skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, come on, I didn't hear about "lifehacks" here, I heard about it on other non-computer related sites where people were making fun of how stupid they were. So I think that means the whole concept was invented to appeal to people even dumber than the average person, which is evidence completely un-HN type people have some sense of hacking as being positive.

It's not like the positive sense is unrelated to the negative sense either. A clever shortcut/trick/program could be illegal or unethical or not depending on context.
Now I am really jealous, and want a hex version that introduces underscores for every group of four...
How is choosing to despair or not, not a confirmation of our free will? *I guess you're saying the "choice" is a product of things beyond our control, so our will is determined / not chosen. Confusing way to say it, but if that's what you meant, nevermind.

ignore--Future behavior will absolutely a product of mindset (despair or not).--
If a human was involved, it was biased.
I’d have an easier time agreeing with your last point if I didn’t remember thinking the same thing around 2001. Part of why this model works so well for the owners is that there’s always a fresh crop of young people who love the heavily-marketed dream and are willing to devote most of their life to making someone else rich, never realizing how badly outclassed they are by the money guys.
The Kindle isn’t perfect but it is a useful device which doesn’t feed the dopamine craving destruction of my attention span like my iOS devices. In many ways I’m grateful it is just reserved for the slow reading of real books and nothing else.
Yeah, it's a bit early. Omniscience starts fading out later.
Really? In all my dealings over the years with H1Bs, you're the first person I've ever met who was blase about ignoring immigration law.
This skill is likely what enabled you to do consulting. Understanding and critiquing what your building is a really important part of being an engineer, but it's relatively rare - which is a shame.
Look for some of the accelerators, they often have funds. Or talk to local attorneys who specialize in work for startups, they’ll know startups and angel groups. And, join AngelList. Just my 2-cents.
https://lmgtfy.com/?q=uber+number+of+employees&s=g
This one is actually in the iOS 13 release notes you see when selecting Learn More in the software update screen.

That said, I stumbled across it by accident first.
No raises because many cannot afford to quit and lose the visa and be extradited. Can't refuse to work late or they can be fired and lose the visa and be extradited.
"No."

You weren't clearly expressing an idea of what a metric is, gotcha. Very helpful.
It's made up. I've had multiple visas including (currently) H-1B and it's just not true.
What laptop are you using for freebsd? Also what desktop environment? I've tried forever to get a BSD laptop setup working.
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renegotiate.

“though I’ve signed my offer I’m having second thoughts about joining”

If they want you, they’ll talk.
Short answer: I suggest Gitlab as it includes everything project management needs for free, and you can even host it yourself should you have the need.

The reason is important--all the smaller tools out there being bought up by larger tools/companies and made into complete project management packages. It used to be that Github did just one thing--git hosting--and anything else was an "integration" with another service through an API, tokens and webhooks, etc.

Now what's happening is companies like Atlassian, Microsoft and Pivotal are buying or building all those little tools or services that used to be separate apps connected by happily sharing their API with anyone, and making them features of a larger product.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing. It means a lot fewer open browser tabs and less context shifts between one service and another.

I recommend Gitlab because it's both the most mature solution, free to use, and open source to boot. As Microsoft is still in the buying and consolidating stage, with some features in beta, Gitlab has had most of those features for years, and battle-tested them with their users able to report bugs or submit merge requests right on the very platform being developed.

The features included in Gitlab--for free--include git repo hosting on par with Github, unlimited private repos, issue-tracking and a Kanban board, CI (you can host your own runner or use their free runners), private Docker registry, artifact hosting, static website hosting, error-reporting, serverless and Kubernetes integration, wikis, code snippets and more.

So before you go use 1 or 2 services that will inevitably be rolled into some larger one, use the cheapest, most mature one out there that also happens to be open source. You may not need all the features now, but It's really cool when you realize they are right there waiting for you when you do, at no extra cost.

BTW: I'm a web and mobile developer, so don't know all the needs that game devs have that we don't from project management stuff.
Partly explains why Bill Gates characterizes Edward Snowden the way he does (though he might not have the same judgment for someone like James Clapper who lied to congress)
https://techcrunch.com/2014/03/14/bill-gates-says-snowden-is...
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At what point does it make better economical sense to send a well paid project manager to oversee dozens or hundreds of engineers being paid artificially deflated local rates?

Looking at the STEM numbers, there will definitely be a glut of engineers. At least with an H-1B visa, they got a ticket to Disneyland.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2017/02/02/the-co...
Vonnegut wrote about how various technologies have removed the community value of moderate talents by enabling the best of the best to reach everyone with ease, all the time, any time. Being an OK musician, for instance, has gone from having pretty good social value and maybe even non-negligible economic value, to very little.

That effect has broadened to new areas and increased in degree, with the rise of ubiquitous mobile Internet.
You might not "need" data, but you brought this data up, and it doesn't support your argument. It seems like you've conceded that now.
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If you then also listen to the episode on Acquired, it’s eye-opening on how he / sequoia decide on making investments.
I'm very much on the left, but I can see a benefit to the sunset bill, as a heartbeat to ensure liveness of the legislature. Congress has been profoundly gridlocked this decade, but they absolutely must keep reauthorizing the budget, or the nation grinds to a halt. Although we've had a few short government shutdowns caused by this, passing a budget has been effective at forcing all parties to sit down and vote together. It guarantees at least one bill passes.
How does it make sense to take massive risks when doing so is simply not necessary? That's very rarely going to be the correct play. It does not take a massive risk (i.e. huge upfront financial investment) to make a game engine, so why in the world would you do so? And why would anyone give you the money to do so?

Contrast with something like self-driving cars, which do require unbelievably massive upfront investments and still aren't solved satisfactorily yet, despite the investment of untold tens of billions of dollars that no one has yet recouped a cent of.
It was boring. A lot of TV was watched. There were some video games too. You could program too. The only thing you could do outside of that would be to read or socialize. You could read a gauntlet of things that you can do today as well. But YouTube, podcasts, blogs are great.
Check out this "competitive wage:"

https://imgur.com/a/Sao5CKy

(Saw this on a university bulletin board a few years ago and snapped a picture.)
No, I mean before you feed it into the model.
I've just been reading "Love and Math" by Edward Frenkel, which I recommend for his view of modern mathematics. His take on Soviet science was that math and physics (and maybe other hard sciences) were mostly left outside of Communist party control, while things like literature, humanities, psychology, ... things where party officials might not hesitate to express an ill-formed opinion, were dormant or party-controlled nonsense during the Soviet era. Frenkel is a Soviet-born mathematician who left the country just before Glasnost, who was discriminated against for having a Jewish surname.
For personal ssh port knocking is a fun solution.
Lenovo X1 Carbon 6th gen.

I don't use a big "desktop" like gnome, just a normal/light X setup resembling the 1990s. Lately it's dwm. Sometimes I do others.

Some things that might save you some time in loader.conf:

acpi_video_load="YES"
acpi_ibm_load="YES"

Also, had to set ACPI to "Linux" mode in bios. After that plus the two lines above, suspend works.

Also, xf86-video-intel from ports.

Wifi is slow but I'm ok with that.

Long ago I used OpenBSD on a laptop, and in my experience, with thinkpads, it has a bit more of a "just works" feel than FreeBSD for hardware support. But I'm on freebsd because of a few things that don't work on openbsd these days [like linux binary emulation].
And the point I'm making is that it's not clear at all why opening 998 doors out of 1,000 is analogous to opening 1 door out of 3 -- why wouldn't you still be opening just the 1 door? If you pick one of 1,000 doors, and then the host reveals a goat behind a single door, there's a slight (but only very slight) advantage to switching. The advantage is most pronounced with the fewest possible number of doors, i.e. 3.

That's why this approach to teaching it has never made sense to me -- it's not clear at all why opening 998 doors should be analogous to opening 1 door, which it's much more obvious that opening 1 door is analogous to 1 door.
Nowhere does that say that Bush blamed Canada at any time, nor can I find examples through 3 pages of search. (I found "Schumer blames Bush" but nothing the other direction.)

Perhaps you confuse Petaki with Bush? He blamed Ontario at one point.
yes it’s obviously a setup. just like “FAQ”s are not normally FA’d before being answered.

doesn’t take away from the article.
A 70s revival: the Utah Teapot (2016)
having an opinion == omniscience?
Not on short notice. Need to find an employer willing to sponsor and pray H1B application gets approved. Takes months. I agree it's much easier if you're in tech though.
Who said the content won't be sent back with the response. It can work just like a 200 OK, except supporting clients will show a warning to users.

"451 OK,content available in compliance of a legal request" (maybe 2XX?)
Reposting my quick immigration quiz:

1. An international student graduates at the top of their class in Stanford in CS, and goes to work for a tech company. What visa do they use?

The correct answer is F1 (OPT) for one year, with OPT STEM extension for 2 extra years, while they apply for H-1B. If they weren't a STEM major, regardless of their actual role, they have a single year to apply for H-1B, with a ~30% chance of success, before being asked to leave the country. Regardless of their qualifications.

2. Instead of going to a tech company, they work for a year in a tech firm, then go to MIT for CS grad school. They perform excellently, having many publications under their name, doing several industry internships at Microsoft/Google labs. They then get accepted to a tenure track Assistant Professor position at Columbia. What visa do they apply for?

Still H-1B.

I say this because I think most Americans don't have a good idea of how widely H-1B applies. To repeat the caricature of "H-1Bs" being majority underpaid indentured slaves whose employers manipulate salary paperwork while hanging the threat of revoking their visa sponsorship every other week is laughable, if not downright insulting.
You reboot your server every week? Whatever for?
Totally off-topic. Is it just me, or is this "People also search for" the worst feature ever?

For those who haven't noticed, this is the box that shows up under a search result when you return to google from the page you've gone to. 50% of the time I click the back button, this freaking box shows up, the whole page shifts, and I click the wrong link.

Oh and did I mention I never ever, not even once, actually use it?
To be fair, from the tech workers' point of view, it doesn't much matter whether the employer is technically a tech company (Google), a hardware manufacturer (Apple), or a retailer/cloud provider (Amazon). So long as you're getting paid top-bucks in the industry for doing software engineering, which is possible at all of them, then you're golden.
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Amazon does provide seamless AD integration into the cloud though. It's just that Microsoft has the advantage of being the creator of AD and thus the automatic name association.
> I'll catch hell for this, but Battlestar Galactica was the same way.

I just rewatched the mini-series and first few episodes of Season 1 of BSG. While, I remember thinking the same thing at the time, it was very obvious the second time around that for large arcs, the writers didn't have much of a plan. If I remember correctly though, there was always a lot of uncertainty about how many seasons they show would have, so it was difficult to plan more than a season at a time. It was also SciFi's most expensive show at the time, IIRC. They had a similar problem with Farscape... it was a big (and expensive) show, which stressed the network financially.

BSG is a great premise, but hard to come up with an overarching story arc that makes sense or offers closure. But sometimes you just have to let the writers go with things to see where they end up. There were some really good episodes later in the series, even with the filler.
Indigenous Americans, Netherlands, GB, the US, … and then? And when? Ich bin ein New Yorker.
This is an important question and also an example of how Satya Nadella played his job really well. By clearly stating that Microsoft will not deny democratic governments access to the latest technology, he deftly put stop to any potential discussions about tech mis-use (e.g. like the employee outburst at Google).

Not saying decision is good or bad but in terms of setting clarity this was really critical.
Presumably it makes something like this easier: http://www.deepexcel.net/
I'm looking at their earning reports and that does not appear to be the case any more.
Why would anyone be extradited ? Did they violate some international law ?
Not terribly surprised to see Microsoft win given the Trump administration's feelings toward Amazon and the DoD coziness towards Microsoft. I'm just happy those poor bastards in the DoD don't have to deal with Oracle. I know if I were still working in the DoD sphere, I'd be looking for somewhere new to go if Oracle won.
Is every MS employee now writing these "my career at microsoft) pieces? Looking for clicks for their blogs ? Seems like a recurring phenom. Topic X features on the front page of hacker news and then everyone imitates it probably just trying to get clicks.
it is a maximum of $10Billion ...over 10 years

... because government contracts never go over original estimates?
Super interesting. Comments like this are what keep me coming back to HN.
For what value of working? I have a Lenovo X220 that works mostly fine. Sleeps on lid close, WiFi, trackpad. I don’t use it often, I keep it as a disposable backup, but it works.
I thought that name sounded familiar...

"From 1996 to 1997, Roizen was Vice President of World Wide Developer Relations for [Apple Computer]"

Also, I find it very weird that people project the current name of a company back in time anachronistically.
That is true even today! We already have the option today to elect legislators that create laws that govern PG&E! In both scenarios, if we hire effective legislators we’ll get an effective outcome.

Public vs Private is a non-issue. Good legislators and government is the real issue.
Yeah, many of us do. TX isn’t just a state, it’s a state of mind, and also a former independent state. Besides, if TX secedes, how is Trump supposed to build his border wall?
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I thought they have reinvented themselves with the new embrace for linux and the cloud? I've always thought Windows OS is garbage but Microsoft seemed fine without it nowadays. Can anyone with Microsoft knowledge share a little bit about the culture and how it's changed?
Assuming your 1/2 number is correct (I'm doubtful), an $18B annual revenue company growing at 59% (+$10.6B) is not growing faster than a $36B annual revenue company growing at 35% (+$12.6B)
In the context of SV, 100% of employers sponsor H1 visa. So you can literally walk to the next building, interview and have an offer by the next day. And get an approval in 15 days, and start working. I am exaggerating a little, but there are hundreds of thousands of H1 eligible software eng jobs available in SF and SV.
That blackout was caused by a tree limb in Ohio, but it always seemed likely to me that the Blaster/Welchia worm either was a contributor or magnified the impact of the grid issues.

I worked next to a power plant that shared some network components with my employer at the time. They did an emergency shutdown minutes before we were impacted by blaster. Some of our upstream providers operating backbones in NY also were impacted and had capacity issues due to the worms. At least one of those providers had issues for days after the initial incident.
I don't know how often that happens, so I can't add anything to that part of the discussion.

I can only reason that it depends on whether the founder still has voting control of the company, but that's implied with "greenlighting".

WeWork is a similar situation where the founder is effectively getting a carve-out to greenlight the deal. That's only one example, though.
The media definitely has a giant effect, I agree. Maybe some Americans believe what they hear about more deeply than others. But all of us are talking about it, so clearly the media has to have at least some effect in structuring this biased conversation.

Funnily enough, the same media outlets who talk about shitting in the streets in India say the same thing about San Francisco, like, really often. It's a trope that must have been proven by some analytics platform to get a lot of clicks. So the content writers are instructed to juice this topic for all its worth. Craziness
>They count some of the University benefits as contributing to the salary

This is not true and simply can't happen. Every single H1B filing data is online and public so if you want to refute me you are free to post the exact filing.

>make the job requirements list items impossible to fulfill unless you've already done work with whichever researcher is hiring by making "experience" with their one off research projects or very narrow (but not hard to understand) areas of expertise a requirement.

Also not true since there is no job posting requirement for H1Bs. Only for EB2/3 green cards. Universities generally don't sponsor green cards unless it's EB1B so this can't happen either.

I agree with your last suggestion though.
This is extraordinarily wrong. There are no allocations. Lottery only happens for first time H1 workers. But the number represented here includes first times, renewals, transfers. etc. There is no concept of allocations
You're citing the Stanford gaydar paper, a pseudo-scientific attempt to cash in on the hype about neural nets. It was widely condemned for its ethical and technical deficiencies at the time.

e.g.:

https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2018/02/20/op...

Edit: to clarify, I'm also interested in why you think all you say in your comment is true. The sources you cite either do not support your claims, or are disreputable like the deep gaydar paper [edit: or they are irrelevant like the sources about the training of border agents].

For example, I quote from the Wikipedia article on the plethysmograph:

>> 1998 large-scale meta-analytic review of the scientific reports demonstrated that phallometric response to stimuli depicting children, though only 32% accurate, had the highest accuracy among methods of identifying which sexual offenders will go on to commit new sexual crimes.

32% accuracy means those tests are incapable of detecting whatever they're looking for. Even if other tests are worse. My dowsing rod is better than my crystal ball at finding water, but that doesn't make it accurate.
Well certainly one can imagine how frustrating it must be to have this condition and nobody believes you, i.e. they think you are a lying drunk.

So likely there is a happy medium between (1) being totally naive towards everyone who comes into the ER and (2) denying that ABS exists. i.e. Be aware of alternative explanations which may be rare but not non-existent.
This definitely sound like political pressure.

But maybe Amazon dodged a bullet here, Microsoft employees would have many tales to tell about how their government customer users and their requirements onto Microsoft itself. Assuming this decision stays.
>> looking not in the direction commonly associated with recall

Which direction is that?
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> Block reason: Access from your Country was disabled by the administrator.

Canada is blocked?
Social media plays a huge role in compelling more people to travel, since advertising done by your peers has a much higher success rate.
I've heard this topic come up before. I belive it is interesting and valuable to think about.

I don't have much to contribite of the top of my head, but I did stumble across this blog a while back (it might have actually been from here on HN, don't remember) that explores this very topic.

It's even named after it :) maybe other will enjoy it. I like the author's writing style, usually a pleasure to read.

https://unintendedconsequenc.es
Do you have AV interfering with any intermediate files, etc? I know for MVC/ASP.NET once I blacklisted the overbearing AV scans on a few of those directories all my woes disappeared.

For whatever reason I have the opposite experience, VScode input lag is painful at times and VSPro is minimal. As you know once you master an IDE, keyboard shortcuts and common keywords are typically being entered at 200wpm+ in bursts and its quite noticeable. Initial startup is definitely poor for both.

> I don't need a forms builder, server explorer, EDMX designer, test explorer, and all the other bells and whistles VS offers.

Same. CodeLens gets immediately disabled. Makes me wonder if there would be a way to hack up a stripped down "VS Lite".
So your personal experience is the experience of every H-1B? Including the ones who are vehemently disagreeing with you?