skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What is the point here? So does every other company.

What I was trying to point out is that when people talk about Infosys, they are referring to the people who are deputed from India. Or at least thats what I thought. So, when some one says 25405 people got LCA, a person who is not familiar with these things would think that Infosys brings that many people from India every year, and that Infosys is using up 25405 of the 60k or 80k visas to bring new people. They may not realize that this number also includes visa renewals, relocations, and hires from US, and that renewals and relocations do not count towards the 60k limit. If the Nasscom quote below is to be believed, its around 4000.

>IT industry body Nasscom on Monday came out in defence of its members TCS and Infosys, saying the two accounted for only 7,504—8.8%—of the approved H1B visas in 2014-15.

http://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/tcs-infosys-accoun...

>Both said there teams were trying to hire people locally (Americans)
>It is a legal requirement.

I was trying to say that just like how you are saying people in Infosys are bad, the Infosys people who work in interviewing Americans are saying the candidates they get are not as good as the Indians! Everyone thinks others are stupid I guess.

>as I had some personal experience in that regard.

I thought you were an American!

> I can also tell you this, this uncertainty will pass.

Thank you. I hope so too.
Downvotes for asking someone for evidence of a guarantee of what someone is going to do in the future? I long for the days before HN became an ideological battleground.
I'm definitely out of the loop here; 1-1-1 thing?
That may be, but this sounds more like that high-profile wine fraud case from years ago.

Get a bunch of empty branded bottles from wherever you can get them, fill them with rubbing alcohol and sell it for full retail price.

The UPC would have to be altered for proper fulfillment, but it may not have been the seller that cut it off-- they could have received it that way themselves, or it was used as a tester bottle at one point.
Escalate up from the postmaster general? To who, the president?
Also, there is nothing magic about his fibonacci constant. Any large odd constant with roughly half the bits set at random will do the same thing.
For fun, an updated version that cleans up other things as well as the ordering, not relying on signatures of lambdas, etc.

https://pastebin.com/HF41J8KQ
Why not automate your stuff at your current datacenter?
Where do you live the dev market is like that? Rural midwest?
You're right. I can't make assumptions about her true intentions. But I don't think you or anyone else can either. It'll be interesting to see if anything new regarding that comes to light at trial. Maybe she's a pure sociopath, maybe she's a college dropout who was in way over her head and dug the company into a hole it couldn't escape, maybe neither, maybe both.
FWLIW, I think there's a destructive poetic justice in the situation. It's not the noblest impulse -- to screw someone who you perceive screwing you -- but it seems eminently human.

The delicious part is in the slow play. Would it be better to halt the creation, rather than degrade it? In that case, there would be no skill development in addition to no product, which seems objectively worse.
These have not much to do with attempt at increasing power density, but everything to do with particle contamination during the manufacturing process.
http://www.salesforce.org/pledge-1/
> "the higher capacity a battery is the more it resembles a bomb."

You mean like gasoline?
It's not true.

Predicting suicide is hard. Currently the best we have is asking people whether they think they're going to kill themselves, seeing if they've made previous attempts or have self harmed in the last year, or seeing if they have an alcohol misuse problem.

It's true that people with depression experience reduced libido (sometimes from the illness, but sometimes from the medication), but it would be better to use depression as a risk factor.
It's not a political rant to point out that the USPS operates on a different (and often insensible) plane because it is a government bureau. The poster's comment isn't off topic. Although her/his post is merely anecdotal and not statistically significant, it may ring familiar to others' encounters with that organization. Your post is more of an interruption here than is hers/his. Consider my post as a vector of your derailment.
First path is to retrain them. Getting more cost efficient can coincide with overall corporate growth.

Some people prefer to remain in their specialty or struggle to make the leap. In that case if they have tech skills, someone will take them. It may require a move, but they will land. It's one thing if you're firing people in the dark days of a deep recession. (Folks let go in 2001 had to leave California) It's another thing if you're letting people go into a market of 4% unemployment. If they can't get jobs with similar pay, then you were overpaying them.
NameAI -Gender classification AI from first name
This one is particularly painful for Tesla as the owner’s wife is a minor celebrity with major celebrity friends.

Reputational damage risk in this case could be significantly magnified due to Chelsea Handler’s recent tweet to 8.8 million followers:

“Everyone with an early model Tesla needs to be aware of this. I have one that I will not be driving again. @Tesla @elonmusk”

Ouch!
I think Russia has extremely high rates of alcoholism, seasonal depression must also be an issue.

I just don't think you can learn much by comparing Russia with western Europe and North America. There are too many radically different variables.
Awesome AppSync Repo
I find myself optimizing a lot of the features I write for ease of deletion. It keeps the codebase very loosely coupled and makes cleaning up dead features, or rewriting them, easy.
Pyfproject dead? Other well supported alternatives?
I’m looking at getting into data flow programming again, and noticed that Pyf 2.0 appears to be last version active. The associated website appears offline. http://pyfproject.org

I’m currently accessing it via the way back machine.

Is there a better alternative for python? I’m looking at node-red in javascript as well.
Do your employees seem satisfied and happy? Big red flag! That means they're not working to their full potential.

Don't leave money on the table! Give us a call at Controlled Misery Inc., and we can help you access the increased productivity that comes only from optimizing your employees' misery levels.
Seeding a community where pseudo-anonymous users submit image/link content with images and links might be fraud by some semantic and technical definition (certainly not a legal one), but 1) it's pretty much necessary to get something like that off the ground, 2) no one is really being deceived or misled in a significant way. I'd say it's pretty harmless.

My understanding is reddit did this at the very start of the site's existence and stopped pretty early. They probably would've died quickly if they didn't seed some content.
Lol. Did someone pay you to write this comment? No? Well then I don't need to tell you who the blockhead is. Welcome to the club. We've been called much worse. This quote is even more absurd than that section of the article. Tell that to Stephen King or any other prolific author, whether professional, amateur, or just a weekend HN commenter. Just because someone slightly famous says something that is later quoted doesn't make it true.
The Golden Ratio is proposed as a special multiplier for what is otherwise known as 'linear congruential' psuedorandom number generation. I'm not clear on whether the non-repetitive property of the ratio will benefit its performance at all.

This decimal is computed for 2^64 /1.618...
11400714819323198486
-it looks like this in binary: 1001111000110111011110011011100101111111010010100111110000010101

The runs of 7 ones, 5 zeros and 5 ones could be sub-optimal.

[1] Donald Knuth himself discovered this one for 64bits:
101100001010001111101000010110101001100100101010111111100101101

It contains a run of 7 ones, and 5, but maximum zeros in a row is 4.

I did once mine multipliers for LCGs of different bitlengths by comparing quickly measured ratios in their output to those precomputed from good psuedorandom sequences (average deviation etc) Then having found numbers which achieved the basic signature of random data, they were tested with Marsaglia's old 'diehard' battery of tests - and often passed.

Here is a multiplier discovered for a 32bit LCG
110010011101110100001011

I had a list of them I meant to examine here, but have lost it :(

Anyway, there is plenty of academic work to read on this subject:

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator#...
Actually crypto _is_ pretty simple; all you really need is an XOR function. It's in things like key management and such where it gets complicated.

BTW, if I ever _really_ wanted to hide something, I would in fact roll my own crypto, using techniques that no sane crypto expert would probably even consider. Then I would wrap that in at least one layer of "official" crypto, knowing full well that this layer was possibly fundamentally flawed (even crypto experts often don't get things right), or that it might even contain a backdoor.
It's hard to represent how much more power uranium holds than, say, fossil fuels. However: https://www.xkcd.com/1162/
Yeah, and my original point was that these tests don’t discriminate based on skin color or ancestry. What you’re saying is that different races have different aggregate outcomes, but that that is due to different aggregate income levels. That doesn’t really sound like you disagree with my original point.
I an still using a 2010 11” MacBook Air because there is no equivalent in the modern product range. I just want something light and portable for capturing photos from my cameras, culling the obviously crap ones, and transferring the remainder to storage.

The 12” MacBook provides most of the functionality I want at three times the price. I can’t (for example) plug it in to power and storage at the same time without spending even more money on USB-C infrastructure.
Quit a job, replaced it with zero commute, making room for daytime exercise and better meals.
Side note, does anyone know of a good RSS reader for android? Innoreader is what I'm using atm.
Tech jobs exist because of automation and they eventually go away because automation. But every dollar saved in salary is available to spend on hiring people to do other jobs. It works out in the long run, but that doesn't make it easy on those who have to transition.

I think it would be useful if employers eliminating jobs could have sort of a reverse auction where other employers offer comparable jobs in exchange for a portion of the savings. And the workers could either take their severance or accept one of those offers with no interruption in their benefits or work.
It is likely that you are counting all the results of your search results, and not curating them.
I counted 25 different patents in the USA (40 worldwide), and 13 of those are actually granted.
> In many cases, advertising allows consumers to know about services and goods they might otherwise not know about.

I agree that advertising can help in that way, but I'm not sure how often that actually happens. The largest markets tend to be for products where everyone is generally aware that they exist (otherwise the market woulndn't be large) and most products are only differentiated by brand (e.g. fashion) instead of novel features. Because generic internet advertising follows the money, it ends up as a zero-sum game about moving market share between brands.

If there were a site that allowed only ads for completely novel products, or if the ad is just a link to a double-blinded study comparing along a measurable dimension against a competitor, I might subscribe voluntarily to be advertised to. Until then, HN comes close enough.
Yeah but it was really unclear for a while if Google was actually serious about Flutter. I believe they previously had a similar project which got shelved. Being the official framework for Fuschia didn't help either because at the time (and even now...) Fuschia was very very alpha so that too could be shutdown at any moment.
I'm not sure about this article. For as bad as my memory has always been (and especially bad for being a programmer), I don't have many "why am I in here" moments.

It does happen occasionally, but as someone who is thinking about "work-on-the-fly" wherever I am, I think I'm just accustomed to noodling over work (or other background processes) "in the background".

Since lots of us are engineer-types, are we more apt at that background processing and then when we hit our primary target (in here to look for keys), we're able to shit into primary focus mode?

Now if I'm searching for keys, noodling over some design in the background, and then my wife pops me with a question while I'm lumbering through the house, then I'm in trouble;)
Why is that? As someone that has only been exposed to him via headlines and articles like this he has come off as someone that states populist politically correct statements for the purpose of gaining attention and not seeming like a "typical" billionaire.
Sorry I meant your local postmaster. Then up from there.
I didn't say otherwise.

Jet engines have always been held back not by their mechanical complexity (they're mechanically pretty simple, as you point out), but by the difficulty of obtaining/fabricating materials that can withstand the temperatures and pressures of operation at the desired weight.

Reciprocating engines were far more complex mechanically, but lasted as long as they did before being supplanted by jet (gas turbine) engines precisely because of how much easier it was to build and maintain them.
Cool guy. The core software is pretty dated though (it is 2000 era) and in need of a major refresh which seems like it may never happen. So there are some long-term risks with Salesforce because of that.
Business Insider has horrible reporting. VCs didn't invest in CryptoKitties, they invested in the company that made the first mass-market sale of digital experiences a success.

From the founder - "our soon-to-launch program for developers building experiences on top of our [platform]"
It's an increase in BAH (basic allowance for housing).

The military is required to house the servicemember and his or her family, the servicemember either lives in government housing or gets an allowance for private housing.

Basically, a married couple/family has a higher housing costs than a single person so the servicemember with a family get extra money to cover those costs.

It's kinda odd though because there's only two "levels" of BAH: "with dependants" and "without dependants." Spouses are always considered dependants. So a family of 10 has the same BAH as a dual income family with no children.

BAH is also a reimbursement for housing expenses, not income, so it's not taxed.

You also get a family separation allowance if you're away from your dependants for more than 30 days. Currently around ~$300 a month.
Software doesn't have to obey the laws of physics in the same way; it just has to obey the laws of a dirty, messy, virtual environment created by humans. Obviously the physical world is below all the human-made layers, but it's far enough removed that I don't think that ugly yet functional software alone refutes the point nine_k (the GP) was making. Just a thought.
Extremely brave what he did, especially when it means combatting his own (extremely wealthy and powerful) grandfather. The court of public opinion and the history books will see him as the hero in the end, at least. And he's since started his own medtech company.

In the short-term, his life was a nightmare and Holmes and Balwani held all the cards, but in the long-term he'll probably be successful and considered honorable while Holmes and Balwani will be disgraced at best and convicted felons at worst.
CryptoKitties sales plummet in popularity
What it does, among other things, is stop the meditator from running around like a headless chicken, chasing notifications and like counts, gasping at every clickbait-ey title, and pursing meaningless trivia, in addition to making 3 impulse purchases on Amazon everyday. So yeah, depending on the definition of motivation, meditation can be highly demotivating.

But by that same definition of motivation, most focussed people, and most people who’ve found success in their particular area, regardless of meditator-status, can be considered highly demotivated.
Lawsuit over white nationalist's Twitter ban clears hurdle
"I an still using a 2010 11” MacBook Air because there is no equivalent in the modern product range."

So basically, you're agreeing with me: you're continuing to use an old product because it still meets your needs. You'd prefer that it had better specs, but not so much that you're willing to switch to anything else.

There was a time (not so long ago) that using an 8-year-old laptop would be unthinkable. Now it's maybe kind of an annoyance. That's my point.
You should go post this in the thread from the other day where a lot of people thought it was a great idea to discriminate against employees who have children.
I'm assuming you mean "honey, I can't find X", and she comes in a finds X sitting right in front of you".

I attribute that to myself as, "I don't want to spend more than 15 seconds looking for this thing inside some random thing behind a door"....usually for me, some cabinet or shelf behind the bathroom door where the towels and a myriad of other stuff are.

Also, we're guys and tend to play dumb;)
They recently screwed up the task switcher UI. Iff you turn off all the Timeline stuff, half of the UI is long wordy text about turning back on the Timeline. Every time you Win-tab.
I am a fan of this Chrome extension that fixes these links:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/redirectify/mhjmbf...
True if you're a c# shop Xamarin might actually be a better choice. I just haven't seen many good apps come out of the Xamarin community and I'm implicitly biased because they don't support developing on Linux
Luxury hotels are being inundated with requests from self-described influencers
How Russia Won the World Cup
Netflix Is Why AT&T bought Time Warner, and Comcast and Disney want Fox
Uses reflection to read and write JSON with nearly the performance of codegen
Eight hours a night isn’t enough, according to a leading sleep scientist
I meant that companies need to account for it as an inevitable expense, avoiding it is completely unethical and if someone's party to that decision making process they need to take a good look at themselves.
> Hover over pocket area on new tab, click the '...' in the top right, click "Remove Section", done.

Thanks, I never noticed the '...' menu. Now my new tabs are refreshingly empty. I just don't understand why a '...' was even necessary, all of the options would still have fit nicely when expanded to a horizontal bar. I blame whitespace-driven design.
The distance appears to be about the same as Los Angeles to San Francisco.
Bright new startup idea: Meditation as a Service. MaaS.

A solid alternative, for the modern non-believer, to the more traditional Mass services.

Mission statement: Beware the risks of over-meditating! We aim to offer the (scientifically detemined) precise amount of medidation, customized to each individual, on a weekly basis to ensure optimal motivation and productivity levels among staff.
As a vendor you have to pay Amazon extra to avoid comingling - basically you have to get a new item number assigned and product you're selling all has to be tracked by that number.
This is for a hashmap library where the hash functions are user-defined, so a secondary hash is justifiable.
He seems like he wants to be a better CEO and have employees volunteer but I wonder if this type of business leader ever actually wants to empower their employees by unionizing them? Or giving them the day off to vote? Encouraging regulation on their own industries? Not financing lobbyists?

Not to say he’s a horrible person, just the corporate system we have seems destined to take more and more power away from the avgerage joe.
FYI, you're using the development build of React in production. Switching to prod version for your deployed site should yield some performance gains.
.bananarepublic

Have we reached peak TLDs?
253 Startup Failure Post-Mortems
(Assuming one excludes the "natural" improvements to computing power from such things as Moore's Law..)

> that person regardless of title can provision more computing power than ever before.

I'm not entirely convinced that this is true, at least not in the sense of "order of magnitude more" or even "multiples more". I am convinced of the truth of a statement that replaces the word "can" above with the word "do".

That's because I believe the reason for modest scale was (and still is) cost and not administrative burden, at least since as long as 15 years ago. That is, even with just the (judicious) use of RPM/YUM, Kickstart, and the early CM tools, it was much less than 10x as hard to provision 2000 servers as 200. It might not even have been 2x as hard, other than more exotic logistics and network engineering.

It's just that nobody did it, unless they really needed it, because it still cost 10x [1]. I suspect that AWS changed the dynamic with EC2 because now one could have tremendous capacity with reduced cost, if one only uses that capacity part time (but the provisioning cost is still there). I don't discount the possibility that a fall in price of low-end and mid-range server products helped, but I don't have good data for that.

Whatever caused it, now more computer power is being provisioned, and the variety in tools (at least for CM, which, arguably, isn't really for provisioning) to support it has followed.

> they do a ton of custom work like adding all kinds of sensors to their servers to they can use automation to turn them off and on as needed.

I hadn't read that. I thought they pretty much only removed components from otherwise standard boards, but, at their scale, I suppose adding to out-of-band management would be OK.

Still, even something from SuperMicro has a remarkable number of sensors already there. My point is that a great deal of even low-level automation is (and has been) possible, but almost nobody bothers to do it, because that's a hard problem with, arguably, not enough return on investment, except at Google scale.

Instead, there's automation of newly fabricated work, like provisioning of something created by an abstraction layer (e.g. a VM).

> you could argue there are whole teams dedicated to tooling and their labor hours are moved to them.

I argue exactly that, but I admit I have no idea if, in moving those labor hours, they managed to conserve any (or instead inflate them).

More importantly, though, it's that, because so much of that labor is "hidden" elsewhere, any other company thinking that they could emulate staffing levels by just counting SREs is in for a rude awakening.

[1] Or maybe only 8x, if your negotiation position got that much stronger at higher volumes, but that's not a foregone conclusion when you have schedule needs, too, it might be higher than 10x, too
Yes, and Instagram is at the forefront of perpetuating this...[1]

Source: https://lendedu.com/blog/millennials-instagram-narcissistic-...

See the chart comparing narcissism on various social platforms.... The 'Gram is waaay ahead.
Otlet's full story is an interesting one.

Here are couple of major pieces by Alex Wright:
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/health/17iht-17mund.13760...
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/in-se...

and a -long, detailed- look at the plans for the Mundaneum / Palais Mondial / Mondotheque:
http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/index.php/The_Smart_City_-_Ci...
Zero? A cup of water doesn't typically contain tritium.
200-year-old ciphers may reveal the location of treasure buried in Virginia
Is Your Job a Bunch of B.S.?