skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's unclear whether immigrants are doing jobs that Americans used to do, or whether additional low paid work was created. I lean towards the latter, but I don't know how to prove it.

However, the data does show that when you restrict the data to Americans with American parents, incomes have risen for everyone outside the top quintile.

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2011/immigrants_simpsons_p...
Just call it the National Ststorm Agency. Or something.
I was kind of surprised by the operator saying "Are you the NSA?" "uh huh" rather than something more professional like "Yes sir, this is NSA."

And then even more surprised that the operator was actually giving him helpful advice ("you should probably contact your email provider.") That was more helpful than most actual tech support employees I've interacted with, let alone PBX operators.

And, being a dick to low-level pbx operators is kind of stupid, even if you disagree with the organization. Remember the Chick-Fil-A guy? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg-jzlWcc0E) I like gay people a lot, and am an atheist, but this guy does nothing but hurt his cause.

(The only time I've ever called NSA/CSS was to get a full set of the Rainbow Books at age 12. It was weird how they'd only answer with phone extension.)
The internet makes rent-seeking massively scalable.
Does anyone else here us EE mobile? When I try to access this story it says it's 'only suitable for over 18s'. Is there something dodgy in the comments?
This Google tech talk provides the missing context: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y43qwS8fl4
If you're looking for encrypted and decentralized VoIP, http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/ is one handy solution (and a lot more).
This is of course not a joke in some countries, and has been done with success. I am very good friends with someone who grew up in one of the central asian dictatorships (stan), and their family had one of the (few) internet lines in the country. One day his family lost an important email, so they walked to the intelligence office, told them the date, and the officials were happy to retrieve it for them from the file drawer. They had been printing out and physically filing every piece of correspondence from each internet user (somewhat doable for the regime given only a small subset of the population). The point is, in this stan, there was no pretense of privacy. They were your helpful backup service.
What, you can't use the letters NSA? You must be joking.
"They" have been crying about a lack of STEM (it used to just be scientists and engineers) for at least 30 years.

I don't listen to it any more. When I walked out with my doctorate, jobs were very scarce in the science/engineering fields (although software jobs were increasing).

From what I can gather, the soothsayers simply do a linear extrapolation of current jobs and candidates, and show a shortage. They do no real forecasting by trying to reason about future needs.

So, I don't pay attention any more.
Why? It's part of the creative process - a good photographer will consider all tools available to them, including post-processing, in order to achieve the shot they envisage.
i'm probably going to print this on a t-shirt anyway just for fun...

Wondering what will happen when trying to enter USA while wearing that shirt - they will probably investigate my "resource processing system's output port"
The author makes some good points, but I still disagree. If you look through history, people did barbaric things. Slavery happened. Genocides happened. In wars, the winning side would sometimes rape all the women in the conquered village before killing them. Don't even get into medieval torture devices.

This quote from HPMOR is a bit long, but relevant and completely sums up the problem:

"A few centuries earlier - I think it was definitely still around in the seventeenth century - it was a popular village entertainment to take a wicker basket, or a bundle, with a dozen live cats in it, and - roast it over a bonfire. Just a regular celebration. Good clean fun. And I'll give them this, it was cleaner fun than burning women they thought were witches. Because the way people are built, the way people are built to feel inside - is that they hurt when they see their friends hurting. Someone inside their circle of concern, a member of their own tribe. That feeling has an off-switch, an off-switch labeled 'enemy' or 'foreigner' or sometimes just 'stranger'. That's how people are, if they don't learn otherwise.

You grew up in a post-World-War-Two society where 'I vas only followink orders' is something everyone knows the bad guys said. In the fifteenth century they would've called it honourable fealty. Do you think you're, you're just genetically better than everyone who lived back then? Like if you'd been transported back to fifteenth-century London as a baby, you'd realize all on your own that burning cats was wrong, witch-burning was wrong, slavery was wrong, that every sentient being ought to be in your circle of concern?"
Logo looks like a near-copy paste.
Reprint with just the letters ?
There's an ellipsis at the start of that, here's what the whole text looks like:

> SEC. 15. ø50 U.S.C. 3613¿ (a) No person may, except with the
written permission of the Director of the National Security Agency,
knowingly use the words ‘‘National Security Agency’’, the initials
‘‘NSA’’, the seal of the National Security Agency, or any colorable
imitation of such words, initials, or seal in connection with any
merchandise, impersonation, solicitation, or commercial activity in
a manner reasonably calculated to convey the impression that such
use is approved, endorsed, or authorized by the National Security
Agency
I'd like to believe that a phone operator at that level would not have clearance to see that type of information on a whim. I'm not saying its impossible, but if it were that available the Snowden revelations would have occurred much sooner.
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http://www.cafepress.com/mf/78962042/the-nsa_tshirt

I just ordered it. Done & Done.

Also, cafepress apparently doesn't make it clear until checkout but you can order with your Amazon account so you don't have to make a new account on cafepress. I don't like entering my CC info on a bunch of sites so I've been avoiding Cafepress until this T-shirt just made me cave in. Now I find out that I never needed to make a new account...
Pretty much all non-native speakers who want to learn English that I've ever met do want to learn American English specifically, particularly those who want to work in America.

(I prefer South African English, personally, but I think the commercial market is strongly in favor of American English.)
Close, they have licensed the show for broadcast on terrestrial networks and often don't allow anyone to broadcast online.
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Nothing, but I think the implication is that it is a signal that can be used to predict which of the three categories the person falls into. People who fall into the third category (the desirable one) are likely to be able to implement mergesort on a whiteboard because they have a genuine interest and paid attention.

That being said, other, more practical questions may exist that retain the signaling characteristic.
My father uses a phone book for his phone. It's basically taped to the back of the phone. When he needs to call my mother, he mutters "now what's Barbara's number again?" Then flips the phone over, locates the number he wrote on a sticky pad taped to the back, then laboriously types in the first few numbers, flips over the phone, then continues to type in more numbers in the same way until he's entered the full phone number.

First time it happened was in a shopping mall in front of McDonalds. A whole bunch of schoolgirls stopped talking to watch the performance. Super embarrassing!
I just had a conference call with one of the clients on a project which he wanted to talk about. He wasnt very keen to share the docs on the google(he is into NDA and all that), but he was okay sharing that on Skype because skype is peer to peer. The point is everyone who matters enough knows about what was going on to make enough impact on the business of these tech companies. They may not be on the street demanding, but they are mulling over the consequences and alternatives regardless.
Maybe it's because I work for a nonprofit, but this piece seems like speculation and paranoia. Oh, so this group Peers is actually funded by a handful of wealthy patrons? Guess what--all nonprofits make 90%+ of their revenues from the top 10% or less of donors. Some nonprofits only really have ONE donor. That's just how the nonprofit sector works. All of it. By the author's logic, the Red Cross is astroturf.

I think it's a fair point that these companies aren't building a sharing economy. They're building companies that let people sell individual surplus of capital or time or skills through a convenient platform. That might not be sharing, but there's real economic value in that. They wouldn't be able to take a cut from these small transactions unless they genuinely offered some valuable service to the other parties. I just recently stayed in a wonderful AirBNB apartment while on a trip, and I know I wouldn't have managed that without the AirBNB service, and I know I would have paid more and gotten less for a hotel.

The author assumes--wrongly, from my experience in public policy--that the status quo organizations and regulations exist for the common good. Some do, but many don't. Lots of bad laws and crooked organizations raise unjustifiable barriers to entry--not just for Silicon Valley start-ups, but for the mom-and-pop businesses too.

I can't say for sure whether Peers is good, bad, or neutral. I can say with certainty that this article is heavily biased, ignorant of how most nonprofits work, and ignorant of the public policy process.
I was under the impression that the "privilege" in a border crossing was entering the destination country (and thus to be granted or not according to the destination country's will) rather than leaving the source country. This is what we dislike about the Berlin Wall and similar things, right?
>... in a manner reasonably calculated to convey that such use is approved, endorsed, or authorized by the National Security Agency.

Hmm.
A non-story with a linkbait title.

Zazzle got scared of a design using the NSA logo. No proof whatsoever for NSA having been involved in this.
Aren't these Texas laws basically the same as the "reforms" to healthcare that Republicans wanted to roll out nationwidw?
Because, when you look at something that looks incredible, it's interesting to know if it is also true.
Then it doesn't relate to this product then. In no way would anyone reasonably think that such a parody is endorsed, approved or authorized by the NSA.
Local, to the extent of the family.

If I have kids, to what extent are they 'mine'?

That's the question here.

So far, in America, the answer has been "you can't abuse them physically, fail to provide food and clothes, or make them work" (although there's actually a lot of leeway with that last one).

Other than that, go nuts!

Teach them that UFOs are real, that democracy is evil, to resist the hand of the man, or that money doesn't matter. Or any other radicalism. You made them, they're yours.

Obviously, a stance like that won't please everyone. You're making a decision about an appreciable portion of a kid's life, and since most kids aren't going to get themselves declared emancipated minors, leaving it up to the parents may not appear to be a decision in favor of freedom. But I think it is. Until kids are old enough, they've got to be treated like someone's responsibility, and I don't want to live in a world where the weirdness of parents has no chance to hop generations.

My parents were weirdos, weird enough that, when I flunked multiple classes in 9th grade, they let me try college, where I got straight A's my first semester. At the moment I work 3 months a year from a beach in South America. Had the system not given my parents the freedom to do seemingly irrational things in my interest, I have no idea where I'd have ended up, because the system was wrong and my parents were right.
Not sure about trademark law, but copyright law in the US has fair use provisions under which this would definitely fall (parody). (Edit: I guess maybe the gov's laws about the NSA in particular supersede this?)
Hmm, it appears to me that the NSA misquoted the law in that article when they sent a message to The Daily Dot.

From http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/nsaact1959.htm :

Sec. 15. (a) No person may, except with the written permission of the Director of the National Security Agency, knowingly use the words 'National Security Agency', the initials 'NSA', the seal of the National Security Agency, or any colorable imitation of such words, initials, or seal in connection with any merchandise, impersonation, solicitation, or commercial activity in a manner reasonably calculated to convey the impression that such use is approved, endorsed, or authorized by the National Security Agency.

(emphasis mine)

That changes things quite a bit. No reasonable person would believe the NSA authorized this.
UX trumps UI (and I can prove it)
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Oh, that does make a very big difference.

I think it's trite to say 'ad hominem' in cases like this. Ad hominem refers to the quality of the reasoning.

Here, we depend on the WSJ for the facts as well. If they are an untrustworthy source, that's very relevant.
Please: do this for Spanish! I live in Spain, and have a helluva time being understood when I speak Spanish.
How can you mess up quicksort? Pick a pivot, lower values on one side, higher values on the other. And recursively rinse and repeat.
GNOME 3's new system status area
I remember when the web and later peer2peer was just taking off: "this is the death of the middleman".

And here we are, as the "masses" joined in the fun, we're surrounded by not just middle-men but huge middleman-concerns, walled gardens, "siren servers".

Turns out AoL and Yahoo had it about right, they were just 15 years too early and a tad too innocuous ;D

(Only tangentially related but remember why Skype took off? It was (branded as) "fully peer-to-peer". Freeing millions from the shackles of the telcos, yay! Now flip it to eBay first, to MS next and here we are, the world's biggest NSA backdoor and botnet. Neat!)
I think it does hurt the NSA's recruiting position indeed. The NSA naturally hires mostly technical people, and in general I think it is exactly this population that is disgusted most by what the NSA is doing. For me, the issue wouldn't be as much about prestige, but more about morality.

As for the more general public, they're just following the news. The news has devoted a lot of attention to the NSA lately, but will move on to different topics sooner or later, and the general public will forget.
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Only now, after selling out their users and lying about it, only after seeing they can't manipulate the public with distractions, now they sue.
IANAL, but there's a large of law regarding when this can be done. The WSJ's treatment ignored this. They treated the issue as one dimensional, turning only on whether the statute allowed personal liability.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piercing_the_corporate_veil
Is practicing medicine a right or a privilege?

While the "free market solution" of letting patients discover and inform each other which doctors are "bad" and which are "good" certainly requires the free market principle of open information about goods, services, and prices, it also also masks a second assumption, that practicing medicine is a right and that we injure doctors unforgivably by revoking their right to practice it.

Practicing medicine is a privilege. We trust these men and women with extraordinary rights, to slice into bodies, dose us with precise amounts of radiation, and prescribe us medicines which in the right dose can kill or cure. If there is evidence that this trust has been betrayed and a doctor is killing us instead of curing us, that privilege should be revoked immediately until we can ascertain the facts of the matter.
Manipulation was only allowed in the "experimental" category - mostly the ones with timelapses. If you have some evidence that entries in the other categories have been 'shopped, I'm sure the organisers would be very interested to hear from you.

That one with the satellite dish is masterful.
Founders: Focus on your weak spots - they are harder to improve.
> "I like gay people a lot"

A little off topic from your post, but this is one of those gross generalizations that just actually portrays you as not getting the gist of the problem with bigotry. "gay people" are not a homogeneous group of like-minded people. Discrimination against sexual orientation or being transgendered is a sad and unfortunate injustice, but these are simply traits shared by a diverse set of people. In this world there is a wide range of many wonderful people and horrible people and everyone in between. The distribution of sexual preference has nothing to do with where they end up in that range. Each person is an individual actor, and not a representative for others who they may share a trait with, but when you say you "like gay people a lot" it is obvious you don't understand that. In fact, it seems kind of a bigoted, ignorant thing to say, even if you didn't mean to say anything mean.
You don't swear in source code in an attempt to be funny. You do it when you're frustrated.
This is true.

But anyone can get a site at foo.tumblr.com and post anything. So there brand can be attached to absolutely anything.
The NSA's statement is really pretty chilling when you think about it. The irony here is that "the government doesn't want you to wear this" is a great advertising message and the NSA in their statement has helped that along a great deal.
I dunno. "The only part of the government that actually listens" sounds pretty positive.....
Their statement seems to confirm it though.
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Stainless steel is mostly nonmagnetic. The whole point of these toys is that they're made of very strong neodymium rare-earth magnets.

I bought some, saw the warnings and have been very careful with them. The question is whether not doing so is a case of Darwin's Law or where down the line careless people will mistake them for other kinds of material, and ingest them. Unlikely, but then people and children do stupid things with stuff they find.
this needs mathjax
NSA is on a power trip. They've changed even the relevance of the word "relevant", in their justification for spying on everyone. They'll be using any justification to further their goals, no matter how crazy it sounds. They only only a few will call their bluff, and are using it as scare tactic.
Does "Peeping while you're sleeping" sound like something the NSA would have authorized?
> So far, in America, the answer has been "you can't abuse them physically, fail to provide food and clothes, or make them work" (although there's actually a lot of leeway with that last one).

As far as the last one, I think the leeway extends through employing them in the family business.

> My parents were weirdos, weird enough that, when I flunked multiple classes in 9th grade, they let me try college, where I got straight A's my first semester. At the moment I work 3 months a year from a beach in South America. Had the system not given my parents the freedom to do seemingly irrational things in my interest, I have no idea where I'd have ended up, because the system was wrong and my parents were right.

Totally support you there. I would go further though and say there is room for many different right answers. I am comfortable with the Amish being exempt from mandatory education laws since Yoder v. Wisconsin. Part of the wonder of life is that there are many different possibilities many of which may be valid to some extent.
I had the same exact thing happen to me with Zazzle back in June when I created two t-shirt designs using the EFF parody logo. I had a bit of back-and-forth with the Zazzle reps who just kept sending me canned responses.

Luckily I was able to get the shirt shipped to me before they yanked it: http://imgur.com/a/OOvwY#0
It's two different forms of art. You have photography and post-processing. Both are arts and doing both together is even more difficult.
So great piece with a lot of valid criticism but I also feels like it keeps judging the speech on a claim it doesn't continue to make.

The author continues judging the speech as a claim to counter capitalism when in fact the speaker comes clean early on. This is unfortunate because it muddles the argument.

The way I understand the argument its more that instead of companies making money on individuals its individuals making money on each other. It's removing the middle man so to speak.

For instance when he write

"The laws that he is talking about are licensing laws and other laws put in place to protect employees, customers, and neighbourhoods. These laws are not all perfect. But the sharing economy has nothing to replace them beyond magical thinking about “trust” (with little accountability)."

He is basically cherry picking. There is also quite a few laws that are actually hindering progress.

Technology does move faster than legislation.
>rdl said:

>I like gay people a lot

Sure you do, just like how Donald Trump said "I have a great relationship with the blacks"[1]

1. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/14/trump-says-h...
I get really nervous and I make stupid mistakes. Every single time I've had an interview and I'm asked to code I end up making stupid mistakes because I try to answer too quickly or because I don't sit down to properly think about the problem. It's definitely something I need to work on.

Thankfully I got an internship that let me do a small project to demo my skills, instead of hazing me. And after my internship they were so happy that they offered me a full time job.
That's definitely on the roadmap. If you pass me your email, I can notify you when Spanish version goes live.
Good point, another similar tool p_slides[1] has just that.

1. https://github.com/munen/p_slides
I'm shocked that a proper CS course wouldn't teach them. We covered Joins (and the relational maths behind them) in first year, and "nested for loops being bad" would be a necessary by-product of learning anything about complexity.
I don't know Zucker's current relationship with former CEO of Buckyballs Jake Bronstein (they may be hiding him becaus of his bad PR, see below), but from the VM in this video the company didn't necessarily represent the most stable kind of businesspeople... and incidentally they made huge blusterings as to their lawyering.

http://boingboing.net/2010/09/24/buckyballs-magnet-ma.html
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I leave in germany in Munich. People will not say it. But they are not just conservative but quite racist.Most compagny here ask foreigners to give their ass (gay 4 job)in order to keep à job or get one....specially in the it. Didnt comply So i got fired..thats reality