skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At that point it's a problem for AI to solve. When supply outweighs demand, selection will happen and that will be fueled by analytics. The incentive to catching the rest in a soft social net then is uncertain. In those terms, surely, politics aren't always benevolent. The trend of the spread between the rich and the poor growing is significant.
The Surprising Problem with U.S. Manufacturing: It's Creating Too Many Jobs
In adult land, the terms "legal" and "lawful" are completely synonymous.

Anyone you hear saying otherwise is living in a fantasy world, and/or wants to sell you tickets to a fantasy world.
While US has quite better conditions, India is not some messed up rogue state. Many come here for a obvious reason, Money. The currency exchange rate is 1 : 66 for USD : INR. So even with PPP into consideration, that's huge and so they work for way less.
Absent actually owning property, does anyone have a right to live in any particular place?
Well admittedly, the Boston area also has some of the country's most baroque zoning, permitting, and general NIMBYism laws -- just like the Bay Area. So it's horrendously hard to just build more housing, even though basically none of Cambridge outside Kendall Square's industrial area has elevations higher than three or four stories.
Contrary to what people are saying here. You should try to validate the idea with your target market and maybe even go so far as getting payment before building the product.

You can test if you really have an understanding of the problem you're solving and if it's even worth building in the first place. I've personally gone down so many dead ends following my business ideas without validating first and I won't be caught dead making the same mistake.

Another benefit of talking with your customers is that you can collect information about how to market towards them. You listen to their problems and the solutions they're using and you instantly have ideas about blog posts you can write and other ways you can provide value for your target customer.
Crown Copyright is a thing in the UK:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_copyright
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We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11815636 and marked it off-topic.
It also kicked off (pedantically read as "shortly preceded") a building boom in East Cambridge, which was a depressing and sometimes dangerous place when I graduated (1 year before rent control ended) and is now largely transformed, with lots more commercial and significant residential construction/renovation.

There hasn't been much high-density apartment building construction (North Point and one in Central Sq are the only two I can think of), so naturally a place where demand increases faster than supply sees rising prices in a free market.
People don't move to Nashville or Hollywood to be near colleagues; they move there to "make it big". I'm sure the same is true of most who ingress into SV. At least programmers can move to pretty much any big city and find a job paying upper middle-class wages (and can do pretty good living anywhere with decent Internet working remotely)
Great and very inspiring story. Made my Saturday 200% better - seriously :)
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Show HN: JavaFX CPane combines BorderPane and table layout
More Bad English, Please (2010)
An implementation of JavaFX Pane that combines BorderPane and a grid/table like layout. I think it's easier to work with than GridPane.
This Nine-Year-Old Little Girl Is WWDC's Youngest Attendee
it just gets worse the more you read trust me
These companies depress wages for the people that live & work in the US though, not just for the people they displace. The downstream effects on the places impacted mean this is a consequence that ripples through communities of people who live in and support their nation of residence.
Came here to say exactly this. What a treat, thanks for sharing the awesome story!
How ReSharper increases productivity
San Francisco’s affordable housing shortage may be exacerbated by a new law
"Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction" (McClellan, Dorn) lays out an interest overview of how technology led science throughout world history.

We naively think that science leads technology, but for much of history, it was technology that led science/understanding. The telescope led astronomy and the microscope led germ biology.
They don't?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r...
Are there any famous ionic apps?
I was hired by blind developer once. He didn't discriminate me by my sight.
That is technically correct (the best kind of correct).

Just as I exploit electricity to provide light in my house, or exploit Exxon/Mobil when I derive $5 of utility from a gallon of gas that I swindled them into selling me for $2.50 or exploit Apple when I'd be willing to pay 50% more (or more) for my Macbook than they actually charge, because I use it to make money.

As applied to labor, "exploited" generally means something much stronger than "employed to a productive end".
If you look into the tickets you'll find that they aren't bugs but feature requests. Labeling them "show stopping bugs" is even more misleading than the now prominent clojure.set complaint.
... And the inefficiency of delivering services to a large, low-density population; and the societal burdens of municipalities designed around automobiles as the primary mode of transportation. Air quality, sedentary lifestyles, loss of wildlands, and so on.

If street construction and maintenance were paid for solely by usage...
source/more info?
I'm not against making it look like Tokyo, I agree that it would be more productive if it were more dense. I don't live there so it isn't my problem.
I do think that it limits the amount of economic growth and could hurt the national economy. I think it could also make it easier for other countries to leap frog us in terms of software but that is very speculative.
I've had great experiences with algolia. I've used it on numerous client projects, and my own product https://appapp.io .

It is great as an out of the box search solution that will probably fit 90% of cases. It is blindingly fast and my clients love it.

I expect there are some cases where elastic or solr will be a better fit; but these are most definitely edge cases for very specific search requirements. Algolia is a killer app for generic 'good' search.
Or even better, do both. Someone recently posted a new layout for the Ergodox Keyboard which looks quite efficient (generated by a programm written in Rust). [1]

[1] https://xsznix.wordpress.com/2016/05/16/introducing-the-rsth...
You're not being cynical, that's actually a pretty fair reaction to these people and their ideas.

The ideas all share one common feature: They're just not worth it. They're complex, contradictory, and utterly frivolous, in that they have no bearing on reality and will never be of any practical use to anyone but the "gurus" who sell them to the gullible. The "legal arguments" are a con artist's patter and misdirection, impressive to the people who the huckster is about to fool but so much hot air and nonsense to everyone else, especially the real courts. To anyone who understands the law, this crap is painfully transparent and obviously stupid.

It's all nonsense, bluster, and castles in the sky. The only reality is the money and time the gullible lose and the legal penalties they face if they attempt to take this stuff too far.
How do you define "fair" in fair market wage?

If foreign talent = domestic talent and foreign wage = domestic wage; is there a compelling reason to hire foreign? And if being hired = increase worker happiness, than equal pay will decrease foreign worker happiness.

If all people are equal than whos happiness should we optimize for?
Thanks for the kind words! Appreciate it :)
Yes, it turns out judges are not robots who apply law like it is some kind of program. They are capable of reading between the lines.
sshhh... if you tell HN that Bill Gates built a Unix-based OS before Steve Jobs, it might cause a riot.
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This seems relevant.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/inspired-by-genius...
Thanks for the links. I'm a huge fan of Stephen Pinker.

Most deep learning people I talk to acknowledge the algorithms & data structures are only lightly inspired by brain anatomy. Michael Jordan makes this point well in this IEEE article:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/artificial-intelligence/ma...

Donna Dubinsky and Jeff Hawkins and the team at Numenta are doing the most explicit biomimicry work I'm aware of. What else is happening that you know of?
There have, however, been a number of major fires in older apartment buildings in the past couple of years; at least two resulted in the whole building being condemned. I'm sure it's just coincidence.
Nice post, but I was kind of shocked by this part: "A question going through your head is probably: Did we underpay him?"

Seriously? What kind of human beings do you think your readers are? Did anyone here really think about that while reading the story?
So... Ready Player One.
Yes, a lot of disorders involve physical changes. But that doesn't tell us if the physical changes are cause, effect, or both wrt the mental changes.

The question at hand is whether you can have thought patterns that cause structural/functional changes to happen.
You should look into support contracts for 2 reasons:

1) A lot of companies have policies against using software that they cannot buy support contract for (regardless of the quality of the support)

2) if there is an individual/small buzz reasonable option, a lot of companies and people like to pay for it as a way to given financial support.
How does this affect the bottom line? Is this a financially good practice? Or merely a socailly good practice?
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The best way i've seen this framed is: in all of the US, there are only about 2,000 blocks of housing with sufficient density & walkable services to support car free living. This is some of the most sought after and expensive real estate in the country, but zoning codes won't allow more of it to be built.

Example zoning restrictions: mandatory building setbacks, mandatory parking requirements, mandatory building separations, maximum units per building, 1 or 2 story maximum heights, high minimum lot sizes.

Note: a significant % of those 2,000 blocks are in San Francisco.
It's always amazing that the H-1Bs who have these rare skills that are unavailable in US citizens nonetheless always seem to require training by the native workers they are replacing.
This was interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM1iUe6IofM
Ahh, my misunderstanding then. I don't know about the C250 in particular, but my inclination is to suspect that it is susceptible to the same type of attack. I believe this because outward-facing wireless has applications that would be appealing features in a luxury car, and because it seems to me that luxury car makers are the ones most likely to abstract away aspects of controlling the car so that they can offer more finely-tuned driving performance. It's possible that Mercedes implemented security, but from my experience it's unlikely that they would have done so, when it's expensive and directly at odds with implementing features.
Yes, H1B is a different animal than offshoring as it is much more fair to the worker. Funny that the H1B has much more regulation than offshoring. That's probably why it's more fair.

Also, tech workers uses computers and do have free movement by remoting. Managers typically don't allow it. Economically, that's a heck of a lot of power.

Anyway, I'm pretty content with the current status of H1B in spirit. This company obviously didn't attempt to find domestic labor before using H1B, so they are in violation of the agreement. I think the employee(s) responsible should stand trial to see if the loopholes are indeed lawful. If not, I think they should be fined or imprisoned, whatever the law allows. I think they should lose all H1B privileges for 2 years and all of their current H1B's should be allowed to move to another US company. Non of that will never happen though.

It's only fair, you and I would face trial for shoplifting a $1 candy bar, something paid for by taxpayers that directly benefits corporations through determent, among other things.
>> The solution is to build more good US cities that aren't car centric. I'm not aware of any.

NYC is definitely not car-centric or even car-friendly. Indeed, the non-car-centric zone there is considerably larger than SF's. Other cities like Washington DC and Boston are not too different so long as you don't venture too far from downtown.
Pretty much. You learn to look, but not lust.

Or go for thing with more than just numerical increases.
What Happened to Motorola?
This is in a sense what the clojure.spec work would allow -- dev time exceptions when you violate a function's contract that have no impact on production speed.

For some reason the blog's author dismisses spec as irrelevant greenfield development, when it would quite neatly solve many of his complaints
Totally independently of other things, naming it "Required" sounds better than "took 10.000$ for zipping their lips"
I grew up in California, went to Berkeley, and worked in there for years, but I couldn't stand the backwardness of California's homeowner cabal anymore and moved out of state. In my new state, there's no rent control, no NIMBYism, and homes and neighborhoods are beautiful and affordable. Sure, there's more room to grow here, fewer people, and a smaller economy, so it's not a completely fair comparison, but take a moment and look on a satellite map at how much land in the bay area is completely undeveloped, most of it on hillsides. I'll move back if California ever embraces progress and growth (not going to happen in my lifetime).

Regarding remote work, I've been working remotely here at satellite offices of bay area companies for 7 years at 3 different companies and it has sucked. You're treated like a second class citizen by employees at the mother ship, and the conference call technology (webex) is abominable -- half duplex, compression artifacts, and good luck understanding what an engineer with a heavy asian accent is saying while he's 12 feet from the microphone across all of the garbage technology that delivers his voice to your ear. The only way it would work is if everyone would wear a headset, and whether it's conscious or not, employees at the mother ship would much rather keep you, the remote office guy, in the twilight and not jeopardize their jobs. Never again for me if I can help it.

And FWIW, if you are in favor of price controls (minimum wage, rent control) the Commanding Heights documentary is an excellent retort (starting at minute 50): https://youtu.be/w9ms2WOZi74?t=50m6s
Probably India or Pakistan, common sources of Dubai slave labor.
Can we admit that customers will never pay for your app?
That analogy isn't very apt because the CPU by itself doesn't have memory.

The CPU+motherboard+ram+hard disks is closer to the brain. You could argue that power supply and the speakers, microphone, nic, and webcam are like the energy supply and inputs to the brain though.
Actually, not really, the paper doesn't say that - it seems to explicitly limit its findings to an association and nothing more.

They see changes in the structure of the brain and they see changes in behavior (BPD), but they're clearly not saying that BPD caused these structural changes - they list both causal directions as some of possible hypothesis (altered amygdala/hippocampus causing BPD and/or BPD-related experiences causing these alterations in amygdala/hippocampus), in addition to other possible scenarios e.g. the fact that all of their BPD-group was on psychotropic drugs could also have been a cause for the observed changes, etc. They also aren't making any conclusions about a possible link between childhood abuse and BPD (or link between abuse and these brain changes) beyond the fact that they chose a set of 10 subjects that all had both BPD and suffered abuse; they're not even discussing a correlation as their data isn't sufficient to say anything about that.

All the observations in this paper certainly are compatible with a hypothetical scenario where these brain changes cause BPD (or indeed, are BPD) but it was some factor other than emotional trauma that caused the observed changes in their brains. I don't know if it is that way, but this particular paper also doesn't give any evidence to support or deny it.

[edit] It even seems that they don't even state that there was a change in their brains - instead, they observe a difference between BPD patients and the control group; but it would also be consistent with a hypothesis that these patients had smaller hippocampus/amygdala e.g. since birth, and simply having that property (instead of a change) was a risk factor predisposing them to suffering BPD symptoms later in life; and the authors acknowledge this as a possible option in their conclusions.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-NII
I didn't pay close to a million dollars for a house in San Mateo so to live next to people who need rent control. The peninsula is not Tuscany or London. Any significant local character was ripped up fifty years ago with the last of the orchards.

There's one city on the peninsula with rent control, and it's East Palo Alto.
I think that a reasonable person could disagree with what you're saying here, but I don't think that justifies the downvotes. Your comment is reasoned and mostly uninflammatory, albeit considered a little "out-there" by most people. In the back of my mind, I tend to agree with much of what you say here.

> Complete protectionism/isolation isn't a good thing. But extreme liberal trade policies aren't a good thing either.

I'm just trying to figure out how we got into this bizarro world where being supportive of a trade policies with your 12 closest allies, notably leaving out the two countries with the second and third largest economies (and growing rapidly), earns you the label of being "pro-trade".

How the hell did that become our idea of a non-isolationist trade policy? It's the antithesis of free trade, particularly when you look 10 or 20 years forward and realize this treaty is (effectively) disincentivizing trade with what will be the two largest economies.
Yeah, it basically requires a lot of structuring the way people work together to make it so that remote workers are first class citizens in meetings etc. Otherwise, remote workers miss way too much of the context that comes from informal chatter at the office and end up being isolated from the main flow of things.

We can barely even teleconference people into formal meetings in a way that works consistently and isn't a huge pain, I think we're a very long way from remote work being a solution for a large percentage of workers.
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It amused me that they were comparing the cost of mass producing a chip to the cost of producing a single plane.
One of the least talked about search engines is NodeChef Cloud Search. Anybody using any language could use it insofar as they have a mongodb driver. Anyone who used it could comment on it? https://nodechef.com/nodechef-search-and-sql-analytics
Looking at Wikipedia it seems wrong. It had the Khmer Empire at 4m population 1.2m sq km, and the Song Dynasty in China at 118m population, 2+m sq km at roughly the same period.

It does say however that Angkor was the largest pre-industrial city in the world, with an urban sprawl of at least 1,000 square kilometres.
Ford Panther platform (Crown Victoria, Grand Marquis, Town Car).

- parts are cheap, cars are well documented, failures uncommon

- easy to repair if in a crash too.

- not unheard of to see examples in the 300,000+ mileage range.
The prior information was as according to the article. Supposedly, $0.5 billion must be committed for such use (though, it may not be).

I don't think it requires corruption, or malevolence; only a source of cash, and a desire to get cash to prior investors.
I just tried to get a binary to install it on Windows. Instead they are handing out only OVM files (VirtualBox images.) As much as they might despise closed-source, there are simple things that businesses necessitate - like not being hostile to your audience. I am a fucking programmer, I don't have a problem using VirtualBox. At the same time, it infuriates me that they did not bundle up an MSI or EXE for their windows audience. Now I feel less inclined to even try it, because I already use Mathematica. This basic understanding of "energy to demo something" is the ethos of HN. I am super surprised after reading that PDF to find these simple energy laws of consumerism violated. Aye...I digress...
I was just using the extreme example of the comparison of low-skilled workers in the two countries. Even in the opposite extreme I have no particular sympathy, in my mind it's analogous to one American programmer losing her job to another American programmer.
I've done a bit of monkey patching for the JVM and I know it's quite the pain in the ass.

Kudos to you op for making this work. Great job! I might give this a try some time soon.
This is a very superficial point-of-view.

What matters here is the concept itself (deep learning as a generic technique) but also scalability. Not the specifics that we have today, but the specifics that we will have 20 years from now.

The concept is proven, all that matters now is time...
One of the best developers I've ever worked with is here on an H1B. He's better than 95% of all the US Software Engineers I've ever worked with. He runs an open source project in his spare time and gives talks to educate the community. He's the kind of person the visa is for and he is paid appropriately for a senior engineer (not a cheap import).

The problem is the mostly Indian outsourcing companies. They ballot-stuff the H1B process every year. I talked to an Indian engineer in the US on J1. He said these three companies come to every Indian University and indiscriminately "hire" every single graduate to sign up for H1B, regardless of skill, need, or ability. Then if they "win" they get a to come to the USA, so of course most take the offer. It is implicitly understood that they will work for low wages and in difficult conditions but the goal is not to ask questions or rock the boat and wait until they get a green card.

I don't blame the workers but it is clearly an abuse of the system; Infosys isn't hiring India's brightest engineers to import as contractors. They're grabbing as many people with a pulse as possible to ballot-stuff H1B applications.

That could be solved by restricting applications to X per applicant, including all affiliated companies and subcontractors.

The other H1B scam is that you only have to pay a software engineer around $60-$70k to qualify as "highly paid". I'm not sure what the exact trick in the rules is but the consulting companies can and do pay well below market rates for engineers and it's perfectly legal.
I'm not questioning that python api isn't clear. Neither is clojure one. Both require the user to read them in order to properly apply them.

I think pythons resolutes only seem less surprising because someone would be used to them? Maybe that coercion is easier to reason about. Im honestly not sure. Like this example:

In [19]: s = set([1, 2, 3])

In [20]: s.union({"x", "y"})
Out[20]: {1, 2, 3, 'y', 'x'}

Is that more clear then explicitly requiring only sets be unioned?

Why the key and the value? The meaning of the key and value have been drastically change now. Maybe this is what all languages do?

anyway, I think i gained a lot thinking this through. Thanks everyone :)

*One error Is I mistakenly said that strings weren't hashable.
US cities that aren't car centric: Portland, Seattle, New York, Boston. Nearby: Montreal, Vancouver, Toronto. Afar: London, Paris, Berlin.

Arguably San Francisco is the most car-centric of the bunch with its comparatively non-functional transportation system.