skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not saying it's risk free, but smart real estate investments can crush stock market returns precisely due to that massive leverage
As the guy in "Casino" movie said, they're all greedy.
"But whatever your moral leanings, a judge on Tuesday confirmed what intern advocates have been alleging for years: a lot of these programs are illegal."

"it's hard to predict what appeals court judges will rule on any of these cases."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/06/13/are-u...
> They aren't.

But many say they should be. Simply because they want to drive the gun industry out of existence and outlaw private ownership of guns in the U.S.

And FTR, I normally would not favor regulating Airbnb out of existence. But I've had such a bellyful of Airbnb CEO Brian Chevsky's self-rightousness, that I would love to see him and his investors take a multi-billion dollar haircut.

The Democrats weaponized the federal government against their political enemies. I'd love to see them, and their supporters, get a taste of their own medicine.
>> then war with China is inevitable and better engaged in now, while the US still enjoys a qualitative advantage

Are you saying that, or are you saying the Mr. Ma is saying that? Because if you are saying that then I'm pretty sure you haven't been following the news since August 6th ... of 1945. What the hell kind of war with China do you think is going to happen, one fought with bubble-gum? War with China means the doomsday clock goes to midnight and we all develop a nice healthy green glow.
Sure, but I suspect they are already doing that to the extent it makes sense.
A Comparison of Vue.js Front End Frameworks
Trump may be "right" about this topic but he's massively wrongheaded about the solution. Making America the place the worlds best and brightest used to want to go is not going to solve this problem - regulation to protect visa workers is. I have a number of friends I went to school with now working on H1B Visas who want to make a life here and worked very hard to get here and I hate to see them indentured to their sponsors. I don't know anyone I went to school with that was even remotely competent that couldn't get a job even in my home state, let alone nationwide (and this isn't even from a big or well known program).

Maybe the demand for H1B visas would go down if the playing field was leveled but who knows? This doesn't validate his actual ideas whatsoever, many people see this issue as a problem but I would like to see some actual reform instead of just pouring gasoline on the problem and lighting a match.
and you are one of those random H1B employee in the top percentile & we were not.
> Why would I ever want to own when I get free maintenance and don't have to worry about a down payment?

Because my mortgage (aka rent) hasn't gone up in 3 years...in fact it's actually gone down because I refinanced and is now cheaper for me to own than what I would have paid to rent in this area.

Add to that the considerable appreciation on my home, and what you've got is a recipe for long-term wealth.
As a general rule things are moving into the browser because that is the point closest to the user where the most interactivity is possible. It's simply not possible to provide the desktop-like experience of a modern web app when you have to reload the page to make any change. I would actually ask the opposite question, what is the purpose of keeping your rendering far away from the user when it could just as easily be done by the high-performance engine built into their browser?
Yeah this fixation on Silicon Valley is dumb. The worst affected will really be other industries. Small wonder that Lofgren who is a Bay-Area Representative is the one sponsoring the auction system. Many Si valley jobs for which H1Bs are hired are generalist in nature. And it is for generic programmer jobs that you have potential for wage abuse. But outside Si valley, for much lesser wages, companies rely on highly specialized skills. So specialized that often these are jobs-for-life without much transferability. Think about skills in microbiology, materials science, etc. relevant to specific products in specific companies like P&G, Dow, etc. These employers and employees will be majorly shafted if legislation is made with just Silicon Valley in mind.

The whole notion of pay big $$s if the specialized skills are worth so much is wrong because these companies have smaller budgets for personnel than plant.
A found a reference for this:

http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2017/01/a-low-crime-ra...

"A confidential report by the police and public prosecution office states that official figures do not reflect the real volume of crime in the Netherlands,"

A more extensive Dutch article (referenced in above):
http://www.trouw.nl/tr/nl/39681/nbsp/article/detail/4447567/...
What's the difference between this and a large airliner?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A320_family#Variants says the A320 exists in 100-220 seat variants. The A330 starts at 250 or so. Is there a technology gap around that size, is that what you're saying?
Kudos to the team :)
Thanks for giving RethinkDB a second chance to strive.
Fundraising Rounds Are Not Milestones
Yes, that would be one solution, but you'd have to somehow enforce that governments do that or else local governments may continue with the status quo.

Also, there's the question of what to do with historical laws. For example, buildings being renovated sometimes have to follow the building codes corresponding to their original construction date. So the current laws that the publishers are trying to paywall may be relevant for another 100 years.
Absolutely, the increase in productivity away from an open office is intangible and uncertain. In contrast, the decrease in office space expense from switching to open office is very tangible.

Also, some people cough mostly millennials cough really do thrive in these spaces, and some truly enjoy a social dimension like this for their engineering. I don't thrive in it, I loathe it, and I spew profanity like a WWII sailor trying to work in that environment.

So I try to work from home the most I can. I acknowledge some people cannot motivate themselves to do so and I recognize that's why they're resistant to letting people work from home.

But since open office isn't a 100% harmful thing to do, I agree the war is over and we lost. Start your own shop or go do something that doesn't make you miserable like this does.
Sure there are theoretically better ways of doing things. If there are theoretically better ways of distributing food does that mean I get to go rob a grocery store?

You can't flaunt the rules and regulations of world trade because you disagree with them or want to change them. Besides that's not what China wants. China wants to eat its cake and have it too.

Edit: Wow looks like it's ok to lie, cheat, and steal because "the other guy does it and I think the system is unjust on top of that." Really spectacular arguments from the anti-establishment crowd.
People may prefer capital over humans purely for selfish reasons. Money coming in your region, assuming you have some degree of control over it, usually help the local economy (growth of jobs, wages, assets) unless its already inflated one like SFBA. Humans on the other hand tend to be a mixed bag. Highly talented migrants (whatever definition of talent suits you) should be a boon to your region but same cannot be said about untrained undeveloped masses.

For a politician, it would make sense to advocate for easy capital inflows, somewhat controlled capital outflows and highly selective immigration process.
The key problem is surely weather. Politics are surmountable, but climate is not. The experience of the Netherlands is not generalizable worldwide.
Well, I hope this one doesn't. Something on my bucket list (no pun intended), is to do something like this on a scale of 10-20 units (buckets?), except maybe in cubes with better climate control with a rolling schedule for a variety of veggies - fresh veggies year round, yum.

Quick example - lettuce can go from planting to harvest in roughly 7-8 weeks. So 7-8 buckets could provide you with fresh lettuce every week.

Edit: Apparently it's possible to manipulate the light cycles to get lettuce to mature in just 22 days! That's only 3-4 buckets :)
My experience has been that my H1-B coworkers don't get paid as well as US counterparts sand that there is significant friction for them to change companies or even get a big promotion if they are in process of applying for green card. Rather than adding more rules to an already difficult process though I think the best solution would be to allow people with H1-B to easily change jobs after some period of time at the original sponsoring company (e.g. 6-12 months). That way it would be harder to pay below market rates and would be much more dynamic than having the government trying to estimate what the prevailing wage should be.

I get really frustrated though with most articles on the H1-B visas which either seem to be bashing immigrants or imply that somehow more government regulation will help the situation. In my experience growing up in the US we are incredibly lucky to have such talented people coming here to work and they have contributed incredibly to the tech companies in the US which are really one of the few bright spots in the US economy. Some of the smartest and hardest working colleagues I have grew up in other countries and we are lucky that they have come here to build the US economy.
Yeah but Google is mostly a US company so it was an easy slip to make.
I just don't know where to start. This is so bad and pretty condescending.
> her work resulted in saving users an expected 1.5 petabytes (that's 1.5 million gigabytes) of data each day.

I'm guessing this is not a measure of data at rest, but data transferred over the network. The couple samples listed on the page ranged from 2.5% improvement to 20.3% (vs. zLib) so I guess they're extrapolating that out to all app downloads and updates across the world. Nicely done.

More generally, we've seen some great advances in compression lately. I've been using Facebook's zStandard [1] for compression in a product I'm currently working on, and I've been extremely pleased with both its speed and compression ratio. The days of "just use zLib" are coming to a close.

[1]: https://github.com/facebook/zstd
OpenAds - now OpenX - was this tool for a very long time.

There are a couple of drawbacks. First, it turns out that there's not much money to be made developing that software. Second, it turns out that running it is a lot of work, to the point that it's not worth it for most people. Third, most ad buyers don't want to juggle dozens of small publishers, they want centralization.
They are only being paid fair market value because the H-1Bs are suppressing the fair market value. Without the H-1Bs you would have had to pay more, and that "more" would have been the fair market value.

You say "matching Netflix offers is very expensive": again, no, matching Netflix offers is the fair market rate, and without H-1Bs, the rate would be higher. Indeed, unless you are a well known company, you should expect to have to pay more than Netflix, since Netflix's offer also prices in the stability and prestige of working at Netflix.

Which is to say, the "expensive" Netflix wage is actually less than fair market value.
That may very well happen but you could just demand that a copy of any referenced work must appear along with the published law.
BTW, the source for Panda is very clear and readable, I was just glancing it and am able to reason about it even though I only superficially know Perl 5 to write some dirty scripts and the code is sparsely commented.
Show HN: IPO List – Curated list of publicly traded tech companies
Here is your information:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0ffswUVoxA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxM_CLsvieE
Tech companies also reject applicants because they are "software engineers wannabe" that are just a bunch of phonies coveting the high salaries.

Tying up visas effects only to wage diminution is just a big mistake. But I can't wait to witness the effect of being a lot more selective on visas. We'll see!
The oil boom in ND drew thousands of medium skill workers for very high paying jobs that could not go to illegals.

If the people in CA are not willing to pay their maids fair market wages, then maybe they can do their own fucking dishes.
>You want more strongly written letters?

In 2008, candidate Obama remarked, “If somebody wants to build a coal-fired power plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them. … Under my plan … electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.” Four major coal companies have filed for bankruptcy in just the past 15 months.

http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/h-sterling-burnett/obama-d...
I've also noticed this with better restaurants. I think specialist buyers and distributors will continue to serve a role; and so will farmers' markets. But my thought is it's better when shareholders buy-in for a season. The farmer gets more operating capital up-front and spends less time on sales during the harvest, because distributions can be figured out ahead of time.
>If we are free to relax during a car journey, the ability to travel at high speed may not be such a major concern, either.

Most of the people I've spoken to firmly believe self driving cars will be faster, not slower. They'll be safer and more consistent at speed so it's reasonable to trust them to do so safely.

When the train takes 4 hours and I can drive it in 2h30 - I take the car. Just the fact that I get to "relax" is not sufficient.
The author of this article is the author of Binding.scala so presumably he is an authoritative source on it. However, not an impartial one.
It's one of the most profitable crops, and one that benefits a lot from precisely controlled growing environments. Why is this a bad thing?
Libertarians did this in New Hampshire:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_State_Project
Points based system is the right way of quantifying skills & it seems to be working well for Canada.

for ex: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/express-entry/grid-crs.asp
The fight is not over yet. Please consider donating to Public Resources, which runs on a shoestring budget, employing just one person, Carl Malamud, at a modest salary.
Compared to other manufacturers (Bombardier, Embraer) that tend to make regional jets which max out at 2x2 seating, this is a large jet for a non-Airbus/Boeing(/Tupolev) manufacturer.

Only the longest stretched fuselages on the newest 737/A320s can carry more than 200 passengers, and there are a lot of 737-800s still flying that carry 160 or so people. China could very well build a stretched fuselage C919 if the project ends up being a success.
I don't find his efforts to secure the country's borders questionable in the least, as a matter of fact I find it refreshing that a political leader follows through on his campaign promises.
can anybody tell me the legal implications to start a US based company as a foreigner? Is it possible to start one in F-1 OPT and later file for H1-B?
>>It's very common for judges to pass a community services punishment or an electronic ankle bracelet house arrest.<<

But that's a good thing unless you consider sending people to the mines and keep them locked behind bars for years a better alternative.
Abusing humans desire to pattern find and take risks for profit is bad. Casinos are bad. If you could weaponize gambling and spread it in an enemy nation, you'd do much to hurt it's GDP. I made a video about why gambling sucks.
Silicon Valley Using H-1B Visas to ~~ Pay Low Wages to Immigrants ~~ give immigrants jobs
If you were a pro-travel ban tech employee, in this climate, would you even want that to be known? That would likely be a career limiting move.
THE FAKE MASSES MOUTHPIECE AND TIMEPIECE (TWO FACE IDIBIA)
Trump asks the right questions: the danger of globalism, incredibly high global debt, the danger of radical islam, the overestimation of Russia's danger on the US and EU, the questionable usefulness of NATO, the economic manipulation by China, he just has the wrong answers.
Often when competitors are expensive it's for a reason. Occasionally you'll have stumbled onto an old industry where tech can disrupt things and lower costs, but for cloud-based image serving, everyone is essentially using the same tools and CDNs. You should have a really good reason why you will be able to deliver at a lower cost or with lower margins, otherwise it's likely you will have to end up with the same 'prohibitively expensive' rates, or will go out of business.
OH defiantly was swing state - Real Clear Politics had them switching sides frequently.
Keep in mind, though, that a lot of H1Bs are being used as replacements for a typical IT department, not as the type of staff you could easily offshore, even with remote working technology. For example, at a Fortune 100 company I did quite a bit of consulting for, fully 60% of their IT staff was Infosys and Congnizant H1Bs. You could make the argument that some portion of those positions could be offshored, but realistically no large company would do that - they want people on-site too much. I don't think the rise of tools is really changing this mentality fast enough to make remote/offshore work a real possibility here in the near term.
It probably is - much like their Pokemon Go + Google Cloud article.

When will HN readers that they are furthering corporate agendas when they upvote fluff like this?
We just got some hard numbers on the massive iPhone upgrade cycle that's coming
Yeah, that's the part that had me scratching my head. Any study that makes no attempt to smooth out dramatic outlier time periods is highly suspect.
If that's working for you - fantastic. It seems like the way that you're looking to build products is focused on development ease & minimizing JS usage. We also build products that way at my company, and it allows us to build & iterate quickly with few developers.

If you'd like to implement some modern front-end technologies that lend themselves to this style, you could look to Vue.js (https://vuejs.org/) paired with a technology like Turbolinks or Turbograft (which allows for partial page refreshment).

It allows you to build something that feels more dynamic but still is based in Rails/ERB templates.
Nuclear weapons and ICBMs to deliver them are the most obvious difference. The world in general is just so different than it was 70 years ago that it doesn't make sense to take the stance of "assume things are the same unless given an explicit reason not to" anymore.
I think that is how so many school projects and internships end up. You just feel like fuel for some grant machine, your contributions are overblown and you might not have been able to contribute as much as you wanted or maybe you didn't get nearly as much mentorship as you were promised and expecting, but everyone plays along and so it continues. I would like to think that if you go high enough eventually you end up in places where the experience matches the expectation better but maybe not.
> The article is really an advertisement for the authors own framework Binding.scala, rather than a critical look at React.

I'm not sure how I feel about this. One one hand he's clearly biased. On the other hand, for a new project if he doesn't promote it no one will. It's important to market your product even if that product is an open source project.

Although if this was a serious journal or newspaper there would be a very clear disclaimer somewhere. Which is lacking in this article.
The danger is that the experience of your London hosts becomes normalised and the market rent rises to match it.
I don't whats the config of your computer, but Dropbox works like a charm for me. I have more than 600 gigs of data synced btwn Dropbox and my computer and it works pretty nicely. I never had to manually check whether a file has been transferred or not.
I don't think that's true. Angular isn't very maintainable because its architecture encourages you to write spaghetti code with implicit dependencies. React, on the other hand, encourages a much more explicit data flow, so I would guess that React apps, all else being equal, are much more maintainable than Angular apps.

(Standard disclaimer about how you can write maintainable code in any framework and this isn't necessarily a rule.)
Small and Regional government decision making and administration tools.

-- Geo-spatial
-- Tax analysis
-- Real property automation (a dozen different workflows)
-- Permit automation and analysis(multiple workflows)
-- Licensing automation and analysis
Thank you. The supply of employees is only constrained by employers' willingness to pay. At the current prevailing wages, supply is not meeting demand. This does not necessarily mean there is a shortage.
I do believe H1-Bs were used to pay lower wages (more so because of being tied to the employer for long periods of time in the Green Card Process).

However, in my observations and experiences, the last few years (i.e. the years when H1-Bs were allocated by lottery), due to the scarcity of H1-B visas, employers started paying a premium for employees who already had an H1-B visa and the skills necessary, because they could switch jobs immediately (as opposed to having wait 1+ year to hire someone from abroad and wait/hope for them to get through the lottery).

What made it even better was that thanks to legislation by the Obama administration, your spot in the Green Card line was now portable, i.e. even if you switch employers, as long as the new employer files a green card application, you still retained your position in the line.

As you can see, the theme has been giving more leverage to H1-B employees as opposed to the employers - and that is what the American immigration system desperately needs. In the end it's only going to protect American workers.
> AGPL would force them to open-source their whole infrastructure. All of it.

Citation needed.
The title is a bit misleading (clickbait?) - the problem can certainly be fixed, and the article even goes into some of the ways. It just isn't cost-effective. Retiring the problematic machines would do it.

I wonder if they can change the amount of money you play for in those machines, so that it's no longer worth it to try to cheat them?
Ma notwithstanding, history shows that trade does not prevent war (and that the idea that it does springs from unbridled optimism about the nature of man). This has been much discussed:

"Can Free Trade Really Prevent War?":
https://mises.org/library/can-free-trade-really-prevent-war

"Trade Can Bring War":
http://blogs.reuters.com/breakingviews/2015/01/09/review-tra...
The thing that kills me about this whole debate is the flyover states are full of smart hard working people who had the misfortune of ... I shouldn't have to explain this.

These people could be trained too. Every enterprise client I've had for the past 5 years has H1B's doing minimal coding tasks on enterprise COTS software like PEGA or Informatica. Those skills don't take 4 years to train people for and they pay a liveable wage.
Ask HN: How do you format the output of your bash scripts?
Are there good resources that explain a standard or paradigm for the output of .sh scripts? Typically my output is either too sparse or too verbose.

How about when a script is intended to be used in a pipeline ( between | ) but you still want output?

Ideally I'm looking for some sort of "industry standard" that the majority agrees looks good and improves readability of a scripts output.
Some of these laws are so complex and interdependent that we need tools to help simplify them. If the publishers are allowed to paywall the law, then it'll be harder for startups like UpCodes to operate.

UpCodes provides a search engine into the codes, pinning (bookmarking) codes, a collaboration tool and finally weaves in local laws and amendments right into the code.
It's not innovative, and yet it had a large impact on Google and their customers. Innovation isn't everything.
Python API for Rust's Regex Engine