skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(So, if you are one of five experts in the world on say, mining safety, you still have to wait 10 years for a permanent residency just by virtue of where you were born.)

that's not correct. that person would be eligible for an O1. I haven't heard of any plans to change the mechanisms of the O1 visa
That seems at best totally unrelated? You've asserted that general AI is some sort of different category than other things which we can and have built without understanding the fundamentals of their operation. But you haven't actually provided any real evidence of that.
You would tank salaries.
TIOBE methodology uses [<language> programming] as the search term, exactly for this reason. So Dart WM will not move the needle there.
We need to open our borders and let anyone who wants to come live and work in the US come here. Fear of foreigners is a poison in the heart of this country. Previous generations of immigrants have made the US what it is. The H1B program benefits the companies at the expense of the people for b.s. reasons.

I say let anyone come here who wants to and if they can hold a job for 5 years and they pay taxes make them a citizen. People are generally good and xenophobia is stupid.
If you follow your logic then, managers, directors and CEO's should be entitled to overtime as well...
I don't use IG, so I wasn't aware of that problem or how long it had been around. That said, the general sentiment stands: one of their teams working on one thing doesn't show that they don't have another team working on something unrelated.
I always think the same thing about neural nets on the stock market.
The players they recruited were incentivized by a $8,000 prize pool up for grabs among the 34 of them...average $EV $235. They have to play 3000 hands to get a shot at that money, which is probably around 10 hours of multitabling. So that's ~$24/hr in expectation.

And then of course you don't get anything unless you're one of the top three winners against the bot, so there's likely nothing to be gained from grinding out a marginal victory. You should just go ahead and play kinda stupid/aggro and hope you win some of the big flips and whatnot. There's literally nothing at stake for you except time value, so you might as well flame out early and then quit or run up a big stake to give yourself a shot at top 3.

Basically, the study design ensures the bot faces off against weak players playing in a way that would be sub-optimal in any other situation. Not surprised the bot won by a decent margin, nor that they are trying to spin this real hard in advance of the CMU poker bot matchup next week, which will be much more rigorous.
She got paid an obscene amount of money to continue driving a sinking ship into the bottom of the ocean. She is not a plucky entrepreneur risking everything against the odds. She gets zero kudos from me.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13360673
I look at it more from a “what’s right” point of view. There is nothing “right” about rewarding Microsoft for offering Linux compatibility in Windows.

Microsoft has billions of dollars that it could have invested into its own infrastructure all this time. Instead, they delivered essentially nothing: for YEARS, it has been a pain in the ass to transform any Windows installation into a barely-useful development machine. Oh, and even if you managed to do it, you still had to hope that you wouldn’t encounter some OS-ruining problem that required a full reinstall in 5 months.

Instead of creating decent software all these years and building real value, now Microsoft is trying to shoehorn free software such as "bash" into Windows and calling it a feature. To hell with them: not good enough, damn it! Anyone who has been waiting for "bash" on Windows should have been investing in free software projects instead, sending the money where it deserved to go.

Think about this: if you’ve given less than $100 to open software projects over the past decade and you’re planning to hand EVEN MORE MONEY to Microsoft over "bash", then you are rewarding the wrong people.
> Counter argument to that is that its better for government and country to have higher paid employees as it increases tax revenues. Tax rates don't change based on living costs.

The goal of reform is to prevent employers hiring h1b workers at below market rates instead of hiring qualified US citizens. It is not to increase tax revenue.

If you don't adjust for cost of living you'll end up removing all h1b workers from lower cost of living areas - or those areas will simply outsource all their tech work overseas - while in higher cost of living areas companies will still be hiring h1b workers at below market rates. So in essence the wage threshold won't be doing its intended job.

However if you adjust for cost of living you can make sure that in all locations the required salary is setup to prevent h1bs as being abused as a cheap source of labor.
I doubt it. IT work is pretty easy to send abroad as it is, so if an employer is only looking at cost, that's already been an option for the past 10/15 years. It's only going to get easier in the future.

And if it were, across the board, a lot of other things would get a bit cheaper too, no?

Also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy
Is it suitable? Maybe not. Is it understandable? Yes, I think so. I believe it is kinder and fairer to understand commenters' motivation rather than holding them to cold rationalism at all times. (After all, understanding emotions rather than just rational self-interest is how we can move forward from Brexit and Trump.)
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Looking at CEO salaries, they're already more than well compensated for overtime.
> The fact is that everyone knows that Silicon Valley corporations like Google, Facebook, and Apple use H1B fraud to suppress (steal) wages.

Just how much do you think they should be paying?

> Look at the job descriptions on the H1B disclosure sites...those are all just regular jobs in Silicon Valley anyone would do for the right money...

and they hire loads of Americans as well. They hire people who pass the interview.
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13360673
Dell should buy Ubuntu. That might be interesting.
What you mean by you are a risk taker? You have no idea what you are comparing here.

Will you risk your family getting deported due to a clerical error? Once H1B lose his job, he and his family has to leave the country in 15 days. Sell his house, pull kids out from school, etc. All this arises whenever H1B tries to change the job.
I think collusion might be the outcome.
not such a silly idea I think Arnie or even a dual citizen leftie like Bo Jo (Boris Johnson) would make a better president
Additional comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13337252
Meanwhile semiconductors are already so good that we could build that today already. Nokia's 2012 PureView sensor's density was over 400MP in 35mm and that's already 4 years old. I'd bet on the digital side for this.
I just like to imagine Octopus dominance if they banded together and decided not to die at 3 years old.

Pretty smart for mass produced babies. Humans wouldn't stand a chance.
Confluence is rubbish, awful to use in my experience.

For ticketing systems, trello or youtrack.
You study these things on fixed forms because it is easier to analyze and understand what is going on. But the extension to general joke-making is straight forward, provided you have working NLP (a big if!): data-mine the concept graph for thoughts/memes which have similar structural content but surprisingly (in the technical sense) different meanings, then construct a sentence that maximizes probability during reading of the first interpretation but ends with the second. This captures basically all humor from puns to "I like my X like I like Y: Z" to most forms of stand-up comedy.
Neither of those are MacOS, and honestly if I'm not going to use it, I'm going to use Windows 10. Then at least I'm not software limited, and it's multi-use.
Let's assume that such a person passes a triage for O1 (there's no guarantee! Suppose there are two companies using some very specific technology, first company in the US poaches an employee from the Shanghai office of the second company for his narrow skill in this technology- would he necessarily be an individual with extraordinary ability? Unique ability, yes. Extraordinary "genius"? Hard to say).

There is a significant difference between H1B and O1, which is the burden for evidence. The burden for O1 is quite onerous compared to H1B. You have to present several reference letters, meet strict criteria for excellence, and even then it is not guaranteed. There is a fair amount of inconsistency in how O1 (or EB1) cases are adjudicated.
I want to point out two more differences: in Wiles's case it took about a year of work with Richard Taylor to patch things up.
> Have you ever had to explain to someone that a java out of memory error had nothing do with the fact that linux is using otherwise idle memory to buffer i/o and that they're misreading top output? That the actual issue is their object management and just increasing the JVM's heap size is at best a bandaid?

Is there somewhere to read about this, I this might have come up with one of our projects. (At the time, from googling, I suggested they try mark and sweep - I didn't really have any idea but was of the opinion they had lots of small objects.) I don't have much experience in Java but was trying to be helpful!
Official solutions: https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-hacker-cup/hacker-cu...
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That Precision 5520 looks pretty tasty, will be a nice upgrade from current M4700, which, while solid and performant, is a bit of a tank and power hungry to boot (180W power adapter rarely works on planes; combine that with the 2 hour max battery life...).

Shed some weight (4lbs vs 7lbs), high res screen, 32GB, 2 X SSD, and get a probably modest performance boost for cpu intensive tasks (like compiling Scala projects) -- think I'll pull the trigger when it launches.
For an experienced SWE in San Francisco Bay Area we're looking at a $200K total comp... including base salary, stocks and most importantly, annual bonus (which includes overtime). If you put a lot of effort then you get a big annual bonus.
It's in early stage right now. I've looked over its Steam reviews around Christmas and I've bought it because they were praising it from all sides. I haven't got to play it yet, and I recommend everybody to just wait until the first release candidate because... why not play the even better version?
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I'm assuming a markov chain diagram?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-07/coding-cl...

"Coding boot camps didn’t exist four years ago. Now 80 of them pull in $59 million a year, mostly from college grads."

We need to re-train 1,000,000 of people to code. CS master and phd programs are not the way to do it. Code schools are. There is something wonderful about any smart person applying themselves for 2 years and getting a Code Degree and be a working senior engineer but that same person would NEVER even be admitted to cs masters program. There are smart people out there that can be trained in this craft. Vs. you have to know math and science and play the traditional education game. i.e. the 1,000,000 truck drivers that will be out of work soon. A lot of them can code. Well. I think in addition to mine https://www.turing.io is great program.
If you have an approved I-140 and your I-485 has been filed and pending for more than 180 days (or if you filed I-140 and I-485 concurrently and both have been pending for more than 180 days), you may switch to a same or similar job under the AC21 portability rule. Also, starting 17 January 2017, employer withdrawal of an I-140 pending for more than 180 days will no longer cancel the petition.

So if you can get as far as the I-140/I-485 filing, you should be good to go, though IANAL (and you should retain your own to guide you through this process).
Yes it would have been better to clarify that in the comment.
You'll probably need a larger hard disk to accommodate both operating systems if you dual boot. I prefer to run virtualbox/vmware and have both running side by side while using the best tools/software on each platform.
I'm not sure dropout has anything to do with local optima or removing greedily optimal paths, since it is random.

The original dropout paper's handwavy justification for dropout is that it prevents co-adaptation. It prevents individual units (nodes/neurons) in the network from relying on specific units in the previous layer firing as well. This is a bad thing because it's fragile (if one unit is off). I say handwavy because this is just intuition; there is not really any proof that this is actually what is happening.

Another commonly cited motivation is that dropout is like learning an ensemble of multiple networks.

The only paper I've seen that theoretically analyzes dropout is: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.02142v6.pdf, which proves it's equivalent to approximating gaussian processes (this is beyond me).
Ha ha ha ha, perhaps I have better things to do than provide you with particulars. Especially when my assertions are easily searchable. I'm guessing you're a member of the spoon fed generation.

I comment on topics that interest me and I cycle my account on a regular basis to preserve anonymity - which, for reasons, is important to me.

The idea that time makes someone less deserving of blame is nonsensical. The idea that people should simply get over past wrongs, especially WWII, will only serve to invite repeat abuses.

It is also impractical, as past wrongs are very effective tools for propaganda and thus will be evoked whenever convenient. A good example is China use of the West's involvement in the Opium Wars to stir up anti-western sentiment. Similarly they use the Rape of Nanking to stir up anti-japanese sentiment. This is to lay the groundwork for a future war with the US. These past events are very relevant to our future. And asking them to get over it isn't going to work.
> Really down voting because you don't agree?

High expectations for someone thats been here for almost 10 years

But I should correct you, ALL ethics are manmade, although I'm sure you are aware because anybody that would say that has accepted nihilism and the futility of moral relativity.
Oh, and while you're on it.. don't lose that Green Card!

It costs about $27 in Cali to get a dup of your lost DL [1]; while your Green Card replacement costs... $450! [2]

[1] http://www.dmv.org/ca-california/replace-license.php

[2] https://www.bridge.us/articles/misplace-green-card/

Its very obvious USCIS prays on the fact that most immigrants do not make enough money to actually hire (expensive) lawyer and take them to the court and fight this outrageous fee down to something reasonable. Obviously US citizens have no standing in such lawsuit cause one thing USC can never get is a Green Card :)
I agree with your corrections, to an extent. However, it is also important to note that an H1B holder is limited in the kind of jobs he or she can take. An H1B holder would have a very difficult time changing fields or entering a very different kind of employment. Becoming a private consultant, or leaving the tech field for other, perhaps better, opportunities is not really an option.

So while I certainly agree with you that "they cannot change job" is inaccurate I also believe the statement "you are free to leave to another job" is misleading. You have some very limited mobility rights, but nothing approaching what a free member of the labor market would have (sadly, this is a big part of the appeal of these visas to many employers).
"I'd rather use Trello"
a lead-selling business?

isn't that just like going through a phone book or other public directory and just pulling the names out?

buying leads seems like a waste of money, although I could be wrong
"Customizable" is a two-edged sword. The ultimate in customizable software is an assembler - you can configure it to perform the function of literally any software possible! But its utility at solving any fixed problem is very low.

The purpose of software is to specialize hardware to perform a required function. The more configuration is required to do this, the less overall value the software provides for that function.

As a software designer your job is to maximize the sum of that value across all functions that you support. As a software consumer, though, you just want the least possible configuration to perform your required function.
If she had been willing to be paid that heavily in stock she would be looked at very differently.
Pretty much every thread I've seen on Marissa since she started has had a comment like this.
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This same argument has been made forever in photography too. There's no hope for "accuracy". Even if you ignore the obvious facts like 2-dimensional representation and tiny form, even just the light itself is something that is at best interpreted artistically by the photographer.

Good photography is about producing a piece of art which represents and evokes a scene the photographer saw. Film is a tool for doing that and the entire process surrounding it influences the choices the photographer/developer/printer makes in their interpretation of the scene. Digital is just another tool and has it's own downsides (its own "loudness war" for that matter, too).
Politicians in the US are mostly either Catholic and Protestant.

Jehovah Witness and Seventh Day Adventists are the same thing. Mormons along with Jehovah Witness are Restorationists so neither Catholic or Protestant.

Mitt Romney who ran against Barack Obama in 2008 was Mormon. There have only been 8 Mormons who have run for President in the history of the US. Mitt and his father were 2 of that only 8.

Bernie Sanders was the first Jewish candidate to win a Presidential Primary.

The US has never had President who wasn't either Catholic or Protestant. This article gives an interesting look:

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/02/12/almost-all-u...
What risk? Yahoo failed, but Marissa Mayer made out with millions of dollars. Seems like a no-risk endeavor to me.
> There is an acute shortage of capable, knowledgeable workers trained in the skills that industry needs.

Just like there is an acute shortage of NFL Quarterbacks that are capable of leading a team to a super bowl championship.

The problem with this skills gap myth is that we are looking for people who are better than most of their peers in the industry. The will always be a shortage of top 10% performers in the industry because the top 10% of the industry will always be the same amount.

EDIT: I should just clarify that I'm absolutely in favor of people coming from other countries to work in the US. That said, the H1B in its current form is often just indentured servitude and definitely needs to be adjusted. My statement is specifically addressing the skills gap myth.
They really need to couple it with an automatic conversion of a student visa to a work visa upon graduating an accredited four year institution. You would need some protections to make sure that the university isn't just a funnel for back door visas, like requiring at least 50% enrollment by citizens or something like that, but it would be a great way to entice smart people to come here and stay here. And in fact remove a lot of the stress of graduating for a foreign student.
I can see the logo on the imgur link on my TouchBar MBP
"We don't view JIRA and Trello as competitors."

You might not view them as that, but they are, well were.
stopped reading at Monetize your Brain.
On page 363 of his Steve Jobs biography, Walter Isaacson tells the story of Jobs meeting a graphical designer in the lobby at Apple after a particularly poor interview:

"The process could be intimidating, but Jobs had an eye for talent. When they were looking for people to design the graphical interface for Apple’s new operating system, Jobs got an email from a young man and invited him in. The applicant was nervous, and the meeting did not go well.

"Later that day Jobs bumped into him, dejected, sitting in the lobby. The guy asked if he could just show him one of his ideas, so Jobs looked over his shoulder and saw a little demo, using Adobe Director, of a way to fit more icons in the dock at the bottom of a screen.

"When the guy moved the cursor over the icons crammed into the dock, the cursor mimicked a magnifying glass and made each icon balloon bigger. “I said, ‘My God,’ and hired him on the spot,” Jobs recalled. The feature became a lovable part of Mac OS X, and the designer went on to design such things as inertial scrolling for multi-touch screens (the delightful feature that makes the screen keep gliding for a moment after you’ve finished swiping)."
I'm not sure that I'm sympathetic to employers who want to pay less. Keep in mind, the US takes in well over a million immigrants a year, and has a huge internal workforce. The H1B was created to help employers find critical and highly skilled workers that are in desperately short supply in the US.

"Oh, but we can't afford to pay them a lot of money, that's not fair!" isn't the sort of argument that tends to evoke much sympathy. We're talking about empowering corporations to bestow US live and work rights on an employee of their choosing, in an end-run around normal immigration procedures.

Honestly, if the salary isn't really high, I'm skeptical about whether this visa is being used properly.
One challenge is that people who grew up in America have totally different expectations in terms of quality of life and living standards than immigrants from poor countries who are willing to move here and start from scratch. A poor kid from India or China might move to Silicon Valley or NYC and spend a decade sharing a studio with 4-5 others in his/her situation, just for the chance to escape poverty back home. Is it fair to force two people from such different backgrounds to compete? Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. Either way, the American citizens who you are forcing to compete against a global labor pool all have the right to vote, and may cause unexpected political turbulence, which is what we saw in this last election (and, my gut says, just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what's to come).
Why is Apple the only company able to ship a 5K display (5120x2880 native resolution) at a reasonable price? Who wants to develop on the equivalent of a 1080p resolution?
Huge props for putting this all together!

The lessons and guides you published are definitely my key takeaway from this project. I think there is an opportunity for an integrated trove such as this to serve as a great learning platform; timed just right, as simple, minimal chips and vms are recently experiencing new enthusiasm.

So keep up the good work!
Flickr's a tough case. You make it Instagram or Facebook, even successfully, and it's not Flickr. I know I've personally bitched about Flickr stagnating but, when I think about it, I'm not sure how I really want it to change. It's a hosting--and, to some degree, sharing--site mostly for people who are relatively serious about photography. I can think of a few changes I'd like but I suspect that the original Flickr vision is fundamentally a niche market at this point.
> with a dangled 40-50k bonus at the end of the year.

There is nothing wrong with this, unless they are "fired" a week before their bonus kicks in.

I would really like to see a "minimum guaranteed salary" (guaranteed to the government, not the employee). Basically, if a company employs an H1-B, they sign a contract with the government, such that that H1-B will cost the employer $X.

e.g. If they promise to pay at minimum $120K, but then fire the employee before paying them $60K. Then, at the end of they year, the company is fined 60K, or has to replace that candidate with another H1-B to fill that 60K void.