skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could have skipped bullet point 1.
Google douchebro flees like a coward. Bye!
We need a wall for all the lawnmowers getting into american homes...
Perhaps it's too nihilistic a point to make at this juncture but it goes like this:

How are we doing at reducing all instances of crime among men? If we can't get people to stop stealing, what hope do we have to convince them not to harass and assault? I just don't buy the standard argument "teach men not to rape". How do we do that? It's not a simple matter of saying "rape is bad, okay?"

What we're dealing with here are tremendous forces of poverty, social atomization, and alienation. People who feel like they are on the outside looking in often have no problem ignoring the rules which really exist only to protect insiders anyway.
> Those that get rid of districts entirely lose the ability for specific sub-regions of a state to have their own dedicated representative to vouch for their specific needs. This matters less in small states and countries, but can mean quite a lot in very large states.

The solution to that, however politically difficult, is to break the larger states into smaller ones. New York City, for example, shares very little politically or economically with the rest of New York. Similarly with the various regions of California -- Silicon Valley and Los Angeles are as different from each other as both are from the areas north of San Francisco.
I live in Munich, Bavaria, and, to give an example, in most restaurants you will not be able to pay with a credit card. Having said that, you can pay once you reach a minimum amount with what they call an "EC-Karte", a sort of debit card.
The number of languages that do WebSockets well include what would be a small subset of "virtually every language that is used for webdev [sic] has a framework that is similar to rails".

But that wasn't really the point of the comment. The point, for those who didn't feel the need to read all the way through, is that Elixir's surface level similarity to Ruby is enough to make Rubyists, or at least this Rubyist, feel reasonably comfortable, reasonably quickly. Making the Elixir/Ruby comparisons may have some annoying side effects, but they're probably good for the growth of the language.
The only ones I allow are from my irc client (Glowing Bear) and Slack. I really don't like the current UI, I wish it was less intrusive, like the "allow popups" UI in browsers.
And one more by my mysterious anonymous follower. Hi friend, hope all is well with you today!
> Even if you were a very poor European peasant in the middle ages, you would still get to eat potatoes

Potatoes are a New World crop. Medieval European peasants didn't have them.
Let me know what would’ve made it easier on the AWS side and I’ll try to get it implemented with our TAM.
Not surprising...people always slip through the cracks in Canada's healthcare system.
There hasn't been any change but there has been talk of tightening up the J-1 program.
Thanks, this really helps to intuit the project's documentation for me. Cheers.
Thanks for your answer. I've been waiting for approval with 330 days already elapsed. I've not got any RFE yet.

I agree that interview process has been speeding up approvals, I see a lot approvals post-March on various forums but my case is pre-March 6, 2017. I am in doubt if I should wait to get approved or to move on to my own startup given USCIS has really slowed and there seems to be no end in sight.

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GAB.ai is sooo lame.
Free software has never been about the technical possibility of something, but a moral and cultural value. I.E. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. So favor sites which don't obfuscate or make their (WASM) source code available as free software.
I'm always amazed by the wide range and variety of food, we can consume. Never heard of edible cactus, I love to try them.
It all depends on their general attitude and the way they ask the question. Most of the time, the question is delivered properly and it comes across as "what interests you about our company", which is a perfectly reasonable question. But then there are those companies that make it sound like you're being tested on creative sucking-up and if you're not creative enough, you don't get the job.
That's assuming your wallet wasn't hacked and/or you didn't hold your coins in MtGox.
It also works the other way around.. Example, some content is licensed to Netflix for all regions except the US. Most annoying for me was Star Trek Discovery. CBS wanted to use it to promote their own $6/month most-ads or $10/month least-ads streaming service in the US.
If the worry is that Disney will use market dominance in one market to capture another (ala Microsoft and browsers), the solution is antitrust action against Disney, not forcing compulsory licensing on all content creators whether they have market power or not.
Prickly Pears are delicious! Both the leaves and the fruit. Most Hispanic grocery stores carry them. Well worth the adventure.
> that several projects offer 100% interop between C# and pure Java libraries.

What are the leading/mature libs for this ?
In the limited amount of recruiting I did it was a very very low bar to filter out people who didn't even spend 5 minutes reading the company website about what we do. (Didn't always ask this question literally, I'm lumping it together with "Do you already know what we do? Where did you hear about us, etc.pp")

No, I'm not talking about enumerating all the products and the website wasn't good either, but I was shocked how someone would turn up to an interview without having done the minimum amount of research.
No, it's your therapist working with you.
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck is a cringy read, I couldn't get past the first chapter. Deep Work as a whole can be summarized in a sentence. My interpretation is: put away distractions and focus on getting things done. There's other advice there but none of it is anything you haven't heard of before. CODE is great on the other hand. Just skip the nonsense self-help stuff.
I built a tool for generating graphviz graphs at http://dottask.mattboehm.rocks .

Once you get used to the controls, it's very quick and has a ton of useful features (including export to dot so that you can further customize things.)
There is the issue of the account. Whatsapp and Telegram are free (signal too?) and require 0 setup. With Conversations, you either have to pay for a conversations.im account, or open your browser and register on another server. I certainly can't imagine my grandmother doing that.
Huddle? Like the phyles in Stephenson's Diamond Age?

I'm very political, partisan. I'm seeing first hand the rise of interest group organizing as the political parties continue to decline. This sea change is making me very optimistic.

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

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

The Blueprint: How the Democrats Won Colorado http://a.co/gQ7VIS7
The legal concept is that despite having the data in your physical possession and control, you're not allowed to do whatever you want with it, and you have to ask the user's permission for many specific use cases.

This means that for a colloquial understanding of "owning data", you don't own it (since you can't do what you want) but they do (since they can limit the uses to what they want).
Until the consequences of finite resources kick in...
Right. Semantic points aside, the claim is that non-trivial vertical integration is bad for market capitalism, bad for consumers, and bad for workers.
The issue is who is the primary beneficiary of your activities in the U.S. so if you are in the U.S. on behalf of a foreign employer and remain an employee of this company while in the U.S., you can check your email and perform other activities that benefit your foreign employer.
(Reply after actually double-checking, also heavily edited)

I just went to getfirefox.com, ran the download, and this URL was displayed within tab 2 next to the 'Welcome to Firefox' tab (unfortunately I didn't record which tab was given initial focus) when Firefox started for the first time:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/#firefox-by-de...

Effective September 28, 2017 [...] Firefox by default shares [...] Interaction data [...] Technical data

Since the page you linked was "Last edited 3 years ago" I'm going to specifically contradict what you re-emphasized as fact by stating: telemetry, the feature, has been changed to currently (Sep 2017-present [as of Dec 2017]) be _opt-out_, unless the development of ancient feature capital-T Telemetry somehow still exists separately from contemporary lowercase-t telemetry (per this link also referencing the telemetry documentation).

This conversation/investigation/out-of-date documentation reinforces what I see as a very recent trend where Mozilla/Firefox is heading in the wrong direction, basically spending/burning the political capital/trust they've earned while (perhaps unintentionally) deceiving even their most technically adept defenders. I would love to investigate how this approach took root; how it was finally given the official green light; and how its ongoing escalation has affected rank-and-file Mozilla developers, supporters, and the various categories of users. In my opinion, the "spirit of Mozilla" is changing ever so slightly (eerily similar to Google's pro-marketing turn away from "don't be evil" culminating in merging of all collected data). My biggest beef with this is that Mozilla has pushed its public branding further laying claim to protecting privacy, but this could be tempered somewhat with a comparison to Signal's inclination toward practicality rather than perfection.

I would be interested to hear how you feel after doubling down on this, since it appears to have indeed changed from opt-out to opt-in without your knowledge. Further, if you did not originally opt-in on install long ago I would be curious to hear what the current value of the setting is now. (Was a previous non-opt-in "default" updated to the new non-opt-out "default" at any point? I hope not!) It goes without saying that you should feel no obligation to invest the time to respond, especially to these last unnecessarily detailed and specific interests.
Just another reason to consume less media. I enjoyed netflix, and then everything good left netflix. I enjoyed youtube, and then it started shafting creators. I enjoyed a lot of modern video games, but now they all require you to pay extra money for what used to be standard functionality. Meanwhile TV has never been good, seeing as in America you see a commercial every ten minutes, and the same exact 4 commercials all day.

Sorry creators, I can't support you, your owners are being dicks.
I'm warming up to the idea of voter efficiency.

And the various form of elections are absolutely more or less fair, eg FPTP vs Approval Voting.
Thank you. Email alerts is actually on my near future road map, near future being in the next week or two. I went back and forth on whether or not to charge right away. I ended up building a coupon manager and I just give out coupon codes for deep discounts. For instance right now I have coupon codes on various social media platforms for 25% off I think. I also will give out 75 to 100% off to registered charities and orgs supporting veterans. Im hoping that will be sufficient, but who knows.

[Edit] My rationale for the coupons idea was... a) it would be another metric for tracking sales, b) I could run promotions, c) I could trade discounts for mentions, back links, blog posts, etc.. . I thought this better than just letting everyone post for free.
I really, really liked Flex. I built several iPad and iPhone apps with it back in the day as it was just so much more accessible than XCode and Objective-C. To this day I still say it was my favorite environment and language to build in (AS3).
More like "you're not getting a bigger budget so rearrange what you do get to reflect your priorities"

Negative incentives work far better for organizations than they do for individuals.
>> The primary "benefit" of complying with those regulations is the EU does not impose bans on your products.

The EU is not banning any products from the UK. The benefit that the UK gets is is tarriff-free access to the common market. Any trade, with anyone is subject to tarriffs, so that's a real benefit- unlike any imagined harm coming from "bans" that never happened.
Surely the title should be "We’ll All Be Eating Cacti in the Future Thanks to Climate Change"? Plural of cactus, as we'll be eating more than one.
There is an ebb and flow in the progression of priority dates but yes, the process could take longer than 10 years.
Nobody is requiring you to use 12 apps. The point is that there are 12 (and actually many more) apps that people could choice if they were in any way unhappy with their current choice.

Even search, where google has the clearest leads other offers exists.

You can not expect your definition of monopoly to be 'any costumer must be able to immediately switch service without any transaction cost on any of the many, many application any company provides'. That would be pretty insane.
Just few days ago, I had conversation with my GF about Pit bulls. She told me that they are adorable dogs. Well...
Pit bulls - the only breed of dogs that ends up on front pages of news. They are not dogs, they are weapons.

Entire story reminds me /r/relationships story about a woman with the child, who's boyfriend had Vietnamese centipede(venomous and extremely aggressive arthropod) in their apartments. Centipede escaped and they could not find it.

Why would someone keep venomous centipede or Pit Bull is beyond my understanding.
Midwesterner -> SF transplant here. There's fundamental cultural problems in the Midwest that are basically insurmountable. Outside of pockets like Boulder, people are simply culturally uninterested in the future, changing things, or improving on their situation. People correspondingly are very content; they immerse theirselves in their families, their relationships, Football, etc. Starting a technology company here would be a very lonely endeavor.
The lack of network reveals itself in subtle ways.

I'm at a tailgate, a curious friend of mine reveals that he was trying to learn Ruby. I ask a couple very _basic_ questions, and I get looks of "not here".

Anything too technical comes across as exclusionary. The nice thing about SF is that every third person you run into is an engineer, so you never have that social problem. In fact, you have the opposite problem of always defaulting to "talking shop" with someone new.
> Fintech is one of the areas that is slowly moving from C++ into Java

Are you referring to various trading and middle ware engines? Or mostly FE projects ?
News Corp, WSJ's parent company, is one of the US business that hasn't been the happiest with Google.

https://www.recode.net/2017/6/26/15878518/yelp-oracle-news-c...
This sounds glib, but it's revealing: if you're not sure what the left wing is, it's you. Just like for extreme conservatives, for whom they and others like them are "just regular people," "Real Americans", you're so immersed in your half of the divide that the left wing is just "reasonable people," "people who don't suck."

That is the problem we're facing.
I guess my point is, if this is a natural consequence of vertical integration between content creation and content distribution, a more general approach could make sense (you could make the same argument to a lesser degree about HBO or even Netflix).
Shouldn't it be possible to decompile from wasm to the language that was used to compile to it (or any target language that could've produced said wasm)?
Non-minified JavaScript with good comments documenting its behavior isn’t (necessarily) open source either.

That you can read the code (or that it doesn’t claim a license) doesn’t make code open source.
A case against the concept of comparative advantage:

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/08/ricardos-vice-vir...
I agree with Reno. I actually think some good things are gonna start happening there due to several positive aspects. It's a big enough city to have nice cultural features. It has pretty good air connectivity. There's a younger crowd arriving and opening restaurants and brewpubs.
Oof. I hate this article.

Statistics have to be interpreted. Creating a "Statistic of the Year" is about as asinine and self-congratulatory as Blake Shelton being declared "Sexiest Man Alive".

What does it even mean?

Take Mrs. Kardashian West's post. Its sufficiently political to cause a controversy and sufficiently vacuous for readers to imprint their own thoughts and feelings on it.

What is an "Islamic", "Jihadist", "Immigrant"? If a terrorist travels to America, with an intent to kill but not an intent to obtain permanent residency, are they not included in the statistic? If a terrorist kills a group of people but a "Jihad" has not been formally declared by a group associated to the terrorist, is that terrorist not included in the statistic? If a terrorist is inspired by Wahhabis propaganda but is not himself a "true" Muslim (as defined by the researchers), is he included in the statistic?

The problem with these "award winning" statistics is that they are not, in fact, statistics. They are award winning implications which themselves are not born out of the data but are instead imprinted upon it.

The implication that toddlers are more dangerous than terrorists is absurd. Armed toddlers are the result of freak accidents and careless people. Terrorist attacks are the result of intentional policy choices. It's not hard to wonder why people focus so much time, effort, and attention on one rather than the other.

Consider the following scenario:

You are locked in a room with two other people. To your left, an armed toddler. To your right, an armed, islamic, jihadist, immigrant, terrorist. Your mission is to disarm both parties before you are allowed to leave the room. Who do you disarm first?

If you're the authors of this article, you disarm the toddler. If you're sane you disarm the terrorist.
Law is very important and I agree with you.

Perceived culture in the Midwest is also problematic.

USA is dependent on immigration to fill the science and engineering workforce, which is one of the ingredients of SV revolution. (https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43061.pdf)
Someone denying there is no racism/xenophobia issue in the Midwest isn't listening in my opinion.

My intuition is that the sex appeal of SV versus Midwest won't be compensated solely by VC money. It will require a cultural change, which has been going backwards those last 10 years imo. And that's why the author wrote this article - not to inform us that Midwest is good, but because there is a real issue in getting talents to the Midwest.
As a Canadian citizen who is working in California under a TN visa, I am interested in starting my own Canadian company and working on contracting / consulting work via said company.

All the money I make through said company would be paid to me in CAD and stay in my Canadian accounts, which I doubt really matters. I do not see why there would be legal issues with this, but this seems like a good opportunity to ask someone who might have a better picture.
The rate of return on everything
Airbnb launching its own apartment complexes
Was Flash on Android bad? I guess I never really noticed. I imagine it performed worse but don't those things fix themselves over time?

It's like OS X or Windows banning Electron Apps because they're horrible compared to native.
That literally the line they use every time they are talking about the 'evil internet'. They really don't like that people don't just follow them anymore, now they need to grab attention like all those internet blogs they so hate.
Yeah, they are trying to pull a Volkswagen there.
From a 2012 episode of The Office:

Ryan: “I’ve actually done a lot of market research and it actually turns out that southwestern Ohio is going to be the next Silicon Valley. They call it the Silicon Prairie.”

For those not familiar with the episode: the character is totally full of crap; trying to explain that his reason for moving to Ohio has nothing to do with his ex-girlfriend moving to Ohio. Funny to see "Ohio is going to be the next Silicon Valley" come around again (but this time in actual news).
AS3 has 2 rendering modes:

CPU - this is an old API that can render vector based graphics. Every game before 2011 uses this API.

GPU - Adobe introduced a thin OpenGL wrapper around 2011. This is a completely new API and looks very similar to OpenGL.

I guess Haxe code looks much more similar to a game written in OpenGL, this they rewrote the rendering pipeline (and converted all assets from vector animations to sprite sheets.)
As a general rule, this is possible and there needs to be a clear arrangement where the non-profit is serving the goals of the university but the same H-1B wage requirements apply.
I offered to pay my contractors in bitcoin years ago and no one was interested.

I told my friends they should by it, no one did, until this year. Some of them managed to do brilliant things like actively buy and sell yet not make a penny. This is like Howard Marks describing day trading as making $3 when the price went up $30.

While I'm optimistic about Bitcoin, no one can defend the value of barely functional, abandoned, and centralized altcoins. This is completely out of control. It is a commodities trading video game where the underlying assets are completely imaginary. The bad altcoins will be worth absolutely nothing at the end, much like the dot com bubble. The real estate bubble was kinder, sans leverage.
Thanks for the comment. Maybe we'll snap up that domain too...

The site was born out of years of talking about investing in Bitcoin and a failed attempt at mining them in late 2013. All the 'what-ifs'.

Hopefully people who didn't invest and those that mined early and got out can have a little laugh (or cry) inside. It's just a bit of fun.
SEC suspends trading of red-hot Bitcoin stock
How about when I get the EAD? Can I issue shares and provide services?
Valid point - currently, wasm cannot target the DOM. I think the GP would've been more accurate in saying the logic is all performed in Rust - JS is only used for DOM access.
It would also mean that pseudonymity is out the window. Does anyone else remember when anonymous transactions was the sine qua non of cryptocurrency hype?
No way! China is basically a closed system. You can’t even give stock or stock options to foreign employees if the company is not foreign.

Don’t get me wrong, there is a lot going on in zhongguangcun and Shenzhen, it’s just mostly chinese startups employing Chinese, nothing like SV at all.
Given the age of the article, does anybody have an update?
I have zero sympathy for anyone who feels pressured to convert a Flash app these days. The writing has been on the wall for so long, and there are still at least 2 whole years before Adobe cuts off support.

Flash is the established cause of so many computer crashes, so many security exploits, and so much battery drainage. It is downright irresponsible for anyone to force users to use Flash in 2017, even if Adobe promised to maintain support for another 10 years.

Edit: removed specifics about my school and computer model to avoid distractions.

The only time I bother with Flash is when I have to for an educational purpose--that is the only situation I can imagine using Flash for a net gain. No form or amount of entertainment is worth it.
Niyazov's renaming of the days is quite real [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaming_of_Turkmen_months_a...
Thanks, I mistakenly wrote million instead of billion. Edited.