skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gimmicky crap like your health? huh. I care about more health --- a bit at least. I don't find it gimmicky.
The article linked to was an opinion piece against immigrants, hence the context. I also eluded to there needing to be evidence, which the op piece didn't really provide.
Even the stupidest plan to get to Mars only got a price tag of half-a-trillion (over 30 years).

The same team that gave the sticker-shocking $300-500 billion price tag to the Space Exploration Initiative gave a price tag of about $30-$50 billion to a MarsDirect-style mission. Spread over 10 years, that's about 10% of NASA's budget.
you can only collect money with an US or Canada bank account but you can donate/send money with any bank card

> Currently, if you want to collect funds from a tilt, you need to have a valid US or Canadian bank account.
To clarify, are we talking absolute numbers, percentage of the total population, or percentage of the population interested in working?
If the problem is nurture rather than nature then shouldn't we be sending them to school rather than prison?
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Housing might very well be 2-3x (or more) expensive, but not all goods have gone up 2-3x more. This allows for an adjustment of your consumption bundle; your housing is not going to be as large, but you might have access to a greater amount of other goods. Of course, you can choose to easily make it 2-3x more expensive if you desire. Family makes this difficult because your personal indifference curve places higher utility towards space, but the parent was discussing intern salaries, who generally don't have to support families.
Step 1: define binge drinking so that every drinker is a binge drinker. Step 2: wonder why colleges don't control adults during their personal time. Its none of the college's business what their students get up to after class. Pointless article.
>I'm not sure that is entirely true - as a counterpoint, consider the East India company, or the Hudson's Bay Company

The trading companies of that era were a very special sort of company. They had armies, courts, prisons and sometimes even their own currencies. I have no idea why they would be relevant. Even putting that aside, these are trading companies, not exploration companies. We're not at the point in space travel where exploration can be a nice side-effect yet.
About passive surveillance: We always had these kind of tools
Ya, it's $199 here in Canada. It looks like the one in Canada offers health and ancestry. Does the US one still only do ancestry?
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NASA says their average space shuttle launch cost was $450 million.

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+much+does+one+space+shut...

edit: forgot the "million"
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Al, could you made the fonts on your site bigger, make styling via css not on each element and introduce some nicer Google fonts? Also, if you could use `<code>` and `<pre>` tags that'd be a solution where you could ignore the rest of what I said.

Reason being that I save these articles for later to show people who I try to teach programming and my attempts to save this page were unsuccessful.
> Now try to explain why you encrypt your messages

Because the widely used chat app I happen to be using does that for all communications without any special direction from me. I didn't even know they were encrypted, it just happened!
Functional programming in JS is possible, ramda / wu (others?) make it very easy to get started, of course it is not as great as with functional programming languages, but still, it allows you to do pretty cool stuff, it's like lodash but with the callback moved to the first argument, turning something like this:

var isMultilanguage = function(field) {

return field.multilanguage === true;

};

var isNotMultilanguage = function(field) {

return field.multilanguage !== true;

};

var getMultilanguageFields = function (fields) {

return _.filter(fields, isMultilanguage);

};

var getNonMultilanguageFields = function (fields) {

return _.filter(fields, isNotMultilanguage);

};

into this

var isMultilanguage = R.where({multilanguage: true});

var isNotMultilanguage = R.not(isMultilanguage);

var getMultilanguageFields = R.filter(isMultilanguage);

var getNonMultilanguageFields = R.filter(isNotMultilanguage);

https://github.com/ramda/ramda

https://github.com/fitzgen/wu.js
Even as recently as mass immigration to America. People who got on the boats across the Atlantic weren't coming back, and communication was slow.

Some people just want to go.
Wow! This is amazing, glad to be alive to see this!
Ahh! No no, not at all. It hasn't even come up yet with a court or the IRS.
I think by and large most engineers understand what the game is and where most H1Bs are going.

Do they? Every discussion of this issue I've seen has had loads of engineers who don't work in body shops saying that they've never seen an H1B worker in a body shop and that body shops must therefore not be the ones using the visa program. (Of course, anecdotes are not data, so neither is this)
Like you say, the main benefit of OOP is that it matches the way we perceive reality. That can make it intuitive to design software. However, this often comes at the expense of performance since the hardware that executes your system bears no resemblance to the way we perceive reality.

Take your physical simulations, for example. You may have a game scene with hundreds or thousands of entities. It's natural to try to model these as objects. In every frame you will then call a method on each object that applies a translation to its position. Very intuitive and simple. But unfortunately extremely inefficient for a computer to execute. You will likely pay a number of cache misses while jumping to each of your objects. And once you get there, the rest of the cache line where your coordinates are is full irrelevant stuff and therefore wasted (the other fields of your object).

For performance, you would want to have all your entities' coordinates in continuous memory one after another, and then apply a function to translate them all at once. Pretty much the opposite design from where OOP naturally leads you.
This comment does a great job at addressing many of the points brought up in the article. I'd like to add one more.

There are certain base assumptions that we all make that need to be addressed - for example, the article compares the pass rates of charter schools to public schools in Chicago. Specific language is used - lower pass rates are "worse", which, then, implies that higher pass rates are "better". This is one of those scenarios where base assumptions need to be challenged.

Simply passing means nothing. For example, 19% of high school graduates can't read [1]. So while you can pass uneducated people through an education system, that does not make it "better".

Charter schools pass less students, but maybe that's because they don't pass students who can't read. Instead of looking at pass rates, maybe we should address other metrics - do public schools or charter schools graduate less people who can't read?

Essentially, when reading metrics, think critically about whether or not the metric is a "vanity metric" (such as pass rates) or if it actually means something (like literacy rates of graduates).

---

Notes

[1]: http://www.statisticbrain.com/number-of-american-adults-who-...
As someone who has made indie games with both traditional OOP and component systems-- I vastly prefer component systems. I disagree that they make things more complex. I found that they made things much simpler. Although, it does require learning about and possibly developing a component system.

If you are talking about very very simple games, it would perhaps not be worth the effort, but at that level basically any architecture will work.
Trade isn't identical to exploration. And the grant of a monopoly is a form of governmental support.
Indeed, imagine if we had a revision history for the Bible/Koran/etc.
Bitcoin has been in beta for awhile https://stripe.com/bitcoin
Chinese, Indian and French kids don't grow up watching this on their TVs every single Saturday morning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZQl6XBo64M
well not so much the optimal browse structure for seo for job sites is fairy well understood by now - I worked on total jobs and other sites at my previous job for part of elsiveer
if you don't have evidence that h1bs are widely abused, and used to drive down wages, it's for no other reason than you're too lazy to google.

It's also telling that you tar a neutral reporting piece discussing the impact of h1b visas as anti-immigrant, I guess because how else could you discredit it. I mean, right there in the very article you seem to have read is this:

ComputerWorld revealed last week that the top 10 users of H-1B visas last
year were all offshore outsourcing firms such as Tata and Infosys.

and this

More than 80 percent of H-1B visa holders are approved to be hired at wages
below those paid to American-born workers for comparable positions,
according to EPI.

as the saying goes, if you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither on your side, pound the table.
>There's standard, normalized ways immigrants have come to the US for a long time now

Just out of curiosity, what are the "standard, normalized ways " that people immigrate to the US ? If i were to go to the American Embassy in New Delhi and apply for immigration and i don't have close, immediate family in the United States i don't see a way other than becoming a Fiance of a US citizen

( http://newdelhi.usembassy.gov/immigrant_visas.html )

Wikipedia also fails to provide anything other than family based immigration.

( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_laws_concerning_immi...
)
If you look at it in terms of percentage of available lifetime hours devoted to wage labor, I would expect it will happen -- if it hasn't already -- but I don't think that that clear enough statistics are available to be certain if or when it has.
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But governments do slash budgets or cut programs altogether. And agencies typically continue on because their existence is mandated by law and (unlike the private sector) they can't choose to just ditch those customers that cost a lot to deal with. There are big variations in administrative competence to be sure, but the logical conclusion of your argument is that if you hate the President (or rather, the administration of the federal government by a given President) then the logical thing to do is get rid of the government.
GWB was pretty pro-space. But NASA can't get much done in one or two four-year terms.
The point was that companies are underpaying H1-B workers. My argument is that there are floor wages they can't pay below.

You're making another point about the impact of immigration. I don't disagree and it extends beyond immigration. If you open a new medical school you're depressing the wages of doctors. Just take a look at what happened to the legal profession.
Am I right in thinking that this does not increase Postgres's expressive power but allows more concise implementation?
Yes, but using the same basket of goods is fundamentally flawed because people shift their consumption choices dependent on relative prices. People do not pick the same consumption bundles wherever they go. Your substitution to an inferior good (actually, just less consumption of a normal good, housing space) is compensated with a larger consumption of 'other goods', which have also rose in price but not nearly to the extent your salary went up (tripled, in his previous example). Again, income effect vs substitution effect.
> "studying how to avoid war"
I'm sure it isn't that straightforward....

Say you diverted NASAs 18.4 billion yearly budget. What can you do with 18.4 billion dollars? To give you contrast of how little that is relative to other American financial concerns, the GM bailout of 2008 was 51 billion.

Why not have Mars missions if the US can give car companies tens of billions?
A Mars colony would obviously not be an autarky. But after a few decades, equipment could be set up so that it could be self-sufficient if it needed to.

The US could be self-sufficient, too. It's not because trade is too valuable.
People in the UK were racist as fuck back in the 40s (not as much as, say, white US southerners, of course)
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That was bad design in "yacc". To get decent diagnostics out of a parser generator of that type, error outputs need to indicate the last point at which the parser was on a unique, successful path, and where the parser input stream is at the error. The problem in the input is between those two points.

Between those points, the parser was working on several alternate possible parsings, none of which could be completed. Give the names of those grammar constructs to the user. So an error message should look like:

struct point { float x, float y };
^^^^^^^^^ Expected one of:
<structure-variable-name>
;
}
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Great analysis, thank you.
If these projects are using 'open design processes', then the conversations do need to happen in the public.

What I felt as cynical about your post were things like:

>and made it seem like you were the leader of the market

I feel this is cynical because it's advocating not for facts and technical solutions, but arguably, willful misleading of the public. Docker should be open and honest about its software and its positions, not trying to create narratives where it 'seems' like you are something that you might not be.

>you just made the PR that much stronger for the CoreOS POV

The reason I advocated for not 'doing PR' is that, in my book, PR is an exercise in charade. Tell us what you feel, what you're working on, and why these things are good. Don't try to 'manage' appearances. If you have a problem with something, let it be known.

I think there are some things that might be able to be worked out. Docker and CoreOS/Rocket may be able to co-exist. Rocket doesn't seem to have the tools to easily produce the ACI's. Dockerfiles are widely used and pretty decent. Docker could focus on tooling while CoreOS handles execution. Both companies have contributed useful technology and it's not exactly clear that one company can/should own the entire solution.
Why do you think humans won't be able to live in 3/8g?
The question is pertaining the total number of people employed.
>The best option is not screwing up our planet.

That isn't even close to the best option. That's like saying: "don't make backups, just don't screw up."

edit: to be more specific, "make makeups, but also try not to screw up"
Would privileging such comments make the threads accord better with HN's values of reflective, civil discussion? Rapid-fire controversy is not really what we're going for here.

If you want to mention some links to comments you think the idea would apply to, we'll take a look.
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> The best option is not screwing up our planet.

It's very hard to imagine what we could do to Earth so that it becomes even less hospitable than mars.
The key difference, of course, being that there are no tea or indigo or opium to be gathered on Mars.

The East India Company went exploring because there was money to be made in the places they explored. Those places were full of marketable commodities, many of which were extremely rare in the West and thus could fetch extraordinarily high prices.

If the Moon or Mars were covered in some easily gathered resource that people back on Earth would happily pay top dollar for, private industry would have gone there decades ago. But there's nothing there that's worth the money it would cost to bring it back.
"Military service" is correlated with "conservative politics" which is correlated with "racism".
Note that the suggested approaches do not include "offer them equity" or "pay lots of money".

Most startups fail.
That is some good feedback, we have a bounty open to revise the "responsiveness" of our site. To make it work a bit better cross platform. We move pretty fast I doubt it would take us very long to have that fixed up.
Even if, incredibly, there are no huge cost overruns and the final tally is $30 billion, are you willing to pay extra taxes starting today so the money isn't borrowed from future generations who presumably would like to have their own space missions to enjoy in real time, rather than just read about them in the history as they struggle with high taxes to pay down the debt we ran up for them?
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The reference mission for Mars for over 15 years has been to send the hab and a return vehicle in one launch window, and then send the humans in the second. The humans will know before they lift-off that the return vehicle is fully-stocked and waiting for them and has survived landing.
I don't know...the Gold Source engine and Half-Life 1 were heavily OOP, and they did just fine, even with some mods placing dozens of fully AI enemies onscreen at once.

In some parts--like rendering--OOP is pretty terrible. Outside of that, though, it's not inherently bad.
That's why I'd support allocating H1Bs by highest-salary-first, instead of via the current first-come-first-served system with a difficult to enforce "prevailing rate" requirement tacked on. Doing so would also tend to allocate the slots to areas where they're most in demand: if a company is offering $140k salary and wants an H1B to bring the person in, I'm more willing to believe this job has a shortage than if another company is offering only $60k for a job that supposedly has a shortage.

(I doubt tech companies want this, though.)
Impressive use of meteor, would be cool to filter work from home gigs.
> Without lateral joins, we would need to resort to PL/pgSQL to do this analysis. Or, if our data set were small, we could get away with complex, inefficient queries.

I don't buy the performance benefit over derived tables with properly indexed fields for this example. However, I'd definitely use this more so with functions.
Awaiting announcement of Commercial Crew to Mars program.
As far as I can tell, VS Online also allows "unlimited" projects and repos per project. And TFS's non-SCM features are pretty nice. Plus it's free for the first 5 users.
I agree, it'll be tough to know exactly when, but it'll be clear in hindsight if/when it happens.
It seems that many people believe that there's a way to immigrate into this country for 'normal' people.

This infographic from Reason Magazine, of all places, is fairly accurate and quite enlightening:

http://www.openlawlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/IMmigra...
>extremely few serious pages left that depend on flash. //

I'll bet of the pages served the [vast] majority depend on flash for display of content and/or advertising.

On the other hand many _sites_ no longer rely on flash in that they offer an alternative HTML5 implementation. But, of the pages served I'd imagine that version is far less commonly presented to the site visitor. I'm thinking YouTube as an example.

http://httparchive.org/trends.php?s=Top1000&minlabel=Nov+15+... shows that in the Top 1000 (however they're judging that) the instances of flash use are down on average from 52 to 34% over the last 4 years. However the average flash amount of flash transferred and the average number of flash items on a page don't show any downward trend.

http://trends.builtwith.com/framework/Shockwave-Flash-Embed shows a different story - look at the whole internet version and they show a precipitous drop around April 2014, what caused that?
> "secure" (it really isn't)

There was a contest held by Pavel, with $200k prize who will break this "weak security". No one succeeded.
Which are all pretty base incentives. We should be going to mars, as a species, for its own sake. The idea that the thing that might justify our first visit to another planet, for some people, might be because it would make good reality TV is just horrifying and saddening and stupefying and should be confronted at every opportunity.
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I did indeed forget about the HTML editor, thanks! It was later split off into the now-defunct Nvu as part of Linspire and then forked to the now-defunct KompoZer.
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Presented with an individual, it actually doesn't matter whether the problem was nature or nurture. What matters is what you can do about it now.

Bear in mind that I brought this up as a possible objection that needed addressing, to the argument "we don't need more average minds - look at all the average minds we're not using".
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> What will the consequences be if we limit ourselves to Earth?

Very good question, man.

At the rate we're going, both at the rate we're reproducing and the rate we're (mis)using what this planet still has to offer, we better start looking for another location.
Thanks, this is a really good way to think about it. I think I also want to find a calculator or way to estimate based on market and revenue.
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>Expanding into a new environment drives evolution.

Evolution is usually very unpleasant for the individuals being naturally selected away. How is this a good thing?
Travel insurance?
Weird. Why not just leverage, LVM snapshots?
I believe mahyarm is talking about Tango.me

http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tango-2
> traditional immigration proceedings

So... An H1-B. Because that is essentially your only choice for temporary residency while waiting the many years it takes for an EB-3 (and months/years for 1/2) to go through. Unless the applicant is from Canada, where you can choose to go the TN route but have to be careful because EB is intent to immigrate, or an L-1 if they're an international transfer.

The H1-B is a decent visa for the purpose its intended to serve, as a way to get immigrants here who would otherwise have to wait years to start working while a permanent residency application goes through. It has its shortcomings, but it's a whole lot better than other routes you could go through.
I honestly don't see the point of doing this. The scientific bounty from going to the moon was tiny comparing to the amount of resource put into it.

I think poet Gil-Scott Heron does a great job deconstructing the space-exploration efforts in "Whitey on the Moon". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtBy_ppG4hY
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Personally I would much, MUCH rather see this money spent on further exploration of other planets and their moons. Imagine having a rover on one of the moons of Jupiter. To me Mars is just not that interesting.
The government defined "prevailing wage" for a level 1 software developer in San Francisco is $74,000. Does that sound like a market rate to you?

http://www.flcdatacenter.com/OesQuickResults.aspx?area=41884...

Edit: For a "web developer" the starting number is $52,000. In San Francisco.

http://www.flcdatacenter.com/OesQuickResults.aspx?area=41884...
If you faked a degree, you would definitely be caught. If you are caught defrauding the Government in such a way, you might escape jail time (if it is your first offense) but also face the possibility of a ban from the US itself (permanently or for a very long time). This means you would not possibly even be able to travel to the US as a tourist because you tried to deceptively defraud.

Not really an avenue I am looking to explore, thanks. I am going to speak with an immigration lawyer and see what my options are, perhaps for other visas, equivalency for education experience to substitute and an exception on an application. I will probably write up a little blog post detailing how I go, for anyone else who finds themselves in a similar situation.