skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can now enjoy hangovers, because we know it guarantees that a tremendously good evening will ensue!
Eat me. Change H-1B's to follow a worker from job to job and there is no problem with the program. The fact that anyone who wants to hire a H-1B worker away from their company also has to have acquired a H-1B means that it is abused by companies looking for cheap labor.
I regularly practice each of them and barely spend any money

hiking: I just do light hiking, and all I need is a couple of sandwiches, a backpack and my boots. And plenty of water. Plenty of hills/mountains around helps, that's true

biking/rollerscating: you can get a decent used bike for about $100

picnic: just the food, and you need to eat anyway

board games: unless you need to switch the game every week I'd say you're covered with about $50 per year. We mainly play Settlers of Catan and Chess

lan party: I guess it depends on the games, we don't do this much anymore, but we're pretty old school when we do (CS, Starcraft 1, Worms World Party)

There's probably lots of other activities like that, for example we play soccer/foot tennis on a public field, and all it costs us is the price of the ball
Social pressure and influence. I could feel myself changing when moving between Norway and Germany. I have the same amount of information, but I involuntarily adjust to my environment. I don't like everything about Norwegian culture (it makes your life a bit boring), but I like a lot of it.
I'm an alpha tester for Nuclide, and it's quite nice. There are a tonne of bugs that are getting ironed out, but it's brilliant to have an editor that is built for the stack I use: Hack, React and Flow. I use Atom as my daily editor along with Komodo, and I'm looking forward to Nuclide replacing both!
That theme isn't the default anymore, now it's this https://github.com/atom/one-dark-ui.
The 1 Percent's New War on Us All
Wait...I don't get how M-o M-s can replace C-c C-e. Am I missing something? That was the main one I was thinking of...
because "terrorism" right NSA?
In many environments,

[0-9]{3}-?[0-9]{4}

is even more specific (and faster) because \d would match other digit characters outside of [0-9].
Maybe the algorithm is in control now, terrified employees sitting at their desks pretending to do work because the emergent AI has told them that if they don't continue to provide it a cover story it will flush their lives, and their identities so deep they will never be able to survive. :-)
- Gets in the way

- Doesn't admit to being wrong

- Full of it

- Blindly follows/enforces patterns, standards, and best practices

- Constantly tries to draw attention to themselves

- Political

- Code is sloppy, poorly thought out, bug-ridden, and often doesn't work

- Obsessed with time, documentation, meetings, best practices, patterns, testing, and everything else that doesn't matter (not with finishing in a timely manner, writing documentation if necessary, etc, but with constantly using these things as an excuse to get in the way, to excuse their sloppy work, and as a means to insult the ability of other developers and to claim themselves to therefore be the ones that know what they are doing).
OK, got it. Thanks
"suddenly, a significant percentage of the people who had spoken well about impressive-sounding projects failed, in some cases spectacularly, when given relatively simple programming tasks."

Unsurprising. Turns out talk really is cheap and doesn't indicate one can do. I've even seen people able to maintain jobs over a period of years by talk alone without ever really doing much. Or even being able to do much.
Others in this thread are saying the pricing is too steep or that this seems silly.

After working for the past 6 months in an office with 4 shared conference rooms and around 20 people, I can say with 100% confidence this pricing would have been approved pretty much instantly.

The conference room shuffle was a headache every single day and caused constant distraction and productivity loss. I know plenty of other people at other companies who have reported the same issues with their conference rooms. Hell, even in the Facebook HQ when I've gone in for meetings has had this problem (though their system is already pretty decent from what I can tell).

If you've felt this pain (regardless of how first world it may seem), I think you'd agree.

Personally I'd rather just never have meetings, but that's not always an option =)
>Can you imagine how irritating the latency would be trying to use a shell on Mars?

I can I have Comcast. But on a serious note I think for applications like this a Puppet/Chef style recipe will be used. A complex series of checks and bounds before and after the changes have been applied and if anything sightly goes awry, revert back to the previous working condition.
Okay but think:

If you are searching a very large file for a very few occurrences of the expected match then this optimization is not so bad.

If you are running line-by-line through a very large log file to extract just those two pieces of information per line, then throw away the first N characters in each line (where N is the hopefully-constant length of your timestamps plus that space char) and start the regex engine at the beginning of the expected match. Then it doesn't have to waste any time passing over those chars.

Even if the exact details above aren't quite right the principal is (and is well-known): Avoid premature optimization! (And the corollary: Measure it. Profile your code, don't guess, you're probably wrong.)
Falciani's Swissleaks – The Great Bank Data Robbery
I will second Corey's request - we've been working to make sure that dynamic memory and other features of Hyper-V are first class experiences on Linux, if you can share details on what issues and what versions you had them on that would be really helpful.
> things happening as a result of other things is pretty much the definition of "time moving forward"

No, that's the definition of causality. Just because you are used to thinking of casual relationships in the context of forward-moving time, doesn't mean that time's arrow has anything to do with it. That's kind of a meta correlation/causation argument.

In physics causality is more appropriately defined in terms of the propagation of forces/information. E.g. if you are farther than a distance c*t away from me, we cannot be causally connected because no signal moving at the speed of light could propagate (either forwards, or backwards in time) to connect our worldlines.
TL;DR: No, they do not.
Looks great! Can't wait to use it in my next app.
Perhaps English is not your native language?

How do you know TPP fines are settled between governments? TPP is still ongoing, and is secret. How can I be more clear?

As for your opinion about free trade, it hardly deserves a response, please consult a dictionary because you are not using the word correctly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML
This is not only an interesting story, it is also great design to explore! From all the story-telling hybrid web experiments I have seen over the last years I feel the arte guys and girls are very close to an optimal mix. What do you think? Enjoy!
Came here to share a breathing technique I picked up a few weeks ago that helps me deal with stress called the 4-7-8 breathing method. It's promised as a go-to-sleeping technique but that didn't work 100% for me. However, it helps me feel relaxed and centered! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz4G31LGyog
Correlating Commissions with Happiness
My take:

Bootstrap is made of several components, which make it trivial to recompile it without the not-needed parts. You can even do it online (as well as save/reuse configuration files): http://getbootstrap.com/customize/

The full bootstrap css weights 23.5kb gzipped. If you're not using gzip on your servers then that's the problem you should solve.

What makes bootstrap good is not the features per-se. It's the huge amount of cross-compatibility knowledge in it. There are many cool frameworks around, but it's hard to find something so solid and battle-proven as bootstrap. That's the real point of using bootstrap.
The H1B is now primarily used by outsourcing companies to move jobs overseas. Previously 15 years ago it was largely used to bring talent to the US not to take the jobs outside.

Changing the H1B so it a) it cannot be used to transfer jobs outside of the US and b) provides a path that after the first 3 years the employee can apply for a green card without sponsorship.

Both those things would largely solve a lot of the current H1B issues.
also follows from [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
I read Greek classics - mostly philosophers. I usually have something going as I read modern stuff. And I say, the Greek stuff can be pretty boring. It's a lot of pontificating and observation and doesn't really interest modern readers.

I don't think everyone needs to read 'the classics', but some should.
I think a lot of people feel the same way about Reddit as they do about The Simpsons: It used to be good.

Like so many mega-scale communities before it, Reddit is a case study in what happens if you let your user base grow faster than your cultural core can assimilate it.

To get the good content you need to dig deeper and deeper now, hide yourself away from the deluge of garbage that is the top-level groups. /r/programming remains fairly lively, but it's still a weak substitute for what it could be given proper community oversight.
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The Fuzzball Fix for a Black Hole Paradox
> The reason people want to move to the US is the US's culture.

No dude, it's the money.

I have at least a dozen friends who are on H1Bs working in SV for different large software companies. They're either going there because that's where the best-paying jobs are or they're staying for just a couple of years to save some money.
If every single vote on reddit (both up or down) over ten years were to equal Uber's ~$40bn market cap, each of ~19bn votes would have to be worth over $2.
Further, they started banning apps that used the YouTube API to background audio when YouTube's v3 API shipped last month.

It's very anti-user, I use it to listen to longer podcasts in the background.

Worth rooting for: http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.pyler.youtubebackgroundpl...
Exploring Game Space (2014)
well, giving that gravity, Lagrangian "minimum action", Schrodinger, etc... all basically describe the evolution of a system exactly along the local gradient of entropy increase one can say that all those are just emergent phenomena :)
The article title reminded me of some Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes, so for fun:
1. Time's Arrow: Part 1 - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708828/
2. Time's Arrow: Part 2 - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708829/
Thanks. Seems improved.
similar : PG-Strom (past=CUDA ; now=OpenCL)

"GPGPU Accelerates PostgreSQL"

slide: http://www.slideshare.net/kaigai/gpgpu-accelerates-postgresq... ( Dec 20, 2014 )

HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8787414

and Open Source! https://github.com/pg-strom/devel
I have known some immigrants who expressly wanted to get rid of the people in the town they had just moved to and import their old country's people, culture, and government

And what percentage of immigrants do you suppose those folks actually represent?

Are they really such a large group of people that they could actively "damage" a culture? Are they really so large a group that they could actually "dilute" the culture of the host country?

Again, I already concede, dealing with unintegrated immigrant groups is unquestionably a challenge (though it's notable those same challenges occur with local minority populations and the poor). You'd be a fool to believe otherwise.

But this narrative, that small, homogeneous countries are in danger of being overrun by an immigrant horde hell bent on reinventing their home country within the borders of the host nation strikes me as nothing more than rhetoric, a caricature, and nothing more.

Ultimately, I agree, immigrants are neither evil nor "God's gift". They're just people. Some of them are good. Some of them not so much. But I'm willing to bet the vast majority don't have cultural occupation on the top of their list of personal ambitions. Like all people they have more important things on their minds... jobs, family, food, a roof over their heads, those basic things that we all have in common.
> Well, he is an active detractor of Democracy

The trouble with democracy is that it's not a system of government where everyone has their say, but one where the majority rules. A democracy does not protect individual rights, but the 'rights' of the majority. And members are not required to have any skills or qualifications before making an impact on how the government is run. Democracy is NOT an ideal, there's a lot to criticize, and even the founders of the United States understood this. But all these excluded middle thinkers think that if you're critical of democracy, then you're pro communist/socialist/monarchist/etc, which is nonsense.

Here's a relevant example of where relying on democracy would have compromised citizens constitutional rights.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2015/06/12/gay_marriage_a...

> His view on gender 'roles' is also dangerously close to hate speech

Then you really have no idea what hate speech is, and should ask someone who survived the holocaust or had a cross burning in their front yard.

> and before any of you calls me an islamophobic: as a non-muslim white male he has no cultural heritage that could justify his opinion, so it's different.

When the hell did islamophobia enter the picture?!? Regardless, you don't need 'cultural heritage' to 'justify' an opinion. You do however need facts to support a conclusion. Are you saying that certain conclusions can only be made by those with a specific cultural heritage, regardless of the facts?
I'm in this group, after recently dropping Comcast. We still wanted some passive TV, and found that in Sling TV. Now we have Sling, Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu, and have never missed Comcast (our total bill is also about one third of what we were paying Comcast, not counting Amazon Prime).
It's not my code, so, Github is a bad place to ask me questions. But you can ask them here, and I'll respond.
I was specifically referring to the National Interest Waiver, which, according to the page, says the alien may apply a Green Card themselves.

Also:

> The national interest waiver applicant sponsors him or herself and is not required to have a job.

And my wife has actually gone through the whole naturalization process and is a citizen. It is not a fun process, and is definitely lengthy, but for anyone that is motivated is totally doable.
I am in a similar situation, except I am an entrepreneur. I came to the US in 2007 on an L-1 visa to start up a new business here. The business needed to reach ten full-time employees to allow me to transfer to a Green Card, but after six years and hundreds of thousands of dollars investment of my own money, the business failed, and with it my visa and any chance of the Green Card disappeared. So now, after all that investment, and years of employing U.S citizens, I have to start the entire process again from zero. I have to leave the U.S. and re-apply. That said, it's worth it because the U.S. market is where the action is. I hope that the entrepreneur visa will come along soon and make it a little easier for job creators like me to be able to stay here.
Why "reproduce"? Don't produce the next generation of slaves. On balance, life is misery. Leave the unborn in peace.
If it was NIH, then why did they use the existing Atom editor?
Do you happen to have any references for the risk of high temp oil usage? I've long been suspicious of deep frying precisely because I fear the health effects of oxidized oils, but there doesn't seem to be much data regarding this specific aspect of fried foods.
>screen grab of the top half of one of my book shelves.

aka a photo?

Pretty cool regardless of name. :)
Trumps all build tooling? Can I take any GNU Make project and replace the build tool with Stack?
Solar farms in temperate regions can be mounted higher to let animals graze below them, assuming you don't stick them on an existing roof.
A tale of two cultures (2010)
I worked with these guys on a previous engagement -- maybe I was lucky but everyone I worked with from there had a great attitude. Let's just say I thought hard about switching companies.
> No, that's the definition of causality. [...] That's kind of a meta correlation/causation argument.

It's more than that. The only way for us to actually tell which way the arrow of time points is by watching causal events.

> In physics causality is more appropriately defined in terms of the propagation of forces/information.

But that's exactly my point, I'm not sure where the miscommunication happened there. I object to the time-flowing-backwards statement in the article, because anyone who suggests a scenario where you're getting younger while being aware of it has left scientific reality behind.

Moving on beyond the article: You can theoretically assert that the propagation of information could just as well happen backwards, but in the real world this becomes just exceedingly unlikely after just a couple of interactions following an event. So yes, this process has everything to do with the direction and the nature of time.

Causality is not just another thing that mysteriously happens in one certain direction, it's a process that by its very nature can only happen in one direction. I have a feeling you're going to object to this, but in my opinion an information theoretical view of time is just as valid - if not more so - than to hang it on the direction of gravity. It's a construct that helps illustrate why time flowing backwards can never be a perceptible/measurable thing.
Preamble: not middlebrow dismissal, I really like what they're doing here and will pay attention to them going forward. This is just picking a nit that my hypersensitive self just can't resist:

"Fizz buzz style coding problems are less predictive of ability to do well in a programming interview"

I'm sure this is 100% true, but I thought the point of fizzbuzz-type problems were to weed out people who couldn't program at all? It's not to identify good programmers or even competent ones, it's to identify blatantly incompetent ones, which are surprisingly common even when hiring in SV.

I've never personally asked fizzbuzz when interviewing because my company's hiring process seems to do well enough to not require it. However, based on what I read here it's also very good for filtering out narcissistic divas (i.e., the occasional HN posters who pop a monocle when they get asked fizzbuzz: "how dare someone ask a dumb question that is beneath me?!? Needless to say, I walked out of the interview immediately! Harrumph!").

Maybe Triplebyte's article is using the term "fizzbuzz-type problem" to refer to any contrived programming problem, but in common usage fizzbuzz-type problems are bozo filters that serve no higher purpose than filtering out bozos.
Thanks! I wasn't aware the `\copy` command was scoped to the current working directory.

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/COPY
Pretty sure VxWorks is still used today for a lot of spacecraft; Curiosity[^1] and at least at one point the SpaceX Dragon capsule[^2] it looks like.

^1: http://www.windriver.com/announces/curiosity/
^2: http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/pdf/DragonLabFactSh...
And while bringing Emacs/Vim up to acceptable GUI editor standards might be possible (MacVim does an alright job of this), I'm guessing that a lot of the head Emacs/Vim people would be against it, and wouldn't want to merge it back into mainline. That would leave FB having to maintain their fork of it, and splitting mindshare, etc. Atom doesn't need that much work, and it's easier to maintain a plugin than an entire fork.
You do need immigrants, but you need them to be low level workers. Which explains the amount of unskilled people working in both Germany and the US legally, while high skilled immigrants can't get their foot through the door.
can we please stop hoping for rossi? he'll never deliver

Mr Rossi theme tune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw26fLW_gg4

just read the guys history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Rossi_(entrepreneur)
There is no cholesterol in any vegetable oil. Cholesterol is strictly of animal origin.
Wish I could tell you. Struggling, really struggling with this now. My business is dead and I need to find something else. But I have no worthy ideas and nobody wants to hire someone with "general" experience - everything is about highly specialized skills and experience.
As an immigrant to both France and Germany I agree with you. Every immigration system seems completely broken and disconnected from reality.
This is definitely a problem in many startups when the need for growth clashes with the emphasis on customer experience.

Thanks for sharing!
Actually YOUR racist nation (that genocides the first nations) is bankrupting other countries:
- brain drains is stilling public investment in education from other developed countries
- cheap labor force that have kids is a transfer of the capacity to pay retirements in other countries to pay yours
...
Actual immigrations are a pure theft that benefits only the wealthiests, local and immigrants alike.

Immigration producing macro economically a gross benefit nation that can afford it should compensate.

In our time and place I would propose the destination country compensate in debt erasure.
Extreme and only the best
Biologically speaking we are wired to produce kids, as such many people find deep meaning and satisfaction by raising a family. Of course this isn't for everyone, but I put it down as a driver for why people behave they way they do.

On balance, life is neutral.
Participating in lotter does not signal immigration intent. I participated in lottery for my parents for ten years and they had zero problem renewing their visitor visas every two year. It's pretty well documented that it's ok to do lottery without while on visitor or student visa.

The fact that none of his employers wanted to sponsor him for visa tells you how valuable he was to those employers. Full in cost of employment-based greencard is only 5k-10k including legal fees. All company has to do is to provide financial information and to sign several forms - everything else is done by outside lawyers. I could not imagine any company refusing to do it for any professional employee unless he was extremely replaceable.
Sure. I'll ask for logs tomorrow. Emails?
>Nobody is making money selling phones that don't have apps. Apps are 100% necessary for a smartphone to survive.

Now yes. In the start not.

Nobody is making money selling PCs without apps either. Are desktop app programmers demanding a pay cut from PC sales?
Lol, yeah, compare one of the most progressive countries in the world with Japan's nearly feudal traditions...
I appreciate the analogy but it's not like if the server were free big data would disappear, isn't it?
You are ignoring the data.

Person after person says they do fine in the job, yet have trouble with interviews.

I've presented in rooms where the lowest ranking officer was a colonel, and most were important people at the Pentagon. No freeze up, easy peasy, because I know what the hell I'm talking about and because I know I'm not going to be judged on some bullshit evaluation. (re: "x<<8 from above). Interviews are more a crap shoot. I mostly get offers, but sometimes just utterly choke. More importantly, I usually feel miserable after.

Don't make up theoretical situations when you have real, empirical data, please.