skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So, essentially, JavaScript, JScript, and ECMAScript are three names for the same language.

This is a little wrong/misleading.

ECMAScript is the specification; JavaScript, JScript, and ActionScript, are various implementations of the specification. Each implementation provides additional features not described in ECMA specs, such as access to ActiveX and the local computer in JScript.
No people is the reason people tend to stay in cities.

Some folks like being around others, and having more immediate things to do. This in turn attracts others.

If anything, some prefer the stress of city life for the very real benefits of being in the thick of things.
> But when they go remote, aren't you competing with them?

Not really. There aren't many companies who are considering both American and Indian remote developers for the same positions.

Well paying remote jobs tend to have time zone constraints, and require better English communication skills than the average Indian developer has (there definitely are Indian developers with excellent communications skills, but they aren't average).

People think that because they are out of the office that politics doesn't affect them and they don't need soft skills. But communicating effectively is even more important in remote work because of the inherently lower communications bandwidth.
I call B.S. --

Below the fold arguments only make sense when you can't grasp the purpose of the page without scrolling.

You're not supposed to cram every piece of information you can above the fold. The information that is getting cut off in this case is hardly pertinent to the understanding or navigation of the site.
Global warming and nuclear disaster
>I'm not sure why a foreign startup founder [...] want to temporarily immigrate to the US?

To make sure I'm not misinterpreting that, you're saying startup founders would rather run their startup company remotely thousands of miles away? E.g. the foreign startup founder stays in France which is 6+ time zones away while his company and employees are working in the USA? To be clear, we're not talking about the mother ship of a mature company opening a branch office in another country but instead, an infant startup company with maybe the founder and 1 or 2 other people. Even if the majority of startup founders wanted that arrangement, what VCs would invest in that type of working structure?

>Nothing is stopping them from operating in the US and there are existing visas for business owners operating in the US they can use that don't have all of the related hoops.

If you look at the other USA visa options[1], they are not exactly redundant with the proposed startup visa. (E.g. EB5 requires higher amount of $1 million from the immigrant which basically means the immigrant is already wealthy instead of starving entrepreneur with no money.
The other visas are based on talent/skill such as advanced hard-to-find PhD or require employers to sponsor. The immigrant is his own employer.)

[1] http://fundersandfounders.com/coming-to-america-for-entrepre...
I feel like if you are at the top of your game, and can make it at any of the major tech companies or can start your own startup without trouble at finding funding, the U.S. is way better. Most of my friends, including myself, earned 1.5-3x what we'd earn even in a major city as Toronto.

And if you happen to join a great tech company, chances are the health insurance you'll get is superior to the general public healthcare system in Canada.
Relocate to a tech hub (Dublin in my case) and find a job where working remotely is possible, but be on the site for a few months to prove yourself that you are effective when remote. Start full time on site and gradually move to be remote.
HammerFS in Dragon Fly BSD automatically maintains versions, though it is still not mature, and it is starting to look like it will never reach maturity.
Yeah... no news about fox... sad but true.
I don't think they necessarily want to, but I think it's often needed for reasons mostly tangential from pensions. But if you accept that multiple jobs/careers are a reality, then pensions plans, as traditionally constructed, don't do much for workers.
>the main theme of the article which is trying to make out that if we just got rid of these companies

That's the second time you've said that. What article are you reading?

The one I'm reading from this thread says:
“Our purpose is not to name and shame firms, our purpose is to provide transparency and call attention to the quite extraordinary fact that just 100 companies played a crucial role in the problem,” said Pedro Faria, technical director of the Carbon Majors Database, which collected the information for the report. “It’s obvious they have a share of responsibility in the solution.”

I think that last sentence is key. These 100 companies are profiting off of creating the majority of the problem, some even maliciously. Does levying responsibility upon these companies necessitate their destruction?
SAFEs are not bad for entrepreneurs
It would be specific to the OS, as long as we stuck to X11. But with the move to Wayland, there will be pr-compositor reimplementations...
> Do any such laptops actually exist?

Older ThinkPad laptops had physical switch for microphone.
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> One of your "problems", the length of an array with a single string element, isn't a problem.

You're misunderstand the code, it's using the spread operator on a string:

[...'word'] => ["w", "o", "r", "d"]

What is being demonstrated is that under the hood, javascript stores astral plane codepoints as surrogate pairs and strings operate on 'characters' which is why '\u{1F4A9}'.length => 2. But, when the spread operator is applied to a string, it breaks up the string into codepoints, not characters. This is also why [...'man\u0303ana'].length => 7, the combining tilde is a separate codepoint.

This is an example of how wonky string processing in JS is,
[...string].length is actually the most straightforward way to get a count of codepoints in a string.
The implication is that a key demographic of the elite is enlarging their preexisting wealth. There's something feudal about a traditional noble class entrenching its power, no?
Accelerated math could have been a solution -- I know that when I was bored in math I did worse, and when the problems got more interesting I did better. Now I have a math PhD, even though I got so bored in one class earlier on that I had to drop it in order to avoid failing.

There are a lot of social factors in US schools, too. I notice a lot of young women doing poorly in algebra and precalc even though they're perfectly capable if you sit down with them and ask them to simply write down the steps of solving the problem. The social benefits of being "bad at math" can be seductive in the short terms and the long-term benefits of being good at math are entirely invisible to many young women. Guys at least see some male nerds on TV making good money; girls who want to be like nerdy tv stars know that they have to go into forensics and don't know that math is very handy for figuring out the rate of cooling of bodies and decay of tissue.
I don't think we can ever get away from this nowadays. Did you see the latest comment of that article that's basically "No, its the Jews!"? I'm getting the suspicion that we have reached a stage where people start pushing beliefs they don't actually have but use them to defend themselves from the opposite extreme. Otherwise, the message gets coopted in their favor.
There is a Recipes flatpak as well. So in principle (or perhaps by principle), you can run it in other distributions as well.

http://flatpak.org/apps.html
My assumption based on nothing in particular is that one (of unlit/lighted) means 'Lights contained within the X illuminating it from within' and the other means 'Lights external to the X illuminating it from without'
I am so relieved I am not the only one who gets confused by Intel's naming/numbering scheme.
If the headline ends in a question mark the article is probably speculative
Hmm so you don't want Corporations to decide who is allowed or not allowed in the US but you want them to decide who can have a Healthcare or not so they can live or die?
Fractional pensions are a thing, the minimum can be a low as 3 years.
You need to NOT be competing on price, add some other differential (in my case I tried competing on very good English and being on the same time zone as most of the U.S.).

Competing on price or selling yourself to the lowest bidder is a losing proposition.

That said, most of the best Indian devs aren't making that money remotely, they're making a lot more (or at least, I've seen them getting paid a lot more).

I got contacted and worked remotely through Hacker News and, although it didn't pan out (I wasn't a good fit) it was a great experience and I met really good people from around the world.
> Can you elaborate specifically on the rules of the USA startup visa that didn't make sense?

As someone pointed out a couple weeks ago [1]:

> From the article:

> "To qualify for the rule, entrepreneurs would have to meet high standards. A foreigner must demonstrate that he or she will contribute to economic growth or job creation and show that a reputable investor has put at least $250,000 into the company. Under this rule, they can stay in the U.S. for 30 months, with the possibility of a 30-month extension. They cannot apply for a green card during this period."

> This sounds like a pretty lame visa. How are you supposed to build a startup if you only have 30 months to do so? Why would investors risk $250k if the founder may be deported in 30 months? What happens after the extension period?

So from your link, that startup rule got wrong the 'Defining Success: Criteria for Permanent Residence' which states:

> Conditional entrepreneur visas can typically be renewed or converted to permanent residence after two to four years if the immigrant creates a successful business. (An exception is the Australian Venture Capital Entrepreneur program, which provides immediate permanent residence.)

But here the rule is simply: 'They cannot apply for a green card during this period.'. So even if your startup is successful, you're kicked out after 2.5 or 5 years.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14606478
This is one of the most important social networks that exists today and nations all over the world should copy & paste this idea.

It is incredible to see how underdeveloped social networks are especially in the US.

It starts by reconquering the words of the language we speak.
The one that doesn't like modifying function arguments?
True, but on the other hand, if 5 people found a company, and one of them is an immigrant or the child of an immigrant, that counts as an immigrant founded company, even if the company would have been founded without that one person.
I presume you get affiliate revenue too. Does that cover your hosting fees? Your site is hard disk drives redux, could you apply the same recipe for a comparison site to anything else with a numeric bang per buck quantifier, to then profit?

I suspect there are few such categories but you could put together an interesting store that way if the affiliate marketing paid its way.
Application health and error reporting with Bugsnag API v2
There's more problems with Ruby than just speed (but it is objectively slow). Most of them caused by Rails to be honest. But who's realistically writing webapps using Ruby without Rails?

There are much better alternatives today that build upon the strengths of Ruby and leaves behind it's weaknesses. As processors become more about multi-processing, languages that leverage that are going to gain popularity.
Can you share some more recommendations or advice on how one can increase neuroplasticity/neurogenesis?

Aside from the diet/exercise/socialization/meditation, what should people be aware of?

Are there some effective supplements/nootropics, or some promising research to look into?
I used to co-work out of the same office as One Codex, and these folks are the real deal: Thinking through hard, novel problems on the whiteboard, programming on their own as well as in pairs, all while maintaining a super collegial atmosphere. As someone who was a fly on the wall during some of their earlier days, I can't recommend them highly enough!
No you just get a night flying and color signals proscription on your certificate if you're a monochromat or dichromat (full color blindness); if you merely have a color discrimination problem by being an anomalous trichromat, you might pass the test, or fail it but then get an exemption (reversal of the prior failure) by later passing a more involve series of tests.
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I disagree. Doing that legitimizes this president and their actions, which is something that plain should not be happening.

Not to mention that it was clear from the start that Trump was never going to listen to them anyway. Just about everyone on that board said no to the Muslim ban. He did it anyway.
Answers will vary. But there exist one true test of the provider's ability to stick with you through thick and thin: it's the Turing test!

See, providers have regressed (economy of scale and all) to the degree where their responses to inquiries/emails/requests are indiscernible from early wannabe AI chatbot implementations.

Take the time to email/call your potential provider and ask questions regarding the service. Do the responses pass the smell test? Is sales completely clueless and unable to answer questions about simple technical matters (red flag)? Can support carry out requests that aren't scripted?

Trust your instinct and common sense.
This is a very nice and comprehensive overview:

ES6 (very comprehensive!)
http://es6-features.org/#Constants

ES7 (succint, easy to read)
https://h3manth.com/new/blog/2015/es7-features/
> there is no legal (or historical) basis for the idea that maximizing shareholder value is the primary concern of a corporation

Please folks, stop posting comments if you don't have the slightest concept of how businesses work.

OK, let me demonstrate how flawed this is by using a hypothetical scenario.

A friend of yours has an idea for a business. She goes to you and two other friends. She needs $300K to launch the business. All three of you are really bold and give her $100K each. In your case you sell your your home to come up with the money. You end-up bunking with one of the other investor/friends because, while you have some money left over, you don't have a place to live.

You are a shareholder.

Ten years later the business has gone nowhere. You don't have your money back and your investor friend just got married and you have to figure out where you are going to leave because he wants you out of the house.

And then you read a comment on HN about there being no basis for a corporation maximizing shareholder value.
What kind of education is required from teachers in US? In Poland it is Bachelor's degree in relevant topic (for elementary and middle school) or Master's degree (for high schools) plus a course in pedagogy. Most teachers however get Master's degree even if not required (they get salary increase for that). It is hard for me to imagine math teacher not good in match themselves.
Doctors who specialise in pain management or painful surgery regularly prescribe a large number of pain killers, news at 11!
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I could use alpha - a as in add.

I could use sigma - s as in subtract.

I could use iota - I as in integrate.

Of course it's arbitrary.
I mean, I do that. I build stuff (programs) in my off-time to solve problems I have. Eg, home automation, storage solutions, lots of cli utilities, etc.

As strange as it sounds though, I think this has been making me more... dumb. Sure, I'm improving a subset of skills, especially computer science related with some of the more challenging projects, but I don't feel more intelligent. I forget things constantly, and frankly my knowledge of the world seems to just.. fade. I'm becoming so hyper focused that it's hurting me.

That's why I mentioned spaced repetition. Not only do I want to improve my general brain functions, but I especially want to improve my recall of specific things. So I'm using a distributed database of mine as a way to keep a life journal. Anything I forget, I want to add to this knowledge journal, and try to ensure that I keep things in my mind.
Nit: number formatting - is there such a thing as a fractional prescription, why is there a "NNN.0" highlighted everywhere, and are you also able to add in the commas which will make it clearer the magnitude when scanning?
Async/await has been implemented in node.js for a long time, in fact I consider that not using it at the server side is almost criminal...
The lowering costs of 8tb HDD's combined with it being Amazon Prime day, means you can get one of these bad boys for only $150. I just ordered 2.

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-ST...
Understanding good idioms in Java, instead of learning from scattered pieces of folk knowledge:

* http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/effectivejava-136174....

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1vQf4qyMXg (a talk by the author)

Corner cases in the Java programming language:

* http://www.javapuzzlers.com/

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbp-3BJWsU8 (a talk by the author)
Fuchsia's distributed storage system that is transparently synchronized
I turn a small profit on the affiliate revenue, yes.
The same approach could be used with any liquids, and possibly gasses too. As a proof of concept, this is incredible. I can imagine a ton of applications too. Scanning fossils is the first that comes to mind. I'm sure there could be plenty of applications in forensics too.
Amazon is pretty strong on this front too, the most recent public example is the S3 outage and postmortem[1].

>Unfortunately, one of the inputs to the command was entered incorrectly and a larger set of servers was removed than intended.... We have modified this tool to remove capacity more slowly and added safeguards to prevent capacity from being removed when it will take any subsystem below its minimum required capacity level. This will prevent an incorrect input from triggering a similar event in the future.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/
The End of the Internet Startup
How does it determine shape when measuring volume displacement? is it only measuring the displacement of the top surface-tension-layer of water as if it were a slice?
It's actually a pretty accurate use of the term. Immigrants end up taking less money and putting up with very bad workplace situations because many of them end up forced to work for a particular employer or return (at great expense) to their home country. I don't think that's rhetoric. The work permit system in Canada is much less problematic.
After years of using CircleCI 1.0 (loved that they let me install custom packages) for pre-Docker apps, I found 2.0 required a ton of scripting to test and deploy. Moved back over to Codeship - love the workflow. Setup used our docker-compose.yml, and testing/deploy config using a simple yml file worked great. Love the command line tool that lets us encrypt ENV files, as well as run and deubg the build locally.
In my many adventures testing out all the Plasma based distro's, OpenSUSE was the most stable and polished version of Plasma available right now.
Paying attention requires work, we need to purposefully use tools that are also distractions.
How to GraphQL – A Fullstack Tutorial for GraphQL
What I wish ECMAScript had was true support for number types other than the default 32-bit float. I can use 32 and 64 bit integers using "asm.js", but this introduces other complications of its own -- basically, having to program in a much lower level language.

It would be nice if EcmaScript could give us a middle ground -- ability to use 32/64 bit integers without having to go all the way down to asm.js or wasm.
instructors are also better off without computers in the classroom. lecture has been reduced to staring at a projector while each and every students eyes roll to the back of their skull
Astonishingly, nearly every member on this list rates at between 10K and 20K claims a piece, multiplied by nearly 9,000 individual prescribing doctors.

So, a large city, and within that city, nine thousand sold-out stadiums, where attendants hold tickets to the prescription opioid show, and at least one doctor from this list is on stage.

Unfortunately, we don't have volume per claim, which is probably sensitive and confidential patient information on some level.

EDIT: HN's patented "*hug of death*" is killing this site already...
More Money Than God - very inspirational and a glimpse into some of the best minds on the planet...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_Money_Than_God
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No, sorry, it was sort of a rhetorical question. You said a little earlier that you don't consider cancelling this rule to be a blow since it might have been harmful, and I thought this was an analogous situation. The government is stopping consensual acts between investors and entrepreneurs.
I would have worded this a bit different than you did.

But I too have shyed away from fedora the last few years.

I'm primarily a KDE user but I guess now is a good time to try fedora again if I get some time. (On my test vm now: latest Ubuntu with gnome. Also hoping to give solus/budgie a little more time.)
Wow consider the following word salad:

"The Intel® Xeon® Scalable platform provides the foundation for a powerful data center platform that creates an evolutionary leap in agility and scalability.3 Disruptive by design, this innovative processor sets a new level of platform convergence and capabilities across compute, storage, memory, network, and security. Enterprises and cloud and communications service providers can now drive forward their most ambitious digital initiatives with a feature-rich, highly versatile platform."

I think that's running at 16MBWS (mega-buzz-words-per-second)

First we had Microsoft talking about a full up ARM version of Windows 10. We've had the number one compute platform people using being their phone for a while now so ARM is winning there.

Second we had the interesting rush of new i9 chips when AMD announced Ryzen and its family of enthusiast CPUS.

Then we had Intel pulling back from their attempts to extend into the emerging IoT market, and discontinuing their entry level 'appliance' Atom line.

And now we've got a nearly incomprehensible mishmash of stakes being thrown down everywhere in the data center to describe data centerness?

From where I am reading I see a company that is in full on existential panic.