skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Too bad for these companies. They gamed with basic supply and demand. Lot of industries which don't abuse foreign labor as much have a steady pipeline of candidates because these grads saw your company - shitty wages, awful working conditions, no future - and bailed the fuck out and into a other career path. Now these companies, dependent on cheap visa labor, may have to pay back some of the fat cash they've gained by screwing their own nations' workforce for the last two decades.
Headphones on the wire Statistical patterns of music listening practices
Except:

1. There's often cheaper property within manageable commuting distance from those expensive areas.

2. Those able to work from home are unaffected

3. If you can afford lunar real estate, money's probably the least of your concerns ;)
It's pretty clear that Google's strategy is that making the web better for everyone and everything is what will grow their ad business long term, rather than violently shoving as many ads as possible into their users faces as fast as possible. It's also pretty clear that they are capable of pursuing a long term strategy over chasing short-term cash.
See also the USENIX Short Topics in System Administration booklets, specifically "#15: Internet Postmaster: Duties and Responsibilities".

Sigh.
To me the biggest missing features are not this but:

* heredoc/multiline string/embedded interpolated strings
* concise array, map, and object literal initializers.
* structural/anonymous types

Simple things like multivalue return become an exercise in boilerplate in Java. As much as I like Immutables.org or @AutoValue, I should be able to return a struct or use destructuring operations at the callsite.

The hack in Java is to use annotation processors to provide nice fluent builder patterns, but really the language should have first class support for this.
I'm wondering too.. Also 15% is not that much.

If you are only looking for "the best" around the globe. I would except something like that in this range...
So what? You'll have to compete?

You've gotten so used to your cheap labor, indentured workforce,that you can't even contemplate employees participating in a free market?
Along with with Value Types [1] Java 10 could be an even more significant improvement than Java 8 was :)

[1] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/values/values-0.html
No joke. It is ancient. Not quite as old as I am, but not that far off.
Julia's support for concurrency is right there with Go and Elixir.
Lessons in cybersecurity from the ‘Ghost in the Shell’
Didn't know about it. Thanks!
Data suggests shrooms, DXM and/or massive ketamine can reset deep traumatic patterns. Also we recommend checking out internal family systems therapy.
This sounds like conspiracy. They can not block certain companies keep their ads unblocked. They will/should block certain type of ads, popups redirects malwares etc.

Also it is easier to block google ads with 3rd party. Since ridiculous ads will be blocked natively, performance will be better I think.
Thank you for your post and thanks for all the comments... it takes me years back. Maybe a dumb question: why we all miss those days? I don't think it is only related to being young. I am convinced it is something related to a "less noise/new tools" and probably I agree about "the more constraints more creativity". Is there anybody who can better articulate or have a different vision?
You only need to make one mistaken assumption to introduce non-determinism. Say you wait for the page to load, then click a button, is that valid? Sometimes it is, but some UI frameworks might render the button after the page reports being loaded. Your test will generally pass regardless, but mysteriously fail periodically.

You also tend to never achieve full reliability because the environments aren't entirely stable. Almost everyone sees more "random" failures on old IE versions. Poor over-stressed IE9 running in a VM will have a bad day and your test will fail.
Nah, that's just Apple's. Google Play has always been much less restrictive.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14149186
Thank you so much for sharing this! I'm working on something similar right now (a framework to build game agents using computer vision tools) and I just went from capturing at 10-15fps with ImageGrabber, to 15-25fps with FFMpeg and finally 70-80 fps with this technique. Insane!
This might be so, but I don't see it primarily as a problem with Google. I see it as a problem with the European Union, which is too much about French policies and politics and way of political operation.

Perhaps electing Le Pen might actually do some good to it by forcing others to change?
If the issue is users' behavior, then the fault lies with the designers.
I think though if you're going to break rules in a national park, you're best off considering your impact on the environment left behind and the others experiencing it with you.
How does Vavr's (formerly Javaslang) pattern matching hold up? http://www.vavr.io/
You don't need to wait for them to compile.
Realtime energy monitor for the entire apartment
What app store does that other than Apple's? And a rule like that doesn't allow full web browsers so it's unrelated to the question of whether full web browsers have extensions.
For Firefox on Android I've been using JavaScript Toggle Enabled [1] for a while. Does what it says on the tin.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/toggle-javasc...
Naw, it's actually pretty cheap, with a great ROI

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/01/06/144737864/forge...
Not an expert, but my understanding after reading that article was that at an important level, whether or not Dr. Dao was obligate to exit depends on whether or not he was appropriately told to exit. If he was, he was trespassing; if not he was not.

In this way, it does come back to the police action, because they should have treated it more as an investigation, asking all the parties involved about what was going on, and attempting to mediate, and then when that failed, taken him off the plane.

Overbooking policy in the US is heinous, but at some legalistic level this seems to me to be more about how Dr. Dao's removal occurred, rather than about the overbooking per se.

Honestly, I'm disturbed by the classism that's run rampant throughout the coverage of this and subsequent events. Airline overbooking practices, security unprofessionalism, etc. are all just part of the system until it happens to a physician (whose services for a day or so should not in fact be critical, even if they are inpatient or critical care--a hospital or clinic needs to be able to cover for illness, etc.), or as in the case of a subsequent LA Times story, a wealthy businessman. But for everyone else? The plumber whose livelihood depends on scheduled appointments? Who cares.
Last time my wife and I went to Yellowstone in the winter, we ended up with a private tour in an old bombardier. It wasn't supposed to be a private tour, but we went so early in the winter season, just days after the park re-opened, that there was hardly anyone taking tours. So it turned out to just be the two of us. It was absolutely splendid, the park was gorgeous as usual, and everything was fresh snowfall.

We loved that tour, but there was one rather sad story our guide told us. Before the more recent, stricter rules on snowmobiles went into effect, people would take whatever cheap snowmobile they could get their hands on into the park. Of course, the cheaper the bike, the cheaper the engine, which meant most all the snowmobiles used very inefficient, and very dirty two stroke engines. Just imagine the exhaust from a gas powered lawn mower or chainsaw, magnified several times.

In winter, there's a phenomenon called an atmospheric inversion caused by the cooler air of the season. The inversion stops all vertical movement of the air, so exhaust from snowmobiles, instead of dissipating, collects and lingers near the ground.

Our tour guide is telling us this because during the peak of the winter seasons in the park, the rangers manning the entrances would often complain about the air quality. The entrances were particularly problematic because so many vehicles would be stopped there waiting to get into the park. Any time an inversion hit, all those fumes would get trapped.

Nothing was ever done about this until, one day, a park ranger passed out and died. He was a friend of our tour guide. This finally pushed them to add an air quality measurement station to the park entrance. Not too long after that, they started cracking down on snowmobiles.

Nowadays, only low-emission and low-noise snowmobiles are allowed into the park.

I have no idea if the story is true or not. But it's sad to think a park ranger had to die for such an obvious problem to get solved.

There are other sad stories about how we've managed Yellowstone. But it's a beautiful park, and it makes me so happy that, even if we goof sometimes, at least we are smart enough to put that land aside for generations to enjoy.
This brings back a lot of memories. I started in the bbs scene when my friend gifted a 1200 baud modem in 1992. I began trading warez on a 8088 xt 1mb ram 40mb machine. From the local scene in Los Angeles (818). I modified WWIV and ran my own bbs until my hard drive crashed and I eventually lost the source. I also got into war dialing pbx's so that I could call famous bbses in New York and Canada. I loved the style of bbs software like celerity and visionx and the art of acid and ice.

I eventually made it to the it scene where I had access to and ran the top ftp sites in the world.

I miss those days immensely.
> because after a 200 year trend that is a reasonable thing to say

I don't think you understand how history works. Don't know if this is merely risible or sad.
NASA's night time satellite images show huge growth of Indian cities
This.

There is no template that fits all.

I have almost the same situation, 1,5h (one way) train + bicycle or buss trip to work. However my employer gives me the choice to work remote from home as much as I like.

I usually go to the office one or two times a week, and this is perfect for me right now, It might change in the future, who knows?

My strong believe in this subject is that you, as an employee, will more likely stay happy and perform better in your work if your employer gives you the flexibility of working remote.
And this is because the American hippocampus has been rendered semi-inoperable by generations of industry-lobbied, federally-subsidized corn-syrup-induced diabetes.
So what's the salary you're offering for this unfillable position, and what's the average price of a home there?
I also wrote one a year ago called harpoon after searching for one not involving nodejs or apache & PHP. It has a tunneling feature using localtunnel.me. It is targeting only github.

https://github.com/agrison/harpoon
xhttp: Toolkit for XMLHttpRequest
They don't have anything near a browser monopoly.
See BlinkDb
I have not read Keegan but Tuchman has aged quite a bit.

I would recommend
"The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914" and
"The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914".
"What's wrong with caring about your fellow taxpaying citizens who's vote might affect you more than someone that's possibly displacing them?"

? H1B holders pay as much tax as citizens do (more, in fact, given they cannot benefit off Social Security, but still have to contribute to it). AND they don't get to vote.

What's the argument in this case?
Well, we're only talking about me now, but I have pretty much decided that I do not want to progress any further in my current direction. I'm on a pretty good pay now and the work situation is acceptable.

I am investigating ways to invest the money I have made/am still making in the best ways for the best possible return, and also looking to downshift by pursuing projects/businesses in my free time that I am simply interested in - that have no guarantee of financial success, while also looking into the possibility of moving to a less expensive part of the country.

I am not looking for a promotion which includes taking on more stress and less free time in exchange for an insufficient pay increase. It would need to be significant for me to take the chance, and from what I have seen out there, I haven't found anything that would satisfy me, although if I was actually out of work now perhaps I would accept less.

If that makes me unqualified in your opinion to comment about whether pays are sufficient for exactly the type of job that I'd be applying for, I don't care. I also don't care if you think I'm ambitious enough. I'm very sure I wouldn't want to work for you anyway.

There was even an out-of-work dev commenting that he was looking for work in this very thread. I don't know what more I can say.
> concise array, map, and object literal initializers.

http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/269
Just a few more month.

Still nothing for the other two, but 1/3 is better than nothing.
Alas I dream for the day when Safari adopts WebExtensions
React Binding Patterns: 5 Approaches for Handling `this` (2016)
The internet got popular. What that means: Government snooping, DMCA, lots of non-nerds and idiots on the internet, websites that lock content down regionally, bloated garbage websites.

There was lots of untapped potential back then which made things exciting. Also, the communities were smaller, like families.
Maybe time to stop using and recommending Chrome? I heard of this browser called "Firefox" which isn't developed by an advertising company.
Fun fact: Using any other public US AWS region would save 3 million dollars per month!

Aside from that: Using infrequent access storage for the parts of the data which don't get frequently accessed would save a lot and I'm pretty sure at that scale AWS would be happy to discuss possible discounts as well.
Why Sapience built an all-seeing eye for employee productivity
> Wikipedia is a non-profit and is thus distinctly different from Facebook.

At an operational level they're not much different; both rely on generation of revenue to cover costs and to compensate their permanent staff, and both can make profits which can be reinvested in the organisation or distributed as dividends or spent on 'stuff'.

Essentially the only operational difference is that all of the non-profit's untaxed profits must originate from activities aligned with their primary stated function, whereas Facebook is free to earn from other unrelated business activities.

Furthermore the officers of a non-profit can't dip into the profits for self-enrichment since the profits belong to the organisation ( hence untaxed ), but since they extract their remuneration upstream of the profits that's not a major issue.
In fact communication is difficult, and its failure is always the fault of the communicator.
Some Thoughts on Handwriting
Sure they can. Do first, answer questions later.
Yes but Eudora was quite heavy. 486 owners did not really have a choice, but Pegasus was quite cool on it. I have fond memories of it.
> What am I missing?

Nothing. Any query processing on sufficiently large amounts of data is going to be expensive in time, space, energy, and money, and Amazon doesn't buy custom hardware for this purpose and intends to make a profit doing it so it's going to be even more expensive.
Migration to Google Cloud Platform – gRPC and Grpc-Gateway
>I like this approach. It punishes site owners for running malicious or badly-behaved ads.

Someone forgets that for a few days YouTube was serving malware in their ads.
CASSINI’S GRAND FINALE

https://vimeo.com/210782375

"Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defense each year, and instead spend it feeding, clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we can explore space together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace."
Surely Google will next come out with a "Fake News" filter for browsers that will just block wsj.com for all Chrome users.
Human brain is 3D and has no problems with TDP and cooling while being extremely fast at parallel processing of data like images or sound to the point that the fastest supercomputers ever built still can't compete.
Here in Taiwan BBS is still popular, PTT [0] has ~120k avg. concurrent users every day.

For those interested, their codebase is available on GitHub [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTT_Bulletin_Board_System

[1] https://github.com/ptt/pttbbs
> [...] irritatingly [...]

Or correctly; it is so common and so different (and incomplete) across implementations, so a new name with the exact semantics has been invented [1].

[1] http://www.stroustrup.com/C++11FAQ.html#decltype
System76 is moving product design and manufacturing in house
Losing is not fun but almost winning IS fun. Progress through refinement, strategy and speed is fun.
> I don't see how your series or resistor examples are particularly relevant: neither mathematical nor physical facts are human inventions.

Mathematical facts are a very human invention, just like the transistor. I picked calculus precisely because intuition based on physical observation gives the wrong answer nine times out of ten.

> assuming everyone is a robot who's memorised all corner cases of their tools

But this is not a corner case! I'm not talking about an obscure quirk (God knows how many C has!), this is literally syntax, the first thing you learn about a language!
(Recording)Building a React Component for Notifications
Generics have their use cases, but in general they are overrated. Especially in (but not limited to) the DevOps area, I bet that 99% of the code needs no generics at all.

Having said that, I would not complain if the concept of Ply (https://github.com/lukechampine/ply) becomes part of standard Go.
> , but it was a Republic Airlines flight operated by Republic Airlines pilots and flight attendants and under the operational control of Republic Airlines management.

What's the point of mentioning that? They are wearing United Uniforms even. However United wants to distribute its routes, how it hires its contractors, flight attendants etc is its business.

It seems like a way to divert blame. (United is great, it's those pesky contractors again). Otherwise I don't see why this point is prominently put at the very top. Maybe in a thorough analysis it is interesting to mention it, but it would some place at the end.
I don't think testing for randomness makes sense. Randomness is something we assume. There's always a non-zero probability that randomness will appear non-random.

In fact, this whole comment is a random string of characters. I just got really lucky, and there's essentially no way to disprove that. Throwing a dice a trillion times and getting all 6's is not an invalid outcome, just very improbable.

Randomness is about unpredictability. How can you assert that something is or is not predictable? It's always possible you just haven't observed it for long enough. An initial, randomly-appearing sequence may turn out to start repeating itself after some point in time; and an initial, self-repeating sequence can always be statistically cancelled out by later data.

Randomness is not something we can have; it's something we don't have (the ability to predict).
> I am sad when I look into the eyes of my staff on 457 or working holiday visas .... How do I ask them to help us do our small but proud part in sustaining Australia’s economic growth and providing more jobs for Australians and other immigrants?

I know that this part is entirely rhetorical, but the thought of a boss in tech coming over and trying to inspire me to do my work 'for the good of the country' is just too amusing. :)
The Full Rotation of the Moon as Seen by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
What makes the US border so much more meaningful than a state border? Why do you care about somebody living potentially 3000 miles away from you on the other coast more than somebody who lives much closer in Canada or Mexico? Why is immigration from places like Kansas to the valley seen as a positive sign but immigration from India to the valley is seen as stealing jobs?
Ah, true, my bad.

Double confusing since the comment text, especially with the font, hints more at the "add twelve" case:

> "Add l2 items to list"

If it was worded for example "Add items of l2 to l", I think I would not have misinterpreted it.

https://www.slideshare.net/MattHarrison4/learn-90/61?src=cli...
I really dont see how Germany could win in Spring 1917. The german generals had all the data and they were deperate, they launched all out offensives and stratrgy not because they thought it would bring sertain victory but rather because they were desperate.
Velodyne Announces a Solid-State Lidar
The political pendulum swings both ways.

I look forward to seeing what happens to any businesses that get too greedy and disregard what happens when the pendulum swings left again.

I wonder what would be happening now if we had a wave of left-wing populists taking office instead.
>The other major issue with Pegasus Mail is that it uses a proprietary third-party product as its core editor, and I would not be able to take that product with me into an Open Source environment.

Portability issues aside, that's a questionable foundation.
> huge complicated tools.

Oh please. Let's be real, Maven is not even remotely more complicated than the typical package.json, webpack.config.json, .babelrc triple you need for any useful NodeJS project (though you can put the .babelrc into the package.json, I've heard that's the way to do it at the moment). I was so taken back that nowadays JS needs a build step too. But it's a "transpiler", not a "compiler" - cause that's something completely different.

> I tried using Kotlin and step one is always install Intellij.

So? Atom and Visual Studio Code did need to be installed too on my machine. This mentality reminds me of someone using an axe head as a hammer "I'd have to pull the hammer out of the toolbox" (install it) - that's too complicated, I prefer light-weight tools!"
Despite being very good to my stuff, my Canon cameras and lenses just break. I'm going Sony next time.
Adblock Plus is pretty open about it. You can disable the option easily. And Google ads are, in fact, relatively non intrusive. I don't see the problem.
Oh yeah. I recall writing Telix scripts to traverse the galaxy and then calculate the shortest path from a->b based on the portals it discovered. I also recall quite the scandal when a sysop peeked into the admin console and gave an advantage to someone.
It's not strange​ at all. I appreciate the article's analysis. As the founder of the Selenium project, I frequently hear people blame Selenium for their problems. Sure, Selenium isn't perfect, but it seems like it is so much easier for people to blame their tools instead of questioning other things. But I understand why people do it. For a typical software developer, without an obvious cause for flakiness, the apparent randomness of a flaky test tends to make it easier (and plausibly justifiable) to "shoot the messenger".
The Exponential Advance of Artificial Intelligence
I think a more interesting historical event to study for insight into what may lead to an advanced society to collapse is the late Bronze Age collapse, which seems to have been caused by a perfect storm of events (from what I've read about it, at least. I'm no expert) leading multiple interconnected civilisations to collapse in a short (100 year or so) time frame.
I think it's new to the website. I don't see it in the table of contents for the rebook, and it's been online since August, according to https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20160804182333/https://land...
It still requires consent. If it's really that bad, one can unplug and the problem goes away. Given you're still here and commenting on HN posts, the whole "we're in a dystopia already" schtick comes off as self-indulgent.