skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's actually a reason for that: Microsoft had a separate product called ESP [1] that was based on the Flight Simulator codebase that was marketed as a platform for doing industrial training simulations.

Development stopped with the dissolution of ACES, the Flight Simulator team, but Lockheed acquired rights to continue to develop MS ESP, which eventually became Lockheed's Prepare3d [2].

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc526948.aspx

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Flight_Simulator#Clo...
Well, thats a pretty poor metric. An organization that sets its pay higher is not guaranteed to hire a better employee. They maybe get better applicants though. So while its necessary, its not sufficient.
He could be planting fruit trees of good instead of simply delivering a truckload of cantaloupes every now and again
People age and die, though. I doubt FB will implode like MySpace, but oldsters like me, who got tangled up in its webs back when it was only open to ".edu" addresses, will die off. Then FB will have lots of data on corpses, which can no longer click on ads. It can frantically copy rivals for awhile, but once the first generation of kids stops bothering to sign up, it's on its way to the nursing home.
> Murdering people is considered acceptable by Islamic extremists, as long as they are non-believers

Silence, I kill you !!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBvfiCdk-jc
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None at all. Quite frankly, even if the data showed the opposite on that point I wouldn't change my opinion. The last two points are much more important.
WebAssembly will remedy that.
s/person works/workers work/ and it's legit. In fact it's closer to 1 in 5 even [1]. ~125M workers, 24M work for the government.

I wonder how many of those think the government should get our of their lives?

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/192361/unadjusted-monthl...
I am not at all familiar with aircraft, but in the video were Tex Johnson talks about doing the barrel roll, he literally says it is a 1G maneuver.

https://youtu.be/Ra_khhzuFlE?t=86
It's like the Engineering teams at Google and Facebook have never heard of Microsoft or Sun or Adobe. There are so many lessons (learnt the hard way) in the evolution of .NET, Java and Flash that these guys seem to be completely oblivious too.

Google, Facebook devs please go spend some time with the language and platform greybeards at Microsoft.

EDIT: Feels like Software Engineering needs a set of Software History textbooks to keep reminding us of what has already been built.
Intellectual Property is a laughable idea when a mega-corporation can just assimilate any concept they see convenient.

Zuck should be paying licensing fees. I don't care if it's only for version 0.2.5 .. as long as your commercial and user-as-a-product users are on your service, you are obliged to be licensing the IP imho.
Concurrency and SIMD support are in the works.
Nah. Mating-fitness displays.
> Every year the hot libraries change

Front-end development is fashion.
To me it appears TCS and Infosys are being made the fall guys to keep the existing system of Indentured servitude in place for another decade or more.

[edit:] Real villain is Microsoft, which has the largest lobbyists machine among the software companies in D.C. to make sure they are able to keep their indenture servants for as many years as possible.
So who's cat was it?
I first would like to say this is a horrible way to treat anybody and hope that Neha Rastogi gets all the support she needs to deal with this situation.

That being said, does even the spousal abuse have to be related to software in Silicon Valley? Just listening to the video was so surreal. Lots of spouses fight over things but what a "bug" is or is not? It's just crazy that this is what came out of Silicon Valley.
Nim is a great little language - it is enjoyable to work in and small enough to learn easily. It's neat for little utility programs that are "too big for bash" and "too small for java/C". Sometimes I think of it as an alternative to python.
Okay, run a little test: Compare Jessica to Paul Graham and Sam Altman instead of Trevor or Robert. Now, what kind of figures do you see?

She and Paul apparently cooked this idea up together. But it took forever for that detail to come out. For the longest time, my impression was that this was Paul's baby. I vaguely knew there was a female cofounder. It was much later that I heard that, really, this idea was her and Paul, not him and his prior cofounders.
https://open.spotify.com/user/warnermusicus/playlist/7HQu1GU...
Edit: Nevermind, this has already been answered.

Anyone have insight on relay modern vs apollo?

http://www.apollodata.com
Building Worlds in No Man's Sky Using Math(s)
Is anyone selling PyCon tickets?
I am looking for 2.
Asked wnj about this (pointed him to the original post and this thread).

His response: 'XXX doesn’t mean TODO, it means “should be better, fix it later”'
How long would this have gone on if not for the investigative piece? Would it have eventually cost someone their life? That's the scary part.
FWIW, I haven't had any issues moving files before or after upgrading from 14.04 -> 16.04. I use Git in WSL, but interact with the files in both Windows and WSL without any special considerations.
Thanks.

> It's generally accepted that the value of money is roughly logarithmic as it increases

I assume that is economic theory; do you remember whose or have any pointers to where I can read more?
They are extending offers for "Voluntary Layoffs" to a large portion of the engineering workforce. The offer is 1 week of pay per year of service. Many people have taken it, either to pursue new work or to retire early. These offers have been extended to varying areas of the company over the last year or so as they try and get to their headcount targets.
I've always wanted something like this that works backwards from what you already have. 14 days free is too short to onboard me, though. I want a longer trial to get hooked.

Congrats!
Is the TCS jibe not appropriate? And I think it was part of the GP's point...I suspect there is a big difference between the people who come in on H1B's to the top tech firms and those who come in on H1B's to TCS et al to outsource helpdesk services at a random F500.

I don't have a lot of experience with Tata and their ilk, but from what little I've seen, and everything I've heard, it sounds like they are just as bad as the typical low-level enterprise corporate IT drone you'd expect when that's what you're asking for -- and that's typically how they get involved. I'm sure they have other skill sets, and I'm sure there are some very talented people mixed in that pool, but I'm not convinced that the best of the foreign talent that we want to target is coming through those routes in significant numbers.
That depends on what the alternative is.

If you allow imports of drugs that are already approved by the FDA, then the objections are mostly about economic incentives (i.e. high prices reward the companies that made the drug, etc..)

If you allow imports on drugs that are approved in other countries but not by the FDA (iirc this was advocated by Ted Cruz in his debate against Bernie Sanders on health care a few months back), then the objection is that it basically neutralizes the ability of the FDA to block dangerous drugs and makes it easier to push drugs to market that aren't ready by promoting the drug in whichever country has the loosest standards or is most corrupt.
Wow - I figured they were ahead, but 3x...
This feels like one of the exceptions where you should be allowed to change the page title. Perhaps if you prefix the title with "Show HN: " it would be ok to not use the default title. Something like "Show HN: Nim revamped its website" might be worth a try.
I am a complete machine learning noob, so this could just be my lack of skill. Having looked at most of the popular ML frameworks, none of them seem to provide an easy, functional way to implement a custom 'neuron'. That is:

function (someinput):
output = do_stuff
return output

Which then gets passed on to the next layer. Again, it's quite possible I've just missed something, or there is some inherent ML limitation that makes this impossible. But if such a thing is possible, it would be a rather awesome feature from my POV.
A nod to your username, that's one of my favorite coffee shops on the Wet Side of the state. If one were to make the WW booze pilgrimage I suggest it would be worth also checking out the Spokane fermentation scene. It seems like there's a new craft brewery opening every week here and there are wineries and craft distilleries sprinkled all around the greater GEG area.
I couldn't find a word for non-satellite map :)
How does it compare with vue.js? I never worked with any modern JS framework like this but on paper I did not like writing CSS in javascript and vue.js had a normal way to write CSS and to me it looked superior in other ways as well.
I understand. Nonetheless they did to the work to enable straightforward client networking (which works because Windows' own networking layer is basically Berkeley sockets under the hood).

Writing an emulation of the Linux USB sysfs and device node API on top of Windows' very different USB driver layer is a rather bigger task. I'm sure they'll get to it eventually, but it's not something you can demand as an "obvious" feature.
Will be anxiously waiting your mail and hope it arrives before the heart attack....:-)
This is that awkward moment when you realise your colleague has terrible taste in music
This paper checks all the boxes for me. The prior approaches are elegantly tied together, the novel contributions are straightforward and intuitive, the results are compelling, and it is extremely clearly written. Kudos to the authors!
As opposed to 'Boeing keeps on hundreds of staff they no longer have a need for'?
There was a story on NPR awhile back about how, if I remember correctly, the U.S. government gives money away to drug companies to help fund drug research in exchange for a license to manufacture the resulting drug in case there's some kind of shortage or the drug is too expensive for anyone to buy it. This right has never been exercised, but there are some who think that they should start doing so to bring drug costs down.
L1 visas are easier for the company to get, because there is no cap on the number issued. The employee on an L1 is just as qualified as an H1, but less free -- they cannot switch jobs, and if they get fired they must leave the country within 15 (!) days.
What was your objection to writing CSS in JS? It would seem like a fairly trivial syntactic transition to go from one to the other? It's just selectors with a dictionary of properties right​?
I read something similar in John Boyd's biography (highly recommended) about the barrel roll as well. I assume they mean it can be done while keeping the plane in a 0.9-1.1G window or something along those lines. In other words in can be done in a way that if you closed the blinds on all the windows and did it in a commercial flight full of passengers no one would complain or even be able to tell.
> Something my 36 year old wife knows to be common, was not the case just a short time ago.

What are we doing so the next generation can say the same?
> Usually, it does

No, honestly, it doesn't.
If you like a persons content enough to pay them for it, then it might make sense to view the videos some way that isn't youtube. Perhaps, Pateron should team up with someone and offer the video hosting perhaps.

I'd like to see competition for youtube. They'd fuck up less if there were a more compelling reason for them to stop fucking up.
I'm sorry, but the writer was super clear about the exact formula. It's a simple I/O arrangement that opens with what a user does and closes with what happens (e.g. Push a button, get a ride).

That's it.
This is a valid concern, and we'll do our best not to screw up. :-)

It's not as hard because there is no parallelism (at least now) and any mutations of the internal data structures happen in two or three tightly controlled places. But yea, debugging these is harder during development (for us) and we'll need to make sure our testing story is rock solid before shipping the asynchronous mode by default.

One thing that really helps here is we test all updates on Facebook which uses React in many places and has a giant user base. So regressions that lead to a drop in metrics (e.g. a crash or a race condition) automatically get reported to us, and this adds a second line of defense after unit and integration tests.
> Concern for human welfare is universal. @Chris2048

Since when?! Concern for /other/ human beings is not only NOT universal, it's rarely prevalent in society.

I think you should cite your source on that particular comment. I call bullsh*t.
Periph
That's obvious. Maybe my question was no direct enough. Are you afraid to state your own opinions? I mean, you are still more or less anonymous, at least for average reader.
No Musk or Brin like individual would emerge unless they are from South Asia. These companies are blatantly racist, and wouldn't hire a German or Russian.

We should just have 3 year visas that allow you to apply for a green card if you are gainfully employed.

My grandparents immigrated here without any strings. No pimp-like employer, no restrictions.
> Passing the bill means more importation of cheap labor effectively lower wages while displacing Americans from working in America.

> I'm for enforcing the H1-B Visa law which means only for jobs where there is no American with the skill to perform it.

I don't mean to be snarky, but you really need to educate yourself on these issues better before commenting here.

The bill does nothing to increase the number of H-1Bs, nor reduce the enforcement of existing H-1B regulations. All it does it remove the long (decade+) backlogs for skilled immigrants from India and China.

So, in summary, this bill does not have any effect on your stated position - enforcing the H1-B Visa law.
Isn't EB1 reserved for "exceptional" people? I was under the impression that it was the "famous person" visa.
Solid idea. But for me it really depends on how big a recipes database you have. Eg, is it suitable for a household where a lot of the meals we already make are from a smallish geographic area?
Thank you very much for the insight!
Look up "Blanket L-1", there is nothing like that for H1.
+1 same thing i was thinking. I wouldn't pay monthly...but I'd use it daily. so ads / product placement might be better route. Great job though!
Seems like the Android equivalent of Facebook's existing framework ComponentKit [1]

1: http://componentkit.org/
MongoDB Atlas which was already a great product just continues to get better.

My favorite on this list is being able to restore a subset of data from a queryable snapshot. This will be a time saver for those times someone accidentally drops/updates a few documents and they need to be restored.
Minor grammar nitpick: "Less grocery store trips" should be "Fewer grocery store trips."

At this point I'd consider the former correct. It's just too commonly used in too many contexts. When more natives speakers than not don't know about a rule, I dunno if it's valid anymore.
Hope it works out, I've wanted something like this too (but not enough to pay for it). An issue I wish could be resolved is too much reliance on any particular recipe. My two-minutes-with-this observations are that it's nice that some recipes seem to have 'one of these' so it can work with substitutes but how about outright removals? Do I really need that dash of nutmeg, and if I don't have the nutmeg, will that recipe just not show up? Seems like this interface could almost get there with another category besides 'on hand' and 'all' called 'almost'. It would fit in well with the add-to-shopping-cart feature too.

Also wish more places used the recipe format that Cooking For Engineers uses... e.g. http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/170/Chinese-Almond...
In a completely friction-free market, if their work is completely equivalent (including the PITA of having them remote) then they're salary would be bid up to the US level.
Canada Puts Housing Speculators on Notice as Toronto Prices Soar
The Illegal $5 WiFi Jammer for iPhone and Android
I'm aware, but "If you can run a video game engine in the browser you can run anything" isn't exactly hedged on the future is it?
This shows poor leadership by Bill Gates. Did he not value his team's time?
Boy do you like mojitos!
Currently at 80 recipes, with 20+ added every month.
I'm very confused, how does sensor size have anything to do with DoF (depth of field)? Depth of field means how much is in focus and it's a function of the aperture of the lens.

I think what you mean is the sensor changes the effective focal length: a 50mm lens on FF is 50mm, on a Canon crop factor it gets a 1.6x multiplier, on Nikon I think it is 1.5x (sorry, haven't shot Nikon since film).
I would love HN to provide an easy way to see where the reply thread to this first comment ends. Some js might enable that. Basic html/css - I think no.
I believe there are four or five brewers in my home town of Brattleboro, population ~12K. And then there's this phenomenon: http://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2015-07-29/how-small-vermo...
Says a lot more about you than the logo
Me either, while I lived in Europe.

I moved to the US a while back, sadly this happy state of affairs changed.
How does that work out with ITAR?
Taking it even further https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERB1TJBn32c#t=1m45s
On the other end of the spectrum, my personal fave is the Canon 200mm f2 which is a big honking chunk of glass. The portraits that that thing can do are stunning.
It depends where you live. The technician in the article is from NYC, where cockroaches are prevalent (also a common setting for American sitcoms).
Couples mostly fight over inane things. I only read 1/2 the article but it sounds like they're both quite sick. Him a seemingly sociopath (as many CEOs are) and her some kind of dependence disorder (codependence?) . Why in the world would she bail out someone who has abused her? They both need treatment.
There was a plane that crashed into the ground because the pilots were used to warnings when landing in airports in Poland that weren't on the plane's mapping system, so when it wasn't crying wolf…
The Santa Clara District Attorney simply doesn't get it. I saw a domestic violence case first hand - the husband was arrested, got out on bail, but the DA never filed charges and simply dropped the case because it didn't involve severe damage. For the DA to file charges, they'd have to see a hand or leg broken badly. What they don't understand is the enormous mental pain these women, especially from Asian countries, go through. It's just sad.
Average US salary is 45k. Median is 30k. You would think we could train some US persons to do these high skilled jobs. They may like the raise.
> And yet, with JSX we have a gratuitously non-standard dialect of JavaScript that isn't on the standards track and will never be natively supported in browsers.

It just gets compiled down to native javascript. JSX is also optional in React - meaning that you don't have to use it. And having an actual client-side data-structure to represent DOM is arguably better than using string based templates which is what folks have been using for decades.

Also, compilation is not a dirty word - when you consider just how primitive the standard language is. A static type-checking compilation pass also helps keep large codebases/modules manageable, and aids refactoring by being able to catch errors - without actually having to run the code to figure out what it does.

It's true that there is unnecessary fragmentation. But the broad trend reveals that front-end development is actually starting to catch up with best-practice.
The one time a blogger writes content that actually has me glued to the page, is the one time the blog is actually too short instead of way too long.
Right. Additionally, I personally wonder what effect lowering wages and worsening working conditions in entry level tech jobs has on the domestic talent pipeline.

That is, how many American students meditate on the ineffable mysteries of the efficient market hypothesis and then decide, hey, marketing is an easy major and the job prospects aren't that much worse than tech. Better -- how many did that in 2002?
Pizza is considered acceptable in some gyms, as long as its keto friendly and covered in chicken breast.
Yes we did, we actually have plenty of airline pilots in the community who have given feedback we incorporated into the sim.
While it is a big incentive for sure, I wouldn't be so quick to dismissive it as the main incentive. A lot of the people who are "indentured servants" (as the people here like to say) are not really the kind of people who would "jump ship". In fact, the selection process is already such that only the really pliant ones are sent to the US.

Which makes me doubt whether this step would make any difference to the problem of H1B abuse. However, it would make a HUGE difference for those who are not abusing the system.

Disclosure: I'm on an H1B visa. Of course I want it to be easier to change employer. Who doesn't? Its like a fundamental right.
I just ask myself: when does London - and other European cities - will do the same?
The eerie otherworldliness of slow undersea life sped up to a human pace
FWIW, I always thought giving the concept of "magma" its own word was a bit silly.
No, she needs help. He needs to get tossed in jail.
this is happening all over the US with all sorts of companies. I have seen entire departments minus management go this way, its not just a Microsoft phenomenon. BI is the most saturated area in my experience.
Facebook open sources Caffe2, its flexible deep learning framework of choice
Don't forget the H1B visa holder is forbidden from doing other work for profit.
Wild dragons might have even more defenses against infection, but the researchers said they were unlikely to find out.

“I wouldn’t turn down wild dragon blood if it was sent to me and I thought it was collected ethically,” Dr. Bishop said. “But I’m not going to go out in the wild to try to get it.”

Why the different attitude towards mice and guinea pigs?
None of them can lay claim to the web though, contrasted with other ui platforms like windows, ios, etc.
It is not about the salary. Real incentive with H1-B is you get "indenture servants", as long as that incentive is in place the abuse will continue.
Facebook's Caffe2 AI Tools Come to iPhone, Android, and Raspberry Pi – InfoWorld
Reading this made me want to throw up. Absolutely horrible.

But then while listening to the video, I realized the recording sounded a lot like what I would hear when my parents beat my siblings/myself as kids for doing something wrong.

This made me wonder:

Is hitting your kids any less morally despicable than hitting your spouse?

Why does such a large section of society think it's OK to hit your kids and not your spouse?

Curious to hear what other people think.
What are you supposed to do after the sixteen weeks?
I try to keep a balance between few ingredients and taste. So you won't find recipes with nutmeg for example unless it's absolutely necessary.

I love that format by the way. Will definitely look more into it.
I am! Solo female
I can't find where it says that SC1 goes free.
So this thing is located 1 gigaparsec away from us. The article also mentions that this thing is "probably less than 100 years old".
Which then means that this all happend 3 billion (+/- 100) years ago but we are only observing it now?
Sure, you "cite your source" first.
Can we prove this post is incomplete though?
I hope there are enough plugs.