skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Open borders will never happen, because it would bankrupt rich countries (sadly, it appears that the recent wave of African refugees in the Med are heading for Northern European welfare states for this reason). Also, there are many people who lack the aptitude and desire to leave their first-world home countries-they will simply be out-competed by migrants (most third world migrants who open little shops tend to employ people from the home country rather than locals).

There are ways to help poor third world countries:
1) focus on ameliorating eradicating the worst forms of preventable suffering. Bill Gates is doing this. Improve childhood nutrition to reduce stunting.
2) Trade with them. While Europe and the U.S. were bailing out their banks, South African corporations have been getting rich selling satellite TV, cellphone services and introducing chain supermarkets to Africans. You see, they want the same things that the rest of us have. Invest in their countries and make a profit. That will help them in the medium-long term.
The primary thing inhibiting vertical social mobility in Chile is cultural.[1] I have worked with chilean high schoolers and college students and they have a lot of opportunity that they don't see because they are locked into a specific tract (namely work for a large company.) The only reason poor people would have no chance for education and better jobs for their kids is if government made education illegal. Even poor people can get together and hire people to teach and teach their kids themselveS (imagine home schooling but with a dozen families cooperating)... unless government prevents it.

The internet has made all the information of the world available free... education is cheaper now than at any point in history.

It's true the chilean government is criticized-- I saw the sometimes weekly marches down the blvd of students and communists making noise. That doesn't mean they are right. When you look at Chile's economic development over the past 20 years and its political stability, it's doing better than it's peers. Sure people are criticizing the president, she may be bad, but that's not what I'm talking about.

I think it's silly to say Chile is resource cursed. You would rather the country be poorer? You think economic development is a curse? Yes, it does have low corruption- that's a good thing and that's a sign of a good government, relatively speaking.

[1] This conclusion, by the way, I'm taking from what I was told by people running Startup Chile as the motivation for the program, it may even be in their public website... and it is consistent with my experiences talking to Chileans. I'm not a chilean culture expert by any means!
Scheduled testing that happens on an automatic basis, or that occurs whenever code is deployed or committed. For example, whenever you would run your unit tests or integration tests, you should also run security tests.

It's the difference between doing an automated or manual penetration test every 12 months and testing your application for vulnerabilities with every deploy.
Gonix – Unix tools written in Go
Exactly. You nailed it. Free universities have indeed this "hidden" fee in my country. Everyone knows that if you are well-off, you'll do better even in our public universities. A lot of poor people simply cannot keep up with working and studying at the same time.

This isn't an argument against public education, but it's evidence that it's not enough. People should be able to take better advantage of this free education.
If you like this take a look at Inform7

http://inform7.com/
> We do this for wealth in general: the mechanism is called inheritance. Of course, the author does not want to make this argument directly, because doing so would actually make the counterarguments more obvious, so the focus is instead based on emotion.

Can you elaborate on what counterarguments you're thinking of that become "more obvious"?
>The second problem with the "free migration solves everything" hypothesis is that the wealth and health of a nation exist as a direct consequence of the existence of the barriers, both political and cultural, rather then some arbitrary geographic accident.

There is a very nice example in Spain, there are two autonomous regions next to each other (there isn't any kind of border): Cantabria and the Basque Country[1], the former has a GDP per capita of 20,855 euros while the latter one 29,683euros. The same language is spoken in both [2], and the cultural diferences are minimal.

The reason while wealth of nation exists nobody knows, and nobody may ever know.

[1] http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anexo:Comunidades_y_ciudades_au...
[2] While some government jobs may require being able to speak Basque, 2/3 of the Basque Country don't speak Basque, and there isn't any kind of discrimination.
We have government-sponsored higher ed in many Eurozone countries and I think they do quite a good job at turning out critical independent thinkers. Using the US as your only point of comparison seems somewhat misleading to me - I'm a good bit to the left of you and I also think a lot of US public education is a shambles.

However, I think there are multiple complex reasons for that and it's not as simple as 'public financing >> intellectual bankruptcy'. Rather, it's a mix of overly-powerful unions, civil war legacy and the extreme politicization of education in the US, a litigation-driven culture, and more. Education in the EU (at least in the western EU) is less politicized and a bit more paternalistic.
If you prefer, here's the 52 min video of the talk: http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1022243/Scroll-Back-The-Theory-...
Microwave oven to blame for mystery signal that left astronomers stumped
Pinterest Adds $186M to Series G, Lets Employees Sell Shares
What's your OS? And thank you for your valuable input!

I developed most of the site on my 15.6 inch laptop running Ubuntu. I just loved Ubuntu's Times New Roman and didn't like its Arial. On Windows it's the opposite. Arial looks much better.

Similarly, blue hyperlinks looked great on my laptop's monitor but they're so-so on other monitors.

And you just confirmed both of my thoughts! There's indeed a great contrast between blue hyperlinks and white background on most monitors. And the font is hideous on Windows too, :-(.

We're going to fix both problems soon. As well, we're analyzing job searches to improve them. There's a lot of room for improvement both on the front-end and back-end.
Ask HN: How to survive a horrible tech job while looking for a new one?
Currently, Im in a job that I really hate. There are countless demands on me, and the PM along with the CEO think everything can be done in about a weeks time and thats incredibly generous. I plan on learning my algorithms and data structures which are going to take me about 6 weeks since I've already taken a coursera course on them and want to really brush up. Im wondering how can I better manage the stress at work, and putting it with it when I know that in a few months Im going to be someplace else?
You can have free college without the stupid German segregation system.
I use knockout.js at work and like it quite a bit. But I think that I've found what you're looking for, or something close to it, in Reactive Extensions. It's a free library available for many languages including JS. With it you can compose UI interactions, promises, and other arbitrary events in an FRP-like way using observers. An example probably explains it best: http://jsfiddle.net/nmd88wum/

If that piques your interest, check out: https://gist.github.com/staltz/868e7e9bc2a7b8c1f754
Hang in there, and consider trying crack or face climbing. One of the best wall climbers I ever had the privilege of following around was overweight (despite playing soccer and running and everything else). He couldn't boulder for crap but he had great balance and body english.
Honestly PHP was a breeze!

There's only a couple of things that stood out to me as suboptimal:

- PHP ncurses is not well documented beyond just function signatures. Of course, curses itself is well documented, and ncurses functions map one to one with the PHP extension, so that wasn't really that bad.

- I should have separated my classes and built a PHAR (PHP archive), but I got lazy.

- There's the portability comment I've made a few times already

But other than all that, PHP did its job perfectly. Easy to write, read, and organize.
The other point the article seems to completely miss is that it's natural for parents to pass on the fruits of their labor to children. Societies place limits on inheritance to help balance the wealth accumulation, but in general, this ability is see as integral to a health society with strong incentives for building a better future.

The fact that children in the well off countries benefit enormously from the work of previous generations is a very natural and positive fact. Unfortunately, the flip side of this is that other countries are plagued by the missteps of their previous generations. These are hardly questions of fairness, as a misstep could be having a weaker army in the face of an aggressor, but it is a fact of life.

Being an immigrant myself, I cherish the opportunity I have to make a better life for my family and work to make the most of it, but I will never dispute the right of the people of a given country to protect what their fathers and mothers have built for them.
It would be interesting to know the impact this has in the country.

Do you know if Argentina has better equality and social mobility because of this? Or if the economy does better as a result? Are there private universities in Argentina? What percentage of the population go to college? and out of those who do, what percentage goes to public/free universities? How does the quality of education at those schools compare to private schools (if there are any)?

Thank you!
> they're not really a tech company

By your definition, what is a tech company?
Does your espeak version not allow "espeak <words>" ? I don't totally understand the need or use of piping here when not necessary, and when it requires additional keystrokes.
Yes, but everyone takes the baccalaureate exam and that limits the schools to which you can get admission.
See also: E_NOTADATABASE.

http://howfuckedismydatabase.com/nosql/
Microsoft SQL Server End-To-End High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Reddit has a few subreddits for operations research. You may have better luck there: https://www.reddit.com/r/msor/ , https://www.reddit.com/r/sysor/.

Also google has some famous operation research tools: https://github.com/google/or-tools .

I think operations research is a very broad topic. There is probably heavy overlap in managing large graphs of information as well.
I respect your opinions (i've read other comments that you made) but this comment is full of fast conclusions and fallacies. If I could downvote it would be my first downvote ever.
Some boulderers do develop that physique, but they're typically climbing at much higher levels (V5 and up, Bishop V5 not your local gym V5) and tend to be less well built otherwise.

It's not a problem for most people. Most people get a lot of benefit for their posture from climbing.
I understand your concerns. But let me clarify that this is a secure service. All sensitive information is stored encrypted, all traffic runs entirely over encrypted SSL and all goes through Plaid Technologies, one of the most prominent service provider of banking data. If you would like some more info, you should check: https://plaid.com/security/
Yeah, Cities: Skylines is incredible. I had an oh shit moment when I realized that every car was a simulated independent actor, at it works.
In the US, at least, the 4th amendment protections are significantly weaker at the border due to assumption of routine searches being "reasonable."

No clue what Canada's stance is on this, but worth knowing before you stand your ground with the border guard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception
This article is a strong candidate for in-focus GIFs, or webm, or both. I had similar issues :)
There were a lot of jokes about Herman Cain's 9-9-9 tax plan because it was the same as the opening settings of Sim City 4
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9%E2%80%939%E2%80%939_Plan#Comp...
They would have to go out of their way to do it. It would be brought up as a tension and if people were unhappy with the link lead, the rep lead would bring it up to the link lead's higher-up circle (rep lead is a circle-elected peer of the link lead.)

So, instead of having direct authority to micromanage, they only have indirect possibility of micromanaging and there are explicit checks built in to prevent it.
This was posted the other day but rubbed some people the wrong way because it's nakedly political (though I think it has a sound empirical basis): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9500233

It would be good if we could discuss it without it being flagged again. In the interests of political balance, I'd like to mention that I find Democratic hostility to free trade policy quite as benighted as GOP hostility to certain lines of economic inquiry.
Oh, I'd never say there aren't lots of factors. As another person pointed out, culture is a factor too. The US seems to have been in a cultural decline for much of the last 100 years.

You can't make direct comparisons, absolutely.

But, you can make an argument about incentives and that's what I'm doing.

When government is in control you have no choice. You are forced to pay for it and you get what they decide you get. You can't opt out.

When things are privately financed you have choice. Every company has to keep its shareholders, employees and investors happy. They have to do all this and compete well, and that's not easy. But their incentives are more in line with each of those constituencies.

When it comes to government I find little alignment-- even elections have been completely compromised, and I'm not just talking about the rampant election fraud that's been going on since 2001 (when Gore won the election) but is not talked au tanymore-- I'm talking about how the system of elections is set up to deny anyone but the two parties a meaningful chance, and within the two parties their selections at high levels are not really democratic either. (Remember the Nevada republican convention that was cancelled to keep the Ron Paul delegates from voting for him?)

I am making a generalization... but I think history is on my side.

Look at the degree inflation in the USA and the rampant debt that kids are graduating with and yet they can't repay because they can't get good jobs.

That's a distortion that has messed things up... and you would't have it if there was no "free money" of subsidized loans and the consequent incentive to pursue a degree program that would result in you being able to pay back the loans.
Thanks for using your own account.
Correct me if I'm wrong if I assume you use the word "mobile" to mean "something that's portable" and not in a "mobile phone" way..

If this is the case, then the example I gave was about oil services companies using such devices in their 'tools'.

These tools are used to do things like Reservoir Characterization (is there oil? How much? How easily can it be extracted? What does it look like inside? At what depths?).

Here's another example:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/toddwoody/2012/06/21/oil-giant-t...

It's such a shame they don't really communicate a lot because they do some really, really cool stuff. The featured company is known as "The biggest company you've never heard of" (3 x the size of Halliburton, 80+ countries, etc).

Also, the automotive industry uses a lot of stuff with ARM architecture (from Atmel, Altera, etc).. I know I've seen in ECUs (Electronic Control Units). These things control the vehicle (injection, etc).

They're also used in PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers) -Stuxnet targeted Siemens PLCs, for example of what the things are-.

And let alone the stuff you find in air conditionners, alarm systems wether for home or cars, elevators, other types of machinery, etc..
I imagine there is some Cloudflare magic that could take care of this problem (whilst your home webserver running on an alternate port) ?
Hacking your Thought Leader (into pieces)
I think that value proposition is very different for different people. For technical people, maybe it's a good idea. For non-technical people, I fear the indie web is very much out of reach.
My main gripe with the language of progressive politics is the redefinition of words like "fair."

Intellectual honesty demands that you call things what they are. Marketing demands you redefine things to make people feel the right warm-and-fuzzies. What you did is the latter.
- PM is busy coming up with a feature that you'll solve with an application global variable just because you want it to go away

- Requirements analysts are making complete sense but it's making you realize how much work is ahead of you, so naturally you hate them outright

- Scrum masters are quietly reciting the differences between waterfall and agile while rubbing a golden chalice

- ETC is an actual department in your organization but no one knows what exactly they do
Onsens, Entrepreneurs and the Long Game – Natasha Lampard
AMD admits it can’t be “the cheaper solution,” will refocus on performance
>they have a lot of opportunity that they don't see because they are locked into a specific tract (namely work for a large company.)

Honestly, is this not the case with pretty much every country in the world? Most people are looking for a stable job, not "world domination".
America is a mix of socialism and capitalism, and everywhere that socialism has touched it's been a bad experience.

You give a good example in your response: %45 illiteracy only benefits the people who are currently in power. That's your statement, and who is in power? Who controls the schools? The government. How do they benefit? They have a populace which is sheeplike and easily controlled.

That's the power dynamic I'd like to break.

Home schooled kids do better than public schooled kids and by a wide margin. But instead of burdening every family with having to be a complete school to themselves,s why can't several families band together and take turns? If one parent is an engineer, then they can take a day off or on a saturday teach engineering topics to the groups kids. This would lower the burden and provide higher variety-- this would be a makeshift school at very low cost. Even poor people could do it... but of course that would threaten the government's schooling system and so it's not allowed.
Searches for "Washington" and "Washington, DC" found nothing for me. When I browse I see "District of Columbia", nobody actually calls it that.
To a greater or lesser degree. In america if you do a startup and you fail, you're not seen as a failure and untouchable.

In chile that's more the case, and it can really hurt your career.

This is why Startup Chile is such a brilliant program... it's single handedly introducing entrepreneurship to chileans... and the ones I met really liked it.
Work on this started recently, but since it is an open source project there is no way to know if this will make it to 9.6 or not (the work was start too late to get into 9.5).

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20141209174146.GP1...
Smart Pieces: a framework for code snippets
On point 1) if the average salary in Chile is less than $5k/year then it costs more than a years salary to pay for a years schooling. That is incredibly expensive.

By contrast in Australia it's around $10-12k/year for a local and the average full time wage is $75k/year!

If Chilean education was as cheap as Australia's then a good education would cost less than $1k/year.
I am hopeful that helping your non-hires ultimately becomes a fixed part of a company's recruiting process (especially in SV where companies compete on the craziest hiring perks).

Applicants spend a significant time to prepare and come on-site, even though in many cases this only leads to a rejection. A company's brand and culture should (by a candidate) also be evaluated by how they treat the candidates they don't hire, just how a person should be evaluated by how they treat their waiter.

We've created smarthires.io for this reason. Companies can refer candidates they liked but didn't hire and we'll introduce these candidates to other companies in the same network. Many times a candidate who's not a great fit for one company could be the perfect fit for another.
Ah, its like the hotels that filled their pool with gravel because they couldn't afford to put in the ADA mandated lift
https://reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1tvmo6/the_motel_advertis...
Jumping straight from cowboy to TDD is a big change. I suggest a much simpler rule to get started: whenever something breaks in production, add a test that ensures it won't break again. That's all!

Taking a small bite of testing ensures that you actually see the value of unit testing without going nuts and totally changing your development process. Once you have that much going, you can do more testing.
I myself had such stress at work that I became mentally ill and disabled.

I found that learning meditation helps me deal with stress, you don't even need to become a Buddhist to learn meditation.
A country can have open borders or a social safety net, not both. If you choose the latter, you're effectively denying the existing population the services they have already paid for, for themselves and their offspring, through their taxes.

So, in an open border society, it would make no sense to pay taxes because they wouldn't give you as a tax payer anything.

For this reason, global corporations who want zero tax rates and the supply of the entire world's population to hire from and effectively pay slave wages, and these "progressives" are united in their wish to dismantle the welfare state.
If I had a fallacy or made a "Fast conclusion" please explain it. I don't get this "fast conclusion"... yes, I know more about a subject than I'm explaining-- I tend to be too verbose -- and so I give a quick summary of the reasons behind my conclusion. But that doesn't make them bad (as you imply by grouping them with fallacies).

I think if you make the accusation of fallacies you should show where the error is, in specific, and give at least an argument for why its in error (Rather than merely asserting its wrong.)

Otherwise isn't it kinda like saying "Your thinking is fallacious" which is sorta talking to the person rather than the point.
I love the IndieWeb movement. I don’t know if you guys have meet-ups, but if you’re in SF, I’d love to meet you.

I’m one of the founders of Servant – https://www.servant.co – It’s a personal database which you can give apps permission to read and write to. The goal is to allow people to bring their own database to the apps they use and disconnect it whenever they’re done with an app.

We’re in the centralization camp, but we share many goal/themes with the IndieWeb movement.

- Austen
austen [at] servant.co
PHP: More examples like md5('QNKCDZO') == md5('240610708'), for sha1 and plaintext
Why? I think it was pretty clear that the Surface brand is Microsoft's entry into touch-based computing, which this product also heavily utilises. But hey, i'm not the typical obtuse HN reader.