skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, essentially the exit tax is the only downside I can think of. And no, a break in employment doesn't necessarily mean that the individual has to go through the lottery again.
Not fair man. Just because they don't manage to do everything don't mean they don't do their best.

As a dota fan, I can tell you that they are doing a LOT of things in there.

They have limited number of devs and designers and so many projects. Just maintaining the steam infra is madness.

Look at blizzard, and see how often they release stuff.

Good things take a lot of resources.
Completely agree. I'll often take a look at the "top in-app purchases" as well. "$9.99", ok, but if I see a "$129.99" for a "big crate of gems"...

I just got to question how the developers felt that it was morally acceptable to create a toxic enough app experience that drives users to use in app purchases through deceptive tactics during the first few minutes of play to go and drop +$100 on virtual gems.
Y Combinator Fall Tour 2017
Not a lawyer: Yes, as long as there is an employer-employee relationship. Meaning, someone in your company should have the power to fire you, usually a Board of Directors.
There are already laws against discrimination by protected status (race/religion count), and laws about access to health services.
> In most developed nations outside America, a doctor's opinion carries more administrative weight. In America, the insurance company and their payment policies carry more weight than the doctor's decisions.

No, in most developed nations other than the US, the doctor has approximately the same power that they do in the US.

The difference is that, under capitated systems or systems like the NHS (which is not actually capitated yet, but functions more or less like it is), the doctor factors the cost into their decision-making process. That might sound like a good thing for patients, but it's generally not - it means they have an incentive to avoid unnecessary care, but they also have a very direct incentive to bias on the side of avoiding necessary care as well, to avoid eating into their budget.

This is absolutely a problem with the NHS, although Hacker News readers tend not to be the demographics that suffer from it the most, so you don't hear about it as much here.

> in America, if you get hurt, you need a lawyer almost a badly as you need a doctor

I get that this is intended to be hyperbole, but even on that scale, it's absurd.
Buried in the article is a key detail.

>Prosecutors earlier this week scaled back their request and changed it to seek emails associated with Disruptj20.org and email addresses of third parties associated with the website, such as individuals who volunteered to help provide supplies or support to rioters.

>As part of his ruling, Morin ordered prosecutors to tell him who was going to review the data DreamHost provides and, once that information is found, explain to him why prosecutors deem the information “critical” to their case.

>Under Morin’s ruling, any information prosecutors find unrelated to the rioting would be sealed and could not be shared by prosecutors with anyone else or any other government authority.
Fairly certain a true dataflow machine doesn't have 50% the amount of instruction RAM as it has data RAM.

Also putting all the "tensors" (I assume this means activations and weights?) into the external memory is downright dumb.

Only having 16MB of memory on die is also probably not a wise decision.

The use of GALS is certainly interesting though.
They mostly seem reasonable to me. I'm not sure exactly what they mean by external wire inputs in this statement: "Synchronize all external wire inputs with two clocks before using them."

You can ruin a design by trying to synchronize data. We've had to respin an ASIC because somebody "synchronized" the data on a bus.
The app world has really been grinding my gears lately. The move to subscription services is really getting to me. Especially on iOS. I've dropped a lot of money on writing apps - I'm looking at you, Ulysses - to move to a subscription - and eventually lock me in, or lock me out. "At a cost of a coffee a month," you say.
ASP.NET Core 2.0 Features
Bitcoin miners are making a killing in transaction fees
I agree with the author. Although the author didn't mention apps being "digital" as a reason for no sales, others have done so and I commented on that not being a convincing roadblock: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13634892
> Postgres, for instance, is written in a variant of C with -fwrapv - not even -ftrapv, but a definition of signed overflow - instead of standard C.

To my knowledge that's solely because historically there's been signed integer overflow checks that relied on signed overflow semantics, not because there's otherwise use of overflows. At some point we didn't have a nice, portable and fast way to do overflow checks and so -fwrapv was added... I'd like to revisit that.
Is that a fundamental aspect of state power or is it an aspect of the particular proposals that have been made?

Cruz's proposed legislation from a couple years ago appears to restrict what "secondary" states can regulate quite a lot:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/647...

(b) Exemptions From Covered Laws in a .—Except as provided in this section, a health insurance issuer with respect to its offer, sale, rating (including medical underwriting), renewal, and issuance of individual health insurance coverage in any secondary State is exempt from any covered laws of the secondary State (and any rules, regulations, agreements, or orders sought or issued by such State under or related to such covered laws) to the extent that such laws would—

Of course it spells out a bunch of situations where the secondary state would still have authority, but reducing the ability of states to regulate sure seems to be one of the goals there.
I'd need to know your background but the first option I would look at is the EB1A extraordinary ability route.
GIMP 2.9.6 Released
Heh, that's amusing, I'm really curious to know what happens though, if it was turned on.

I _think_ I've heard some vaporizers use nichrome if I recall correctly, which seems to have a fairly high melting point?

Would the nichrome or whatnot melt before further issues or..?
What if you make it work and the Combine takes it from you?
There was an article posted here two days ago [1], that states that

Some scientists, however, held out hope that there would be a key offsetting process: As the Arctic warms, it might also stow away more carbon as it becomes greener and supports the additional plant life, particularly in tundra regions. This “Arctic greening” is indeed occurring, but the new research suggests that the permafrost losses in early winter are more than enough to offset that.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15083989
By the violent crime statistics this is the point in time. But that has no relation to global warming or our (in)ability to deal with it. It might be too late or it might be no problem at all, but the current best research indicates it is going going to be a huge problem.

It is almost as if you are intentionally missing the point.
You're sailing through the Strait of Hormuz, one of the busiest shipping channels in the world. There isn't a shooting war underway, but you are within range of Iranian cruise missiles and naval craft.

It's not exactly war, but it isn't exactly peace. Do you see what I'm driving at?
Does anyone know how general-purpose the cores are on this and other parallel architectures? As I recall, the first video cards couldn't do things like branching, so it wasn't possible to program loops or flow control. I'm concerned that if these new processors can only run niche frameworks like OpenCL or CUDA that it will create friction slowing the adoption of concurrent programming in languages like MATLAB/Octave/Erlang/Elixer/Julia/Go etc.

There seems to be an opening in the market for truly general purpose processors having say > 16 or 32 cores. So it would be nice to have a curated list somewhere of multipurpose chips.
>like a restaurant in south refusing to serve blacks?

Which would be illegal as race is a legally protected status.
People are paying for services like this because it's a valuable tool for lead generation.

If you are selling a Wordpress plugin, you don't want to contact website owners that run on e.g Joomla.
At the end of the day, cash investment is really all that mnatters although arguments can be made of course for the transfer of IP assets.
Thanks Peter! What is your opinion on the status of H-4 dependent EAD. Is it likely to be revoked by the new administration? If so, what happens to individuals on H-4?
I also mentioned FORTRAN.

A 10min investigation would bring fruit to your curiosity. But wth..

Lisp, scheme, closure, modula and smalltalk are the ones that come to my mind now that offer ONLY safe data access (modula3 has "unsafe" keyword, but only when talking to outside code). Actually R, awk, bc, shell and such are also like that, but not really general purpose. Languages that are "memory safe" by default, but include "unsafe" memory access (that come to my mind now) are C#, F#, C++ and such (Rust goes into this "category").

All functional languages are, AFAIK, "memory safe" by default (well.. you could make a functional language that lets you go out of bounds, but that wouldn't be a "pure" functional language).

In fact, as far as i know, there are more programming languages that ARE "memory safe" then ones that are not. One could just go over the wikipedia list [0] and.. list them out.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages

While somewhat on the topic of functional vs "Turing" languages, here's a couple of videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eis11j_iGMs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPQD7-AOjMI

So.. the only thing that prompted you to talk about Rust is memory safety ?

EDIT:

> Why bring syntax as the first thing? What does that have todo with memory safety.

Because the question i asked was "Can i ask why do you mention rust ? By that i mean what prompted you to write about rust here and now." and your answer was (paraphrased) "they bout emphasize memory safety", as if that was the only defining factor of a programming language.
I don't know about you, but my old phones struggle with room tempurature air, I'd hate to see how they do in an attic. That with the battery (most can't run without one because of spikes in the current draw) is a bit of a fire hazard.
This sounds like a good rasberrypi project. A ways to plug in multiple android phones through usb and get access to the processing power and filesystem offered by the phone in a generic clustered configuration.
And to clarify further, they mean two flip flops in series, not two clocks.

It sort of becomes a short hand to refer to the delay incurred by flip flops in series as "clocks" (short for clock cycles). And to capture data in a flip flop is often referred to as "clocking" the data.
Which gets really complicated really quickly. There are plenty of cases of benign exclusivity, and plenty of cases of less than benign exclusivity, even in those areas you specifically pointed out.
This inconsistency completely rubs me the wrong way. There's nothing that pisses me off more than hearing people rail against a business's right to refuse service instantly double back when the company did something they like. These are not muddy waters where it's hard to tell you're contradicting yourself; people are outright encouraging things they'd otherwise argue against just because it's going their way.
Imagine a mobile web server. For events, geocaching, emergency services, and other on-demand situations. It could serve local wifi to serve its pages.
There's really no minimum amount of time if the green card was obtained in good faith. I've never seen an issue when this is true.
Buy it, but be aware that guiriduro is going to look down on you for not being hip.
I don't buy it. Even if we do fuck this up royally and cause a mass extinction event (which seems increasingly likely), humans will survive. There may (probably will) be a loss of population, but it's the sort of thing humans can definitely recover from given time. At the timescales of the Fermi Paradox this shouldn't be an issue. It's barely a blip.
Cool! Thanks a lot for doing this, it's really interesting to read all the questions and answers.
after the move, how much pay cut you have to bear with
+1. Besides even if we had the tech and knowledge, we need the resources, time, dedication and will to apply the solutions. Not to mention the ability to carry it out, and together no less.
Race, being an immutable characteristic of a human being, is quite different from restrictions on the nature of created content.
To make matters worse, Paypal has extreme platform lock-in. For example, you can't move your users billing to another platform; you have to get the user to sign up all over again. On top of that, you have to hope they have another form of compatible payment (i.e. mobile payments, credit card direct, etc).

Paypal holds all the data and when they ban you for whatever reason, they keep it, so even if there is another option, once you commit to Paypal, you are committed.
This was a establishing plot point in Rudy Rucker's short story Hormiga Canyon, published in Asimov's August 2007 issue. He also included the benefit of voice recognition on any node :)

You can read it here:
http://www.rudyrucker.com/transrealbooks/completestories/#_T...

(warning: Rudy's stories are... zany)
Do Men and Women Have Different Brains?
I prefer Costa or Nero.
methane is not toxic
What stands out to me personally about this is that I'm 99% sure the administration could have silently achieved the same results through a FISA ordered warrant, but chose to go public in what I'm perceiving to be sending a message.

The Obama administration also sent messages but they seem to have been ignored willingly or not. Remember when the intelligence services entered the offices of the free press in the U.K. and forced the destruction of computer equipment?

The warning signs have been here for years. If the loud mouthed Trump is what triggers a movement to change things then so be it.
And past performance guarantees future performance ?

Also, bear in mind that an overwhelming majority of the people who invented all this good stuff (scientists) agree that we're approaching a cliff.
What's the reasoning for not allowing those things? Does it bring additional legal problems or something? I could see the issue with potential child porn or something like that but shouldn't a payment processor be siloed from any legal issues there?
Sorry to hear you had a bad experience - happy to take on all constructive feedback so I appreciate you bringing it up!

The reason we ask for a 2 year NDA is that this is the generally accepted length of time that NDAs are enforceable in all 50 US states. We do ask buyers/investors to re-sign after 1 year so that our sellers are comfortable that there is at least 1 year remaining on all NDAs at the point of us listing a business.

That being said, on some listings sellers request that new 2 year NDAs are signed with all buyers/investors irrespective of how long is left to run on a pre-signed document. This is usually limited to 7 and 8-figure listings.

Sellers and buyers/investors both generally appreciate our strict approach. Making sure that we are operating diligent process when it comes to NDAs and sharing information is important for sellers as well as a new owner of the business.

Happy to jump on a call to discuss further if you would like: https://calendly.com/thomassmale.
Ask HN: What knowledge do I need to get real time system/low latency related job?
I am currently a full stack developer (javascript angular + node ) 2 years out of college, I realize recently that full stack doesn't really interest me that much and I want to transition to a job that deal with low latency and RTS like real time bidding etc.

I have begin to learn Rust, golang and practice implementing a bunch low latency and distributed related algorithms (hyperloglog, maglev hashing, raft), I also try to contribute to some open source related to distributed programming and got some merged to master.
But most of the place that is willing to interview me are offering full stack. I think I might be lacking some skills that company dealing with RTS are looking for.

My next step is to implement my own rts system like scrape message from reddit or something and do some interesting analysis using kafka for my topology not sure if thats a good idea.
Big data/distributed program/low latency stuff is really hard to practice in my own time (ie. server cost).

Can someone point me some direction? Like what knowledge/experience do I need, what are those companies looking for?

Note: I am from SF
Completely agree. It's often the first filter when I'm looking for apps.
doubled = [x * 2 for x in nums]
> I wasn't speaking of fiction in my original post. The purpose of fiction is to create an experience in the mind of the reader rather than to convey information. As such, you can't judge a work by an absolute standard, really the only measure of success is how well the writing tends to induce the experience the author intended. This of course will depend on how well the author has anticipated the mind of the reader.

Ah, I misunderstood. I agree with you that redundancy is a common problem even in "good" works of non-fiction, though I think it's sometimes a sign that one has approached a work too late, not that the work is generally poor. I found the oft-recommended A Demon-Haunted World, for instance, to be an over-long, dull, repetitive, low-value work... but if I'd read it when I was 14? Who knows. Judging from others' testimonies I suspect I'd not have had the same complaints if I'd read it at a different time in my life.

Full-on self-help books—to include pop-business books—I would exempt from this cautious judgement, since useless padding is practically a codified, defining property of the genre.

> It is true that no preferences exist free of introduced bias. My problem is mainly with things that people train themselves to like in order to appear "sophisticated". It's like an arms race, where people learn to like progressively less pleasant things in order to differentiate themselves. Everyone would be happier if we collectively said "screw sophistication" but nobody wants to be the first person to appear "boorish".

Absolutely a problem. Humility, compassion, restraint, self-awareness, and plain speaking are everywhere in short supply.

[EDIT] looking back, I think I took your words "the 'classics' of western literature" more broadly than you intended them, i.e. to include fiction, verse, et c.
Sorry, this is contrary to everything I've heard and read. I thought non-intent meant that I can't apply for a green card?

I guess it would be too late now, but what's the process of getting a work-sponsored green card while on the E3?

Thanks so much again.
It makes me sad to say, but I agree with this. Valve has largely given up their legacy of incredibly polished games that were worth the wait. Not only are they now content to sit back and allow the merchant/gambling/loot crate money flow in, they are actually neglecting their games. I remember the addition of a new gun (the R8) to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive that was so broken and unbalanced that it was clear the devs had never once started up the game and playtested the weapon before pushing the update to players.

It really is a sad state. Valve used to be the bastion of the gaming world, because players and other developers alike looked up to them as a role model of what it meant to care about releasing a good game, no matter what it took. That they would give it all up simply by allowing their reputation to languish - not with a bang, but with a whimper - really breaks my heart. I hope other game devs do not forget Valve's story and remember that there are customers and fans who really do respect and value when time, care, and true effort is put into making a game fun and meaningful, not just profitable.
People who make this comparison wildly underestimate how much I like coffee. It's a lot more than your dumb app, I assure you. In fact, I'll go further. There isn't an app in existence that I'd trade for coffee. Not Facebook or Instagram or anything else on my home screen. Coffee is better than all of them. This comparison could only be made by somebody who doesn't drink coffee.
An intentional limitation, then :P

I tend to agree with the Python philosophy, that it's usually better to extract and name a function that to declare it inline. The `asyncio` module and `await` keywords go a long way in eliminating most use cases where I'd still prefer an anonymous function, for arbitrary callbacks.
Regarding your first question, both are generally non-issues. Regarding your second question, the answer depends less on changes to the company's business model or more on changes to the O-1's job duties but generally a new O-1 petition shouldn't be required.
Augmented Reality in Stockholm
Not completely; they couldn't decide to use 'whiteness of yoru skin' as a metric for decision. I think there should absolutely be limits to what you can use to determine if you do business with someone, but where exactly the line is is not an easy question to answer.
>> "Synchronize all external wire inputs with two clocks before using them."

This is why you need to sync external (async) inputs:

"Metastability in electronics is the ability of a digital electronics system to persist for an unbounded time in an unstable equilibrium or metastable state.

In metastable states, the circuit may be unable to settle into a stable '0' or '1' logic level within the time required for proper circuit operation.

As a result, the circuit can act in unpredictable ways, and may lead to a system failure..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metastability_in_electronics
I would not pretend knowing what happened thousands of years ago. We only have glimpse of what happened before the roman empire. Maybe societies were less technologically advanced but happier and wiser ? Hard to tell.
Nullable reference without "if let" keyword is disaster
"It took us a few months to find a payment processor willing to take money for us without concern trolling about our users' immortal souls or whatever..."

Pretty much the best line ever.
I found this to be pretty much a very biased subjective analogy. I am a european so I hope my "anti-european-rant" will be better accepted but lets see...

Europeans often have this illusion of a working social democracy compared to the US suggesting their by default offered benefits to be superior to the offers from the US. That's not the case. In a lot of middle-income-class positions you get most of the things you described as perks.
Health care support check. Additional vac days check. Plus a much bigger paycheck.

Surely I can agree with treating the workers well and in my book this equals with not exploiting them (so no excessive overtimes, phone calls, onduties etc). But this is not a universal thing in Europe you cannot really generalize this and a lot of the EU companies can be very exploitative even if it's ILLEGAL.
Python has lambda but they are one liners.

There is no way to do write this in Python:

someFunc( _ => {
// this is
// a function
// with multiple lines
})

Having to define a named function to use it as a callback is a pain in the ass.

Python has an excellent standard library but the language itself is pretty mediocre IMHO. Classes are an afterthought thus verboses, as so is "functional programming" in Python.

JS biggest issue is that it is not strongly typed enough. But ES2015 makes it really pleasant to use.
I'm going to take break now for an hour or so and then return. Thank you for all the great questions and comments!
I suspect you are being downvoted for presuming to know what the parent's capacity is.
TypeScript has the same number problem that JavaScript has.