skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
where's fu*kedcompany.com when you need it...
They also own 88% of the country's wealth. And collect 65% of the country's income. (More if you include investment gains.) Pardon me if I don't shed too many tears. [1]

Increasing taxes on them would hardly qualify as hardship. The utility of a dollar is much lower when you have ~$300,000 in savings (80th percentile), then when you have ~$300 in savings (20th percentile).

Related anecdote: With an annual income of ~$250-300,000, my net tax rate, including untaxable benefits and investment income is the same as that of my partner - who makes ~$30-40,000. If I had an income of $2,500,000, it would be substantially lower.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_Unite...
Sukhumvit, Silom, Ratchawithi etc.
Sleeping for 60 seconds, waking up, then sleeping again gets the RTL chip at least, into about 0.3 average milliamps. The 8195 is very similar to the 8710 https://www.amebaiot.com/en/ameba-arduino-power-management/
> Backblaze B2 invented their own API, so no tooling at all.

At first that was true, but now we have a list of 3rd party tools you can use. Check the list out here: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/integrations.html

Here is a sample from that web page:
CloudBerry, Rclone (mount B2 as a hard drive on your desktop), Synology (this is a NAS drive), Retrospect, Cantemo, Cubix, Cyberduck, Duplicacy, Duplicity Linux, HashBackup, NyNAS, NeoFinder, Odrive, Qbackup, SmartFTP
Considering that this site isn't really involved with any of the organizations providing the data, it's not really "transparent" in the sense that it should be. Even if they provide the data for download, there's no way to verify that it hasn't been tampered or transformed since its initial collection. They would need to link to the actual sources directly and I don't think that's going to happen.
Regardless of where these jobs are going, H1-Bs are used for the cheap labor, not the best skills. This system has been abused especially by the financial services corporations.

First hand experience: If you have an open request to hire, you are required to first look to one of the few outsourcing firms we have a contract with. You cannot post the job for external until you have searched for the "best" person within their ranks. The "Best" being somebody super cheap & not qualified, but they assure us that person will learn on the job. I'd rather hire a full time College or High school graduate from the USA at a reasonable cost, train & maybe they will stay for the duration, but I know I'll get great work out of that person, better than the outsourced person.

America is being scammed by the our own American Corporations. I've seen too many people lose their jobs because of outsourcing & they didn't fall back on their feet.

I'd like to see the next Steve Jobs, Bill Gates come out of providing good paying jobs to US Citizens.
When I started out with veganism (went "100%" immediately) I thought I would eat animal products when eating out with friends if it was easier, or on occasions when it was something special. While I still go more vegetarian than vegan while traveling for several reasons (ease, health because of available food, etc.), in the end I found it surprisingly hard to make the exceptions. It was easier for some reason to just stick with it.
Twitch is doing micropayments now https://blog.twitch.tv/introducing-cheering-celebrate-togeth..., they call them bits, 1 bit is ~$0.015

First micropayment service that actually is _micro_.
thanks Jared!!! we are all waiting for you here and on https://t.me/yc_summer_2017
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Is Taking America's Housing Market to China
I wasn't aware that sigfox could travel such distances.

Then again you can do 10km+ with a grid antenna connected to one of the WiFi chips. It might look silly, but it would work.
Scala has an excellent REPL too. I often use it to test Java libraries without having to setup a full project. There is also the excellent 3rd-party REPL called Ammonite[1], which is maintained by Li Haoyi[2]. Not only is it a REPL, but it also provides a full-blown scripting interface in Scala!

[1]: http://www.lihaoyi.com/Ammonite/#Ammonite-REPL

[2]: https://github.com/lihaoyi
Nim seems like a great language -- certainly people who use it seem to extoll its virtues -- but I see this getting submitted and making it to the front page essentially every month. Unless there's some news about Nim that's pertinent, perhaps we could give it a rest?
GL op!

Hope it's a blast.
Why aren't there longer bytecode instructions?
FPGAs to Shake Up Stodgy Relational Databases
Thanks for the update! We are all waiting patiently but we'd rather have it done right than rushed!
Zend
Problem with Zend/Db.
When i create statment i see query sting
"select .... where id=:where5"
I don't think it's either/or. You can make a "flashy" (in the sense of Buzzfeed) without it being burdened by huge amounts of js. Likewise, monetized sites are still frequently not like Wikipedia or HN.
The USA has regressed from the zenith of it's global influence, just not so far yet to stop being the power with the single greatest global influence.
Very easy to explain.

My home is near the Ratchada-Huaykwang intersection where there are dozen of "อาบ อบ นวด" around there.

Usually, cops get money from those massage parlor(sex selling) owners. LOTS of money. Now, there are also military, they have to pay both of them. You can see how hard it is to get rid of this industry.
When I first started using Nim I felt the same way. While I still would love a REPL in Nim, I think you can get pretty close to one by just getting an IDE that can compile snippets of source code for you quickly and easily.
Neither is hard. Want to do both. Just have a list of hundreds of requests and have to prioritize ;-)
> everything else requires a deviation from that to change direction

Well, kinda. The trick is that you have 1G downwards constantly, which can be reduced by initiating a descent at the same time you introduce other directional changes. Rotation (the major component of a barrel roll) does not impart G forces, as recognized by the term.

I'm sure few to zero pilots who can keep it at 1G exactly throughout the maneuver, but it is at least theoretically possible (so long as you don't mind losing altitude via the maneuver).
Article's concluding sentences: "Reducing the number of visas for TCS and its brethren would probably result in them shifting work to India. A better change would be to end the rule whereby H-1B recipients must stay with the company that sponsored them. For within their ranks may lurk the next Elon Musk or Sergey Brin."

Personally I find this line of thought (cliche?) frustrating. Not just because apparently us proles should be making our policy decisions based merely on whether we just might get to bask in some future billionaire's magnificence, but also because, 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?
That implies that we will be able to come up with much better ones. I haven't heard anything that's promising.

Right now our only tool is a hammer...
You didn't answer my question. OP claimed that:

"If Travis Kaladick or whatever his name is were running the company, the narrative would be very different."

Now, given that Uber and Travis have been disparaged by both the press and HN on a regular basis, how would the narrative be different if he was running Theranos?

Do you actually believe that if Travis was in Elizabeth's shoes, we would speak more positively about the general situation?

I don't see how that's true, given that we speak very negatively about him already, and what he has done (behaved like a douche, promoted a bad culture) is, arguably, less egregious than what she has done (committed outright fraud, stolen investors money, possibly killed or at very least jeopardized peoples' health).
Microsoft Zero-Day
Putting adds on your content if you have viable patreon fan base just means you value your fans time at ~30 cents per hour, its a slap in the face with rotten fish.
This is Zend 3. This is exectution
$sql = new Sql($this->db);
$select = $sql->select('posts');
$select->where(['id = ?' => $id]);
$statement = $sql->prepareStatementForSqlObject($select);
$result = $statement->execute();
var_export($result);
It is not conspiracy theory rather a business decision to not want to be in a labor market where your competitors can hire away your best workers.
It could also be true that 1. Gates didn't want to locate in SV for that business reason but 2. Deciding that he didn't want to be in SV, he then chose Seattle over another location.

You do understand the business case for not locating his firm in SV? You do understand that at the time he made his decision, that SV and tech was much smaller than today and he wanted to keep his labor rates lower and that locating outside of SV was a way to achieve this.
Yes, mostly: if you don't meet the first requirement (having some sort of root field that allows you to refetch an object), you'll have trouble using, for example, RelayModern's RefetchContainer. If you don't meet the second requirement (a description of how to page through connections), you'll need to define how to paginate through connections as part of your component's logic (if that matters to you). And the third requirement: you no longer need to use Relay's imperative mutation API. You can simply describe a specific mutation to refetch, including all of the fields (i.e. via a fragment) that you want fetched every time you send that mutation (fat queries are gone in RelayModern).
Some of the comments about reducing meat consumption reminded me of a short TED talk about being a Weekday Vegetarian, which is pretty self explanatory.

https://www.ted.com/talks/graham_hill_weekday_vegetarian
Particularly when the body of the article also makes no attempt to argue for them either. The best it can muster is a weak recommendation to end the rule where H1B's are forced to stay with the sponsoring company.
The reason that it was submitted this time is because of a new website that we just released. I hope you can agree that this is a valid reason for the submission.
Sacramento was ranked 172nd on this list... which I felt was a travesty!
I have been using the Google container registry to store my private images. Costs just a few cents a month for my use case. If you don't want to pay the minimum 7$ per month for more than 1 private image.

https://cloud.google.com/container-registry/
I'm not sure why people get defensive, but my guess it at least has a little to do with that most people recognize that at the very least animals had to directly die for the food (they would be uncomfortable with doing that themselves, or seeing it up close), and that there is a growing awareness of the many negative effects of animal products (environment, over antibiotic usage, poor working conditions, ...). They suddenly feel the need to defend their "decision," when really most people do not really take an active role in deciding that they will eat animal products. (This is by design by the industry, romanticizing animal agriculture and hiding the reality of how that food is produced.)
Depends on the palette used. On the other hand, if that's the only indicator, then it doesn't help blind people either.
I had an initial negative reaction to JSX, as well. It grows on you, though.
How does the fuel get from the tank to the jet or fuel injected engine when the pickup is on the bottom of the now upside-down tank?

There are ways to ensure fuel delivery, but the problem certainly isn't unique to carbureted engines, only the particular issue of managing the fuel in the carburetor bowl.
Detecting Fake News, Fake Reviews, Fake Accounts, Fake Pictures
ok, assuming your request is not sarcastic:

- operating systems

- hardware drivers

- a networking stack

- trading algorithms

- fighter jet firmware

- ultra low latency DSP

- processing data from LHC collisions or imaging satellites.

- etc

- etc

- etc

just because webgl enables fast gpu processing (by basically writing a small subset of C that is shader code) doesnt now mean the web platform can be used for evetything.
I am quite sure! Maybe I was looking in the wrong places, but all the bread was too sweet for me.
Regarding the Christian Rock, assuming I correctly understand what you mean, I disagree.

Well, I haven't checked all that many bands (maybe the majority is not as good as what I've listened to?
), but Switchfoot is good.
Have you not heard? Machine learning is used for everything today, and if it was not it definitely should been.
The problem with WSDL, at least at its inception, was that it tied in with the whole WS-* extravaganza, a set of standards that are built on top of each other and heavily based on XML. While WSDL has evolved to support RESTful services, early WSDL was closely tied to SOAP.

The XML thing is slippery slope. Suddenly your toolchain has to be aware of namespaces, XSD schemas, and so on. It's a largeish universe of a standards that sound good on paper but don't contribute meaningfully to anyone's productivity. And XML has historically been (and still is) popular with the enterprise Java crowd — J2EE, Spring and so on — there's a pretty steep divide between that and the more agile world of web devs and startups. If you're buying into the XML stack, WSDL will seem like a nuisance more than a productivity multiplier.

That said, I don't think Swagger/OpenAPI is very good, either. It's replacing XML with YAML, and introducing its own set of issues. And the community and tooling ecosystem aren't quite there.
The press is creaming their pants over the Uber scandals for the same reason they creamed their collective pants over Trump. It gets clicks. But the coverage for Uber is mostly positive in sentiment.

The stories about sexism at Uber are couched in the overall story about a great company doing great things, led by a great leader, and this is a setback that needs to be dealt with.

Look at any of the recent stories about Theranos. It's a bad company doing bad things, and Holmes is probably a criminal.

And if you don't think that irresponsibly deploying unlicensed driverless cars is as bad as outsourcing your tests because you aren't quite there yet with your technology, I beg you to reconsider.

One of those is worse than the other. To my knowledge so far, Holmes is not responsible for acts that genuinely put people's lives in danger. Uber is.
I'm excited to build an example with Relay Modern and the websocket subscriptions transport, should be really cool!
Congrats on shipping! Quick question, maybe I missed it on your homepage: How do you track what ingredients a user has on hand? Does the user enter each one by hand, by barcode, etc?
Makes sense. Will do. Thank you for the quick answer!
For those in the thread who struggled for H1B's chance of winning, I'd recommend considering an O1 visa - I think the requirement is slightly lower to apply than previous years, and O1 doesn't have a lottery process.

I've stayed in the US as a collage student, then graduate student from a top university then starting my company for a total of 9 years. I lost the H1B lottery twice and have been on F1 then F1-OPT, then F1-OPT-STEM_EXT in the first 8 years. I recently successfully converted into an O1 this year, therefore finally bypassing the H1B lottery. I consider the O1 visa a life saver but not everyone is that lucky to be able to apply. Now the thing is, my O1 visa is a single-entry visa, meaning I have to stay in US for 3 years until it expires and I can't leave the country otherwise I can never come back to this country again.

Edit: Obviously someone found out that O1 is single entry for Chinese nationals, and it might not be the case for most other nationals.
I didn't have the courage to talk about this. Duplicate code isn't the end of the story. It's beginning of a journey to refactoring.
It's a shame boto3 doesn't support async...
Fortunately, componentWillMount is largely made redundant by the use of constructors.
"Given that the unemployment rate for college graduates sits at 2.5%, it is fair to say that most native workers displaced by H-1Bs land on their feet."

That's completely ignoring the fact that if you have cheaper workers, you end up being underpaid and/or doing a job you'd rather not be doing. Unemployment rate alone don't tell the whole story, and failing to acknowledge that sounds like poor/partial journalism to me
Brian from Backblaze here -> I don't quite understand your math?

$0.004/GByte/month - Amazon Glacier

$0.005/GByte/month - Backblaze B2

Furthermore, I think if you price it out, Backblaze will be cheaper than Glacier in most examples. For example, Glacier charges for uploads (5 cents per 1,000 uploads). If you ever download the data, it costs 9 cents/GByte to retrieve it from Glacier(!!!)

Use anything you like, but just make sure you consider all the charges and give Backblaze a fair consideration.
Ah yes, lets all gather for some ol' union tales. The evergreen of US politics, taught to high school students all over the country.

Meanwhile there is a mandatory arbitration clause in your contract and the Department of Labor says you are exempt from overtime pay because ???

But not to worry, all switchboard operators working for a company with less than 750 stations also don't get paid for all hours worked. There is no fairness and reason to the Fair Labor act, it just means someone who is probably long gone lobbied to royally fuck computer specialists over. And here we are today.

Can you imagine police unions agreeing to arbitration?
In Singapore and Hong Kong, street hawkers were corralled into hawker centres, which kept the amazing food culture alive and solved the hygiene and sanitation problems as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_centre

However, it's hard to see Thailand's shambolic junta pulling off such a move, and there's no space for them anyway. (In Singapore and HK, most hawker centres were built as part of massive public housing projects.)
No, there is a business case as it keeps tech labor costs lower, at least at the time the decision was made 40 years ago to locate in Seattle. You'll note that Boeing relocated their HQ to Chicago.
Eh, there's plenty of ugly looking founders out there (Certainly circa 1980's Bill Gates was no ones idea of a cover-model).

Plus I suspect there's a confounding factor in there. Here's a picture of Musk and Thiel[1] around the time Paypal was started. Its pretty clear that personal trainers, chefs, tailored clothing and whatever the hell treatment Musk got for his hair can go along way to making successful people better looking than they were when they first started earning the big bucks.

[1]https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0196/5170/files/uzn_146193...
That's what is great about the initial load where they try and show your city and what it is ranked. It is a great hook to get people to read why their city is ranked highly by the geniuses that built the list or why their city was unfairly punished by this shit-ranking system that has all sorts of obvious, monumental flaws. (I'm kidding here. I was just really impressed by the subtle-ish localization as a content hook in a unique way.)
As a european there is almost 0 chance of going In the us. H1B go to indians, low paid jobs to mexicans. I dont mind either of them, but allowing europeans in would be less discriminatory.
Study confirms we all use our phones while driving
Paul Graham said that email was horrible, and it shouldn't be hard to come up with something better. But he didn't actually put forward a concrete proposal.

So: What would be better? Given that the world currently runs on email, what would be enough better that it would be worth it to switch? I don't know. I don't think Paul Graham knew then, or knows now. And I think that the reason people haven't switched is that, so far, there isn't an alternative that's enough better. And the reason there isn't one is because, contrary to Paul Graham's expectation, creating something better is actually pretty hard.
I'm totally fine with H1B Visa reform. Companies have abused it to pay qualified individuals far less than the average market wage.
>Well, kinda. The trick is that you have 1G downwards constantly, which can be reduced by initiating a descent at the same time you introduce other directional changes.

This isn't possible. In straight and level flight you are experiencing 1G acceleration. To be able to change the plane's orientation in any way you need to impart some acceleration to it and thus deviate from the 1G. For example initiating a descent requires an acceleration downwards which will be felt by the passengers as less than 1G. If you finesse it enough and do it big and wide enough you can probably maintain it within a tolerance for what we consider to be 1G but it's not possible to stay at 1G exactly.
That only works for those who cook their own food.
Unfortunately you just described why women should not be trained as doctors in the USA, where the total number of people trained each year is capped.

Or rather, why doctor training should not be capped in the USA.

If training was not capped, we could expect different results and there would be no argument concerning male/female, given the expense of training.
As a React Native Dev, is Litho worth considering adding? How will it be added to the stack?
+1. Spent a year and a half in Thailand working in local offices well off the tourist path and devouring everything in sight. Only got sick once... at an overpriced but nicely decorated tourist trap in Ko Samui.
Depends on who is saying it. If you look at my previous comments on different topics you'll find that I cite references where I can.
> Neither of these weaknesses is entirely new, having been discussed (but not addressed) by Monero developers since as early as 2015. Our work provides the first quantitative assessment of the severity of these weaknesses.
A web limited to textual content is a pretty quaint and uninspiring vision, IMO.

The web started that way because static documents are relatively easy to represent, but the future (and present, for that matter) is rich experiences that can be distributed in the same way.

But there are many steps left to get there, so either buckle up and help build that future, or get used to an ever-shrinking ecosystem of the purely textual Web.

I'm personally very excited by the convergence of mobile and web development, PWAs, improved functionality for layouts, self-hosted app architectures (like Tent and Sandstorm, language-agnostic runtime via Web Assembly, better serving performance via HTTP/2, low level multimedia APIs, encapsulation of rich UX via Web Components, and so on and so on.

Sure, it's bewildering right now, but in the future, this will all be knit together in a cohesive way.
Not this crap again
Sure. But if you look at other comments on this thread, there are arguments for fine-grained transparency for, for example, school spending, or social program spending. The objection to that is that it's grist for the outrage mill: "How DARE they spend money on LGBT issues!" Radical transparency would be better supportable if it did not exclude the secret policeman's budget.
Presidential Executive Order on Buy American and Hire American
MOC: all taken in, it wasn't worth it
for brochure websites, yes, For large projects, hell no.
> Would you prefer to build your application using Make, Scons, Waf, CMake, QMake, Tup, Bash scripts, Maven, Gradle, Ant, Buck, or something else? The build tool question is _totally_ solved, right? :)

Yes.

I've worked with CMake, Gradle, Maven, Ant, with webpack, makefiles, and the entire rest. And you know what? I went back to ES5, just because it's easier than fighting the JS environment. Comparing your average build.gradle with a webpack config is downright insane.

Why does the web environment have to be so much more complicated than the native world? The web could be so much more powerful if they'd study history, and learn from it.