skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exclusives provide a monopoly of sorts to Apple by removing choices for consumer. That makes exclusives a bad thing for the consumers and the market.
How to avoid building a company you'll hate
> You don't have to embrace anything in your private life. But stay the heck out of mine.

Yes, but unfortunately all individual choices eventually start bleeding into other peoples' lives, no matter how much you like to pretend they are encapsulated. Otherwise alcohol, tobacco, gambling, and more would only affect their users, but as we know they create collateral damage and rippling effects into their respective communities all the time. Your "private life" booze problem could kill my whole family in a DUI.
URL to prior blog entry is borked. Adding a trailing forward slash fixes:

http://backtrace.io/blog/blog/2015/10/03/whats-a-coredump/
DeepTalent – Next Generation Talent Management System
In my experience, if something is hard to do in the USA, it is much harder to in China, which doesn't really acknowledge immigrants. Now, this is just "by the book", which the USA takes much more seriously than China. Often times, the book in China isn't even written and all they will say is "没办法", your only option is a tourist visa where they wink you'll probably be ok, unless you are unlucky enough to be caught in some crackdown, then it's 6 or so months in Chinese detention before being deported.

Only be in China if you REALLY need to be there, otherwise it's a whole lot of pain without corresponding upside.
Outdated anti competitive car dealership laws?
Domain Driven Design Review
I had a friend who got rejected twice, had to leave the country. He's a good software engineer for one of the big companies.

Fortunately they kept him on and I guess they will try to get him an L1 once he meets the requirements.
Always happy to hear your feedback!
> 10 'murican jobs

I'm about the farthest thing there is from a SJW, but have you considered how people will interpret your use of the slang "`murican"?

To me, it sounds like a reference to a meme which paints persons from the southern part of the U.S. as parochial and unintelligent.

Have I misunderstood the reference?
I have been using them for about a year and have been quite satisfied. They also support using your own domain at no extra cost.
With our powers combined...
The goal of stealth is to avoid detection. The goal of active jamming is to obscure the specific location of something and prevent targeting, either by blanking enemy sensors or presenting false targets. That is contrary to the goal of not being detected.

> It's akin to a soldier wearing civilian cloths while travelling behind the lines ... but such principals seems to be falling by the wayside these days.

That has always been an acceptable ruse de guerre, so long as the soldiers change back into their proper uniforms before engaging in any combat actions.
See http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/214950/if-dark-ma...

TL;DR: Dark Matter doesn't clump because of missing "friction" from the other forces, esp. electromagnetic/weak.
some (mostly technical) books are commonly mentioned in shorthand (eg. k&r and gof).

how are those accounted for?
Where N becomes a political football that us raised and lowered at the whim of lobbyists ultimately allowing wages to fall below market rates.

There is no labor shortage in a nation of 300 million with the best university system in the history of humanity.

If we need any sort of system, the appropriate one would be to reward companies that train citizens in skills the employer needs in order to fill any sort of skills gap.
Yes. Very principled. I'm telling you that in practice, for the multiple large teams I've been a part of that have switched to slack, violating that principle doesn't prove to lead to problems. The benefits dominate the theoretical, academic concern. Try it!
Dumping?
Spotify has the biggest network advantage which gives them some power over the artists. They need to use that power now in order to fend off Apple or it's curtains for them.
I wasn't sure where it appeared first, either! I had to dig out that old related work section. There may be work that predates the '98 reference, but it may not have gotten much attention. (I had assumed Hoard would be the first in the literature, but that's from 2000.) I think when it shows up is more related to the available hardware at the time, and what people were doing with it. It's not a huge stretch to imagine thread-local pools, but I don't think enough people were paying attention to the problem before then.
apologies...asked under wrong comment
Well, and a web app I should have added.
I love that solid hardware. It reminds me of this unique Xbox game that came with an extremely large controller: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_Battalion -- 2 joysticks and 40 buttons. $200 for the game and controller.
This might just be the best idea since the Internet.
Why is the current system in Germany only 30 years old? As far as I know, there weren't any laws changed with the unification (except of unifying Germany of course). So it's really a 70 year old system.

Agree with your point though.
Oh. It did eventually launch in Europe I guess. Bad marketing then.
Some weeks ago, I was looking (again) for a privacy-oriented alternative email provider. I stumbled upon mailbox.org and some others (like protonmail, and startmail).

I decided to go for mailbox because 1) I know that Germany at the moment has still one of the best regulations about data protection (although I fear this is going to change in the next few years), 2) it provides some features others don't (like protonmail, and startmail). It was worth a try at least, so I decided to use the 30 days trial account.

It looked really good and promising: nice UI, clear documentation, cool domain name if you don't want to use your own. It provides also Office-like, calendar, and storage features. Therefore, I made up my mind, and I was determined to become one of their paying customers. So, I put 12 EUR(1 EUR/month) on the account. A few hours later I found out[0] that mailbox.org is offered by a politically motivated provider called JPBerlin [1]. I sent the cancellation request, and so far my account is still on hold - I could revoke the cancellation, though. An email received after the cancellation request says "please allow us a couple of days". Sure. It's just they took 1 EUR from the account, although I had the cancellation request sent like 10 days before the end of the trial period.

In the end, I would like to say that as a service it looks promising. However, until they stop with their political involvement, I think, not many people will use it.

[0]: http://www.emaildiscussions.com/showthread.php?t=68527
[1]: https://www.jpberlin.de
> Mosquitos can't transmit HIV

Never thought of that. Thank goodness!
The Apple Goes Mushy Part III: iOS's Interface Peters Out
Hampton Creek Faces U.S. Criminal Probe Over Mayo Buybacks
> Why do you need a desktop client? I used Play Music for over a year just using the web client.

Offline usage and media keys.
> Where am I overstating the risks?

2nd sentence

> long-term health consequences, but doing it as a profession does

Okay, you are just trolling, I didn't know that. My apologies. We were talking about a flight to Mars, it's obvious you are not serious. Sorry I missed your joke(s).
Ask HN: Choosing a Side Project
When the time and energy you have available to work on side projects is limited, the opportunity cost of working on the wrong one is enormous. How do you choose which of dozens of ideas to pursue?
I'm willing to bet you talk to addicts in your day to day life without ever noticing it. You seem to think addicts are only poor people living on the streets but a lot of users have the finances to pay for their addiction and in these cases you can know them for decades and still be completely oblivious to the fact. It could be your boss, your aunt, your neighbour, anyone.

I'm also willing to bet you're receiving help paid by us taxpayers who didn't choose to spend our money on you. Heck, I'm almost certain you consume (legal) drugs in your daily life as well without questioning why some drugs are legal and others aren't. Coffee is psychoactive in the very same way cannabis is for one. Beer turns anyone into an obnoxious annoyance at best while smoking cannabis makes you love everything and everyone.

This is what I mostly don't like about the war on drugs: it relies on the fact that the public is for the major part completely ignorant of how things really work, what pushes someone to try drugs, what gets them addicted, the context in which it all happens and whatnot.

We've got politicians who can't change their position for fear of losing their network of contacts and worried about their public image, a voting population mostly clueless about the issues they vote about and finally the police hiding their own failures. Its no wonder the war on drugs goes on for decades with only negative outcomes.

Your taxpayer money is already financing a failed war on drugs which costs you a LOT more than actually helping people out.
> The 10% attributed to REITs is coming directly from the 60% in Finance.

Yes, that is correct but I think I'm still failing to help you understand.

Previous to the re-balance the 60% of finance is dominated by old fiance companies at the expense of REITS such that REITS only make up say 3% of the entire ETF.

After the re-balance REIT's are now a much larger portion of the ETF, 10%, than they were before due to them being their own category and the large fiance companies dominating the fiance category before the split.

The reason why REITS are now bigger is the same as the reason for giving them their own category. Propulsive they were underrepresented due to being lumped in with fiance. Now that they have their own category there is more demand for them, hence they now have a larger percentage of the ETF.

Does this help you understand?
University employed H-1Bs are exempt from the cap. It is a loop hole that is becoming more common where private companies set up partnerships with universities to employ H-1Bs on their behalf in order to skirt the cap.

The company sponsors a position at the university, the employee does work for the company, the university takes a percentage.
It's really that simple.

No, it's not. For a whole host of ideological reasons, certain problem-causing agents (like alcohol and tobacco) are tolerated, despite their deadly and very costly impact on society, while others are not.

I didn't like the comment above yours either, BTW. Both are untenable oversimplifications.
From the article:

One of the bad things about open-ended growth, growing faster than exponentially, is that open-ended growth eventually leads to collapse.

How do you avoid that? Well, how have we avoided it? We've avoided it by innovation.

There's a theorem you can prove that says that if you demand continuous open growth, you have to have continuous cycles of innovation.

Theory says, sure, you can get out of collapse by innovating, but you have to innovate faster and faster.

The question then is, is this sustainable?
SpaceX Dragon Returns to Earth
You can mitigate that by keeping enough fuel on board for a non-ionic flight. You'll use it in the next couple of flights, but will pay for the additional fuel used to move the fuel. That should still leave you out ahead.
Well, there's a reason they don't exist anymore...
I live in the Central District of Seattle and a friend, who made an account and lets me log in so I can read, lives in Wallingford. The differences are appalling. The CD has its share of minor crime but reports of suspicious activity are accompanied by descriptions beyond race or, sometimes, security camera output. This is mixed in with posts about giveaways, contractor recommendations, and Metro bus reroutes due to construction.

Meanwhile, my friend's account showed lots of posts like described here. Oh, and the slagging on the homeless was just vile. I have screenshots of several examples but I don't want Nextdoor to go all Erica Barnett on me and ban accounts so I leave them out. But the police department had a lot more "community forums" on the Wallingford part of Nextdoor than the CD's...
A reasonable assumption given that the OP didn't give any other reason. Are you assuming there was another reason?
QNX is famous as a real time kernel because it is a microkernel.

All the scheduling power of QNX derives directly from having all non-essential code in user processes rather than in the kernel, which does only one thing and does that very well (message passing).

I've re-implemented a 32 bit version of QNX long ago, maybe one day I'll attempt to move it to the 64 bit era if I can figure out a way to automatically convert linux device driver source code to an 'administrator' (QNX parlance for a daemon). That should take the sting out of re-writing each and every driver under the sun.

I strongly believe that Linux not being micro kernel based (and not in a 'minix' sense but a real micro kernel with all services as user processes) is one thing that is currently holding us back.

Many real world interactions require hard real time and with monolithic kernels you are just not going to be able to meet your guarantees.
Mailbox.org runs http://open-xchange.com/, so besides email you also get a calendar and (rudimentary but functional) online word processor and spreadsheet, with team collaboration. You can try a demo of the software on the Open-Xchange site.

I've also been a happy customer for about a year now.
If you know a few guys like that, you have a future in enterprise sales.
Some nifty little jQuery notification package
> How about something like that for people with Masters/PhDs (in STEM) from top-50 schools in the world.

Govt shouldn't be in the business of selecting 'best people', govt bureaucracy is not the right agent for this. Markets should decide who is the 'best' and who is needed . Govt should play the role of glorified recruiting agency.

Getting a degree is not a proof enough for visas/greencards.
Police will regret that relationship. Xenophobic signalling on Nextdoor has surely resulted in a rapid rise in bogus resident calls. I know in our neighborhood it has.

Residents now constantly post photos of "suspicious" people and vehicles with responders telling them to phone the police.
The Mammoth Pirates
Buying a company with borrowed funds and using the company's cash flows or assets to repay the loan is known as a Leveraged Buy Out (LBO) [0]. It was very trendy in the 1980s but has recently made a comeback.

A good book to read on one of the most notorious examples of an LBO is Barbarians at the Gate [1][2] which dealt with the takeover of RJR Nabisco, a large American food and tobacco company.

For lighter fare, re-watch the 1990 movie Pretty Woman [3][4] but this time ignore the fluffy romance and focus on Richard Gere's character, Edward Lewis, as he goes about negotiating the LBO of a shipbuilding company. Edward Lewis was modeled on a real-life LBO guy, Reginald Lewis, who bought Beatrice International Foods from Beatrice Companies in 1987 in an LBO worth $985 million [5].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leveraged_buy_out

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate:_The_Fa...

[2] http://amzn.com/0061655554

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Woman

[4] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100405/

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Lewis
Might be better to link to the "www" sub-domain [1] of your second URL; otherwise getting SSL cert issues.

[1] https://www.jpberlin.de/
oh my. That's interesting. The jobs I see are:

Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists(274); Biochemists and Biophysicists(187); Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary(100); Biological Technicians(60); Molecular And Cellular Biologists(59);
To be fair, he did say "is reviewed by a human", not "we care" or "we will act on it"
Apple could lose $200 million every year for a thousand years and not run out of money. These are not remotely comparable situations.
But it's only helpful if you know what you need to search for. In the case of a conversation that happened in the past that you wanted to have input into - and either never learned about it, or only learned after a decision was reached - it doesn't help so much.
I think the additional windows attributes initiated here:

https://github.com/benhoyt/scandir/issues/22

(Source: It was my issue :) )

I was long using the project since it was named betterwalk and was very glad to see PEP 471 approved. Great work Ben.

(Now I just need to upgrade the project I use it in to 3.5)
They are far far behind on the "better product" part at least.
Got this PR email for a mental-illness-themed subscription box
I don't think it's less efficient than threads (but someone should test it!). It scales better.

It's not composable, but it's not impossible to work around that if you can assume non-POSIX. Platforms with kqueue just get this right because kqueue can wait for processes. Linux will let you use a different signal to alert for process completion, so pick one of the realtime signals (which is its own game of global namespaces, but hey), and library code that uses SIGCHLD won't be affected. So that's Linux, OS X, and the BSDs. I don't know of a good workaround for Solaris.

A POSIX-compliant way that makes this more composable is to make a single, dummy process to be a process group, setpgid() all your actual children into that process group, and have that process spend its time doing waitpid(0, WNOHANG) and sending you notifications over a pipe or something. That is higher overhead, but my guess is that scales better for many child processes (O(1) extra processes vs. O(n) extra threads).
I would argue that people with masters degrees, especially MBAs, are actually less suited to launching successful businesses.
Anecdotes to support this: My first finished game was bizarro-arkanoid (few hundred LOC). Then I made a text-based adventure game (<1,000 LOC, and LOTS of data), then I made a jRPG-ish game (5,000-15,000 LOC, IIRC). ETC, ETC, ETC. I don't have those games anymore because they were crap, but they taught me what I needed to know to make what I'm making today. Which is still kinda crap, but less so.

Between and around those games I "made" dozens of other games, not a single one got finished, mostly because I shot for projects beyond my ability to complete.
In the same vein, for those in the USA trying to do business elsewhere, please be aware of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act [1]. There is no upside to breaking those rules.

Sean, my Mandarin/Chinese is at below beginner's level. My google translate of your phrase is 'no way'. Was that what you were saying?

1. https://www.justice.gov/criminal-fraud/foreign-corrupt-pract...
This is an under-appreciated point... if 99 people leave money on the table, and the 100th person picks it up, we're back to efficiency in the aggregate.
> > Let me guess: Libertarian Party propagandist.

> Or just someone who is well-read and likes to throw in literary references.

~libertarian here: don't know him, but I'd bet he is what op thinks
This has been commented on before here and elsewhere: the elimination of certain species of mosquitoes that seem to serve no ecological purpose other than spreading disease.

There may be political motivations/economic (Malarial drugs would plummet for example), but I think it goes further than just that.

We don't think there are any ecological purposes .. but spreading disease is a purpose. Animals that have been kept in check may explode. Human populations are already exploding.

Parts of this planet are in bad shape simply due to species introduction (Australian Camels is a good example). Other species have been introduced to solve the initial problem, only to create more problems.

I would like to see an end to these annoying insects too, but there could be unintended consequences. Those are legitimate concerns.
Steven Gerrard Merasa Major League Soccer
If the objective is to pay 70kYr for a person might just as well open an office outside of the US, unless they're located in a medium or small city

(ah yes, the site just blew up on me as well, probably done by an underpaid H1B from one of the abusers of the systems)

Edit: I'm not against the people that want a chance to work in the US, I'm against the companies that abuse the system
To be fair to parent, after reading the submission title, I expected content a bit richer in facts, figures, and examples, not some smart dude's essay. Or if it were some smart person's essay, lacking those things, I'd expect that person to be something of a specialist in the field.
Brings to mind Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place and their idea of the "Growth Machine", from my public policy and planning classes in college:

https://books.google.com/books?id=XtIMclQwMY4C&printsec=fron...

https://www.amazon.com/Urban-Fortunes-Political-Economy-Plac...

Would recommend to anyone remotely interested in the growth, creation, and destruction of cities.
The #1 drug-addict population is alcoholics. I don't think we go after them like we do, say, the potheads or the hallucinogen enthusiasts. I don't think that "troublesome addicts" is the reason for drug laws.

I think that /u/beat has it right, except it ain't the hippies, blacks, etc. It's everybody. The drug war is a universal justification for spying, search and seizure. That's its purpose.
>Previous to the re-balance the 60% of finance is dominated by old finance companies at the expense of REITS such that REITS only make up say 3% of the entire ETF

No, they make 10% of the entire ETF. Otherwise your example doesn't make sense.

>After the re-balance REIT's are now a much larger portion of the ETF, 10%, than they were before

Why?

>due to them being their own category and the large finance companies dominating the finance category before the split.

Who decides that now the weight is larger? (Hint: does the expression "market-cap weighted" ring a bell?)
"System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding."

Looks like someone didn't cache it's data!
Appears to exhibit selection bias - what if there is a disproportionately large number of single-founder companies, which fail at a much higher rate than those with 2 or more?

The numbers are interesting, but very misleading. It still doesn't answer whether it's statistically wise to invest in a single-founder company, or help a founder decide how many cofounders they should try to get onboard.

If the strongest conclusion possible here is "Hey there's still hope" then we didn't need all these charts for that sentiment.
Eh just open play music in a new browser window and only use it for music?
How familiar are you with the history of the drug laws, and how the original laws got passed? If you look at the history, you'll see racism and cultural bias. If you look at the present, you'll see racism and cultural bias.
Depends on your goal. Are you looking to make money, learn something, have fun, or simply stretch your creative muscles?
Thanks! I actually have though I might move on to sales some day, maybe.

If I put the same effort into that as programming maybe I could succeed.

Edit: everything ;-)
I guess my main confusion is when would someone choose to use docker-swarm over swarm-mode.
I'd rather just eliminate the H-1B (and some other classes of visa) entirely, and just add a new blanket supernumerary visa that works like this:

(1) There's a fixed initial fee and an annual renewal fee for it,

(2) Anyone who doesn't have any of the features which exclude you from immigration regardless of qualification in other categories can apply,

(3) The visa category is issued without numerical limit to qualified applicants,

(4) The visa is a dual-intent non-immigrant visa (that is, you are not prohibited from applying for an immigrant visa, if you are otherwise qualified for one, while present on it),

(5) The visa does permit you to work without restriction while present on it.
They should rather use a solution like one of Google's WI-FI blimp and fly them hover the affected areas.
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