skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, I didn't realize that "culling" of non-viewport-visible divs happened within your vDOM implementation. I agree that that would need to happen either way. If the "culling" process was a separate layer, though, it could also be implemented on top of the DOM-queuing process I mentioned.

I did this myself when writing a chat client's infinite history scrollback. Chat messages that aren't on the screen still have a pure-data "event" representation of them loaded, but their DOM representation (virtual or otherwise) is entirely discarded. Rather than the physical DOM nodes for chat-message divs having fixed positions such that they're able to disappear without affecting their peers' layout, I instead just have the chat messages stacked as regular block elements under reflow, with two fixed-size "scroll pad" divs just above and below the viewport "consuming" and "releasing" the vertical height that had been taken up by message divs as they're added and removed. You can have millions of rows "loaded" (in the sense of parsed data sitting in JS memory) for instant access, with not much browser memory usage at all.

Though, even that memory usage was too much (this chat client is supposed to run beside memory-intensive apps like games), so as well, in my setup, nodes that are far enough off the screen can have their parsed "event" representation discarded, and replaced with a single URL representing the serialized "history chunk" that those events came from. When the scroll distance comes close to them, the chunks are reloaded by re-requesting and re-parsing the chunk (which, helpfully, is usually still in the browser cache.)
Are you aware you can also make ~$1k just for signing up for a new credit card and using it for a few months? As long as you live within your means and spend responsibly you can get some money back from the banks by playing their games and winning. Just put it on autopay so it pays the balance in full every month.
Eh, maybe in the US. I've never owned one and likely never will.

Live within your means.
"Platform holders need to make it easier for VR game developers to get their games onto their platforms and reach the people who want the game they’re making. This goes beyond just financial, this goes towards publicity, mentorship and more."

This point needs to be fleshed out more. What is say the Oculus App store not doing that the iOS app store is? As a user (not a developer) of both, I'm not seeing a difference.
Why do we need a blockchain or a merkle tree? We have TLS, SSH, PGP, a number of VPN solutions...blockchains and merkle trees are consensus and versioning protocols, not security protocols. Their use of cryptography is orthogonal to the traditional security goals of confidentiality and authentication.
So index funds would have to hold AT&T long term.
Unfortunately there isn't at the moment. The setup process is still fairly involved. Hopefully in the next couple of months I'll have something easier for others to use.
> The lottery change could be aimed at hindering those outsourcing firms’ applications, Rand said. Three Indian firms, Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys and Wipro, have dominated H-1B applications since 2012, government data shows.

This would be great. Almost, all my well qualified peers (on F-1,or H1B) hate the contract coding body shops. Even people who end up working there, hate their time over there, and often choose it as a way to stay in the US, until they get a "proper" job.

Assuming there isn't some hidden fine script that screws qualified people over, this should help weed out the bad actors, without changing much else.

> In addition to the new lottery order, the department also proposed a new way for companies to enter their H-1B visa applicants into the lottery. Right now, employers have to prepare a full petition for each applicant before they’re picked. The proposed rule change would let employers register them online before the lottery, and work on their cases only if applicants are selected.

I wonder if this will make companies more likely to hire h1b candidates, as the legal expense only manifests after they are picked in the lottery.

I am glad they did not put sweeping salary requirements into place. This would have hurt many competent candidates who joined startups (where stocks > base pay) or ones in engineering fields where salaries have historically been much lower than that in the CS industry.
Wikipedia says this place can be visited for free. Is the part you paid basically for transportation and translator / tour guide?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Area_Outer_Underg...
To me this feels like moving a photograph in front of someone's face and calling it 3D.
Pretty underwhelming, and I wonder if the creators of such effects ever listened to high-quality recordings on good headphones.
I must've lucked out, then, as I only pay $15 a month for an Internet-only plan through Spectrum. Granted, the speeds aren't anything to write home about (30 Mb/s download), but it's more than serviceable.
"Let's unpack malware in the kernel by supporting 127389213 arcane archive formats in kernel code" — Symantec
JotForm and ProcessMaker Announce Partnership Webinar for Workflow
I will never adopt a google product again.
g+ may be a total failure
hangouts may be the less popular chat product

But for me and my kids this was the channels we used when they grew up. We have so much history in our family chat and so many photos shared on google+.

So now they just shut it down and don't even bother to migrate 10 years of my life to whatever is meant to replace those products.

We are a generation who will leave nothing behind.
The problem seems to be how to measure such an effort. It's easy to list a few classes and subclasses (of the patent database) and say that you've searched through those entirely, but the whole internet? What documentation would be sufficient to convey that the Examiner had searched thoroughly enough? Examiners are already urged to search NPL (non-patent literature) sources, but it seems too amorphous to establish standards for what sources need to be searched and how thoroughly. And the tooling isn't there either. Natural language search engines aren't precise enough for a real search for information (don't want the googles guessing what you 'really' meant to search for). When I was an examiner, for what it's worth, I always searched at least IEEE, CiteSeerX, and Dialog databases, but I'm not sure that a KickStarter campaign would have come up in any of those databases either.
> First, what's the legal status of this code?

Apparently it is currently owned by a German entertainment company:

"Realize that, while you’ll have my data as of the day of Larry 1’s creation, you will not own the intellectual property rights to the game, the code, the art, or anything else," Lowe says in the LSL1 listing. "Nor do I. The IP rights were sold over and over again, until they are now owned by a German game company."
What is the cost of living? That seems rough almost anywhere to support a family. What do you do?
Zoom is the new skype
The EFF has a working one that tells you the uniqueness of your browser and how it got that score: https://panopticlick.eff.org/
Why is 2 * (i * i) faster than 2 * i * i in Java?
Let's talk JS: performance
BMI might not be the best indicator since it also factors in height. If we go by weight only, USA is #3 behind two small island nations.

Americans are big. They also have more fat people than other western nations.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthnews/9345086/The...
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I lost $50k making a VR game show. That was fun!
You can show symptoms and not be diagnosed. For example, "at his parent's request, had his hearing tested 4 times before age 8 despite there not being any difficulties" could be evidence that inattention was evident, even though it was mis-diagnosed at the time. They may have been labeled "lazy" or "space-cadet" without being offered any practical support: especially among women who grew up in the 80s, it's pretty common to have not been diagnosed despite having a clear history of symptoms.
I think legalized racketeering is a hard case to make out from this set of facts. The patent owner here has not received a dime, from what we know from this blog post, for this patent. It may be frustrating to see, but so far seems that the 'system' has not allowed any profiteering here.
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This is an interesting point. I wonder if there's enough public data to figure that out.

I have heard that some forms of Chinese protectionism are a little more subtle: apparently, the government requires foreign companies manufacturing in China to buy batteries from the domestic Chinese battery industry. Only Chinese companies can buy from the (better, cheaper) foreign companies. I don't remember where I read this though.
Putting exactly the same spend on a credit card rather than a debit one does not conflict with living within your means. Making use of credit facilities does not mean being in debt or doing anything wrong.

It's the same in the UK - there's a world of benefit in showing that you're able to use credit products responsibly and there is no risk or any cost if you just treat a credit card like it's a debit card.
Luckily for Microsoft, there's many developpers that don't work on mobile. There's millions of developpers working for banks, governement, or other large organization, and many of them are choosing Microsoft technologies for their stacks. Mobile app had its gold rush in the early 2010s, but now Microsoft is investing into capturing developpers to use their cloud platform, and they are obviously doing very well in that area.
Sorry, I was unclear. I didn't post that to disagree with their point (though like you I think it's overly simplistic), I was disagreeing with the childish tone. That's not a way to have a productive conversation, or to be a good member of our community.
It doersn't really - The poster made a crappy game, didn't market it, didn't test it, and seems to blame others.

There are 3 reviews, all negative, with show stopping bugs even 6 months after they first reviewed it. Poster says he didn't market it until 6 weeks before release. This is just shovelware, unfortunately
It’s not just about poor money management, but it’s too easy to reduce it to that.

Here are a couple examples.

Conventional wisdom 30 years ago said that a “good decision” was to graduate high school and get a manufacturing job. A “not so good decision” was to get a degree in computer science. There’s big a reason why ‘nerd’ back then was an offensive term. And, ‘only nerds’ went into compsci, and they didn’t even make much money (compared to, say, a business degree). But, look which decision was better after a few decades.

Another example is education, in general. In 1990, everyone was saying that college was the best thing a kid could do to get into the upper middle class. Data showed that any degree would significantly increase wealth over a lifetime. But, yet, just 15 years later, that decision wasn’t so great.
OP inferred they went to Harvard.
Where’s a reasonable cut off point? Surely you don’t want someone uploading a copy of War and Peace as their name.
Another thing that's crazy is that writers, artists, 3d model animators, and voice actors[1] never make $60 an hour doing this kind of work, and yet he lumped those things under "developer time" high-level wages.

[1](Unless they're famous people for their particular talent category)
Yeah, but for where I'm at currently it's not worth having another thing on my plate that I need to think about even a little bit, even for $1k. It also just rankles me that I should have to sign up for something I neither need nor want just to take part in a flawed and often predatory system.

I should also note that I've had multiple friends who gave me this exact advice, then ended up with thousands of dollars of credit card debt a few years later because they got carried away. No thanks. The reason these offers are made available is because cc companies know this will happen to a lot of people.
Poverty is observably the consequence of social disruption, dysfunction, and lack of economic achievement. Wet streets do not cause rain. Germany for example had rampant poverty in the late 1940s and 1950s. That poverty didn't cause the war, it was caused by it. The Marshall plan helped speed up the recovery, but the real factor was the lack of punitive reparations and the industry of the German people. The same occurred in Japan.

I don't deny the possible existence of a negative feedback loop, but I don't consider it to be a settled matter either. It could be poverty causing more poverty, or it could just be that the original causes still obtain and thus poverty persists.

As for parental wealth, well you'd be hard-pressed to find any trait in a child that isn't statistically more likely when their parents possess it. Are we to address poverty by forcing people to procreate by lottery?
GP observes that Intel is behaving in a way that indicates it does not value future cash flows. I reply with one hypothesis for why Intel is discounting future earnings. (Very high discount rate on future cash flows, perhaps) You respond with reasons its discount rate could be lower.

Yes, I agree it would be nice for the United States if Intel's discount rate was lower, but where's the evidence? Does opening a chip packaging plant in China show "legacy, loyalty to family, country, environmentalism, pride, general ethics, etc"?
That makes sense! There are some funny "beer will hydrate you faster than water after cardio" studies that work for this reason.
Hear hear.

And this assessment is cause for optimism. Look at many of the upcoming cohort of blockchain-based projects: LivePeer, Fluence, Augur, dare I say NuCypher (I'm on this team) - all of them have far more interesting things to offer than their use of blockchain tech. They render unto the blockchain what is the blockchain's, but all do way more interesting things.
Examiners do absolutely use NPL (non-patent literature) sources such as an including Google Scholar. Just because this one examiner in this case didn't include any record in the file wrapper also doesn't mean that they didn't conduct a search there themselves. But the evidence we're talking about here may not have even come up in a Google Scholar search as it appears it is only on a crowd funding page.
Your pictures are stunning. The entire facility has quite a sci-fi aspect to it. Did you actually run into any hornets? :)
Not sure why that should be surprising since unlike most anti depressants, club drugs have an immediate and dramatic effect.
So far Larry Ellison has had the last laugh, claiming that Amazon Does Not Use AWS to Run Their Business
and that Amazon's databases trail Oracle by 20 years:

"Larry Ellison: Amazon uses Oracle, not Amazon to Run Their Business… Because AWS is Not Good Enough"

https://www.webpronews.com/larry-ellison-amazon-oracle-datab...
The crusade against open-source abuse
Tadashi Tokieda Collects Math and Physics Surprises
> Live within your means.

Most people don't use credit cards to borrow. The point of the credit is just to hold until the end of the next month and then pay off in one go. The point of doing that is to allow a period of time to resolve any disputes for example.

Credit cards give you extra consumer power - actual extra laws backing you up (at least where I am).

I can't understand people who don't like credit cards if they say it's not living within your means.
Microsoft's defender was also guilty of doing various kernel mode/high privilege parsing things.
Story that all chinese technology is stolen is not true. They have lot of talent and hardworking folks in cutting edge technology. Vast majority of employees in US chip companies doing cutting edge technology are also Chinese. Most of US engineers chase easy money in web technology etc. Same concern was raised by Peter Theil about VC investing not in hard tech. Ycombinator is also classic example of investing tons of money in only short term tech. Most of silicon tech needs 5-7 years or even more.
Having an iPhone isn't inexplicable. You can finance or lease a phone for $30-$40 a month. And given the extraordinary advantages having a smartphone provides, it would be inexplicable if they did not do so.

Also, cigarettes are an appetite suppressant and in many places are cheaper than food. Food stamps are hardly comprehensive. Cheaper, that is, until it all catches up to you medically.

One thing I've learned in my years is how much cheaper life is when you make good money. I can buy healthy food. I can go to the doctor. I can buy shoes and jeans that last. I can properly fix things right when they break. And so on and so on. I pay more upfront to save a ton down the line.
I've only worked on a single blockchain application, but this was my experience too. I was actually pretty skeptical when I was told we'd be working on it and figured it was just a hype thing, but the use case involved a B2B process that was well-established and used a paid intermediary to correlate data across businesses. We were pretty happy with the result. I doubt we'll ever see a middleman-free decentralized utopia, but I agree that it's a technology with some genuine applications.
Why do you need your own typedef? stdint.h is available, if you're using a compiler from the past couple of decades at least.
I used blockchain in a project successfully, but it is not a distributed consensus application. My problem was file sharing. Torrent files send a big list of SHA1 hashes, one for each piece of the file. I replaced that idea with a single block which contains the hash of the next block (as well as two other blocks so verification isn't linear one block to the next). This allows a single block to represent the entire file, allowing you to get blocks from many peers while verifying them. You can just send out a coverage map of what you have, and your peers can calculate what you can verify and send you a random block from that set.

If anyone is interested, [1] and [2] are the project. No one is using it, but it's a peer to peer chat and file sharing system.

1. https://party-line.lol
2. https://github.com/tacixat/party-line
iMessage is for iOS users only, and from Apple. Google has Chats too, so... who knows.
It would be fun to do a similar port of an embeddable JS engine like Duktape (https://duktape.org) also
Nightmares.
I was absolutely self medicating with mdma to deal with childhood trauma but it was also a hell of a lot of fun.

Interestingly I brought up child abuse on an email list I was on with people I met in the rave scene many years ago and literally all of them had a history of it. I had no idea. We never really talked about it even when we were taking mdma and having deep conversations but almost everyone said the mdma helped them deal with it.
If iPhone got 30m users from Android and Android itself got 500m in total in the same interval, my numbers were pretty close.
Honestly just sounds like a boring game. Wouldn't have been fun without VR, so immersion isn't going to be some kind of magic bullet. The steam page does it no favors; I couldn't find any examples of gameplay, and both videos show the same general content. I suspect no one bought it because, well, there was no reason to buy it.
Differential privacy in practice (easy version)
Yes. Already massive amounts of data have been lost to the grind of technology forging 'forward'.

As we lose the information, we lose context, and without context 'facts' about the past begin to lose meaning to the present reader.

History, and the stories we have, is/are mankind's most important asset. Without the context of our past as a species, we lose the ability to navigate into the future effectively (without crossing into unfortunate places again, like world war, or slavery, etc.).

We have nothing but stories. Without those, we are nothing.
Easy. They basically rebranded Hangouts as Meet.
Even for that evidence would seem to be required. Patents should indeed act as an incentive to invest in an invention. But how many potential investments in inventions are dissuaded by the countervailing thought that someone must already have a patent on it? ... by the thought that getting a patent is too complicated? ... or too expensive? ... or that the invention is likely to lead to patent litigation?
Nope. When you de-package the chip you damage it, especially on small features. They have access to the die bank, which means they have perfect die. Probably, with test pads still exposed. A microscope, etcher, etester, and patience is all you need to reverse engineer.
> The story is informative -- VR games don't sell well, except if you can time to new hardware

I disagree - the story doesn't really tell you that. All the story tells you is that OP didn't really do any research (see
"As far as I’m aware, Fruit for the Village is the first VR clicker game to exist as a published title." - maybe there's a reason), didn't publicise his game ("I really only showed it off in the 6–8 weeks before it launched"), and made a pretty crappy game (see steam links - 3 reviews, all bad, one was even free. Game breaking bugs not resolved 6 months later). Any one of those things should be enough to sink a game in the current market, but all 3, and you're just asking for failure
Out of curiosity: do you use winter tires, is that a thing in the US?
De facto vs. de jure maintenance
This sounds like "kids who can't read the white board should just sit closer or look harder". Yeah, some kids can't read the white board because they are sitting way far back or haven't figured out their letters yet, but some kids need glasses. The reason professionals make diagnoses instead of HN commenters is because they can tell the difference between "needs more phonics" and "can't see".
I don’t blame you, we all have a lot of things to deal with. I wouldn’t worry about ending up in debt from it if you are a tech worker with a significant financial cushion.

I wonder if there’s an opportunity here for a “free travel consultant” who will sign up for credit cards for you, take a cut, keep you up to date on the benefits you’ve accrued, and act as a travel agent, booking trips in a way that maximizes the value of the benefits. If done well, it might make life simpler instead of more complicated.
Correct me if I'm wrong but he can't legally sell these disks then right (at least before wiping them first)?
> The Department of Homeland Security wants to switch the order of these lotteries, it said in a notice of the proposed rule change, which would — somewhat counterintuitively — improve the odds for those highly educated workers

> ... with a master’s or doctoral degree from an American college or university

This is a welcome change. But this biases the playing field in favor of those graduating from American degree mills. As a counter-measure against abuse from those, I hope DHS also intensifies scrutiny on the many American staffing companies who bend the H-1B rules to hire these foreign graduates. There is indication that they have started on it, for example [1].

Also,

> The lottery change could be aimed at hindering those outsourcing firms’ applications, Rand said. Three Indian firms, Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys and Wipro, have dominated H-1B applications since 2012, government data shows.

> “Most of the visas are snapped up by these body shops,” said Ira Mehlman, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, or FAIR.

Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys and Wipro are outsourcing companies, not "body shops". Body shops are staffing companies - they are mostly American and run out of places like Edison.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18425341
Interesting, looks similar here in the DC area, if cars.com is to be believed.

Goes to show how much worse (or, at least, less appealing) the Bolt is, if it’s being so heavily discounted and is still barely selling.