skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess it depends on what you're trying to accomplish. From my perspective, the question is, why do we need native Windows? Personally, I haven't needed Windows for anything since about 2000. Linux has been sufficient for me for the past 17 years.

I dunno... if you must run Windows for some reason, then having some linux-like features is nice I guess. Certainly it would be nice to have a proper shell. But why would you run Windows on a server or anything other than maybe a gaming rig, if you play games that only run on Windows?
An RSS feed or even a daily digest email would be really helpful.
Call me a skeptic, but can we trust nutritionists?

A few years ago foods like eggs and coffee were poison. You should eat margarine instead of butter, now it is the other way around.

This science branch seems to attract charlatans.
> With steel reels

Heh, I've never been able to get the hang of them. But, hey, I've done a couple hundred rolls of B&W on Paterson plastic reels without any problems. To each their own :)
I'm surprised she lasted this long.
Etymology of that name - AltaVista + Ali Baba?
> ECC

Only explicitly called out on the 3520, wonder if it's in the others?

Does anyone know the power consumption hit of ECC in mobile devices? The power hit of DDR self-refresh of 32GB compared to 8GB was about 1.5W on my Dell Precision 5510.

Interestingly enough, thew new product page from the Precision 5520[0] shows the Xeon E3 as the same E3-1505M in my 5510, I guess I'd be shocked to see ECC added as it wasn't present in the 5510.

[0] http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/precision-15-5520-laptop/p...
" This will definitely help to reduce the use of H1B for hiring underpaid foreign labor."

Surely it will, but it also may damage many companies ability to compete effectively.

A lot of talented R&D folks, outside of the Valley, may be earning 80-95K doing valuable work - and most of the surpluses will go to those companies, to the US in form of taxes, and remember those people spend mostly in the US as well.

So the issue is the degree to which Americans are actually displaced by those foreigners - that's the real underlying issue.
It's great that we have an authority's unsubstantiated opinion on this; now we can all pick a side and move on. /s
As usual "battery" is repeated multiple times in the article but without any number. When will reviewers understand that "battery life is not great" means absolutely nothing and replace it with something like "battery lasts 3 hours and 4 minutes while repeatedly streaming a youtube video in 4K on Chrome 52"? Notebookcheck is the only consumer tech website worth reading for the reviews (if you know others please share them) because of their precise, standardized tests from the display to the noise and heat produced by the chassis.
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That would be me!
Around 4 years too late.
Army Building On-Demand 3-D Printed Unmanned Aircraft
The quota of H1b visas (compared to demand) is so low that it's very likely it will be filled even after losing the low paying applications. So tax revenue shouldn't go down.
That has to be the worst name I've ever heard... it is probably actually worse than "Inprise"[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borland#The_Inprise_years.2C_a...
As per usual for mainstream scientific articles... shallow, lot's of hyperbole, very little info...

Does anyone have a better source for this? Maybe a link to the paper?
I feel like this proposed bill doesn't go far enough.

H-1B visas should ONLY be granted for workers that are in such need that they are above the 90th percentile of pay for that role. They should also be limited to no more commitment to the company than their peer workers.

Once within the country, an H-1B worker should also be able to leave for other employment (without the top market rate requirement) whenever they choose and with a 6-12 month grace period for finding new work if they quit or are laid off.

The entire point should be about bringing valuable future citizens in to the country, and the program should definitely be a strong path to citizenship.

It also makes sense to have a different (easier to get) type of immigration for workers that want to start a company (and have most of those jobs) within the US.
First thing I thought of as well.
If the web server throws a "Content-Disposition: attachment" header with it, you will download the file, no matter the mime type or file extension.
Facebook is primarily focused on making React Native work great on iOS and Android. But the community is absolutely moving towards full cross-platform support. Windows is already supported, and there are promising experiments to run RN on Ubuntu, macOS, and web.
Goodness no!

An asteroid in an elliptical orbit, for example, could be a civilization killer and might currently be undetectably far away right now.

We are missing a lot right now, and we need to spend money on much better surveys.
Ask HN: What is the status of open source “infrastructure”?
I'm adding this link to provide context for the question: NSA hacking routers https://www.wired.com/2013/09/nsa-router-hacking/
the name is not the problem.
Ben Jonson's ascent wasn't one. He was the son of a gentleman, had a trade, had access to money, trained under Camden, and fought under Francis Vere.

Shakespeare's lack of all that status is exactly why he is the 'upstart crow' and mocked for his (failed) attempts at social climbing instead of gaining any more purchase in society than as 'country bumpkin'-turned-writer. He was not somebody, and therefore not one the somebodies talked about.

Writers were not held in high esteem and were easily knocked off of their precarious perch in society (cf. Thomas Kyd).
Raising the minimum wage is a welcome move to counter abuse of this visa. However, the minimum level needs to be set based on the city of employment and it's living cost. It cannot be a flat rate.
1. NOT the whole world is heating up. It varies and some places are cooling, but no, generalise.
2. Areas like Russia and upper Asia will provide more arable land, these countries will experience a boon
3. The problem isn't the world, the problem is the sky high population growth in Africa/Middle East. Google "Population of ANY AFRICAN/MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRY"
Changing the brand under these circumstances doesn't make sense to me. Brands take years to build, and Yahoo dominates as a brand in Japan. It seems sloppy PR to pick a name like "Altaba" within mere weeks/months of deciding to buy Yahoo.
PHP Framework Code Complexity Comparison
100K in Bay area is not equal to 100K in some other part of US. Also H1B is not only used by the IT industry but other industries as well, where paying 100K may be tough.
Makes me thing "Alternate Ali Baba".
Wherever I went, I have seen the war between developers and sysadmins being fought. In enterprise the sysadmins have the upper hand, in frontend, mobile, SMB the developers.

Developers don't have the burden of maintaining and upgrading multiple applications on the same server, with conflicting dependencies. 24/7.
Sysadmins don't feel the pressure by end-users to deliver new features yesterday.

At the moment developers are winning because Docker. But when they grab that responsibility they will be the ones called when their 50000 containers are being hacked because vulnerabilities. And they will be under fire for the system being down and that costing the company a lot of money, so everybody breathing down their necks.
First scan read I thought they were changing their name to "Alberta Inc." and thought to myself "well, that's one way to deal with the inauguration..."

"Alt + Tab" is the only reasonable thing I can think of it being rooted in. But even that sucks like a sucky thing.
What my calendar looks like
I think it might be:
Alt(ernate) + A(li) + Ba(ba)
God, Hacker News is such a cesspool when it comes to political stuff. It's full of know-it-all engineers who love Trump and hate the left out of sophomoric adolescent contrarianism.

She is dead right; rural areas are by and large shit-holes that demonstrate racism and stupidity time and time again. She didn't say everyone who lives there is racist; but the areas as a whole are. We have at least two countries in one, and the coastal/leftist/educated/cosmopolitan one is clearly better than the other. It is the other that needs to reach our level, not the other way around.

She has some marketing material that touts her team of native English speakers. Big whoop. That's so infinitesimal compared to the tides of hate crimes and racist bullshit that permeate the mid-west and south that the journalist should be ashamed.
Hm, is this official, or are you deducing this from similarities?

I wish Andreas Rumpf were here to comment and hopefully correct me, but I believe he was formerly an ObjectPascal/Delphi programmer. The first version of the Nim compiler was written in Borland's ObjectPascal dialect (see http://nim-lang.org/docs/intern.html), which has some of the same features as Modula, but with a slightly more circuituous lineage, since it was originally based on Apple's Object Pascal, a dialect which Wirth was tangentially involved in designing. (Object Pascal predates Modula-3, too.) In that sense, some of the similarities are probably accidental or caused by cross-pollination (for example, Borland probably took the exception handling syntax from Modula). That's the problem of trying to infer lineage by looking at similarities alone.

The unified call syntax sounds like it might be lifted directly from Modula, though.

Thanks for the Python trivia, I didn't know that.
As a demo of 3-D printing, they printed a picatinny rail for some soldiers attending the meeting that fits an M4 carbine and allows mounting of accessories. It fit perfectly.

The age of on-demand weaponry and battlefield accessories appears to be imminent.
Yeesh, that name sounds like something a fifth grader would come up with.
The only way to have proper wages for H1B is to allow workers to change company.

Right now, the H1B workers have zero leverage power, zero negotiation power and they can't change job.
It's not that, because classic film lenses are used on digital mirror less cameras rather routinely. Film has a pleasing, gradual acutance compared to digital - especially in high contrast areas.

Edit: but you are correct that chromatic aberration, distortion, and other things probably take a backseat to resolution these days, since those things are easier to correct in post.
Fair enough. Those are great examples.
The headline was changed but the new one reveals nothing. For those who don't want to dig through the filing: Meyer has resigned from the board and Yahoo is renaming to "Altaba".

Edit: It changed again. That's better.
I haven't read this book but in my experience, "shallow" work is also a necessity, always has been; it's just that in last decade or so we seem to have glorified it and let it replace all other forms of working.

IMHO it's not a matter of avoiding shallow work altogether, but more about blocking off time and space to really think and prioritize rather than react react react. As a manager I'd imagine you'd need less of this time than your direct reports but it'd be good to help protect their focus as much as you can, assuming they want it. (Depending on the nature of the work, some people seem to thrive on bite-size jobs.)
> A large swing towards Trump was noticeable amongst minority voters, the poor, and whites without a degree ... A large swing towards Hillary was observable in the rich, retirees, and whites with college degrees

There's a pretty big argument in the data communities that I follow about whether this was a "swing towards Clinton/Trump" or a (minor) normalization away from the Obama state. I don't think there's enough data to say either way. There are also a lot of rhetorical/conflating factors with regard to stuff like illegal immigration that make drawing conclusions out of this, in a vacuum, probably pretty questionable.

> If fairness feels like losing, and losing feels like losing, then how can we tell which is which?

Tough, but fair, question. I think it requires divorcing oneself from one's own position and trying, at least, to be objective about it. I was born with pretty much every genetic-lottery benefit there is in the United States: straight, white, male, reasonably affluent (though not rich) family. I am able to bite back the instinctive urge to be defensive about "what I've got" (and it is instinctive, and it does come up reflexively) to realize that, hey, not only do I have it pretty great, but a lot of it wasn't because of anything I did either way to make it happen. So maybe I should pay it forward.

If I can do it, I believe others should do likewise.

> If white people implicitly pursue identity politics even when they try not to

Mu? I think most people pursue identity politics. It's what outward pressures pushed you in what direction that ultimately defines what that identity is. I don't particularly worry about the concerns of white straight males, despite being one, because there are no serious threats to any of those qualities that I identify with.

I don't think making identity politics a topic of discussion will swing people who are strongly affected by the pull of it in either direction. I don't think people who are voting along identity lines care about whether or not they are.

> If race-blindness/"I don't see colour" is a myth, is it a useful myth for the purposes of causing people to get along?

This is a good question. My intuitive answer is no, if only because it provides a good excuse through which systemic, race-focused effects can be marginalized. "I don't see race, so it's not a problem that cops disproportionately shoot black people." Not saying this is a logical chain of reasoning in quotes, but rather that I've seen it, and "I don't see race" being used to buttress the moral credentials of the claim.

> Is it possible for any action taken against a group that is winning to be unfair? If yes, when might this occur?

Sure. I think lynching the 1% is a damned sight too far, and if that were a serious concern I'd definitely be on the yeah-let's-not-do-this side of the ledger. On the other hand, I don't think asking them to pay more for the benefits they reap from living in the country they share with everybody else, and disproportionately benefit from, is unfair.
This says Marissa will not be involved with Altaba Inc. (RemainCo) after Yahoo's operating business is sold to Verizon. Which makes sense, since any future of her leadership is with the operating business instead of the investment company Altaba.
The only mention of Mayer I can find is

> Each of David Filo, Eddy Hartenstein, Richard Hill, Marissa Mayer, Jane Shaw and Maynard Webb has indicated that he or she intends to resign from the Board effective upon the Closing, and that his or her intention to resign is not due to any disagreement with the Company on any matter relating to the Company’s operations, policies or practices.

Which indicates that she'll resign from the board, but doesn't say anything about her resigning as CEO. Is that just left off here because it doesn't require SEC disclosure, or is it a possibility that she'll stay?
I agree with everything you are saying. Almost everything about the work visa and employment based immigration needs to be reviewed.

I grew up in the USA (undocumented) and had to leave because I wanted to try to come back legally. Unfortunately, it's not easy even if I can easily get a six figure job or start a business.
Windows I can see it if using XnView but I can't see it if I use the built in image viewers. It's an older computer so it's XnView converting to sRGB most likely.
Atlassian:
Confluence - Went from very small user base to hundreds of thousands of users. It's a great tool for internal content management (think HR docs, decision documentation, meeting notes, etc.).

HipChat - Small user base and unscalable architecture. Hundreds of thousands of users and loads of resources to rewrite nearly all of it's backend. Still a work in progress but it's been very stable for the past year and the clients, which were all non-native web views, are coming along nicely.

Fisheye/Crucible - Small user base, unprofitable. Now has thousands of users and is hands down the best code search and review tool that lots of people don't know about.

SourceTree - Massive expose for a very small tool that wasn't well known before acquisition. Many new features, has remained stable throughout.

Greenhopper - Was a small, profitable, plugin. Now built-in, completely integrated hundreds of new features and has adapted well to various trends in Agile (scrum, kanban).

Despite this thread, which shows HN's consistent (and ironic) distain for (or is it lack of understanding of?) successful software companies, Atlassian is actually great at creating great products out of questionable acquisitions.

Outside of Atlassian:

Whatsapp is free now, people like free. That's neat. To people crying out privacy, honestly… privacy is the only thing that VC backed b2c companies sell that's actually worth real money. They were eventually going to open that pandora's box.

Twitch gets to continue existing and it's ad-free for prime members now as well. I like free :).

Firebase is better than ever. Let's all cry a single tear for Parse, we all wanted a massive Mongo cluster backing our data, right?
Tensorflow Ported to Qualcomm DSP, Fast CV
Key takeaways from this filing: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is resigning and the company is changing its name to "Altaba Inc."

(The article link was changed from https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/818589759320637440 at around 50 points)
The document says that Mayer is resigning from the Board of Directors, not necessarily as CEO.

> Marissa Mayer ... has indicated that he or she intends to resign from the Board effective upon the Closing,
At times I wonder if these kind of CEO stints are entirely "fall-guy" propositions.
From the article: "After the Kaby Lake upgrade, the other major improvement is the move from a 56wHR 4-cell battery to a slightly greater capacity 60wHR model. That doesn't sound like much, but Dell now claims an astounding 21 hour battery life for the 1080p version of the XPS 13. That claim was largely borne out in Ars testing of that model, which managed to last for over 18 hours in Ars' standard Wi-Fi browsing test."
My comments have been forever anchored to the botttom by the mods/admins. :)
Rather than the inevitable bashing of Marissa that will undoubtedly unfurl on this thread, I'd like to put in a little reminder that we usually celebrate taking on big projects and big risks and that we should commend her for taking on the immense challenge of steadying the Yahoo ship.

Yes, she wasn't able to keep the ship from sinking. But I do think she put in a good-faith effort.
> the top users of H1s are foreign companies, like Infosys and Tata - they bring in people on these visas

IIRC the top 10 were all consulting companies the last few years. You can look at the pay rates vs google/MS/etc... and see the difference. You can also look at the number of green card sponsorships.

It's really awful.
This is what I'm confused about. Yahoo is a big brand with a lot of companies, is Tumblr now owned by Altaba? Altaba Weather?
It was a link to a Buzzfeed news tweet. O_o
Layers of Soil Science Project
true, I've never paid for one myself.
There really needs to be a log of "Previously titled: X | Previously linked to: Y | Moderator comment: Foo bar." in these situations.
Apple Plans 'High-Tech Manufacturing' of Data-Center Gear in Arizona
Ultrasound Gestures and Sensorless Proximity
There are probably some Indians who are celebrating this ... a minimum 100k wage + a cost of living adjustment every 3 years.

If this is like the 2015 bill, that also includes the requirement to sign them up for stock options, similar to a US employee.

However, the rule does have a corner case which allows bonuses to be part of the 100k, so the employers might continue to pay low salaries all year round, with a dangled 40-50k bonus at the end of the year.

Because the tech industry is something with a fairly long lag between demand & supply, the best case scenario is that the wages go up all around & hopefully that is spent in the US, instead of hoarded for a princely return to India.

The worst case scenario for a cost increase is that more work moves overseas, taking the spending side-effects & tax revenue away from the US IRS, while the corporate profits are unaffected, just total revenue cuts down.
Yeah, I feel like that one tweet was a better distillation of what is happening than a dump to the dry source. Oh well.
>> ... it was post-doctoral fellow Moe Rashidi, who immigrated from Iran, who deserves the credit.

>> "He really did all the brilliant work,” Wolkow said. “Tremendous people are drawn here … and become fantastic new members of Canada.”

That was one of the key takeaways here, a reminder of how important skilled immigration is to any country. That patent is owned by Canadians now.
If I've got a project on GitHub, should I have a debian/ directory in there? Where does git-buildpackage fit in?
We've all heard that story before, it almost doesn't bear repeating at this point does it? As you say, seeing will be believing.
I agree that social media and internet is a great distraction. But co-workers can be a source of good distractions. However for the distractions to be good. Everyone must be on track, around the same knowledge levels and focused on what problems needs to be solved. If you don't have these kind of colleagues, you might as well stay at home. When you are at work you will have to answer questions from those who didn't get the memo...
Chef hasn't been replaced by Ansible or Salt. Each tool has a different value prop that makes sense in different contexts. I might use Ansible in some environments where I wouldn't use Chef--there aren't a ton of these environments, IME, but I've chosen to use Ansible in the past despite it not being my favorite for reasons like this. I would use Chef in other contexts where Ansible's ecosystem or tooling is lacking--I find that chef-zero and berkshelf are a better way to self-bootstrap on AWS when using CloudFormation, for example--or where I desire the greater flexibility and expressiveness of a Ruby-based DSL.

The black-and-white thing you're painting is, if I'm gonna be frank...a little messed up. I mean this in the best of ways: please enhance your chill. It's not that bad out here.
How did you even get to that question? In the first sentence, you're assuming that Linux is inferior regarding usability, hardware support, etc. That in its own can be heavily disputed.

How about - with recent versions of Wine, do we even need Windows anymore? (Most arguments will apply to both questions)
Sounds like you might. ;)
What they are likely referring to here is strength to weight ratio. By more intelligently distributing material in space, one can get a higher strength to weight ratio than using solid material.

Of course geometry does in fact influence material strength. One way geometry can influence material strength is by making crack propagation more difficult. In a simple plane sheet, a small crack at one end can easily propagate to the other end of the sheet resulting in failure. However, if we put a number of holes in our sheet, it becomes more difficult for the crack to propagate. A new crack has to be made each time the crack crosses one of the holes.

Now this result of an additively gyroid structure having a high strength is a bit comical. One of the first 3d printing artists produced a sculpture of the gyroid a while back[0] and in fact the files for said sculpture are well known[1] and have been used to test 3d printers. It's sort of funny no one thought to crush one till now!

[0]https://www.bathsheba.com/math/gyroid/
[1]https://www.bathsheba.com/downloads/
Amusing since "Baba" is well known as either a sponge cake, a grandma, a holy man, father, baby or blanket [1].

so what's an alt-baba?

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/baba#Noun
end of an era -- I wonder what Jerry Yang is thinking right now?