jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure that already exists in the form of an O-1 visa. However I doubt the vast majority of programmers who get an H1B come close to meeting the standards for an O-1 visa.

So yeah, if you are a really great programmer and the rest of the world knows this, then any employer in the US can help you get an O-1 visa based off of that. If your programming prowess isn't well demonstrated, then yeah, you have to go through other channels.
> JRuby, currently the only non-MRI ruby implementation that you can seriously consider for production use

Are there concrete shortcomings when using Rubinius in production, or is it just not battle-tested yet?
It doesn't have to be discussed in every single comment page on hackernews to be taken seriously, it gets tiresome. In traditional forums john's comment would be considered a topic derailment. What does a guy testing websites drunk have to do with gender in tech?
While it would be nice if websites always had some connection to the country whose TLDs they're using, I think that ship has sailed. I wonder what someone from Tuvalu would have to say about it though. They handed out a lot of the best TLDs before anyone had any idea what to do with the Internet.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:SijAcDv...

Google cache in case you have trouble reaching the website (apparently under some understandably heavy load).
I am unable to compare the number of Windows-based developers, who often use zip as an archive format, and Java-based developers, who often use zip to work with jar files, to the number of people who use tar. My guess is that tar users would be in the minority.

How did you come to the conclusion about which is most commonly encountered?

Also, other popular archivers also use the archive-first approach:

7z.exe a c:\a.7z file1.txt dir2\file2.txt
rar a -r yourfiles.rar *.txt c:\yourfolder
Yes, agreed.

We sold a lot of QEMM but not many copies of DESQview, but I lived in a small community then -- the Isle of Man.

I have blogged about it in the past (
https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/52294.html ) but Quarterdeck had a chance to redefine the DOS industry with DESQview/X, but it came out too late.

In the late 1980s there was an awareness that GUIs were the Next Big Thing and there were various GUIs on DOS: DR GEM, PC GEOS, and others. Quarterdeck went for it, making a brave but logical choice: don't invent your own -- adopt industry standards.

At the time, there was only one open industry standard: X.11 and the Motif window manager and widget set. So, Q'deck enhanced DESQview until it was able to run an X server and Motif. It added virtual memory support to DOS, supported a couple of vendors' DOS TCP-IP stacks, and produced a multitasking GUI layer for DOS, but instead of home-grown code, it used Unix tools where it could. For example, scalable fonts were provided by Adobe Type Manager, the leading scalable-font add-on for Classic MacOS.

It was pretty good. Like text-mode DESQview, you could run DOS apps in windows, but now it could just scale the text when the window got smaller. You got new graphical apps and a simple file manager and app launcher. You could port Unix apps. It was an X server, so you could run remote X apps with the display on the DOS machine.

It was also an X client, so remote Unix machines could connect and run native DOS apps on real DOS hardware at full speed.

It was very impressive, and up against OS/2 1.x it looked good.

But it took so long to ship that Windows 3.0 came out first, and then it was basically all over.
Well if your hypothesis is that it's a problem then you shouldn't be comparing it against a known problem. You will either end up showing it's not as problematic, which doesn't say much; or you end up with a negative result, meaning you can't really tell either way.

Besides this isn't an either/or problem, we should aim to remove all forms of distraction, not go for the least bad choice. Driving safely takes precedence over avoiding traffic or enjoying music.
I'm really impressed with Mazda, they seem to be staying on the right side of several trends where the industry is going in the other direction. They still make cars that are a bit more responsive whereas the industry is making either luxury floaters or crazy horsepower monsters. Good handling, they avoid CVT and have a very practical approach to tech. If anyone is a fan of MotoMan, he's done some cool deep dives:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMke4Fl4gyw

(Sorry if this sounds like an ad, I'm not affiliated with them but have been scouting for a car recently.)
What is really funny is the size is really 1440 KiB, which is not 1.44 MiB and is also not 1.44 million bytes. So in that case it was a mixture of the two units (they would have been better off calling them 1.47 MB, as the actual size was 1474560 bytes, or 1.406 MiB which is the actual size divided by 1048576).
If you drop that in one year sure, but remove all subsidies globally over even 10 years and the market would adjust.
Connectivity at airports is not the best - if you’re on an expensive data plan those extra MBs cost a pretty penny which might put off the customer.

You need to think about the larger picture.
He literally mentions Adler 7 times in the link....
But you can firewall (in 10 different ways) notepad.exe. You control what notepad has access to. You can access anything notepad.exe can bypassing notepad.exe. You cannot effectively firewall your browser, because you don't control the backend. You cannot bypass the backend of a piece of cloud software.

This is a generic problem with cloud software. Any cloud software has access to your data AND YOU DO NOT. To a certain extent it even has access to your data in other apps (e.g. getting your mail address). It's a way to (currently usually partially) transfer ownership of everything you make with software, and your own data from the user to the creator of the software.

This obviously an extremely negative development in the long run, but people seem quite keen on just accepting it ...
Doing pottery and kayaking is a better choice for me than reading someone do pottery and kayaking.

Edit: and not everything can be learnt from books
"Cosmologists are pressing rewind on the first instant after the Big Bang by simulating 4,000 versions of the universe on a massive supercomputer.

The goal is to paint a picture of the immediate aftermath of the Big Bang, when the observable universe suddenly expanded 1 trillion trillion times in size in the tiniest sliver of a microsecond. By applying the method used for the simulations to real observations of today's universe, researchers hope to arrive at an accurate understanding of what this inflationary period looked like.

'We are trying to do something like guessing a baby photo of our universe from the latest picture,' study leader Masato Shirasaki, a cosmologist at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), wrote in an email to Live Science."
Actually, this is how I started the project. See for instance this one here (OpenScan in 2019 https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt6JtjEoEM7/)

But I have found that smartphones give very inconsistent results (probably due to image"improving" algorithms...), see https://www.instagram.com/p/B1q1syMoHfG/

So I moved on to the raspberry pi + camera, which is much easier and better to control as you need very, very consistent images...
"Performance is agnostic of ISA" is too strong a statement. The variable length instruction encoding is a significant performance disadvantage, as is the strict memory ordering requirement of X86/X64.

X64 decoders are indeed only ~5% of the die on a modern CPU, but it's 5% that is always at 100% utilization. That's a non-trivial amount of extra power. X64 decode parallelism is also limited. I've heard four instructions at once as a magic number beyond which it becomes really hard. This is why hyperthreading (SMT) is so common on X64 chips. It's a "cheat" to keep the pipeline full by decoding two different streams in parallel (allowing 8X parallelism). SMT isn't free though. It drags in a lot of complexity at the register file, pipeline, and scheduler levels, and is a bit of a security minefield due to spectre-style attacks. All that complexity adds more overhead and therefore more power consumption as well as taking up die space that could be used for more cores, wider cores, more cache, etc.

ARM is just a lot easier to optimize and crank up performance than X86. The M1 apparently has 8X wide instruction decode, and with fixed length instructions it would be trivial to take it to 16X or 32X if there was benefit to that. I could definitely imagine something like a 16X wide ARM64 core at 3nm capable of achieving up to 16X instruction level parallelism as well as supporting really wide vector operations at really high throughput. Put like 16 of those on a die and we're really far beyond X64 performance in every category.

This is also why SMT/hyperthreading doesn't really exist in the ARM world. There's less to be gained from it. Better to have a simpler core and more of them.

IMHO X86/X64 has hit a performance wall at least in terms of power/performance, and this time it might be insurmountable due to variable length instructions and associated overhead. It matters in the data center as well as for mobile and laptops. There's a reason AWS is pricing to steer people toward Graviton: it costs less to run. Power is the largest component of most data center costs.
Making it illegal will just push the issue under the carpet, as it's happening everywhere in the world.

What needs to happen is a decentralisation of power and a return to voluntary transactions (no: give us your money for $goodreasons or you go to jail, yes: donate to charities for $goodreasons), so that there's more people with power and with far less power: if they were to be corrupted the effects would be much more contained and local.
Yes you can have privacy with bitcoin only if you never transact with it... lol
If you're paying attention to what people are saying about the books "everyone" is reading, then sure, you can probably skip them. Lots of popular books I never read because I got 90%+ of the content from a podcast interview. But this doesn't answer the question of what you should read. Simply "not the popular stuff" could land you at an amazingly insightful but ignored classic, or a celebrity gossip tabloid you picked up at the grocery store checkout.
"no wireless. less space than a nomad"
Just because the OP didn't use unsafe {} anywhere in their code doesn't mean it's not used in any dependencies. Just glancing at some of the deps I can already see there is a lot of unsafe usage deep down that are "wrapped" in safe interfaces. Rust is not some kind of silver bullet for safety. It just makes it more explicit.

Also, I'm less concerned about the memory safety than the _complete reimplementation of SSH_ from scratch. So give me OpenSSH any day for things that are actually important.
This is a very controversial opinion in a startup forum :)

But that aside, how would you handle public trading companies, where you can simply buy an influential part of a company?

It is not the same as owning or merging but having board influence can also be detrimental.
After that single node crashes, the app you're running on that one server will run a little more slowly..

How big should the one server that serves the whole of netflix be..?
By definition anyone that disagrees with Libertarianism is an Authoritarian.

While Libertarian and Authoritarian do exist on a spectrum in some ways, you are either on the Libertarian side of that spectrum or the Authoritarian Side.
"A legend has it, the 'Clubhouse' of the USSR was first discovered by the fartsovschikis — people who traded in illegally obtained foreign-made goods in the USSR. They used the 'broadcasts' to connect to their accomplices and discuss business with impunity, knowing that their lcoation would be impossible to track as the number dialed was not assigned to any real user."
www.openbsd.org is fine.
baby steps, baby steps..
Thanks a lot for your feedback.

I'll be very happy to keep you posted, grabbing coffee sounds great, please inbox info@xtouch.io :)
Dart can compile into javascript. It is nothing like ActiveX. ActiveX is basically running native code from the browser. How are you making this link?
These features are extremely difficult to use when C types are involved. @encode() mitigates this to some extent, but there are some C types that you can't fully express using @encode(), and it can't properly handle all types (namely out-pointers).
Sounds a like any other prohibition. Bitcoin seems like the tech equivalent of alcohol: easy to get involved with, really hard to keep track of/stop.
Again, where in the documentation is this listed? Why is the timezone 7 even though its before the year? Did you just make this up? It seems to me that this might just be a happy coincidence in the way you ordered the date.
"...pie-in-the-sky ideas like commercializing Watson..."

I'm not knowledgeable about the product, but it seems to me commercializing Watson is the smartest thing you could do. I feel like Watson could allow IBM to become dominant in almost every field and produce trillions in value for their customers. Am I off base? Has Watson development stalled over the past few years?
Is there any way that someone could hack you via this setup? Does really WPA2 protects all connected parties when you share your password with everyone?
Wow this is odd. Wix misses the mark by a mile!
A Claude glass (or black mirror) is a small mirror, slightly convex in shape, with its surface tinted a dark colour. Bound up like a pocket-book or in a carrying case, Claude glasses were used by artists, travelers and connoisseurs of landscape and landscape painting. Claude glasses have the effect of reducing and simplifying the colour and tonal range of scenes and scenery to give them a painterly quality. The user would turn their back on the scene to observe the framed view through the tinted mirror—in a sort of pre-photographic lens—which added the picturesque aesthetic of a subtle gradation of tones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_glass

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26524041

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14439863
> You can address these by planning where you live and work to make it so.

Yes. We can all afford to move to a dense urban center such that we'll never have to carry a few week's worth of groceries, or enough clothes for the next school year, or anything else which is hard to transport on a bike. Roads (streets, really) are always in good condition, and never icy or that special condition where there's a layer of ice with a thin layer of loose snow on top. Winds never gust to 70 mph, because it would be unseemly for a proud cyclist to fight a headwind on badly-plowed streets.

> Or your clothes are sufficiently good

I still idly wonder what clothing is equal to the task of a whiteout blizzard.
It mentions integrating with your phone's do not disturb functions. Usually in an emergency someone will call you multiple times in a row and, presumably, this would open the shell.

And unless you live alone, which many don't, other people will usually have phones.

You can also buy a dumb phone specifically for emergencies, 911 doesn't require a paid line.

And like other's said, you can probably pry that sucker open. It looks flimsy honestly, with no lock or dead bolt connecting the two parts in the front...
Well, they were eventually “persecuted” in Holland the same way they were “persecuted” in England: They weren’t allowed to impose their religious rules on others. That’s the “persecution” they “fled.”
Maya Angelou, one of the great writers of her age, was violently assaulted as a child by her mother's boyfriend. She told her brother who had done this to her and he turned up dead not long thereafter.

I think she didn't speak for five years after that. She experienced it as "I spoke his name and it killed him."

She learned the power of her words at an early age and it made a really huge impression on her. That no doubt was not irrelevant to her amazing career as a writer.

One reason writers agonize is because words can have power and because writing can be like doing therapy on stage while everyone watches. Good writing often contains some piece of the author's soul and that's always a risk to take.

It's not neurotic that some people find writing emotionally hard and all that. If you happen to have found your way to writing via a path that didn't leave you fearful of the power of your words, well, nice for you.

But "get off my lawn" as they say. (I generally enjoy writing. Get off my lawn anyway.)
Servers like tipping because big tippers are more than the enforced average of non-tippers. It's little to do with the people being tipped, and the people who make the most tips are the ones with the largest breasts and prettiest makeup and skin color, not the ones doing the best job waiting tables.
Come work here in Brazil! We have more than 15,000 unions! We have a union for union workers (not even joking). It's great! We are now a very very rich country, the labor is valued and we are also a tech powerhouse!

Sarcasm aside, it's really disturbing to see amazing countries like the USA falling for the same illusions that have kept us poor since forever. What defeats bad bosses is the option for workers to simply walk away, be it because of competitors offering better conditions or because you don't really need the income in the short term.

If your are left wing inclined, I suggest that you lobby UBI instead of unions.

Be better than us.
Combustion byproducts are also known to be quite harmful to the human body.
I won a PyCharm license at PyTexas last year. Before I wond the license I had a bad experience with the beta version. It took almost 9 months using it on and off until I it finally became my IDE of choice.

- The Subversion integration is killer.

- There is even a tool to apply .diffs.

- There is a plugin that gives me VIm key bindings.

- The Django integration is nice, including Django templates.

- The CSS editor is fantastic. One cool feature is the color referenced in a line is put in the left gutter.

- The debugger is very handy.

- The quick file navigation bar is a super handy way to jump between files.

- The "Go To" for Class , File, and Symbol is a very quicksilver-ish way to navigate your project

- As trite as it might sound, the color themes are super easy to change. Which are close to impossible to change with PyDev + Eclipse.

- The syntax highlighting helps me catch errors
On a mid 2012 13" non-retina (the 16 GiB hackable, 2 SSD one) MBP, fixed wifi by doing a clean Yosemite install, no transfer settings and then deleting network preferences plists. :(

Works, stable on 10.10.1. (Discoveryd mdns announce disablement doesn't flag doesn work at all though.)
"Something that succeeds as well as Java has to have some actual value"

Sounds an awful lot like, the Bandwagon fallacy
I hate the now common occurance of the store and office dog, which is always a yapping tiny viscious ball of fur that immediately runs at you barking when you walk in. Leave precious at home so I can negotiate a sale without the sound of endless barking drowning out our conversation.

Get a big fat store kitty and buddy will lie in the window all day quietly if you must surround yourself in animals.

I also didn't realize how much people from the middle east despise dogs, there's stores some of my Kuwaiti and Saudi friends won't go into because theres a dog running around, and they consider dogs unclean barn animals. They won't even go into a coffee shop if somebody is in the line with a dog as they expect that place is unhygienic.
I haven't used one myself to confirm the quality, but Cocktail Kingdom (which comes highly recommended + I know from experience sells great bar products) has them for $150 for 55mm models and $300 for 70mm models.

Williams Sonoma is likely adding a huge markup.
That was strangely moving and beautiful. Normally I'd have abandoned such a piece early as an overly dramatic representation of one person's demons - and I've got plenty of other people's demons on my mind already. This author was different. I think it was the pace with which she revealed her situation and the process that brought her to where she is today - deliberate and very careful.
It guarantees that the text you are seeing really comes from that website, that it hasn’t been tampered with by an actor between you and the server.

That's what subresource integrity is for. (http://www.w3.org/TR/SRI/) Links with subresource integrity include the hash of the content to be delivered. Subresource integrity allows caching by content delivery networks and ISPs without allowing them to change the content.

Using HTTPS for general static content is that it breaks caching and CDNs. Because it breaks CDNs, many CDNs (especially Cloudflare) break HTTPS by terminating the HTTPS connection at the CDN. They may or may not encrypt from the CDN to the actual host. This makes big CDNs a central point of attack for snooping purposes.

While this is an unpopular opinion, I consider HTTPS Everywhere a form of security theater. We need really strong security on logins, financial data, and such. We do not need to encrypt newspapers or public cat videos.
From a comment on the article, a roundup of writers on this topic, http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/mac-experts-weigh-in-...
Depends on the smartphone. My Nokia E51, E71 survived hell, not to mention the ones before that. I still have the very first Microsoft Windows Mobile smartphone in working condition, as a couple of old Symbian Nokias.

That said, I wouldn't recommend a touchscreen smartphone if you need durability and robustness. There are a couple of good non-touchscreen models on the market, but they are being squeezed out.
The computer you bought boots into someone else's personal desktop?
Pink elephant in the room: data plan charges.

I would love to buy an iPod Touch that works as dumb cellphone since it will save me the hassle of carrying two devices. Puzzling why there is no such device from the biggies.
They're premium walled gardens with puny bandwidth. If only operators really treated them like mobile computers and not walking cash registers...
only a percent believable! But nicely written :)
Sleep is the default state, so no need for a status indicator.

Wrong!

Sleep may be the default state but I definitely want to see whether it's really in that state - or in some other.

I hate this kind of wishful thinking from hardware designers.

It's the same mindset that removed the status LED from the Samsung Galaxy S. A status LED that exists on almost every other android handset and that is very useful for indicating missed calls, low battery and many other things (it's freely programmable).

Congrats Samsung and Apple, you saved on a $0.20 part - but in the wrong place.
It's a bubble because Sarbanes-Oxley forces companies to stay on illiquid secondary markets instead of going public, thus driving up the bid prices?

Yeah, that isn't a stretch at all.
Or, 3% did not answer the optional questions.

However, given the propensity of 4channers to troll, I'm sure the confidence levels on all these answers must necessarily be very low.
Same rules/board as Ten, though not as nicely designed:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ten/id669964112?mt=8
The study is a meta-study over 250.000 published scientific articles. Hard to believe that general lifestyle habits would alone explain these results, given that individual peer-reviewed studies are expected to have at least partially accounted for biases and confounds, and general lifestyle habits would probably vary across such immense population.
Yes, but why?

Why is Google cutting back so much?

I thought storage was cheap. How much have they overextended themselves?
House (if you have a mortgage) and car insurance are not optional. The bet you'd be making by not having them has much higher stakes.