skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to have to flag this comment and have it deleted, because I disagree with it. Or something.
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It uses SQL syntax. If you know SQL and how CSS selectors work, there isn't much DSL to learn.

In my experience there are lots of non programmers that understand SQL.
I'm sorry, I fail to see the distinction you are trying to draw.
Whats the screen reader this coder uses? Is there a best screen reader for us software developers?
> Clojure is a language for people who know what they are doing by people who know what they are doing.

Oh, goodie. I'm part of an elite club with high barriers to entry.
http://pastebin.com/ESiirEjU

list of available courses, in format:
course_session_id, course_link
Yes, but US labor and citizens fought generations for those wages. Revolutionary War, Civil War, World Wars, company / labor riots, taxes to subsidize industry, taxes for infrastructure, taxes for education, legal systems, all that. US taxpayers paid for our economy through blood and toil.

You don't think high wages just happen because companies feel generous do you?
Hmm, these are actually not bad!

This is a bit much though: "alias wingardiumLeviosa=mv"
Except the ROI on the football program is obvious and huge compared to literally any department at the university.
Why are this comment and the parent comment downvoted? As someone who doesn't know about string theory it's hard to tell.
You didn't understand the point, apparently. Countries that were nearly 100% racially homogeneous when they banned drugs couldn't have been doing it because of racism.
Unfortunately, article doesn't really address that. Just some he-said she-said opinions.
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Surely someone's done this, but I can't find any examples
That's a good point. It would obviously need to be a more complicated system. I think it would be good to prioritize companies like Google, Facebook and the likes but good, honest consulting companies shouldn't be excluded. Factors like innovation, skill scarcity and wage/cost of living can be weighed in.

That happened to me. I actually was at Zynga when they closed studios and I needed to start my green card application from scratch.
> I've seen so many interesting/disappointing behaviors from people when it comes to people with disabilities.

The city I live in had a systematic problem with loud speakers announcements on trains. Blind people rely on these announcements to know which station they are at. And trains speaker systems were mostly broken or heavily distorted on nearly every carriage.

The remarkable thing about this was that the only blind person making complaints was an Australian Disability Discrimination Commissioner, who made a written complaint (to himself) each time he found it hard to get off at the right station while going to his job [1].

I share a house with my physically disabled sister who deals with similar problems nearly everyday. My sister was lucky enough to find employment with a government agency that takes it's responsibilities towards disabled people seriously, but many disabled people still disengage from society because of the extreme hassle involved in something so simple for the rest of us, like getting to work.

[1] http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/blind-rage-over-railcorps-silent-s...
Anecdotal, but I was speaking with a friend from Norway about 18 months ago, and he mentioned how you see Teslas everywhere because they are heavily subsidized and gas is ridiculously expensive. However, he said everyone also has a winter car, a Subaru or similar, because the electric range is so severely limited by the cold.
I thought XQuery was standard for a lot of this?
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Yep, it has about 20 different SKUs, from Emerald Mountain Blend (the common, all Garden classic version) to Georgia Black to Georgia Max Coffee (basically an iced Caramel Machiatto). The insane profitability is largely due to the distribution model - Coke just has to strike a deal with the vending machine bottlers and it can get 200m units to market quickly. Recently the market share has been eroded by the likes of Kirin and Suntory, who run their own competing brands. I know this as Georgis is one of the accounts I worked on.
Searching google for "producthunt mac voice control", the desired result came at number 4. Not bad.
WiPro, Disney, IBM, and others are the face of the "bring people in on a visa to train your job for offshore" -- WiPro often being the body shop.

In this instance it isn't the category of Visa, per say, but how immigrant visas are being used.

OP makes a good point about being shackled to a company. The bigs (MSFT, others), don't seem to do such, but the body shops certainly do take advantage of the situation.

Really, if you look at visas granted by company, those at the top are often body shops and should be both ineligible and required to pay significantly more.
> you have two electrons in space a few cm apart and the accelerate away from each other due to the charges repelling. I'm not sure how that is supposed to happen if everything is strings.

At the level of quantum theory, you don't have charges repelling. You have charged particles, like electrons, exchanging other particles--photons in the case of the electromagnetic force. So really it's all particles (or all quantum fields, if you look at it another way). And you can make any particle (or quantum field) out of strings, so string theory is just the next level down, so to speak, where all of the particles--the ones that exchange other particles, and the ones that get exchanged--are just different vibration states of strings.
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As somebody who lives in Portland it still seems very much "car centric". There are some people who are able to get along without a car. There are others who can commute via bus or bike.

But it's really difficult to get around without a car. What sucks is that the city is making it more difficult to get around by limiting the number of cars on streets (Glisan, Division, heading into town on Burnside, soon Foster) without providing much in the way of alternatives. Buses aren't running more often and they don't have protected right-of-ways that would let get around traffic jams.

I'll agree that what they're doing on NE Broadway, protecting bicyclists, looks good. But they're doing it that very rarely.
Unless you need AWS for the scaling it offers, it tends to be the worst possible host you could choose.

And even if you need the scaling, a mixed stack with dedis and EC2 on demand shouldn't be hard to run.
But assuming you could stack up 5 wafers - and route between them, you get to position transistors in 3d and route them in 3d - which mens wires can be shorter, transistor driving those wires can be smaller and together you could reduce a lot of the wafer area required - maybe by doing 2 layers, you can reduce total wafer area by 50% (but also get much faster low power chip because of the short wires).

But true, heat is a huge problem.
There are people these days that have a fear of traveling outside of major US metropolitan areas because of issues like this.

They are feeding into that fear that a traveler would have.
Very cool! Money came mainly from sales, but we also offered training courses and had a large services and maintenance division, since the tools did require periodic maintenance. A lot of these tools also have "consumables", just like other large pieces of equipment. Gas sources, graphite liners for beamline components, etc.

As a whole the industry was very cyclical though. We would employ a ton of people in the factories in the years when everyone was moving to new process nodes, but in the years in between there could be lots of manufacturing layoffs / shifts to part time. On the engineering side work was more constant since we would be busy working on the next generation of tools. When I left we were working on the transition from 300mm wafers to 450mm (12 in. to 18 in.)

As far as the profit margins went, I forgot our divisions exact numbers, but AMAT as a whole had roughly ~40% gross profit margins from what I remember. Being on the supplier side of the millions/billion dollar fab builds is a good business :-)
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Working for a Shanzhai company, in financial technology no less, with personal origins far from this, I agree somewhat. It is an open culture, but built with tape and plasterboard.

Innovation is easy when iterating, but such organisational culture has little push for true 'innovation'. 'Shanzhai' as a term was considered fun 5 years ago, but today is taken as an insult when such companies are CMMI5 approved. 'Innovation' is a new buzz word adopted in China over the past 2 years replacing shanzhai.

The very very open culture also results in very very quick quick releases of employees that don't maintain sufficient updates and success stories to company owners, roughly on a 2-week basis, and major breakthrough every quarter. That's not a culture for innovation, but iterating someone else's idea.
Presumably, Microsoft, ticker MSFT. MiSFiT.
I think CSS selectors are easier to work with. Pickaxe has more features than just querying like downloading pages in parallel. Html also tends to not be well formed.
1. I wish they had published their list

2. The simple metric that might help us understand the value of the list: access to high paying jobs

3. From #2, you can derive other properties as corollaries (freedom to travel, settle Etc)
As a contributor to sage : thank you for starting an amazing project, and sorry for not being able to convince my university to adopt it.
Isn't it? I wouldn't say it's uncommon in Europe.
Robuchon's mashed potatoes?
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Obviously, I'm using a throwaway account, but I have a 12000+ karma real one and will prove it privately if it becomes necessary.

I've met him, and I worked with him 4 years ago. This is a man who, if he'd kept his mouth shut, could have worked anywhere, climbed up the ranks quickly. Unfortunately, he has an OCD focus on social justice, and was willing to risk his career for what he believed in, and he's been made into a villain figure for some reason, just because he said something harsh about Marissa Mayer and didn't like his experience at Google.

Since then, he's been attacked from all sides and a number of people have tried to erase him. I don't know if YC was behind the Quora ban (I actually like Y Combinator) but it's obvious that something fucked up happened.

Is he a bit arrogant? Sure, although less so in person. Does he cultivate an obnoxious internet personality? Yeah, to some degree. But he's also insightful and, unlike most people who just care about making money, he actually cares about the direction that our industry is taking.

Am I the only one who sees this?
the only countries that are higher than it are developing countries and south korea, which has the same cultural problem. you cant just throw a wikipedia page at me with no context and expect me to revise my views. especially when you punctuate a declaration with a question mark like a twelve year old. japan has a high suicide rate. deal with it.
I see, never thought about the demand for tools that way. But that's a pretty damn lucrative business!

I was just looking at the list of top semiconductor equipment manufacturers [1], and it seems that all of them are either American or Japanese companies!

Thanks for taking the time to answer man :D

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor_equipment_sales_...
Maybe Chile has an underground nuclear program?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet
Four new elements get their final names
Now that is complete irrational. The major metropolitan areas are far less safe. And in fact, the more gun control, the less safe.
Simple, easy. And used on huge amounts of instructional videos, leading influence of others.
I actually took a laptop, and took it apart (for other reasons). Putting it back together, I purposely didn't put on the screen. It works just fine. I usually use it over ssh, but I can plug in a monitor, and it does think that the internal monitor is still connected. So, I think you can do that on regular hardware. I'm not blind, so I wouldn't know how to operate it without the display, though.
The Squirrel Programming Language
Hi graycat - could I get a copy of that paper as well, please? Thanks!
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Your post is precisely what I mean by "entitlement." 500 million not-so-red Chinese don't give a hoot about the Revolutionary War, Civil War, World Wars, company / labor riots, taxes to subsidize industry, taxes for infrastructure, taxes for education, legal systems, all that.

To understand the position of workers in the rest of the world, see above.
I tend to disagree. The government incentives are aligned toward large long term investments, not individual DaVincis or Galileos
That's still extrapolating from "Hillary corresponds with a past staffer who now works for Google" to "Google works closely with Hillary." I feel like I'd need to be seeking out conspiracy to believe there's more to it than that.
You need some precise combinaison of Windows and Visual Studio to target a given version of Windows Phone. At least if you want to use emulators, you'll need a Windows 8 to target WP8 (otherwise Win7 is fine IIRC).

Windows 10 is required to build Win10M apps targeting UWP. You can still use WP8 tools (thus Win8) to make WinPRT or Silverlight apps.

That's the theory. In practice the last insider build have a bug which forbid app deployment, and for some builds nows the Silverlight app runtime had its own bugs (keyboard related for example).

For having used this tools since WP7 I really feel a decline in quality on the mobile OS and I wouldn't recommand to bother anymore.
I've heard quite a bit of preference for the python stack, any reasons that come to mind? Is it just the usability of the language or what?
Oh my god, so you're saying I have to trust my VM hosting provider not to fuck with my systems?! That's totally new and unheard of! /s

Seriously, this is not a new attack. People have been able to extract private keys from RAM for years. But hey, let's give this a fancy name as if it's new so we can market it to all the non-security monkeys.
Meanwhile half-assed assumptions about other people based on a single post? I don't know about tropes, but it gets exhausting after a while.
I'm having quite the day. I think switching between clojure and python is frying my circuit. I know the difference between a map syntax and set and somehow managed to use set in place of map. I think this happened in part because my point is that any output of union(set, dict) is up to the language designer and has no basis in set theory (though i would be interested to here other wise)

>>> s = set([1, 2])
>>> d = dict(x="hi")
>>> s.union(d)
set([1, 2, 'x'])

apologies for the confusion... I need to proof read my comments more throughly.
Idk, my wife has no fear of getting shot in China, because there's no guns at all. Also the murder rate is like 5x lower.
My '08 Honda Fit may be interference, but it also has a timing chain that /should/ require no maintenance for the life of the car.
FWIW, they aren't talking about distilled water, they are talking about DI water (deionized), which is different and more reactive / corrosive. Yeah, a sip isn't going kill you, but I wouldn't make a habit of it either.

http://chemistry.about.com/od/waterchemistry/ss/Distilled-Ve...
Even if they don't believe in the Government because they're crazy, it doesn't follow logically that they should believe they don't have to pay for infrastructure and services they use.
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Anecdotal evidence is better than nothing, worse than nothing, and is nothing. To your last bit however, no, I'm pretty sure that American culture is in desperate need of help, please don't make those kind of ridiculous assumptions about what I"m saying.
The battery would last so much more, cool idea!
Best of luck! Sage is fantastic, and the world needs it.
This has been a known attack vector for quite some time (hence 2008...) One of the best training courses I ever did was a forensics course and this was one of the first techniques taught for a "black bag", along with faraday cage bags for all the things.

I have never gotten to use it irl though.
> Algolia is great at known-item searches

I have not used Algolia much but that's not a particularly compelling selling point, most search engines tend to get it right if you know exactly what to query. The problem is this is, like, 1% of the difficulty of making a good search engine.
Speaking as a professor specializing in string theory, I'd say, "More power to her." I have no idea whether string theory gets too much attention relative to its actual value in modeling the real world, but I think one essential part of finding the right amount of attention for any physical theory is for theorists to make their best judgement about what's worth their time to study.

In fact, it's quite comforting to me to see people deciding to focus in other directions: to my eye, that means the system is working (though perhaps the author would argue it's not working efficiently), and I'd hate to see other worthwhile angles of attack wither away purely due to lack of attention. For myself, I got excited about string theory in grad school and decided to go that route, and I'm still finding it fascinating today. (And it still feels worthwhile to keep studying it, though perhaps I'm not quite as optimistic about its ultimate success as I was 15 years ago.)
Thanks for sharing with all scripts. Great help.
Sorry, there is absolutely no difference from a physiological point of view.

I've had this argument on here before and am not interested in revisiting it. Suffice it to say that you will be able to find plenty of sources for various old wives' tales along the lines of "Don't drink distilled/DI water, it'll kill you/rot your teeth/give you an itchy rash." None of them will include respected medical texts, legitimate peer-reviewed journals, or even blog posts written by people who remember what their fifth grade Health textbook had to say about the operation of the human kidney.

It's worth objecting to this kind of mythology because some people may assume that the converse implication in the Bloomberg article is also true, and that drinking arbitrarily-large amounts of "normal" water is harmless. The truth is that you will die if you force yourself to drink too much DI or distilled water, and you will die just as quickly if you drink the same amount of tap water.
Totally agree, but in my example above I'm actually not even requiring vernacular mapping or any sort of conceptual disambiguation. Basic TF-IDF should rank that result pretty well and it certainly should not return 0 results.

Great article by the way!
Particles themselves are just models of localized field quantizations. It's a bit analogous to how a person is just a quantification of the molecules they comprise. You can gain and lose new molecules by the millions, but you're still the same person -- like the crest of a wave.

Anyway, particles repel because that is the nature of the fields they exist in. Electrons don't have to do anything 'to' each other to repel, they just have to interact with the electromagnetic field. The string model simply employs the word 'string' to describe some components of the field.
You're right.
I'm sorry.
I've done it, and it's not that hard. Anything that you would normally write or draw on the whiteboard to explain the problem, you just explain verbally instead. I found it helpful to write everything out on paper anyway to keep my explanation organized.

The candidate brought along their own laptop with a screen reader and a nifty Braille display, so when it was time to actually write some code, they just fired up Emacs and we were good to go.
Ah thanks for the advice :)
Firstly, I think this is a fascinating subject that isn't discussed on HN enough. A lot of friends of mine have multiple citizenships, so this is an interesting subject for me personally. I know two people with dual Russian-US nationalities, which they both loudly proclaim to be the best. I also know a number of people with dual European-US citizenships, and a handful of people who have a smaller non-EU country and a US citizenship. I also know some people who only have just one smaller non-EU country's citizenship.

I've personally had the discussion several times about what the best citizenships to hold are. Some people I know are wealthy enough that they could simply afford to purchase additional citizenships; some are undocumented in their country of residence and holding even dual citizenship is only a dream.

I'm personally of the opinion that there are a few "classes" of passports: European, American, Russian, South American, and everyone else. Russian, because it allows you free travel between the former Soviet states; European and American for obvious reasons, and South American because most South American countries permit free travel with citizenship.

Less commonly known passports I have special love for are the Chilean passport and the Dutch passport (which I have). The Dutch passport because it is very difficult to obtain (and requires you to give up all other citizenships unless obtained by birth), and the Chilean one because it is the only passport to allow free travel to all G8 countries.

It's also interesting to watch how the Syrian passport fell from "medium quality", relatively close to high quality, to the fourth worst passport ranked. In the same time, only a few countries fell positions: El Salvador went from high quality to medium quality, and the Congo went from medium to low quality.

For those in the thread asking for a copy of the 2016 report: https://www.henleyglobal.com/files/download/HP/hvri/HP%20Vis...
@Lxr

In addition to being good at known item searches, my pitch for Algolia would be

(1) it's Easier to perform relevance tuning. You'd be surprised how annoying the Solr/ES defaults are. And the API is more advanced.
(2) it has much better typo tolerance (again this gets at "known item" where you fat finger something)
Again, something my grandfather taught me, was that it was important to walk around your neighborhood and say "hi" to the people who lived there. He called it "Being neighborly."

We also, periodically but not on a particular schedule, put together a block BBQ where people can bring food, or not, and share a moment together to talk about what is going in or what they are worried about etc. Generally people respond well to the outreach, and as a consequence I know all of my neighbors on sight, and have shared experiences with many of them creating perhaps not a deep bond, but one which certainly gives anyone permission to approach and talk without an invitation.

It pays benefits in surprising ways, when our dog was terrified of a pile of beeping smoke detectors and ran off without us looking, one of our neighbors both recognized him, and knew us, so called us to tell us they had brought him in and we could pick him up when ever we wanted.

One of the families on our street has their grandmother living with them now. She is suffering some dementia like the woman in the article but everyone on the street knows her and I think keeps an eye out for her.

All from being neighborly and just walking around and talking to people.