skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So there are two issues I was talking about:

1) rotation of tokens/virtual card numbers

2) giving the transaction data to merchants

From what you copied here it seems that Google is rotating the virtual numbers - however, there's no way of knowing if Google isn't still tracking all of those numbers through your account and linking them back together for data mining. I think there's a high probability Google is doing that. Google only says it's rotating the numbers.

And that leads us to #2, which remains completely unanswered. Google says it doesn't give the credit card information to merchants (as in your real credit card number). However it could still give the transaction data.
Thanks. :)

Sometimes reinventing a wheel (or at the very least a spoke or two) can be fun and provide some neat results.
I'm the same way, and it's not even a privacy concern really. Just an animal instinct to be weary of what is going on behind me that I can't see.
Millions of years of my mammalian ancestors being hunted has had an impact on how my brain is wired. I do not like things sneaking up behind me, no matter what I am doing.

I know I am not going to be eaten while working in an office building, but that does not stop my brain from sending a surge of adrenaline into my bloodstream when somebody unexpectedly appears behind me. Those adrenaline surges are not conducive to concentration or productivity..
Which is extremely disconcerting but not at all unexpected. They have to believe their own rhetoric; otherwise the few cops with conscience + intellect would quit.

I just hate that a person's life can be boiled down to a sentence or two based on a few activities they were purportedly involved. The feel is bad.
You're less likely to get a H1B at a startup yes but it's not for the reasons you think.

For a company to apply to a H1B visa they have to prove they have enough financial assets to not get bust.

There are however several reasons why startups are not sponsoring H1B visas as much as they should:

-It's time consuming. It really takes a lot of time, most of the immigration law firm are not startup friendly and are using old schools forms and stuff.

- They are not educated on visas sponsoring. They just don't know what it takes and stuff.

I'm here talking from experiences
An assertion on either side needs evidence, right?

He simply pointed out that it's an anecdote.
Wouldn't an architecture firm be advocating for more space?

Cornell did a study awhile back that found that employees with their own private offices collaborate less often with their colleagues. A lot less. In fact their very perception of what constituted "frequent" interaction plummeted from several times a day to a few times a week. And it happened in scheduled meetings whereas it was more ad hoc in an open plan office.

They also noted something very interesting: we tend to prioritize our own personal productivity over team productivity, probably because most of us are compensated and promoted based on personal accomplishments.

You can see why management struggles with balancing these two objectives in space design. I think most of the comments here are very cynical but not very well reasoned. They tend to have not very well thought through conspiracy theories, like architecture firms wanting smaller spaces (what?) or pinning it all on cost cutting. Cost cutting? Businesses pay engineers HUGE salaries; if there was clear evidence that a given office plan was significantly less productive it would logically be a huge waste of money to put their highly paid employees in it.

The reality is there is a balance of individual and team productivity that organizations need to achieve. We have learned a lot about the drawbacks to purely private office layouts (like lower team collaboration and depressingly poor social interaction). We are learning about the drawbacks to purely one big open plan layouts (like noise as it scales beyond a handful). There is no one easy solution.

Source: Organizational Dilemmas and Workplace Solutions ‐ Work Effectiveness, Communication, and Office - Cornell University International Workplace Studies Program https://web.archive.org/web/20140615182702/http://iwsp.human...
That alone is pretty important information, though I'd go one step farther and require all employee payroll data to be published.
That was my first thought as well. I know Nvidia pretty much dominates the GPU deep learning scene, but I talked to some devs who said they got more bang for their buck using AMD GPUs. And it seems their docs have gotten significantly better over the years.
So, ungapped alignment is just substring searching with degeneracy, which is fine. While that is its own computational problem and may even have the occasional biological application, sequence alignment is defined as a gapped alignment problem (see the Wikipedia page, for example [1], which defines gap insertion as a critical step, and all alignment variants on the page are gapped alignments)

I am not sure you understand what gapped alignment is- it is not the alignment of a sequence with known gaps, but an algorithm which determines the best placement of gaps in a query sequence to obtain the highest matching score. This is a very different problem than the one you just described, and is essentially "the hard part" of sequence alignment.
[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_alignment
I didn't offer this as shock and awe. it came from the realization I had, living alone, incredibly poor, and feeling only a bleak future was possible, while standing outside a building tall enough to do the job, whose roof I could easily access. I had done a test-run months before. I realized I could end my life and get off the track that just seemed to produce misery and dissatisfaction for me and those around me. And then I realized I could just stop. I could use my life only for me, for what I valued, how I wanted to live. I could get off life's treadmill. I could do it by killing myself, or I could just step off and live whatever crazy idiot foolish life I wanted. I can always go back to that building and jump. And I've thought about doing it more than a few times over the years. But the reality is I can quit life and start over, or build a life the way I think it should be. my life doesn't have to work, it doesn't have to conform to anyone else's standards or conditions.

I'm not an idiot though. We live in a world where people react and do things. Life is kind of like Groundhog Day. We can weave through it in all sorts of ways. And when I'm feeling persistently useless and worthless I start to think about how to end that. and then I think, oh yeah. I can change how I live, even radically. that useless worthless feeling is a clue telling me to change how I'm living. (it's also a clue to go to the tanning salon). There is no "right way" to live a life. There is just living life. And if life sucks, we are free to change things. And I have found dreaming big, swinging for the fences, trying the impossible, dying (or living) for a crazy idea is a better alternative than a short leap.

So before making that leap I asked myself what would I rather do? And I didn't go to school that day. I did go to my job at KFC before returning to my roach infested apartment. My grandpa gave good advice: "Always run towards things." But sometimes you have to move away from something to get the freedom to change direction. Suicide just doesn't let you get to that change direction part.

I aslo believe that learning to meditate in the library while sluffing class in HS helped me to gain a little distance between my consciousness and my problems. Practicing meditation is particularly hard when depressed but it does seem to open a space of freedom between the emotions of depression and oneself. Which is why I recommended it to the OP.
a bit OT, but one thing i always wondered is, can't we extract inferred type information from the JIT after running plain JS code through 1M cycles and then compile that to an asm.js variant?
Ask HN: Lean Legal for SaaS Side Project
What's the minimum legal shield advisable for a sole proprietor to sell a SaaS product whose only goal is a small stream of side revenue? There are so many Startup Weekend / 7 Day Startup programs out there and they focus 100% on getting you to release an MVP quickly to generate revenue, with no advice about how to avoid getting sued for shipping bugs in your software. (I get that the biggest blocker for most entrepreneurs is actually building a product, but it's borderline criminal to encourage people to sell something without the legal foundation to protect yourself from liability and undue taxation.)

There have been several HN threads about this, but they cover more elaborate situations:

* Incorporation outside the US [1]

* Startups with multiple founders or employees [2] [3] [4]

* Advice that is 5+ years old and posts have gone missing [5] [6]

What's the minimum legal incorporation necessary to limit liability and taxation for small-revenue side projects by a single developer?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8870593

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2925222

[3] http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec18/

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8735793

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1924719

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2399139
Why is there an implicit assumption that the H1B visa program engenders fraud? A lot of H1B discussions on HN focus on fraud and avoid talking about legitimate talented foreigners because that stuff is not as interesting. H1B discussions on HN are like the crime beat in newspapers. Further, 'H1B' seems like a catchall term for hating on immigrant labor in the software industry. Here are some examples on HN that demonstrate bigoted generalizations and ill-informed hate on H1B-workers [1,2,3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8687804
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8651850
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8637756
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Can you explain what you mean by 'lost'? What would you define as 'winning'? IMO those labels are subjective. To assess them, one should state the goals of the operations and the achievement thereof.
Why is having an office for everybody a bad thing? You think the it's a reflection on the culture somehow?
This is pretty cool. I created a similar site http://salarytalk.org/search. I has has more charts and search capabilities for the same dataset across 2010-2014. For aggregate information per company go to http://salarytalk.org/companies
> John Cannarella and Joshua Spechler, from the US university's mechanical and aerospace engineering department, have based their prediction on the number of times Facebook is typed into Google as a search term.

Yeah, that's not really a reliable metric if people have Facebook apps on their smartphones and set their homepage to Facebook now is it?
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Climbing to 20,000 ft from the 16,000 ft makes you think that climbing mountains is easier than it's going to be for the person at sea-level that you're advising. If you've been at 16,000 ft for some time even just that acclimatisation is going to make a huge difference.
There are people out there far more weaker than you- They need your help.
Miles to go before I sleep.
The discussion was started by Tepix which referred to pride. And no, merely being American does not give you credit for Google. For most people, it's very hard to know if they've made the environment better or worse for Google.
Search query data is not a reliable proxy for a platform people know as well as or better than Google.
+1, I also had no idea this was an option until you pointed it out, I'll make sure to use it in the future. It might be helpful to perhaps add it to the HN FAQ, or some other help page that has information on "hidden" features like this one.
If you're looking for a DNA binding sequence, you might be using the wrong algorithm here... Have you thought of using a position weight matrix (PWM)[1]? That's the way that I've always searched for binding sites, since that's how motifs are usually described. You can use these to still match ambiguous sequences, but favor some bases more than others.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Position_weight_matrix
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'Illegal aliens' don't have permission to accept employment, but in most cases it's perfectly legitimate to carry on business as long as you pay your taxes. I don't think legal residency in the US is a prerequisite to obtaining a business license in most states, not least because many US companies are owned by people who live elsewhere.
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There is no need to guess, data published by Dept of Labor (original source for this infographic) includes company names, specific position names and exact salaries.

Glassdoor was including that info in their estimates for a while though, so no big discoveries here.
Hi there - can you elaborate on the issue you're running into? The website is http://www.datesforgood.com. Thanks for checking it out!
Yea I'm crossing my fingers that asm.js eventually leads to a real bytecode VM in browsers and Javascript simply becomes a language that targets it.

For large applications compiling to asm.js (such as Unity3D) this experiment could provide significant gains in load time. Considering games usually spend their initial time presenting a menu, background loading of the fast-path makes a ton of sense.
First generation SSDs, across the board, were getting firmware at least quarterly.

Even ignoring that, let's move on to... enterprise storage. I don't foresee someone with a 1200 disk storage array being enthused at the prospect of popping out drives one at a time to be able to update firmware (something that is currently an online operation).
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It is a matter of degree. Even your standard adult retail worker will have more power to influence their social environment than their children. While it may not be practical for them to change their job, they do technically have the option. A child cannot even hypothetically change their school; they can only convince adults to change it for them.
I wonder how they define "software designer". I see that 17% are making north of $130k. Does this role identify as a software architect? an API designer? Or is it referring to product designers, UX designers and such? If it's the latter that seems much higher than the self reported salaries on sites like Glassdoor and Salary Fairy.
THIS IS WHERE YOU NEED ANONYMITIZATION.
Release It: Write software for production
Love going through live examples to learn, thanks for sharing!

But, I can get it to render (after doing npm/bower install then running gulp), but can't get it to actually do anything. Everything looks right but clicking around and nothing happens? Anyone else running into this?
For large institutions that have streamlined and amortized the costs of hiring H1-Bs, your assertions regarding cost ineffectiveness are not accurate. I say this through past direct experience working as a hiring manager inside several in the financial services industry, where the benefits of bringing in H1-Bs to reduce net cost were a frequent topic of conversation.
I think there is a difference between the weapons technology available today v. what was available in the 1930's. Many regulars went into battle with WWI era weaponry. The civilian arms complement was even older in many cases.

An interesting example of a 'heavily' armed society in WWII would be the Balkans region. Germany was smart; short of paras and specialist, they left the chekist and partisans to slaughter each other [sewing the seeds of the 90s conflict] as well as their Jewish populations.

To date, i can think of no example of a well/heavily armed society being invaded. There really aren't that many to pick from.
Then there are employees who use their home laptops to connect to their secure enterprise email portal...
I think this is the first emscripten feature which I don't "get", e.g. not fully understanding the motivation behind it :) Firefox AOT compile time is great, and nothing at all compared to the time it takes to download the code. The real art lies in getting the actual emscripten compiled executable small, not because of emscripten, but because of C++'s tendency to bloat the executable size if one isn't really careful. Also, clang and emscripten's code generation passes have very aggressive dead code elimination, but there can be wrong decisions on the game engine architecture-level which can cause the inclusion of code that might never be called. A native executable that's several dozen MByte's big is a bad thing on any platform, it just doesn't appear as such a problem if it is a part of a 50 GByte game download. To come to and end, I think an emscripten client of up to 5 MByte (gzipped) doesn't really require a fix like emterpreter for its startup time(?), and it's perfectly possible to fit a full 3D game client into such a size with a little care about size optimization.

[edit: fixed a formulation which sounded like code bloat can be blamed on emscripten instead of user-code]
Why I did not mention AMD cards: NVIDIA's standard libraries made it very easy to establish the first deep learning libraries in CUDA, while there are no such powerful standard libraries for AMD's OpenCL. Right now, there are just no deep learning libraries for AMD cards -- so you just cannot use AMD cards for deep learning.
For me, because I work with health information. You need to not be able to casually glance at my screen.
I have never understood why, when it comes to the <path> element, the entire definition of the path is shoved into one plain text attribute with its own specification language. Why couldn't there have been special nodes like <curve> <move> etc so that the path can be processed using standard DOM traversal? As it is, anyone using paths in a programmatic way will invariably end up writing error-prone parsing and composing logic to modify the `d` attribute.

What am I missing? This seems like a major area for improvement.
Are you aware of fora.tv?
So is the whole send in your CV, do a bunch of phone interviews, never hear back spiel.

It's a market, if you find people are consistently wasting your time, you probably just don't have anything good to offer.
would be interesting to factor in living cost and rank states by best-to-live-by-H1Bs.
See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9096064

Turns out they aren't actually after an alignment per se, but rather trying to match a DNA binding motif.

(You're right though about this not being an alignment, rather just a substring search with degeneracy).
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Point being that if it ever goes Red Dawn whoever is doing the invading is going to have a rough time of it. We ['muricans] shoot a lot. We even hit stuff occasionally :|
My personal struggles with learning how to program
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FWIW, I currently get two-factor auth codes on my band just because it shows text messages out of the box.
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Nope. I had Google Wallet working on my Neuxs S in Canada two years ago, you can use it at any Tim Hortons ;)

Canadian banks do support their own mobile wallets (similar to the ISIS model), but only on a few cherry-picked devices, and with a custom SIM. See http://www.rbcroyalbank.com/mobile/wallet/
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"Also, unlike Silicon Valley, the Stasi was regulated."
Driving under the influence is dangerous because it affects your judgement and your reaction times - much like driving while tired. The danger is not as present in familiar, safe conditions, but when something unexpected happens that puts you in a potentially dangerous situation. If you are driving under the influence your decision-making is impaired and you are more likely to make the wrong decision and be involved in an accident. So perhaps there are some people who drive better under the influence than others who are sober, but that says nothing about their ability to react to dangerous situations.

> So why isn't the line drawn based on driving ability or driving performance rather than mental state?

Reckless/careless driving is a traffic violation that can result in loss of license.
What's the risk?

I mean, it's not going to permanently lower your IQ, or reduce your ambition, correct? And if it does, what's the benefit you get in return? Does lowering your ambition make you happier, for instance?

Why did you shelve ritalin? Does it have risks as well?

Do you know why you prefer not to risk iq/ambition but you're potentially okay with risking whatever ritalin can be a detriment to?

I ask all this as a curious non-user of anything but a daily multi-vitamin, forced by a loved one...
My favorite environment is having four to eight people (one team) in one very large room with a door. And a couch.
The shutdown was only in the United States. You could cross the border to play freely. Inside the US, there's a couple of states that have legalized within-state play; other than that there are a few minor online venues (several hundred to a couple of thousand players online at any given time). I believe that r/poker has an updated list if you're interested.
It is safer. When you vaporize, you (hopefully) only vaporize the molecules that you want. The machine should be set at a temperature that is low enough to vaporize only the THC and CBD. No carbon, no icky tar, no lighter fluid. It is even better if you can vaporize an extract.

You begin with the plant, extract the molecules that you want, and then vaporize said extract. Filter this vaporization through water since the molecules that you want aren't water soluble. This also cools down the vapours.

It is a lot safer than blindly setting a plant on fire.

The downside is that you will pay a premium in order to get quality medicinal extracts and you will need to invest money ($500+) in order to get a decent vaporizer.

Source: I am no expert, but I have family members that use cannabis as a legal medication.
The thing for now is that the asm.js "family" is riding on LLVM's back. More and more it's the LLVM that is becoming that VM people have longed for. It looks like LLVM is inching towards the JavaScript VM with every year that goes by. I read that Apple is using it for further JavaScript optimizations on the browser. LLVM already powers WebKit underneath right?

So as things stand right now we have 2 popular "VMs" people really use. One is JavaScript since it's going nowhere. And the other is LLVM that is "free as in beer" for companies all over. JavaScript was secluded to the client. And LLVM was secluded to the backend. Now they are going to be marrying and having lots of children. :-)
I think the poster you replied to was saying that you are wating other people's time by doing interviews in bad faith.

If you think they deserve to have their time wasted because their interview processes are inefficient... well, I guess I'll just say that I disagree with you strongly.
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Landau/Lifshitz are freely available on the Internet archive:

https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22L.D.+Landa...