skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apologies.

It was supposed to be a substantive meta-comment about New Yorker reportage, which I think is on the same level of partisanship as the Huff Post (which I thought was banned here).
The women who report these issues has no obligation to solve the problems, they're simply pointing out that they exist (since for a long time, people wouldn't believe them).
Show HN: A virtual machine made with Google Sheets formulas (no script)
In a popular post today[1] the title claims "VM in Google Sheets", but it's actually in Google Script, which is basically Javascript and not an interesting technical accomplishment (definitely a useful educational tool, though).

Disappointed, I set out to fix it. Voila!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1g3-FZBnkDuLqFYOmk457...

A Brainfk interpreter in pure Google Sheets formulas. The hard part was parentheses matching, so I think other VMs would be even easier.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14701460
South Africa retail sector to increase ICT spending
I mean, LED bulbs have made traditional ones redundant and have incredibly long lifespans, so this isn't really true any more.

The article makes some good points that lifespan was controlled, but not as drastically as you imply. They were talking about losing a third of the lifespan. While yes, they were clearly aiming to reduce the lifespan of bulbs, they did so by making the bulbs better (brighter) in a way that made consumers want those bulbs.

If you could do both brighter and longer lifespan, I'm sure someone would have (it's not like that cartel is still going - 1940 was a long time ago) - I don't think what they did was that dissimilar to desktop software moving to subscription models to increase profit - as long as they introduce value from that change to justify it, then it's not wrong.

The century-old bulb is an extreme outlier and there was never an expectation for anything to last that long. Trying to imply that modern bulbs are handicapped intentionally to such an extreme is just misleading.
What specifically do you want to do with these documents?
Which character was that? John? Frank? Man I loved that series.
The price difference seems mostly due to advertised prices.

In the US they advertise the price excluding tax, in the EU we advertise the price including tax.

When counting taxes, there isn't a big difference.
Show HN: Vault, a simple CLI Python password manager
I'm on an O-1 Visa at the moment and thinking about going for a green card. What's the best path way to do this?
But you also can't solve a problem if everyone pretends it doesn't exist.
Think of all the physiological responses attributed to nervousness (e.g. before public speaking): muscle tension, raised heart rate, sweating, need to urinate/defecate, insomnia, nausea.

Given that, why are we so convinced that our mind (i.e. our prefrontal cortex, seat of "high level" thinking) _couldn't_ be the cause of persistent inflammatory pain? Do not ideas and stressors persist in our mind, just as pain might?

Sarno's simple thesis is that stress in our daily life could, in fact, be the underlying trigger for inflammatory pain. The mere realization of this, for many people, can resolve chronic pain problems that last years and are resistant to treatments that assume the cause of the issue is structural.

Here's a success story from one of the creators of EtherPad (acquired by Google) on his recovery from wrist pain (diagnosed as RSI) from reading Dr. Sarno's book:

http://www.rsipain.com/success-story-severe-forearm-pain.php
Yes, the EB-5 green card option is available to nationals of all countries.
Netflix gives back major fixes and performance improvements to the community because maintaining their own fork of the OS permanently is a nightmare.
I suspect they're not paying what customers will pay and they're likely to be leases since they're effectively pre-production models and you'd have to be a big knucklehead to bet on the resale value of a pre-production Model 3.
Often it is this too, because of sloppy coding, not even malicious intent. I've seen people implement JavaScript easter eggs that play a funny joke, but in doing so the developers had created a keylogger by accident that was logging everything you did on the site. Again, wasn't malicious at all they didn't think about it at all.
Just a thought. What would happen if some big company implemented this practice and it led to number of hired women to be even less? Will they be praised because they did it, or attacked because they now have even less women? It's not a sarcasm/anything, just interested in your opinion.
Canadian here.

Most of my friends with Visa's tend to live in a constant state of fear when crossing the border into the US that a border office will just rip the visa out of their passport and deny them entry into the US.

Even the ones with high priced immigration attorney's.

Is there something the average Canadian can do to make crossing the border into the US less of a crap shoot, especially when doing so with a family?
> a company should be focused on acquiring the best developers they can, not finding ones of a specific gender

I respectfully disagree. This position doesn't take into account how existing gender biases affect those who are choosing which field to enter. If a field is primarily composed of men, then young women may not feel welcome in the field and may go elsewhere, meaning there are fewer good developers in the pool to begin with. This leads to lower quality overall in the field than if there were no bias.

It becomes a tragedy of the commons situation: if everyone hires the best regardless of gender, then we continue to repel half of the population. But if one company biases towards hiring women even if they're somewhat less skilled, then they are at a disadvantage to companies that don't do this. This is why things like hiring quotas and other forms of affirmative action exist.
Well said! I wish more people would think the same way.

I'm a long-time (10 years+), digital nomad. My younger daughter (currently 6) grew up mostly in Southeast Asia, but also in Europe and to a certain extent, all over the place (we have been traveling a lot (duh)).

It's interesting to observe that she has absolutely no concept of minority labels - for her, a Thai Muslim, a Balinese Hindu, an African-American classmate in Europe or an Arab (presumably Muslim) neighbor from Mauritania living in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, etc. are all just... people. Regardless of their sex, sexual orientation, religion, etc.

You could say 'she is a child, she will be spoiled over time' - I'm doing everything in my power to prevent the latter from happening, and don't agree with the former: she has the concept of sexes, skin colors, and differences in general (it's obvious from her questions that she does realize there ARE differences) - she just does not view them as differences in the sense we do (minority/majority, typical/weird, out-of-place, extreme, etc.).

To her, it just does not make sense to put people into boxes, tell them apart based on whatever criteria, etc.

!! HOWEVER !!

If she is met with the constant emphasis on how certain groups are different from the mainstream, she might develop the notion that there is a need for those boxes after all...

The irony of the situation is that the people that have the biggest power to steer her into this direction the most are coming from those minority groups!!!

It's way easier to shield her from the majority attacks (say, a Nazi remark from a white guy directed toward a black dude, or a guy saying shit like 'all Muslims are terrorists' etc.) by asserting 'never mind; they are assholes.'

However, if a member of a minority group is pouncing on the fact that he/she IS a member of a minority group and how everyone should realize this and do x/y/z then... how I am going to explain that to her in order to forego the creation of a minority label/box?
The GM EV1 electric car had inductive charging back in the 1990s, using a "paddle" charger.
> I am personally ok with and support having any large scale, long term project require multiple versions of the compiler to build.

Or even better, have every compiler support all versions of the language. It obviously requires some careful architecting to keep it maintainable, but that's better than every user of the compiler having to sort out versioning issues themselves.

Edit: I've re-read your comment, and I can't tell if we're in agreement or not :)
NYC MTA officials barely ride the subways they oversee
Indeed.

My physiotherapist's approach is to engage in a variety of horribly painful activities to get those muscles to unlock, and then teach you how to do the exercises that will help you stop it happening again.
The last example is a classic visitor pattern. The earlier ones (using structs of functions) are a variation on this that seems a bit closer to the spirit of pattern matching.
Unless you're not actually logging the actions but just listening for certain combinations like "ctrl+x" or even "x"
Was kind of hoping to see "Why the need for another shell" at the top of the page.
>I'm glad her experiences are such that she hasn't encountered these barriers, but other people have, and they need these words and spaces.

This is what I intended to post; thanks for sharing your experience. I'm a gay Indian male living in Canada. I have never experienced marginalization for being Indian, but at my previous engagement, I experienced quite a bit of harassment and discrimination for being queer. Until that point, I didn't think much of what female colleagues were going through but began to notice a slew of inappropriate remarks (most famously: "Are we sure he's not post-op? I thought only women get migraines." from the CEO) and discriminatory behaviours (boss 'rating' female colleagues with the general response of nervous laughter).

I think that you hit the nail on the head - many people have to either directly experience or observe these issues before they become legitimate. The author has been extremely fortunate.
Was kind of hoping to see "Why the need for yet another shell" at the very top of the page.
>Chrome has a built in spell checking service - which happens to send keystrokes up to Google. AFAIK it's enabled by default.

I just checked, it's off on my install of Chrome so likely it' not on by default. The regular spell check is purely local.
Are startups more likely to obtain H1-B visas than bigger companies?
Could someone explain why this is better than simple string substitution? Is regular string substitution much slower than this?
You'd get the same resolution because colour cameras interpolate (demosaicing). If you converted to grayscale you might get problems because each pixel has a different colour response with the bayer filter. You'd still need to do some intensity correction.

The performance of the Leica Monochrom is due to this - you don't get more pixels per sensor, but you get proper intensity values at each pixel. This corresponds to better effective spatial resolution in most cases. All they're doing is selling you an identical sensor and pretending it's something fancy and new...

When you buy industrial cameras, the colour and mono versions are identical, but one is filtered (they use the same detector). We use mono in industry often because image quality tends to be much better than colour, and you have a third of the bandwidth requirements (or you want to filter a specific waveband).
As you probably know, although the criteria are nearly identical, the standards are different, with the evidentiary standard higher for the EB1A green card category. So I would have an attorney evaluate the O-1 petition to see if it's strong enough to support an EB1A. Almost always, if the trajectory of your business or work is up, it's better to wait to build up a stronger EB1A case.
What are the major differences between the standards and the amount of time it takes to get O-1 vs EB-2 with NIW?

Would it make more sense to target O-1 or EB-2 with NIW for a non-PhD founder with US Masters degree who does not have published research papers but have created innovative products with buzzes in the news?
Very close? There's no way you're losing anywhere near 2kW (7% loss in a 30kW charger) to cables and connectors.
Convert your React codebase to TypeScript automatically
a recent example: a github conference on diversity, see here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/6f1a2d/cult...
Can you outline the big changes that have happened over the past year?

Has the H-1B cap lowered? If it still gets booked up within a week, what options do people have?

It sounds like the cap is pushing people to other categories like the O-1 and the EB-1 (if they can afford it).
Hi Peter!
I had a question about H1-B visas. I was approved for a H1-B in the April, 2014 lottery and received my I-797 approval notice. But I never activated it since I changed jobs to work for an international organization under the G-4 visa in September, 2014.
I'm now looking to go back onto the H1-B visa with a new employer.
Would I need to go back and ask my new employer to apply for my H1-B in the lottery again? Or would it be possible for my new employer to transfer my previously approved H1-B petition?

Also, if it is possible to transfer the old visa, is there any time limit on its validity before I'd need to go back and apply via the lottery again?

Thanks!
It is just as much an indictment of managerial input on UI, or anything really. "This is important, it should grab focus." The same basic mentality that gets all issues listed as priority 1.
Bit of Google searching, found what I was looking for: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13810889

Image/File hosting sites are much like you described.

1. All existing options suck because of feature bloat/ads/slowness/what have you

2. "I can run my own!"

3. Popularity explodes for being better (no ads, faster, etc.)

4. Bandwidth costs increase due to growth

5. Owner tries adding ads and other features (paid accounts, file size/bandwidth limits etc.) to help with bandwidth costs

6. This host shuts down or enters into the ring of "sucky existing options" barely keeping afloat

7. The cycle continues
I remember of a Blackjack game implemented in SuperCalc 3 using only circular referencing and IF() as "programming" loopholes
Pi to 1M places
This is also available as a VSCode plugin:

https://github.com/mohsen1/react-javascript-to-typescript-tr...
For some reason I assumed the title referred to a problem like the "Byzantine Generals", or "Dining Philosophers." This is much more interesting.
This also "worked" with Ms. Meyer who tolerated being groped, but not because she was "quite taken by it".

But I definitely see your point, though I'd argue that in this kind of position you should use different dating strategies if even at all.

These kind of power dynamics taken to an extreme are for me the biggest reason why incest has to be illegal.
Similar to a parent child relationship, you don't have any common ground for consent with your subordinate.
I was just at a wedding on the weekend and was chatting with a friend who had that happen two weeks ago. He spent 4 days in a US Border patrol jail near San Diego, sleeping beside MS-13 members.

He was forced to buy a last-minute-priced plane ticket back to Canada. His car is currently somewhere in an impound lot in San Diego. His possessions are in his apartment in the bay area. Until he resolves his H1B issues, he can't re-enter the country.

Edit: Makes for a hell of a story though. "How's it going?" "Oh, just got out of jail down in Mexico" "... what?"
It's as though the safe space that protects one person is the hostile environment which harasses another person. One's heaven is another's hell, to put it colloquially.
and/or making higher offers to developers outside that monoculture.
This is partly in place

> The directive imposes the responsibility for the disposal of waste electrical and electronic equipment on the manufacturers or distributors of such equipment.[3] It requires that those companies establish an infrastructure for collecting WEEE, in such a way that "Users of electrical and electronic equipment from private households should have the possibility of returning WEEE at least free of charge".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Electrical_and_Electroni...
Could you elaborate on these misconceptions about the standards for extraordinary ability for O-1 ?

I almost tried to get a O-1 but I was admitted in the H1B lottery.

The criteria are indeed very opaque and you can read very conflicting accounts on HN and elsewhere.
Yea, it clearly became a scam. I just mean the first ~thousand hours likely started with the best of intentions.

I think of it as the Theranos cycle where something seems possibly viable, but not 100% viable. However, with a closer look it's probably not going to work. But, at that point it's only the people doing the investigation that know this, thus making for a good investment scam. AKA getting other people to throw good money after bad let's you extract some value from a failure.
Hopefully it won't be different. All I want to say is: a startup here has to internationalize from the beginning, assume costs and expose itself to early competition.
But if you see the funding history of Spotify [1], they got quite a lot of foreign funds. In the end, for the business side it doesn't really matter where the money comes from ;)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotify#Funding
Wait. Wages have gone up? Where and source?
Their concerns are well-founded. It's hard to advise without knowing the particular facts but now, more than ever, it's advisable, if one has any concerns about admission, to consult with an attorney beforehand, even if just for a few minutes, because most problems at the border can be avoided with some planning.
Top performers will not let their accomplishments be belittled through association with a marginalized sub-group. Sub-group leaders, often not masters in their field, find opportunity in leading sub-groups. Everyone in between, that fits the sub-group demographics, quietly takes advantage of the new benefits from the sidelines. The only group that does not have political power is the treat 'everybody' decent group, which has insufficient incentive to push back.
This is incredibly cool! I wonder what the simplest possible non-mechanical modulator is. (LCD?)
Frank. Coincidentally, he was reflecting on having spoken up about the treatment of women (in a certain community).
EU law needs to be proposed by the Commission (though the Maastricht Treaty gives Parliament powers to request that the Commission should put forward proposals on their behalf), and then normally approved and/or amended by both Parliament and the Council, with drawn out conciliation procedures if one or the other changes the proposals too much.

The complexity stems from the legal status where the EU is in some respects a confederation of sovereign states, where the governments of the member states need to represent their respective nations, and in some respects a union of people. The gradual shift of power towards the Parliament represents attempts to shift it towards the latter, while the Commission and Council represents the treat realities where delegating more power to Parliament would require constitutional changes in a number of member states to cede the sovereignty (currently this is worked around by having the treaties bind the respective governments to take make the required decision - it's exploiting the wide latitude most governments have in exercising treating rights and obligations.
It would be more accurate to not call them customers but users.

There's a serious distinction, and the complaints explicitly are from business users claiming that they shouldn't be considered even potential customers.
Is it possible that Musk has solved the problem, much like he or his employees have solved countless other tech problems, but Musk also knows what makes a sexy headline. Spot welding is hard to sell as flashy and new. If you can't do it on mars, it might not make good headlines.
For health, it is not so obvious: see the scandal of epipen.
I'm not sure if you are making this comment seriously, or intending it as hyperbole.

If you are serious, it's important to note that at the time of its founding, US law forbade the creation of a national military, precisely because of the fear of too much centralized control of lethal force.

In the centuries since, we've seen that this fear was very well founded. The founders did not want to prevent the US from having a strong military, but they wanted the rallying and dispatch of it to require significantly more consensus than even a super-majority vote from congress.

Imagine if the Iraq war had required even a super-majority vote... millions of lives would not have been lost. Imagine if the Vietnam war had required a super-majority vote how many more people would be alive today.

Knee-jerk use of power is arguably as American as a six shooter drawn quickly from the holster at the slightest provocation. Many associate this sort of hot-tempered use of force with power and machismo.

But is it really an indication of strength to rob the people of trillions of dollars for a folly in Iraq without true democratic approval? I'd argue that it's a sign of weakness and of failed checks and balances.
> Plain HTML isn't so good if you want to include images in your document or have multiple pages.

Am I missing something? This is practically the only thing that vanilla HTML is good at?

It seems like you could get all the benefits of EPUB with an archive of HTML files.
It's worth reading some of the papers where they discuss performance at counting tasks among the Pirahã. IIRC there were some people who seemed understood there was a difference in the quantity but struggled to quantify or articulate it; and there were other people who didn't struggle to articulate it at all, they just didn't bother with it or think it important.

"Number as a cognitive technology: Evidence from Pirahã language and cognition"
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027708...
Does he need help getting his car and stuff back to Canada to prevent incurring excessive costs/penalties?
Frank, book 1, after a rant on women condition in muslim culture I believe
>> I'm glad her experiences are such that she hasn't encountered these barriers,

According to whom? Just because one doesn't address or mention the obstacles faced in their personal life doesn't necessarily mean that none were faced.

>> I've never seen men, as a group, encounter the obstacles I've seen many female peers discuss.

The solution is not to ignore the individual instances of these problems occurring within a group or across other groups that aren't necessarily by gender.
The Bond novels do explore Britain's role in the world but for the readers were also a tantalising glimpse into a post-austerity world following the rationing and privations of WWII. Bond visits places (e.g. Monte Carlo, Jamaica, etc) that seemed exotic at the time but would now be viewed as 'boring' by a gap year student. IMO, the Harry Palmer spy stories [1] (e.g. The Impress Files) better reflect the cynical end of empire feeling.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Palmer
I deeply understand this sentiment, especially the "what can/should I do?" aspect, but I think "watching from the sidelines" is a mistake. If we do nothing then the status quo will tend toward more segregation, not less.

Some simple things I do to try to make things better in my workplace:

With others:

* actually listen
* never interrupt
* make sure criticism is constructive
* in a shared codebase, use the lightest possible touch (avoid aesthetic refactoring)

With myself:

* acknowledge my own privileges/biases, and be aware of the fact that simply what I look like/how I speak etc. can affect other people
* be open to the possibility that my own opinions may not be immutable objective truths (this is hard)