skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi Peter, thank you for your time! If possible, I'd love to hear your thoughts on my question... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15963541
Agreed.

Everything that I have, my companies, my capital, my house, comes from my side projects being transformed into self employment, recurring revenue or reputation for me or my team.

You have to consider that side projects will start small, like a plant, they are very easy to squash and destroy, but takes an enormous effort, and your rewards come later, when you have a tree.

Even a company like Apple could not make something like the App Store earn more than a couple millions the first year. Larry and Sergei tried to sell google for just a million dollars and could not.

A side project takes so much effort that I would have never ever considered making the effort just to show off to companies, then abandoning those(as you will be forced as you have a job that takes most of your efforts). Side project is like your children if you create them.

It is a big error to try to make companies value your projects. They will pay you 0$ if they can(even if they know it is a great project, more benefit for them).

There are much better ways to show off in front of companies if that is what you want.
As someone who grew up in Columbus, went to school in Cincinnati, and moved back to Columbus for work, I think you're being a little dramatic here.

I don't know where you're from in the Midwest, but the vast majority of people I interact with around here are extremely live-and-let-live. In fact I can't remember the last time I came across someone or a situation that was actively hostile about beliefs or sexual orientation. Obviously these are just my anecdotes, but I run in a pretty sexually and racially diverse scene and they all love Columbus as well.

Your hyperbole and vindictive reactions to a diverse region of the country are certainly going to help close the divide.
> Scripts are delayed only when added dynamically or as async.
If you're including regulatory oversight (or lack of) under the 'management' heading, I'd definitely agree.

"Since 2009, the electricity networks that own and manage our “poles and wires” have quietly spent $45 billion on the most expensive project this country has ever seen. Allowed to run virtually unchecked, they’ve spent vast sums on infrastructure we don’t need, and have charged it all to us, with an additional fee attached. The spending was approved by a federal regulator, and yet the federal government didn’t even note it until it was well underway." [1]

> As far as I've been able to tell, we aren't building coal or nuclear because there are outrageous political risks ...

That adjective 'political' is not needed there, and serves to distract from the bigger, actual risks attached to those obsolete technologies. (With my usual caveat that I'm assuming people using the word nuclear mean only fission.)

> .. we aren't building anything else because because the economic option is coal.

Is it technically still an 'option' if you think there's only one?

Anyway, we (Australia(ns)) are not special.

Coal is not a sensible choice -- economic or otherwise -- anywhere on the planet.

Unfortunately many places, including here, haven't comprehended that yet. Or rather, the people that run the country -- both within and outside of the government -- prefer the extant power generation and delivery infrastructure for a variety of fairly obvious reasons.

[1] https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2014/july/1404136800/jes...
BookKeeper: service that provides persistent storage of streams of log entries
I'm currently working for a large U.S. company, on their offshore global services subsidiary, as software developer. I've been working for a year and a half (fully employed).

First question is, do I qualify for a L1B Visa? (I have both a bachelor's and Master's)

Second question is, do you consider that a good route to a Green Card? I wouldn't want to go to the U.S. unless I'm confident I can go the Green Card route.

If I chose to go with an L1, I have to stay with the same employer until the Green Card goes through right? (and they must not fire me, which is an unfortunate possibility with any company).

Thank you very much for the answers in this thread.
The Year from Above
Sounds like a good idea.

How are transactions routed from one "universe" to another? Let's say I'm on universe A, you're on universe B, and I want to send you a few bucks.
Good but only up to a point it will just mean better compromise agreements and more $$ for lawyers.

Most people with these sort of harassment cases will prefer to settle out of court as the process can be brutal - only very brave and often wealthy people will do this.

This is from direct experience as I have counselled people in cases of bullying.
> using data of the Tracking Protection database

This database is already being maintained and used for private browsing. I find it unlikely that an analytics CDN will play cat and mouse with Mozilla just so it's script will load a few milliseconds sooner.
An introduction to local development with containers
Citron is not bitcoin neutral. They are short biased bitcoin as their website and twitter account reiterate. And a hedge doesn't mean "neutral." It simply protects you in the event that an investment doesn't go as expected.
Maybe so indeed. Ideally I think the work should be judged on its merits rather than the acceptability of the source. That's obviously easy to say, less easy to do.
BatchEE 0.5-incubating: impl. JBatch specification (JSR-352)
Clickable link: https://gist.github.com/kailan/9f37ec2cd76314f945dda65e5beab...

Very interesting. I wonder if any private organisations setup a pseudo/canary repositories, that when pulled triggered an alarm? Or simply contained some monitored API keys or credentials to spot any activity/Insider threats.

Might be a neat idea for those businesses that are concerned about their private repos (either cloud hosted or self hosted).

May have picked up if anyone was able to exploit this.
I don't know about you, but I don't browse the World Wide Implements-The-Specification-Perfectly Web.
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure you can't.
Honestly? Austin is probably already the next "Silicon <Noun>". We have like 160+ people net move here a day and it's a massive tech hub with UT Austin here, Oracle building a big office here, some good coding bootcamps, etc etc. Fastest growing city in the country several years running. Very liberal with plenty of cultural attractions (SXSW, cafes/bars, "keep Austin weird" etc). I'm guessing due to a combination of close cheap land (to build large logistic centers), access to good highways, access to a port, generally permissive state/business relationships, growing young demographic that Amazon will probably build their headquarters either in Austin or somewhere along the Dallas/San Antonio corridor.

I mean, where else is there in the midwest? Illinois is dying under poor governance and high taxes (pension obligations are constitutionally protected until hell freezes over). Indiana and Ohio just don't seem prosperous. Maybe Atlanta Georgia is the only other growing mid-size city outside of the coasts?
It's more an on-paper iHac Pro, because it hasn't been build yet and it's unclear if MacOS will boot. Looking forward to hear if/when somebody builds it.
Historically, the contested real estate would be taken back if the crossing writer was a toy who lacked respect for the art and understanding for the intention for the piece to stay up. It shouldn't be hard to find ten year old pieces, in New York surely older.
Cactus-based dishes and prickly pears are common foods in Mexican cuisine, and hardly uncommon in the US, due to a large population of Mexican descent.

Cactus is cheap, delicious, and can be found in your local Hispanic foods mart. Prickly pears are high in fiber, and only about 40kcal/100grams — Sprinkle a little bit of Tajín on them and you've got a guilt-free snack.

I suppose it will become more common in the future, but the main reason for that will probably be due to the growing Hispanic population in the US.
Did they really post that QR code?
Ask HN: Why votes here are counted at half, and I am always “posting too fast”
Why is this system so messed up? At least on Reddit, a vote is a vote. Here, it takes 3 or 4 to count as one. And I am constantly being told that I am posting too fast. What is wrong with this system?
You say you want diversity of opinion because you are a "liberal" but mainstream liberalism has next to nothing to do with classical liberalism. Your average urban, coastal "liberal" adheres to their orthodoxies with about the level openness to other opinions as a stereotypical religious zealot.
Nonsense. You think because WSJ is pro-business, they would "normally defend a duopoly kind of thing"?

It is possible to be generally pro-business while also critizing kinda-deceptive business models with kinda-unchecked power.
Apache Arrow 0.8.0: cross-language development platform for in-memory data
First, I do not grant that they need PCT. It may be a nice to have, but an engineer ought to be able to do the one job s/he is supposed to do.

I would understand if tolerances were so tight that an error of a few MPG above the limit caused the disaster. In that case, I would grant that they need more than PCT, and blame Amtrak. However, when someone is doing more than 80 MPH in a 30 MPH zone, s/he doesn't get to deflect blame to anything or anybody else.

I am impressed by NTSB's willingness to hold harmless people who do that. If a pilot were one-hundredth as reckless, s/he would not have a career.

There is also this:

A train derailed July 2 southwest of Tacoma
near Steilacoom, Wash., threatening to send
several rail cars plunging into Puget Sound.

High speed was the cause, the engineer only got suspended, presumably because no one died. I presume for every deadly accident there are at least five accidents with no deaths, and 50 close calls due to speed.

Remember, the only job of the engineer is to regulate the speed of the train.

I am all for firing all the engineers if every time they kill people they will use the PCT excuse.

[1]: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/12/18/amtrak...
Internal Emails Show Twitter Struggled to Interpret Its Rules Unverifying Trolls
I've been seeing this style of headline writing for a while now, with two sentences, almost a story within a story. Is this something that has happened recently, or is it just something I didn't notice before? It feels clickbaity.

I've come across it a lot with the Washington Post. This is the first I've noticed with the New York Times.
is it liquid in the way gold is ?
That makes no sense. I would have the Congressman's office reach out again. What's your area of expertise?
If you drive more than 80 MPH in a 30 MPH zone, you don't get to blame anyone or anything else.
I did that, not with Linode, but IIRC it stopped working around July/August 2015 and I stopped trying. They first completely stopped streaming to IPv6 addresses (people at that time were using Hurricane Electric as IPv6 tunneling) and when I enabled IPv4 on my VPS they banned the IP.
I found this to be a poorly written article. The author let his emotions get the best of him and it shows.
I'm surprised to see a large gap between Indian and Chinese (6:1). Sampling SoMa rush hour traffic, I would expected something like 3:2 to or even 1:1 ratio.
Some of the PragerU videos are rather disturbing but I'd rather have them public because picking them apart with friends is quite an interesting activity. They are an amazing conversation starter on a variety of topics.

I'd hate it if Google started removing them completely, despite me not even closely aligning to their ideology.
Thousands of self-contained flashy effects, each custom designed with its own animation code to optimize that specific dopamine response, all to keep someone playing slots and spending their money. It’s a domain well suited to fractured/“parallelized” development processes. I’m honestly surprised it’s not even more lines.
Things like the Google home and Amazon echo are a step in that direction. Using the internet just by asking questions out loud are a novel way to interact with a computer. Can't wait to see where this goes.
I don't add any salt to my meals (I mostly cook at home and rarely eat in restaurants) because of 2 factors: 1. I don't actually want it (with some exceptions, I don't find salted foods any tastier than unsalted) 2. As a child I was taught salt is extremely bad for health.

This means, provided salt is actually necessary for health, I am certainly not getting enough.

At the same time I find my heart (which has always been quirky, since my very childhood) working notably better if I supplement Potassium Chloride (which tastes almost exactly the same as Sodium Chloride to me, I can hardly tell any difference in taste even if I compare pharmaceutical grade samples).

So the question is: do I really need to start eating common salt (sodium chloride) or can I just supplement potassium chloride on regular basis? Does the body really need sodium or is potassium a reasonable replacement (provided I drink a good amount of water every day too)?
Hi Peter, wondering if you have worked with many Aussies with the E3 while working with startups, and the general perception of hiring those eligible for E3 visas? Just wondering about your thoughts on that, or any general advice when going for an E3.
Thanks
You should expect it, though.
Tapestry-graphql
1. Free publicly open beta.

2. Announced availability to a known blogger in the market niche who liked it and wrote something up about it.
The service available in France as UberX is what is known as UberBlack in the rest of the world - a black car and a professional driver (also applies to Pool). Uber in France is effectively a taxi company with an app (which is not a trivial improvement, but that's a separate discussion). This is strange because France is, philosophically, a "communist" country and sharing economy innovation is usually welcome and happily embraced; UberX and UberPool were extremely popular with millions of riders (I believe 7? 10% of the country) before they were made illegal.

How this came about is a textbook case study in government-industrial nepotism, including the family [1] controlling 60% of the taxi companies (edited) literally hiring the head of the French FBI to transfer a couple of months before retirement in the transport ministry, pass anti-Uber legislation, and then retire to a cushy job as the chairman of I think the second or third largest taxi company (owned by the same family). This was exposed in a long article in the Nouvel Obs, a real piece of journalism, which was taken offline about a week after publication (edit - seems to be back! [2]) and before I could take a copy (only the URLs I sent friends remain as testimony of its existence). [1] also claims that the Rousselet family blocked a direct rail link between CDG and central Paris (my Uber on that route last week cost 99 EUR), and has kept the number of taxi licenses "near 1930s levels". edit - [2] claims Paris has 1/5th as many taxis as London or New York, and that no new licenses were given between 1990 and 2002, during which CDG passengers increased almost 50%.

There is an embryonic version of Pool, in the form of Blablacar, an app that arbitrages the very high cost (for French citizen) of SNCF and Air France domestic intercity travel. You post your approximate trip, and riders can ask you to pick them up for a portion of the way. I've travelled 5 hours for 10 EUR this way, and used it frequently between Geneva and Annecy (about 45 minutes, no train link, infrequent buses). Since this app is effectively useless for last minute short trips within a city, it does not compete with taxis, which may explain why it is still around.

[1] Note that the father of the current chairman was the executor of the will of President Francois Mitterrand - https://www.challenges.fr/entreprise/pourquoi-il-est-impossi...

[2] https://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/economie/20150212.OBS2398/de... - on the former security head: "fin 2007, le gouvernement Fillon demande un rapport sur les taxis au préfet Pierre Chassigneux [...] Coïncidence ? Ancien directeur des Renseignements généraux puis directeur de cabinet de François Mitterrand, l’homme est une vieille connaissance d’André Rousselet via le corps préfectoral. Son travail, publié en avril 2008, est si conservateur que la presse le qualifie de "contre-rapport Attali", qui vient, lui, de prôner une véritable libéralisation du métier. Mieux : ce même Pierre Chassigneux devient ensuite… président des Taxis bleus, poste qu’il occupe encore à ce jour !"
For a process that doesn't exist yet. Bold, but as of yet unproven.
Then you’ll like: https://www.dougengelbart.org/firsts/1968-demo-interactive.h...
I had the impression it was the other way around. A crowd of companies all searching for tech people.
It's very clickbaity and it comes from a lot of the garbage "news" sites (Buzzfeed, et al). It's basically a loud siren stating that this article will affirm your beliefs about topic X.

It's sad to see it creep into reputable news orgs, but here we are.
Even though Mutt, Alpine, Sup and Notmuch might work great for some people they seem to be accessible only from a terminal, emacs, etc and very text heavy. As much as I love spending time on the terminal, I prefer a GUI app for my email.

Postbox unfortunately doesn't support Linux, besides that while I don't mind paying licences for great software, it doesn't look like Postbox is fully opensource [1].

[1] https://www.postbox-inc.com/coveredcode
Nice article (although the illustrations aren't very... illustrative). Anybody knows how does Kong compare with WSO2 API Manager?
I really admire how engineers like to be around other engineers and share ideas/knowledge rather than view them as competition.
Can do. What is a good email for you?

Thanks
Not as far as I'm aware. WASM is still sandboxed like JS is. I believe DOM access is coming, and in the meantime I believe you can still use <canvas> directly.
Why :focus-within is huge
You're taking this personally. Generalizations break down far above that level.

I'm from the Midwest, too. I'm certainly not talking about myself when I refer to how bigoted Midwesterners are.
Thanks!

I started with the composition (the music one). So these have been dictated by composition techniques: some samples should play in a loop, others should be played fully before the sequencer's cursor increments etc.
Not necessarily, WebAssembly will support view source features: http://webassembly.org/docs/faq/#will-webassembly-support-vi...
As someone who left the midwest for SV, I'm not looking to go back any time soon. Going to the midwest is like getting in a time machine set for 40 years ago.

You have so many good food and coffee options in SF. In the midwest? Hah, nope. Can I work on my open source without my employer owning it? No. Can I get places easily just by walking or taking Lyft line? Fat chance.

Not to mention, I experienced a shocking level of casual racism growing up there. Culturally it is not a pleasant place to be. No, I don't think we'll be seeing an exodus there any time soon.
Timely (and Stateful) Processing with Apache Beam
It's better than that: http://webassembly.org/docs/faq/#will-webassembly-support-vi...
So the identified trackers' requests are.. merely delayed? Wowwie!

It's a great justification for building a database of perceived trackers though. Lots of useful info to slurp.

A better idea: DO NOT LOAD TRACKERS PERIOD.

EDIT: Look how the crowd treats alternative opinions. Can't have that, can we?
> I do appreciate the fact that it's a nuisance at best and significant costs at worst to be compliant to GDPR.

I don't know that it's that simple. What happens when you have conflicting requirements, for example (I'm making them up) EU requiring you to delete PII within a period of time and US/Homeland Security/IRS requiring you to keep the (meta)data for some period of time?

There may be conflicting requirements that have nothing to do with technology & costs.
Thanks, I stepped right in to that one so you’re welcome ... but I meant the image data.
Of course this is obvious!

But - disappointingly - it has to be continually pointed out here in Australia. The coal lobby is strong.
Liquidity problems are an issue with exchanges, not Bitcoin itself. I can email you a Bitcoin instantly. Good luck doing that with a gold bar.
As far as I can tell, that is not working because outsourcing companies are getting a significant percentage of the HB1 visas.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/06/us/outsourcin...
The answers to your questions, in order: you might qualify for an L-1B but this would depend in part on the nature of your specialized knowledge of the company's proprietary products, systems, etc.; underlying status has nothing to do with green card options, the green card requirements are separate and apart but on the face of it, it looks like you would have a solid PERM-based green card application; not necessarily but you would need to stay with this employer for a while, while your green card application is pending, before you could "port" your application to another employer.
>Someone denying there is no racism/xenophobia issue in the Midwest isn't listening in my opinion.

You say this, but still the Detroit area hosts quite a large immigrant population, many from a group that experiences a lot of hate in the US (Arabs), though I'll admit, it's probably because the city is on the border with Canada, which makes it an easier place to get to given many immigrants here initially went to Canada from their home countries.

Still, the region isn't alien to the idea of bringing in foreign labor to fill in employment gaps, it's pretty common at least in Detroit, and I imagine Chicago as well.
Confectioners have become exceptionally good at aeration it seems. 8 years or more ago the UK high street confectioner Thorntons served lovely chocolates, now they're all aerated foam with a thin shell of chocolate flavoured wax, they honestly turn my stomach whilst once-upon-a-time I'd happily eat a whole box. Of course one's own taste for sweets changes but I think they're more to blame.

Once Kraft took over Cadbury we got recipe changes - palm oil - to the standard chocolate; and lots of new bars with inclusions, as you mention, in order to reduce the amount of chocolate but keep the bulk.

Nearly all ice-cream now in UK supermarkets seems to boast "soft scoop" which is just the aeration AFAICT, meaning you get "half" the volume of actual ingredients (except air) in the same tub.

This sort of cheating with foods seems to have accelerated since the recession.
I raise channel catfish in my own home aquaponics system. If you don't plan on eating the fish or enjoying them as pets, it's not worth it at all.

Feed is indeed the big pain point. All good feeds have fish meal and GMO soybeans etc, and the only way to get a reasonable price point is by buying a 50lb bag from a farm supply store. With a 3 month shelf life, you need a lot of fish and a lot of time dedicated to feeding to not have spoilage.

Theoretically a true closed home system could be achieved by routing household urine to a green tank growing algae, solid waste and food waste to a black soldier fly larvae bin, and feeding the algae and larvae to the fish. The BSFL harvest themselves, and the green tank could be periodically pumped into the fish tank on a timer.

None of it would be terribly complicated to build into a new home, but there's no will to do so as most people would find it gross, preferring to eat artificially cheap fossil fuel fertilized products and have their waste magically disappear.

http://www.backyardaquaponics.com/forum is a tremendous resource.
"Canadianwriter" responds to "canadian_voter", can't help but notice it :p
Storage Developments in Apache Mesos: Interview with Jie Yu