skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on the application. Do you care about how things work inside your database? Do you want to understand how the subsystems of your app (like authentication, security, the API, etc) work? Flask allows you (and forces you) to make your choices explicit. Django makes the decisions for you and hides its workings under layers of abstraction.

I can see using Django to rapidly prototype some kind of CRUD app, but on the other hand, you could just use Wordpress for that. Flask seems like it would be a superior platform for engineering anything non-trivial, especially if you care about how it works.
> privatizing

The core of the issue is still the university tuition rates, and universities involved are usually not privatized. These public institutions have become profit centers, benefiting from the captive audience of young career seekers, and cranking up administration overhead costs in their budgets to absorb the increased amounts of loan money available to prospective students.

Loans are always hardball business, and student loans are no different (although this case is clearly false advertising). The fact that the government sought to get more university degrees into the hands of citizens by increasing loan availability and size is the short-sighted idiocy that helped bootstrap this mess.
We've got a fair amount of these around my parent's home south of Denver. Growing up we were told that they were Indian trail markers. I figured that given how young the trees were it was probably just a parasite.
Keep track of your YouTube videos in other platforms such as Facebook or Vimeo
Hi everyone,

I would like to know if you, as content creators, would use a tool to keep track of your YouTube videos on YouTube or in other platforms such as Facebook, Vimeo, Instagram (to name a few). Which kind of metrics would you like to see in terms of analytics or reports? Would you pay for it? Or would you rather use it in a freemium mode (with some limitations)?

Any suggestion or opinion is more than welcome (good or bad).

Thank you very much for your time.
Drawing the Virtual Memory diagram
But only one company routinely releases it to embarrass their customers.
An immigration lawyer's take:

http://immigrationgirl.com/uscis-rescinds-memo-on-h-1b-speci...

She concludes:

"The new memo issued Friday rescinds that old memo and basically reminds officers that they must look at the particular position and its job duties to determine whether it meets the definition of specialty occupation, rather than relying solely on the OOH. I think the main issue with the old memo was that it gave kind of a blanket statement that all programmers should be specialty occupations.

The new memo does not change the rules, it just reminds us that a petitioner must be able to establish that a particular position qualifies as a specialty occupation in order to be eligible for the H-1B visa."
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That would never work in the US. It would be both impractical and politically impossible. Most people don't have 35k to drop on an electric car, and even if they did the infrastructure doesn't exist.
What about costs? Fabs keep getting more and more expensive, plus x86 is getting increasing competition from much cheaper ARM chips.
I admittedly have zero experience with configuring HW with ARM.

However, to say that HW interfaces on the PC have been stable since the age of IBM PC clones is a joke. In the DOS days, users manually had to manually set IO memory addresses and IRQ levels. Early Windows sat on top of DOS, so still had to do it there. Plug'n'Play didn't show up until Windows 95, and even then it was hit and miss. Some devices worked, others required manual configuration. RTM Win95 didn't support USB, either. That took the equivalent of a service pack (although, IIRC, they went by a different name back then. I want to say OSR1 added USB 1.1 support). Windows drivers didn't really get friendlier until the push to the NT kernel & it's HAL. Win2k had limited, but good support. WinXP got better. Vista was a step backwards. Win7, 8 and 10 have incrementally improved on Vista. Even on Windows 10, though, I have updates that "forget" a subset of my USB controllers. Windows doesn't know about drivers for my HOTAS. Most recent windows updates cause it to forget about my secondary monitor. Half the time after an update, my USB keyboard doesn't work (I have to login on my desktop using an on-screen keyboard to correct settings). I'm probably one of the only (or a small handful) of people that have a Geforce 690 & 1080 in the same system. Sure, PC might be better in that most peripherals go over USB. But, not all USB devices work with a generic driver, and Windows often doesn't include non-generic drivers for all but the most popular devices.
It may sound crazy, but I've heard of honey pots getting attacked in minutes many times.

Two minutes is probably too short, but an hour? Maybe not.
Android's fragmentation and shitty vendor blobs are nothing new. What's more disappointing is that Google, despite all its might, didn't do anything significantly different for its own phones. The cost of owning a google phone used to be ~$100 a year given the price of Nexus used to be around the ~$300 mark and a 3 year support cycle. With Pixel, that cost has become more than 2x for the same support cycle. If google with its current stake can't strong arm Qualcomm and other h/w vendors, I doubt if it'll ever happen. Microkernels may make it better, but that's just shifting the perception. What's really needed is more competition in the h/w space.
This is very true. However, they could still lose a court case if they failed to prove that the design they shipped benefited by information that was confidential - even when the information was about what "not to do". Still, this is probably among the hardest case to bring on and win for a company, imho.
First job I had out of college, when it came to payday, my boss handed me a paycheck with pay stub and I folded it up and put it in my pocket. He told me that I was supposed to sign the check and hand it back to him, and then he'd pay me cash for the face value of the check.

He seemed incredulous that I didn't know that immediately; he asked me if I was a trust fund kid and if this was my first job. I told him, a little defensively, that I had held several jobs previously and most of them just used direct deposit.

Apparently all of his other employees had just been taking their paychecks to a check-cashing place, and paying a fee to get cash. If he gave them cash, then they could save the fee on their end and he didn't actually have to keep money in the bank account that handled payroll, which I guess saved him some fees on his end as well.

I definitely asked some pointed questions to figure out if it was a tax dodge, though; it was kind of a sketchy business.
IMHO, reality paints a sightly more optimistic picture...the average debt per graduate is $30,000--about the price of a new car, but as measured by wages, a degree gains value (this is because since 2009 wages for grads have seen much stronger growth than wages for non-grads) http://greyenlightenment.com/is-college-a-big-waste-of-time-...

I read stories on Reddit about grads who have debt but are also making decent 5-6 figures and paying the student loan debt, but also also investing the stock market and buying a home, so it's not like they are in poverty or living paycheck to paycheck. The student loan debt can be manageable in many instances, especially if you major in a high-ROI subject.
I disagree. Women taking a job who formerly did not have one isn't much different than an immigrant moving to the United States and taking that job. While I agree the latter involves adding an additional 'consumer' to the market (how everyone seems to refer to a US Citizen these days), they could just as well have 'consumed' outside of the US, and I doubt they would become an overwhelmingly positive contribution to demand in the short term.
I don't know if it's accurate but it also works on iPad Air 2 which supposedly only does 120 FPS.

The app crashes when attempting to delete captures though.
If you are talking about PyPy (I presume you are?), then two issues are that it can in some cases be slower, and also C libraries such as Numpy / SciPy are not simple to use with PyPy (I think some of Numpy has been translated, but there are many useful C libraries for Python).
Why hasn't this happened in conservative states?

Why does this virtuous circle (generally speaking, your point about wealth distribution stands) only happen in liberal states?
Really? I didn't have any trouble with them.
Your problem is SQLAlchemy in all of these, not Flask. Use a different ORM for Flask.

> Django rest framework, DRF for short (http://www.django-rest-framework.org/), which is very mature at this stage, runs circles around Flask API. Flask API is inspired by DRF.

I use both and enjoy both, but Flask API is _much_ better designed than DRF. Go look over the source for both.

So yeah, Flask is much smaller than Django: but that's a good thing _for some projects_ like you've said. If you want Django manage.py, Django's ORM, DRF, and debug toolbar, then use Django!
USB Panic Button System
That's already (roughly) the law in the EU.
Correct. The energy side (powerpacks) are absolutely huge, even with cheap oil. When combined with solar, this provides a cheaper source of dispatchable power than diesel, which is its primary competitor, anywhere along the equator.

I actually think the residential solar roof market will remain niche, and the fancy integrated solar roof will be effectively a luxury product with a relatively small market value.

However, look at that huge Kauai solar/storage installation:
http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/8/14854858/tesla-solar-hawaii...

Tesla (with acquisition of Solar City) is able to turn these commodity solar cells from other companies (now at just 19 cents per Watt: http://pv.energytrend.com/pricequotes.html) into profitable utility-scale installations very quickly and at scale. They can install them all over the developing world where electricity demand is soaring and the existing sources are expensive (i.e. diesel). A key to this is the ability to install FAST. They can install these utility-scale battery storage units in just 3 months vs 3 years for a natural gas fired power plant (vs 4-5 years for coal, 6-20+ years for a nuclear power plant). And they can work with any kind of existing or future electricity source, smoothing out peaks in demand, including advanced combined cycle natural gas plants.

So that's a huge market especially if you can tack on a solar farm on top of it. And their exposure to risk on the very low-margin solar cell manufacturing side is limited, as Solar City primarily uses whatever cells the market produces, not their in-house stuff. It has even less competition than the "non-sucky production electric cars" market, and with the 3rd world needing terawatts of electricity, the market will only grow.
Suddenly those eccentric people with really unusual names don't seem so crazy...
Solutions usually come from people who see in the problem only an interesting puzzle, and whose qualifications would never satisfy a select committee. -- John Gall in Systemantics[1]

A very short read, and quite interesting. It touches on a lot of the same points already made in this thread (people will game metrics, etc). The biggest argument that the book makes that is trying to set up a system to accomplish something will cause the system to do everything but accomplish its goal, which leads to the above quote. You can't set up a system to achieve a goal, only set up an environment that allows the goal to be achieved.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics
>I have heard many times that the traditional car companies are heavily outsourced aside from the drivetrain.

It's true, but I don't think it matters. Traditional automakers rely on suppliers for all kinds of parts on cars: headlights, wipers, tires, glass, airbags, and many electronic modules (auto-dimming mirrors, blind-spot radars, etc.). However they do tend to always keep the body/chassis and the drivetrain in-house (sometimes they'll outsource the transmission, like to ZF).

I don't see how this would affect them moving to EVs. Going from ICE to EV means two giant changes: the chassis (to make room for an entirely different layout, esp. because of the batteries), and the drivetrain. Well, the automaker controls both of those. All those other things, like glass, headlights, electronic safety add-ons, etc., are going to be the same either way. You don't need a different blind-spot monitoring system or windshield wipers or tires just because the drivetrain is electric.
To answer your question:

No, a foreign candidate either needs the BS in CS or they can use work equivalency [1]. However if you worked your whole life in a different field and have no relevant degree, I would assume you are not eligible. Otherwise it'd basically make 7 billion people eligible for the H1-B.

If your other technical field is let's say petroleum engineering, you could surely get a H-1B as a petroleum engineer, but not as a programmer or a lawyer for instance, which I think makes total sense. (Unless you're good looking, then you could get a H-1B as a fashion model :) )

Check out the wikipedia definition for "specialty occupation" : requiring theoretical and practical application of a body of highly specialized knowledge in a field of human endeavor [2]

[1] http://www.shihabimmigrationfirm.com/h-1b-degree-equivalency...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa
Well, GNU/Linux distro are usually patched. Main ones for pretty much all known vulns. Tons of Android systems are not patched. I don't think any of those is secure against anybody motivated enough (and I'm not even thinking about a 3-letter agency, but any hacker competent enough!)

Arguably the security model of main desktop OSes is bad enough so that they are also easy to penetrate. That should not make us dismiss the problem of the way too many unmaintained Android systems!
Yes, but that loses some of the punchiness.
>Tesla does the latter, and the market is valuing them accordingly.

Suddenly we believe in a rational market when it comes to Tesla? Everytime I ask basic valuation questions in these threads, I get touchy-feely answers about "potential". And HackerNews is supposed to be a data/tech place. Imagine what average Joe thinks?
I guess that would depend on the nature and scope of the NDA. I would be more concerned about the contract you'll get from the wealth management firm. It may have some boilerplate about everything you develop is our property.
Dial up and early high speed internet both gave you a public IP address. The expectation you will have multiple internet devices is more recent behind a nat is more recent. And yes I dealt with an XP box that would get compromised before you could download the update.

Windows even included a utility to let people use it as a router on home networks to "share internet connections". https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/310563/description-...
I don't understand this argument. Tesla is currently trading at a higher valuation than Ford. Ford has saturated the North American market. Tesla could eventually grow to saturate the North American market but is just a fledgling auto maker right now full of potential but not many sales.

But they are already trading at a higher valuation than Ford.

So unless you think that Tesla can command much higher margins than Ford does, then shouldn't Tesla only trade at a similar valuation when they are making similar amounts of cash?
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> I can see using Django to rapidly prototype some kind of CRUD app, but on the other hand, you could just use Wordpress for that. Flask seems like it would be a superior platform for engineering anything non-trivial, especially if you care about how it works.

I feel like I'm replying a lot in this thread!

I think it's the other way around. If you want to QUICKLY prototype something, use Flask: it's light weight, and your app will _literally_ be one hundred-line file + some templates.

If you know you're going to use much of the common Django tools, use Django. Django projects are usually harder to spin up in my experience.

I wouldn't relate Django to Wordpress at all. It'd be tough to get a Wordpress type platform from scratch in Django OR Flask.
Ubisoft rebalances for Honor’s unlockables amid outcry
Udacity actually has a course on systematic debugging taught by the creator of DDD.

The course covers the importance of the scientific method and hypothesis testing, divide and conquer approaches, etc.
This is the second story that's somehow made it on the front page of hn today that biasedly talks down Tesla and particularly autopilot. All this on the day that Tesla takes over Ford in marketcap. This is not a coincidence. I'm getting the feeling that there is definitely some astroturfing going on here. Instead of talking about this historic day for Tesla and the EV market in general, we're talking about an AP accident from a year ago and some nonsensical study navigant did. Seems like a concerted effort to steer the conversation
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GWB had the choice of (1) start war in Iraq for vague reasons, (2) don't start war in Iraq.

He chose (1).
> unlike Tesla, Ford has to sell through the dealershits - I see it as a big disadvantage

My, what a strong argument.
I meant specifically in dealing with their customer service being knowledgeable and honest. Of course their online payment tools work properly, that's how they make money :). Suggestion- depending on your loan details, you may be able to pay down debt faster by paying the 1/2 the minimum twice a month. You're spending the same amount, but cutting down some of the interest every time which will reduce the principle faster over time and hence also reduce future interest accrued.
The article you link specifically says that they do NOT use the status information to charge, but have noticed a higher willingness to accept surge pricing (makes sense) [0].

[0] "'We absolutely don’t use that to push you a higher surge price, but it’s an interesting psychological fact of human behaviour.'” - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/05/22/uber-app-can-...
> The bidding may go high, but it will only go as high as how much it would cost to hire an American instead.

Except this is already the case?

Hiring a H1B worker isn't free. It costs something like $10K in legal costs alone. Do you really think a lot of companies are indulging in a large-scale conspiracy to avoid paying that $10K to an American instead? If you want the worker to stay longer than a couple years, you'll need to renew the H1B and probably file a PERM application as well. All of this costs something like $20K at the minimum.

Getting a position on a H1B is by no means easy or cheap. If a company could hire an American, they'd much rather do it. And if the H1B thing were all about cheap foreign workers, spouses of H1Bs wouldn't have had so much trouble getting hired in the pre-Obama era. Anecdotally, I know many women with Master's degrees from top-tier US universities who were desperate to find a position, and were willing to take wages well-below par, but couldn't because companies didn't want to pay for the H1B. It's also why if you look at resumes/linkedin profiles for Indians in the US, many will advertise their green cards/citizenship status. They're communicating that employers don't need to file a H1B petition for them.

Yes, it's true there are a few companies which have exploited H1Bs to bring in cheap labor. But from a statistical point of view, this is about as common as the epidemic of violence at Chuck-e-Cheese. In other words, it's a nice news story that plays well as a clickbait headline, in reality, it's a non-issue.
I don't think you understood the article.

Navient is a debt collector. They were sold loans owned by the US Dept of Ed (or hired by the department of ed maybe?)

"more than 40 percent of loan balances it services...." means that out of the loans that the US Dept of Ed decided it can't collect on anymore -- many of those are using the option that would benefit them the most.

The article talks about Navient saying one thing: "we want to help all of the borrowers because they are actually not just borrowers but citizen/constituents"; while doing another: "thanks for calling Navient, having trouble paying your loan? Just hit the loan-pause-button and we will pause your loan for 24 months. No, we will not tell you this but you could have asked for the 'smaller loan payments because you're not earning much' button'."
> enterprise value, which is the correct measure of the value of a business

Not even Warren Buffet thinks this. In economics, the correct measure of a value of a business is the future discounted expected value of cash flow and external utility. There's almost no way to measure this directly so major simplifying assumptions are made when applying this definition in practice.
My mistake, thought I was sure what you were going for and failed. Which is too bad, because your reply was kind of clever.
Wow, that is one of the most simple, effective ideas I've ever heard -- kudos. Not joking or sarcasm, I would love for that to be the rule, it would make life so much simpler.
Yikes! I'll see if I can reproduce. Thanks for the bug report!
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Did you run the numbers? Look at the outcomes for those with just a high school diploma, they are very grim. If the internet has re-written the rules it sure hasn't shown up in the data yet.

https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=77