skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the 130K cut only applies to H1 dependent employers: those company that has at least 15% H1 employees.

So this pretty much means, if you are not in tech, most likely you won't be affected, as your employer most likely won't have 15% H1 employees.

If you are in tech, and is in one of thoes legit tech companies, most likely you are also covered, as you will make 130K. Your employers may need to be a bit smart when it comes to meeting the cut, e.g., it may need to reduce some of your RSUs/EFTTs and put them into your salary. But you should make it.

The new proposal doesn't say much about H4s. But I didn't really read much details of the new proposal. As of today, H4s can have EAD if their H1 spouses apply green card and get i-140 approved.

At the root, we have this new proposal today exactly because Indian companies try to abuse the current H1 system. I know stories of both Chinese and Indians got effed up by the H1 system, real stories from real friends in my life, including my wife. I blame Indian outsourcing companies as much as I blame the system, to be honest.

As a student, on F1 visa, if your intention is to stay, honestly you shouldn't get the F1 visa in the first place. If you have to lie about this intention to DHS, that's your own problem. H1, on the other hand, is a dual-intention visa. So you don't need to lie about stay or return. That's why H1s are allowed to apply green card.
Backblaze's environment is abnormal. They do very little to dampen vibration amongst other things, based on their last pod design. That puts drives under stresses that don't reflect what you're likely to see in your environments.

What you're seeing is not the most reliable, but the most reliable under their particular set of bad conditions. The reliability under your circumstances might be wildly different.

Their pod approach even results in worse performance: more vibration results in more effort spent by the drives trying to keep the head positioned in the right places, increasing latencies and decreasing read performance. The higher density they push for with their pods actually compounds this. Drives vibrate. Fans vibrate (chassis, PSU, CPU, the works) . If you don't pad them all appropriately, the vibration of the components ends up causing the entire rack to vibrate. By the time you've got several dozen of drives in the rack, the whole rack will be feeling the effect.
Oh great all my formatting is ruined...
The ACLU does what it can, when it can, with the resources it has.

The answer you're looking for is that now the white-middle class is feeling the possibility of impending disaster, so of course now it's an emergency, and the floodgates of funding have opened.
In direct inflation terms the minimum wage was ~10.50 / hour in 1968 or around the current minimum wage in France. Though as a percentage of the economy it was more than 20$/hour. Thus, it's not quite as clear cut as you are suggesting.

PS: Inflation is not really a single number as some but not all things end up costing less to produce over time. In other words, A may get more expensive while B becomes less expensive. Which makes long term inflation calculations more complicated.
Actual offshoring is a lot more difficult to manage than H1B candidates who sit in your office.

For the former, the big names are well versed in churning out billable hours regardless of actual work performed. The 11-12 hour time difference can sometimes be a boon, but more often than not leads to both your remote and local employees being unhappy. Local employees because they're asked to stay late or come in early, and remote employees because access to transit is more difficult if only US business hours are an option.
It's unbelievable because it's false. Total governmental spending is around $7 trillion. Only about 12% of that is the military, which is 4% of GDP or so. Healthcare, pensions, and education are almost 60%, though.

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/percent_gdp
What if we released our own browser with a different interface? What kind of new features would people use it for if Chrome and Safari already exist?
Ask HN: Is There a Tool to Know Which Companies Are Using Your Web Service?
I have a site that I run that gets about 55,000 visitors a month. I want to know if anyone knows of any web services that I can track if employees at companies like Amazon, Apple, and Facebook are using my product?
All diplomatic power boils down to the lowest common denominator which is military capability.

A weaker country can claim foul all they want but the military capable country will simply ignore it when it is in their interest and act with force which will see no resistance from a weaker country.

Power justifies as well as corrupt those who wield it.
and in Westeros
When "progress" continually lowers wages of the lower class and concentrates power to fewer and fewer people, I think the way of doing things needs to be reevaluated.
That depends on how you define progress.

Just to play devil's advocate: what if you define progress as "that stuff" that will increase the general well-being of the greatest number of people over the next 20 years? With that definition, does technology-powered automation still count as progress?
Its a shame Apple gets away with stifling browser competition and forcing everyone to use Webkit.

Of course it's a brilliant move: by controlling the stagnation of web browser tech, they can force developers to implement apps with their high-lock-in native app frameworks.

Google does the same thing with Android, but it is not nearly as blatant as Apple's flat-out blocking competitive browser implementations.
There are plenty of cash currencies, aside from USD, that fluctuate wildly.
It is nearly impossible to get the attention of politicians unless I'm willing to spend a vast amount of my time on the phone

I almost hate to reveal this "secret" since I thought it was pretty well-known, but if you contribute to your Representative's campaign, there's a pretty good chance you can get a one-on-one or at least attendance to a dinner event. This is much easier with state politicians.
For decades the primary language used in the HP instrument world (everything from controlling power supplies to logic analyzers to medical instruments) has been HP Basic. Very professional stuff indeed.
Uh, that's not the silver lining from my POV. The silver lining is that liberals will realize that maybe limited government is a good thing, because they can't always rely on their person being in power.
I have been using Sashido for a while for two different apps.

I am surprised about their service. The migration was super easy and straightforward and it is as easy to use as Parse.

I would love to see them offering a cheaper option for very low traffic apps but 5 dollars for migrated apps is a fair rate that I can afford. Another option would be some discount if you already have apps hosted with them.
You could do what I do and perform a search to check the validity of your opinion with evidence before posting. You'd be amazed how many of my own comments I delete unfinished because a little research causes me to reconsider my first reaction.
It also assumed increasing minimum wage would increase everyone wage. It's not going to boost a retired persons income or a CEO's pay for example.
Coincidentally, housing prices (buy/rent) are income-elastic and one of the criticisms of a blanket UBI, not just minimum wage.
remember raid != backup. you and everyone who has valuable data should have offsite storage separate from your nas.
This many times over. I don't have problems with adapting ot new time zones. But it is difficult to get on a "standard awake/sleeping" schedule. It's not for a lack of trying.
Just to clarify, are you an (R) who is OK with this stuff? Or are you just more upset about consistency than rights abuses?
Sendence is hiring Software Engineers
Speaking about the Future of Work:

http://qbix.com/blog

Check out this compensation model. It is an evolving experiment in transparency which I believe can power the future of work. Would like some feedback.
Yes, that's usually how academia works.

I specifically said "socialistic", so I don't know where I implied they weren't.
Also, the wikipedia article for it is possibly the best-written math article I've read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_filter
Swift is a nice language. What's really missing is better non-Mac support. Tools, libraries, etc. It'll become a Top 10 language (by popularity) once it becomes a real option for Linux and Windows.
Well...my big hobby right now is board game design. That's taking a lot of my free time and not leaving as much to keep sharp on programming tech (although I have been spending some time on that, just not hours a night).

I'm hoping to get my first one or two board game designs signed this year. I have a meeting with a publisher scheduled in June (hopefully more soon) and I'm trying to get everything polished and playtested for that.
Is any of this surprising to anyone? Airbnb is battling laws (often arbitrarily set with a healthy does of lobbying from established industries) that create undue burden on itself and its business. The same way Netflix battles anti net neutrality laws, Uber battles Taxi regulations, Google battles right to be forgotten and data storage rules, and almost every other company in almost every other industry fights against restrictions which don't occur naturally in the market.

Now there's a balance here. For example, the Koch brothers fight against environmental regulations, the lifting of which would clearly help their business but hurt a great number of people. But for companies which are leveraging internet technology, network effects, and markets which are inefficient only because they are not national or international and benefit a great number of people through lower prices and a better experience, I can't help but root for them to overcome regulation and outdated laws.
Is the death of Flash causing problems for them? Unless something I'm unaware of happened, the entire client is still built in it.

I would guess it was their reliance on Flash which motivated writing a new mobile version.
Small hadron collider?
That's exactly what I thought about 6 years ago, when the Republicans took over the Congress, and had every incentive to hold Obama to account.
The discouragement is not about making the world better
- Dynamic typing for fast prototyping. The compiler is full of dynamic tricks for testing, stripping parts of it, etc.

- LPeg support [1]. PEGs are great!

- The creator of Lua was my advisor since undergrad. :) (Which means that I program in Lua for a long time...)

http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/lpeg.html
Right, but framing is desperately important in this context. If you say we want to build a Star Trek future, in no short order you'll have people jumping all over you about how it's an authoritarian communist fantasy. I've seen this exact thing happen on this forum.

If instead, its framed as expanding the idea of American Federalism, diverse entities working towards vision of the future rooted in these ideals, I think it will be more successful.
I think you're exactly right in that the "world APIs" for education are the limiting factor. The major issue is that the assessment process is directly tied to the learning process within a single institution, leading to both being done incredibly inoptimally. It leads to the necessity of standardized tests and exams, and accredited institutions, which limits the potential learning opportunities available to the very few that are recognized on national or global scale.

If a "global assessment API" was decoupled from learning institutions it could capture educational experience as generated by any environment, from standard public schools to non-traditional schools, and we'd see a much more diverse set of educational experiences arise and be able to coexist fairly, meaning that individuals could better shape their individual academic paths without compromise and still be able to operate in the greater academic network.

A universal assessment system can exist in a very scalable way if its built upon social consensus. It would be absolutely impossible given our current models of assessment, especially the ones used on a national or international level. They are just simply far too expensive to begin to capture the breadth or depth of potential experience in academics in a meaningful way.

Today though we have the technology (i.e Ethereum and other decentralized technologies) to (relatively) easily design and deploy incentivized _secure_ systems for social consensus. It would enable systems like the one you're talking about to actually enable not just the teaching of the most obscure subject, but the _recognition_ of them too.

This is something I have been working on building for a while now. I truly believe its the answer to the flaws in our (global, not just American) education system and will be necessary for a truly effective, and universal, one.
I'd also add that this isn't nearly as insane as it sounds. Something quite comparable works well in Germany (see Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?), and to an extent this is just the principle behind co-ops on a larger scale. Distributed ownership of capital tends to lead to greater efficiency, better productivity, and better worker engagement, and it's a bipartisan issue: see syndicalism on the left, distributivism on the right.
As others said, education was already on an earlier RFS. But it's still important, maybe more than ever.

As you stated, I also believe that education it's the root of most problems. Today, almost everyone learns the same way as they did 100 years ago: A teacher going through a non-customized textbook that was written by a small number people. It's a linear learning path and highly ineffective. It's also inefficient, as teacher to student ratios are mostly around 1-to-20 (I am talking about K-12, not college or MOOCs).

I believe that we can overcome a lot of problems of education by applying technology. More concretely, we should be able to provide more customized, higher quality content for people at young and old age. This, while creating more genuine excitement for science and scientific thinking. This means, we have to rethink the current teacher/student paradigm. And I don't mean by merely providing tools to teachers or copy/pasting textbooks to online videos.

I mean by curating content that excites, using some ML to create an optimal and dynamic learning path per student and making it fit to the busy daily lives of people who don't have time to watch 1 hour lectures every week when they get home from work. This might seem like advertising, by I am working on exactly such a project and thought it would be ok to mention it here, because it is relevant for the discussion and other startups were mentioned in the comments, too. It's called Humbot (humbot.io) and I am happy to hear your comments and start a discussion on what the radical improvements in education must be over the next decade.
You can write components however you want. For components and styles, there's numerous approaches, and it's up to you which one you use. You can write your CSS totally separately, you can import CSS into a JS file and have it auto-generate unique class names, you can define styles completely inline in a component, and so on.

Can you maybe clarify what you think you can't do with React?
Yes, I agree with the latter part of your response if the assumption that there are Americans available to do this job, just not at such a low salary, is true.

I don't see how developers in SF or NY create more value just by virtue of being geographically located there. The cost of living argument IS about the free market at work, isn't it? Forget about the immigrants vs citizens aspect of it for a minute. Company A in WI could hire a resident for 90K because the resident spends only about $1000 on rent, but if the same person were to go to SFO a company B would have to pay them way more so they can afford to pay $2000 on rent. Isn't this the reason salary calculators exist? Am I missing something? I don't think this has anything to do with immigration specifically.
Personally, it's about ownership.

I'm an independent contributor, a dev. I don't own my employer's business beyond some token stocks. They give me value in the form of money because I give them more value through my work.

It's ultimately prostitution, and that's OK. They pay me well and respect my time/skills, I give them 100% for 8h day. But I won't go "above and beyond" for someone else's business...
Hacking Guatemala’s DNS – Spying on Active Directory Users via a TLD Misconfig
I can tell that this is great insight for someone just out of college so before I start, props to you. Coming out of college and into my first job I found it beneficial for myself when starting to work on a problem first consider all alternative ways to solve it. I would consider things like would this be better off done in a different language? Using a different library? Using a different devops tool? Can I use some new technology that could help me learn something new? This helped me to broaden my expertise. At the same time remember to balance these choices. You may hear push back from people saying do not just use a new technology for the sake of it, you need a good reason to which I can also agree with.

Feeling connected and a sense of supporting community is really important to be happy with the work you are doing. I found that sense of community by making a friend at work, someone that I would hang with outside of work and could relate and support me in decisions. This friend also pushes me and we have some fun competitions sometimes to better our skills that we use for work or to learn new ones. I have since looked to make friends in more co-workers to build my community and network of people that give me this feeling and that I hopefully provide for them too!

I know this part sounds cliche and old but if there is no luck with co-workers or even friends then there is always the community you are talking to here! HN is a great way to improve and become active in community. HN is not the only one too, meetups around your area could be more common than you think. Take the time to get out and meet other people in your field and take it upon yourself to expand your network and community.

Overall I would say keep up drive for new experiences and career building. You might even try to suggest ways to improve and build community within your company! Take it upon yourself to see if you can push the company to implement your ideas! :)
From the article:

> if you take it upon yourself to publicly rip on one poor indie developer, then you are a malicious, pathetic troll who needs to take a hard look at yourself while trying to choke back the vomit. There's no lower scum of the earth than someone who would step on another person when they're down. You have this in writing, and you can quote it back at any villain who ignores my disclaimer.

What does it mean to 'publicly rip' on someone? Who knows. It's not objective, and yet we already have a call to vilify these people as the lowest scum on the earth.

I don't like comments like this because they divide us and encourage us to start purposefully creating single-issue litmus tests where if you fail---you're evil.

That's not good for a community such as our own, where criticism, technical inquiry, and practical business acumen is valued.

It is certainly right to censure those who go too far in their criticism, but only to the point of calling them rude, improper, and distracting from conversation. They are not heinous villains, they are impolite.
I wonder if they listen more to phone calls or letters if you're a donor. And if so, what kind of dollar amount makes your call 'matter'? I'd happily donate $5 to the local Republican congressman if he'd take my calls more seriously.
All those points would not be an obstacle to an open source solution that is not trying to build a grand unified global Uber drop-in for random rideshare drivers to sign up with, but instead only ("only") tries to be an installable turn-key solution for existing operators (or regional federations thereof) to add the smartphone hailing user experience to their existing offering, without much investment.

I did not find a clear answer on the site wether this project is aiming at independent ridesharing or at being a turn-key solution for more conventional taxi dispatch organisations. There is the idea of "hack and tune it for your city", which is clearly not the global approach, but then they also advertise "1-minute hiring", which is definitely not what I would be looking for if I were to customize it for my hypothetical preexisting organisation.

Something like wordpress or the myriad open source online shop systems, but for taxi dispatch and with a unified smartphone client (or client protocol, actually) that can work with all installations. That might be the best way to avoid a single gobally dominant private network that can set their "tax" on all rides at will. The app/clients might be supported for discovery by a global registry of regional installations and some trust management, but it might actually be not only easier but also more reliable to just leave that to plain old web, with something like libretaxi:-URIs to connect the app to a regional network discovered by your search engine of choice.
I'd like to thank Etsy for writing this article. Let's Encrypt's availability makes large deployments easier, but they're still not actually all that easy to pull off in many cases. It takes a lot of thought and work to scale securely.

We at Let's Encrypt talk to a lot of large providers about large deployments and there's really nothing more helpful than being able to refer engineering teams to detailed accounts of previous efforts.

These writeups really make a difference because they accelerate other large deployments. The sooner those other large deployments happen, the sooner many more people will experience a more secure and privacy-respecting Web.
Dial-A-Grue
if people are worried, they shouldn't use it.

let the trailblazers get axed and eventually the trust ratings will build up on the non-murderers.

then they can use it.
I have posted stories about homelessness and the unsustainability of economic inequality here for years and have had many productive discussions with the HN community in general and YC members in particular on these topics. Just because people are activated over refugees does not mean they're indifferent to domestic political issues.
And Samsung US. They pay H1B's absolute crap. This would be a good thing for them.
And those three markets also accept (and even more highly value) stable currencies.
Bring a Euro to any store in Belarus and it'll be accepted at a greater value than the listed exchange rate.
Education and News are two sides of the same coin. At some point the majority of the adult population makes the decision to learn about the world from entertainment companies. We should reanalyze what news and continuing education mean, relative to each other.

https://theconversation.com/ and http://www.worldcrunch.com/ make good starts, as do aggregators like http://www.aldaily.com/ and https://redef.com/

As far as pure education companies, we need more software platforms for building curriculums collaboratively, some combination of wikia, github, wirecutter, and khanacademy.org. You may be thrown by my inclusion of wirecutter, but concensus based consumer reports type information, leading to populations making better decisions, helps cut through the paradox of choice. It also teaches people HOW to make decisions, and how to evaluate choices. It should be easy for anyone to fork, remix, contribute, or request corrections. Even collaborative documentary editing software, or the ability to sift through ALL the worlds lectures on a topic, and assessable the best bits. As long as teams of strangers can collaborate and fork, the world will have more shoulder standing giants, and less reinventing of the wheel.
> if the peer is more local to you

How is this determined? Just WebRTC ping?
Chrome for Android doesn't even allow extensions.