skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it the government's job to prevent legal wage depression? How exactly is H1B wage depression? If there is a legal and ethical way of hiring someone who can do your work for less, why should that be shut out? It's a different matter if you are talking about the minimum wage, which does merit some protection.

Wage-based arguments for H1B are pure protectionism.

There are legitimate problems with H1B, e.g. spouse not being allowed to work and the irrational country quotas for transitioning H1Bs into green cards. 'Wage-depressing' and 'job-stealing' are specious critiques at best. It is debatable whether the government should be in the business of preventing wage depression.
This comment represents the my biggest frustration with current programming tools & practices. You shouldn't have to include any libraries. Ever! And you shouldn't have to rewrite some code that does something that's already available and well-written. That, and, if you want to include some functionality, there will be 13,000 versions of the same functionality for you to review before you decide which one to learn and commit to. (And it is easier to write it yourself sometimes.)

There's no reliable way for languages themselves to standardize and aggregate the work that others do. You just hope the language designers are willing to put up a new version, (and that it's a decent one) and they end up doing it ever-so-slowly because it's not automated in any way. Hand-pick and re-roll. There's no metric-based signaling or automated analysis or anything, it's just whatever your experts opine.
> Alternatively, they may have already graduated high school.

I personally wouldn't care but I've talked to a handful of VCs in my time that were very into their firm that would take any slight against them or their firm as some egregious, unrecoverable thing. Very unreasonable people at times hence my comment.
I don't drive that much these days. When I did, I would occasionally get on the roads very early, when it seemed to me that the Washington, DC, traffic lights were well timed. Once the rush hour started, though, it was not possible to maintain the speeds for which the lights were timed. I suspect that this is the case many other places.
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thanks! will keep those features in mind :)
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Ah, build tools... I dream of a day when they are not needed anymore... they are supposed to be the "dynamic part" of statically typed language, but even dynamically typed ones somehow manage to need them (nodejs...)

If there is a problem to solve in development it's definitely that one...
California does have that. They just don't apply to farmers, who use 80% of the water.
I should point out that a tax to promote efficient use of land surface area should not include the value of improvements to the property.

Most municipalities in the US tax property based upon assessed market value, which discourages more efficient use of land. If you knock down your single-family house and erect a multistory condo, the value of the improvement will swamp the value of the land, and you will be punished with much higher property tax.

Georgists (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism) explored the probable effects of land taxes extensively, though I don't agree with the premises of their reasoning.

For one, Henry George drew the supply curve for land as a vertical line, to reflect the idea that you can't make more land. But different areas of land have different suitability for any given purpose. It is true that you can't increase the surface area of the Earth, but you can still rank every hectare by how much effort it takes to reach it from the center of global trade. The economic projection of the world map is basically one huge ocean in the middle, a ring of port cities around it, roads and rivers spreading outward from there, and deserts and wilderness way out at the edges. Those peripheral lands are the ones that get used last, when land prices are highest, and that's why the supply curve for land is not vertical.

Besides that, it is difficult to separate the value of the land itself from the improvements on it, or even the improvements near it. Is it just for you to be taxed more when someone else builds a train station near your house? I think the way to levy a land tax that is least susceptible to abuse or political manipulation is to calculate it based purely upon surface area. A hectare in the furthest backwater of the jurisdiction is taxed at the same rate as one in the busiest urban center.
I hope you're joking about that second part....
UPS Operations Research algorithms meet the road
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interesting, not entirely surprising given how we love to jump to conclusions over these things, and the history of fish oil as a 'common knowledge' 'good thing'.

slightly disappointed that the headline was not fish oil is actually snake oil? or something suitably witty... :)
Transport security is mostly better implemented via ipsec (a VPN tunnel).

I'm happy that redis doesn't implement SSL, it just shows that they are prioritizing relevant features.
I know this is all straw man, but interesting stuff...

Many crops use much more water than Almonds [0], I guess they're just fun to pick on. It'd be interesting to see a calorie/water comparison of many foods.

Also, my family's farm spends more money on well water than the government supplied water due to the high cost of electricity for pumping.

I do agree that a real market for water might help. The root of the problem really is that we are farming in a desert and relying on water from other locations. However, the desert does otherwise provide a great climate for efficiently/consistently producing many crops.

[0] http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-gleason-almond-fa...
I haven't heard of Recurse, but thanks for pointing me to it!

Also thanks for the feedback on the app. It is small, but it was the first complete web app I've made. I'll step it up for the next one!
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I agree, the law is man-made. Seemingly, it is made by men and women who do not care much, if at all, about what is actually right or wrong, what is to the interest of the citizens and what is not.

What is actually right and wrong, in my view, is based on the nature and requirements of human life.
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Brown orders California's first mandatory water restrictions
But by that standard ruby is python is C is assembler.

Turing-completeness is a not very interesting standard.
If you have 1+ acres of forest on your property, you aren't living in the suburbs; that's exurban or rural.

If anything taking sequestration into account would make suburbs look worse. 100 acres of dense urban development plus 400 acres of untouched forest is going to sequester much more carbon than 500 acres of suburbs with a few trees sprinkled throughout, yet they would hold the same number of people.
That was fun! Thanks for the game.
>The real problem here is we tried to turn a desert in to our national bread basket.

or may be that our national bread basket is turning into a desert? One needs 3 components - soil, sun and water. We're loosing the 3rd component :

http://www.mercurynews.com/drought/ci_27070897/california-dr...

"The last three years of drought were the most severe that California has experienced in at least 1,200 years"

Everybody can just only guess why...

Edit: to the "jff"'s response below - a "guess" by the Stanford http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/september/drought-climate...
tumble??
That makes sense. And no wife or kids, so my lifestyle is pretty flexible.
There is return on investment even if it is not monetarily. Users or reCAPTCHA or Duolingo also do work for for-profit companies as well.

From the article:

> “Some people ask ‘Why do you work for free? Why do you spend so many hours a week doing this mapping?’ ” Hidalgo said. “You feel good about knowing that the people who drive around everyday save time because you are investing your time in fixing the roads and doing this mapping.”
California needs to raise the price of water.

Isn't it ironic that water in Seattle (which has an embarrassment of riches when it comes to fresh water) is more expensive than it is in SF and LA?

http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/wp-content/uploads/201...

If you want people to use less water, simply raise the price.
Does anyone know what the market leader for GPS (for native and non-native users) in Japan is?
By "same level of robustness" means none in this case since neither have any CRC or checksum for data integrity.
Unconventional approach to save the (Ops) day
Here's a great illustration of the falling density in Manhattan from 1910 to today: http://www.vox.com/2014/9/23/6832975/manhattan-population-de...
If more people lived in cities, a lot of the rural/suburban land they live on would revert to wilderness, which would turn into CO2-absorbing forest and other foliage anyway. So it's disingenuous to try and claim credit for personally having title to any of it.
Where did the land owner get the land? In a great many places (such as North America), it was stolen in the not so distance past and a great deal more rudely than taxation.

If that act is justified as taking under utilized resources then we are certainly justified in using the more mild pressure of taxation to fix an obviously broken system.

Maybe the best idea rather than the impossible task of finding the true owner to create policies that make the world a less effective place, we should tweak land ownership patterns in the interests of efficiency and maximization of net wealth or quality of life.

> In other words, you want to substitute your judgment for his, when it comes to the use of his property.

It is not unambiguously his property and when there is grotesque under or mis-utilization, yes another judgment is desperately needed such as taxing the owner to compensate for the loss the rest of us are carrying until that loss stops.
and this is just the beginning
#THANKYOUELLENPAO? Only if you like bullying, vexatious opportunists
So it's at least worth looking into. Thanks.
Heh, I also solved it a few months ago and didn't get a response (though I wasn't nearly as snarky as you good sir, hat tip). I agree that they should at least send a response to every participant. Even an automated one with a more fun problem would be nice.
I agree in a philosophical sense, but in a U.S. legal sense, water rights are often treated as property, though it depends on precisely when they were granted and with what terms, and why/how they're being abrogated. The U.S.'s "takings clause" jurisprudence has a fairly expansive definition of what constitutes "property", and water rights disputes often end up tangled up in it. If a river literally runs out of water then a farmer probably has no claim, but if the state reallocates its water (to balance with other uses, for environmental reasons, to build up a reserve, etc.) then it ends up in court.
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Vuze bundles I2P, I2P growing large?
- Apparently Vuze now bundles with an I2P plugin that doesn't require installing I2P manually. Since mid of march this lead to a significant boost in the network size http://stats.i2p/pix/total/leasesets-year.png (http://pix.academ.org/img/2015/04/02/312a4be8ef17065c0cbdb5f91df66d2e.png). Due to DHT support, you can take a popular clearnet torrent magnet link, feed it into I2P's bittorrent client (I2PSnark) and download from Vuze peers.

- Another I2P implementation in C++ is developed https://github.com/PurpleI2P/i2pd (allowing I2P for example to run on weaker routers, where Java is too heavy).

- There are rumors of Popcorn Time switching/supporting I2P.

Maybe these are the killer applications that allow I2P to grow large like tor?
The Caltrain electrification project will further speed this trip since electric trains can accelerate and decelerate more rapidly. The full San Jose to SoMa trip should be roughly 16 minutes quicker based on impact studies.
For GitLab we have a list of items that are marked 'accepting merge/pull requests' on http://feedback.gitlab.com/forums/176466-general/status/7964...

There are more than 180 items, including things that should be relatively easy for a Rails programmer. For more information see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/CONTRIBU...
Plot twist, the TSA dips into conservation by presenting it's water reserves stocked by forgetful travelers.
The examples are so ridiculously overhyped, I just can't believe anybody besides religious leaders would talk like that. Considering the persons position within this topic, makes the whole thing even weirder.
go to codecademy.com

go back and forth between the ruby and python courses.
pick which one you like best.

In the scope of languages, both are pretty similar.
If you need "machine specs" for a simple note-taking app something more fundamental seems to be wrong.

It's a note-taking app. It should run fine on a 1980s calculator
As I said in response to another comment, you actually can. Paris has a density of 50000/sqmi (to compare with Manhattan's 70000) without high rise buildings.

What you can't have though, is large avenues and parking lots everywhere. Every inch of space than can be build has to be built.
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Do you think if the state gave incentives to use more efficient water usage methods would help. The reality is agriculture is 80% of water consumption while 2% of the state GDP. It would be more efficient for farmers to conserve water and everyone else pitching in to subsidize it.
With all the image processing cameras out there, and the cameras already mounted on the traffic lights, it boggles the mind that nobody is making traffic light controllers that optimize traffic based on current conditions and a cost function.

For example, if 5 cars are coming from one direction, turn the light red for the 1 car on the cross street.

I'm pretty fed up with the light perversely stopping the 5 cars at the last moment to let one car, that is already stopped, enter the intersection from the cross street.

I wonder how much gas and congestion can be saved this way.
You can look at double blind trials of the effects of fish oil as a mood stabilizer. Its possible that the GP's wife has an idiosyncratic lack of reaction and is just fooling herself but that would be pretty improbably so I'd say her beliefs are well justified. The observed effects aren't small, we're talking about things like reducing assaults in prison by 1/3.

http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/bjprcpsych/181/1/22.full.pdf
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We are human beings and we take it to the limit, constantly testing boundaries and how far we can take it. Is it not always smart but it is part of our differentiation properties to find new beneficial paths. There may be some good innovation that comes out of this but right now it is a problem.
They sure chose a distracting snapshot of their website to showcase the minimalist UI of this new browser. all I notice at first glance is the alarming "Top Post" and all of the images. I guess this is a good thing?
Regarding your question about French, I'm not too sure. There/their/they're would be la/leur/ils sont, so perhaps there's scope for the first two to become conflated, not so much the last.

As far as I know the biggest issue French is facing is the injection of English words where there isn't a French equivalent.

Then again, French people seem to absolutely loathe the version of French spoken in Quebec so there could be a plethora of other issues involved that we don't have in English.

Regarding your second point, personally I'm not sure but ignorance certainly plays its part one way or another.
Those scientists all had ideas that made demonstrably superior predictions than other ideas at the time. Evidence outweighs credentials, arguments can take a walk.

So what evidence is Taleb bringing to the table? I ask honestly, because when he says "I spent some time scrutinizing the math: it is impeccable, though unsophisticated by mathematical finance standards." I just think Please...spare me If all he has is a mathematical critique that was roundly rejected by 100 experts in the field it's time to put up or shut up. Einstein predicted Mercury's precession, Galileo predicted new laws of motion. What's Taleb predicting?
I've never had any issue with dry eyes.

I started taking fish oil (algae oil actually, but the active ingredients are identical) a month before my LASIK surgery and continue to take it today, and I've still never had any problems with dry eyes, including immediately after the surgery.

So, can't say whether it helped or not, but it certainly hasn't hurt.
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