skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Guys, IMHO I think Charles Pick (alias phpnode) doesn't deserve such attention. Even if he's trying so hard to start a flame against OrientDB I'd rather like to celebrate the Multi-Model approach. Long life to the Multi-Model approach ;-)
To save a click: you get to the top of Hacker News by submitting quality content. Which is a tautology.

A sample size of 10 does not make any patterns.
I know a surgeon who spent some time working in the ER. She would help all sorts of patients, including many homeless people. She said it was not uncommon to be punched or hit by people they were trying to help, especially those under some any form of influence.

Also, there is a known psychological effect of having many people around a victim that all expect others to do something. It becomes easier for people to ignore victims to the point where I've heard of people in very traumatic situations being completely neglected because there is just such a mass of people in the vicinity that no one helps.

People should all help each other out, but there are both good and bad reasons that explain why people don't always jump in to help.
In short these are not real H1Bs. But a glaring example of how the system is being gamed.

And also stigmatising legitimate H1Bs in the country and the American product (mostly) companies which champion their cause.
The project is already on github if you want to build from source.
I'm the author of this essay. Happy to discuss this topic with anyone, even if they disagree with my points!
The article isn't clear, but it sounds like what is happening is that Disney is outsourcing their IT jobs to a 3rd party contractor. That contractor has H1Bs on staff.

Otherwise, hiring an H1B to replace an employee is illegal, but this is sort of a loophole.
Oh, my first thought was "that's one company I haven't heard of in a long time". Figured Lycos is trying to do something cool for their come back. Guess not.
Technically (yes, I am being that guy), their protection mission only extends to the DoD and selected US government agencies. Not to the general public or US business. That's done by NIST and the Department of Commerce. The NSA does occasionally cooperate with NIST on encryption matters, but that's fairly arms-length.
If you like the article, you might like CockroachDB. They just got funded by Google Ventures.

https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach#design

https://twitter.com/GoogleVentures/status/606534505332154369
Try Huginn. I found it very easy to setup and work with.
https://github.com/cantino/huginn
>> The use of adjectives like "transgender" as nouns to label people is fairly widely viewed as demeaning.

Exactly my point. In the quest for PC, we cannot speak the truth (the truth here being that she is a transgender) just because it is "widely perceived as hurtful". So, how do I do an objective study (say, census count of transgenders) without being "hurtful"?

(transgender = person whose self-identity does not conform unambiguously to conventional notions of male or female gender....not one time was I being hurtful).
This is what the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is for. They probably can't do anything to help in the short term, because their powers are circumscribed by Congress, but you could try asking them how best to document your experience in a way that would influence future rulemaking.
The problem here is that the NSA are also in the business of corporate espionage. They spy on US competitors and give the ideas and patentable concepts to US companies.

Therefore any company that is not American should shun such products like it is a herpes ridden whore.
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That is solved by a weighted queue based on an individual and rate limiting based on budget.

E.g. The Pentagon will answer 100,000 requests per month, each individual will have a spot in the queue, when a request is received the next request from that individual is at (N requests * -1) in weight.

So:

X, Request 1, 0

N, Request 2, 0

Z, Request 3, 0

A, Request 5, 0

Q, Request 7, 0

X, Request 4, -1 [will be weighted 0 for next month]

X, Request 6, -2 [will be weighted -1 for next month]
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How to use Polymer (1.0) with Rails?
How to use Polymer (1.0) with Rails?

All gem are deprecated, and I don't know how to start doing a good structure of my application (using or no Sprocket, layout, etc)
Very interesting! Would like to see a comparison with relational datastores (e.g. Postgres), too.
That is an incredibly cool article. Totally wrecked my productivity this morning.

I was surprised by how close the end is. The circle of life of stars -- where they form, die, and are born again from the ashes -- looks to be impossible more than 1-100 trillion years from now. I'm not sure why, but that seems to be the most dangerous thing in the article. Without new stars forming, there are no new planets forming in new habitable zones, which means no new life.

I wonder if something could be done by intelligent life to avert the ultimate end. Could intelligent life theoretically artificially keep new stars forming?
Chrome is doing nothing with my right clicks. I'm doing two-finger click on a Mac trackpad in case that matters in your debugging process.
Interesting Google Image Search Bug
Haha, that photoshop is obvious with the landing gear. Thanks!
Is this the sort of thing you're looking for?

http://docs.opencv.org/doc/tutorials/tutorials.html
Web mashup! Hey, remember the late 2000s?
If they were a clear and present danger to themselves or others, sure. Yelling at cars on the street doesn't hit that level, though.
“As a matter of policy, we don’t comment on legal matters,” says Defense Department spokeswoman Lt. Col. Valerie Henderson.

This is very confusing. What was the question?

As an aside: Would "sub judice" policy still make sense if we treated all speech the same? (under & not under oath)
I guess I need to be schooled by why not just use closures?

var Person = function(first last) {
this.fullName = function() {
return first + " " + last;
};
this.rename = function(newFirst, newLast) {
first = newFirst;
last = newLast;
};
};

Problem solved, you can't access `first` and `last` outside the class. You might retort "they're bigger" or something but just like everything else in JS they just need the right people to concentrate on them and they'll likely get optimized.

I don't get the relucatance to use the language's features rather than hacks (using naming standards and compilers to obfusticate names and then cross fingers) or other hacks (Symbol). Really? You Really want me to write code using Symbol? That's going to be awesome in the debugger. Let's add a watch to "weke30o304_first". Refresh, of shit it's now "gtgrf40r3fe_first", my watches all broke (T_T)

It also makes me sad the `class` spec didn't take that into account so you could use a closure with a `class`.
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Adding to this, while one might look at H1B visas and go "That seems like quite a bit of work per employee, so it can't be that bad"

Don't worry, larger companies can make blanket petitions for large number of employees.

These are paid less than the people around them and will be sent back to their home country if they're fired and can't find a new sponsor within a few months.

That and add to it that most of these larger companies are conveniently located in ""right to work"" states means exactly what we don't want to say.

Indentured servitude.
Makes sense. Interesting balancing act. Thanks for your insight.
I wish I could think of a good way to produce incentives that would negatively affect Disney; but Disney isn't the one doing this hiring its Infosys. So although Disney is reaping the benefits of Infosys's cheap labor; it is Infosys who is using the H1-Bs. The added level of indirection makes it more difficult in my mind to come up with a sane way to disincentivize this behavior.
It is not common but happens sometimes, even in big infra projects.

One example is Wilson Bridge. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dr-gridlock/wp/2015/03/3...

Also, near where I live, the new highway between Helsinki and Lahti was built under budget and exceeding schedule. (No links in English unfortunately.)

So it does happen.
Any chances for a J-1 Visa?
Except there is absolutely no reason to trust a corporation. Even the most trustworthy can be forced to betray that trust by the powers that be.
Wyoming has something like 0.2% of the US population. I wonder if the number of Wyoming-based active accounts at Coinbase even reaches into the triple digits.
Sure, check out http://www.feedsapi.com , it's probably the best replacement at this point, iit's however not a 1 to 1 replacement.
That's a good suggestion, thanks. We're always interested in how people use Songkick and what they'd like to see next.
I've written many more posts, those are the most recent 10.

And you're really naive if you think quality content will self promote. I mention this in the post. Over 50% of your effort should be on distribution if you care at all about people reading what you write.

There is more than that too, you just picked the #1 in the list.
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It's almost Dutch and Belgian sites only. And "brood" is Dutch for bread.
That's completely tangent to the point; allowing government access does not require the purposeful introduction of vulnerabilities.
If you wish to use lua more well use http://tarantool.org than redis.
> If you could create a system using publicly available data

The problem is, making people's financial transaction data public is essentially illegal and represents a competitive advantage.

You'd have to start with convincing major banks / credit issuers to report people to you. With that data, you could build what you suggest. The real hurdle is convincing people to do that and complying with the regulations.
I see grandparent comment as being more about backdoors than legally requiring the password (though that is a valid issue in and of itself).
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I won't say these are flash crashes, but it's very normal to see 6 or 7 sigma events in Treasuries. Such large deviations are very rarely seen in stocks
Wow. That's hilarious. The vast majority of all garage door openers now sold are rolling code, but I bet almost all of them will fall to the coat hanger method.
> licensees must maintain dedicated fiat currency reserves in amount equal to the aggregate face value of all bitcoin held on behalf of customers

Does bitcoin have a "face value"? I'm not sure what the legal definition of that term is, but I'd be surprised if it was the same as "market value".
A Master's degree from an accredited US university should get an automatic green card. We need extra enforcement so that certain academic departments at state U's don't become diploma mills. H1B should be ended. It's purpose is just to create an indentured class and that is un-American. All green card grantees should have to undergo diversity training because I see a lot of ethnic purging/discrimination by foreign managers in the US. Ethics training and enforcement needs to be upped also to keep foreign style systemic bribery out of the US.
I really want to read cheesy near future speculative fiction from the late '90s where they toss around hot brands of the day like that. But I don't think any cyberpunk author worth their salt would have done something so easily that would go out of date.

Though this always gets a kick out of me (Orion's Arm, online massive sci-fi collaborative project http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-topic/45b2afc424975):

[2017] - Personal Virtual Reality media interfaces begin to take the market share from TV, radio, films, and other media.

[2018] - First supercomputer using memristors, 'Harvey', constructed by a team lead by Peter Shor at Bell labs, with funding from IBM, Lycos, RedHat and Pepsi.
I can't seem to figure out how such a bug would occur. Is it a coincidence that the sounds of the words are so similar, or is that what caused the erroneous results? I wouldn't imagine they would use pronunciation for the results but maybe for the query error detection (did you mean?).

I'm baffled.
Local level design, and a history / future of level design
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Why doesn't that apply to open source contributors? They can be bought or coerced too.

If we are assuming some malevolent entity powerful enough to manipulate the world's largest companies like marionettes, I don't see why we think open source is safe.
Maybe now some will take my comments about the need for federal reform more seriously.

http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/20131118.hsgacstatemen...
Because an NSL told them not to?
The switch would need to be connected directly to the hardware that allows writing. Unfortunately I think disk drives keep their firmware on the media itself, so any attack that allows you to write on the hidden area of the disk will be bypassing the switch automatically.
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10 or so years ago clean-tech was going to be the next big thing. A bunch of VC funds created dedicated clean-tech funds. It seems like the underlying premise of needing more clean energy never changed.

So, what happened? Why did clean-tech seem to fizzle?
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While locks don't keep skilled criminals out, you'd be shocked how many unskilled ones there are. Meth/crackheads routinely go around twisting doorknobs in apartment complexes or pulling on car handles just hoping to find something unlocked so they can steal whatever is there. They (usually) don't break and enter, but if they happen upon an unlocked door they'll walk in and steal anything.
Hmm. Interesting that those would take precedence over English results given that I'm located in California.
Kaggle hosts data science competitions. There is a public leaderboard and a private leaderboard. During the competition only the public leaderboard is visible. After the competition ends the private leaderboard is revealed and your standing on this private leaderboard decides your final score.

The public leaderboard gives some feedback on your model performance. But when a human is in the feedback loop, then there is a risk of overfitting. Overfitting can be explained basically as: "memorizing the data" or "learning from noise, not signal".

When you overfit, you do well in cross-validation and may do well on the public leaderboard, but your predictions do not generalize well to new data.

What this team did was to submit a lot of predictions and only take the predictions that improved public leaderboard score. Then they'd add slightly random noise and try to submit again. They repeated this until they ranked nr. 1 and left quite a few other competitors scratching their heads: How did they do this? Did they find a perfect ML algorithm? Is there data leakage? Are they cheating?

When the private leaderboard was revealed, this team dropped around 2000 spots. Their good performance on the public leaderboard was purely artificial. The contest was valid and well-organized (this could happen on any Kaggle competition with little data). They did not receive a prize.

There are other benefits to ranking well on the public leaderboard: It helps with teaming up with other high-ranking competitors and you can market yourself (recruiters are pretty interested in the top 10, eventhough the competition has not ended yet.)
I didn't specifically but my father is an entrepreneur many times over. He's since moved into software. However, often times he has said he did better in non-software businesses.

The two that he did that were quite successful (which I worked at as a teenager) were a plastics manufacturing business and a series of hair salon's. Both were very successful, very lucrative, and very time and physically intensive. I guess most businesses are!
>Doesn't that obfuscate the very important distinction between ideas that are good approximations, but not quite right, vs. ideas that aren't even good approximations?

No, it just adds an additional distinction between idea that are good approximations but not quite right and ideas that are good approximations but completely wrong.
From seed stage to mezzanine
Very interesting... if Hitachi did go past the prototype stage, it could indeed be the answer...

Video from the link (in Japanese):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7YIBWve0n4
It's crazy that so many companies don't offer a guest checkout, one of the best ones I've seen do this is Spiegel and Bonobos where before you enter the checkout funnel they get your email to remarket but allow you to go through without registering.
Buddha taught that there was no God, therefore there were no morals, that the universe was deterministic, but that even so humans should strive to act with loving-kindness. Perhaps in your estimation this is a simple truth.

Jesus' call that one must metanoeo (let one's mind be changed and one's heart transformed) or perish, while related to the Jewish teaching that God is close to those with broken, contrite and humble hearts and found by those who seek him with all their heart and soul, was a new and radical call, not a mere reminder of a simple truth clearly as he claimed himself to be the Truth.
https://mxroute.com/

This is the best way (that i've found) to host email from all my domains each on separate accounts.. I have the cheapest package ($15/yr) and have about 10 email accounts spread over 8 domains..
I think the "good feeling" is supposed to be about their cryptographic experience and expertise.

The second point about trust doesn't directly flow from the previous sentence (which would make it sound like he's saying something like "I trust this person sight-unseen"); instead, he's just meaning that cryptography (like any technology) ultimately requires you to trust someone at some point, because you can't audit every line of every piece of software and firmware you're sitting on top of.

And because of that, while there can be a point where you know "enough" about a particular codebase's architecture and management to have faith in its stewardship (or enough to not have faith in said stewardship—OpenSSL, for example), you can't really ever know everything there is to know about a codebase now-and-forevermore such that you no longer have to trust anyone about anything.
Yes it would be better than now. But the OP was suggesting signed firmware + no switch, which would be an even better solution.
Many see tools like http://Zapier.com or http://elastic.io (disclaimer - I'm a founder) as alternative to Pipes and IFFT.
About 15 years ago, my aunt stopped locking her convertible. She used to, but people would slit the closed top to reach in and unlock the door to look for CDs and such to steal. A few hundred bucks to replace the top was way worse than losing some change and such. Then she switched to a late 90's Miata which had a lockable center storage bin/arm rest.
Because there are two types of security scenarios. Mossad and non-Mossad. You can't win against Mossad.
That's exactly why MS shipped the slow, back doored RND. It's part of the NIST standards and they went along like other vendors, to tick the box.
The worst I saw was ... a 10 minute shutdown of github a few months ago.

Way to trivialize it. That attack lasted 6 days.

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/chinese-government-linke...
I'm so happy they finally moved the official documentation to Doxygen (http://docs.opencv.org/master/index.html), which appear to be a huge step up from their old Sphinx docs (http://docs.opencv.org/).
This is wrong on several levels...

- H1B visas require that you list prevailing wage and that it's higher than the average pay for U.S. citizens in the same region. It can be manipulated to a degree, but not at scale (1000s) for a single employer.

- H1B visas are for a minimum of 3 years, not six months, during which the immigrant is forced to live and work in the U.S. (not India), thus spending and paying taxes in U.S.

This is exactly my point that I was getting at about the article - it's creating FUD about H1B immigrants and using Disney's terrible corporate policy to contribute to rumors like the ones you just said. If anything, the H1B program needs more funding for enforcement with employers, but stories like this make it seem like the program itself is the culprit.
Just a shout out to the awesome Pipes community and some people that really helped it along the way. All the original creators (pasha, JT, ed, daniel), community members and team: hapdaniel, dawnfoster, kentbrewster, mirek, spullara, janluehe, dspark, kevink, brettp, lolo, laurencecoates, earth2marsh, psychemedia, davglass, ssaine, sadaf, ido, nagesh, ameya. I know i'm missing tons more, but just top of my head. You are all awesome.
plans on midi yet?
with chrome it's possible (though you have to set some flags)
I use MacPorts which works well enough, but it would be nicer if something comparable came as part of the base system.

Specifically it is annoying that the compiler does not find headers and libraries installed through MacPorts by default. Yes, you can tell the compiler to look for those headers and libraries easily enough. But compared to the experience on, say, Debian, it is slightly annoying.

Having said that, let me point out that I have owned a Mac for ~19 months now, and while my initial plan was to give OS X a quick try, then install Debian, I have not done so.

Also, if somebody has experience with both homebrew and MacPorts, I would appreciate if that someone could tell me about the differences and the respective pros and cons of both.
i don't know the tech you are using but you can prevent that by running the code in a sandboxed worker, at least it won't crash, like https://github.com/asvd/jailed (i don't know how secure is that though)

anyway cool program
I used Yahoo Pipes to find my apartment.

One pipe would grab data from Craigslist, strip out irrelevant items, and send me a text if anything new and interesting appeared. Ditto for Westside Rentals.

This combination worked great. If a lame apartment appeared in CL, I'd edit my Pipes regex to strip the same thing out of WR. In this way I'd get only texts for awesome places.

Vaya con dios, Yahoo Pipes!
Did your remove the affiliate ID?
Both people in Wyoming could not be reached for comment.
If you run on AWS, you hate trees!!!
I use bitlocker on my laptop and my portable backup usb stick. I have no illusion that it's probably back doored but I continue to use it simply as a casual insurance policy against doing something stupid like leaving the storage device on a train.

It's most likely beyond the average man to decrypt my data and that's good enough for me.

Applying the grey man principle, hiding in plain sight by blending into the crowd is a good approach. If you have something to hide, do it via a side channel, preferably off line and carry on using what everyone else does for everything else.
In theory, an H1B who is let go has 24 hours to leave the country. The 30-day grace period is a myth. It is just a "de-facto" grace period since to file a new petition one needs their last pay statement (and if the pay statement is older than 30 days the USCIS will know that one is no longer working there).
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