skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just as a fun thought experiment, let's say we price all the service workers at current income levels out of the market so they all move away. At some point, people will be willing to pay more for service work due to a strong demand for limited services.

It almost seems pernicious to have low income housing since it allows employers to get away with lower wages to cover an artificially low cost of housing, at the same time, service workers retain a poor quality of life because outside housing everything else is expensive.
Please everyone, upvote dantiberian's answer. He nails it.

The moment you get over expecting Clojure to behave like a typical "open source" project and understand it is Rich Hickey's personal project (+ Cognitect's), which happens to also be available to you, if you want to use it, then the whole thing makes more sense. Some frustration disappears. You know where you stand, and what to expect.

Hickey and Cognitect have every right to run it the way they like. IMO, the only thing they don't do right is to communicate their intentions. There's a pretense maintained around it being an "open source" project, when it really isn't, not in the way that python is open source.

Use it if it works for you. Otherwise don't. Don't expect to have a voice, and don't expect you'll be able to contribute much, and don't expect that something will be fixed unless it suits Hickey's Cognitect's agenda.

I use ClojureScript, knowing and accepting these things (with some sadness), because I think the language gives me a competitive edge.
Check_mk is not a nagios/icinga fork, it's an addon that works with them. It's a host agent (like NRPE) that bundles all the local checks in a single run and submits them on Nagios as a passive check.
I have long been an open borders supporter, anyone that wants to come to the US (or any other nation) and make a life for themselves should be free to do so.

I am also 100% opposed to even the existence of the H1B visa program, this program is a modernized version of Indentured servitude that allows companies to take advantage of those employees by conditioning their immigration to their employment. These people are often coming from circumstances they do not want to return to, poverty, oppression, persecution, etc. So the threat of being fired and deported is a coercive force that employers use to exploit these workers.

I am fine with immigration, I am even fine if immigrant are willing to work for lower wages, provided that agreement is free from the threat of deportation...
Yes, you're right, more or less. (And this is the reason I edited my post to claim "little advantage" rather than "no advantage" from increased prices, possibly after you replied to it.)

But analyzing the effect you've described is much more difficult than analyzing the effect of price increases in a market in which supply is not artificially constrained: some people have more or less money than others, and are more or less ready to spend it on this or that, for various reasons. And it is not nearly as straightforward to say that there will be a social benefit (in whatever sense you prefer) in letting the highest bidder claim a resource when the proceeds will go fully into someone's pocket rather than when they are likely to lead to higher production of the resource, and thence to an obviously greater social benefit from its higher consumption.

Of course, I expect that you are right in at least the sense you meant: in the presence of a constraint on supply, the price mechanism will still broadly incentivize people who derive a greater benefit from consuming the resource actually to consume it: higher rents will mean more tech types in the Bay Area.

I must point out here that nothing happens in isolation. Higher rents in the Bay Area will incentivize employers to move jobs elsewhere, all else equal. (I have seen several instances of this is my home, Kansas City, which is becoming a popular place to park back-office jobs for San Francisco firms of national scope.) And, yes, providing that incentive to move out is a good thing, relative to the theoretical alternative of paying higher rents without that option, and consequently transferring resources to property-owners with no net social benefit. But it's still a poor alternative to letting higher prices do what they want to do in the absence of artificial constraints: increase supply of a resource whose higher consumption benefits society on net.

Still, if you want to limit development and push people to move to Kansas City because San Francisco's rents are too damn high, please, do. It's a much more appealing place than costal ignorance would lead you to believe, and we will welcome the newcomers.
Examples that run are here

https://github.com/bitsummation/pickaxe/tree/master/Examples
Google maps mysteries: two men in orange overalls, sparring
>It's true that over the last 30 years, the government has gotten much more conservative about bringing prosecutions.

I'm not sure that this is actually true. Instead, I see a much greater use of plea bargains, especially of the "accept this deal or we will throw every possible charge at you" type. Given the sheer number of laws, this can lead to life-ending penalties for seemingly minor crimes.
We are going to replace one corrupt chicago politician with another

Emanuel for president 2020, let's make it a hat trick.
Just because something is free do not make it holy and free from critique.

I left Clojure because its inherit both Java and Lisp flaws: memory hungry, difficult setup, enterprise frameworks and hard to read, impure and slow.

I believe that there still chance for Lisp in Web Assembly.
Anecdotal evidence is better than no evidence - especially when there seems to be a large gap between what's studied and what's applied in practice. A quick search on google scholar didn't reveal any papers trying to find the effects of different ways of letting 'normally abled' children play.

People seem to confuse healthy skepticism with "let me shoot down anything I don't like just by being skeptic, without any requirements for my own counter evidence". That's when skepticism isn't helpful anymore (and highly annoying to me).

Applied the way you did it, "grass is always greener" can be used for any comparison about anything between different cultures. So what you're saying is, American culture has nothing to learn from anywhere else, i.e. is the most perfect there is?
A market-based approach would make a lot of sense in a world that doesn't have Prop 13. Then property owners would be forced to balance their objections to new development with the fact that the lack of new development will push up property values and increase property taxes. But with a cap on property taxes, existing property owners are free to block, stall and otherwise prevent new development without any financial disincentive.

As you've pointed out, supply and demand explains all. But supply has been limited by forces that need to be fixed. We either need some financial pressure that convinces property owners that new development is in their best interests or we need to stop giving existing property owners input on new development. Because demand is increasing, whether we like it or not. And in the face of that, there are only two options, build more or let rents spike. When even Google employees are feeling the pain of high rents, it's obvious we're not striking the right balance between those two options.

It's annoying to see the focus on stuff like rent control when the underlying cause is so clear. Prop 13 is at the core of these problems and needs to be addressed directly rather than tangential half measures like rent control.
As a consequence, math publications that rely on closed-source computations are not independently verifiable, and fail to meet the standard of a rigorous proof.
I've never even had the option to sign a no disparagement clause for a settlement like that. I've had to support my family with what I already had whether I liked it or not. So what they did is shitty, but I have a hard time feeling bad for the 1% who complain that they have the option of getting more money by signing away their rights if they so choose.
I feel that it's a much more interesting comparison. Other rankings simply compare the number of countries your passport can enter visa-free, which obviously ignores many factors.

I'm lucky enough to hold three citizenships (no I'm not rich), so I have no trouble entering most countries. I just wish one of them was from the EU... it would make working there much easier.
Every time I read the latest news at Facebook, the more I'm glad I "deleted" my account there last year.
Then you end up like AMD, with designs that have to be cut back and compromised when a third-party fab doesn't manage to do what they expect on a new process.

There's something to be said for tight integration between fab and design when you're trying to go in to uncharted territory.

If you don't need to be at the edge of process technology, you're completely right of course.
Spurious Languages
>Silicon is a semi-conductor, but the principal is the same.

Afaik temperature dependence of materials is a more complicated relation than this. The graph of their coefficient does not even need to be monotone and can change depending on what properties dominate.

E.g. a semiconductor can have NTC because charge concentration increases with the temperature, however when it reaches saturation this effect diminishes and it will behave similar to a regular PTC conductor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature_coefficient#Negati...
Not really. I was already enrolled and it didn't work, so not sure what happened.
I agree with the concept but all this does is shift the costs. Instead of hiring a lawyer, you hire expert witnesses and private detectives and researchers etc.
> The U.S. ranks twenty-eighth on the Q.N.I., behind nearly every E.U. country. Kalin told me that the U.S.’s rank is partly due to its restrictive immigration policy, and partly because “there are so many weapons, and a high incarceration rate.”

Why does the fact that there are "so many weapons, and a high incarceration rate" make the US a bad place to live for millionaires?

There is a lot of subjectivity here. If you want to live in America, then an American citizenship is the most important one to have. However, if you want to live abroad, an American citizenship is terrible because you still have to pay income tax no matter where in the world you are.

(I do like measuring travel freedom though!)
Shouldn't cdr be changed so that it gives the list that doesn't contain the first element?

def cdr(x):
return x if x == () else x[1:]
Looks neat but what about security? Can the json be configured in a way that compromises the data stored on the device. Aren't you basically allowing Jason agent to run any custom code?
This seems to be a problem mainly among upper-middle-class toffs who are afraid their kids might not get into Harvard if they aren't signed for as much personal development stuff as can fit in a week since they could walk. And a very recent development at that.

In a recent article I saw on HN on how ugly, oppressive, and typically American suburbs are, the author stated that the design of suburbs forces children out of unstructured play and necessarily makes their parents structure their free time around play dates. Which conflicts with my lived experience of going to a friend's house in Upper West Burbville, riding bikes and messing around with every kid in the neighborhood. The scenery was bland, but the people made the experience memorable.
If you have any sense whatsoever, you go to an independent shop as soon as you're out of warranty. Also at least in my experience, quite a few owners of older LR's do much of the work themselves.
My guess is that he's talking about HTTP requests.
What an absurdly high level of abstraction to begin with.

First, I create the universe.
Chuwi HiBook Review: A tablet that can kind of double as an ultrabook
This is true. The wafer carrying "foups" mentioned are actually an acronym for Front Opening Unified Pods, which is what carry the wafers from machine to machine in batches of up to 25 wafers at a time. They are typically UV opaque yellow, or black. The wafers aren't ever actually out in the open in the room at any time.

(As an aside, since the air quality of the room was mentioned...god forbid you ever broke a wafer in the foup. Entire lot in that box is ruined, and cleaning the foup itself and the equipment front ends is a giant PITA)

Source: was engineer at Varian Semiconductor / Applied Materials, who make all those giant tools that Intel and the other fabs use. Intel was definitely one of our largest customers and our most technically demanding.
I've done h1b transfers before, as an employer.

I wouldn't say it's "very easy", but it's not super hard either.

I don't disagree with what you're saying in general, but shouldn't there be some cost incurred by the new company?

Remember, like it or not, the h1b program is technically designed to only come into play when a company can't find suitable local talent to fill a position.

In our case it was a few thousand dollars of legal fees and gov "expedite" fees

If we were doing a lot of them our legal fees could go way down, and we'd get good at doing them.

The cap is a big deal, and the reason most h1bs get rejected.

Like you said, if an h1b worker is already here, the cap doesn't apply -- I think that's a good thing.

It seems to be a common misconception that h1bs are bound to their employer.

I simply don't think that's true.
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Interesting. That looks like a lot of work.

What are the main advantages compared to just a regular scraper framework like scrapy, which doesn't require learning a dsl?
I'm not suggesting our species will go on a genocidal rampage through the galaxy. Rather, I'm suggesting that if we manage to spread through the galaxy, we won't encounter any other intelligent life, and our galactic colonisation will prevent any other intelligent species from evolving in this galaxy since we'll be fully occupying that ecological niche, just as being the dominant species on this planet makes it much less likely that other species (such as chimpanzees) will evolve to our intelligence level. (Galactic colonisation might plausibly result in speciation of homo sapiens, however.) It's extremely unlikely for two intelligent species to evolve within a single galaxy at the same time; if other intelligent life ever exists in this galaxy, it is almost certainly many millions of years older or younger than us. Any civilisation following our present trajectory is likely to colonise the galaxy within a few million years. Since we are here, no species before us has successfully colonised this galaxy, which implies either we are the first, or the others have already gone extinct before reaching that level.

I discount UFOs because I believe the alternative explanations–such as natural atmospheric phenomena, secret testing of military aircraft, confusion, hallucination and delusion–are collectively much more probable than the hypothesis that extraterrestrials have visited us.
You are a strange duck.
The problem is that many of those workers WANT green cards, as getting one while you are an H1 is arguably the most sensible path forward, and chances are that a company that sponsors your green card will make you pay a penalty if you change jobs while the process is going + 1 year. The end result is that You have an H1, but you not only have to restart the green card process (or at least set it back, depending on the moment you are applying), but you might end up paying 10K+ for the privilege... on top of the other company sponsoring the H1 AND the Green Card.

So, in practice, the mobility provisions are only non-onerous in a small percentage of the cases: If you don't want to stay in the US, or you want to, but no Green Card paperwork has been filed.

There's also companies that play games with your green card: A friend of mine changed departments (the company he is on goes through constant reorgs, and the company decided that the job description had been changed enough that they had to file a new labor certification. Guess what? If you have a 10 year wait, and every time your job description changes a bit, you decide your green card must restart, you'll never, ever get it.

And you can't ask for the green card by yourself: The employer does, so you are at the mercy of their lawyers too.
In order to understand computation it's obviously useful to humans to think in an abstract way about what we're trying to accomplish with a computer, and how. The distinction we draw between computer hardware and computer software is obviously part of that understanding.

That said, programming is "merely" inducing specific alterations to the electrical charge distribution in the hardware of the computer. The computation we ascribe to the computer is the product of the physical changes induced in the structure of the computer by our act of programming it. As far as the physical artifact of the computer is concerned, as opposed to our mental model of it, there is no clear distinction to be made between hardware and software. That doesn't make the distinction we draw in practice an inappropriate metaphor.
TIL Coda users are either female or homosexual. Never knew that choice of text editors was correlated with sexual preference.
It's not supposed to be true, but take the company who is making threats to have their employees deported if they complain or leave.
Security through obscurity.
Nah. If we want properly humanlike AI software, we're going to have to find a way to make inference in probabilistic programs a lot faster.
It's ridiculous but xkcd's "Tasks" goes over how in CS, it can be hard to explain the difference between the easy and the virtually impossible.
https://www.quora.com/As-a-programmer-what-are-some-of-the-t...
Like the suggestions below read everything by patio11 here on HN and on his site kalzumeus.com, he also has done talks at microconf see link below.

StartupsForTheRestOfUs.com podcasts have lots of great info.

Also check out the microconf videos.
http://www.microconf.com/past-videos/

This is a good one too.
http://businessofsoftware.org/2013/02/gail-goodman-constant-...

There is lots of information out there on SaaS but it comes down to execution and hustle.

Basically you need to start marketing, building an email list, put together information on property management on a blog to build up content/traffic and your email list.

Do this before hand leading up to launching your App.

Do you have any potential clients that would sign up right away? Get them in to a beta program early sign up to work out issues, give you ideas to improve it, what works, what doesn't.

Sounds like you have a good proven idea, from there it's just execution and hustle.

Here's some inspiration:

Metrics:
https://baremetrics.com/open

DHH Startup School Talk
https://baremetrics.com/open

Not sure what stack you work on I would recommend building it with Rails or Laravel(Checkout Laravel Valet/Homestead, Forge and Spark) using Stripe, SparkPost, host on Digital Ocean or AWS. Lots of great tools out there.

I've built and managed SaaS apps for clients and am starting to work on my own this weekend looking forward to building my own.

Good luck with your SaaS!
I gave up my Facebook 3 years ago and never looked back.
Manhattan alone is on the order of 2000 blocks, I don't know where you came up with that figure.
Delivery Service Brings Groceries to Your Fridge When You’re Away
I wonder if he saw it coming.
It's not just middle eastern countries.

Many developed countries in Asia (eg Singapore) use foreign labor for jobs that "no Singaporean would do". This includes jobs like construction.

Unlike the U.S., these foreign workers are truly 2nd class citizens. Often passports are confiscated, and the idea that they'd ever start a life or family in their host country is completely off the table.

It is official policy that they can be paid less than local workers for the same job, and have far fewer legal protections.

I don't think it's black and white though. Many of these foreign workers would be worse off in their home country.

It still rubs me the wrong way. For all its flaws, I still like the U.S. System better.
Not just you. That jumped out to me immediately as well.

The whole article felt too self-congratulatory as it was.
> The concept is proven, all that matters now is time...

This is a very naive point of view. You could deep-learn with a billion times more processing power and a billion times more data for 20 years and it would not produce a general artificial intelligence. Deep learning is a set of neural network tweaks that is insufficient to produce AGI. Within 20 years we may have enough additional tweaks to make an AGI, but I doubt that algorithm will look anything like the deep learning we have today.
Or they just hire away all of your key employees because VB cannot compete with Delphi. Microsoft did it with Borland, when in 30 months, Microsoft has hired 34 of the ailing software developer's key employees by offering large signing bonuses of several millions of dollars and other incentives.
mcmaster.com for everything, sdp-si.com for gears/timing belts etc, vxb.com for cheapo but decent bearings
The premise of the click-bait title is clearly false.
But it would also filter out most of the people outside of the Bay Area, New York and Chicago. In Missouri, for instance you aren't paying 100K to someone that isn't pretty darned senior: 65-70K is a competitive salary right out of school around here. So a recent foreign graduate would have to move to the bay.

We also have to understand that consulting companies are pretty great options when you want to get a green card (although not necessarily the big ones): If you are a consultant, and you work for a company doing layoffs, your consulting firm won't drop you like a rock, and might be interested in getting you another gig. If the same thing happens to you when you are working directly for a company, you have a much smaller clock before you should leave the country. When a Green Card wait can be 10 years, the chances you'll work for a company that has a few rounds of layoffs are very high.
The State of Go 2016 Survey
Speaking of which: a few years ago there was quite awesome astronomy course, which I didn't have time to finish in real-time, and the content was deleted as soon as the course ended. I liked it wa-ay better than any other astronomy-ish stuff they had (and still have) later: it was more about actually modelling the celestial sphere and understanding the movement of the planets, than vaguely speaking about contents of the universe. Does by any chance anyone know how I can try and find it somewhere else? All I remember is that the professor had long gray hair and beard, which isn't really google-able.
This is actually a great example that shows where Algolia doesn't shine.

Algolia is great a known-item searches. Searches that are like looking up a contact in your phone list. This is a common use case with search, but one of only many.

Your use case is closer to grasping at straws because you don't know the language to use. You can't quite remember the name for something. This is also very common, and not handled well with purely string matching. Another example is in this blog article[1] where I talk about searching for "manual lawn mower" not realizing the right terminology is a "reel mower." Mapping vernacular is a hard problem, and I feel like Solr/ES while harder are better equipped for the problem.

(I also often find instant search distracting)

[1]http://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2014/06/10/what-is-sea...
Oh cool! I was exposed to some tools in a class 100 cleanroom at my research institute. None of them were from Varian though. The lab director always told me that the stuff used in academia is nothing compared to the tools used in large fabs like Intel and TSMC.

By the way, how do tool manufacturers make money? Is it basically sales + maintenance + repairs? Do you have any idea what kind of profit margins they operate on?