skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think "overnight replacements" are a good way to improve immigration; a series of quick hacks is largely what got us into the current mess.

As for a specific replacement, I'd support a Canada-style non-sponsorship-based points system. Although I think there is something to be said for just randomness as well, such as expanding the Green Card lottery. Many of the immigrants who made large contributions to U.S. society/economy did not come in already highly educated/skilled, so I'm not sure it's a long-term advantage to restrict immigration to primarily people with strong pre-immigration skills/credentials. Short-term yes, since it fills shortages in areas of the economy, and I think a points system is a good way of handling that without the unsavory employer-tied aspect. But longer-term the "American dream" idea is that people should be able to gain those skills after immigrating; you can come in without already being the kind of person who can command six-figure job offers, and work your way up. Historically that's where a lot of the benefits of immigration have come from.
Even Boeing's commercial airlines are now built largely from components manufactured outside the US. Foreign companies make 70% of the 787 (35% is made in Japan). When the 747 was introduced in the late 60s it was about 2%.
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An open letter and no evidence is no way to pursue an accusation like this ... especially after 15 years of silence.

How do we know when something like this is true? If the accusation alone is enough to convict in the court of public opinion, then that places a powerful weapon into the hands of bad actors that might want to defame or depose rivals.

If the crime really occurred, it is a tragedy. However, by waiting so long, and weighing other concerns more highly than justice at the proper time, the author has basically given up his chance to pursue justice.

Now, 15 years later, it is a very poor time to suddenly think about justice again. Any pertinent evidence is lost. Witnesses for and against the prosecution would be hazy, and most like lost altogether.

Physical evidence should have been gathered right at the time of the crime. It is difficult work for the victim, but if we don't demand that standard for evidence collection, it opens up the criminal system to terrible abuse.

Taking such open letters at face value, 15 years after the fact, also would create an atmosphere that is intolerable for a free society. Accusations alone should not be enough to break a defendant. Even serious accusations. To treat this letter as anything other than fiction at this point would be bad on a systems level. Destroying people's careers just based on rumor and accusations was what Senator McCarthy used to do. We all decided that was a bad idea decades ago.
My wife has the MBP with Retina Display. It's got lots more pixels than my MBA, but no more real estate. Display widgets can really only get so small while still remaining useful, and increasing pixel count involves some tradeoffs with things like power consumption.

I could have had a lot more vertical real estate, but I decided that since I'd be carrying the thing around in my satchel, physical size was also a consideration. At home I can plug it into a monitor that's much, much bigger.
Assuming political stability in those countries. Assuming the global cost of shipping remains constant. Assuming China doesn't enact protectionist policies to placate internal tensions as they transition to a consumer economy. Assuming the adoption of just-in-time robotic manufacturing with 3D printing (and the extreme customization/personalization it allows) doesn't become "the price of entry" to certain markets.
Correction: Journalism in the US

In the US, the profession is not fine. The major news outlets regularly bury stories the administration finds objectionable (e.g., NY Times on the Bush surveillance). They reiterate propaganda talking points (e.g., NY Times not using the word "torture" until this week). And they generally support the overall goals of each administration (majority of Americans believed Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11). Washington reporters are all too happy to be part of the insiders network and scorn people who aren't (such as Glenn Greenwald).
Journalism is not a technology. It serves an important civic and moral purpose that isn't accounted for at all when you frame it as yet another case of 'disruption'.
BuzzFeed are the Zynga of journalism. Great at getting you in, but lacking in substance.

When their current social network-driven linkbait approach starts to fail I don't see how they can differentiate themselves from other news sites. Zynga tried to turn themselves onto a destination and failed miserably.
> It's incredibly difficult for survivors to prove the sex wasn't consensual in cases of rape where they know the rapists.

It's bad that this is how the world is, but telling someone "Your attitude is part of the reason people are raped" is just as bad.

You are basically saying anyone can be accused of rape and automatically be considered guilty. That is arguably worse that the alternative of being unable to prove rape.

> but one thing is pretty constant: it's only libel/defamation/etc if the claim is false.

That is not true. If you can prove it was true that it's not defamation, but the reverse is not the case.

> If you're going to sue somebody for defamation you need to be able to prove the statements are false.

That is not true either. You just have to prove they made the statement and that it was defamatory.
I've been using StumpWM for several years now; it's great!

There are some issues because the various desktop environments really don't want their in-house WMs replaced, and don't really document what needs to be done in order to just swap out the WM, leaving everything else. It's kinda sad really, and extremely anti-Unix.

Still, StumpWM is so pleasant and easy to use that it's worth the minor pain of getting my desktop environment working with it each time I update machines.

Highly recommended!
Quantcast, based on direct numbers from Buzzfeed, shows Buzzfeed's traffic essentially flat this year - https://www.quantcast.com/buzzfeed.com

Is this a concern? What is the future growth potential?
OK, but what made you pick those three variables to start with? I can see political leaning vs pay gap, because equal pay legislation/administration is a somewhat partisan issue. But the length of sexual intercourse measure doesn't seem to tell us much about anything. Why not measure annual consumption of corn dogs, or the going price of onions?

I'm open to there being a good reason you chose to include it, but you didn't offer on on the page so I'm just confused; it reads as a sort of really abstract titillation, even though it could be interesting to learn what it does correlate with.
The Java library Encog (https://github.com/encog) has a huge number of features out of the box for building neural networks.
That may be true, but from the guidelines: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."

So now I'm not sure which is ok, because the guidelines clearly state that I am supposed to use the original title. That makes me think that any change would be considered editorializing.
Yes, it does annoy me (not a major annoyance but an annoyance still). Do you disagree with separation of concerns or feel firefighters are raising more money than their salaries and expense of getting them there? If so, don't be shy. Just tell me you disagree and why.

There are words for people who make comments with implied insults. Passive aggressive is one of them.
If I were an employer who employed a lot of lower-class people of the sort who might use this service (say, Wal-Mart) I'd be looking at this article and wondering "Why don't we just pay our employees every day?"

The extra costs would be minimal, surely, since it's just a bunch of automated money transfers. And it would make our company the employer of choice for minimum-wage schlubs with poor forward-planning capabilities everywhere.
You track points in the scene across frames. This helps infer the 3D position though getting good accuracy is hard. Basically parallax gets created in time as the camera moves.

I recall those childhood days when we could not explain why moon appeared to come along as our car moved. :-) Those differences in apparent speed betrays something about the distance of the object/point under consideration.
Yes, that's all true. Everything you just said also applies to the chart you linked to (notice the legend that says "Durable Goods" in your chart?). So I stand by my post -- your chart is misleading, and does not support the claim you made.

It's going to be hard to prove your claim that US manufacturing is "propped up" by the military.. manufacturing is about 18% of the US economy, and the (entire) military is 4% (edit: of GDP)
Then why do the site's guidelines specifically state "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."?

I'm fine with the mods changing the titles, but I don't like the fact that the rules don't apply equally to everyone.
Only the engine is open, though, not the data files. EDIT: And it's not "public domain" either. Look at the license.doc in the github repository, there are tons of restrictions as to what you can do with the code. https://github.com/id-Software/wolf3d
Does anyone know of a tool that can dump C++ vtables from 64 bit macho files?
I ran across this while researching a way to OCR data from a video of a frequency counter and digital multimeter. I didn't use his exact workflow, but it got me pointed in the right direction. Much better than manually typing in data every second of a 20 minute video.
I think we got to this point over a year ago.
3D printers are the new "I can build you a home page on the web."

Printrbot has had a good $300 FDM solution for a long time; to get significantly better, you really need SLS or Resin lithography solutions. And even there, the competition is hearing up as old patents expire.
Uhhhhh, nobody mentioned race until you did.

If you think "good genes" is correlated with race, then I'd suggest that you are the one who is racist.
Frequent fliers who use seatguru and flyertalk would beg to differ. Not only the plane/airframe, but the seating configuration chosen by the airline makes a difference in the passenger experience of a transcontinental flight.
I think HN is anti protectionism
I had felt the same way about Datatables, which is why I ended up writing Dynatable over the course of a couple years. Tried to take a somewhat different approach that felt more natural to use.

http://www.dynatable.com
That's not enough. There's the consideration that trafficking often involves underage participants, and as long as demand for sex with minors exists, then so will trafficking. Also, the law enforcement units in the US that are dedicated to fighting trafficking are already specialized enough to ignore "regular" prostitution, so it's not like the fact that prostitution is illegal is distracting them.
Using StumpWM for quite some time. Someone already pointed that it causes minimum distractions while working. Also makes it really easy to hack it in any way you want. :)

Using minimalistic config myself: https://github.com/grepz/dotfiles/blob/master/.stumpwmrc
> The major news outlets regularly bury stories the administration finds objectionable

You seem incredulous. "regularly bury stories" is quite an unsubstantiated claim and you listed one example for which I have seen no evidence that this happened and if it did that the reason was to please a White House administration. Yet you make the claim with great conviction.

As for the Iraqi War drumming, I think that was a problem the NY Times had and was largely the result of the now discredited and very much resigned Judith Miller.
Good luck getting American work culture at least to respect these ideas.
> I recently travelled from London to south-east France by train, and it was a joy. No check-in, hardly noticed security scanning because there wasn't a queue, changing trains in Paris took half an hour (including a metro ride).

Yet it's completely irrational why there are not the same security measures taken for train passengers. A bomb on a high speed train would lead to the death of hundred of people as well. Maybe it has to do with the fact that the government openly supports the train because it's one of the key investors in its infrastructure.
Yes, indeed. I mean the optimization of energy saving seems not suitable for the condition of namespace isolation, since you can't control the other containers requests. if we have to, we need to dispatch request from server perspective but not container.
I absolutely agree that it serves an important civic & moral purpose, but that is precisely why journalism needs to adopt new technology to reach people on their level.
Been using Stump for a few years. It's perfect for my development needs. I find it very hard to use Mac or Windows now that I'm used to all my custom shortcuts and functions.

I usually have my editors on workspace 1, local terminals on 2, dev chrome on 3, some other local terminal / API on 4, logging on 5, remote terminals on 6, personal chromium on 7 (gmail/slack/music), IRC on 10.

But anytime I can just ctrl-t-ctrl+c which gives me a full-screen terminal, split the screen in half with ctrl-t-ctrl-s with two applications side-by-side, usually two terminals.

To be honest, I haven't tweaked the stumpwm config in a while.. maybe in a year. But I remember the first few months was so cool to add all lisp functions to manipulate the window manager. I.e. select a word, press a key, it opens google and search for it.
That's true. I was pointing more at the rise of China not disrupting the industry.

I guess the rise of Japan and such had already done that.
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Your last comment is the reason we (my wife) bought our second Honda after considering several other makes. The new Fit just feels like what a Honda is supposed to be.

Also, as a Toyota Tacoma owner with a bazillion miles, man, I'd love to own a turbo-diesel Hilux which is available in basically every country except the United States.
this is not 1999, "eyeballs", I mean, "traffic" growth means little when you are able to monetize the traffic you have and grow that (even if your traffic isn't growing)
What is the percentage of "journalistic penance" articles relative to listicles and ads-pretending-to-be-journalism? Is BuzzFeed seeing cross-article conversion from listicle traffic to quality-journalism articles, or is there a subsite/index where a separate audience is being aggregated for the quality articles?
I like to think that consumers will eventually develop a mental immunity to BuzzFeed-style headlines, and then they'll be a bit stuck.

There's only so many times a human can click on "Ten Amazing Things About Something Or Other That We Bet You Won't Believe" before it finally clicks in their brain that hey, wait a minute, last time I read one of these it wasn't _that_ amazing...
I dislike that you have characterized "It's likely easier" as "a definitive rebuttal of all fears".
Clever pre-excel solution. In a way, ahead of its time, similar to MarkDown.
How many "quality journalism" articles or content pieces must an outlet produce per month, and to what level of traffic exposure must they promote those quality articles, in order to recruit more talent like Ze?
You guys who complain that it's taking too long to evolve don't seem to realize you need to build new facilities every time you want to increase the density of pixels. New factories take years to develop and years to get proper ROI as well. There's not much incentive to build super high resolution LCDs, it will cost much more to make, end up with massive reject rates, and nobody will want to buy them at much higher prices anyway.

On top of that, I'd add that even if the resolution has not improved THAT much over the past 5 years, we have made massive progress into having better looking pictures out of LCDs and OLEDs - with much better contrast and refresh rates. Ghosting is pretty much a thing of the past, and narrow angles of vision as well (still not perfect but much better than 5-10 years ago).
Not to mention the terrorism angle. How hard do you think it would be for al queda to get their hands on an ebola victim, harvest a gallon of body fluids, and smuggle it into the US? Because distribution wouldn't be hard at all; down here in texas, there are any number of outdoor misting systems that are aimed at busy streets full of sweltering tourists.

Bio-terrorism looks so easy.
At some point, the time to print will be 5 minutes.
At some point, the set of "highly specific parts" will cover 95% of the things that break in your life.
At some point, "search + print" will be faster and cheaper than Amazon prime.
We're not there yet.

When will we get there?
Who will be the leaders when we do?
We don't know yet. But I dare anyone to claim in good faith that we won't get there!
You could look into what Imgix does, they have a datacenter full of Mac mini's.
I worked it out using a binomial distribution with a 0.4 chance of surviving.

This comes to (8!/(7! * 1!)) * 0.4 ^ 7 * 0.6 ^ 1
I worked this out to 0.00786 or ~~ 1 percent.

I thought 5 percent was the threshold for statistically significant. If you set the survival chance to the lower 20 percent, its even more significant.

I'm not an expert though, and there may be other problems with the study, but I don't think what you said is accurate.
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This really reads like a PR plant. Honda (the company) is no longer like what it was under Soichiro Honda. The bad reception of the 2012 Civic¹ was somewhat of a wakeup call for them, but they have been late to market with gasoline direct injection (GDI) motors, and there aren't any American-spec diesels in development (the Pilot, Odyssey, and possible refresh of the Ridgeline could really use the torque).

Given the trend (a new chairman every 5-6 years), we should expect to see new leadership at Honda soon, and perhaps he will speed up product development, and return more of the decision making to the engineers.

Surprising rumors are that they have licensed the ZF 9-speed transmission, which will really help with the fuel economy. And give the Pilot gearing that will help it off-road (the 9-speed often starts off in a higher gear, leaving 1st and/or 2nd for a simulated "low range"). I was expecting them to go with one of the Aisin models, actually.

This is a big cultural change for Honda, as they have traditionally designed and built their own transmissions. Given the stupendous cost of creating a new automatic transmission (well over a billion dollars), this will free up a lot of capital for them.

¹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Civic_(ninth_generation)#...
Is there anything to learn from Demand Media's trajectory? They wrote search-engine-bait rather than social-network-bait, but didn't bother to create cover traffic / quality journalism.
To be fair, I don't think anyone thinks buzzfeed is journalism.

With featured content such as "The 20 Most Australian Hashtags Ever"[1], it's nothing more than light entertainment

[1]: http://www.buzzfeed.com/smwsydney/the-20-most-australian-has...
Why should they succeed at making money by putting out high-quality journalism where others have failed?

Quality journalism doesn't pay in a dollars in to dollars out basis. A carefully-researched article that takes a week-long trip to the Congo to write will get no more and possibly fewer clicks than "Ten Amazing Shark Facts That Will Make You Shit Your Pants" that takes twenty minutes on wikipedia.
As a Canadian, I sometimes wonder how much it really benefits the country.
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BuzzFeed isnt journalism, and I don't think anyone actually thinks it is.
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They don't now only because there isn't a lot of it, so it's not a political issue. How many recent German or French immigrants are there in the US? Not enough for anyone to notice. Back when there was large-scale immigration from Europe though, a lot of people minded, and formed parties specifically to agitate against the Irish/Poles/etc.

You see that now in Europe. UKIP isn't complaining only about muslim immigrants (though they complain about them loudest), but also about continental-European immigrants, especially eastern Europeans. I suspect something similar would happen in the U.S. if there were a large influx of European immigrants.
> As far as I'm aware, devs aren't too keen on it.

Because of current market lock-in on DirectX. OpenGL isn't ideal, but it's not much behind. MS however doesn't want it to become better and is scared of more competition from cross platform APIs. Not sure why though. These days lock-in with API is a very dumb method to compete.

I think Valve has a good potential to push things forward.
As a young programmer within the Vancouver dev community, I can say that everyone from the UBC CS program to the local meetup scene to the local incubators, including GrowLab/LaunchAcademy, Invoke and Wavefront have done an exceedingly great job and preparing for this increase in business in Vancouver.
I think I know what you mean, but it's just a key away from removing that "blank" screen (which is called a frame IIRC).

For me, (ctrl-t backspace) remove the current frame. I like the flexibility of Stumpwm where it differentiates between the space taken by an application and where it fits on the screen (Frame) vs the application.

The scenario you are describing happens if you have 2 frames while only one app running. Otherwise the next app would just fill that frame that is now available. Personally it doesn't bother me.. I'll just either remove the frame with (ctrl-t-backspace) and then my only app will now be full-screen on that first frame. Or I'll open another app in that empty frame, such as a terminal.
Wow, I loved thumbing through this. Very informative.
Cool project. Anyone know how the "automagic" installer accomplishes dual-boot with Windows 8, including compatibility with secure boot? If this project has 3D graphics working on Surface Pro, could it be adapted to Ubuntu?
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I don't think it comes down to "quality journalism" it's all about money. That's what online "journalism" is ... ad revenue from clickbait titles. I have yet to see anything of high quality investigative journalism from Buzzfeed/ViralNova/Upworthy/etc. They're click-bait farms and they provide no real "journalism" value.
To say non-American countries have easier immigration systems on the basis that it is demand related is in my opinion, absurd. Australia, New Zealand, UK, Canada and many European countries have massive demand.

However you'll find most of these countries have opted to sell residency, albeit through business and job investments. Generally skilled workers have to be sought for locally before they get someone over.

Using a "lottery" system just sounds crazy. It's still possible to buy citizenship, yet everyone else has to sit on the side-lines and take a number. Sounds like a weird plan created on a whim..
Neither Mantle nor Metal so far achieved any wide acceptance. If AMD can convince other GPU manufactures (like Intel, Nvidia, Qualcomm and the rest) to support Mantle this can change. I don't expect Metal to become anything beyond being Apple-only API, so it's not in any way better that MS-only Direct3D, just another walled garden example.

Also, Mantle was supposed to be open. Did AMD open it already?
> why do people prefer direct flights? It is at least in part due to the horrible experience and security theater that is modern air travel

The security theater part doesn't make sense, because connecting passengers don't have to go through security a second time. I'll agree with the "horrible experience" part, but I think the main reason people prefer direct flights is simply that it saves time.
Journalism.

Are you sure you understand what that word means and/or implies?