skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree: the article may well be right that a cold-calling style of 'networking' doesn't do much, but it doesn't seem to have anything to suggest that the good oldfashioned "having the right parents" kind is no good.
You brake before getting close to whatever you want to rendevous with. You couldn't brake if you wanted to hit the nozzle of your mass driver to use it for braking.
Very unlikely that it does this client side. I presume the extension basically makes an API call with the url of the current site.
I think it is a bit unfair to call anchoring 'irrational'. It is a heuristic for figuring out how much I should pay for something, and it works pretty well for a lot of situations. Sure, it can be exploited by people who know what they are doing, and it can lead us to pay too much sometimes or refuse to pay a fair amount other times, but on the whole it works pretty well.
You need to supplement with calcium and B-12 [1], though... but B-12 supplementation causes cancer [2]. Oh, well...

[1]: https://selfhacked.com/blog/uses-benefits-metformin/

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15099760
Not everything can be patented and some folks have ethical concerns about keeping research open. Not to mention, you pretty much have to publish once you get into grad school.

If you're going for your Ph.D. then your goal is to further the art.
Is this actually a cryptocurrency? Kind of seems like its just a centralized legder of rewards points - which wouldn't make for a very interesting article.

Can users transfer whoppercoin between each other without hitting BK's servers? Can you mine whoppercoin? Are the coins secured with a private key?
I take the middle way: Add root Comodo and one other CA as valid fingerprints.

Now an attacker would not only need to execute the MITM attack (which is actually pretty easy and pretty common, which I think you're downplaying, but whatever) but they also need to have hacked one of two CA providers that reside in the USA.

If my threat vector is passive collection by state actors or state supported actors like some cyber criminals, then I've mitigated most of if. Only the USA could still easily get my site. But I have to trust them anyway because they create my computer (including CPU, network adapter, and OS), Github account, email, router, and phone. Short of using a 0day or something similar against my server, which I admit is possible, the attacker cannot easily bulk collect / fabricate / tamper requests to and from my server.

I agree it isn't perfect, but it's good enough.
GIMP doesn't support Smart Objects. This alone makes it not usable for professional work, when compared to Photoshop. The cost of the latter is nothing if you are getting paid for your work.

https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/10-things-you-need-to-...
It is absolutely not destroyed but I'm more hesitant about choosing it than I used to be.
What to Consider Before Investing in ICO
This is that astute criticism of the personal essay genre I have been looking for. The disgust with self-absorption disguised as art is something that I had been feeling strongly but not been able to articulate in so many words. Many thanks for sharing.
They aren't mutually exclusive. As a researcher/engineer, whenever we publish in a top tier journal the company usually files for patents on the main contribution too.
Two questions; thanks for the AMA!

- Does Premium Processing I-140 actually decrease the total time to green card for concurrently filed cases? (i.e. does USCIS really do work on 485 even before 140 is fully adjudicated?)

- How early would it be "safe" to quit job and start a tech startup after green card is issued for a software engineer at a bigco?
GIMP doesn't support Smart Objects.. a huge shortcoming
Companies should definitely have an easily-discovered means of contacting them if you have a concern about an email you received.

But actually allowing replies to the email itself is just asking to get a lot of low-quality spammy replies that now you have to pay someone to wade through.
So basically for a person on H1B to startup, can we take below as steps ? Please correct me if i am wrong !

1. A decide's to startup.

2. A find's 2 US citizens B & C as co-founders.

3. A gives idea to B & C and asks them to build a PRODUCT.

4. A takes 49% ownership, B & C takes 25.5 % ownership.

5. B & C finished building a MVP or SLC PRODUCT.

6. B & C apply for VC Fund.

7. B & C get X fund from Z.

8. B & C incorporate a COMPANY.

9. COMPANY sponsors H1B for A and hires A as co-founder.

10. A joins COMPANY.

11. A & B & C continue building their PRODUCT.

12. PRODUCT becomes successful.

13. A applies for STARTUP based Visa.

14. A becomes US Citizen

15. A starts COMPANY B.

Kindly tweak or update to fix any mistake in this process. I think it will be of great help to many and benefit everyone.
Networking is like smoking, people like doing it and when people like doing things they start thinking that it is actually beneficial.
Thank you! And yes, we've definitely thought about this market segment as well. We are actually of the opinion that water can delivery will eventually die out. If you do the math, it's actually more cost effective to buy a water filter for drinking water. Water filtration technology is getting cheaper, more people are buying in home filters, and we're trying to get them the cleanest water possible to their homes.
I maintain that the biggest inefficiency of how we practice capitalism today is that it is casting aside the ability for people to contribute to society to their full potential. And as we advance economically, it seems that inefficiency is expanding to more and more people.
The thing is, I used to have no problem with free apps with in-app purchases, because that used to indicate that you just got a free sample (e.g. a few levels of a game) and the option to purchase the full game. I have no problem with in-app purchases that aren't depletable, like "gems," but I don't see that model any more either.
"Dear Player"
So then how are people still getting HIV?

When thinking about the ethical implications you have to take the real world into consideration, not the perfect world.
I'll start looking for an immigration lawyer right away since this is the only loose end.

If things go really wrong my passport stamp is good for one year and from what I understand I'll still be a permanent resident, it'll just be more difficult for me to demonstrate that.
My father was a postdoc in the 90s, having gotten his master's and Ph.D. here in the states. Mother has a Ph.D. as well. My family and Taiwanese, and I knew about this issue growing up. This doesn't just affect our family, it also affects the other Taiwanese families I am aware of.

The difference was that, back then, if we were to go back to Taiwan, there wasn't a guarantee that a US-trained Ph.D. would get any sort of employment.

It is similar, yet different with China: in the past 5 years, I have seen China, flushed with cash (from, you know, Americans) aggressively investing. Infrastructure investment is the most obvious -- for example, ambitious rail plans that not only stretch across China, but also into Europe and Africa. There is also an aggressive investment in cultural influence as well. (For example, trying to get Wushu recognized as an official Olympic sport).

And then there is advanced research. There are two teams in the world that researches quantum tunneling communication, and one of them is a Chinese team who was a protege of the PI of the only other team trying to pull it off. There is massive investment into AI/ML, into space, into military (both a carrier program as well as asymmetric military technologies such as drone carriers).

A postdoc in America doesn't really get much respect, not in the way the Chinese and Taiwanese do. You could struggle here in America, writing research grants, and your family doesn't know or doesn't even care. Or you could be offered being a director of a lab with a lot of funding. Family members and neighbors might not know the science behind what you do, yet they admire and respect you.

I remember this documentary about the creation of the Three Gorges Dam and the displacement of some families along that river. They showed a girl in a family who was sent off to work on the cruise ships for tourists who wanted to see the Three Gorges before it got flooded. The family needed money so they sent their daughter off -- a very Chinese things to do. The girl didn't want to work and the mother is telling her, sorry, this is for the family. You know what dream the girl was giving up? It wasn't an entertainer, or an entrepreneur. She wanted to become a scientist. She saw scientists as the heroes.

That's something I never hear in America.

I think a lot of people in the West forget that (despite the Cultural Revolution), the Ming dynasty Chinese at its ascendent had more reach, technological prowess, and industry of any other society ... and they deliberately turned inward: completed the Great Wall of China, recalled the exploration fleets, shut down their massive network of steel foundries, just before the time the Europeans were starting to explore and to colonize. China has had many cycles of empire expansions, consolidations, and fragmentations.

And I see America making the same mistakes ...
The explanation I got (from somebody else a while back) is this: DMA is only fast if it's accessed in large blocks, but memcpy is not designed to work that way.

The hw accelerated jpeg decoding on the Jetson TK1 is backed by something called NVMM. I suspect it's a small chunk of memory that is closer to the special hw decoder, not part of the main 2 GiB RAM. When you decode jpeg, you get a DMA-mapped pointer to it.

When you memcpy from it, memcpy tries to copy the data one byte at a time (or in very small chunks, if vectorized). So what happens is that in order to copy data from a large block of DMA-mapped memory, memcpy makes many requests for single bytes or very small chunks, but DMA ends up fetching and staging the same large block multiple times for memcpy to read.

The same problem applies to any other operation that reads from the DMA-mapped memory in very small chunks. There is also no way to make the DMA-mapped pixel data directly available to a CUDA context, which is what Jetson board users would probably care about.

I'm not usually a system programmer so my explanation may be a bit fuzzy or inaccurate, but that's the gist of it.
Much better article here:
http://www.newsbtc.com/2017/08/23/burger-king-russia-launche...

Not a cryptocurrency, but a cryptotoken on the Waves platform.

Seems like:

>Can users transfer whoppercoin between each other without hitting BK's servers?

yes

> Can you mine whoppercoin?

No

> Are the coins secured with a private key?

Yes
Deliberately misusing technical terms isn't a good way to keep those who see the errors reading. It makes you look inexperienced on the matter, or sloppy in editing.

Either way, this little black duck is done with it.
Nobody mentioned netcraft!
The only time Java was cool was in 1995.

Has been cool the last few years as well.
It would more likely end up in a place like this, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agbogbloshie
I waited for 3 years in a top American company and I concluded that I will be wasting all my productive years for a GreenCard.

What use is a GreenCard to me when I am old ?

What will happen to my kid's school and education if I am forced to move from one location to another ?

What if I buy a home and I cant live in that because I have to move to another state ?

Why can't I accept job roles which differs 50% than the one in my PERM ?

Why should I redo my LCA if the next job is more than 50 miles ?

Should I stay put in a place and do not ask for salary raise till I get my greencard ?

To hell with all these draconian immigration system.

So I opened up my stackoverflow careers for jobs in Canada, landed a job and they processed my temporary work permit(in 4 months time). Landed in Canada in 2014 and within 1 year we became a permanent residents through the Express Entry program. We bought a home recently.

Salary:

Since I was on H1B, I was given very less (110K) compared to American counterparts who does the same job. But the Canadian employer did not see me like an indentured servant. I was paid more than the US salary. (conversion considered).

The quality of schools I cannot comment because we do not have any kids yet.

Spouse can work !

My wife could not work in the US (She is a masters degree holder). She was sitting in the apartment watching Indian TV channels all day and trying out new dishes. I knew she was getting frustrated day by day.

My wife got a job within 2 months after landing in Canada befitting her education and experience.

We didn't mind the cold. We cared for equal treatment, freedom in life, acceptance and a peaceful life. We got everything as we expected after moving here. We have started to enjoy our life now.
This person appears to be serious, unfortunately.
I was a huge Valve fanboy at one point, so it really pains me to see what they've become. They are clearly still able to make great games, because at its core, Dota 2 is still a great game. But they've bundled it with a gambling platform targeted squarely at teenage children.

I suspect their next game, the Dota 2 themed collectible card game, is going to go down a similar route, since Hearthstone has already demonstrated how a gambling-based business model can be applied with overwhelming success to a collectible card game.

At this point, I doubt they have any interest in investing in any game that's not amenable to that ethically appalling, but probably overwhelmingly profitable business model.
Another Ethereum DAAP – Would you trust in a online lottery?
But why buy it over a comparatively cheap single board computer?
"These languages aren't "stuck" there, it's just that it takes time to optimize"

Another thing is that we have CPU architecture that is optimized for a one size fits all system when it comes to personal computing. If we truly wanted power from higher level, more expressive languages and programming systems, we would have architecture designed for those systems.

If you want to experiment with truly new programming languages and environments, you probably have to experiment with hardware too. Our present reality makes this difficult to change, which is really too bad.
Introducing the SRVB Cryptosystem
And a crazy amount of "I'm on vacation" auto replies.
The worst part is that it used to allow panning outside the canvas. At some point, they broke it in fullscreen (or non-fullscreen, I don't remember). Then they broke it in the other mode. They also removed the option to hide all windows with the tab key, which was extremely useful when working on a small screen. And they also moved all their color filters into another large window you have to open, obscuring your canvas. It's clear that they develop this app on a massive screen, and give no thoughts to the people who might want to use it on a 13'' MacBook.
Thank you for your response!

I have actually contacted an immigration attorney and she said that I would have a strong case for NIW EB2 (not EB1) application.

However, I'm still not sure if I should go the OPT->H1B-> permanent resident route or apply to EB2 for a faster outcome.

I know that companies have lost interest in employing foreigners so the EB2 might come handy in the job search.
As well as:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15098189

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15097301

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15094190
Thanks for reading this far anyway!
I'm one of those lucky software engineers in the Bay Area that happens to be married to a teacher and I can 100% confirm that they are real hustlers at what they do. Every time I get home after a hard day of work and listen to what her day was like it humbles me and makes me really appreciate the awesome job that teachers do in our society. She is always super tired but super happy and satisfied at the same time.
Great idea, Anu. Congratulations on the launch.

How much does the devices cost? I assume since this is mostly used by apartment complexes, it should not be a problem to convince them to pay one time device cost. But independent house owners would not be willing to pay the device cost, are you also planning for a 'Uber for Water Tankers' style ordering in this scenario?
That's a myth. Facebook maintains detailed data profiles on non-users.
And bounces, and out of office autoresponders, and so on
How many keystrokes do you have left before you die?
Your obligation is to employ people who are authorized to work in the US and not to knowingly employ people who aren't authorized to work in the US. So, once you learn that an employee isn't authorized to work, your obligation is to terminate the employment relationship. You have no further obligation to report this person to the government.
Apple's needed for some time to create a "demo" category and/or feature for apps, with upgrades to those distinct from consumable or add-on purchases. Mixing all that together is part (though only part) of why I avoid browsing the app store.
If you develop and maintain the app yourself. People hire teams to develop apps all the time and not always for some larger/high-margin business.
In fact my pay increased, I know many think that Canadian employers pay less or something. But if you get the right employer, they pay good enough. My spouse also works now. So we together bring home a good chunk of bacon.
Oh, I wasn't aware you can receive other ship's AIS position updates while your own system wasn't active.

Even in that case, it's the same as the passive sonar example I illustrated: the ship is there and you can see it, but they didn't avoid it anyway. Failure of communication.
This was released recently but not sure if this is the exact same scenario you are talking about or if it is just a probability update on the worse case scenario based on similar studies of the phenomena.

https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/natural-methane-time-bomb-unli...
Google drove cars taking pictures of every street around the world and even sent people with camera backpacks up mountains and the like.

It's not hard to imagine them doing something similar with DNA, beginning in public spaces like restaurants and coffee shops, before pursuing further out nodes on the graph.
I think he's complaining about the fact that lambdas in Python can't be multiline. The equivalent in Javascript can be as big as you want. That means in Python you have to separately define your function and then refer to it, whereas in JS you can just give it all in one go.

JS:

doThing(function(){
blah();
de();
blah();
});

Python:

def thing_doer():
blah()
de()
blah()

doThing(thing_doer)
Ask HN: How is anonymous / distributed data hosting even possible?
I've been watching a few videos on distributed web (using everyones device as a port to connect to each other and share information), but I don't understand where the data would be hosted?

Also, following on the effective censorship of unpopular speech this month, people are now talking about ICANN and "giving them the ability to now take our domains."

EFF and First Amendment lawyers are also concerned about recent developments.

It appears, then, that there will be a lot of press now towards a free, anonymous net. But how can it exist in terms of material systems? Where would the data be hosted? What would connect the material?
The Adventure of the Final Intel AMT Problem
Same here. I would attend the event for sure.
Hm, I believe that the templates will be inlined in your elements in build step. Or at least easly can be, since I also did components with separate preprocessed css, separate js and HTML template.
When Dark Humor Stops Being Funny
Perhaps. But you should experience some of the "networking" advice that is foisted on the average job-seeker, fresh out of college or otherwise.

One reason it is difficult for some people; it reeks of superficiality if not insincerity.
Correct, avoid people they will suck your time and energy. Be very selfish with your time, you will never get a nano-second back
I don't want to take issue with your attorney's assessment because she knows your background better but oftentimes people underestimate their EB1A qualifications and go down the wrong path.
Technology used to be a bit more immune to cronyism in the past, now it's epidemic for anything above grunt positions - for grunts grueling interviews are in place, for higher ups it's now totally who knows whom and who does something for whom. I want to throw up every time my organization posts a new job position at a higher level and I get bombarded by managers inquiring if their friend or two can't get in there, bypassing whoever would be deserving the spot by working at a lower level - frankly, I don't understand how those people can look into a mirror...
The thing is, if 23andMe ever goes bankrupt and/or gets sold to another company, that privacy policy won't mean squat. This isn't a theoretical concern either: data aggregators like Experian are constantly vacuuming up the corpses of failed startups for their data. Considering that once your generic profile is compromised, it's forever (not just for you, but for all your relatives and descendants) and there's nothing you can do, do you want to risk that 23andMe will exist, with no management changes that might undo the policy, indefinitely?
Researchers identify cheaper, greener biofuels processing catalyst
> I could drive a German luxury car

...and then your mechanic will curse you for having a vehicle that is insanely difficult (and expensive) to repair (hang out on /r/justrolledintotheshop for a little while to see what I mean - "service position" anybody? Or what about the carnage to fix a simple heater core?)...
An editor from Toptal here! Here's the summary we sent out in our newsletter today. It serves as a good summary:

Introducing the new Santana Rocha-Villas Boas (SRVB) cryptosystem. A new free and public cryptosystem, simpler than Elliptical Curve Cryptography (ECC) and cheaper than RSA.

In this article Toptal Freelance Software Engineer and mathematician Yuri da Silva Villas Boas will give you an introduction to the principles behind public-key cryptosystems and the SRVB cryptosystem, developed by the author and Prof. Daniel Santana Rocha. The algorithm authors are also creating a campaign that includes a financial reward to anyone who manages to crack the code.
Fascinating! Specifically with respect to NAFTA & its possible renegotiation.

It also makes me realize how terrifying it must be for major manufacturers to site capital-intensive factories. Wrong country? Or country that becomes wrong country a decade later? 25% tariff.
It's not the developer's responsibility, but yes an app from 2008 should never stop working.
That would be rather difficult :-) I wonder sometimes however if you've ever dropped a magnet down a conductive pipe you see how the eddy currents prevent it from falling through. If you had series of conductive rings that were of a large diameter and you had electromagnets on the outside of your cargo container could you make a landing pad that primarily used the eddy currents to slow you to landing velocity? That would be a fun problem to give the physics class.
I would say that PHD is not a waste of time only if you plan to stay in academia. If writing papers and chasing grants is your jam, go for it.

If you are looking for one more thing for your CV, don't bother with phd.
I completely agree. In my career so far I have had six different jobs. Five of them came from personal connections with people who I had directly worked with before, either professionally or as a student. Two of them didn't even require interviews!
Hi, i'm looking in possibility of setting up subsidiary for US firm for which i'm currently working as contractor to qualify for L1 visa after next year of work.

I'm curious about last sentence in subsidiary definition:

"(parent) owns, directly or indirectly, less than half of the entity, but in fact controls the entity."

What are possible examples of control without ownership?
What legal documents can be provided to prove such relationship?