skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have recently used parcel[1] in multiple personal and work
related projects to solve the same problem, and honestly, it's a joy compared to the webpack configuration hell.

The key feature is that you hardly have to configure anything. For example, by referencing a javascript file in the index.html, the script and its dependencies are automatically included in the bundle minified with asset hash in the filename. On top of that, you get livereload for CSS and JS in watch mode.

[1]: https://parceljs.org
How would you know if their stated runway is realistic? What I mean, I feel that startup is gonna try to get you no matter what (in some cases), so how do you know if they are telling truth or not?
I mean, the CFO of GM is 39, Keith Cozza became CFO of Icahn at 27, David Knopf became CFO of Kraft Heinz at 29, Andrew Power of Digital Realty at 27
Because the first line of the article alludes to using this to power your phone.

It also states. "Promising early applications for the proposed rectenna include powering flexible and wearable electronics, medical devices, and sensors for the “internet of things.” Flexible smartphones, for instance, are a hot new market for major tech firms."
If the username could be an email address (or the email address is a required field on signup) you don’t have to pass back a message saying that the username is already taken. You simply let them go through the flow and do verification of the email address by emailing and requiring clicking on a link, and if they are already signed up send a message saying someone tried to sign up with your email address.

Of course if the username can’t be an email then the email address must be required for login, the username is just for display purposes.

Also when doing the password reset you don’t need to tell them their email is invalid, you just send out the email for reseting as normal but have some text at the end saying ”if this wasn’t you blah blah blah...” and ignore it if it’s an invalid email.

And of course there are ways of dealing with changing of email address.
I don't think this proposal supports authenticated encryption, but if you're using ECC RAM, you could batch up groups of 8x72bit DDR lines, giving you 64 non-data bits: 10 bits for single error correction on a 576bit batch, and 54 bits for MAC. If your L3 uses 64-byte or larger cache lines, this is mostly free; you could also scale this up or down depending on how many MAC bits you want versus how large youre cache lines are.
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I agree with both of you, and pose this question... do you think they have more desire to see Trump not win again because of their integrity - or want Trump to win because it's extremely good for business?
There is also more annoying version of this. Previously people with stupid ideas didn't get much practice in rhetorics. In live conversations you get demoralized very quickly when people don't respond in any way.

Today people with stupid ideas are the ones who get most practice in rhetorics. And practice makes you good.

As a result you find very specific kinds of stupid. If you know Nassim Talebs IYI (intellectual yet idiot) there exist supermutants of that phenomenon. For example I just argued with self proclaimed Marxist who managed to have opinions of fascists straight from 40's. He had absolutely delusional view of multitude of things like not believing in industrial revolution, or that machines could outproduce people when making bulk materials. Yet he could muster huge array of minutiae from history, usually correct and supporting whatever weird point he was making. This dude actually was rhetorically decent and very passionate about.. I don't really know what.

Such individuals are far from stupid despite their stupid ideas and they seem to be able to shut down intelligent discussion on niche boards. Specifically because nothing seems to stick: they are not trolls, not really malevolent, not really belonging to any definite camp. Just really twisted, bored and eager to engage others.
Yes, I am counting those. And yes, I am looking at real data instead of media puff pieces. For example, [1]. It's important to consider 1) relative numbers (how many market rate positions are being created as a result of H1B vs. number of depressed wage positions taken away by them), and 2) The total net result on US workers. If 1,000 new jobs are created, but 10,000 others that Americans want to work now pay 15% less than they should, is it really a net positive?

Also as a rebuttal to your point, the type of economist findings you are referring to are almost always explicitly for complementary labor rather than substitute labor. In the case of H1B abuse, it tends to be the latter rather than the former. Additionally, abuse of the H1B program leads to add-on effects in the labor market that keep salaries low and discourage entry of new American workers - see for example [2].

I want to reiterate that I support the intent of the H1B program and startups using H1B workers are generally doing exactly the right thing. The problem is that the program has been hijacked by corporate interests looking to cut costs and thus it needs to be significantly revised.

[1] https://qz.com/india/1041506/new-data-on-h-1b-visas-show-how...

[2] https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/...
I've actually wondered the opposite. If someone is charming enough, and has done some preliminary research on the bank's in-person screening, could they bypass security with something as little as a fake ID?

Overall, I don't know if there is a perfect solution. Perhaps for banks we should pee-in-a-cup DNA test in addition to other tests. For a porn site we can do a poor mans email reset.
Fantastic read! Not to diminish the original contribution here, but I got curious and started looking for similar projects on the native (in my case iOS / Metal) side that aren't part of the usual suspects like game engines.

These two are kind of fun to play with:
https://github.com/andreipitis/FluidDynamicsMetal
https://github.com/hagmas/MobileFluidSimulation

Both based on this approach, detailed here by Nvidia:
http://developer.download.nvidia.com/books/HTML/gpugems/gpug...

The technique this is based on doesn't create those satisfying tension effects but is more similar to paint flowing on a surface of water, so from a tangibility perspective I'd still love to find something closer to this post's work that runs natively.
> ...support us in our mission to share the blackest black with *everyone :)

I wonder who the asterisk is meant for... Anish Kapoor? If so, he'll acquire some anyway; he acquired some of the world's pinkest pink despite his ban[1].

[1]: https://www.dezeen.com/2016/12/30/anish-kapoor-uses-stuart-s...
What do you mean by technical platform/process?
Every H1B application (or rather, the LCA that preceeeds the H-1B petition) does appear in a government database and multiple public-facing sites that you can search. You can see the job title, company, location, wage being paid, and many many other pieces of information.
> Who cares if he’s a “relative unknown” according to WSJ. Is notoriety an important qualification for CFO?

No, but experience is. Apple's CFO is 55 years old. That's about the age you'd expect the CFO of a huge public company to be.
I'd love to use Postgres, but Firebase is really nice in that it provides first class libraries that abstract away the requests and querying, to the point where querying Firestore just feels like calling an async function on your front end. Plus, you don't even have to think about deploying. There's something really great (and risky) about having an always deployed, always ready backend. Also basic user auth is really easy.

If you're doing a long term project, then Postgres makes sense since the deployment/setup costs are one time. But for short projects Firebase is very nice.
That makes sense, thanks for mentioning it.
All purchased and UV-synced movies remain in users' accounts. The end of UV simply means they can't sync their purchases to other vendors.
Yes, I totally agree it comes down to YMMV. Everyone's learning style is different -- some like dense documentation, some like book-style progressive walkthroughs. I certainly didn't learn CL by reading the HyperSpec, for instance... :-)
>It is, of course, quite possible that "drop the building" is insufficiently honest for you. I'm sure the author could have written "explosively annihilated the five-story building under construction, most likely killing any person inside or atop it". Though I confess I'm not sure what this phrasing would add that "drop the building" does not. Perhaps you can enlighten me?

That's just ridiculous. Silly and snarky. But you know that. The GP wanted honest, not more verbose; plain language that describes the reality, not pseudo-objective jargon that conceals it. What makes it horrific is that you're joking about killing lots of people.

"Drop the building" is also a euphemism, like "light up" to mean to kill. Making murder sound bland and neutral. But I suppose it must be, to the "subject matter experts".
I always look them up on CrunchBase or similar sites first. (EDGAR is also good.)
A bazillion kids have Wharton and Harvard credentials, and let's just say not all of them are cut out for the CFO role.
This is glorious! And actually saves me quite a bit of time. This subject extends much deeper than the rote teaching of "soft skills" to engineers. And is more akin to realizing one's own humanity ;)

I can also recommend a text called Product Design and Development used in the grad-level MIT class

http://www.ulrich-eppinger.net/
If that's the situation, maybe you should just quit your job, rent out your house, move way out to the middle of nowhere, and live off the rental profits
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>I truly wonder how many innocent lives could be saved if military people would start writing honestly.

How much would you reckon?
All good points. I would reply with, “Why Zach?” Are the current and future financials so exceptional that they can afford someone with no record of performance at this level as the CFO? On the other hand, if Mr. Ahuja signs the 10-K on the way out that would allay my fears that Zach is just the guy lining up on a future chopping block.
Lenders also want to have a relationship with you too. They want to make all the loans they can as long as they're good loans. Either way it doesn't change the dynamic that much for the average person they're the product, or I suppose more accurately information about them is the product and the companies are the customer.
> Reducing the barriers to payment this way does 2 things. * Consumers are more likely to impulse buy. This can affect everybody, but severely affects people with low impulse control who can't manage money. * Consumers are more likely to unintentionally buy.

This should be solved by easy and simple refund system (for example, like the one that Valve has). Not by taking away ease of use for people who know what they are doing.

For example, I hate when Steam asks me for CVV number periodically when I buy. If they asked to retype the whole CC number every time I would be less likely to even buy some of the games I want to play.
Submissions are ranked according the the associated activity. It'll appear on the first page if it is ranked accordingly.

See the FAQ (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html):

> "How are stories ranked?"

> "The basic algorithm divides points by a power of the time since a story was submitted. Comments in threads are ranked the same way."

> "Other factors affecting rank include user flags, anti-abuse software, software which demotes overheated discussions, and moderator intervention."

I also recommend reading the Guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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That's kinda funny to me. For people like me (and likely a lot of others that browse this site) the answer to how many children you have, is clearly "@#T%FGDw34dsd$"
College education is a proxy for knowledge and skills of value, however the green card system (not sure if it applies to H1s) provides an equivalence when assigning preferences. EB3 is a bachelors degree or 5 years work experience, and an EB2 preference is a masters or a bachelors + 5 years or 10 years work experience.

I don’t necessarily believe caps are valuable on immigration but given that we’re working within a framework where they’re a thing, shouldn’t we prioritize on skill instead of using a lottery - assuming there’s more interest and companies willing to hire than slots?
Noooo. I was excited to look at the site, but it is not up: http://extramaze.com/
What I don't understand is that I can go to the cinema and watch the latest action film, and see potentially 100s of people getting killed and maimed (not to mention theft, speeding, etc, etc), and that's fine.

But if I want to watch something that's perfectly legal for 2 consenting 16 year olds to actually do in their own bedroom, that's illegal.

I understand a thing being illegal, but the depiction of the thing being legal. The opposite makes no sense.
... Spanner? It's by the same company.
Many factors have to align for a startup to succeed, but the most important of all is that there is actually market demand for the product. You can have the best team in the world and fail because you aren't making something that someone wants to buy. Conversely, you can make a lot of mistakes and still succeed if you have a product in high demand.

So aside from all the questions you would ask about working conditions, tech stack and financial runway, think long and hard about if you truly believe that there is a market for the product that the startup is making. And likewise, would it be possible to ever make a profit delivering that product?

So many startup ideas are honestly pretty bad - they are chasing tiny markets, they are chasing non-existent markets, or they are chasing low-margin businesses and would have to take over the entire world to be profitable, etc. If you don't completely buy the idea of the company as an eventually profitable enterprise, don't join.

Finally, make sure you get something in return for the risk you are taking - either in immediate pay or real equality. It's so, so common for people to work at a startup for 3-4 years, have the startup "succeed" in the sense that it gets bought up by someone, but in the end all the employees get nominal rewards (say less than 100k) or nothing. That is not worth years of giving up a good salary at a bigger company with better benefits.
It's. Not. Flash.
And that's too bad. Flash's vector graphics make SVG look bad, but they flew too close to the sun.
Yes, although I have colleagues at other companies who pay much less (~$6k-8k year employee cost). Hard to make apples to apples comparison because employer health plans aren't public, but I have seen amazing plans and I've seen absolute garbage plans where you need to go to the open marketplace instead (and in doing so, your premiums are now non-tax deductible and you're paying the entire cost with no employer subsidy). I conservatively round up, because medical costs usually end up higher than expected.
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After buying two of Cal Newport's book, with an honest attempt to read it fully, I decided to never ever buy another one of his "creations". His books can be compressed to 2 pages without ANY loss of information. So much so, that I am left wondering, is this the quality of the work that comes out of Deep Work and such.
Those are some cherry-picked examples... definitely not the norm and half of those aren't even comparable companies
Hope the FCC comes down on them like a ton of bricks if they find that the casino was using a jammer. Wonder if they even considered whether they could be inadvertently jamming parts of the spectrum used by emergency services with that thing.
Things changed very rapidly back then. By the time I was old enough to be part of BBS culture (mid-80's), a Commodore was a couple hundred dollars, and a modem not even $100. Penetration by % of population was low compared to today's ubiquity, but competent machines were readily affordable to the majority of Americans.
Facebook used account recovery phone numbers for advertising and analytics.
Hi Dan,

any chances you and your team are working on a GraphQL access layer for the Firestore?

It feels like nested queries(using refs for relations), basic mutations and (especially) graphql subscriptions would be a great match with Firestore and a big improvement in dev experience, imho.
At what level? Because I know StackExchange runs off of relational databases and they get a solid amount of traffic (with some Redis, but the foundation is relational). Even if relational doesn't scale for Facebook or whatever, if I'm making a piddly little chrome extension or a small website, a simple relational database will scale just fine.
If there was no market for Master degree H1Bs who fake their experiences on their resume, how do you explain all those thriving body shops in the US ? Just how many of them are in New Jersey alone.
See the LCA filings data from DOL.

Source: https://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/performancedata.cfm

Goto Disclosure Tab & Download the H-1B_FY2018.xlsx excel. Filter NJ state and Employer City as Edison.
>Markdown edited with GNU Emacs. Site built using Frog, the frozen blog generator, and Twitter Bootstrap.

I was looking at Frog[0] yesterday and found myself in want of an example website. Today I found one, thanks to OP. :)

[0] https://github.com/greghendershott/frog
Webpack and Babel continue to get simpler (eg zero-config defaults, babel macros, etc). I've heard nice things about Parcel. Is there a compelling reason to consider faucet-pipeline as an alternative?

I did read the tldr:

tl;dr: faucet-pipeline is a framework-independent, pluggable asset pipeline that takes the pain out of preprocessing JavaScript, CSS and associated files (e.g. images or fonts). It simplifies the process of converting modern JavaScript (ES6) to support older browsers (ES5), or Sass to CSS - eliminating typical low-level configuration nightmares.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN, and please especially don't take threads on extraneous flamewar tangents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Scanning their GitHub repositories shows that they are written for SBCL.

[0] https://github.com/rigetti/rpcq

[1] https://github.com/rigetti/magicl
not to mention there's quite a few companies who don't want FAANG type of engineers
I am EU based, so EDGAR is not an option for me, but thanks for the information.
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Honestly, I think that this is <i>not</i> the best option- requiring some certain solution is not the best option, as it stifles innovation and there might be something better around the corner that won't even get looked at. For instance, the Bosch Reaxx saw retracts the blade down below the table as fast as possible, instead of embedding it into a chunk of metal the way that SawStops do (they both have their merits, but Reaxx is more universal, and universal safety is important- humans, in general, are more likely to mess up when they're doing something new, and standard cutting blades have been around forever, but that new Rockler kit you bought not so much.)

Instead, I'll argue something similar, but different: the laws should require some level of safety, but not require any specific implementation of the feature, as long as it's safe and dependable (per legalese specifications, no doubt). However, there are many other <i>equally important</i> safety features to think about, such as (the term escapes me at the moment) inrush-detecting limiters that keep the saw from blazing to life when you plug it in [1], or saw blade covers that are actually usable and don't impede work.

If you were to invent, build, and manufacture something life-changing, would you want the government to socialize it and not compensate you at all for it? Part of the problem with the SawStop was that the inventor wanted an inane amount of money for the license, so Bosch, who saw value in the feature, worked around them. Do something like mandate that all products of type X include exact part Y leads what you see in the defense industry- parts that aren't priced competitively, and might not be the best thing for the job. (Yes, I know there are holes in this analogy, and that building stuff costs money.)

[0]Link to legal fight between Bosch and SawStop: https://www.protoolreviews.com/news/sawstop-vs-bosch-reaxx-l...
[1]AFAIK, the general mode of operation for these is to flip the switch to off when it loses power (like a GFCI, I would guess).
I thought it was so cool to have an acoustic-coupler modem like Broderick's character in War Games. Never did find the number to connect to the WOPR, though.
I'm a reasonably experienced woodworker and I couldn't agree more. The Grr-Ripper is a fantastic way to keep constant forward movement on your work piece and avoid getting your fingers too close to the blade. I use mine for the tablesaw, bandsaw, and router table.
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They should be able to answer in a fair amount of detail what their runway looks like (i.e. cash in the bank, burn rate, projected hiring figures, etc.)

Of course, you can never know for sure if someone is telling the truth or not, but they way they defend their answer says a lot in my opinion. People who tend to lie usually don't like getting into the numbers, and people who are honest about runway tend to pay pretty close attention to them.
Webpages are just like real estate. Do you drive around your neighborhood and see fun and weird? You see conformity homogeneity.
They can also have a cached query plan connected to them.
This is pretty close to a question on the yearly Stackoverlow survey, which you might want to look up.

Personally, I only consider offices I can reach by bike, and try to avoid bro-culture companies.
> Raid is useful for availability as well as performance though.

Also for data integrity, with something like ZFS.
Google Maps has a nice feature now where it offers to remember your parking location at the end of a journey. Handy if you're in a new area.
Did I say the operation was under Trump?
Looking at pricing, it's a little out of my budget. But thanks for the suggestion!
If I am not mistaken, this used to be the case in Germany before EU copyright "harmonization" - if something was not commercially available for two years, then it was legal to make copies for personal noncommercial use.
That's a great checklist of things to look for when using an OSS. Thanks for sharing!