skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree it's not easy. I also was an H-1B, and in the exact same situation.

I have heard contradictory things from various lawyers about whether I could continue a green card process if I changed employment. Even if there is a correct interpretation of the law, you can't rely on them applying it to you because as a non-US citizen you're at the mercy of the bureaucracy. Big companies can get what they want, not individuals.

I wasn't happy with where I was working, and though they were willing to sponsor me for a green card, all the advice I got was that I would have to wait ten years or more. I didn't want to wait a decade to be more entrepreneurial, so I left instead. Also I was just sick of all the hoops I had to keep jumping through, scary experiences at the border, trivial screw-ups from lawyers meaning unexpected stays out of the country.... but most of all, how it made me a much more compliant person in my day-to-day work. I survived some difficult situations (and did jump employers once) but it was never easy.

Other people in my situation, who are tired of being some company's indentured servant, sometimes do different visas. The O-1 is surprisingly popular, even though it's written like you have to be Stephen Hawking to qualify. But I guess I didn't have the werewithal to do that.

In the original article, the congressperson commented about how the visa program doesn't attract entrepreneurial people. That was crazy. Lots of us are entrepreneurial! The H-1B visa is designed to stop us from doing that.
Thank you! Glad to hear it! I'm trying to maintain more OSS work myself. I love bitbar and totally encourage everybody to play with it and make their own plugin.
The possibility of panspermia means simply finding that life won't, by itself, mean life is inevitable. It will simply mean it happened at least once in the solar system and might spread easily.

Finding microbial life through the solar system won't really make us any less special. Even if we find evidence suggesting microbial life is common throughout the universe, it does not imply that complex animal life is common or inevitable. I suspect the goalposts will just be shifted. :)
If building it from source is acceptable, why would using packages direct from the maintainers not be? For anything in an interpreted language, there's little difference anyway.

I agree that Debian is too accepting of packages. We don't recommend that anyone installs Jupyter/IPython with apt, and I wouldn't mind if Debian removed it from the repos. But if there are all these packages that shouldn't be distributed through Debian, we need some other way for users to get them conveniently. We often use language package managers like pip, but they're not great for desktop applications - they can't easily set up a launcher entry, for instance. That's where something like AppImage comes in.
The only React-related problems the article describes are API changes (which are generally announced via deprecation messages if you don't skip several releases when upgrading) and invalid DOM nesting (which is just React becoming less messy).

Everything else seems to be the result of forcing a square peg in a round hole, i.e. using non-standard tooling. As much as I can understand the desire to have one set of tooling to rule them all, if I were using Ruby/Python/PHP/Java for my backend I wouldn't expect to be able to integrate my backend tooling with the Gulp/Grunt/WebPack I might use to build the frontend. Expecting to be able to do the same the other way around is just as arrogant, especially if you then blame the ecosystem you're trying to avoid for the incompatibilities you're experiencing.
Yeah I need to make a few tweeks but thanks for the feeback! I love what you did to it, it looks great!
An engineer replaced four monitors with Meta glasses
I understand your point, I just disagree. As you point out in the your last sentence, there is an enormous and quite uncanny trench between principled and unprincipled critique. One comes from a place of understanding and heartfelt disagreement, one does not (although one is often presumed by authors). While the former is possible, I would confidently say the both Sokal's and the commenter's came from the later.

Edit to add: Sokal's entire proposition (based in frankly an attempt to embarrass a field) exposes the lie underneath the straw man being built to support him.
Thanks, I agree I like the approach of the menu bar since I see it the most. I'm not sure about Linux compatible tools though.
Can someone please remind me again why USians should have a god given right to jobs in the US? Or put another way ... should an accident of birth(place) be the most import decider on whether someone should get a job or not?

I realise that this is probably going to get stupidly downvoted, but I am a die hard libertarian.

Why is it, in 2016, still OK to pick on the foreigners? Replace the word "foreigner" with Black/Woman/Jew/Gay/White/Whatever, and it would be totally unacceptable.

Way I see things, in a hundred years or so, picking on foreigners will be seen in the same light as picking on some minority group today.

I just worry that I won't get to live to see that day.
None, unless you use a VPN with an endpoint you trust.
> Except React has been getting simpler with each release. First there was React.createClass. Then came ES6 classes. Now components can just be pure functions.

That's a pretty shallow definition of easier.
well self driving cars are being over engineered for the very fact that for very long time if not forever there will always be a manually controlled vehicle along their path.

as for lane set asides, we already have HOV and Express lanes that would easily be adapted to self driving cars, if anything the express lanes would be even more efficient.

Cars like buses always trump trains in metro ranges simply because both can adapt quickly to change of habits. trains might be one solution between cities but even in Europe air travel is supplanting it
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"Floating point numbers" are called "Fließkommazahlen" in German, which is a word-for-word translation of "Floating comma numbers".

So at least for German I would say yes.
For those who are interested, the youtuber Applied Science explaining in detail how caffeine extraction works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvmM6qa2a90

very educational.
> spiritual/existential crisis

Only for abrahamic religions. Hinduism/Buddhism and other oriental/ddharmic religions repeatedly downplay our centrality.
In terms of my compulsions? Apparently so.
"if not forever there will always be a manually controlled vehicle along their path."

I hope it is forever, because otherwise we apparently would have outlawed bicycles.
we were talking about bonds (or I guess annuities) in the previous message. Debt, essentially. If you owe money at a fixed interest rate, an increase in the rate of inflation helps you very directly, and hurts your creditors very directly, because you get to pay your debt back with cheaper dollars.

If you really expect your real-estate to exactly follow the CPI, I expect you will be disappointed. (or maybe excited... for the last two decades, at least, real-estate has massively outpaced inflation.)

Pensions, and really, most things are more complex, just 'cause there's usually something that attempts to compensate for inflation, but the point being that in general, inflation is good for debtors and bad for creditors. Most of the historical arguments in favor of inflation run along the lines of a partial repudiation of debt. Go read Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech for an especially punchy example.
It's all selection, I think. Systems tend to seek energy minima (at least locally). Physics, chemistry, biology, information, etc. It's turtles, all the way down. And up, too.
> "With respect to customer data, no financial information or unencrypted password credentials were vulnerable."

sigh.
This wouldn't solve the problem of state revenue. Of course, it would solve YOUR problem of being able to afford a house because house prices would be fixed, right? Except that there would be way too much competition because now everyone could afford house prices that were fixed to 1960s levels, and you probably still wouldn't be able to get your house.
Flip through a modern joke book at a book store some time. They're pretty awful. I think it's just that one-liners told in isolation aren't funny on their own.
Memtest86 writes patterns to memory and reads them back almost immediately. To do the test properly you need to write a known pattern to memory, wait 24 hours, and THEN read it all back and check for flipped bits.

If you do not have ECC in your computer, yes you should see some flips.
Part of the dry joke is that they show the exact microsecond the entry was added?
Worth noting - a lot of the benefits of PRT are realized with short, one-way on demand car rentals. Obviously you still have to drive, but you get quick access to a vehicle, go where you want, hop out, and someone else gets to use it. At scale it's awesome, but it's been hard for sprawling US cities to get to that scale given entrenched habits.

Here in San Diego I use Car2Go - http://car2go.com/ . It's awesome for stuff like airport runs - I walk to the car (they're about a 5 minute walk from the airport), tap a card on the windshield, drive home (about six bucks and fifteen minutes; cheaper than the bus if my wife is with me), and then when I'm done with it the car is there for someone else to use. They're small, nimble, electric, and fun. Unfortunately they don't seem to be hugely popular since SD is very, very sprawling and their home range is fairly small.
Haven't ever really worked with a big enough team for it. I mean, current workplace has exactly two people doing web development, and the previous one had maybe between one and three people per project. If we tried to work like this, nothing would ever get done.
New Web Typography
First, their EU based branches have been opened for years, the last one being Paris.

Second, you should defined what is a normal company. They are pretty much the same as any big tech company, and they are definitively hiring the same profiles as Google, Facebook or Criteo, in a very similar process.

Last, what makes working for Palantir worst than, let's say, working in adtech, fintech, or anything resembling a buzzfeed-like mobile social network?
SSID is `BTWifi-Starbucks`.
Yeah, imagine a problem with the javascript build tool chain. That rarely happens, right? But I was unfamiliar with SBT - it's scala build tools[1].

[1] http://www.scala-sbt.org/
How I started reading books regularly
A common public complaint about the SEC is that it is essentially filled with Wall Street insiders, so Wall Street is effectively only regulated by itself. The counterpoint is that experience is necessary to comprehend the technical details, and that outsiders lack that insight.

If the polling is taken at face value [0], the public would like to control Apple, whereas people who know tech are against such regulation.

Both situations are similar - industry autonomy versus unwashed public opinion. All lobbing has this same tension - the entities that stand to profit from something inevitable are the ones who understand it best. Feeling differently about each instance isn't hypocritical, it just means you should ponder the nuances for why.

[0] Modulo leading questions, framing, etc. I, for one, don't have a hard time believing the polls are roughly accurate. Groups of people are hysterical ugly creatures, led simply by scaremongering media.
You could say that about programming languages, but they are so useful there end up being a lot of variants.

I searched for a shared memory key value store high and low for interprocess communication and the closest thing I found was WhiteDB. WhiteDB is pretty great, but its concurrency is done through locking and it is very unfortunately GPL licensed, which makes it very niche. (BTW a shared memory key value store for IPC is AMAZING).

There are a ton of key value stores out there though amazingly enough I'm still excited when I see announcements because I haven't found one that is what I want.
"What we do know right now is that the alleged data breach affected about 0.5% ... "

They know that it affected some of their customers, but still call it "the alleged breach"?
This really needs an explainvictorianhumor.com.
I find this strangely fascinating, but have no idea what I could use it for. Is it intended to be useful, or just a neat experiment?
The first article is about Gamergate, the second is a Daily Kos article with a title ending in a question mark.
I regret my drive by response. I should have anticipated your pedantry and not left you the opening.

Your spirited defense of Prop 13 notes that it currently does reset value during select events.

You continue to ignore, conflate, deny, obfuscate the most salient point: the 1% cap has crippled state and local govt. It certainly has prevented providing the level of services expected. Including by anti-tax jihadists such as yourself.

Cue repetition of talking points. Freedom Markets (tm), government corruption, monopoly on violence, blah blah blah. Go ahead. I'll wait.

Your selective credulity is insufferable.
- Hey there! Site looks cool, but on Safari, the text entry color is the same as the text box ?

- A summary of the sentiment would be a nice to have as well!

Cheers!
I've written something similar for PostgreSQL using Paxos: https://github.com/citusdata/pg_paxos . It can replicate tables across a set of PostgreSQL servers.

pg_paxos is an extension that uses PostgreSQL's query execution hooks so it doesn't require any external components. An advantage of pg_paxos is that you can do reads and writes on any node. Would love to know what people think and whether it's something you would use (if rigorously tested). Small warning: it replicates SQL queries and doesn't stop you from using volatile functions like now() yet, which would give inconsistent results.

A possible application is a reliable cron service. Each cron node tries to add an entry to a replicated locks table with the same primary key on any of the PostgreSQL nodes. Only one will succeed and then runs the cron job.

Some more details in these slides: http://www.p2d2.cz/files/pg_paxos.pdf
This is yet another reason to avoid using frameworks you don't really need. Just because someone uses React, and there's buzz around this framework, doesn't mean you've to use it.

Talking from my experience frameworks are one of the hugest anti-patterns in software development. They're hard to learn, they limit your creativity, they go out of business, you've to upgrade them for no good reason and make your code compatible with the latest version, you've to search for help and ask others, they bloat your software and create unnecessary dependencies, and you probably need only 10% of what a framework offers. They just don't make sense.

You can easily implement your own abstractions for your own application and be done with it. Your abstractions won't need upgrades, you'll be in control, and you won't have to waste time searching for help. You should be fighting complexity and not embracing it. I don't use frameworks and I encourage you don't use them too.
> Desktop Linux is definitely still maturing...

You're such an optimist.

https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html

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It could be based on federal GS locality pay: $135,750 in SF would be equivalent to $114,350 in KY. There'd be no need for quotas per state.

[1] https://www.federalpay.org/gs/locality
James Hamilton on the Volswagen emissions fiasco
Babel5/6 too!
Code is a liability. The best code is code that doesn't need to be written.
I wonder if it would be economically feasible to build a modern equivalent of the Morgantown PRT using a standard electric car model (Nissan Leaf, Chevy Bolt, etc.) as the "pods" using nothing but after-market modifications. Such an approach might make sense if new systems like this were dominated by R&D costs -- and, maybe as importantly, R&D schedules.
Oddly we have a situation where people who own homes can pay very low property taxes while voting to restrict new building on land they do not own within their city. Most of the bay area is low density sprawling asphalt hellscape (think Fremont, not Berkeley) where people can enjoy their grandfathered in tax rates AND oppose any and all new housing construction - the same construction that could help the city increase its tax base (not to mention allow workers to live closer to jobs and other amenities). Of course, that construction would also mean their property values weren't quite stratospheric, and regular folks could maybe, just maybe, cover rent.

Perhaps we should reconsider the idea that people can vote on what homes others (even gasp developers!) are allowed to build on private land.
If it doesn't need to be rewritten, if it is that good, then it is an asset because you can depend on it.
During my first trade show in Europe, this Italian guy came by multiple times to look at the product. He asked for a price on his second visit. It was USD $8,000. The next day he came back one last time and asked: Why is it $8,000 if it is so light?

Interesting -- what type of product was this?

I've designed equipment with small, lightweight boxes that sold for similar prices ($5,000 in my case) and didn't run into that phenomenon in my (very small) niche, but I've definitely seen it in action in contexts like EEVblog teardown videos. Coincidentally, I'm working on a new design right now, and one of the items on my to-do list for this weekend is to decide whether to go with aluminum or copper for some internal shielding. :)
I wonder if I'm going through a bit of a manic state right now. I've just had surgery, had to take a relatively large amount of of oxycontene to deal with the severe pain, I may consider that I can change things in an organization going through turmoil (though I really can't), I'm trying to fix heaps of bugs in an important code base, but sleeping and having weird dreams like believing that Rolf Harris is my relative (bloody disturbing) and waking up feeling disturbed, but in pain.

Whatever it is, it's horrible. I'm sorry the author went through worse than this!
https://www.redfin.com/CA/San-Jose/849-Seabury-Dr-95136/home...

That house, for example, is on the market for $848k. The 2014 taxes listed on Redfin are $1,873.

That's very low.

Here's a $1mil house in Vancouver:

https://www.redfin.com/WA/Vancouver/3811-Oregon-Dr-98661/hom...

The taxes on that house are about $11k.
Ah, I see. "X is a shitty company that needs to make waves to stay relevant" was a comment limited to merely the filesystem debate. Then, when it comes to user-friendliness, you abandon the bsds and other linux distros that you were talking about, shifting your goalposts neatly. But it does show your elitism again: user-friendliness should apparently stay away from the FOSS distros and remain the domain of windows/osx.

You were slagging off ubuntu and saying you don't know why people use their shit. I gave you a reason - in fact, ubuntu was responsible for a huge groundswell of interest in open source almost a decade ago, because of that user-friendly focus. That's a core part of why people use their stuff.
How large is large?
Yeah, I would think that such a herd or swarm would be fully backward and forward compatible. Traditional cars could keep doing what they do - swarms would react intelligently to them as swarms tend to do - and there wouldn't be any need for specialized infrastructure to support pure automation.
Totally agree. That's what, at least eighty ESP-8266's or at least a baker's dozen RPi's.
I find the conclusion of 'this can happen to anyone' to be so delusional, bordering on sad.

A guy believes in a bunch of non-sense, spends a year reading up on it and taking it seriously, dates a quack with whom he screws with his mind by taking dangerous substances and doing 'spiritual practices' and finally goes off the rails...

His conclusion? Coulda happened to anyone! No Kenneth, it usually happens to people who lack self-awareness and believe in healing crystals.
From http://victorianhumour.com/jokedb/joke/19 -- "Ihad [sic] always a high opinion of your seamen," said Napoleon one day" .. these Victorians had definitely mastered the single entendre.
It might do, thanks. I might change it to 'mailbox slot' though. I'll try it next time.
If you use a thinkpad external keyboard (has integrated mouse) then stick a usb ethernet dongle on there. I think I've seen around 40-50MBbyte/sec on one of the linksys/cisco ones.
Best to contact the admins directly. There is a 'contact' link in the footer. I don't see a reason why they wouldn't revert any ban that might have existed.
It looks like a neat experiment (definitely cool though), but I imagine you could (eventually?) implement a scripting language like lua in it, and register your program's external commands the scripting language needs access to.
A linux distribution based on Hannah Montana
1) The OCR'ed epub versions aren't very good. The stuff that keeps the bitmaps intact (i.e. PDF) are quite readable.

2) If you wanna do a big bulk download for your favorite e-reader, here are the instructions.

https://blog.archive.org/2012/04/26/downloading-in-bulk-usin...
If you learned that "programming is like telling the computer a recipe" I can see how FP looks strange.

It's a bad analogy though.

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf
I wonder why they can't just use node to transpile the react code?
As to 1.) you downloaded the app (.appimage) and double clicked on it. Why? Nowhere in any documentation does it say that .appimages are executable out of the box. In fact this is a security feature that it doesn't. IN all placves that I have seen .appimages available there is a statement that says the user has to go into permissions and make the file executable before it will run. Makes sense since most malware is made to run without user intervention. If an app doesnt need you to run it, then its the perfect platform for malware/virus.
Just getting a reference to the XMLHttpRequest object required twelve lines of code :|
That's fine as long as you're happy having only one person at that level of competence. You're not going to get a second one to stay long.
I think it's the default/recommended build tool for play framework projects.
- In my experience, React is much better and faster and easier to use than Angular, but there are things better than React out there (Cycle, for example).

- I don't know.

- It depends on what is your application logic, but I think you are right for the majority of cases. However, presenting the data in a good way is probably more than 50% of any application (if it wasn't, everybody would be writing just CLI apps), that's why Javascript matters.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11187249 and marked it off-topic.
The potential gains, especially from freer immigration, are astounding.

"The gains from eliminating migration barriers dwarf---by an order of a magnitude or two---the gains from eliminating other types of barriers. For the elimination of trade policy barriers and capital flow barriers, the estimated gains amount to less than a few percent of world GDP. For labor mobility barriers, the estimated gains are often in the range of 50–150 percent of world GDP." [1]

A typical example:

"Take a male construction worker in the capital of Ghana. There isn’t much you could do to greatly raise his economic productivity in Ghana; access to better tools or training might make him modestly more productive. But if you let the exact same person emigrate to work at a construction site in any big U.S. city, his economic productivity would rise roughly 700% to 1,000%." [2]

[1] Clemens, Michael A. 2011. "Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk?" Journal of Economic Perspectives, 25(3): 83-106.
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/jep.25.3.83

[2] http://www.cgdev.org/blog/trillion-dollar-bills-sidewalk-why...