skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But he does have an idea: that the Democrats don't care about this problem. Taking the chance to see if the other side does care seems like the reasonable thing to do.
Portugal has a similar system, called "Golden Visas", which is significantly cheaper. Of course, being true to this country, there's already a five year backlog due to bureaucracy and investigations into misappropriations and fraud.
AFAIK H1B is not a longer path to becoming a citizen - it just allows you to apply for a green card alongside renewing your current visa status. The problem is that green cards are allocated according to country, and India has a huge backlog of a decade or more. Workers from other countries do not face this issue. I agree that it should be reformed, but I'm not optimistic.
You're saying there was a major change to the H1B rules, and that Obama then reversed this change, and that there is no reference to this anywhere?
> how do you feel knowing that your work directly produced profits which could be used to significantly outspend you and your like-minded colleagues

Like I live in a democracy? If you are scared shitless of the opposition there's a problem with the checks and balances (or your understanding of them). Democracy requires tolerance of disagreement.
I read and generally upvote any novel work on ANNs regardless of practical use, because I feel like the ML field is still just as much art as science and inspiration begets creativity. At least for me, it might take weeks of experimentation before I have anything constructive to add to the discussion.
It looks like Wayland is only the default in testing, not yet in jessie. From where I'm sitting, that's mostly a good thing; thanks to Wayland, the default installation for debian-testing just flaps trying to show the GUI when installed in Virtualbox.
What's totally missing: Inform yourself where/when you are allowed to take pictures and what you are allowed to do with them afterwards. Helps both to affirm yourself that what you are doing is ok and to not look totally clueless if challenged. (but don't be an ass about "but it is my RIGHT", either)

And repeat that process when traveling, with added emphasis on cultural aspects.
There's nothing particularly complex about this line of reasoning. If the guy has no understanding of what "probable cause" means, he is plainly not qualified to be a cop. If he does understand what it means, but he knowingly ignored it, then that's a serious violation of constitutional rights. Then there's perjury on top of that - again, something a police officer should very much be familiar with.
Well you'd only use SubstrateVM when deploying to production, so I don't know why anyone wouldn't want to "worry about that precompilation step". During development it should be irrelevant. Or am I missing something here?
Agreed, it was expected that Republicans would control congress after the elections. I wouldn't be surprised to see every industry had given more money to Republican candidates.
The Tale of Snapchat vs. Instagram Stories
In California, the license plates stay with the car, and as people mentioned, there's a system to notify the DMV of ownership changes. Also, when you buy a new car, of course you have to register with the DMV and they mail you the new license plates... which takes the usual 6-8 weeks or whatever. In the meantime, you just drive the car around with no license plates.
One advocate’s take on Bay Area housing crunch: There’s progress being made
My understanding is that this is where it runs afoul of that whole criminal vs civil distinction.

To do what you want, the law in question must be a criminal law, since civil law requires some direct measurable harm caused by the action to be applicable - and it would be hard to demonstrate direct harm from someone blasting through a red light at an empty intersection.

So, you make it criminal law. But that raises the standard of proof significantly - you can no longer go on preponderance of evidence, but you need to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Cameras, in most cases, simply don't provide enough evidence to meet that bar (not the least because it's hard to see who's driving the car), so in practice, it would mean that most such cases would go nowhere.

You also don't want to say that people have committed a misdemeanor for something as trivial as parking wrongly, because there are some long-term consequences of this.

Hence, they invent things like "civil violation of criminal laws", such that the standard of proof is closer to that of civil law, but they don't need to prove direct harm - an action can be illegal in and of itself, regardless of consequences. This is justified on the grounds that penalties are "merely" fines, not imprisonment. Of course, the fine can still be very large - and larger still if you're unable to pay, and they start charging you interest. At some point, the interest will cross the line where you may actually get arrested for not paying it, too. All stemming from that initial lack of due process.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12682944

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12691230
If you're trying to install this, at time of writing the usual pages are still serving 8.6 images:

https://www.debian.org/distrib/
https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/debian-installer/
For your usecase I can understand. But when it is the same user using defaults it makes absolutely no sense. Why would they want separate xterms on the same display to be in lockstep by default?

Am I the only one who runs more than one terminal at a time? What happens now is I start an xterm on monitor #1 and start byobu within that. Various windows (whatever you switch amongst on pressing F3 and F4) are started - eg one might be client code running, one might be server code, one might be a database server etc. But sometimes for example I want to look at the client code output and server output simultaneously. At that point I switch byobu to the client window, and start a new terminal on monitor #2 and tail logs or whatever is appropriate. It is an annoying pain that I can't just run byobu and switch as I see fit.

In any event this is a multi-year frustration for me. People keep coming with convoluted workarounds (pointing tmux to tmux as far as I can tell) which it then isn't possible to figure out how to apply to byobu. All the while I wonder why two xterms running next to each other would ever want to be in lockstep by default?
I actually don't think "nerds!!!" is much of a thing any more - much of our cultural output is based around comic books and fantasy stories, the likes of which were regarded as nerdy persuits when I was a teenager.

I think people are happy to describe science and math education as important, they're just not happy to pay for it. Decades of underinvestment in public education results in undereducated people, but no-one wants to actually deal with the issue.
Mandarin speakers are seem to be fairly sloppy with their own phonetic alphabets - you're supposed to have spaces in bopomofo and apostrophes in pinyin to handle cases like these, but they often don't bother.

It becomes clearer with tones I guess, "Xi1 An1" vs "Xian1". But again, proper pinyin with tones seems to be a foreigner thing... I don't recall seeing tone marks or numbers on street signs.
Right, but to bring it back to the article, how is that a complaint against eg Seamless? All those restaurants in nyc delivered 10 years ago (well, Seamless was there then too) but you just called, dealt with the terrible English of whomever answered the phone at your various local ethnic food places, and played a bit of food bingo. The value of Seamless is discovery, ie not having to troll through the phone book, and an easier ability to order w/o language issues.

And Uber is a taxi that comes. You just have to have experienced SF -- admittedly run by idiots playing city, badly -- pre Uber to understand why people love it. I mean, it's fair to criticize how Uber treats drivers, and I try to have cash to tip, but it's not exactly like taxi drivers were being treated particularly well before Uber. And they treated their customers like absolute shit.
It's already the case that things are far worse for the working class. The precipice we're on is creating a "nothing to lose" permanent underclass, with all the instability and desperation that entails.
To stay on the same window I would personally use a split-window depending on the size of the display. I didn't think about the context though, good point!
It depends on the situation, I think.

As a frontend developer who's in concurrent agile, multidisciplinary projects, the people skills and the ability to connect development with design are an absolute requirement. Being able to float in between the disciplines, catching potential problems and iterating together to make the end result more then the sum of its parts is invaluable. A strictly development scrum with a heavy development lead demands less people skills of its developers.

In my opinion, a good frontend developer writes high quality code and works well with other developers. A great frontend developer also works well with other disciplines and enables them to put more ambition in a project, while minimizing the extra amount of work this generates.
God, I really need to learn more of these little tricks. I've been using Vim for a while now, but not taking advantage of so many of it's features.
Ian Murdock will approve this (sarcasm) :-(
DOES ANYONE REMEMBER HIM?
HOW CAN YOU BE SOOO STUPID? FUCK YOU. REALLY. FUCK YOU, PAUL GRAHAM, REALLY, FUCK YOU, GREAT PIECE OF SHIT! DOWNVOTING ME, STUPID PEOPLE, COME ON !!!!!!!!!!
"When we got back to civilization, everything looked super colorful... And the sight of women, omg!"

That's how I feel whenever I leave my apartment.

Antarctica wouldn't be such a big change for some.

Speaking of which, for those who are interested, I strongly recommend seeing Antarctica: A Year on Ice.[1] It's a bit of a rose-colored-glasses view, I think, but will still give you a sense of how dull and dangerous working and living there can be.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica:_A_Year_on_Ice
Uber's not really viable as a part-time job. In LA, I've driven 20 hours this week and grossed $12.25/hour. Plus a $65 35-ride bonus, it comes to about $16/hour. If you miss the ride bonuses (offered Mon-Fri morning, Fri-Sun), you can't make any money.

If you drive enough, you should be able to earn $19-20 an hour, minus gas (e.g. $3/hour), car and insurance. Your net profits will be around $12 to 15/hour.

As a side job, it's probably better to get a flexible 1-2 day shift at a restaurant.
Making a major change like that in a stable point release would be unusual for Debian. Since Debian 8 (jessie) shipped with X as default, the 8.x point releases do the same. If that switch happens, it'll be with the release of Debian 9 (stretch).
Hey, I didn't down vote you but based on your question and your edit of an "unsubstantiated claim for which there is conflicting evidence" I think you may have mis-interpreted my comment.

Apologies for any confusion. I was not making a claim nor comparing between characters used by PRC vs. Taiwan vs. Hong Kong, in particular I wasn't ranking them as better or worse or easier or harder.

I understand there are ongoing differences, posturings and debates between PRC and Taiwan and Hong Kong, including about language, and the whole thing is serious and complicated. Bro, I have no dog in that fight. Good luck y'all.

Maybe see my other comment as it goes into more detail. But just on a basic level I think you have mis-interpreted the words "simple" and "easy". A pretty common mistake I have made in the past too. The characters are called "Simplified Chinese Characters" not "Objectively Easier Chinese Characters". The definitions of simple and easy are different. Context matters too.

For example: Contributing useful comments to a discussion on Hacker News is very simple. Clearly it is not easy.
To be honest, to some degree I really want the US to repeal all of these programs just to see what happens. I am just hoping it doesn't damage the country beyond repair or another country doesn't step in and become the world superpower.
It is pretty easy to learn the difference in this with a very basic rocket in kerbal space program. Launch up and you'll come down near where you started, in a parabola... Launch up and then go sideways to gain orbital velocity for a long time, you're in orbit.
I'm not disagreeing about representative pressure. Listen, I've been in almost every congressional office building on the hill and participated in several house campaigns, including a successful one.

But I also don't kid myself: this kind of action is not playing the long game.

The agenda is set such that congress really doesn't even get to vote on the important matters directly. For example, there will never be a vote directly on the matter of whether to spend money gleaned from taxing gig economy companies on shoring up services or bombing brown people.

But that's not even the point.

Government is not the long game. The state is temporary and its time is nearly over.

The long game is human evolution, especially what we today call "technology."
> Requiring people to answer questions truthfully is not unreasonable

How do you determine whether they're answering questions truthfully or not?
> If they've been here for a year or more, they should be able to quit their jobs if they want to without repercussions.

To clarify: you absolutely can do that on an H1B. The problem is that you need to have a new job lined up to replace it, and that job needs to have gone through visa approval processes that can take up to three months (there is a grace period, I believe, of 30 days, soon to be extended to 60). This also costs the company money in legal fees, so people tend to get jobs with large corporations rather than startups, who are less willing to swallow the cost.

So, it's possible, just very irritating to do. And if you're also applying for a green card sponsored by your company then you have additional issues - you can get shunted back to step one when you change employers if you haven't already reached a certain stage.
It's more that the "left" changed. Where it used to be somewhat protectionist, supporting local workers against asset-owners, during the late 80s and 90s the "left" shifted to try to be more internationalist, metropolitan, and aspirational. With the seeming rise of the professional classes, that looked like being the next big demographic, and of course government policy workers and journalists fall very squarely into that demographic (city-dwelling professional) so it had the attraction to those whose career is debating public policy of supporting their own niche.

Universal basic income is one of the few ideas that the Old-Left and New-Right can agree on, but it's the internationalist New-Left that gets stymied by it.

- it implies very strong immigration controls, as a no-questions-asked massive cheque is one heck of an attractor for immigration. (And you're not going to get every country in the world to introduce it simultaneously.)

- in the same vein as Charter Schools, it implies the state having less say over your individual choices than if the state were providing services directly (and the state instead of the consumer deciding what shape they should be).

The New Left, which to be brutal fell into the trap of caring mostly that everyone should be expected to agree with it (be pro-immigration, secularist, etc) or otherwise they must be horrible / deplorable people, gets painted out on both counts. Stronger immigration controls make international city-hopping harder, and weaker control over services (if the state is just handing out cash) makes it harder to press everyone to fall in line and hold the same opinions.

One of the up-sides of "the return of protectionism" might actually be that you need those conditions to allow a UBI to be introduced.
The problem with this reasoning is that "Immigration reform" is tied directly to some way of providing relief to millions of undocumented ("illegal") immigrants in the US. It seems like the legal immigrants facing the brunt of the current arcane immigration policy (mostly legal immigrants from India/China) are neither politically active nor have the required numbers to influence the Legislature/White House to reform these policies.

It is this conflation that hurts the legal immigrants the most. I believe if a bill was introduced to reform the legal immigration process to permit more highly skilled workers to immigrate more easily, neither of the houses (nor the public) would have a problem with it.
USDCHF: Remains Vulnerable to the Downside but with Caution
I haven't read the article, but I would assume any mention of 'bags of water' would be a reference to a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode. Specifically, the episode where the crew of the Enterprise encounters a silicon-based life form capable of communication with humans. Humans are three quarters water, so the silicon lifeforms (rightly?) refer to the humans as 'ugly bags of mostly water'.

To put this into context, it's not uncommon to have the set of people who use and work with technology overlap with the set of people who are sci-fi fans. This is prevalent enough that the culture itself overlaps. Here, I would guess a non-sequitur referring to 'bags of water' is a form of signalling; 'I'm one of you', or something to that effect.

I would go so far to say that knowledge of certain sci-fi tropes, plot lines, and even quotes is a requirement for working on certain teams. At the very least, active displays of ignorance of sci-fi culture should be avoided.

But then again, I haven't read the article linked to by the OP. It's just a guess.
Hahaha ... people pay for groceries with dollars not percentages, the math I did is simple and plain enough that you may be overdoing the generosity in describing it as gymnastics.

On the contrary, I feel it is the use of percentages that obscures the truth and allows blame to be reassigned. The poor aren't on the sort of budget or living in circumstances that allow for much weighing of opportunity costs.

$23.80 for a person might go some distance on a food budget, but for a family of 3 it is less than 32 cents per person per day. If you can make that stretch "a very long way", you're a better budgeter than anyone I've ever met and could have given my mother lessons when we had to struggle to make ends meet (thankfully for not very long).

I urge you to try to shop with $23.80 in a poor neighborhood's supermarket, corner store or bodega. Best of luck with the stretching.

Update: the true figure for the soda budget is 5.44% or closer to $13.93/month, the discrepancy caused by the Times author including juices in with sweetened soda.
Solar Irradiance Measurements
I personally still prefer to background the process. Rarely is it ever just 1 command you want to run. For example, you want to git commit, push, oops need to rebase, oops don't have all of my files added... etc etc.

For that reason I just jump out with a ctrl+z and when I'm done I'm back in with a fg!
Uber would have been great for me in college. I had a ton of free time, a good driving record, a car, and no money. This post is silly.
Workers from other countries do not face this issue

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That hasn't been correct until very recently to be very fair. It used to be a wait of years in the EB3 category, the lane most h1bs qualify for, and has only recently (2014 or so) shortened to a few months. And to clarify, this is just to get a green card.

it still takes 5 years after that green card to become a citizen.
I was on H1B from 2004-2012 and still have a lot of friends still on H1B. Even now a lot of my friends from India that got to US in 2001 are still waiting for their priority date to become current. We have never heard or benefited from this. I am going to assume this is "fake news".
I don't understand this...who are the crabs in this situation?
I did, I pointed out that you hadn't backed-up your claim, then mirrored you own mantra:

> You failed to prove she was "not allowed to speak"

Do you have nothing to prove, then?
does wayland even work on non-intel gpu's?
My inner communist does not want to see reforms. It wants to convince me that going all smashy-smashy is better than the current state of affairs. It's not particularly successful, but it's fun to let it try.
They were allowed to move out of H1B visa to EAD status (non-visa legal status). The same legal status DACA recipients got from Obama administration. So, technically nothing was changed to the H1B rule.
This is Debian. They don't just change the display system in a point release.
When I was 16 (2006), I worked in a grocery store. I still remember vividly a woman coming in, buying $200 worth of food with SNAP and then pulling out two crisp $100 bills and buying 4 or 5 cartons of cigarettes. I was really put off by it, though I never showed. It felt like a kick to the gut. That someone would abuse the system in such a fashion felt like an affront to all the people paying for her food when she clearly had the ability to pay.

This wasn't an isolated incident from her or any of the other SNAP beneficiaries in my area. It was just my first encounter with abuse.

This is of course anecdotal and it only reflects on fewer than 100 people in a small Tennessee town.

I truly believe we need to abolish food stamps and other welfare programs and replace it with a "negative income tax". That way these sorts of people can buy cigarettes (or soda) instead of food without the public feeling like they've been cheated.
If the other side hadn't explicitly stated their antipathy, corroborated by all external signals, I'd be right there with you. As for him having an idea, it seems like his own statement directly indicates that he's not very informed on this issue. I'll take his word for it.
At this point in time people like to say politics don't belong at x. But they don't seem to realize that all our views and thoughts are wrapped around some political construct. It's just that often in the office/dinner table/this forum, we are so close in said political belief that it's not consciously noticed. But then some one disagrees with an argument and we see the politics bleed out.
AsciiDoc to HTML/PDF to GitHub with Travis CI and Asciidoctor Docker Containers
1.5sec?!? You've got to be senile and on your phone to pull that off.
I have it too. Relaxation and biofeedback training help.
Zhuyin is conspicuous by its absence - it maps perfectly well to modern keyboards, and requires slightly less letters to write a word ("en" and "an" in pinyin are one glyph, for example).

It's an invented 20th century alphabet, which means there's logic behind it - the left side of the keyboard are initial consonants, in the middle are the vowels, and at the end are vowels with trailing consonants on them like "ang" and "en".
Even the consonants on the left have a logical order - the first column are sounds you make with your lips (b, p, m, f), then with the tip of your tongue (d, t, n, l) then the tongue goes further back in you throat (g, k, h).

It really is a well designed phonetic alphabet, tailor-made to mandarin. And the IMEs for it let you filter your characters by typing a tone - none of the Pinyin ones I tried let me do that which was my main reason for switching.
H1b salaries are on par if not higher with their peers with the huge exception of the outsourcing firms that grab a lot of the available H1B slots in the lottery. Those need to be shut down.
L1, H1B1, O1, etc.
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