skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More like 15%.

Arguably the total number of working H-1B visas (including extensions while waiting for a green card) (and working H-4 dependents) is the more relevant metric.

That number is not tracked directly, but it's about a million or so, all at significantly higher wages than the median US personal income of $31,099/y.

https://qz.com/949589/the-h-1b-visa-cap-tells-you-very-littl...
PyDev of the Week: Brian Ray
The author answers the question in the first sentence. It is not that we can't, the problem is that it is not cost effective to do so. Or, as the cliche goes, "It's all about the Benjamins".

The inconvenient truth is that the US has a national debt of over $21T and a federal bureaucracy with a reputation of being unable to bring projects to completion on budget. Think of this in a more personal context: you need to plan to support yourself in your old age (retirement). Your lifestyle depends on a successful return on investment. What percentage of your savings would you invest in this? Where does this fit on your hierarchy of "needs" vs "wants"?
This was my experience. When I was a digital nomad my workdays were just spent in a variety of airbnbs instead of my home office. I did spend two weeks working on a beach in Cadiz, but I found that either I was too focused on the work to enjoy the beach or too focused on the surroundings to be productive.
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This shows how badly javascript was designed. Functions when used improperly should throw an exception not "sort of work."
New european requirements for GDPR consent problem for apps?
Mickey Mouse is a harmless example. If we change the laws to let Disney have Mickey forever, we are also allowing companies to own forever something that could make people's lives better.

It also presents another problem: one of the objectives of copyright is to reward innovation. If you created something new, it makes sense to let you profit from it for a time. But if you can profit from it forever, you have no reason to innovate more.

Not innovating more goes against one of the objectives of copyright. It's also bad for the economy, for the people, for everyone. We need innovation.
My daughter was diagnosed with Leukemia, spent 10 weeks in a top-notch hospital, got stellar around the clock attention from the best docs in the world for two years, and a limitless supply of chemotherapy and drugs to treat the side effects.

Grand total for 24 months of the best care in the world?

$8,000 in deductibles.

I don't doubt that other healthcare systems are well run, but after my family's ordeal, I came away pretty impressed with our system. Treating cancer for less than the price of a well-worn car is pretty darn impressive.
Sure, but then you still don't have V-Sync, which causes terrible and easily noticeable tearing on almost anything (at least in the case of Nvidia, it seems to be much better with AMD from my annecdotal testing). I doubt Apple would find tearing acceptable on their products, honestly.
I agree. I've never been on a fireground and had someone yell, "We lost the house because you didn't divide by 12!" Fireground math is a very rough science. Every engine in our district has pre calculated charts for every cross lay and discharge so you aren't doing the math on scene. Additionally, once you deploy line you have a radio and can ask the engineer to increase or decrease pressure with no math required.

A much bigger issue is the lack of recruitment and volunteerism in the American fire service. People simultaneously don't want to increase property taxes to fund career departments and they also don't want to volunteer. Communities can't have it both ways. Lack of staffing is a far greater risk than whether I'm dividing by 10 or 12.
Indeed, but you'd think that would make airports encourage high-capacity planes - fewer planes for the same number of passengers means less pressure on air traffic control.
On the note of Ubuntu, PIA also sponsors Linux Mint (an Ubuntu derivative) and even has a tool in the distro's repository to generate OpenVPN config files easily.
These slides may be difficult for beginners to follow. A more in-depth treatment can be found at Robert Nystrom's wonderful game Programming Patterns resource available for free online:

http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/

And of course Mike Acton's classic talk:

CppCon 2014: Mike Acton "Data-Oriented Design and C++"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc

All these resources are CPU oriented. As next gen GPUs begin to dominate for data queries. It will be interesting to see how the game changes as well.

The Rise of the GPU: How GPUs Will Change the Way You Look at Big Data

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwpd13urFog
Here are a few good ones:

http://i.imgur.com/1hrQ6xi.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/AFhQ7SW.jpg

https://inhabitat.com/rainbow-hued-ole-kirk-lego-lamps-cast-...

http://www.legopunk.com/?q=node/42
I'm a bit surprised at all of the people suggesting "remember one password, and mutate it with an algorithm based on the website name". That means that if you have to invalidate one password for any reason, you have to change all of them. On every service that you use. Do people really do this?
Extending copyright some time after the author's death makes the incentive to create the same for older and younger authors. Also makes killing authors less profitable. The trick is how long should "some time" be.
I agree I said in the end that we need team consensus. We have hundreds of teams...the problem is most of them don't care about this stuff, they care that their "business" customer(someone not that technologically oriented) gives the nod.

After that no one holds them to anything, in fact I've seen situations where new team members try to organize consensus and the rest of the team hits their seat's eject button and that person finds themselves team-less.

This is an interesting subject though!
If anyone is interested, the animation seems to be from David Ope

http://dvdp.tumblr.com/
I just burned 10 minutes of my day staring at that animated GIF.
4K 43-inch: The Best Display for Programming?
Many of the early computer science approaches to protein folding were laughably naive, and the assumption about folding described in the Fraenkel paper: "It is believed that the native folded three-dimensional conformation of a protein is its lowest free
energy state, or one of its lowest. "

is not factually correct. In reality, proteins never reach their lowest energy state unless they are very simple proteins, instead, they rapidly reach a state of kinetic interconversion between several accessible states. We can simulate proteins and measure those state transitions.

Really, solving protein folding is about classical approximations and clever sampling.
Reminds me of insect eyes.
Better not tell SF; they'll want you to pay SF taxes.
Two other interesting examples:

Trazadone is one of the most commonly prescribed insomnia medications. It isn't FDA approved for that. It is a decade's old generic antidepressant. The sleep dose is much less than the regulated theraputic dose.

Through mechanisms not fully understood, people with liver disease often experience intense skin itching. Standard dermatology approaches have essentially no effect. SSRIs are one well tolerated treatment.

In neither case is their obvious profit motive or overselling by drug companies.
I assume all my passwords will be leaked/known and don't store anything sensitive without 2FA, ideally not SMS 2FA.

A password alone is never secure.
Starting 2018, Basecamp is paying everyone as though they live in San Francisco and work for a software company that pays in the top 10% of that market (compared to base pay + bonus, but not options)

Options can be fairly large part of the compensation in SF, often as much or more than your salary (which is already highest in the market). Depending on the maturity of the company those might be a lottery ticket or actually liquid stock that you can sell on the public market.
the freeform drawing is not that good, this works so much better http://www.jave.de/ - example trace I did with that https://pastebin.com/raw/8gedcN63
I had to look up what "GAFA" meant. Apparently it stands for "Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon," usually used within Europe in the context of legal investigations.
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I'm not asking what hug concludes, I'm asking what he/she believes. What we believe and what we scientifically conclude can be quite divergent things.
> Pain is always evil, or the word "evil" has no meaning.

What about pain that teaches us to avoid harm? E.g., the pain from touching a hot stove?
Blog author in comments: "Deploying a compiled binary allows you to specify incredibly low memory footprint containers whilst if I were to write a similar “Hello World” style of application in Java it would require at minimum 512MB of Memory in order to even start."

This must be some sort of provocation, because if it isn't... Takes my breath away.
> change password functionality for you

Lastpass has the same functionality. This is actually a feature open source tools like keepass and so on needs. That and easy cloud/mobile integration.
I believe you're spot on. Training and being used to it is what I'd describe as an unfortunate reality. It reminds me of a few startups that I've seen who've created novels in the format of text message conversations to provide the content of a book in the format we've been trained for. I've definitely felt like my attention span isn't what it used to be when it comes to reading.

A large source of power for social media is that it is a 'pushing' force - it constantly is throwing notifications and other stimuli at you.

A book, on the other hand, does not share that same strength in power. But it has gotten better in pushing (i.e. Goodreads, Kindle, etc.).
The porn version of pirates of the caribbean, as far as I remember, doesn't use the name "Pirates of the Caribbean". Also doesn't use the name of important characters.
Having an advanced set of tools means that anyone can build a simple interface on top of it, providing a subset of features. It's called the facade pattern. It's present in nearly all software systems, in one form or another.

Don't let your supposed experience as a professional techie give you the false impression that you know everything there is to know about tech.
Ransomware to hit cloud computing in 2018, predicts MIT
Are you suggesting that US is scientifically losing to most countries?
I've had a similar experience; a mild dose of oxycodone had no high, no withdrawal, and unremarkable pain relief.

Individual variability is pretty high with opioids, both in efficacy and in metabolism speed. It's more pronounced with things like tramadol, but also true of oxycodone. At a guess, you might just be seeing much less impact from a given dose than other patients (and likely addicts might well be seeing more).
I don’t understand why you object to browser games but use flash as an example of what could happen? First of all, tons of flash games are archived. Second, how is the web worse than a compiled binary that you don’t have source code access? Games that are made for the web are easier to preserve and run in the future than native games by a long shot. Would you rather run a browser that can play all of the games on the web in a backwards compatible way or rely on emulators for previous operating systems or game consoles?
The US is allowing Disney to become a behemoth of a company without competitors, so even if the price rises up to a million trillion gajillion dollars they would be able to pay without much effort.
Plus the large network of high-speed rail that AFAIK will be a direct competitor for internal flights in China.
I was pretty lucky to be in a department that was one of the SDSS members. The metal plates they had were only used a few times since each one was unique to the field it was designed for. After they were done with them they sold them to some of us grad students for $20 (the price they would have gotten as scrap). When I move into a house I'm going to mount mine on a wall so I have a little piece if scientific history to look at. :)

One thing to add, too, is that the plates are pretty big! Each one is about three feet across and maybe 1/8 inch thick!
7 Key Factors Driving the Artificial Intelligence Revolution
On similar lines,
I very recently discovered the combination of emacs + Artist Mode + ditaa for creating diagrams, and the experience has been pretty good so far too.
Of course not. Why would you jump to that conclusion? When you see someone with a "Thin Blue Line" decal on their car, do you assume that he/she is a police officer who murders minorities? No, but you know where their allegiance rests.

As CalChris said:

>If you are going to dismiss impersonation on such an ephemeral platform, why do you care about spamming?

Maybe you didn't read enough of the replies to understand the context. I don't know.
One I was responsible for advertising and digital strategy.

The other I helped create the entire newspaper both when it came to design and the content as one of my partners were lead investor in it.

They both failed for two different reasons, Despite the general love for the first newspaper and it's content (think International Herald Tribune) not enough wanted to pay for it.

The other was an attempt to establish a free danish national omnibus newspaper which failed because of problems with distribution.

I have also been advising a few online journalistic magazines. One of them is doing really well by following a donation model ala the one used on brainpickings.org.

Regulation is always a discussion but it's not the discussion that journalist normally discusses when they discuss journalism as tabloids aren't the only types of newspapers there are so I would still question the idea that regulation is really the core discussion when it comes to journalism.
On the recruitment side of things I had a coworker judge a candidate on how many pages his resume was. If his resume was over one page then he didn't even want to look at it because it was formatted incorrectly.

This makes sense to me, the number of pages on your resume correlates with your programming skills.
What if - I like this inversion of expression - what if it really is a war on drugs, not against? After all, amphetamin was popularized under the Nazis, e.g. The CIA supplied cocain to vietnamese contras. Soldiers are fully dependent on supplies so who knows what's mixed into the food as preservatives. But it's unlikely the hard liner conservatives are just fooling everyone, rather it could be an ironic slogan indeed to reinforce the idea of sheer will. But still the only thing more important to conservatives is the economy and the cold war was an economic war (in hindsight?). Point in case, the CIA experimented with LSD. The population is seen as human capital and perhapsits everyones own responsibility to abstain. Quite naturally, controled selection is able to increase fitness overall, e.g. in terms of fitness and apprehension. (edit: So there is incentive for control and thus also to fight against uncontroled supply.)

It's called dope, after all - if you don't know what I mean I invite you to learn what doping in semiconductor fabrication means.

I'm highly paranoid, probably, but you know what they say, being delusional doesn't imply noone were pursuing ulterior motives. And actually I would find that kind of covered honesty hidden in plain sight quite sympathetic in terms of plausible deniability. I mean it's only fair because ashamed drug users try the same, being too ashamed to admit, but too proud to lie - and too sophisticated until not.
Multiply the yearly grant rate by six and you get abiutnthe total number of H1Bs, so not quite a million.

But regardless, it’s not like all unemployed are competing with body shoppers, while the HN crowd probablybisnt either.
I have no clue where you're getting your information from. But as an ex SpaceX'er with friends still working there and friends at Tesla, they absolutely work at least 70-80 hours a week. This is not an 'anomaly', but the norm. In addition, the expectations are incredibly high.
Nope, you can't. You still have to check for uniqueness on the server side before committing them, so you are back from the start.

Always keep in mind that anything coming from the client cannot be trusted.
Dockerizing a whole physical Linux server
My life experience and recent knowledge from psychoanalysis is that from time to time you really should step outside of your comfort zone... to the slightly uncomfortable and bit scary zone. But going into terror or agony is often counterproductive. And human beings are typically the best experts of themselves.
I'll elaborate slightly. Mainly there are stupid things like you can't be eligible for certain programs if you have money > X in the bank. How are people supposed to save to get on their feet again if doing so loses their help?

We do an okay job of trying to funnel money to the people and necessities but we focus too little on job training and development. I would love for us to bring community projects back into the fold. Learn construction and landscaping while fixing up a park. Let people refurbish old buildings to create low income housing while learning the "trades". Use all the intelligence and energy of people to create after/before school programs and tutoring.
The term you're looking for is "confirmation bias" and it probably explains your observations with sufar.
I have the Axidraw at work and its a pretty competent machine.
True, though HSR is often more expensive than flights in my experience. Also, china rail makes buying a ticket from a remote location obscenely difficult (like buying Guangzhou to Beijing from Beijing), and so often it’s just much easier to get a flight on ctrip (hence why I had to take that 380!).
Not shocking at all - follows a pattern we've seen before on wallstreet and anywhere else men think they're amazing cuz they're rich. It's just cute that SV has the lifestyle choice spin on it.
World could RUN OUT of chocolate by 2050
Show HN: Uniteable: Disrupting the Meeting space, making meetings more efficient
It needs people to take a stand and I think that's what's lacking. Often the alternative is not starvation so desperation isn't always an excuse. Look, if everyone around you is a cynic, if everyone around you is saying you're a dummy for being an honest person, if everyone around you is saying 'this is the way things work around here', you need to be brave AND honest to push back against that. Most humans (anywhere) just follow.
for these rates, how long would the contract be?
A Virtual Experiment –
It is reasonable for implementation re-use (subclassing) but it flunks the subtyping aspect.
Next step, make them tiny! (a la the phyletic dwarf elephants in Peter F. Hamilton's "Great North Road").
What you said can be read as "the answer is to stop voting", because it would be very very hard to find someone that doesn't want to become filty rich.

And if you find one, well... one person can't do much in politics.
Gotcha. Thanks for the clarification!

Yes, even if you're using normal insert statements, it's good to limit the size of any one transaction to the extent you can for a host of reasons!
> Do you believe that all keyboard layouts are of indistinguishable practicality?

If you have evidence to the otherwise, a lot of us would be keen to read it.
Similarly, most OTC sleeping pills are just first-generation antihistamines like diphenhydramine with a different brand name on the label. Incidentally, diphenhydramine is also an SSRI, and the discovery of that fact led to the development of Prozac and its derivatives.
Which is exactly my point. By making it more difficult to obtain painkillers, because "pain is natural", people who are terminal and need them to maintain at least a bit of humanity at the end of their lives might find it difficult to get the pain management they need. It's already an issue where anything opioid-based is extremely strictly regulated(for example - in Egypt, it's super difficult for doctors to administer morphine, which means that people who really need it might have to go without appropriate painkillers).
Mr. Gupta asked, in a respectable and direct manner, for me to elaborate. And I did. You, and many of the posters here, did not ask nicely. So I did not.

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-to-beat-Google/answer/M...
work in progress that uses Nim macros to make a nice SIMD library:

https://github.com/jackmott/nim_simd
I've seen quite a few doctors complain that they feel pressure to minimize opioid dosing below what they consider medically justified, even for inpatient care. We seem to have focused on restricting ideal-case prescriptions, even though we know the major problems are improper prescribing and slipping dosage schedules.

(Oxycodone is labelled for 12-hour relief, but only offers ~8. The result is an addicting high/low cycle, movement off prescribed schedules, and running out of medicine early even during legitimate use - which leads people to illegal sources and makes addiction easier.)

It's particularly silly for patients with short-term problems who won't even be getting opioid prescriptions on release. Someone laid up in a hospital bed on a morphine drip is not in a high-risk pool for going home and trying to recreate that experience.

http://www.latimes.com/projects/oxycontin-part1/
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Reply All has a great episode on a similar kind of scam: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/long-distance/
I've been working on this idea for a few years, and I finally launched a product that attempts to solve the problem of inefficient meetings. Your thoughts and feedback are really welcome, and you can be as brutally honest as you like.

Uniteable is a tool that easily integrates with Google Calendar and Asana. It takes your existing scheduled meetings, and allows you and your team to add notes in realtime, those notes can then become tasks which can be sent to Asana at the end of the meeting. Afterwards you'll have an archived meeting that you and your team can always access for reference.
I bet the Chinese as the inventors of paper would be happy to get some royalties from the Western world.
Electic (the top commenter, not the OP) is the blockchain developer.
At one of my jobs we used SharePoint for documentation and I would constantly have issues with it inserting zero width characters, particularly when pasting into a terminal. I finally got tired of it and wrote a small Chrome plugin that copies text without those characters.
Awesome application! I used it in the past to draw ASCII diagrams for my blog posts (e.g. [0]) as I was looking for an alternative way to display "images". Still needs some tweaking for mobile usage, but on desktop it's just great because of the removed loading times for images.

- [0] https://www.robinwieruch.de/learn-react-before-using-redux/
They want a separate account for some specific reasons, I assume, so why not help them?

That's the point - they didn't want different email accounts. They wanted to share one. There will always be edge cases that don't conform to your expectations of how users should be doing things, and your applications probably need to work even in those less-than-ideal circumstances. If your app is going to be used by older people who might share an email address then I wouldn't make the account process require a unique address for every user.

I actually go a step further these days and try to make things that don't even require any email address. The less personal information required to create an account the better. So long as users are aware that they won't be able to recover an account if they forget their password there's no real need to ask for an email in the first place.
My dad was always proud of being the main guy on the ramp for the 747 Houston to Honolulu and Los Angeles flights. He used to tell everyone about how the wingspan was longer than the Wright Brothers first flight. Apparently it's true, but I had always thought he made it up.