skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Of course it is possible to reverse course and open up, but it would take quite a bit of time to change in the ways you're suggesting.

Interestingly, it might not need to open up all that soon to still reap the benefits. If in the future the US is also not very open, but China is apparently making strides to become more open, that could affect long term planning.

I also wonder if China, having more control and less ethos built up around inherent fairness of immigration (if that's true?) might be able to just say "10+ years in China as an academic or high end research position in X/Y/Z industries will get your pernanent residence."
Google says it fixed a lot of the security holes the CIA exploited
I don' think the situation is as dire as people think. Europe exported many technical people during the war years and one would be hard pressed to say they are backwards because they lost talent. Japan as well is not very friendly to labor migrants and they are at the forefront of science in technology despite their small population size relative to other geographies.
Bet they use the TV and are used to it. Get a Raspberry Pi (and keyboard and mouse and controllers), show it to them, plug it in. In whatever order: Play some games. MODIFY a game. Install/run a good LOGO variant (once they read enough to use it). Show them some neat LOGO programming. Help them make their own LOGO programs. Leave them alone to make their own stuff.

Consider Scratch or another "kids" environment, if/when LOGO doesn't seem to be enough.

When they are up to it, help and/or encourage them to make their own games. Or whatever -- if games turn out not to be their thing.

So, you take a TV that is passive. And you make it active. With this cool and tech and not "packaged" looking PCB. And you show them how it can do what they want -- if they can figure it out.

And, don't forget to go out and ride bikes, too.

P.S. The computer is not magic, and it's not a fancy TV. It's a tool. It'll do whatever you want, if you can figure it out.

P.P.S. For bonus points, when they become a teenager, turn them on to the paranoia of the war on general computing. ;-)
They can only leak what is given to them. There are plenty of leaks that are not US related.

https://wikileaks.org/-Leaks-.html
There are certain kinds of businesses - drug discovery - say, that take years and years to become profitable. It's not really possible to start them without a lot of capital. Not everything SV does is that way, but many companies are.
" the mathematics major (or similar) who feels their knowledge of topics only related to programming in general is satisfactory enough to hit the ground running as a Web developer of all things"

All companies I worked for routinely hired guys like that assuming they will learn on the job. Most did, some did not. In any case, many professional programmers I see studied mathematics, physics or something similar and then changed career.

Edited to add: it is possible that your company can not afford a bit longer learning curve in the beginning. Did not wanted to make it sound like I am accusing you.

I actually thought that big difference between men and women is that men assume they can do tech by default, apply for jobs even as they have minimum qualification or experience and it oftentimes works out.
The Unicode standard describes in Annex 29 [1] how to properly split strings into grapheme clusters. And here [2] is a JavaScript implementation. This is a solved problem.

[1] http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr29/

[2] https://github.com/orling/grapheme-splitter
We're not talking credit card numbers, SIN numbers are just a series of a few numbers which may match many, many unrelated things. I'd have to see the specific case to really say yes or no to that one. Many of the leaks they get are not in text format at all, they're in PDF images, OCR can sometimes do the job, but not always with high accuracy.

If you'd like to volunteer that skill, they may be open to accepting it. It's entirely possible they just don't have developers with such abilities in their arsenal. You might try their IRC channels and such if you'd consider it.
>Seems pretty contradictory to me. Maybe a previous admin's RNC or something, but not the current one

I mentioned this in my other post. The RNC was hacked, but we don't know the timeline due to Comey's vague terminology.

>Honestly, these intelligence agencies are pretty clueless.

This is incredibly patronizing. They have a much greater expertise on these things than two doofuses like us debating on the Internet.

>Or you know, just someone motivated to make impactful leaks. Despite these emails not being in my political favor, I wouldn't have done anything differently in their shoes. Would you have?

It isn't just the timing of the leaks, go back and read what they were saying about them. They stoked the flames of Pizzagate. Assange was quoted as saying the leaks would guarantee Clinton's arrest. Those aren't the actions of someone who is politically neutral.
In the end they raised 1B of private equity.
The visa waiver program is not a visa, that's why it's called the "VISA waiver". It's basically the same process as visiting Canada.
No it's not.

Fatalities per trillion kWh:

Solar (rooftop): 440
Wind: 150
Wind(UK): <1000
Nuclear: 90
Nuclear(US): 0.01

Last I checked, 90 is smaller than 440 or 150, and 0.01 is vastly smaller than 440 or 150.

But maybe math works differently on your planet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents
"Lily, whom despite raising millions in dollars to build their highly anticipated consumer drone, have just filed for bankrupcy."

On an entirely unrelated note, this is an early contender for "most ungrammatical sentence I hope to read today".
Looking it another way: giving a quote like that which needs to be examined in full to make sure he does not support Trump, and which can so easily be interpreted to support Trump, is quite naive. When you're giving quotes you have to be extremely careful that it is not easy to take them out of context, because that "out of context" is exactly what most people reading the article will understand at first reading.
In prototype inheritance, objects inherit from objects. This creates flexibility, since you can dynamically create a base object to inherit from. You can also easily augment base objects after they're inherited from. Class-based inheritance is less powerful in most languages due to the increased runtime rigidity of the class hierarchy. That's the theory. In practice everyone treats prototypes as classes.
I think it has different meanings not only for countries but also for people
From an onboarding and testing perspective, it would be nice to be able to integrate other services ("Outbound networking"?) in the free tier. Maybe limit to one connection?
I'm a recruiter that is technical (js engineer) based in NYC. I don't see what TripleByte is doing that is that different from what a good recruiter can offer. Matching at very selective companies doesn't seem challenging.

I don't work with Apple or Facebook, but in the past four months recruiting part-time I've had 15 placements. Over 65% resume submission to on-site rate. And over an 85% offer close rate (close counts if I get 3 offers for someone and they choose one). I can match relatively well without needing to put candidates through a day of tests and I save candidates time by sending them to selectively chosen companies (safety, fit, reach). And I spend a ton of truly understanding each unique process of the companies I work with.

What makes Triplebyte actually unique? What are they changing about the industry? Are they actually reducing bias or is this a gimmick? Are they that different from a recruiting firm with strong lead generation?
Raftingo Rafting and Canyoning
This is your father talking!
Svalbard is the only region that comes to mind (though it's hard to imagine a huge tech scene starting there). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Treaty
Fantastic news.
> If it's in an urban area, they apparently either charge a fee or don't assign a household register to the child (not sure what that means)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hukou_system
Everybody’s got something to say about poetry
because rhymes peak in meaning shedding light on our unspeakables.
For an ample example,
take the other day when I sat not knowing how to write a poem
and assuming I was fruitlessly booming the thin air,
I yelled and spat my frustration:
“How do I start?”
And my dog looks up from her water dish and says,
“I hate to encroach on your ‘artistic space’
‘cuz I know you're like ‘in-the-zone’ or whatever,
but if you really want my advice, here it is,”
and then my dog says,
“Poet, breathe now –
because it’s the last thing you’ll ever do for yourself.
Poet, breathe now because there’s a fire inside you that needs oxygen to burn,
and if you don’t run out of breath, you’re gonna run out of time.
Poet, breathe now because once the spot gets packed
you gotta save that air for screamin, your --
inhalation takes saviorisms to sky-highs
you gotta go with the flowin’ of your own voice.
Poet, breathe now because once you spit, you won’t even need air,
you'll be rockin’ rhymes respiratory,
you’ll breathe poetry, baby.
You breathe now, and you’ll never forget that breath.
You got --
pulsasive passages passing the mic
and hot hallelujahs when verses you write
and your sin is your savior your song is your life
and your words are like wonders to wandering fifes pipin’ ceremony:
poets, you’re man, words your wife
and your honeymoon orbits around your love like metronomic metros
keepin’ time to the heartbeat of your heavenly drums –
Poet, breathe now because you might have something to say
because peace might depend on your piece
because you breathe
and that air might help your brain tell your heart to keep pumping
one more cycle and that blood might help your lips form one last word
that hits the audience hard –
because we are all made from the same elements
and we all breathe the same air
so celebrate our mutual recipes of existence
by persisting to stay alive
ducking sageless luckless ages
like intellectual hippies!
When you take a breath
the universe rings out like circular beats –
landing planets are seraphim
storms are spit –
stars are soulcandles!
and you breathe like chest rebounds
even when all hope seems lost
our sounds pound mics
like hope-stars
like “we’re still here” hollas!
we make angels of our nightclubs,
bards of our bums,
outlooks of our outcasts
and infinity of our sums,
we are the children of empathy,
the pathos of slums,
we heal like helios
like cyclical drums
we enlist life from listless
and sometimes
even get things done
Poet, breathe now
because once you start your piece
you can die behind that microphone
and
death may be breathless
but poetry’s deathless
so breath be
our savior
eternal.
Poets, breathe once with me now.
That’s one poem we all wrote.
>> Coal burning also produces significant radiation, enough to have an actual nuclear plant shut down on safety grounds.

That's so cute. A nuclear plant would ideally emit zero radiation if everything is designed and working correctly. A leak is a warning sign and the potential danger is an event like the two that have happened so far. In other words, that level of radiation leak from a nuclear plant isn't actually a problem. They shut it down to make sure something really bad doesn't happen. With coal you get the leak without the catastrophe.
As a Texan it boggled my mind to hear people complain about immigration. Walk into UT, A&M, UH engineering departments, half the students are Chinese or Russian or Indian. In the grad programs it's even more.

That means their best talent is here, paying US taxes, contributing to US companies, making the US more powerful, all the while contributing almost nothing to their home countries. How is that a bad thing! I don't get it!
I have lived in Tijuana and it's one of the worst cities in the country. If you _really_ have to choose a Mexican city, Guadalajara or Mexico City are orders of magnitude better options.
Microsoft now puts ads in Windows 10 File Explorer
It would be delicious and terrible irony if Vancouver took over the role of startup capital, since it is the only place with a more unaffordable housing market than the SF bay.
The United States is never going to decay to nothingness.

However, whether or not it becomes the top place for technologists to congregate and build things will become an open question.

That alone, while perhaps not dire to the nation as a whole, will be quite damaging. There, so far, has been an order of magnitude difference between the best technology ecosystem and the second best.

Japan is also looking to open up permanent residency rules, and it has suffered through a nearly two decades long spurt of deflation-driven economic stagnation, with incredible debt/GDP, some of it due to demographic concerns and an inverting age pyramid. Just pointing out that might not be the best counter-example.
Germany waged two world wars over 20 years and tens of millions of people died because of that.

Germany, even at its scientific height was racist and nationalist. Hitler didn't come to power in the 30s without generations of Germans being the foundation.

The US is very far from that.

I don't understand the massive overreaction. The United States in the 60s was a place where there were sundown towns that blacks dared not travel. In 2004 they were seriously considering a constitutional amendment against gay marriage. Now?

We can't lose sight of progress and we can't overreact to the sway of government. All progress has not been lost and the US is not in the dire state some act like it is.
That makes sense. I was just thinking of the look and feel of the workplace and people you're surrounded by more so than the company's purpose or risk of employment. Having come from a very non-tech background, I saw a lot of striking similarities in those aspects compared to what I had known.

Thanks for the input!
Eerily similar to problems associated with tech interviews: favoring extroverts and smooth pitch-people over substance.
Working Closer with Google Cloud Platform
The startup ecosystem is heavily based on gatekeeping and validation by existing players - YC is one of many (but one of the most influential) in this space.

To be a bit simplistic, I think Thomas' point is that the likelihood of tech startups outside of the traditional US-centric startup ecosystem succeeding is very low, due to lack of funding and the general consequences of being an Outsider to the Silicon Valley elite.

YC's role in it is, of course, being one of the most influential players that control which ideas get funded/attention, and which do not.

Even physically outside of the US, the startup ecosystem is still overwhelming reliant on US money. Which is to say even if there is an appetite for funding founders in these disfavored countries, regulations (or simple politics) may prevent it.

That said, I do disagree somewhat - US/European money is not the only source of venture capital dollars. I suspect at least some of the founders we're losing here will be able to start their companies with Chinese money. The loss of this talent pool will contribute - in a small way right now, but snowballing as time goes on - to the loss of US-centric economic hegemony.
Nope. It's a mix of talks focused on the Serverless Framework and managing challenges for serverless ops in general.
The Visa Waiver Program (VWP) allows citizens of 38 countries to enter the US for up to 90 days without a visa.

The Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) is an online form which asks questions and determines whether someone is covered by the VWP. Using ESTA to determine this in advance is required when arriving in the US by air, but not when crossing a land border from Canada or Mexico.

The "doesn't guarantee anything" bit is true but misleading, since ESTA doesn't provide a visa and doesn't provide an absolute guarantee someone will be admitted under the VWP -- the determination of whether to allow someone to enter is always made at the border.

Couple things that are good to know:

1. VWP/ESTA is not terribly different from some other systems, like Australia's ETA, in using the "you don't need a visa, but you do need to check your eligibility online in advance" approach.

2. Not all EU citizens are eligible for the VWP. Citizens of Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Poland and Romania are not eligible for VWP. Which is something the EU has been consistently angry about, and recently the European Parliament rattled its sabers a bit about revoking visa-free travel to the EU for US citizens unless the US adds those five countries to the VWP.
There is a Unicode encoding "UTF-32" which has the advantage of being fixed width. This is not popular for the obvious reason that even ascii characters are expanded to 4 bytes. Additionally the windows APIs, among other interfaces, are not equipped to handle 4-byte codepages.
Awesome. Now, can you do the same for Elasticsearch ?
Well, Donald Trump matters. And he thought about them. And this is where we are.
This is great news! Finally!
Backbone rocks. As well as the source code, which is very easy to understand.
> Sometimes, I think people come up with these names just to add excitement to their lives.

Let's get outta here guys, we've been rumbled!
What were some of the questions that you struggled with? Most of the time interview questions are pretty awful and have nothing to do with real life problems, which you might be really good at solving. Keep your head up, keep looking and things will work out.
The thing that frustrates me the most about Unicode emoji is the astounding number of combining characters. For combining characters in written languages, you can do an NFC normalization and, with moderate success, get a 1 codepoint = 1 grapheme mapping, but "Emoji 2.0" introduced some ridiculous emoji compositions with the ZWJ character.

To use the author's example:

‍woman - 1 codepoint

black woman - 2 codepoints, woman + dark Fitzpatrick modifier

‍️‍‍woman kissing woman - 7 codepoints, woman + ZWJ + heart + ZWJ + kissy lips + ZWJ + woman

It's like composing Mayan pictographs, except you have to include an invisible character in between each component.

Here's another fun one: country flags. Unicode has special characters 🇱 🇮 🇰 🇪 🇹 🇭 🇮 🇸 that you can combine into country codes to create a flag. 🇰+🇷 = 🇰🇷

edit: looks like HN strips emoji? Changed the emoji in the example into English words. They are all supposed to render as a single "character".
Based on https://cloud.google.com/functions/pricing it seems like you can't pick and choose ram and CPU speed, so I'm not sure what the reason is to split the pricing between the two. I was quite interested in this because I've just found myself having to provision ~4x the amount of ram I actually need on lambda because I need more compute power.

Edit - It's interesting to see another player in the field though, so I'll be watching how things go.
Yeah, you'd be surprised by how many tax dollars you can save by not obliterating a 3rd world country once every few years :)
> the real issue was our debate related to computer vision

Oof. I feel like computer vision is a particularly misunderstood field. In a way, it reminds me of statistics - I feel like people purposefully obfuscate things to make their results sound more impressive. The great thing about computer vision is you can almost immediately see through the smoke and mirrors - ask for a live demo. I'm amazed how many people refuse to show me a demo of something that is inherently meant to be viewed.
This might be true, but AWS's support is not good. To get good AWS support for when their ELBs aren't working, or when half of your EBS volumes have multi-second IO latency, you need to pay for premium support, which is 10% of your bill.

https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/pricing/
Apparently replay has been disabled for this stream on Periscope. The recording has been uploaded here on their official channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se6XWhKOE2Q
At this point, spending $200 to get a burner laptop and dumb phone for international travel sounds like a really good investment - it doesn't seem to be worth the risk of taking your own hardware. Do you want TSA imaging your laptop (after you've unlocked it for them so they won't confiscate it) and putting whatever secret keys and embarrassing / private info is on there, into their own system, forever?
Note to moderators: this is not a dup of the the other Cloud Functions post on the front page. The Firebase integration is an extended offering with additional features.
But isn't org's ecosystem one of its strongest assets? For example, things like Babel for executing code blocks or integration with RefTeX.
The USA is a vast place, actually composed of a diverse collection of communities. Thanks to Federalism, there is still some diversity within the states, and even local communities can be quite different. Consider 4 cities: Fergeson MO, Santa Monica CA, Chicago IL, Las Vegas NV.

CA is currently considering universal healthcare, like HI has. It has also stated firm resistance to Trump's policies. NV has no state income tax. Some states have no DMV registration fees. Other states give out oil money (AK).

E.g. the US is probably still the best place to be, just in a different part of it.
Well, you can't just cancel your mortgage or lease and go on with your life :). You're under a contractual obligation. Maybe leases you can break, but with a high fee / penalty attached.
> 1. VWP/ESTA is not terribly different from some other systems, like Australia's ETA, in using the "you don't need a visa, but you do need to check your eligibility online in advance" approach.

Relevant to this thread, it's also quite similar to Canada's eTA, which became mandatory for everyone arriving by air, except Canadian and U.S. passport holders, in November 2016.
Ditto. Will complete a decade in the states shortly but I don't see myself breaking free from the visa chains for another 5 - 10 years at least unless the US immigration system is overhauled. We (me and my spouse) have decided upon a hard deadline (~5 more years) before shutting up shop and moving on if things don't change.
http://tokio.rs/ : async io

https://rocket.rs/ : a web framework

http://diesel.rs/ : ORM/Querybuilder
While I do not think it is more ethical I could imagine arguments from someone in such a society.

One possible argument might be that the social cost of that unborn child is so high that is it is morally reprehensible to have conceived it in the first place, and that such an action is a horrible crime.

Plenty of places suspend human right to imprison or even execute people who have committed crimes. It could be seen that such an action isn't even isn't even punitive, just corrective. Some might feel that the government simply removes the child before it is born, and then is lenient because the mother is not imprisoned for her indiscretion against society.

Other possible arguments could stem from the long term environmental harm that the child will have on the environment. If someone places higher value on nature than on human life this argument naturally follows.
Very true. I dislike places that only have food/restaurants in their list of why you'd want to visit there.
Either that or chaos, but you can wave freewill bye bye either way.
The number is huge? The difference is what, a couple countries?
Wow! [0]

[0] You are citing yourself as a reliable source. That's pretty nifty.

> it always produces more dangerous waste,

False.

> it always poses more risk to the community

False.

> It's always more expensive

That one is closest to the truth, but also not really true:

"Some independent reviews keep repeating that nuclear power plants are necessarily very expensive,[26][27] and anti-nuclear groups frequently produce reports that say the costs of nuclear energy are prohibitively high.[28][29][30][31] This is despite the fact that in 2015 the cost of electricity in nuclear France is approximately the same as in Denmark and two-thirds of that in Germany.[32][33]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_nuclear_power_pla...