skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait, pinboard indexes notes? I really doubt that. Is it possible it's indexing the bookmarks pointing to the notes? Those get pre-populated with the first N characters of the note content.

Could you email me your pinboard username? I appreciate your kind words but am serious about comping you.

I fixed fulltext search that was falling over on a caching server, so it affected a bunch of users besides you.
I'm a write in vote for changing the voting system. One person, one vote, and winner take all got us two parties very fast.
I work for this such type of consulting shop abroad (first world), supposedly best in the country and earn same as average Uber driver.

I think the model is not limited to the US. There are plenty of people willing to have abroad experience, but it does demotivate you to certain degree.

I can imagine market geophysics specialists is extremely tiny.
17 years of government contracts on BigQuery
40-70 billion is the estimate of tax revenue losses from this sort of thing? Does that strike anyone else as insanely low? You're telling me that the sum of all tax losses due to evasion is just equal to the net worth of our wealthiest private individuals?
Scientists grow human organs for transplant inside pigs
As long as the DHS doesn't find a way to shut all these shops and reform the immigration rules, nothing will ever change.Part of the problem exists with the thousands of universities which gives admits to everyone who applies without even a GRE. These universities are pumping the market with resources these H1B shops rely on. The problem with consulting companies which get thousands of visas which actually replaces some American jobs is a whole different story.

All of this takes a comprehensive immigration reforms which encourages merit based visa assignment than a ridiculous lottery, guess this will takes years to happen, sadly.
Ask HN: Resources for creating my own database
I know a lot about to how use different databases (SQL, Elasticsearch, Mongodb, etc), but I thought it would make an interesting project to create my own database. I have an idea of where I would start, but was hoping looking for some resources to help me out (free or paid). I tried googling around but most of the results are dominated by MS Access or SQL stuff.

Any links to books/pdfs/github repos would be awesome.
IRS is just a bunch of people who want to do their jobs as best they can. Congress is the entity responsible for not funding IRS. IIRC I saw some Congressional testimony from the head of IRS a few years ago effectively begging for more money, because every dollar spent on audits and enforcement returns ~$10 to the Treasury.
> "It’s like propaganda that is brainwashing Americans to forget the Principles of Hard Work, Ingenuity, Risk and Boundless Success!"

There's nothing more principled than offshoring daddy's money to escape the socialist claws of the IRS.
It's not good or bad necessarily, but it is incredibly dangerous.

Google is a massive corporation with unprecedented information about ordinary people. Information that we would never let governments collect on us. As Google becomes more connected to governments, that separation might break down.

The Snowden revelations showed us part of the hidden picture here. But the public picture, as described in this article, is enough to worry about.
I was talking about the points "mainstream, non-functional" which excluded all the previous counter-examples. I only added "compiled" as it is a notable feature of Go that may be seen as beneficial for performance and other reasons.
It seems like people are trying to use types as a substitute for tests and a way to protect themselves from unintended mutations.

But if you write tests already and use immutable data structures, what benefits does TS bring to people whose background isn't in strongly typed languages?
High voluntary compliance rates and low long-term capital gains and dividend tax rates.
Was anyone claiming otherwise?
Which is why most reputable hotels will ask for a photo ID when running a new key. At least that's the procedure I had to go through when I last forgot my keys in my hotel room and locked myself out.
Facebook apps are fine for battery usage for me.
@smegel, yes it is.
> my proposal for a secure or private phone that I drop on people trying to build one

Can we see it?
That's a bit extreme. You could just put a passcode on your phone?
Job market in my country is terrible, so I have little to lose. Going to Canada for a Masters, after which I have a substantial salary expectation in the CA/US market, but not back home.
It would be nice if there was an easy way to copy the hashes for example to diff it against what you computed. As it is now, the page is laid out so that it is hard to copy just the hash.
Not at all. Rental costs are most strongly influenced by supply-and-demand of housing, whereas sale costs are mostly influenced by supply-and-demand of credit.
I don't know too much about it, but Question2Answer is an open source project that is basically what you're asking for. I don't think it fits the "really nice" part though.

http://www.question2answer.org
Sorry I only just saw this, hope it'll reach you. You can find previous broadcasts at https://www.twitch.tv/ryan_clark/profile
Here is Yann's summary of the situation back then:

https://plus.google.com/+YannLeCunPhD/posts/gurGyczzsJ7

I seem to remember this article as having a lot of very interesting comments, including from the chairman of the conference. The exchange was cordial but showed some clear antagonism between the two parties. Somehow, I don't see these comments any more on Google+.

That was four years ago, things are a lot better now.
People have been moving out of the urban core in U.S. cities for the last 50 years. This has hit mid-sized U.S. cities particularly hard. While enough businesses may have stayed behind to maintain a central business district, the residents chose to live elsewhere and commute in.

The St. Louis region, where I live, has nearly 3 million people (about half of which are inside the I-270/255 loop, for some context on a map), but only around 3000 residents in its primary Downtown neighborhood (and another 4000 or so in the adjacent Downtown West). These two neighborhoods have a population density that's lower than the city average (and much lower than in the most dense neighborhoods).

By the way, this actually represents a bit of a comeback for the neighborhood. There were only 800 residents Downtown in 2000. Warehouse-to-loft conversions became popular about 15 years ago, which has reversed the trend, at least for now.
In general the right of people to do as they please as long as they aren't infringing on the rights of others isn't considered a mere "preference."
US Set to Approve Private Moon Mission
ordinary people can borrow 50% on margin
They don't all require that:

> Canine transmissible venereal tumor (CTVT) is sexually transmitted cancer in dogs. It was experimentally transplanted between dogs in 1876 by M. A. Novinsky (1841–1914). A single malignant clone of CTVT cells has colonized dogs worldwide, representing the oldest known malignant cell line in continuous propagation.
Tutorial How to Call a Game Function
At some point in the 70s taxation flipped into a political/Ideaology issue. "Simplifying" the tax code is code for lowering taxes for influential people.

Your taxes and burdens are high because leeches on society pay nothing. Why do you defend them?
Have you tried full-time remote? Benefit I see in your case is you are a few hours behind, which meshes well with late workers in California :-)
Do wonder if the ancient greeks had similar reactions to their philosophers.
Only millions? That's not so bad!

> officials estimate that the government loses between $40 billion and $70 billion a year in unpaid taxes on offshore holdings.

I wonder how much the government loses out on per year in evasion. Not legal avoidance (Apple, Google, Microsft, etc) but illegal evasion.
Tabula Rogeriana
Ok, I think I see the point you're making, but what I took from Hastings talk is that devolving locking to as local a scope as possible is doing just that: wherever possible, locking in an analytically single threaded context which is trivial and basically cost-free.

The cache invalidation isn't done by cpython, it's done at the the chip level when global atomic incr and decr instructions are triggered. Hastings was pretty clear that the performance hit was very closely tied to the way that modern processors depend very heavily on caching, pipelining, branch prediction, etc.

I think that the kind of implementation you're suggesting, where the VM adopts a locking strategy based on whether or not it's actually multi-threaded, might be possible, but sounds like it conflicts with Guido's edict that no GIL-less solution will be accepted that overly complicates that cpython codebase.

I'm probably making a hash of the talk, but I saw it in person, and it was surprisingly clear to someone like me who isn't a serious C programmer, but remembers their class in operating systems and kernel design.
Yeah, I love how she claimed hard work is how one gets rich. She grew up exceedingly wealthy and stands to inherit an enormous fortune.

Apparently it's "hard work" being born rich beyond belief.
Not that I'm in favor of the current system, but your argument is flawed.

How?

Loosening restrictions on sponsorships would invariably result in a net increase in the available labor pool, which would put downward pressure on wages for everyone. This is because the program as-is does not restrict people from changing jobs. It just requires a sponsorship. So, what you are really advocating is that people without jobs can remain in-country "off-visa". This is not the purpose of the H1-B program.

So, if you were to allow this, yet still keep the notion of H1-B sponsorship alive, then there would be the source of the net increase of available workers.

Now, you could make arguments about lowering the expense and friction involved for sponsoring companies, which would then increase the appeal of H1-B visa holders and make finding new sponsors easier. That would probably go further in the direction of increased salaries you mentioned, so long as you kept the visa-holder cap constant. But, of course, part of the reason for this cost/friction is to provide companies with incentives to source labor locally before looking to non-U.S. labor markets.

It's a complex problem with no easy solutions.
I don't really think that having a simpler tax system is a bipartisan opinion at this point. I think we can see that Democrats want to raise taxes but go through various contortions so that these increases do not fall on "the middle class." You saw this in the various tax increases that were part of ObamaCare. You're also seeing it now with various proposals for increasing social security taxes on high earners (the donut hole).

We've also seen lots of simplifying proposals from Republican politicians. In particular there is fairly strong support for eliminating the deductibility of state & local taxes (one of the more complex aspects of the individual income tax code).
Why don't the "nominees" of these fake account just move the funds and disappear?
Battery meters are nonlinear (i.e. they don't follow a straight line) in the regions close to full and close to empty. Battery level meters also tend to go out of calibration over time. I think these two factors together probably explain what you saw (as you say, a battery physics issue essentially).
Why would you bother going offshore if capital gains are taxed very low in most countries? For example, wealthy heirs can live their entire life, not paying a cent of income tax. Life is good if you can earn money by just booking capital gains.

Should the capital gains tax rate be higher, i.e. 50%, I dare bet the numbers would be a lot higher. Higher rates act as an incentive to avoid.
The unicorn economy and the disturbing plight of the middle class
This essentially ignores the condition of the US (and in particular the Bay area) as the tech capital of the world. The US is not bereft of talent, but the US alone does not produce enough tech talent to sustain its position in the world. In some cases, these American companies "that the H1B folks want to work" were founded by non-Americans or even better, were founded out of the US but moved there as a condition in an investment round.

You can be the tech center of the world. You can be an isolationist. You can't be both.
Remote is possible, what is your focus?
Or you can use the decorator pattern
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decorator_pattern
Isn't removing the social security tax limit a simplification rather than a complication of that code?
Although, this suggestion is kind of close to Hasting's implementation plan of having separate compilations for GIL and GILless python, so that the default Python with a GIL continues to be the norm in most cases, but a GILless python with extensions taking advantage of true threaded parallelism is available as a 'high-performance' python for scientists and number crunchers and such.
ooh fascinating.. sounds like a good movie plot
playing the advocate of the devil here, maybe the civilizations cleaned it all up and went solarpunk just before they transcended and vanished...
Tests are weak evidence of the validity of a piece of data at runtime. Types are proof. The stronger your type system, the more you can prove.
Thank you I am the author. I find myself wanting to promote self determination in the JavaScript world, it seems more often than any other ecosystem I've involved myself in to be the one that depends heavily on external libraries and dependencies.

I'd like to advocate for minimising this as JavaScript isn't so archaic as it once was in it's past. By using ES6 or TypeScript, building fully customised modules of one's own isn't the chore they're built up to be.

This tagging script took one full day of programming to finish, including the first draft of the blog post about it. Since then I've done things like added the `clearValue` function, rather than being explicit as to what I wanted to happen in every case that it is used. At that point I thought I better post it before I mess with it too much.
Oh I dunno... "Stallman Does Dallas" made me giggle, and the time he ranted about a baby announcement on the GNU mailing list was (perhaps somewhat unintentionally) hilarious.

https://stallman.org/articles/texas.html
http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/text/rms-vs-doctor.html
I don't like the idea of further endorsing and supporting credentialism.

If you can get a high salary, then you're in demand and we should keep you. If you have a STEM degree but can't even get a good job, then I don't see any reason to grant a visa.
I've thought about making something like this myself and I would definitely purchase one if it were available.

I wonder how to make an acoustically insulating phone case that is not so bulky one has to keep the phone in a bag. Acoustic insulating materials I've seen are fairly massive or have large spatial extent (or both).
Sorry if I keep responding, but there's a lot of interesting points in your question.

> Like how the JVM assumes classes are final and removes virtual calls until it first sees a subclass.

AFAIK, the python VM doesn't do any JITting at all. A runtime decision in the VM about handling locks is impossible at this point, I think.
Most proposals don't remove the limit. They would tax income from 0 to X, not tax it from X to Y, and then tax it again for income over Y. Hence you get a "donut hole" of untaxed income in the middle. I can think of no economic justification for such a proposal, though it's clear why it would be politically palatable. But that's exactly where complexity comes from: political compromises.
What should I rely on if I want to serialize a function ?
What do the journalists do when the battery is non-removable? Do they just leave the phones "far enough away"?
> I really believe the best way to combat tax evasion is to make the tax process easier, more efficient, and less burdensome, especially to wealthy earners.

No. Most wealthy people don't evade, they avoid. Loopholes are great for wealthy people, and they want things to be as complex as possible because they can afford lawyers and accountants that cost a fraction of the value they deliver. "Normal" people can't, so they'll pay the higher rate, which often leads to even more tax breaks / loopholes for the wealthy.
Introduction to Metaprogramming in Nim
Agreed. I've thought about adding a JS/Flash clipboard button. For now, if you click a hash, it's easier to copy from the hash's own page.

I think there's also potential for better tooling, for example CLI tools that integrate with Hash Archive (or other sites/databases) directly.
I think the main reason would be the estate tax. That's a huge, huge cost for inherited wealth. Maybe there is some way around that that doesn't involve offshoring, but that seems like a pretty big reason to me.
For previous versions of Windows there is certutil included which can used to compute SHA1 with -hashfile option:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732443%28v=ws....
> I'm not sure how this is very different than Goldman saches

To be fair, that's not a great commendation.
Are you running off the shelf temp sensors or something you built?
"cloud platform" and "host locally" are contradictory. Do you mean hosting on your own hardware, a server colocated in a data center, or hosted in the cloud such as EC2??
Is it possible the manufacturer of the faucets actually partners with the hotel to market the faucets and they actually pay the hotel for the guest information to show them ads? I know some hotels I've stayed at actually advertise the fittings so it doesn't seem like a great stretch.

Still deeply creepy.
To take the keyboard for example, there was the difference between XT and AT keyboards.
Life is too short to waste it spending time either around, or dealing with, toxic people!
Haven't tried it, but Rachio makes sprinkler valves that adjust based off of weather reports.
Computers behind routers? So... all internet connected computers then?

I use Back to my Mac from work all the time and I have no problem accessing my iMac at home from my MacBook Pro at work.
Yes, Approval Voting with multiple options would have been better. They did this in Landerd, Holland last year, where voters had six options to select from with regard to how to restructure the municipality (e.g. merge with various bordering municipalities). I believe one of the options was "Status Quo". Voters could select any number of options.
On Getting Patches Merged
What if there were and "Evernote-OCR + Amazon Fresh" app that would let you take a picture of the whiteboard and then have the stuff show up in an hour?
> How is renting wasting money?

My parents paid off a $200k mortgage in 15 years. When they sell the house and move, they will get $200k - breaking even.

Meanwhile, I've been renting for 15 years and will never get that money back. It's just a loss.
It's also unlikely that they manage their own finances.
You can, but it isn't for people with weak stomachs or dependents. Who thinks that that is intentional believes in conspiracies.
> Are you seriously saying that foreign students subsidize the education of US citizens?

They absolutely do. Consider that at many schools (particularly UCs) in-state tuition is not enough to cover costs. International students paying high tuition are absolutely helping to subsidize such situations.

Even at top private universities, international students can be a major subsidy. Domestic students typically have their full financial need met, but international students don't. International students thus subsidize the aid for domestic students.
Academic Freedom: Keep Lawyers Out of Scientific Publishing
I scratched my head reading this thinking "Why would using the clutch change things" also made me think of two things, one being that yes i believe that swapping your primary foot your using would most likely cause different driving patters much like swapping where your hands are sitting on the steering wheel would have a similar effect. And two is i wonder if there would be an improvement in recognition time if the car being tested had a manual transmission adding common shift patterns to the equation.
I'm just glad that Guido hasn't gone on record saying there will never be an official python without a GIL.
3 Years Later, the Snowden Leaks Have Changed How the World Sees the NSA
No landlord I have ever had has ever agreed to a 2-year lease. There's no "huh" about this point: if you rent, your tenancy continues at the pleasure of the landlord. That's not a fun place to be if it's important to you to provide a stable address for your kids for the next 10 years --- and that is usually pretty important.
Do you have a resume? I have a position open. Remote is ok.
And when there was no such thing as multisync monitors. I think the original NEC Multisync for example was launched not long after the original Amiga was relased.
The part where Mrs. Powers is rambling about the coming Obamapocalypse where he will devalue the dollar and return to the gold standard is staggeringly idiotic.
hm why do they need permission?
The problem is the lack of corporate liability. If they used some alternative to the internet we'd be reading about how it makes the SWIFT network look secure add long as the alternatives are “spend money and time doing it responsibly” or “ship it now with a strong EULA”.
Does anyone have a good tutorial on migrating existing JS codebases to TS?

Talking specifically Angular 1 if you have one, otherwise a general tutorial is fine.

I'm interested in whether it is worth the effort migrating a pretty large frontend codebase.
"Urban core" has little to do with it. "The loop" in central downtown Chicago hosts pretty much nothing but large office buildings. It's dead after 6PM because nobody is there. Where are they? Other parts of the urban core of Chicago.
Hi, I live on Oahu but I've been working for a remote company on the mainland for the last 4 years. When I initially started my job search for jobs in Honolulu, I found several leads on techhui.com, so I would start there if you're looking for local work.
Not even Microsoft's own JavaScript libraries (e.g. Excel) have first-party type defs, at least as of a few months ago. Making matters worse, that aforementioned Excel library has polymorphic parameters everywhere. We gave it a shot with ng2 on a one-off, but honestly TypeScript just slowed us down and the juniors tried sneaking "Any spam" through code reviews.
If your PC is faster than a certain speed Win95 won't boot.

This bit us at VMware, since it was common to want to run old Win95-only software in a VM on fast machines. We ended up having the VMM (Virtual Machine Monitor) patch up the bug when it did binary translation.
What I like is that all the code is laid bare. You could add a line or two into the `_onKeyup` method which does this. These tags are sorted by popularity.

if (this.parts.suggestions && (e.which || e.charCode || e.keyCode) == 9) {
let foo = this.parts.suggestions.children.item(0);
if (foo) foo.click();
}
To me, this seems far more inconvenient than just taking out my phone and just putting in to my grocery list what I'm out of in something like Our Groceries. It syncs to my phone and my wife's phone and keeps track of items we've previously purchased. No need for a picture of the fridge, one person can just pick up everything on the list without even asking.
Perhaps we should requires some sort of "non-compete" like clause to limit regulators accepting jobs at the companies they were regulating?
That never happened to me, even in hotels with guards wearing pumpguns and elevators that needed key-cards to be inserted if you wanted to go up (e.g. the Marriott in Paramaribo).
People have made stone spheres with primitive means already. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_spheres_of_Costa_Rica