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>We in the US still have this eye towards immigration of the skilled.

This is untrue in almost all situations that I'm aware of, other than nursing and IT.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/12/business/economy/long-slog...

"'It took me double the time I thought, since I was still having to work while I was studying to pay for the visa, which was very expensive,' said Alisson Sombredero, 33, an H.I.V. specialist who came to the United States from Colombia in 2005.

"Dr. Sombredero spent three years studying for her American license exams, gathering recommendation letters and volunteering at a hospital in an unpaid position. She supported herself during that time by working as a nanny. That was followed by three years in a residency at Highland Hospital in Oakland, Calif., and one year in an H.I.V. fellowship at San Francisco General Hospital. She finally finished her training this summer, eight years after she arrived in the United States and 16 years after she first enrolled in medical school.

"Dr. Sombredero was helped through the process by the Welcome Back Initiative, an organization started 12 years ago as a partnership between San Francisco State University and City College of San Francisco. The organization has worked with about 4,600 physicians in its centers around the country, according to its founder, José Ramón Fernández-Peña.

"Only 118 of those doctors, he said, have successfully made it to residency.

"'If I had to even think about going through residency now, I’d shoot myself,' said Dr. Fernández-Peña, who came to the United States from Mexico in 1985 and chose not even to try treating patients once he learned what the licensing process requires."
This has nothing to do with "protection racket" and downvoters are going to be in for one hell of a reality check if you don't believe that this will happen.

Bounty hunters do this stuff for a living. If the company pays with $25 vouchers and the black market pays on the order of tens/hundreds of thousands, who do you think "these people" will go to?
No. You seem to deliberately want to misunderstand me. Many != all.
The other outbreak has been (as far as I understand) in super remote areas where you are not going to infect others.

This one made the leap into the slums.
I didn't specify the HN community, I meant the hacker community at large.
I'm wondering what kind of world you would like instead? Would you like those mailing lists to be an environment similar to what you have in the mass media, where political correctness and hypocrisy is rampant, and anytime someone crosses the boundary we use words like 'hate'?
I think people might be overthinking the problem here. Whenever someone is really good at one thing (say, programming), it is easy for them to get away with being really bad at others (say, manners).

It's the same reason college athletes get away with breaking so many rules.

And both situations are very hard to solve due to the competing and conflicting interests involved.

On a personal level, we should all try our best to stop people (ourselves included) from being programmer bullies. And I've seen many people work very hard to do so!
A pretty interesting read, despite the occasionally challenging style. If the email to Mayer had been a little more focused then perhaps it might have punched through. But in any case, kudos to the author for doing the work and writing it up. I learned a few things. But at the same time, no kudos for using what might be the most unfortunate metaphor ever. I suggest avoiding any future attempts at picturesque description.
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On the other hand, the more system is loaded without user input the greater chance that it can be exploited; also filesystem-level encryption leaks some meta information.
Why is this exaggerated journalism even on here? These aren't tracking everyone in NYC within range, only those who have bluetooth enabled, downloaded a very specific application, and then allow the app to track you in the background. Now this is all for IOS, android on the other hand does have potential to be troublesome.
lol.

On one hand we have culture and art and philosophy and technology. We have technological culture and art. We have philosophies for creating a culture for creating technology. Then, OTOH, we have this. An inability to collaborate for fun or profit.

We need to account for various skill levels, failures in communication, philosophical differences. Scheisterism, baseless accusations of scheisterism. Bugs. etc. etc.

Collaboration is ultimately a fundamental problem, perhaps the most fundamental one.
Likewise, having a cell phone is a privilege, not a right, but it's nearly impossible to survive in modernity without one, so restricting access to one becomes a form of coercion. No matter how you spin it, this is an attempt to coerce people into incriminating themselves.

There's nothing stopping these states from going further and saying that driving a car implies consent to have that car searched at any time, or impounded to be emissions-checked at the state's leisure.
Classic. "Thanks for pointing out this insanely serious issue, which is unfortunately not eligible for our bug bounty program." Maybe they'll send him a free hat.
Bluntness is exactly that - a costly signal of competence.

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2012/12/more-signaling.html

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/01/excess_signalin.html

I wish I could find his article on incompetence as a costly signal of criminal commitment.
Wow, Lycos is still around?
This is really cool! I'm going to port this to Rust, although that'll take it out of the browser, but I figured it'd be fun to have a desktop app version :)
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Would this be significantly easier if there were just a Dockerfile with all this stuff in it and then the instructions would be, "docker build -t cuda . && docker run -t -i cuda /bin/sh"? Or maybe make it a trusted docker image and developers could just pull/run it?

Later: perhaps not. Graphics drivers and the like rely on an interactive terminal and an X11 system, AFAICT.
People can be awful. FOSS is produced by people. When people get together, they argue.

Maybe he should say people who interact online can be awful.
That, I do a lot as well. Basic point being: a fitting contract doesn't have to be a hassle.
Agreed. It's one thing to say that taking the human-centered approach (making discussions more open and inclusive to all people with a varying depth in knowledge/experience) is what we should ultimately converge to because the entire community benefits from people being more civil and understanding; it's a whole other thing to say feminism is really THE way to converge to this. By virtue of saying this on 4 different occasions in the article, OP's regard of feminist approaches to problem solving comes across as more supercilious than she may have intended.

Here's my simple takeaway. The article could have been a reasonable read if the war story was painted with the context of "oh hey, this is how more discussion and safe spaces helped fix this bug and here's why all of us should do it". What I got instead was "Wow, things/ideas/methods in the community are so broken. Feminism is obviously the only contender to fix this properly, and people who aren't in the feminist camp can't be as effective in reaching these goals. Btw, did I mention that I got groped? And also, everybody who disagreed with me is so clearly anti-feminist"
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The illustrated guide to criminal law - http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=2897 just finished up the 5th amendment.

You have to assert your right to silence, it isn't enough to be silent.
Reading a lot of code helps.
There are certainly evil outcomes when potential contributors actively avoid the Linux kernel and/or other open source projects because the culture can be so hostile.

It's a double loss. It makes the code weaker and less innovative, and it makes the culture seem unappealing to outsiders.

You might not think that's significant. But how can you know what you're missing by not being more exclusive?

Consider: open source could be set up on a semi-formal apprentice/mentor basis. It could easily become a way for programmers at all levels to develop professional standing.

Code on a GitHub profile is not the same as being able to say "I worked on X and was mentored by Y and Z."

And "You're a moron, fuck off" is maybe not the best way to create a culture of collaborative support.
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596001735.do chapter 7.

Don't focus on the Perl language, just on their best practices for documentation. the guideline in terms of content are totally relevant for any language/developers and polished by practice.

Even if I chose to switch from Perl to python, I still miss Perl in terms of module distribution/testing/documentation.

Perl, and Perl community, I miss you, and I value what you learnt me :)

I advocate for people to be open minded and take good ideas without prejudice on their origins.
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Pretty sure that if he's actually talking with Yahoo and the FBI then someone would have pointed him to that address if he really hadn't found it himself! More likely, they just told him "hang on, we'll look into this.. eventually" and he felt this was important enough that a delay like that is unacceptable. Which it is. If you know you've just lost all your customers data, you don't wait a few days to tell them - you schedule a press release for same day release.
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Apple's ditching Flash with essentially no downsides beyond short-lived and short-sighted marketing mockery from competitors is evidence it wasn't a "stupid idea".

Flash still suffers from poor performance to this day, let alone back then, and even on full desktop devices (hell, it'll turn on a Mac Pro's fans). Flash on phones was a miserable idea to start with.
There had been some discussion here on this topic a couple of days ago,
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8400796
There's a really terrible trend of requiring magic spells to be cast to "invoke" 4th and 5th amendment rights. You have a right to remain silent, as the Supreme Court has codified it; it doesn't make any sense to talk about "invoking" it specifically. You don't have to declare "I invoke my First Amendment rights" as a magic spell to avoid being prosecuted for writing something on the internet.
I agree with that.

"It upsets and angers me that you're continuing to make the same mistakes over and over again."

vs. 'abortion', etc.

Both examples communicate emotional content. Only one of them is verbal abuse.
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Yeah they can buy them but that won't make their price fall.
I am a former editor (newspapers and magazines) and now work in tech. No reputable media outlet that I know of would permit prior review -- that is, allowing a source to see a story before it's published. And indeed, doing so could get a reporter in very hot water, if not fired.

So how do reporters, editors, and media outlets make sure that they get their facts right? By doing some of the things suggested -- confirming statements of fact, asking for clarification, and sometimes repeating back a short quote to make sure they haven't misheard anything.

But to allow a source to read the whole thing before publication goes way beyond confirming statements of fact.

At the first magazine I worked at, I had the liberty of being able to call up sources as I was working on a piece. I would typically pick out any statements of fact that they had made during our interviews and restate the fact, asking them to confirm each statement.

There are typically two kinds of objections, and you don't hear either of them very frequently. One is "that's factually inaccurate." Those are the easiest to clear up. The other is, "I never said that!" That's generally not an objection to a statement of fact; it's an objection to a statement of opinion that the person regrets making, or a lie that they have been caught in. I can remember one time that I had a disputed quote on a cassette recorder; we ran with it. Another time, I had only my handwritten notes, and we decided it wasn't worth the risk.

As for this particular blog post, anytime I hear someone accuse a scribe of slandering them or a television/radio reporter of libeling them, I take their accusation with a grain of salt. If you don't know the difference between slander and libel, you probably don't know what constitutes either.
> Its also a concern btwn the end user and the card. Credit cards, bc of the inherent line of credit and their ability to accommodate you into a large amount of personal debt, free the end user up to become a consumer beyond their means. Debit cards don't.

To an extent, overdraft is a thing on debit cards.

> We're spending money that hasn't been earned yet, and there is a lot of space to disrupt that as the industry is held by legacy companies who give out credit.

But Square isn't in that business, they're in the business of ferrying money between the consumer and the provider of goods and services.
Yes, the market for security vulnerabilities is essentially a protection racket, and everyone knows it.
Some kinds of science. It's currently very hard to find an excellent robotics, vision, machine learning, data mining or NLP postdoc, despite large growth in the number of PhDs graduating. They get jobs at Google (etc) instead.

If you choose marine biology, maybe not so much.
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Technically no, because there isn't actually a right to remain silent under the United States Constitution.

Miranda readings, which most people conflate with this "right to remain silent" are a bit of a bizarre invention of the Warren Court from other preexisting rights:

1. The against self-incrimination under the Fifth Amendment.
2. The right to have counsel present during interrogation, since interrogation is considered an inherently coercive environment under the Sixth Amendment.

If the goal is for the suspect to understand his or her legal rights during questioning, "You have the right to remain silent," is a very bad way to phrase Fifth and Sixth to an average Jane.

A more sane way might be an exclusionary rule that throws out all statements before the suspect has the chance to talk to an attorney.

To patch up the corner cases, you could probably import quite a few hearsay exceptions, like excited utterance.

Plus, I don't like this "know the magic words or else" type jurisprudence. "Am I free to leave?" "Am I being detained?" "Do you have a warrant?"

In everyday police interactions, a citizen should never have to assert Constitutional rights. The onus should be on the state's system to ensure they're granted.
> but he should keep his opinion on what _my_ machine should do for himself

Releasing free software and what you accuse him of are entirely different things. Frankly I'd like to understand how you even equate someone releasing software which you aren't even forced to use, to essentially ramming his opinions of how YOUR machine should run down your throat.

The anti-systemd people really aren't coming across at all well in this thread. At lot of what you guys are accusing him of literally makes no sense on the most basic level. This being a prime example.

Don't like systemd? Don't install systemd. Don't like that a distro is bundling systemd? Don't use the distro that is bundling systemd.

The creator of systemd cannot be held responsible for you voluntarily installing the software, leaving it on your system, and then becoming upset about how it works. If you installed systemd and hate it, remove it. It aint' rocket science.
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The old writers' saw runs "Show, don't tell". It speaks to effective communication. It applies here.

Consider which is more effective in person - the phrase "I am angry" uttered in a calm tone of voice or profanity and insults in an angry tone of voice. One of those states anger. The other communicates anger.
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"China can be considered capitalist, they trade actively with us [...] Cuba..that would be just us trading with a Communist country." - this is just pure hypocrisy.
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(def pid-output (chan (pid-transducer 65 0.1 0.02 0.01)))

Unless something has changed with core async I believe you need to provide a buffer if you are going to use a transducer.

From the current doc: "If a transducer is supplied a buffer must be specified."
But there's a further difference between the common cold and ebola: a cold spreads through aerosols, so all those kids standing around the sick one are breathing in live virus. Ebola spreads only through infected bodily fluids, so he'd have to be vomiting directly on the other kids for them to catch it. Usually by the time someone is vomiting or bleeding from Ebola, they feel far too sick to go on a fishing trip.

While it's possible that Ebola could mutate and become airborne (this is the plot of the movie Outbreak, after all), scientist believe it pretty unlikely. In humans, it preferentially attacks the gastrointestinal track, and virus loads are pretty low in the respiratory system.

So yes, averages do obscure specific circumstances that affect reality. However, the averages are low because the specific circumstances that would cause high averages are rare.
Verbal abuse and direct language are unrelated.

Direct language, without verbal abuse:

"I am upset and angry that you keep making the same mistakes."

That's clearly communicating how he feels, without verbally abusing his audience.
I frankly don't believe you. I think you vastly overestimate how much you can sell a vulnerability for and vastly underestimate the morals of white hat hackers reporting bugs for a bounty.

There are close to zero companies that pay tens/hundreds of thousands for a bug, and yet clearly bounties are being paid and not 100% of bugs end up on the black market.
Some iconic science fiction books that can stand alone:

Asimov: The Gods Themselves
Clarke: Childhood's End, Rendezvous with Rama
Herbert: Dune, Whipping Star
Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451
Bester: The Demolished Man, The Stars My Destination (also called "Tiger, Tiger")
Niven: Ringworld
Niven and Pournelle: The Mote in God's Eye, Footfall
Gibson: Neuromancer
Stephenson: Snow Crash, The Diamond Age
Bear: The Forge of God, Eon
Sagan: Contact
van Vogt: The Voyage of the Space Beagle
Lem: Solaris
Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale
LeGuin: The Left Hand of Darkness
Lewis: Out of the Silent Planet

Some of these are the beginnings of series or have sequels, or exist in a larger continuum of stories. But each can be read and appreciated on their own. If you find one you really like, it's not hard to see if there are more in a series or sequel.

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That's like boarding the Titanic when it's already sinking. Europe won't even exist in 50 years. The demographics are brutal and inevitable: young Europeans are not marrying, or marrying late, not having children, or having only one or two children, and having them late. They're rapidly being replaced by immigrants who have no interest in assimilating to the culture or adopting the language, but are having lots of children. You will still be able to find France or Germany on a map 50 years from now, but their cultures will be long gone.
Literally was just started using Divshot and Parse to solve the problem Stamplay is solving. Just tried it and very cool.
Only suggestion is change the name. Extremely hard to remember (had to bookmark it so I didn't forget it) and easy to get confused with Stamply
I think therein lies the problem: yapache. It's their own version of (modified) Apache. So when these bugs like shellshock come out, it's harder to patch your own home-grown version.
Aside from the condescending title, we also have this, in the first sentence:

Cuba, a country of just 11 million people that still enjoys a fraught relationship with the United States

To describe Cuba's position with regard to the U.S. (entering its 6th decade of basically vindictive and pointless economic sanctions) as a "fraught relationship" is certainly an interesting circumlocution. It's kind of like saying that the skinny kid in junior high who keeps getting pushed into lockers "enjoys a fraught relationship" with his peers.
Here in Colombia Uber is AMAZINGLY better than any taxi company. The difference is simply too big.

A normal taxi will not go where I want, or refuse to take me for any other reason. And payment has to be cash only. And there's always some risk the driver will try to take advantage of you.
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I'd say: "Are these people concerned with receiving income for difficult, highly specialized, valuable work, or are they running a charity?" I guess it's a matter of perspective.
The OP will go to prison? Seems a bit hyperbolic to me, without any sort of citation or basis for belief.
If I remember correctly it was a random alpha-numeric password with both different cases and a special character or two, and I've never used the same password on a different service.

All I know is that I've never had this problem on competing services.
Exactly. Project leaders have the power to set the tone of discussions within their communities. If abusive people are moderated, they don't propagate, and the community gets more welcoming.

However this does not address the inter-project nastiness that the OP refers to.
Well, mostly because if it was good enough, it would be the first thing out of the mouth of every blackhat that was caught...

Or to put it in a slightly more nuanced fashion, as a blackhat I could compromise your system, and then turn around and inform you that your system was being compromised whilst at the same time profiting from any data I had already stolen. If the company being contacted does not personally know the person contacting them, it is not altogether unreasonable to treat the person with great suspicion.

That said, people that do have a public reputation for white-hat work probably deserve to get a pass. This of course raises the question of how you go about getting a whitehat reputation, because most whitehats get their rep by doing the same things the blackhats do, without the profit motive.
You mentioned that there are employees in New York, New Orleans and Los Angeles—are you considering engineers in those locations, or only SF?
Would these Cuban doctors be likely to escape to the US via Liberia? Normally it's illegal for them (doctors) to travel outside of the country:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/blog/20130116-cuba-lifts-travel-re...

(edit) Apparently the US explicitly permits Cuban doctors working abroad to emigrate to the US -- in contrast with most refugees, who have to physically set foot in the country to gain asylum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_medical_internationalism...

http://www.state.gov/p/wha/rls/fs/2009/115414.htm

http://online.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240529702037310045760...

"...a wave of Cubans who have defected to the U.S. since 2006 under the little-known Cuban Medical Professional Parole immigration program, which allows Cuban doctors and some other health workers who are serving their government overseas to enter the U.S. immediately as refugees. Data released to The Wall Street Journal under the Freedom of Information Act shows that, through Dec. 16, 1,574 CMPP visas have been issued by U.S. consulates in 65 countries."
I don't reuse my passwords.
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