skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"MAME is a multi-purpose emulation framework."

These systems still run custom hardware for things like IO, and those parts of the systems are emulate-able.

Getting emulation of said IO chips and whatever seems pretty inline with MAME's mission statement: "MAME's purpose is to preserve decades of software history."
After all this hypocrite talk about net neutrality, it's suddenly okay to block users based on their country?
Not in practice, given that in reality of this use case, JS code also does network requests, which tend to be at least as slow as downloading a HTML page.

That said, what I meant is modern JS enabled moving into the web things that should have stayed local. It's literally two step backwards (moving software into "the cloud") and one step forward (giving back some responsiveness through AJAX).
Open-endedness: The last grand challenge you’ve never heard of
I'd think that lithium toxicity would be enough of a danger that it wouldn't work out. People taking lithium as a mood stabilizer need routine blood testing to ensure safe levels of the drug are in their body.
Don't get me wrong, I liked your article. To me, these types of interviews are personality traits and do affect my perception of a company. If I see a company's job posting mention any of these things my opinion of the company lowers even if I don't want to or wasn't considering applying (I look at job descriptions sometimes to figure out what tech a given company uses). How they treat prospective employees matters to me as it also indicates how they'd treat full employees.
Don't you think you should quit being a piece of shit and focus on bringing jobs to the countless people who live in the US? I understand the startup mindset is to go with cheap labor but often times there are people on our own soil who lose the ability to access many of these opportunities because of this
For those that don't remember/weren't online then, Shockwave was the brand that Flash originally shipped under. It's where the "sw" in "swf" comes from.

For an even more thorough history of Flash, this is a great (and relatively quick read:
https://code.tutsplus.com/articles/a-nostalgic-rummage-throu...
I haven't seen an increase in questions related to this but I wouldn't be surprised if there is. Unfortunately, my only advice is to answer honestly to whatever is asked. Most people encounter immigration problems not for what they have done but for lying about it.
Analogies always fail me. I always feel like we should jump straight to the most precise and concise description instead.

I would say that a hiring process is about starting what both parties should hope to be a "long-term working relationship."

Although the analogy isn't great - a marriage could also be described as a long-term working relationship. But the expectations are vastly different.
It doesn't seem like it now, but this is just a storm in a teapot. All of the necessary bits to comply with the GDPR will be commoditized sooner or later. I'm betting on sooner. This also presents a business opportunity to provide those bits.

I do appreciate the fact that it's a nuisance at best and significant costs at worst to be compliant to GDPR. Only in time we will be able to tell if it was worth it or not. Maybe the US model of free-for-all access to user data will work better, maybe the EU model will...I don't think anyone can say for certain now.

If anyone does know with a high degree of certainty which will, it's time to place the bets.
By asking people to buy what they are selling? If they aren’t selling anything, why the expectation of remuneration?
And it's probably cheaper to live in Ohio and fly to the office than pay SV rents.
The Justice Dept has a very strict definition of monopoly [0] -- it requires both 1) the ability to raise prices profitably above that in a competitive market, and 2) anticompetitive conduct.

That means that Google receiving 90% of all searches wouldn't automatically imply market power or anti-competitive conduct, and I can't see how Google or Facebook can raise their prices higher than a "competitive market" if they don't charge anything for their product.

How would a competitive market in search and social networking even look?

[0] https://www.justice.gov/atr/competition-and-monopoly-single-...
Exactly, banks aren’t “trustless”, which means they can work together to reverse these types of hacks.

When the Bangladesh central banks was hacked through an incredibly insecure backdoor and 2 Billion was stolen, the hackers ended up with only 100 million, and only through shady other financial institutions. Who knows if they’ll end up with anything since that money will be hounded through the financial system.

Trust has an important place when dealing with such large sums of money, sorry to say it cryptoheads.
Thank you so much for doing this!

As someone on H1 and I 140 approved and in the long wait for green card, is it ok to release a free iOS app under one’s own name and if it takes off, show that as evidence for extraordinary accomplishment?

Does membership of exclusive well known invite only Silicon Valley network for tech founders count as membership of reputed organization?

What if the app is for a non profit, should it be released under the non profits name?

Is it legal to be a minority owner of a company and not draw salary from it?

Is your firm available for direct hire for one person or you only help YC and startups?
VMs, containers, and whatever stuff Amazon is doing with that Lambda thing all sound like a good start.
This article reminded me to check if any updates had been made to Google's OCR since Cloud vision was in beta sometime last year or earlier this year [0]. It looks like a new parameter/option for "Document Text Detection" -- i.e. something more akin to Tesseract, rather than just detecting words in images (such as road signs):

https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/detecting-fulltext

[0] https://gist.github.com/dannguyen/a0b69c84ebc00c54c94d

edit: I would attempt my own test right now but it's been awhile since I've tried to use Google Cloud. Right now I'm getting constant "Server Error" popups until Chrome decides to crash and die just when simply checking my account and billing page. The Cloud Console's wonkiness is probably one of the reasons why I stopped using GC in favor of AWS :/
> That's a false chain of reasoning.

Agreed, I was merely outlining the opposite side argument in a very concise way so that it's immediately obvious how much broken it is.

> It does not hamper free market competition, it protects human beings from monopolies and cartels and sets up the legal framework within which the free market is allowed to operate.

This is precisely my opinion, as stated in my second paragraph.
> All of the necessary bits to comply with the GDPR will be commoditized sooner or later.

And the court cases will go through, and everybody will have a better idea of what the "right" things to do will be clear.

I totally agree - and I summed that up in my post. Problem is, that's a future - it ain't today.
Comply with the laws where you based at. Other countries can't enforce their laws just because you communicate with their residents.
Yes, it was global, it was how they financed their operation until Facebook bought them [0].

I wish they would still offer this as an option, tho I'd probably be skeptical of Facebook actually holding up their end of the deal and not tracking people who pay for WhatsApp.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/04091...
Every Color of Every Lightsaber in ‘Star Wars,’ in One Chart
This was a HUGE gripe for me. I regularly get the feeling that using python on Windows is not "intended"
As a lifelong South Carolinian, I sincerely doubt the next Silicon Anything will arise here. Texas, I can see.
Is it possible to run on battery + ICE for a long range trip, or do you have to wait for the battery to deplete before the ICE kicks in?

I.e. only use the battery to get the last 10-20 kph of your speed.
Compensation simply and purely. I'm taking a risk coming to join your start-up that has a high likelihood of failure. Pay me as such. You as the founder likely aren't taking as much of a risk as me an employee would be, especially if you didn't put your own money and are mostly operating on other's money. Not only do I lose the opportunity cost of a big-co with a safe job and stable hours, but I also have almost no control of decisions or outcome despite how much you the owner want me to feel like an "owner". Don't delude yourself into thinking your special and deserve more compensation than any of your early employees. A lot start-ups seem to forget this and tend to offer senior skilled people paltry "stock options" that are points of a percentage.
Obviously Bollywood.
GS was a bad example anyway; my main point was that we achieved financial system stability for a long period, correlated with financial system regulation.
Wait a minute, did I misunderstand? I thought we were talking about how websites would make money, not build browsers. Are you saying that Apple, who doesn’t depend on web advertising AFAICT, wouldn’t build this hypothetical browser because other companies wouldn’t make money? A more macro economic view, then?
While upgrading my Slackware current installation on an old recycled laptop, I decided to install Alien Bob's KDE5 package set for lutz (works well on a humble core-duo with 2Gb RAM). The readme advises installing outside of X, so I was sitting at a console for 45 mins while the packages downloaded and installed. Bored, I found myself hitting Ctrl-Alt-2 and Ctrl-Alt-3 to run w3m and mpg123 in different virtual ttys. Reading and Music. Around 60% of my normal laptop use cases covered there and then.

Posting this on Debian command line with the evilwm and Firefox. No notifications, quiet, minimal.
Michigan Radio reported this morning[0] that some group turned in a petition with more than 400,000 signatures for getting how in-state districts are drawn revampted.

[0]http://michiganradio.org/post/redistricting-drive-step-close...
Other good sources include seaweed, supplements, and apparently milk (because an iodine solution used to clean tanks leaches into the milk!). I like to use a piece of kelp in soups, the same way you would use a bay leaf. Or throw a handful of re-hydrated wakame in soup at the end, the way you would use parsley. This video has a lot of info on iodine sources (including what to avoid): https://nutritionfacts.org/video/avoiding-iodine-deficiency-...
CoreOS' Tectonic looks like a good candidate for bootstrapping a bare metal cluster: https://github.com/coreos/tectonic-installer
I installed WhatsApp two months ago for the chat group of our class, and intend to uninstall it by June again when this study is over.

On Telegram I have at least twenty chats active daily (people and several groups, and an HN bot). Everyone I want to talk to, except for that one class-wide group, is on Telegram. Even the people I do projects with in class have Telegram (I feel like there's a correlation to be drawn...), just not everybody had it so the class-wide group turned into a WhatsApp group and I had to acquiesce.

It's not impossible to uninstall. I hear this sentiment from most people, and most people are surprised I can live without WhatsApp. I am surprised they're surprised: it's not a bother at all. Almost everybody that I wanted to talk to had Telegram already anyway, and the three or so others installed it (I mean, if you're selling your soul anyway, you might as well install another...). Even some of the IRC-based groups have bridges to Telegram (via bots that forward things in between), though I still run a bouncer so IRC would be no issue.
This is the first I heard of the Prager U parental filtering and demonetization.

The videos are certainly conservative, both culturally and economically, but the ones I've seen aren't objectionable in any way. In many ways, they are less objectionable than a lot that goes out over the AM radio bands in the U.S.

Ars Technica on the story:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/prageru-sues-you...

Best I can find of a response from Google:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/heres-googles-resp...
Thanks for the info! I'll see what I can do about the popup.

(Unfortunately on its own Stripe is problematic, due to things like EU VAT MOSS, so I'm limited in what I can use to services that do taxes for me.)

If you want to see a preview, you can sign up with your email to get an excerpt on the email form on the original page.
Space-time and gravity might be born from the quantum world
I haven't used this platform so I can't comment on it unfortunately although I think that there's a place for immigration-related automation. The challenge I think is making sure that those using such platforms are aware of all their options and all the issues because just because something works doesn't mean it was the best option.
I've found the issue interesting from another perspective: given I found the eye-witness evidence for Christianity compelling, can I test myself to come to the right conclusion in a similarly contentious but unrelated field? The shear amount of eye witness testimony for UFO sightings and encounters is overwhelming, particularly from people who have impeccable credentials and have everything to lose (meeting strongly the criterion of embarrassment, similar to the apostles). Both make big claims that rest on eye-witness (or claimed eye-witness) testimony. One isn't accessible to the scientific method whereas the other is. If ridicule has been misplaced on the UFO issue, I'm inclined the think we should give pause for thought about the other issues that are commonly ridiculed by society. Regarding aliens rendering religion nonsense: on Christianity, no-one ever said that all creatures were made in the image of God or if they were that God should decide to show his grace towards them. It's clearly compatible with Christianity - can't speak for Islam.

Interesting that you use the word ridicule because that's a key theme that runs through both the UFO field and popular response to any religious claim. As Feynmans says: "Another of the qualities of science is that it teaches the value of rational thought as well as the importance of freedom of thought ; the positive result that come from doubting that the lessons are all true." We should doubt, question and test but not ridicule.
I have been working in the US with an O-1 visa for 8 months, but I want to switch jobs now. I got an offer from two different companies and both said the visa would not be an issue, but I'm not sure what the process is. Do I need to apply for the visa again? What happens if the new visa is rejected? When should I tell my current employer that I want to quit? Thanks!
I disagree with this sentiment that any "AI" is better than none no matter how poor it is. If I'm a customer and you try to extract text from an image for me, but it's wrong over half the time, then it looks really bad. An incorrect extraction is a bug. You're basically just adding bugs to your product. Better a good product with less features than a bug ridden product with lots of features.
> Where's the next Hollywood?

Georgia, it would seem. If being in New York isn't the key point of the show, chances are it is filmed in Georgia nowadays.
Does not work for me - even with blockers disabled:

Control.js:111 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'map' of null
at t.n.optionsToShow (Control.js:111)
at t.value (Control.js:233)
at f._renderValidatedComponentWithoutOwnerOrContext (ReactCompositeComponent.js:796)
at f._renderValidatedComponent (ReactCompositeComponent.js:819)
at f._updateRenderedComponent (ReactCompositeComponent.js:743)
at f._performComponentUpdate (ReactCompositeComponent.js:721)
at f.updateComponent (ReactCompositeComponent.js:642)
at f.receiveComponent (ReactCompositeComponent.js:544)
at Object.receiveComponent (ReactReconciler.js:122)
at f._updateRenderedComponent (ReactCompositeComponent.js:751)

getContract.js:19 Error: Invalid JSON RPC response: ""
at Object.InvalidResponse (errors.js:35)
at XMLHttpRequest.r.onreadystatechange (httpprovider.js:111)

VM146:1 OPTIONS http://localhost:8545/ net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

Main.js:43 Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot read property 'getNumberOfShapes' of undefined
at Main.js:43
at <anonymous>

errors.js:35 Uncaught (in promise) Error: Invalid JSON RPC response: ""
at Object.InvalidResponse (errors.js:35)
at XMLHttpRequest.r.onreadystatechange (httpprovider.js:111)

Edit: From the FAQ

> How does this work?

>You'll need the Metamask Chrome extension or an Ethereum enabled browser like Mist or Parity to get started.
Every websites use Google Analytics - or another third part analytics - and therefore has to display the modal. This law is just a waste of everything.
> and write statements as if they were procedural

my issue is not with writing procedural code, it's with the way functional parts of a program "mush" into "OOP-statey" with no obviousness of boundary. It feels kinda "dirty".
Not really, as an EU users, also using uBlockOrigin, I still get these creepy "follow you around after reading your mind" ads.

I don't think that's something they can easily disable by region without breaking way too many things.
You might be able to do this with the official Flash editor. Hold on, lemme check.

1. Acquire Adobe Animate (formerly Adobe Flash, formerly Macromedia Flash)

2. Make a new HTML5 project

3. file>import>import to stage

4. file>publish, this sure can take a while, it’s been stuck at 80% on the file I pulled out to test this on for some time.

Caveats:

* Some SWFs are "protected" and won’t be loaded by the editor, you can find tools online to crack that protection pretty easily IIRC. Or at least you could back in the day.

* This won’t get the sound.

Installing Animate also gets you the Flash Player, which will play any .swf; you could conceivably record the screen as a .mov or whatever. Though a cursory google search reveals multiple websites that claim to be able to spew out a video file from your uploaded .swf.

You could also acquire a swf decompiler and use that: decompile .swf, load the resulting .fla into Animate, export as canvas. I don’t know which decompilers are currently the best, it’s been years since I last did Flash.
I've never worked at/near Adobe or the Flash source, but I figured 3rd party licensing was the case.
Announcing more functionality to improve customer engagements on Twitter
What else can I consume to improve my brain function except salt and low dose lithium?
Unfortunately, I'm not deeply familiar with the immigration landscape of other countries.
Pumpkins yes, gourds not
Gerrymandering is a problem because we have a poor voting system. I'm not sure if a single transferrable vote (STV) is the best system, but it would significantly reduce the benefit of gerrymandering (and probably result in better candidates from both parties).

CGP Grey did a great video on STV:
https://youtu.be/l8XOZJkozfI
Tacotron 2: Generating Human-Like Speech from Text
I find an amusing number of strange reviews on that page. Like this one:

"Google : We will never make app for windows." - Ahmad.

It looks like Microsoft is trying to game the reality there. Google Chrome is a Windows app. The real one, not that walled garden WinRT crap.
> it just doesn't translate to "slow computing."

I think it does. If you can remember the Macintosh before the days of the MultiFinder, you ran one application at a time. The interface was simple, and you had to focus on the task at hand. Distractions were limited to any Desk Accessories you might have.

Ok, you did have a screen, but I think it is a good analogue to the Slow Food concept and has its own advantages over the interfaces we use today.
The first time I went to visit my Thai friend [1], she sprinkled salt in the water she was using to rinse her vegetables. I asked 'why': she said something about the iodine disinfecting the vegetables. I pointed out that her salt did not actually have iodine in it...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14140086 (my previous comment about this passenger)

I looked into the matter a little bit. The Thai king had instituted an iodized salt program. Public relations campaigns helped the Thai people appreciate all the different roles of iodine. Iodine is a good antiseptic (it shreds most single-celled organisms by combining with a protein that's not on the cell membranes of multi-celled organisms, iirc), but my friend's strategy to 'disinfect' her vegetables with slightly-salted water was probably an exercise in futility, even if her salt had iodine...

> I just looked it up and found out that Morton Kosher salt is not iodized, which is what I've been using for a few years now.

I remember some research that found Thai women of reproductive age had much better iodine levels if they ate seafood, than if they got their iodine from salt.

Additionally, foods that are grown near the ocean [2] have much better iodine levels than foods grown in regions where almost all the iodine has washed out of the soil (Michigan, etc). Ocean spray 'mists' iodine back onto the land, which increases the iodine content of the food grown thereon.

[2] http://iodinehistory.blogspot.com/2015/02/an-iodine-road-tri...

There's another interesting post on this blog about old fear-mongering about "too much iodine", because patient's thyroids weren't taking up the radioactive iodine that doctors were giving them for 'diagnostic' purposes: http://iodinehistory.blogspot.com/2015/02/i-was-right.html Too much iodine seems to suppresses the thyroid activity, so it is a concern. But this is mostly a problem for people who use supplements. I think one should consume 'enough' iodine to fully saturate their thyroid... A little more than it takes to prevent goitre [3] (when the thyroid swells to try to increase the amount of iodine it pulls out of the blood), but not too much...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goitre
I don't understand why these same issues get raised every time hyperloop comes up. Of course the engineers working on this are aware of the most obvious concerns and of course there are solutions. Vacuum collapse is handled with exploding gates along the track. If the vacuum ahead fails, you blow open the gates behind you to even out the pressure and you come to a stop. Track expansion seems extremely solvable with sliding joints and decent seals. Hyperloop is predicated on not being perfect vacuum so slightly leaky seals don't matter.

I think Hyperloop is not economically viable because "trains are too expensive" is not solved by making trains way more complicated. But technically it seems feasible.
> I felt more comfortable discussing controversial ideas in Beijing

You're reading too much into Sam's quote. This is almost certainly because East Asia has zero PC culture (homogenous populations; nothing in history), so he doesn't feel those particular pressures there that he's reacting against here. That's all.
I love how straight-faced and dark this is. You sir are a poet. Please accept my reddit fake gold as a token of social approval.
Getting a 404 on the /faq page.
I am always cautious when people share "their secrets" with the rest of the market.

I am not saying it's wrong but I have been in cryptocurrencies long enough to know it's not as simple as it might look.

I would be skeptical of the ability to short this market substantially since those who came in very early and at very low prices hold quite a lot and can afford it to go way down yet and thus will be long on this if need to.

That's also just another theory we have no way of knowing whether is true or not.

So only time will tell.
Nicely put. I’d rephrase part of your last sentence:

IQ + opportunity lottery
How is comcast not a monopoly? That was my only choice when I lived chicago.
Their product is the advertising platform, so the price-raising should be evaluated there. Their consumer "products" eg newsfeed, mail, messenger, search etc are just mechanisms for demographic gathering for the purposes of advertisement sales, or for direct advertisement delivery.