skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems to be just a mirror for the tarballs and sigs which area otherwise available on the github project:

https://github.com/stargrave/govpn/releases
while cycling (ie to work) on roads with cars, you are in full control of all dangerous elements... ooh wait
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I want to work on some real projects like website for your product or company or business.
I am a student and I would do it for free...

Thanks.
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H1Bs can't be stolen away. They're locked into their employment contract unless they want to go home.
If you, and the person you replied to, are troubled by me seeking the best that I can provide for my family.... I won't lose any sleep over it.

I only comment to state that it isn't about status.
That's what I was told, but I guess I was suffering from "learn-the-new-thing-itis" so I invested in Lua... I've been meaning to give Tcl a fair shake though so this Docker API might be a good motivator.
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Along with the other of the Five Eyes (New Zealand, Australia, Canada) who are all in cahoots with one another... behind closed doors... or not since Snowden gave us all the red pill.
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You're an exception. They don't want people hacking around with it making apps for themselves and friends. They want proper shops making apps for a marketplace, with a specific business directive and opportunity for monetization.

I know that sucks, but if you want something more open, perhaps there is something you can do with a Raspberry Pi w/ some kind of voice module?
> This is a matter of understanding the features of your application and operating system.

I've written OS drivers on two operating systems. Clearly my ignorance of how computers work is my limitation...

> If you choose to only learn the features at the surface, that's your prerogative, but I don't think you can claim a particular strategy is faster or more efficient if you don't really grok the alternatives (I don't think you do judging by your various claims).

The alternative I suggest is more consistent across sites, solves typos, provides security advantages, and is certainly faster than type + arrow + arrow + arrow + enter (in particular as that list is inconsistent with entries shifting places often, plus there is lag between typing and the auto-complete list populating, Google loads almost as fast).

As soon as you get to your destination you're using the mouse anyway, so moving over to the mouse one click earlier is hardly a cost.

Honestly this entire discussion reminds me a lot of the "UI Vs. terminal" debate. It has nothing to do with actual efficiency in what you're trying to accomplish, and has everything to do with a feeling of superiority over the ignorant masses.

Personally I'm always going to take efficiency over smug superiority, and consistency is a key part of that. My method works for every site I visit, they're always No.1 on Google/Bing and the URL is always correct/without typos (even if I typo-ed them).
How about we just make the immigration process sane? #vastoversimplification
A) There are currently mobile deep linking capabilities. And companies can / do have URLs like he showed link to a specific part of their mobile app.

B) Mobile apps currently have much nicer interfaces than anything in the mobile web.

C) Mobile apps have a more effective payment mechanism than the web has ever had.
Not with a 2.5M watch, but you can buy a Rolex, TAG, Omega or many other hand made swiss masterpieces for under 10K, all of them tbh look much more appealing than a square piece of gold on your hand.

It's also quite sad that the base watch has a freaking sport strap even in the "gold edition" if you want to actually have a classical watch strap you'll have to cough up 17K....

CH was right, the only use of this watch is to show just how much money you are willing to spend on a piece of crap.

A classical luxury watch has at least a heirloom factor, i got a pretty expensive watch for my 18th Birthday and i still keep it as one. This watch will be obsolete after 18 months, not to mention not maintainable after 3-4 years.

What happens when the battery dies out? what happens when you no longer can run WatchOS 3 cuz IWatch 2 is out? :)

Give me a nice breitling or an omega any day these watches will last for centuries and still keep working and keep true time.
It sounds ridiculous because Amazon doesn't really control anything. The only result of their pricing change would be the switching to a competitor.

It changes when the context are not "marginal EC2 instances" but instead energy and resources burning machines, used (often) by ignorant software developers and their organizations allowed and actually encouraged, partly even actively driven into such purely self beneficial behavior models.

Fair enough, and I agree with you that more reflection is needed on the ethics of our industry. No argument there.

That said, I think you're miscalculating the result of such a switch. The fact is that servers are pretty efficient.

Say one of the developers commutes to work, doing ~12 miles each way on her/his Prius. If he works for two days optimizing the code, the energy cost of his commute will be ~130kWh.

With that same energy, you can run a PowerEdge R420 on full power (CPU benchmark) for almost 40 days! And remember that each of those would power a bunch of EC2 instances.

The reason EC2 instances are cheap is because they're actually cheap, both in terms of energy and resources.
The biggest difference is that, unlike Om, Reagent does not require you to reify an interface to define a component. Instead, components are defined with functions which return a hiccup-like datastructure. If you need access to React's other lifecycle methods, you can provide metadata, but in general, you don't need to bother. Personally, I find this easier to reason about.

The other major change is that state is managed through a special, customized, reactive atom. Everytime the atom is updated, any components which use it are updated. You can have as many of these atoms as you want and you can use them from as many components as you want.
That's all it really is. Arguing over metric or US Customary is just pseudo-intellectualism.
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> Alex knows how to climb like you know how to drive.

More importantly: he knows what he cannot climb with sufficient certainty to try free solo.
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Regarding (3), you have the success of Swiss direct democracy to content with.
I'm reasonably sure some of the rubygems maintainers stated that in $FUTURE_VERSION bundler's functionality will be folded back in rubygems itself.

Rubygems is a very old project and it was basically stalled for a long time, it has already made quite big strides recently.

But I don't think it's rubygems' role to fix what rvm/rbenv fix (multiple rubies). Jars don't do that either :)
Insurance coverage for mental health is a complete joke.
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I wonder if it's time to stop requiring address and phone number information in the WHOIS information. Unless registrars are required to verify it with a confirmation letter and phone call, there isn't much guarantee that the information will be accurate anyway.

The Internet isn't the nice place that it used to be, and I literally have never gotten anything but spam snail mail letters for my domains.

Perhaps we could even drop the email, and suggest that every domain monitor the abuse@ domain in order to receive DMCA requests, etc. If the abuse account isn't monitored, DMCA requests can be sent to the owner of the IP address block, which seems to be a popular approach anyway.

(For those who have never tried it, try doing a WHOIS on an IP address to get the WHOIS records for several layers of IP block ownership. This is a use case where contact information makes a lot more sense, as these blocks are going to be owned by businesses where there'd be no point to guarding privacy.)
Very cool work, I'm happy to see more people thinking about deep networks along these lines.
It seems that this is very similar to a recent work put on arxiv back in November,

"Learning to Generate Chairs with Convolutional Neural Networks".
http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.5928

They also have a very cool video of the generation process:
https://youtu.be/QCSW4isBDL0

It's very interesting to see two groups independently developing almost identical networks for inverse graphics tasks, both using pose, shape, and view parameters to guide learning. I think that continuing in this direction could provide a lot of insight into how these deep networks work, and lead to new improvements for recognition tasks too.

@tejask - You should probably cite the above paper, and thanks for providing code! awesome!
And yes, they are fast! lol
They would no longer need the approval of UK courts.
And by fast I mean efficient Correction
"As these are average salaries, it is important to note that 50% of actual wages will fall above or below the numbers listed." Um, no!
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It made me think that it's already wearing a space suit, no wonder they survive in space.
Share re-purchase actions take money held by the company and transfer it to stockholders. It's a statement by management that "we don't have good ways to invest this money in building the business further, so we're gonna just return it to shareholders."

That in itself is not a negative statement to make. There are market conditions in which a company simply cannot effectively invest $1b productively, or $5b, or $8b.

The author of the piece doesn't address this. What is his alternative plan for where to put the money? He says "if the old GM had 'saved' money...." it would have had more to withstand the eventual downturn in 2009. Well where exactly would GM save its money today? In a bank? Investing in someone else's shares?

GM has been ramping up production (building factories) in China but that looks like a huge risk given the proven willingness of the Chinese government to seize foreign commercial investments.

Should GM be building more factories in the USA? EU? Should it be investing in massive new electric vehicle research? All interesting possibilities.

but Mary Barra doesn't have a plan for the money, which is why an activist investor asked for her to give it to the owners of the stock. If she had said - "look, I understand you want the $5b, but it's better for the company long-term if we invest it in developing XXX" - then the shareholders might have sided with management.
If anyone is interested, I have 3 keybase invites to hand out. Contact is in my profile.

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i hope this works and so other people have been waiting for this for years.
I was thinking why we don't include these in the mars rovers and other space probes, see how they do on other planets. Is there some ethical problem with that? Like the prime directive.
Yeah, that's in reference to the failure of Beagle 2. It's on the page that was linked by Someone1234 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_...).
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Even if they hire in at a market wage (and they often don't), you don't have to give H-1B workers raises or promotions.
I thought about that, but there were other games where the developers created their own deep setting. Elder Scrolls: Morrowind for example. In the grand scheme of that game's setting, you were just some guy in a huge world that was full of interesting people and organizations. I couldn't say the same for Mass Effect 3, which had your companions, and a few people you interacted with in your quest to save the galaxy, but that's pretty much it.
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Here's an article covering the most well known incident:
http://www.hrw.org/news/2006/11/09/sweden-violated-torture-b...

They did obtain assurances from Egyptian authorities that the asylum seekers would not be tortured, but didn't do anything to ensure this could be enforced, and of course they ended up getting tortured. (EDIT: But even if one were to believe that Swedish authorities actually believed those assurances, a parliamentary investigator also determined that the treatment in Sweden violated Swedish law - they were arrested and violated and handed over without any required legal procedures, and even if they had been legally extradited, the treatment itself still would be illegal - see below)

Here's an article about Swedish military intelligence interfering after the CIA continued the rendition flights via Sweden for years after they had supposedly stopped:

http://www.swedishwire.com/politics/7497-cia-rendition-fligh...

This article also has more details about the Egyptian incident, including:

> Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery, two Egyptians who had been seeking asylum in Sweden, were arrested by Swedish police in December 2001. They were taken to Bromma airport in Stockholm, had their clothes cut from their bodies, suppositories inserted in their anuses and in diapers, overall, handcuffs and chains put on an executive jet with American registration N379P with a crew of masked men.

> They were flown to Egypt, where they were imprisoned, beaten, and tortured according to reports by Swedish investigative pogramme "Kalla fakta". The Swedish ambassador visited them only six weeks later.

We can hope that was the end of it, given that Swedish military intelligence did act, but the fact of the matter is someone high up authorised it initially, given that it required the cooperation of police, security services and the CIA, and to this date it is not clear who did. Either someone did it under the nose of top levels of government, or the very same people who claimed to have put a stop to it authorised it in the first place.

What we do know is that there's been no proper investigation apart from a finding by a parliamentary investigator that the rendition flights were in violation of Swedish law. In other words there are no guarantees that the arrangement haven't simply been changed.
Leaving aside the nationalist politics, this would do approximately as described by the paper: a heap more indentured engineers coming in, able to be underpaid and exploited, driving down market rates for salaries. That's going to be real fun for people in competition with the body shops. :-/ Outsourcing has its next iteration, I guess.

This is, by the way, why hackers should pay attention to politics. The political forces know how to game systems of humans extremely well - an apex politician has the backing of a machine tuned to game politics for him & them at the level of a Gosling or a Steele with an army of supporters. Staying out of politics and wanting change is equivalent to not contributing/communicating to a project at all and moaning to your friends: ain't nothing gonna happen.
Yes, unreservedly. Immigrant workers whose residencies are not tightly coupled to their jobs would drive wages down much less than H-1Bs.

This is why you don't see employers lobbying for easier immigration policy. Instead, they lobby for expansions of the H-1B program.
There was/is a packet writing format that can be used, as far back as CD-R i think, but early Windows needed a special driver just to read them. Supposedly Universal Disk Format (UDF, DVD and later) has it baked in. But i can't say i have ever seen it used.
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Does anybody else feel sorry for them, you look like a turd with legs, your mouth looks like an anus, and you can't die easily. Maybe some sort of reincarnation hell?
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I like the approach taken by Nominet (.uk domain registry). If you are an individual and you're not trading via your website you can hide your personal details from whois. However, companies and trading individuals have to display it.
100% Correct.

They're afraid people will write an app for themselves, and distribute it.

They want to control access/experience.
Like taxes, too many people and companies rely upon the current system to allow politicians to change what we are doing.

A good start would be to remove the H1B program in its entirety and allow specialized labor to get a work permit (with the intention to be citizens) and not be tied to a company. Graduates of our public universities should be the first to get these slots.
"..without ever actually hearing what comes next before."
That claim is logically impossible. If most people were committing felonies without harm, that would lend plausible deniability to harmful felons, thus indirectly causing harm.
If this happened on renewal, means the customers who explicitly asked for Privacy protection didn't receive that service. Shouldn't Google at least refund all the customers the privacy protection fee because Google failed to provide the service it charged customers for?

EDIT: I understand that bugs are unavoidable but Google should be bearing the cost of its bugs. Google should volunteer the refund of $6 X 300,000 (approx. 1.8M dollars) not including negligence penalty of course.
The current political reality is that about 1.2 million immigrants are accepted legally into the US every year, a number that falls far short of demand. The current system is generally based on family reunification rather than work force needs (such as skilled immigration).
Silicon valley employers, ostensibly unable to hire the workers they need (under the terms they feel are acceptable) from the citizens who were born here or immigrated through non-work related programs, have lobbied for the power to bestow "front of line" privileges on people (usually STEM workers) they wish to hire. This is an unusual request (and substantial expansion of corporate power into the immigration system) that they justify by claiming that there is a shortage of these very highly skilled workers, a shortage severe enough to cause harm to the US economy in general.

This is where it starts to get complicated, because if you change the rules only for a small segment of the workforce (such as proposals to staple a green cart to STEM degrees but not dentistry, law, MBA…), you may end up creating market distortions that reduce the attractiveness of engineering or software relative to the other fields highly educated people can pursue (provided those people already have the right to live and work in the US). When you consider the skill it takes to be a good software developer and what they could earn in some other field, I don't think that the evidence supports claims of a particular shortage.

Take a look at the US News Best Jobs salary data some time, and focus on salaries in high cost regions like SF. You'll find that while programmers are reasonably well paid, in SF they earn only a bit more than dental hygienists, and quite a bit less than registered nurses. I also think that career stability and long term prospects may actually be much better in other fields. In short,I think that the aversion to software development among people who already possess the right to live and work in the US may be rational and market based, and that getting the government involved will simply forestall the market signals that would get more people interested in this field. Pay and work conditions (you make about as much as you would have with an associate's degree in a health related field, work in a giant open office with back visibility, in a company that may discard you when you get older, perhaps demanding that you train your replacement) need to improve to get more people into programming. Why should we tinker with the immigration system to allow business as usual, when clearly something needs to change?

Just to be clear, I do think that openness to international engineering talent is a critical factor in any countries workforce, and I do favor some kind of skilled immigration program. My big difference is that I also see a potential risk to the domestic pipeline through these market distortions.
If you already have a bunch of 1Password data, this lets you read it. Keepass is definitely more feature-rich than my thing, but 1Password is cross-platform and has mobile apps - and most importantly, I already use it for everything! I used 1Password extensively on my Mac - and when I switched to Linux on the desktop, it was the only thing missing, so I wrote this.
Having whois information protected is quite less useful than the article pretend it is. Most the information is already available through much more extensive databases, and where I live, there is at least two competing online phone books that not only include name, address and phone number, and email, but also time of birth.

For a service which is intended to serve those with hidden number or hidden address, 94% opt-in rate sound to dilute that purpose which makes the people in charge less careful in handling it. Might very likely even cause more leaks in the future.
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How can you be familiar with something you've never heard before?
So, the problem here is that "more foreigners come here and steal our jobs"? Why is such an article even on this website?
I still struggle to understand why we need to have a real address of domain's owner publicly assigned to WHOIS data. The registrar knows the owner so it is available to law enforcement if lawfully necessary. Owners can also use SSL certificate to show their address if they need to. But why force them to make it always public?
Why is the note D# mapped to R instead of E?
There’s no doubt the promoters of the bill are self-interested, and one should read the fine print, but: the notion of excluding workers that are on a different side of a border, in order to “protect” wages, is deeply immoral.

Do the wages of the people outside of the border count? Theirs would be going up, due to a more liberal immigration policy. The idea that such a bill would “lower engineers’ wages” seems to be selective in which engineers we are talking about.
You can be proud of your achievements without being smug.

Also, hubris being a virtue is crap. It may be decent for your self esteem but it makes you miserable to be around. Case in point: Larry Wall.
The customers of these body shops are not typically small businessmen or individuals who think about this rationally.

The customers are mini planned economies (aka corporations) with a the standard host of principal/agent issues - CYA behavior (shifting liability for poor decisions), kickbacks, etc.