skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had never heard of this civilization before so this was a very interesting read. I would also recommend, for people like myself who are just finding out about this group of people, to have a look at the Wikipedia article[1].

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_Valley_Civilisation
> Isn't that the anti definition of net neutrality?

No because it's their own service. The definition would be for someone else's service.

Let's pretend this is comcast and they are sending cable TV over the same wire as internet data. (Which they do.) Does that violate Net Neutrality?

If not (and I think most people would say not), what's the difference?

The bare fact that you can argue if there is or isn't a difference already tells you this isn't a clear Net Neutrality case.
And if H1B workers spend their earnings in the US instead of sending that money back home.

What? They're spending no money on rent, food or taxes? How's that possible?

And what about the Americans who save their money?
If you're worried about that, you sure don't want to take an Uber. Take a cab one-two blocks away, pay cash, walk the rest of the way.
Exactly, all they did was add a link underneath the "..." menu to see the canonical URL. Apparently, the whole justification for the Cache is that smaller websites don't have CDNs or developer resources or something?

> For a small site, however, that doesn't manage its own DNS entries, doesn't have engineering resources to push content through complicated APIs, or can't pay for content delivery networks, a lot of these technologies are inaccessible.

https://developers.googleblog.com/2017/02/whats-in-amp-url.h...

However, I work for a publisher that delivers almost all our assets through a CDN, over https, etc... we don't really need our pages to be served through the AMP Cache, we could support users visiting the AMP version of our articles on our site, and hopefully get more second-page visits. I don't get it, who is AMP really for, big publishers or small publishers? If I am already a performance-minded developer, I don't need any of the things AMP provides, but I am forced to implement it for the magic google juice.
How much do you attribute the growth disparity to CPAN literally already having solved most problems vs. the Node community naturally having gaps because they haven't been around as long?
Any insight into whether matcha drinking causes a higher risk of kidney stones? (Drinking matcha is consumption of powdered tea leaves, unlike nearly all other teas where the goal is to steep and then remove the leaves.)

Your oxalate reasoning suggests matcha would be worthy of study with respect to kidney stones but I've never that. I'm genuinely curious because research suggests consuming leaf solids can be very health-supporting in other ways. e.g. including kidney support to slow progression of diabetes, reducing blood lipid & glucose levels, etc.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19735169

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26448271
Because gang members never end up joining gangs because of dire economic need, nor can they be rehabilitated \s

Sure, "community service" might be a poor way to rehabilitate a long-term gang member, and some more extensive process might be needed to re-introduce them to society. But I wouldn't take it as far as saying nobody should ever feel sorry for them or that justice should seek to punish them instead of rehabilitating them. In fact, it seems to me like a tracking bracelet would be quite reasonable at some point in this process, since it would make them a liability for other gang members and thus help keep them away from that environment.
I'm not saying the H1B system isn't abused. It absolutely is, and should be reformed.

What I'm disputing is this notion that there's no shortage of qualified developers. There absolutely is—that's why you see substantial salary growth for senior engineers.

What exactly do you think bootcamps are? They're outsourced developer training programs whose entire business model depends on the high tech salaries.
"Model Railroading is Fun". Said so on the cover of every issue of Model Railroader magazine for decades. They're trying too hard.

Check out Minatur Wunderland, the most elaborate model railroad in the world.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACkmg3Y64_s
Oh, come on. This is a bullshit argument. Hacker News does not have the same audience as The Daily Mail.

Nobody measures things in megagigabytes.

To be truly pedantic, "M" can also mean "mille" or thousand if you're talking about things like CPM. Mixing units like this introduces needless confusion when there's already a SI unit for the job: P.
No, it's not true of most posts in this thread. Many posts in here have details. Admittedly, not enough to take the audience and make them expert enough to understand the breakthroughs. But enough to show there is something real being described.

Re: friendliness -- I believe I expressed the opinion that someone is a charlatan in as friendly of a manner as is possible.
Ice age is coming?
IMO the ASF is better at collecting abandoned failed software while LF has more openwashed corporate code dumps. CNCF is actually legit though because they generally accept technically sound software that is already successful.
The details matter here:

If you are a H-1B dependent employer ( 8 H-1B workers if the company is < 26 total employees, 13 if 26-50, and 15% of workforce if 50+) then:

You can either (1) prove that no US citizen is being displaced and no suitable US citizen could be recruited, or (2) pay the dependent employer exempt minimum wage of $130k.

In the case of (1), or if you are not considered H-1B dependent, you still need to pay the prevailing wage for the job (which as you mentioned is likely low for postdocs).
What's the use case? Recording over the air programming?
I think python adoption is kinda an overreaction to perl 5's warts: for example, too much punctuation switches to too little.

Python does a few things much better than perl 5. The obvious ones are the REPL and support for C bindings. However, I still find it miserable to work with.

Hopefully, perl 6 learned from python's mistakes (as well as from perl 5's mistakes).
Only data in the first viewport is loaded during pre-rendering phase.
But for really caring about something, there's nothing like worrying the spike in white blood cells in your very ill child might be diagnosed as leukemia on Monday.

Some folks are mature enough to develop empathy while completely child-free. Others must have it forced upon them via childbirth. It does, indeed, take all kinds.
Is commenting still possible on HN after two weeks? At some point the discussion closes, right?
They are confusing two different meanings of traffic:
- Advertising: where is the user coming from
- Networking: where is the data being served from

So my guess is that people were worried that Google would steal the advertising traffic and, therefore, revenue.
> the long wait for GreenCard (10 years).

Can you explain this? I'm currently waiting for a greencard.
It starts with the House of Representatives. If you're interested, take a look at: https://swingleft.org/

It shows you the nearest districts and what margin they were won by so you can sign up and get involved between now and the midterms of 2018.
> having the frontend and backend in the same language is big benefit

Hi! Why so?
> Clinton accepted $675,000 from Goldman for 3 talks.

So what? That is what people with her credentials are worth on the speaking circuit. God forbid someone get paid what they are worth, what do you think this is, a meritocracy?

> she could have donated the $675,000 for charity as President Obama did with his Nobel Peace Prize Award money

The Clinton's donated over $15MM to charity over the course of 2008-2015 and paid over 40% of their income as taxes. I'm pretty sure they've done more to help people than you (the average you, for all I know you're Bill Gates) or I ever will.
It's easier for them to use this one:

" NRS 465.075  Use or possession of device, software or hardware to obtain advantage at playing game prohibited.  It is unlawful for any person to use, possess with the intent to use or assist another person in using or possessing with the intent to use any computerized, electronic, electrical or mechanical device, or any software or hardware, or any combination thereof, which is designed, constructed, altered or programmed to obtain an advantage at playing any game in a licensed gaming establishment or any game that is offered by a licensee or affiliate, including, without limitation, a device that:

1.  Projects the outcome of the game;

2.  Keeps track of cards played or cards prepared for play in the game;

3.  Analyzes the probability of the occurrence of an event relating to the game; or

4.  Analyzes the strategy for playing or betting to be used in the game,

Ê except as may be made available as part of an approved game or otherwise permitted by the Commission.

(Added to NRS by 1985, 970; A 2011, 216; 2013, 1317)"

I know about this, as I had a computer aided scheme to beat roulette (I've written about the historical ways of doing this, the first one was developed by Shannon and Thorp). I think the law was passed to prevent use of blackjack computers which were being sold around that time. Best bet would have been the European countries, who largely don't have such laws. I'm assuming the Russians didn't find as many of the vulnerable slot machines there.

Funny the article gave independent confirmation of about how much you could take out of a casino without them noticing; an important number if you ever develop a scheme.
Yes, apparently, 'victimization surveys' are actually a more accurate way of measuring crime than using the stats released by the state.

i.e. 'have you been robbed in the last month or last year' etc.
Top 8 Mobile App Development Trends 2017
WebKit bug to follow on scrolling inertia being different for overflowed elements from the main scroller https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162499
Perl 6 looks very promising. It was an attempt to brush up Perl 5 but became its own language with a very unfortunate name (read: Perl 6 will not replace Perl 5). It has some very interesting features, including the built-in concurrency primitives and the oft-mentioned grammars.

It is still very new (from a release time perspective). I don't expect there are very many large-scale real-world usages yet. I do wish that the Perl 6 community would spend a little more time on advocacy but thankfully there are several books on the way and hopefully that will start breaking out of the echo chamber and introducing the language to the masses.
This entire AMP project is already workaround after workaround, but this gets even worse.

All that would have been required to solve these problems would have been a simple standard for lightweight pages that anyone could implement, and a better ranking for any complying page.

Google could offer the cache optionally, or sites could do their own stuff.

Then, the entire rendering and preload problems could have been improved with a simple JS api to allow for exactly that.

Then none of the rest would have had to be solved, we’d get none of Google’s increased dominance over the web, and we wouldn’t have to put up with thousands of AMP pages loading slower than normal pages (because they bundle fucktons of useless JS) for the sake of improving the loadtimes of a handful of sites.
> I don't get it, who is AMP really for, big publishers or small publishers?

For the users. When looking at search results on mobile I usually go for the AMP ones, regular results take way too long to load.
So that's a consideration, but it's more complicated than that. The H1-B system damages the ability of these workers to negotiate salary and move freely. It's not like H1-B visas represent opening up the labor market - they create disadvantaged labor that can't operate freely in the labor market.

I'm all for actually open borders. Depress wages by allowing brown people access to the job market, fine. Depress wages by exploiting brown people and not giving them access to the same wages as their western counter parts, eh. It's intellectually consistent to be opposed to that.
Lisp Machines had general tree editing facilities.
Just to be precise, those are H-2B visas (it says that right in the article) which is a different program.

https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-worker...
This is exactly the way I learned to practice riffs in jazz solos. You start at half speed, then slowly increase the speed, but only increase the speed if you can play the passage perfectly 3 times in a row at the current speed.

It works amazingly well. It also requires persistence and determination, but so does any type of skill that differentiates you from the average person.
4 liters of tea per day? That's a 250ml cup every hour over a 16 hour day! I like tea but that seems excessive especially if you have to urinate every 20 minutes. Half of every hour of every day you're either drinking or urinating.
I don't think his point is that it's a great source of heat, just that electricity used on the LEDs is either being used as light by the plants, or as heat by the occupants of the house, so in a sense, the waste is minimal
> "We were bound to the employer with no hopes of promotion and the long wait for GreenCard (10 years)."

I don't doubt that many immigrants harbor this impression, but it is wrong. A H1B visa holder can switch companies at any time, by having that company apply to have the visa transferred to them. 99.9% of the time, this doesn't impact your GreenCard wait at all, because your Priority Date can also be transferred to your new Green Card application. I have a friend who has been on a H1B for 8 years, is currently at his 4th job, negotiated a 30% pay bump every time he switched, and still has the same Green-Card priority date that he had from his first application.

The fact that so many H1B workers harbor this misconception, and are afraid to switch jobs, is what gives employers the confidence to abuse their employees. If enough H1B workers start quitting on bad bosses, we'll see some pretty rapid change.
I'm not that familiar with Go, but my guess is that "reference count" here refers to the action that the garbage collector does when it pauses the world (i.e. "count as a reference") rather than the actual paradigm "reference counting".
The US sent the CIA into Syria in 2006 (Bush then continued by Obama) to train and fund opposition forces which resulted in the Arab Spring breaking out in 2011. http://www.csmonitor.com/World/terrorism-security/2011/0418/...

The Syrian civil war is at least in part THE RESULT of US involvement.

I'm not saying the green card holders are acting politically. I'm saying the thousands of people protesting are expressing partisan bullshit selective outrage.

Obama bombed Syria so much we literally ran out of bombs. I'm going to repeat that again for effect. The United States of Bomb-merica bombed Syria so much we ran out of bombs. We're making cluster bombs and selling them to be dropped on these places, weapons which the use of is a war crime in most of the world. For years there's not been an peep out of these people. Now suddenly some people can't travel where they wanted to and it's like the next rise of Hitler. Gimme a break, there's half a million dead on Obama's hands and nobody gave a shit.

The EO was a pretty shit idea. I don't support it and I don't support Trump. If the Judicial is able to clear it up, then that's great. The group(s) I was referring to with the political posturing are the media with frankly disgusting coverage intended to inflame an already delicate situation, and the protesters who are largely their pawns.
Thanks. Your comment has uniquely challenged my skepticism and hesitancy around Perl 6. I mean that with sincerity.
I can't see what you mean in the Table. I can only see 30% of people who had no work experience in the year in question. I presume that you aren't adding up both years. And I presume that you also noticed that ~15% have a disability.

Yeah I'm sure middle class people in India would love to live "as well" as the American poor do. I was talking about the firmly developed world. Bulgaria is the poorest country in the EU and they still have access to free and competent healthcare. Compare that the US where the poor people considered by that table sometimes die because of bad teeth and no immediate access to care.
>The problem is, the GOP's rhetoric is free markets, but their reality is crony capitalism.

I agree with every part of that statement except "the problem is."

>It is ironic that a libertarian is cheering on a protectionist administration to attack economically libertarian/neoliberal corporations (in the SV mold - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Californian_Ideology) who are aligned with a center-left liberal/socially liberal party.

These people are only libertarian when it benefits them personally. And now, because of that, so am I.
"Woefully underdeveloped" is an exaggeration though. There aren't many underdeveloped neighborhoods under 20min from Manhattan, and even then, they're still denser than just about anywhere else in the US.

On the NJ side, Hudson County is very high-density, aside from the Meadowlands which aren't suitable for construction. For one extreme example, Guttenberg NJ technically is the municipality with highest population density in the entire US! Or for a more mundane example, Newport in Jersey City is pretty much all high-rises.

Similar story in Brooklyn for the parts closest by subway to Manhattan. Downtown Brooklyn added so many new giant rental towers that rents actually dropped the past year. Williamsburg got a bunch of waterfront towers last decade and now doesn't have the infrastructure to support more housing. DUMBO is all large buildings that have been converted to lofts. Brooklyn Heights is lower in density, still very few single-family buildings in the first place, and largely landmarked/historic.

Queens is the one place where I'd partially agree with you, but even then, Long Island City has a ton of high-rises. Slightly further out, Sunnyside, Woodside, and Jackson Heights are relatively lower density, yes. But still denser than many major US cities.
From what I see, there are plenty of services for people who want to utilize them. Church is a popular one. So are community centers. And a plethora of social clubs. Or a cheap cafeteria. Getting elderly people out of their house and into social situations is the challenge. At some point, VR could have a real impact on this problem space.
> My C/C++ is too rusty

Pun intended?
The state's exercise of force is typically considered distinct from any other entity's.
> They didn't call it a baby boom for nothing.

Perhaps, but young people are the children of baby boomers so there ought to be more of them.

Statistics seem to show that intuition is correct:

"Millennials have surpassed Baby Boomers as the nation's largest living generation, according to population estimates released this month by the U.S. Census Bureau. Millennials, whom we define as those ages 18-34 in 2015, now number 75.4 million, surpassing the 74.9 million Baby Boomers (ages 51-69)" [1]

That still doesn't mean that there isn't a greater than expected share of elderly citizens in San Fran. Parts of Florida are quite like that.

Were you saying that there are more elderly citizens (51+) in San Fran than young?

[1] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/04/25/millennials-...
Look, I would never say that everyone has to formally study philosophy. But if you're going to talk about philosophy as if you've studied it... you really have to actually study philosophy.
The Pilot earpiece promises instant audio translation
Honestly, I feel that webinars (the ones I've attended at least, mostly from work) can be executed better. Countless times have I have attended a webinar where there was at least on technical difficulty that occurs in which at least 5min of everyone's time is taken up unproductively. You would think that people would at least test or rehearse these things before hand, but I don't know. (As a Software QA Intern for a year and some months, I take pride in testing).

Other than those negatives, I have seen that webinars that are put on by big name companies such as Microsoft, are pretty amazing and interactive. I would like to attend more webinars from the likes of Microsoft. These webinars are interactive and there is an active chat where the presenters are able to show care for the virtual audience in real time.

If you have anymore specific questions, please don't hesitate to ask here or through PM.
Google also had artificially lower salary bands by colluding with other tech companies to not fight for talent.
Are those two equivalent though? As I understand the Schengen Area is about freedom of movement whereas the Commerce Clause is about, well, commerce.
Sure, that's the whole point of being rich: they already have lots of options. So why on earth would the rest of us want to give them any more?
The * characters in your original comment were interpreted as markdown emphasis markers, so they effectively got lost.
It's about more than security updates. And this may seem off topic, but bear with me for a moment.

Smart devices, including but not limited to Smart TVs. The manufacturers need to be legally and financially liable for damages caused by their devices getting hacked and used as a botnet.

When I buy a toaster, I have a reasonable expectation that it won't burn my house down.

When I buy a Smart TV, I have a reasonable expectation that it won't get hacked, become part of a botnet and cause massive damage to someone else, far away that I don't even know.

It is not impossible to build a very secure IoT device. Anyone who has ever gone through PCI compliance to build a web site or anything else that accepts credit card data knows this. It's not impossible. It's just a very high bar to jump over. Demonstrating a similar level of security should be enough to be able to get insurance in case your IoT devices do get hacked and cause harm.

The costs of this would be passed on to consumers. This would make Smart TVs more secure. But I'm also happy to pay more for a toaster that doesn't burn my house down, instead of a super cheap one that is dangerous.

This would either kill smart TVs as an economical consumer item, or it would make them very secure. If it kills them, then the data / privacy issue is solved -- to move this back on topic.
Murder is usually the one crime stat that can't be fudged - the saying in public policy circles is "you can't hide a body". You can downgrade an assault to a public order disturbance, you can just fail to log thefts, but when someone dies it gets into too many databases to remove from the stats.

Most murders are not of the sort where it's unclear if it was murder at all. Someone's stabbed, beaten, shot, etc.
Not really.

Usually, in such a situation, you can fail early, and you can log a warning.

The alternative, of trying to fix the developers error with heuristics, almost always ends with worse security-critical bugs.

There’s a reason people advocate for strict typing, and proper errors, and not PHP’s "any unreferenced constant is of type string with its name being its content".
I'm not so sure about the "literally doesn't exist" part, schools have been buying educational video games for decades.

25 years ago I played educational games that look conceptually identical to the kind on supermathworld and mathbreakers. I built space stations, launched rockets, battled monsters, and even learned geography and critical reasoning skills to catch the elusive Carmen Sandiego.

Graphics and gaming capabilities were a bit different on the Apple IIe though :)

A friend of mine organizes a conference on educational games which sounds up your alley, check out: http://intentionalplaysummit.com/
This is an awesome way of taking systems that have been around forever and using them in a new and different way.
I don't know, but you might be right.