skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related - "Deliberate Practice and Performance in Music, Games, Sports, Education, and Professions: A Meta-Analysis" - http://scottbarrykaufman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Macn...

Gives some context for the kinds of fields where deliberate practice improves performance.
Decentralize It
In these comments: A bunch of people who clearly didn't read the article.
Even worse as in "more exploitative". I was arguing that people, not the economic structure, are exploitative. So an economy where people are more free, there will be more exploitation (which isn't a fault of capitalism but of people). I'm very pro-free-market.
Traffic fatalities linked to marijuana are up sharply in Colorado
For comparison, average lifetime earnings in the US for someone with a degree are $1.8 million.
I've worked email queues. The customer's account will be full of auto-responders and it'll be impossible to find the real communications.
WR currently considers subdomains as a part of the main domain.

Most users like to know the full tech stack of a website. If there is a blog at blog.company.com and if it is using Intercom, it can be a useful data. I hope this makes sense.

Anyway, we will definitely address this concern and think about adding an option for subdomain separation.
I passed a lot of my math and physics courses even though the majority of my proofs were incorrect in some way. I didn't get full credit, but I got enough to get some.
Same Q as last time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14707266
Israel??
The second to the Bay Area in terms of Startups per capita.

Perhaps next time..
What advice would you have for someone who wants to immigrate from Canada to work in Silicon Valley but does not possess a post-secondary degree? Is there a particular visa that is well suited for tech workers without a post-secondary education?
We have not found this to be the case. A lot of times it is about getting the resume to the right person. There are numerous examples of high paying jobs at great companies being secured by direct cold-applying. So the good news is it can be done!
I think that's about right. I periodically get something along the lines of "I'm one of the 50,000 people who went to one of the same schools you did and I'm interested in a job at your company." I might exchange some info but I'm certainly not going to bat for someone I have a very peripheral connection with.

On the other hand, every job I've gotten since school has been very directly through someone I had worked with in some manner and knew well. In none of the cases did I go through a standard application process.
Glad you made the move. Thank you for the info, will explore more.

I have changed jobs about 5 times, each time the new employer had to redo the I-140 (retaining the priority date from the first application).

The whole process is so broken. My colleagues from east Europe could get their green card within a year of application and yet Im forced to wait for years!
What about top C++ books? Also when it comes to advancing iterators...
My point was that 3.5ms frames are close to that limit.

The nervous system is pretty slow. Each action potential takes about a millisecond, and is followed a refractory period of another 1-2 milliseconds or so. This limits the speed of transmission in the nervous system generally.

The visual system, specifically, is even slower. There's a fairly complicated electrochemical cascade that turns photons into electrical impulses in rods and cones, and it's not fast. Drum (1982) describes several attempts at measuring the latencies of cones. The exact value depends on several factors like adaption levels and the visual stimuli, but they're all in the tens of milliseconds.
Immutability and loops
Hackish? This is a great design: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Mai...
True, they did make a choice. The nuance I'm interested in is whether a person in this situation would reasonably assume they would lose their job, or promotion opportunities, etc, if they didn't do the illegal task as asked. And if so, does that create a civil liability?
What does "Winning Chances" mean? It is often very different from "Winning % By Country".
Having worked in email queues, filters are nowhere near good enough. Nothing is more infuriating than wasting hours on bounces.
I think you mean reference with & (e.g. &x == &y)
Aww, man, no love for Raleigh/Durham? :-(
No one is bragging. They are just talking. And the point isn't that no kid can cope with massive exposure to technology, it's that now, all kids have access to it. A kid from the 90s who grew up on it was probably pretty smart to be able to access that stuff, and could potentially cope better with it than another kid (although you can have very poor social development and still get paid a lot, so the job thing doesn't really prove anything) - now, all kids have access, if their parents let them.

I'm not saying it's bad, necessarily. I'm just concerned by the lack of logic in a lot of these pro-technology responses.
> no <>s and such

Funny. The first thing that came to mind was:

import (
bar "github.com/name/bar"
baz "github.com/name/baz"
foo "github.com/name/foo"
foo_bar "foo<A=bar, B=baz>"
)
I'm not an expert on the economy and I can't speak for other immigration attorneys but I know that many of our clients are creating good businesses and hiring local US workers.
or.. you know, a reply-to header where real emails can be sent to...
Hypothetically, we could improve the situation by instituting "blind" peer reviews. Maybe even salt the submissions with some fake research, just to see if reviewers are rubber-stamping.
If anything, this article only highlights the fact that it's very difficult to get the attention of investors. It demonstrates how important networking has become but I do understand the point about 'empty connections' - I've tried the cold approach in the past.

What it says basically is that you have to be really talented first and have done a lot of work... After that all you can do is wait and hope that you get lucky; try to network slowly but don't try too hard to the point of scaring away investors.

In my case, I started an open source project, it's somewhat popular within its niche - To most people it means nothing at all but on a few occasions I met people who knew about my project and when I told them about my work their eyes lit up and they treated me quite positively (E.g. they try to hire me).
I applied, gave up, just didn't feel like it was all worth it in the end and now work in industry.
I wouldn't say it's a well written article, it's confusing and ambiguous regarding the sentenced individual's role and position in the company. That makes all the difference between this being a slap on the wrist or a more meaningful reprimand.
TLDR, an article by someone who doesn't know how email works nor how companies use email queues.
>Sure, people died as a far downstream result of a bunch of cars polluting a lot more than they supposedly did

Breaking antipollution rules was pretty close upstream. Say boss wants to dumps cyanide into water supply, asks you to switch samples used for testing. Close enough for me to blow whistle.

It's pretty well known NOx shorten our lives (NOx + H20 = nitric acids in lungs)

>a bunch of cars polluting a lot more than they supposedly did
40x in NOx

They knew and pushed us into them (anyone else advertised diesel?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNS2nvkjARk

Lastly it's the particles Pm2.5 Pm10. Especially dangerous to children

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25947213
You proved my point, if US did what Euro countries do to us, European pharma companies would lose their primary profit source. It's a wealth drain from US citizens to Europe.
It's always about who shares your own biases or persuades you his simulation of what you expect is adequate to fool you a'la Faceless Man.
Yes, you have the option of being cap-exempt and using the balance of your 6 years.
Interesting idea, but I suspect if you tried it you'd quickly run into practical limitations. I know people who've tried running build farms with "development board" hardware have found that the stress of 24x7 100% compute hits kernel bugs or overheating issues that 'normal use' doesn't, and I suspect mobile phones would be similar. The pace of phone evolution means you'd have an ongoing effort to get new kinds of devices into your 'cluster' (figuring out how to root them, identifying how to network them, rigging up some kind of custom rack-mounting hardware, etc). And there'd be a bigger turnover of 'replace expired device' than with fewer newer designed-for-server nodes.

The paper also suggests running a hypervisor on these, but I suspect you'd find that firmware/boot rom locks you out of EL2 (hypervisor mode) on most hardware.
I meant a situation where an emergency happened outside your car and autopilot required you to take control (not without warning). Did you feel like you were more or less capable of dealing with an emergency on the road when you had been using autopilot, than you would have had autopilot not been previously engaged?
Because crimes against the environment are a capital crime. Death to everyone that works there and their families, right?
Ah, the old "Be liberal in what you send out, be conservative in what you receive" approach.
> It seems feasible that it could be developed and deployed in ≈25 years at a cost of a few trillion dollars, <0.5% of world gross domestic product (GDP) over that time.

Much more optimistic numbers than I had previously guessed.
The article does not make that obvious -- it only mentions that Liang was an executive in the third-to-last paragraph, after referring to him as a "former engineer".

It's also possible that Liang was an engineer at the time of the crime, and then was moved to an executive position:

> Liang is still employed by Volkswagen but no longer works as an engineer.
> I wouldn't support the US reneging on its current security agreements, particularly with Japan, since we forced them into their current pacifist regime, but if South Korea, Japan and/or NATO wanted the US out, I wouldn't oppose it.

Why? If US does nothing for their security, then there's zero point of US spending money on it. It is like code - if the line is NOOP, then it should just go.
I ordered extra hard-copies for my mom and grandmother, I think they cared more about the papers in Nature/Science then anyone else.
Without commenting on the article itself I see nothing suspicious. Indeed, he may have come up with the idea while studying some forms of ancient computation then gone looking for more evidence.

I wouldn't cast aspersions as lightly as this.
I, for one, am glad to see Gothenburg getting more love. It would be nice to see some investment in Malmö as well, as it is lower cost and more easily accessible by airport (Copenhagen).
I would have an attorney evaluate your background - through review of a resume and a follow-up call - to see what you might qualify for.
Auto relies could easily be weeded out with some simple code.
It's not just anonymized, it's aggregated. I suppose the phrasing is slightly ambiguous, but my impression is that they don't sell "anonymized OR aggregated" data but "anonymized AND aggregated".
Not a problem. Thanks a million for all your help to us all here.
That's an interesting definition of "executive". I guess journalism these days can make an exec out of anyone - can't wait to read about e.g. a toilet cleaning executive.
Perhaps this membrane is also interesting for electricity production. From the abstract:

CNTPs block anion transport, even at salinities that exceed seawater levels

High salinity levels that occur in some mining processes could produce electricity via pressure-retarded osmosis. Reaching adequate flow rates through membranes has been a barrier to this tech in the past [1].

As a slightly off-topic question: Does anyone know of any industrial processes where high volumes of fluids with high salinity concentrations occur? I am doing some research on where this technology could be applied.

[1] www.nature.com/articles/nature11477
Hi, post docs in the USA often hold J1 Visas. Afaik this means: no intention to immigrate, and no right to start a business. But life plans may change, and thus both these may become problems. What advice do you have for entrepreneurially minded researchers w/o the right to act on it?
Obviously if the percentage of drivers testing positive for marijuana went up, but the number of fatal accidents stayed the same, then we would just be seeing a demographic shift, but no possible causal link.

The first half of the article doesn't address this, which left me wondering how real the effect was. However, near the end: "The 2013-16 period saw a 40 percent increase in the number of all drivers involved in fatal crashes in Colorado, from 627 to 880"

That kind of move is at least worthy of further scrutiny.
Yes, a change to Java would require a large architecture change. Notably from mainframes to something a little bit more familiar to most people.

But when Cobol works, is blisteringly fast, and they can afford to hire and train people to work with it, I don't see the benefits of Java, at all. Especially not at the enormous costs of a major architecture re-work in systems that are live 24/7, and downtime is counted in milliseconds.

Having to work around the JVM is just icing on the cake.
I've never seen it. I'm sure that works "in theory"
I should, first, thank you for doing an Istanbul meetup in Europe, than say Paris.

The reason? Turkey is accessible for more nationals of less fortunate countries. It is still accessible to most Europe too.

But given Turkey issues with ISIS recently, it would have been better to consider other countries. For example, having a Turkish stamp can be an issue while accessing Germany.

Some alternatives: Casablanca, Tunis, and Belgrade.

They are cheap, have touristic resorts and also beer friendly :)

Edit: Looking at Asia now, it would be better to have the meetup in Hong Kong than in Singapore. Both are world-class cities and HK is accessible to more nationals.
This shows purescript winning by about twice. It also has more stars on github.

I know you aren't OP, but it doesn't sound like they have jack shit to back up their statements.
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I would recommend including complete copies of the leases and monthly bank account statements covering the two years if possibly.
One of the publicity videos for this talks about the Babylonian base-60 system allowing them to write down fractions more accurately than we can. This is bunk. You can't write down one-third exactly as a base 10 decimal, but you can work with it exactly by writing it down as 1/3. It's more laborious, and probably the Babylonians found base-60 very useful, but given we have obscenely powerful computers it's probably useless to us as a practical matter.
Since stopping CO2 levels from rising is nigh impossible, the only option left it seems is something drastic like this (I'm reminded of Futurama where they drop a giant ice cube into the ocean every once in a while). It has the added benefit of being able to be done without depending on everyone else changing their habits.

I have a feeling that there are a bunch of these "plan B" solutions to our global climate change problem. It's that they are mostly just giving us more time before we have to actually deal with the problem. If the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation ever comes to a halt then we are really screwed, so if there's anything which could prevent that from happening it might be worth the risk.
> change society to be fairer

I hope by this you mean "Rewards come from hard work and delayed gratification" rather than "take from the rich, give to the poor".
I'm in this boat as well. I think I have enough experience to get through something like a TN under the Scientific Technician label, might be something that you want to look under too. The biggest problem is just finding someone that would be willing to sponsor that and jump through those hoops.

Also see this answer about H1B: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15099615
VW has agreed to pay out up to $25 billion in buybacks and fines.
Anybody in graphics design for more than 5 minutes any time in the last 25 years knows what a PSD file is. Because you are not familiar with a (defacto) industry standard doesn't make it non-standard.

The Adobe PSD file format is documented in painful detail here https://www.adobe.com/devnet-apps/photoshop/fileformatashtml...

The format is binary and extremely convoluted, in part because it attempts to maintain compatibility with 20 years of versions of Photoshop. Because of this complexity, I am unaware of any program that can read or write a PSD file that supports all features of Photoshop. I am in fact aware of no non-Adobe program that will read and write a Photoshop file with editable text layers (including Gimp).
There are a few gotchas but you can do it. Mostly you need to put you multi-line chain call inside parentheses if it is not already inside a function call or data structure (similarly to generator expressions).

For example I often end up doing:

something(
"Template string {thing}"
.format(thing=33)
)
I just start to respond to the recruiters that ping me weekly.
If you want to waste money on resolving 6 month out of date vacation replies than be my guest.
Dandelion: Redesigning the Bitcoin Network for Anonymity
They didn't actually find that microbes talk to the brain through cortisol. They just found an association between gut microbes, cortisol and the brain.

We already know that the brain influences gut microbes through cortisol. So why did they not say that this is the most likely route for communication, rather than speculating on an unproven association in the other direction?

I find it odd that these studies keep popping up, and HN users keep voting for them. It seems there is a great desire for people to want to blame bacteria for autism/depression/IBS/CFS, rather than accepting a neurological or psychiatric cause.

Now, I'm not saying this stuff shouldn't be researched. Of course it should. It's just sad that people automatically assume the direction of causation is the unlikely one (gut->brain), rather than the one we know for certain exists (brain->gut). (And yes, we do know there is a gut-brain pathway, but generally it is just active during infections).
> That's sounds pretty easy to solve

Everything does if you just glance at someone's comment online and dash one off.

How do you recognize which is the sensitive content and which isn't? How do you handle the case where you send out HTML emails, but the response strips all of the HTML and sends plain text back?
Shotgun networking, where you go to meetups just to get as much facetime and intro's as possible but with no real connection to people, is overrated.

But thoughtfully targeted networking where you're able to identify a small number of people who have something of unique value to you, and then bring something of similar value to them, resulting in a potential mutually high-value collaboration, is not overrated.
Scalable and Provably Secure P2P Communication Protocols
I loved reading this, but, yeah, there's an AppleCare for unexpected random freak accidents and another that covers true accidents.
Messy bedroom could spell end for creepy crawlies
My point was less about whether or not they should be trusted, but that unless you're running your own email server, it's a third party, by definition :)
Awesome, but I wish it would support multiple edges and self loops.
Eh, let me know when I can connect my phone to the computer and have it mounted as a mass storage device, then I'll accept that the arguments are invalid.
I've heard it from various sources. I'll scratch my head today to see what I can recall for specifics. On first bluff, I think David McCullough's books touch on this in places.
It has only kept up because it receives billions in subsidies. Most of the ag subsidies go to animal based agriculture or agriculture for animal's food (soy, corn, etc). The productivity improvements are artificially inflated.

Cows and pigs need lots of water and lots of food (soy, corn, etc). Considering all of the required space for the animals, and the space to grow the food for the animals, and all of the required gallons of water for the animals and to grow their food, and all of the antibiotics the animals are given, then no, its not sustainable or scaleable.

I don't know where you got the idea that they are keeping up with productivity improvements, or if you are simply making assumptions. The meat is the lowest quality its ever been and line speeds are too fast to be properly inspected. Animals have to be given so much antibiotics and medications.
You can buy Glucophage SR and Metformin SR online in the UK pretty easily, google and it's in the first 10 results.
> I know people who've tried running build farms with "development board" hardware have found that the stress of 24x7 100% compute hits kernel bugs or overheating issues

Interesting data points. Have any of these folks written a blog article on the subject?
4 Members of Node.js Technical Steering Committee Leave and Create Fork Ayo.js
> but will the executives involved be held to the same legal standard

Yes, they will, but Germany will not extradite them. They already made that clear.
And it is very unlikely that the german court system will prosecute them. Haven't heard
anything yet, because this might inflict the politicians who backed this Diesel
emission testing system for decades. They didn't even go to the technical root yet.

Only one made the mistake to go for his holidays to Florida, so he was caught.
Interesting. I had read that Paul Graham's startup Viaweb, which was originally written mainly in Lisp (with some C and maybe some Perl) was rewritten in some other language some time after Yahoo! acquired them. And it looks like something similar happened with Reddit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit
Thorium reactor starts up
Are you kidding? $3.6 million is enough to retire and live comfortably for the rest of your life.
I understand the timeline for EB2 and EB3, but for Startup based visas like O1A, EB5, others if any isn't the timeline less for China and India?
Quick hack to forward webhooks data to websocket without dedicated server
>well, sure, but ten years ago it was already a given that one would just spawn one event loop per thread and have them communicate with messages, so why is it so hard for node ?

This is exactly how backend Node.js development is done. The tradeoff is that processes are used instead of threads, which uses more memory but is magnitudes easier to work with than traditional threads where mutable bits of memory are shared.

Sure, Rust solves these problems but Node still has a place in the world: it is established, easy to pick up, and can share code with the browser. A decent solution to modern web development complexity.
Russia invading Europe is what's stopping us.
Germany, in a First, Shuts Down Left-Wing Extremist Website
Will iOS and macOS continue individually? Or will they merge into ‘AppleOS’?
I don't have the technical background to know if this is a pie-in-the-sky kind of thing, but it seems like an amazing idea. It reminds me of the "Icarus array" from the book "Echopraxia" by Peter Watts. Of course, this wouldn't harvest energy but just absorb it.
Just because you don't see people doing it now doesn't make it impossible.

People passively use fossil fuels because they are the norm. It will take investment from both our government, from private industry, and from grassroots activists pressuring both to make the norm clean and sustainable.
Well... Who identifies whar to strip? Who ensures that an email that is sent by an engineer in a department will definitely go through the sanitization?

Like another poster said, people can build their flaws into machines.