skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we have a problem in the US where we think the success that we've had since WWII was something other than an anomaly. For some reason we think that this comfortable model, where if you work hard and follow the rules and go through the motions put in front of you, that you can live a comfortable life with a white picket fence, a couple children, and with one of the parents at home with the kids.

It doesn't work like that in most of the world. In spite of how interconnected we've become, we're still largely blind to the terrible conditions of hard working people who follow the rules in the rest of the world.

So now you're seeing a lot of people upset that they're following the rules and ending up in bad places-- in a lot of student debt, or unable to find jobs, or unable to find well-paying jobs. They look at their parents and grandparents and think that it must be some small systemic problem-- the 1% isn't taxed enough, or even worse, they think that it's not some systemic problem, and that this is just a result of the 2008 economic downturn.

I think the problem is a bit worse than that. I think we're on the tail end of our post-war powerup. I think we're going to try to tax our way out of it and end up with a broken country. I think we need to face some hard truths and be a bit more concerned about our national debt; a lot of people on either side don't seem to realize that a devalued dollar only hurts people that hold dollars-- you know, lower and middle class Americans. The Trumps of the world hold capital and couldn't care less about an inflated dollar.

If you click my comment history you'll see that I'm a jaded man that speaks a lot of doom and gloom, so who knows. I'm just not comfortable simplifying this as much as the article does. America can't stay on top of the world forever.
From the focus placed on them by the article, and the mention of the need for "ventilation", I'm guessing the helmets are more significant to her portfolio of businesses than the tricycles. And to the other commenter's point, it's being sold online. Sales trips to SF and NYC make sense. Moving production there? Not so much.
> Even in the United States, 39% of the electricity comes from coal

Exactly. Put another way: the US emits over 9 times as much carbon dioxide per capita as India does. (The EU is better, but not by much - nearly four times as much carbon per capita as India).

When the India is already emitting 33% less carbon per capita than the EU despite having a population that's nearly three times as large, it's a bit silly to place the burden for global climate impact on a country that's already doing so well despite struggling to keep the lights on in many towns (literally).
This is interesting, never heard of it.

It reminded me of phage therapy for treating bacterial infections. There was an article about it here on HN not too long ago.

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

It is popular in Georgia (the country, not the state).
When you collectively fall asleep for three generations and allow the asshole class to subvert the rule of law, you deserve whatever you get.

And let's be straightforward about the form of that sleep: political apathy which led the non-asshole class to stop voting. Apathy allowed the assholes to walk in and take the place in broad daylight. And when apathy didn't work, they worked to weaken the very process of voting. The Voting Rights Act was the last visible sign of this, but the last two presidential elections were rife with voter suppression.
Phase III drug trials compare new drugs to the best available treatment, not just placebo.

There are also huge classes of drugs that are obviously effective and beneficial (pain killers/nsaids, antihistamines, blood pressure medications, antibiotics,).
Tesla Ramps Up Hiring as Rivals Loom
SpaceX office tour
Introducing NBench – Automated Perf Testing Framework for .NET Apps
I noticed that when I submitted my resume for jobs after 2000 that I would get rejected and the cause for the rejection was "overqualfied". They'd usually hire a younger less skilled worker instead.

Just for grins I applied for the position of CEO at a few companies and still got the "overqualified" rejection. It was like HR just noticed on my resume that my college degrees were earned a long time ago and my job history is too skilled and they just rubber stamp "overqualified" for people like me.
It sure feels middle class...
I just want to give a +1 to the high contrast colors. I have a few colors on mine (green & red arrows for stock quote directions) and they come out great.
The O-1 visa is extremely difficult to obtain especially in countries which do not have R&D capacity comparable to the US to facilitate the process of obtaining this visa. What about people who develop these "superstar" skills later in life?

It's a moot point on whether H1B helps or hurts the US economy. It's up to the US govt. and eventually the voters to decide what strategies should be adopted in keeping the US at the top the technology sector.
When you find critical vulnerabilities in popular antivirus software, you can establish a 90 day publishing schedule, or a requirement not to publish until all related vulnerabilities are fixed, or whatever other policy you deem sensible.

Tavis Ormandy is one of the best known vulnerability researchers in the world; whatever publishing decision he and his team made, I think they probably put more thought into it than any combination of the comments on this HN thread did.
The BrokenThorn OS Dev tutorials have a great section for bootloader development. [1]

You can find a whole bunch more stuff on the OS Dev Wiki too. [2]

[1] http://www.brokenthorn.com/Resources/OSDevIndex.html
[2] wiki.osdev.org
This definition is probably more useful than the popular one, but I don't think it is what most people understand middle class to mean.
Does the DoE's ability to discharge student loan debts include private student loans, or only federally subsidized ones? My understanding is that the DoE has no legal interest in the former. Also, for many students, private loan obligations dwarf federal loan obligations.

Also, under which criteria did your client receive loan forgiveness? Total/permanent disability? TPD will only apply to only a small fraction of borrowers; bankruptcy is much more difficult to attain a discharge under.
Link to the report.

http://www.bls.gov/ooh/architecture-and-engineering/electric...
"Before becoming a mother, Scott had no problem finding work. She’d prepared food for the elderly and stocked shelves and sold magazines over the phone. She’d collected debts and made fast-food burgers and, most recently, answered calls from Verizon customers. She had a small apartment, rented for $495 per month, where black mold spread across the walls. But she was self-sufficient. She could afford food. “I was maybe one notch above poverty,” Scott said.

Having a child pushed her well below the poverty line"

So she knew she was pretty much at the poverty line and decided to have a child anyway, further making it more difficult to live a normal life. This was a poor choice, which led her to her current situation.

"The call center wanted Scott to take night shifts, and Za’Niyah was eligible only for subsidized daytime child care. Scott quit and tried to find something else, somewhere else."

It sounds like she can't even take care of herself, let alone a child. The best idea in her case might just be to give her child to the state.

"They tended to live in the middle of Atlanta, near the subway, and they also received welfare, cash payments from the government that were available to nearly all in deep poverty, regardless of whether they had a job."

"a change that stems from the belief that entitlement programs failed to incentivize work and trapped people in poverty."

It does trap people in poverty. All of my extended family have been living in abject poverty for 2+ generations. Why? The state paid them enough to live and they never had a desire or a want for anything beyond this.

The issue is that money doesn't solve the problem. You can throw as much money as you want at it, with little or no results. Detroit is a good example of this having the opposite of the desired effect. Money was thrown at the school systems for 30+ years and it's now a shell of a city with probably the worst school systems in the country.

“They want you to get a job, which is not all bad,” Scott said. “But the way they go about it is horrible.”

The issue is that if you leave people up to their own devises, they will not look for work and continue to live in the homeless shelter forever. It gives you an incentive to bust your ass and find a job asap.
> People with problems and money to solve those problems aka business owners.

I figure as much. But how do I find them?
I think this article explores pricing strategies. If it only looked at how insurance is priced differently for men and women, I guess the comments would be different. It's however interesting to see the different comments out here.
This is a git repo, so "authored" tries to map to the person who wrote the content, and the "idea" of the commit, if there is such a thing. It's set when the commit is initially created, and for the most part not changed unless explicitly requested. The commit date is the actual time the commit object was made; this can differ if the commit is amended, rebased, cherry-picked, the result of a squash/fixup, etc. If a commit sits on a branch for months, then gets rebased against master, code-reviewed, and merged, those two dates will be significantly different.

This usually works as you might expect. If your coworker Joe authors a commit on a branch, and you cherry-pick it onto another branch, that cherry-picked commit is authored by Joe (and the time reflects when Joe authored it) and commited by you (at the time you performed the cherry-pick).
To sum up both the article and the judge's ruling: the idea of "Rule of Law" in the United States is a bad joke.

This has been true for a while, but is becoming increasingly difficult for the public to ignore.
I love the USPS, but it's not the pensions: http://taxfoundation.org/article/troubles-postal-service
> This has changed little 250 years later

Surely it's changed more than a little. I think it's possible to say there's still work to do without having to claim that race relations remain essentially unchanged from the 1700's.
Interview with Jesper Louis Andersen about Erlang, Haskell, OCaml, Go, Idris
> You must be new to reality and the concept of using your brain for intelligent analysis

Personal attacks are not allowed on HN. Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.
Machine Learning Theory: An Introductory Primer
I believe a form of mixins has already made it into TypeScript:

https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript-Handbook/blob/master...

Still would prefer them to be more built-in.
> OOP with prototypes is dreadfull, from a "clean code" perspective.

> I think the Python way is the simplest one.

FYI, Python actually does use prototypical inheritance under the hood. The difference between Python and ES5 is that Python uses the "class" keyword in such a way that you don't actually need to know about prototypical inheritance in order to use Python unless you're doing some really funky work with Python's metaclasses.
That's only in San Francisco and other rich neighborhoods. Even in NYC and LA, 250k is more than any family you know makes.
The truth was, the company ... didn’t need him anymore.
> "who were at the mercy of the whims of management"

With H1B you are not tied to the same employer, you are free to leave the sponsoring employer and go elsewhere. I don't know about the E-1 visa.
Again, if you feel they were being paid below the market rate, you can check up the bulletin board to make sure.
The compiler processes byte-code as input, not Java source code. Therefore any language which can emit JVM byte-code ahead-of-time (AOT) should theoretically work.

Clojure, for example, permits AOT byte-code delivery of your project. So with a AOT compiled clojure.main jar on the class path, Clojure should theoretically work if you could interpret the byte-code at runtime as a fallback. In the absence of an interpreter, Clojure should also work if you do not rely on `eval` or any other functions which depend on the byte-code compiler at runtime.

This of course assumes their compilation model is compliant with whatever version of the JVM specification the Clojure compiler targets. IIRC it should be compatible back to Java 6, so Clojure might not work without some tweaks to this project's compiler.

(Disclaimer: I am not involved with the project.)
This Is What a Tor Supporter Looks Like: Alison Macrina
Yup, no open source, no thank you.
> Human scale surveillance is okay. Because the surveillance is carried out by a human on the scene, it requires the surveillers to decide who should be surveilled, and prevents or eliminates blanket surveillance.

But what we're describing is not a human using his judgment to select probable suspects for further investigation. It's a guy parked pointing a camera at all license plates and feeding them en masse to a computer for automated processing. It is not functionally different than the hypothetical robot you described, only this happens to be a robot with an organic component.
Most superstars become superstars after coming to USA. O1 is for those who are already superstars in other countries. Countries like India do not offer the same freedom that US does and hence a lot many potential superstars can not enter USA.
FOSS has its fair share of research. You just don't hear about it as often as you hear about the more engineering-focused FOSS projects, for the same reasons you don't hear about the research projects big companies do as much as their flagship engineering projects. (How many people have heard of Midori compared to Windows? I'd wager it's the same ratio, speaking in orders of magnitude, as the number of people who have heard of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler vs. GCC, both of which are FOSS. I could name many other examples just in the PL domain.)

Now you might say that a lot of those open source research projects are funded by big companies, so they don't count. But most development on popular open source projects is funded by big or medium-size companies. Research isn't any different in this regard.

I think it's no accident that most of your examples are hardware, not software. The problem there is that open source hardware is difficult to make work, not that open source research is difficult to make work. The other main example you gave is Unix, but FOSS didn't exist in 1973--of course it wasn't open source by the modern definition. Its research successor, Plan 9, was open source.

Disclaimer: I work on one of those open source research projects.
Because it makes for good security theater. Sometimes the local media is invited, which dutifully shows the (uninformed) citizenry their tax dollars at work, taking out the Bad Guys(tm).
I personally use msmtp [0].

[0]: http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/
Which is opinionated and pretty limited.
I was proposing simply restricting to manual issuance, which mitigates the risks and discourages the use of such certificates.
Ember.js: An Antidote to Your Hype Fatigue
This is great! I use D3 with blaze and it will be nice to be able to exclude all the data binding stuff I don't need.
Not sure how they think FPGAs are going to reduce their "cloud workload". FPGAs are pretty power hungry (aside from lattice) and only work well if you have some unique requirements.
The commit references ojluni. This relates to "luni" in Android source which stands for lang util net io. Sounds like there are plans to replace the harmony implementation with OpenJDK one. License differences are definitely interesting but could be also related to performance and completeness - luni is fairly small set of classes whereas ojluni import brings in a ton more.

But what I don't understand is why they're importing the full AWT API! That's nuts.
I was an only child, isolated, rural, so alone.
So alone so alone so alone.
Fuck life before the internet.

Wow, that looks like a terrible little poem.

Also, being a smart kid but not having any role models or anyone who knew about the stuff I was interested in to help me in the right direction.

Connection to the outside world could've made a huge difference when an abusive home life was my entire world.
I'm hoping this will lead to improvements in their FPGA development environments.
I failed a job interview recently where the interviewer seemed much less comfortable than me with eye contact. He was fidgeting constantly and only briefly looking into my eyes and then quickly looking away. On the other hand, I remained confident, composed and was perfectly comfortable maintaining eye contact.

On paper, the interview went great and I had no problems with the whiteboard questions or any of the other questions. However, his body language was clearly not vibing with mine. He may have felt I came off too aggressive and overconfident. For the record, I did not think it was confrontational, in fact the conversation itself was pretty easy going and fun as far as technical interviews go.

I've been thinking about it and trying to come up with a way of calibrating my body language in the moment to make the other person more at ease. If anyone has any suggestions on reading, I'd love to hear them. I've read that FBI agent's book [1] since then and found it a little bit helpful, but nothing earthshattering. The author is more concerned with cracking/breaking people than making them comfortable.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/What-Every-BODY-Saying-Speed-Reading/d...
How do you figure e.g. UPS doesn't have crazy volumes? They're delivering everything Amazon would already
OK now how quickly can FPGAs be adapted to search through Postgres indexes?
Tell that to Microsoft.

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1324372
HTML 5 Cheat Sheet
Cool page!
Hope you get more points!
Not to mention the difference in cost of living in various places.
FPGAs are excellent for parallelizing IO, so if the application involves lots of IO, an FPGA coprocessor will likely reduce power consumption if the CPU delegates IO intensive operations to the FPGA.
I find it funny that we leave it to the economist to decide the fate of research.

I remember in uni I found EE topics much harder and boring then Software topics. Anything below C is a big nope. Verilog, VLSI, FPGA, anything to do with embedded IoT.

Yeah america wont survive if kids today stop valuing EE topic just due to some misguided economical models/interpretation.

The rockets that will land on mars wont be designed solely by software guys - it will require a lot of EE innovations - if america gives up then some other country will take its place.

Reminds of the movie Interstellar.
I am replying to those who make claims that H1B workers are being paid below market rate, hence driving down salaries. There is a minimum wage requirement as I mentioned which is approved by the state department of labor.
Again, these "driving down wages" doesn't hold water when the H1B salaries are public information.
Unfortunately my coding skills are far from adequate, when I get proficient I'll send you an email to see what you are up to.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10804604.
Making primitive huts and tools from scratch using only natural materials
The growing assault on our democratic rights [Australia]
https://github.com/dbcli/pgcli
Star Radiers was as close to Star Wars as Atari got, the Parker Brothers game The Empire Strikes Back was Star Wars but it was a Snow Speeder attacking AT-AT walkers. I'm talking more about a Star Wars type space battle game.

The extra controller as a keypad made it so you could toggle on and off stuff on your ship. Without it you couldn't play the game.

A friend borrowed my 2600 collection and never gave it back, so I lost every cartridge and controller I had. I think he ended up selling it for money without telling me. The same thing happened to my Amiga collection with a different friend and my C64/C128 collection with yet another different friend. I was too nice in letting friends borrow my stuff. Even a Vic-20 I let another different friend borrow so he could get on BBS systems with a 300 baud modem and he never gave it back.

But losing Star Raiders hurt me most of all. I even think there was an Atari Force comic book for it. http://www.atariage.com/comics/
This is probably a somewhat fringe sentiment, but reading this reminds me very much of http://codeofrob.com/entries/you-have-ruined-javascript.html (I was making very similar comments while reading this)

I'll readily admit I'm biased against OOP; I much prefer functional approaches. When I write Javascript, it tends to be pretty functional, with minimal OOP conventions.

But that said...all the problems this addresses are self-inflicted problems. The very start of the article even says as much, "Mixins solve a very common problem in class-centric OOP" - that is, "these problems are only problems because you want to write Javascript in class-centric OOP", something it wasn't really designed for (and the constant attempts have led to Ecmascript 7 and the 'class' keyword, which I find myself shaking my head at; again, see prior link, at trying to make Javascript feel 'enterprisey').

Find another way to go about it maybe? The subclassFactory example he gives...if I saw that in a code base I'd want to punch someone. Because without the writeup he gives, I'd be staring at it, and the functions it calls, for a good 20 minutes before figuring out what it's doing. And all it's doing is trying to shoehorn a specific paradigm into a language not written for it. I mean, you can do it, sure, but -why-? I don't really like Javascript but at least I feel pretty productive in it; why would I make it harder on myself, and everyone who reads my code after me, by trying to make it something it isn't?
Complaining when getting something for free? Is this 2015?
Pretty sure that's fraud AND entrapment.
Hey Mike, would I be able to break it down even further and get JUST the d3 linear scale?

Also, I've noticed that d3-axis as a separate module isn't ready yet. D3 scale and axis I have found to be superb when crafting graphs with Angular - is the d3-axis module a low or high priority for you?
I'm terribly interested in what kind of environment "if it becomes bad enough" specifically refers to, in your comment.
Quickest way is to use what's called a high-level synthesis tool that converts a high-level version of algorithm to hardware language. Synthagate, Handel-C, Catapult-C, Synflow's C-flow, C-to-Silicon... many tools claim to do it. Best to have someone with hardware background help, though.
Whoa whoa, the magazine will only be emptied in that scenario if the rounds aren't dummy rounds.
From that page: "there is currently no law regarding key disclosure in the United States" (nor is there in plenty other countries).

This an area under very heavy active debate at the legal and political levels and that fact might change in a year. There have also been numerous cases where the lack of such law hasn't prevented agencies for requesting the decrypted data itself, in lieu of the keys. But it's not quite a done thing just yet. So if you oppose key disclosure, there are still plenty of chances to fight it at the political level in many countries.
Your arguments clearly contradict each other:

"The marketplace is fiercely competitive, and they typically need people on the ground right away."

" The time it takes for a new hire at Google to get productive is usually about 6 months to a year."

It cannot be both ways as you please. Either these companies are investing in training or not. If they are, then things like requirements gathering, creating specs, and providing tests should not be something difficult to do. This is a very important part of the job, but is not a part that requires super-intelligence.

Everything points to the fact that these companies do not invest in training and are just trying to select a small number of people out of a large pool.