skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you about false machismo. I'm trying not to say that hard-to-use tools are essentially good. I am saying that some essentially good tools are not very new-user-friendly, and that worrying excessively about the new-user experience has been detrimental overall.

One reason for that is the "new user experience" for a more powerful system will imply learning some things that are not directly relevant to whatever problem you are trying to solve. Excel worksheets, layers in Illustrator, "command mode" in vi and Blender, etc., are more like gas/brake pedals than they are like "do you want directions to this destination?" I don't see how you can avoid thrusting some learning on new users of a powerful system. Powerful systems are going to have powerful metaphors that are probably not totally intuitive at first.

You can do more stuff with Illustrator than Omnigraffle. It's a more powerful tool. That brings with it a longer or steeper learning curve. But, if you just want to make a few charts, Omnigraffle is easier to use.

I do feel that, over time, we have become very gun-shy about making complex applications that have richer models like this though, preferring to make applications with simpler UX that aim directly at smaller problems. And I think this is partly because UX is more straightforward for smaller problems.
That's already happening in Canada. All the major US IT companies started establishing large offices here. All the announcements happened after Trump got elected.
Even if it's not a status thing you buy vehicles with the features you want, equip them for outdoor sports, store gear in them, etc. And, as you say, if I really need a vehicle in a hurry because of an emergency or just because I'm running late I really don't want to fiddle with a mobile app.
`[repr(C)]` maintains compatibility with C-ABI, therefore keeping backwards compatibility with C, C++, Rust, etc. As the C ABI, and C structure layout rules are standardized across platforms.
I'm a big fan of https://www.designbyhumans.com/ for their cool designs (they are constantly adding new ones). Their website is also pretty nice and they frequently have discounts.
So Chinese, Japanese companies making electrical car are not aware of the fact that you can build ev?...
I switched from Android to iOS for the first time with the iPhone 8 plus and while the camera is the best camera I've ever owned on a smartphone, I'm pretty disappointed with iOS. I'm probably going to switch back to Android in a couple years. I can't recall a new Android release ever being this buggy for this long.
Why shouldn't they do that?

If I have a bunch of people to keep them on track then hiring the cheapest workers who can do the job sounds like good business.
My secret strategy is to find out what company is responsible for distributing the tech grants from the state. There is almost always some list of all of the companies that got money from the state and how much. Find interesting companies with a fresh budget to build something in your domain and hit their CTO/whoever with a few line email and a resume. You may get on their radar before they even finished writing their hiring budget.
Job boards usually sucks.

Your best job will be when you are passively hired ( saw that you are a software engineer ). This, you can achieve with spending some time to build a physical ( go to events ) or virtual network ( LinkedIn ) surrounded by people that would hire a person like you.
Bingo !
The GOP tax bill could be a disaster for PhD students
Assuming 0.5 rounds down, that seems like an essentially useless statistic. If you deliver a randomised binary that just doesn't run, does that count as more than one bug?
I bought it for £75 this morning where it said the lower price was for 2 more days. Now it's £95.
Must have generated a fair few purchases!
The solution to fixing the dock issues (partially) is to swap out the wifi card. The Broadcom card puts out lots of interference (no issues with a Intel AC wireless card).
> Hitting airplane mode now drops connected bluetooth devices

Huh, doesn't happen to me
> Mediocre Japanese student can remain in Japan and be relatively OK. Mediocre student somewhere in talent concentration point is screwed - he's where the top talent of the world is, and has to compete with them for any nice opportunities.

Given the lower salaries and longer working hours in Japan, I'm not convinced that the mediocre Japanese student is better of than the mediocre US student. Even if the Japanese student scores a "better" job (in relation to the opportunities available locally) than the US student, the absolute differences between job markets can make his job worse.
> What I do not understand is why we couldn't build this onto a web of trust + proof of stake.

Because the incentives of nodes in a web of trust is not to tell the truth about how much money they have; their incentive is to prefer whichever chain says they have the most money.

With proof-of-stake, an arbitrary number of valid chains can be created from scratch in no time. How do we decide which is the right one? All nodes will prefer the chain that says they’re the richest, and the nodes that most efficiently can coordinate their lying will end up with all the money.

Proof-of-stake solves the wrong problem: the problem isn’t to decide who gets to extend the chain, the problem is deciding which chain to extend in the first place (there can be millions of valid PoS-chains).
If iOS 11.1 can be considered "the first service pack", then even that sounds iffy. Or at least, what I'm reading suggests that even with that update, my battery life would still be crap should I decide to upgrade.

Though this gets to another problem with Apple's maintenance of iOS: If you don't upgrade to iOS 11, you don't get their fix for krack attacks. Microsoft, on the other hand, did have the common decency to continue issuing security patches for older major releases.
I would go even further to say that the best US students are often "better" than the best international counterparts, because the US runs a primary and secondary education system with a philosophy to grow the standout students as much as possible. The best high schools encourage their top students to really dive deep into their subject of interest, rather than focus on improving the performance of laggards or generally concentrating on improving average performance.

I have zero doubt that the average Japanese student blows the average American student out of the water. But the US produces both a greater number and a greater degree of ridiculously talented and driven students.

Asian countries generally have a high average and low variance distribution in students. The US has a lower average but a much higher variance and thus has more outlier students on both ends of the spectrum. Whether this is good or bad would depend on your perspective.
I feel the real issue is that Americans are comfy with their quality of life, and spend a lot of money on luxury educationm ending up with loans. People in India for instance are used to a massively lower level of material comforts during education. As a result education is much cheaper (so we dont graduate with massive debts in India) and we are used to a lower quality of live (so 2 people living in a 2 bedroom apartment is still an upgrade).

Americans will end up losing on money in such a system, cause they will want to maintain their quality of life, say living in independent studios with central climate control even in high CoL areas, and they need to pay back education loans which are much lower for people from India
ISS Astronauts Operating Remote Robots Show Future of Planetary Exploration
The old style forums are showing their age and need to be modernized but not abandoned. See the Archlinux forums based on Fluxbb. It's fast and effective.

The newer ones led by Discourse, Nodebb and Flarum have completely gone in another direction in reinventing how discussion forums should be and perhaps gone too far. They feel strangely 'rootless' and completely lack the 'community feel' of user forums.

This looks promising for something fast, lightweight and easy to deploy.
We just came off an 8-year period of significant unemployment. People are understandably skittish about anything that prevents citizens from getting jobs - especially when people are being imported precisely to fill available domestic jobs. Your reductions don't address the fact that we DID invest in domestic talent, and would like to put that investment to use.

Now that national unemployment has plummeted to remarkably low levels, we may again truly find ourselves needing to import workers.
Behind every standards dispute is a solution that is simple, elegant and wrong.
Yet Trump's own Mar-a-Lago is abusing H-2B to obtain 70 foreign workers:

From the article: "It’s unclear whether the Trump Organization had made an extra effort to try to fill the jobs.

In July, the club placed an ad on Page C8 of the Palm Beach Post: “3 mos recent & verifiable exp in fine dining/country club,” the ad said. “No tips,” Fahrenthold reported.

The ad, which ran twice, gave no email address, mailing address or phone number and instructed applicants to “Apply by fax.”"

Hypocrites.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/11/05/...
Always worked when you played someone who didn't know what they were doing but a solid micro setup with scourge or wraiths would always destroy this setup :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism
Smart surveillance cameras should set off privacy alarms
> Why bother with a fixed number at all?

This is obviously the sensible approach, but most people who comment on Hacker News immigration threads are nativist. They might pretend to be liberal or progressive [1], but at their core they're no different from the Jim Crow segregationists of the '50s. Changing your in-group from being based on the color of your skin to the patch of dirt you were born on doesn't change the basic immorality of your position.

[1] Though it must be said that progressivism and nativism have been very close friends historically, and continue to be so in the form of NIMBYs.
Or you know, a standard that actually supports useful things like links.
you know its bad when all your neighbors speak hindi, or when at work when you've been there for years, and you don't know any of your co-workers because none of them speak english (at fortune 500 companies in the US)
Sorry, you said "so long as you pay over a certain amount", so I just took the comment at face value.

>if you make more than a certain amount not if you invest over a certain amount.

I don't know any developed countries with that system. Do you?
By modern dem logic, JFK would be a facist

- nationalistic, america-first policies

- socially conservative

- womanizing

- served in military

- against homosexuals

- wanted to get rid of the fed

- invaded other countries to fight communism
Is there a way I can get in touch with you directly regarding these roles? Fyi my email is in my bio.
Take a look at soccer-cli: https://github.com/architv/soccer-cli

Show HN (7 points, 798 days ago, 4 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10153993
If you can acquire Ferrero's Pocket Coffee in the US, I'd recommend it. One piece is a cup of espresso, and it's very tasty.

Only downside is that they melt easily. Can't really put it in your pocket.
Quality response, thank you. I think most people don't choose their ideology and when the only ideology you know is the one you were given, it is very difficult to see past. This leads to some very pervasive notions, particularly in social and economic views, that are steeped in mostly unchecked ideological bias.
I think viable L5 somewhere in Arizona is different from L5 in New York, so autonomous vehicles will start spreading from places with good weather. But I don't think L5 is required for successful start of autonomous fleets. Advanced L4 with an option of remote 'driver' connecting for special cases driving (like car stuck or something), should be enough.
> they didn't stop talking about his antics

They still haven't. Whenever I tune into CNN, all they ever talk about is Trump. I watch NBC instead.
While TeleNav staff developed OpenStreetCam, the images are under an open license (unlike Google), and in fact the OSC project was set up after the OSM community complained that Mapillary, a previous open Google Street View competitor, wasn't open enough.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism
Just a single outside lawyer we consulted with :) We already had processes in place for dealing with BSD.

The reason for consulting with a lawyer was to ensure that we didn't do anything wrong which would later require us to open up source code that we didn't want to open up.
> The problem is arguably whether you trust Trump to actually do what he says

Is Trump even the one doing it? I thought this was the job of congress?... this seems well out of the scope of an executive order.

Hopefully they do end up copying Canada/Australia directly because they've both performed really well and there is plenty of data there to support it. Instead of the usual series of minor bandaids on top of the old broken system, ala the US healthcare system.
> so long as the USA stayed the land of fairness and justice.

That ship sailed a while ago.
This narrative is frustrating because it's just not true. The vast majority of H1B visas are not bringing in that level of talent. The program is gamed by offshoring firms that take the lions share of the available visas. For every super smart foreign student we bring in we also bring in 3 really mediocre and talentless offshoring workers.

I completely 100% agree that the US is losing its edge in many ways. And a real visa program would help. But at the moment the H1B program is bad for almost everyone involved, unless you own stock in Infosys/Tata etc.

http://fortune.com/2017/08/03/companies-h1b-visa-holders/

We need to replace it with a real immigration program that weeds out the crap and brings in the best. As it stands super smart people are getting their visas denied while offshoring firms depress wages and take American jobs while producing sub-par products.
i'd probably be voted down (even deservedly so). But i cannot resist : what unique sort of modelling work could an american not fullfil that the first lady was given H1B?
There’s a lot of alternate reality with work visas, and many, if not the majority of the positions are there because of cost, not skill.

The process should be onerous enough that the body shop business that places cheap candidates with marginal skills shouldn’t be a good business, but not too onerous for the high talent individuals for whom it is intended for.
> or apply for a green card.

Which they do when they arrive here on the H-1B. It takes decades and they now have to go through even more stress about it because of this.
PhD programs already have insane attrition rates. Not difficult to imagine that any factor that makes it even slightly more untenable than it already is could have a big impact.
Electric and small/utilitarian vehicle economics can apply equally well to a car you own or a rideshare service with a driver.
What effect do you think Russian propaganda and voter suppression had on the black turnout for HRC? And what effect did simply not fielding a historical black candidate have on the enthusiasm to vote among the black population?

Also, how does black targeted propaganda and state-wide "voter suppression" laws explain that HRC lost big on the black vote relative to 2012, but Republicans came out equal or perhaps even better in the black vote, despite the media screaming constantly that Trump is racist.
I feel like a lot of the arguments around immigration - including H1-Bs - boil down to two pretty straightforward opposing views of immigration:

1) "We" have built something great and unique, and we want others to be able to partake of and contribute to it, but the greatness and uniqueness of it is special and we want to preserve that. This is the more conservative view.

2) "We" have an environment where great things can happen, and so we want to bring people into it and add their greatness to it to make it even greater. There is nothing special about what we have, nothing that warrants preserving, and in fact change - constant, disruptive change - is naturally good. This is the more liberal view.

It bothers me that (1) is often conflated with racism, admittedly (the bothering part) because it's something I happen to agree with despite being mostly liberal on other issues. I DO think we here in America have a culture worth preserving, and while I want to open it up as much as possible to the world, I won't support doing so to the detriment and/or dissolution of what we have. I don't think constant disruption is naturally good; I didn't when I was younger and I don't think it is now.

But anything even approaching a whiff of something like "preservation" is immediately labeled racist dog-whistling (which seems insane to me). Any kind of "hey, maybe non-Americans are trying to exploit this and that's not good" is racism. Saying that perhaps as much diversity as possible even if just for diversity's sake in all things is maybe not the best thing - again, racism.

We need to recognize that there are real, non-racist and completely rational and informed reasons why people are uncomfortable with things like H1-B abuse, and that we don't all agree on what immigration should be or accomplish.
If you go to a "pretty good" college in Japan (Most often the "March" colleges and above", generally you have a solid paycheck, good social prestige, and decent (though declining) job security. The high level of public infrastructure and low cost of living (compared to US coastal cities, even Tokyo is cheap) means that your dollar (or yen) goes much further than in NYC or the Bay Area.

Overall it's not too bad a deal compared to the bifurcating job outcomes we see in the States.
My understanding is that universities jack up the tuition knowing the students can get government subsidized loans and grants. Then they give tuition waivers to those who cant because the prices are jacked up and getting something from them is better than nothing.
I'm referring to this part:

> while the trial is starting with employees first, it’s soon going to expand to the existing members of the Chandler driverless ride hailing service trial that Waymo kicked off at the beginning of 2017. When that happens (sometime in the next “few months,” per Krafcik, Waymo will be operating a fully autonomous ride hailing service without any humans at the wheel, a major first for the industry in terms of realizing the dream of making commercial self-driving available to the public at large
How do you "switch" from a global shared ledger that everyone uses to a shared ledger that no one uses? I mean, you an, you can fork Bitcoin and start your own, but what does that get you? No one else will use your coin. There will be no market for it and it will have no value.

I mean if you're REALLY lucky you'll start something that's as popular as Litecoin and it will be worth 1% of what your Bitcoins were worth.

Bitcoins are only worth anything because you can go anywhere in the world and people will accept that there is one and only one blockchain, and if you own bitcoins on that blockchain then you own them, period.

Proof of Work allows you to solve bad actors without switching away to a new network and losing all your Bitcoins. Your solution doesn't. If you have a centralized system that centralized party could refuse to honor your bitcoin holdings and wipe out your balance.

This really isn't a new solution. I was serious before when I said David Chaum's ecash (from 25 years ago) was an approximation of this .
Estimates of Diablo III + the expansion (a $40 retail at launch) put it around 20m copies. That is a massive success IMHO.
stating that regional cultures have more or less similarities and would entail more or less cultural shift doesn't make one a 'white nationalist'..

which itself is a conveniently ambiguous phrase.

FDR was white. FDR was nationalist.

Was he a 'White Nationalist'?

certainly not, but if he publicly held the same political positions he held less than a century before the label would more than likely be applied.
> only used for rare talent.

Not the purpose of the visa.
Your mail client can render links in plaintext emails. It probably already does. Bonus: no hiding evil URLs behind phishing <a> tags!
My biggest request would be to add "map" to the list, precisely because it's ambiguous. It could mean:

1) any key/value data structure

2) a hashmap, specifically

3) a function that runs on each element of an array to make a new array
>By saying "no conceptual explanation ever will" you put consciousness in a category of its own, supernatural or mysterious, like Chalmers. That's just a soft form of dualism.

I think you just pointed out the very paradox which illustrates my point: In which category do you place something that cannot belong to any category?

At this point you might want to say that I'm just making up an artificial nonexistent construct that has no bearing on reality and my task would be to show that not only does it exist, but it is the very basis necessary for all categories to exist. This thread would probably not suffice to achieve that :-)
And by the way, I don't see it as supernatural - if anything, the process of concepts and objects created by an agent to approximate reality and then taking these approximations to be reality is what I find to be supernatural. It amazes me how evolution managed to pull this off...

>The fact that it feels like something to see red or blue? That's just sensation + emotional response.

I'm suggesting that "just sensation" is a placeholder for "I have no idea what that is"... There's a big difference between the explanation of a process and the experiencing of a process. We are so quick to categorise experiences into concepts and relationships between them that we overlook the fact that the sensory experience exists before any conceptualisation and categorisation, and in a way is much more real than any story we mould it into some milliseconds later (i.e "this is red", "this is cold" etc.)

>So the substrate of consciousness is not the brain, but the "game".

By now you probably realise (though I assume still disagree with me) that I see it the other way around: i.e that no concept can exist without knowing it. This is not the same as saying nothing exists without our knowledge, but it does mean that what exists before our knowledge of it remains by definition undefinable and inscrutable.
I'll be excited about solutions when the quality and price of education changes for Americans. There is no 'affirmative action' for the average white male to ensure access to affordable higher education.
I haven't checked but these contracts aren't huge and gas prices are low if you don't mind waiting a couple minutes. I think you could post it for a couple bucks.

(I also think you'd be better off using a different wallet entirely; Parity's isn't the most popular anyway, especially lately.)
The nba data used to be much more interesting when you could retrieve the SportVU [1] data. With that data, you could do all sorts of interesting data analysis, like player vs player match ups, team tactics, changes in fatigue, etc. The possibilities were endless. But, now that data is only available via expensive subscription which isn’t worth it for hobby purposes.

Data from previous seasons is still available. Check it out if you’re into that sort of thing.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SportVU
I experienced the power cycle issue too. I narrowed it down to happening when apps update. If you turn off automatic updates for apps, you should not get into a state where you need to restart as often.
None of those are uniquely fascist, just like breathing isn't.

You're missing an 's' there. To make life a bit easier and to focus the discussion here is an easy to digest page on the subject:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

If after reading that you still feel that JFK would be a fascist then I don't know what to do next.