skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One theory: Instagram and Facebook have hacked iOS to bypass the built-in bright red flashing 'recording' status bar and are recording your conversations constantly for their own benefit.

Another theory: At some point you looked at a web page that mentioned projectors, or you happen to be in a demo that frequently buys projectors, so you saw an ad for projectors.

I know which theory I'd buy. These conspiracy theories pop up constantly, they're quite tiring.
Nowadays ships cross the Atlantic in less than a week.
Doesn't seem to handle my simple little kid quotes project. Just spins, and spins with no result. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://kidisms.com/
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Maybe the cousin did some web research on micro projectors, and the ad was served to those he/she was with?

Some experiments discussing obscure products should help determine.
1) know who to appeal to outside the company. This is the nuclear option. It's usually listed in fine print on every paper denial.

2) "My (partner) works in insurance. He does shit like this for a living. Please don't make me have to (goto 1)".

3) Feel free to cite the law where relevant, on paper, certified mail. The response is invariably "this is wrong, you misunderstand the law, but we will make an exception and (follow the fucking law this once.)"

I was in health insurance, management level, before I went into medicine.
"With Plimpton 322 we see a simpler, more accurate trigonometry that has clear advantages over our own."

I wonder if there's anywhere one could learn this simpler, more accurate trigonometry.
Thank you for doing this Peter! How does the H1B transfer work when switching jobs? How do I make sure that I can stay in the country while switching jobs and I don't have to wait 3 months to get an approval.

Thanks
My understanding is that StackShare doesn't detect the technologies that are used but simply displays information that has been manually recorded.

Edit: Looks like I'm probably wrong since I see they have a tool named "Stack Scanner"
I think an assumption should be made for every single app on your phone: It will read, listen, take, and record everything.
The last time I had insurance in the states (before moving away) was with Blue Cross.

I didn't personally have any problems, and generally zero problems with mental health car (my ex needed it). I don't know if it makes a difference, but my employer (a major pharmacy chain) merely hired them to administer their health plans and funded it through the company. When they dealt with me, they weren't really using their funds.
Note that binaries >64 bytes are indeed stored in shared memory and reference counted. (Including utf8 strings (as opposed to charlists), which are binaries in erlang). See http://erlang.org/doc/efficiency_guide/binaryhandling.html#r... for more info
yes I have, and continue do so.
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Hi Peter!, first off, just wanted to say thanks for all the help you provide here! Its nothing short of amazing!

I'm currently on an H1B, but I'd like to set up an ecommerce store with a friend. I understand that itself may not have enough grounds to get an O1 visa. Is there any other workaround for this scenario?
This is maybe the third time I've seen an article with the same anecdotal proof. If you have any real proof, show us, if you don't be clear and don't use a bullshit clickbait title.

For those that want to spend some time trying to figure it out - take a look at MITMproxy, find proof that they are spying and show us.
According to the press of the time, Jews and Italians also had a pretty infamous "track record". Just the other day was the anniversary of the Sacco and Vanzetti affair...

Also, I'm sure Alan Kurdi had a terrible, terrible "track record".
If NAFTA talks break down and the treaty is cancelled, what could happen to Canadian workers on TN visas?
Thank you for the detailed reply. It's been years since my compilers class. I gather no one still uses lex and yacc either? To give you an idea how out of date I am in this area, when I took my compilers class we used http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/modern/java/CUP/manual.ht... for much of the course work. And I've had surprisngly little need during my career for this subject area.
Trump-Hating South Americans Hacked HBO
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This is one area where progress over the last few decades definitely haven't improved things. Just having a clear memory map available for a machine is something that seems to be a lost art, much less complete register descriptions...
Another possible explanation is that someone else in that conversation performed a search that Facebook could see. Facebook also knows where you are, and perhaps pushed ads to everyone within X meters of that search.

Creepy, but not "listening to every word you speak" creepy.
Just about all programs have bugs. There's a huge difference trying to defend against any possibility of undefined behaviour happening, because it may result in very bad unpredictable things happening to your computer, and defending against bugs that may result in the error getting signaled in a well defined way.

This is the fundamental difference that makes C/C++ unsafe programming languages.

(Yeah, this specific case of the exported add funciton is unlikely to be too apocalyptic, but the general guarantees are important).
It is not completely different. Both Erlang and Rust emphasize safety at the top of their feature lists. That is contrast with most other languages / platforms.
In our state, they are pure awful.
Potential Half-Life 3 plot posted by retired series writer Marc Laidlaw
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Apparently "rational trigonometry" is related? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_trigonometry
Yes that's a valid point, manually writing bindings for C++ is very hard though (IMHO), as there are many intricacies that you have to keep in mind, and SWIG is really good at automating all of these away. For C-code the story is a bit different because usually the code is much less complex.
Competing across state lines means all insurance will be regulated by the state with rules that most favor the insurer, it isn't all that likely to be good for consumers.

The banking renaissance in South Dakota is a result of a similar situation.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/07/how-cit...
This has been my go-to for sailing conditions for a while. I used other sites before it (Predict Wind, Surf Watch), but Windy is fast and responsive and usable on a phone. The data for sites like these all ultimately come from the same sources (the big weather models) so the differentiators in this space are mostly in the user experience.
A bit off topic, but what skills should front-end web developers be working on right now?
My point is I typically judge governments by their ability to create a place where people would like to live and I have to say Syria is pretty low on most peoples lists.
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makes me wonder how much they're really paying attention if they can be hit by a 30,000 ton tanker without anyone so much as sounding an alarm.

If that tanker were loaded with explosives and had malicious intent, we'd be missing a lot more than 10 sailors.

edit: changed 12,000 ton to 30,000 ton. It was carrying 12,000 tons of fuel oil but is a 30,000 GT vessel.
Hi Peter, thanks a lot for doing this. My question is: assuming no processing wait for my nationality how long and how much $$ will it take to get an EB3 greencard sponsored by my startup company? thanks!
What's your country of citizenship?
That probably includes VAT. Sales tax isn't included in US pricing, since it varies by location quite a bit (believe it or not, sales tax is higher literally across the street from where I work than adjacent to where I work).
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incompetence never gets old
Man, the lawsuit from this is going to be huge.
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>How to make your first steps in Open Source contributing

Giving advise on how to contribute to open source while having never contributed. The irony...
I have another anecdote. I saw a friend I haven't seen in over a year randomly at the airport. We had a drink, never took out our phones, and he told me he was going to take photos in the Yukon. Later that day on my phone I got an ad on Instagram for "Visit the Yukon!". That creeped me out a bit.
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I've spent a lot of time over the years trying to get used to Lispy and Forth-like languages, and the syntax is a much greater barrier than you think.

Most languages look pretty much the same because we do have half a century of experience with what people get comfortable with. There's further centuries of experience with what people find readable in natural language. People seem to infer a lot more information from layout and structure than some seem to think.

But there is a split there between those who are fine with dense syntax and those who are not. Lisp, Forth, and many functional languages fall in a category that tend to be popular with people who also e.g. find mathematical notation straightforward and are happy to decipher symbol after symbol.

But for many of us, being able to instantly get an overview is a visual process that requires more distinct syntax. I can remember pages of code I saw 20-30 years ago by the overall shape of he code, and layout, and even the font, but if I'm asked to recall code by a sequence of tokens I had to read token by token, I'd draw a blank over code I saw days ago.

That's why you see languages like e.g. Ruby, that in themselves bring very little new on the semantics side, but that popularise ideas from other languages (e.g. Smalltalk, Self for Ruby, along with a lot of syntactical baggage from Perl).

In recent years a lot of ideas have been lifted from Lisp, but some of them are linked quite closely to Lisps syntax. We've started seeing languages tackle this, but it's still a tricky balance to get right.

But I think Forth lacks a language that can do this for it. Retaining the ideas of Forth while making it readable to a bigger audience seems like a hard problem, but it's been (reasonably well) tackled for Smalltalk and Lisp. That's what piqued my interested with your experiment.
Hi Peter,

I'm an Australian on an E3 that's been approved for the H1B. Do I need to go all the way to Sydney to get sticker on my passport? It's a long and costly flight ...

I was hoping to be able to do it at an embassy in Canada.

Thanks in advance!
> Python's philosophy of giving well-defined behavior to meaningless code seems wasteful.

The code has a well-defined meaning, it's just that the input domain is larger than the one defined in C.
I'll share the costs offline but assuming no wait time, the PERM process is moving quickly now, so about 12-15 months.
Mods: Title is misleading and not the original.

This post never shows "how" ig uses a mic, just theorizes about it without any proof.
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This could have been prevented, though, and now folks could have to deal with a lot of harassment. There are still folks out there that think AIDS is a punishment from god for a sinful lifestyle or will assume you are gay (with all the discrimination that comes with it). Yet other folks finding out will simply stop using normal gestures with you and stand further back, simply because they are afraid they'll magically catch aids.

Sure, it wasn't 300k people leaked by hackers for ransom. It was giving folks reason to discriminate against 12k people. Does it matter if it was localized?
I moved from perm to contracting in London by hitting up recruiters on LinkedIn and uploading my CV to JobServe.

Phone didn't stop ringing after uploading my CV.
My theory is this is a covert operation by the Chinese to disable the U.S. 7th Fleet, one merchant ship collision at a time. :)
I never said it was a good thing.

Even though the badness of the situation, I'm saying it would have been terribly worse with mass leaks of the DB this came from. It's not like we in the tech community have seen leaks like that...

Regardless, I see this as a bad screw-up with with no ill intent behind it. It was literally a "too large window" on an envelope...
> See anyone you can think of from the 60s and 70s like Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie.

Ken Thompson had a MS in EE/CS and Dennis Ritchie had degrees in both physics and mathematics, all of which are far more difficult than programming. Most of the other great names of the '60s/'70s have similar backgrounds, invalidating your point.
IANAL, but once your new firm applies for the new H1B petition (the H1B transfer is technically not a transfer, but a new H1B petition itself that is not subject to the cap), and you receive the receipt of your notice (usually take 2-3 weeks), you can start working for your new firm. There's no requirement to wait until it gets approved.
And a less charitable interpretation of that is that reading case studies and backing material makes people feel like they are accomplishing something without actual effort or anxiety, so they prefer reading to actual practice.

"Research by Gabriele Oettingen and her colleagues has shown that thinking about the benefits of success can actually make you less likely to achieve your goals. They can reduce the amount of effort that you want to put into achieving your aims."

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/ulterior-motives/201302...
Under the ACA they are not allowed to deny coverage.

They certainly do act to minimize the claims they pay.
Juno was owned by the workers - They had equity in the company based on when they started.

> But the icing on the cake is Juno's equity offering: 1 billion of the company's founding shares reserved just for the drivers. [1]

It was all stripped away when the company was sold off to Gett because of liquidation preference because now.

> But drivers were soon informed by emails from Juno that the stock plan was void. They could instead receive cash payouts amounting to less than what they could make in a day of driving. [2]

[1] - https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/29/11301076/juno-uber-driver...

[2] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-28/juno-sold...
Look at the context. I think google is not trusting ntp or the client system time.

Histogram: Android.StrictMode.CheckGooglePlayServicesTime recorded 15 samples, mean = 4.5 (flags = 0x1)
0 ...
2 ------------------------------------------------O (4 = 26.7%) {0.0%}
3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------O (6 = 40.0%) {26.7%}
4 ------------O (1 = 6.7%) {66.7%}
5 ------------O (1 = 6.7%) {73.3%}
6 ...
8 ------------O (2 = 13.3%) {80.0%}
10 ...
14 ----O (1 = 6.7%) {93.3%}
17 ...

Histogram: Android.StrictMode.CheckGoogleSignedTime recorded 1 samples, mean = 256.0 (flags = 0x1)
0 ...
226 ------------------------------------------------------------------------O (1 = 100.0%) {0.0%}
268 ...
Building a URL shortener with GraphQL/Graphcool, React-Apollo and Netlify
Nothing to add but I did CS/Phil also. I think they complement each other nicely.
Not at all. You can go just about anywhere to get your H-1B visa stamp, Canada, Europe, South America, the Islands, etc.
Yes, the tanker belongs to "Restricted in Ability to Maneuver", which means they have priority over pretty much anything. You can't ask them or expect them to detour to avoid you, you must avoid them.
Someone on r/halflife has pointed out that it is 10 years since Laidlaw retired. And that that was the purported expiration date for his NDA: https://www.reddit.com/r/HalfLife/comments/6vvn00/a_laidlaw_...
I won't reach out to my contacts for references when I am thinking about a job change, but I will reach out to them for the proverbial coffee/catch up. At the end of the coffee, after I've spent a lot of time catching up and asking them about how they are doing, I'll mention that I'm looking for a new opportunity and ask if they know anyone that is looking for my skillset. You can't do this unless you are serious.

If you are less serious, then scouring the job boards can be a great way to learn about what skills are in demand, what companies are hiring, and, possibly salaries. (You should do this if you are seriously looking too.) This helps you build context. Also, if you see a great company or an interesting position, this can give you some focus. You can research on linked in, or install an applicable open source project, or write a blog post about tech the company uses or the business they are in.

But I think that @eadz's comment about knowing what you are looking for is spot on. That is the first step to prepare for finding a new job. Don't just say 'I want a tech job', as that won't differentiate you or guide you at all. Instead, say 'I want to be working on a small, local team doing ecommerce websites, preferably on .NET' or 'I want to work on big data processing at scale, in a large company, and am willing to relocate'. That "mission statement" will help you shape your resume, your networking, and your after work job hunting pursuits.
The visualization is pretty but missing an essential bit of info: scale.
I feel like most of 4chan's special interest boards are good if you can sift through them. I wouldn't say it's in-depth all the time but if you lurk enough and come across a good thread it can actually be pretty informative. Even asking questions in a thread is relatively guaranteed to get a response, albeit may not be the response you want, but they're generally helpful if you're on topic.

Also, lainchan.org is pretty top tier if you want a more tech oriented chan.
Because of immutable data, it is really an implementation detail. So it would be possible to switch implementation and with extra complexity have it where messages are not copied.

I even seem to recall there was a historical implementation of the Erlang VM which didn't copy the messages, or maybe it was a port to an alternate VM like JVM...
> Looks like you're not launch ready.

It's 2017 man, things are launched with kinks all the time now. Your definition of launch ready doesn't have to apply to everyone else.
What's the process to transfer an H1B for a future employee as a start up?
As others have said, this is not causation nor has hard evidence been provided, however, I am curious:

What moral obligation does a developer have, if any, to expose this sort of "feature"?

The mob came when Snowden et all exposed the large passive-collection programs run by the federal government - do people not believe that we have the same protections from private companies as we do from public entities? Yes, it's their app and I don't have to download it, but we're talking about covert activities - aka spying - that a user has not consented to.

You wouldn't let General Electric put a "passive" video camera in your oven to capture what goes on in your kitchen for the sake of a "better cooking experience" or "personalization"; our digital real estate should be no different.
I think it varies and a lot of companies do it differently. I had a part time internship with a software company over the spring semester which "ended" at the end of the semester but that was just a formality to start a new internship contract full-time and with a pay raise for the duration of the summer. Most software companies use internships as "junior-junior" developer positions, I was still writing code that was impactful and used by the company, it was just understood that it was going to take a couple months to get me to a point that I was semi-autonomous.
Too literal. It's the file system syscalls translated into node which are the problem. Anytime you have the potential to block you lose the relatively clean event loop and enter libuv which is a thread provider.

'Lightweight logic layer on top of libuv': well if I can design, predicate and tout my language on 'event' orientation but then when it needs to do something else it becomes a thin logic layer over the hosts threading model: that's just a win!
Would the differently colored envelope itself be a HIPPA violation?
Your advice is spot on.

We had a very similar experience with Blue Cross for many years. I'd swear they have an RNG that randomly denies claims 80% of the time. You just had to fight each one on the phone.

The people on the phone only had the apparent authority to "send the claim through the system again". About a month later you'd find out what happened. If denied again, we would just repeat until we eventually got lucky with the RNG.

They did eventually pay everything they should have, but we'd average about two hours on the phone per doctor visit.
or someone on a related device has been googling for products related to that conversation.
The real problem is that clean drinkable water is often given away almost for free. California, for example, reserves vast amount of available water for specific groups, instead of having a market where a higher price would not only directly drive conservation, but would make things like desalination more attractive.
Goby does reverse, using Go package as plugin.
See: https://goby-lang.gitbooks.io/goby/content/plugin-system.htm...
Oops, sorry for that! Links are alright now, thanks for pointing it out
TOR does not protect DNS queries out of the box. You must configure your PC to query through TOR or all of your DNS queries have the potential to leak to your ISP

https://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/8/how-does-tor-route...

Verizon has been adding headers for tracking for some time (probably via Blue Coat ProxySG forward proxy or similar technology)
https://www.verizonwireless.com/support/unique-identifier-he...
I know FB have a lot of really smart data-scientists working on this stuff but I doubt that it's worth the effort to analyse everything you say on the hope it'll contain some kind of keyword that can trigger an advert.

It's more likely that you and the friends posted pictures at around the same place/time your friend later googled micro projectors and was tagged via an embedded like button on the page (yeah... those things track you!). Then they just made a jump that two people in the same area may have similar interests and served you an ad.

It's just like how I get recommendations for people I've never met before after attending an event that we both just happened to go to.
Right now I'm on the hook for 5 figures with BC/BS for my son's birth expenses, because HR screwed up his application. It's a Kafkaesque byzantine labyrinth of red tape and buck passing. I'm not sure they're evil, just bureaucratic.
1B startup idea: equip every primary/secondary/high schools with walls that block every cellular signals.
I was trying to figure out what OP meant by the fact that black young won't be able to get IDs to vote. So presumption of incompetence was a guess there.
The obvious conclusion is that the Yukon tourism board, after paying Instagram to show you the ad, also paid your friend to "randomly" connect with you at the airport and try to further sell you on the Yukon trip.
OT: pardon the typo, HN shows 'shortener with' when I edit and removes the space in the title.
Hi Peter, thank you for doing this.

What are the steps towards citizenship after one got Green-Card via H1B -> Green-Card route under the current administration's laws? Are there any changes and
new restrictions, etc.?
Hello Peter:
I'm a U.S. male citizen who married a Mexican single mom. The child is a U.S. citizen as well. We're in the process of getting my wife a green card. Because of my job in L.A., and because my wife's business interests are in Mexico, we have a commuter marriage. She intends to stay in Mexico until we're empty nesters. Will that be a problem in the interview when getting her green card?
Thanks much
What is one critical thing that you think founder should know , which you think they don't ?
"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

(I suppose a corollary: in the negative if grammatically appropriate)