skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest problem would be identifying and contacting the good devs in India. By and large they don't have access to Bay Area hiring managers, and vice versa. There's a lot of money to be made arbitraging this, hence the body shop phenomenon. It could definitely be an interesting problem to solve, but given how scummy recruiting and freelancing sites tend to be, I don't know how you would avoid an ugly race to the bottom.
NSA tap leak exposing phone recordings of all members of congress for the last couple of years.
Ahem, green card holders and individuals with a "strong visa status" cannot vote. What are you talking about?
You could do it on one server and give students access to it using the docs from mapzen
>I don't know why this happens. I think programmers are so used to imperative (ant/Grunt/etc/etc) programming/building that it becomes confusing for them when they encounter a declarative system.

Because, after all is said and done, programming is about having your computer "do" something - whether it be to write some bytes to the disk or to send some bytes to the network.

It's just that sometimes there's an advantage to use an abstraction - such as say "SELECT * FROM TABLE WHERE ROW_ID =14" is an abstraction over something like "for (int i =0;i<table.size();i++) if(table.row[i].elem[1] == 14) ... ", but often you don't need such a complicated abstraction, you just "need something done" before (or after) building. Whether it be that you want to download an HTML file to package, or to move the resulting file to a certain directory, or to clean a certain directory, your build language shouldn't be that arcane that you have to create a "build.sh" to get things done.
> This idea of H1 as a path to a green card is just a fraudulent use of that visa.

Wrong; it's explicitly, legally a dual-intent visa, unlike other non-immigrant visas in which immigration intent is prohibited and grounds for visa revocation. The idea of it as a path to permanent residency is explicitly part of its legal design, and so using it that way is not at all fraudulent.
> Breaches in security are caused by malicious actors finding vulnerabilities in trusted systems

Alex Stamos, the CISO of Facebook, likened the causes of security breaches to a pyramid. The bottom of the pyramid, where the vast majority of security breaches happen (perhaps 80%), are caused by basic fraud: shared passwords, phishing, asking the user to do something like self-XSS. Of the remainder, perhaps 80% of security breaches are done through the more common, more mundane attacks like unpatched vulnerabilities or misconfigurations. It's only a fraction of a fraction of a percent of attacks that are done using zero-day vulns.

As much as what you said is relevant for security, I would argue that engineers think that security is more of an engineering problem set than it is.
Great explanation, thanks for taking the time to write this down!
Every time an event such as the above occurs, I'm reminded of the following excerpt from a Jerry Seinfeld interview

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“The less the better,” Seinfeld said in reference to user-generated content. “I don’t want to see this crap. We have a giant garbage can called YouTube for user-generated content.

http://bgr.com/2015/04/16/jerry-seinfeld-youtube-giant-garba...

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I dunno, I mostly disagreed at first but seeing the front page and constant tweaks, I gotta wonder if it's worth it. We can easily do better than YouTube but it caters to the lowest common denominator so of course it'll be the most popular :/
Blame here lies with the Netherlands as well (I am Dutch).
The politicians here want a nice "business establishment climate" (direct translation). The reasoning being that dodging taxes here gets us office jobs and perhaps whatever is left of the taxes.

The U.S. has threatened to put us on the list of tax havens, and we've made some moves to fix things, but apparently we are dragging our heels. According to this source [1] we talk the good talk, and behind the scenes do our very best to slow down as many of these new procedures as possible. Supposedly this is in the name of "Ensuring proper implementation".

The new government is going to abolish the tax on dividends. I don't know the details, but it's a controversial move. The opposition parties are really against it.

I guess a small country needs to make some moves to stay relevant.

[1] https://nos.nl/artikel/2206095-nederland-ligt-nog-altijd-dwa...
That's a ludicrous thought. They were the victims of a crime, not the criminals.

This is in no way similar to Target or HD, other than data were taken. The whole system upon which Equifax was built relied on a semi-secret number that cannot be changed. Those numbers, or at least the majority of them, are out in the open. There was a certain degree of trust that the person sitting across from you at the auto dealer finance desk was who they say they were, and that the report stating that they're good for a loan was accurate. That was not 100% true for a number of years, and it's potentially wildly inaccurate now.

IOW, Equifax's sloppy work resulted in a broken system from where I sit. If you're thinking I'm wishing bankruptcy upon Equifax, well, I didn't write that, sorry. But if the shaky foundation upon which your business model rests collapses, I would expect severe financial penalties. But, hell, Moody's is still in business.
And the latter culture, as I know it, is far, far more concerned with consent and equity than you'll generally find in straight/vanilla spaces, tying back into decades-long histories of actual liberatory struggle.

I've been to two cuddle parties. They are very concerned with consent, and I have to say that their facilitation is very well thought out. I don't think I'd put them in the same general category as other parties mentioned here, which I'd call a "bacchanal." For some attendees, it's a cross between a party and a form of group therapy.
I'm sure you guys are gonna love it when the majority votes to seperate the rich from their money. It's coming guys.
They have listed only alternatives that have a similar philosophy: https://mapzen.com/blog/migration/
> 3. So much Java runs on the server side anyway, where executable size and entrypoint doesn't really matter that much.

My read is that Java is doing this now because they ignored microservices and containerization at their own peril. 8 and 9 between them include a bunch of things to squeeze runtime and disk size to be comparable to other systems.
Not a careful thinker.
> Yes, but without the underlying tech, there is no way for the end user to access that content.

iTunes Music Store, Amazon MP3 downloads, and actual brick and mortar record stores beg to differ.
Saying things along the lines of "Did you even read the article?" is quite literally listed as what not to do if you want to participate in HN discussion among other things :)
The diff/merge tools shipped with Perforce are good.

They can be used with git as well.
0xcafecafe is right. I think the confusion you're having is "place in line" vs "length of green card process".

Your Indian friends have been waiting 8 years because their turn in line hasn't come yet. The place in line refers to the date of the most recent application that was granted a green card - the date your GC application was filed is known as a "priority date".

For Indian and Chinese nationals with Master's degrees, applications with a priority date of around 2009 are only now receiving green cards. This is the "8 year wait" that your friends are referring to.*

If someone with a priority date circa 2012 were to change their job right now you are correct that they would need to "restart the green card process" at their new job. A new green card application takes between 1 and 2 years. But it doesn't matter because their priority date is at least 3 years away anyway. And the new green card application at their new job can re-use the same 2012 priority date from the old GC application by the previous employer - so they'll receive their green card at the same time as they would by staying at their old employer.

*The only reason this line exists for Indians and Chinese is because green cards are apportioned by the applicants' country of birth, without regard to the population of that country. Since India and China are by far the largest countries in the world, they simply have more applicants than anyone else. Put another way, a Master's degree holder from the Seychelles could get a green card in the same amount of time as a Canadian or an Eritrean or Italian or Brazilian - between 1 and 2 years. I think this whole country of origin business is silly, and not just because it affects me personally. There is a rule change proposed in Congress to address this issue: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/392
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pulled directly from their middle school music teacher's button up.
Isn't every streaming music service basically being sued by major record labels constantly?

I was under the impression it was standard operating procedure for them.
That's really not the point.

I have no problem with Apple deciding to abandon BB on Android. It would indeed make very little sense for them to continue to support this platform.

What I am complaining about is the shut off date, it is very close.
No, I was just noting two other examples.
>It's a side for Silicon Valley's most powerful and influential people

What I am trying to say is that I see the author making an allegation but they don't do a very good job of justifying. If a small percentage of all people engage in alternative lifestyle cultures then it's not surprising if a small percentage of powerful and influential people in Silicon Valley also engage.

What the author alleges is that the behavior is cultural which would put women who didn't participate at a disadvantage, neither of these assertions are backed up with a reasonable journalistic standard in the article.

Not being a member of that community I make no assertions about the veracity of the authors claims, my point is that the author is lobbing some pretty big allegations that they didn't back up well in this article.
Mesh networking apps get around this, and there are a few of those available now. Signal even has an offline mode that does this.
1. I seem to recall this from the childhood, but its not proven that people did not use to make duckfaces.

2. James Bond was real and from Norway.

3. These are actually really cool.
I wrote a script that will upvote all postings containing a salary range:

https://gist.github.com/dlo/77426445e6403da12c652ac00b86764f

I've tried to make it comprehensive, and it supports a few different formats, but if it doesn't catch something it should (or it upvotes something it shouldn't), let me know. It throttles to 1 vote every 2s as to be nice to the HN servers. Hope this is helpful!
Exactly. Like anyone with a ton more at stake if it succeeds like the banking system.
Could not agree more. Every time I have seen an implementation the imperative type (ant etc) it leads to different ways of doing the same things so over multiple projects things just gets really complicated and difficult to maintain.
A New Memory Contender?
I mean, yeah, you don't have 100 million in your bank account. (I'm assuming) I get the feeling this is a rich guy only kind of activity.
Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrency Memes
The HIVE header in article was a perfect predictor of the BS that came next.
I think we're losing sight of the goals of intellectual property law.

Society as a whole benefits greatly from a rich public domain. The starting point in IP law is that there are no rights in ideas. Then from that starting point, we start to carve out exceptions that make sense from a market perspective.

We grant trademarks, because the market benefits from being able to identify the source of a thing.

We grant patents and copyright protection, because they incent innovation, and innovation is good for the market.

The protections that copyright law affords have more than rewarded Walt Disney for his innovations. The Constitution specifically requires that copyright protection be limited in term. In my mind, the time has come for Mickey to drop into the public domain.
This source (in Dutch sadly) [1] might shed some light.
In short a `coalition of the unwilling' consisting of The Netherlands, Ireland, Cyprus, Malta and Luxemburg are impeding tax reform.
In public they talk the good talk. Behind the sense they stall under the guise 'Need to ensure proper implementation'.

[1] https://nos.nl/artikel/2206095-nederland-ligt-nog-altijd-dwa...
Afaik, ‘real’ ecstasy is still pure mdma

Some young folks have tried to tell me that GHB == "ecstasy."
'Stand on Zanzibar' is a work of genius, truly.
Did they re-indent, change line endings, or strip end of line whitespace?
Bureaucrats can suck, but they are a whole lot better to deal with than pimps!
Yes. AMD didn't take shortcuts, and implemented the spec correctly. Intel took shortcuts, introduced bugs, and now to compensate for that the OS has to work around it in software, it's going to be slow. For years Intel has reaped the benefits of shortcuts for performance, while AMD has been implementing things correctly; now there is a correction.

That's how the market works.
Edit: s/comparable LTV/comparable ROI(~= LTV-CPI)

You will have equal ROI, with the LTV being slightly lower on android but so too will the acquisition cost... overall profit being the same.
How to help sales reps and sales processes become more resilient
Decreasing RAM Usage by 40% Using Jemalloc with Python and Celery
Then use an image, not a text. (Or use a font-mapped text which is not externally exposed by itself. Seemingly similar to PDF, but alas, PDF supports textual selection ;-) If you cannot afford that you'd better acknowledge the complexity of multilingual systems.
Define "cure diabetes"
A type violation is a run-time exception, not a compile-time error?
Cannot believe this.
— “SELECT...” is not an abstraction for “for...”, by the way. Abstractions are not for specific implementations. “SELECT...” is an abstraction for specifying Sets etc.

— Maven is simple, not arcane. I’ve produced countless “custom” builds with wild variations of need and never has Maven let me down. In some sense this is easy to prove (see maven-antrun-plugin); however, Maven’s core plugin/idioms supports 90+% of use cases I’ve seen over many many “weird” build requirements. To your example, “copying files” is fundamental; however you have to learn the idiomatic way to do it if you want to reap the benefits. Otherwise, just call out to maven-antrun- or similar. But then you’re chasing your tail.
Have you had a look at Rollup.js (incidentally by the author of Sapper).
That is fortunate! I'm glad to hear it's just a slight bump in the road. Best of luck going forward!
I just figured out why I think these photos are so interesting. I thought about these photos all day and couldn’t stop wondering why.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen such an old photo of people that weren’t posing. I feel like these photos are a magical window into life back then. It’s so amazing and eerie at the same time. Look at them tip their hats to greet the man. Look at these people walking down the street, petting their cats, and enjoying life. But yet they are all gone and don’t know how the world changed. Amazing.
As a founder, more work doesn’t equal more success
> Youtube seems more and more to be turning into a kind of wasteland of unmoderated, self-published content.

YouTube has always been a mix of that and piracy, though if anything, professionally-produced, non-pirated content has been increasing over the years.
Thanks for sharing this story. Glad you were somewhat avenged in the end.
> Don't indict corporations for following the tax code, change the laws.

Sure, don't indict them, just please, please recognize them for exactly what they are: soulless, inhuman, profit maximizers that will take every inch afforded to them by the law (and sometimes more). You gotta watch them like a hawk and don't believe their statements to the press.
It's configurable. Add rel=prefetch to an <a> element and you'll get that behaviour; don't, and you won't. Since the links are small, mousing over them tends to suggest you intend to click them, but the exact behaviour is subject to refinement over time (this is pre-1.0 software, adjust your expectations accordingly).

Incidentally, 'cheating' is a bit of a silly word to use for a feature designed to improve UX that people spend a lot of time trying to implement (see e.g. http://instantclick.io/)
This is an incredibly common stance, and it's also very obviously problematic. No one is saying that your experience in software is invalid or that you're wrong about "these modern frameworks" having been wrong in their time. However, if you aren't yourself working as a frontend developer in a modern startup-ey development environment, you aren't in a position to make so many assumptions about the problems such developers do or do not have. Surely, as professionals and adults, we can all appreciate that we are each dealing with problems in the world for which people believe we deserve to be paid. We all take what we do seriously, and are trying to build the best tools we can to do the best work possible. Even if something comes in as a fad, what good is it to bawk at a perfectly valuable learning experience?
In this clip about the Mississippi Delta Chinese, you will hear ethnically Chinese folks not only speak with a heavy Southern accent, but also exhibit facial and behavioral tics that are typically associated with people who live in the deep south. It's fascinating.

Skip to 1:32

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NMrqGHr5zE
Copyright is exactly how a a musical artist is able to turn their creative output into an asset on which they can make a living from. The copyright is the very thing that allows an artist to sell and license their recorded work. An artists record company buys tor licenses he copyright to the master recording from them.

There will always be weasels and bottom feeders that seek to exploit but do you really believe copyright has somehow held back musical innovation? It was this copyright that enabled a business model that brought recorded music to the masses.
Doesn't the board of directors usually set the CEO's compensation, not the CEO him/herself?

Also, I don't think the stock is a "fig leaf" -- it actually is in the shareholder's interests that CEOs hold a lot of stock. I can't think of any other explanation why the compensation of (non-founder) CEOs is so high. I suspect that if a CEO were to refuse to accept stock it would make shareholders uncomfortable. The stock is what incentivizes the CEO to act in the interest of shareholders when those are contrary to the interests of employees or customers.
LOL saas_co_de accuses Google of engaging in a sham business.
Complex projects, complete with their integrated support, roadmapping, sprint management invariably have a few order magnitude higher level of complexity and management. There are few tools that truly do the above well, or bearably competently.

Most start from scratch projects can be nicely managed in Trello et al.

Generic search alone isn't the feature, or the benefit. None of those options listed have a deep enough search. GitLab and GitHub aren't a project manager - projects that are manageable in Git* likely aren't complex, or enterprise grade.

I have tried nearly every product in this arena as well over 20 yrs of dev in different types and sizes of projects. JIRA begrudgingly is my neccesary evil. I hear nice things about Pivotal Tracker as well, just didn't reach my sphere of folks when I was looking.
A short essay I wrote. Would love to hear your thoughts. Also, did you have similar experiences?
> They most likely wasted it with 0 accountability.

This isn't true in the US; if the people are unhappy with the government they vote the leaders out of office.

> What would the government do with your money?

Fund things like education, pure research, the police, the fire department, and parks perhaps?

I work for Google and am happy we have a lot of money, but I don't understand the negativity towards what the government does.

> When government failed, they get rewarded with more money and resources.

This seems to happen at companies too? I have heard of people doing things not because they're the right thing to do but because it helps with promotion.
I'm not being sarcastic at all. Whatever damage humanity is doing to Earth now in pursuit of material comfort will be quickly healed once we transition to more sustainable sources of energy. The Earth will be fine, it's very resilient.

Living well and living sustainably are both important, we don't have to sacrifice one for the other.
sslstrip does not stop HTTPS connections. It simply replaces https links on a page with http, and that itself requires the initially manipulated page to be served over plain HTTP.

It was far more relevant when websites were mostly HTTP, but used HTTPS for login or payment pages.
In a Nutshell 'Mifid II'