skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"When the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) moved into Stata in 2004, the MIT administration decided, without consulting the personnel of CSAIL, to make the system log which cards are used to open which doors and when."

Who owns the building? MIT or the personnel of CSAIL? If the building's owner wants a log of who came in and out of the building is that really something Mr Stallman has the power to object to?
Its very simple. Hispanics vote D solidly. A few more h1bs won't ensure a democratic victory in 2016 or 2020.
It does NOT matter what the average/median salary is (although you might argue that even 100K in SV is not that much).
What _matters_ is - what would the salaries have been, if it were not for the mass import of workers from India. You don't need to be a genius to know that more supply => lower price. I am always amazed that many supposedly bright engineers miss this very simple correlation.
I don't know if this is really true, since it's something someone at work just told me with no references or anything, but there's also another problem with these Indian consulting companies. Apparently they request loads of H-1Bs for their employees in India "just in case" one of them is to be sent to the US. They kill the cap and in the end a lot of those people don't even come here.

If this is really true, they should create a per-country cap for H-1Bs, the same way it is done with Green Cards.
Every time I've talked to a business that wants a web site or server backed software product for Chinese users, they've said the server has to be in China. This is why. Even when you do manage to get a request out, it is often laggy and worthless from a UX perspective. Linking out of the country for resources needed to load the page is just ignorant.
> You could actually make a far better case for Emacs being an operating system rather than a browser, what with the former not having as many security and sandboxing restrictions.

But security and sandbox restrictions are very important elements of an OS, don't you think?
It is physically larger, and costs more. It has a ton of I/O, supports high resolution cameras, can do HD video recording, encoding and decoding.

So what exactly is the justification that a watch needs all that? What is the OMAP3 missing that you think a watch needs?
Simple solution: Host JS libs on a HTTPS domain that China cannot afford to block, e.g. GitHub. See https://greatfire.org for a practical take on this approach.
I have a governance/citizen participation startup that I will be applying with in 2020 according to my current progress speed.
I think it would have been a lot more interesting if they had requested startups that significantly reduced the average cost of living and/or moved us closer towards a world where not everyone has to have a job.
If you're trying to validate an idea, not having to worry about hosting costs for the first year or so could be a big deal. Especially if you're planning to sell out later to a larger company who has so much infrastructure already that hosting is practically free.
How Twitter Handles Data – Interview with J Mannix, Machine Learning Engineer
Is there no crowd sourced, open sourced textbook non-profit organization? Sort of like Wikipedia/Wikimedia but with textbooks. Ideally there would be a Wiki-like website with people constantly editing and revising and arguing over texts/chapters/paragraphs. A cursory Google search yields the site https://openstaxcollege.org/, which appears to be supported by Rice University. This has open sourced texts, but not crowd sourced.

As a recent graduate I remember shelling out thousands of dollars during my undergrad years to pay for textbooks. It was always a crapshoot because you never knew if the professor would not use the textbook at all or would heavily rely on it and assign reading/problems from the book.

There are definitely ways around purchasing expensive textbooks, but most are illegal, and none are convenient or guaranteed.
and git-annex
FreeOTP multi-factor authentication
Indeed. It's a complaint of poor management. Give them enough work and a way to validate quality, and you suddenly don't care how they do it. They're salaried, so you don't actually care about how long it took them to do it.
Don't the MicroSD cards come with plastic cases, but not the larger SD cards?
"the government is a very bad customer" is better statement of the problem. The real problem with government is the system of software procurement and management.

This includes decision makers who often play favorites and often have zero expertise or sound counsel to leverage in making key technology related decisions.

The healthcare exchange is not an exception to the rule. It is the status quo of most government technology related initiatives.
I dunno. Looks a lot like basic income, but it isn't normaly tagerted at retirement.

Or maybe ryandrake had a more "tax the rich" goal, with the usual set of problems. (It's usualy much better to solve the problem that people got rich exploiting [moraly or not], instead of simply taxing them.)
And a web developer is going to change China how?
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That's a vast generalization. Although cost is part of it the other side of hiring STEM graduates to do rote "Enterprise" work has its own tall challenges. You either get intelligent people that hate the job and move on or you get normal people that take time to learn, insist on doing limited things and are generally not very motivated to produce work that is vastly above the quality that you get from hiring the alternatives.

So for the managers who have to deliver working things to their clients, hiring H1B saves money and generally due to their predicament these people are more willing and flexible to work beyond their assigned loads to cover up any knowledge deficiency. From the manager's perspective it works out better.

Oh and no one cares if your code is top quality (whatever that means) - if it is reasonable quality and if it works it's all good. And that's because not many non-H1B written products they have seen are all free of problems - so why pay more for something that works equally well as the one you can pay less for?

That's basically the reality of it. The rock star US born, US educated SV programmer myth only applies to a limited section of the programmer populace - rest of us all are normal people who can get it to work reasonably well.
Is "on a computer" the real problem here? The problem I'm seeing is that we have things like displaying a linked list, which is trivial, being awarded patents by appending "on a mobile device" or "on a web page" or "On a payment system."

I just don't think its possible to have software patents that make sense. Abolishment of software patents seems to be the only sane move here.
In universities power is typically a bit distributed. Ultimately a nonprofit corporation owns everything, overseen by a board of trustees. But the board doesn't do that much day-to-day management. Instead there is an administrative and departmental structure. Unlike in a company, it's usually slightly less clearly hierarchical: there is usually a President or Provost, but they usually have less power than a CEO (for example, their ability to hire & fire academic staff is significantly constrained). And there are other structures like departments, faculty senates, etc. which have independent power (varying by university).

My guess is that, in this case, nobody at a high level made a decision in the first place, but rather a mid-level organization like MIT security or facilities management instituted the policy. Since they probably are delegated responsibility over building-access systems, they can do that. But the building inhabitants can also try to complain about the way their departments' buildings are being managed. If you were to ask more specifically, "does facilities management or CSAIL own the building?", the answer is sort-of neither, and sort-of both: it's owned by the corporate parent of both of them.
I've heard a similar setup is similar in hotels. The hotel gets a box per channel, re-broadcasts them onto coax (same as VCRs used to put eveything on channel 3, but with more channels), and then the hotel TVs can use their built-in tuners.
FOCUS by Giving Your Ideas Away
You become the sum of the five closest people you spend the most time with so that makes sense.
Baloo, https://community.kde.org/Baloo is the current incarnation of the Linux semantic desktop, http://www.semanticdesktop.org/

"It's responsible for handling user metadata such as tags, rating and comments. It also handles indexing and searching for files, emails, contacts, and so on"

Cross-device research for semantic desktop: http://www.dime-project.eu/en/home/dime/project/solution/con...
I believe he's referring to this part of the immigration regime: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_Action_for_Childhood_A...
Who cares when they work and how much they work if they can produce the work at the quality expected. This was the premise of the 4 hour workweek, work smarter not harder. I do see the problem if your job requires interacting with colleagues and you are unavailable most of the time, that should be figured out between employee and manager.
Apple's Success: Going to Extremes and Out of Control
Yes, according to the chart above it took down 351 aircraft. The toppling method wasnt the only one implemented, they also tried shooting them down with their guns; however, they would have to get close and often resulted in the destruction of their own aircraft as well.
Sure, but maybe some scrappy startup could go to municipalities and try to offer it as a service to them under contract.

Then use that to grow out and manage it for other cities a well.
Show HN: Upmin – An Admin Framework for Ruby on Rails
Well, and for that matter, Hobby Lobby.

To me, the common thread is that they all come down on the side of greater freedom of expression and freedom to take actions consistent with beliefs. But both the Citizens United and Hobby Lobby decisions are anathema in circles such as many tech communities. I suspect a lot has to do with personal disagreement with the beliefs of the organizations involved even though the discussion often gets reframed. Around catchphrases like "corporate personhood" in the case of Citizens United.
LOL, most of the nativists are still itching to re-fight the war that got us the 13th / 14th / 15th, so citing those won't convince them...
Check out the Services section in the docs: http://empiredata.com/doc/

We currently have integrations with Salesforce, Hubspot, Gmail, Google Spreadsheets, Zendesk, Mailchimp, Stripe, and CallRail.

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Which is why we are so much poorer these days than 100 years ago with way fewer people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy

Also: if you keep all those people out, the companies will end up going where the talent is.

Anyway, I flagged this article - it's politics.
My experience at Startup School was a true epiphany, though not in the way most people would expect.

After hearing founder stories directly from people like Brian Chesky and Andrew Mason, and hearing what they tried and went through in the years before anyone heard of their "overnight" success, I finally understood that I'm truly not like them. Selling cereal to keep things running on a shoestring budget? I would have given up by then, as would have many rational people.

The experience helped me appreciate that the role I love, and have thrived in ever since, is in a small startup (but post-money) where the challenges are growth, innovation, and building a strong foundation for the future, both in terms of technology and people.

I highly recommend attending Startup School.
You'd end up building a small functional runtime. That's a fun project to understand compilers better. But given that Haskell types are erased at runtime the very thing that makes monads monads wouldn't even be around anymore. All the values would be represented uniformly by some *StgClosure struct and the whole program would just be a mess of casts and projections into these values.
Let's take an extreme:

What if MIT were logging who went to the bathroom?

There's clearly no fundamental difference in securing a different part of the building. Does Mr Stallman (or perhaps an employee of the building if he's just a third party) not have a basis to criticize MITs tracking of bathroom habits because he (or they) don't own the building?

In what way is door access different?
"lightweight, short-distance personal transportation is something we’re interested in"

I think that's called the bicycle.

(Of course there are plenty of barriers to people actually using the things, especially in the US, but those have little to do with the machine itself and everything to do with the social context in which it's used. If a startup can manage to solve those problems then more power to them. Start by talking to the Dutch perhaps.)
That is across all fields. Do you have a citation that they are not increasing in STEM positions? I would argue that fast rising housing prices in both NY and SF are in part due to fast rising salaries of tech jobs in both areas.
MUMPS... it's sort of a database/os/programming language hybrid that uses a key value store.
In cities I can imagine an apparatus not unlike a retractable roof in function, spanning the gaps between buildings. It would capture rainfall and prevent flooding while keeping citygoers dry. The "rooves" themselves would channel water as would an aqueduct, possibly reorienting themselves to better handle local downpours. The underside would need to emit light, whether transmitted natural light or otherwise.

Such a system would bring ancillary benefits of improving travel safety in the city, and reducing the need for road maintenance and vermin control (esp. mosquitoes).

I imagine the biggest technical challenge to be durabiity: The need to be resilient against hail, high winds and flying debris. And should it fail at the worst time ... an awful thought! But levees are a similar technology in that regard.
Access to capital and the political world are part of "fitness" in this environment. Generally, the companies that are seen as most likely to survive have easier access to funding than companies that are seen as riskier. The same can be said of companies that are likely to succeed v.s. simply survive.
Alternately, it's an API of APIs.

We're hoping that S(aaS)^n = SaaSaaS for n >= 2, and we can prove by induction that ours is the last enterprise API you need to learn ;)
At one point there was a command+database called pq floating somewhere in the plan 9 ecosystem. You'd pass in a path to a resource and it would return a path to the relevant metadata.

http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/using_pq/
http://www.uscis.gov/eir/visa-guide/e-2-treaty-investor/unde...

E2 is for investors. Your average cofounder is not an investor.
I feel that your frustration is misguided. I'm pretty sure I've heard Obama talk of retaining immigrants who graduate from STEM fields at US universities. Here's an article from 2012 about this: http://www.trianglecoalition.org/legislation-would-help-reta...

Of course, the lack of action befalls the legislative branch (Congress)

> Meanwhile Obama goes around making speeches about how kids of illegal immigrants somehow have the 'right' to citizenship and would be able to benefit from US public services (which by the way I and other legal immigrants are paying for).

Without being political, these illegal immigrants have most likely also paid for these services via sales/state/federal taxes, many for a lot longer than you have. As for citizenship, I think the citizenship argument is usually applied to those who were relocated by their parents at a very young age. If you were deported, you would still be able to communicate in your homeland, while many of those who were brought as children wouldn't be able to communicate if they were forcefully sent back
Pre-launch of a MOOC Applied to Medical Education
I'm not so optimistic as the article. The CAFC has lots of judges that came up as patent attorneys, and who are true believers in the patent system. The June decision by SCOTUS wasn't the first time the Court slapped down abstract patents. The CAFC always finds new ways to get around what SCOTUS has tried to be clear about.

On top of that, people underestimate the amount of shenanigans that patent prosecutors pull during patent drafting and prosecution.

I don't think we will see an improvement to the trolling situation until Congress steps in and changes some of the burdens and fee-shifting standards for patent litigation.

Trolls need to have less weapons they can deploy to raise litigation cost, and they need to be made to suffer for bringing BS cases against innocent companies. Only Congress can make that happen.

Intellectual Ventures and its ilk are not going to sit idly while entrepreneurs and tech companies go to Congress to get reform laws passed. They will bring out the big cash piles, just like Comcast does for Net Neutrality.

And patents isn't even as cut and dry as Net Neutrality. The minute you start talking about patent reform, some well meaning person, who has no idea what they are talking about, will bring up that movie about that inventor, who was cheated by that big company, out of his hard earned inventions.
Hi HN,

I am one of the founders of Upmin, and I am leading the development of our admin framework for Rails. It is still pretty early, but I would love to get your feedback on it as we try to prioritize our development efforts.

Thanks!
This solves the problem on the server side, using existing standards, without building any new tech into the browser.
Please do not put "Show HN" in the title unless the work is ready for everybody to try out. Email signups don't count.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
I'm sorry you're getting downvoted; you're absolutely correct.
Great idea for practice. The problem is it doesn't follow the same rules as Photoshop; you have to set the curve correctly with every new point. Moving and adjusting them later should be allowed and when the curve matches you pass.
Blockbuster book lays out the first 20 years of the Smartphone Wars
No you can have multiple processes in containers. You might want to split them though.
So, don't be so dismissive of "crap like that". There are a lot of legacy ideas that are with us not from sheer inertia, but because they work.

Many modern filesystems are littered with the reeking remains of attempts at supporting metadata (for example, NTFS), most of which nobody cares about and which just add implementation complexity.

If you want to pitch a more useful and more abstract version of what you're describing ("how can we present searching and accessing a metadata forest backed by traditional hierarchical file stores") then by all means I'll be friendlier but right now you're coming across as a crank ignorant of the history of the ideas you're decrying.
I don't think we're talking about bathroom hygenic habits here, so let's skip that derail.

Stallman's thesis is "logs have no use". I'm sure the building's owners disagree. Let's think of a possible use-case:

"Someone stole a laptop from Room 214 over the weekend"

So are the logs useful now?
Don't see your Jobs quote in this account, although there are many more skeptical quotes, such as "Jobs said he lived seven minutes from a grocery and wasn't sure he would use Ginger to get there."

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/3533.html
Don't know what it would look like, but for sure it would be ideal if it could be solved by the private sector without policy changes (i.e. taxes).
If you tell someone the job to get done, independent contractor.

If you tell them the job AND direct them how to do it, employee.

http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Employ...

"Behavioral: Does the company control or have the right to control what the worker does and how the worker does his or her job?

Financial: Are the business aspects of the worker’s job controlled by the payer? (these include things like how worker is paid, whether expenses are reimbursed, who provides tools/supplies, etc.)

Type of Relationship: Are there written contracts or employee type benefits (i.e. pension plan, insurance, vacation pay, etc.)? Will the relationship continue and is the work performed a key aspect of the business?"
I'm not as confident as you, but yes I've been watching Escher development for some time.
Subresource Integrity (SRI) addresses the problem indirectly but it allows you to add checksums to resources. There's various security considerations in regards to caching, I don't think that the doc touches them all: http://www.w3.org/TR/SRI/#caching-optional-1

Anyhow, that might be a good place to contribute.
But also, "where in the (tree-structured) file system did I put those notes I made last year?". Strandh observes that a collection of tags is not so different from the names along a file path.
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When you say "5/10" you mean "decent but not impressive".

When most people give "5/10" they mean "terrible, but did not shit of the coffee table".

Did they check with you what you meant by 5/10?
FTFA:

"The employees recounted how they tried and failed to stop what they called routine cheating on timesheets, bonuses to examiners who did not do the work they were rewarded for and a culture of management looking the other way..."

Also FTFA:

"She even lies and gets paid extra overtime money…"

There seems to be a few things wrong here.

Apparently they really aren't meeting production quotas in some cases, so the "If they get the job done, who cares?" doesn't really apply here, because they're not.

Next, even if they were meeting production quotas, if they're getting paid hourly then they should clock out when they meet the quota and decide to stop working. That's just how jobs that get paid hourly for the government work - if you're not working, you don't get paid.

And third, there's absolutely no excuse for lying to get paid overtime. Especially if they're not even working the entire non-overtime amount of hours.