skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are experimenting with using SharedArrayBuffers and fetch to stream data, process it and fill it into a SharedArrayBuffer to then render with WebGL in the main thread. This has been working pretty great so far, but we'll have to wait for SharedArrayBuffer to get wider adoption.

Another thing was to offload tasks such as encoding GIF frames, which is also working pretty well.
Lots of typing and mental overload. Since we are talking about ergonomics and reducing friction, it would be good to make Result handling easier.
OP is correct. About 4m US citizenship applications per year. That's a LOT of folks wanting a US Passport.
This is work in progress, like pre-alpha.
I suppose that as soon as it works reliably (no library crashes, etc), then it would be time for optimizations.
If it's in at 9am, out at 5pm that's great... my experience was more like: you have to be in at 9am at the latest, but almost every day you get stuck until 7-8pm or more. And if you're late 15 minutes in the morning it's a huge deal, but staying 2-3 hours longer is just fine, even recommended if you wish to get good assessments. And they honestly couldn't understand why all senior engineers are leaving them after a year or so.
Anyone else getting vibrating text in this article on mobile? An entire paragraph is shaking up and down. I'll check it out on desktop later.

Edit: Try zooming in and out on the paragraph below "There seemed to be a revolution underway, but, like many revolutions, it would end tragically." chrome on android, can't replicate it on other pages on tmn, just that one.
I agreed with, and upvoted your answer, but upon reflection, so long as insurance policies in America are still constrained by state borders, there might well be a (fairly arbitrary) hurdle on risk pools. States with more and a higher concentration of population centers may benefit from a more diverse risk pool than states that look more like Alaska.
Would not have thought of checking for endianness, thanks!
>"No one ever resigns because the people above them offered it as a mutually-beneficial alternative to getting fired. "

When C level executives are involved in a scandal, this is exactly what happens. The folks above them "ask" for their resignation. The subtext is that it is mandatory. Resigning keeps them from the disgrace of being fired and also often allows them to keep certain things like bonuses, pensions etc.
This is half true. I'm not Indian but I've been in the Bay Area long enough. I'd say in the PM world, if you apply at companies like ebay, oracle, paypal, etc. being Indian is actually a plus ;) Applying at startups in San Francisco though, I have to admit that you can easily get discriminated. Now, on the engineering side, I can copy/past your message and replace "Indian" by "caucasian".

There is definitely a lot of discrimination in the professional environment in general. People don't want to go outside of their comfort zone. They'd rather see themselves 5 times in a team instead of learning things from different people.

Long story short, applying for a PM role with an accent and some sort of stereotypes in the Bay Area is definitely not a plus. Increase the number of applications you'll find a place. It's a candidate's market right now so people pick whatever they feel comfortable not having to adapt to much. Laziness is king right now.
Not everyone needs a four-year degree but on top of whatever education and training makes sense for the "beauty business," I think taking some classes on how to run a business would be important.
for sure i exaggerate. but still: look at hemingway, for example. he could work and live in new orleans, easily, with plenty of time left over to write.

can you do that anymore? i dont think so. we've lost something.
The CEOs salary and bonus is negotiated by the board. What happened here is the board decided to not pay her, and she asked them to distribute it to the employees instead. It's not her pay to do anything with anymore.
It's also a signal saying "try to develop business clusters elsewhere" to government, and that's where it often falls apart - a large chunk of demand for housing follows job availability.
yep, nowadays it has become a staple of NCR. Things were quite different years back though.
There is another huge issue with the employer playing for health care right now. On econtalk[1] Mark Warshawsky suggested that the current regulations and tax incentives lead to rising health care cost that also leads to a stagnating take home salary for lower end workers. Legally everyone at a company must get access to the same health care benefits. Since health care benefits are paid for in pre-tax money high earners who are already well off benefit quite a bit from better health care. Someone who pays very little taxes and can barely pay the rent probably would rather take some more cash home. However, most companies are more focused on "attracting top talent" so more gold plated health care plans emerge. According to the author most of the wage increases for low pay workers has just been eaten up by increased health care cost. That's supposedly were the income gap is coming from to a larger degree. If everyone got to pick their own insurance on a fair market this would look very different.

[1] http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/01/mark_warshawsky.htm...
It seems it has to do with what jobs women are filling. You dont see women moving to construction trades and the like in any large number.
I think the word you are looking for is "allegedly".
But doesn't even Accuweather, at least on some level, get their source data from government sources? If they generate their own forecasts using NWP models they still need initial conditions which usually come from from coarse-grid weather forecasts provided by the governments.

If the quality of these coarse-grid forecasts is degraded it's going to have an effect on all downstream processing/forecasts.
>does it really have to be the case that nice cities by the sea can only be the playground of the elite and the workaholic childless?

Well, if those nice cities refuse to build enough housing for everyone, even though they have the land-area... yes.
Hahahaha.

The New York Times is hardly a reliable source known to journalistic ethics or objectivity. It worked with Dubya Bush to push the Iraq war and worked hard to cover up Bush deliberately exposing intelligence agents through the newspaper in an attempt to get them killed for revealing malfeasance to Congress and the people.

They reversed their editorial position on the balance of immigration enforcement techniques immediately and completely upon accepting a billion dollar investment from the Mexican telecom monopolist Carlos Slim.

And their campaign and Trump and Russia coverage has been a jumble of lies, bias, and credulity for the past six months. Any given reporter or story may be fine, but depending on NY Times as an institution is just bad judgement.
I guess something in the name makes it feel more natural to use the full name.

In the case of Bill Gates for example, I rarely see anyone using "Gates", the full name "Bill Gates" is used.
Ten percent of the Netherlands holds dual passports? That sounded high to me (dual Dutch-American citizen) so I looked it up, figured I'd post the stats I found:

The Dutch population is 17.1MM, there are 1.3MM people with dual Dutch nationality [0]. The majority are Moroccan (321k) and Turkish (312k) people who acquired both Dutch and Turkish/Moroccan citizenship upon birth. Another 270k or so are EU citizens, plus a handful of Asians. Depending on the country, between 30-70% of people will have a passport, so my estimate is that 60% of dual citizens in this case will have two passports (may be lower as Turkish citizens can enter Turkey on another passport.)

If 80% of dual citizens have both passports, then 6% of Dutch citizens own two passports; if 60% of dual citizens have both passports then 4% of Dutch citizens own two passports.

Also worth noting there can be some very strange situations here - for example I (a Dutch/US citizen) moved from the US and lived in the Netherlands for almost a year before acquiring a Dutch passport.

[0] http://statline.cbs.nl/Statweb/publication/?VW=T&DM=SLNL&PA=...
I think that you should focus on both groups. The new users for adoption, the advanced users for retention.

Even if no actual language changes come out of the new users group, just documentation updates, it would be a win for the entire ecosystem.
i think you may be right, and it is trending that way anyway.
Many places building up would negate what made the people currently living there choose to move there. It's a tradeoff between the interests of those currently living there and those who aspire to living there.
It doesn't. Defense spending is not 60% of the "budget". Further, it's not a large component of the total federal budget.
Undergrad researchers come up with new mathematical solutions on optics physics
Perfect, now they won't be as open about violence under an open-border system in Mexican states monitored by the DEA/FBI.

I mean, they don't want to be a "prison gang", do they?

Remember, the reason cartels exist is because of corrupt Mexican police, something the FBI is good at controlling.
I splurged on one of the expensive tri-band routers and honestly now the wireless is good enough that I don't care.
I'm more amazed they're selling ARP poisoning as a service and seem to have no qualms about doing so.
>You're right that for the US it's a lot, though in my experience that's just because Hollywood is the best marketing agency on the planet, not because people make a well-reasoned decision on where to live.

Well, that's one reason.

Another reason is plain business opportunities, and an (often misinformed, depending on the industry) idea that it's easy to make it big, money-wise in America. In some fields, of course, this is truer than others.

Of course Americans also overestimate the degree to which other people in the world want to get into America -- judging from pre-WWII immigration from rural Europe (which most of it was), or from modern-day immigration for developing countries.

People from already developed countries (e.g. western Europe, Japan, Australia, Canada, etc.) don't particularly care.
Here:
http://federal-budget.insidegov.com/l/120/2017-Estimate

Mandatory: 2.56T
Discretionary: 1.08T
Is it right in this instance to lay blame on the marketers?
Canada #2 among countries not physically located in Europe, not bad. Guess I don't have to trade in my passport anytime soon.

A US passport would likely be more valuable if the IRS didn't demand so much of non-resident citizens.
You call it "rent seeking" but that's just not the case. Almost every law is founded in some sort of public interest. In 1937, NYC passed the Haas Act to clean up the taxi industry which had become so competitive that taxi drivers were not able to make ends meet (sound familiar?) and were turning to less than legal means to supplement their income.

While that law is 80 years old, its original principle was to provide a safer more reliable experience for the average person. And it worked. Should it be re-examined, yes absolutely. But to disregard it as "rent-seeking" and suggest that uber/lyft other tech startups shouldn't be subject to the same rules as everyone else is grossly negligent and demonstrates a true lack of understanding of the problem at hand.

Not to mention, this is entirely off topic from the Greyball tool.
They probably agreed on the bonus ahead of time. I doubt she would have taken the offer if it was conditional on Yahoo doing well.
Hey OP. Sorry to hear about your unsatisfactory experiences. Sounds like you've had a successful career-- Don't feel down. Remember everything you've accomplished. To unsuccessful plebs without solid careers like myself, and I don't even know ya-- you sound pretty damn successful already. That's something to be proud of.

Opportunity could be just around the corner. Don't give up now! What if it's that 8th or 9th interview that leads to the position you want? Persevere! You could be super close to the end of the race--i.e. to getting the job you're looking for!

For me at least, sometimes opportunity comes when I least expect it, or when I am feeling most down on my luck...

Just out of curiosity-- Why don't you like the product management position?

I have friends for whom 'product management' is their ultimate dream job, hence I am curious about your experiences. I guess the grass is always greener.

What sort of product? What sort of company? What are the major downsides in your view, which are causing you to be depressed?
When big money monopolists corrupt our local governments to obtain taxi monopolies at the expense of working families, the environment, and vulnerable racial minorities that can't hail taxis but can get an Uber, then it's the system that's antisocial and antidemocratic.

Uber is a social reform movement organized as a profit-seeking business. Of course the forces of corruption and reaction are going to try to stop it under cover of law.
Hi, I'm not white. Not even close. I'm not sure why someone as openminded as yourself would jump to a conclusion. Sincerely have not meant to do it myself.

I assure you I'm among the most visible and targeted of minorities.

Racism is sadly, absolutely alive and well. The question is are you going to resign to it or engage with it in a positively unreasonable and relentless way? Ending racism is also a startup.

The first step for me to get used to taking a strangers and making them a human being so it's not as easy to dismiss them, or their experience.

It's concerning you might automatically think what I wrote is ideological. I practice these things every day. Happy to chat about any points above you'd like to know more about me, I just wanted to share what I have learnt by my own experience with the original poster, and the results it has helped achieve.

As for "generic woo woo culture", there's no need to put someone down, my message was for the original poster. If this has a hit a nerve with you of what you feel the world is, I agree it's not an easy place, and it gets harder, but the only peace I'm finding is when I'm getting better.. leave me no choice but to take responsibility for improving myself.

I also belong to another woo woo culture/practice that fiercely promotes manifesting yourself in action in the world through positivity action towards other, treating all of humanity as one and your extended family, and selfless service towards all. So why not be that way.

reachj45@gmail.com, would love to learn more about you :)
I mean, if you want something really compact, why not APL?

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Edit: My point here, besides simply the joy of trolling, is that "compactness" isn't a great metric for analyzing a programming language, or a framework even. My APL example isn't very compact for APL, yet it's certainly /way/ more compact than the Python, Elixir, or Ruby versions.

Still, it's hardly comprehensible to me as a beginner APL programmer -- and I wrote it, just now. It's probably /completely/ incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't written APL before. Is APL still "better", going only by compactness?
Apologies in advance for the unsolicited advice.

Please just be careful. I worry that your in-office retirement is going to make finding your next job very difficult.
I've never heard the title Ms used in America much at all, especially not compared to use I've heard in several Commonwealth countries. It sticks out at me as being unusual in this thread. But then, even within the US you have big linguistic variations. In Silicon Valley you'll almost never hear anyone addressed as "Ma'am" or "Sir" as that seems too formal, but in the South many people use such titles even in more casual settings with anyone who is their superior or a relative stranger.

Most people I know (which is mainly people from Western states) would refer to her as Marissa Mayer, and the same with any other well-known executive (e.g. Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Sheryl Sandberg, Mark Zuckerberg, etc.) How would you expect her to be named in conversation based on where you're from?
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Awesome thanks. I agree there's definitely some interesting possibilities between law and tech especially in regulatory research. Do you have a particular preference for undergrad v grad?
>A culture that rewards upper management - even on failures - is a recipe for failure

It's not an actual culture, it's just a circle-jerk of the upper class / upper management people, treating each other well, and setting the norms.
I have a non-western name. I don't have an American or professional name. Not saying everyone should, or not, only that it exists.

Shortening one's name is a common practice among American names.

Ironically I grew up in a school environment where I was one of the few minorities, and when I got to university, people of a shared background shortened my name.
Awesome, thanks. If you could attend a top university at the same price as a bootcamp would you have done it?
No. The point of a passport is to travel/work abroad (ie. Not in the country issuing the passport).

This isn't a list of most desirable countries to live in.
Nobody said anything about that. The point is, even if you have experience, you can't phone it in during the interview.

If you aren't likeable, many people won't want to hire you no matter how experienced you are. It's just basic psychology.
To use while commuting (like on a train/plane?), or ease of lugging? I would think once you get to your destination, you're now stuck with it rather than a laptop, unless you have a dock. What's a good setup for these? I think they're interesting, I just don't get them yet.
Ask HN: Is there any one providing Network File System as a service
I have an application which uses file system as a storage and stores lots of media files and growing fast. it has very few users that rewriting would not be a best approach. I am looking for a hosted nfs provider

* Looks like AWS EFS is only accessible from EC2 and appears very costly (0.30 per GB).
* Using s3 mounted with s3fs would be a alternative but its a kind of hack

if you have used any providers, could you please share your experience?
Do you think there's a difference between bachelor v masters?
Some time ago I created a video showing some of the features of the Emacs mode. I really should make a new one, since there have been some more development since then, and some features could have been shown better.

Hopefully it can still be helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP4A5CKITnM
Hah, I didn't say it was a bad thing. Except when you actually do need help with something.

The strangest one (and it is rare) is was at Costco a few weeks ago. The guy just pointed at the payment terminal, didn't say hi. I asked him why he was pointing at the machine and not saying hi. I forgot to say hi first.
Auctioneer to sell off Pink Floyd recording console
but its the second kind, Zelda drops to 20fps in empty static scenes.
Any optimization that the Rust compiler might do can very likely be reproduced in C given sufficient time and effort.
>"That's a pretty weak criticism of Marissa Mayer."

I don't believe the OP was criticizing her but rather the exclusive "CEO Club" where their compensation is 2200 times[1] what their average employees get paid, recieve bonuses in bad or unprofitable years, always get to resign and never fired, and if they do resign in a cloud of scandal they magically show up somewhere else and repeat the whole process anew.

[1] http://fortune.com/2015/06/22/ceo-vs-worker-pay/
I wonder how far down the table Brexit will take us.
Which router do you recommend?

Is the 5G band consistently worse than the default (i.e. constant connection drops) or is that just my experience?
I travel a lot and 'only' have two passports (Dutch/American.) I usually travel on my Dutch one because of visa restrictions, and I doubt using my Dutch one would at all prevent the US consulates from helping me.

That said, I get your point - it can be nice to know "if I get into serious trouble, the US will probably work hard to get me home safe". That's not to say the Netherlands won't, and I admire the foreign policy positions of the Netherlands, but ultimately "annoy the US" is a lot scarier than "annoy the Netherlands", and it's something valuable to keep in mind.
Wow, it's better "in all aspects but mobility"? You're kidding. You may as well complain that batteries suck because the only advantage they have over just plugging something in is portability.
One of the scenarios that concern the EU is Russia invading and occupying EU states before Nato or the US can respond, present them with a kind of fait accompi and hoping the political will to respond won't be there. So the US needs the ability to convincingly be able to take on entrenched Russian occupation of multiple other countries and take them back.
I started with ToastMasters: https://www.toastmasters.org/

They have clubs in most cities and sometimes multiple. I attended an English language club in Amsterdam and it helped me tremendously.

It's run by the members for the members and at least at the one I attended it was incredibly supportive and very affordable.
I second Toastmasters.

I've been a member for about a year now and it has made an enormous difference. I used to be absolutely terrified to public speaking. I would get so incredibly nervous and flustered that it would barely be able to get anything out and it would make everyone in the room super uncomfortable. But now I've become a halfway decent public speaker. And in translates well to all sort of other social interactions too. I'm definitely more confident overall.

It really is all about practice, and being able to do that in front of a group of people that are trying to do the same is comforting.
> If you're still doing business with Uber in 2017, it's because you don't want to know or you don't care who you're dealing with. Neither reflects well on you. It tells me you have your own very low bar -- your own version of "well we're not as awful as taxis shrug" -- above which anything goes ethically and professionally.

Or you have a vested interest in seeing Uber succeed -- personally I am all for crushing the taxi cartels so I am always happy to take Uber.
I do. Chrome on Android also.

It vibrates whenever one of the larger font quotations (like the one you mention) is at a particular position on the screen.
> you've probably used one of them

Could you give a few examples? ;)
> There was a story on Reddit a while back about a soldier who bought a Rolex in the 1960s for $120, and it was worth $70,000 today.[0]

> Pretty lucky, right? But then someone pointed out that if he'd invested in the S&P 500 instead, it would be worth $25,000 today (if I remember the figures correctly).

What's not said is that from 1960 till 1980, you'd only make 200% (10% annualized). Compared to angel investing giving you 250% over 4 years (62.5 annualized).[1]

This is also assuming you know how to time your trades properly and get in at a bottom. If you got in at the floor of the dot com crash you'd make, at most, 180% in the 15 years you held (12% annualized). If you got in at the floor of the 07-09 crash you'd make, at most, 250% in the 9 years you held (28% annualized). These are best case scenarios and it's unlikely for someone that believes in the S&P will know about market timing.

The base of this argument is laden with guilt and regret over not having 20/20 hindsight. "If you got in at X you would have Y." The same is said with BTC, "if you got in at the beginning you would have been an Xillionaire!"

However, this is no longer practical in the ironed-out, risk-adjusted world we live in now. The S&P's risk has been priced in and over-sized returns are no longer possible. You'll start seeing this with startups in the coming years too. As people start understanding them more, risk will be lower, and thus returns will be lower.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li0mRLcGbU8

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2012/10/13/angel-investors-make-2-5x-...