skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most British subjects would probably want their police to be subject to the law, the same as all other subjects rather than running a criminal conspiracy. If the law is inconvenient or wrong, they can lobby to change it, same as everyone else. Break it, and they really ought to be in jail, same as anyone else.
I need to get back on the water. I'm starting to mix up my units and forgetting what the different lines are called.
Expectation of privacy is quite a bit different from breaking locks to steal information without judicial oversight.
> Having traveled through S. East Asia extensively, the old/fat/ugly westerner with the young, lithe, Thai girl is a pretty common sight. Love is "blind" but let's not kid ourselves.

If the "young, lithe, Thai girl" (what a very creepy way to put it) is okay with such a (financial or otherwise) arrangement, why should it even concern you?

> The glares suck I'm sure, but they're more than justified (objectively speaking).

Objectively, you wouldn't give a shit what other people do.
This can work for online services during signup. I haven't yet seen this, but I wouldn't be surprised if some services were smart enough to drop the sub-address before on-selling your email.

In face-to-face exchanges (for me recently, this came up a lot while giving out my address to real estate agents), anything involving '+' causes a huge amount of confusion and they start asking questions. I'd much rather a "normal" looking address, where I'm perfectly happy for normal to be say base64 with '.', '_' and '-' and as the three special characters (at least people will think its valid).
> You don't need a LinkedIn profile.

FTFY.

If an interviewer criticized my lack of a LinkedIn profile, that is a warning sign to me.
> Have you also thought about why Indian American kids win spelling bee's

Because their parents and education system still focus on rote learning, we moved on from that waste of time decades ago.
Is the author of this working on official support or just testing? I know there's a gpu roadmap for k8s, but I can't tell from this blog if this was part of it.
Original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14145581 (or dang could change this one)
Is it cronyism or is it "you will see a generally smart group of people when you specifically only let in the top 0.0001% of the Indian population to begin with"?

Or is it both? Or maybe Indians are lizard people that eat babies.
Dang, why does the title lack the 'do' that the article title has? The do is an important word.
Rollout just launched a new product that does feature flagging for mobile apps
Right, so you are driving along in the middle of now where and come to a red light. You know that the likelihood of a police officer being around is very slim. Do you wait for the light to turn green or do you just go through the red light?

These companies are going through the red light. They are intentional manipulating, gaming, and deceiving in order to make huge profits off their own country people by engaging in nothing more than 21st slavery.

The companies that hire these body shops have the old bait and switch pulled on them. The first initial consultation the A team developers are doing the work. These are ones that are paid on par or higher than their native counterparts. Then the company pulls out team A and sends in the 21st slaves. And you don't think the company that thought they were going to get the A Team developers for the duration of their project instead of just the first month, is because of their greed? That "greedy American corporation" is still paying the 5 million dollar contract. But the body shop, they just walked away with 4.5 million dollars. Who is greedy here?
Senator Warren's boom the Two Income Trap says that in the US the second income went mostly into higher land prices, childcare and transportation. The net benefit accrued mostly to the old (more workers per retiree), the government (more work now taxable) and the rich (who held assets that rose in price).

The problem isn't that there isn't enough income it the distribution of the income.
This is a rather narrow perspective. Lotta cheap big cities with lots of jobs if you're not on the coast.

The people really screwed aren't the ones in Dallas, Atlanta, or Charlotte - where an average home is something like 200K and jobs can be found - they're the ones in dying small towns that have been left by businesses, or in the expensive coastal cities where they're caught up in the housing madness but without the high income or established wealth driving those prices.

They'd be better off moving to, say, the Dallas area, but that's not an option for everyone. And "you have to pick up your life and say goodbye to everyone you know because the market says so" is hardly an outcome we should be promoting.

(I'd also make the argument that we'd be better off getting more diverse perspectives into those cities, vs our current CA/NY/OR/WA-vs-the-rest-of-the-US silos, but that's another discussion, and a perfect example of "if you really believed that so deeply, why don't you move yourself?")
These kinds of filters have been available in Asian apps like B612 and Snow for a while. No one I know in Japan has ever even spoken of Snap, let alone used it. And this is in the land of selfies and purikura.
I see your point. But I'm more optimistic. We devs like to jump on hype trains. We only need one good reason to do so.
Your comment made sense up until the last paragraph. I honestly see no connection between giving things to women and solving any of the problems we're discussing here. In fact it could make things worse by further saturating the job market, increasing living costs (e.g. restaurants replace home-cooked meals), and so on.

Japan's biggest issue is simple demographics and capital saturation, not conservative views on women in the workplace. In the past, when the economy was roaring, their views on women were even more conservative than now, and it clear didn't hold them back at that time.
If only the US had decent coverage!
But now you're hitting on one of the main points that was always criticized in PHP: the fact that it came with a lot of batteries included. The upside of this is that it makes PHP applications very easy to deploy, because often, you either don't need to resort to binary dependencies outside the realms of your OS's packaging system, or there will be a `php[major-version]-[library_binding]` package for your OS probably already in your OS's official package mirrors. Say all you want about PHP, but of all the application stacks I've had to deploy, PHP was and is probably still the simplest. The advantage of that shouldn't be underestimated. The only serious competitor in that space that I've ever touched is probably Go.
The point being there are or is at least one Indian drug company that exports to the that is not been censured by the FDA.
Thought experiment: suppose the US decided to ban people who aren't permanent residents from working in jobs with minimal potential for creativity, and which are rote in nature: taxi and bus drivers, delivery people, gardeners, waiters, security guards, cashiers, barbers, people running a restaurant or a barbershop, etc.

Simultaneously, jobs with a potential for creativity — tech, artists, entrepreneurs, lawyers, and so on — would have unlimited open borders, perhaps with a minimum salary requirement of $100K, say. If you have a job offer that meets these requirements, a visa can be denied only if the government can provide a reason, like a criminal record or terrorist links or having committed fraud. Otherwise, the US govt would be required to let you in.

This will have the effect of safeguarding local jobs where it's hard to imagine creativity or skills making a difference to the outcome, while having an open market in areas where creativity and skills make all the difference.

I'm using the US as an example, but the principle would apply to all rich countries, or even all countries, if you consider Bangladeshis moving to India, for example.
I got the Eee 1512B with 8GB and is still able to hold about 6h working time, which is plenty of time for my plane travels.

Sure it doesn't have 1080p, but most apps aren't able to use it anyway.
Why are we going so slow?
+ doesn't have to be the separator. Gmail supports a '.' for example, and if you run the mail server yourself, its just limited by what characters the software you run supports.

If you have your own domain, you can of course also do shifty-bobs-realestate@mydomain.com and have it go to a catch-all style mailbox.
Given that you can understand how being stuck on a jury for weeks would be an unpleasant experience, it's somewhat incredible to me that you'd be willing to vote to put someone somewhere much worse than a jury for a much longer period of time regardless of whether you thought they were guilty just so you could get out of there faster.
I interpreted this as an allusion to this song [0]. They are seeing life from the other side now.

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7Xm30heHms
Timeline: The Rise of Robots
That is common here, I'm an Aussie with a Japanese wife, I just invited her grandparents to live with us. (Grab spa is old and grandma has to look after him, this way we can help, and grandma can help my wife when we have a child)
I'm curious... is it really true that an inconsistency would invalidate all proofs? Wouldn't this only affect non-constructive proofs (i.e., proofs that rely on the law of the excluded middle)? According to Wikipedia intuitionists also accept the principle of explosion... but it's not just an automatic result, is it? You'd need some proof or assumption that contradiction implies everything. Right?
Unprofitable for ETH mining maybe, but it seems like a natural fit to rent time on it to deep learning people with slow training models. Although that could still be unprofitable after the cost of electricity, I guess it's a question of market size/demand. A lot of deep learning is already at big infrastructure players anyway who wouldn't need the service, leaving academics / smaller companies. But maybe some people would find a reliable, scalable GPU cluster valuable.
Suppose we lived in an America in which if a black person wanted to work in the tech industry they had to get a special license from the federal government called the H-1Black license. Nobody here on HN would then be discussing if companies were abusing the H-1Black system or whether H-1Black workers were being paid less than the going market rate.

A minimally decent person would notice that the obviously correct thing to do would be to remove the requirement that blacks get an H-1Black license before being allowed to work. The ethical intuition that leads to this conclusion, I think, is that one shouldn't be discriminated against based on one's circumstances at birth. Everybody (at least on HN) seems to agree that if an employer is willing to hire me, third parties (i.e. other people who also wanted the same job) shouldn't be allowed to prevent the employer from hiring me just because I was born the wrong race or the wrong gender. But people seem to think that if I were born on the wrong side of the border then its totally fine for third parties to demand preferential treatment.

Can someone explain the logic to me? Why is it not okay to discriminate on the basis of race or gender but okay to discriminate on the basis of citizenship/country of birth? Would it be okay if NYC started requiring people outside New York to obtain a highly scarce license to be able to work in NYC? Could whites start requiring non-whites to obtain a license?
First, this video is amazing.

But as the video demonstrates quite well, the first phase of a barrel roll requires pitching up into a gentle climb. This is physically impossible without exceeding 1g at any point.
It has been the other way around for a while (8 years, apparently). Since UDP was added as a network option, there has been no need to use IPX.

The very oldschool drawing methods were the biggest issue with wine. I had it working ~6 years ago, but it wasn't exactly easy. PlayOnLinux helps a lot, though.
It's such a dumb argument that boils down to "things are changing and I don't like it!". Javascript fatigue is not real. I am completely convinced anyone who says otherwise has never had to maintain a non-trivial web application in Backbone/jQuery -- meaning they're complaining about frameworks that weren't built for their use cases.
Sure you do (at least one from me)! You'd get more though if you somehow reintroduced this lovely way of doing things back into the mainstream. I guess we sort of have it again with VM snapshots, but that's not nearly as elegant. I love the idea of having a persistent memory state that can be examined or reentered. That's how it should be!
What Price Zelda?: The extraordinary afterlife of an ordinary writer
I think students want to study in US (or are willing to pay to study in US) is because after completing education there, they are eligible to find work there. I dont think students want to spend great sums of money studying overseas, because they dont have options in their own country.
With what webpack config though?

Half the problem with the web stack is inexperienced people making things way more complicated than they need to be. A minimal webpack.config is pretty damn simple.
Original article (and not behind a paywall): http://news.morningstar.com/articlenet/article.aspx?id=80267...
Canada - Average house price in the country just hit 550k, and that includes all the stuff in the VAST country. Within the cities, the only places for young people to find jobs, prices are closer to 1mil.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/crea-march-figures-1.4073540

For a 400k loan, with 100k down, a Canadian bank will want to see an income of at least 80k/year before taxes. That number (80k) puts one in the top 10% of earners. So to buy the average house (500k) one must be in the top 10% of earners. To buy the average house in a city you better earn closer to 180k, putting you well into the top 1% of earners. So for the vast majority of young people home ownership isn't a reasonable option even in the long term.

Anyone can play around with the numbers here:
https://tools.td.com/mortgage-affordability-calculator/

The example I always return to is the military. An officer in a nation's military should be able to buy a house and have a family in a degree of comfort. That was my grandfather. Today, officers rent apartments in full knowledge that home ownership will never happen so long as they remain officers. An RCAF pilot, an elite officer in any military, earns between 75 and 100k. With a young family and perhaps a student loan, that fighter pilot won't ever own a house. It is worse for naval officers, who generally need to live near cities/ports.
A rejected application the second time in a row. Had applied to YC W17 batch wherein got rejected after interview.
I really doubt if I'm going to apply again in future. As someone marked in the previous comments, YC is now all about high standards and the companies they sign would anyways had done great without them as well.
Since the last time we applied, we experienced quite a good growth in terms of revenues and customers. plus we introduced some unique engagement model which previously was not at place and was hypothetically roaming around in our minds.
I thought YC support could help us gain networks over in different sectors with experts and that's where we have been seeking support since long. Even in the application we clearly mentioned our "ask" and what we expect from YC.
I think they don't deal with hardware startups or even if they do, those startups are the ones who already might be enjoying millions of dollars of revenue.
Agreed. Avoiding any employer that requires a LinkedIn profile at all strikes me as a wise policy.
You can't have an apathetic population get involved (in society) when they have lots to lose but little to gain. Partners coming home at 11pm and leaving at 5am isn't a "partner". Why would any one want to raise a family and ensure the continuation of the society when you're in that situation.

Basically what they did and continue to do is forgo roughly half their potential workforce and half their overall potential because they could not bother to make things even semi-attractive for women to stay employed beyond 30.
IIRC it was always native on macOS, I'm assume this latest patch is no different
Let's examine your math. So this year there were 86,000 visas for 2017 that last for 3 years. So that means by 2020, if the visa limit stays at 86,000, there will be 258,000 H1Bs, of course this assumes that H1Bs were created in 2017, we are ignoring all those that came before. Let's NOT ignore those and look at the below link -

http://insights.dice.com/2013/05/14/how-nearly-800000-h-1b-w...

Yes, in 2013, it was 775,957. So by now, let's say it's closer to 1.2 million. That's a third of all software developers in the USA.

So Yes! This is exactly the reason that American wages are depressed in the job markets that H1Bs work in.
Have you reported it?
I've run with many bad SaaS ideas, some good ones and one great one.

It takes great to get liftoff. The bad ideas aren't the hard ones. The hard ones are the good ideas .. Maybe people are paying. Maybe they even like it. Sadly good isn't good enough in SaaS. For a SaaS product to really win it needs real, measurable velocity.

If I could offer one big of insight I've managed to pick up - genuine traction in SaaS is hard won, but then it's really (really) obvious. If it's not slapping you in the face, then time to change tack. Maybe that's a tweak or it's a pivot, but keep trying till you have that clarity.
Downvoters have obviously never tried navigating the main touristy streets at night.
Ten years ago MapQuest was state of the art, and you'd click "next tile" over and over to traverse a map. Then Google Maps showed up with its voodoo ajax and infinite scroll and ushered in the modern web app era. Sure, some folks overdo it, but I'm not going back.
Nope. Pure hardware model with some embedded stuff
Truck drivers are on the verge of severe disruption, the category might even be extinct by the time the next generation comes around. Teachers are horribly underpaid and overworked. Nurses are in demand but there is no career. Traders are at the mercy of real estate markets.

Sure, you don't need a LI profile to get a dead-end job.
Is there any way not to conclude they have just been out designed/architected/optimized by Microsoft?

What a compliment to the VSC team that after all this work, Atom still doesn't seem to match startup time, or more importantly perceived performance while editing.

It's a more interesting comparison since they're both bound by similar constraints, and building cross platform apps.

In the bad old days I once worked for a MS competitor where there were often complaints of unfair competition. Most often around how knowledge of closed sourced OS internals allowed optimization insights unavailable to others.

Not all MS devs are great for sure, but I'm inferring two things here. The VSC team is pretty damn good, and that IP and institutional knowledge from decades of investment in dev tools probably helps a bit.
I live in one area where they recently banned street vendor (Sukhumvit side of Onnut Rd). No, they didn't go away, instead they're now in a sub-Soi rather than on the main street. Some choose to rent a space at nearby market. Also street vendor on the setback space of the building is still allowed (as long as the building owner is OK with it).

Personally as someone who actually lives here, I'm very happy with the ban, at least from what I see in the Onnut area. Walking from home to train station is no longer 10 minutes torture of trying to evade stalls and people trying to buy from stalls, no more weird water splash, no more trash loitering and no need to walk on the road because the sidewalk is occupied. And those who do want to enjoy street food can still go into smaller Soi or nearby bazaar and look for them.
How to gain a solid understanding of JVM?
I see a lot of job postings that require - "Solid understanding of JVM"

I believe most of these can be achieved while a person is working on some real challenging projects as part of day job.

However, for individuals trying to change stacks (going from non-jvm to jvm technologies), how can they learn and demonstrate the expertise?

I am looking to learn new approaches.

I am interested in gaining an understanding on how to see things differently while starting to work on a JVM stack.

Any advice?
Javascript fatigue is real. Shit in front-end land changes so fast it is impossible to keep up with.

We just finished a rewrite from jQuery to Angular 1, with updates to all the tooling that goes along with it. We're now at least three years behind the curve... Hooray!

Meanwhile, the backend frameworks we've been using have had one minor version Nuget package release in the same timespan.
You have no idea about the kind of competition that exists for undergrad positions in top-10 CS departments.
Are you seriously asking why it's ethical to encourage American companies to hire Americans?
No, industry is pushing food around the plate, and has been for some time. It must have been amusing (to some) to see WebSockets arise, when TCP sockets do the same thing. Why is a new standard needed? Because firewalls block everything but port 80 and 443, and every other program that uses non-HTTP sockets has all-but-died off (with the exception of some games).

90% of the "innovation" in application programming is just an exercise in combinatorial virtualization.

(That said, it's not all bad. The browser has had a remarkable and wonderful effect on GUI application architecture that probably wouldn't have happened elsewhere.)
Right, if you assume away the legitimacy of national borders and nations' right to determine admittance and membership, than any immigration restriction whatsoever looks pretty atrocious (including H1Bs).

FWIW, the same assumption would eliminate your ability to object when a foreign army wants to peacefully enter on the pretense of just wanting a better life.

And if you assume away the legitimacy of property rights, you look pretty atrocious turning away the homeless from your property.

I don't think it's hard to see why national and property borders might be not objectionable, but blanket racial job restrictions would be.
I can't remember exactly the context, but there was a new website up for the company and they wanted to add employee profiles to the website. I don't believe I was forced to create a Twitter profile, but somehow I was inclined to do it anyway.

I would think this functionality is removed from the site by now. After all, employees might state things on their personal Twitter profile that the company does not agree with.

These days I try to keep my Twitter account more or less anonymous, so I can be free to say the things I believe or want to say. I make sure my Twitter account can not be linked to my LinkedIn / StackOverflow / Github profiles.
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> We all switched from coffescript to ES6 and Babel because ES6, being standards-based, will eventually be supported in browsers, right?

No, a lot of us switched to ClojureScript, TypeScript, Elm, etc and don't look back.

As long as you have to transpile, why not transpile from a good language? (Not to say that native ES6 support would compensate for the advantages of the abovementioned languages)

Standards are not generally virtuous in programming languages. They tend to come about to mitigate language fragmentation between rival factions, something that most good and popular languages don't have a problem with.
It's actually not legal for a company to discriminate based on citizenship/country of birth: https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/nationalorigin.cfm

However, the US government can decide who is eligible to work in the country, just like it can decide who is eligible for legal residence, citizenship, etc.
This feels like an article that will be shown for irony points in a documentary about Vanguard's collapse a few years from now.
Keep going! Next time!