skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thermodynamic laws certainly apply, but you just can't measure all the variables properly. Trying to apply that kind of input/output calculations on such a complicated bio-chemical model like human body is just a naive over-simplification. First you would need to calculate the caloric value of your complete excrements (including sweat), before you even know what the actual energy input is. Than you would need to measure precise oxygen used by body and the heat produced to be able to know how much of it is used by body. Not to mention that you even don't know the exact caloric values of the food that you eat. Guesstimates of this whole process that we have in a form of calorie tables and calculators are only a rough guidelines, not exact science, and that's why in real-life numbers never add up. Not because human body somehow breaks the laws of physics, but because popular calculations completely ignore a lot of biochemical nuances. How efficient is your guts in digesting different types of food, which pathway is used to turn that food into the energy and how efficiently due to levels of specific enzymes, does your body (due to the current hormonal levels) prefer to store the calories or to burn them, how efficiently you muscles are using that energy (depending on you height, weight, age, sex, health), and many, many other little details that all count.
Interesting, thanks! The ideal would be someone to bundle said crates and then sell the bundling service. In my experience companies don't like anything free. It also helps if you are going to drop it on an air gapped dev network.
This protocol is about reducing the N languages and M editors = N*M client/server implementations with a much better N+M solution, where we don't have to reinvent 200 wheels every time someone makes a new editor or language.

And the protocol is open. Seriously what do you have to lose, besides a shit-ton of redundant work?

Distrust? Distrust exactly what? Are you sure you aren't being your own worst enemy?

See here for a list of fully open source and MS-independent implementations: http://langserver.org/
The free tier of cloudflare includes global cdn. Does that mean all they would have had to do is use the free tier and they would have avoided the issue?

Would there have been some kind of cloudflare loading screen if they'd done that? It doesn't make sense that you can do that with cloudflare for free.
I think this problem is closely related to the perennial "optimal to-do list" problem. A to-do list is a tree. If you have a good tree editor, you have a good to-do list app.
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There are lots of specific examples where incorrectness leads to perceptually significant problems. I'd agree that you don't normally notice it in the wild, which is why so much software has gotten away with it for so long.

It is possible to optimize the linearization steps so that they don't detract too much from the performance, especially if you're using one of the better (i.e. slower) interpolation methods.
You missed Vue.js, it worth a try.
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Non-native speaker here :-)
I wonder if this could be address by payment card networks. Level 2 credit card processing adds invoice details to charges, level 3 credit card processing adds line-item details, perhaps a new level for health care information could happen and then signing in at the doctors office would be as simple as swiping a card.
> ... we don't get to dictate terms to other countries.

Of course not; it's a negotiation. And power plays are a very legitimate tactic to use during a negotiation. And the US happens to have a large amount of both economic and militaristic power.
One of the reasons I dislike living outside of the US is because sites like this only have amazon.com links. It would rule if you could swap them for your local amazon (amazon.de for me) links somehow.
NGINX: https://github.com/google/ngx_brotli

Apache: https://lyncd.com/2015/11/brotli-support-apache/

Node.js: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/11/better-than-gzip-compressi...
When we think of numbers between 0 and 1 we aren't thinking of Real numbers.

Name a transcendental number between 0 and 1. Which one springs to mind? Maybe, if you're lucky you can come up with some famous transcendental number and "scale" it to lie within the interval (pi over ten!).

The numbers we live with are a finite dimensional vector field over a bounded subset of algebraics - not even countable.
Casinos make no representations that the odds are "random", and by that I assume that you mean that you have an even chance of winning a given bet.

Casinos are in the business of providing entertainment through games that sometimes allow you to win money.

If you put money into a PacMan machine, you don't get your money back either. You get entertained by playing the game.

If you go to a movie, you pay money that you don't expect to have returned. You pay for entertainment.
1.5 megagigabytes.
>So it's not just Trump's incompetence at work here, it's Obama's incompetence too. He could have made a much more limited TPP that didn't give so much power to Hollywood and the copyright cartels.

If you feel a need to make a sinister choice between a war between nations and a war on the working class, you've done something very, very wrong.
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> I wrote an MPEG 2 Program Stream / Packetized Elementary Stream / subtitle image decompressor, which obviously does a lot of bit-banging

Are you open sourcing this? I'd love to take a look
Are you worried at all about their patents stance. I currently I think it says if you litigate with Facebook you lose the license. Otherwise I agree zstd is looking like a very nice improvement in an area where most people think nothing happens. I especially dictionary compression bit.
sometimes just applying the same thing in a different place can make a huge difference
>> if you commit armed robbery...

There are significantly less guns available compared to the US, so armed robberies are likely heavily punished too.

While I don't say all sentences should be light as a feather, there are a lot of 'jails' (especially in Norway) where the inmates can go home for the evening or weekend.
If it's an interesting article with relevant content (I'd not heard of Brotli compression before), so what? Unless you're advocating active hostility to companies like Googe, to particularly discourage relevant content with such connections. In which case would you like to justify that?
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On the other end of the spectrum, how much more energy has been used by the millions of Android phones uncompressing the app, applying the patch, and re-compressing the data?
I bet switching to LZMA would have saved even more. LZMA beats Brotli nearly every time. zStandard would likely have worked better as well. Brotli is very slow to compress.
This post makes me wonder how Wine handles PE vs. EFI executables, and also if it could use an overlay file system as well for wine prefixes.
Is this statement not literally correct?

I believe the person being baffled in this is the gambler not the programmer.
I'm a former Bloomberg Terminal subscriber ($3k per month) and day trader. I may have used 1% of the Bloomberg's capability in my best day - money.net would have been a great alternative.
Web assembly will hopefully ease up the situation. I'm already calling some libraries from JS that are compiled from C. At the moment it's things like encoding recorded audio stuff as Opus in the browser. But it will be more.

TypeScript also helps. I've been using it for just a few months, but it has already saved my ass many times.
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Globalized but not nearly as much as today.

Looking at https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c4280.html

USA-Germany, million of dollars

1985 Exports: 9,050.2 Imports: 20,239.2

2015 Exports: 44,997.8 Imports: 104,553.9

It grew 5 times in 20 years. I'm googling for the value in the 30s and can't find it quicky enough.

My bet is that it was much lower because according to http://unstats.un.org/unsd/trade/imts/Historical%20data%2019... the whole imports of Germany were 2,188 million of dollars. The total exports were 2,111 million USD.

You'll also notice US imports and exports plummeting in the 30s. It seems a consequence of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot%E2%80%93Hawley_Tariff_Ac... which "raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods". Then

> "In May 1930, Canada, the country's most loyal trading partner, retaliated by imposing new tariffs on 16 products that accounted altogether for around 30% of US exports to Canada.[15] Canada later also forged closer economic links with the British Empire via the British Empire Economic Conference of 1932. France and Britain protested and developed new trade partners. Germany developed a system of autarky."

Autarky doesn't help trade for sure.

> "US imports decreased 66% from $4.4 billion (1929) to $1.5 billion (1933), and exports decreased 61% from $5.4 billion to $2.1 billion. GNP fell from $103.1 billion in 1929 to $75.8 billion in 1931 and bottomed out at $55.6 billion in 1933.[18] Imports from Europe decreased from a 1929 high of $1.3 billion to just $390 million during 1932, while US exports to Europe decreased from $2.3 billion in 1929 to $784 million in 1932. Overall, world trade decreased by some 66% between 1929 and 1934.[19]"

Historical experiments are hard to make but looking at what happened back then there is a chance that peoples not talking to each other make them less friendly and more prone to go at war.
My point is that we got where we are today when employers started violating their end of the contract and employees slowly got wiser of the shift. To unsettle the status quo, the employers have to do some disproportionate show of good faith and win the trust of the employees.
Thanks antfarm :)

I'll be setting up a "vault" of sorts in the next few weeks where you can see pretty much all the interviews I have.
But pretty logical, no? You don't want someone to migrate to your country in his late 50's / early 60's, contribute to your economy for a few token years and then piggyback on your medical welfare system for rest of 15-20 years. Whats the incentive for local citizens to welcome immigrants in that case? (And no, I don't want to consider rare examples of superstars in their 60's. I am just talking about average Joe's).
The fixation on Silicon Valley isn't dumb when wages were deliberately suppressed by Google, Apple, Adobe and others. The big tech companies really do want to keep salaries low and H1Bs can help them with that, along with paying for the really smart people that they can bring in too.
Yes, this is a giant issue for MongoDB. For example here's Yahoo explaining (in 2014) why they will never use it:

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-Marc...

For the record, I personally think that this is 100% pure FUD (the thinking behind it is described as "preposterous" later in the thread). Nevertheless, if someone with the title of "Sr. Director Of Open Source, Open Standards" at a company the size of Yahoo can buy in to this FUD, then most smaller companies have no chance of distinguishing between fact and fantasy, and many will steer clear as a precaution.
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But the people who are knowledgeable also give recommendations to their friends and family who want something that just works.

If you can buy a 1-2 year old phone for $100-$200 (without contract) and pay an extra $10 per year to receive security updates, that's a pretty good deal.
Have you looked into mithril maybe?
So far I've used it for several small tools, including some that refactored code for other, larger projects. Grammars really make that pleasant.
You must be joking about the infrastructure. Moving even a few kilometers can take hours due to all the traffic and lack of public transportation.
It got some coverage[1] but I'm sure your second point is right: not a top issue for many voters and I'd bet that almost none of the few who do care strongly about it either way would have been pulled towards a candidate they otherwise wouldn't have supported.

1. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/10/hillary-clinton-...
Obviously - that's what I meant about a "net positive".

It's reasonable to expect you can find individual tourists who use more in infrastructure than they contribute to the local economy - the system doesn't break down so long as the average case means overall it is significantly net positive.

If "digital nomads" are net negative, then I expect you'll see eventually constraints arise. Assuming long enough for a) local governments to figure this out and b) that it's a big enough impact to care about. It's also plausible that "digital nomads" remain such a small number of people that nobody is really fussed about the impact, and the legalities of what they are doing remaining fuzzy is only used as a justification to refuse visa/entry to anyone who has proved annoying to the people who issue same.
Casinos can forbid all they want, but the teeth in the deal is that lawmakers back up the Casinos' rights to set the rules and force you to play by them.
I'm being quite careful: 'consistent effectively axiomatized formal system' is implied by my use of the word 'proves'.
If there's not a shortage of skilled engineers, then why is Google paying people hundreds of thousands of dollars a year? While it's true that the industry has a bit of myopia and tends to focus on a specific subset of engineers as "skilled," there is absolutely a huge shortage of them and massive competition to hire them.
I generally agree, but "baffling results" is just plain stupid. Might as well start talking about internet "tubes".
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Ah yes, I forgot this detail. Thanks!
"I've heard some people say that they thought it was going to be harder than it actually was, based on people trying to set accurate expectations"

Yes, sometimes I have the feeling people with a unnaturally low stress tolerance are the ones who comment the most :D
I think it's important to distinguish between "tree-structured data" and "tree-structured UI"; many of the suggestions here and in the article's comments mention s-expressions (or alternatives e.g. using indentation or similar); many others mention diagramming/mindmapping tools. I think the real issue is how disconnected such approaches are from each other: why can't I press a key and have my parenthesised expression be expanded into a tree, or press another button to collapse a sub-tree down into a parenthesised expression?

I imagine a decent tree editor would let me:

- Navigate and edit the structure and its contents in a linear representation, like using paredit on an s-expression.

- Navigate and edit the structure and its contents in a more "tree-like" representation, e.g. as boxes+arrows, or nested boxes.

- Toggle between display modes on a per-term basis, e.g. using boxes+arrows for the top-level (say, function definitions in a Lisp file) and s-expressions for the contents.

- Fold/unfold terms/trees (code folding, but for expressions rather than lines)

- Allow plugins/preferences tailored for particular trees, e.g. syntax colouring for programming language parse trees.

As a more elaborate idea, we could allow plugins to extend the tree/graph structure with "virtual" nodes, e.g. linking names to their definitions, documentation, tests, etc. as if they were code-folded parts of the source code.
It's not all of tech companies. Even if you bump up the minimum without proof to $130,000, the biggest tech companies are already paying over that to H1-B's.
heshex says:>"I don't think that's a problem that is solvable with technology."

Why not, for example, a drug that suppresses appetite? We have many already. Technology has an endless supply of solutions.
I think you're missing two key points here - 1) what are corporations doing with their increased profits as a result of tactics like abuse of the H1B system?, and 2) what portion of H1B salaries ends up back in the US economy vs. abroad?

The net effect for the overall economy is only going to be better under the current H1B system if companies reinvest their profits into productive uses, which they haven't been [1]. And if H1B workers spend their earnings in the US instead of sending that money back home. I don't have solid data on this last point, but having worked with many H1Bs over the years I can at least anecdotally confirm it.

You can also look at our trade deficit with India as another data point here [2]. We are not, in fact, selling more stuff into India than they sell us. There's a pretty strong argument to be made that the current system is more harmful than helpful to the economy as a whole.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/magazine/why-are-corporat...
[2] https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/south-central-asia/india
Nope. It's simple: if this were an option, they'd have already done it.

Microsoft could easily just pack up and move all their dev work to India. There's a large supply of workers there, and they can pay them a fraction of what they have to pay here.

Why aren't they doing this? The big companies threaten this, but they never do it.

Simple: if it were really this easy, they'd have already done it. There's obviously some good reasons why they're not, and why instead they choose to import people under H1-B, pay them roughly similar salaries to US workers, and pay for lots of immigration/paperwork-related costs on top of this. They might be (and I think they are) helping keep salaries down this way overall, but that's nothing compared to just dumping everyone and moving operations to India and paying 1/5 of US labor rates. So why aren't they doing that?
We outsourced most jobs to Bangalore and productivity dropped to around about 10% while costs increased. We have experienced death by committee and hierarchy in all of our outsourced projects so far and are now starting to solve this by in-housing everything again.
As someone who knows neither version, I find this surprising. Surely, even if none of your code works, switching from Perl 5 to Perl 6 is much less of a "culture shock" than switching to, say, Ruby or Python?
The problem at least for me between .com and .ca, is that they seem to be fundamentally different sites with their own separate arrays of sellers and products that can be quite different from each other. There are many things sold on .com you simply cannot get from .ca, or even shipped to Canada from the .com site
One of the reasons why they choose to use Buckets instead of Tents is because it's very easy to transport the bucket from place A to place B. With the tent it's not as easy.
foreign service markets become more attractive, americans again lose jobs to outsourcing, will be interesting to see how this plays out. I certainly think in the short term it will be better for the American worker (in terms of employment, mobility, higher wages), but long term?
What would a big country benefit from invading its weak neighbor in the 21st century? Putin isn't an angle but he is surely not Europe's or US' enemy like the liberal media is trying hard to push that narrative. Many of the Baltic states are inexplicably pushing the west towards a pointless conflict with Russia. It's just like Georgia in 2008 or maybe even like Poland with Nazi Germany in late 1930s.
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> Because the study shows there is negligible impact. Every laborer is also a spender. If the person saves, then every laborer is also an investor.
See the sweatshops, guess they are just "another spender":
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2103798/Revealed-Ins...
I'm actively following the project, but waiting for it to mature (speed, doc...etc) before using it.
Leo is fairly cool. Been around forever, but not many people know about it.

I'm a heavy Emacs and Org mode user. But at this time I've given up on being proficient in Emacs-Lisp and how it ties to the whole Emacs ecosystem.

So I searched for a self-extensible editor in Python, and find Leo.

I haven't taken the time to learn it really well, but I did fiddle with some tree editing in Python with it, and it works as advertised. If I didn't have to work for a living, I'd spend most of my time porting over the cool aspects of Emacs to Leo.

Unfortunately, the documentation/web site is very opaque. Not so bad that it's useless, but bad enough that if anyone wants to learn it well they'll have to do a lot of Google searching (in the mailing list) or code browsing.

Also, to be frank, it's not a great editor compared to Vim/Emacs. But that should be easily fixable with scripting/code changes.
> People have very little confidence that reporting a crime will lead to the criminal getting caught

I thought that way too, but it's not all bad. I was recently positively surprised when the police actually investigated a bike theft that I reported (online) and caught and prosecuted the thief! Court session is next month, I'm going and will take my daughter (who's bike it was) there to learn...
I think it is mostly young IT worker recruitment ad, and also a 'Women in technology' angle.

I personally wouldn't be too happy if my modest contributions as novice described as 'massive improvement for millions of our users'.
Do you have a link that isn't extremely partisan political commentary?

The reality is even without Obama's CPP coal is dying world wide, between china pouring billions into clean energy and the natural gas boom in the states coal can't compete.
I don't get it, is this hiring like a PR stunt?

I would thinking creating your own maps and autonomous driving platforms is already fairly ambitious, but flying cars?
The danger of radical Islam?? That one's in the mix just for an extra dose of racist nationalism. They'll stop fighting us once we stop occupying their countries.
The hormonal system, speaking as a non-expert of course, seems to have much greater impact than is generally recognized. For men, increasing testosterone has a huge impact on muscle mass, ability to burn fat, etc.
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I actually saw this with a few of my colleagues that worked at Amazon. There was one superb engineering — one of the best Android developers I've ever worked with. Our project ended and, I had the freedom to leave Amazon and jump to another company (which I did), but he was stuck. He ended up having to move his family from SF to Seattle just to keep his job all in hopes that he didn't screw up his H-1B visa process.
The discussion about H1Bs is getting dominated by SV. The brunt of the changes are gonna affect other industries, for example, someone i know is currently doing a masters in biotech at a really good research university, and she is really scared about the 130k lower limit for H1B applicants. According to her, even postdocs in her field don't make that much! If the new H1B system passes as is, then its gonna cause a massive brain-drain in most fields that are not SV tech related.
Forgot the obligatory:

- You are rich/famous.
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If your contention that it rose is based on your experience in SV or NY or similar, then you're probably not getting a complete picture of the state of the industry.
So your calories out is modified. Not sure what you're trying to disprove.
"We have a Talent Shortage" is industry slang for "We are unwilling to train paid apprentices."