skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On one hand, awesome to see Django getting first class Websockets support.

On the other hand this feels a bit like "Build the web applications of today, tomorrow!" I think that's an inherent problem with kitchen sink frameworks; new things that come along have be shoehorned into the old way of doing things, except when they can't, and then you have to restructure your foundation. I stopped using Django a couple years ago because the kind of apps I wanted to build were REST APIs, websockets, a little static file serving, and connections to realtime backends like redis pubsubs or RabbitMQ. Django wasn't great at any of those, yet carried a lot of baggage from stuff I didn't need (e.g. form handing, templates).

I would recommend Flask and/or its underlying Werkzeug library (my personal preference) over Django.
This seems strange. First a 'minimum wage' seems to be against what Republicans stand for. Second, its pandering to a group that can't vote in US elections. Third, established industry will be against this.
You would need to switch to another status such as an O-1 or an H-1B (if you're not from a country with other visa options).
> It turns out that this is exactly the problem I was trying to solve. Imagine my Secret Santa problem as a graph where each person is a node and there are edges between all nodes that are not blacklisted. In this view of the problem, I'm trying to find a path around the graph, [visiting] each node once.

This is one of the fun things, to me, about having a background/interest in the more theoretical sides of CS/mathematics as a programmer. The day you realize that half the problems you're working on are really already solved (or related to) problems on graphs or some other structure, and if you reorganize your models around this you can get a much cleaner implementation. Come up with a representation of your problem using a graph, run a well-known algorithm from a graph library, solution found (hopefully before Christmas).

This is the one major gap I've noticed between professional programmers with a CS academic background versus those from an engineering academic background. The gap is easily closed, but the engineers lack the random bits of extra discrete maths or CS theory to make these kind of connections. OTOH, I'm sure programmers from an engineering background can easily say the same from the other side using some other set of knowledge.
I use Mailbox but I already pay €9.99 for Dropbox so I already felt like I was paying for it.

When mailbox goes, I'll probably drop my dropbox subscription as well.
How about a H1b holder participates in a hackathon with cash prizes and wins. Can he claim the money ?
Congratulations America we just caught up with Kenya circa 2007!
Sorry. Outside my area of expertise.
That's not the whole menu of choices. The other option on the menu is: VW found that cheating software was cheaper than actually doing something about emissions. The other manufacturers are not that much better than VW at engineering they simply threw more money at the problem. VW tried to do an end-run around both solving the problem and passing the tests.

Another reason why VW has the spotlight on them is because they are the largest player. If VW were given a free pass and a lesser manufacturer would be taken to the cleaners it would be a different situation altogether. I think there will be more manufacturers that will have to own up to 'gaming the tests', maybe even some that actually have a similar device but the majority of the cars are not nearly within the range of test:regular that that particular engine is. 40:1 is a bit more than an oversight or a small error.
About 18 years ago, I played Warhammer 40k for a while, and I thought it was the single most awesome sci-fi universe ever. The game ultimately didn't work for me, but the universe and mythology people have tought up is incredible.
Seconded. To give a sense of the awesomeness of the universe, here's a great description of warp travel in WH40k[1]:

> "Let me take you through the average Warp travel procedure.

> The Captain calls down to prep the ship for Warp expedition. At that time, 12000 slaves who have never seen the outside of the work galley begin shoveling the dead bodies of the previous workers into massive furnaces along with whatever hard fuel source they have in storage, like a brutal Mr. Fusion. A field of pure psychic FUCK YOU is generated around the ship and the blinded, mentally traumatized man inside a metal egg begins screaming unendingly as he charts a course through the Warp, which is basically a giant ocean of pure emotion in which Unnamed Ones lounge around and fuck with humanity by the luxury of simply existing. The ship then plows into the miasma of what you could call Hell if you lacked imagination. Pray to the Holy Throne the Astropath doesn't accidentally get you lost, becomes possessed by a Daemon, or just explodes like a mushy human pinata from the mental stress of being around so much pure CANNOT BE. If the void shields even flicker on the 8000 year old vessel (which no one actually understands completely how to work), Daemons made of RAPE and LEMON JUICE will crawl into our reality and do things you literally cannot imagine to every soul aboard. I mean that. The very notion of understanding the completeness of the horror the human victims will be witness to would shatter your perception of reality and cause your head to explode.
Mission clock says they were only in the Warp for 5 days. It was 17 months for everyone aboard. They also missed their destination by a couple of solar systems and 80% of the crew is dead.

> The Captain turns to his bridge staff and pops the cork on a vintage stock of Jherrik Ale and salutes another successful Warp Jump.

> Welcome to 40K."

Wonderfully worded, and as a big WH40k fan/reader I have to say it is also very accurate.

[1]https://np.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/3jd583/capital_ships...
Yep, I guess so, looks like they are doing "reverse charge" to debit cards. I don't think this works in any other country than the U.S.
Right, sorry. Basically that you feel way better, unmistakably better (mood, concentration, alertness, that sort of thing). Not super scientific, but effective at least in my case.
How important a degree is for H1B? I think given amount of self-taught engineers in the profession, you have to answer this kind of question a lot
Yet "Mein Kampf" will be available again starting January 1st.

see: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34980701
Say for the sake of argument we're a seed-stage startup and we've identified an engineer with a very specific set of skills -- skills necessary for the growth of our company -- who would need an H1B to work here legally. All-in, about how much will it cost us to get that H1B visa processed through the system in a timely fashion?
What is superior about Mithril? If I run into a problem with React or Angular, it's probably already been solved.
Is there a good source of information for Presidential candidates' proposed changes to immigration laws? If you were a betting man, what (if any) changes would you bet on post-election?
Could some company support phoenix framework as well? Phoenix's channel feature is already there :)
Yahoo owns 15% of Alibaba, making them a major shareholder. What do they say about their assets being used to limit a free press and spread Chinese government propaganda?

From the NY Times:[1]

The Alibaba Group, the Chinese Internet giant, is making an ambitious play to reshape media coverage of its home country, taking aim at what company executives call the “negative” portrayal of China in the Western media.

As the backbone of this effort, Alibaba agreed on Friday to buy the media assets of the SCMP Group, including one of Hong Kong’s most influential English language daily newspapers, The South China Morning Post. The company is acquiring an award-winning newspaper that for decades has reported aggressively on subjects that China’s state-run media outlets are forbidden to cover, like political scandals and human-rights cases.

Alibaba said the deal was fueled by a desire to improve China’s image and offer an alternative to the biased lens of Western news media outlets. While Alibaba said the Chinese government had no role in its deal to buy the Hong Kong newspaper, the company’s position aligns closely with that of the Communist Party, which has grown increasingly critical of the way Western news organizations cover China.

Of course, the South China Morning Post isn't 'Western' at all. Apparently it's Chinese media they are really concerned with.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/12/business/dealbook/alibaba-...
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Warhammer 40k lore is AMAZING. I love all of the stories I've read in it. Not only is the backstory cool science fiction, but the "current" period reads like a futuristic mixture of the pre-Enlightenment dark ages, and the Russian military in WW2 (surely not by accident).

There are many great novels, but I love the human scale and protagonist in the Ciaphas Cain novels -- he's a cowardly "commissar", and it makes great humorous reading.

Also, "Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem" (gamecube) is almost explicitly Lovecraftian. It's amazing.
This is called peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS), and isn't specific to EPI (e.g diffusion scans). This

That's fair though, I really should have been more specific: You can certainly harm a human being with the piece of machinery known as an MR scanner. Much more so than just PNS, you are dumping energy into the body via RF, so there is a specific absorption rate (SAR) limit applied to avoid going into ranges that will damage tissue.

What I was refering to was limited only to the effect of exposure to fixed magnetic fields in an MR, and gradients and RF coils as they are constrained for clinical use.
DRF is one of the best addon for django, I'm glad to hear it's finally gonna be (partially) integrated to the main project.
See Github thread here: https://github.com/glock45/swifter/issues/60#issuecomment-16...

And the actual Swift package there: https://github.com/julien-c/example-package-dealer/blob/mast...
IANL, but here is what I know:

1. One can't work on the visa under visa-waiver program.

2. One should not work under the VW, if you get caught, you'll forever forfeit the benefits of VW.

3. 90 days is you maximum permissible stay length per visit to US (leaving US to visit nearby places doesn't count). Note that your ACTUAL permitted stay length is what the CBP notes in your passport at port of entry. You must leave by that date.
Grow up? Sorry to be harsh but I used to be distracted by the internet in college. Now I can take it or leave it and just focus on my work.

Maybe I feel I have exhausted the internet - social networks don't hold my attention any longer, digg/reddit sites just annoy me now because the user bases seem so immature.
A fluff piece where he doesn't actually show examples of why it doesn't work but only boasts about how great the stuff he made was and how badly everyone messed it up.
MATLAB is a terrible programming language. MATLAB is a fantastic workbench for exploring data and implementing numerical algorithms.

There's a lot of excitement around the numerical computing tools that have sprouted up around Python, but I find the visualization capabilities to be lacking and writing numerical code in Python is really quite clunky where the same expressions in MATLAB are much more clear and concise.

In short: If you're writing lots of loops and conditionals, MATLAB is the wrong tool. If you're analyzing data, applying linear algebra or exploring using the tools of mathematics, signal processing and machine learning... it really can't be beat. Everything is just there, everything just works, everything is very well documented and there's a MATLAB implementation of everything new.

Only bummer is that it's expensive.
Why do you think D-wave machines can be clustered at all? Unless you say it's operation is not essentially quantum, that would mean demonstrating coherence between a bunch of machines and a scalable quantum network!
The entity can't be related to a for-profit entity but it's not difficult to create a cap-exempt company if the appropriate affiliation exists - but that's the challenge of course.
But during most of that time you could read, work on a laptop, etc. Not so when driving.
I think there's a perception problem here. What the press and VW management has said is that this project was knowingly commissioned by VW's chief engineer. Yes, this guy's title is "chief engineer," and he has the bona fides to prove it, but you should focus on the "Chief" part -- he's a C-level executive whose day to day activities and demeanor would be indistinguishable from a CFO or CEO.

There's this reflexive reaction on Hacker News that has come up again and again of, "don't blame the engineers, they are just the nerds in the basement hacking the code, some evil management type put them up to it."

What we know so far is that the evil management type who put them up to it -- was an engineer. The chief engineer in fact. So, in fact, it's highly likely that "the engineers" designed and implemented this entire scheme without telling anyone else. In my mind, that's an entirely plausible explanation.

I'm not an expert on VW corporate structure, but it's entirely possible that the Compliance/Quality departments report into the Chief Engineer. They do at other companies where I have worked. If that's the case, then they could have been in on the job and it wouldn't have changed the fact that "Engineering" was responsible for this implementation.
Four cylinders is inherently more balanced than three. Fatigue is the second worst killer of mechanisms, right after corrosion. Vibration causes fatigue. The best ideas to balance inherently unstable engine involve balancing axle. But even they usually are not as good as inherently balanced.
A wonderful book. It's light on technical detail—well, void of it—but covers the human story and business background well, and the material is so fascinating, it's hard to believe how fascinating it is. Especially the origin story, which is like the early history of Silicon Valley in an alternate universe of the Midwest. People bringing their dogs to work. CDC getting started by selling stock out of a station wagon. Cray moving his lab further and further away from the managers. It's all so archetypal, most of all Cray himself.

A pattern that recurs through the book is that Cray's achievements worked out best when he collaborated with the much lesser-known Les Davis, who was a master of organization and execution. A good local newspaper article from Davis as of a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10334470. I hope someone has gotten a full oral history from Mr. Davis.
Do you need a visa to attend a 3 month program like YC or Techstars?
The sweatshops claim is ridiculous. Tough industrial working conditions are needed to grow into a developed country, but it's misguided to attribute the improvements in working condition to regulations. Regulations tend to lag industry developments. Once companies like Wal-Mart are near paying their employees $10/hr (or can reasonably do so on a profitable basis), then they step in and lobby for an increase to the minimum wage. This works out nice because it (a) doesn't impact the companies already complying with proposed regulations and (b) it can be devastating to competitors who aren't. It's a one-two punch that advances the interests of particular companies and is easily mistaken by the general public as social progress.
Exactly. So there is zero (and I really believe that is 0 to several decimal places) credibility to the story that they had no idea this was going on. Unless with 'a couple of engineers' they meant their board of directors... It is just about unthinkable that a C level exec would be able to tell the board and the CEO that they came up with something 'magical' that drops the emissions of that engine by a factor of 40 and it can only be done in software without someone asking why. So I fully expect them to be in on it.
I think it is correct that it breaks down the candidates confidence. This exactly happened to me, I have a computer engineering degree, was a very competent programmer as far as my courses were concerned. I ended up taking a job in Product because of how difficult some of the interviews were, I wasn't sure my programming skills were up to snuff. I have been working on personal projects in my free time to keep my skills and think I might give it another try at some point.
Seems to me the image is a composite of two different picures and not of the same scale either.

Look how the cloud (or whatever it is) on the right is broken. The halves don't line up.
I am thankful that I am on a (basically) unlimited data plan for €20 a month
Delawarean here!

DuPont is one of my state's largest private-sector employers, and beyond that, the Dupont family's influence on Delaware is hard to overstate.

Here are a few stories from my former employer, The (Wilmington, Del.) News Journal, about the merger, touching on its potential effects on the state:

http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2015/12/11/dupont-a...

http://www.delawareonline.com/story/money/2015/12/10/under-d...

By the way, did you know that DuPont's longtime CEO Ellen Kullman resigned just a couple of months ago?

http://investors.dupont.com/investor-relations/investor-news...

Her exit came after winning a proxy battle led by activist investor Trian Partners:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/antoinegara/2015/10/05/ellen-kul...

Trian, led by Nelson Peltz, wanted to break DuPont into pieces, and Peltz said that even though he lost the proxy battle, he wasn't finished with DuPont:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2015/07/15/nelson-peltz-...

It's hard to imagine that the timing of the merger so soon after her departure is coincidental.

Sounds like Kullman won the battle but not the war.
This sounds a lot like elastic distortions that have been around for a while.
>Hmm what sites are those ...pirated content streaming sites or bit torrent sites?

TPB is mild, to say the least, when compared to nearly any non-minor news website.
Is there really a "human trafficking" problem?
Lighting Fact Number 2 Do you know?
In these days, how long does it take for a H1b holding engineer from a "rest of the world" country to get green card via EB2(or EB3 if faster) from the day the current company starts the progress?

Also at what stage he/she can change the job?
I'm guessing the question was that the OP was already employed on an H1B visa with a company, and wants to drive for Lyft.
Could you please expand on this? How does campaign financing work?
That's jaded, not mature.
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"Chinese start-up Faraday Future announced that it had chosen a Las Vegas suburb as the site for a new $1 billion plant to make electric vehicles"

Start-up ---- $1 billion plant. Love it.
I'm graduating senior(F1 visa) in this December. I'm waiting for my OPT card. Can I work in between that? Once I get my OPT can I apply for H1B on year 2016 or will I have to complete H1B? What other legal things I need to be aware of?
You're right, that is possible. But given that VW is the largest player, why would they be the one to throw less money at the problem than anyone else? But VW being the largest is a good reason to make an example of them.
Just looked at it briefly, but it seems to be about the European test cycle not covering all driving conditions -- to my knowledge, this is something that has been the case for a LONG time, and all manufacturers as well as regulators are well aware of this. Vehicles are designed to conform to the specific standards, and the test procedure is just as much a part of the standard as the actual measurement at the pipe.

US VW scandal is about going way further than just designing the vehicle to satisfy a specific test -- it actively detects that it is being tested and adjusts operation. It's one thing to, say, not try to optimize emissions while towing another vehicle if the standard does not measure emissions during towing, and quite another to cheat on a test that does.
The reason for the whole musical chairs is that there may be criminal culpability.
Hi Peter. There have been several times where YC companies wanted to hire me (designer) but couldn't because they can't sponsor work visas at the moment.

How hard is it for a YC company to be able to sponsor visas? Have you had experience with this? And, as an applicant, is there something I could do to ease the process? Thank you.
I'll just leave this here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzm6pvHPSGo

Anyone remember the IBM "Flying Cars" commercial with Avery Brooks from Star Trek DS9? Watch the whole thing, and wait for the punchline.
http://unshackled.co/

You can transfer your H1b to them and work on your thing.
I think the idea is that the min. wage is meant to be more prohibitive. People who are losing jobs to "cheaper H-1B" employees. This would benefit people who feel they are losing out to foreign labor as employees would rather pay a local $80k than an H-1B $110k when previously they could pay the H-1B 55k, putting the local out of the job.

E: I decided to open the article. My hunch was correct.

>"to prevent employers from using the program to replace hard-working American men and woman with cheaper foreign labor,"
What are the typical visas for a Canadian who gets accepted into YC, and afterward/during raises seed funding and sets up shop in the USA?
Hello,

Is it possible to apply directly for a green card through employment while being on J1-Intern visa?
How long do you think it takes to receive it if approved knowing I'm French?

Thanks
Sorry, but whistleblowers, at least in the US, get screwed. Playing along or quitting is the smarter play; there's at least a chance you won't be badly hurt.

Examples abound. Do you know who is the only person sent to prison for waterboarding prisoners (and to be clear, torture)? The guy who told the press about it [1]. Hell, just yesterday there was a JPMorgan whistleblower on here who got fucked out of his job; they made sure he had 3 complaints on his record then lied under oath about who wrote the complaints so he can't find a new employer.

The upshot is, at least in the US, only fools report on their employers because there's a very real chance you lose your ability to earn a living. The anti-retaliation laws may be very pretty but appear to have zero teeth.

I wouldn't be surprised if the situation in Germany is similar. I'm not saying engineers should do this sort of stuff, but imagine for a second the costs to telling various governments what they were busy not seeing. So if the price of being honest is you have to quit one of the largest employers in Germany, who is quite possibly the sole employer of what you do where you live, it may well require you and your family to move. At minimum! Not to mention a backchannel negative reference if your boss feels like hurting you.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kiriakou
I agree a little bit, but also part of building out a framework is making choices for people - waiting, looking at the problem space, and picking a solution that most people will be happy with.

There are some projects that Django is not the right solution for and something like Flask/Werkzeug is definitely better, for sure, but I'm hopeful that the work being done here will help out the majority of people; it brings a lot more than just WebSocket support to the table, that's just the headline feature most people run with.
With the new laws re: H4 EAD, can I use my spouse's EAD to sell apps instead?
Possible to some degree, though life isn't all about work and socialising. Some people like actually visiting new places, seeing the sights and all that sort of thing. They'll still need some form of transport to get there.