skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The U.S. should be doing their very best to have the strongest possible education system for all its citizens (and non-citizens living in the country long term). As should any reasonable country. But the fact remains that, unless you are counting with excellent execution in that regard from the U.S. and abysmal negligence from the rest of the world, you simply can't extract the same talent from a population of 400 million than from one of 7 billion. The U.S. benefits enormously from immigration, in ways many don't even perceive. If the flow of minds into the country is ever truly stopped, no amount of improvement in the internal education pipeline will be enough to maintain the U.S. dominant position in science and technology.

Now, you might be ok with a broader geographical distribution of this type of talent, or argue that it will happen eventually no matter what. I hear you, on both counts. But, as a non-U.S. citizen, I am actually pretty surprised that the country would chose to forgo the advantage it enjoys by being a preferred immigration destination for so many skilled people...

It also seems to be done due to nothing but rank xenophobia. I mean, what is the excuse here? "They are stealing our jobs!"? This is literally a visa where the requirement is to create jobs for American citizens, and most of these tech firms will do so by exporting goods mostly to foreign markets (the market for most tech startups is not over 50% local to the U.S.) and/or creating local technology and expertise. Hell, once profitable, you can and should tax these companies to help provide for that very same education you want for American citizens! As well as UBI for those whose jobs are being displaced by automation. Startup visas are as win-win as it possibly gets.

Final point: The party and particular administration that seems to be most against immigration also seems to be the one most against science or robust public education. The foreseeable end result is grim, even if these policies last only 4 years: a "lost half-decade" in which the best domestic talent is under-nourished and the best foreign talent goes elsewhere.
Where were those pictures taken?
Around the US election, by asking a Canadian friend (I'm technically a citizen, but by birth and have only been there a handful of times). He said work visas were harder to get but that other visas were much easier, and that obtaining permanent residency was almost a shoo-in once you had a visa for a few years.
I posted a quick demo video: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14608632
In regards, to Myst-like adventure....

A friend of mine made this:
https://beta.babylonvr.ca/vr/784988
You lost me at "Trump administration has plan".
And what do you do when a storm comes?

Another thing is, living on a boat, even if it's huge, is very boring.
Multiple regex performance shootout: RE2 vs. Intel's Hyperscan
We called them designated decoys where I grew up.
This comment smells like all-or-nothing thinking to me. The article may have a flaw of unspecificity which I think has resulted in bumping readers off of the writer's path of thinking, instead.

The article is educational, illustrating a short-term financially successful, legally questionable approach to disruption, pitting evolving norms against regulatory laws.

"Whining" is mere rhetoric, I assume from the commenter's perspective, since I cannot find that tone present in the article.

Instead, a flaw I think the article has is overlooking pointedly justifying why regulatory laws are necessary. It describes normalizing lawbreaking, and implies Uber is establishing a cracked foundation for its new industry. But the article didn't say that's bad.

Still, the article is valid in spite of it focusing on Uber: Uber pivoted after seeing and complaining about Lyft gaining an advantage. Unfortunately, why this is bad is undercapitalized by the article.
Diversity happens naturally when you let people have some say. Meaning, don't think for a second that dev shops full of men wouldn't much rather have some women in the room. They have no say in the matter. Having no say in the matter is the actual problem.

As for Etsy, did they actually have 'diversity initiatives' within the company? What doe that even mean?
Upvoted because we need more diversity of opinion here.
Mass + New York + Canada + Seattle + Oregon + Cali will form the nation of America 2.0. Open borders to all US citizens.

The rest of the US can mine coal, frack, or whatever they want to do. They think that's where the jobs are.

Doesn't matter to us. We'll just speed up the electric, self-driving, car revolution with China and continue working on climate change rules and a global economy with Europe.
> Yes, handles are partitioned per-process. Having them be unlikely to be reused or collide with small numbers (locally) helps avoid some common failure cases (somebody uses a fd after close but somebody else has opened something else that got the same fd and now you have two problems).

This could be handled in user space without affecting kernel structures using opaque structs and some runtime bookkeeping.

Alternately, Kernel fds could use the low order 24-bits for the descriptor itself, with top 8-bits reserved as an allocation count. When a given fd is closed, increment the counter for the next time it's allocated. You've reduced the chance of already rare misuse by 256 fold with requiring some kind of sparse data structure in the kernel.

Perhaps the current handle design is even harder to misuse, but how defensive should you be for accidental misuse like this?

> Having them be harder to guess provides some (minor) additional defense against attempting to remotely exploit bugs in another process.

I've never heard of this kind of exploit. Do you have an example?
Fastmail has an elegant solution for this called subdomain addressing. For example, let's say your email address is joe@fastmail.com. You can use amazon@joe.fastmail.com or facebook@joe.fastmail.com, spotify@joe.fastmail.com, etc...

https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/addressing.html
even if the numbers were correct (which is a very big if) it doesn't matter much without context. How many of those birds were the old/ill ones who was going to die or fall an easy prey to any taker for that reason anyway in the next few days? Or do you think ill/old wild animals and birds get nice end-of-life hospital treatment and parade funeral?

Giving say for example 3M population and 4 years lifespan, 750K birds of that population are going to die that year. In nature that frequently means to be eaten. Somebody's gotta do it. Or do you prefer dead birds lying around (or rats feeding on the dead birds)? In many places finding dead birds is a reason to call Health Department actually.

I never said cats don't eat birds. What i'm saying is that they are doing service to the total bird population (and to humans - cats is the main reason human civilization was able to survive and develop in the dense highly unsanitary conditions like the cities of Middle Ages)
You're hearing the opposite from people who are trying hard to be negative about the Trump presidency, instead of thinking for themselves.

We typically require people to prove that the job they're going to do can not be feasibly offered to a citizen. Typically exemptions can apply if you're applying for a work visa for a transfer within a multinational company, and for a small number of other more niche roles. In order to be exempt as a professional you need to be a citizen of Mexico or the U.S. and provably belong to a profession which is specifically exempted (there are a bit over 60) according to a list.
There is no basis for your contention that "internet" would be cheaper without NN.
> at some point you may want to back it up with some real numbers

Off my recent twitter feed... maybe I'll start saving these when people ask for proof

https://twitter.com/jilljubs/status/874985023350472704
https://twitter.com/aprilwensel/status/875104375244414977
https://twitter.com/paulcbetts/status/723595214875578368
Also, in case you couldn't tell by the rough cut of the video, I should mention that I am not starting a company around Ohayo or TN or ETNs. This is a passion project for me and I have saved up enough to work on it full time for a while. Don't expect polish in the early days, or you will be disappointed. But DO expect a great, useful product in a few weeks time!

Thanks!
I mean, at the least, can't you make it a deal that you're OK walking away from if you find yourself in this kind of situation?
I can't understand that rethoric. You get a new consumer as well, so you have merely increased the population.
facepalm. The table is correct. Will correct this tomorrow. Thanks for the heads up.
John Grisham on his regimented writing routine
Porn makes up the majority of Tumblr's userbase?
I've had all kinds of positive similar experiences with people all over the world. Most people aren't out to rob you.
Right. The driver would be in control in the scenario I'm describing, just like they are with lane assist, cruise control, or closest to stealth self-driving, auto braking and swerve. I guess it would be better described as the driver would always have the illusion of control.

The automated parts would kick in when necessary and they would be increasingly intrusive in their warnings and modification of driving until the human is only needed for identifying source and destination.
The original Lua has also designed to be used as extension language to be embedded and give the base systems scripting super-powers! The beauty of the Luerl Lua implementation is that is really a full implementation of the Lua language is not something inspired by Lua or some kind of handicap version of the language. I agree of course with your statement about a little overhead, but it is a real true Lua.
There's no gender pay gap for same roles (adjusted pay gap in that link)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_pay_gap
The worst is the bottom banner complete bullshit of

"The website is experiencing heavy traffic - This may result in reduced performance"

For the "too lazy to navigate, add to cart", a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/o8zUP1u.png

Edit: Offtopic, but Floyd Mayweather vs Connor McGregor in a "boxing only" match, with no kicks, submissions, wrestling, etc, allowed? Who thinks that would be fun to watch? Ugh, that's going to be sad to watch. McGregor must be making a fortune to agree to that...he is going to be trounced.
since each line is parsed a second time, couldn't you take yaml's approach to value encoding and asking ambiguous strings to be quoted?
Vancouver is a wonderful city so I can really understand why you want to keep everyone from finding out :)

But go see San Francisco if you want to understand an affordability crisis. Vancouver is reasonable in comparison.
Right... I'm not disputing that. But it does not relate to my point.
The only election meddling that had an effect was the DNC insuring that no one could challenge the party choice. The fact they got caught and possibly because of Russian hacking is only possible claim that Russian meddling affected the election; they exposed the DNC for what it was.
If you sell your company, you lose control of it; that is kind of the definition of 'selling'. If you maintain control, than you at most have 'an investor', not a new owner.
MIT OCW History (2007)
Human Activity Recognition Using LSTMs on Android – TensorFlow for Hackers
Uber is amazing. Some people want to get humankind back to the caves ...
A terrible epidemic right now, and this is a good way to help those that are in immediate danger. That being said, I hope this policy is actually enforced in an effective manner.

Where I lived and went to school, there was a similar policy enforced by the police. If you take the action to help someone in danger from overdosing, whether it's an opioid or alcohol, the police will not charge you even if you too are in violation of the law. Now it only applies to being under the influence, any other crimes they discover are still going to be pursued. And for this reason, those who I have spoke to are hesitant to help even when it means someone's life is on the line.

This is completely anecdotal, but every instance of being a good samaritan that I've heard of, the caller has been charged or gotten into trouble by some other means (whether by their school or employer). For an alcohol poisoning case the person ended up having to take mandatory classes that interfered with their school work.

I'm not saying this is a bad policy by any means, it's certainly a step in the right direction. But it also takes an open an honest discussion that the samaritan should be aware of. If they know they'll be in jail for possession, or having paraphernalia on the premises, it lowers the chance of the call taking place, and the life being saved.

I truly hope this policy is executed with the sole intent to save lives.
There was a news report[1] that for h&m to pay workers in Asia local living local wage (an additional ~120 USD/week), prices of shirts would go up ~50 cent. Accordingly, if prices went up ~3.50 the workers should make around 40-50k usd/year.

Doesn't sound all that terrible.

[1] https://www.dn.no/nyheter/2017/06/02/0942/Handel/nordea-sjef... (Norwegian, statement by head of the Nordea bank)
Nice. Pardon for the skepticism but I have seen a number of languages making similar claims. Lisp and SmallTalk where some of the earlier ones.

I guess a lot comes down to tooling, will Ohayo be able to understand the various DSLs to extract meaningful context or is it more like a tree editor?
Don't worry -- they'll get to play SimSteelFactory instead of working at (and possibly screwing up) a real steel factory. People can derive meaning from playing games.
You can't. This is why regulation, even when imperfect, is good.
I think it refutes your point. You claimed that the ability to accumulate wealth is rewarded because those people have the best chance of improving the fitness of the species. But those people are the least likely to do anything to perpetuate the species.
What I don’t understand about Uber after all these months/years of them being horrible to customers is: Why?

#1 rule of capitalism is to coddle your customers as much as possible at every possible expense while still remaining profitable. Why does Uber act so 2nd World?
"Under Theodore N. Vail from 1907, AT&T had [...] acquired many of the independents, and bought control of Western Union, giving it a monopolistic position in both telephone and telegraph communication. A key strategy was to refuse to connect its long distance network — technologically, by far the finest and most extensive in the land — with local independent carriers. Without the prospect of long distance services, the market position of many independents became untenable. Vail stated that there should be "one policy, one system [AT&T's] and universal service, no collection of separate companies could give the public the service that [the] Bell... system could give.""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsbury_Commitment
I can't tell from the article. Are "tips" being used as something mandatory in order to receive a good/service? Or are they things that are optional for receiving those goods/services?
Is Vancouver more expensive than Seattle?
I have tried on multiple occasions to learn and use Erlang for some different projects.

My process has always been stopped by a few specific things, and I end up going back to Common Lisp, which tends to be much easier to get to work.

My first problem is to make sense out of how to actually run a server application. Manually compiling source files and run functions is one thing, but trying to actually set up an application with all the monitors and stuff is really annoyingly hard. Even following step-by-step instructions resulted in errors that I didn't understand as soon as I tried to do anything outside what the tutorial showed.

The second issue that I have never managed to properly solve is how to use libraries. In particular, I have wanted to use the client libraries for RabbitMQ and CouchDB (both written in Erlang, so you'd expect it to be simple). The instructions how to install the libraries usually doesn't match the thing you actually download.

I've also tried to use the EDTS in Emacs, which is pretty nice, but as soon as I try to use a library, it can never find the hrl files.

I really want to use Erlang, but the difficulty of actually getting started with a real project as opposed to simple tutorial stuff has been extremely frustrating.
It's a 3 hour drive from Seattle-Vancouver so even if you're halfway that's a 1.5 hour commute.
I don't see these tactics on many airline or hotel owned sites. They seem to be more common on aggregators.
Deleting Uber
The Thinkpad line has a cult-like following like Apple products. It would help in difficult times, but the brand needs to reinvent itself like how Apple did. I would certainly love to see new products coming out with Thinkpad quality, durability, user-friendliness (the Linux crowd), and support.
Thank you for not downvoting me. Free market would be part of my answer if I had one.

I'm not well-informed enough to say much, but imagine you have a local link in a small rural town that only support some absolute number of packets or whatever: if you have one big consumer that is eating the major part of that every day, making the others miserable, isn't it reasonable to limit that consumer's bandwidth somehow?

Then if some law is enacted to prevent you from limiting that consumer, then you'll either make the lives of the others miserable or you'll be forced to spend more on your link and luckily pass the cost down to all your consumers. Right?

Please correct me if I'm assuming things wrong (I'm likely doing it).

> The major concern about losing NN is that instead of just paying for volume of data, I'll also be required to pay based on type and/or source of that data, and that the entities providing the data will also be required to pay based on type and/or destination.

I don't understand what is the problem of that. In every other situation of life you pay for the "type" of the thing you're consuming. When you go to a restaurant you don't pay for volume of food, but for the types of food you're asking. There are indeed restaurants where you pay for mass of food, but you don't have all the expensive options available. I can see a world where you would have to pay a little more for Netflix and a little less for sshing to your VPS.
> “I don’t think that people who talk about defending American jobs with this policy have ever looked into the economics of it,” says Giovanni Peri, chair of the economics department at the University of California at Davis.

Amen...and I find it doubly cool because my degree is from the economics department at UC Davis.
So I know Uber just announced tips for drivers will be allowed in-app. Will Apple be taking 30% of Uber drivers' tips?
Is that true even when taking into account the possibility of WeChat wanting to expand globally? If that's the case, being shut out of iOS seems like it would be an unsurmountable obstacle.
How technology-enabled ‘selves-improvement’ will drive the future of personal pr
The belief that economics is a zero-sum game is sadly quite prevalent.
hnrankings graph of this story: http://hnrankings.info/14600873/ (I'm not affiliated with them, but I think this ranking information is important).
Just finished The cartel today, next Algorithms to live by
No, there can be contractual terms which allow for the original owners to regain control under certain contingencies
You have no idea what you're talking about. The relationships between Tensent and the party are very very complicated.
Scientists may have solved a key barrier to fusion power
No blockchain involved, you can check the website of the exchange.
This post is by no means the definitive statement on RE2 and Hyperscan performance. We went very deep on subsets of one measurement case, but different patterns would yield a different set of behaviors for both engines.

Single-pattern performance has been covered before: e.g. https://rust-leipzig.github.io/regex/2017/03/28/comparison-o...
https://github.com/fake-name/xA-Scraper already supports tumblr. Their API has annoying limits, though.

Note: It's a project of mine.
I'm sorry for your experience and I won't dive into your response to it, but as to your points they're all incredibly hand-wavey and #2 & #3 are especially magical thinking. This isn't to say that they aren't so, but unless it's possible to prove them they're pretty tenuous reasons with which to shape policy.
> if someone makes more money, then they will pay more in taxes?

Absolutely not true for everyone. It depends heavily on how they make their money.

Many very wealthy people are also able to abuse loopholes and decrease their tax bills. Do you remember when people thought Trump didn't want to release his tax returns because they showed he paid zero taxes? Yes, that's a real thing. Billionaires making millions in a given year are able to pay nothing, if they organize their finances correctly.

Also, people have value to the economy outside of tax dollars. They also spend money, fill jobs that aren't filled by domestic workers, and produce babies (which wealthier people produce at a lower rate and which are necessary to fund things like Social Security).
thank you for bangs. changed my entire web browsing experience.
I mean, sparrows really do destroy other birds' nests and kill their young.
Theranos reportedly settles $140M Walgreens suit for less than $30M
Thanks for the reply! Pretty much what I thought...just wasn't sure if the original comment knew of some process I wasn't familiar with that obviated my belief.
I use `mess` [1].
Short descrption: New stuff that is not filed away instantly goes into a folder "current" linked to the youngest folder in a tree (mess_root > year > week).
If needed at a later time: file it accordingly, otherwise old folders are purged if disk space is low.
Taking it a step further: synching everything across work and personal machines using `syncthing`.

[1] http://chneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2006/01/keeping-your-ho...
In the absence of strong evidence, you're making a bunch of assumptions you mean?

In the absence of strong evidence, I personally err on the side of caution.

I don't know what these mythical places are that vastly prefer men over women - every place I've ever worked at, everyone preferred people who are good at their job and are easy to get along with - mostly the easy to get along with part by the way.
Victoria is nice and much cheaper.

If you're actually building a business (rather than a get-rich-quick startup) people will welcome you with open arms.
You'll find good QOL and great livability here. Though we are just starting to get traffic problems.
No arguments there, but to be clear I was speaking primarily to the Alibaba -> FBA pipeline.
A lawyer could probably get him the:

-compensation for valuables in the bag

-compensation for software/files/etc

-compensation for time wasted

-compensation for di-stress caused

-compensation for tickets & hotel (if I get this right, the "victim" had to fly in for the court)

The Uber may had to cough-up 6-8-10k, the lawyer would get 2-4k for 2 hours worth of work and all would be happy
Send them off to the private prisons ...
Caterpillar-Grown Flu Vaccine Protects Better Than Egg-Incubated Vaccine
Optional as far as I know (there might be some mandatory use cases that I'm unaware of). A common use case is bloggers put a barcode at the end of their blog posts, so the reader could tip them.