skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that it's nice to think that. However, you've now introduced a third axis. Axis #1, from the report, is that nationality diversity is important, in which case a white Protestant Canadian from Toronto brings more diversity than a Russian Orthodox Tlingit from rural Southeast Alaska.

Axis #2, from tonyhb, is that adversity leads to success. In which a highly educated medical doctor from Iraq who, as a refugee, ends up in Sweden and works as a taxi cab driver in order to support his family, instead of spending two years to learn the language and get recertified, has excellent changes for financial success. Or not.

Now your #3 is "Educated ambitious people". But you have two baselines: "somewhere where the opportunities are greater" than in the home country is one, "successful compared to the average disadvantaged unmotivated american" is another. These are not the same. The US brings in agricultural workers from Mexico. The opportunities are greater in the US. But they are less successful financially than 'disadvantaged unmotivated american', because the Mexican worker is going to return to Mexico, where the cost of living and retirement is lower, while the American will stay in the US so needs a higher pay.

Thus the long tradition of, say, South Africans going to work in London, suffer for a few years to save up a nest egg, and move back to South Africa. That doesn't mean the local English are disadvantaged and unmotivated, only that they have different motivations.

Or the educated ambitious doctor from Iraq who drives a taxi, because the opportunity to be alive driving a taxi is better than being dead back in Iraq. Two different baselines, yes?

Each of these three axes leads to different policy. All of them have some truth. All are based on factors which are hard to identify in a 22 year old other than "comes from a family with money."

Now to point out another worrisome aspect of your comment - why do you highlight 'average disadvantaged unmotivated american'? The report compares immigrants to founders of high tech companies. Very view people, including educated ambitious Americans, do that. To then insert 'disadvantaged unmotivated' makes it sound like you are thinking of something else, but the only reason I can think of is anti-poor and anti-minority viewpoints, which surely you don't mean. Could you clarify why it was important to add those qualifiers?

Does it also guide your thinking about how to accept refugees?
There are many types of robot. Maybe the tech behind military robots doesn't translate well to elder care robots?
I just did some benchmarking and discovered switching the Windows theme to Classic reduced the lag with 30-40ms!!!
Does it have a package manager yet?
The 451 status code is now supported
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> Too low level for me. But since that I've started go as my first low level statically typed language

I don't think any garbage collected language can be called "low level". If you really want to go low level, learn C and ASM. Manual memory management is the real deal.
Try it. You'll find HN an interesting target.
> do immigrant founders of $1B+ companies representative of the same population of H1-B visa recipients?

You make a very good point here. The thing is that it is absolutely impossible to filter or select for future $1B+ startup founders.

Most immigrant tech startup founders in the Bay Area first come to the US as foreign students. They then get a job like most people, but also have to go through a long and difficult struggle with the U.S. immigration system in order to get a green card. Only after getting a green card, do most start a company (because self-sponsorship with your own company is prohibited on an H-1B visa). For their first 10 years or so in the U.S., they have no laurels to show, and nothing that sets them apart from a typical good software engineer at Google. There is no data point from which you predict that X person is going to become a future successful startup founder.

I am another example of this. Right now, I don't have much to show besides my work experience, some CS research I did in college, and a few GitHub projects. I'd definitely like to start a company some day. I think I am somewhat representative of the general population of H1-B visa holders. That I might some time in the future be far more successful, and a huge blessing to this country's economy, and to its people, cannot be positively predicted based on where I am in life today.

> many of the founders came to the US to go to school in the US, including Harvard

There is no official data that shows you where H-1B visa holders went for college. But I can take an educated guess. Everyone that I've met that is on an H-1B visa graduated from a US school. I would guess at least half of all H-1B visa holders studied in the US.

If you filtered by the ranking of the university that a foreign student attended, and said that only graduates from prestigious widely-famous universities are allowed to stay in this country, and every else from lesser universities, should get kicked out, then I would be kicked out along with them. My guess is that the majority of immigrant startup founders didn't go to Harvard/Stanford/MIT/etc.
Personally I use an adblocker and got the door slammed in my face as well. I found it frustrating but closed the tab and went about my business. Trouble is, this is allowing this very non-webby behavior to normalize itself.

There should be a backlash against this idiotic adblocking-blocking, I'm just not sure what form it should take.
But is it reliable? Since this is news, I assume memtest won't detect most rowhammer vulnerable systems.
While I agree with most people that Atom is kind of unresponsive, don't you think that we have talked about it enough? Stop acting like you are the first person to notice. Since its first release that is the major complaint point. They either can't or don't want to do anything about it. Deal with it.
This is not true; there are any number of studies and interviews which have shown that elected representatives will only act in favor of donors if the voters are silent or supportive. No congressman or senator will ignore dozens of letters and phonecalls (, though there has been some debate as to the utility of e-mails).
Ask HN: C++/Python to Full Stack developer
I’m a C++ developer of about 10 years worked in games for a number of years xbox/wii and then in a visualization company, currently at an engineering firm. We have made a start moving over tech to a service architecture python to ASP server which I really enjoyed. Question is how likely is it that a company would even look a someone’s cv that is from a C++ application background?
It's not the oldest. SLS predates slackware (as do a few others iirc)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softlanding_Linux_System
Slack was awesome back in the day, but the the philosophy as being "as unix like as possible" prevented it evolving and adding nice things like package managers. Using slackware is a good exercise, but I'd never use it for an application I care about.
Slackware has always had a package manager, from the beginning.

What you probably mean is "does it have a package manager with dependency resolution, yet?". And the answer has been "yes" for years now. Several, actually.

They aren't included in the main installation, but they are widely used.

See also http://docs.slackware.com/slackware:package_management
Sounds good. Really appreciate that feedback. Seriously. I have felt a bit like we are throwing a lot at people at the beginning of the docs.
Correct, "oldest surviving", beating Debian by a hair.
Thanks! This has to be the default behavior, and not an "advanced" setting!
Right, what I mean is can I type

apt-get/dnf/zypper/emerge/whatever install apache

and have that work
For mobile devices, you typically pay per Byte. And so you pay for the extra crap. Plus you have to see it. That's why users block ads.

And now even some mobile providers are blocking ads. I'm guessing that's because they're concerned that they won't recover investment in additional infrastructure. That is, providers who block ads and charge less will be more competitive than providers who allow ads and charge more.
Is it just me, or it sounds... cult-ish / overly dramatic?

>> it wasn’t obvious to me that Hacker News had any JavaScript at all.

I guess he never votes.

>> I thought it would be weird and complicated, but it turned out to be quite the opposite. You’ll have to watch the video to see what I mean.

Well, it sends a HTTP request and hides an element. How on earth can it be complicated? I mean, ok, you can use The Framework Of The Week to do that and just that. Not everything that is related to HN/YC is some magical rocket science.
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I hate to break this to you, but the majority of people no longer remember the name Snowden. Give it 6 months and this will be such old news that you'll sound like a nut trying to get the majority of people to care about it.

The window of opportunity is short, and closing every day.
At its core, the government can enforce arbitrary declarations because they have the ability to use force against those who don't comply - ie; they control the prisons, the police and the armies.

"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" - Mao Zedong
And quite slow
Glad you are liking it. Yes auth needs a bit more love. I'm working on it right now actually. It's getting close to a 1.0.

As far as passwords go, I assume you are referring to passwordless auth? We are working on that right now :). https://github.com/feathersjs/feathers-authentication/issues...
Show HN: English syntax highlighter using part-of-speech tagging
I wonder whether StackOverflow founders have plans to use their data as a training set for future program synthesis AIs (i.e. robot coders who will kick most of us out of our jobs mwahahahaha)
If only people could realize the insane role (good/bad) luck plays in life. I believe it is often a difference between American and European culture: the former very strongly promotes individual responsibility, so when you succeed it's all to your merits, and when you fail you can only blame yourself.
I can't agree more, but honestly who's surprised here?

Since the introduction of nodejs and NPM, JavaScript developers have been on a ridiculous NIH-fuelled frenzy to recreate everything that ever existed, using as many dependencies (and sub-dependencies) as humanly possible to do so, while also actively choosing to not solve problems that they come across, and instead implementing ridiculous work arounds or replacing/rewriting entire components or apps, rather than working out they were missing a config option, etc.

I am not at all surprised that the nodejs/npm community's response to NPM being such a pig, is to put lipstick on that pig, and try to make it look prettier, while doing nothing about it shitting all over the couch and proceeding to lay in said shit.
But this does not mean that the Facebook will fail in its current use case.

You are most likely currently using an IBM-compatible PC running Microsoft Windows on which you run Google for searches and Facebook to reach friends.

There are some losers in those stories and they are losing to direct competition: IBM is losing on profits because they made their system open and anyone can build IBM compatible PCs, Microsoft is losing because people were for some strange reason ok with Apple creating a closed operating system (iOS) where they take 30% of any transaction that runs on it. Microsoft are trying to change this with Windows 10 and UWP, but hopefully it will fail just like Bing.
Interrupts need to be fairly accurate. Lots of games use them to have unmoving status bars, and rely on them triggering on just the right scanline.
Is the FBI then going to make a grab for source code, signing keys, and conscript people to do the work?

No, they're going to grab for source code, signing keys, and _pay_ people to do the work. There are lots of competent engineers out there, and not all of them share your politics (and some that do might be willing to reconsider it for a sufficiently large dollar amount).

Hell there are probably engineers working at the NSA right now who would easily do it as part of their day to day job if you just handed them the keys and source code.
The problem is both. It's not good enough for most people in the area to use it, and wasn't even built to withstand the amount of commuters it gets.
I can't tell whether you are making a subtle technical point, or if you are don't understand the terminology the rest of us are using. Commonly defined, welding involves melting both the base metals, and the joint ends up as strong as the weaker of the two. Soldering and brazing, on the other hand, melt only the filler, and the joint strength is limited by the strength of the filler or its adhesion to one of the metals.

When you say "multi element filler", it seems likely you are saying "welding" when we think you should be saying "brazing". True welding of dissimilar metals is sometimes possible, but is not very common, and usually requires some exotic processes most of us are less familiar with: laser, ultrasonic, diffusion, explosion. There's description of some of these here: http://www.totalmateria.com/page.aspx?ID=CheckArticle&site=k...
Around March 10 when he questioned Attorney General Loretta Lynch at a DOJ budget review hearing [1]

The video is 6 minutes and worth watching. It sounds like he is still forming his whole opinion. He certainly has changed his view from his initial comments. He's now calling for the debate to be held in Congress via passage of new laws.

[1] https://youtu.be/uk4hYAwCdhU?t=1m44s
Hi HN! This was inspired by the top comment from this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11294026

> It would be interesting to see the major parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives) colored. Instead this is a coloring of fairly random words. A bunch of short words are grey, but they don't belong to any particular part of speech. They include some articles, prepositions, conjunctions and a few verbs...
Robotics has its first unicorn – small SF startup Cruise Automation
Web Workers.
> Sublime Text 3:
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> Build 3103: February 2016

I'm just as annoyed as anyone else about the rate of development on Sublime Text, but please, at least state the whole truth.

Build 3109

Release Date: 18 March 2016

https://www.sublimetext.com/3dev
Yes, but I think there's also something to be said for learning to swim in life's ocean of ups and downs, making the most of your situation. For me, a successful person is someone that knows how to swim, not someone that caught a once-in-a-lifetime tidal wave. Usually it isn't very glamorous, but it's what I personally aspire to.
The author has been writing about immigration policy for some time. From the bio at the end of the report, this includes 'four and a half years on Capitol Hill on the Senate Immigration Subcommittee' and a 2010 book titled 'Immigration'.

It's therefore very unlikely that this piece concerns the specific views of any of the current candidates but is instead the author's long-term interest.

Moreover, the National Foundation for American Policy focuses "on trade, immigration and related issues" and the board includes "former INS Commissioner James Ziglar." The NFAP is set up to influence policy decisions, and meant to be read by those who regularly read the 'Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post', etc.

All this goes strongly against your hypothesis that it is "a political jab at the various GOP candidates' opinions".

The author previously worked at Cato and other libertian think tanks. These are often aligned with business interests by wanting to reduce the constraints on what a large business is allowed to do. Which is the association that jmspring correctly, IMO, makes.
Access home computer files remotely
It's been in review in the "Journal of Computing and System Sciences"" for one year. Here's the reviewer comment:

'The paper claims among other things that 3SAT canb solved in polynomial time. However the approach outlined in the paper is simply wrong. Proposition 8 for example asserts that the 3-SAT problem accepts a deterministic solution if and only if the LP system Eq. (10) is feasible. This is simply wrong. The transformation of the 3qAT problem into LP is fallacious, and even if it were valid, it is integYLal (0,1)-solutions that one should be looking for, not just any real solution. Finding integral solutions to an LP is in general NP-hard. '
Slackware does not and very likely will not have dependency resolution. Its package manager is pkg which is a script that explodes a gzipped tarball from root.
To me the understanding that Slackware forced upon you, at least earlier, was the benefit.

They could have bumped the version number to 15, I don't think anyone would mind.
HN's design is fantastic - it is totally perfect for its function. Collapsible comments are a pig to use. HN looks and works great on mobile now (it didn't used to but they did a redesign in the last few months).

Downvoters do you care to explain why you disagree?
> I love the idea of user interfaces that provide little distractions from long-running (usually unavoidable) tasks.

Something like a java/c/etc compile on a large project is an unavoidable delay. And yet those tools don't offer to jingle some keys for you to make you feel like its quicker. They just do what they can to make the process as quick as possible.

Installation of packages that don't require compilation (e.g. decompressing files, moving them and possibly running some simple tasks) is not unavoidably slow. NPM is just a terrible package manager, and the community is in some kind of munchausen situation.
HN's UI is clear, accessible, and uncluttered. If you want something different, they expose an API which everyone and their mother has written a client with, including native apps for mobile. The only JS on the site is in place to reduce the page reloads you were worried about.

What is the problem here?
What the hell was that ? (From mobile)
I don't know that the stack is the problem. Visual Studio Code seems quite fast.

And the your first statement seems to imply some kind of obligation where there is none. Open source is a public service not a public obligation.
This has generally been my experience too, the results of AI are cool and exciting, but the programming side often ends up dull and boring - accentuated by the "I have no idea why tuning that parameter worked" factor that happens in any complex AI system.

Introducing senses and movement - i.e., robotics - makes the boring parts worth it for me though.
Alternatively, I'd appreciate if comments had a link to their siblings and not just their parents. It wouldn't require any JavaScript, but would (for me) have the same utility.
Search is a product. In economic terms, it is called: A Loss Leader.

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

Search is sold at $0, to drive customers into the Store where they can see the real product.
Ask HN: How much do you spend on your side project
I mean for side projects that's not making any profit. I'm setting a budget of $800/year, including hosting cost like heroku, domain name purchase, etc.

If you have multiple projects, can you please say the average and max cost.
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I agree with your point. When I said "development skills" it was not a judgement about talent, rather about "body count".
Nice project, but the big issue with windows is the dumb terminal.
>okay ethics

Let millions starve in manmade famine, massacres, 200 years of resource theft...
The report described by the WSJ made that association which you and I agree is not reasonable to make.

While you are correct about official data, my comment concerns the report. The report identifies immigrant founders by college degree, including John Collison, Daniel Saks, Mario Schlosser, and Michelle Zatlyn, all from Harvard.

4/60 immigrant founders of $1B+ startups have a Harvard education. I do not think 6.7% of H1-B visa holders have a Harvard education.
It looks like Lavabit filed an amicus/"friend of the court" brief in the Apple case: http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/07/apple-vs-fbi-lavabit-warns-...

Despite the differences in the two cases, it makes sense that Lavabit would want to help defend Apple's position.
likely good. c++ requires strong fundamentals, and is harder than anything full stack devs do
I wanna play civilization vs a crowd trained (and probably intentionaly crippled) AI of this kind.
As long as you choose to fund the US government, instead of funding another government, you have culpability.
The problem is that with long term return structures (such as long term R&D), there is no feasible way to arbitrage away wrong prices. So prices can diverge a long way from fundamental value.

This issue happens most visibly with the overall stock market level which reguarly and blatantly violates any kind of rational discounted cash flow e.g. in the dot.com era.
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I remember well when IE 5 came out. I really, really wanted to use Netscape 4 but IE 5 was just so much better.
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Yup. I don't know if anyone researched it, but I bet it highly correlates with browser usage. On a couple of websites I run, I notice that IE market share is much higher in the US than Europe.
Yeah man. I've never heard of those. They sound like the best thing since sliced bread. Only if they could access the DOM...

Seriously... what are you even talking about? Why do you even mention them? You read single threaded and thought "Quick, I must come up with an answer! I can't let a stranger on the Internet change my opinion!"?
This is actually very simple.
The state can just harass them into compliance. Tools at the state's disposal include but are not limited to:

#Legal:

* Judge orders them to comply, if they refuse they can be considered to be in contempt and incarcerated for a de facto arbitrary period of time at the judge's discretion (vide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Beatty_Chadwick incarcerated for contempt for 14 years just because the judge suspected he had funds that apparently he didn't have, also Terrell Geiger http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-10-07/news/ct-met-lo...)

* Civil forfeiture. The state can just de facto steal every single item those people have and leave them unable to fight that in court (not that it would make much difference)

* Involuntary commitment. They can just be committed into a psychiatric institution where they can be drugged against their will and even tortured. This can be extended to an arbitrarily long period of time

* They can have their children taken away

* IRS can just accuse them of an astronomical tax debt, take all of their possessions and leave them effectively unable to get legal representation (not that it would make much difference)

#"Illegal":

* Just detain them in a secret facility and do with them as they dam well please

TLDR: The state does with you what it damn well pleases and there's nothing you can really do about it. Granted this usually doesn't happen but that's just because the stakes usually aren't that high.
I doubt their intent was to state a half truth. It seems that they were making the point that nearly a year passed between 3083 and 3103.