skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Err, some observations:

The Haj visa are just for the Haj, during the Haj period (last week of the lunar year), for the Haj, i.e. to go from the airport to Mecca and Medina and back. You could do the pilgrimage outside the Haj season (that's called Umrah), but it's rare. (Well, "you" can only if you're a Muslim, otherwise you can't even enter Mecca, and of course if you're female you need to come with your male guardian, unless you're over 45 yrs old).

> There's not much infrastructure there

You have 2 million people passing through within one week. There is a huge infrastructure there, busses, tents, monorail, dedicated airport terminals, massive crowd control measures (every now and then you have a panic where several hundreds of people get crushed). I wouldn't call that "no infrastructure".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajj#Modern_crowd-control_prob...

You might have meant infrastructure for refugees, and that's true.

Refugees and Haj are totally orthogonal topics. Saudi Arabia has little interest in refugees, or tourists: they did not even issue tourist visa until 2014. This is changing ever so slowly as the end of the flow of oil money is coming into sight.
As someone who worked for Google while on an H1B, I can attest to this. Also, the consulting firm that I worked through (not directly hired by Google) took a hearty cut of that.
And young kpop/japanese pop stars who are owned and treated like garbage as thier brands are marketed worldwide.
I can relate to this. I have ordered over $1,000.00 worth of books from Amazon in one order before. It's not something I do often, but I routinely order $200.00 - $300.00 worth at one time, or walk out of a Barnes & Noble with $200.00+ worth of books.

On the one hand, I consider most of this stuff an investment in myself and my career and future (fiction aside)... but there is that "thing" of realizing that you already own more books than you'll likely live long enough to read. It's frustrating because I want to read and absorb all that knowledge, but despite the fact that I read fairly fast, I can still buy books faster than I can read them. :-(
Yes! We will be in DFW this year & our team is coming out to SXSW. Europe later. . . we're a small team right now and we literally fly out and canvas the community and go to all the co-working places ourselves--so it's a bit of a lift.
It obviously depends on what work there is to do. In most of what I do, I work alone, with little need for cooperation, working through the backlog of tickets to implement. And the same goes for my coworkers. So I don't know why the morning people would have to wait for the night owls or why the night owls would need the morning people to stay around late. Everyone has their own stuff to do. If I need to talk to other people, I do it between 11AM and 5PM. Or schedule ahead of time so people can anticipate.
How does the GC change allocations?

While I agree that this Linked list memory layout should be optimized, with real world tests Array backed normally win by a large margin.
(Author here) I had been trying to hide the 12 pentagons on the game map but RimWorld stretches the hexagons so that it doesn't have to hide anything. You can see one here: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=823772... Once you build a colony anywhere though, the colony map is square so it doesn't matter if you're on a hexagon tile or a pentagon tile.
The purpose of flagging is to indicate that a story does not belong on HN. I think I've explained why I feel this is particularly a low-quality submission, and flagged accordingly.

I don't see how you can think that is selfish or petty, unless you think having yet another thread to just complain in is actually helping anyone.

Either way, I don't want to get into an argument here (obviously), so I'll pop out of this thread now and leave my flag behind. If people want to vouch it out, that's fine too.
There's also a third option.
Ugh.

The problem is that these people, while the majority, are just happy to ignore or go along with basically anything and anyone's talking points. Folks like VA-issue voters have a reason you can empathize with, but the harm they're causing to get the "single issue" that wasn't even promised on redressed is stunning.

Sorry to vent at you, I just think these single-issue folks are the worst. They're the ultimate selfish category of voter. In many cases, it wasn't even the democrats who dropped the ball on them, they just have this weird idea DJT is an outsider somehow and not a massively connected rich man with ties to the GOP.
But if everyone is racist, then it's not a descriptive property. It's like saying everyone is human.

I believe racist used to mean someone strongly racially biased. But now its used to mean, has some amount of racial bias, which is non-descript.
Relevant publication: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7397214/?reload=true
Can aquatic flightless birds allocate Automotive Safety requirements?

TL;DR:
Penguins Search Optimisation Algorithm (PeSOA).
PeSOA mimics the collaborative hunting strategy of penguins, using the metaphor of oxygen reserves as a search intensification operator. This allows the penguins to preserve energy, consuming it only in areas of the search space that are rich in good solutions. The performance of the approach is evaluated by applying it to a benchmark hybrid braking system case study, demonstrating performance that is an improvement to those reported in the literature.
Yes I would definitely recommend Eric's book for the deep insights it contains, but it may not be the easiest to read, especially for non-native english readers as his english is quite formal.
Scott Millet's book is also very good.
For an introduction to DDD you can have a look at a conference video here my friend Thomas Pierrain and I made : http://videos.ncrafts.io/video/167722768 (shameless plug :-))
https://backmail.io - Automated Gmail backups in the cloud

It is still in beta, and i havent even launched it in HN yet. I have a couple of my friends, who are paying to use this service.
While he has many an interesting read on SEO and business related topics in the field of software, what programming related content from patio11 are you referring to?
Just want to say I think movie RENTING may be affected, but not movie ticket sales or netflix subscriptions.
Your example doesn't match up with reality. In your example, one group arbitrarily starts out disadvantaged. In the real world, (let's say United States) there was no arbitrariness. White folk, in aggregate, set up a system to massively redistribute resources from black folk to white folk, causing horrifying suffering in the process. You can't just ignore this and start your scenario with the slate wiped clean.
None of these problems you state are why Trump seems to have won actually - which seems to symptomize the problem in the US. To people like me on the outside, it appears that a majority of the population is losing hope of bettering their life... and they voted for the person who promised to change the system that made them lose hope.

We had a chief minister in India once like this... darling of the educated classes, highly progressive, deploying technology in eGovernance, attracting Microsoft and Google to open campuses in his state. He lost by a landslide in the next election because during his term, the monsoons failed and farmers fell deep into debt and started committing suicide while he was deploying his middle class focused efforts.
StumpWM (an extensible tiling window manager written in Lisp) 1.0.0 released
I guess $COMIC-$REBOOT-7 isn't all that appealing.
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Try leaving caffeine for a couple of months, and then have a cup of coffee.

I actually did this, and it's amazing to actually notice the strong effect it has.

It alters your mood SO MUCH you'd be amazed. But since you have a daily dose, you can't really tell. Much like you will never know what a weed-adict behaves like when he hasn't consumed in days.
We're running XSLT 1.0 on Apache Cocoon.

Within the abstraction, each of our "Elements" has his own XSL stylesheet containing the whole transformation of it. So for developers, it's easy to navigate the code. All elements are compatible with each other.

We've a task running in the background that groups all element into a single XSL stylesheet.

Within Apache Cocoon, you can setup a transformation pipeline. The "elements" will be applied in one step, other steps take care of i18n, i10n and "custom pages"/widgets.

Our documentation is written in that setup, too. We've also setup automated tests for our ~60 custom written EXSLT functions.
Volkswagen has overtaken Toyota to become the world's biggest carmaker
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Dictatorial and authoritarian are not necessarily negatives.
Calls for a businessman to cut through the red tape and run the government more efficiently are almost as old as American democracy itself. Call it whatever you like, we knew that's how this candidate wanted to operate and voted for it anyway.
I'm solo on this so I'd love to know what I can do to improve it and/or what people think about it in general. Please ask me anything!
Yeah, and the state of western animation (especially hand-drawn) looks pathetic in comparison. So it's either unions, or cheap entertainment, you can only pick one.
> ...would just give you another bad strategy.

That's the joke, but to be fair, inversion is not a binary concept. Negation is binary, but inversion is more general and has the 2D interpretation of reflecting something across X=Y.
Ask HN: Find matching donations to ACLU?
I have seen a number of people offering to match donations to the ACLU[1], but when I dig in, they have either they have capped out or at best unclear if it's still going.

Is anyone keeping an updated list? I want to donate more, but ideally I would like to get a multiple on that donation. Thanks!

[1] Small example list;
http://avc.com/2017/01/a-20000-match-offer-on-aclu-donations-today
https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/825836275827564544
https://twitter.com/mvernal/status/825846013638299648
Using self deprecating humour in the Anglosphere may signal confidence. In Germanic countries it will get you pitiful nervous stares.

I don't know about the Bay Area but I've heard uptalk is prevalent there specially on tech.
Elixir: the new wave or an elegant niche?
Yes, Steve is the best person on the internet indeed! Always outspoken, always protective, never nasty
This. Whenever I tell people to get stuff in writing to cover themselves, they think I'm just being a stickler and that doing so would just set a bad mood in the working relationship. But I've never found this to be true. Just be professional in negotiations and make everything crystal clear, because you can be sure that anything fuzzy or muddy is coming back in your face later, one way or another.

Also this:

> I also requested extra days instead of a pay increase.

If your extra days are paid (I'm assuming they are given the latter part) then it may well be a smarter deal fiscally even without the pay increase, particularly if your marginal tax is high.
So some parties pushing hard for DRM has nothing to do with it, whatsoever? It's all about preemptively avoiding horrible user pain and incredible customer support costs, correct? Then explain the million options left over in chrome://flags/ ?

Oh, snap. Looks like that explanation doesn't even begin to make sense, and it's hilarious how the "average user", in their absence, gets used as an excuse to implement outright hostile things, but only then. When Google Reader shuts down or other things are done nobody likes, which not one person welcomes, that doesn't matter, it's only when it's about things no user wants but companies want to push when they suddenly do.

The bug report mentions real problems caused by this change. Are there similar reports about problems that were caused by that option being available, or is that all just theoretical?

> As the years go by, I learn every config option is going to lead to some set of users getting confused and upset.

So? Remove all config options, or simply do good work and let the remaining complainers complain? Why not take the person who filed the bug report and is "confused and upset" for very good reasons they can argue for more seriously than some random hypothetical person?
Trump follows his businesses on Twitter but not his administration officials
Is that re-enabled now? I know they demo'd it but then had major problems and pulled it back.
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Hello,

I'm one of the co-founders. There is no disagreeing that the search results page is structurally similar to that of Buzzsumo, which is a very good product. We wouldn't have bothered to develop Social Animal if it was going to be just a Buzzsumo clone. We process every article that enters the system through our Natural Language Processing (NLP) engine which figure out the primary and secondary keywords. These keywords are then displayed for every article you see. With this, things get way more interesting:

- You can click on any keyword to display more top performing articles for that keyword

- Just because 2 articles on the same topic perform well, it doesn't mean they are the same. You can compare any 2 articles to see their unique and common keywords. This saves you time, since you almost never have to read those articles.

- Headline analyzer is built in, which you can invoke for any article

- The insights summary feature not only tells you the best time to publish an article for any keyword, it also tells you which title and article lengths work best. There is detailed analysis available as well.

- If you setup keywords, Social Animal will proactively send you every day:

- Top performing articles for keywords you care about

- Competitor mentions

- Potential, new influencers

- You don't have to manually search every day, saving you a ton of time

- You have to use our Influencer search tool to see how good it is :) It is based on a much better algorithm.

- The InspireMe module lets you explore various, related topics for you to get writing inspiration. It's a lot of fun to use with a nice UI.

- The InspireMe module also tells you, for any given keyword, which secondary topics articles are written about so you can find your niche.
Then you put it somewhere that it can't be easily accessed by the unknowing. Which, IIRC, was already the case--there's no menu option for "chrome://plugins".

Making idiot-proofing your top design priority "for the user's own good" is a really bad idea that invariably results in a less functional product for no substantial benefit. If people are getting confused and messing with things they didn't mean to, the solution is better interface design, not axing useful features.
I'm not sure what your economic situation is, but I feel that $5 is pretty reasonable - at least in the US.

Remember going to Blockbuster and then discovering the movie you wanted wasn't in stock? Along with the 2nd and 3rd options in your mind? I don't know about you, but I went home empty handed several times. (Yes, I had already gone through the greatly limited back catalog of interesting movies at all my local movie stores).
It honestly happens when I even charge my new MacBook using USB-C. Wifi is not "really" affected if I use the right side ports but totally cuts out my wifi if I use the left side.
I just spent 3 months CPU-training a network for a paper I was writing, if I had any other options, you can be sure, I’d have used them.
That's not a problem with flex time, it's a problem with company culture. Flex time works where I work. We have people who come in early and leave early and we have people we regularly come it around lunch and stay until the lights go out.
Mangaki, an Open Source Manga/Anime Recommender System
Wouldn't your given definition be a working combination of the given definitions from Webster?
False equivalency, all chemically altered states are the same? If someone used alcohol (another of your examples) at work, during the work day you'd consider an intervention; you wouldn't shrug and say "eh, bags of chemicals".
Download it and see for yourself.

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=68783
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> The goal would have to be silencing the social media presence of the right

*the alt-right

Or, less euphemistically, the neo-Nazi.
(Author here) I had been trying to avoid the irregularities for that particular project because the storage of extremely large game maps saves a lot of space if you can use a regular grid instead of an irregular graph. (Certain algorithms like grid distance also run much faster.) If you embrace irregularity you can get some pretty neat maps, like this one from Andy Gainey: http://experilous.com/1/blog/post/procedural-planet-generati...
as a night person, Ive worked in 2 slightly different optimal modes

1 - I wake up at 8 and get repetitive stuff done from 8-9 before I leave for work. this wakes me up and gets my day started. anything remaining gets done after work

2 - a simple couple/few hour shift from your paradigm. at work from 10-whenever. get stuff done for a couple hours after i get home. we're getting up later but we're also going to bed later.
The US textile industry would be pleased, if it still existed.
You think DRM hasn't worked, but it has worked perfectly fine for its intended purpose. The purpose of DRM is not to control the content, it's to control the channel. DRM on DVD's, even though trivially to break and broken since the beginning, has been used quite effectively to control DVD players. Anyone who makes a DVD player without a license can and will be sued, meaning you still can't skip ads on most DVD players. Similarly, DRM in browsers is a means to control browsers, so that they don't become any more piracy-friendly, and in time it may be used as a weapon to lock them down.
I would add to this list the late Pieter Hintjens, known for ZeroMQ and many other projects over the years.

http://hintjens.com/

Beyond programming, his writings about society and how it can be explained algorithmically are very interesting to programmers.
Just to nitpick: Accenture is not part of the Big4 (PWC/Deloitte/E&Y/KPMG).
I flagged it for two reasons:

1) Internal american politics: other political issues are promptly flagged, while UK and USA political issues fare better. I do not accept that.

2) Lots of citizens (and others) in the USA are up in arms about this, while the real suffering that the USA is causing around the world (read "killing innocent civilians") does not get noticed anymore. You seem to be outraged about this because it is a new policy which makes the USA look bad, but you do not seem to be outraged in the same way by long standing policies practiced by all US presidents which are actually having a worse impact in the world. Obama got a Nobel Peace Prize on his second day on office and did not even close Guantanamo ffs.
(Not relevant to this demo in particular, just a piece of trivia I only learned in the past few years:) It makes sense to think of the TI-99 as part of the 8-bit microcomputer boom of the 1980s (Commodore 64, Apple II, TRS-80), but it actually had a 16-bit processor! (Which communicated with most of the rest of the computer through an 8-bit bus.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A#Fir...
Agreed.

As a thought experiment:
Imagine the owner of Google turned out to be a massive Trump supporter. Would it be acceptable to remove Hillary supporting websites during the run up to the election from search results as a political protest?
You know that Obama de facto stopped - or at least severely limited - Iraqi immigration for 6 months in 2011. There was no outright ban, but the flow of Iraqis slowed significantly.

Would you call it a hateful act as well?
> "virtue signaling" ... basically means "you are being insincere"

Superficially true, but the virtues people are basically forced to signal in order not to be economically ruined are, as they say, socially constructed.
They have games you probably never saw in arcades, too, because they didn't see wide distribution. For example, a previous boss of mine used to work for Midway back in the day, and he donated some of the arcade games he worked on to Galloping Ghost. Galloping Ghost helped him restore one of his rarest ones, too, and it's playable there.

More on topic, if you're in the area to check out Galloping Ghost, you can head a little ways Northwest to Schaumburg and go to the 257 restaurant, which is basically a Namco museum and has food, bowling, and a bunch of Namco arcade games and memorabilia.
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amitp, the way you capture the arrow keys for the demo makes it so I can't use the arrow keys to scroll the text of the page.

Otherwise, I find you entire site super inspiring :)
It's definitely a program that could use reform. However from what little the article mentions of the 'draft' executive order, I don't see many specific policy changes to the status quo.

If this follows the pattern of 'make a big news splash' and 'leave huge ambiguity regarding actual policy' then it is really not helpful for any kind of business decision.

The rational response right now might be to avoid new H1B hiring completely, lest you spend months on an application that later gets nullified by shifting policy. That's not a win for SV companies that favor H1B hiring.

If they make clear changes that do help create more visas for high skilled workers, I agree that's a win for silicon valley, and a win for US labor. Overall the US does well when other countries send their top brains here.
When reality is made of bits
1up bar in Denver has a decent rotation last time I was out there.
Can this create/upsample an image to a specified resolution/zoom level? Say I want a 2000x5000 pixel image of the way a website looks when the window size is 400x1000.

I looked through the manual but didn't see explicit examples.
Can you go over some good ways to use expect to avoid this type of issue?
Can anyone comment on government programs whereby the gov't pays for a portion of a new hire's salary for the first X months to cover training costs?

This at least seems like an interesting way to deal with the problem.

Formal training is great, but you still have to train people on your processes etc.
The same is occurring in Europe and even America. The establishment is threatened as a result of this mass immigration. Perhaps the difference is that the Saudis do not suffer from white guilt and, hence, attempts at rational discourse are not drown out with calls of racism, Islamophobia, and xenophobia.
Lukas Eder, creator of jOOQ and a bit of a SQL wizard. Definitely upped my SQL reading things he's either written or retweeted. As a Hibernate refugee, jOOQ is a godsend.
There are two kinds of "disruption":

* The first merely inconveniences people who already work in a given industry, by forcing them to learn new tools or workflows.

* The second unseats incumbents and fundamentally shifts power dynamics.

"Hollywood", "Film" et al have by and large not been disrupted yet, in the second sense. Digital change came late to film & tv. We are just now on the tail end of digital transformations that will enable the second wave of disruption.

I've written about this extensively, it's kind of my bag: http://endcrawl.com/blog/two-digital-revolutions-disruption/
I think that's true. But Accenture does a lot of SAP work as far as I can tell based on experience.
#8 cropping might not be adequate as many photos have meta-data attached (e.g. EXIF) - you probably want to at least view that or delete it entirely before posting a picture.