skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The content of the leak is the important bit. The whole idea that we should care about the moral standing of the leaker is a distraction created by personality-obsessed media and agenda-driven government PR.
Why dont VPS providers display the CPU speed, cores, cache size?
I am looking at the pricing page of various VPS providers and all of them talk about the ram and the no. of CPUs but nobody displays the CPU speed, cores, cache size.

I am not an expert when it comes to sys admin but I think cpu speed, cores and cache size are important parameters. What am I missing here?
I'm a huge fan of Fastmail for email. Any support issues or questions we have are answered by real people with an interest in helping.
The author tells a story about being a graphic developer, so that's probably the reason for focussing on graphics.

Telling the AI people that their efforts are wasted on an arms race with little effect on the game play is a much weaker argument than 'hey, I need to revisit what _I_ am working on'.
> I wish that posters would indicate it in the title or in a comment.

A search for the username provide the context in seconds.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9652604

> I really dislike that this is on my HN frontpage.

"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site."

> Probably the biggest reason I don't visit reddit anymore is because there is far too much native advertising.

Welcome, but please keep in mind the guidelines and take a few minutes to fact check yourself before making assumptions, and you'll do fine here.
Hey Thomas,

I'm looking to get into web app testing and I read this article earlier today: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/06/how-to-break-into-securit...

Say I did what you said and got some experience. How do you know when you're ready to strike out on your own and do what the OP is doing? Or should I join an existing firm to get more experience?
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All we need now is documentation for the low-level abstractions so we can scrap all the vendor code and compile our own GPU machine language.
This article is framed as a scare-story about visas/immigrants, but what does it really have to do with visas or immigrants? Imagine the workers stayed in India, were trained using videoconferencing and worked remotely. It would be exactly the same situation for the US employees.
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This; I have generally been able to get a response by calling the HR or recruiting person with whom I first made contact.
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Not true. They usually redact information they find unsuited for public release.
Twitter releases Heron the successor to Storm
Yeah, Czechoslovakia is also on the list, even though they split in 1993.
Sorry, which term do you think is precisely defined such that all language communities would agree with your definition without question?

So far as I know, there are none.
You already have an API in the remote debugging interface:

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/03/firefox-developer-tools-wo...
Batch-GCDing GitHub SSH Keys
Use this opportunistic flight tool and add destinations to a flight (travel-hack)
> It required me to unblacklist 6 domains to merely load

I'm getting sick of it too. If I go to a site that doesn't show ANYTHING without javascript being enabled, I just browse back. If I have to turn on a bunch of scripts to press a button, enabling them for sites that don't have anything to do with the main site, I just browse back.

Ya, no one cares, but their content just isn't that important to do any work for it anyway.
I'll build your MVP in a few months and support it for the year
Good idea! Here you go https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9653515
Use https://resin.io/ yo
Here's a town that has required every head of household to own and maintain a gun since 1982. When they passed that law people predicted that neighbors would settle their differences with shootouts, but instead - in 25 years - their crime rate plummeted and they haven't had a single gun murder - https://www.google.com/search?q=guntown+usa
Someone needs to take this and build a captcha service like Google did with reCaptcha and release the results for free. That way we can actually have a free OCR that works very well.
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I think FFVII is much deeper than its graphics and storyline. It was (not quite, but almost) an early Cookie Clicker. Laughably easy, and yet you had fun anyway. It was fun to max out your materia and level your characters up even though you had long, long passed the point where the final boss was a pushover. The graphics/story/popularity/etc. allowed you to enjoy the "Cookie Clicker" without admitting it to anyone else or even to yourself.

That's just my subjective opinion of course.
The only way that I can ever summarise Hacker News to people is "a collection of things that are interesting to technology people". That is the (intended) effect of the voting system (assuming you're happy with the sweeping categorisation of the people on here as technology people).

Some of us like to hear about
Interesting new science
Attempts to land a rocket on a floating launch pad
New releases of a bit of open source software
New releases of closed source software (you might not like Windows, but a new release is still significant).
etc.

Why not information on a new release of a computer game[1]? Lots of people on here use (play) them? Why is that materially different than a new release of an OS? My mentality with upvoting things isn't "plugging something", it's "this is interesting, you should all see this".

It's not advertising, it's like minded people communicating information of interest to them, in exactly the same way that you might be chatting to someone at the watercooler and ask them if they saw that Fallout 4 was going to be released.

[1] Obviously that would fit in the 'new releases of closed source software" anyway
As other said there are plenty of companies that do notify you, personally majority of companies that I applied to do that.

I noticed though that my current company sometimes does it. It typically is when you did not do too well on an interview and effectively failed (or passed with flying colors but you are an international student, and they don't want to sponsor ), but they still won't notify in case they can't find anyone better. From my observation they generally never come back to those candidates.
It's the first video I found on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqDbh-JRl6I
The gameplay is usually much faster paced, but they still seem to be having fun.
This is awesome Theo. When can I have data about Americans in France?
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I agree with the author that quality gameplay should be more of a focus for teams, and that their choices in graphics technologies should enable their gameplay choices, not the other way around.

But, gameplay isn't the only way to enjoy a game. Sometimes I enjoy something just because it's the visual and auditory equivalent of a summer blockbuster where I'm in control. And perversely, I'm willing to pay a lot of money to have the hardware necessary for that. Sometimes the gameplay is objectively worse than other, less graphically accomplished games, but that doesn't make it less aesthetically pleasing.

I think it's perfectly valid to enjoy a game for aesthetic vs. gameplay reasons, although it can sometimes be sad when gamers have no concept of the latter.
Agree. I wonder if it's top 3% overall, or top 3% on a given period... During the end of 2014 I was in the top 0,06% and don't even consider myself a good dev. In fact I'm better at design...
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My approach with TrueJob to solve this is allowing employers and job seekers to favorite or block almost anything about each other. Employers get back anonymous analytics as to how to improve their job postings, and job seekers get back anonymous analytics as to how to improve their resume.

It seems to work pretty well so far, but there's a lot more to be done in the job space -- the lack of transparency and information can cause a lot of frustrations for both employers and job seekers.
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Neither. I had to do it all over again, I would buy a detached house in the middle of boondocks ( like Mississauga, Brampton , Vaughn ,Markham , Richmond hill etc. ) . The supply of detached houses is limited whereas condos in Toronto are growing like weed. The detached houses have grown more in value and they are not encumbered with maintenance fees.
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Videoconferencing, especially with people you've never met from a foreign culture whom by the way you've just made unemployed, is just not the same. Those meetings would go on and on, and nothing would get accomplished.
If you work with a good remote team, they usually don't make you work on 9-5 kind of schedule. Sure they ask for some overlap, but it does allow you to take a Tuesday morning and go surfing/skating/just relax and then make up for it in the evening. I do. Yesterday I took my kid to a waterpark in the morning and then just worked until late to make up for it. No issue from my team whatsoever.

It also helps if all the team is senior and can work well together and understands the business. I can't see this working as well when you have juniors that need mentoring, or seniors that have zero clue about the business side of things so they need constant questioning.

Other companies see remote work mostly as a way to pay less for a developer, but want to treat him like he is in the office (heard stories of some companies wanting to have a constant video link to the office to make sure you aren't goofing off).
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I speculate that early humans cooked the food for the same reason. How would I prove that, I don't know. But they were not thinking about the nutrient value or killing of bacteria. They probably had a concept of being sickened by food and learned that certain foods will not make you sick if you do this to them first, but initially I think it had to do with taste.
If you "imagine" the workers stayed in India, then the article wouldn't be about visas. But since the "reality" is that the workers are here on H1B, then the article mentions visa.

Disclaimer: I am an immigrant in the US on a L visa.
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The Vault jumpsuit doesn't look saggy. The number one thing that prevented me from playing Fallout 3. Hooray!
Isn't this at will employment? Companies can ask any employee to take the trash out or even clean up the kitchen(barring physical disabilities and strength). If you refuse they can fire you, same as you can quit anytime for any reason or no reason.
The writer could have done a better job concealing their sources — the people who spoke on the condition of anonymity could still be easily identified by the information (age, skills) listed in the article.
It is an employees market when it comes to developers at the moment. Developers are lured by interesting projects, flexible schedules, money, work environment, etc. so you just have to promote whatever of those you are able to offer.
A similar lib, but slightly different focus: http://interactjs.io/

I know this one to be very well maintained currently as evidenced here https://gitter.im/taye/interact.js
I work remotely, and everything is conducted using email, IRC and video conferencing, and I certainly don't agree with you about that.
Disclaimer: I came to the comments first. I have not yet read the article.

From a purely mathematical perspective, it still depends on what your future plans are.

I purchased a property a couple of years ago, intending to live in it for a short period and then rent it out. I tracked all of the money that I've spent on the property, all of the money I've gained, and the general value (which I get from Zillow, although I know that's not necessarily accurate. If anything, though, the house is probably worth less than what Zillow says).

Note that this is a relatively new property (built in the 90s), which needed few improvements or fixes. So it's not like I've dumped thousands into renovations and so on, and it's not like a lot of expensive things broke with any kind of consistency. This is mortgage payments and basic home maintenance expenses I've tracked.

If I had sold the property within the first 1.5 years I'd still be out several thousand dollars despite the property's value increasing a little bit (I forget the exact number -- somewhere around $5k to $10k lost). I've only recently reached the break-even point, where if I sell now I'll have made money overall, and that's primarily because I found a tenant and have been making a profit on it.

The problems are:

1) The mistake most people make is that they look only at initial valuation and the final value of the sale. They forget to include the interest paid over the life of the loan, as well as any home maintenance costs. These add up!

2) Home values are not likely to increase 100% in the short term. If you plan on living in that exact spot for 10+ years, then yes, owning your home is obviously the correct choice. If there's a chance you might move in 5 years or less (even within the same city, to a better place or whatever) then you're probably at least as well-off renting, if not better because you don't have to worry about paying two mortgages during the move and so on. Obviously there're other variables involved, though.
>However, that art style is not pixel art. I've gone back and tried to play some of the pixelated stars from the past - they don't age well on modern display devices. From their 40pt fonts, to their pixels which actually look worse on LCD monitors than they did on our old CRT TVs.

I have a stash of bulky crt monitors and TVs for this reason. They are almost free nowadays.
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Myth #1: Toronto condos have outperformed the stock market by a long shot

Isn't it disingenuous to include automatic dividend reinvestments in the price calculation for stocks but not include net income from rents reinvested into more condos?
Content and Conversations= Conversions
IBM acquires Seattle’s Blue Box in major deal for private cloud service
I'm not a fan of Keybase because they encourage a lot of unsafe behaviour:

1. They tell you to trust webpages which claim that their code does not send passwords or private keys to the server – something which would be extremely hard to verify now and even were you to do so now, could silently change in the future:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/teikzwftimeu8nc/Screenshot%202015-...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1xlvpd8drhix0tj/Screenshot%202015-...

2. They encourage blindly copying and pasting complex commands into a shell:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5rv7p4mks0qdr7f/Screenshot%202015-...

I have no reason to believe they're doing any of this in malice but it's not good because it encourages people to believe claims which could be made by any phisher and encourages practices which put you at risk if Keybase is ever compromised.

The answer to this, of course, would be a browser-managed crypto API which could provide unspoofable UI indicating that e.g. a private key will never leave the client but in the absence of such an API it feels irresponsible to make similar claims which aren't actually possible.
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So the real story is something like Indians are prepared to work for less money whether they are in the US or in India. Abolishing H1B visas or cracking down on immigration won't make any difference to that.
Not my competence it his competence I trust and I got him good with that one since it never occurred to him that one stupid trick messed with him for so long. Lie 5 minutes a month.
If there was a post on the front page titled "Sublime Text 4", not submitted by the creator, would you still be upset? I'm sure a good portion of the HN community are fans of the Fallout series and/or are anticipating Fallout 4. There's nothing wrong with discussing things we enjoy, but aren't made by us.

The website does suck, though. Autplaying video, it doesn't load with uBlock enabled, and there's really no point to it, it's just a glorified youtube link.
I think sometimes people conflate mid-career personal attitude changes with some sort of profound pan-industry insight. There's obviously money to be made from high tech AAA games pushing hardware limits, and money to be made from prioritising gameplay over polish and visuals.
Mmh, did you read the article? It clearly has to do with visas, as the Disney workers would likely still be employed if those H1Bs hadn't been granted.

It's absolutely not the same as outsourcing - if Disney could have outsourced the jobs, it would have by now. But these positions likely require physical proximity to the Disney theme park.

This is the ugly side of H1Bs - while Facebook, Google, et al. are using them in a way that (plausibly) doesn't hurt American employment, and are legitimately in need of more slots, that's not the case for the main H1B players (Infosys, HCL, etc), who are just gaming the system to maximize revenues.
Yea, if they wanted to get paid/severance, they had to do what they were asked to do. Seems reasonable? It sucks that someone else got their job but they were under no obligation to stick around unless they wanted to get paid.
There was an interesting discussion on a recent Bikeshed Podcast episode about Monolith vs Microservices, featuring DHH: http://bikeshed.fm/14 - worth a listen (you can skip the bits about ActionCable if you aren't a Rails user!)
"a concept pioneered by the Magna Carta, refined by John Locke, and implemented most famously by the Founding Fathers of the United States (for the first time in the history of mankind, without compromise or exception)"

The mere fact that (at least some of) those Founding Fathers had slaves acts against the "without compromise or exception" argument. As for Magna Charta, it was not "pioneering" anything, because comparable arrangements, even in a formal written form, existed long before. So you may say that it was "pioneered" only in the north-western Europe in order to be accurate (and I can't be sure about that either)!
Thanks. It's good to know that the multiple version issue has been addressed - although from the FAQ it sounds like there are still a few (unlikely) corner cases one needs to keep in mind.
"According to federal guidelines, the visas are intended for foreigners with advanced science or computer skills to fill discrete positions when American workers with those skills cannot be found."
The exact thing happened in Canada a while ago with RBC. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/rbc-replaces-...

Kicked off a major firestorm here, which ultimately lead the government to change the way the foreign worker program functions.
"...but what does it really have to do with visas or immigrants."

Everything, actually.

“The program has created a highly lucrative business model of bringing in cheaper H-1B workers to substitute for Americans...”

"Because of legal loopholes, however, in practice companies do not have to recruit American workers first or guarantee that Americans will not be displaced."

If such a loophole exists it puts American tech workers in a vulnerable position.
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This looks great. How does the approach compare to Tesseract? Would it be possible to beat the accuracy of Tesseract with this? Are there any numbers on how long it would take to process an image once trained?
> “It was so humiliating to train somebody else to take over your job. I still can’t grasp it.”

Indeed, that sounds terrible. I haven't been in that (exceptionally difficult) situation, but I wonder why the laid off employees consented to this? I wouldn't be in any rush to help the company lay me off and transition to a cheaper replacement. Was their severance package dependent on this?
Hopefully not used to solve captchas.
I like your title. Appreciate the explanation for future HN posting.
> Was their severance package dependent on this?

Yes. Its financial extortion.
Ultima IV was and continues to be the primary reason I do anything with games development.
Sure it was easy enough to fire the employees to make room for their replacements due to at will employment, but did that wasn't really the focus of the article (and not to be snarky at all but I find it fascinating that that was your take away after reading it)
black holes emit black body radiation just like everything else though.
Is there a popular second hand marketplace other than CL/eBay/Kijiji?
Getting an 'NaN' for the Success Rate in the table at the bottom of that page. May be something for OP to look into.
"I just couldn’t believe they could fly people in to sit at our desks and take over our jobs exactly."

Doesn't sound like remote work to me.

Same situation in Canada, except we call them "temporary foreign workers."

These programs are supposed to fill a shortage, but in practice they just provide cheaper labour.
I think this is now common. I did the same thing to our replacement after I was laid off. My last 2 weeks with the company was in India doing a face to face training/handover.
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Hint: American workers that are cheaper than American workers can never be found.
Hi there, I work at Mobile Jazz and it actually takes me less than 1 minute to log in to every service (that's when I have to log in, cause most of the times I'm already logged in). In terms of Syncing, Asana does a nice job integrating several services via some extensions (like Harvest for example to start your timer directly from a task), also, most of the time we have a central document per project where we keep all the different links and references that are relevant to it. I work half of the time at the office, some days from my apartment in Barcelona and at least once a year I travel to Mexico and keep working from there while I spend some time with my family. Over the time I have get used to the remote working mindset and I must say that I find it very efficient.