skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rio's Mayor Decides to Sign Bill Banning Ride-Hailing Services
Companies will often sue for the difference. If random company X employee doxes a client of X, and then the market cap of X falls by $Y on the news and consequence loss of trust, company X has a pretty good case that financial damages of $Y are warranted through the actions of the employee's breach of contract. Chances are, the employee has nowhere close to $Y in assets, but will settle for $Z << $Y to avoid having a huge lawsuit with the potential to garnish many years worth of wages hanging over their head.

Many people who might think that the risk of being fired is worth having the inside scoop on a story might reconsider when the threat is a lawsuit from Google/Facebook/Twitter.
Why does H1B visas directly relate to Indian consulting companies? I agree those companies are the ones applying for the largest number of visas. But, I as an Indian working in the United States on H1B visa and earning more than a lot of Americans feel offended. I got my advanced STEM degree here from a reputed university and work for a US company. So, should I not be given the opportunity to stay and work in this country when I am contributing to the economy on par or more than many Americans? I work on temporary visas and wait for ~12 years to get a permanent residency even if I have bigger dreams and want to start a company. On my visa status, its very hard to do anything risky.

Create a new visa class then for students and entrepreneurs who come here and get their advanced degrees. Universities and talent out of those universities is what builds this great nation.

edit: I personally hate consulting companies from India because they get employees with a lot of experience and pay them peanuts. Even a new college graduate would not accept a job offer for their salary.
Last I checked the SDK didn't support the BB8. Has that changed?
I'm not in Canada, but I do use Google Play Music on my commute (2-3hrs per day) with it's streaming curated playlists. That eats through a ton of bandwidth. That chewed through about 3GB last month before I had to stop listening while out and about.
Small planes crashes are common enough that they don't often make it beyond local news. The NTSB recorded 1,471 accidents and 440 fatalities in general aviation for the year 2012: http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/data/Pages/2012%20Aviatio.... That's like one 747 going down each year.
The real risk is that if it reaches a certain level of ubiquity (which it appears it is), authorities will invest in a) laws and b) technology to break it with almost trivial ease. The US already has my fingerprints on file from crossing the border. Presumably it means that if they wish they could trivially unlock my phone and search its contents. I fully expect that if fingerprint access does become the universal security mechanism used on computing devices we'll soon enough have fully automated solutions where law enforcement can either download your fingerprint from their existing database or scan it from any available surface in real time and apply an image to the sensor to fool it into unlocking. Obviously this will take a while to happen, so for now people are lulled into a rather false sense of security that their fingerprints are a "pretty good" way to secure their phone when they are only "pretty good" because technology will take a few years to automate the breaking of them, at which point they will become "very bad".
Obvious solution: the moderator account should be called goddang.
Just launched https://crypt0.space/, a new bitcoin & litecoin mining pool. Working on adding MixPanel analytics, & advertising with the right orgs to try and get my first users to use it. Have a 0.027 BTC bounty to get someone to connect a couple miners to it & test it so I know it works.
Oh, the irony of "Tata" Consultancy Services.
Will the ycombinator.com banner ad finally be replaced with an HN symbol that links directly to the index? :-p

Also, a while back I made a little Hacker News logo concept. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4731140) If you're thinking responsive redesign work, just hollar. ;-)
Game companies seem to be particularly bad at retaining original assets. Developers and artists keep a lot of stuff on their locally non backed up machines and regular staff churn, combined with deliberate software obsolescence and bit rot pretty much spreads the ashes of original source files to the cosmos.
Why did they have so many offices?
> Instead of H1B, we should update our immigration laws and policies to prefer educated people of means who have a desire to come here and contribute to our country.

Every student who comes here is on H1B after they graduate. They go through a lot of pain and effort to get a permanent residency because they get stiff competition from the employees who come directly and are on the same visa status.
Pixels have been shipping since February, 2013, so your comment is a few years too late. :)
I'm still on a Nexus 4, I'll upgrade when it breaks or the battery dies, neither of which seems to be likely.

It's a cracking little phone and does everything I'd want.
It sounds like most of this abuse goes with employees that are here for a much shorter period than the visa is valid for (2 periods of 3 years for H1B). That is a clear indicator that they were here for only training purposes
Why is the startup time so much less for ClojureScript than for JVM-based Clojure? That's quite surprising to me.
Reminds me of the time when everyone (myself included) felt entitled to free MP3's, and then got pissed when the record companies disagreed.

A boycott is when you abstain from transacting. Ad blockers are not a boycott, they're just a legal way of stealing someone else's work.
When your flagging rights go away, the link disappears. St that point you can reach out to the mod team to try to figure out why/if it was a mistake.
I like something that I can buy and host myself so that when the over-valued company decides to stop making it I can still use it. Then again, I'm probably not a target user base for somebody looking for the next big thing.
I used to think Pari used recursive dense too, but I've recently been informed it is more of a recursive sparse format. This is essentially the same thing except that they have special zero objects in every polynomial ring, so that their recursive tree is essentially a pruned tree.
That plus folders or some sort of hierarchical organization would meet all my needs perfectly.
This is a hilarious comment coming from a user named "rsync"
Are you ready for a robot colleague?
I'm fairly certain a lot of wrongful flagging is a direct consequence of fat-fingering the flag button. I've been there, and my fingers aren't that fat.
And when the men turn to social techniques that are proven to increase their sexual market value (aka 'Game'), they get excoriated in the public sphere as 'creeps', 'weirdos', etc. Then we get snarky articles about how 'boring' successful (read: technical/IT-career focused) men have become these days.
But layoffs often come from above as "fire the worst 20% or your team so we can get lean." So in that case the employee does play a part.

The problem with these moves is that the top 20% often see the writing on the wall and leave shortly after. Then the second 20% start testing the waters. Then...
Hm...?

It's higher resolution, but the 6P is physically slightly smaller; 5.7" vs 6"; (77.8 x 159.3 x 7.3mm vs 82.9 x 159.2 x 10.0mm).
In a lot of industries (including software) the "menial" is the beginning of the path to the high-value position.

When outsourcing was a big hot-button topic back around THE TURN OF THE CENTURY (just realized we can say this now and get away with it, seems weird) there was a lot of talk about how the low-value "coder" jobs would go overseas while we here in the US would just do high level design and software architecture to ship to these people to implement....

That's great for one generation, but how do people become great designers and architects without being a working "coder" for a while? Doesn't happen, in my experience (or, rather happens so infrequently the exceptions aren't worth considering).

By removing today's low-end industry jobs we risk eliminating the path of real-world experience that makes people qualified for the higher-end work, thereby making us (as a country/culture/whatever) unqualified to do the high-end stuff in the not-too-distant future.
That article includes some pertinent information that's not in the blog posting, though (which offices are closing, one of the products that's being discontinued).
This is wishful nonsense.

Destroying the middle class to improve margins does not grow the real economy. You grow the real economy by investing in technology and an educated workforce that can translate their skill set to providing real goods and services.

Majority owners, investors and pension plan managers need to invest their money in companies that have real customers with real incomes that can afford to buy their goods and services.
A feature maybe 1% of people would do.
I like your point. The government should provide a new visa category for students who get an advanced STEM degree from US college. Its absurd that students who got their advanced STEM degree from a college in US has to complete in the same visa category as the people applying from consulting companies.
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IMSA sounds like a great school, and I've always been a bit jealous of the alumnus I've met from there. But I don't know how much we can learn from this model. If you take 650 of the brightest and most motivated students and put them in one place, you're going to get incredible results regardless of the teaching methods. The real challenge is achieiving comparable gains with average or below-average students.
I'm sure he's prepared for being outed one day in the future. Glad it's not now. Always enjoyed his tweets.
I'll take that as a compliment. The photo was taken one-handed while standing in the "elevator lobby" of the floor, so it was facing the bright light instead of having the lighting behind the target. The image might be inferior to a DSLR on a tripod, but for simple functionality I think this device is highly suitable. And it fits in most pockets.
Key problem is it's ARM and not Intel processor. How much of a real developer experience a crouton style solution enables on ARM, I'm not sure. But I'm guessing it's a lot more limited.
The issue is not whether the government should facilitate this, but whether they should use violence to prevent it.

Similarly, if I don't threaten people with violence for watching "Real Housewives of New Jersey", that doesn't mean I'm facilitating people watching it.
It can certainly be done much faster, even on that CPU. We'll eventually get around to that.

We have a lot of generic matrix stuff missing at present though, so that's the priority for now.

There's also things like Puiseux series and capped absolute power series and a few things like that which we can't do without.

It would be a hell of a lot of fun to optimise the hell out of both those polynomial benchmarks, but we have to be realistic and go for breadth first, rather than depth, I think.
So then they have to have tiered pricing so that the occasional user pays very little (or nothing) and the people who want to have Farmville and pokes and all of the other nonsense that lets you live your life on FB will pay something more substantial.
We actually have this visa and employers don't want to have anything to do with it.

EB2 visas for permanent residence are currently available [1] for employees with Ph.D., master's degree, or at least five years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience.

[1] Excluding people born in India, Mainland China, Mexico and the Philippines because applicants from those countries have exceeded the per country maximum
In Sunnyvale, Amazon packages are already delivered to me by a plainclothes dude in an unmarked white van. It seems they have some other fulltime staffing of a similar operation here, so no reason to add Flex to the bucket.
Do they really have a "Go Premium" CTA at the end of this blog? Wow.
Seems like it would be pretty easy to remain anonymous enough to Twitter employees without even using Tor, etc.
Hilarious. I'd expect this argument to be made by a 5 yr old. You do realize these jobs are being handed out by your "brothers and sisters" then right? Toys r us's management made these decisions. And your "ancestors" created a capitalistic, meritocratic society. You either be the best and survive or you perish. No hand outs.
Or it's just a bug.

https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/11368

"Never attribute to malice..." and all that.
On the flip side of this, I ran a startup that absolutely could not have existed without targeted Web advertising. Our first product was an add-in for collaborating on PowerPoint presentations, and we were able to economically target ads towards people who were actually searching for "PowerPoint collaboration" or similar keywords. I don't see how we could have found those people, or they could have found us, in a more effective or direct way.
> Eventually, a $100k a year employee will just be subsistence in terms of real goods.

In a certain popular city in the US that starts with S, that is not far from truth right now.
Chromebook Pixels, yes. Those have a page at https://www.google.com/chromebook/pixel/ which is definitely far less unambiguous.
I take it that you also claim personal responsibility for any and all the sins that your ancestors and elder Americans have done?
how do you export? Last time I checked I could only export individual notes, which is obviously not a working solution given that I have thousands of notes.
It is, and is integrated well with the Surface and the Surface pen. Works great for taking handwritten (or typed) notes and having it sync to my phone/desktop immediately. I use it often to take notes at meetings then I am able to send all the notes/diagrams to others in pdf form when I get back to my workstation.

Big fan of OneNote.
Thats the whole problem - the conditions of the visa should be followed. As a H1B myself, I cannot really complain at all. My salary on-par or at least above market average (I am a C level exec, not an engineer) and my company has never-ever shown any interest in exerting their power over me via the visa. In fact they are worried about the visa running out and are trying to sponsor a green-card for me. So I guess it depends, and I would say the scenario I am in is more in line with the intent of the law vs the cheap labor brought in from India and China.
That's an interesting question. Is it even worth the effort to try to achieve academic gains in below-average students? What's the typical improvement we should expect there? For that matter, do special schools like IMSA achieve any gains in their students, or do they merely select and observe them?
Personally skitch is far more important to me than Evernote itself. If they killed off that app I'd be gone in a heartbeat.
But at twitter The People have made a decision with their feet that they'd rather have neutered brevity than your fully expressed thought.
The reason you see so many entrepreneurs come out of IMSA is that the students realize they can learn anything. You see the guy across from you ace a test or finish an assignment faster than you thought was possible. You know you are as good as your peers so you push yourself to reach that level.

Once you accomplish everything the school gives you, you want more. You think of new ideas and no longer constrain yourself to what is given to you. This is just one dynamic that happens here. A lot happens when you tell the most driven and brightest to "advance the human condition".
If you're referring to the 5× — 7× speed difference for Bocko I included at bottom of the article, I'd be interested in knowing as well. :) Perhaps nvbm (the author) could shed some light. I can only hazard to guess that JavaScriptCore is simply more heavily optimized to reduce startup latency, with this really paying off in the mobile environment.
I can tell from experience because some HDR photos taken on my Nexus 4 without being steady for long enough show artifacts of multiple exposures.
On the other hand if I am actually a high skilled worker and will take over your job because I am simply better at it, would you still consider it as the government just facilitating me taking over your job? Am I not entitled to it? What would make you deserve the job more than me, the fact that you are American? Not trying to attack you in any way, I am just curious if and why you see this in a black and white way.
It is annoying that Amazon Instant Video doesn't directly have an option to cast to a Chromecast. You can, however, configure[0] Amazon Instant Video to use Flash instead of Silverlight. Once you switch to using Flash, you can use the "Cast Tab" feature of the Google Cast extension to watch your video on a Chromecast, assuming you're using Chrome.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/settings (near the bottom of the page)
I like that they tried to use ReactOS and WINE as a reference!
It's confusing to me that Clojure running on Dalvik can be slower to start than ClojureScript running on Rhino running Dalvik.
That is impressive.

Though I suspect soon enough the Northwest Passage will be clear for enough of the year that most freighters will just sail through the Arctic. Perhaps both Panama's government and North America's railroads should be pushing hard for a carbon tax.
That's a scary thought. Morlocks and Eloi...

A lot of companies are very bad at thinking about that kind of long-term progression. My dad works in a power plant, where essentially he and the millwright are the only two who understand how all of the systems in the plant work, since they are the only members of the maintenance staff that have been there long enough to have repaired all of the equipment (longer than the current management...) Both of them are looking to retire in the next couple years, and made that known some time ago. Rather than hire full-time staff to train and learn the plant in preparation for that handoff, the company contracts out (more expensive) temporary workers...
The government already facilitates research and technology which takes jobs from people. Would you like to stop that too? Newborn babies spend 20 years preparing to take your job. Should the government stop that too?

Don't forget that a "job" is not a good thing. It's a bad thing. People don't like working, they mostly want money, at least for menial jobs. The whole idea of silicon valley is to take people's menial jobs. That's what it's there for! Should the government hinder technology companies because they're threatening to replace people's jobs with computers? Of course not! In the case of both technology and cheaper foreign workers, the overall result is positive to the US economy.

If you think Americans are more deserving than other people, then, well that's just the nationalism and racism that the GP described. You can pretend it's not racism, but it's effectively the same thing - treating people worse because of who their parents are.
> I lost formatting on my notes (e.g. bullet points/numbers) so frequently that I just resorted to using plaintext/whitespace formatting.

So glad to see that I wasn't the only one. OneNote got the list formatting right in its original version (2003!), yet Evernote has steadfastly refused to do anything about how bad their own implementation is.
I agree - "Fired" clearly implies wrong-doing. I never had a problem firing people who deserved it (and met HR's thresholds for firing). On the other hand, the worst thing I ever had to do is lay people off (who were working hard) because the company's fortunes had declined and we couldn't afford to pay them.

What made it worse was the morning of the lay-off, one of them told me a joke: "What's the difference between a recession and a depression? A recession is when your neighbor loses his job, a depression is when you lose yours". You know why a good manager goes into his office and closes the door after executing the "terminations"? In my case, it was to hide the fact that I was crying.
Play that through to the end though, having access to cheaper goods means little when you can't afford said goods due to the offshoring collectively lowering wages across the board. The part your ignoring is the downward pressure on everyone's wage that would have
Another thing to think about is how this affect families with one or more parents on H1B visas.
Yeah, certainly, each has its own vibe. Sort of depends on what you're looking for. Colorado in general IMO is the coolest state in the nation (and I've lived in a few). The different areas represent magnitudes of that. They are all relatively safe, compared to East coast (where I'm from). Though I can't speak much for Denver as I don't need to go there much...

Compared to the bay area, I used to live in the mountains of Santa Cruz, and now live in the mountains outside Boulder. Other than that, I don't have much experience with the differing areas of the SF peninsula.

I'd recommend maybe starting your research with Louisville. It's blown up quite a bit recently, but is not quite at Boulder prices.

If you have some specific questions about places from there, I'm happy to help. :)
And who pays for the insurance? And who is blamed for the accident? I'd be surprised if Google is accepting these costs.
I enjoy driving each morning, and it makes me happy. Sports car, windows down, cold air, a warmed up engine. Few things are better.
Isn't gerrymandering a much more complex problem than that makes it out to be? I've always thought the problem was that it's actually difficult to even come up with a definition of what fair is. For instance, do you want each district to be as representative of the population as possible? Or do you want the house of representatives to be as representative of the population as possible? I suspect that you can't have both. For instance, if you have a state that is 60/40, then do you want each district to be 60/40? Or if it has ten representatives/districts, do you want 6 reps of one party and 4 of the other? What is districting even supposed to aim for? I don't think there is one reasonable answer to this question, which is why I think any attempt to answer this question for all states is doomed to fail.

The only way I can think of to get both is to increase the number of representatives. The House of Representatives was originally supposed to scale with the size of the population, and they eventually put a stop to that. If they had continued, then we'd have a house with a makeup that matches national polling much more closely than it does now, and gerrymandering wouldn't be as much of a problem. Isn't it true that as you add more representatives, gerrymandering distortions lessen?