skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Progressive web apps are one but if you have blocking of most sites that may not be enough those can de with a slowed web but not a blocked one. We could use p2p but that would be more like the old BBS system. What happens toodern language buds like node where you have to pull packages from the web. How will it effect software development, that's where it gets interesting , will basic services like npm and cargo be blocked. Will we be blocked from downloading debian package updates. What will it do to Linux development, to GitHub, suddenly all our tools to develop could be subject to extortion .
> am mostly through college

Lack of a degree and a code camp certificate only works in tech cities where it's hard to find coders who are gullible enough to work for free...I mean get paid in equity in a startup that's really only there to suck at the tit of an angel investor for a few funding rounds.
By following Microsoft blogs, articles, BUILD presentations among other sources, I get the idea that this whole mess, going back to WP 7, was once again the result of their political wars between DevTools and Windows division.
I've only spent a few minutes there, having signed up just a moment ago. What jumps out at me about the UX is that source code does not seem to be front and center like it is in Github and Bitbucket. The README is all you see on the first page of a project and I had to hunt a few seconds before I noticed the "files" link.
Are there other valid open-source alternatives, possibly Linux-based ?
Extended Phenotype territory.
H1B's should go for talent that you cannot reasonably find domestically. What you describe seems to imply that price should also be a consideration, i.e. Talent that you cannot reasonably find domestically for the price you are willing to pay. To me, that is abusing the system.
True in the sense that Scala has a magnitude higher number of repos, commercial adoption, libraries, than F# (while being much closer to ML than F# in a few important was).
A different article about this was discussed on Hacker News before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7538316. The cited article also references the Mythbusters video.
There are plenty of studies on telling children they are naturally talented, etc and getting them to stop doing the activity for fear of losing evidence of this trait. Many of the "best programmers" I worked with were unproductive and got lost on things that were irrelevant. Engineers I would pick from my old groups tend not to be recognized as great and complemented on how well and timely they put everything together, with an undertone that the greatest programmer could have also done it if only he had time.

As far as submarines stories, I have no idea..
Here is the little story of Papio.

For a while now, we have adopted a playful atmosphere in the office and are playing foosball...intensively. We could never find a board large enough to keep the scores (yeah, we play that much). The struggle was real every time we had to erase it.

Excel sheets were just too painful to fill up, we needed something to enhance our games while tracking them. Now Papio is monitoring the game live with the mobile interface, keeping the scores, updating every player’s stats, giving away bananawards and others banananalysis.

What started as a side project, became our obsession. Papio grew stronger, smarter and funnier every week until he became the most appreciated teammate at the office.

Right now, Papio is only tracking foosball game. The demand will guide its evolution, so please tell us how it could be best adapted to your work&play culture!
The Tech Resistance Awakens
now that's what I'm talking about. good for ups.
Is there a single major industry where foreign workers wouldn't displace any native workers? If you go back a century or two, I'm sure the Irish/Italian immigrants displaced a whole lot of native workers as well. By your reasoning, the US would completely shut off all avenues for immigration.
Always relevant to this discussion:

https://medium.com/@_princeb_/the-parable-of-the-two-program...

(This isn't the original source, I realize.)
ugh, i wish we could use that syntax on the linux side of the computing world
More evidence for d--b's point. Firing 18k people at Microsoft's scale isn't even close to burning it down and starting from scratch. It's also not something a newly minted CEO would be able to get past the board on such short notice. It must have been planned in advance. Whatever you say about Balmer, someone at MSFT knew how to flawlessly execute a masterful transition plan. I though Apple did a good job, but MSFT nailed it.
Horizontal scalability. Outgrowing a single master database (writes being bottlenecked, not reads) is really painful. You can engineer around it, but spinning up another master in a multimaster DB is a really quick and easy fix (once you have tooling built out it's a matter of minutes). Sharding your Postgres DB is not a quick and easy fix. It will likely take about a month to engineer around and perform the data migration, if not longer.
IIRC Satya was in charge of Azure in 2010, which is a large part of why he got the top job.
Better quality and longer video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgWy0uOg54A

Boxer crabs induce asexual reproduction of their associated sea anemones by splitting and intraspecific theft
https://peerj.com/articles/2954/
> are not having him come in at all hours to fix problems with his stuff.

Is it stuff that he wrote or work he inherited?
We had the celebrity iCloud hack, caused at least in part by Apple not using 2FA for iCloud logins.

iCloud has offered 2 step authentication since 2013 [0]. From what I can tell, the celeb hack happened a few weeks before the public release in mid-2014.

[0] https://9to5mac.com/2013/03/21/apple-beefs-up-icloud-apple-i...
>Microsoft is basically waiting for a chance at a paradigm shift in what it means to have a smartphone, so that they can release something you can get nowhere else. In the meantime, they're kinda just treading water and keeping their mobile OS workable and modern.

I think that's likely both a good summary and a smart strategy. We can imagine, at least in broad terms, an evolution toward a much more unified set of connected devices. Microsoft has arguably already done the best job of reconverging the tablet and laptop with the Surface Pro but it's not enough to make most people really care.

Of course, the best way to predict the future is to invent it (Alan Kay) so, at some level, it's an opportunity that's up to them to create.
Wasn't Waze known to prefer routes that consisted of an incredible amount of left turns and small roads? Haven't checked if they changed the algorithm. Found that Google Maps is hard to beat on their preferred route usually.
No need for questions: God works in mysterious ways.
> EAD means no need to file for H1b. You are out of the rat race meant to keep Indians and Chinese out of USA.

This is wrong. The EAD is just the Employment Authorization Document. It just says you're allowed to work and you SHOULD have it before the OPT.
If you have to cross lanes of traffic, you have to wait for a light. If you are merely "changing lanes" you just have to wait for right of way.

(in my state at least) you're allowed to turn left from a one way to a one way on red, because you're not crossing any other lanes.

So do the math... how many lanes are involved. If it's just "current lane" and "target lane", you can go when the coast is clear. If there are ANY other lanes involved, wait for a light.
That's a specious argument.

You linked to short, mild a speech on the House floor from 2005 encouraging primary home-ownership as a means of investing, and a Fox News report about responding positively to a question about hiring a qualified ex-lover for an entry-level job 14 years prior to that speech.

Neither has anything to do with the advice or article.
You're severely underestimating the impact U.S. business has on other countries. A trade war with any of the countries you have listed would harm them much more than it would harm the US.

China holds about 8-9% US debt. Their entire economic model is based on the devaluation of their currency so that the US and other countries purchase their products. If China dumps US debt, there is plenty of demand elsewhere.

Look, I'm not some extreme pro-America nationalist - but you have to look at the facts and it is simply an indisputable reality that no other country in the world can compete with the US on economic grounds.

You are overplaying your hand if you think that a trade war with the US would end favorably for any of those nations.
Ha! I wish I could find the jwz article where he shared his tale of woe with iptables before jumping to pf.
There's an elevator in one of the London tube stations like this (Everyone uses the elevator, like 150 stairs). Just makes so much sense, moves so many more people that way.
Either, but usually features.

When it comes to building a brand new app, you need to break it into multiple large projects. The first one might be "create a new Cordova app with just a login page", since bootstrapping all the Cordova stuff might take a while. The next project would be "add features X and Y to the app, and deploy in the app store", etc.

I constrain projects to no larger than 4-6 weeks because I work in startups, where priorities shift constantly. You need to be able to finish Phase 1, and potentially say "another important priority came up, we need to push back Phase 2 by 2-3 weeks while we complete this other medium project".
Worth mentioning that many drivers will be self-employed and have no such software. UPS seems to give all drivers a software with a route to follow, many others won't bother (as they pay the driver by delivery).
Thanks!

Unfortunately that's a limitation of the custom framer I'm using :/ I'm sure you could find a framer down there and do it yourself though. If you think they look cool on your computer screen they look amazing blown up on your wall!
Dunno about Linux but OPNsense forked off them a while back. Can't speak about the rest but I know that fq_codel is supported because I use that myself.

(Frankly, I switched away from pfSense because I like the OPNsense developers and surrounding community better. I'm more confident that if they haven't already addressed those defects, they will soon or they'll welcome patches that do.)
Imagine a distant future where advances in technology makes everyone fantastically wealthy in modern terms. Material goods are as cheap as digital storage feels now. What would spend money on in this utopia? My guess would be extending our time and quality of life (health care) and improving our minds (education).
The Chromebook for the Chromebook skeptic
I'd rather you pay 10 salaries than just 1 too :-)
Finland's Largest Trade Union Slams Basic Income as ‘Useless’
The articles gives a good overview of the "H-1B situation". However, if you want to dig deeper here is some data I put together http://h1bpay.com/blog/2017/01/30/h-1b-visa-basics-applicati...

Basically, only Microsoft is among the top 10 sponsors and not of the major sponsors is among the top 10 average salaries.
Uh? SD is a super-generic title. H1B pool can include disproportionate number of fresh graduates (BS or MS) because OPT program gives them the flexibility to wait till April comes around to file for H1B. It is almost impossible (with exceptions for researchers and multinational managers/ O1/O2/L1) to hire experienced people from outside the US via H1B. Thus this skewing happens: more jobs for fresh graduates probably go to foreigners than do jobs for people experienced and established in their fields.
This guy isn't the first person to make money in one arena and extrapolate that he could do it in others only to get his ass handed to him.

I'm Canadian so the wealthy people AI know are either in finance or hockey players, and those that have lost money in areas outside their wheel house have all followed the same path.

1) Give money to a person they don't know very well to invest in a business idea they aren't an expert in.

There is no step two.

As a side note, i found this interesting....

> It wasn’t until Sarao left Futex in 2008 and struck out on his own that he started to make serious money. Public filings show his assets popped to 14.9 million pounds from 461,000 pounds in the 12 months ending in June 2009, long before he enlisted a programmer to build a system that authorities say was designed to cheat the market.

Not sure what helped more in his rise:

The 6 years he spent learning at another trading firm or the fact that on his own he probably had alot less risk oversight that allowed him to lever up more than he would have in side of an investment house.

> That near-obsessive drive to hold on to as much of his wealth as possible can also be seen in the way he conducted his business affairs. Looking to minimize his tax bill, he was introduced by his accountant to John Dupont, a director at the London arm of an Isle of Man-based financial advisory firm called Montpelier Tax Consultants

The best investment adivce I ever got was from my father. and I quote.... "Don't fuck around with your taxes any more than an H&R block adviser would let you. Getting a million dollar tax bills 7 years after you earned the money isn't worth it."
I've read it and own the two-volume paperback version (someone made the mistake of asking me what I wanted for Christmas a few years ago).

The actual poem left me completely cold (and it's the only version I've ever read). The footnotes and everything else are fascinating. Everything in Nabokov's own voice is always, and everywhere, a joy to read. He was, as he tried to explain, creating a reference work, an aid to scholars and students, not a translation to "enjoy". You turn to it to find out what Pushkin wrote in his poem, rendered into English, as accurately as possible. Wilson just failed to understand the purpose of this work and his criticisms were irrelevant.

I'm interested in people's opinions of the Lombardo translations. Looking for a version of the Illiad to read.
Though I do not have doctor friends in US so I may be wrong but I have heard from many that even family doctors here start with 200K pa almost anywhere in US. Now apart from top end software/banking most would not reach that number by end of career in software/IT.
Can I come to one of your parties?
> These kinds of metrics inevitably generate perverse incentives.

Precisely. There's a post that goes around about finding good programmers, which ended up concluding that good developers almost inevitably make many commits with small per-commit changes. I had some issues with the methodology (their outlier-exclusion looked like it might force the result), but the outcome made intuitive sense.

I would be horrified if anyone used that metric to judge employee quality. Even assuming it's flawless as a retroactive assessment, it's still trivially gamed. As soon as something that blandly quantitative affects people's work outcomes, it's ruined by the fact that optimizing for the metric is more efficient than optimizing for good work which happens to meet the metric.
Hey Nadia, thanks for reaching out. Sure, I will send it along.
> This really should be up on the Google dev blogs if it's official.

Exactly.
Oh that's interesting. I suppose any internal conflict ultimately comes down to issues of leadership and vision, regardless of the company size.
Simple thought experiment: realtime messaging system; servers in multiple AZs; user A is connected to endpoint 1 in AZ 1, user B is connected to endpoint 2 in AZ 2; A publishes a message on a channel that B is subscribed to. Then it is an error for B to not receive it. This makes network partitions (especially partial, asymmetric, or sporadic ones) a nontrivial problem. Of course there are solutions, but it's hardly as simple as "just make your app multi-AZ". Not every app is a bunch of independent boxes serving web pages.
It's not salary parity per se, but rather that in the comparison the doctors are paying both the actual cost of medical school (and the servicing of the resulting debt) and the opportunity cost of spending seven-to-ten years in school/residency/fellowship before actually making a high salary. Meanwhile, their bachelor-only peers have been paid money, gained experience and gotten promoted.
It's not as commonly done because it's considerably more expensive to build triple platforms, and the bends required to make it work slow the train down and cause wear. It's good for high-capacity stations though.
Any word you try to create for the same thing would be as well because it would be the new word for it.

Also, there is Depression (condition) and Depression (colloquial usage) that's the way language works. The problem is not that the word is used, but that people believe the colloquial usage is the medical usage. They believe that when they feel depressed (colloquial) they just eat a cake or do something they like to get over it so why can't you when you're depressed (actual medical depression).
I've edited my post, will remove it if you think it does more harm to highlight their actions than good.
Wait till you hear the stories feom inside those three companies and more mentioned in the article! You'll be surprised :-)
Implementing something like Andrew Lo's encryption algorithm to avoid future flash crashes is a great idea https://www.technologyreview.com/s/512291/how-to-avoid-anoth....

It's also interesting the article refers to Sarao as frugal. If he was really frugal it seems like he would have said that X amount of money is enough and stopped risking it all. Scary stuff!
So is VyOS the successor to Vyatta?

It looks like maybe this project forked after the purchase by Brocade.

As a side not Vyatta is the base OS in many of the Ubiquiti Networks routers. It's quite nice for small office/ home office.
Ask HN: Stripe Atlas in Germany?
I have launched a business a couple of months ago and I'm now getting my first paying customers.

Currently I'm running a sole proprietorship for this, but I want to find a legal construct that takes the liability off of me.

My customers are from around the world, but mostly from the US (80%). They pay in USD.

I'm living in Germany and I plan to stay here.

Any tips on creating a Delaware C-Corp through Stripe Atlas in Germany? Do I need to create a german branch of the company (Zweigniederlassung)?
UBI doesn't have that property at all. UBI consciously, intentionally, and overtly transfers money from the net taxpayers to the net benefit receivers. (I support it, but it's absolutely an income transfer mechanism from the higher income to the lower income populations.)

The fact that the "rich" also receive $650/mo in UBI is completely swamped by the fact that they'll pay $30K/month or more in income tax to fund the program.
So that is how the free market works your not one of those gosh darned socialists are you :-)

And I suspect that for a "brown" skinned persons the south is not exactly a welcoming environment.
Right. That was exactly my point with my first post. The only way you can get a job in this industry without being in a tech city is to have a degree. I don't understand why I'm being downvoted for pointing that out.
This is a good reminder that performance on any metric needs to be tied to decent communication. A problem like this can easily be fixed with "hey, what're you working on?" "oh, this ream of important documentation", but far too often that never happens.
I would go further and say that underpaid H1-B's are a straw man to the real mechanism that depresses American wages. Even if imported workers are paid exactly market, that still means market prices do not go up as there is no one to bid up salaries. That means people are not being compensated for delivery high value, or for developing skill in a difficult or rare area.

There is a lot of hot air between the salary a person would accept versus the value they generate for a company. Having some unemployed people makes it so that the balance always tips towards the low end.
I reckon Microsoft will end up killing Windows Phone entirely as an SKU and replace it with windows cloud (including the phone UI obviously).

They could then also launch a surface tablet with ARM SOC at the same time, running Windows cloud as well.
I deactivated JS and got a 240KB payload finished in 1.58 s. Chrome 56.0.2924.87 (64-bit)

I scroll through the page and no more data is transferred.

I guess what I'm curious about is how you see images at all since I don't get them unless JS is turned on.
i heard someone describe trolling as a last resort when your opponents refuse to debate you
That's the thing though, the h1b aren't getting 5% of 100k, they're getting 5% of 60k and bringing down the demand for locals. Unless these people are worth the money, then businesses should be expected to pay the money. So in short if they plan to raise number of h1b visas, the salary minimum should be significantly and from my understanding it already has.
If you're a new grad, we just started using Vue and you can be a prime influencer in it's direction:

https://boards.greenhouse.io/catalant/jobs/534116
Saw it in a different HN comment:)
Please don't remove your post. Pointing out these issues is very important, and making one donation should not indemnify people who behave in this way.
Maybe this is a stupid idea, but if you had two GPUs, doesn't that basically mean, in terms of good parallelism, that at least you can train two models/networks at the same time, roughly?

Because as long as you're in the research and development phase, that'll help cut your coding/training/testing/adjusting cycle. I assume you'll be tuning your hyperparameters, perhaps on somewhat smaller test models, but they will still take half a day or so to train? That means you can try (almost) twice as many hyperparameter configurations in the same time. It still helps to spin up a second test with a different selection of parameters, even if you haven't gotten the results back from the first test, right?
>Even this comment went through many edits to get into this shape. These two sentences alone have been rewritten ten times.

lol. Really dude?
I've thought about this too, and unfortunately it is not feasible, because of the poor/nonexistent meta programming support in F#. Phoenix uses macros for optimizing functions from templates at compile time, handling translations in a clean way, and removing a lot of boilerplate.

Source: Have spent a lot of time with F#, including writing Type Providers (which would not solve the problem).
Wait, so Facebook hasn't even released a reference implementation?
because it's untrue. you just aren't skilled or experienced enough to get a good job.

"the only way..." usually is a made-up fact designed to fit a circumstance.
GraphQL nested mutations with Apollo: small fatigue, max gain
Keep in mind everywhere in NYC unless noted does not allow right on red. however on Long Island and in Upstate New York it is typically allowed unless noted. laws not only vary by state but also by locality [pardon if this is not the correct usage of the term]
For a 'Show HN', no registration is better for me because I'm just going to put in a fake address and a guessable password anyway...if I bother to provide anything at all.

I'd put it this way, 'Show HN' is a good potential way to get feedback on the implementation and idea for the purpose of improving the project/product. There's a lot of expertise here.

On the other hand, for most projects it is probably about average in terms of garnering emails and page views. PR and marketing aren't going to do better.

Finally, in terms of the project, it looks like something I'd expect to see as open source rather than a product/company. It's cool and potentially useful and if it were rolled into an IDE or an editor it could be a great feature.

But it's harder to see how much I would gain by a business commitment. Collaboration means convincing other people to try it, hoping they find it useful, and then learning how to coordinate use.