to see some adoption before going to the trouble of open-sourcing it, though.
The people operating the naked scanners are literally ex-pizza-delivery-dudes:

http://www.loweringthebar.net/2010/07/tsa-advertising-job-op...

Highly trained professionals, these are not. They're just people working their nine-to-five to get a paycheck. We pass dumb customer support tickets around the office all the time; why shouldn't they pass around hot chick photos, etc?
Or, it could be that the police are overly vigilant, or even racist against non-white Swedes, and arrest and incarcerate them at a rate disproportionate to the actual rate of crime.

Stop and Frisk in NYC overwhelmingly targets blacks and latinos, to the point where it's been declared unconstitutional, for example.
A nice service.
A bit surprising (and disturbing?) that HN ranks as "Impossible" to get completely deleted from?
And thanks to you for providing an example of the arrogance that turns most people away from the lisp community...
The title is good link bait, but a little overblown. Summery of the article:
- Customer signs up for free trial of Prime.
- Customer doesn't remember it when the free trial is over
- Contacts Amazon support and they refund the charge.

The outrage.
Facebook automaticly makes you follow the person that deleted you
Coming from the other irony thread , is this an example of irony :P ?
You probably put to much stock in the whole "I've never been through the imaging machines" bit. It's not about remaining opt-out puritan or something. Fight when you can.

I hope op reads this, buried in all the other comments. Please, for the sake of everyone, dust yourself off and opt out again. It doesn't matter if you do it every time.

I opt out every time I can, but there have been plenty of times when I don't. There's been times when I didn't have time to catch my flight, or my stress levels were bordering on unmanageable, or I didn't want to miss that wedding at any cost. One time, I felt like I had to pee too bad to risk waiting for a screening.

So kick off your shoes, empty your pockets, and take the freedom stance on the mat of defiance. Hold your arms out with pride and hope that someone on the other side of the security barrier sees you and decides to opt out as well.
Even if you get signed up for TSA Pre, you're not guaranteed to get the benefits of it every time. Lot's of "if"s and "may"s and other weasel-ey language.

If TSA determines a passenger is eligible for expedited screening, information is embedded in the barcode of the passenger’s boarding pass. TSA scans the barcode at designated checkpoints and the passenger may be able to receive expedited screening.

http://www.tsa.gov/tsa-precheck/tsa-precheck-how-it-works
'Winning an argument' is a magic bullet that doesn't exist. Otherwise it would be called 'teaching'

I'm not trying to change the person's mind when I enter into a debate, I'm trying to plant a seed of empathy for them to see things from another perspective so that their own brain begins to work against their existing bias.

I also tend to be one of those crazy people that believe their are a lot of grey areas when science isn't involved.
Interesting...George Carlin would be proud.
I don't think this is remotely true. Compiling the statistics does not commit you to a particular use. Obviously, people can abuse them, but here's an example from just this month of a case where you're glad to have the racial breakdown, because it clues you in to a piece of good news and a possible root cause:

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/08/lead-crime-rac...
I agree. Wouldn't it be nice if every single person opted out, so they became so overloaded with groping that they had to change their policies?
I think he meant moving out of the US, not leaving the airport and going home.
Sorry.. No, Adblock does not do this. It is purely donation based which is a good thing. I was a bit off topic.
I also loved your responses, but I think they're still wide of the mark and relatively typical from a zealous parent - which is awesome! - with no hands-on experience of actual foster care.

The circumstances under which we foster children varies dramatically. In some cases the children have almost-daily communication with their birth parents. Our home, and our embrace, is simply a vessel for them whilst their real home gets back on its feet. There's no animosity or judgement. The kids just need removing from a toxic environment for a length of time, usually under 6 months, so their parents - not them - can rehabilitate, back to the standard required by the local authority.

To say "That's the way parenting works" is kind of unfair, because in the example I gave we are not these children's parents and we're not a replacement for them. In fact, the term 'foster parent' is rarely used anymore.

A better example would be if my child had a friend over for dinner. I will treat that child with respect and warmth, and whilst they are in my home their safety and well-being are my responsibilities. My child is very 'web savvy', but I have no idea what kinds of influence another child can have, so I need to be cautious. In our reality, not being cautious could lose us a placement; or worse, my wife's career.

So yeah, maybe pulling the plug is the best idea in certain situations.
Greed and lust for power are the root of all evil, corporations with lax oversight are simply our eras incarnation of it.
My wish for you is that this is the worst thing that ever happens to you. And that you move on.
worst writing ever.
No they should stand head on so the bullet will take a shorter path through their body should they be hit.
Why should the end user care and worry about a site's ability to sustain its revenue through advertisements? Users who are invested in a site are the kind of users that will do things that make that site more valuable, whether its community interaction or paying for the service.
I wonder if that is what drives some typical programmer behavior, like coding at night (less noise), or super-star freelancers moving to rural cities.

Currently (office for me and the CEO in a busy area of a 30million people metro region) I am nowhere productive as I was when I lived in a rural area and coded at night. (but I am more productive than when I worked into a open layout office with 40 programmers...)
Trying to paternalize on a subject this central isn't going to work. We are far from the era of central media control supported McCarthyism. If you want to play it like it is unimportant, you end up looking compromised by coming up with no valid counter arguments. If you don't care what others express in a smart concise way and attempt a one liner like that, why would others care about your lateral failed attempt to discredit the source. Stay well.