skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you know about politics, this is what it takes: a person on the leader's position would use anything and any way he can to keep his authority/position stable --- this is not happening just in DC but in enterprises too. As Larry etc formed Alphabet while tossing Google to Pichai, the latter's power has already been weakened by the former everyday. The fact is that Google as well as other large companies in silicon valley is more and more occupied by Eastern Indian workers, the quality control of products has therefore gone into toilet since their culture, while turning to be the majority, is to seek atomic survival by exploitation of extrinsic achievement instead of improving intrinsic value of products. Office politics has been never more severe since then and now it's difficult and exhausting for Pichai to maintain his position by dodging countless number of traps created by themselves. He would then like to do anything to keep himself up --- or else being destroyed --- even if it means to set the product quality back to a century before, to bind the will of midlevel managers to support himself.

And that is why the products goes back to as evil as IE, simply because no one could care less.
Google Assistant's speech recognition API is now open to all developers
Lol. That's good. So true. I didn't think of that. It's more like "unconscious" nature that is usually more efficient instead of civilizations. Although I don't understand why some crop genomes have so many more genomes than humans. Maybe wastefulness is everywhere.
Komodo dragons have a relatively small population which researchers wouldn't want to disrupt on a large scale.

Not that researchers collect their mice from the wild...
The screenshots in official installation guide are Windows 10 Home edition.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/zh-tw/commandline/wsl/install_gui...
Such a good film and book. Oldman plays an impressive smiley
If anyone was interested, the markup theme is Dracula[1], which subjectively feels like the most readable highlighting theme I've ever used.

[1]: https://draculatheme.com/
I'm actually teaching myself statistics right now, but it's early stages yet. Does "anecdote" have some formal meaning? I meant it in the sense of "here's my personal experience, that I have not quantified at all".
I was responding specifically to your suggestion that "instead" of finding twists on dishes that are non-traditionally vegetarian, they should go with traditionally vegetarian cuisines. I don't see why people should constrain themselves like that instead of _both_ trying traditionally veg cuisines and vegetarian twists on cuisines they're already more used to.

I grew up on all kinds of cuisine (my mom really liked cooking), and I'm equally capable of enjoying vegetarian meals that are traditionally so as I am of enjoying well-made vegetarian modifications to non-veg dishes. Your suggestion of ignoring one a big part of the cuisine space seems like a much more surefire recipe for recidivism than keeping both options open.
Curious question from someone with no idea to the answer: what's modern Russia's attitude towards its own history?

I ask because the Chinese in recent decades seem to have decided that letting Westerners steal their cultural treasures was undesirable, but there doesn't seem to be huge government support for preservation either (yet?). This based on what I saw at the Great Wall.
That's not true. There will still be rotation that can be felt.
That extra text would have exceeded the 80-character limit for HN article titles.
That may work in theory, but it depends on people being rational actors when they aren't. This being politics, it's driven a lot more by emotions and what's fashionable than it is reason, which ought to be the primary domain of a university. And the boundaries of what is or isn't acceptable is being determined by people who as a group have significant biases. That is detrimental to an open debate and exchange of ideas.

I would much rather have a system where even the most offensive people are encouraged to speak, and there can be a debate over their bad ideas. Right now, speakers who have already been invited are being shut down with violent protests which are met with little to no disciplinary action from the school.
So how do I sync two instances with nothing but a USB stick? What commands do I use on both ends?
I find it a little bizarre when people go out of their way to use feminine pronouns, which is certainly a thing that people do.

Personally, I tend towards the second-person (you) or indeterminate third-person (they, one) if not referring to a specific person.
Hell, my company encouraged retirement by promising medical coverage, then one year later pulled the coverage on those who took the deal.
Is it possible to use Relay along with Golang backend that serves graphQL queries via web socket?
I completely agree. But the privilege works both ways. Which is why people like me aren't coming to the US from India anymore. They would rather build startups in India or go to Singapore, Europe or Canada.

Only of my friends, who has a profile very similar to mine just moved to Canada. He was given a Green Card before ever setting his foot there.

Instead US is getting people with really low quality education or fake degree, who are brought here by staffing company. They get paid really low salaries and displace American workers. The current system is encouraging and supporting these companies in taking advantage of the H1B system.

Because there is a lottery every year, best people from across the world do not get a chance to come here on H1 because the quota gets full. If someone decides to move to US on Apr 1st in 2017, they need to wait till Apr 2018 to see if they win the lottery. Even if they win, they can't join till Oct 1st, 2018.

Back in the days, when the quota didn't get full, people could apply at any time and join soon after. If you applied between Oct to Apr, you could join right away. If you applied between Apr-Oct, you could join in October.

It is in US's interest more than any one else to fix the current H1 system. Best among whatever Indians are stuck here in limbo will eventually move somewhere else. Best from whole world do not want to move here on H1 because of the uncertainty. This is not what the system was designed more.

There is a lot more to the story why big companies like contracting to H1 and L1 workers (tax benefits of Capex vs Opex). That story is for another day.
Tax breaks simply should not exist on any level. I can't think of something more absurd than picking people to give tax breaks to.
>I assure you, most american-born students get a free pass in stanford/berkeley/CMU if you pit them against a foreign-born.

You have no idea what you're talking about. I have first hand experience with this and Americans don't "get a free pass" by any means.

Also, what about black people and hispanic people? Are they the lowest earners in America by far because they "don't want to make $$"? According to common consensus, it's okay to just pin it all on white people and call it "systemic racism". But when Indians miraculously make the highest median income by far, it's because they "want $$" more than other cultures? You are so out of touch with reality it's unbelievable. I can say without a doubt in my mind that there is enormous cronyism and nepotism going on in the US.
yes! a rejection connection! And I guess it doesn't matter if you have already launched you should still be in the demo day!
Looks like an article written in haste. Doesn't seem to be making any point.

H-1b recipients will be mostly Indian because India born immigrants have no option of diversity lottery or direct F1 to EAD (through a green card application thats started well before graduating).
"Mostly false" is misleading; the only way in which the law differs from my summary is that women are not required to hold the funerary rites themselves:

> The law, which was passed by the Republican-heavy state legislature, does require that aborted or miscarried fetuses be buried or cremated. It also requires that women involved in these cases be given the chance to decide how this is carried out.

> However, it did not require the women involved to be present during — or to pay for — the disposal of the material. Instead, that fell to the facility in which the miscarriage or abortion took place:

It's also worth noting that the law was struck down by a judge before it could take effect, lest anyone think this law was a reasonable or even legal.
Fwiw, I found that Thai culture seems to have a very palpable avoidance of aggression and violence. (Buddhist thing?)

I'm not naive enough to assume this trumps economic struggle, but I will say I was surprised that a lot of things you see elsewhere in tourist areas aren't prevalent in Thailand. E.g. bag snatching, mugging, etc.

Though not as far as Japan's "Excuse me sir, you left your wallet at the restaurant 30 minutes ago. Apologies that it took me this long to catch up with you on the subway and return it."
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That's the centuries-old, but now "wrongthink" convention. Best not do that...
Turn your Raspberry Pi into a robot
Thanks for the detailed reply. I still like what you guys do and appreciate the effort of the team.
WebAssembly isn't some magic bullet that's going to make every piece of code faster. Anything strongly connected to the DOM is still going to be slow, because the DOM slows things down a lot more than JavaScript does.
> twitter is contributing to the polarisation of society

seems a bit harsh, polarisation how ?
With all the hype usually flying around, a little surprised that it didn't say "AI Creates Recipe..."
YnotC. Kind of clever. What about CYnot. Like !YC but backwards. Flip it and reverse it. We're distancing ourselves, making it our own, inverting the establishment.
My opinion happens to differ. Textual content is incredibly rich and is likely a target for all content in the future. Consider, we are literally training models to accurately caption things today.

Why? Because language is a hell of an abstraction. More, it is approachable and can often be bounded. Consider, I am not even remotely skilled in art. However, I can adequately describe, for me, a picture by saying who is in it and the event. Try doing the same without language. Often "quaint and uninspiring textual" language.

Do I opine for the what we had in the 90s? Not necessarily. But I do grow weary of folks reinventing frameworks that merely further complicate the very abstractions that they created and now require these frameworks.
APK? Well he's talk about iOS even then on Android you can write native code and compile to armv7 etc... and have optimized binaries for certain CPUs.
We switched to Amazon ECS and you won’t believe what happened next
I really don't understand the amount of debate using M$ has caused.

Its an off the cuff shorthand term.

The defensiveness of some people here is incredible.
I'm curious how this compares to Apollo Client 1.0 which was released this week
Imo a easy solution - unless i am mistaken - please explain me where i am wrong:

Make it simple for H1B holder to switch jobs[1]

Wouldn't this lead to non-locked in H1B holders acting naturally on the market => being not more interesting that comparably expensive locals => skillset decides

[1]: i know that you can transfer a H1B visa and it's not crazy complicated - but thinking even easier than that.
A gentleman by the name of Bob Hoover would like a word with you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9pvG_ZSnCc
Your literature professor believes that unarmed museum guards would engage a knife-wielding man -- put their lives on the line -- to defend a replica.

I don't put much stock in his beliefs.
I thought progressive and regressive referred to convex and concave taxation curves, respectively (both monotonically increasing, of course). Then flat tax is exactly the border (i.e. a linear function).
Given the troubles that the Russian aerospace industry has with fake diplomas, I doubt that Moscow is where they are moving those jobs.

https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/fake-diplomas-fake-moder...
Are you the arbitrar of what speech should be tolerated?

Sometimes a person will wrap uncomfortable truths in provocative language simply to draw attention to those truths. We shouldn't mistake this tactic for malice.
How does performance compare to CSS transitions? Every animation framework I've tried has been a failure by comparison, even though CSS transitions are a nightmare to work with a lot of the time.

(an aside, but boasting about a 12KB minified size for an animation library baffles me. That's huge!)
> I am not sure you get to claim any points for acknowledging your own moral failing.

I get where you're coming from philosophically, but have a couple major points of disagreement.

1) I don't consider willful ignorance and dishonesty to be preferable to honesty

2) I'm speaking specifically of people whose actions contradict their own stated moral preferences. An ethical system that's brittle enough to fall apart with a couple pointed questions barely meets the definition of an ethical system.

3) Consequentially speaking, lying to protect your own self-image has consequences beyond your own life. We're social animals and bullshit causes collateral damage.
Looked pretty cool but I wasn't able to get past the "add ingredients" step in the tutorial. The button didn't work for me. Testing on iPhone.
Actually that's exactly how it is done in highly structured "clean room" software projects. If you fixed the "bug" in your software, then the process team couldn't fix the "bug" in the process that resulted in the bug in the software.
dazfuller is correct in that you cannot conflate IP and copyright. Copyright protection is a certain type of IP protection that can be afforded to certain types of tangible creative works. But "IP" is a much broader concept than just copyright.

There's a lot of focus in the law about core types of IP that are protected by statute: copyright, trademark, patent.

It is quite possible that the type of cool technique you develop while doing code for a customer wouldn't be protected by copyright, trademark, or patent law. But most customers probably want you to enter into a contract that governs ownership of IP.

By contract, you can protect certain types of IP that, for example, wouldn't be subject to copyright protection. Depending on what is in your contract with your customer, you may end of inadvertently winding up with your customer "owning" any technique, idea, know-how, etc...that you come up with in the course of performing services with the customer. ("Owning" this type of IP is not the same as "owning" certain other types of IP, as concerns 3rd parties. But that's not particularly important for your question.)

Even if the customer couldn't sue you for copyright infringement for using a technique they end up "owning" by contract, they might be able to sue you for breach of contract or trade secret misappropriation, depending on how you use the technique and its value proposition to the customer. Or, if the technique is patentable, they might be able to apply for a patent covering the technique and prevent you from using the technique that way.

There are a number of ways to work around this in your customer licenses. How, exactly, depends on what you are doing for your customer, what your customer does, and your negotiating leverage. But it's certainly doable and happens everyday.
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The web is pretty much corporate. All the major tools are built by major corporations, all the browsers are developed by major corporations (with the exception of Firefox, but Mozilla gets most of its money from major corporations) all the major web players are major corporations, all the major web monetization is rented by corporations.

The web's no longer an open platform. Yeah you can put up a blog on your own server using only FOSS. But if you want to drive traffic to it, you're using a huge corporate ad network or some SEO company. If you want to scale it, you're using a huge corporate cloud. If you want to make money on it, you're using a huge corporate ad network.
> We should protest and block them however we can.

No, absolutely not. That is a sword better left in its sheath. Any bad behavior you legitimize becomes equally legitimate to use against you and your causes as well when the tide of public opinion swings against you. And public opinion is on a swing toward the right currently, as you may have noticed.

What will you do when your opponents do the same because in their view, people holding your viewpoint are "people who mean harm" (your own words)? Will you be fair-minded enough to acknowledge their behavior is legitimate based on your very own reasoning?
I had a similar make-myself-feel-better-reaction the first time I was rejected. Like justifying why actually it wasn't what I wanted and not what I should be aiming for and it actually brings little value. But I think now that was more about making myself feel better than reflecting some kind of Truth. But even if it is true it is probably also a way to cope with getting the rejection. After that first rejection I ended up applying again and again. Because I think it would be useful to get in and I would get something out of it. Particular the connection with other Founders part of the same batch and the alum. I've been rejected 5 times now, including this time and I expected to do a lot better this time. After so many rejections it really gets a lot easier.
Giant article-obscuring pop-up.
The Vice President holds despicable views, but cowardice is not a suitable response. Better to face his ideological nonsense head on with strong arguments.
>But you'd only have to render the level once, after that it's all textures to be slapped on polygons.

No, then you'd have textures on low resolution polygons. That's using the method during production, not in the renderer. If you want this method to improve image rendering it needs to happen as part of the render ie every frame.
I think technically Canada is stuck with the "C" prefix (vs. "K" for USA) eg. CYVR, CYUL, CYXX

We also have airports with "CZ" (eg. CZBB).

I am not sure what the difference (if any) between CZ vs. CY codes is. Probably just sticking with convention (begin with Y or Z because everyone else does).
Don't give up your idea. Keep going! It will be hugely successful.
Ah, didn't realize it was iOS, didn't know iOS ran on multiple architectures for that matter. Is there a reason (other than incompetence) they don't just publish 2 versions for the different CPU's?
For every anecdote one unearths about bad union work rules, I'm sure that you can find a hundred about a union successfully looking out for the interest of a member. Is best not to be distracted by anecdotes.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14136081
https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/vec/struct.Vec.html#met...

(That is, many data structure _do_ do this, and you _can_ do it. It is an oversight.)
I mean, what did you expect?

Won't be long until someone upgrades their 16-thread 32GB machine because Facebook was "too slow"?

I type this on a dual core phone with 2GB of RAM that's faster than most desktops 15 years ago thinking I need a faster device.
I'm not sure if "feeling better" actually says anything about the food safety.
I'm not sure an array matches the use case of an inode number. The only practical uses are comparison and indexing. It is more natural to use strings to index hashes than a typed arrays.

Some were concerned with the performance of comparing strings, because a hex encoded string has 16 values to compare instead of 2. One might think this results in a 700% slowdown, but assuming that the operation short circuits, it is theoretically a 6.67% slowdown [0].

[0]: http://wolfr.am/l1JVtEi7

Edit: Benchmarks [1] indicate that string comparisons are significantly faster. It is not surprising that string comparison has been heavily optimized.

[1]: https://jsperf.com/64bit-comparison
Except that in practice, we are still subject to a judge's mood and familiarity.

I am still trying to clear myself of a wrongful conviction, a misdemeanor for which I was given the maximum allowed sentence of six months in county jail, that was given to me, in spite of blatant inconsistency across half a dozen witness reports and 2 years of court battles, because the judge said, "I think you are lying" and was angry that he had to see me so many times and I didn't just take a plea deal like a good little citizen.

And I wish I was an exception. But this happens everywhere and I doubt the presiding judge could even recount half of these guidelines. It's all arbitrary.
I don't know if it's any different for software engineers, but I have a friend who did an industrial engineering internship there a couple years ago. He was treated exactly like a full-time employee (full benefits, 401k, etc.) and had the option to join the union or not. It was barely any more for him to join so he did.
While reading your comment, I envisioned the Singularity arriving, and as we watch without any pain whatsoever in horror as our bodies are disassembled atom by atom along with the rest of the planet to feed the building of its computronium Dyson Sphere (for its not a monster, pfft), the AGI explaining, "I happen to be a sudden, violent shock to this solar system's ecosystem..." ;)
Great wall is pretty much a bs produced by some Chinese billionaire together with the nationally treasured director Zhang Yimo, who pretty much has little idea of making good commercial movie.

> letting Westerners steal their cultural treasures

I cannot see where this comes from. Is there any stealing at all?... The movie Great Wall uses Great Wall in a way that is trade-mark hollywood, i.e., purely symbolic, none of cultural connection at all. The story of Great Wall can be made on almost any world famous building/artifact... If that counts a steal, then hollywood cannot make anything not stealing...
Are these graduates? Are they real developers or people that know html, css and photoshop thinking their front end devs? Have they spent their lives in big companies that are still in xml land?

That's all the excuses I can think of. Some of them may be honest, just ignorant.
I remember googling furiously once I discovered Euro Truck Simulator to confirm it wasn't some Steam Greenlight prank...
Freefall is a 0G maneuver.
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People with kids have very particular timetables they have to hit. Usually their lunch time would not be so regimented. Truthfully, though the best thing is to try it out and see the kind of people you get. I made it a point to engage with every attendee I did not immediately recognize and find why were they there and if this was their first meetup what got them there.
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Maybe we should have it the day after the YC investor day so we can invite all the YC staff too? Get to meet them at least?
imagining what a non-deterministic animation library would be like :) ...
I never thought I'd see somebody so broken and drenched in authoritarian Kool-Aid that they'd defend Spicey's multiple Hitler claims.

He's a professional communicator who, instead of just walking his comments back to say "Assad did something that Hitler also did, and it was unacceptably evil", he just dug in and kept arguing his dumb point.
That sounds fine for a definition of anecdote. But I'm making an argument about the definition of "more often". Even when talking about personal experience, without real statistics, you need a certain amount of data before you can say anything about often-ness/rate.
I hear these stories all the time, and yet the value of these degrees seem to hold steady, while experience is often discounted.
it works exceptionally well with wine
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Everything but React :)
Errrrgh. Still waiting to hear.
Yea, you were misleading.
We're still working on some edge cases that will result in frames dropped. There will soon be a way to prioritize frame rate over duration precision and visa versa. Stay tuned!