skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find I often forget basic language syntax when I don't have adjoining lines to crib from, say, when white boarding. And that's with languages I'm actively working in—I'm hopeless in anything I haven't used in a couple months, even if I wrote in it daily for the five years before that. I'll flat out forget which language features it supports, or how to address them.
Those tradeoffs are as chilling as a nationalized postal service.

The "chilling consequences" that you are imagining are as speculative as any other work of science-fiction that you've read online.

Ask yourself: where did you get the idea that creating new public institutions would have "chilling consequences"? Did you personally experience this in reality or did you read about it somewhere?

What are the chilling experiences that you've had with public roads, the postal service, or the hall of records that holds the deed to the private property you live on? Do these negative experiences align with the "chilling consequences" that you imagine with a public social media?
Illinois does have high taxes. Cost of Living isn't too bad (especially compared to SV), but taxes are definitely high.
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I love how he handwaves the difference between Xeon and non-Xeon, and ECC vs non-ECC memory. That and 4K vs 5k accounts for most of the price.

Why not do an apples to apples comparison?

This happens way too often with people who decide that Mac Pro hardware is overpriced.
I have been using Kong since 2016 on various APIs and I have been impressed by the continuous increase of performance after every release. I wish upgrades were easier but I know they are working on it (the "migrations" between each major version), but overall it's a fast and pluggable layer for any API inside or outside the firewall, especially if you are running containers.

On this note for those of you who haven't noticed it yet, they have released an Alpine version of their Docker image, but it's still not the default one. I would actually recommend using it to further reduce the size of Kong containers: https://konghq.com/blog/kong-alpine-docker/
You write like an old grandma
I want diversity of opinions, yes. I want people with opinions I vehemently disagree with to have a platform. In particular, I don't want censors because I don't want other people deciding what I should be exposed to. The solution to speech one does not like is more speech.
Interesting that it's only one of two necessary.

But given how it's posed for the photo it's (hopefully) a prop.
Yes, it is still a relatively easy visa to get. As you know, the requirements are similar to the H-1B but the application can be filed directly with a Consulate, which is a significant advantage.
"What strikes me most about philosophy is in how core it is to everything we do — and this is something I didn’t realize for the longest time."

Same. I used to take strong exception to the idea that philosophy was worth any amount of time to study... but then I realized any argument to reject it or degrade its utility is necessarily philosophical and changed my tune.
Apparently to the author, social media is the internet.
I think people should have the right to fork...

probably why I bought the domains: copyforkable.org and pay2fork.com
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7ksivm/leverag...
Related, from three days ago: Tax Bill Would Curb Breaks for Sexual Abuse Settlements (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/tax-bill-hara...)
Liquidate all of it and buy multi-family apartment complexes. Retire and use my freedom of time to create businesses I care about for the simple joy of creating value in the marketplace.
Can a EU citizen call AT&T/Verizon and ask them to delete all records of their calls?

Would the call logs also disappear from "the other side of the call"?
> We recorded 2,676 workers performing 3.8 million tasks on Amazon Mechanical Turk.
How many 12 hour trips do you take? I hear this so much from people who only take one trip a year that would cause this hardship.
In general, not a ton of bugs on the west coast. I'm in SV now but grew up in the northwest, and every time I go elsewhere, there's a new unpleasant surprise. The last one was the northeast.. yeah, I know it's gonna be humid, but random downpour on an otherwise nice summer day, bugs everywhere, blah!
You can just do this but if and when you are in H-1B status, the majority of your time should be spent on your job, not on your master's degree education.
Has anyone ever tried to sell a billion dollars worth of Bitcoins and collected?
>When full, the tankard would have held nearly four pints of beer or cider. It was held in two hands and was probably passed around a group as a communal drinking vessel. //

Like a wassail cup or so.
The point of systems like Haxe is "write once, run anywhere". You don't need to mimic the standard OS interface style to do so, especially not with games (as it's more important that the style of the interface suits the game).
Hi Peter,

I was into 3 years of my H1B and quit that job, left US. Can I recoup my other 3 years of H1B without going through a lottery in the future ?
Satanic Ritual Abuse.
Could you please start commenting substantively, like the guidelines ask?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Not sure where you read a claim that Adidas was started in Portland.

Adidas North America hq is located in Portland. https://www.adidas-group.com/en/group/headquarters/
We are building plenty of gas fired plants.

And a fracking ban didn't cause the gas shortage (whoever told you that has a pretty serious agenda!). Australian gas reserves are the second biggest in the world and relatively easy to access. The "problem" is/was that they are tied up in long term export agreements.
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>But I'm not complaining, we've had hours of sunlight in December. Hours! A few years ago there was only 20 minutes in the whole month, that was a bit dark.

Why does the # of hours of darkness vary year to year?

Is it something like an atmospheric effect of solar refraction through the atmosphere during dusk with a dependence on weather-patterns?
I just noticed your response, I must said I've enjoyed your past games and I've shared them.

I've particularly enjoyed playing Snakisms, playing it was quite a discovery process!
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Current state-of-the-art approaches in this field are significantly better than existing commercial solutions at recognizing text in the wild (i.e. scene text).

As an example, see the ICDAR 2015 results [1], where the Google Vision API is at 59.60% (Hmean) while the best ones are over 80%. Note that this test is about localization, i.e. finding the text location without recognizing the actual content, though on a more challenging dataset.

As for recognition, see the table on page 6 of this paper [2]. The "IIIT5K None" column should be pretty close to what was done in the OP, using the same dataset, with recognition accuracies of around 80% while the Google Vision API is at 322/500=64.4%. Note here that since this paper is only about recognition, there is no localization step before which would otherwise act as a filter and decrease the accuracy a bit by failing to localize some text that the recognition step would be able to recognize.

[1] http://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=4&com=evaluation&task=1

[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.03915.pdf
Without liquidity its point less and arguably worthless but you could transfer Gold ETFs electronically to me
Regardless of how much an individual is to blame or not, fail-safe controls are a proper part of engineering practice, for two fundamental reasons: unknown unknowns, and human fallibility.
By which author? There are quite a few books of this name!
The odds of getting selected in the lottery are not tied to the identity of the sponsoring company so a change won;t change these odds. You would have 60 days from the date your employment ends to do something - filing a new TN petition, for example - before you would need to leave.
Hi, author here.

You're absolutely right that it's an 'on-paper' build. I did make sure to check each component, that they have been used successfully in other Hackintosh community builds, with High Sierra.
Why is this posted again? This is from the 1th december 2017.
The issue with that is demographics change over time, so any attempt to break states up into more politically/economically uniform pieces will become outdated over time (like if a large city expands beyond its current boundaries). So you'll have to change the state lines periodically, and then you've still got the issues of redistricting, only now on a national level instead of a state level.
I've noticed I have a similar problem myself. What other authors have you found interesting and accessible?
Sounds good. Would I need any approvals or paperwork to be legit at the University while working towards my degree?
Seriously? Do you not understand the question? Guess not.

https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/getusermedia/intro/

Basic intros to HTML5 all use Javascript to access functionality. How else are you going to access video, audio, timing, etc? HTML5 isn't a language.
The new law comes into force in May 2018. Of course nothing has happened yet.
Email hn@ycombinator.com, they're quite responsive.
People are either a liability or an asset, and how California responds to their housing crisis will ultimately play out in the consequences.
The population affected by that recall is hilariously narrow in scope:

"5th-percentile women who are in the driver’s seat and not wearing a seatbelt (emphasis mine) [...] generally defined as weighing between 100 and 110 pounds and standing about five feet tall."
> "L'enfer, c'est les autres" or "Hell is other people"

From "No Exit", by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Exit
It's about being able to display multiple rows of info in each item of the emails/threads panel. Something that I found quite useful in Opera Mail, e.g.: https://d2.alternativeto.net/dist/s/60b72ca2-7a26-e011-b47f-...

In Thunderbird, when using a 3-vertical panel layout, the columns get squished (especially long subject lines). It's not a big thing, but I would gladly trade half the vertical space for the ability to fit a couple more fields, like tags and size.
Also, just to clarify, do I need to wait until H1B to take classes or can I do it while on OPT too?
How a Nigerian teen with no laptop built apps with only his Nokia feature phone
I agree that it does come down to how you classify "superior".

From a gene propagation standpoint (your children survive and have children of their own), it isn't a contest. Agriculture is the clear winner.

In a "how fulfilling is your life" context there is more room for debate, but I tend to think that modern authors overly discount the negative effects of food insecurity in a primitive society. The tradeoff between "your daily life is full of toil but you and your children probably won't starve to death or be eaten by a wild animal" is one that people came down hard in favor of historically.

In the long view, only one lifestyle choice leads to a population that can survive the next dinosaur killing asteroid impact.

But seriously, modern people underestimate how much it sucks foraging for food every day, even in the rain, even in the snow, even when the local animals have died off due to some disease, even when you are sick and/or injured, you either hunt or you go hungry. Your culture has to be largely word of mouth because anything else you have to carry with you. Technology progresses at a glacial pace because you don't have a system of writing and you don't have reliable sources for most raw materials. Even if you do find a source for something useful like obsidian your nomadic lifestyle means your access is still limited.

My stance remains that people who wax poetically about how superior the Hunter-Gatherer lifestyle is are not thinking things all the way through.
BTC is pretty liquid. Tens of millions change hands hourly/daily.

The linked article even cites one hodlr that purchased a professional hockey team with his crypto profits.
Ok, I can't read the WSJ article because it's behind a paywall, but I did read an ArsTechnica story about the issue [1]. With _only_ that information (which isn't admittedly much) it appears to be a run-of-the-mill story of YouTube's content policies running amok. Some see nefarious purposes in YouTube's incompetence, but that cynical view doesn't hold up when one considers how consistently YouTube disappoints everyone.

Seriously, just search for "YouTube demonetization" and you'll find dozens of similar stories that have _nothing_ to do with politics.

YouTube's content filtering and management is a mess and it's always been a mess. Whether it's take down notices, tagging copyrighted content inappropriately, issues with demonetization and advertising, YouTube has consistently struggled with striking a balance between creators, consumers and advertisers.

To take that mess and turn it into some sort of commentary about politics, censorship or a general threat to diversity of thought is cynicism and pandering that's worse than YouTube's alleged sins.

I expect better out (or used to) out of my Hacker News commentary, but alas, few bothered to even look up the basics of this particular story.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/prageru-sues-you...
Don't underestimate the impact of the generational gap here.

As an 85er I grew up on IRC, AIM, Gchat, etc.

I just moved into my first management role. It only took me a few months to realize I'm a better manager of remote staff than in person staff. I actually prefer remote now. I'm not in tech nor am I someone who's considered socially awkward or anxious at all.
>In short, I did not want to live in a state where the legislature had nothing better to do than fight the culture war to win votes for the next election.

California doesn't fight the culture war? California is the primary exporter of the left-wing culture. It just happens to conform to your political leanings, so you like it there. And THAT'S OKAY, I'm not saying you are wrong, you're just now on the side that you agree with.

>Yeah, I cant buy a house in san jose

Who cares about home ownership when you can use whatever public toilet you want!
> I have trouble thinking these people who hold views I find quite wrong are bad people

Even when we are talking about people who support stomping on the rights of others because of something as private as sexual orientation?
The research community still lacks a reliable, ready to be productized method of producing vascular networks capable of supporting an organ.

However, mass-manufacture of organoids is definitely a thing that can be worked on today. Functional organoids for kidneys and livers might be able to replace many transplants, as you can in principal deploy them in volume, stick them onto and into the existing kidney or liver and they will help. The studies of transplantation have been done in animals, and they work. The same goes for the thymus, possibly lungs, heart muscle, and a variety of other tissues in which functional small sections or thin sheets can be grown from a patient's cells.

The idea would be to build an organoid manufacturing business, and by the time it gets large someone will have solved the blood vessel network problem, and you move on to organs at that point.
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I wonder how much from Cascades framework has been given back to Qt.
Not sure about a billion. But many people have sold in the millions range. Maybe not at once, but over a reasonably short period of time.
Yeah, how do you preserve art that's painted on a wall owned by another party?

Assuming you want to keep art on both side of the wall: attach some sort of steel support to one side of the wall, then cut out the section with a concrete saw, I've seen blade diameters go up to four feet. You'd just need to have the blade on rails.
An early test of the battery control system and it responded!

What the article does not say is that the lumbering coal fired units also responded within milliseconds due to the enormous inertia of their turbo-generators. This happens before their throttles open purely due to the physics of the situation.

The energy involved is substantial.
It wasn't inaccurate 10 years ago. I get the feeling the OP hasn't lived in the midwest for quite some time.

Generally, no one cares. Yes, there are still some bad laws in place, and there are some assholes, and you'll get old farts who want the commandments in front of courthouses. But predominately, no one cares. Live and let live.

Going to grandstand for a second: For some reason people have this sense that if you don't support something, you must hate it. There's no middleground in left-leaning politics. I'm not gay. Frankly, I seriously cannot put into words how little I care about your sexual orientation. So, that surfaces in the fact that I'm not out at LGBT rallies supporting new laws. That's called "live and let live". This idea that everyone has to stand on some side of an issue is pervasive in our culture, I believe fueled in-part by machines like Facebook for engagement and likes. Its impossible to give a fuck about everything; I let the people who actually give a fuck fight those battles, and I'll fight my battles.
Novogratz sold $250M of Ethereum earlier this year when the market cap was $25-35B.

Bitcoin market cap is $291 billion right now and the trade volume an order of magnitude higher. So pretty sure they wouldn't have much problem unloading their position.
I 100% agree with what you are saying, but in support of GP, I'm sure they were meaning the spirit of net neutrality (don't shape my request), NOT the legal definition of it.
Not $1 billion but there was the Bear Whale incident involving about $9 million: https://www.cnbc.com/2014/10/09/bitcoins-bearwhale-and-the-f...

Given the price increase of bitcoin since then, based on the number of bitcoin involved, it'd be about $450 million dollars worth right now.
The first step in the process should be to determine what in fact are the minimum requirements for the job because this could dictate whether this would be an EB2 or EB3 filing. Right now, for the "rest of the world," there's really no difference between EB2 and EB3.
This is the ground on which the war against Google, Facebook, et al is fought, but open-source solutions like Firefox are going to need to find a better way to monetize if they want to win. All this does is firm up the resolve of user identity resellers like FB and Google to see that Firefox gets destroyed, and it demonstrates why tech eventually all boils down to platform control.

With Facebook code intruding into every nook and cranny of the web via React and Google's position as digital Sauron, monitoring and parsing out your search history, watch history, all phone activity, emails, SMSes, and more, user identity resellers are a formidable foe, and Mozilla is in its familiar position as the David of noble, non-moneyed interests challenging the user-hostile Goliath.

Firefox may find unlikely allies in Microsoft and Apple, since these two companies still make at least some money selling an actual product instead of just slurping up information about their users and repackaging it. The best thing Mozilla could do is convince Apple and Microsoft to give up their independent lackluster browser implementations and ship Firefox as the default instead.
Yeah, the northwest is VERY white and has a strong Scandinavian influence.

Meanwhile, I had a layover in Minneapolis and at the Mall of America, there were women in hijabs everywhere.

Obviously I can't speak to the experience of minorities in various locations, but it's hardly fair to paint the midwest with the brush of non-diversity.

Also, if anything, having your experience of "diversity" colored primarily by your interactions with highly-educated immigrant communities doesn't really help you understand how the broader immigrant communities integrate into the country as a whole.
What I know of the communities in the article leads me to believe that there isn't much overlap between them and the crowd that supports the EFF and Tor.

Gab is an interesting study in and of itself. I have an account there and really wanted it to succeed - I even advocated on their behalf across the diverse range of communities in which I participate when they launched a set of more advanced content filtering capabilities than Twitter. Sadly, they seemed to have been quickly branded as "alt-Right" when Milo was banned from Twitter, and I've since given up trying to attract more diversity of opinion to the platform. I don't think I've logged on there more than once in the past year or so.
I am on a L1A visa and i plan getting married with a person who is not a US resident or citizen. What should I do to extend the visa to my partner?
Exchange supports IMAP and has done for decades. I remember being interviewed by the developer working on IMAP support at the time, in 1996.
The Flash runtime was not an intrinsic battery hog. The shit swfs people wrote was the problem. The same people are now writing shit HTML5 that drains just as much, if not more, battery
Sounds ripe for an MBA to take it and brand it as a hipster snack discovered from Mexico.
There's an opt-in "tracking protection" checkbox in Firefox you can click that doesn't load them at all.
You can blame the locomotive engineer as much as you feel to sate your anger -- still, people have died and been injured.

Meanwhile, it is a fact that fail-safe engineering controls would have prevented the disaster.

And what if the locomotive engineer has a heart attack, leading to a deadly accident? will you blame him?
Is this an academic J-1 or a non-academic J-1?
Therapeutic doses of lithium are almost certainly thousands or millions of times higher than what's found in sea water.
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Kelinci: AFL-based fuzzing for Java
Columbia Sportswear is headquartered in Portland (just a mile or two north of Nike headquarters). Adidas USA is headquartered in North Portland.
Interesting. I thought I half-remembered something mentioned in one of the BUILD sessions that they wanted Chrome and Firefox in the Windows Store, but I could easily be misremembering and/or that could be a classic crossed-wire situation where the platform security team is overriding other parts of the platform engineering team.
> but your blatant ignorance of what actually happens in the midwest

you missed quoting the part where the OP mentions moving from the Midwest.

I don't think freedom of religion (including freedom from religion) is a strange priority. Nor is wanting to get away from legislation that discriminates against you.
There's a difference about Gold's rarity and Bitcoin's.

Gold is rare on its kind and rare on its abundance. It may be hard to mine more gold, but it's way harder to find another gold-like commodity.

Bitcoin is only rare in the abundance sense. It is hard to mine more bitcoin, but it's pretty easy to find a (arguably better) substitute for what it does.

I can agree with it being better (having more utility) than gold, though. So I'd agree that the sum of all e-coins will surpass gold, but I see no reason for Bitcoin to do it alone.
Yes, through the extraordinary ability, national interest waiver, or investor (job creation) routes.
No EULA terms will be considered valid consent for the GDPR.

The user has to explicitly give you consent to use the data for a purpose for you to be able to.

Basically, for every purpose you want to use the data for, you’ll need a separate button.

If the user chooses not to consent to data usage for some purposes, the rest of your service still has to work.
I was granted an E2 visa (after showing $100k in actual expenses towards my company). Process is straight-forward and not too paper-intensive. Note that you cannot, however, apply for a green-card while on an E2.

ps: Peter - thank you for doing this. Really kind of you.