skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general you are correct, but there are still easy cases where reversing is trivial.

For example if the shared output is the average (AVG = (X1 + X2) / 2). If I know X1 and AVG, I can easily calculate X2 (X2 = AVG * 2 - X1).

However, usually you want to calculate something more interesting, that depends on more variables, so you won't get an exact number on the other parties secret inputs.
he's so dreamy
typical commuter mindset. me and my needs are above everybody's else because... i have a car?
Trump resumes Nixon’s war on American news media
plz stop, gop.
true, but marketing is not superseded completely by product quality and product/market fit. You also need to make people aware of your product and make a strong value proposition.
What is better than VS? PHPStorm etc?
Great point to consider geography and the urban environment. In the suburb I grew up in there were no sidewalks, and a few woodsy areas around my parents house were quickly developed and turned into more suburban dwellings, so there really wasn't anywhere to roam.
I remember seeing a clip of a cop walking up to a car only to get a shotgun unloaded into him as he reached the window to ask for license etc.

Next time he does a traffic stop you can bet he's going to be humourless and aggressive in making sure that the drivers hands are visible - probably with his hand on his weapon. I expect most of the colleagues who spoke to him would also let this influence their attitude.

Being from the UK probably helps - but I have tremendous sympathy for anyone policing under those conditions and how hard it must be to maintain balance.
I really don't think it's some sort of conspiracy: it's just that it's more efficient for someone to grow all your food, someone to make all your clothes, someone to purify all your water, someone to generate all your electricity &c. while you do what you do best than it is for you to learn how to do all of those things, acquire the raw materials and spend decades trying to make a computer from some copper, oil and sand.

I recall that Mao Zedong tried to get every farmer to smelt his own iron, which rather predictably led to a lot of poor-quality iron, and a food shortage.

I get the appeal of self-sufficiency, I really do (one of my dreams is to grow all of my own food), but I think it's a luxury for the rich and inescapable misery for the poor. Modern capitalism has made everyone richer.
I love VIM - does this wiki plugin compare to the emacs org mode? (I've heard a lot about it but never used it)
However will you overcome such a grievous inconvenience?!
The new Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition is the little Linux laptop that can
> Hopefully we will eventually learn discrimination is a Bad Idea.

... including discrimination against boys/men - which quota regulation and "women only" programs are (imagine the outcry if one would replace "women only" by "white people only").
Thank you for reporting. Fixed it.
Past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11445389
might?
https://www.syncplicity.com/ took off when it targeted a niche that Dropbox didn't: business users.

The other half of the story was that Syncplicity basically replaced network file shares for small Mom and Pop companies that didn't want to hire a consultant every time the network file server. Its premium support was much easier and cheaper to work with than bringing in a consultant.

So, I would summarize as: Target a niche that your competitor isn't targeting, and at the same time, find a product to replace that your customers will be happy to see go.
Indeed it is and not just for that. When I developed the firmware for our my company's laser product I exhaustively used the Tek graphics support for debugging purposes. Kind of neat if you've got only a serial connection and have to plot graphs. Much better than dumping it into a file and plotting it with gnuplot.
Very true, didn't spot that one. Then the C code is probably a typo, but still incorrect. :P
Plus some Hollywood stars that wouldn't know about politics if it bit their arse.
America's tech dominance is at least partly due to the ability to offer stock options without the employees having to pay tax until they vest isn't it? Other countries mostly make you pay the tad on the value of the option when you receive it don't they?
Depending on the city, it's a thing in China. Some areas will have so many cars and scooters parked on the sidewalk that everyone walks in the street.
Boston Dynamics' “nightmare inducing” robot
As a non-American, I would be delighted. No need to have some single, powerful, 10000-pound gorilla have dominance over tech.
I can't think of any way to answer this question in a meaningful way.

SaniCMS sounds like something for sanitation, btw.

> [...] they seemed to be cautious to not say something that criticizes the product.

Well yeah. In general, people don't want to come across as sounding critical. The feedback loop is a two-way street--the responsibility for gathering accurate, honest feedback doesn't lie just on the people you're trying to sell it to.

> The church is too cautious to try out new things.

That's a pretty broad brush. It sounds like you put a lot of eggs in a fairly small basket. That's not generally the most effective approach, while understanding it's good to have at least someone on board before going broader.

> They preferred buying the product but at a very low price or getting it for free.

Huh. That's so weird.

Regarding Notisha: there seems to be nothing "faith-based" at all around a Q&A app. While having a target market is swell, if your focus is too narrow, you're missing a ton of potential opportunity.

At this stage in your startup mentality, I think attempting a sale might be the best approach. Startups require grit, unwavering dedication, and a willingness to stay with it.

You already have the app and the infrastructure: why can't you float it on the side?
>Considering the number of SV companies founded by immigrants, we would have to look to decades, not years, to see the effects of this policy.

So, in other words it will be insignificant?

>If the policy is wrong, it will be far too late to fix it once the results are clear. Foreign founders would simply go back to their home countries (or more reasonable alternatives, like Canada or Germany), and work in startup clusters there.

And we'll lose the nth social site, Uber for X, or fad app?
There's nothing wrong with features that give you access to the wider operating system. Like it or not, the modern operating system is more than just terminals and CLI tools, and there's no reason to be condescending to those who don't live exclusively in the terminal.

A large part of what makes iTerm2 popular is how well it works in tandem with MacOS. Things like cmd+click to open (useful because you can use it on data that was spat out from a previous command invocation), paste filtering, and the fantastic built-in multiplexer/tabbing system.

That said, most of what makes MacOS users like iTerm2 just wouldn't be as useful on any other operating system, because its so tightly coupled to the wider OS.
Google IMA and Video Advertising Is Dropping Flash
All law systems or the ones that come from UK law?

I was under the impression that in french or german law it's more about resolving disputes (who owes whom how much) and punishing "uncivil" but not necessarily criminal behavior (like not respecting agreement).
Things that a student coming to US faces from a developing or under-developed country:

1. Undergo TOEFL and GRE and apply to various universities

2. Save up enough money or even mortgage parents property to pay for tuition and even buy flight tickets

3. Adapt to a new culture, study hard while working part time

4. Finding a job (While its definitely easy for a CS graduate its not the same for other majors) but yet, cannot be eligible to many companies that don't want to sponsor visa in long term, not eligible for small startups with no e-verify.

5. Make sure you do all the paper work with OPT, be updated on travel requirements and other stuff

6. Cannot switch jobs easily and should find an employer that has offices outside USA in case of no luck in lottery

7. Apply for H1B twice or even thrice just to find out that you did not get it!

So much of hard work and planning just to find out that it all comes down to luck in the literal sense.
Breaks in FF when zooming.
Minimalism is a tempting proxy for performance, but it often isn't. rg/ag/pt aren't some of the fastest file searchers around because they're short and don't pull cool tricks.

Another example: GNU vs BSD grep, from the author's mouth: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-Aug...

Regex matching: https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html

(It's arguable that a backtracking implementation is not the simplest, although I think it is -- and even if it is, a FSA compiler clearly isn't!)

And, finally: people tell me Clojure is slow, and I tell them that it lets me write correct concurrent algorithms I understand. (See alioth shootout results.)
you mean pretext
Without children the human species will simply die. If that's your goal or an accepted side-effect of your goal, then Antinatalism makes sense.

If you don't want humanity to die, then it is far too simplistic and it would actually be wrong to not value people having children -- at least to some degree -- since as far as we know it is the only way for humanity to continue.

In reality, as with most things, there is a lot of grey area and difference of circumstance that factor into the morality of such a decision.
Salesforce acquires Sequence to build out its UX design services
> You no longer have to ask year after year for a new certificate.

Now you have to ask every three months.
that is impossible in real world. if you go 50 kmh in 50 kmh zone, and small kid jumps 2m in front of your car suddenly, there is nothing anybody or any software can do. if it's 5m, would you rather crash and kill the parents than the kid? what about 2 kids?

it's dangerous direction of thoughts, meaning kids won't have to be careful when outside. but you have bikes, you have tons of other dangers.
Unfortunately this salary requirement means immigration will turn even more into a pay-to-play kind of deal. If you have money (or skills/education) borders disappear and if you're broke you're stuck in a place that offers no decent opportunities.

America was built on "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free", and this H-1B change is another step away from that.
Timing is suspect. We've known this for a long time.
Hey, thanks for pointing out. I added the reference.
Probably they have been doing well below 100kU$S in benefits, because surely if they cant land a 100k gig and can land a 60k one, they have lower skills.

Its reasonable to feel discontent with such companies, but if there were free movement of people working lawfully they would still be compelled to hire immigrants. Its only frowned upon because the government said so. If the government says you can get H1B's with 50k salary, we wouldnt be talking about it.
They'd probably be better off hiring a "backup engineer" to go through all of their systems (end to end) ensuring full backups exist and work for everything.

Instead of backing up every system in isolation, have well though out backup/restore processes for all parts of their operation.

Saying that as someone who's done exactly this before (professionally, for mission critical places). ;)

eg:

· Inventory the systems (boxes, services, etc)

· Determine what each needs (package dependencies, etc)

· Create scripting (etc) for consistent backups

· Work out the restore processes

· Make it work (can take several test/dev iterations)

· Document it

And also (importantly):

· Have the ops staff perform the documented processes, to reveal holes in the docs, and show up parts which need simplifying
I use st & I made a video about tmux since I am dependent on it :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCvFw3hfvxU
Sort of.

On the other hand, on a national or global scale having children is not optional.

If you want your species to continue, some people have to have children.

That said, I agree in that I believe contraception should be essentially free to anyone who wants it. There's simply no logical reason for society to bring unwanted and superfluous children into the world.
Fine should be punishing for the offender and money should go to national central bank.
The trouble with FreeBSD
The folks over at /r/selfhosted made a similar list of (mostly) web applications you can selhost:
https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted
Learning .Net now and this is one of the things that that I like about it: sometimes the error messages is a lot clearer and sometimes they include suggested solutions.
The Irish are just as crazy, they pass busses at highway (should I say motorway?) speeds on what I would call a one lane road. The busses suck together when they pass. It's terrifying.
man, it is pretty disheartening that the majority seems to think it is good that the gop is backing the despot.
Because of the severity of the issue we decided to roll out WAF rules for all our customers (i.e. including those that don't get the WAF because they are on a free plan): https://blog.cloudflare.com/protecting-everyone-from-wordpre...

Currently, we are seeing people probing this vulnerability.
Yes, this is mostly my experience as well. I had a delivery truck driver get out and start yelling abuse because I banged on the back of his vehicle to alert him that he nearly knocked a woman off her bike a couple days ago.

This isn't rare, either - there's at least 1 shouted interacted per week.

It's no wonder my friends are afraid to get on the roads/their bikes.
I think it's $130K, which is 2x as much as before. It's senior level salary in IT (and I think for lawyers and MD's it's not starting salary either), in some cases/states Principal level. I would not invite H1B on that position, I would get one from local market for that amount of money. If you follow the line: it simply says do not use H1B more. Plus, what international student will do once he completes the college, and with quarter of million in debts (say Bachelor only) ? As is now, H1B. Will you hire college fresh grad for 130K ? Don't think so. So...who will come to the college from overseas to study and brig their passion and ideas on this land ? This is USA, this IS a country made, constructed and developed by excellence and hard work of immigrants with their hopes and dreams. Cutting that idea off, putting the country and society in the mood of "preservation", could result in dangerous outcome, as society is not ready for that. This is not Europe and will never be, the rules that work there are not applicable on this land. There is no a notion of "nation" in USA, there is no such thing. It's just a colony of immigrants moved away from their homes to build something they could not there. This is a dream land, this is an opportunity land and should remain such for everyone.
Lottie wrapper for React Native
How To: Download Your Entire iTunes Music Library
US Tech: We need the brightest blah blah ...

US Gov: Fine, Big Co with $15b in yearly profits, if he's so bright then pay him at least $150K a year. If he's not worth that much then he's not that special.
That's very different, though. I trust the company/organization that had to fire an employee for a horrible mistake. They are going to be very careful with who they hire or let near the code in the future, and had much more to lose than a single person.

But I don't trust the employee that was shown forgiveness for a horrible mistake. Some might learn to not repeat what they had done, while others learn that they can get away with things through the magical power of phrasing the situation in a positive light. And some might be mistake-makes-for-life. Not all people come out the other side stronger.
As long as there is a cap on these visas, they should be distributed in the most efficient manner, i.e. through an auction. Anything else is wasteful.
Uber shares data of its 2B rides
There seems to be a downvote brigade on us React disparagers. Try not to worry too much about. We're releasing faster than them anyway ;)
This is exactly why setroubleshootd exists. It literally does what you suggest :-)
Exactly. It seem that the justice is served but it's just a side offect of money making scheme for lawyers that taxes economy and exacts undue burden on actual justice system.
In practice, it's necessary that it be sufficient for the vast majority of the cases.

And in the vast majority of the cases, it is. Immigrants from the 7 countries that Obama designated in the Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015 [1], and authorized suspension of entry for, make up a tiny fraction of visas.

[1] https://www.niacaction.org/update-frequently-asked-questions...
https://sethfrantzman.com/2017/01/28/obamas-administration-m...
> Discrimination.

So it's a problem in CS but not in education or healthcare, where women are the majority?
How to prepare for sales calls
hey, I myself have also been work remotely for 10 months now. Do you mind me asking what tech-stack you are using?
You can search for "closed:1" in the search box and that apparently lists all the closed proposals. That search returns 59 proposals that were suggested then closed.

However there seems to be two types of "Closed". I'd also search for just "closed" and in the results there are proposals with a grey box and the word "Closed" which aren't in the "closed:1" results. There's eleven of those. So over time it appears there's been 70 or so proposals suggested that never made it to beta launch.

There may be more that age, eventually fall off the front end and are "deleted" and possibly not visible to low rep users, much in the same way the rest of the sites work, i.e. you need at least 10k to be able to see deleted posts [0]. I've only got 1350 rep in Area51 so there may be very old deleted proposals I can't see.

[0]: http://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/moderator-tools
Silly Putty with Sensing Capabilities
Rivers of high-speed traffic in the city? Dude, I feel like I can't allow my kids to walk alone to school that's four blocks over in my own neighborhood without some nanny state enabler calling child services on me.

Hell, I don't let them play in the front yard and wonder how long it'll be before I get the knock on the door because I let them play unsupervised in the fenced backyard with a trained full-grown German shepherd on watch.

Things are seriously screwed up.
How is it suspect? We now have a president with authoritarian tendencies, it makes sense to be worrying about this now.
Agreed. Curation is done with the mind not the hand. And since there's no other way to do it, you can drop the mind and just say curated.
I agree H1s should get Green Cards much faster. The visa employee should also have more flexibility in changing jobs, including when his GC is being processed.

I don't like the "staple a green card" proposals for anyone who gets a STEM masters degree though. Many US Universities have already turned into masters degree mills for people trying to get visas. If Universities were allowed to sell Green Cards the problem would become much much worse.
Dailyfintech.com is quite good
Thanks, but I'm looking for investments in the project.
Or. Just google child predators in your neighborhood. Some states require these databases updated regularly. Statistically you should have one within walking distance. Sleep tight!
The H1B as it is has many problems, but a big salary floor is not the way to go in my opinion. Remember H1B is not just for tech workers. If you want to hire, say, an interpreter of a specific foreign language to work on a community in rural Alabama temporarily, a $100,000 minimum wage would be absurd.

They instead need to go after the companies that learned to game the system. I'm not sure what the solution is here. A point/demand-based system like other countries have is probably wise, but given the share of mind the US still has in potential emigrants worldwide, and the breadth of different positions available, it'd be a pretty complex (and likely unfair) one.
The thread you are looking for is "Who wants to be hired?": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13541681
Zerohedge? I feel like they cater less to fintech types then they do to perpetual doom and gloom types.
I always wish the readme included a real-world example to help make the libraries more accessible.
Well, you're certainly painting a very black and white picture here.
Fines are good way to correct behavior because people generally hate loosing money. The problem starts only when that money is transferred to some other party that can influence the process in any way (even the victim, definitely police or lawers).
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About the Team
We are a small team tackling big problems. We’re an open source shop using Rails and Ember to continuously deliver our app to desktop and mobile devices from AWS. We use MySQL, S3, and Redis for our data and ElasticSearch for searching. The team works together on front and back-end features, collaboration and communication are important. Every piece of code is peer-reviewed and automated tests are encouraged. We move fast with several deployments a day.

About the Product
We are creating an application that improves the lives of military members and veterans by allowing them to build out their professional network, connect with other members of the military and veterans in a safe environment, and explore career opportunities both within the military (PCS opportunities) and in the private sector.

techjobs@rallypoint.com http://stackoverflow.com/jobs/130695/senior-software-enginee...
Good stuff there.
Other good links:
http://perltricks.com
https://www.effectiveperlprogramming.com
https://github.com/hachiojipm/awesome-perl
https://metacpan.org/pod/Task::Kensho

DuckDuckGo.com, booking.com and cpanel.com are some big Perl users.
That assumes that the sole reason America has tech dominance is because of international diversity. But we've always been tech dominant, and according to many people we're not even diverse.
If they still have the Rhapsody tech, it's not strict emulation, it's more like transliteration / JIT; much like Transmeta were working on, IIRC.
> If you want your species to continue, some people have to have children.

But only as many as society really needs (currently we have to many) and and only if there exist people that are willing to bail if the child will be unemployed (a risk that will increase with even more automatization).
I've browsed r/altright before the ban and frankly, the ban was a very positive action for the whole website.
Given how often people complain about the modern web being app-centric, despite HTML, CSS and JS being meant for a document-centered model (and JS really only existing as a gimmick to sell Netscape,) I've been wondering just how well (or poorly) the web model could work with streaming applications.

In other words, instead of hacks that replicate a UI in the browser, have something that isn't a browser but acts like it, and source code repositories at URLs instead of documents which compile and run per request, or session (if you want to "cache" them,) or whatever. This would differ from embedded applets, flash or similar in that you would be pointing to code rather than streaming and running binaries, which would enable the user to view or possibly modify the source code before running.

Probably a terrible idea for numerous reasons, or it more or less already exists and I just don't know about it (which is not unlikely) but it might be interesting to see how it might work, and it would be far closer to the FOSS ideal than the web, for which you can't actually see or modify anything other than the result of requests.