skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then the O-1 and H-1B are your only options. While ownership/control is generally not an issue in the O-1 context, it is in the H-1B context so to proceed with an H-1B, you would have to cede ownership/control to your cofounder.
It has happened to me too and far too many times to be just a coincidence. I don't even have Instagram or Facebook on my mobile so won't be surprised if Google is involved too as I have an android phone.
Another theory: it's just a coincidence that Instagram shows this ad the same day the guy talked about such a device. I know computer scientists aren't actual scientists, but I would not present hypothesis as conclusion. At least do some experiments before you jump to conclusions.

I've seen an ad on Instagram of a t-shirt that says "Winners are born in $MY_BIRTH_MONTH", which is quite transparent targeting...
Anything less than a physical switch that physically enables or disables the camera and microphone is meaningless, since any update to the software or malicious app could just bypass that code.
Can startups hire people who have received their I-140 with a priority date? What all does the start up need to do to be able to hire such folks?
Release process of a PyQt app [video]
I'm sure we'll be seeing these articles much more often than in the past now.
If I were HIV positive, I would much rather my neighbors know my social security number than my HIV status.
You might have to do some explaining but in my experience, when a marriage is legitimate, even if the couple is living apart, the green card application always gets approved.
I don't know if that is being done or not but would immediately question if this is just a coincidence. How many different things have been talked about over the years and how many adverts have been served.

Was this just a case of a random though possibly slightly profile targetted, advert happening to appear during the time he remembered the conversation. Did he get ads for everything they discussed?
NHS and Microsoft Sign Cyber Security Agreement
thanks mintsim actually looks great. Aside from the $15 2GB/mo LTE, unlimited 2G is gold, is good enough for getting messages, email and traffic in navigation.
From what I've read school funding for k-12 varies widely throughout the country.

http://www.asha.org/Advocacy/schoolfundadv/Overview-of-Fundi...

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2016/05/18/the-k-12-fundin...

I'm no expert on the issue but I have seen schools in poor neighborhoods lacking in computers and with dilapidated equipment. In rich districts I've never seen this. I doubt that just looking at numbers as in the Washington Post article is sufficient to get to the bottom of the issue. Of course, I'm not certain I'm right either.

Whatever the reason I think there is no doubt that some schools are run down and have crappy learning environments. They certainly, on the outside, give the impression of being underfunded.
I understood your joke. I was making a reference to a famous episode if Futurama.

I can't bring myself to clickbait genuine science and math.
Understanding Topological Data Analysis and Clustering
Big organizations have slow turnaround times. Policy changes need to be investigated thoroughly for unexpected consequences before implementation. Lives are at stake here. You can't just do another round of VC funding to get more of them.
Down with for-profit social media. Viva la revolucion
> take a look at MITMproxy

This was my first thought. I haven't taken a look yet, but I suspect that if an organization this large was doing something so nefarious, they'd encrypt/encode or otherwise mask what it is their doing. Perhaps, by misdirection, odd naming of params, or outright encryption - take this all with a grain of salt, my domain is server-web, not mobile.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2017/08/24/protect_salmon/
Thank you so much! I thought there might have been issues since this was my first time getting an H1B.
The trading cards/badges in Steam are basically an F2P Pachinko/slot machine already.
What does it take a start up founder to get an O1 Visa approved ?
Universities and museums join in effort to ‘scan all vertebrates’
Crashing isn't outside the realm of possibility even with the a+b example: trapping and aborting the program may happen if the hardware has trapping overflow, or if the C implementation is safety focused and inserts explicit overflow checks to avert further unsafe things from happening.
Just add "to the extent permitted by law" if you want. There are still circumstances where you can't sign up, like missing an enrollment period.
> then Tolentino has the Internet, which, she argues, seduced American narcissists with the same siren song of self-assertion that penmanship drills did for the British middle class.

I wonder if Tolentino ever got started on facebook or selfie sticks.
> Norman Wildberger

This throws up warning flags to me. He's a somewhat notorious crank.

http://goodmath.scientopia.org/2007/10/15/dirty-rotten-infin...
as other sibling threads have commented I agree.

I am really rooting for them and hope they get this right, being able to hack my phone like a desktop/laptop has been a dream of mine.

I really look forward to what the end result is and I hope they knock this out of the park!
Absolutely. Startups are in no different position than established companies: you just need to demonstrate that there's enough money to pay the H-1B salary and run the company and enough work for the H-1B employee to do over the life of the H-1B validity period.
> Competing across state lines means all insurance will be regulated by the state with rules that most favor the insurer

Not really; states are still free to set additional requirements for insurance plans that cover members of that state.

To be honest, competing across state lines would not actually do much in the long run. It'd provide an extra degree of competition in the short-term, but ultimately then insurers would consolidate into multistate operations (which is already the case to a large degree).
Yes, but it's almost surreal how negligent this was.
Like, for(int i=0; i<10; i++) { // todo } OK well yes there can be bugs using the index and even C++ back when I was doing it had the Boost library which had for_each. In Java we got something similar back in Java 5 or 6. Also we have fancy stream operations now in Java 8 which took me the longest time to come to appreciate. The only down side is removed compatibility with other languages like C and C++ and C#, locking in the app to a specific language more.

There is on rare occasion, however, sometimes a problem that is solved more clearly or handily using indexing, similar to step indexing in BASIC.

One use case where I've seen stepped indexing useful is in the field of robotics, which uses step characteristics for synchros and servos.
PHP libraries for measuring lengths of irregular paths?
What PHP libraries do you recommend for measuring lengths of irregular paths?
oh, I actually meant for non-residents
My favored SCSS setup with Bootstrap 4
The details may be complicated, but the answer to the question is the same as for other "free" services:

If you don't pay for the product, YOU are the product.
The older I get, the more I want the blood of teens.
The "experiment" described doesn't even seem to have been intentional, that's just an anecdote.

On the other hand, nearly _everyone_ I talk to has experienced these mind-reading ads - if this happens solely through correlation of social networks and their online activity, it is maybe even more mind-blowing than the conspiracy theory, and brings up scary questions about what we should expect from AI in the future.
Robot the Musical
But not articles saying "operate in the harsh Arctic waters year round rather than just the summer months."

Agree that navigation of the northern passage of itself is not new, but the anticipated year round transit without icebreaker is.
My brother uses an app to restrict what time his kids can use their devices. During dinner every night they are only allowed to call (and there is a no phone policy for everyone else, even guests). They complained and complained for more than a year. Now they complain about their friends never getting off their phones.

Irresponsibility with tech is a new danger that we have to teach our kids about.
The database that assumes people access google from multiple different time frames?
The Navy's 4th accident this year is stirring concerns about hacking
No changes yet and the naturalization process is generally very easy, 5 years as a permanent resident to qualify (unless married to a U.S. citizen for 3 years, then only 3 years to qualify). USCIS's web site provides very good information about the natz process.
What's novel is projecting that operation efficiently into a field where radix sort can operate on all the discrimination at once.
Hi Peter. Do you have any experience with MTR for O-1 visas? Once filed, how long the response from USCIS could take? What are the odds of visa approval at this point?
Hi Peter, thanks for doing this!

If a recent college grad is on OPT, and lets say they majored in actuarial science (STEM), are they allowed to make money selling crafts and art that aren't related to the major? I know there's a clause for jobs unrelated to your major, but I wasn't sure if this applied to selling art or having art showings. How does this work?

Thanks!
The majority of the post was about a cool/interesting way Erlang does something and praising the linked article.

The very last statement was a passing commentary about something that seemed conceptually correlated to the commenter.

I'm really confused by the hyper-sensitivity. With the exception of Javascript conversation threads--- where they're overwhelmed by React vs. X---almost all other language focused threads on HN are full of people making comparison and contrast statements to different things.
Hi Peter,

If I want to enter the US under the TN visa, do I have to get a job offer that says its only for a period up to three years (the max TN term)? What should the job offer letter say about the period of employment, if anything at all?
Wouldn't the wife have to move to the US within six months once she's approved for the green card?
I have English and CS majors, French and Philosophy minors. Always been into computers and always been a big reader. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"because osmosis is a simple matter of thermodynamics, it's possible to calculate exactly how efficient we can make the process. And, as it turns out, we're really quite close as these things go. A state-of-the-art facility is now within a factor of two of the theoretical energy minimum, and only 25 percent higher than the realistic minimum for the current reverse osmosis process."
Screen readers easily allow people whoa re visually impaired to cycle through html elements and accordingly perform normal mouse click actions on them.
Not a business account though
Blossom: A Handmade Approach to Social Robotics from Cornell and Google
Aetna uses JavaScript for everything on their website. Can't middle-click a link to open in a new tab because it's JS, not a proper link.
I co-own a grocery store with ~16,000 other people (FoodCoop.com). We've been around since the 1960s and do about $50MM a year in revenue. It certainly has crazy political issues -- there has been a political war within the org for the last few years surrounding just getting together to vote on boycotting certain products, but we offer the freshest, most local and most affordable food in NYC (and this is in one of the most sought after neighborhoods in the city -- Obama once lived in a brownstone down the street from me).

I've been pushing to get our data exposed via API for developers to build apps and one of them I'd like to see built is a delivery service for owners to use.
Wouldn't it be easy to test your hypothesis even further?

Instead of a random conversation, keep repeating a certain outrageous/uncommon phrase (say Korean cuttlefish snacks) and monitor your feed to see if any weird ads appear.

My guess is that Facebook/Instagram probably categorised your profile as someone who enjoys the outdoors and watches movies (which can be said of a large proportion of the world population), and knew that you might have been hiking then (location tracking and possibly via your face appearing in a friend's post?). Consequently, a "relevant" ad was pushed to you.
The reason so few projects are rewritten in C/C++ is that many people know up front that their project will require that performance and just start there.

If you are building a high end 3d video game with anything like current fancy graphics no amount of python or ruby is going to make it work. You must start with C or C++ to make effective use of modern hardware (even using the C# unity provides leaves a lot of performance on the table).

If you are building a system designed to be faster that some other well defined system then starting with C or C++ is a good idea. If your Java or C# system could handle 1 million transactions a second you might be able to complete 1.5 million/s with C++.

Some projects never need that level of performance, building those projects on C++ can cost you some time. Most webpages are in that vein, how many hits a day does a typical website get? only a few of the biggest retailers and search engine need that level of performance.

That time cost is also shrinking, but not shrinking as fast as I would like. C++11, 14 and 17 it took chunks off development time by polishing some of the sharp corners of the language. Memory leaks are harder to make. Threads and time are easier to work with. Error message are better than ever.

There is still progress to make. Every C++ project still needs some time dedicated to configuring the build system. There needs to be some plan for checking for memory issues, there needs to be... I think C++ will continue to get more Rust-like and Rust will continue to grow in popularity and performance. Eventually, I think Rust or something like it will be the preferred high performance language.
Calculating Song Position in Music Apps with Swift and AVAudioEngine
> Generating revenue is in direct conflict with providing patient care

Without revenue, there's no money to use to actually provide care.

> It's a uniquely American problem.

It's not at all. Aside from the fact that most of the world uses at least some degree of privatization in providing or paying for healthcare, even the few that don't do so at the metaphorical "last mile" (such as England) still suffer from the unavoidable problem that money isn't infinite, and sometimes decisions have to be made to deny people care that otherwise still would have a material benefit to the patient.
9 Must-Have Website Elements to Convert More Clients and Customers
My understanding is that for many fish species, the fish are caught well offshore on multi-day fishing trips. They are put on ice immediately, otherwise they return to the docks with spoiled fish. Think "The Perfect Storm".
Looks interesting. What are some things you're currently working on?
San Francisco Will Consider a Tax on Robots
Sorry don't meant to be rude and I understand there are tens of thousands of technologies to detect. Kind of expecting your engine to be able to detect front end JS frameworks easier than backends, at least for those popular JS frameworks. In case you not notice the site I'm pointing to is the home page of VueJS and you're showing them using a competitor tech.
Hi Peter! A friend of mine has just started OPT and has founded a company. She plans on using the STEM extension too, which was a successful path for myself and some others, but the recent changes to the STEM extension seem to be considerably more limiting now. Do you have any guidance on options for founders considering the OPT and STEM extension route?

Many thanks in advance!
Bah, safety issues can cause pretty rapid change because, as you agree, lives are at stake here. We're talking about navigating a congested waterway, something where the technology and policies already exist for doing safely.
Your friend searched for Yukon. Facebook/Instagram knows that you are friends and that you were both in the same location and so showed you Yukon adverts.
Hi Peter,

How to get a Green-card via TN visa?

Thanks,
My understanding is that there would need to be separate Congressional action to do away with the TN, which I personally think is unlikely. But if that happened, then the impact on those in TN status would depend on the details of the legislation doing away with the TN.
In practice USPS/law enforcement will have this image data but they will not parse it for some time (if ever).
Netflix and Tinder are giving us choice paralysis
And I've seen a new complex in the bay where, for reasons unknown to me, it shows you the scans of all your neighbors.
Definitely a hard problem. I was looking to leverage any existing API I can use. I've tried Google Vision for text and it's amazing. If there was something for audio...

I told a friend of mine who's into machine learning and AI.

I think that it's possible for the program to get to know how you pronounce things via machine learning. I'm not an expert in this space, though.

I could start with learning English, since from my experience software often works better than with other languages.
How is WhatRuns more accurate? Are you doing something different to get your information?
This is completely antagonistic, and close-minded, without providing evidence. The course is by people who have studied these things and back up the methods with research (evidence).

The goal is long-term retention and learning. The course addresses bad habits that people use for learning that don't accomplish this goal, and suggests better methods.

I haven't taken the course but I'm familiar with some of the methods, such as spaced-repetition. Spaced-repetition hasn't falsely "made me feel like I am accomplishing something" and I've been surprised with the results over time. There is a body of research and evidence showing positive results.

> How can you learn to learn without already knowing how to learn in the first place.

This might feel like a clever comment but it's pedantic and doesn't contribute to the discussion. Most people have some minimal capacity to learn new things, and can also improve how they learn.
That's intentionally built into the regulation though, if you can not carry a plan and then sign up for coverage whenever you need it, it isn't anything resembling insurance anymore.

People are still really critical of the current regulation, where you can sign up during the enrollment period without any penalty.
The day I became sure of this, I was painting a house together with this guy whose dad used to work for my dad. The day before I had gotten a job offer for working at some startup, can't remember the name right now (I haven't heard about the company since this day). They were supposed to record DJ sets and put them on their web site, and the guy I was working with was into the EDM scene so I mentioned it to him, mostly because I couldn't quite understand the business proposition, and thought perhaps he could. He couldn't, though - according to him, it was already a big thing but the DJ set videos were posted to YouTube, which makes sense to me.

Not 15 minutes later, he comes around to me and says "What was the name of that company?" I reply, and he goes, "wow, that's strange - I just got an ad for them on my FB."

Again, I've never heard about the company before or later.

Well, it's going to come out, and when it does, people will go from "what?! that can't be true" to "well duh, what did you think?! everyone knows that".
There are two sides to the story though (I'm not defending Aetna, I'm saying this is not only a problem for people who live around bigots.)

Some non-zero percent of those 12k people live with a partner who doesn't know their HIV status. It is (edit: could be, if untreated) totally unethical for those people to fail to disclose their status to their partners, but arguably it's much worse for those people to be outed by their health insurance company, who should really be the (#@[expletive](/#@ experts in privacy here.

I'm really not sure it's OK that this letter went out at all, even if they had used the right privacy envelopes!
It was fast for me on my iPhone
Sure you can run debian on android. I don't want debian on android though, I want debian.

I can run debian on windows as well, that doesn't mean I'm going to do it.

Why settle for a hacky second layer system, when you can just have the whole system?

And sure, I can make android look the way I want today, but I can't make it do what I want today, which is the important part.
I see relative times (7:00pm, 12:01am, etc), but I notice there are no timezones. Is it implicitly Eastern time in the US?
It is COMPLETELY different from rust. Not only in the syntax, but also in the things it does and how it does them.

http://learnyousomeerlang.com/content

A lot of languages "emphasize safety at the top of their feature lists". By a lot i mean A LOT. If you have to compare, Erlang is similar to Haskell. Rust is nothing like erlang.
Found a text reference: https://www.infoq.com/news/2017/08/CSharp-8
Short version: you're thinking lung cancer. It's not, it's COPD, and it's near ubiquitous for people who have smoked a while.
German self-driving cars ethics guidelines are out
The problem with these devices are that they are often locked down, and even unlocked/hacked open getting them to run anything like mainline Linux is hard-ish.
That is really beside the point. The incentive for profit-driven insurers is not to pay for health coverage to whatever extent they can get away with.
Google Voice is having trouble delivering text messages
That's right, STEM OPT is much more restrictive than "regular" OPT for founders and owners. But the details of this are really up to the school so I would recommend that she speak openly with her school's international student office to find what's required to get STEM approved for a founder/owner.
> A cost/benefit analysis of "put all HIPAA-relevant information inside an opaque envelope" probably comes out ahead if it prevents one issue like this.

To be pedantic, the patient's name and address are both considered PHI under HIPAA.

The way that most insurers deal with this is by mailing an envelope that has no obvious information on the outside about the sender (it has a return address that's usually a PO box somewhere in the midwest, but not the company's name). So without opening it, you can't tell that the piece of mail relates to medical information.

Banks do this as well when mailing things like credit cards, to make it less obvious to a would-be interceptor of the mail that there's something valuable inside. (Of course, the deliberate inconspicuousness of it is itself conspicuous, but that's another problem).
Project Fi seems cool and something I would happily subscribe to. Too bad it only works with Google phones.
I'm afraid you're mistaken.

Taken directly from https://reproducible-builds.org/:

"Second, the set of tools used to perform the build and more generally the build environment should either be recorded or pre-defined"

FWIW, I'm a committer on a Linux distro specifically constructed to guarantee build reproducibility (nixos.org), so I'm pretty sure I know what is generally meant by "reproducible builds" in common industry vernacular. Byte-for-byte is important, but that's hardly the whole picture.
Amazon offers unlimited cloud storage, man uploads 2 petabytes of porn as a test
Haven't read the paper, but the large energy requirements for desalination right now come from the rough interiors of the channels creating large frictional forces which resist the flow of water. Carbon nanotubes don't suffer that drawback.