skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have serious doubts that WebAssembly is really going to come to dominate the web the way many people here seem to believe it will.

The idea that all of sudden there is going to be a rush to push compiled/closed sites after so many very successful years of using free-and-open stacks seems rather non-logical to me.

Time will tell.
I wouldn't be surprised if a good developer in Romania makes $40k a year (net salary) which is equivalent of $70k ($130k gross) in SF? The market is working.
Networks of Narcissists: Social Media and Narcissism
Once you are banked 90 degrees you can do that but how do you get to that bank while maintaining 1G pointing towards the floor at all times?
BBW Dating Sites Are Making a Great Difference for Big Women
If there's enough disparity in pay for equivalent quality (something that is not quite as easy to get right), it'll keep trying.
We've moved from runtime generation of queries to 100% of queries generated at compile time to remove a large chunk of computation out of runtime. Some APIs got more complicated to use than I'd like to. For example, pagination currently requires developers to write an explicit query to fetch more entries.
Now with performance in good shape, I want to focus on improving the developer experience again in a way that doesn't sacrifice runtime speed. For example for pagination, we should in most cases be able to synthesize a query at compile time instead of asking for an explicit query.
> Does anyone know why Microsoft killed off Flight Simulator?

From an external perspective, it seems most likely due to IEB's leadership at the time wanting to focus all their resources behind the upcoming Xbox One, in hopes they could replicate the success of the Xbox 360, and the misguided belief that PC gaming was dying out.

Neither of those bets worked out particularly well for them.

> Was the the Flight Sim team really that big of a drain on Microsoft's balance sheet?

Rumor has it that it consistently turned a small but not insignificant profit.
> What is a passenger friend?

These are friends who I met because they ordered a taxi and they got me as their driver. One of them knocked on my window when he needed a ride home from work. The other 3 called me back after their first ride because they liked my style. I haven't posted anything about most of them... I intend to write a book, but the last chapter is still a work in progress.
Didn't Transmeta have a processor that used software decoding from x86 to an internal VLIW?
It's pretty easy to read the executive order yourself. Sec. 5 (b) is the section in question: https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/04/18/presi...

"shall, as soon as practicable, suggest reforms" is the actual meat of it.
It was named "iD Software," after all...
There's a lot of things startups can't afford. And most startups are just fine with local talent.
> I used to not hesitate to defend my views on HN. The result: I ended up rate limited, probably because as a woman, I often have a minority viewpoint. This makes me look extremely fighty merely for being willing to engage the discussion.

You may be totally right about why that is, but just as a counterpoint, I get rate limited all the time too :). Maybe we're both fighty.

> No, I do not believe most comments here are inviting me to substantiate anything. A few are, but most actually are dismissive. That is the entire point: I am a woman with an opinion and that can't be allowed. It is a threat to the status quo.

I respectfully disagree with that view. This is a difficult question to resolve in either direction, but I think its worth pursuing. Would you mind citing one or two particular comments you find to be dismissive?

> I have blogged about how I think her gender helped create this debacle (http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2016/05/theranos-cul...). But, I do not know how nor understand why I need to "back up" my concern that the enormous negative press here has a potential serious downside for women generally

Firstly, thanks for the link. Secondly, I don't think you have to backup the claim that it could have negative impacts for women. I think the possibility of that happening is obvious. What does require some backup is the positive assertion that people out in the world are blaming Theranos' failure on Elizabeth Holmes' gender. Personally, I have not seen evidence of that happening, but i'd be happy to be corrected on that front.

> I also do not know how on earth to get past or around the very obvious "People are being disrespectful and dismissive of me in a way that looks like sexism at work and it looks to me like proof of the very thing that worries me and... Why am I being asked to give evidence amidst this that this exact sort of thing is a problem for women?

I don't think most people here doubt that this sort of sexism happens. And that sexism exists and is harmful to women. Obviously I can't comment on your particular work situation either except to say that i'm sorry you feel that way. But I think everyone here would be interested to see if that is indeed happening in the case of Theranos. If it is happening, that's a good thing to know and to combat. But if it's not, then it's just another failed SV startup and we can all go about our day.
The same purpose that the opposition party had during the last 8 years.
When I worked at Boeing as a design engineer, at one point my design was put on a test rig out at the factory. Some adjustment was required, and I stepped forward to do it. Some union rep stepped in front of me, and told me I wasn't allowed to touch a tool. I was supposed to direct some union guy to turn a wrench this way or that.
Section 1 is the verbatim copies permission, section 2 merely requires your derived version to have an appropriate copyright notice (and the creator of a derivative work is the copyright owner of the derivative), not to preserve the pre-existing copyrigut notice of the original one, much less to include any other information besides a notice of copyright that might appear in a pre-existing a "nag screen".

So, no, it doesn't protect nag screens at all.
Yeah, Dark Forest features some disturbing paranoids :(
Which, in Facebook's defense, they've explicitly and often warned against
It is going to be much harder to take away ride sharing from consumers who are already using it than to keep it out of a third tier city which doesn't have it and where most of the potential users have never used it before. Austin is an outlier.
“React will die”

[Looks at facebook.com]

[Looks back at statement]

[Keeps building in React]
> Plus, ultimately, Relay is backed by Facebook and used in Facebook applications, in production, so it's not going anywhere.

That's why I went with a Relay too. But I have a feeling that Relay will not be long for this world. I just feel it in my bones.
More like you're a black and white sorta person and don't actually understand the nuance here.

It's true that Trump's executive order accomplishes nothing in terms of how H1-Bs are processed. It's also true that his rhetoric has a chilling affect on potential immigrants and companies who do business with them.

Schumer is right.
In which case it doesn't seem to allow for animals in the wild and seems to make phasing out of nature (rain forests and all that - well at least the fauna) a necessity.
I found it annoying to be forced into a pedantic onboarding tutorial. I decided not to finish it.

Can't you wait until I try to do things, like view recipes or build grocery lists, before forcing me into them? I just want to check out the app my own way. The tips could appear when contextually appropriate, and be dismissible.
A Cherry Tree to Mars [pdf]
Uber gets submitted. Go. Erlang. Machine learning libraries. Stratups advice. A lot of things get submitted over and over. If people want to give it a rest they won't upvote and it won't show up on the front page. It's pretty simple. But there is interest so it shows up. Don't see it as a big deal, seems to work as designed.
Murdering people is considered acceptable by Islamic extremists, as long as they are non-believers.
wish i had more time for the multitude of your generic "why not?"s, but i don't :(

any language (high or low level) that allows you to write and execute deterministic assembly or machine code can be used to implement whatever you want. whether WASM ever reaches this type of broad security-sensitive wild-west remains to be seen, but my money is on "never".

wasm will certainly expand into additional areas, but they will all be security-gated and will not have unfettered, raw access to all hardware (even with some additional user-grokkable permission model), because it has to run on the web: "W"asm
I think this is something worth showing in your class

https://www.xudongz.com/blog/2017/idn-phishing/
You can extend it forever in 1-year increments.

O-1 is dual intent. So while you're in the country you can apply for a green card through EB-2/3 (PERM or NIW) or EB-1.
"would more accurately describe the article", not reality.
>Like all the other executive orders, it’s just words

Was the executive order on immigration "just words" to Chuck Schumer? No. The answer is no. Just plain no. Chuck Schumer is a hypocrite, and if you align with him on both issues, then you clearly don't think for yourself.

Could it not be that some executive orders are meaningful (e.g., orders on immigration) and others aren't (e.g., kinda hand-wavy orders on "creating jobs")?

I really hope Trump follows through with his ideas about the H-1B program. But I'm also not mindlessly aligned with one side of politics, so I can understand that his order today will probably have no effect.
I had this happen to me when I got into a motorcycle accident.

I know I did things, I have the proof and screenshots of calling people 15 times every 5 minutes. But I can't for the life of me remember it at all. It is... weird gaining consciousness piece by piece. Eventually I remember the blackness washing away with me walking through a door (note, couldn't see it just felt it). And eventually other senses returning to my conscious self.

I'm now of the opinion that without memory, we do not exist as conscious beings.

My first memory post accident as a conscious human, is "hi cat, how are you, were you wanting me to die so you could eat my nose? also who's cat is this and where the hell am I?" Before that colors and sounds and feelings were all... jumbled.
> which are temporary work visas; but easy to get

I wouldn't say that the L1 visas are easier to get. The only material differences I've noticed between L1 and H1B visas are

* the first is not lottery based,

* you must have worked for the company in another country for at least a year (time spent in the US while working for the company doesn't count),

* that an L2 holding spouse can have an Employment Authorization Document pretty quickly (instead of H2B visa holders, who can only apply for an EAD fairly late in the process after being in the country for years),

* L1 visa holders cannot change jobs, while H1B visa holders can (as difficult as that process can be).
Which in turn took from rogue. Which in turn came from DnD first edition / advanced edition, when DnD was more about navigating dungeon traps than fighting monsters (and not at all similar to modern DnD, which resembles Besthesda RPGs much more than roguelikes)

But Original DnD is where my inspiration-knowledge stops
Consider a shower whiteboard?

I have a similar problem. Often when reading my twitter timeline I will think to do some action based on a tweet, then keep scrolling and forget what it was. I would have to scroll back a few tweets to remember what that thought was.
Frontier Diary #3: Built-In Verbs Configuration
This is the best article I've seen on immigration:

http://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-optimal-number...
The United States of Work
That is crazy. I use Facebook on a 5 year old MBP with no problems. I have Ad Block Pro and U-Block, but even without them, my computer can handle Facebook just fine.
"The customer hired you for a reason." Make their needs a priority and don't talk to them like they're idiots, but by all means recognize when you're the expert who needs to make the right things happen for them to be successful.
It's a security by obscurity thing, right? Let the spammers think they're being seen but ignored?

I don't really feel an obligation to not speak about it though, I didn't choose to get showdead privileges and never heard anything about it.
StarCraft I Goes Free with Today's New Patch (1.18)
They're different. For starters, React Native developers are writing JavaScript. Litho is a Java framework. The primary benefit of Litho is performance, whereas React Native is focused on developer speed.
Yes.

Anecdotally, I get food poisoning more from eateries in the west proudly displaying their health and safety certs than I do from street stalls in east asia.

Morally, it's my own responsibility as a human being to decide whether to eat something or not.

And practically, it lowers the barrier of entry for people to actually make a living. Imagine your financial world came crashing down, you had almost no funds, couldn't get a job, and no social welfare. How long would you be able to start selling food off a cart with no license or business registration in a busy pedestrian area before the police shut you down?
Frontier Diary #4: The QuickDraw Problem and Where It Led Me
What's the major advantage of moving from "backend rendering html" to single-page-app?
I don't think anyone would argue against the fact that people born in India sometimes start valuable companies. My problem with the Economist article is, it expects us to take on faith that the current H-1B visa laws have much to do with it, that raising the cap and allowing mobility would make it even better, and that the benefits to American society actually outweigh the costs.

An aside - I wonder if any founders in that list came in on investor visas?
Do you want to bet on that last one?
>Like all the other executive orders, it’s just words

If that sentence isn't a contradiction to you, then I won't be able to convince you. Think for yourself. Schumer overstepped in the name of his political ends.
cant buy a house with 80k usd in the bay area :|
or 150K for that matter.

some rent, some sleep outside. whatever works.

the ones outside the bay area (of course, not all), i bet, aren't all that qualified.
API Gateway needs less config since they released the proxy style integration. In Lambda's case this means you can just return a JSON object like:

{ "statusCode": 200, headers: {}, body: "<h1>Hello!</h1>" }

And API Gateway knows exactly what to do. Before this, yes there was some extra config and it was not fun.

PS. Our AWS bill went down when we moved everything to Lambda but that was not the motivating factor for the switch
I've also wondered about the pilots during the United incident, and media coverage has been strangely quiet on that topic.

The executive summary of the incident seems to be that there just weren't any adults in the room. One can easily picture gate agents, flight attendants, and the aviation department staff involved basically feeling that they must follow instructions, being worried about breaking policies, being written up, whatever.

You'd hope that if the whole thing were put in front of a pilot, they'd perhaps take a more wholistic, pragmatic, problem-solving view, and try a few other options first. Seems like almost anything would have been better - talking to the passengers, getting everybody to leave the plane and reboard / sort it out in the terminal, cancelling the flight, getting a bigger plane, putting the airline staff on a different airline, anything. If a pilot couldn't come up with a better solution to something like this, I'd worry how they'd fare in the air with a mechanical emergency.
Plus IE and Chrome, fwiw
Funny when a news headline isn't news at all. How long has this been true? 15 years? More?
Do you think Sundar Pichai of Google and Satya Nadella got to where they are without a H1-B visa?
As someone who does a lot of Python programming, I really love the idea of Nim, and I've started learning it, I just need to find some more time to get back to learning it.
Given there's a pandas style + out-of-core support I'm interested in trying to use it for a lot of data extraction + cleaning + prep sort of tasks given how speedy it can be, being built on top of C...
I agree. A pitch and a summary are different. Part of the art of the one-sentence description is knowing your audience.

For instance, I operate a directory of technology for teachers. One of the services I provide is a newsletter and blog [1] where I summarize technologies (e.g. websites, mobile apps, desktop apps, electronics products) in one-sentence descriptions.

The way I've written those one-sentence descriptions has evolved over time. The format that has resonated the most with my audience is stating the technology's primary purpose, which sometimes can imply it's benefit. Since I know my audience is teachers, the context of the purpose and benefit is already assumed and baked into the description.

I would never use a "This is X for Y" description, for example, not because I dislike it (which I don't), but because it wouldn't be informative for my audience.

However, I think a "This is X for Y" description can be entirely appropriate for an audience of startup investors. This is why YC coaches their startups to use such a sentence framework.

[1] https://edshelf.tumblr.com/
A star-const T or star-mut T (wow I cannot figure out HN's formatting here) in Rust does absolutely everything a C pointer can. They're the same thing. You can do all the stuff you're talking about here. Exposing a safe interface does not also mean not exposing an unsafe one as well for these kinds of things.
I agree with this sentiment. This is America, never apologize for capitalism. Hype the app, show us why it's worth more than your price, convince us to subscribe. Close the sale.

The personal blurb before "The Money Thing" is great, definitely keep that. But the money thing... rework it into the sales pitch. "I want to make EatHow much better. That means more delicious recipes and improvements that make things easier for you" - start with this, justify the $5, then delete the rest.
Do you have any data beyond your anecdote? Something that shows that food inspection is actually detrimental to food safety?
Fking A.
It's the problem right now: anything Trump says is horrible.
If he says A "its the end of the world"
If he says B "its useless"

On the same topic. It doesn't matter what he says, these people will shut him down. Result? he might be bad, terrible - who knows. Nobody trusts anyone or anything anymore - because all sources lies so much it's too unreliable.
It's actually too strong and the designers of the language later had to introduce `const_cast` in order to relax it in certain circumstances.

In practice, Java's weaker `final` (immutable references) appears to be a reasonable middle ground.
Or just fix the US' broken immigration system, move to a points-based system like Canada or Australia uses, and get rid of the kludges like the H1B which exist to circumvent the current system.

If you had an immigration system that prioritized highly skilled immigrants, you wouldn't need special visas. And you'd relieve pressure on the bottom 20% of the population that's being hammered by competition from low-skilled immigration, both legal and illegal.
Why don't you just tell these people to stop whining?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/05/business/h-1b-visa-tech-c...

It sounds like you have a cushy gig at a Unicorn and you're projecting your status and opportunities onto everyone else.
Generally speaking, such blame occurs as subtext, not overt assertion. This is how most exclusionary, biased social stuff works. When you can't produce affirmative evidence, then you are also dismissed. And so it goes.

It is a little like arguments I have heard that black Americans who sound obviously black can't qualify for a job because they aren't articulate enough and it isn't racism. My response to that is "George W. Bush."

Maybe not hiring "inarticulate" blacks isn't racism. But why can an inarticulate white guy get a high ranking job if being articulate is so freaking critical?

There is always some excuse or justification for an overall pattern of behavior. Yet, the pattern persists and trying to point out the pattern gets dismissed for various reasons. It is a real life version of the trope Status Quo is God.
I've had success with vscode: I have it setup to build+run on save which has so far netted me very quick turnaround times for trying things out.

Admittedly I'm still doing super basic stuff at the moment.
You can emulate a network stack and hardware drivers, but your "network stack" can't directly send packets outside of HTTP/Websockets/WebRTC/etc. and your "hardware drivers" just emulate hardware that doesn't actually exist.

Trading algorithms, ultra low latency DSP, "processing data from LHC collisions or imaging satellites" are I think references to performance limitations. WebAssembly requires a fair bit of runtime checks (though some can be pawned off to the hardware if you're clever), and has a number of other quirks that hurt performance, like the fact that most languages end up needing two stacks when compiled for wasm.

The issue is even clearer when you move to processing large data sets because WebAssembly only allows a 32-bit address space at the moment. Add to that the lack of concurrency or native SIMD, and it's pretty clear it is way too early to dance on the graves of native executables.
I did not expect such a grand slam in such a tiny thread.
Last time I looked at reason it was totally new and there was no tooling etc. I got little support from the gitter or whatever it was.

Have things changed? It really interested me at the time.
> But the amd64 already has quite a lot.

16 registers is not a lot when compared to other architectures. POWER, SPARC, Arm64 and MIPS have 32 (SPARC is weird, but 32 are always visible). Itanium has 128.
>If you can't find a job or compete with H1-Bs in this economy you probably should consider another occupation.

Their strong point is that they work for less. That's not a virtue.
They aren't bringing in real chefs, they are bringing in low waged employees. Do you think you really need to have a culinary degree to work at McDonalds?

What specialist skills does a real estate agent have?

Australia's unemployment rate is 5.9%, Youth unemployment is 13.3% You really don't think that Australia's youth should be prioritised for working at a McDonalds?
The Spacewalker: Gripping Tale of World’s First Spacewalk
Sure they can, thanks to the maternity leave that she extended to sixteen weeks. Meanwhile, she only took two weeks for herself.

In any case, it's absurd to compare the CEO. Do Amazon employees get to ride on Bezos' jet to get home faster? It's just a vastly different position.
"High Society"
Those agreements don't make sense with open source if you ever want to upstream fixes (you do - the alternative is basically forking projects you use).
Something is wrong with your MBP.
Ask HN: Recommendations of a Spotify Playlist for Jira Janitor Day
Today is Jira Janitor day - that day where you finally clean up all the tasks, chase up open tickets, etc etc. Starting with assigning epics to all orphan tasks.

Need help: need a playlist to keep me in the zone without providing any extra incentive to slit my wrists.
This is awesome! I've long thought of making something like this.

One caveat though, I would never pay $5/mo for it. If you're writing the recipes, consider advertising and product placement as a revenue stream.