skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Announcement: Sorry I closed this site because it was becoming too expensive to run. The code was not that efficient and all the activity from HN was costing. I have another idea like a forum based on email which I may post a bit later...once I've made the code cheaper to run. Thanks for the feel good encouragement.
> I would say (not a lawyer and all that) but if you've been granted the visa now you're home and hosed. The wheels will probably take a while to turn.

The bigger question would be if it's renewable and still valid as an immigration pathway (if that's what OP was after).
Right but someone who has a realistic chance at being hired as a professor won't be working as a commodity software engineer, they'll be in some sort of specialist/research role. Any of the job offers I've seriously considered leaving were to be a computer scientist.
There is nothing preventing memory usage from being brought into the ~250MB range. The performance issues stem from a legacy codebase built by academics and a focus on safety and enterprise features.

>So it's plausible that monero transactions could practically end up with a larger anonymity set in absolute terms than zcash (especially for current monero, which has CT and a minimum mixin size).

No, it isn't. There will always be a transaction graph between accounts, which limits the total number of possible routes between two participants in a trade.
You assert that she should have called the police rather than simply leave. And then you claim that you were in the same situation, called the police, and found yourself accused of being an abuser.

If you had this experience, then you should understand why abuse victims often choose not to go to the police.
WoW even in death he is a busy guy
Your comment reminded me the TED talk "How a blind astronomer found a way to hear the stars"[1].

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/wanda_diaz_merced_how_a_blind_astr...
Steve Ballmer Serves Up a Fascinating Data Trove
To make the most out of Twitter, you do have to choose who to follow, and who to unfollow. Some people either don't understand that or can't be bothered.
I have a twitter account even I do not see value in it. I don't even remember when was the last time I logged in.
I've tried it, it did not work for me.
Direct link to Ballmer's site -

https://www.usafacts.org
I don't think he wonders about anything at all. He knows (and is wrong).
Not the reports themselves, the results from them. Its good data but doesn't "matter".
That's just awful marketing. Time to get Bourdain on video eating Chilean Scallops.
It's Fair Source License https://github.com/RD17/ambar/blob/master/License.txt
"Thinking like a computer" would not involve abstraction. That would be thinking like a language author or a young programmer.

"Thinking like a computer" means thinking without abstraction. (Aside from symbols and maths.)

By learning abstraction the student is only learning how a language author thinks, not a computer. There is no need to teach abstraction. It comes naturally. Humans do not operate like computers. Humans naturally gravtitate to using symbols.

Why not teach how to convert from binary to hex to decimal and how to do binary addition? Every child has to memorize a decimal multiplication table at some stage of their education. They should be memorizing binary/hex tables too.
The only people who benefit from Twitter are celebrities or journalists who in turn give a tremendous amount of free advertisement for Twitter.

What they really need is a place to share their press announcements or agenda. They could do it on their own blogs/sites, but it's easier to follow Twitter.

The only "normal" people (people without following) who use (in a sense write/tweet) Twitter are trolls. What else can you do with 140chars if not either promote something, share a link, or troll/be snarky/harass? And Twitter at the same time is trying to get rid of the people who actually use their product besides famous people.
Because it's already big, but it's not a standard and it's proprietary?
I hope uber doesn't fail. I don't want to buy a car :(
When I have tried to do this in the past major news events blew up my feed with many pages of similar articles which totally drowned out everything else I have no clue if the right way to use Twitter is to follow a ton of people or very few. If it's very few I don't see the point. I can just goto the sites directly and not have to deal with the wall of noise. My impression of how Twitter works is similar to reading a huge forum thread backwards. So instead of reading oldest to newest it's newest to oldest. Is that fair to say? Maybe I am using it wrong?. Did I change a setting years ago that had some terrible unintended consequence? Is this how Twitter works for everyone else?
We all know what this will be used for in Trump's America -- to disqualify people from health care coverage and even employment.
Maybe it is failing to grow for the plain reason that it has already grew up, filling its niche? Why don't you question why BMW is 'failing to grow'? What's their mistake?

http://www.nada.com/b2b/Portals/0/assets/web-images/Luxury%2...

There is no mistake. There are only so many premium car buyers in the world.

By the IT measures, Twitter is a mature company. It does one thing and it does it well. It can't grow infinitely.
Jeez, nobody tell him about data.gov ...
It is simply a hit piece. Most of the issues discussed have already been considered by the monero devs and in fact, addressed. There is a reason why the authors limited their considerations to transactions before the RingCT update.
There's something comically evil looking about Ballmer, almost the Emperor from Star Wars.

A former Microsoft exec wondering what the government does with money? A lot landed in his pockets I suspect, but it's good he's philanthropic now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh_GeBPOhs.
Is the rate of executives departing greater than at a similar-sized tech company? I'm skeptical that I'm being fed a narrative meant to drive readership. I don't mean to say that there is a conscious intent by media, but it could be a feedback loop of public interest which increases reporting about a subject.

Maybe it's wrong to doubt this, but I've been misled plenty of times by journalists committing the base rate fallacy, weaving unrelated events into a narrative, etc.
Scaling up HAProxy to support 2M concurrent connections
Can I suggest that you specifically state that in your articles then? It would at least clarify the cause for a lack of source/interviewee name.
I think calling it prediction is a bit of a strong claim. It would probably be more accurate to say that deep patient comes to a diagnosis before the EDIT:s/prediction/physician, rather than necessarily predicting the future disease state. To properly claim prediction of the future disease state you would need to show that the patient does not have the disease at the time of the prediction.

From what I have skimmed they do not do this in the paper, although to be fair this would probably not be practical because it would require more tests to have been done in the past which in many cases were not done, e.g. imaging to confirm absence of a cancer at the time of prediction.

That said, I have worked on thia same problem and also lazily call it prediction. Also there is still immense value in earlier diagnosis in cases where early treatment leads to better outcomes, like in sepsis or cancer.
I've made databases to scratch an itch before and this is that, but at a curious billionaire scale. Sounds like an a fun project to work on.
Spousal rape is not a crime in India. [0]

[0] http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/04/13/47396685...
Samsung Galaxy S7 vs. Samsung Galaxy S8
People who used to be in government know the levers of power.
4 Best GoDaddy Alternatives 2017 (Number #2 Is Just Awesome)
There was Bitcoin malware back when CPU mining was feasible. If memory serves me correctly, someone figured out it would be break-even serving ads with JS bitcoin miners.
Digital Ocean has so called one click apps, that they can deploy and setup at any droplet and gitlab is one of them: https://www.digitalocean.com/products/one-click-apps/gitlab/

I have tried it before and it just works, took my less than 5 minutes to have a fully working gitlab instance on a $10/month droplet. It's not the cheapest option probably, but very low effort so it's quite worth it.
Team up, there is more than enough data!
> adob$ amaz$ face$ goog$ mailchim$ etc etc etc

It doesn't help that not one of your examples is replacing an 's' with a '$'.

Adob€ and Goog£€ have some potential though.
Thanks for the link.

Op, excellent question.
perfect. thank you for this
Hehe that might be part of it, I actually feel claustrophobic reading it. A neutron star of text and links.
Totally agree, chaos is the fuel for change, change is the fuel for opportunity. Only with chaos comes opportunity.

I've known managers who inject chaos into their group just to figure out who gets frightened by it and who doesn't. Not a technique I recommend though.
That was not my intent. I just noted that my approach came from visually inspecting spectrograms and noting that they might be compressed quite well by image compression algorithms. Only to notice in the end that lossy image compression completely butchers the signal with noise if doing that. Had I just used the original waveform as raw image data that wouldn't have been as much of a problem. Compression would still have changed the samples, but overall probably not as badly.

Heck, I've been 17 when I did that. I certainly didn't really know much about the theory behind or why it almost certainly would fail. But I guess by now I wouldn't even attempt such craziness, so in a way it's probably a good thing to not know things too well, sometimes.
what about just terrestrial material here on earth? sounds like a good idea. Is there a 3d dirt printer?
No it can't, but it can be targeted by these negative articles indefinitely, so their stock might get to fall faster, and those who are shorting them can buy their new yacht sooner. ;)
I don't think this behavior is restricted to the MBA types. That said, I don't think you should pay heed to everyone's opinion on things. There are those who believe evolution is fiction and global warming a left wing conspiracy. You can't spend your energy fighting obvious falsehoods. On the contrary, you can channel their ignorance to push you to be more overtly "successful", if such a thing exists. Getting richer than them might be one way, and software has certainly been one of the top sources of wealth in recent times.
Are lyft etc... non-options?

Personally, I'd love to see the most predatory of the on-demand ride services flame out because of bad PR and an unsustainable (and did I mention predatory?) business model.
Or just plain git, as in TFA.
No, I haven't -- but keep on misrepresenting everything about that case, including the legal situation in California.

Do you have a religious reason for putting words in my mouth on hacker news? That would explain things about as well as your false assertion about me!

To save anyone interested in what I've written some site-specific searching, start here and follow the links I left in this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13411986

Searching for coldpie and my name will return lots of tediously similar comments from him inveighing against me based on ill will and little else. I'll spare you all those search results :-|.
Thanks, I hope so.

Re: shortage vs. abuse, perhaps it's a bit of both. I'm joining a small dev team of 4 locals. The hiring and visa process wasn't simple and probably quite costly. The pay's not bad either so I can't imagine that they didn't look for locals to hire.
When spousal rape is legal, there probably isn't anyone to "report" domestic violence to.
Yeah that's a neat way of hosting malware on someone else's servers. It seems to also download a few binaries and put them in /tmp/ using the same trick.
If you have a camera with a lens anything bigger than 1x1m are visible from space.

Writing "visible from Orbit" implies with the human eye.
Did he emphasise the "once"? Crucial bit of info here ;)
Correction: the article actually says "But this year’s El Niño-like winter..."

Its not claiming this is an El Niño year
Because everything's better with cloud.
The article you link to says it was last week. This was the selective publication of White House visitor logs online. Those logs still need to be submitted to the national archive.

You can freely object to such changes. But the second people start spinning it into something much worse than what it is. I feel like they are playing politics and don't really care.
I actually played with doing the opposite when I was in high school: photoshop had a "RAW" file format plugin which let you specify the offset past the header and the bitmap data stride, height, width, and pixel format. You could open a WAV file as a Nx1 bitmap and then apply filters to it and get some interesting effects when saved back out and played in an audio player.
Can't you just turn the pitch all the way up?
In terms of weak locators, I once wrote a Selenium-IDE plugin that would generate custom expressions. They were XPath-compatible (why throw away all those nice tools?) but the generation scheme strongly preferred using custom-attributes in the markup as the primary "signposts".

The goal was to make things a bit less fragile by allowing Devs to annotate markup, while avoiding retraining the screen-clicking QA or creating an entirely new locator scheme. This was back in 2010, but I think it generated expressions a bit like:

xpath=(((//.[@data-test-label='foo'])[1]//.[@data-test-label='bar'])[1]//.[@data-test-label='baz'])[1]/a

Messy looking, but it meant only a structural change to your foo/bar/baz structure would break the locator, or a particular change within the baz markup. Switching a div for a span or adding another nested div for some reason? No problem.

Unfortunately we never got to use it in production, the company was bought a couple years later and the new management wanted to skimp/dumb-down QA even further. I guess they wanted to buy results rather than processes.
I really love the learnxinyminutes project. If anyone doesnt know it here is the Link:

https://learnxinyminutes.com/

It is kind of the same approach to the beginning of a new language.

Here is the direct link for the python3 source:
https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/python3/
Tavisca Solutions Had a Great Phocuswright Conference 2016
> There is a reason why the authors limited their considerations to transactions before the RingCT update.

No, they did not. The 80% figure comes from weaknesses of clients post RingCT update.
Is this only for gaining exposure to real world interviews or does it help in practicing programming problems also?
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All this needs is keyboard controls, and then it'll be a great substitute for QWOP.
And how often are those contractors the target of budget cuts, and how often do nurses, teachers and so on end up bearing the brunt of them?
So many "as sleep" instead of "asleep".
Among enterprise-focussed commercial vendors of similar classes of software, that description isn't actually as ridiculous as it initially seems.
Trump’s Executive Order Won’t Give Tech Clarity on H-1B Visas
SDF isn't merely renting some ethernet and platters of rust: It's a community where you can be "local", even though it's an Internet site.

I was introduced to a new customer via SDF; The person sharing the hardware your "droplet" runs on can't do that.
Men in India are far different than Indian men in America though. Indian men in America have the lowest crime rates by an order of magnitude in all facets, are the wealthiest, possess the highest percentage of college degrees etc. You're seeing the best and the brightest with a few scum that slip through the cracks. There are tens of millions of people in India especially in villages that force marry children and do a whole bunch of stupid shit. This is a completely different subset. If this study was done for Indian men in America I am confident that it would be as low or lower than any other ethnic group
Are there any countries where education is not publicly funded? What are those countries' education systems like?
This... isn't cloud. It's a server that runs locally, to implement the functionality of an IDE in a way that multiple editors can share.
> If you are on Java

...that's a pretty bad place to be on if your on the Never Oracle train.
Typo, I assume. Geoff Hinton
> Because everything's better with cloud.

Hm? This has nothing to do with the cloud. RLS leverages the compiler APIs very heavily to provide context-aware code completion, so this just makes it trivial to make sure that the version of RLS that you have installed is appropriate for the version of the compiler that you have installed, by leveraging the exact same tool that people use to install the compiler.

EDIT: Or maybe you're confused regarding "server"? The RLS is a daemon, running locally on your machine. The "server" moniker comes from Microsoft's "language server protocol", which the RLS implements. https://github.com/Microsoft/language-server-protocol
The author should try some desktop tools as well, like gtk/qt and xaml with c#. Short of direct win32/xlib programming android is probably the most convoluted environment around and always has been. Here (http://flukus.github.io/2014/08/19/2014_08_19_Android-Take-b... - personal blogspam) I delved into some of the tooling that the IDE has to do to make it somewhat passable, it's obvious why some devs see the appeal of electron.
This is extremely bad news for Australian science.

I'm a postdoctoral researcher who's on a 457 visa out of my PhD. The new 457 replacement requires 3 years of work experience, so we cannot hire people from overseas who've just finished their PhDs. Without a permanent residency outcome we cannot keep these people after their initial contract (which is my own plan).
They doubled the price but that's OK (for us!) since the university's reallocation funds pay for that.

This is short-sighted pandering to the far-right who've been clamoring for this, and science loses.
That's one of the concerns, yes.
You might be interested in ACE: http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/site/
I support the hyphotesis of having the worst and most horrible developer support. When Twitter became popular there were dozens of apps, now you have to rely on the official ones, very buggy. The integration with other apps is not transparent, too many fights between Instagram and Twitter led the last one to lose many opportunities and, features, Twitter lost the train with the chance of photography and video, they did it great with Vine but I still don't understand why they close it.
Is It Really Possible the China Is Beating the US in Innovation?
All Australian's are immigrants in one sense or another is my opinion, 200 years isn't long. I was punted around the US and NZ before being deposited in Australia. Country only benefits from skilled people coming in, I just worry the abuses that went on meant we got a pool of crud in there too.
Thanks for the answer!

So, the book is really three books.

How do you get around actually proving things?
The benefits of transparency
"I think if we had a crystal-clear/omniscient view of the wastage that goes on in various governments, we'd be collectively appalled."

I think the opposite. Most people already believe the government is incredibly wasteful, there's a much greater opportunity in highlighting where it surprisingly efficient. This will serve to blow up many ideological truisms.
> twitter, facebook, instagram

great list of dying companies largely ignored by the next generation.
hmmm... if anyone has any connections to Jared Kushner maybe we could recommend to him to create a blockchain for government budgets under his office of american innovation.
Thanks for the cool reference! :-)
This is not complete (F in FAQ stands for Frequently), but it is official Mozilla material about me, and your comment contradicts it:

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/05/faq-on-ceo-resignat...

Are you just making stuff up for fun on HN, or do you have inside information ("They didn't say...; he just couldn't be allowed...") that no one but board members and a few other principals could know for certain?
I have some sympathy for the judge here. Though a sentence of one million years hard labor followed by summary execution is probably the correct one for a case like this, Gattani could change. He could be somebody who pays his debt to society, gets counselling, makes positive changes in his life, and goes on to have a healthy positive relationship with his daughter and the world. Keeping the case in the USA allows the court to stay involved and that might lead to the best available outcome for the victim and her child (aka victim #2).

If the judge were to impose a harsher sentence such that deportation post-sentence was mandatory, Gattani would then be outside of the judge's jurisdiction and the judge would have lost any ability to monitor the situation or get the best outcome for the victims for any future crimes Gattani commits.

In India Gattani may well have situation management options not as readily available to him in the US, because of the money he has, how much further that money sometimes goes in India, i.e. his ability to pay bribes, the degree to which corruption is present in the Indian judiciary [1][2] and police force [3], and differences versus in the USA in some parts of Indian society in respect of attitudes to spousal abuse, appropriate punishment, and to divorce. The availability in India of options which allow Gattani to avoid taking responsibility for his actions might act as an impediment to real, substantive, changes by him.

On the other hand Gattani got a minor sentence for a terrible crime. I sympathize with the victim here one million percent when she makes that observation. But its a judgement call by the judge and arguably there are no great options here because the best short term options and the best long-terms options are in conflict.

No matter what happens in future Gattani has to live with the knowledge that he abused his wife and his daughter. Its not an easy road for him from here no matter what. He has been publicly shamed in the media, and now he is a convicted felon without a green card. Good luck getting one now. Over and above the sentence itself imposed by the judge, these are consequences for Gattani of that sentence, and ones which the judge almost certainly aware.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judiciary_of_India#Judicial_co...
[2] http://lmgtfy.com/?q=indian+judiciary+corruption
[3] http://lmgtfy.com/?q=indian+police+force+corruption
I didn't know pretty much anything about linear algebra, but by watching the series, I felt deep enlightenment. Also, the videos they have done about topology really made me believe everything is, in essence, geometry.
Ask HN: How do you spread an idea?
I want to add some data analysis in products of my company but I don't know how to convince people to do it (or at least try it).
The problem is that it requires investment and they don't want to be first to try (even if they are aware of the value that this can bring)
How do you convince people to try your new ideas ?
Per the stickied comment from Dave/EEVblog on YT:
"The EEVdiscover channel is now back up! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkGvUEt8iQLmq3aJIMjT2qQ Still no idea why though it was taken down though﻿"
The language server protocol is revolutionary for providing features like intelligent autocomplete to text editors. It basically brings proper separation-of-concerns to language tooling. In particular, because it's based on JSON messages over sockets, you can implement the tooling for each language in that language. I'm the author of https://github.com/georgewfraser/vscode-javac which uses the Java compiler tree API to implement a Java language server---the task was made radically easier by being able to implement it in the target language.
Show this cartoon to anyone who doubts we need huge action on climate change