skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may not be terribly strong evidence but it's certainly evidence on the net impact on government. Illegal immigrants do not generally get the kind of high paying jobs it takes to be a net tax payer. As Mitt Romney infamously publicised, they're only 47%. And while adult illegal immigrants probably commit less property crime than citizens, their American citizen children are less law abiding than average.

Illegal immigrants are at best marginal payers into the fisc. They increase competition for land/housing and may have negative effects on labour market outcomes for natives by depressing wages. And they entered your country illegally.

If you want to argue for Open Borders or increased humanitarian immigration go for it. I'm sympathetic if not convinced. Illegal immigrants usually have a massive increase in standard of living. But most of America's illegal immigrants are from Central and South America, and the well educated portions of those countries do not immigrate to the US illegally.
I was never much of an outdoors-type kid. I spent much of my early childhood basking in the warm, green glow of an Apple ][ monochrome display (had to be torn away from it periodically and forced to go outside), and so I had to start wearing glasses in the 2nd grade. Today, my eyeglass prescription is -8.50D. Though it's at least been stable for the last 10 years or so.

My mother is also a programmer and has horrible eyesight as well, but she grew up on a farm and had never even seen a computer prior to college, so maybe my myopia is mostly inherited.
Workflow editor sounds like Team Build, which is not the same thing.
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What about distant focal work (focusing your eyes on clouds, etc)? It's weird that illumination should have an effect and training focus variation doesn't?
See also: the diamond trade…
I don't recall my first years in Germany, learning English. Do they really start by speaking English only? And .. I don't know, explaining words by pointing at things etc? I .. don't remember. I do know that most of my English classes were held in English and completely so, but I forgot the beginning..

I spent a year in Israel and wanted to learn the language (spoiler: I failed). The language courses (Ulpan) there started in Hebrew on day one. I knew not a single word. It was pointing at things, using your hands and .. a new language.

I liked the concept and I do like the language, even though I never made it.
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I guess this is why if you stand to make small profits by selling something against making a wild profit at a later stage albeit with a lesser chance of it happening. You must chose the latter.
There's a support article here:

https://support.spotify.com/us/problems/#!/article/Why-have-...

They claim that the behavior matches your desired behavior of having a "pointer" that re-updates if availability changes and the explicit version is made available again
MSBuild is a nightmare to debug if you end up writing even moderately complex MSBuild project files. It doesn't help that VS has a completely different implementation of MSBuild which is subtly incompatible with the command-line MSBuild.

Also, setting up proper dependency tracking, so that builds are incremental, is considered an "advanced topic", and is extremely difficult to get right in the presence of various kinds of generated files in the build. In these cases, it is much, much slower than a modern build tool like ninja.

MSBuild being open source is going to save countless hours of building workarounds for bugs that have been acknowledged and gone unfixed, or debugging strange problems.

I'm happy to see that it's happened, but would have been much happier had it happened a year ago and saved me months of build system hell.
I find it hard to believe you have done much lisp if you are complaining about balancing parens. If you had done a lot of lisp, then you would never care about balancing parens, because there are tons of context-aware tools that do it for you. Not just that - these tools [paredit, smartparens, etc.] make it impossible for one to ever unbalance parens because they're contextually aware.
I mostly agree, but that's true any time you wrap a complex problem up into a single number. I am merely arguing that, if we pick a single number, deaths-per-passenger-mile is much better than deaths-per-licensed-driver.

I guess you are saying that deaths-per-trip is an even better number. That would be interesting to see, I agree, but as an additional number, not a replacement.
Would it be worth investing those kind of resources into tracking lower-tier sellers or buyers though?
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Not really. Right now streaming services barely manage to pay even the top artists anything meaningful. This scheme would mean everyone gets paid barely anything, and the bigger artists may leave, which is an existential threat to the business.
From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

"Resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downvote you."
One Evolution (ex-)staff member claims that 130,000 BTC (~$35 million) were stolen:

http://www.deepdotweb.com/2015/03/18/interview-with-nswgreat...
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The CoinJoin proposal[0] by Greg Maxwell provides transaction-history-tracing erasure capabilities. JoinMarket[1] is a market driven approach to incent CoinJoin mixing

[0]https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=279249.0
[1]https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=919116.0
The main question to me is how generous the company is with its grants. I feel like mine was very generous pre-IPO, as they pursued a retention strategy (not wanting the typical exodus of folks when the lock up expires).

However, if a company is not generous, it's likely not a viable strategy.

My strong belief is that you should go work somewhere that you enjoy the work, the people and you feel like you are being compensated appropriately. Getting "rich" is pretty much pure "luck", IMO.
When approaching a beachhead market, it's best to try to deliver a whole product rather than to spread one's self thin specializing for disparate consumers. Clearly users will appreciate some features of their offering more than others; shooting for full-stack at launch both gets the company more feedback and allows them the most control over the initial relationship.

I totally agree that the full-stack offering can be rather off-putting, but the business side of DS still doesn't understand how to reliably make money from this market. Cloudera (and friends) have made money from a full-stack offering, so it's easy try to imitate this success.

IMO the online IDE is very useful for expositions and small projects, but indeed a limiting playground for larger projects. I'd love to see SAAS/PAAS do better at co-locating their offerings so that, e.g., I could run part of the stack on my own hardware (which is where the data lives). Perhaps Docker would help facilitate this business model.
So shouldn't the project focus on providing decentralized water management to residents (roof capture, condensing from the air) instead of funneling money into a system used for tax collection with the side effect of providing water?

Solar can be used for distributed generation, why can we not provide distributed water production?
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No, the argument is "Why didn't the Unicode authors make the same technical choice I would have based on my limited knowledge of this topic -- including not knowing that the pile of poo was created for use in the Japanese market; as well as not knowing that I could participate myself for just $75, not the $18,000 lie in my story; and not understanding the nuances of international standardization; or reviewing the list of international liaisons to the Unicode organization where much of the language-specific work is done?"
Ironically, I found out about Aaron Swartz from the news. I'm reminded of "Nietzsche says God is dead; God says Nietzsche is dead". Aaron Swartz says the news is irrelevant. The news says Aaron Swartz is relevant.
We haven't fully launched yet - we've started sending out invites as we slowly scale up to everyone. But we just updated our site with more details about Gyroscope and are starting to accelerate that process now.
I don't know the current state of affairs, but a couple of years ago Dropbox wasn't so good for businesses, as they were lacking a lot of compliance tickboxes.
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Aren't Lagrange points present in Newton's model? Why would they be missing from the game?
"Smart" text editor should help with parentheses. Two ideas come to mind:

- It should be aware of S-expression grammar, and actively monitor what the user is typing. (Think of it as an s-expression expert watching over your shoulder).

- The line or code block that the cursor is on at a given time, could swtich to multiline view on the fly, with parentheses replaced with indentations, and some color coding. When you move cursor up using the arrow key, the multiline S-expression automatically collapses, and the one above expands.

In any case, text editors need to be "fully" aware of the language, e.g., even if the editor does syntax highlighting, it is doing that based on the complete parsing cabability of the syntax, instead of just bunch of rules in editor's script (like vimscript in vim).

It would also help if the source file is saved as an AST of the code, instead of raw code. This would also help with code formatting on the fly, and personalized settings for the user of the text editor (e.g., one use always prefers to see S-expressions in multiple lines, another always prefers collapsed view.)

Going further. Text editor should allow you to replace any language token with your favorite token, e.g., '(' and ')' could be replaced with '{' or '}' or something else (or maybe even just indentations). As a user preference, not as something that is saved in the AST file.

I hope to see something like this for C, something that I like to call "semantic C" programming.

I guess I went off on a tangent.
But it's easier to pretend that they are both wrong.
Because then you end up with thinks like Python's one expression lambda.
you're not getting my point - it doesn't matter what they were called, it was a low status job. that's why nobody cared whether they came or went.

back in the day, women only had low status jobs. that's the point. they were secretaries, assistants, computer programmers, etc. now they're PR executives, bankers, lawyers, etc. the times changed, not the job.
> About one-fifth of university-aged people in East Asia now have this extreme form of myopia, and half of them are expected to develop irreversible vision loss.

Which means that 10% of university-aged people in East Asia are going to develop irreversible vision loss. This sounds too terrible to be true. Am I missing something here? I interpret vision loss as blindness, but maybe it is used to describe degraded vision instead?
It's coming: http://caniuse.com/#feat=srcset
Can't you just give your confidential source the MIT license?
[Hi from Argentina!]

In Argentina the custom is that someone pour the water in the mate and then pass it to the other persons, following the order of a round. And everyone suck from the same bombilla (straw). It's very strange for the foreign, because they are not used to share the straws.
omg, my fear of heights is much better now than it used to be, but I felt physically ill watching that movie.
While I understand the point of the fable, I don't get this version at all. Snakes don't rely on lures or deception; they sneak up on their small prey and try to keep out of the way of larger animals. I feel particularly well disposed towards rattlesnakes because they advertise that they don't want to be messed with. Rather like sharks, I feel like hey get a bad rap. Of course the author has rather obvious religious sensibilities, so perhaps that influences his perspective.
Do we know if it's related to the UV spectrum of the light(e.g. is this equivalent to sunlight's properties w/r to vitamin D), or is the eye exposure mostly about the visible spectrum?
I thought for a second you were facetiously referring to Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica... "hey, check out this cool new work on orbital mechanics" :P
Interesting reply - 8 figures is enough for taking a break and do other things. Is there a reason you've still stuck to being an employee ?
Well....reading the thread, there are people claiming that drug gangs are going to kill people (both the owners of the site and people who are going to come up short paying their suppliers), at least one person seriously talking about suicide, and another saying that he has contact info for the owners. I can't say what resources they will put into it, but there are a ton of law enforcement red alerts and more than enough probable cause in that one thread to subpoena Reddit.
Making it easier to report threats to law enforcement
Well I knew that they used the refund rails, but I was curious how they protect against fraud. This seems to imply that there's nothing magical regarding the anti-fraud: they just try stay on top of it.
I understood that jtag was effectively trusting what the circuit reports back - a bit like asking a binary to tell you it's own md5.

I am interested to know if I am wrong (it's not uncommon) and if scan chains might solve that too.

A different approach might be to fingerprint different areas of the chip under different inputs - so for example when this bus passes over a million zero words, everything connected to it performs in a unique way that would not work if the chip was physically different to it's schematic?
The tower in Dallas, NC (on the map) is less than a mile from my childhood home. It sits in the middle of a cow pasture -- I grew up catching bluegill and catfish in a cow pond a few hundred yards from the tower. Never realized that it would be the 4th tallest building in the world if it were a skyscraper. Thanks for sharing.
I definitely don't prefer bootcamp over CS degrees, but for my companies/projects (which are small), I never hire junior devs.

There are lots of reasons, but the main one is that they're expensive. They take a lot of time to train and guide and they tend to write terrible code.

Experience is incredibly important for writing good code, as anyone who has hired a CS graduate will tell you. No amount of theory can prepare you for the tradeoffs and sub-optimal decision-making that you do at a startup.

As an example, one of my friends is a CS grad, and he's only ever written code in C, C++, Python, and JavaScript. As a result, he absolutely loves writing Node applications. He's never written a huge Node application or tried to maintain one written by someone else, but if he did, I guarantee he'd hate Node and wish he could use something with strict typing.

So I think your questions really answer themselves. People want experience, even if they have to pay extra for it.

Your friends will have no trouble getting jobs at large companies, though, and those will be much more stable (and have better mentorship) than most startups.
And if Argentina is like Brazil, never ever hold the straw with your hand. Only your lips should touch it.
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I'm really excited to try Cloud Haskell out. I've been working with Spark for a while and, while it's powerful, the Hadoop/Java legacy is a pain point, and keeping Java-culture out of Scala seems impossible (if leading open-source libraries can't do it, then what hope is there?)

I'd love to see a point where people don't assume that distributed programming automatically means Hadoop, because I feel like (a) those solutions are heavyweight and user-hostile due to Java inheritance and (b) Hadoop and Spark are the only things propping the JVM up, these days. (It helps that Scala and Clojure are half-decent languages, although I've grown to prefer Haskell.)
Here are my thoughts on this - After emacs and shell, I typically spend time using the browser. I am thinking of trying out Conkeror[1] to minimize my use of the mouse.

[1] http://conkeror.org/
Would the rise of wearing sunglasses during the last 50 or so years might have any effect as well, I wonder? After all, the eye presumably responds the same whether it's getting insufficient light because someone is indoors or because that person is outside but shielding it from >10k lux light with tinted shades.
Wikipedia says it's Paradox Development Studio, which is the design studio, where Paradox Interactive is the publisher, and both are under the same parent company. As far as I am aware, the 'clausewitz engine' used by these games isn't available to other developers.

Who are you seeing as the 'not-Paradox' developer for CK2?
Ha - I experienced exactly this. Had my first meeting in Buenos Aires (with a dev shop). 6 (or so) guys around the table. One guy drinking Mate. Mid-conversation, as if it's no big deal, another guy reaches over, grabs the drink, and starts sipping. Moments later another guy does the same.

As an American, it was really amusing.
To you and the other posters:

You still gotta read the code later. It's not just about input time. The () just cloud things up and can make it slower to understand what's going on IMHO.

This is just my opinion/brain, but I also dislike the RP-style notation. 3 + 5 is easier for me to read than + 3 5, especially when you start combining things like (/ 15 (* (+ 3 5) 4)).
My personal pet peeve is that it doesn't do "s/foo/bar/" anymore in the beta (whereas this does work in the desktop-client and current stable webclient).
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That is an improvement.

Edit: Why the down vote? I appreciated someone's work to address the issues I have with LISP?!
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> Rework on modern day electronics is infeasible without somewhat expensive tools and a fair amount of skill.

Skill, yes. Expensive? Define that. A microscope, a heat gun, and a soldering iron total to about $3,000 for quite good ones.
In my experience, big sites that crank out short articles like the Atlantic online, Slate, and Vice pay a set rate per piece, but longer-form outlets like Aeon and Nautilus pay per word. I've never written for a print-only magazine but I've heard that they still pay per word by and large. And I should add, the academic journals I've written for pay nothing at all!
Anti-doxing strategy, or how to avoid 50 Qurans and $287 of Chick-Fil-A
Ask HN: College name vs. education
I’m going to be applying to colleges soon (for computer science), and I’ve met people who insist that the name (Harvard, Yale, etc.) is more important than the quality of education (UC Berkley, Carnegie Mellon).

In your experience, which one is weighed more heavily?
He buried the lede, but this is a pretty hardcore attack on Y-Combinator. He basically calls it bullshit, which I've never seen a counterargument for ($0 public market cap is pretty telling).

I don't know about incubators in general, but the mentality of targeting incubators or funding and thinking of those things as success is absolutely toxic. It results in many more dead companies than living ones.
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Is it illegal to use these sites? Surely, they would have to explicitly say that they purchased/sold drugs (or something else illegal) for a subpoena and later search warrant to be legal.
Wonderful! What are the best use case for using this patterns apart from geo graph representation?
>I'll be a lambda heretic and say list comprehensions are the superior approach.

If all you use lambdas for is list comprehensions then... sure?
I vaguely recall that Haskell has some really neat features to fight the parentheses problem, so you might want to take a look.
Better link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9226421
I'd argue you have to invoke the way that mate competition involved both tool use and social jockeying.
The mobile link is a little jarring on desktop (?m=1). Here it is without mobile:

http://blog.chromium.org/2015/03/new-javascript-techniques-f...
> While multiple shares may be purchased in the fund, membership only comes with 1 equal vote.

How are you going to prevent the abuse of sockpuppets / meatpuppets / shills?
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They're missing from KSP not merely because it uses Newtonian physics, but because it only uses two-body gravitational physics at any given time. The planets and moons are on rails and you are in only one gravity well at a time. Lagrange points exist in the intersections between two gravity wells.
I'm OK with the personal data but it doesn't seem to be good idea to allow you to access my private repos in Github.
Lama pulled a clever maneuver, and San Francisco tenants rights attorney Joseph Tobener, managing partner at Tobener Law Center, says it’s too early to tell whether what she did is legal.

Complete. Fail. In the "lawmakers, you had one job" category.
You have to trust the arbitrator to make fair decisions, but the arbitrator has no ability to steal the money.

The transaction simply moves funds between buyer and seller. If buyer and seller both sign the transaction, it completes without the arbitrator's involvement. If buyer and seller dispute, then the one who hopes to complete the transaction signs it and contacts the arbitrator, who will either sign, or not sign, but either way never gets possession of the funds.
Not unprecedented - The Beatles didn't tour their last 7 studio albums (and on their own label, so they were arguably "indie")
That would be infinitely better than the paid infommercials most people current claim as their "research".
Cost center.
it converted better

Nevermind me then, I will never understand people.
The article states that 10k lux is about what you experience when wearing sunglasses, or sitting under a shady tree
One could easily find a correlation between my need for glasses and the time at which I (and a lot of others) began using computers heavily, like being on a computer for more than 8 hours a day.
Because this is still a new, and somewhat controversial idea, and the article spent a lot of time considering the alternatives and explaining why their proposed idea seemed to fit the data best. Without it there would be no reason to take their idea as more credible.

Now I dislike pointlessly long articles, and certainly this article could have used with an abstract to put forward the main thesis before delving into alternatives, but I don't think your criticism is entirely fair. It certainly didn't fit the pattern of the really long articles where the writer invariably talks about their childhood or some other barely relevant events before actually talking about the issue at hand.
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It took way too much reading to realise there wasn't actually a "there" there, that none of the pointers-to-pointers-to-explanations actually resolved in the end. The evidence is pretty clear that I have way too much time on my hands.
What the hell is MSBuild and why should I care?
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