skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If a single file fails on Win7 it cancels the whole operation

No it doesn't? It pauses it & gives you an option to retry / cancel. So if another app is using the file you can close it & continue.
The moral of the article is "it's wrong to exploit the impoverished." It's easy to apply that moral to other cultures and societies, but difficult to apply to one's own.

Indians deny injustice when it gives them servants just like Westerners deny injustice when it gives them iPhones.
It could just be because I tend to find American customers really over-bearing and unreasonable (the "customer is always right" thing makes some people feel entitled to be jerks towards staff), but to me the Danish non-service feels refreshing, though I've definitely heard other people describe it as "bad service". I don't feel it's particularly bad service myself; stuff generally gets done fine, and it's not like I'm waiting hours for my food or they're dumping things on me or anything. They treat me the same way I'd treat someone at work at my own job: well and professionally, but not as if I'm their servant and must please them at all costs.
> if use of the technique (and similar) is why the Stasi is as maligned as it is, then surely using the technique does put you on par?

So, if the Stasi does something, and it is the reason they are maligned, and I do the same thing at all to any degree, you're saying I'm on par with the Stasi? Please help me understand your sentence.

>What would it take to put you on par then?

Well, let's back up and look at the sport of golf, where the term "par" is commonly used. If I play the game, I'm golfing. Does that put me on par with Tiger Woods? No. In order to be on par with Tiger Woods, I need to be right up there matching Tiger Woods.

The argument that the _use of a technique_ puts the invaders (whoever they are) on par with the Stasi is fallacious. If you want to use hyperbole, go ahead. But don't claim it's logical just because it feels good.
"seized to confuse" love it. that is better than the original.
AFAIK she lacked diplomatic immunity and only had consular immunity, i.e. immunity only extending to consular functions.
> , legally.

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Is it just me or is there kind of too much going on in this essay? It moves pretty quickly from a history of famous WASP writers and presidents, why WASPs dominated, to how WASP dominance declined, how America is now a meritocracy, that meritocracy is built on overeducation, it isn't as good as WASP-ocracy, and something to do a with "greedy pigs" that are overeducated.
This is true. But in every 'performance' metric the Rafale wins, in every 'maintainability' metric the Gripen wins. The Gripen is the easiest to service, to put into action (STOL capability), the most affordable, while having advanced avionics and great performance.
I kinda hesitate to link here, it seems like a pretty non-authoritative site, but it does point out that this law did a bad job of that standard gradation [1]. They wrote in 'cliffs'. Justified in the article ridiculously:

>To avoid creating such steep cliffs, federal officials would have had to spend more money on the subsidies, said Larry Levitt, an executive with the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit research group that is closely following the health care law. Subsidies would have been higher, and could have been more gradually phased out, he said. The design “was largely driven by budgetary decisions,” Mr. Levitt said.

[1] http://obamacarecliff.com/Index.html
You should consider combining CipherScan and SSL Labs into a Tools section, then adding SSLyze. It does nearly everything SSL Labs does from the command line: https://github.com/iSECPartners/sslyze
yes it is very much a cultural thing (see my longer comment) & often just makes economic sense. The argument that they are underpaid is relatively flawed. Servants in cities make much more than they would make if they stayed in their towns or villages an did nothing / worked on someone elses farm. If there is a minimum wage in all sectors with unorganized labour (construction, farming etc) - then yes - these people will be tempted to move there. But really - if you're making 10x cleaning a few houses a day - which is in no way risky / life threatening - why would you go work on a construction site or spend your days on a farm in 30+degrees C of heat?
This sounds insane. Medical bills can go into the millions, and typically hundreds of thousands, if you get a serious condition.
If ideation were entrepreneurship, I'm sure more than 90% of people in the world were entrepreneurs. Everybody is aware of problems, most of us have half-baked solutions as well. But as you pointed out, the guy who goes all the way to convert these half-baked solutions into concrete actions, at the risk of getting nothing in return, is the one worthy of the title. Entrepreneurship is indeed 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
It sounds nice to blame the NSA, but Brazil was unlikely to buy the Boeing jets anyway. Richard Aboulafia wrote about this, how the Brazilian Air Force budget changes with economic times, their needs and lack of prior history with the more complex (and expensive) jets:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardaboulafia/2013/12/19/braz...
actually people would still hire them - on the black market - with lower wages - just like most of the agricultural sector in the US with mexicans. You cant stop the free market.
I see smart glasses as the next tablet. Initially, no one wanted one, they did poorly, and early manufacturers scrapped their product lines. Now suddenly, they are indispensable.
How can a system that costs more for less coverage and poorer access to treatment be better than what we had before? RTFA!

What we had before had plenty of problems, but Obamacare is a failure from the get-go, leaving aside the $600+m web site debacle.
I'm minded to prototype in angular but I'd rather use a generic data backend like firebase (or roll my own any-path-works rest api using dataset) than mock http calls.
I say this as a WAS (no, P, thank you very much). Cry me a freaking river. Not included here was the WASPs he worshipped were all men. And this strawman bullshit about nobility of WASP character and how "meritocrats" are hypocrites shows that the author is one of the "old breed" that needs to die off as soon as possible.
Your response perfectly illustrates the flawed attitude the author was describing. Can you not hear yourself? You are calling another human being a "perk"!!!

Enough with the semantic arguments:

1. Calling a servant an "au pair" or a "perk" doesn't make her less of a human being.

2. ALL human beings have rights, and in the US those rights include employment protections, such as a minimum wage.

3. It doesn't matter what "perks" the diplomat was promised. She cannot violate another's legal rights because she feels entitled to a servant (excuse me, an "au pair").

4. Shipping a human being overseas to be a servant with the expectation that they will be underpaid doesn't make this okay. On the contrary, that's ominously close to human trafficking.

5. Asking to be released from unjust and illegal labor conditions and proposing a settlement for back-pay and damages IS NOT BLACKMAIL! (If it were blackmail, why is the servant not being prosecuted for extortion? Answer: because it's not blackmail!)

6. The arrest really isn't about the servant (Ms. Richard). Ms. Khobragade is being prosecuted by the federal government for a crime committed against the federal government. She lied on a federal form, which is a felony right there. She also did so to cover up that she violated the minimum wage law. That's why she was arrested.

7. All the talk about servants that has arisen in Western media and online is due to India's response and how stunned we in the West are that there are still people on this planet who can be this inhumane (as your comment sadly illustrates).

Edit: Grammar fixes.
You can not compare low paid workers in US to the once in India. US has some social safety nets. Admittedly, not a lot, but US has food stamps, and assistive housing, and an economy that's working, maybe not well, but well enough. India has none of those. Many people in India lack basic things like drinking water. You can not compare the two.

Lets say tomorrow India passes a law that requires, under penalty of jail, for everyone to pay their servants at least $X per month, and as a result of this law 20% of the servants loose their job. If the government does nothing to support those people, what's going to happen to them?
Hopefully not too many people follow your example.
That's murky relevancy since there was a self-defense angle to it.
A tiny fraction of those who would oppose having their property shown on street view would be aware of it and take the time to do anything about it. So 250k people is quite a lot, and probably means a much larger percent of the population are bothered by it.
I have the same question as you (as in, I found your answer sensible).
How dare you agree with the Heritage Foundation and its crazy libertarian views.
Yes - this is my point too - from an elitist western perspective it maybe exploitation - but the servants are not indentured slaves who dont have an option to go find better paying work! They are earning what the market is ready to give them and all of Indias middle class didn't get together one day and decide to manipulate that rate!
Yeah, Floyd Mayweather is a pretty good example of typical American life.
No, it was not just you. It was poorly written and poorly thought out.
Devious app gets developers in trouble with FTC
If you sell someone a cipher you can break but you don't tell them that you have that capability I would classify that as a backdoor.

If you break the cipher after you sold it to them that might not be a backdoor.
That's a tactical mistake. You are throwing away your vote.

I'm a libertarian. But I almost never vote Losertarian, because I want to influence the outcome. So, I generally hold my nose and vote Republican, the Democrat Party being the party of Big Government, the enemy of Liberty!
Being able to obtain the visa is fine, but the servant should have been paid properly.
> India doesn't have much income inequality

This[1] page shows India's Gini coefficient at 36.8 in 2004. India suffers from very high income inequality

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...
It's impossible to create a social safety net? When they have dirty drinking water that's largely because they don't have a minimum wage. In computer terms this is called bootstrapping. You convert from a backwards country to a developed country via (in part by) a minimum wage. Many other countries have done it. So can India.
The Gripen has some unique advantages. It's ease of operating, servicing, and STOL capability allows it to be deployed from just about anywhere - you can land it on a forest road, service it, and it can take off from a very short runway again. And it still has great performance.

It's really the perfect fighter for Switzerland - a country which doesn't really need a 2-engine fighter. The Rafale's main advantages are range and payload, which does nothing for a small country whose only need is self-defence...
except they arent slaves - and if they could find better paying work - there would be nothing stopping them from going after it. It is a free market at the end of the day.
it's funny you say that. i once had an interview question from a bank saying how would you create a system that can find certain things in large xml documents faster than our competitors.

I said: "I would use grep"

so he asked, what if i also need to find attributes and some other stuff i can't remember.

I said: "ah okay, in that case I would use a document store, like eXist"

He asked: "but would it be faster than our competitors?"

i start thinking how the hell would i know, and said: "i'd get something running, and then think about how we can optimize it afterwards"

why the hell would i design a database system from scratch? needless to say he didn't really like what i had to say.
different crimes merit different punishments. Why should length of time be the only variable?

As for classism- a nonviolent field worker should go in the same pen as a nonviolent lawyer.
Still no Street View for (Hawai'i, island, county, & state) my area, but I see that some of the unpaved secondary (private subdivision) roads are now covered by Street View.

We saw one of the Google cars on Highway 19, in Kurtistown, about 5 years ago. We held our beers out the window of the truck and waved at them but I never saw us on Street View...

We probably got edited out, which is, I guess, a good thing since it's against the law to have open containers of alcoholic beverages on the roadway here.
The maid in question could have refused to work and returned back to India - but the reality which most Americans dont want to accept is that she would have gotten a salary 1/10 of what she was making there.

So she played the american justice system very intelligently. But this is all OK - if anything that is not what is causing the resentment.

There is also a case of overreach here. The woman has a case in India registered because she went absconding. Now let's take this in context - India is the only country which has suffered worse in international terrorism. So a maid going AWOL in the US is a pretty big deal.

what the American embassy did was unbelievable - get US visas for the whole family of the maid and fly her to the US without going through the Indian authorities.

This has everyone pissed mad coming after the heels of the Americans denying access to 26/11 accused Headley. Ergo the anger.
> Plus $50/yr for the certificate

This is certainly no longer true. $7 for a cert from Namecheap (domain validated).
right - but released shortly after - and never strip searched.
The harassment is primarily because he was suspected of involvement with Bradley Manning and Wikileaks.

He really should familiarize himself with The Moscow Rules.
I think there must be some mistake. The author seems to have no idea of how the subsidy amounts are rolled back as a participant's income grows.

You can use something like the Kaiser calculator to do a quick check:
http://kff.org/interactive/subsidy-calculator/

In Kaiser calculator I put a family of 4 in Concord, NH (zip 03303), making $100k a year, adults 40 and 42, 2 kids under 20, and get annual premium of $10,522.

With income of $90k/year they get a subsidy of $1,972, or 19% of the premium.

With income of $80k/year they get a subsidy of $2,922, or 28% of the premium.

With income of $70k/year they get a subsidy of $3,928, or 37% of the premium.

With income of $60k/year they get a subsidy of $5,609, or 53% of the premium.

And so on. You get a larger subsidy the closer you are to poverty level.
"Insurance against a condition that already exists is not insurance," but I've twice had coverage for other unrelated conditions (rehab for a broken leg, and treatment for severe pneumonia) denied because I was hospitalized years earlier for a chronic illness having to do with the digestive tract.
just like the US - or pretty much any latin american country - and a lot of parts of africa and europe and the rest of Asia. Your point is? Humans have a class problem.
Under Janteloven:

The ten rules state:

You're not to think you are anything special.
You're not to think you are as good as us.
You're not to think you are smarter than us.
You're not to convince yourself that you are better than
us.
You're not to think you know more than us.
You're not to think you are better than us.
You're not to think you are good at anything.
You're not to laugh at us.
You're not to think anyone cares about you.
You're not to think you can teach us anything.*

Wow. Just wow. Needless to say, a lot of American go-getters and super-achievers would find that bitterly stultifying.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante#Definition
The problem with C+= and feminism
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6938337
For those interested, Leonard susskin video course in stanford ( can be found anywhere ) on classical mechanics is one of the most beautiful piece of intellectual material i've ever been given the chance to see.
It is an interesting read, just like other books in the People's series. Pretty informative.
Way to stay ahead Patrick!
I think the disconnect between the author and you is that the author has empathy for impoverished people.

Try to understand their plight. They are born poor and die poor. Why? Because they were unlucky enough to be born poor. You were lucky to be born into a family that could afford servants.
Yes.

Most of the time if you are selling to enterprise what is your sales pitch?

Five 9s of Uptime: So you need less staff
Reduces the effort needed to <x>: So you need less staff
while I respect what your mom did. I think the point the OP is trying to make is that - there were people willing to work for the amount of money that his mother could afford to pay for them to do it. Its really not any different from when you hire people on Mechanical Turk to solve tasks that you're time isnt worth spending on.
After using ViEmu with VS, I can't imagine editing blocks or doing code-gen-like tasks without vim's macros.
Don't know about the site, but the Kaiser Family Foundation has been one of the best and most solid sources of info on Obamacare. E.g. see their subsidies calculator: http://kff.org/interactive/subsidy-calculator/
First Thoughts on Writer Pro for iOS
The only part you might be missing is that the 'send_fd' command needs to be executed by a cooperating privileged process that 'serves' the fd to the receiver. Since the permission checks are done at the time the fd is opened (and not repeated[1]) the receiving process has the full privileges that the sender had: read, write, truncate, etc.

Receiving the fd via this mechanism is very different that just getting the number of the fd. Nothing is really passed over the socket, rather behind the scenes the kernel is remapping memory within the calling process. It's very similar to what happens when a process 'forks' and its file descriptors are duplicated, but with individual fd granularity.

[1] There are exceptions to this in certain device handlers that use file interfaces, but it holds for regular files.
Balance (288) with one bad match:
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If it is his sales message he really shouldn't be a CopyWriter.

I am a CTO. I write copy all of the time. Then I hand it off to a copywriter to fix it. Engineers should write copy, even build sales pitches, but you then reach out to marketing to make sure you are on message, and that you are following the tenants of good marketing. This post doesn't do that.

He basically applied Jim Kukrals' messaging about networking to sales.
Using the Kaiser calculator linked on that site, it looks like the subsidies are properly phased out. Increasing my income causes the subside to gradually go down and I don't see any major inversion in that calculator. There might be some slight inversion when accounting for the marginal state & federal tax brackets, but the calculator doesn't support the math for those cases.
My HSA-compatible HDHP which I had from 2010-2013 had no lifetime cap or annual cap, and since I'd had employer coverage before, no exclusion on pre-existing conditions. They actually reduced some benefits (for out of network providers) from 2013 to 2014, and the price went from $81 (2010) to $90 (2011) to $102 (2012) to $120 (2013). HSA Bronze HSA, the nearest equivalent, is $214 from another provider, or $250 from this provider. So I switched to a $41/mo short term plan for 2014.
Tasked is like an Android version of AutoHotKey. You can even use it to create APKs, which you can distribute in the Play store. I've used it to do loads of things, like unlock my phone based on WiFi, send automatic responses, and log the GPS coordinates when I leave the car.

http://tasker.dinglisch.net/
Why does it need to pump or emulate a real heart? Could one not create the same in a much smaller form factor with lower power usage?
It's $95, $325 the second, and $695 the third, and for every year after.

For what it's worth, the penalties, as currently planned out, are only 'paid' by capturing tax returns. One could effectively, and legally avoid paying those penalties by changing their tax documents such that no returns are expected, or so that they would owe each year.

The IRS currently cannot demand payment on those penalties, but if you were due $1000 refund, they can withhold the $95 from it. If, however, you owe $10 in taxes, they cannot make you pay $105, as you might otherwise suspect.
Yes, it's apparently possible:

http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Corporations/Nonqualified-Defe...

Interestingly enough, the employer is required to withhold FICA taxes as soon as the deferral is made, if it's truly guaranteed future income.
The AHA bill is 1,990 pages long [0]. From what I can tell, there are anywhere between 10,000 and 30,000 pages of regulations.

The Tax code had about 400 pages in 1913, about 19500 pages in 1974, and about 74000 pages today.

A lot of people complain about tax loopholes. I wonder how long it will take for the AHA regulations to double. There sure is a lot of room for loopholes and exceptions to hide in there.

[0] http://docs.house.gov/rules/health/111_ahcaa.pdf (3.3 MB)
Pitch your startup, and have a few drinks to boot
How to Buy Quark Coin (and altcoin arbitrage)
It's possible, but someone has to pay for it, and their budget already has severe deficits.
Any person jailed just for selling drugs.
Iceland’s jailed bankers ‘a model’ for dealing with ‘financial terrorists’
I went to site you link and see it purports to use the Berkeley calculator to calculate the "cliff" amounts. When I put numbers into Berkeley calculator (http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/healthpolicy/calculator/ ) I see values that are similar to those I got from Kaiser calculator (in post I made in this same subthread). The way data is presented in your linked article seems intended to be misleading. E.g., they talk about raw dollar amounts, not percentages. I don't know whether there is some case in which the dollar amounts could come out to those in their charts, but if there is it's not for the usual "silver" policy. Maybe the percentage subsidy for a whacky expensive gold policy could get you to those dollar values for the cliff, but I doubt even that.
Agreed. The reason I put that example in there was to point out that airframe performance is not the only axis by which fighters can be measured, and there could be reasons unrelated to US political pressure that a country would purchase a Super Hornet over more modern platforms.
Tablets had a more rational form factor than I think glasses do, though, in terms of practical ergonomics. I'm not convinced that smart glasses improve on tablets or netbooks or phones as a user experience enough to justify a prediction that they could surpass them in the marketplace. Augmented reality and voice command are nice but are people really looking for that? Is it more useful to have to tell your device everything you want it to do?

The article makes a point of mentioning concerns about privacy then sort of dismissing them. Later it mentions an app (take a picture every time you wink) that I think would send people up the wall. Coupling a device's use with the implicit social issues regarding eye contact and personal space is going to create a bigger problem for adoption than the article implies.

Disclaimer: But no, I haven't ever actually used Google Glass. It costs more than my car did.