skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone here has already suggested that you enter the US through another country. For some reason, that comment is dead. However, you should be sure to spend some time considering that option and similar alternatives that will not put you at a Silicon Valley startup immediately but which will could put you at one eventually, or at a non-Silicon-Valley startup (maybe Berlin?) and if you're really lucky you might be able to find a US-based startup with an international office (possibly in India) that can get you the sort of visa where you transfer to the US office after working there a year. (Currently I'm doing something quite similar to this myself, except at the US offices of a company that has offices in London too. For non-EU/EEA residents the UK immigration regime is a little better than the US regime, but not that much, and worsening.)

The visa sponsorship regime in the US is ridiculous and extraordinarily risky (in the sense you must put in a lot of time and effort for a small chance of getting a visa). Not a lot of startups are able to put up with that. If I recall correctly, the H-1B in particular involves (a) posting a job requirement that you don't end up filling with an existing citizen/resident - a little game to appease the bureaucracy that's meant to ensure you're not TAKING OUR JOBS!!!11 (gag) (b) applying for a visa and paying $$$ at the right time of the year when they reset the annual quotas (c) waiting months for an answer.

:(

That said, if you don't take risks you don't get lucky.
The first stage never steps outside the van allen belt so it would never get much in the way of serious radiation; the second stage would possibly go outside for GTO or SSTO.
> How is it dealt with differently?

I can't speak for Europe. I once griped about the slowness of US banking to an Australian acquaintance who worked in banking technology in Australia and Britain. Here follows my half-remembered, probably inaccurate understanding.

In Australia, a bank has a very high confidence of that a transfer is going from real, physical person A to real, physical person B.

This is because of the "100 Point" identity check you need to perform when you open account. To open a bank account, you need to present multiple, independent forms of ID, including at least a driver's licence or a passport and some identification showing your current residential address.

It can absolutely be circumvented, but the bar for doing so is significantly higher than casual small-time fraudsters are interested in.

In the USA, I can find a small-town bank who will open my account without looking at me too closely, then start issuing dodgy cheques much more easily. In Australia, no matter where I go, I will be required to prove that I am who I say I am. So the ability for banks or police to lay hands on me or my money is significantly strengthened, and consequently the rate of fraud is lower.

I see this also with online shopping. In Australia I never once, in my entire life, had a credit card purchase rejected. In the USA my Bank of America card regularly locks up and waits until I login to assure them that it hasn't been stolen.
MAME/MESS moved to github, so

https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/mess/drivers...
To me optimal capacity != high bandwidth. Sometimes stopping is required to have deep insights that will make you reach levels you couldn't before. The awareness required to balance between the two is subtle.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>"Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and
it makes boring reading. Please don't bait other users by inviting them
to downmod you."

After writing out the text of a comment, stop before you hit the "send"
button, and honestly ask yourself the painfully tough question, "Does my
comment actually contribute to the discussion?"

"Have I asked a good question?" (where "good" means not easily answered
with a bit of effort or a search engine).

"Have a provided a good answer?" (where "good" means not easily answered
with a bit of effort or a search engine).

"Am I a well studied expert with lots of experience in this specific
field such that others on HN will appreciate my personal opinions or
anecdotes?"

"Did I add some additional insight or reference?"

"Did I include links to external resources?"

And the most difficult of all, "Did I remember to be civil?"

It's surprising and humbling to realize but in nearly all cases, my
personal opinion fails to matter and is actually just noise. Even a
comment that just says "Thanks!" fails to add much besides noise to the
discussion and everyone is better off if you just silently use the
up-vote button to show your appreciation. Though I personally can't
bring myself to down-vote the mostly useless "Thanks!" comments, I did
down-vote your comment for complaining about down-votes and for
essentially baiting for votes. Since you're new here, and you asked for
an explanation for the down-votes you've received, I've given you the
best explanation I can muster. I hope it helps.
The FAS (reputable german newspaper) on the front page: "Berlin wants to see torturers in court", according to the article politicians from all german parties think a criminal prosecution is necessary. Most likely there won't be any real consequences in the transatlantic relationship, if there isn't, as we are perfectly fine dealing with countries like Russia and China in a semi-friendly manner most of the time. The US has already lost a lost of prestige in the matter over the years, given that the black sites and "enhanced interrogation techniques" were more or less public knowledge. Ideally the whole Bush administration would be put on trial for war crimes and violations of the torture conventions, but that is a pipe dream of course.
To not understand the Senate representational system is to not understand that the explicit purpose of the Senate was to prevent the tyranny of the majority. That was the foundation of the U.S. Constitution. The Great Compromise of 1787 was expressway to ensure smaller states had their rights protected. Without that compromise, tax dollars could be voted to improve New York City while draining the economy of less populous states. That's the genius of the American system. It is the very definition of a check and balance. The States are sovereign entities and deserve an equal voice. The House of Represenatives provides representation based on population, so that does ensure that every person is represented equally, while the Senate technically represents the states, which ensures that each state is represented equally. The foolish amendment that enabled the direct election of Senators somewhat diluted that dichotomy, but ultimately the Senate represents the states.
Joke's on the US government. I would've provided them with much, much worse music for only half that.
Irrespective of specific CS areas people will list here, a more important question might be: why do you ask?

And why are you after leverage? Is it because you want to make a lot of money? That's not the only factor to consider.

Individual inclinations tend to be strong enough to pull you to specific directions. Which areas will be exciting? The ones that excite you! Be as proactive about finding what excites you as you are about worrying about the next 5-10 years.
Actually the CIA has an office in downtown Oslo, operating under the cover of Radio Bravo. Very well known in the Scandinavian security circles.
Well, I wasn't thinking of specific skills for a given language/framework, but maybe more how those frameworks help you evolve along with the tech landscape.

I started my career around 15 years ago, working on a complex server system written in C++. The important skills back then were all about managing concurrency using mutexes, RW locks, events, and so forth.

Fast forward to now (with lots going on in between), and I find myself working again on server software, but this time the approach is much different: now for dealing with concurrency I'm relying on immutable state, and using Futures or actor systems to coordinate parallel work. It's been years since I've had problems with a deadlock.

Bottom line, it's true that a good programmer doesn't care about language or framework, since he can pick those up pretty fast anyway. But it's a skill that needs practising, and I've seen people neglect this and then regret it later.
How do they prove it?
You can never truly understand the language unless you learn about things it compiles into.
You just described most of 1996 for me.
In terms of the Kyoto Protocol, are we still buying into the myth that global warming is caused by human carbon emissions? Have the last 17 years disproved that yet?
I like it! Simplest use case it saves on boilerplate required by argparse. [1] But the potential for embedded apps is the real draw for me. I have a CLI app I'd like to provide a notebook GUI for... This would be perfect. Just swap out argparse for clip.py, write the embed script and the GUI can use the same methods. No need to code additional logic to handle GUI widgets.

I wonder how hard it would be to make my 'shkeleton' CLI parser embeddable -- it's basically argparse for bash scripting right now. [2]

[1] https://docs.python.org/2/howto/argparse.html

[2] https://github.com/joseph8th/shkeleton
Could be worse. I was expecting some hardcore metal abomination.
So that gives immigrants a get out of jail free-card? One that converts don't have?
What you are telling is completely true, yet this feels so unpleasant — how it sounds and what natural conclusions we can make from it. Because the same thing can be described in other words: it somehow happens that most of skilled professionals (mentioned doctors and lawyers in the first place) are mostly treating the world as zero-sum game and thus strive for personal success only, trying to be monopolists, restricting their domain of competence to any others, trying to scare off newcomers and make getting to the "inner circle" as hard as they can; while software engineers are treating the world as non-zero-sum game and thus somewhat naively strive to make world better in the first place, believing that they personally would also benefit from that. (Of course there are exceptions on the both sides, the description is purposely rough.)

I don't know why it happens to be like that and if such people tend to become programmers or programming makes people to believe such things (although I have some guesses and the former seems more plausible, but that's another topic). But because of that striving to "make the world a better place" it would be much better if it would be natural for us (us people, not us programmers) to describe current behavior of doctors and lawyers as "evil" rather than describing behavior of software engineers as "foolish", even though both are completely valid. After all, the technical progress over last few centuries clearly shows that the world isn't zero-sum game, not yet.
Damn! I also want to work in Silicon valley...
But I don't write python, I write C++.
(shameless plug) Here's a similar library with no dependencies :)

https://github.com/notduncansmith/showcase
The senate represents the states and the house represents the people. It would be entirely unfair if a small number of high population states could easily impose their will on a large number of small population states. States and their citizens gave up some of their sovereignty when they joined the union, and in return were promised some equitable form of representation, no matter the size of their population. Large states like Colorado bring massive amounts of land an natural resources to the union.

There's a reason we're a constitutional republic and not a pure democracy. Pure democracy would inevitably lead to a tyranny of the majority. Nine US states have over half the US population. Would it be fair for those few states to able to completely over-ride the interests of the other 41 states in the union?
So foolish it is to enjoy one's work, share it for free. How stupid not to band together to spread misinformation about the nature of one's work in order to increase profitability.

^ What a crap culture that perpetuates this kind of thinking.
s/rely/really/ :(
Well, citing an Italian court as some sort of example is hilarious in my view.
> So it's trying to obsolete the Linux distribution?

You say it like that would be a bad thing.
Interesting how migrating from PHP to Scala is part of getting to 5k req/sec.
Self-Hosted JS
This is a good point - why has everyone downvoted it?
> And just as measuring the trajectories of particles seems to “collapse” their simultaneous realities, disturbing the pilot wave in the bouncing-droplet experiment destroys the interference pattern.

Did we read the same article? Pilot wave theory has the same mathematics as quantum mechanics. It's a different interpretation of those mathematics - the probability wave is real and physical.
Spot on. Many other reasons as well. There are powers that want to see Norway join the EU and adopt the euro. Norway is selling a lot of services (oil and gas related, software, electronic government, finance) to other countries. A run away global warming may turn it into a very important piece of land.
It's a pity that governments place themselves above the law. It would be nice to see the US government forced to actually pay up. It would be even nicer to see the band donate any sum awarded to an organisation like Amnesty International or Doctors Without Borders.
Had anyone here getting in to the US through another country? As someone who might have to plan for some thing similar, I'd love to hear your stories.
this may be an option for me. I have tried working on the bed, at the kitchen table etc. All of those cases give me a sore back or knots.
The seatbelt article is just the Wikipedia article, used with attribution.

I haven't diff'ed them, but it feels like a straight copy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt
It is a crap culture. Unfortunately, I fear it's one we'll be stuck with for some time now. In the meantime, I don't think it'd be unreasonable for us to collectively up our business-savviness a bit. Some of us have families to feed, and that only gets harder as our industry's race to the bottom continues.
It's an innaccurate choice of words and reflective of media ignorance on the subject. The media doesn't use the term "police agent" to describe cops nor do they call State Department consular officers "consular agents." The media, if they are interested in accuracy ought to start by getting the simple stuff correct. If someone is giving a talk at a conference about RAM and they keep saying ROM, perhaps you'd doubt their understanding of the subject. That's my point, the media loses credibility when they maintain use of innaccurate terminology yet they want to be perceived as an expert on the subject.
This reminds me a lot of Fokus (http://lab.hakim.se/fokus/).
I don't understand your response. There were two studies that showed the same data. There have been no other studies. A website made up some numbers that don't fit that data. It is not based on any study or evidence at all. And you are suggesting that is more credible than the studies. Not trusting a study does not mean that it makes sense to trust "I just made this stuff up".
Well, till you graduate, you should try working as a freelancer on Odesk/Elance to get some real work experience.
Seems pretty cheap. They've got a lot to learn about military contracting.
>You referred to insulin as a "weird fixation" as if it were meaningless in a weight management context

It is.

> And your response above is just obnoxious, if you have a point make it, stop referring to it.

I have no idea what that means.

>No, it doesn't.

Contradict the evidence in the link I gave you then. "Nuh uh" is not compelling.
I spent some time this week reading old CIA interrogation manuals (which openly discuss "coercive" techniques), for personal background on the current debates.

Anyway, the CIA interrogation manual for the wars in Central America in the 80s was titled "Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual", which struck me as perfectly Orwellian from a couple of directions.
Let's step back into reality for a moment. Do they actually have a claim? Once I've bought the album, can't I torture my acquaintances to my heart's content without paying royalties? A small enough group isn't a "public performance," I'm not broadcasting it to the entire town.

Further, aren't there exemptions for the federal government with respect to use of copyrighted works? Sure, you'd probably have a case against a federal agency who acquired your album only to provide copies freely to its employees, but if they stick a track in a presentation to a small group (or several small groups ... or many small groups) I'm pretty sure the courts would just throw out your case.

OK, enough armchair lawyering, is there someone with a professional opinion on this?
That's a great point! I think they actually weigh a few tons for some reason?!

Maybe they just wanted to keep complexity down? Or they simply can't land with sub meter resolution to garuntee they get within the claws reach?

Also I think they want to use the same system on Mars where there won't be any infrastructure.
Only accessible in the UK ... :/
Spotify has had a wonderful and simple UX for a long time, but after their US opening they did some bizzare changes that made it look very bloated.

I reckoned this happened after Rasmus Andersson left them for Facebook. He seemed the one with all the ideas.
>Are you actually denying ketosis[0] exists? Or are you claiming it isn't reached through carb-restriction[1]?

No. What is the purpose of ignoring what I posted and asking completely random non-sequitur questions? Are you actually denying pancakes exist? Or claiming they aren't made with flour?
Do you have proof Bush ordered it? I love theories, but I also love facts. I'm not sure I see equal outrage in te denial of due process to Americans killed by Obama's drone strikes. Let's be consistent in our outrage. Shouldn't Obama be brought up on murder charges since he ordered the execution of Americans, bypassing the Constitution, the courts and the law?
You can access that content by installing something like Hola plugin in your browser, works quite well for watching 'Hey I've Got Bit More News For You' ;)
Man, I listened to them live at the Flamingo in Halifax.

The music is besides the point, there's nothing intrinsically wrong with Skinny Puppy (even if it isn't everyone's cup of tea), it's the constant overwhelming of the senses that creates the conditions of torture.
$(document).ready equivalent without jQuery
New Smartphone charger gadget
There are plenty of high-level C++ engineer jobs in the US. Google, for instance, will make a healthy offer to an engineer who is a real C++ expert. Google is famous for their Python advocacy, but a lot of their infrastructure is still built with C++.
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Peru Is Indignant After Greenpeace Makes Its Mark on Ancient Site
Systemd has a DBus API. http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/dbus/
I read that. Note that it says "disturbing the pilot wave." That's not "measuring." The sentence is trying to draw an analogy with "collapse." But to do that you have to explicitly "disturb" the pilot wave.

In these droplet experiments, you can measure all you want without affecting the wave and the interference pattern. This might point to an analogous form of quantum mechanics. But it also could be just an interesting but incomplete analogy in classical physics.
Which explains the critical shortage of Ferraris in my driveway.
So are you going to answer my question or not? I've very politely and patiently explained my perspective for you several times in spite of your consistent trolling. Are you donating $20 on my behalf or not?
Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk (2006) [pdf]
I was kind of expecting them to build fully distributed system. But I got really disappointed when they claimed that "reverse proxy" / "load balancing" is latest in distributed systems.
Best Unix time-savers
Build #Simple Things. #BuildSimpleThings
I just published a blog post describing my experience with this HN frontpage entry http://meshedsociety.com/how-a-perfect-launch-day-looks-like...
Gridlock – A tiny, dynamic grid system that works with you, not against you
From what I've in the finance industry, there aren't enough standards.

It seems like every bank/broker/data provider stores and sends data in its own format and has different procedures for clearing. It's like the priority is to make sure people can't switch easily.
systemd is targeting the totally wrong layer of the stack for such a thing. What makes a distribution is its package manager. We already have solutions like Nix for this, though they sadly might not break the mainstream if Lennart's proposed btrfs volume scheme comes into fruition.

I'd say that experimentation and divergence in systems and application software, particularly if it's easily enabled thanks to the bazaar approach of Linux, is definitely a good thing. Trying to erect unshakable foundations around what is just an OS kernel will only stifle the marketplace of ideas.

Of course, wanting a fully integrated OS is most certainly not a bad thing. This can be done either by using a BSD, or on the individual distribution level if it's sufficiently advanced.
Nothing is pleasurable for 12 hours straight. No accounting for musical tastes , if you don't like them , that's OK.
It would not surprise me if certain countries interpret the meaning of "conspiracy" to include any US citizen, as one could argue that anyone who benefits - even passively - from a criminal act can be held liable.
When it crashes against limitations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect

Its an endless, fairly pointless, cycle.

The existing, working, reliable system is huge and unwieldy. I have a new idea, lets scrap all that obsolete old stuff and create a simpler smaller more modern implementation. Well, turns out replicating and embedding the rest of the world is really hard work, and the result is huge and unwieldy and usually less reliable and comprehensible because its newer. Recursively repeat until stack space exhausted or resource limitations make it too slow to ship...

Note this applies both to the tech side of putting an OS inside your OS, and also to the business side of product tying more and more products until everything imaginable is tied in, at which point the only hope for forward progress is reimplementing everything inside a component of it, of course.
> the message they gave was that Bell test experiments proved that hidden variable interpretations were impossible and that the probabilistic reality of particles was undeniably true

This isn't actually the case - Bell's theorem and subsequent verification demonstrate only that a theory of local hidden variables cannot be successful - the local part means that faster than light information transfer doesn't occur. You're allowed to have a pilot wave interpretation if it's nonlocal.

I think this is actually a problem with these experiments - it's nice that they work, but we already knew pilot wave mathematics could describe quantum mechanics, with the caveat that nonlocality is necessary to explain everything. I don't think this nonlocality is (or can be) expressed in the fluid experiments, so presumably they can't actually replicate QM.
I think it's an understatement to say that the competition to get into Google is high.
It`s somewhat bizarre to find that programmers are starting to have a much shorter shelf life (In SV only?), something that used to be associated with more the 'fickle' fashion world ... what does that say about us?
Bars and retail stores count as "public performance" for purposes of song royalties. So the group in question can be quite small.
FYI Boeing has a pretty interfering tour in your area.