skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If you raised wage requirements, you'd basically be not allowing people like me to continue to stay and work in the US (after graduation from college), and would instead only allow people from outside who have lots of experience (and skill) and can command a much higher salary upfront."

I hate to break it to you, but those are the exact kind of people that H-1B visas are SUPPOSED to be used for. Not fresh out of college people. Your employer abused the visa program.
> Try just considering hiring a person of color or a woman. There's a hell of a lot of them, they're not much worse at their jobs than the young white boys

Why do you believe women and minorities are worse workers than whites?
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Yes, but no. Hong Kong is officially the "Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China". It's an autonomous region, but it's part of the PRC, not a separate state.
I suppose - I just find it strange that most of the IT initiatives directly support the success of a business, and when the company sends the top 10 producing sales team members to a free Caribbean trip, and buy luxury cars for others for a year I'm sure they could shell out something for other teams rather than buying a pizza or lunch every so often.

This is just an observation as well, so I could be completely incorrect in my thinking.
Well there was that thing about Trump calling for a total Muslim ban a little over a yer ago: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/donald-j.-trump-...

Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on. [...]

It's entirely reasonable to consider a politician's stated aspirations as well as their more limited actions in office, since the latter are often incremental steps towards a larger goal.

Please don't argue but trying to bury people in irrelevant facts. That tactic is called a Gish Gallop and makes you look like you're arguing in bad faith. Considering the administration's on-again off-again relationship with basic concepts of truth and fact, nitpicking arguments are best avoided.

It cannot be that the administration gets to decide when to cite facts and figures or when to make sweeping and inaccurate generalizations; if critics are to be held to a different standard of truth from the administration, then we have a government that asserts exclusive domain over the notion of truth itself. Are you sure that's something you want to support?
I notice most non-liberal points of view get down-voted to oblivion in this circle jerk named Hacker News. Commence the down-voting of this comment please.
But isn't it a non-trivial problem to generate plausible fake data?
My understanding is that the reason Chrome has to use the iOS webkit view is because that's the only way to get JIT javascript compilation working for apps submitted to the app store. Does anyone have a sense of whether it would be possible to switch to Blink and V8 with a locally compiled and sideloaded version of the app? Would there be any benefit?
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Yes, especially for deleting files but for writing such as these words it's weird.

I don't like multiple key presses for what should be one simple key press it seems sloppy and counter intuitive for a key that's existed for decades.
Interestingly it was specifically leftist thinkers and personalities who have been against globalization as promoted by free-market capitalism. That might seems shocking in light of recent election rhetoric.

https://chomsky.info/secrets03/

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About half of what are called US exports to Mexico are intrafirm transfers of this sort. They don’t enter the Mexican market, and there’s no meaningful sense in which they’re exports to Mexico. Still, that’s called "trade."

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This interview by Sanders on Vox is also very illustrative:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5vOKKMipSA&t=352

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Bernie Sanders: Open borders? No, that's a Koch brothers proposal.
Ezra Klein: Really?
Bernie Sanders: Of course. That's a right-wing proposal, which says essentially there is no United States. ...

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It is sad really. People keep calling those who voted and promoted Hillary "the left" but there is not much "left" left in there. Trump apparently took the traditional bread-and-butter leftist issues NAFTA and jobs and ran with it. Whether he cares for those things or not, at least he picked them up. So the Democrats ended up with identity politics, mixed with corporatism. They are trying to appeal to Occupy Wall St. and also give $200k speeches to Wall St., they are for gay rights but also take donations from states which throw gays off of buildings. It was rather upsetting when during the nightclub shooting in Orlando, Hillary's campaign and the rest of the media moved quickly to suppress the news because it involved a what apparently an Islamic Terrorist attack. I know a few gay people who never quite got over that and never forgot it...

Moreover on identity politics and the left. Has Marx never wrote anything about labeling groups correctly so they don't get offended? It was always about being very offended, specifically offending the ownership class and not just offending them, but annihilating them.

Maybe one good thing about Trump winning is that it cleared the table for creation of a new political party. A more authentic left party. Those people who followed Sanders what happened to them? There such tremendous energy there. Is it wasted on boycotting Uber, and re-tweeting the same things over and over... I am afraid it is.
I often feel like a lot of problems diagnosed as "psychosomatic" illnesses are caused by bad nutrition or even lack of sun. As an example: A lot of people I know recently got sick after living in Seattle for a few years and it ended up being that at least a portion of the cause was severe Vitamin D deficiency. Kind of obvious, but also something that most doctors don't seem to check. When you look up the symptoms of various vitamin deficiencies they have wide spread and hard to pinpoint symptoms - including random neuropathy. I feel like it might be wise to for doctors to suggest to patients they see a nutritionist or to check their vitamin levels if the only diagnosis is "psychosomatic". At the very least the person might end up generally healthier after the experience.
Rats. Here it is.

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/11/steve-bannon-racist-c...
Non-molested versions still sell for close to or even over(!) original retail price.

The 2JZ-GTE is a marvel of an engine. It's got a turbocharged turbocharger! How cool is that!?
Trump also want to bring back stop and frisk which is about as un-libertarian as you can get.
No such thing as "free tuition", it's just paid through taxes instead of through student fees.
> minority

The Republicans have a majority in the House, in the Senate, and they have the President. Is the American voting system so defective that a minority can achieve all that?
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Ah, right, seems like I have mistaken the first paragraph as a summary of the post.
> I learnt this stuff in a C++0x draft, and it has been notably improved.

I guess the lesson is: don't yell at people if you aren't up-to-date on what you are yelling about :)
A good way to handle stories like this is to flag them.
If only the mainstream media would stick to following these principles enumerated here, rather than blatantly taking sides (even when it's unnecessary for them to do so):

https://www.popehat.com/2016/12/15/deserving-trust/
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@sama I'm heartened to see "Jobs" included in this list, but can you clarify whether this is a change in investment focus - will you be giving priority to startups which have greatest potential for job creation? If so, how would you qualify / prioritize those jobs (ie., part-time, full-time, educational requirements)?
Is it possible to create a "zip file" format that looks like a normal zip file, but has two passwords and two separate paths to decode to different content?
Why? This is great for programmers in areas like KC.
History shows that collaboration with fascists is without virtue. Fascist collaborators should not benefit from inclusiveness while trying to eliminate it.
Because the "right" don't want to earn minimum wage; they want to earn decent wage, which is problematic in condition of "race to the bottom" caused by influx of people from less developed countries.
I've had a hackintosh. I'll speak from those of us who've built desktop Hackintosh's because of Apples lack of Pro builds that are easily updatable. For about $1200 I built a hackintosh desktop that scores about 20,000 on the Geekbench and various other scores. It's run stable, etc....for about 18 months.

It's a pain to maintain, though. (Upgrades and getting the nVidia Web drivers etc.)

I want to actually test out how well the linux sub-system and bash works on Windows 10, to see if I just move my development there. I'm already on a lot of cross compatible apps that I can run on both systems. I should probably also just move to a virtualized/containerized local dev env on Linux, though, and be done with it.

I still love me my 11" MB Air, though because no-one has been able to touch Apple on the trackpad. Also, I love how sleep with closing and opening the lid....just works.
You could call it "Startup LLC Jackson".

https://twitter.com/StartupLJackson/status/60829857553815961...
Two immediate suggestions:

1. Use a Ulysses pact[1] explaining how data is and will be used. Assure users that the company won't turn into a data broker[2].

2. Either lobby local/state/federal government to create legal data protections, or publicly support existing efforts. Europe is not perfect, but the ECHR and German data protection laws are a fantastic model to follow.

There are a lot of more technical suggestions involving data sanitizing and security, but for a startup that just needs to get up to speed quickly, those are two suggestions that would go a long way. Leading by example might bring the entire industry forward in a positive way.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_pact

[2]https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601506/23andme-sells-data...
Good question! To be frankly, not much use for a normal development flow (maybe you can use it as a check to see how much compliant is your code with the 'standard'), but it's going to be used by Huula's editor to better identify different elements on a web page, the reason why this is useful there is because Huula editor has all the symantic and visual properties of every element and it can use this information to generate the same class names for similar elements.
Thanks for the link, but would you add a bit of a summary?
Yes I think your title is better.

But the charts in question are "Top Paid" and "Top Grossing". So it does seem like a very odd result.
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Does any of that change the hard facts that what was enacted is not a ban on people coming to the US based on their religion. Because that is the pure fact.
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It is confusing, but it appears he paid $70,000 for the product, throw in $5-10 for site, ads, marketing etc. Still doing quite well.
I'm not sure how you're completing misreading what I'm saying. I also work with brilliant H1-B holders that surely make more than $130K and are worth every penny. Each of them have skills that simply aren't available nearby. That's what the system's meant for.

I have also seen it used in incredibly abusive ways. Bumping the minimum salary to $130K would remove the profit motive of using them to undercut the local labor market. Quite frankly, the best talent can command make more than $130K anyway. You think someone's going to pack up their family, move to another continent, and land in a small town in Iowa happy to make $50K?
I couldn't go back to vanilla CSS. Even with just its basic nesting features, SCSS enables a much more modular, compartmentalized, and parsable format, with a clear view of the overall hierarchy via imports
They defend actual Nazis. That's about as right-leaning as you can possibly get.
Thanks! It helped a lot already! Opened my eyes to the potential of doing that on non-software companies. I was indeed only considering startup/software companies.
This article is part of a massive 17-part drop about the FBI from The Intercept today. Wow. https://theintercept.com/series/the-fbis-secret-rules/
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A category of applications that I'd like to see YC helping along are those things that could help ordinary people run for office. The things off the top of my head I can see technology helping with:

* Leveraging social networking to generate social permission for people to stand for office, which I think is the most important obstacle facing people who might consider running --- far more so than money.

* Using technology to bypass the expensive outreach vectors traditional candidates are stuck with.

* Informing constituencies and potential candidates about the local offices available to run for.

* Crowdfunding campaigns with Kickstarter-like dynamics to make it safer to commit funds to speculative candidates.

* Capturing the stories of people who have or are standing for election, so that we can all compare notes and see what the challenges (or lack thereof) are.

* Building informal parties and coalitions of officeholders in states and major metro areas, to build tickets and slates of candidates around common ideals.

* Building common platforms for constituent services, so that fresh new officeholders can outcompete incumbents both in responsiveness and in making their newfound influence available to their constituencies to pressure other parts of government.

I've been calling my Senators about the Sessions nomination nonstop for the past 2 weeks and I've gotten calls through just 3 times. I haven't the slightest clue how to reach officeholders in my Chicago suburb. Clearly there's room for major innovation here.

Incidentally, if you're building things like this, I'd love to help in any way I can. I'm easy to contact. I've set a goal for myself to get a specific number of friends and acquaintances to run, and I'm happy with the progress I've been able to make and pretty excited about the concept.
I disagree that it would be a huge mistake. American wages are stagnant, and lowering the labor pool will raise demand for workers.
No, if I just wanted it for free, then I would just say I want it for free.

Yes, I don't want to give a retailer money if they're taking massive profit they don't deserve, even if that means not giving the author money either. A small profit for distribution is fine.

(The lifetime value of a Kindle format of a book is far less than that of a physical book. I try to pass on almost every physical book I buy to someone else for reuse.)

I would rather:

* get it for free

* get it for free, and give the author money some other way

* wait till I can get it in a less-undeserving way

* just go buy it from someone else to deny giving business to the big company that doesn't deserve it (say, to an independent bookstore.)

* buy a different format that they deserve to make more money on.

And I'll venture to guess that, if you don't understand this thought process, the buying behaviors of 'millennials' (which advertisers care a lot about understanding) are probably a total mystery to you.
Now true at all. Paid products which are better than free offerings can compete easily. Broadcast TV has been free forever and people still line up to give cable companies $700 a year for TV.
Just a few years back, it was the Conservative parties (not just the US) advocating Globalisation/free trade/free markets yadda yadda, and the liberals opposing the above because of labour exploitation, global supply chains bad for the environment...

But memories fade quickly...

Then again, Trump's positions are really not so representative of the establishment republicans.
Thanks for the feedback. I really appreciate it
This seems pointless to me. If you sell someone a piece of software with a GPL dependency, what is the risk to the customer? They're just going to use the software, right? That's explicitly allowed by the GPL. Are they really going to modify it? Can they even modify it?

Even if it was AGPL... and even if the customer modified the library, and even if they did get sued.... all three of which are vanishingly small probabilities... still all you'd have to do is release your modifications to the AGPL library. The notion that the AGPL will force you to open source your proprietary code is, as far as I can tell, completely spurious.

I really think that it's just a cultural "screw the hippies" kind of a thing, which you're buying into by making these sound like rational fears. There's nothing rational about it, it's just "oh my, we'd need just thousands of lawyers for that!" bogeymen.
We'll see how much the Koch brothers care in the mid-terms; if they're not pressuring senators and congressmen to oppose trump at the risk of primary challenges, we'll see that either their loudness is only about his tone, or that they are powerless to fight Trump's base.
Not doing things has consequences too. Choosing not to oppose Assad in Syria is undeniably bad for somebody. This is precisely the purpose of government, to decide what to do or not to do.
Thanks for this!

I've been on multiple H1B visas, at both large companies and startups. I've also sponsored H1B visas as an employer. I would support this bill.

The headline is a classic example of sensational journalism by the Times of India.

The $130k salary requirement applies only to "dependent employers", defined as employers with over 15% of their workforce on H1Bs. This is clearly aimed at reducing H1B misuse by TCS, Infosys, and their ilk.

The vast majority of companies who employ people on H1Bs aren't "dependent" employers by this definition, and hence will be unaffected by the salary increase rule. If anything, they'll benefit from more visas being available to non-dependent employers.

Also, startups will likely benefit from the 20% requirement.
This is a great move by YC! I'd also love to see the "left behind" Americans addressed. There's a lot of people hurting in America who need training and jobs for the new economy and investment opportunity. I suggest opening YC branches in a former coal mining states and former manufacturing hubs in lake states. If folks can get their stability, hope and pride back, they'll be less likely to turn to fake news, placing blame on outsiders and divisive politics.
Penalties for the US-based domestic entity to compel compliance of the off-shore entity would fall onto the domestic entity. The off-shore entity ALSO has to comply with whatever local regulatory regime they fall under.

Unlinking the two companies completely might satisfy what you appear to be angling for, but it would be, in essence, a potential competitor to Amazon at that point.
All I do is follow Popehat and read every link he warmly retweets. Seems to be working well. :)
Oh yes you can. Can I get you a bottle of water?
I wonder if the http://www.worldforge.org folks could incorporate this code into their "I want to create worlds" code. This seems to be a useful enhancement.
From a sovereignty perspective, Hong Kong is part of China.
Maybe if you weren't so brazenly agressive and didn't begin every comment with a derisive remark people would pay more attention to you. I know we all must seem very silly and insignificant in comparison to your massive intellect that you can but roll your eyes, but bear with us, will you?

Sheesh.
here's the actual draft of the executive order: https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/7872567/P...
>Of course you are.

Fuck man, I'm pretty sure he just said he isn't
H-1B Visa Bill Introduced in US, Minimum Pay More Than Doubled
I was just going from this quote from the article.

>who saw his abduction as a violation of the city state’s ability to run its own affairs, guaranteed by international treaty until 2047.
People who have never been to America are not Americans.
Do you take any supplements to help with the long-term cognitive effects of frequent weed? That's the one thing that concerns me about continuing to partake as a professional (vs just doing it in college while working on projects, which was enjoyable)

Some of my friends have said that citicholine has been helpful for them. Wondering if you have any techniques yourself?
130K is far too high in my opinion. Maybe that would be reasonable in Silicon Valley but nowhere else. This policy should account for the cost of living of where the businesses are located. A large amount of businesses will not be able to afford employees at that proposed salary - even the if the potential employees are highly skilled.
When was the last time you saw a law that was in plain English saying exactly what it did such as "No more Muslim immigrants"? The intention was clear, putting it in such obvious terms makes it obviously unconstitutional, so the language puts a few restrictions that accomplishes it as well they could.

Would you prefer if the headline was "Trump Wants Muslim Ban, Gets as Close as He Can"?
Touche! The first people have a beef you are correct.
> Only if we define "trusted" to include "known to be bug free" in e.g. it's truncation or bounding of output over the pipe to the child. I argue that, in theory, this is impossible to know, and thus that it this level of trust is impossible, and thus that this is not an example of a potential safe use of gets.

"In the security engineering subspecialty of computer science, a trusted system is a system that is relied upon to a specified extent to enforce a specified security policy. As such, a trusted system is one whose failure may break a specified security policy." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_system

That's the definition of "trusted" I'm using.

> This is also insufficient - one must also prevent nonstandard invocations of the child process.

I'm thinking of pure fork(), not fork+exec. That is, the child process is the same executable image, so the only way to invoke the child process in a nonstandard way would be through a debugger. And that is why the child process can trust the parent process in my example: they're the same process until the fork().

(As I said, it's a really contrived scenario. In more realistic scenarios, gets() is unsafe.)
> The ACLU, in the past week, received as much $ in online donation as it has over the past six years.

That's pretty depressing.
This is a bill introduced by a California Democrat, fwiw. I suspect most Republicans want nothing to do with it, so it will never see the light of day.
I was pretty disillusioned already, but the reporting on the Dakota Access Pipeline has been such a pack of lies, the state actually had to throw up a page to explains some if it[1][2]. I remember the old saying that the person who cleans up after the elephants has a whole different view of the circus.

1) http://ndresponse.gov/dakota-access-pipeline/myth-vs-fact

2) #15 is so beyond dumb, "wild buffalo", really? Plus, it underscores the poor reporting in that ranchers have lost livestock in the area.
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If they're this incredibly rare then I don't see why paying them 130k is a big deal.