skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't buy that argument.

H-1B is supposed to be for hiring top notch people with valuable, specialized skills. Those people should be making a lot of money.

H-1B is not meant to bypass the regular supply and demand of the job market that usually helps adjust salaries.
In context, that claim was an explanation of what I was trying to get at with the phrase "conceptual understanding". We don't have a conceptual understanding of language. We do have a conceptual understanding of how to translate between human languages — Proof: we can translate between human languages. If you think that's not adequate proof then you're disagreeing with me on the semantics of "conceptual understanding". If you have an alternative name for that then I'd appreciate it because I think my usage is confusing.

It's not a useless notion of "conceptual understanding" though, because while being able to have a program complete a task implies having the conceptual understanding necessary for that task, it's possible to have the conceptual understanding but not be able to make a program, if, for instance, it would require greater (within reason) computing resources.
The previous CEO was so sunk by the credentials he couldn't met.

I don't know if you share my vision, but for me in that moment it felt like the house was on fire, the firetruck was on fire and the fire was on fire.

I don't know if a better job could be made, but at least some public face was saved, and the shareholders bought it until the last day.
Mayer, five others to resign from Yahoo board; company to be renamed Altaba
The keyboard is shit according to the reviews. Every developer needs a good keyboard. This is why I exclusively use ThinkPads, even if they aren't as good under Lenovo as they were before.
It's hard to think of another political issue on which the public has been so completely fooled. Your average man-on-the-street really thinks these go to, like, PhDs who are desperately needed in a lab somewhere. But no, they're for pumping the bottom line of Infosys, Tata, Cognizant, et. al.
Iran's brain drain is the reason

http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/2014/02/02/why_does_iran_ha...
Yes... FaceTime handles both audio and video calls so that you can unlock your phone and the call transfers to the handset. It's really, really convenient. Throw in an iPad and the Handoff/Coherence features are really, really awesome.
TL;DR Not a scientific article and doesnt arrive at many conclusions.
You're right, I would have liked them to report posterior probabilities, but those were p-values instead.

> It would be more honest to say that it's very unlikely that bot is better than humans

I don't think the analogy is sound. Consider the alternative: over a long match, the humans failed to beat the bot convincingly. But in any case, the examples he gives are so wide of the mark that it's clear this isn't the sort of argument he's making—he talks about "spin" and stuff.
@dang, I really suspect that there is some form of vote brigading going on here, might be worth looking into whether there is a pattern of accounts up-voting these posts.
I guess it's about the precedent they've set in the past. If they always do it on the exact same day every year, then being a week late means something. If they do it annually plus or minus a couple months, then a couple months doesn't mean much.

For reference, I have no clue what precedent they've set already.
> The truth is that one does not need generics.

I write a lot of algorithms that can work with float, double, complex float, and complex double. Without generics/templates (or a macro pre-processor), I have to cut and paste that code 4 times, or I have to sacrifice performance. Maybe I don't need templates, but I really really want them.
Luks worked together with Babai on the previous fastest algorithm. Babai is just very modest when he only mentions Luks when reffering to it.
Perhaps they didn't optimize.
About the risk taking, I spoke for myself and not for anyone else. Life is not a bed of roses, I've accepted that. When I got my H1B visa, I was aware of all the risks it involves. I've said this in previous posts as well, nobody forces you to take an H1B, you chose to take it. It's like buying an expensive car and complaining that you have to fill premium gas. Well, no one asked you to buy one, did they?

Secondly, you are asserting that clerical errors are commonplace, where is the data for this? Anecdotal data doesn't count, since I don't know of anyone who was denied an H1B due to a clerical error. You might claim that you know a bunch who lost their visa. This discussion then degrades to a moot point without actual data.
I like your narrative and Dan Loeb should certainly send Mayer a Christmas card. Still, if indeed she was hired to make money for Dan Loeb then that does not speak any better to her managerial competence.
I've been experimenting with Caddy over the past few days and it's great, if somewhat immature and quirky. The plugin ecosystem is rich but in dire need of some oversight and QC. What I like most about Caddy is its very sane behavior out of the box: it just does the right thing in most cases, and requires much less configuration than NGINX, Apache, HAProxy, etc. (It also has fewer features, so there's a trade-off.)

I posted a gist[0] with my Caddy+Varnish+PHP-FPM configuration and a README explaining the hows and whys. I'm moving a bunch of WordPress sites from Apache/mod_php to this configuration (each site's PHP-FPM instance is Dockerized, but that's out of the scope of the gist). Hopefully someone finds it helpful!

0. https://gist.github.com/mwpastore/f42f6f1309a7b067519f4c08e1...
Oh, I meant between Gitlab and Github. I imagine it's for similar reasons?
I think we have done enough outsourcing in this country. It is time to work for this country and not against it. It is great that you are making money but what value do you bring to the community you live in
Well for me, all of the libraries I use because none of them exist as packages for any OS.

With most of them security fixes will only go into the latest version though, so once you get behind your system is insecure.

Applications aren't something you build and forget. An unmaintained project is a dead one.
I hope you at least deliver him flounder now, from time to time.
You're right about that; you are only free to change your job for a "similar" position elsewhere.
Thanks for this.

I don't fully understand your code yet: Is it the case that the type-safety of your approach relies on the caller honouring the convention of accessing Result<T,E> via the try and try_chain macros?

I really need to look in detail at how Rust enforces type-safety of Result<T,E>. One thing that I like about how algebraic data types work in functional languages (e.g. Either in Haskell) is that they eliminate entirely the need for null pointers completely and the possibility of derefencing them (Tony Hoare's billion dollar mistake) and I had assumed that Rust would give me the same.
Ok stop posting this
I've switched jobs on H-1B three times. All it takes is waiting for the replacement visa to come through before you resign. In each case I trusted my current employer and told them I was waiting for a visa for a new job, but I didn't have to.
Questionnaire regarding awareness, consciousness, religion, and psychedelics
This site inspired me to make a fractal curve generator in d3.js once:

http://www.jonaseinarsson.se/fractal-curves/

(Not mobile friendly, sorry)

A good start is http://www.fractalcurves.com/Root9Square.html

Try to recreate some things from the fractal bestiary, and see how sensitive the end result is to the generator..
I use pretty much the same notation as he describes here http://www.fractalcurves.com/Turtle.html
I can answer that: because she's a woman. That's the ugly truth behind the rabid defense of Marissa. Because she joins a long line of failed female CEOs and the mere recognition of this fact sends certain people into a frenzy, so just deny, deny, deny.

I fully expect to be repudiated as a misogynist by a tidal wave of people drunk off this cognitive dissonance, but I simply speak the truth. Marissa was an abysmal CEO, and for years people will try to whitewash that to avoid its ugly stain on female professionals.
Just to run down this alley, highly seconded. It is a great, if somewhat depressing, novel. _Echopraxia_ is a continuation of the themes/story, and is just as good (and also depressing).

I personally put Watts near the top of the list of first-rate, active science fiction authors.
Why stick with 16.04?
iTunes on Windows sucked. iTunes on the Mac was really stable and really well organized. I don't know how they let iTunes for Windows out in that state, but holy crap was it a mess compared to what everyone on the Mac was used to.
Thanks for the link. I'll check it out and see whether it works for me.
Fortunately 1 and 2 can be solved by throwing money at it. There are portable scanners and RFID programmers which do work on Linux.

Re outlook - why not run it in a VM if you only access it periodically anyway?
what's the puzzle? mods, can you fix the title?
I would be a physicist. I studied it all the way to PhD and I often have a vague regret that I left the field.
Do you have location history / your location on? Just guessing but the site (or app) doesn't have your location it could be defaulting to an old location.
You missed my point. It is not about poor countries. Indian's and Chinese will not have job mobility for decades. That is the reason, last year, 80%+ of H1B visas went to Indian/Chinese nationals.
Wechat s move to web apps
How is this different than https://disrupt.cards?
LabStack API is Live
Waiting for the new X1 Carbon to be available in order to replace my MBP...
Looks like a PH candidate for sure.
She ousted a sitting first term PM through backroom deals to make herself PM. This kicked off a decade where the Prime Ministers office had to get a revolving door installed.
"... milked Yahoo for a hundred million dollars she didn't earn."

"Marissa Mayer's failure at Yahoo was caused by pure incompetence, negligence, and laziness of all involved. Nothing about it that deserves praise."

I just wanted to thank you for this comment, because it is important that we get the facts straight. There was not one thing she brought in the company that showed a hint to financial success.

She is overrated at an almost fraudulent level.
500px is what I moved to a few years ago. No regrets.
Passive aggressive tweetstorms? I wonder how many "pump and dump" schemes one could find with machine learning and the Twitter corpus?
If you're really worried about someone from abroad coming and stealing your job, you should probably work harder and smarter yourself.

Can't help but feel that most Americans don't have a legitimate fear of someone stealing their job and this is just a politicians' dumb game to try to make themselves feel important by pretending they are increasing employment and "doing something for their people". Total crap.
it's kind of 'insourcing' not 'outsourcing'

It's still outsourced, but it's not offshored also.
Good point, I didn't consider the "acqui-hire" scenario. I was only thinking of acquisitions where both companies are too big for that.

I just assumed Trello was too big to be an "acqui-hire", but I really have no idea how big they were.
Ask HN: What tools do you use to manage relationships?
I've been thinking a lot lately about how to maintain relationships with "weak" connections (former colleagues, classmates, etc...). I think they can be very valuable and I'd like to stay in touch but don't really want to reach out and see if they want to hang out on a Saturday night so having them in my phone contacts seems a bit much.

I think it is important to take notes to help remember things to bring up later like things about family, hobbies, etc...

What tools do people use to manage these connections? Does anyone use any tools or am I over-thinking this?
How is it hyperbole, though? If the CPU is faster and the graphics processor is faster and the camera is better, etc. then isn't it really the best phone they've made every year? Isn't that the beauty of a statement like that? That you can re-use it simply by making small improvements and suddenly you have the best thing ever. Do you go around complaining about athletes that beat records because they say they're the fastest/strongest/best ever?
SQL Server Extension for Visual Studio Code [video]
>a tariff for software and services brought from outside the country.

Its an interdependent world, and such things will probably cause another global depression. "While you're squeezing the other guy's balls, someone else has their hands on your balls"

Outsourcing is not a very black and white issue. For one thing, people can't simultaneously claim that "My employers are able to recognize my talent" while also claiming that "My employers are unable to recognize the lack of talent of those other people"
Elementary OS is very similar to Mac OS in terms of UI. Of course the project is rather new, but is very promising.

The desktop environment (Pantheon) is installable in Ubuntu, though.

Once in a while you might end up with a messed up situation that might require some effort to fix.
As a millennial I honestly think we'll benefit from the baby boomers being forced to sell their stock as they approach retirement. The baby boomers selling stock will increase supply which will decrease prices. Maybe those stocks won't grow a lot for the next few decades, but by the time I retire in 4 decades the market will probably have had enough time to start growing.
It seems clear there is an observed phenomenon of attachment, with several different basic possible values, and important consequences for later living.

Your remarks seem to focus on the question of what causes the observed variation, and you point out there are various factors, including the temperament of both the infant and the parent, and the larger environment, that are important for attachment.

I am thinking that is correct, but I find it hard to believe that the parenting skills the parent learned from his or her parent are not usually also quite important.

That matters because it implies that parents ought to be trained in attachment skills, and that when there is a problem with attachment there is a good chance training could help. Would you agree?
These days there are several very active sponsors so it should not be a problem to get new packages in.

Upload and forget leads to dead packages that get removed next time there is a library transition. Debian is about long-term maintenance.

The social stuff (as well as the social contract and DFSG) is also what creates trust within and towards the Debian community and holds it together, which is the main reason it has lasted so long.
Linux is all about customized computer.

Personally I love tiled window managers (i3) and urvxt for a terminal and I prefer my gui programs to be mostly KDE. I am the only person in the world like this.

Welcome to your way (As long as you don't mind working for it)
> For things like cropping & scaling images, The Gimp does an okay job.

Strange, Darktable can do that too, very well and easier than on Gimp.
How is anything she did a "big risk" if she is immune for any consequences of failure?
That deal may have gone pear-shaped following the latest and greatest breach, though. Maybe "if possible" would have been wording on my part.
The Caddy web site provides a helpful download link where you can select your architecture and addons/features and receive a binary. You can easily point a script at it, like in this Ansible role[0], for instance.

0. https://github.com/antoiner77/caddy-ansible
Not OP, probably because it an LTS release.
This pits new grads against people with many years of experience.

If kids come to the US for their undergrad/masters/phd and want to work here, they're not going to be the highest paid people competing, but they might have more long term value and chance of truly integrating with the country.
facepalm this whole time I thought we were talking about Marissa Mayer, and that PM was referring to project manager or something.
I'm not sure why I should use this and give up typed channels when I could easily implement the same logic on my own?
Straw man. I never asked who is better, specially because that word doesn't mean anything on its own. Better than lions in which aspect?

Lions are much better than me at hunting, but on making moral judgements that aim to minimize harm, I think I am better.

If you go down the road of basing your morals on what lions do, you will end up trying to justify why infanticide is a good practice when a father dies. Or why might makes right.

I agree that humans are arrogant. That is pretty evident in the way they treat other species.
When you package 24000 things, you find significant diversity in build systems, languages, source code, testing etc. It isn't easy to package all of that in simple ways.
Speaking as someone who did lots of film photography over many years. I was actually pretty interested in cinematography back when I was school but the the technical/financial hurdles just turned me off. Super-8 or early videocams with huge battery backs. What I would have given for even a small P&S or cameraphone of today.

Darkroom work was rewarding in its own way (for B&W). But, honestly, it was always a means to an end. I knew people who would spend all day making the perfect print. I never had that kind of patience.
We appreciate the frank feedback, but I have to disagree with the interpretation.

I really hate that we can't say yes to every feature suggestion, and what we _are_ able to talk about seems to come across as non-committal to some. The fact that a suggestion is open means we think it has merit too (we close "silly notions"), it then becomes a matter of priorities.

- Roger, Bitbucket Server PM
How well does it work to install Pantheon on Ubuntu? I'm curious to try it on a home computer that has other users without impacting them, is there a simple way to make it launch Pantheon when I sign in, but still use Unity for other user accounts on the machine?

Ages ago I remember using a login client that allowed you to pick which desktop environment you wanted to use, but I'm not sure how to do it on Ubuntu... I guess I could google around for whatever command-line-and-text-editor-fu is required.
a perfect notation would be a substitute for thought." -- Bertrand Russell.

Something that would only be said by someone who never thought about the time and space complexity of theorem proving algorithms. (Given his areas of contribution, I can't be sure if he ever did or he didn't.)
New capacitors and replacement RAM breathe life into a Polycorp Poly 1
> If you know f.lux, RedShift is an alternative to it for Linux.

Good to know there's an alternative, but to clarify: f.lux is available on Linux as well (the statement makes it as if it weren't, just not open-source).
I think by your definitions there are sub-subfields then ;) In my neck of the woods sequence based stuff has java & c doing a lot of the heavy lifting.
I would like to see a requirement for contracting companies to keep at least 51% of their domestic staff as US citizens. It's obscene that businesses are allowed to game the H1B program by staffing through these middlemen. That is not the original intent for these visas.

After the Disney fiasco it's clear that the rules for which jobs qualify need to be tightened up. There is no way rank and file IT skills are so special that guest workers need to be brought in.
If you are on H1B past 6 years, then you will need the copy of approved I-140 petition to get the H1B transferred to the new employer. But, H1B visa holder does not have access to I-140 petition; it is employer's property.
Cleveland Clinic Doctor Goes Full Anti-Vaccine
Manufacturing didn't really leave the US, the jobs are just done by robots.
http://forum.murthy.com/index.php?/topic/90290-can-i-change-...
in my opinion, better to publish as a blog post.
I forget the details of how it's implemented but Ubuntu 16.04 gives me a choice of 1.0,1.12,1.25,1.38,1.5 (plus many others outside that range). For my 1440 T460s' 14" screen the 1.5 setting is about right for me and I've been using it for a few months with no issues.
I find your lack of [a good definition of] faith disturbing. -- Darth Webster

Seriously though, I think the "blind faith" usage of the term faith is its weakest form. "Trust" and "confidence" are good synonyms. Because as a rule, humans have faith in a great many things, and the vast majority of those faiths are not characterized by a lack of knowledge or evidence. Consider the following statements:

- The astronauts had faith in the laws of physics.

- My husband was unfaithful to me.

- I've lost my faith in humanity because FooBar was elected.

- Have you no faith in me?

- The war started when our allies broke faith with us.

- You should always negotiate in good faith.

- My dog has been my faithful companion for a great many years.

Think about the faith being represented by those phrases. Does the person who had the faith have it without intimate knowledge of the object of the faith? No! The faith existed because of what they knew about the object, not in spite of it.
Debian supports Flatpak:

https://packages.debian.org/flatpak
TN visa restrictions are much less onerous to an employer and employee than an H1B. Similar culture and less restrictive language barriers are also benefits that might lead an employer to hire a Canadian. I would suggest that the first point is the likely culprit for the number of Canadians employed in the US.
Reminds me of what a touring musician friend of mine said about the Austin trad music scene. "It's cute how they bicker so much. You'd think real money was involved!"
> I still can't understand how standardized testing is useful for anything.

It's the only fair and economic way to assign limited slots in post-secondary institutions. Assigning them subjectively leads to racism and corruption (see: Harvard et al. setting Jewish and now Asian quotas and the many undeserving rich/famous students that are admitted instead)

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-ivy-leagues-history-of-di...
Anybody know if cognitive-behavioral therapists have methods for dealing with attachment problems?
I think they're talking about the Goldstone Array: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldstone_Solar_System_Radar

It's used for high-res imaging of asteroids that pass close by.
> So, is Linux ready for the desktop?
> For me, the answer is yes.

Honestly it's been ready for years on the desktop (of course, this does not apply if you are an expert user in Y software only available on Z platform and need to use it for your job/company, etc...). Ubuntu 16.04 did not bring anything significant on the table, it's just that most people have not noticed. I switched full Linux back in 2009~2010 and I have never looked back since.
Do you have any specific criticism or alternatives to Confluence? I get that you're probably venting, but I'm honestly interested in alternatives and just calling it "rubbish" or "awful" isn't useful in any way.

I like Trello, I use it all the time for personal projects, but I just don't see it scaling for large groups. I was surprised to see Unreal Engine using it[1] even if they're only using it to communicate their roadmap (and using something else internally). I thought using Trello was creative and interesting, but I have trouble actually finding and following things.

I use YouTrack at my current job. I guess it works fine for our needs, but it feels clunky and crippled compared to Jira. I'm still using 6.5 (looking to upgrade to 7), am administering it myself, and haven't read too much of the docs, but was surprised it couldn't do some things I expected when I've tried to customize it.

[1] https://trello.com/b/gHooNW9I/ue4-roadmap