skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It feels like the border patrol are just doing this to increase statistics, so it looks like their jobs are needed and that they're important - for a quota of sorts.
A good read if you are actually concerned:

https://www.aclu.org/files/kyr/kyr_english_5.pdf
Stories of shitty behavior don’t make me want to leave…
I'd be ok with that but he was her employer. She's in a really tough position. If it was a co-worker, it'd be a different conversation imo.
The net positive is that you obtain more security than you otherwise would with a real police patrol. Apartment and commercial office complexes have been doing this for years. I'm happy crowd-funding enables this for private residence communities too.
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That's the border. What if they put him on a no fly list? There are stories of citizens stuck overseas because of that.
> So any contact by a man on woman which has not explicitly said "Yes, I am okay with this" is sexual assault? Rape?

Yes. It really is very simple: when you're with someone who has been drinking, or who you are the boss of, or both, you need to get explicit consent for sexual activity.

"Are you okay with this?"

> Shouldn't the victim have responsibilities? Know what is at stake?

"She was wearing a short skirt" wasn't particularly acceptable in the 1980s and, as can be seen from this thread, is not acceptable today.

Why is it so hard to understand that people initiating sexual contact need to be the ones to take responsibility? Especially if they're in a position of power over the other person?
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Your loss. Ribbon is a huge advance....
Can you name any wealthy country where this wasn't the case (baring Norway).
Did you read the article?

The title seems to imply that Google will show the poor one SERP and the rich another. However, the article is actually about a proposal that, if you apply for something (e.g., insurance, a job, credit) and are denied, that you should have the right to an explanation of any role "big data" analytics may have played in the adverse decision.
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Is the security effective or is it theatre?

What's the research like?
>> "Most businesses wouldn't bother having a cafeteria if only Excel could cook meals."

This part is tongue in cheek, but true. There are businesses out there, where excel is used for everything, including many things it should never be used for. Seriously powerful app. Seriously (ab)used.

I don't hate Excel, but I hate the "craplications" hare-brained power users create.
Both runes and letters of the tengwar were patterns that I recall Pair Networks used in the 90s, and I always thought those were cool.

I do love the idea of elements though, with their atomic symbols as CNAMEs.
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> Saying "no" isn't enough to claim she resisted.

Actually yes, yes it is enough you sick, perverted fuck. "No means no" isn't just a slogan, and it isn't "No, along with some physical resistance means no".
No of course I am not saying that.

What I am saying is that the majority of testing would have been done with iOS7 on shipping devices which have had no issues. The issues seen are specific to 5S which clearly indicates driver or kernel problems.
Ha! Brilliant.
That's when we go Greek, say hello to α.
What's your best weapon in the war against procrastination?
because words dominance pushes its acceptance. You using it is pushing it on your neighbours. It is a small push, but many hands move mountains.
My goodness. The author should be using cPickle.
You are begging the question. The reason factory workers in poor rural countries put up with no windows, ventilation, or air conditioning is that the alternative is subsistence farming. Suggesting that they quit in protest is almost cruel.

China has absolutely not moved past the first rung of this ladder. The majority of the Chinese population lives in abject rural poverty.
I voted "COBOL - dislike" because I actually work with it (although it was missspellt "Cobol").
I graduated in '08 and had no idea. Thanks!
Or if you want somewhere relaxed Battambang has most of the benefits of Siem Reap (even day trips to Khmer ruins!) but without the tourist circus.
You're absolutely right on most of those points. With regards to the racism: I did experience it when I entered night clubs, and it felt weird I had to pay an entrance fee and the Thais did not. But on the other hand, I know foreigners (esp. Westerners, like me) simply cause a lot of trouble in night clubs and obviously hitting on their women. In a weird way, you pay that off with an entrance fee.

In my limited experience, much of the racism I saw Westerners deal with, was most of the times them behaving in a stereotypical Western way (loud, obscene and rude). I don't have a problem with that, but Thai do.

I've come very far by just being over-polite and friendly to everyone I met. Bowing a lot, smiling and always staying calm in conflict situations (e.g. outside at 4am with drunk people).

With regards to dating, I mostly dated hi-so girls, which in the end paid more for my drinks, than I did for theirs ;)
Sorry, didn't mean for my comments to be misleading. The context was that if the number of robberies and muggings are reduced in that neighborhood from 60 per week to say 50 or cut in half to 30, then fewer police resources are needed for responding to calls for robberies and muggings in that neighborhood and more resources can be spent towards preventative police patrolling throughout Oakland.

I used the comments section of the article to further clarify some of my/our views on this topic if you're interested.
If you use python-memcached, make sure to set pickle protocol to 2 (current highest protocol). The default is 0. You can see an improvement[1] in performance by using proto 2.

[1]: https://read.twobitfifo.net/article/the-venerable-pickle/
Only on the threshold of evidence. No evidence could exist, no standard could possibly be met short of full fledged confession.
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So, here's an interesting quote from the article:

"An affluent neighborhood that privatizes trash pickup doesn’t marginalize the trash pickup in poorer neighborhoods — it increases the resources that are available for those neighborhoods."

The trick is this: justice is not trash. Police is not trash, security is not trash. There is a very important moral calculus and contract that goes into voluntarily submitting to society's laws.

We need to address the fact that we've lost faith in our governments, and that we don't depend on our .gov to provide for our needs, and that we don't believe in the contract anymore. This is a short-sighted sort of fix, and one that is only going to lay the groundwork for a much, much messier attempt at resolution. We need to fix the .gov.

There's always been a kind of wink and nod that yes, the .gov can do better, and yes, we can't all be astronauts, but allowing such direct coupling of personal wealth and policy is quite tacky.

EDIT: Removed ranty bit.
`kill -l` gives a nice list. I'm writing this from sigsegv.
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It's very interesting. When animating from 12 to 34, we'll animate the 2 through 22 digits to reach 4. However, when animating from 12 to 3004, we don't spin the 2 through 2992 digits. Instead, we skip digits artificially based on a target frame rate. (Since the animation is supposed to take 2 seconds, at 60fps we have 120 frames to show those digits, so you're not going to see all 2992 anyway.) We originally set this target frame rate to 60. We recently dropped it down to 30 in an attempt to improve the perceived FPS in Chrome. (See https://github.com/HubSpot/odometer/commit/fc5ca1572d0ad218c...)

We'd certainly love to hear from the community if there are any other approaches worth trying. For those interested, we have an issue tracking rendering performance here:
https://github.com/HubSpot/odometer/issues/3
You have missed the point.

People on this thread that did move to Ubuntu a few years ago found it far better than the naysayers would have them believe - smooth install, better GUI, more useful software with a repository. They haven't had to look back or 'need' this new Windows thing you use and they don't cling on to legacy Windows programs. So Windows now able to open files without having to install arcane plugins first is a bit 'meh' to those that can't be bothered with Windows cruft any more.
Ask HN: How to hack a Computer Science minor into a developer position
I will graduate Tufts in December with a minor in Comp Sci (I am a Phil major, but I discovered the joy of problem solving through code late in college, so I couldn't major in it). My focus has been on practical coding courses, not theory (2 in c++, 1 in c, 1 in web dev, and 1 survey of programming languages). I have internship experience that is nontechnical but related to tech: research at a digital ad agency and building a WordPress ecommerce store. I was wondering what HN considers the shortest path from the position I am in to a job as a software developer. (E.g., more school, an independent course, internships, a personal project, working on open source, a nontechnical role at a tech company?) Neither changing location or unpaid work are deal-breakers, I have some savings to stay afloat.
I think it's possible to live quite cheaply in most of the eastern members of the EU.
I have always used source control for papers I write in groups - it's just assumed we're going to use source control. The only discussion is which one. I've used cvs, svn, git and mercurial when writing papers. Our papers are written in Latex. We often commit raw data and benchmark source code to the repository too.
In the countries I've been to the business travel visas are the same as the tourist ones, you just have to declare you are there for business purposes also. So the length is the same, 3 months.
If you think quitting is the #1 way to fight back, you must not be familiar with labor organizing, including strikes.
Good eye ID'ing the distinctive DJI arms on the hexacopter.

The convention seems to be 2.4Ghz for telemetry back the to base-station or radio display - and something lower in the UHF band like 433 or 900Mhz for actual control.

Mainly because Zigbee/802.15.4 radios are readily available in 2.4Ghz and 433Mhz goes a lot further (and through more things) by comparison at 1W.

[/sitting next to 3 hexacopters at the moment]
First rule of running a farm: don't name your animals. You'll get too emotionally attached when it comes time to put them down. Yes it's funny and cool et cetera. But, and I say this with love and twenty years' experience, for fucksake: take the time to plan a sensible ontology and stick with it. Hostnames should describe the purpose, capabilities, and disposition of your assets. Nothing more and nothing less.
I've spoken with a few of westerner businessmen in Thailand now, and they re-iterate much the same sentiments.

My view has become "go there as a tourist who happens to spend several months on business" as opposed to "go there with a view to doing business with the locals".

Likewise I have met some lovely Thai people. They are very caring and welcoming.
I can't prove this, but from the looks of it, sounds like your attitude was extremely condescending toward US Customs, sufficiently enough for them to tell you to bugger out.

There's a few select things you said that would piss me off as well.

The fact that you'd been to so many countries has little to do with why they kicked you out. There are numerous people with visas overflowing on every page of their passport from every imaginable country in the world...they get in here easily.

It's just you and your demeanor, from what I was able to deduce.
I read the article and I don't get where the source of the title comes from. There isn't anything about poor people being censored from the internet, it's just another technophobia article.

Data science shouldn't be feared. It's just making more accurate predictions about things. Which is a good thing. And insurance companies for example have been doing this since forever. Not much has changed. I don't know if they've ever been required to explain to their customers how their statistics work, and if they were that's kind of ridiculous.

People fear discrimination. They imagine a bigot that arbitrarily hates some group of people and refuses to do business with them or employ them, even when it's in his own best interest. They don't imagine a completely unbiased computer algorithm weighing thousands of different pieces of information and spitting out very accurate predictions. That when it says it's 99% sure of something, it should be right nearly exactly 99% of the time.

For example, using tweets to deploy resources in a disaster. Yes it will make mistakes, but if it's more accurate on average than a human, then it will still save lives.
I've used Algorithms by S. Dasgupta, C.H. Papadimitriou, and U.V. Vazirani for the course they teach at Berkeley and didn't like it at all. I'm a pretty big fan of Algorithms by Sedgewick. There is a class on Cousera is also taught by Sedgewick and uses the book. The first half of the book follows a traditional data structures course and the second half a traditional algorithms course.

Some people might find it as a downside but the book was written with Java in mind. I personally didn't mind this at all.

http://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-4th-Edition-Robert-Sedgewic...
I wrote 1,000 words every day for 365 days in a row
I may be mistaken, but I thought that the PCI/DSS forbids using such devices (unencrypted transmission from the keypad), and if a merchant uses them then they're automatically liable in full for all such fraud; i.e., banks just refund all cardholders for their losses and bill that+card replacements to that merchant.

You save some $$ in hardware but take on risk.
https://archive.org/details/healthcare-gov-gitrepo
2090: Planetary communism
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I was curious about that as well.

I checked their website and they offer both affiliate and reseller programs.
My best guess is that it's actually a 3rd party that sold the domains, yet a whois lookup returns the name of the parent company/true registrar.
From what I can remember, domains purchased through OpenSRS's white-label domain reseller program still reveal that Tucows is the registrar, regardless from what partner of theirs you bought it from.

Maybe someone with more knowledge can help out.
We're using pokemon ascii art[0] as welcome banners on our servers, makes it easier to notice if you logged into the wrong server.

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What a pathetic waste of talent.
Yep. This is why Excel is actually a really good spreadsheet: the people who approve the purchase are in fact the people using it - the bosses and the accountants.
"We’re not copying but watching users". Heh.
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Make HL3 an exclusive Linux title. That would do the trick for sure.
You can also just buy the movie from anywhere in the world, DRM-free, from vimeo.

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/mediastan
> Microsoft probably consulted with a bunch of Big Business customers when they designed Office. Yep, the kind of Big Business that uses Java classes like EnterpriseBusinessInterconnectInterfaceFactoryFactoryFactory.

Basically, you pulled this out of your butt because it hit the right notes and because it fit the preconceived notions of the readership of HN. WYSIWYG word processing was actually pioneered at Xerox PARC and MS Word has a direct lineage from there. Fitting the office correspondence conventions of the time was the obvious place to start. In a world that still operates off of paper, this is what makes sense at first.

Java classes like EnterpriseBusinessInterconnectInterfaceFactoryFactoryFactory are a direct result of the deliberate crippling of the Smalltalk runtime model that Java was based on. The very small and minimalist Smalltalk runtime model was another product of Xerox PARC, BTW.

Back in the day, even Java was one of these subversive back-door hacker/engineer things management wasn't hip enough to be a part of. (Unless you were one of the even hipper folks into Smalltalk, Dylan, Common Lisp, Eiffel, Tcl/Tk, Perl, Python, what have you, in which case, you knew better than to fall for Java.)

Heck even SQL, Fortran, and COBOL were the new hip thing back in the day. (Even if that came with corporate backing.)
steam is already successful.
Am just pointing out that bootstrapping a startup in a university town on 1k USD is definitely doable. You don't have to go all the way to Thailand and flout visa rules(yeah most of those rules are not exactly enforced but they are still on the books)
Totally agree, if Linux' dad, who has money, would buy a studio and create an exclusive title, it would help a lot.
Oh, wow. I just did a clean install of Mountain Lion on my early 2011 MacBook Pro to "freshen" up.
In the original post the point was raised that at that cost of living you don't have to lift a finger. All your cleaning, laundry, and cooking are done by others.

It's trivially easy to find a really nice space to rent in the USA for $500 or so. The catch is you'll still be doing all your own cooking and cleaning. And you'll be surrounded by hicks.
No it's not "right wing spin". The bigger number is total awards to CGI as a company and the $94M is what they got for doing their part of the healthcare system. People are just confusing the two.
Honestly, who cares?

Work permits are to make sure you don't steal jobs from the locals. Working on your own project has nothing to do with that. So while it may be breaking the letter of the law, it's certainly not breaking the spirit of it. My point being, you shouldn't have ethical issues with it -- it's like driving 57 in a 55 zone.

I know people who have been deported for not having the right visa -- a phone call by an angry ex or housemate in every case. Nobody's going to report you to immigration unless you've seriously pissed someone off. So just don't piss people off. And worst-case scenario, you leave early.
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>Getting a work permit in Thailand is very very difficult. Foreign owned businesses have to employ Thai citizens and require silly amounts of registered capital deposited in Thai banks. It's marginally easier if you are an American.

It may sounds silly, but Thais are very scared of seeing foreigners taking over the country. This thinking is the most noticeable in lower-class Thais. I believe the result of this thinking is the ridiculous requirements for business visa. It's not only a bureaucrat problem, but also a social one.
The source of the political crisis in American government is that the Tea Party captured a lot of state governments in 2010 and then proceeded to gerymander congressional districts to their favor. That means that no matter how insanely destructive House republicans get they can't be voted out, at least until the next census. So there is no accountibility. And since they're ideology borders on a religous war we're in for a bad ride.
Shitty cell storage model - it models sheets as individual cells rather than as columns. This makes everything fat and sloooow. Kohei Yoshida is fixing this for LibreOffice, and Calc should get much faster in 4.2. Not as fast as Excel.

LO Basic is not VBA. This is important when people's stuff is written in VBA.
Morgantown, WV. But nothing special about that... you could do the same in Pittsburgh, Albuquerque, Carolinas, most places in south/sw...
> How is asserting these patents in court, or using them to get an import ban via the ITC, an example of how the patent system is supposed to work

I thought I did so in point 3.

(Edit: removed bit about copyright because it could quickly derail this thread into a copyright/piracy thread.)

>... (B&N actually argued that they weren't invented at all, at least not by Microsoft) that should have never had a patent issued for them in the first place,...

> Here's a good starting place: Barnes and Noble's response to Microsoft's ITC complaint: http://www.groklaw.net/pdf2/MSvB&Nanswer.pdf

> Yes, the patents really are terrible.

Really? You're going to take the defendant's word to show that the "patents really are terrible"? I'd like you to find a single defendant in a patent lawsuit who didn't think the asserted patents were terrible.

> ... you argue that once they do agree to a patent license they are getting to license totally awesome things?

No, they'll just get a license to do things covered by the patents that they were allegedly doing anyway. Said things may or may not be totally awesome. And if they're not very useful, why do them in the first place?

>In any case, you sound reticent to start reading the patents.

No, I actually did go and read the pertinent parts of the patents linked above. They're actually better than the really terrible ones I've seen from that era. But I cannot make an off-hand judgement on their overall quality because that would require reading the patents, and the file-wrapper, and the prior art, and...

But, wait. Did you read the patents? And the file-wrapper? And the prior art? Or are you just accepting an opinion given by hilariously biased sources?
Nice, show 'em how it's done!
Not just in some state but drug treatment coverage is required in policies offered on the new Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) exchanges as well for newly eligible Medicaid recipients.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/ondcp/healthcare
It is a scary statement, and it is true, and I have friends who write VBA handling millions of pounds, and they concur that you and I should be scared.
Interesting! Unfortunately I'm not into radio or electronics beyond resoldering bad caps - so I can't really understand the principle of this. Maybe you could enlighten me, can we surround this oscillator with tinfoil/Faraday cage or something so it wouldn't radiate interference?
I know colleagues (engineers) who were detained and kept under "hotel arrest" in Indonesia for being on the customer site without the correct working Visa (our guess - a tip off)

I worked in Thailand on assignment for a large company there and we got a wind that the authorities where going to come in on a certain day and check every single foreigners passports. We were told even that we had the correct Visa, work from home that day.

In Japan you can get a 3 month tourist visa on entry. I know many who have worked on the customer site with this. Once again - illegal, all it takes is a tip off from a local employee and your in big, big trouble.. don't expect to ever visit that country again.

I know someone who was working in Sweden without the correct Visa - a local employee (part of a work union) reported him.

Not worth the risk IMHO.
My bet is Steam will offer a ready-baked SteamOS on an ISO a week before Half-Life 3 goes live on Linux-only. No MacOS, No Windows.
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I think you are not paying attention. In addition to the documentation you found confusing, ODF comes with a reference implementation. While sometimes the LibreOffice source code can be daunting, especially if you are not that a good coder, it's runnable and evidently usable. I'm not advocating not writing documentation (I take great pains not only to document my code but to also provide comprehensive tests for it).

I don't know what kind of code you do, but your lack of faith in the clarity of your code and your tests as a form of documentation is disturbing. I hope your clients can't identify you from your comments.
It's rather inappropriate for you and wilkie to be vilifying and linking to individual HN comments you disagree with on twitter. That's poor etiquette and not having a discussion in good faith. Don't pretend you're civil here and then talk behind people's backs in another public venue. Grow up.
Agreed. It seems like the market has spoken on Zynga, and even 13-year-olds don't like their games.
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