skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I totally understand your point, but WhatRuns is not a broken extension. Google blessed us with more than 10k+ active users by featuring us on the Chrome Webstore front page :) and we have been improving the technology ever since.

However, there is a lot of manual labour involved in correcting detection inaccuracies, which our team is working full-time on. Rest assured WR will only improve from here on. Thank you for dropping by!
I'd think that they'd already have radar systems that can track every ship in a 50-mile radius.
I agree. Turns out being able to understand, evaluate and communicate about multiple perspectives on abstract concepts is a generally useful skill.
Yes we do have standard paper and envelope sizes in the US that are similar to Europe. What probably happened here is they printed the info in a dumb layout that was too close to the address field and/or whoever was running the folder-inserter machine did not move the tri-fold area to the right place. (Source: I used to sell these machines.)
Higher order functions maybe? Though python has them.
Spread operator can be done as unpacking a list.
Destructuring assignment can also be done.
Map is already there while reduce is in functools stdlib. So are all the other functional stuff. Async is in python 3.

Can't say what python lacked except being able use same language on front end and back end. Except if he still uses python 2 which hasn't any new features in years.
The same way as you would in every other type of education. If you know what you are doing, it is easy to see how close the student came to getting it right or if they were completely on the wrong track.
That's a complicated question and depends on USCIS's interpretation of its regulations but there is an argument that you would not be subject to the lottery and still have 1.5 years of H-1B time left.
Okay, fine. Lisp was the first programming language with them, and lisp-like programming languages are the only ones still in widespread use that has have had them from the beginning...as opposed to every other random language that eventually figures out that what lisp has is a good idea, and then has to back-patch it into their syntax. I don't get why, since Lisp just comes back again and again and again, people don't just give up and standardize on it, and smooth out the blemishes, strengthen the libraries, and all this language squabbling would just end.
Aren't there C interpreters still around?
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would love to get some feedback for the current beta version. Especially about usability, onboarding and the very new Data-Selector tool which allows tech savvy users to add support for currently not supported pages. The latter one gets currently just activated for HN beta users. Above all negative feedback would be very helpful as it will help me improve the most (as long as it is constructive). That could be generic things or reasons why you would currently not sign up.
Thanks!
As someone who is eligible for an Australian passport, I was going to get one on the understanding the E3 is superior as it would allow a spouse to come with and get a job. Is there a specific reason you're moving to a H1B?
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Private landlord.
Nice article, in the sense that I would assign it to students, although I think it presents sort of a strawman and doesn't really introduce anything that hasn't been discussed at length elsewhere.

It provides a nice introduction to types of objective priors, hinting at their advantages and disadvantages. Also a nice discussion of why priors matter. Incidentally, I agree that "subjective" and "objective" are poor labels for priors--something better would be something like "estimand-predictive" and "inferential-property" priors, respectively.

I'm not really sure why they suggest objective priors violate assumptions about not using information from the data. The model, and thus many objective priors, can be specified given the design, without any knowledge of what the data looks like. This is the strawman part of it.

I get the sense Gelman has been wrestling with objective priors the last few years.
Hypothetically if I had a friend who immigrated illegally and was born to no nation (no certificate), how can I as owner of a business (of any hypothetical size) help him? Is there a path to citizenship and what does that hypothetical path look like?
Hm, I’m not sure I buy this argument, as it relies on the entire procedure being in equilibrium at all times. For the same reason that the human body can operate at much higher efficiency than a steam locomotive (or even the "perfect" Carnot engine), it should be possible to devise a desalination process which is much more efficient than the thermodynamic optimum by relying on catalysts and other non-equilibrium effects.
I basically meant that (generally) everyone who has been talking about HL3 over the years is just referring to the next hypothetical installment.
They already have multiple systems that do proximity warning plus manned crews.

Lots of things beeping and going off just results in them been ignored, this had happened on flight decks and hospitals.

Semi-autonmous collision avoidance that's on by default however could be an interesting idea.

To err is human, to really fuck up requires a computer - as one of my professors used to say.
This looks great. I just stepped back into java for a one off project, after not touching it for about 15 years. I was surprised how antiquated it felt compared to modern C#. Glad to see Microsoft is not letting the language languish.
Just use GNURoot to install any linux onto any android device - it just runs alongside Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=champion.gnuro...
> Prosecutors John Borchert and Jennifer Kerkhoff argued that their request had to be somewhat broad because they have no idea who was associated with the rioting through the website until they review the data.

For people who think this is wrong, assuming you accept the premise that they should be investigating rioters, what alternative is there to find out who they are?
That's not correct but there are issues nonetheless in that the TN does not permit self-employment and further USCIS and CBP oftentimes will deny TN applications where the applicant is a founder or part-owner.
Swift extensions do not have the ability to add variables to the scope of the class they extend or into their own private scope. Perhaps because the compiler times would crash through the roof but I find it very limiting. I do use extensions in Swift but I prefer to factor out any code into it's own class once it needs to touch any kind of state.
I must agree. It may be that you and I lean more toward the theoretical side and want more of a "grounds up" material (a chapter about transforming regexes to state machines? seriously?) than a "here's what to do to get it done by next thursday" book.
Quite a few comments on this thread should be required reading for anyone seeking to understand some of the cultural "shortcomings" of the software industry generally and the software industry in Silicon Valley specifically. This idea that not having had an all-consuming for programming since childhood and not maintaining an active Github account for all your side projects means that we don't want your kind is toxic.
Hi Peter, is there a way to transfer F1 to J1 visa, so that me as a SO of the F1 holder can get J2 (as a spouse) to be able to work in the US? More specifically - that would be the only reason for my SO to switch the visa type, which IMHO is not sufficient.
No idea how payments work, but was it through credit card by any chance? Since you mentioned colections agency, but wanted to ask.
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The real child is the person who cultivates "sophisticated" preferences to try and elevate themselves above others. A child that is genuine is ironically being far more emotionally mature.
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Hi Peter, thanks for sharing info on what I feel is quite an unknown subject to an outsider. I have a general question for you:

As a skilled software developer with a relevant UK university degree (3 years BSC) and work place experience, interested in working in the US - What is the ballpark range of costs and wait time involved in getting a visa to allow me to work for a US company.

What's the general procedure, - get offer from job, then -talk to immigration lawyer, or the other way around?

Thanks!
This is not something I'd recommend. Any lapse in payment will be used to suspend your policy in the future in the event you get flagged as a high-expense patient, backdated to the period you didn't pay your premiums on time.

Pay on time, keep documentation you paid on time. Hell, turn on autopay and keep documentation on -that-.

Don't ever think you can hold your premiums hostage. You'll only be screwing yourself.

Edit: if you're referring to clinic bills, be sure you're in active communication with the practice manager so you don't get sent to collections. If it's a hospital, you'll be sent to collections anyway - they automate that process, once you're sufficiently late.
I agree with you. Elixir can help in the web side of things but tasks/non-web in Elixir don't help. I really like Go's offering, but it gives me 4x the pain in developing a solution that ruby does (eg: parsing anything, etc). I would love to simply use a compiled, optimized ruby (like Crystal)
Around ~2000 it became common knowledge to download the latest driver from the net instead of using the supplied one on the CD for hardware you just bought.

That is the assumption of broken hardware to be shipped 17 years avant la lettre?
Compile Once Debug Twice: Picking a Compiler for Debuggability
Oracle basically destroyed every cool technology they inherited.
I for one am grateful for this comment, I program rarely enough in C/c++ that I wouldn't have assumed signed overflow was undefined. As the example below with "int a; a+5>a" illustrates, that's potentially pretty serious.

I wonder if the "best" fix here, would be to use assembler intrinsics to maintain performance, possibly with a fallback to a type cast/promotion to a bigger int for the sum, and some form of defined behaviour for overflow on the python side? (reinventing the python number tower with full automatic promotion seems counter-productive here, as presumably the idea is to work with fast/simple/native (signed) integer math...)

Or just redefine the function to use unsigned ints.
I wish it were so simple to remove economics from things. Unfortunately, the problem isn't the need (the demand), its the supply. We don't just have unlimited clean drinking water, and as soon as there is a constrained supply, we have to consider how we can divvy it up to meet demand.

Usually that means increasing price, but the what the commenter above was saying is that often we're making it artificially cheaper. Often by either subsidizing things w/ our taxes (hiding the cost), or by not adequately funding the collection, which will eventually cause failure or exhaustion of the supply.
I can't speak to any agreements or conditions of use, but technically you need only a supported Google phone to activate the SIM card and tie it to a Google account. Afterwards, the card works in any phone.
Apple will build new data center in Iowa, get $200M in tax breaks
I would need to review the court and police records to see if a waiver is required but based on what you are stating, even if a waiver were required, you would get one (although it's a 6+-month process to get a waiver).
I started programming in JS then moved to Python. It seems like JS has become very, very complicated. I look at his post and I am lost... I remember Knockout.js and Node in the v0.8 days.

I mean look at this:

dotenv (lets you load the environment from an .env file), axios
(HTTP client library), cheerio (HTML parsing library), bcrypt
(password hashing), co-body (HTTP body parser), co-busboy (HTTP
multipart parser), jsonwebtoken (JWT generator), koa-jwt (JWT
middleware), koa-router, koa-sslify, vue-no-ssr and source-map.

What the hell is all that? I am not saying he is wrong... I am just saying that I don't have the capacity to play in that playground. I am also asking if any of those libraries will be around in a year?
"The Blood Boys"

Best punk band name EVER.
Can a startup hire only H1B holders and no american citizens at all?
How Coursera added GraphQL to a REST and microservices back end
An E-3 isn't dual intent, there's no path to a GC unless you switch.
Possible neutron star collision detected by LIGO/VIRGO
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What is the point of this article?

They've claimed that the person in the article is going back home because he received no teaching offers. That's standard practice for foreign individuals on a visa in the US. You have to be doing something to stay here. We're not going to let you live here just because you felt like you wanted to.

---

Other than the politicking going on in the article: "OMG TRUMP IS SO BAD AMIRITE?!" (Paris accord disagreement, etc) What I think up for debate is:

Should foreign contribution in the economy on a national level be considered fair and healthy for our economy?

My concern is due to depressed wages competing on non-equal levels causes more long term harm to the consumer and the businesses involved.
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Because if a surprise war was launched the first salvo would take out more of your ships.

Broadcasting your position in peacetime sounds good until it's not peacetime.

Of course the question is then - is any nation-state suicidal enough to launch a large scale pre-emptive strike on the US Navy.. Terrorists of course are another matter.
It will only auto-complete methods that are in scope (the alternative would be a bit crazy) however Visual Studio is smart: if you type in a method you know exists you can press CTRL-. to get it to add the correct using statement to bring that extension method into scope.
Passion has become a synonym for being in love with a career. As you said: "love of job".
Mixing a complex sentiment like love with coding is frankly ridiculous and I would argue undesirable.

Instead we should precise terms like drive, interest in technology, motivation to learn, etc. These make sense and don't bring any emotional baggage with them.
Hi, We are a Canadain Startup, but we also have a US corporation as well as we have as we have employees and warehouses in US.

Our System and Network Mamager is Canadian PR but I will like for him to work in US for time to time. He is a Russian Citizen. What kind of VISA we can apply for him to be to work in US?
The systemic sexism and racism on display every day in this country also exist within the confines of science. Scientists are not as objective as they think they are. It is an extremely destabilizing realization for someone whose entire career has been rooted in the belief in human objectivity.
Watch out for fake messages rigged with malware. Facebook Messenger user?
This is terrifying; am I reading it correctly that the government is, on behalf of the President, going after people who have opposed him and is starting a register maybe of those persons who hurt the feelings of the glorious leader? I wonder how far down the rabbit hole we are going :-(
>would those couples have engaged each other in meaningful conversation (meaningful to them) had cellphones not existed?

certainly some would

>Or does the presence of cellphones reveal that a large number of people were never particularly interested in engaging meaningfully with others but would only feign interest when the alibi of the cellphone isn't available?

I think that people are addicted or at least oblivious at how attached to their phones they are. And they see plenty of other people engaging in the same behavior, which makes it a social norm and validates that behavior. Everyone does it, so it's OK.

Although I can't help but chuckle, because the same sorts of people who wanted to look down on me back in the day for spending hours in front of a computer, building a website, learning how to program, or playing games, are glued to their phones nearly every second they can manage to find. When it came time to practice the sort of etiquette that they preached, they failed miserably.
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and a hell lot of luck because H1B is a lottery system now (which was previously a skill based system)
With all the anti-immigration fervor coming from certain quarters these days, do you recommend getting an attorney for filing I-751's? Uncomplicated situation. I'm a US citizen, wife is from an uncontroversial sub-saharan African nation.
Hi Peter, thanks for doing this!

As a Brit with 10 years experience as a developer but no degree, do I have any hope at all of being able to come and work in the USA?
I would probably talk with an immigration attorney first to understand what is even possible because sometimes, unfortunately, there are no good immigration options.
When you request the records of 1.3 million people in an effort to find the identities of about 200, that feels ridiculously broad. I'm not sure what they're hoping to find, but it seems like security camera footage would be much more useful than this action, which seems to look more like cracking down on political dissent.
Thanks! Would love to get some feedback if it solves your problem and if not what needs improvement.
I'm also on an L1B visa, to my knowledge there's no such flexibility, to the point that you'd have to move back to your country or have a new company file a brand new H1B application if you wanted to move, I don't know how frequently this is done.
An L1B visa is actually very restrictive as I understand it, any insight Peter had would certainly be interesting.
Kialo looks really interesting.

https://www.kialo.com
When people say "conventional" sorting algorithms, they're usually talking about sorting algorithms based around pairwise comparison functions.

I note on slide 14 of this presentation, it looks like this is sort of the discriminator for selecting a better partitioning scheme. So it looks to me like this actually leverages a similar principle?

As we've seen in this thread and others, there are some other ways to measure and/or process that have different characteristics. Surely all of these deserve attention! So, thanks very much for sharing this.
While I'm certain it's a very respectable school, "Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx" sounds like the place a sitcom character pretending to be a doctor would invent as their alma mater.
Warning: metformin works by interfering with the mechanism cells use to, well, essentially request food. Whilst yes, chronically working on too little energy has been proven to extend lifespans, you will not like the side effects.

For one it makes you stupid. Obviously it interferes with everything requiring effort, from running to sex.

There are cell types in your body that will, when faced with an energy shortage simply consume themselves. Usually, this means trading a sudden death for permanent damage, for example heart muscle cells. This means that when faced with an energy shortage they will kill themselves. An overdose of Metformin can cause this to occur on a large scale and when that happens, your life is somewhere between over and very short.

Do not take any medication without being aware of the side effects and getting advice from a doctor (and let me spoil the surprise: your doctor will advise against both metformin and calorie restriction. He will be happy to prescribe you a placebo. You would be surprised how calming taking one can be)

There are other treatments that extend life, like taking aspirin daily, and other metabolism blockers, anti inflammatories and blood thinners. All come at a serious cost (DO NOT take aspirin daily unless you're happy to bleed to death with any major injury) which makes a lot of sense if you think about it.
why does the site seem like a place to investigate a riot? were there posters saying "I'm leaving now to go riot"?

If there is nothing specific, then why is this allowable at all?

And if there is something specific, then why can't they request those specific messages?
What rioters?

This is like saying a house got broken into in Los Angeles so let's pull the world's Facebook history to get to the bottom of it.
Ask HN: What's with all the commas?
I don't understand why commas show up in data specifications so often. For example: why [a, b, c] rather than just [a b c]? (Lisp has never used commas as data element separators, and has never missed them. (More precisely, it only uses them in a specialized context called a backquote, but doesn't use them on a daily basis to separate array elements.))
Running on solar, perhaps? Free computation when the sun shines!
Why not just let everyone set their own prices and have reputations?

That leads to the right incentive structure!

TaskRabbit and Upwork has that I think.
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Yeah I used to remember it being slang for chatting in the BBS (multinode e.g. Wildcat) days because of the loud "chunk" (or clunk) sound of keyboards in the 90s.
He might have multiple options (depending on his employment history with you all and his overall background) but an L-1, O-1, and H-1B might all be options.
I found Black Mesa to be crappy, to be honest. I don't know how anyone could imply that they were on Valve's level there, except in terms of leveraging much newer engine technology. I played the first public version and maybe it has improved...
This doesn't seem to work for all sites, for example my site https://charlieegan3.com doesn't work: https://www.whatruns.com/website/charlieegan3.com
This reminded me of an article I read years ago in Spy magazine. It was a collection of cliches from court reporting, lots of different cases where the defendant was described as "emotionless as the guilty verdict was read out".

After about 20 examples of famously (to different degrees) guilty criminals it followed up with another 10 or so where the defendant was later cleared of the crime when new evidence came out, but still they sat "emotionless" as they were found guilty of a crime they didn't commit.
In the video, Torgersen says the nullability feature was inspired by TypeScript. Torgersen says he consulted TypeScript creator Anders Heijlsberg to build the nullable reference feature.

As a heavy TypeScript user myself, it was easy to see the parallels between the designs: question mark nullability, the compiler-enforced nullability checks rather than runtime-enforced, "dammit operator" to override the compiler. All shared between TypeScript and C#.

I love this feature in TypeScript; it's help me find numerous bugs and helps me reason about my code. I'm looking forward to using it in C#.
The academic brain drain starts in middle school. Why are we pushing US kids into bankruptcy and importing brains who come with dollars?
So far they have improved Java much more than Sun ever cared to do on its last years.
Hi Peter,
I'm working in the US for a big tech company with an H1B1 visa (something like a lightweight version of the H1B, but exclusive for people of Chile and Singapore). My wife is a US citizen.
I want to apply for a Green Card, but I'm not sure what's the path that I should follow. Is it more likely to get it through my marriage or through my employer? Is there any otherrelevant reason why should I choose one over the other?