skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, we've heard your proposition. Now make some arguments. Now show some evidence.

For example, mean pay for a software developer in state of California is $119,970 according to Bureau of Labor Statistics [1]. What is the minimum wage required for a H1B software developer in California [2]? What is the actual mean pay?

My instinct is that you are correct and H1B visas are not driving down salaries- but thats just a guess, I have no idea. But your arguments so far are "dont be a bigot" and "its all public information".

If its public information, have you seen it? If so, share it with us. If not, how are you sure you are correct?

If you are just venting, then vent away my friend.

Otherwise, it is ineffective to fight bigotry by telling people they are bigots. Share data from a trusted source, give sound analysis, and hope for the best.

Good luck.

1. http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151132.htm

2. I would have dug this up myself but its actually a bit of work to compile as a meaningful look at this issue requires looking at many geographical areas and professions.
> "I do know that people are held responsible for the personal belongings they carry"

Actually there's strong legal precedent in the opposite direction. From page 14 of [0], "a defendant cannot knowingly acquire or possess that which he or she does not know exists". This sentiment is common in US law -- you can claim to not know how something got into your possession, and if that claim is reasonably credible, you'll typically be let off the hook.

[0] http://www.nycourts.gov/ctapps/Decisions/2012/May12/70opn12....
Your understanding of what middle class looks like is ridiculously skewed. You live in a bubble where you barely even get a glimpse of what people living on a median income look like.
Classification is hard. By your definition a heart surgeon is selling his labor the same as the ditch digger so they are both middle class.

What about something like: Do you feel like your needs are met and some of your desires are indulged? If you are, you're living a middle class lifestyle.
Hah, when I first read the headline, I thought the theory put forth was going to be that $250,000 is below middle class. :)
I would still use dBeaver because it allows me to edit data like Excel. And the fact that it works brilliantly on Linux.

I'm not sure why more db tools don't follow that paradigm.
If you're looking for a list of other clients some of the others ones include:

- Postico OSX - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/postico/id1031280567?ls=1&mt...

- JackDB (web based) - https://www.jackdb.com/

- SQL Pro for Postgres - http://www.hankinsoft.com/SQLProPostgres/

- PGAdmin - Slightly outdated but still feature rich and fully cross platform - http://www.pgadmin.org/

And of course there's always psql which is all CLI, but incredibly flexible.
FPGAs are usually very good at accelerating one computing algorithm at a time. Not two. Just one. They'll beat processors unless the operations are an obvious fit for processors (for instance, floating point). I/O is actually a bottleneck in FPGAs.

In practice, most applications require executing plenty of algorithms one after the other, depending on input data, with a lot of glue in between (I/O). FPGAs are terrible at that.
Wish, a startup that is spending a reported $100M on Facebook ads
I am the GP.

I think you need to study geopolitics a bit more. These things are not unpredictable. You just have to think a little bigger than what you wish was. The current US election cycle is an excellent test of how far one person can influence the news cycle. Donald Trump has steam, but he's pandering to a base that can't elect him by itself and he's making too many enemies to be able to muscle his way through. Candidates who don't come up through the current political establishment all have the exact same handicap. Obama couldn't have gotten elected as an independent.
I also noticed this. Very cool!
Is Ian Murdock OK?
It looks like most of these magic mirrors have been done with an old android whereas this one uses a monitor and a rasberry pi. If I wanted to make one, which one should I choose. What are the pros and cons of this approach?
It's a trivial matter to wrap promise/all in a core.async channel, providing the exact orginzation pattern you're looking for.
ITT a bunch of yuppies that live in a bubble and whine that even though they travel on an airplane for several trips every year, and go to nice restaurants all the time, just because they might not be able to afford their dream house in one of the most expensive places to live in the country they aren't rich damn it. It's other people who are rich.

Living in San Francisco is a luxury good.

Buying a house in San Francisco is one of the most expensive luxury goods there is.
Yes, this will lower wages, but now there's more people employed and more work done in the US.
Of course, a society where tuition fee is not totally free market is automatically socialist. Like Germany.
Good question. If we can figure out OS X in VirtualBox we should have a good shot at getting a build for Mac working.. Stay tuned...
> The reality is that this program exists so that companies like Google and Microsoft don't have to face the natural law of supply and demand in the job industry.

The "natural law of supply and demand", specifically, the supply side doesn't magically stop at the border of a country. If anything, protectionism is against the free market ideal. Labor is just another resources like any other, and the extreme version of free market would include free immigration.

Yes, a libertarian free market only society might not be in anyone benefits, and any regulation to limit them might have some merit. But we should really call a spade a spade.
If I own half of a small business that made $500k in profits, you're right that I will show $250k of partnership income on my tax form. But whether I take it as salary or not is moot. You only pay taxes on business profits, so that wealth exists somewhere and 50% of it is mine.
This.

- is why I love HN - you open the comment section to leave a comment explaining why the author is an idiot and someone else has already beautifully done it already as the first comment.

Well done, sir.
Well considering I lived well below the median level for several years, I'd like to think I have at least some idea of what it is like.

I knew I could never afford a family or house at that level, much less retirement and college funds, so I put off having children, buying a home, etc.
also, excellent, open source and portable pg (and mysql and mssql) client for windows:

http://www.heidisql.com/
That may be deliberate, since it's not really understood. Robert J. Sawyer's Neanderthal Parallax series and Factoring Humanity (which is listed for a couple of other reasons) also hinge on quantum computing to one degree or another.
> as a way of preventing asset bubbles and curbing reckless lending

That hasn't worked out very well.
Reminds me of a comment I once wrote about HN bringing other sites to their knees. If you notice a site is going down because you're firing an LOIC worth of traffic at them, maybe cache it and serve that instead? It would prevent people like JWZ using anti-hotlinking to serve us pictures of testicles.
O-1 is for people with a demonstrated extraordinary ability. When they came over, Nadella, Pichai, Khosla, etc. were just students fresh out of college.
Yup, that's my feeling. We can't even get developers to pay attention to CPU cache lines. I'm very doubtful that your average SW dev could understand how to use FPGAs to their advantage.
I make 370k per year and live in a 500 sqft studio in with my gf (who makes 120 of that). We have student loans, a little credit card debt and so on. We likely can never buy a house in Berkely and really are thinking hard if we can afford one kid.

We rent our time just like anyone else and eventually our time will be worth less. But right now we are taxed heavily to be middle class.

No, it's that 53k a year is near poverty but no one wants to tell America that the majority of its citizens are so badly compensated for their time.

Median income =/= middle class
NYC real estate is more expensive per sqft than San Francisco.

> Even in NYC and LA, 250k is more than any family you know makes

What on earth does this even mean? If you have 2 professional incomes in a family in any of the cities you mentioned, you're at $250k.
There's a difference between serving free data (likely in some idiosyncratic format on some idiosyncratic schedule) and doing the Maps integration oneself. I see many French cities at [0]. I doubt that Google has developers assigned to each one. It seems more likely that each one has its own people using a Maps API to keep Maps transit data current.

[0] https://www.google.com/landing/transit/cities/index.html
I wonder if anyone at Mozilla have a current contact.
At time of writing most of the posts are about defining the term "middle class." Don't know if you're projecting or just overly eager to accuse others of being a "bunch of yuppies in a bubble."
Thanks for the links, I'm reading them now. I appreciate the informative correction to my previous post.

I confess I must have misread his points because many of the stories are about criminal interrogations (although there are plenty of business stories too). I just bought his other book Louder Than Words and I will be reading that looking for the charm/rapport aspect instead of "breaking".
Yeah, but that's not the point. It's that the reasoning is equally appalling, and the outcome is dangerously close to being equally horrific.
On the contrary, given a capable compiler and/or language, translating algorithms into hardware sounds extremely feasible to me.
Not to mention other AV vendors probably already do the same thing.
This looks similar to the Chicago Plan [1], a proposal by Irving Fisher to transition the United States to a fully-reserved banking system.

[1] https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2012/wp12202.pdf
No consumer Skylake chips will have AVX-512. It's going to be on server Xeon Skylake chips only ("server Xeon" as opposed to "laptop Xeon"[0]).

[0] http://www.imore.com/intels-xeon-coming-soon-laptops-and-wha...
comparison of the salaries and numbers of h1b visas of the 'genuine' vs 'staffing'. Last year the top 2 staffing cos - Infosys and TCS got 40,000 visas (2/3rds of the quota) at an average salary between $60-80K. The top 2 R&D cos- Microsoft and Google got 9,000 visas (14% of quota) at an average salary of $125K. Pretty easy to tell what is genuine. http://www.oncontracting.com/article/how-the-us-can-reduce-h...
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Why does an island which is barely long enough to support a runway need a runway?!
sql-mode works great for me?
This seems like a very unique book, thank you for the suggestion! I'll be reading this one for sure.
Any definition of "middle class" that extends to the top 5% is stretching the term so far as to be silly. And it gets stretched that far because some people are unwilling to face the fact that they're rich and accept some of the responsibility that comes with that.
How do you buy $7B of stuff you don't need?
But if Postgres wants to expand its user base a good graphical client for Windows would be a big help. I think that it is a major reason MySQL is way more popular.
While you're in a huff, why don't you go fix the Wikipedia article, which links to the same slideshare?
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> most anti-virus scanners were so badly written, he could exploit their scanning engines with basic malformed PDFs and JPEGs

Isn't there still a point in running anti-virus because a "regular" virus is far more likely than an "anti-virus virus"?
Truth! Also, for its support of alternative databases like Mongo and Cassandra.
Thanks! This is an excellent reference.
Sorry? How is scrutinizing applications for employment a naive view of the situation? Isn't it obvious that if an application is not genuine it should be cancelled (eg., working for a "client", where the "client" is a shell company)?

I'm not trying to convince anyone and I personally don't care what other Indians (as I'm Indian) think about my opinion. I only represent my opinion not theirs (and they are free to have their own and disagree with mine).

On your immigration comment, if you are an American citizen you have the right to claim what you say about the immigration situation in the US. As far as I am concerned, I have no say in the immigration debate as an H1B worker. All I am concerned about is to work on challenging problems and advance my career, that's it. I am not using the so called H1B "restrictions" as an excuse for all ills as a potential immigrant.
Try mirroring his body language next time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirroring_(psychology)
It's a third-party application, so isn't the point about the goals of the Postgres project somewhat moot?
Great point. We have feminism in part to thank for that. Corporations are thrilled to now get two workers for the price of one.
How are companies liable for more taxes if they move jobs overseas? Are you imagining a punishment tax to companies that operate in the US and develop overseas as well? Any such tax would only exacerbate the loss of jobs.

A better strategy is to ensure US domination of technology development through any means possible.

Besides, it isn't like wages for tech workers are low in the US.
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The same, often perverse, incentives operate on the potential treatment of aging. Lots of work on tinkering with end states, meaning age-related disease in advanced stages, and next to nothing on prevention, meaning periodic repair of the molecular damage that causes aging.
The author is being disingenuous with numbers. He's talking about 'household income' - when a large percent of households comprising of one person.

http://blogs.wsj.com/numbers/one-in-four-american-households...

"The proportion of one-person households increased by 10 percentage points between 1970 and 2012, from 17 percent to 27 percent."
Can someone provide an explanation of how this works or provide a reference with an overview? The article is light on details. I assume this means preventing banks extending credit against deposits that don't necessarily exist?

EDIT: http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/ve/library/HBCM.PDF
it seems to be more about loans being spent and thus the spent money being at another bank and loaned out again
I read it more generously as:

> If anything, the fact that China is doing will be evidence that we'll need to do it as well to maintain national security.

Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by cynicism?
My point is, one of personal responsibility. You are agreeing that if the need arises you are willing to be 'on the hook' for the money owed. It isn't their son's debt that is keeping them from retiring, it is the choice that they made to co-sign the loan.
You are confusing middle income and middle class, they are not the same.
>The reported issue "AVG: "Web TuneUP" extension multiple critical vulnerabilities" is fixed. The issue submitter, investigator, and closer is the same person, Tavis Ormandy.

If you could stop condescending for a minute and pay attention to what I've said, you'll see the issue is still there. If you aren't convinced, just click http://webtuneup.avg.com/static/dist/app/4.0.5.0/interstitia... : as of the writing of this comment, that produces a javascript alert. Mind explaining how the issue was fixed?

>How could Ormandy investigate and report on a new version of the software before it was uploaded to the Webstore, if AVG never sent it to him to evaluate, and he had to download it from the Web store to investigate it?

It sounded like they did send it to him to evaluate, and it had only fixed the other issues. The XSS on AVG's website isn't something that can be fixed by the extension, it needs the audit, which clearly hasn't completed yet, or the link above wouldn't produce an alert.

Which specific part of the timeline do you differ from me on?
> "then some company agrees to sponsor H1B under the condition that no payslips will be given and hence you can not transfer the visa"

"Some company"?
No law abiding company can do what you're saying, let's get real. This is illegal.
This is the reason that these fraudulent "staffing" companies exist in the first place since they know the employee will never be a whistle blower and for the love of god I don't understand why?
When I was doing primary care, I actually enjoyed talking to patients about nutrition. I can expound on the topic for hours at the drop of a hat. I went to Med school at Tulane (where Dr. Harlan is). But even in the closed system of active duty military, it's hard to believe the time paid off because I rarely saw the patients again. They'd schedule follow up and no show. My clinic schedule would change. They'd deploy. I'd deploy.

Do I eat better? Yes. My family? Probably. Anyone else? Long term? Studies say maybe, but I just don't know.
There's a quote in the readme.md concerning robovm and difficulty migrating to ios9, FYI.
> It is not functionally different than the hypothetical robot you described, only this happens to be a robot with an organic component.

Two things.

1) You appear to have missed this in my original comment:

> It's very important that we protect the right to notice and record things that happen in public. I feel that it's equally important that we work to limit the damage that an entity can do when they have the resources available to record such things on a large scale.

2) It's obvious that one can very cost-effectively blanket any urban or semi-urban area in ALPR cameras. When you do this, you gain the ability to track any vehicle in that area forever. For areas of any appreciable size, no police force has the personnel on hand to achieve the same level of coverage with human officers. This means that -if you ban robot officers- you dramatically limit the parts of one's trips that the police can remember.

It's the difference between a passive attacker that controls a few nodes in the Tor network, and a passive attacker that controls most of the nodes in the Tor network. In the former situation, that attacker may be able to use traffic analysis to unmask a few Tor users. In the latter situation, they will be able to unmask very many Tor users. [0]

Make sense?

[0] This is -as the Tor people have always said- not something that Tor protects against.
>never mind the cultural bonds (dare I say submissiveness) that descends from over a century of slavery.

You (and the parent) completely discount the structural deficiencies present in our society to this day.

In the 50s and 60s with soldiers moving into the middle class on GI bill funding, banks systematically denied access to home loans to blacks looking to move in to suburban neighborhoods, literally trapping people in certain sections of the city. These were enormous infrastructural investments on the part of governments. Suburbs wouldn't exist without fast highway and expressway access to the urban core. Black neighborhoods were literally bifurcated to make way for these huge infrastructure projects. These broken and divided neighborhoods were left to rot. Nobody invests in a place politicians put first on the chopping block. We built these ghettos.

This blight of a suburbia built on exclusion will continue to burden America for generations to come. We as a society continue to divest from education and funnel billions of dollars towards war and incarceration. With mandatory minimum sentencing and zero-tolerance punishments for minor drug possession we house 22 percent of the world's prison population; we have more of our citizens locked up then any other country on Earth. 1 in 3 black men are behind bars.

This is a societal failure, and framing it as "failure of individual responsibility" is one of the most malicious distortions of reality one can muster.
That's BS, because this is not a free trade world. The US invests billions of dollars in technology that directly benefits American companies, not French companies, for example. American companies and entire industries (such as agriculture) receive tax breaks that are not available in other parts of the world. Then why only workers have to carry the burden of increased job competition from free trade?

Free trade laws don't appear out of thin ether either, it is companies that lobby politicians to create such laws -- while at the same time claiming to the public that they are inevitable. This is a distorted ideology that needs to be opposed, not just observed as if it were good or inevitable.
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You are splitting hairs to create some sort of separation because acknowledging to yourself that you are rich makes you uncomfortable.
Another long running fire (1,545 years!) still burns today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazd_Atash_Behram

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_temple
You know, I'm not exactly a huge Springer fan, much the same as many HN'ers I expect. But I do believe in "giving the Devil his due", if you will. And this is pretty freaking cool. I mean, yeah, sure you can probably find most or all of this stuff using Libgen or torrents, but for Springer to put this much great stuff out there for free, legitimately, is mondo bodacious.
Can't say I'll miss the lawyers about to be put out by AI
I'm anxious to see what angle the Microsoft supporters use to justify this truly stupid patent. They proclaimed Microsoft had changed LOL - Microsoft is still the same old Microsoft. They're still using old prior art ridden patents to shake down companies and either make them sign ridiculous patent licensing terms or take them to court in a battle of attrition.
I think it's a little more insane that one day the person in question needs to ask permission from the teacher to go to the bathroom and then the next day they're required to make life altering decisions with little guidance under extreme pressure.
Having never used MongoDB, I guess I should go searching for some code examples.
you want to be a world beating company you'd better have your talent pool be the world.

American tech would be a shell of what it is without foreign labour.
Does anyone know how much money Microsoft stands to collect from companies that infringe on this slider patent?
To think that some body must have written this monstrosity of a patent.
" For example, Samsung explains that under the Federal Circuit’s ruling, “profits on an entire car—or even an eighteen-wheel tractor trailer—must be awarded based on an undetachable infringing cup-holder.” "

At some point companies are just going to stop doing business in the United States. I get that it's the worlds largest economy, but little by little this nonsense will fix that.
More than one person works at Microsoft.

Kinda like how more then one person comments on HN.
> If you could stop condescending for a minute...

I'm not condescending. I carefully read everything you wrote.

Carefully read Ormandy's report. Notice how the reported issue is:

"This extension adds numerous JavaScript API's to chrome... Anyway, many of the API's are broken, the attached exploit steals cookies from avg.com. It also exposes browsing history and other personal data to the internet, I wouldn't be surprised if it's possible to turn this into arbitrary code execution."

According to Ormandy, that issue is fixed. Or is your claim that he's lying about this and marking it as Resolved-Fixed just to get it off of his plate or something?
It's actually even more restricted than that. The E3-1200 V5 series Skylake Xeon's that came out last month are in the "server" line, but do not support AVX-512. I think it's presumed that none of the Greenlow generation will support it, but that the Purley generation that follows will.

So far, my limited experience with Skylake would say that performance gains will be small. If you are buying a Skylake laptop, it should probably be for the increase in battery life rather than hopes of significantly higher speeds.