skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was 2 years ago actually.

The community sorted out most of the issues, so about 6 months later the experience was actually quite good.

Dell released the Linux version of the laptop too early, I guess they wanted to get some traction but it backfired.
The whole "FBI monitors WoW for terrorist communications"

...what
Medallion has nothing to do with it, any TLC licensed driver can rent a medallion cab. To get a TLC license you pass a BS exam that anyone can pass and a background check, and get an ID.

I don't see why LibreTaxi, in areas that have a individual driver licensing scheme, couldn't require that. You just look at the driver's license when you get in, or they post it on the back seat. The license information is recorded in LibreTaxi so everyone knows there's a paper trail if anything happens.

This would be identical in safety for everyone to medallion hailable cabs, or am I missing something?
Try using Django (Python) for a little while. You'll get exposed to everything you mentioned because the Django core is feature rich. There's a lot of support for Django—it's battle-tested and used by a large community of Python developers. Out of the box, Django is a lot heavier than something like Tornado or Pyramid, but if your goal is to work with a widely used framework with lots of backend features to learn, I'd choose Django.
What Shall We Do with the Dago?
Has anybody here tried node-chakracore in production? I'm strongly interested in moving from V8.
I agree that there should be a different path towards getting a work permit for ppl who studied in the US vs ppl who come over to work off the bat.

The changes aimed at fixing the abuse of the system by consultant "super companies" are going to affect ppl who finish their studies and get paid a market-level salary at their first gig which in most cases still won't come close to 130K.

These are typically well adjusted folks with drivers licenses, their own apartments/houses/families even (so they need to make more than 5 TCS consultants cramped in a studio apartment) etc. One would think they'd be in the batch of prime candidates for the long-term or even permanent immigration.
Yes, I would like it if they eliminated the quota for the employment-based (EB-2 and EB-3) visas, and created a exemption from labor certification for people who studies in the US.

It's already incredibly difficult, time-consuming, and expensive to secure an employment-based immigration path. The process takes between 1 to 2 years. In addition, the employer is required to attest (via labor certification) that there are no minimally qualified U.S. workers who can do the same job. The quotas create just decades-long backlogs, and make things even worse for immigrants.

The regulatory red tape for EB immigrant visas is incredible. I've read comments on HN and other forums saying that companies typically spent circa $40,000 to get an EB-2/EB-3 visa. In fact, Congress intentionally made it easier to get H-1B visas for precisely this reason: https://www.cato.org/blog/why-congress-rejected-h-1b-recruit...
any thoughts of the VPN that comes built in Opera browser?
I do know something about the industry. A couple a of years ago Merk had a massive layoff. Basically there mission was to get rid of R&D because R&D wasn't cost effective. They would much rather just buy up startups when a drug looked promising. I think most of the other big pharmas are doing the same. I have friends who are phds doing stuff that a tech could do. Look at how many BMEs with BS degrees are getting jobs. A lot of these jobs don't need a phd.
I disagree. I used one at an Apple store and it was terribly slow. It looked great, of course, but as soon as you tried to use Expose or Mission Control (whatever it's called now) it turned into a slideshow and almost made me think the computer froze up.
What about whistleblowers? Should they have just "followed orders" instead?
Any advantage to donating via crowdjustice.org instead of directly at LAJC's site? https://www.justice4all.org
Not AFAIK, just a reference it seems.
What Robert Putnam actually said:

"The initial social psychological reaction of people – all of us – to diversity is to hunker down and pull in. And that means that collectively there is often an initial reaction in a period of immigration to a sense that, “wouldn’t it be better if we just didn’t have these immigrants?” That would be exactly the wrong reaction because, in fact, immigration for the United States has been an enormously important national asset. We wouldn’t be anything like as successful a society as we are if we weren’t an immigrant society. A vast and disproportionate number of American Nobel Prize winners are actually immigrants themselves or the children of immigrants. The economy is actually helped on average by immigrants. I don’t mean to imply that every single American benefits because there is added competition, to some extent, in some labor markets. But the net benefit of immigration for the economy is quite strong.

As a society we need to learn how to transfer the benefits of the immigration – the greater economic growth, for example – to other parts of the society that are perhaps damaged by immigration in the short run." [1]

[1] https://www.hks.harvard.edu/news-events/publications/insight...
I wonder if the different dispositions of the companies in the first few years were simply a consequence of founders' personalities, relative market conditions, or the way the companies grew. Would Uber have been less combative if it had grown up in YC?
Sometimes I wish we could just fine Tata for going against the spirit of the h1b law. If its a large enough fine they might stop their shenanigans.
Java and .Net both seem too enterprise. I'd like to make the transition during the year, so is it possible to get a job despite not having experience in such fields? Scripting/"Startup" languages (like Go, Python, Ruby) seem much more easier to get a job with not so solid experience.
There is no requirement that the units be pixel-based. You can and should still use em/rem/vh/vw/vmin/vmax depending on your needs, along with media queries.
That is right. Forget voting, this bill may not even go to the Committee. I am not sure if this worth all this hysteria. If it is proposed by a ranking Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee, we will know it is serious.
That still doesn't justify it though. Uber also took a public opposition stance against Trump [1][2]. Having a seat at the table doesn't mean they agree with Trump on EVERYTHING. It just means a chance to voice their opinions.

[1] http://venturebeat.com/2017/01/29/uber-creating-3-million-fu...
[2] Travis's facebook post
It is not touch screen unless you want it to be. The FHD version has a non-reflective matte screen that is not touch enabled. It also adds ~1-2 hours to the battery life...
Not a fan of Python, but its vast ecosystem of libraries makes it a very pragmatic solid choice.
I did not vote for Trump and do not like what he is doing, but the AG serves at the 'pleasure of the president' so to speak, correct?
If they're going to be out the door in a couple of days anyway, why do anything?
And they are launching a successor, Club Penguin Island which is apparently just the same thing but better, so there's that.
It relies on the companies own estimate of the value of those bonuses... but bonuses are discretionary and the value of private company stock can be hard to determine. So you could have a salary of $90k, $10k of healthcare benefits, and $30k worth of "assumed" bonuses in the form of options, restricted shares, etc. which:

a) you're not certain to get anyway (because they're bonuses)

b) might not really be worth $30k
Its a little obvious, but how well do you know him and how happy do you think he is in this job?

There isn't enough detail here, but usually one person not performing could be a lot to do with his manager.

Standard UK procedure is to engage HR and get their advice, which would be you documenting everything and lengthy PIP.
Yeah, basically I can use node.js almost instantly for writing actual backend, but as I said I'd like to avoid it. I want to broad my programming horizons via using new language, new environment and exploring new community – I know, all of this is possible via side projects and open source, but it is still a different thing.
Anecdotal, but my XPS13 is nowhere near the quality of a mac.

The trackpad has problems jumping about occasionally, the wifi is unreliable to say the least (linux, but I think also on windows) and the fan spins up sounding like it's catching on something. The audio quality is atrocious.

Oh and really bad coil whine as well, a problem I've never had with macs.

However, it's fairly alright and significantly cheaper.
Plex acquires Watchup to bring streaming news to its media app
Barcelona may be special within Spain because it's such a huge tourist destination. This statistic (from Mastercard) says that only 16% of payments are cashless in Spain: http://www.mastercardadvisors.com/_assets/pdf/MasterCardAdvi...

Singapore, Netherlands, France and Sweden are way ahead (~60%). I'm a bit surprised that the US is only 45% cashless.
Relevant: Grace Hopper explains Nanoseconds

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEpsKnWZrJ8
In that field very low level jobs are entirely professional and very high level jobs are entirely political, which makes the oil lawyer analogy invalid. There is no professional insight in a political act and vice versa.

In this specific example she made a highly public political act containing no professional content, naturally that results in firing.
Resigning neither defends nor upholds the Constitution. It should be expected that one would go as far as one could, until such time as one could go no further (like, by being fired), to uphold and defend the Constitution. If everyone simply resigned, the oath would be meaningless, and the republic would fall. Inconvenient as it often is, we need people to stand up and refuse to resign when they feel the Constitution is threatened by executive or congressional action.
>Consider someone who has just finished their PhD in a relevant area.

Why? The H1B is supposed to bring in high skilled labor not new grads. If 80K is the going market rate for someone with those skills then you will be able to find someone to do the job for 80K. Artificially suppressing wages is the reason you can't find anyone to do the job for the "reasonable" rate.

A pay spike will draw more people in to the field and allow wages to find their natural level.
I've got short legs; small circles is what I do best.
Speaking for myself, I'm mixed on this particular EO. I don't like the restrictions placed on people who were already determined to be legal residents via green cards / visas whatever. Fortunately, I think that's going to get struck down. So my support of this current EO is mixed. When would I not support him? Had he tried to do something permanent, had he tried to go forward with a ban all Muslims approach. Those both seem pretty clearly wrong to me.

I find the hyperbole around this EO kind of absurd though. We're talking about two bans of 120 and 90 days respectively, from a list that was generated via a similar ban in 2011 and which doesn't actually specify any religion. In so far as I can tell, due to the 'persecuted religious minority' aspect of the EO, a Sunni in a predominantly Shia nation and vice versa would still qualify. It also lays out being open to reviews on an individual basis.

I think it's overall mixed, and probably not the best way to get this done. I also think claims of fascism, literally Hitler and other hyperbole are overblown. It's also not a Muslim ban. Even if he stopped all people from those 7 countries permanently, there's still something like one billion Muslims still eligible to enter the country.
Well, ACME would be perfect, but actually any fully automated process would do.

We provide an on-prem software available via browser. And well, we want to be very nice for our customers, so upon installation we also setup a subdomain in a domain that we control and request a certificate for that. At the end of installation we provide user with HTTPS URL where the service is available and with a valid certificate :-) Of course they can later opt-out, use their domain or certificate, but we make it work without security warnings from the first moment.
Lately I've been sending a bunch of patches upstream to the runv project (https://github.com/hyperhq/runv). Turns out that wrapping the docker interface with full VM isolation is a model I very much like.
I doubt it. There are huge amounts of people who would love to move here, given the chance. People who can't get a work visa for the EU, for example. Or even from the EU and are interested in cutting edge things. They don't care about politics, they just want to come and work.

I'd bet, even the people affected directly by the ban, if given the chance would accept, despite your assertion.

When I go to work or live in a diff country, the thought about immigration policies do not enter my mind aside from, can I get the visa.
Ask HN: What are your favourite online programming courses?
I'm interested in (mostly free) online video / interactive courses about programming like the recent challenge from Wes Bos https://javascript30.com
Look at the job titles from clicking around. You'll see nothing but things like "farmer", "bank clerk", "shop keeper", "businessman" after translating.

Food for thought, that you don't have to be the one pulling a trigger to be complicit in atrocities.
> Assuming this doesn't happen, there's also a second scenario I fear - the US will say "fuck you Europe" and utterly withdraw, and Russia will get expansionist ideas.

Perhaps Europe should form a military of it's own for protection then?

Snarkiness aside, the nerve of people scolding the US like it's a foolish child while living under the umbrella of its "discount" military protection is a little galling.
Aren't many of the objections to the order based on constitutional concerns like depriving people of due process? That would override anything in the US Code.
I'm sorry for any confusion but I did not mean to artificially distinguish driving an owned car versus renting a ride. Same thing, a 10 mile trip on either will put the same amount of congestion on the road. People will want to ride in cars more if it's cheaper or easier so we'll have more cars on the road. The total number of cars required to service this traffic may be less, but that will only reduce the number of parked cars.

As for maintenance/cost of hardware, I've heard that the LIDAR kit is under $10,000. Given how expensive new cars are and how cheap the same car becomes 10 years later, and given that that's a starting point, I'm not too concerned about depreciation cost.

In the western world there are also already so many suckers willing to pay the initial depreciation by buying new cars and then immediately selling them 5 years later for much less so they can pointlessly upgrade again, so the used car market will be filled with affordable self driving cars a few years after they come out. Like, you can already buy a car for less than the combined value of all its parts, because people put a negative premium on old cars. Why would it be any different in the future?

And given that LIDAR doesn't have moving parts, I'm not too concerned about the cost of maintenance. When you buy a 15 year old car, it's rarely the ABS or ECU or radio you need to replace, it's always moving parts like parts of the valvetrain, transmission, suspension.

And that's if you even use LIDAR. Tesla's cars apparently just use good old cameras. And we know how cheap and reliable those are
Dynamic HTTP Client with Vars
Wow. After a quick glance at the database, it seems like many of the guys working at the KZ had little to no education.
Many of the ones where there are photos look like they have some kind of mental handicap. I wonder whether some of the people who worked there were also taken advantage of.
Disagree that 130k is too high. Thats 130k total comp. If a startup can afford that kind of payment, then I dont understand how any company requiring a specialist would not.

If you can't afford a dedicated specialist you'd pay for a consultancy firm who can lend you the specialist for a short period of time.
One may find it useful to employ CTRL+PlusKey, CTRL+MouseWheel, pinch-to-zoom, or snap-to-screen-edge.
Yeah, actually, I listen to some podcasts, and one of them touches distributed stuff pretty heavy, so I've heard about quorum, consensus, paxos, etc. But it seems too heavy, so I think it is much easier to enter the market through fullstack/API developer. Same story for cloud/infrastructure – I hope to go into not very big company and to touch all of this stuff.
I've had a couple 27" 1440p monitors since those cheap Korean (QNX and the like) came on the market a few years ago.

The natural upgrade path for me would be to ditch those and get a big-ass 5k monitor eventually, but I don't see the market really moving in that direction in an affordable way.

One 4k isn't going to cut it and I'm worried two 4k monitors is going to be to much from a field of vision perspective....maybe I'm wrong there.

Has anybody upgraded from a couple 1440p monitors to a couple 4k monitors, and what's your experience been?
> It's very disappointing to see the level of vitriol directed towards people who are just trying to build a better life in this country, especially here on HN.

This line along with the rest of the comment is completely written out of context. I have no idea how your reply is relevant.
In Due Diligence – need iOS App prototype in 3 weeks. Have 400$. Please help
Disclaimer: I have been working 50-75% below the poverty line for years, have been throwing Heideggerian Red Herrings to protect secrecy for years to not invoke imitative competition, and don't generally tell people about my startup. I am going to tell HN limited things so that I can find help. Please don't buy the domain on me :(. We are not live yet.

Here goes, please don't steal me or eat me - KEYWORDS for C O N T R A C T I T iOS app prototype - there is more depth than this but you have to talk to me because I'm not posting publicly: Post-Monetary, Gifting Economy, Single Field Input, No Segmentation (Generally), App of all Apps, Generalized Ordered Algorithmic Learning System (I am responsible for this but will require help from the Developer).

I've been working my entire adult life for a meeting I had yesterday with a premiere VC firm that is part of Peter Thiels network. They really liked me. They really liked what I'm doing, and how it sounds. Now, I'm in a type of Due Diligence (pre-diligence maybe?) where a Yes and money in the bank is possible. They want a prototype of the app in 3 weeks.

I have 400$ for someone that can help me over the next three weeks pump out a prototype/Alpha that we can add 3-6 more weeks of work too afterwards and get on the market once we have the funding in the bank. I am ideally looking for someone who will be willing to relocate to San Francisco once in the bank, however, if someone just wants to help me and perhaps we can work something out where they have a job remotely once we get funded - I will consider that on a selective basis.

Please help, I will love you forever. I am looking for early employee or potential Founder/Chairman-type people (on a selective basis). We are planning to have the first clean cap table in the industry, with no dilution for early people. Generous equity.

https://www.facebook.com/eddieequilibrium is my Facebook. Please message me if you'd like more information.

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>> However, the feeling I get is that presales only lead to more presales roles, where most of your time is spent meeting clients and producing countless presentations to get to an eventual prototype...and there's more presales to do, so your involvement on most projects (even those you sell) is marginal at best, and that makes it harder to move to other roles.

This was one of the main reasons I left PreSales. I love technical work and I did really well with and clients who needed somebody who could deeply understand hard questions and solve problems that took longer than 1 day to solve. But at the end of the day most PreSales organizations reward demo experts who can sell quickly, not people who sell based on solving tough technical problems that take longer to solve.

The end result is that a lot of PreSales people either lose the deeper technical skills they once had and IMO the profession attracts a lot of people who had a technical background but truthfully weren't very technically strong when they did have a technical role.
A lot of larger companies will switch you to an H1-B at some point since they're trying to put you on a Green Card track (bc of long-run costs? not sure). While you technically can apply for a green card on TN status, since TN is intended for temporary workers, it's frowned upon by DHS and immigration departments at companies know that.

Source: I'm a two-time Canadian > US TN-to-H1B and eventually bailed out of the process by marrying an American.
Until Sessions is sworn in, the succession would fall to Suzanne Anton, but instead Boente was sworn in (supposedly, it wasn't public).
The data isn't outdated, it just had 1.6 x 10^17 ns latency :)
The priv was okay. The keyboard is nice, BB's addon software is really good, but the hardware is decidedly middle of the road for a flagship, the camera is crap, and the build quality ranges from middling to bad, depending on which reviews you read. Oh, and you can forget about rooting. They've been very good about security updates, even with Verizon's legendary ass-dragging.
The computer being unable to render it's UI fast enough has exactly what to do with the display...?
I would expect Uber to ensure drivers are organized and informed about strikes and empowered to join them, if they were truly a neutral ride-sharing platform.

Really, they're just a business that employs people whom they don't want to classify as employees, and would sooner drown their riders in a lake than see them organize.
Yes, this is the way to go.

You have to give the thugs something... or else they'll keep after you until you do. So you have to give them some boring but credible data. Wiping the phone is suspicious.

There needs to be a way to unlock the phone at a moment's notice via either profile. And there shouldn't be an easy way to see if there is another profile on the phone.
Given that their opinion was the law of the land until recently, yeah. I can imagine some of them are mad that they've lost the ability to project their beliefs onto others.

I was raised a militant protestant. I don't use that term lightly; I was told I was "God's soldier" daily. I know exactly the depth of conviction people have about controlling others.

Companies that accept mixed gender marriages were complying with the law of the land at the time, but were also actually making the neutral statement. "I don't know who is right or which God wants what, but we'll try and support our employees with health care for them and their family because that's how they are free to do good work."

A very small but vocal segment of Christian society and Muslim society wants to forbid that. Not because they have any real standing to, but because they want their specific sect of their religion to be dominant. They connect the success of their sect in affecting policy with the success of their beliefs.

In practice we see it all over the place from many actors. And why I appreciate how frustrating it is to have a belief system somewhat at odds with the world, ultimately these people are not damaged in any material OR spiritual way by the presence of dissent or secularism. They still get access to financial and social benefits that other minority cultures almost never get (e.g., complete immunity to taxation, special consideration in law's for education, a huge amount of political consideration). That they're dissatisfied is disturbing, because it means they've lost perspective on how much better off they are than most groups in America.