skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+1 I had many co-workers at yahoo do a voluntary layoff. It's a great gig btw. If you were already planning on leaving instead of quitting you get a few months severance
I live in Singapore and even within the past years there has been a clear shift in cuisine as hawker centres become homogenized. Long ago the street vendors were shifted into groups under permanent roofs. But over time the areas under those roofs became standardized like shipping containers and now most of the kitchens are exactly the same size. This limits diversity because there can no longer be an auntie selling tiny packets of whatever for $1 from a cart. Centralization also gave rise to food type quotas, so if there are three chicken rice shops in one area you may not be allowed to open another.

Hawker centres do enable an amazing food culture, but at a price. Bangkok has them too, just not exclusively.
Ask HN: What happened to binary sizes?
Graphical Win 9x applications installer download sizes:

* WinAmp 2.666 = 2.1MB

* Opera 6.0 = 3.2MB

* mIRC 6.0 = 1.1MB

* WinZip 8.0 = 1.2MB

You get the idea, why today's binaries themselves are so big, and the App bundles ridiculously big too?

I see that myself, I compile simple Apps and I see the executable size, and I don't know how I could program so many megabytes!
I can't speak for all major US tech companies, but I can speak for my experience at a major US financial firm, household name, etc. A couple years ago they did the old dump the American devs and move everything to India. I'm the American team lead. The difference, as far as I can tell, is that the time to market for new features has doubled or tripled. This isn't because the Indian devs/QA are lower quality, they're about the same. The cause for all our problems is communication barriers and the time zone problems. All of our customers are in the US. Every single question that goes in either direction takes at least a 24 hour turnaround. God forbid there's some confusion, then there's 2-3 back and forths with a 24-hour turnaround each time until someone decides they're willing to stay up until midnight to have a phone conversation. Not having seen the books I assume this looks a lot better on paper. Where it will hurt is is ten years down the road when our lack of velocity/innovation catches up to us and a more agile competitor eats us alive. If we were in a faster moving market (consumer finance is pretty slow) that ten year timeline would be much faster.
I was expecting some report of an obscure border dispute. Loved how this one ended.

Bonus points that it was written by Raymond Chen, I am a longtime fan of his writing.
It looks like she just published some things someone didn't like and they decided to punish her by putting her on the list. Why not? There's no consequence for it.
Same same but different.
Alternately, you figure out how to do it differently yourself and try to minimize the inevitable blowback that actually is about resistance to change while people swear it is not. With luck, you attract allies along the way. You quietly grow it until it is the new norm.

Odds are good, you won't get credit. If you try to take credit, people will claim you are crazy, that isn't how it happened.

Sometimes, you need to decide what you want more: To make a thing happen or to get credit for making a thing happen.

Then you sit around wondering: if a tree falls in the forest surrounded by a crowd of onlookers who all vehemently deny its very existence, did it really fall? When you look again, will it be the same as it always was?
| ... isn't this a somewhat empirically testable proposition?
That is, how many Musk-like or Brin-like individuals have come through TCS or Wipro or Infosys on a H-1B so far?

You're asking to see results for something that is prohibited and presenting its absence as evidence.
I think the Canon 50MP sensors kinda stomp on the Sony ones, do they not? I haven't used either so it's an actual question. I know the landscape people are over the moon with the 50MP sensors.

That said, Sony has been kicking butt in sensor land, enough that the Nikon D800/D810 bodies sport Sony sensors, I believe the same ones as the a7 series.
I think this desire to feel like you are living a morally perfect life is strong in most people but incompatible with an honest observation of the world from just about any ethical standpoint. There are an endless number of Very Bad Things in the world and an endless number of things you can personally do to improve them. Really improving how your life reflects your ethics will necessarily involve a huge amount of failure, false starts, and half measures. The best results possible will never get you that far on an absolute scale.

Even when a better path is fairly clear, human beings rarely make lasting changes in behavior instantly; there tend to be a lot of details and that need to be worked out and new movement patterns to learn. It is not clear from a brief message on the internet what a person has or has not done to make such changes. Even without intentionally making changes over time, you can recognize things that other people do that are better than what you do and be more likely to copy them or otherwise be inspired from them.
There's actually strong evidence now that both short term and long term episodic memory and encoded at the same time (immediately) by separate systems, http://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6333/73 It's just that, when things are working right, long term memory only becomes consciously accessible days later.
Nice move imho ! Moby will be to Docker what Fedora is to Red Hat.
Hi Jared, thank you for the update. Do you have any insight into general decision timeline for late applications?
One of the characters is trying to get information out of the other by threatening him with being put on the plane, which, it's implied, would take him to an extremely disagreeable destination.

(Unintentionally reduced spoilers due to having forgotten many details of the film.)
From my experience you'll spend 20% of your time building your SaaS and 80% of your time selling, marketing and supporting your SaaS.

The kicker is, how well you do on the 20% determines how hard your 80% will be.
Hallmarks of Soviet postwar building boom are finally meeting their demise
Might be more Firefox than your macbook or the web. I've noticed (while developing an extension) that Firefox feels noticeably more sluggish than Chrome. Safari somehow feels even faster than Chrome, but I'm too tied to the extension ecosystem of Chrome to switch.
First, let's be clear here: React was first open sourced in 2014, being used at Facebook extensively before that. Sure, it's no Win32 API, but it's not exactly the new kid on the block.

But the point of the web already having these standards is exactly the point - these frameworks are built on top of and contribute to the underlying universal standards, so what's the problem?
Yep same, was interested to check it out, but stopped when I saw 'Start your free trial'

At least let me get hooked on some value before trying to make me sign up / pay.
It's another new proprietary syntax/api for CSS.
Except the ignorant just accept both, whereas those who appreciate the distinction will be jarred.
Not to take anything away from the accomplishment (we definitely need more research on antibiotics), but the wound healing experiment is IMO just sloppy: they compared a infected wound treated using the peptide to an untreated wound. I could imagine that even a basic wound desinfection using rubbing alcohol will have comparative results to this peptide.
I've seen at least one at Lockheed (Sunnyvale) between 2009 and 2013. People close or at retirement age and still working were encouraged with packages. Then came the rounds on involuntary.
https://godbolt.org/ ? Goldbolt.org seems to be fax sw.
clearly fake 'cause bill gates doesn't email with under a billion worth people.
Like the new design, old site looked very dated, which unfortunately matters a lot when attracting mindshare.
Kudos to the team that rolled this out, nim looks much more modern and loved at first glance now.
Interviewed Is Hiring a Technical Account Manager
Orson Welles's last movie was a pseudo documentary on forgery:

https://youtu.be/gIVgUjj6RxU
A Snapshot of the Latest Mobile Development Trends
No credit card or email required to try it. I should make that clear in the page.
I fully agree, PG was (and is) much more visible than Jessica.
In a pro-union pro-local Democrat administration, that Executive Order would be hailed by Schumer as the most fantastic thing since sliced bread.

Not that I agree with Trump, but Schumer is a complete hack.
In case anyone misses the point

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/grou...

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
All new product launches from Facebook F8 2017
Well all of those examples were apps with a single target architecture, win32 or win16.

These days apps have to compile for multiple architectures especially on Android. Those are all packaged up together. Not only that these days you have multiple sizes for image assets for various pixel densities. On top of it all these days people rely on a lot of external libraries which may or may not be on a phone or system. You can't depend on shared linking like when developing for Windows back in the day.

Not to mention, fonts. Apps these days package up fonts and send them along too.

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Technically, yes I can.

However, look at the Rust implementation of the LRU cache:
https://github.com/contain-rs/linked-hash-map/blob/master/sr...

See how much code is there (more than 1k lines), and note most code is unsafe.

In C++, one would probably use list<pair<K,V>> for storage, together with unordered_map<K, list<pair<K,V>>::iterator> for indexing. And the implementation would be trivial, because there’s no need to re-implement a linked list, you only need to implement these get/set methods that update both collections at the same time.

In Rust however, they had to come up with their own implementation of linked list. The LinkedList from standard library doesn’t expose raw node pointers in the API, therefore it can’t be used for the job.
Congrats to all who received their invites. We are still waiting for a response.
People wouldn't complain about it so much if it didn't suck.
Reply to my email about the old link: We won’t be updating that site (in fact we’re redirecting it shortly).

But we’ll be posting open office hours on our events page: https://www.facebook.com/pg/YCombinator/events/.
I don't think that anyone is wanting people working on self driving cars to not get a visa. I think the bigger question is if H1Bs are being abused to get cheaper labor for not well skilled positions. Raising the minimum wage for H1B positions is a pretty good way to filter that out.
Well, sort of. American Apparel hired thousands of undocumented workers who were (arguably) not American.
I don't think this is correct. There's a constant 1G force; you can adjust for the difference necessary in angular momentum as you turn. Sure you won't be perfectly level in the same way have a constant rotational velocity would be but it's still a barrel roll.

Of course, it would point in a different direction, but the magnitude would be 1G.

Hell, i think you could easily develop an intuition for it.
I am glad that you are here, both doing your work, and commenting on HN! Thank you for your contributions, and you are appreciated.
Ugly side to it is that non H1B salaries growth is behind inflation.
"The hypocrisy here is truly disgusting. One moment, executive orders are the end of the world. The next moment, they don't mean anything at all."

Talking about different orders which say different things, one which actually does change rules and one which simply directs an agency to "perform a study", doesn't seem hypocritical at all.

>If a person can't see past this man's partisanship, then they are hopeless; when reason and logic are out the window, it's over.

It doesn't seem to be quite reasonable or logical to treat two things which say different things the same.

>It's like politicians aren't even pretending anymore. The thing that kills me is that people actually buy this stuff. Maybe Chuck is right about the executive order on immigration. Maybe he's right that executive orders do nothing at all. But he's definitely not right about both things.

They're two different orders. Is it not logical that they could have two different effects?
I second the re-think about the trial period and pricing. I would like to trial it, but wouldn't be keen on paying after 14 days. If I was consistently using it after 3 months, I would definitely pay US$40 for the year, since I'd save that on grocery bills from saved food.

Maybe that's another feature you can add, amount of money the person has saved (approximately) through food re-use. Not sure how you'd implement it though.
There is a fairly large australian food delivery startup with the same name. Just might make it hard to rank your site, have you considered this?
Still waiting too! Suspense is killing us!
At first I thought you were crazy for naming it so close to EatNow, but turns out that's just an Australian thing. Did confuse me for a second tho.

Cool to see someone implement this often-suggested idea!

Having a subscription does sound hard to get off the ground tho. Maybe it'd be better monetised thru advertising deals? Can't find any good recipes with what you have? Blue Apron would be happy to cover you for next time...
This looks really awesome but google does this for me. It will be interesting to see how EatHow differentiates themselves from google results.
You may propose it, but wild guesses don't really help. The space of all possible ideas is far too vast for a random guess to have any chance of hitting on a physically plausible idea, let alone the correct idea.

I'm no physicist myself, but in this case I suspect that a net electric charge of that magnitude would discharge continuously, because the electric field would be large enough to accelerate charged matter away from the surface. You may have noticed that even our sun produces a continuous solar wind made of charged particles. It's losing a billion kilograms per second, and it has no overall net charge.
Except it's not for when you actually want to know when the component was put into the DOM, or you're running react server-side
Thanks, we updated the title from “AWS introduces lambda support for python3.6” a little while ago.
Thing is, nobody wants that effect. We want the PhDs. What we do not want it companies that bring in cheap barely-qualified labour for cost-cutting. This hurts the people brought in (they are stuck in bad jobs with bad pay and no way out). This hurts the local workers who cost too much compared to this effectively-slave-labour.

The hard part changing the rules such that PhDs and other productive uses of H1B do not suffer, but the companies exploiting the rules for slave labour do.

I assure you nobody wants to make you feel unwelcome. In fact we are happy to have you here.
Well, I am currently on F1 student visa. I have done my internship at Blackberry as a Security R&D Intern I was offered a full time position for Information Security Analyst. But I couldn't get that offered position because I don't have a GC or Citizen ship. Recently, I have interviewed for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for a CSE1 role The duration of the role is for a year. I am with in my opt. Unfortunately, I was rejected after giving the onsite Interview. I guess that is because of my visa status. I strongly believe that there should be a reform in the H1B visa rules. The priority should be given to American citizens then for GC then for students who graduated from US Universities. I believe if they implemented this then there won't be any H1 abuse by Indian corporations.
No API changes doesn't mean that your code will work 100% as it was before.
There's an interesting small exhibit in the Frick Fine Arts Building at the University of Pittsburgh. In it, there are several copies of Italian masterpieces. The artist, Nicholas Lochoff, was commissioned by the Russian government in 1911, to go to Italy and produce near perfect replicas of the art to be sent back to Russia for display and viewing. According to the histories, he worked so meticulously that only a handful of the copies were sent back by the time of the Russian Revolution in 1917. He was then unable to return to his home country and cut off from financial support, he started to sell off these paintings, almost the entire collection of which is now in that building.

In the same area, there are two completely original statues made in the style of 14th century Italian marbles. They aren't copies at all, but were made in the early 20th century by Alceo Dossena. Dossena sold his works through an art dealer who unscrupulously sold them off as original 14th century works, some of which ended up in museums. When Dossena found out about this, and discovered the vast sums they were sold for (compared to what he earned) he publicly revealed the situation and sued his dealer.

Here's a picture of some of the area in the building including the statues https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Frick_Fi... _IMG_0767.jpg

What I found really fascinating is how this one exhibit really challenged ideas of authenticity in art, what was a legitimate copy, what was illegitimate, what was passed off as original and so on.
Quit your job or hire a stranger to take care of your baby.
All these jobs will be replaced by cheap Indian H-1B visa holders very soon.
still waiting....
That line of thought crossed my mind, as well.
For these purposes, income includes everything, down to and including appreciation of assets. Capital gains make up the majority of income only for people making 2 million+ annually.
Curiously the peptide is derived from a histone protein. Histones are the 'spools' around which genomic DNA is wrapped. Histones are found in the nucleus inside dragon cells. There probably should be no bacteria there even under really bad infection conditions unless the cell itself is being totally destroyed. It's not immediately obvious to me why a histone would have such antibacterial properties. But it's almost certainly not the obvious "bite and sepsis" theory, as you state. I'm not sure it is an 'of course' here - rather it might actually be a lucky find while playing with the truly cool sounding 'dragon's blood'.

edit: Huh - after getting curious it looks like the above is precisely my 'incongruent expectation'. From this article in 2001 about antimicrobial histone peptides found in salmon [1]:

"Most antimicrobial activity is an extracellular event or occurs in the cellular lysosomal compartment. Therefore, an in vivo antimicrobial role for salmon histone H1 might seem incongruent with this protein’s assumed nuclear location and nucleosomal role. In mammals, however, histone H1 has been found outside the nucleus. It is present in the cytosol of human intestinal villus cells, from which it is released into the intestinal lumen during normal cell sloughing. Histone H1 is also found on the surfaces of murine macrophages where it serves as a receptor for thyroglobulin and it is a cell surface protein in murine neurons and in human monocytes. Therefore, histone H1 is not limited to the nucleus in all cells and it may be released to locations where it can act as an extracellular antimicrobial agent. Moreover, an antimicrobial role has been proposed for histone H1."

[1] (2001) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006291X01...
I think both would be good, like some mobile apps - free and paid. I hate ads but if it's something genuinely useful I'd be happy to pay a few bucks each month to use it, especially if it's something that will save me money.
Why Peter Thiel invested in a company like Facebook  ...?
No, because React Fibre is more or less a rewrite of the internals with no API changes.
I'm not sure how you measure "lobbying presence", but Google spends about twice as much as Microsoft per year on lobbying. Facebook and Amazon spend a little more each than Microsoft, but are within about 10% or so.

See: https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/02/09/which-tech...
Elm blows me away. It's everything I saw that React was trying to do, but bound up in an actual language that has strong Haskell-ish types, is fully functional, and mind-bendingly fun to learn.

Elm really could be the future of bullet-proof web development. It has everything it needs except for runaway popularity.
There are two definitions of a regressive tax. the first deals strictly with the percentage rate and the second deals with the proportionality of effect toward lower class incomes. Your flat tax would be strictly progressive on the first front but regressive on the second even more regressive if tax deductions are still a thing. The only fair tax is one that is progressive and accounts for diminishing marginal utility of a dollar. Just like sales tax is a flat tax it's regressive because of the elasticity of demand for essentials.
Thanks for the update Jared!
I'm using Chrome but I tend to agree. A particularly painful area of Facebook is Buy/Sell pages. It slows to a crawl if you scroll through too many listings. Even on my 6 core X99 system.
> (how easy is it to replace a CS PhD working on LIDARs for self driving cars?)

I have no problem with specializations but how many are in the US doing full stack web or general application development. It seems to me the problem is not surrounding engineers who specialize in a minority field like LIDAR. The problem is when you have a team of 15 engineers building a web application platform and 13 are H1Bs.

Also, don't take this the wrong way because I welcome you and any other H1B with open arms. I do however, personally feel there are a more companies taking advantage of the situation than not.

Curious what you or any other H1B employee feels about this point of view?
> As someone who has worked on a truly large React project, I can assure you this is not true.

Worked on or maintained an existing app for a number of years? There is a very big difference.
Playing devil's advocate, there are a number of real world examples of relationships with power, authority, equality differentials where we'd still not be comfortable with corporal punishment.

For example, teacher/student, employee/boss.

After thinking about it more, one rationalization is that we assume it's for the kids' greater good and kids don't know what's best for them while adults do. Of course, one must believe corporal punishment is an effective way to train behavior and the purpose when used is truly to improve the kid's well being.
I'm on an H1B too and I don't share your reading of the thread or even the executive order for that matter. I think there is a major hole with the current system. That Infosys and TCS can get away with stuffing applications and snatching so many visas clearly indicates it is an inefficient system. Hopefully, a better system balances academia, startups, entrepreneurs and corporations well. In addition, almost all of H1B is going to IT today. It should be possible for other industries to absorb talent too.
That actually would be an interesting game mechanic; make sure you lose, but you get more points for how spectacularly you lose...
Is this a hobby project? What ballpark are your hosting costs? I left AWS for Heroku after they wanted over $50/mo for postgres+route53+ec2 small; if Heroku got expensive for me I'd hit something like Linode/DO before AWS at this point.

As a reference, this is for non-revenue generating hobby sites/projects.