skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder, if there were more data center capacity in the state, would that help?

For example, take Tracy, or some of the land around SR 46 west of Lost Hills: If a cloud provider built facilities there, that would add a fairly constant draw on the state's power supply, with some small flexibility[1]. I wonder if that would be enough to reduce CA electricity prices (as weird as that might sound).

[1]: In the case of AWS, imagine if there were a power shortage, they could respond by massively increasing spot prices, causing load shedding, and allowing hardware to shut down.
For international flights, they already get this information from the immigration/border control.

For domestic flights, there's no reason tickets can't be anonymous. Here in Japan tickets are sold cash and there are no ID checks on flights and the country seems to be doing fine on the security front.
I think the number one obstacle to this is it would be nowhere near viable from the costs perspective.

No one really wants to build cargo ships right now, shipping companies are barely staying afloat right now because there is a glut of cargo capacity.

This technology would need to be cheap enough that it would make sense to retrofit a ship with it... which would probably not be the case for a very long time.

I do think it's a very thought provoking idea however.
That's completely not true - the programs goal is to bring in skills that are not available in the market. The fact that it's being used to reduce the cost of the skills is arguably an unintended consequence (though my personal opinion is the lobby that helped make H1-B a reality fully intended this consequence).

A much better use for these visas would be to bring in workers we need at competitive US salaries. There are plenty of positions that need filling that would still make sense to pay full market salary for. (Speaking from personal experience trying to find certain skill sets in LA.)
I manage a dev team. I don't care how many hours they work. I don't measure when anyone comes in or when they go home.

I care about output. We don't pay people to sit at desks. We pay people to write code. Writing code is a creative endeavour - good code can occur in the shower as that sudden realisation strikes about how to refactor the messy state engine.

Insisting that people sit at desks until the boss leaves is a really strong signal of bad company culture, and probably bad code.

Because development is creative, it is affected by mental state. Worrying about the kids or the bus timetable is counter-productive (you're not thinking about code, you're thinking about what your colleagues will make of you running to the bus). Good development environments minimise these worries, allowing developers to focus on writing code.
Am I the only one here who thinks that a person has a basic right to work with whoever and wherever they want regardless of their birthplace? Is discriminating against someone based on where they were born somehow less of a fallacy than discriminating based on skin color, etc. ?
The H-1B is for filling skill gaps, not economic incentive.
What, specifically, would the drone inspect? The only thing I can imagine a drone being useful for is inspecting the roof and chimney. And that's counting on the home inspector being too lazy too get on a ladder. In fact, most of them just use binoculars and call it a day. You really need a licensed professional who knows the local codes and is experienced enough to know what to look for. I don't see home inspections getting either fully or partially automated any time soon. The value-add just isn't there.
I guess linux desktop should have a UI just like chromeOS , Period.
Designing UI requires different talent , more than just blurb
Actually, the CPMs are probably fairly low compared to the high-dollar CPMs IMDB gets on its main movie pages. And half the time the discussion isn't really branded per se, it's just banter between fans (or trolls). Forums can create high engagement from a pageview standpoint, but the content isn't really "controlled", so the CPMs are (I'm guessing) rather minuscule in the grand scheme of things.
There's MouseSquad or local IT. A lot of computer problems tend to be more hardware or require reboot or physically attaching disks/usb to the machine for troubleshooting.
Twitter apps on mobile devices can surface near-to-you Tweets. This is incredibly helpful in emergency situations.

A couple years back there were, literally, a dozen police cars on my street and traffic blocked in all directions. I discovered on Twitter searching Tweets near to me that a man had barricaded himself in an apartment around the corner. He had a hostage and when he started lighting the apartment on fire, the SF SWAT team killed him. [0]

More info on event from The SFist. [1]

[0] https://twitter.com/galactic/status/200451986838138880

[1] http://sfist.com/2012/05/09/homicide_suspect_has_standoff_wi...

EDIT: Link layout. Spelling. Reduce number of single-sentence paragraphs. Reword fourth sentence.
Here is my process:

1. Search my competitors and collect 3-4 ToS pages

2. Read each of them and copy their paragraphs into mine

3. Re-word some to make sure my ToS is unique. If something is too confusing or too much, delete.

4. Stop worry about it until my startup gets some traction.

The whole process should not take more than 2-3 hours. If you pay $$ or take days on ToS while your startup is not even getting traction, you're doing something seriously wrong (in term of time spent).
Nice try NSA!

Facebook is the creepiest site ever. It's way more than the Stasi could have ever hoped for.

On top of that, the interface makes my brain hurt.
Here's my wishlist, not sure if there is a market for it:

- Twitter w/out fake accounts.

- a marketplace that uses Facebook as a vehicle for engagement/promotion but which operates independently.

- Secure SMS for 2FA tokens

- Android w/out Play Services

- Schema-based email

- Stripe for the rest of the World
ML in CRUD apps. Doesn't have to be fancy, doesn't have to be sophisticated. I think you could do a lot to make basic business tasks more efficient with some basic decision trees.
Isn't that what Walmart, BJ, Macys' or any chain retail store doing?
GRAT loophole is not just a "family trust," and it doesn't make estate/gift tax trivial to avoid. It is ridiculous that it persists though.
Question: I've seen a large amount of hype around chat bots, but is there any evidence that "normal" people really use these for anything more than novelty, excluding the realm of Amazon echo et al.
To discourage foreigners buying property? A giant reason for home prices in California being so high are all the regulations restricting zoning, building codes, etc. Real changes would never really happen to "increasing affordable" homes really, as no rational homeowner wants to see their home values decrease.

On the side for demand, it's clear California's coast is the "chic" place for people to be. Not to mention relatively safe investment spot to stash foreign money away.
I'd use OSX if it could do focus follow mouse and had a trackpoint.
No. Lots of people who haven't thought about the consequences for their nation or their families or who simply don't care agree with you.

It's especially common among young people that want to display their virtuous radicalism and who haven't ever really had to pay for the bad consequences of anyone's actions.
I believe that is why he/she said they haven't seen someone do this well yet...
In the future, will corporations do more of whatever service that governments traditionally do for its people?
We already have a 15% cushion as the article and the parent comments state. That is plenty for any conceivable jump in demand. A large state like california does not change that fast. And all the present technological trends are for lower demand, not higher.
Hmmm... I've flow a ton in the EU and always had to show ID that matched the name on the ticket.

I did fly in SE Asia a few times where no ID was required and the name didn't have to match.
The same way SF companies aren't hiring developers in Houston at a lower cost.

If employee cost is the issue, then a company is abusing the H-1B. It's for filling skill gaps, not lower costs.
Not all incentives are socially productive. My guess is that if that particular incentive were cancelled out, people would still have plenty other ones to drive private enterprise. And there would be significantly fewer people lucking into enormous amounts of unearned resources.
I saw the text of Jimmy Carter's Voyager message recently, and I was struck by the introduction:

"This Voyager spacecraft was constructed by the United States of America. We are a community of 240 million human beings among the more than 4 billion who inhabit the planet Earth. We human beings are still divided into nation states, but these states are rapidly becoming a single global civilization."

It wasn't very long ago that the idea that it was desirable for borders to one day disappear was common enough that the President could say so on behalf of Earth. I suppose this was also the era where things like the Schengen visa came into existence. I haven't heard many people on any side of the political spectrum express such an idea recently, unfortunately, and I think that's a goal that the left has conceded without entirely realizing it was conceding anything.
Don't use the apps, use cups directly. It's not right but it'll get you printing.

http://localhost:631
Tensorflow?
> Once i was the only one left, i basically said fuck it.

I'm amazed it took you that long.

> Going from 7 to 7 to a 9 to 5 day increased my productivity, happiness and income.

Wait what, 'fuck it' meant 'I'm cutting back to a 40-hour work week', not 'I'm walking away and not coming back except on a contract rate 10x what I'm currently being paid'?
You aren't comparing lengths in a sunburst -- you're comparing angles. A sunburst is a flame graph using polar coordinates. And that a slice with a smaller angle (value) but a deeper depth (from the root) is printed visually larger than a slice closer to the root is confusing.

A flame graph box at different depths can be compared directly.
First, please let me apologize for my ill-considered and rude comment... cringe.

Thank you for explaining. Wow, so much to chew on here. The naming conventions and trains sound really interesting. I can see how having a lot of the code visible on one screen would be a fantastic advantage. Again thanks for writing this up. Obviously I didn't find your code transparent at first glance, but clearly if one takes the time to understand what you are doing, the approach has its benefits. I look forward to reading more of what you post. And you've got me intrigued about APL.
If Marine LePen is qualified for the second round the deferral of votes on are competing is virtually systematic "Republican Front". In 2002 this system gave a result of banana republic.
Oh, it's definitely fake money. Sorry for the misunderstanding
Probably, but only so long as it's profitable.
Californians are paying a lot of money for things they don't need. A high speed train, subsidies for dairy and what not.
Many of the same things as five years ago.

While it's easy to say IoT, cryptocurrency, or whatever the latest buzzwords happen to be—there's ideas that have been floating around for years which are still viable, it's just that they're hard and require exceptional execution. In that sense, they are almost timeless until implemented correctly.

For example, another comment suggested marketplace/content discovery. That's been an unsolved problem for almost a decade now. Ads are another great example: they've been dishing out human misery for about the same length of time. People hate them, so they use ad blockers, and everyone loses. These aren't new problems or opportunities.
Both have stayed pretty consistent over the last decade from what I've seen.

I used LXDE until they removed the tree panel in the file manager, many years ago. After having left KDE because another update that killed my workflow and reading that GNOME was not any better for this matter, it made me abandon Linux desktop completely, after two years of exclusive use.

I wonder if they brought the tree back, but... too late.
It's more common among young people because they aren't yet invested in entitlements.

Most people think of SS and other entitlements as being something they have earned and they don't want them shared with others.

Everyone wants a handout. Most people just want to pretend like they earned it.
Didn't most stocks shoot up? Dow had hit a historic highest point lately also apparently.

So one hand we have proven active lobbying, proven "tough on crime" stance and strong support for "three strikes" law, on the other hand, stocks generally shoot up after election.

But even looking at stocks, GEO is up a bit higher than what it was last year. CXW is just back to where it was last year this time. Did you see other stocks there? Those are the two I know about.

US Steel for example went from 7-9 range to 30. Now that's a solid difference. Google was 650 now in 800s. Is Google also supporting Trump... who knows, fire up the presses (really doubt it).
> the theory is that they will hire the people who already live in the US, presumably people who already have citizenship

Another option is that companies simply don't hire at all i.e. they wind back projects and reduce potential growth opportunities. I've actually seen this first hand so always a bit mindful of seemingly simple or obvious decisions.

Especially since permanent staff who are OPEX and increase headcount are very different to contract staff who are CAPEX and don't. And many H1B visas are quite willing and happy to be contractors since the US may not be their life long home. That's very different for a US citizen.
Why do you want a 50% buffer on the 15% buffer?

And it's not very little money. It says $6.5 billion more, which I think is an annual number.
This seems like a reply with relatively little information content: lots of people who haven't thought about consequences agree with all sorts of political opinions. I could easily accuse young people who wear any candidate's or political concept's apparel of wanting to display their virtuous radicalism, but that's hardly a useful criticism of the candidate or concept.

I suppose you're attempting to imply that people who have thought about the consequences, or who do care, or who are old people who have had to pay for the bad consequences of people's actions, are unlikely to agree. Is there a reason, is there evidence, to believe that much more interesting claim? Or is this merely an accusation of "virtue signaling"?
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Just learn the default key bindings.
The Linux Desktop was never a thing so how could it be killed?
Should we send ships and bring the entire population of Somalia here? It really is a difficult life there, there's no functioning government.

I mean that as a sincere question for the open borders folks. Seriously if that's what everyone wants, and it's democratically chosen, it's the right choice. But I wonder if that's really what the open borders folks want.

And how much of the world have you visited?
Mousesquad has shutdown, that's the first google result. I don't see results for localit related to computer.

About your comment, imagine that the app can know my location, and pair me with a local expert, if the expert has to go to the other person home to fix their computer the price increases.
I have a certain level of sympathy for unemployed Americans who the government could be retraining as technology workers. There are some H-1B workers who legitimately have skills that are highly valuable and uncommon within the U.S., but the majority seem to employed by large contracting firms who specialize in bringing in folks to perform relatively simple labor.

I have much less sympathy for folks already in the tech industry who are complaining about this. Tech is basically the most overpaid career there is. And not because it's especially hard or valuable, but because as soon as some CEO starts getting the idea that they could be the next Mark Zuckerberg then all rational thought goes out the window.

Hiring developers is basically rich people's version of blowing all their money on lottery tickets. The entire industry is completely unregulated despite putting the nation's critical infrastructure and economy in grave danger, which artificially drives up wages by externalizing the risk onto everyone else. And H-1B workers are placing basically zero downward pressure on wages as far as I can tell.
Thanks for the compliment :)
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Move to Australia, where we have a standard audible pedestrian signal/button design used nationally...

http://theconversation.com/sublime-design-the-pb-5-pedestria...
Assembly? Hell, I did mine in microcode, VHDL, and telepathy using a tachyon-driven IDE. It was done before I started.
It's not as easy for many to just delete their Facebook account. For instance, people use it for their jobs, to find work, or even to use the Facebook Workplace app. For some, it's a cheap and efficient way to communicate with friends or family. However, I agree that it's critical to mind what data you share on Facebook.

People post so many things, and they don't realize how the data is being interpreted, or how it could be taken out of context and viewed the wrong way.

For people who do decide to use Facebook, check out this app to find any posts you might not want to be associated with your account: https://wwwrepnup.com
This is wage dumping. The article explains the problem perfectly i.e. a 130K job is replaced by a 60K job. Call this globalisation and efficient markets if you like. However, on a personal note, if Trump manages to put in place policies to make it more of a level playing field and stops some of the greed which CEOs apply when replacing jobs with outsourcing contracts then I think he may have found a policy which will carry a lot of favour with middle class workers.
Can we stop with the implicit assumption that children are the only valid reason to have a life outside of work?

I cook dinner, read fiction, take weekend live audio gigs, took motorcycle class and bought one. I plan to learn to sail, get an amateur radio license, pick up an instrument, and (money permitting) earn a private pilot rating. Oh, and see friends who are not coworkers. And date.

When I program outside of work, it's in a domain or part of the stack I wish I knew more about, i.e. not what I'm doing at work.

My on-call shifts are scheduled well in advance. When I'm not on call, work stays in its timebox.

We all deserve to live full lives, not just parents.
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This gets at the heart of the matter: "mesh networking" means a bunch of different things. It started out meaning a network composed of mobile devices with omnidirectional antennas, running an ad-hoc routing protocol. This is probably why OP said it has limits, as such a network will be slow and lose a lot of bandwidth with every hop. These days, it's mostly a phrase used when people are excited about networking technologies.
How else would one view the Social Security program that you are paying into?

You can even go into SSA.gov and see how much you have "earned".
At one point some folks within Spotify released a very impressive Spotify client which exactly mimicked the old Winamp 2 user interface. However it Seems to have silently vanished from the internet. https://news.spotify.com/us/2013/12/20/spotiamp-long-live-th...
I don't think the doves are creating space junk. They're not high enough to maintain an orbit for more than a year (?) or so. Maybe a few years in the more odd orbits. They experience significant atmospheric drag, and are small enough to just burn up on reentry.
I believe this is the correct answer. The people in the "crowd" holding the torches were also dancing in synchronization with parts of the music, so they obviously practiced beforehand and I'm tempted to assume they each had an assigned spot to stand in at certain times. Given that they were in predetermined positions, the LED synchronization would be trivial.
This comment seems interesting! Unfortunately I have no idea what you are saying. Can you unpack the acronyms for me?
An IoT database requires the intersection of three software capabilities in a single platform, which have varying degrees of accessibility (the technology exists in principle) and none are available in open source currently.

- An exabyte-scale storage engine. Nothing too exotic here technically and a few companies have built them, but the design needs to address continuous data corruption, continuous hardware failure, geo-federation, etc.

- A real-time database kernel that supports very high throughput for mixed workloads. A production kernel of this type doesn't currently exist though several people working in closed source databases understand the necessary computer science in principle; the academic literature is far behind the state-of-the-art. The ability to gracefully shift load and transients between servers under full load with many millions of writes per second is not trivial.

- Native discrete topology operators. Necessary for geospatial analytics, sensor coverages, etc. If you can do it natively in the database kernel, it makes the second requirement easier to achieve since you don't need secondary indexing generally.

Any solution even halfway toward the general solution would be viable. The value possible if you have such a system is hard to overestimate. Companies have paid half a million dollars for the output of a single analytic query on tens of trillions of IoT records; the differentiator was that it was possible to execute such a query at all.

It is extremely high-end and polymathic computer science, but serious valuable if you can make a credible dent in it. And unlike some advanced topics in computer science, there are no epic unsolved theoretical problems you have to solve, though some relevant computer science may be unpublished.
I meant geek squad at best buy. I still remember the old mouse squad learning program (but not entirely dead it's just launched with a different initiative). Thanks for correcting.
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Those weren't localized to seat location, like that of the super bowl show.
> I haven't heard many people on any side of the political spectrum express such an idea recently, unfortunately, and I think that's a goal that the left has conceded without entirely realizing it was conceding anything.

Because there are some really big problems in practice. The biggest is wealth inequality at a global scale, there are several billion people in poor countries who would happily move to western nations, likely causing negatives for the poor and rich countries.

The other is that the more me learn about each other the bigger the cultural divide is/seems. The religious right is often derided in the west, but imagine if it was the whole world voting on things like gay marriage and women's rights, animal rights, etc.
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Sorry, that's just my assumption (though I'd be willing to bet on it). The circular graph reminds me of nothing more than the image of baobabs swallowing up a miniature planet.
Its state. Functional programs tend to have less state as their output is the same for some given input. With things like jquery you quickly introduce state, say is some dropdown open, which your next function will have to check is true or false before proceeding. And so on.