skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> An algorithm generally provided better suggestions than an actual in-store clerk.

Could use another pass or two of editing. And the whole thing smells like an anti-union hit piece.

Funny thing, I was just in a shared ride with a production person from Hollywood. They might agree on the face of it, "Hollywood as we know it is over", because you and me baby, we KNOW Hollywood. But that Netflix and Amazon have fueled an explosion of new content that is outside of normal channels and normal timelines. Production houses all over the country have more work than they know what to do with. If the title was, "Hollywood as we know it is transforming" it wouldn't sound so dramatic.
Seems like a good strategy might be to just not apply to jobs where attending the office frequently would be practical. [0]

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13520729
facebook shut it down
Why Theories of Everything Are Ill-Conceived
> But what we should really care about is making the flow of talent so voluminous and indispensable to both nations that relations cannot deteriorate to that point.

That has not happened in the history of mankind. Talent moving around is rather high on Maslov's hierarchy of needs. If your country is out of arable farmland, clean water, or minerals, you will start looking around for places to get those materials.

If they will not trade for them, generally you invade.
Totally agree.

The only wearable I have is a Xiaomi Band 2, and the only reason I use it is for its 18 day battery, detects when I go to sleep so I don't have to toggle it every night, that it vibrates when I get a call so I can have my phone on silent and has a clock. I rarely check how many steps I take even though that's what is supposed to be it's primary functionality.

I use that wearable to make my life easier, not to interrupt me every time I get a notification, and I certainly don't want to charge it every few days.
Founded 2011, sold to Facebook for $85M in 2013, folded by Facebook in 2016 (though the software was released as open source).
Doesn't this line of thinking lead to a race-to-the-bottom and an expectation from consumers that digital goods should basically be "free". Look at mobile apps. What is the end result for developers if digital goods are priced next to nothing?

Just thinking out loud. I understand this can lead to increased sales, also that this refers more to "content" than apps.
What are the founders next up to ? Interesting to hear about it.
It depends what you're moving - and for good reason. Unions remain strong in industries that continue to have dangerous work environments. Film sets are controlled chaos with very high powered electric lights/equipment, cables and cords everywhere, and sometimes uniquely unusual (read: dangerous) work demands - high ropes, scaffolding, helicopters, pyrotechnics, intentionally crashed cars and other practical effects.

When I was starting out in the industry - before I was Local 600 (camera dept.) - I think I scoffed a little bit about the "my job"/"not my job" stuff; however, in most cases there are some legitimate safety/efficiency/equipment protection requirements backing those decisions.
I think it feels like a competition for celery. It fits into those tasks that are too heavy to run on the primary web server, but too small to set up the dedicated deployment/replicaset.

On slightly different note, I am still looking for a good job pattern for my use case. I run jobs on very custom docker images (including deep learning and computer vision stuff). I currently use redis queue with todo items, each pod in deployment picks up items from the queue in the loop, but I dislike some things about it. Fission is not the good fit, but I am wondering if HN community would have some suggestions. I thought about kubernetes jobs, but they have some things I don't like.
Facebook decided it wasn't worth it to continue maintaining Parse so they shut it down and open sourced all the code. Simple as that.
Another plus is that you can still go to university after a apprenticeship. So you can do something practical before you decide what you will study.
I was expecting a snarky post with pics from the 90s, or today, with a point that tech never really centralized in the bay, just the money. But old pictures with questionable relevance are also nice.
While percentages are low, you have to remember that 4.5% out of 2.5 million people is over 100K people without jobs.

While the number of unemployment is exceptional for a metro area there is still a human element for those that are "behind."

If there is an acceptable level of unemployment higher than zero percent, we have to take care of those who are unable to work otherwise you start a race to the bottom in work rights and labor laws.
Well, the future state will be a bit more unknown but pebbles are very easy to program and add do, and can be had pretty cheaply.
The new Charge costs more than the old one and doesn't have a GPS. Now I have to run with my phone on me to get accurate location data.

They're regressing.
I'm finding the exact opposite? Do you have any concrete examples that you would care to provide in the spirit of intellectual honesty?
Coordinating and executing a reasonable amount of trades isn't easy. Sometimes the "planning" of it is very thin, and the execution is that makes difference.

For example, simply adjusting at that time some operation will be done has impact, since the currencies aren't fixed and change their trade value every second.
I LOVE going to see movies in movie theatres. When I watch movies at home it's hard to focus. Pretty much constantly someone will feel the urge to check their phone. They will talk during movies, get up, etc...

At a theatre that ever happens. Everyone is focused and there are, in general, few distractions.
hurray! March is going to be fun. September will be a good time to be selling luxury goods when the employees are able to liquidate no matter what the share price does.
with regards to being anti-union it merely highlights that the industry is artificially labor intensive in a day when it should not be. similar to how newspapers were chock full of people who were very limited in scope but wholly protected.

the negative about unions is that protecting an overly narrow just eventually leads to loss of not only that job but supporting jobs as well. the only "industry" protected from this loss potential is within the realm of government employment especially in maintenance categories.

hollywood was able to hide such largess when the money was flowing but this is low hanging fruit to pick on, the salaries of actors and actresses is where many need to go but are afraid to call out. People compare CEO to line employee pay all the time but compare the lead actor(s) to the set people, never.
For France: It takes about one month to get a long term work visa for if you have a job (the name is a trick, it's just one year). Then you can upgrade from inside the country up to naturalization (it's a long journey, something like 10 years from first entry to passeport), you are not tied to your first employer after the visa is issued. There are some really disagreeable moments, when you have to go to the Prefecture, but I think the entire procedure is free*

* actually you might have to pay to get some translations certified, or if you want a lawyer.

I even know 2 Americans citizen who have a long term self employed permit.

One detail: you can travel all over the Schengen Zone for tourism, but you still can work only in one country.
It also seems like the Thoughtful Adult Movies get squeezed into December after 11 months of schlock. I don't get to the theaters much, but I went more in the past two months than the previous 10. And it's so depressing when you go to see Best Picture Nominee and the trailers are all for Robot Wars 6 and Shyamalan's freshest turd - it's just a reminder that you won't be back for a year.
Doesn't this conflate chronology with the position of the sun? Do you think it's healthy to live in an artificial day cycle?
The price of the tech goes down, but with so much choice the quality of the writing, acting and so forth, if anything, needs to be higher
Are there recent photos to compare?
From time-to-time I go over to Reginald Braithwaite's site at raganwald.com. He has the right mixture of practical and theoretical topics.

I don't "follow" anyone. When new posts show up on HN, and the like, by certain developers, I'm more likely to click on them.

My pattern is more commonly to be interested in a topic, do a search, and then read a few articles by whomever wrote on the topic.
That head spinning isn't a normal side-effect and you don't feel ill, it goes away after you smoke regularly (don't, it's horrid to stop). It's your body reacting to a poison, once it's used to it, it doesn't react that way any more.

A few spliffs is more comparable to drinking a bottle of wine, rather than a couple of coffees or a few fags. But different. A single drag is more like have a gulp of wine. Won't get you drunk, might get a little fuzzy feeling depending on your tolerance.

I can bet you the op isn't talking about having a single puff.
Very interesting perspective. Giving visa holders more leverage would indirectly give more leverage to domestic workers as well. 2 birds with one stone.
> That said, if you're looking for concrete political understanding, probably don't read the work of a French mystic who starved herself to death.

That's like saying 'probably don't concern yourself with Godel's mathematics because he was mentally ill and starved himself to death'. Such a stupid reason to look down on someone's work for.
Say Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) files for 13k visas for in 2016. If the total number of applications were 236k, then the expected number of visas TCS is going to get is (using probability) => (13,000/236,000)*65,000 = 3,580 visas

Similarly, let us say a startup is filing for an H1-B for 1 of their employees. Their expected probability of securing the visa is => 1/236000*65000=0.27

As you can see, the current lottery system favors the company which applies for the most number of visas.

How is this favoritism? Isn't the conclusion here just that everyone has similar odds and companies that apply for more visas will get more visas?
Can you provide data that H1-Bs lead to wage suppression?
I think bash was (is?) written in that kind of C.
They way you ensure they must pay a competitive wage is by retaining free labor markets.

If immigrants are free to decide what to study, where to work, who to work for, what jobs they wish to pursue, and so forth, then SV will have to pay enough to convince them to become software developers in the valley, rather than lawyers, real estate agents, drywall installers, dental hygienists, registered nurses, physicians, and so forth.

It turns out we have an immigration system that does this. it's called, wait for it... immigration, and the US takes 1.2 million people into the country annually under just those conditions.

It turns out that immigrants who are free to pursue their own path in life aren't interested in working in loud, open offices and staring at computer screens for hours a day working on JIRA tickets for the salary that SV feels it should pay.

As a result, SV employers have lobbied for a system that allows them to control who is allowed to come into the country, and the conditions under which they are allowed to remain here. They certainly are not lobbying for any system that would preserve freedom for immigrants.

There's a desperate need for immigration reform, as right now, it's mainly based on family reunification, which leaves a lot of people out in the cold.

But really, seriously, don't look to SV, or Zuckerberg, or Brin, for meaningful solutions. They have an agenda, and this agenda runs through their very secretive HR departments.
Hmmm, No pictures of the wonderful parking lots and barren wasteland that turned into the Mission Bay neighborhood?
> 3. Put down screens like phone, laptop, and TV after about 8pm. The artificial, bright light throws off off your body's natural instinct to get sleepy when it gets dark. Spend some time preparing for the next day so you aren't stressed in the morning, and then read a book or something until you feel tired.

I can confirm that this works, but this part's really killer if you have young kids since it means (very nearly) zero kid-free screen time, ever. Also hard if you have, say, friends over and want to watch a movie or play some Mario Kart or something, since most of that's going to be later in the day if you've got kids. Seriously restricts your solo or couple entertainment and unwinding options. Winters especially are incredibly tough since going out in the yard isn't even an option (dark too early). Basically books and tabletop games are all you've got, and yeah, people got by with that (or less) since forever and were basically fine, but you won't be keeping up with the various TV series or games your friends and coworkers are into, for example.

There are real costs to making your sleep schedule sane, and they mostly come out of free time for entertainment/side-projects/online-classes/100-other-things-that-require-a-screen.
I don't know if using spaced repetition works that well for "memorizing" code that you don't use normally. Coding is the kind of thing that you do where if something is done rarely, it's probably not something you need to commit to memory. Just do a look-up of it on Google or Stack Overflow. The thing you're memorizing is too conceptual, unlike a foreign word or phrase.

This is somewhat related: I myself wrote an app to keep track of foreign phrases.[1] (I'm adding spaced repetition to review things just like Anki, too.) You write down the phrase in your source language (say English) and then the same phrase in your target language (say German). It works fine for that, but I found it ALSO useful for writing down hard-to-remember command lines I needed at work. For instance, I'd create an entry like this: for the source language phrase I'd type in something like "Start a build" and then in the target language phrase I'd type the actual command (typically very long and hard to memorize). When I needed to look up the command, I'd just type "start a build" or even just "build" (it shows multiple search results immediately like Google would). Then it's a matter of copy-pasting the command into the shell.

You could do the same thing by writing a shell alias or a script with a descriptive name, but I found looking things up with descriptive words better.

[1] http://www.ussherpress.com/lpb/
well.. yes and no. you aren't developing in a vacuum unless you're the only dev in the company, and even in that case you'd have some coordination to do.
drives me nuts when I need to run something by a dev and he's gone at 2 pm and I need to wait till he gets into the beer-induced code rage mode at 10 pm and even then he might be on slack or maybe not :)
> smaller budget movies [...] $25 million budget

Movie budgets have always astonished me. Even your low number is so extravagant. I mean, twenty five million dollars. Thinking what this represents for a company or a city.
that's badass!
Just because you've lived in the US for all your life doesn't mean much when talking about something specific scient went through.

Note also, his comment addressed issues he perceived and solutions that would directly affect change in a positive way for you! Let me spell it out for you: if H1-B wasn't as restrictive, then companies couldn't abuse them for lower salaries, making Americans (in your view) more competitive.

Anyway, why should American employment come first? How have you contributed to the country more than a random foreigner, by default? If anything, it benefits a country to have immigrants (who it hasn't invested in) come and provide expertise for free! That free expertise is what H1-B was/is for.

From this, it also follows that it benefits a country to make use of a highly qualified spouse of an immigrant.
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You seriously underestimate how rare star power is (or how spoiled we have become).
And then higher prices reduce the incentive for the consumer to consume.
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I don't have a proof of the claim mentioned above, but I am a Canadian working in the US in one of the tech companies mentioned above. Not only I have never applied to work at the company I'm at, I've never applied to work at any US based company, ever.
Wait, why wouldn't the solution be "define a max width"? Site authors should not be wasting your window width, windows should not be "too wide" for text, and you shouldn't have to choose between the two solutions you mentioned.
Android Wear is very open, it is very much the same api as normal Android. The main limitations are on the UI and a few specific issues like bluetooth advertising. Tbh, even Pebble didn't allow you so much access as Android Wear (e.g.: Pebble's bluetooth api was very limited).

Samsung's Tizen and Garmin's ANT seem quite open too, but I just studied the documentation, didn't actually wrote code for them.

Xiaomi's Mi band, FitBit and Apple Watch are very restricted.
Who would be investing in it? Non-millennials?
I'll reference the other thread about 'racism'; I don't know what 'alt-right' even means, so I don't know how to have an opinion about it.
Your summary was almost exactly what I was going to write, based on the abstract.

That said, though, a not-quite-as-good match after a very few years' work is kind of promising. After as long as the standard model has been worked on, the match might be as good.
Why does it matter? He (mostly) isn't wrong in his political rant
React Router: Declarative Routing for React
That said, I think the point of your post (and the original post) is just to call out how ridiculous and sad the US's sudden policy swerve is.

One of the most alarming things about this whole issue is that it's taken this long for "normal people" to realise something is wrong and do something about it.

We're seeing mass protests now, when large numbers of people are literally being held in handcuffs for extended periods despite obviously doing nothing wrong. However, it's not as if border security at the US (and, to be fair, here in the UK and in various other countries) hadn't completely lost the plot already before Trump arrived.

Then again, I have long said things would have to get worse before they got better. Let's hope that at least we have now reached that point and ordinary people start questioning the whole way we look at security again.
For me spending 8+hours in the office never really worked well. I'm effective for a few hours in the morning (unless interrupted by someone) and then just sit out the rest of the day pretending to be busy. For me the best part of working remote is that I can split my work day into a 2-3 chunks, few hours each. IMHO this is absolutely the most productive way to organize the time, it really helps me to stay focused through out the day. Also to be able to finish other things in life, beside work.
Really cool idea, thanks ;)
Any thoughts on adding Go or Elixir as officially supported languages in the future?
To me it looks like only big Internet companies or companies in CE space can pull of in this space. Because both have an unbelievable advantage in terms of ecosystem. If outsider fails to integrate into this existing space - there is likelihood of they not making into longer runs.
Luxafor has open-sourced software; here are interesting projects
My wife and I were discussing similar scenarios over the weekend. She noted that as long as "we" can still have these discussions - as long as "we" still feel like we can have these discussions and do have these discussions (ie - we're not self-censoring or being censored by the govt) - then things are still working.

I understand your position - do your best to continue "keeping the faith" in our institutions, people, citizens, etc. Ultimately, know you're not alone - that there are many others out there feeling the same as you, and somehow we will right the wrongs against our country and Constitution as required and needed.
A transfer of wealth to Los Angeles -- Let's hope this can help the movie industry.
Technically I believe the software was re-implemented as open source; the initial release didn't measure up compared to what Parse offered but the project has grown since then.
Will AI lead to mass unemployment and greater income inequality?
I see your own attention to detail is lacking, Mr. youre.

Are you sure it is not you who has the inability to focus or maintain a sharp memory of basic grammar?
Off the Grid: The Challenges of Offline in Mobile Development
"...anywhere but a river or land trade route"

Or on top of the plug of an ancient volcano!
This is true to a large extent. But what about a framework like apache Isis(https://isis.apache.org), that generate the UI(and lots of other stuff) for you(but you can change it later), and claims to let you focus on domain at first, while having a running application to test with users. Or even just as a prototyping tool .

Isn't it useful in theory ? or in practice? is there someone with experience with that framework here ?
I very much doubt they don't understand this, it's not exactly rocket science. Boosting earnings QoQ or YoY to pop the share price can easily result in many millions of immediate payout in stock options, what happens in the longer term (to the corporation, to the country) is not necessarily a big concern for those who are temporarily calling the shots at any given corporation.
PhantomJS has stand-alone binaries that you can just call from Python if you wanted.
No, the story isn't about redefining college degrees. The model used by Siemens and Switzerland is certainly not about reshaping college degrees to better serve technicians, but about updating apprenticeship programs (esp in the US) and applying them to more than the traditional building trades.

It's also about the need for preparing the 70% of students who are not destined to white collar college jobs with the essential skills to work at a higher intellectual level than old-school US heavy industry manufacturing demanded. The days of unskilled assembly on the line are gone, everywhere. It's common today, esp. in China, for factories to adapt quickly to fabricate new lines of product in smaller batches, and do so without having years of experience in doing that already. This model of rapid development AND production appears to be the new model for production lines everywhere. As such, manufacturing now requires substantial computerization, and those running the machines aren't just lifting parts into place and wrenching bolts any more. The next generation of production worker needs to be computer literate and capable of quickly learning and adapting to a changing environment -- like training a robot. And the current models of training in high school and college do not serve that need.
I have an aria and it syncs with my fitness pal just fine.
> Fitbit totally killed itself for me when it decided to launch its own ecosystem without integrating itself into HealthKit and Google Fit.

They launched their own ecosystem before both HealthKit and Google Fit existed; there was nothing for them to integrate with.
How many universes can we daisy chain together?
At least he was funny, thats about it. Anybody else saw that video where a lady describes how she works three jobs to make ends meet and he nods and declares it to be "exceptionally American"? So much for GW compassion
> there was one store called "The Bach Company" on San Antonio Road in Palo Alto

I think the store is still there. I bought an HP 50g calculator from them on eBay with pickup a couple of years ago.