skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've got a 2012 Focus as our sole car (my other car is a motorcycle if I'm looking to go all "bumper sticker" with my phrases). I believe this was the first year that they switched the US Focus to be the same as the European version which was a different, superior vehicle in past years.

It's also a manual and it's the base model so the interior trim is boring black plastic. Stereo and all that are very basic and there's absolutely nothing exciting about the car.

That said, It was under $15k new in the late summer of 2011, hasn't had any major issues or maintenance other than scheduled visits, oil changes, and the like.

Granted we've only had it for 5 years but the thing is paid for and for $15k, it's been a fine commuter car and for the few longer trips we take every year. Previous car was a used (forget the year) Jetta with fancy heated leather seats, 6 speed, sweet stereo, moon roof, and all that fun stuff. The damn thing was in the shop at least two or more times per year during the few years we had it before we threw in the towel and traded it in on the Focus.

Sure, I sorta liked the perks and that 6 speed, 6cyl was a hell of a lot more fun to drive but it wasn't thousands-more-per-year more fun to drive. The car was also not new when we got it so it's not a fair comparison to a car purchased new. If anything, I think I learned that buying a new (or newer) car that's simpler with a lower base cost can still be less spendy than going used when you add in maintenance costs.
Thanks! You can see the client here: https://github.com/ddnet/ddnet

SDL2, OpenGL, FreeType, pnglite, zlib, curl, md5, wavpack, opus, json-parser

So pretty much low level, keeps the performance and flexibility high.
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Ah, I think you misunderstand the structure. They have structured the raise as two interrelated related funds. The two funds presumably invest in the same set of portfolio companies. I assume they structured it this way as way of reducing fees and perhaps because some LPs were interested in different levels of exposure.

This is the same size as Andreessen Horowitz’s past two funds and, like each of those efforts,
includes a primary pool (which can do both early and late-stage deals), plus an overflow pool
for portfolio companies that require significantly more capital.

The breakdown this time is $1 billion for the main fund and $500 million for the parallel
fund―the latter of which only collects management fees once capital is committed.

If this parallel fund had been able to invest in earlier funds (remember each fund is a separate company with a different set of LPs and GPs) I am sure they would have mentioned it.
There's nothing wrong with you, even if you're in the minority :)
Inevitably leading to innumerable "the search function is broken" threads...

I really miss forums, in some ways. There are so few of them that are really active these days.
I like disco music, too.
Yep. My 2009 Shadow isn't gonna win any awards in either handling or speed or even "coolest sounding exhaust rumble" but the damn thing is near bulletproof. Shaft drive is a little heavier but removes the need for chain/belt maintenance. It's been knocked over by teenage vandals and still started right back up with no issues. It was my first "proper" bike (after screwing around town on 50cc scooters) and it probably won't be my last but it's been a workhorse, no doubt.
Ah, sorry, that's what I meant to imply. NSA has the same policy. I took the poster's meaning to be no phones at all. I always left any electronic devices at home.
This argument always comes up, and it is a bad one. No, no one has a right to live in any particular place. It's the same thing as the people who fall back on "but but First Amendment" when somebody's saying "you're an asshole." Nobody's saying it isn't legal, but you can still be an asshole while acting legally.

If the best defense I could muster for something is that it is not literally illegal, I would be looking hard in the mirror. But that's just me.
Haven't tried the others, but Product Hunt's search is also extremely poor. Just today I searched for "mac voice control" (unquoted) and besides being very sluggish because of all the refreshing it does while I type, it returned 0 results. What I was looking for was Lacona [1] which was just featured a couple days ago and has a description containing two of the words from my query (1/3 of the description!).

[1] https://www.producthunt.com/tech/lacona
Strings are supposed to act like Leptons / quarks / etc. Like how quantum mechanics averages out when your taking about planets. The problem is they are like epicycles in that they can describe any shape. Much like how Epicycles are effectivly taking a fourier transform of an orbit and can thus describe any shape, String theory can describe any possible universe.
A quick fix for this would be recording screen while working on something. And promote work you're doing in the process.
I have heard of cases where increasing contrast to meet accessibility standards resulted in significant boosts to sales. Proper contrast is beneficial to people with vision impairments, but it also seems to help people without vision impairments navigate a UI. I would guess that you could also see a big sales boost when you make your site fully accessible to the colorblind - something like 10% of males are colorblind.

When it comes to screen readers, the percentage of customers who use them is much smaller, but there are lots of business reasons to have a good experience for blind customers: it's important in markets like education and government, and it avoids bad PR.
This is very interesting indeed. But I wonder...why is Chile importing so many centrifuges from South Korea? 1.9% of their exports?
It seems to me that running a corpus of produced text (be it your own or literary) misses a lot of potential optimisation. It completely misses things like control key usage, arrow keys, number pad, etc. (And ESC! Vim user here.)

Also the timing of keystrokes. Focusing on programming for a moment, I would assume most people type is short bursts of maybe one or two hundred keystrokes, not sustained typing of paragraphs and paragraphs.

And what about characters that do not have a key on your keyboard (such as my use of “§” below)?

I suspect that to “do it right™” you would need a keystroke logger, and possibly log your clipboard usage as well, for a thorough analysis.

(Vi usage adds a complication to this, I think. You could almost think of command mode as a different keyboard layout. I can't image wanting to HJKL navigation key positions to move. Any analysis would have to make that distinction.)

§

Switching gears for a moment, I recently tried out a prototype keyboard design, and while discussing it with the developer discovered some interesting differences in our typing habits. For instance, I exclusively use my left thumb for the space bar, whereas he used his right. I also tend to use the left ctrl, alt, shift keys and never the right.

It also seems that when drumming my fingers on a desk, I find rolling outwards - index to pinky - much easier and natural than rolling inwards, which seems to be more common. (I am right handed and left footed, BTW.)
>that it is time consuming and doesn't offer as much bang for the effort

This is true for many types of disabilities. Unless people are personally affected, the vast majority will put in minimal effort.

I wonder if you could find some grant money to help fund work on it.
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> Those drivers need to actually communicate with something though, that something is exactly what BMCs are. If the hardware physically providing communication with those systems isn't there, no amount of drivers will help. Additionally, many of those things have to be configured before the OS is loaded and the hardware they control is fully initialized. Not possible inside the OS.

You're going to have a chicken and egg situation at boot. The SATA/SAS HBA needs some code to read the OS with, but in a sense this is just a piece of your OS that has to be installed on the HBA, in the same way as grub has to be installed in the boot partition. Once the OS is running it can load different code into the HBA or replace the code that will run on the next boot.

We can argue about whether to call that sort of code a BMC or not but the more important question is if people can replace it or not, so that people can fix things the manufacturer doesn't.
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It seems trivially obvious that a better use of funds at many universities would be paying for actual academic research at a few hundred K per year, vs a big-name football coach, with all the associated staff, assistants, equipment, etc, for tens of millions per year.
It's actually quite good. I used to look sideways at people who drink iced coffee in general, but now I've embraced the dark side :P
I tried it, yours is a bit different, if your columns are smaller than the size you declared it leaves that extra white space, while yolog autofits columns.

I like refs better than email.
Thanks for informing, i cannot understand this syntax, can you provide a link to understand ?
I did mention compression of the X session itself by way of compressing the SSH tunnel. The problems run deeper than "software devs just painting everthing into image". X itself has a mix of synchronous and asynchronous calls that are very sensitive to latency. XCB instead Xlib and use of LBX can help but do not eliminate the performance issues with X Window.

See
http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/usenix2003/html/net.html and http://vis.lbl.gov/Events/SC08/RemoteX/index.html for more details.

As it relates to the original topic I'd be interested to see real-world performance comparisons between Plan 9 and X because as the papers state X stinks on ice over the WAN.
Why not ask the recruiter or company you are applying for if they are willing to sponsor or work with an H1B visa (pretend you are in that position) and move on if they say yes. It will be interesting to see how well these companies do when all they can hire are H1B workers. After all, they can only get so many of those visas, and there is only a 30% chance that the application will actually be approved. They do need a certain number of US workers to have a stable workforce. With that gone, all their projects will be at risk of failure. How much of this risk do you think they can keep up before they are forced to give up these H1B abuses? I say abuses because there are clearly qualified local candidates willing to work at the market rate, but they lie about the market rate and lie about not finding local candidates to hire their cheap labor. Ideally, they should have a Job ID assigned to all jobs where they are considering H1Bs and post the name, wage, and qualifications of the hired candidate if they hire an H1B candidate. That way, potential employees that were passed up can see who they were passed up for, and complain to the right people if they were unfairly skipped on for a cheaper employee with poorer qualifications just because they were cheaper or would be cheaper in the long run because they would never get a raise or benefits or unemployment or pay into social security and medicaid.
Good luck to William.

I have another perspective though; I knew Allan Steel (Magma guy) as an undergrad at Sydney University. He is an extraordinarily smart person and humble and genial as well.

Everyone should be thankful to him and the University of Sydney for having the wisdom to fund the development of Magma.
Block chains are such a fundamental social and technical innovation that, put simply, we don't know 95% of the use cases they will facilitate in the near future. You may think that 21's products currently "lack substance" but they are literally trying to invent this future. Most of their products may fail, but if they figure out a fraction of this 95%, they will be remembered as visionaries.

Mark my words. Don't judge them too quickly. They might turn out to be the next Amazon.
AWS is not anywhere near cheap when it comes to raw performance per dollar. You are paying a very large premium for that flexibility of an arbitrary number of instances at any time.
Nice post, this reminded me of an article/video I had seen recently -
Srikanth Bolla
- http://spectrum.mit.edu/spring-2011/living-his-dream

- http://www.dogonews.com/2016/6/9/visually-impaired-srikanth-...
There's also the argument that economic diversity is good for everyone. Non-market solutions to maintaining space for people of different income levels in the area might have positive externalities.
Sometimes when I stumble reading poor English I wish there was a way I could gently, privately, suggest corrections without making the author feel criticized.

I never feel it is appropriate to do so in a comment or reply because I am not critiquing their ideas. Usually the meaning is perfectly clear, but to a native speaker's ear it can just feel awkward.

Of course, we all make typos or fail to proofread adequately so we could all benefit from a kindly edit now and then.
I had no idea either.

Powering all that useless (to us) real estate must have profound consequences on our energy budget
That's what I thought at first, as well; until I scrolled past some advertising to, what I think is, the last sentence:

> Andreessen Horowitz’s still-private portfolio companies include Airbnb, Buzzfeed, Cyanogen, Lyft, Instacart, Jawbone, Magic Leap, Okta, Product Hunt, Slack, and Zenefits.

If we believe the Fortune magazine, AH may have raised the side pool for any number of those companies.
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I always found such way of thinking very offensive to your users (programmers in this case).

Have we all forgotten the principle "make the minimum amount of WTFs per minute" already?

Why is everybody so content with their technology and so quick to look down upon people who aren't familiar with the traps in it? Is it really so wrong for your technology to be easy and painless not only at the entry level, but all the way to middle-high level of professionalism?
The general complaint is that Cambodia is under Vietnamese influence, mostly stemming from its backing of and leading the defectors who overthrew the Khmer Rouge. People today complain that the top govt officials are still Vietnamese, whether by backing or by blood, as well as many of the richest tycoons; the primary deputy prime minister (there's plenty) Sok An is often called a slave to Vietnam, and he's in charge of the Apsara Authority, which manages the Angkor complex; Sok Kong (unrelated), is one of Cambodia's richest men and ran the conglomerate that held ticketing rights to Angkor for decades; he is ethnically part Vietnamese, and because Angkor's tourism revenue was suspected to be too low, complaints about the national landmark being sold off to Vietnam were so huge that it factored in the last general election. An age-old cultural hatred is at play here, which itself comes from old empire stuff.
"Basically I want Clojure to be a simple to use language backed by a friendly and active community. What I see now is drifting in the wrong direction, and I’d like to see that corrected."

Opportunity here to create a company, fix the bugs, improve the broken bits, build an editor and release a better clojure and charge accordingly.
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> Japanese cars rust?

I've been in a climate known for being hard on vehicles (Minnesota) for ten years and the only rust buckets I ever see on the roads are older American vehicles (Dodge SUV's and minivans in particular). I've owned Nissan and Honda vehicles in that time and never had issues with rust.
>More than 120,000 immigrants were sent back to their countries of origin

That doesn't sound like a lot, given the scale of immigration. Out of how many? This sounds like a good way to flood the labor market.
Care to share some details about your setup? 1500 reqs/sec should not cost very much at all, definitely not "thousands a month".
> This is a common misconception. It is a very easy process to change jobs on an H1B.

Have you tried changing jobs on a H-1B, with an employer who wants to stop you, and who gets legal advice on how to go about doing that? It SHOULD be an easy process to change jobs.
I wonder if any blind coders could comment on how they see programmatic flow in their minds eye? I am curious how this shapes the way you write code as well. As a demonstrative example, i imagine very long / complex functional methods would be difficult to worth with as they would require more movement back of the screen reader and may reduce your efficiency.

Maybe people who work with blind devs could also chime in.

Many blind musicians and artists develop heightened perceptions in their respective art and generate some unique, original works. I wonder if this is true for coders/ mathematicians?
Yeah, passports.io does a better job than this firm. I incorporated in Seychelles, have citizenship in antigua. All thanks to them.

Remember, kids: tax evasion is illegal. Tax avoidance is discouraged.
I initially went with a similar approach. But then I locally worked on a few repos locally where I am the author of all commits, so I can strip off name and email for those repos. I know per-repository gitconfigs can exist, but I decided a small wrapper would be more efficient.

Version 0.2.0 is just a minimal functional version, but I am planning to add configuration options where you can turn off, reorder columns, change date format, do anything with a simple single line commands.
If that's in reference to that statement, I'd say don't explain with billions what can be very easily explained with intellectual integrity.

https://github.com/Enegnei/JacobAppelbaumLeavesTor/blob/mast...
better learn Kazakh
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They most probably have the ability to turn off those sections. Similar to turning off unused cores when turbo boost is used.
But here it's actually the other way around. The context is non English native "contributors" ready to participate in FLOSS. Their contributions are deeply needed; They are the ones taking the time to learn a different language, most likely yours, in order to help.

It can even be strange, as a comment on the original post noted, that English with all its idiosyncrasy persists to be the common language. If it's yours, be happy that you are the lucky one not making the most efforts.

So it's in fact selfishly that natives speakers should take the burden to try and understand their questions, Help them and then reap the benefices (patchs).
It is in his post history here, I didn't know "look at the other things this person says" was considered a personal attack.
You can see pretty formats in git log's documentation:

https://git-scm.com/docs/pretty-formats
They certainly can if the initial illness is psychosomatic. I'm not saying that is the case here, but I've certainly seen people with identical symptoms fully recover from psychological treatments. There does appear to be a certain psychosomatic aspect to MS, given how effective CBT is in treating the fatigue, the fact that it is triggered by stress, and that depression is a major factor in MS (and plaques appear to be correlated to depression rather than to disability).
The idea of a divide between mind and body is strange.

It seems like our consciousness is constructed in such a way that it's very easy for people to forget that we actually have a body connected to our head.

Another interesting idea would be to think that mental health problems in part are caused by the systems inside our body that are outside of our conscious control not working properly communicating their discomfort as mental health problems.

I'm a clinical psychologist and I don't think I've had a patient in therapy who had

1. Sleep
2. Exercise
3. Stress
4. Food

Figured out.

What I mostly notice is that once these things are improved the need for therapy diminish significantly.
Referenced but not linked by the article: https://www.nationalityindex.com
Forgive me for doubting a new account that starts off a post with "actually".
That is a step in the right direction.

My parents' handwriting was borderline illegible, so they took to typing letters on a manual typewriter. Typewriters suffering from all the problems of complex finicky mechanisms, and being a write-only medium, resulted in a pleasing quirkiness that is completely absent from email. Read enough typed text, and you begin to recognize a person's particular "hand" at the typewriter, as well as the machine's individual quirks. Electric typewriters put an end to most of that, and email finished it off.
One would presumably not be seeding keys with data pulled from network delays. Too predictable.
I tried the Facebook apps and they were slow, buggy and intrusive. Messaging from the mobile web page was fine...

Message to monetizing corporations - Sorry, all I want is a 4.5" web page downscaled from 21". It's all just CSS, right?

And this is why I signed up to the dream and bought a Mozilla device with Firefox OS; alas the hardware died around the time the OS was orphaned.

I use a handful of apps on my phone regularly and they're mainly for metropolitan services and web pages that refuse to reskin their sites for small screens. Nothing that couldn't be accomplished in HTML5 and with decent coding would probably run better than the current impls.
Allowing the price to float will ensure that someone who really needs water will be able to buy it

That isn't going to be true in the extreme. Three people need water. Two are wealthy, one is not. The two wealthy buyers bid up the price to the point the non-wealthy buyer is priced out o the market. Without some for of rationing (or a change in supply), the non-wealthy buyer dies from dehydration.
30 years ago scientists warned Congress on global warming
Hey (Good) English is hard. Be thankful most of the planet feels compelled to learn it and you natives don't even have to learn a single foreign language. I wish I would be in that position, but I'm not. So excuse my french. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go back to my English lessons which consist in watching american TV-shows ...
Former H1-B Worker as well. I was sponsored by Zynga Inc and Moz. Finally got my green card recently. As other people have pointed out above, I believe the problem relies on who is sponsoring these candidates. The following list speaks by itself:

1 Infosys: 23,816
2 Tata Consultancy Services 14,096
3 Wipro	8,365
4 IBM	7,944
5 Deloitte Consulting 7,016

Google, Facebook, Amazon and even Tesla or Palantir should be in the top spots. Setting a minimum wage to $100,000 would filter most of the sweat show applications out.
Never thought of karma that way (as a westerner with no particular exposure to it). I always thought of it as, "Do good now and you'll be paid for it later."

"You are where you are because you deserve it, due to what happened in past lives" is a much sadder message. Good for societal stability perhaps, but horrible for ideas like individualism and self determination.
Exactly. When anybody dares to tell me this is an unsolvable problem, I tell them that nature has already solved it. :) We just need to figure out what nature is doing and how to reproduce that with digital, analog, or biomechanical machinery (which is of course, no small task).
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Yes, but it can be worse than that. There was a different article about it recently, where the employer threatened to falsely report their visa employees as illegal if they complained. Which means the employees can wind up leaving the country and possibly never returning. For an employee who has worked in that country for years and calls it home, this is akin to being threatened with exile.
I know it's in giant letters across the top, but because of "banner blindness" I missed the link to the preview build: https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg123810... It's short but it gives you a good idea of the main mechanic and the aesthetic. Check out the settings menu to switch between multiple ways of rendering the 1-bit graphics.