skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 20 years ago you could pick up a world-class Supra or a proper Land Cruiser or a Tacoma or a Camry or Corolla that could practically be the last commuter car you ever need. All of them stubbornly reliable. many of the cars Toyota had on the lot in 1997 still sell for close to their retail price!

The mid-90s to early 2000s were a golden era for Japanese cars. I dream of importing a Nissan Silvia S15[1] with the legendary SR20 engine. It's quite feasible, especially if you live in a left hand drive country (warning: it's complicated getting some of these cars into the US[2]). The Skylines of that era (e.g. the blue and silver one from the Fast and the Furious 2) still sell for insane money (around €35k-45k last time I checked, depending on the model and trim), they are really hot items to import from Japan. Also, the Hilux of the era is virtually indestructible. Top Gear famously demolished a building with a Hilux perched on top[3], and the engine still worked afterwards.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-bcPNJzwtA

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/cars/comments/1627s5/iama_guy_who_i...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnWKz7Cthkk
I've literally never heard anyone outside Spotify ads 3 years ago even mention blablacar, let alone in the same breath as Uber.
I would add Digital Ocean as a lower tier, they seem to have provisioning plugins for everything I use (mostly Vagrant) but I roll my own DNS and load balancing. Still US-based unfortunately.
Docker may be overkill to start but it's relatively low cost to implement and it will definitely pay dividends over time:

* You can be sure that what you're running locally
is exactly what you'll be running on the server
* Your deployment experience will be the same
regardless of which tech stack you're using for the
web application
* There are many places you can deploy docker
containers (Google GCE, Amazon ECS, Amazon EB, etc.)
* A web application is often composed of several
services (e.g. the web app, a database, redis etc.)
and docker compose makes it easy to fire all of
those up in development e.g. if a new
developer joins, they only need to install
docker rather than web app framework +
database + redis
* Docker sets you up quite well to grow into a
more complex deployment (e.g. using Kubernetes)
"that employers will find someone over here"

I believe that is rather the point.
Why do we need a dedicated app for everything? Is it not time to build one app that can be used for everything, including ride sharing, food delivery and item listing?
Here is the summary straight from the horses mouth: https://lofgren.house.gov/uploadedfiles/high_skilled_bill_sx...

A few points:

- This does not raise the salary requirement to $130k/yr. This only applies to employers that do not want to do the extra paper work for "attestations regarding recruitment and non-displacement of U.S. workers"

- It takes a "market based" allocation strategy which allows "cash bonuses and similar compensation" to be included. This is a joke.

- Startups and small businesses will get 20% of the visas. It'll be interesting to see how this is gamed

- This does not fix the Corporate/Higher Ed partnership loophole

- This does not fix the power imbalance between visa holders and employers

I personally don't see this bill going anywhere. Zoe just needs to look like she is doing something.
Not an answer, but: I'm fine with the cookies, but the banners piss me off no end. I won't ask the question on any site I run, lawyers be damned.
Yes, it is completely different, because the nationalization step strips the original investors from all power.
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It'll be interesting to see if this takes effect on existing employees. Or only new applicants.
It is naive to believe a CEO can know about everything. The job is to get out of the habit of running the company day to day, and focus on vision, strategy, and culture. It is entirely possible for the management levels below him to ignore orders, and cheat measures out in place to ensure this. As long as the CEO act accordingly when knowledge about this reaches him, he is doing a proper job. It will never be possible to totally control things with an orginazation so large that you need several layers of management. You do put trust into the lower layers, no matter how you do it.
Yes, you'd be surprised. I had many friends, all vulnerable-looking 23 year old girls in towering heels and they used this "ride from a stranger" concept every single day for years. Believe me, I was shocked and apprehensive and my Mom was convinced I'd be murdered but it was shockingly safe and accepted. I do speak halfway decent Russian, and would certainly have been harder without it. Which is why I like the idea of this app, as it solves one of the problems. (Edit: I guess it doesn't really solve the language barrier, as it appears to be a Telegram app that likely involves some chatting to negotiate.)

That said, on my last visit, I used Uber many times, as it's incredibly cheap and requires no negotiation. But don't be in a hurry. The horrible traffic and very wide, divided streets of Moscow make it particularly challenging to navigate to a passenger's precise location, so it can be an extremely long wait even when free a vehicle is very close geographically. Perhaps LibreTaxi would help solve that by lowering the barrier to entry and drastically improving the number of cars available.
India freaks out over U.S. plans to change high-skilled visas
Bummer, the Starpoints are earned no matter the payment card but may not work if you are using the Uber for business thing where you charge it to the company's account rather than their card directly.

Something like 2k points will get you a night in a low category Sheraton, 20k will get you the W in Singapore.
Nope. Good luck paying by card at a bakery or in a bar. The canteen where we eat at work is cash-only, too. Cash is still very popular in Germany.
Lifted from there, but with broken indentation :) In fact with correct indentation, you see that this goes down 4 levels (instead of the seeming 14 the current rendering seems to indicate). That's significantly better, and once you get used to the structures of lists it's actually relatively straightforward to understand a list like that. Moreover, it's trivial for a computer to understand a list like that as nested lists of lists.

Side note: the top-level div isn't really necessary; you can just apply the `tree` class directly to the `ul` with a small tweak or two to the CSS.
There are different guides for Sierra and its predecessor.
Actually does not sound like a bad idea.
Yup. The fact that compensation is included, is useless. Companies give you unvested shares worth tonnes that take > 4 years to fully vest. The attrition rates are so high, the sweat shops can get away with it.
In a post-truth world, statistics could provide an essential public service
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You are exactly right. Single minimum wage doesn't make any sense considering there is such a wide gap between IT and everything else. However keeping minimum wage to the 1989 level hurts H1B IT workers more because many of them literally end up getting just that even if they qualify for far more. I guess the issue is not solvable easily because to create job titles and assign it minimum wage number that is, say, at least 10% more than average current is herculean task in itself.
Tesla is going to offer the model 3 in a number of developing countries, where customer service will present an even bigger challenge.
I run a hackintosh desktop with a i7-6700K, 32GB RAM, GTX960, Samsung 950PRO. It's quite the beast in terms of performance and I've had less trouble with drivers than I had with Linux.

That being said, I have a MacBook Pro as well, and it wouldn't feel right to install macOS on a Dell notebook. Considering the value macOS has for me, and other benefits of MacBooks (build quality, trackpad, possibly screen although I haven't seen the DELL), I feel the price is fair and I don't want to undermine those creating these excellent products – you may even want to consider what today's DELLs would be without Apple. I doubt that we'd have seen retina screens without their lead.

On the Desktop, where I do a lot of work in tensorflow, Apple just doesn't give me a choice. The graphics and CPU options aren't available, and if they were, it'd be almost a 5-digit sticker price. It's probably a net positive for them because it lowers the chances of me leaving Apple to run an illegal copy of macOS.

Note that setting up a hackintosh will probably cost you at least a day the first time, and anything from "it just worked" to another day every time you want to install an update. For a professional with opportunity costs, it's a losing proposition for notebooks. The hackintosh community is also extremely unprofessional, with many tools still on sourceforge, some doing strange things that appeared to me to be attempts to get paid for work incorporating GPL code, documentation being almost exclusively of the walkthrough-type (i. e.: "set uia_exclude=HS12" with no explanation to be found anywhere as to what "uia" or "HS12" are), and the worst user interfaces ever invented by anyone not working for a printer manufacturer.
Just was in an uber here in Bogota, drive says (hearsay but heard it before from Uber users) that majority are women, and safety is #1 concern. 1. Drivers of Cabs suck in the city. They drive like race car drivers and always get into accidents. 2. Harassment. Colombia being a very male dominate country women are harassed daily and cabbies are some of worst. 3. Crime. Some cabbies not all will over charge you, literally hold you hostage if you don't pay whatever fee they say (Cartagena doesn't even have meters..it's what ever the gringo price they want to charge at times). I've spent lots of time SEA, SA and some in Africa.. it's not as easy to hail a cab if your female or a foreigner, uber and rideshare systems do alleviate lots of that pain.
Kalman filters and functional programming
> without any income for the driver

What? It doesn't make sense... Then why would any driver want to provide services via the app?

Also, I'm not talking about the specifics of the payment or reward systems, I'm just pointing out that they're both considered to be "on the same level" and in the same "difficult to tax" tech service (carpooling, ride-sharing, etc)... just google "blablacar uber" and see the results...
I ignore it until I need to read what is behind them. Then I block the elements with ublock. I don't think I ever agreed.
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Hey, thanks for sharing your story. Hearing all these personal experiences does put things into perspective for me and realising there are many people like you out there.

I don't think you should get too hung up about having big name companies on your resume. As a anecdotal data point, I worked in 5 companies till now and 3 of those companies are internationally well-known yet even I am in your shoes - no callback or interviews.

As others have said in the thread, before considering doing a masters just for the sake of it, spend some time:

- persisting with your job applying. Sometimes it is just a numbers game.

- start working on your own personal side projects.

- get involved in the local <$programming> meetups, communities, conferences, etc

Good luck!
For people who is wondering what it is..
"Club Penguin is a massively multiplayer online game (MMO) involving a virtual world containing a range of online games and activities,"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_Penguin
Depends on what your requirements are but there are a number of Openstack Public Clouds - try http://www.datacentred.co.uk/
Yeah. Apple renamed "OS X" to "macOS", starting with 10.12.

There are some conditions for handling "10.12+" and "10.12-" in the Deploy.sh script, so i reckon it aims to support multiple versions.
> For instance, scanning anything but your right index finger might force a password-only lock. Scanning a pinky (or some other fingerprint / combination of fingerprints) might cause the phone to factory reset, or unlock and trigger deletion a specified portion of user data.

That's not plausible deniability, it's willful destruction of evidence. It's going to look extremely suspicious when your phone suddenly asks for a second factor or gets factory reset. This will only invite more liberal use of the rubber hose.

True plausible deniability is completely different. Your phone should unlock and expose all sorts of insignificant-but-realistic data to make it look like you've been using it all the time. This can't be done convincingly with a hidden O/S unless you use the hidden O/S every day, which is impractical for most people.

What we need is software that allows us to mark certain bits of data (files, messages, call history, apps) as "safe to expose" (whitelist mode) or "must hide" (blacklist mode) with little more than a couple of taps/clicks during normal usage. Not just hidden at the application level, but gone from the underlying filesystem as well. Any ideas for an encrypted, possibly layered filesystem with two or more keys that expose different subsets of files, leaving the rest indistinguishable from empty space?
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Except they are shutting down the current app and system. So the title seems to be accurate.
I grant you this is in fact not the perfect reform bill, the question is, is it better than the current situation? To me it looks like it's at least somewhat better, so as a Canadian who may want to move to the US at some point, I'm hoping it passes.
There's some good stuff about this in Ben Horowitz's book "The Hard Thing About Hard Things." I definitely recommend reading it for advice on this, and many other topics.
It's used for longer distances, city to city, country to country. I wouldn't see it as the same market as Uber is in. Plus it's ride sharing, not "taxi" (as in driver rides only because you told him to).
Unfortunately I didn't find more actual stats, but there is a report from Deutsche Bundesbank (German Federal Bank) from 2014 which states that in 2014 the share of cash payments in Germany was 79.1% and only 1.3% credit card transactions.[0, page 27] If I remember correctly, there is no other European country with such a low percentage of credit card transactions.

[0] https://www.bundesbank.de/Redaktion/EN/Downloads/Publication... [PDF]
Sorry for the confusion there, I went ahead and clarified the descriptions.

Tandem runs any application, but needs the appropriate extensions in order to write code. It has the capabilities of writing PHP, but that isn't implemented yet.

The code writing aspect of Tandem is really just a small feature of the whole application - The focus of Tandem is really to provide a preview (or many previews) of your application with tooling that makes it easier to fix visual bugs.
As a Mac user of 9 years, I sold my 2015 rMBP and eventually built my own rig and went the hackintosh route. But it wasn't worth it, sound would drop after each update, I had some weird visual glitch near the Apple menu logo, there still isn't any driver support for GTX 1070/1080 cards, and I had major sleep/wake issues. In the end it wasn't a Mac experience, it was almost as much work as Desktop Linux but far less work than Windows 10.

So I stuck with Windows 10
Originally, it was not known that HTML pages would be so finely designed. It is not a naieve dichotomy, it is an attainable ideal that has had a very positive effect on the state of the web. We owe huge thanks to this movement that lead both to the demise of proprietary browser extensions (like flash) and to the awesome technologies in browsers today such as these CSS features, new HTML elements and transport protocols.
I went to small towns and big cities there and the only cash I paid was for tolls. Where specifically are you talking about?
The startup I work for is developing a back patting app that we hope will help combat impostor syndrome and disrupt the back patting space. We've just completed our Series A round of financing.
Oh man! Those are actually what I was thinking of. I used to live in CA and my folks had a plant. The thing got out of control huge.
This actually looks very reasonable.
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Drivr[1] is doing exactly that in few cities in Europe, they basically offer complete uber-in-a-box solution to local taxi operators.

[1] http://drivr.com/
It is absolutely that as well. But if this is the direction we are headed in, lets at least make sure as much of the money goes to the workers as possible.
Off topic but I had the same experience as well. I had a side project which was twice as challenging and impressive as anything I had developed in my 9-5 job. But for some reason, interviewers only ever wanted to know what I did 9-5. I never did figure out why. My best guess is that they figure it can't really be all that great if no one paid you for it.
Build quality, trackpad and screen are the hallmarks of the XPS13 line. However, it seems very risky to install this on a laptop, since driver support and such will change on Apple's whim.
Simply an "identity" block chain would be an amazing advancement for peer to peer services. I'd love to know if the craigslist person I was going to meet was identifiable independently.
>I view the assertion that being a risk-taker in the startup world is synonymous with being privileged as absurd and adolescent.

http://www.andrewoswald.com/docs/entrepre.pdf

"The factors that affect the supply of entrepreneurs are important but poorly understood. We study a sample of individuals who choose either to be employees or to run their own businesses. Four conclusions emerge. First, consistent with the existence of borrowing constraints on potential entrepreneurs, we find that the probability of self-employment depends markedly upon
whether the individual ever received an inheritance or gift.
Second, when directly questioned in interview surveys, potential entrepreneurs say that raising capital is their principal problem. Third, consistent with our theoretical framework's predictions, the self-employed have higher levels of job and life satisfaction than employees. Fourth, childhood personality measurements
and psychological test scores are of almost no help in predicting who runs their own business later in life. It is access to start-up capital that matters."

Further into the study:

"Attitude to risk is not the central characteristic that determines who becomes an entrepreneur"

tl;dr "adolescent" study demonstrates risk is a convenient narrative that justifies why some people can have nice things and others can't. Access to capital is what counts.
They already did. https://gocurb.com/
You mean like a webbrowser?
This is a good but flawed move.

In very high COL places like NYC and SFBA $130k is barely a living wage unless you can put up with a 2h commute.

OTOH, in low COL markets (eg. KC) this eliminates H1-Bs from consideration for most entry-level positions.

For many markets in the middle (an example doesn't come to mind, perhaps Los Angeles?) where $130k+ is a decent salary for an entry-level position this new minimum works.

What's really needed to make H1-B work on a national scale for a broad range of professions while still limiting abuse is something like a COL adjustment, or scaling the minimum with some formula like 75% of the median salary, or the 30th percentile, or something similar.

Edited to add: I am assuming that no more than 30% of your salary is spent on rent, you save 10% of your salary, that you are working in downtown San Francisco, that your commute is under 30m door to door via public transportation, and you live in a 2-bedroom apartment.

Also: https://smartasset.com/mortgage/what-is-the-cost-of-living-i...
-5? Wow the groupthink is amazing here.
I'm experiencing dissonance. Business and politics are both social actions, but are some of us starting to conceive business as a space beyond social responsibility?
> Honestly, Islam was a disaster only surpassed by the Mongols and their sacking of Eurasia.

If you knew the history of Christianity, you'd pipe it down with the righteous indignation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_persecution_of_pagan...

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_pagans_in_the_l...

Some of those ante-literam talibans are now worshipped as saints.
Then you live disconnected from the european news... googled in 3 seconds:

[FRANCE] http://www.capital.fr/bourse/actualites/blablacar-uber-sont-...

[SPAIN] http://www.elmundo.es/comunidad-valenciana/2016/04/14/570f66...

[UK] http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/60586...

[NETHERLANDS] http://www.nu.nl/internet/4268012/autodeeldienst-blablacar-w...

etc...
Fellow Ottawan (is that what we call ourselves?) here who also relocated from Northern Ontario many moons ago. The thing about Ottawa is it's a government town so most of the local tech firms (not including Shopify Mitel, etc...) are for professional services or are small early-stage startup (for some reason our startups typically get acquired, or fail). The Feds' fiscal year starts in April which means that contract money is either currently frozen or non-existent until then. After April all departments will start hiring again and you should have some luck if you get yourself into one of the better professional services company.

The other "problem" in Ottawa is that ALL of the professional services firms will do a hard filter-out on keywords in your resume/cover letter. And they expect a certain format due to what the Feds want in their submission.

Disclaimer: I don't work for the Feds. I know better.
It should only be seen as temporary solution though. The permanent solution would be to reclassify passowrds, fingerprints, blood samples etc as testimony.

Making prosecuting the <0.1% easier at the cost of making 99.9%+ vulnerable should always be avoided.
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> most secured [...] messenger in the world

That's indeed a very dubious claim, only the opt-in "Secret Chats" use end-to-end encryption. [0]

[0] https://telegram.org/faq#q-so-how-do-you-encrypt-data
^This. Thanks for taking the time to dig through the legislation. I wish news articles were this critical.
If you simply cannot afford him, don't bother with wasting 6 months on a PIP. Give him an extremely generous severance (at least 6 months). If possible also offer him some kind of training course options on exit to assist him as these can be tax favourable and $1K to $2K may be chump change for your company but it will be extremely valuable for him. More importantly it will give him some sense of a goal to occupy his time. Career-wise, it also allows him to sell a story to the next employer about leaving you "to further training".

Having managed senior employees before who go through difficult times either through family commitments or health issues, I would say try to think about it on a human level. Not everyone is a 10x fresh grad and I can guarantee you will one day go through the same experiences. I say this as a top school grad who used to be very arrogant in my early 20s but now discovering life's challenges can take a toll on your performance and mental state.
Big data as a career
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Using tables for layout is so commonplace, I think most screenreader makers basically gave up and don't treat a table as a table unless it includes headers (<th>). Of course people who choose to use tables for layout also skip using more semantic elements, have a lot less flexibility to make layout changes (because their choices are expressed in HTML instead of CSS), and have a lot more trouble making their designs responsive.