skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's kind of hard to make "castles in Spain" appear in any literal translation, if the wording in the source language mentions the clouds instead of Spain.

On the other hand, an Englishman would say "castles in Spain" ...

Same thing with land vs. country, although not so clear cut. The mangling is being done by someone who knows the English idioms, not an ignorant native who cannot even get basics like articles and plurals right.
Wow, you are consistent.
It's worth mentioning that Apple only introduced 10bit per color support since OSX El Capitan[0] and with the iPad Pro while wide-gamut monitors, both professional and prosumer ones, have been around for years now.

[0]: http://www.cultofmac.com/395028/apple-quietly-added-10-bit-c...
Juno spacecraft getting close to Jupiter
I spent a few years in the late 90's and early 00's working on fMRI and I've been stunned by many of the claims that appear to arise from it's use. What's being measured relates to blood flow changes that correlate with an input block paradigm, typically from a visual stimulus. This isn't brain activity in the electrical sense but rather which areas of the brain appear to regulate their blood flow in relation to the stimulus. The assumption being that these areas require more 'fuel' to support their increased neural activity in response to the stimulus. Or as I like to think of it, attempting to estimate your home electricity usage by monitoring your water bill. Doing so with MRI, a technology I've spent most of my adult life analysing the data from and still can best describe what it does as 'magical', adding another not insignificant level of complexity.

I'm know there is good science going on in this field, by people that understand the limitations of the techniques and the technologies. However, I worked with psychiatrists - a clinical discipline starved of quantitative measurements until fMRI - that would happily ignore statistically significant activation in the air around the subjects head whilst laying claim as to the importance of those in the frontal cortex. Seeing the visual cortex 'light up' in response to flashing chequerboards is one thing, isolating those areas of the brain responsible for 'forgiveness' is something quite different.

Of course the software has bugs, I personally know people who wrote the package in question and they are extremely smart and also very human. I doubt I've ever published a paper using software that wasn't bug ridden. That's why open source is such an important part of the process, laying bare every last detail of what was done and not just what felt worth mentioning in the paper. The medical imaging research community is particularly good at this with most of the industry software making source code available. The problem with fMRI is not the software.
Related classic: Neural correlates of interspecies perspective taking in the post-mortem atlantic salmon: an argument for proper multiple comparisons correction http://pages.vassar.edu/abigailbaird/files/2014/06/bennett_s...

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/ignobel...

http://scan.oxfordjournals.org/content/4/4/417.full
>What value do restricted "dress codes" have other than as a symbol of authority and an economic burden on employees?

Why are you asking me this? I have nothing to do with it. I am not talking about dress codes, petitioning is the problem. If you don't like the dress code, try asking why it exists. We have no idea what value it was adding, because the person involved who had absolutely no experience and was there to learn, never bothered to learn. They just created a petition.

>dress codes disproportionately impact women and transgender people, so it's no surprise that we note that impact.

Again, trying to inject identity politics into everything is disgusting and contemptuous. Quit trying to pull a victim card out to declare yourself special, and thus nobody else can understand the "impact".
Animals release methane, which is a much worse problem than just the carbon dioxide.
Ooh, interesting. Never heard that one before.
did he break any laws?
> "conveying it in a way that aligns with their pain points, strategy".

In my experience, some executives don't even care too much for facts if it interferes with their agenda. This is usually expressed in subtle ways, but in one instance I've heard an executive directly ask for a report that was easy to manipulate the figures on in order to push our employees into generating more sales.

This is part of the problem when you have directors who see themselves as insulated from day to day challenges. I accept that there's a need for a long term vision, but if someone isn't prepared to understand the details of what's blocking it, they'll not be in a place to advise on how to fix it, and if they're relying on other people to fix those organisational issues, what's the point of having directors at all?
After reading a bit more about this here (thanks for all the informative replies) and on colour management in general, I'm pretty sure I prefer my monitor being able to display all 256 different intensities of one colour even if they're not exactly the same as some standard colour, than a scaled and truncated fraction of those (which seems like it'd just cause more visible banding.) The example image shows that clearly. I adjust my monitor's contrast and brightness to my preference, and colour perception is quite subjective anyway (not to mention affected by viewing conditions, hence those hooded monitors and controlled lighting when it is important) so I think colour management is not for me.

In fact, I'd say that if you displayed that example image simultaneously on a non-colour-managed sRGB monitor (logo visible), colour-managed sRGB monitor (logo invisible), and (colour-managed?) P3 monitor (logo visible), no average user is going to want the middle option.
kept mum for long but happened to me too, although last year.
8 hours challenge, no rejection response until I asked, no reason why submission was considered bad. Won't recommend applying.
>Perhaps this younger generation really is the worst younger generation ever

Nobody suggested anything of the sort.

>but your comments in this thread fuming about it

I have made no such comments.

>are still lowering the quality of discussion here below acceptable

Just because you don't agree with my opinion, doesn't mean it is lowering the quality of discussion. I have read the rules, and I do not see any way in which an objective third party could interpret me as breaking them. Please step back and read what I actually wrote rather than interpreting it.
Whoops, I had 10^4 above where I should've had 4^10. So, about 18 decimal digits rather than 16. The point remains.
> Pimentel’s client asked him for list of candidates trained in “Agile” project management techniques for helping companies boost their productivity by using more I.T. systems. The client was offering as much as 200,000 euros ($220,000) a year -- almost 10 times the average salary in Spain.

> But such people are thin on the ground in Spain. It takes at least eight months for an experienced software developer to earn an Agile qualification and they also need the ability to deal with senior executives, limiting the pool of people who could potentially fill the roles.

That part of the article is hilarious, not only because 200K euros is completely made up and untrue (by far surpasses best salaries in other more decent countries), but because of the Agile qualification mention. Do we have Agile certifications now? What a load of bullshit.

The only truth in the article is this:

> Spanish executives are less-skilled than their competitors in Germany, France or Italy, according to a study of 11 European countries. Only Greece came out worse.

And that's the reason why the executives don't find workforce. Being less-skilled means they don't value the engineering profession up to the required level to compromise and give good salaries.

(Spanish dev here --working abroad obviously--.)
Before the crisis we got the worst of Romania and Bulgaria, millions of them, literally. A big chunk of them were very problematic people; not even actual slavs, but gypsies, etc. As if Spanish gypsies weren't enough of a problem already. I remember a friend once went to Bucharest for a trip and was puzzled Romanians are whiter than us! https://blackinmadrid.wordpress.com/2012/04/01/the-romanian-...

Luckily after the construction bubble burst most of them went back home.

Because of Brexit many people have been shittalking A8 countries, but I would not have a problem with Czechoslovaks coming into my country. Unfortunately when you mention easterns here one can only think of the news each and every day, five years ago, talking about robberies in homes and jewelries committed by Albano-Kosovars and Serbians. Romani (not Romanian, but Romani gypsies) kids stealing purses in touristic zones just because they are kids and therefore invulnerable, etc.

My two cents about racism in Spain, before you call it "disgusting and systemic", think of stuff like this. What would a Spanish citizen think? http://www.elmundo.es/madrid/2015/07/01/5593898146163ffe428b...
Ask HN: Is it worth it doing BsC if you're in mid thirties to get H1B visa?
tl;dr: I'd like to live and work in USA.

I'm a 35 year old EU citizen, currently a permanent resident of the UK for the last 7 years. Due to recent political events I am rethinking my future plans and in a nutshell I'd like to move to USA. Besides past experience, I have a 6 year stretch of experience in software development, mostly Java, Scala and JavaScript.

I have studied IT Engineering at a university dropping out after roughly 1.5 years, that was 15 years ago. I understand my only viable option to move to USA is by getting H1B visa, which is why my plan is to get Computer Science BsC (while also working full time) from Open University in the next 3 years and apply for a job/visa in the relevant field. There's an extended plan to get MsC from the same university which would take another 1.5 years if BsC alone is not good enough.

Getting a degree is more a formality for me in this situation, because I'm pretty comfortable in the field I work for a while now. Also as a backup option I am considering Canada, however I'd like to do everything humanly possible to get to USA.

These the questions that I have:

1. I am 35 years old now and I'll be 38 by the time I get my BsC degree or 40 if I go for MsC. At that age, what are my chances to still be considered by the type of companies that normally sponsor H1B visa in software development field?

2. Will Computer Science BsC from Open University be good enough for US companies? Open University is accredited by Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools in USA if that helps.

3. Number of H1B applications is ever increasing, so my understanding is that if this year there is ~30% chance to be selected, by the time I'm ready it will probably be 20% or lower if the current trend continues. What are the other alternatives for someone like me to get to USA?

Edit: 4. How difficult is to get a green card once/if I'm employed with H1B?

Any other relevant comments or suggestions are welcome. Thanks.
That often is not a benefit for the users though and one of the reasons why I only use 'web apps' for throwaway work.
I think you're missing the point. No one is saying that developers should be ok with getting less money when they can get more. The point is that as an employee, you bring certain value to the company. And that value is often capped not by your skills and productivity but by the type of company you work for. And there are less companies in Europe of the type that can afford to pay very well.
Could you please mention what company you're talking about?
I love the concept. Would like to check it out.
RE: Oh, works with kids as well: you can buy many lifetime friends before they become teenagers

>As a 18-old Polander ... I would be offended if someone called this child labour and attempted to limit this opportunity.

"Before teenager" is 0-12 years old
@Natsu, you keep using this phrase, game theory. I don't think it means what you think it means...
Speaking as an Estonian, based on the comments in this thread, the working conditions and even salaries are better in Estonia. Estonia is way more tech focused in general.
You're very right, my apologies!
Here is the command for downloading all videos in playlist at 720p in a folder with the same name as the playlist's

youtube-dl -o "%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s. %(title)s.%(ext)s" $YTplaylistLINK -f 22
Take a look at Common Lisp and Dylan and their respective condition/restart systems. This is how error handling should look like: they let you handle your errors where it makes sense and naturally recover from them if it's possible.
Vacancy not online yet, but Transloadit is looking for a parttimer to help us maintain open source projects such as our sdks and uppy.io and tus.io. Ideal for IT students or bootstrapping founders with a few hours a week to spare. Remote first/only. Find out if we're a cultural match on https://transloadit.com/jobs. You can email hello@transloadit.com with your github account and short motivation if you're interested.
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Résumé/CV:
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Very good idea. If it is simple digital marketers would like to try this out.
अगर निकलवानी हो आ से आह की आवाज पूरी रात तो अपनाए इसका साथ
There's a slackware security newsletter that blasts out new patches news
This new model for quantum circuits is like a 5-decker sandwich
Awesome! Would like to try this!
May I ask what kind of startups you worked at where you felt the need to rewrite it?
> What's got energy expenditure to do with logic?

Nothing, but it has everything to do with the point immediately proceeding - evolutionary pressure.

> ...it would have to have been logically evaluated before it became subconscious.

Yes, and at that point it would no longer be logic based - it would be pattern matching. The human brain is a pattern matching machine, because historically that has offered a major advantage. For your position to be true, that such a flight mechanism is logic based, then you would have to believe that the behavior would immediately change in the event of conflicting information being presented. That doesn't happen, see confirmation bias (or any other kind of bias).

> What are you trying to say?

Exactly what I did. Your statement was illogical, but I'm starting to suspect that we might not be conversing in your native language - which would also explain it.
Issues like the one in the article are orthogonal to the openness of software. Quite often, the problem lies in a set of settings that each have perfectly legitimate reason to be what they are that together interact in a bad way, even though every component is working as it should.
> The military had the capability to look through the clouds but unfortunately the technology never became inexpensive enough for agricultural use.

How do the economics of this work out? It seems strange that anyone can afford to spend tens of millions on a satellite launch, but can't afford to put fancier equipment on the satellite. Maybe the penetrating radar apparatus is much heavier and so more costly to launch?
"With high probability..." the pun ha been noted sir.
Man beats Chinese 'AlphaGo' in human face recognition contest
>We all are perceived as 'equal' or even replaceable.

Sadly, this wil be the norm everywhere eventually.
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Skyscanner | London, Barcelona, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Budapest, Sofia | ONSITE, VISA | full-time senior hires

We're one of the biggest travel metasearch products in the world by traffic... and we want to 10x that :)

Hiring at a senior level in lots of key disciplines: backend with microservices & distributed systems, big data & data science, full stack and frontend, designers, product, iOS & Android. We are growing in all of our European offices - London and Barcelona being the two newest.

In short, if you've got a great track record and experience in one or more of these areas, know what best practices look like, and have the drive to make things better, we're interested.

We're looking for people interested in working on large-scale challenges and building new products. We have an incredible amount of historical data and a unique position in the market. What should the future look like? How do we best use our data, our scale and new technologies to our advantage as we grow? We're particularly interested in data-driven personalization and recommendation, exploring new travel products and experiences, as well as developer enablement and tooling.

We're one of the very few unicorn companies HQ'd in Europe who are profitable - and have been so for the past 7 years. Recently we've had the director of Amazon S3, Bryan Dove join us as our VP engineering. In London you would be working closely with him alongside some very experienced industry figures in a pretty cool and central location.

You can apply at http://www.skyscanner.net/jobs/ - or ping me an email at alex (.) treppass [at] skyscanner.net for a referral. Happy to answer questions or pass you to someone who can.

On a personal note, I see a lot of freedom, responsibility, accountability. Engineers have a LOT of room to make decisions and move fast, and the encouragement to make things better. It's an exciting place to be.
>But if two people are training I would not expect one person to lift "10x" the next person. No way, no how.

... but that's exactly what happens with "technical ability"
Thanks - we've done some incredible work to get where we are, but plenty of challenges ahead, and lots more to be achieved.

The salary range is fairly broad, and if anyone with lots of experience comes forward we'll happily negotiate. We want incentived, smart engineers, and hopefully we're approachable enough that there shouldn't be a barrier in terms of salary / benefits. Of course, in London, we might not be able to compete with the hedge funds / banks, but I think we offer something very different.

If you want to have a massive impact, and be rewarded for success, we're hopefully a great place to be. Hopefully our remuneration package is comparable / better than other similar roles - and if not, we'll certainly look to change that.

Hiring isn't easy, and like with anything, we'll keep learning and developing as we go!

If you're motivated and like the sound of what we're doing, don't hesitate to reach out.
Sure, will share the link with you.
I suspect this is not limited to networking stacks.

I see a whole lot of fretting over technical debt here on NH, and the more i see it the more i find myself thinking that said debt do not just happen. There will always be a reason, and it likely it can never be fully avoidable.

As such, whenever i see someone joyfully ripping out old code or rewriting something from scratch, i can't help think that at best it has reset the clock with a few years. We will be right back where we started, and then some, soon enough.
First of all, "terrible" and "amazing" are subjective.

Any 2016 browser / operating system / image viewer which treats an untagged image as anything other than sRGB is spec-non-compliant and functionally broken. (Sadly, this includes most browsers on most platforms.)

Given the blatant loss of information that occurs if you do that, as evidenced by the WebKit logo example, I'd argue the spec is broken. Pixels of different values should be different when displayed, because that's what matters to the majority of users.
until now, I would have thought this was correct english -_-.
Barcelona is a bit better in term of salaries than Madrid, where I live.

For developers and sysadmins salaries are down 25% or more for the last two years.

The reason is there is very little product development here and the main IT employers, Banks and telcos, have renegotiated the amounts they pay for subcontracting.

That the reason you can not get more tan 36k working for Telefónica or Santander subcontracting (who will pay your compary about 90k for you).
Slackware 14.2 Release Notes
Scrive | Stockholm, Sweden | REMOTE GMT±3 | Full-time

We have a stable backend written in Haskell, with a dash of Java for manipulating PDFs. The front-end is written in Javascript, mostly using React.

We need someone with a strong Haskell background to help maintain and expand our Haskell backend, find and fix performance problems, and help us maintain our Haskell packages (e.g. hpqtypes, happstack-static-routing, consumers). We are looking for someone who is in touch with the Haskell ecosystem and can make decisions as to what the best tools to use are, or to develop them when deemed necessary.

Full details and application via StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/118855/haskell-backend-develo...
S'more
See HIP (host identity protocol) for the IP equivalent.
Today you reload and see nicer buttons; tomorrow you reload and see them thanking you for the incredible journey you went on together that leaves them with new jobs and $hittons of cash, and you with a search for a new tool.
Maps.me is owned by mail.ru, so guess who will have your location data from it.
Agree 100 %. The data of publicly funded studies should be available online so that people can run their own analyses on it. There could be a non-disclosure period of course to give the scientists that have done the original work an advantage when publishing their results.

I'm confident that we will see cloud-based systems for scientific data analysis in the near future though, especially for data which is uniform and for which good standards exists. For some areas like genomics we already see this, and I'm sure others will follow suit.

I also predict that being able to try out analysis algorithms on peta- or exabyte datasets will be a huge game changer for many areas of science, and will invalidate many current findings that are based on smaller datasets, while hopefully producing many new ones as well.
Get bent. Meat rules.
Show HN: AskDNS Reverse Domain/IP Lookup
Unencrypted Netflix pushes 80~90+ GBit/s from their most recent OpenConnect revisions.

[1] https://twitter.com/ed_maste/status/655120086248763396

[2] https://twitter.com/scott4long/status/656219076629368832

[3] https://twitter.com/facepalm_tar_gz/status/71066891267375104...

[4] https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/how-netflix-works-...
Did you know IBM HQ for Europe is in Madrid? They moved here from Paris a year ago.
Great Idea. I would love to try this service.
Facebook wades further into emerging markets
> finding a similar position in a US company for 2x-3x that salary

Remote or ? Because I don't think it's that easy to find them remote with (often) hampered English language skills and very different interviews than we have here in Europe. And moving to the US is also not that easy even if you have a job, partially because it's a life altering decision which moves you far away from family. For a lot of people that's not worth the increase.

Edit: also, it is really cheap, depending on where you (want to) live to buy houses. So your 'compared low' salary actually brings you quite far. I am a weirdo in that regard though (at least compared to most on HN); I don't like living in cities. But even there it's not expensive if you look in the right places. Exceptions are there ofcourse yadayada.