skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you talked to some Germans about how "straight thinking" they think their country is? When you don't get to see the sausage made it looks good but peel pack the process a bit and you'll see that there are still very significant issues. Note: I have huge respect for German society and governance.
Yeah, PayPal has lost lots of users to new services like Venmo. Fortunately for PayPal, they own Venmo.
i don't think i'm lonely or angry. i'm just not super fond of irrelevance or self promotion. so using one as a platform for the other kind of rubs me the wrong way.

on one hand, who am i to arbitrate relevance? on the other hand, i really think you're pushing it.

"HyperTrack of messaging" -- you are using "HyperTrack" here, the proper noun, as an analogy for "SaaS". TalkJS is "SaaS of messaging". and i think "hey i have a SaaS product too!" is too broad to be contextual.

a similar scenario would be an employee of Stripe posting in this thread, promoting Stripe. sure they could argue it is relevant. i'd argue they are trying a little too hard to make it so.

forgive me if i've missed something.
I'm asking how you justify helping more enter a market that's already showing signs of starting to not have enough room for natives, as you can see in the screenshot I linked. It drives down wages and makes it harder for natives to get a job, and a lot of native grads are struggling.
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To where? US is basically where most of the capital is when it comes to research in the western world.
If the paragraph you quoted is indeed Marc talking about Valve, then I feel that the sentence,

> "I expect you know... the appropriate course of action, and I leave you to it."

points to the hope that people will take this story and create fan games with it. Having seen the tremendous quality and effort put into the Black Mesa [0] remake, I have great faith that the inevitable fan-made Episode 3 will live up to expectations.

[0] https://www.blackmesasource.com/
Burger King said to be launching its own cryptocurrency, the WhopperCoin
Those who voted for Brexit didn't and won't understand the impact which will play out over decades. This breaks the feedback loop.

There are parallels with the US election.
If there's humans, the possibility to restore exists.

If there's no humans, the possibility to restore is gone.
What's the point of patrolling if you transmit your location? Imagine how useless local police cars would be if they were equipped with a public GPS.
Hmmmm. Seems like a really really big coincidence, but okay. I presume this information will be released by the court once it’s used in evidence or can it be sealed only for this dubious case.
That is really funny. I don't know. Probably just my good looks.
> "It's not the end of world, people."

I have greater hopes for my 11-year-old than conservation of mass.
One is a part of the other, so "both" seems like the natural answer.
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No, that is not a counterexample, because while that code defines a method named "equals", the method so defined is not an equivalence relation.
LiDAR only really works in good meteorological conditions, which is frankly when you need it the least.

As cars have repeatedly demonstrated, LiDAR doesn't work well when there's water droplets in the air such as rain, snow, fog, or sea spray.
The numbers don't oppose his claims either.

The numbers support a claim that in-app purchases make more money, but this should not be mistaken for proof that in-app purchases provide a better user experience.
Europe is able to do this because the US subsidizes their existence.

1. Pharma companies develop drugs with US subsidies and make their profits off US citizens while European countries put price ceilings on their drugs.

2. US essentially defends the world, allowing other countries to spend money elsewhere.

http://www.ibtimes.com/how-us-subsidizes-cheap-drugs-europe-...
Canada doesn't pay half as well as US when it comes to research in STEM. Every country has great talent right now, except US has the money.
Personally, I think on that (on balance) it's preferable to have freedom of association. However, I can respect and understand the opposite view as long as it's consistent. A lot of people I know who were of the opinion that bakeries should be legally obligated to bake wedding cakes are now the same people defending cloudflare et al. for refusing access to critical infrastructure (not just cake!) for political reasons.
>Prosecutors’ original request in July would have yielded IP addresses for about 1.3 million users of the site, court filings show.

Whether I agree or not, here is another example of sensationalism which has made me distrustful of news media. How many of those "1.3m users" were actually unique?
Interesting. That was not the case (or not the legal advice) twelve years ago when I went through all this. I guess it is a stretch to suppose that things would not have changed but I thought this was a fundamental characteristic of the TN visa.
> i went into every thread about rust and mentioned how Ada is great (or any other language, including C), id' get downvoted.

If you just mentioned that Ada is great without a reason you might get downvoted or just asked to provide support for you statement. If you provide a reason or compare some of the features Ada has and how they might be better in some cases, I don't think you would be. Compared to other forums, I think HN is pretty good about that.
Nothing is the end of the world, unless it is.
That... What? If you need to use your customers overhead crane to make a delivery, you will be going out of business fast.
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It's strange that you would make a slippery slope argument in this context, because a slippery slope is the situation we're already in. If there are going to be circumstances in which a company refuses service, I'd rather they be a) decided on democratically and b) visible to everyone in the RSA, rather than behind an opaque corporate structure. The current situation is much worse.
And they don't allow things like porn, gambling, and guns. I'm OK with payment processors setting their own rules based on their own ethics, but its a problem if all we have is this little oligopoly of choices. We need more choices.
Yeah, but some poor sap at the book store has to deal with this crap. Paper cuts add up.
There's a wide range because the cost is almost all legal fees and I just don't know what everyone charges. If you'd like to know our fees, email me offline.
Certainly not directly, but in most universities publication output is the main driver for salary negotation (and advancement on tenure track). Most places will put you on a standard scale which increments each year, and having a top tier publication may be enough to negotiate a bump of a couple of rungs (worth a thousand or two pa in the UK).

I would imagine the same applies to most jobs - rather than an on-the-spot bonus, if you published in a prestigious journal as part of your job, it would be strong grounds for some compensation at your next review.
That seems the perfect use-case for pre-trial injunction so that assets (data) can be seized, under RICO.

As they haven't touched RICO, it seems likely they cannot consider all 1.3 million people to be conspirators, nor even a large number to be conspirators.
That argument becomes weaker as responsibilities and power are transferred from the government to the private sector. How many of the rules that we follow are currently dictated by a corporation, rather than a government? Do we not want checks and balances on all rule-makers?
Effectively dead, yes.
I think this was meant to be a response to this sibling post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15095626

Probably did not wait long enough for the reply button to appear.
Until your private education or health services starts turning people away based on race/religion/political affiliation
The only remaining US Civil War pensioner still collects $73/month from the VA
morality is relevant, rarely people that is doing something that we think immoral see their acts as immoral too.

"Shouldn't a company, regardless of the service they provide, be free to establish their own conditions under which they will act or not act?"

like a restaurant in south refusing to serve blacks?
with restaurant you have at least some options, but with businesses with monopoly finding an alternative is very hard or expensive.
> If we don't talk about these issues openly and try to come up with solutions,

You can check out my twitter feed if you think I don't care about politics, but there are a ton of places where we can 'talk about these issues openly'. Just maybe spare this one site from all the politics? It tends to, uh, eclipse, everything else, as it is far more important.
I often wonder if this type of thing is an answer to the Fermi Paradox, that complex societies inevitably destroy themselves by failing to solve fatal problems requiring collective action.
What numbers, claims? OP was speaking of personal experience.
Software engineers in NYC can make that out of college if they are competent interviews and negotiate their first salary
My favorite is the HR person who says "we can correct any errors that were made with your insurance retroactively, don't worry"

I am worried, though! Because I've got this deduction coming out of my paycheck for insurance, and your insurance provider just told me that they've never heard of me! Escalate!
While I agree with this reasoning, I wish it was used consistently; on other issues, people here frequently bring up things like redlining or (hypothetical) refusal of services in rural areas as examples of why companies shouldn't be allowed to choose their customers.
Your 11 year old is already growing in the most prosperous and safest times ever in the human history.
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Hi HN,

I'm Anu, the Co-Founder and CEO of NextDrop Technologies (https://nextdrop.co). We are a water marketplace for urban India- we connect water buyers with suppliers.

There are 400M people living in Indian cities today, but only 200M of them get reliable access to the public utility water. The other half have to buy private water, often from water trucks!

Water buyers have a problem because surprisingly, people are paying more for their water than for electricity. My friend who lives on the outskirts of Bangalore, India (a major urban city) paid $50 for water and $40 for electricity last month. The price of water has tripled in the last decade and is on track to continue. What’s worse is that since water is getting so expensive and scarce, water trucks are starting to source water from dodgy sources like highly polluted surface water and really deep wells.

Water suppliers have a problem because they service demand as it comes in. They lose money due to bad scheduling and inefficient truck utilization. Many people think that all water suppliers are part of a “water mafia”, but the interesting trend we are noticing is that there are a lot of micro entrepreneurs popping up in the last few years who have their own water source, buy a truck, and start selling water.

Our marketplace fixes the problems for both water buyers and suppliers. By installing our smart metering devices into consumers water storage tanks and transmitting data to our platform, we can predict when someone is running low on water and schedule a delivery. We track the the water from the filling source to the delivery using GPS, giving users confidence they received clean water. Qualified water suppliers make more money and buyers get clean water and transparency into pricing.

We just launched this summer and are piloting with 3 apartment complexes with 11,000 people. We have devices installed and transmitting data to our platform. By next month, we should have enough water data to start automating water deliveries.

We'll be around to answer questions and discuss water management and are excited to hear your feedback and experience in this area!
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Thanks for your replies guys, how likely is it to get sponsored by another company taking into account you already have experience in the US and currently live in the US? Also, is it possible for me to set up a startup if I wanted to? Thanks!!
That's not how the US presently works -- see things like the ADA or discrimination laws, which regulate how a business may deny service and what accommodations for customers they must provide.

It's not absurd that an essential civil service -- payment processing -- should be regulated to uphold our collective standards of freedom, and not use their privileged position to impose their private moral standards on society.
A USB to ethernet adapter will probably work for a wired connection.[1]

Gambiting mentioned elsewhere in the comments that you can install GNURoot from the Play store and run Linux along side Android.

I imagine there is, or soon will be, specific projects to pare down AOSP to the minimum required to run a server without all the extra stuff (that is, the Android part on top of Linux).

1: http://plugable.com/2015/01/22/new-plugable-usb-fast-etherne...
If you plug them into a Linux machine and turn on tethering they will show up as the ethernet interface usbx or so. You can then use dhclient to get an address (although you'll want to make sure it doesn't change your default gateway) or assign a reasonable address yourself.

Terminal IDE (on old phones) or termux on new ones should have enough packages to do whatever you want.

You can also grab any rootfs with the right arch and chroot into it if you have root. You can even static link busybox/dropbear and have most of the things you would use on a small server.
As many as you can? No.

LZW compression tries to remove as many bytes as possible from text, but it does not help readability. I know, you wouldn't LZW compress the source and then try to compile it. You can move in that direction, though, if you try to shorten the source too much.

Remove needless duplication. Remove lines where it improves clarity or structure. Absolute shortest source code is not a worthwhile goal.
A company with a high percentage of H-1B workers (there's a formula) can be deemed "H-1B dependent" and this then brings in an onerous set of requirements.
I laugh.

But it's unfair. They have a limited set of resources like everybody and they are working they ass off on so many projects already.

E.G: The whole international event on dota is just such a huge piece of work.
Who will buy products from such companies. They will have to compensate for the productivity from somewhere else.
No, probably not, but in the current conditions in the United States it's not like you have any choice as to whether you want to participate in for-profit medicine.
> Functions are first-class in python and can be passed as arguments to other functions. I'm not sure I understand what you mean with the above statement.

I believe the author is referring to inline definition:

setTimeout(function(){alert("Timed out!");}, 5000)

You can do something similar with lambdas in Python, but the allowed syntax is relatively limited compared to a full function definition. You could also define an inline function, but it'd be in a separate statement from the call you make with it. Unfortunately Python doesn't allow for creating and returning a first-class function in a single expression.
Problems are inevitable and we can solve them by using knowledge.
The same reason the Go 1.9 changelog won't be discussed in political forums, opinions on USA's political landscape surely has a better home on the Internet than here.
The tanker was broadcasting its position. That's how we have this nice visualization. I don't understand why you are talking about active systems. They should just have listened to AIS messages.

Likewise also don't understand why the article goes on and on about more clever ways the collision avoidance system could be programed. No collision avoidance system can help you if the operators of the stealthy war-machine drop the ball.
Same here. Philosophy and coding much later.
All through my twenties Aristotle to Sartre, read
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context.
If you don't pay a bill, there's no error. The subsequent hit to interest rates on something like a mortgage outweighs most minor medical bills.
Thanks Peter.

So, to get the work authorization I need to apply for a H1B Concurrent visa. Correct me If I am wrong.
They can just be for peace time situations like the past two collisions with container ships
haha, my GF had exactly same situation, fortunately for me she chose US!
Through an existing "regional center" company, $500k.
> Please, please just start charging for apps again. I specifically search for "pay once and never again" apps now.

To be honest - as an independent app store developer, these are REALLY hard to maintain just because you need to balance the need for ongoing development w/ servicing existing customers. Most app price points don't allow for this, since many customers are outraged that you would have the gall to even charge for an app (everything should be free, right?).

We've done well at doing both - and trying to add ONLY subscription services for features that are useful to users who use the app month over month.
But I thought climate change was a ruse perpetrated by liberals looking to find another way to tax? Just think of the jobs that would be lost if we were to take actually decisive action about this!
What is the likelihood of our precipitating a "methane gun" event?
Not Peter, not owner of a US company. You might want to consider an EB1, as an O1 that's not that painful / unrealistic (Source: did it that route).
They banned me 10+ years ago for violating the ToS (which apparently included being over 18 years old). I probably would have forgiven this (I did break the rules, after all) except for the fact that they elected to keep my money for 6 months and collect interest in the meantime.

However, that is what eventually got me into Bitcoin, so maybe I actually owe them some thanks for sucking so badly.
Honestly it's people like you who equate Trump supports with terrible people (or who equate Hillary supporters with terrible people) that are the problem. It's a spectrum of belief. Yeah there are white supremisitcs who like Trump, just like there were black militants who supported Obama. That said, what I believe it comes down to is people don't like to be challenged in their core beliefs. When they are, it engenders the spirit of contention, and some people get so offended by this (because they're not use to it) they'd rather shut their ears and shut out the source. In San Francisco this is especially true as the city is one giant echo chamber of liberal progressiveness, which is where I live as well as most of my "friends" who couldn't handle my opinions (I had kept my mouth shut about my political beliefs for years, so they got to know me devoid of that). Shows you what kind of "friends" they are (were).
Fair enough. By "different direction" I mean I was surprised by the upshot of the article: just build your apps to be more like the Starbucks model! Not, you know, that many apps are deliberately designed to capture and keep our attention, and it can be hard to discern where an app stands before trying it.
eBay allows payment without PayPal now. Like any other site that doesn't use PayPal.
Please tell me how a radar switched to off would give away the position of the ship in a war time situation.
Methane out-gassing is not a short-term catastrophe, it's a long-term one.
It's pretty bad, but the "portrait mode" on the camera can take some cool closeups: https://goo.gl/photos/EpkePUtebVFTbVQm7
A lot of them can be used just fine as a server with a fairly open OS. It's usually the GPU/camera/radios etc. that need special stuff, but things like USB (for networking) and flash work fine.

It's not even that hard to set up, go grab the kernel (some of qualcomm's kernels have these super crappy buildscripts that need python 2.x), build it, throw in busybox and dropbear, fastboot the image and you're good to go.
Is TypeScript one of your goto "transpile-to-js" languages? I'm a Python developer who is learning to love TypeScript. With TypeScript I feel like I can write maintainable, collaborateable JS.
Are there any drawbacks that you can think of with regards to having a green card instead of staying on H1B? The only thing I can think of is the fact that having the green card can potentially mean that there is potentially an exit tax to pay for high net worth individuals, assuming one wants to leave the US after more than eight years.

Also, if someone is on H1B and ends the visa (eg. break in employment), do future H1B applications have to go through the lottery again?

Thanks!
Well, at least half of that sentence is true.
Former senator David Boren writes in his book, Letter to America, that not only does this happen, it's actually a good thing for the United States because many of these US-educated folks go on to become leaders back home.

So if anything, their return to their home countries only solidifies American strength. For the time being, at least.
This is a complicated scenario and I would need to know all the facts to respond. Please email me offline.
As far as your provider is concerned, whether your insurance should pay or not isn't really their problem. I have never been somewhere that did not make me sign a form saying that I agreed to be responsible for whatever my insurance did not pay.
Financial services firms benefit from the regulatory framework provided by the State therefore it's not unreasonable that the State should make some stipulations of its own.

If you steal from PayPal we don't say "they're a private company, they knew the risks" do we?
I believe you are the creator of codebugapp and 3dheap. Both of these links go to nowhere. Just curious what happened.
We don't have that level of tech, you may as well have provided a story about merlin or gandalf.

It may well actually be the doom of civilization as we know it, and should be treated as the existential threat it might be. We should be funding science, legislating environmental protection and doing whatever else we can think of until we have magic or know this is safe.
I wouldn't be surprised if you were allowing speed to fall on those hills, while the cruise control systems were downshifting to get the power to maintain speed.
This is why adult-friendly payment processors like CCBill continue to flourish.
And that's a problem. Here's the discussion from last year.[0]

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11833009
It's pretty solid and, for medical residencies, its internal medicine program routinely draws from the same pool of applicants as MGH, NYP, and Sinai.

It's a pretty solid program all around.

(I didn't go there, but know plenty of folks that did.)
I think we're on the same page here. Javascript as a language is pretty opinion agnostic. Same with Node, it's just a runtime.

All I'm saying is JS is more than capable of scaling in both complexity and maintainability.
I am interested in moving into enterprise software sales to move into higher income brackets. Can you recommend any companies to work for?
If we get to 6 degrees global warming, it's probably into the mass extinction realm. (As in the Permian–Triassic (P–Tr or P–T) extinction event)

http://globalwarming.berrens.nl/globalwarming.htm
Is this a Resharper thing?
I wonder if this isn't part of the games that prosecutors play. It seems like prosecutors might request the largest amount of data possible, knowing that someone will object and they'll get only a fraction of that.

In general the logic in the article doesn't follow. It says 200 people have been charged, so why not request information relating only to those 200 people? Regardless, internet messages can't prove participation in a violent riot, so I would assume the prosecutors have other, harder, evidence. if not they're just wasting everyone's time.