skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just got back from Udacity's student conference. They showed a video of the Udacity self-driving car performing at Level 2 autonomy running code from Udacity students which I thought was very cool. They do have an in house engineering team driving what's probably a majority of the work, but the problems they discussed were discrete problem areas which I imagine scale well.

The company is apparently now a registered self-driving car manufacturer, in addition to being an education company.
I completely agree that visas are a problem but I disagree that they will be "the problem" to unseat Silicon Valley as the world nexus of startups.

I've spent most my adult life in Asia and have lived in several countries and cities that claim to be very serious about becoming the next tech hub. None of them have very liberal immigration policies. All have visas for highly skilled workers, all have visas for entrepreneurs and all have visas for investors. I have yet to see a single case where a founder could get a visa without either significant revenues or significantly more funding than YC originally gave. It's also pretty hard for mid-stage startups to hire foreign workers, even in places with exceptional government-driven startup initiatives such as Singapore.

In my perception, Silicon Valley's most critical weakness is housing prices and its most likely true competitor is Beijing—not due to openness of immigration by any means, but due to a larger base of technically educated citizens and access to what is becoming the largest market in the world.
Have all Muslims been banned from the US? I thought it was only a set of countries draw up by Obama.

Edit: Words are hard!

Edit2: Yes, downvote me & upvote the hyperbole. Welcome to the post-fact world. All Muslims are banned. Trump is Hitler. The stock market's going to crash. Anyone right of Obama is racist scum who should lose their job. Etc.
Steve Jobs was one of a handful of people in the world who could pull off such feats. I think tyleo's comment still stands when it comes to everything (and everyone) else.
The point is that the interpretation is up for significant abuse.
Geez, Canada's old problem of being a branch plant economy is back, 2017 edition.
>Top intelligence officials indicated on Tuesday that the GOP was also a Russian hacking target but that none of the information obtained was leaked.

Source - http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/10/politics/comey-republicans-hac...

I think you are being naive if you believe that everything that has been hacked has been leaked or that the leaks are motivated be an ideology of transparency rather than political objectives.
Good points. And if I'd taken the time to think about it, in the metal fabrication workshop I work in there are 27 electric motors within about a 30 meter radius of my desk, and we've never had to replace any of them, nor do any maintenance on them.
Many highlights in this thread on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/dguido/status/839843696078127104
It seems like that is in large part a mischaracterization of what happened. Read the tweets and comments from around https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/768134865049030656
Digital Privacy at the U.S. Border
Personaly I oppose the policy. I think blocking an entire nation for the crimes of an acute minority is stupid. However the reaction from the media and the excitement over hypotheticals I have no other description for other than Hysteria. It's not useful to overreact, and it makes having rational discussion about the topic difficult.
> but we're not talking about use or transmission, we're talking about existence.

A part of me wants to apologize, because I wasn't using that narrow of a definition, and under it, I think you are correct.

The other part of me likes arguing on the internet.

You're of course correct, that just by mere existance information is not power, nor is it anything else, nor is anything else. But to tune one parameter of an issue to an extreme that make the entire issue absurd, is not a useful way to have a conversation about a real life issue.

The point being, that of course existance implies the possibility of use and transmission.

Clearly, nothing is dangerous just by existing without the possibilitiy of interaction with it's environment, not guns, not anthrax, not information, and clearly not humans.

But the whole point about something "being illegal", whatever it is, is that there it the possibility for it to interact with the system it's a part of.
Of course. But it'll do some damage, which will only get worse as time goes on. What about 8 years? 12? If you restrict skilled legal immigration long-term, you're necessarily going to (slowly) drive companies away.
I'd love to actually take that bet. Excluding thermonuclear war, if things get annoying enough we'll just elect a democrat next year and restore the political arena that people believe is best. One (what seems to be) bad president isn't going to completely ruin Silicon Valley. It's pure hyperbole.
Well he didn't do that...
The DJI Mavick does most of the things that video claims the lily can do.
Thank you for that - we've generally had no reaction or feedback at all, so we've not bothered developing it. Yours is the first positive response - we'll have a look about what we can easily add.

Again, thank you.
Well, DJI drones have "follow" features as well, so
Maybe the smart money is on a market shock in the next several months and IPOs are leery of something terrible happening during the window between announcement and implementation. We do, after all, have a very strange political situation.
Village Capital is ditching Demo Days
Not an answer to your question but semi-relatedly Scott Sumner had a post this week where he predicts that recessions will be significantly rarer in the future.

http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=32350

It's interesting to think about.
Other than the language barrier? I imagine its terrible crime problem is a mark against it as well. It had 100+ more murders than often-cited Chicago last year with 1/3rd the population of Chicago!

Also at $15,000 GDP per capita, its not exactly a wealthy place. Vancouver chimes it at 3x that and had all of one murder last year.
Maybe, although taxes are a lot higher in Canada for anything beyond an average salary.
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why is this downvoted? every company I've worked at that has IPO'd companies has been, in my experience, soul-sucking.
So, the original point still stands, but on naked CEOs.
I think HN as a whole has way too much self-promotion going on.

It's especially grueling when people preface it with stuff like "shameless plug" or "not to push my own product, but..."
It's really hard to speak about a subject like this openly and not leave paragraphs that used out of context can show an inverted opinion. Sad.
Strictly speaking it'd be the "Shatner Seat", or the "Shatner Viewing Seat". Shatner's seat only works if Shatner owns it.
She's not wrong.
Traveling... driving to new places, exploring new cities... I know we had maps in the past but man... I just cringe at having to plot routes manually. Anyone have a reliable solution that isn't a smartphone for this? I have an old GPS I could fire up, but I think the battery is dead and not sure it works when it's not plugged into my car...
I don't mean this rudely -- is what I said offensive to people on HN? You're the first person to comment vs downvote as a reply and you seem to dislike FB quite a bit (and the idea of working for them).

Although Facebook as an individual product isn't creating any more value than it already has, the company includes Oculus VR and an AI lab which seem like they'd be fascinating places to work. Additionally, it just seems like an interesting, fun place to be where one could network with interesting people.

I'm not defending its dependence on ad-tech, but the experience (yes, including working conditions + benefits as you noted) seems closer to what I've found in small, new startups than companies like Samsung.
Which countries do people suspect might be banned? I don't really expect any more than already have been.
They said "adding property owners may need to run their water for a few minutes to clear their service lines." I would think that their hot water tank got some of the pink water into it and unlike the cold line the pink will slowly dissipate.
Yeah I lean toward this view as well. The point of an IPO is to raise capital. But when you do this, unless you own 51% of the company or there is a small group of like-minded individuals that own 51% of the company, you can wind up losing control and instead of doing things Wall Street doesn't like, you're going to have to focus on profitability and pleasing shareholders.

It's one route to take, but not the only one.
This was an interviewer working for Triplebyte? I thought their interviews were standardized. Can you tell us more about the experience, and what they asked? I'm super interested in this.
It is up now https://www.periscope.tv/WikiLeaks/1ZkKzEqeDMZxv
when they are more dangerous -> where (the isotopes) are more dangerous
Your scenario sounds okay and reasonable.

However, I think the issue was laughing off the affirmative response. Why would you laugh at the response unless you don't believe someone?

Did they laugh off your affirmative answer?
That helpful wikipedia link is notably short on 'European fascist regimes of the last 70 years'.
Thanks for calling that out. I do work with Nanobox, but am legitimately trying to gain an understanding of how our platform (and things like it) might appeal to people who are more familiar with things like Kubernetes than I am.

I could have done a better job of making that clear in the description, and I apologize.
I also know several US citizens that have been denied entry into Canada because of a DUI in the United States. AFAIK It's not a hard fast rule, and you won't find out until you get there.

Canada doesn't exactly have an open border.
>" the US has turned noticeably anti-science, anti-immigrant..."

The US gives grants citizenship to more immigrants each month than the PRC has in its entire history.

Another interesting statistic is the total number of people the PRC has granted permanent residency to ever. It's definitely worth googling.
Are these practices unusual?
lol they raised so much with nothing in hand but a few cad files while we have a worldwide original test bench for drones made&done and can't raise a penny? deeper line being can you startup a single-model drone in an already populated, very competitive market?
Notice how of all the groups listed there, "foreign university students" are not included.

I have little doubt that human and especially political rights in China are considerably worse than in the US overall, but you can live well anywhere if you're part of a preferred class and don't intend to rock the boat.
I would guess that its a combination of Sarbanes-Oxley and the glut of private capital available.
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I had replied to an earlier thread. In short, moved to town, went to school in town. Touched first PC in University at the age of 21.

Alot of the adaptation happened as a kid. I went to school not knowing a word of English. I don't even know how I learnt the language. Kids adapt. They are less self conscious. So I guess every new environment was new for as long as it took to adapt.
I do work with Nanobox, and I apologize for not making that more clear initially, but am legitimately trying to gain an understanding of how our platform (and things like it) might appeal to people who are more familiar with things like Kubernetes than I am.
Tangent:

One of my pet peeves are blogs without a link to the company. Clicking the logo takes you to the blog, not the company. Missed opportunity. Don't make people have to google your company name to find your website.
Believe the OP is suggesting it's on its way, not that the US is there quite yet. And the US certainly has our own questionable human rights issues.
this is huge! I take my words back - RDS finally has a competitor.
> Look at the visa policy for unmarried women under 30 for Dubai

With little googling you can find a reason behind this. Dubai escorts is huge.
Oh please no. Leave the VC reality distortion field south of the border please.

We don't need YC ruining Canada with hopped up "startup" bros. If we even need more VC firms (I don't think we do), let indie VC or something like it come up.

Edit: This isn't meant to mean people shouldn't start companies here. They should. But they should do it firmly grounded in reality, not based in SV VC world which has very little to do with building solid long term businesses.
They knowingly relayed and re-published that information. That's like sharing revenge porn, but far worse.
I think you're missing a key part, there's a difference between being a target and actually losing valuable information.

It's entirely possible that either they failed to break in or that they failed to get any significant information.
I wonder what action you want Ycombinator to take to satisfy your standards of solidarity? Should they leave America? Apparently (I could be wrong) its their view that remote startups are not ideal, so it seems like you suggest they either operate in undesirable circumstances or move.
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This appears to be a bad headline: it's not the result of an audit on Airbnb, but instead a list of findings as part of a bug bounty.

Further: while this is good work, clever findings, and an excellent writeup, it's a series of attacks on a single endpoint; sort of the XSS equivalent of a bug chain for a browser vulnerability. You could quibble over "8 vulnerabilities", since they all add up to the same vulnerability in the same piece of code.

The best headline would be the article's own, or, failing that:

Bypassing JSON Encoding, XSS Filter, WAF, CSP, and Auditor at Airbnb
Mansplaining (condescending explanations in which sexist attitudes are an underlying motivation) is, I believe, a very real thing, but also probably exaggerated; people condescend to people all the time, and it's likely to be perceived as being motivated by dismissiveness across a differential in social position (whether sex, race, or otherwise) where that condescension happens to be directed in what is seen as the "downhill" direction across such a differential whether or not that's really a factor in the particular act of condescension.
Maybe they will take it further and set up shop in Vancouver or Toronto.
Couple of years ago a japanese team used an iodine atom to compute a fourier transform. The computation was faster than a computer but the ETL was super slow.

IBM has been pushing stuff around with a tunneling microscope for decades.

It's cool but the press should report the transfer rate.
The US also has vast geothermal potential and about 3.4 MWh installed capacity. Geothermal power is a suitable replacement for nuclear and coal/gas as one can build base load power stations.
If you are making your choice of employment based on outrage stories in the media, you are making a big mistake. Of course, some of the stories we read are outrageous. But you should also take into account that literally millions of people cross the border of the US every year (US accepts a million a year only as immigrants, and vastly more as visitors), and vast majority of them have no trouble beyond maybe being asked a couple of questions. Minority of them do have problems, and these problems are a shame, and need to be fixed. But denying yourself opportunities out of fear of a tiny probability you may be unlucky to experience those problems is like never living one's home because accidents happen outside.
I feel like YC, with it's long record would have an easier time attracting capital than an individual startup.
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There arent many minerals available on ice and stuff gets buried under snow quickly too.
Show HN: QuietModemKit – Data transmission over sound on iOS
Yes! We have been asking for this for a while now when asked for feedback about what we would value. Managed ElasticSearch is next on our wishlist.
I think it's a signalling thing, like when people sign their emails with a single lowercase initial, i.e. we're too busy and important to spend time on this.
Samsung is not a Tech company, it's a multi-national conglomerate.

It comprises numerous affiliated businesses,[1] most of them united under the Samsung brand, and is the largest South Korean chaebol (business conglomerate) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung

Microsoft/Google are multinational companies but their core business has remained. Samsung on the other hand did food processing, textiles, insurance, securities and retail and only got into the electronics industry after close to 30 years.
I worked on this guide with my colleagues at EFF. It updates a guide that I worked on with other colleagues in 2011.
Right now it's better in the USA and presumably easier to get funding for various R&D projects at post-grad level.

However your parent post was suggesting that this could extremely easily shift if it's hard for talented African/European/Asian students to get US visas, and China siezes the opportunity - investing heavily in R&D making student immigration easier.

Likely it won't change overnight, but it's not impossible to imagine a world where this scenario plays out - a few more Trump Executive Orders, a savvy couple moves from the CCP and you're not far off.

Another possible reality is that nobody benefits - the USA squeezes its intake of the worlds best and brightest, the EU is too busy puzzling over Brexit and similar distractions among South American, Asian and African nations (sorry I'm not familiar enough with their internal troubles to speculate) scupper their own efforts.
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Not necessarily. I might find long hair more aesthetically pleasing than boobs or penises.

She's merely compared two different body parts, which in our culture are more than not covered by clothing in business matters.

Let's not get too distracted by the last sentence of her article. There's more substance in the paragraphs preceding it.

EDIT: For anyone that misses my point about hair, men and women can have long hair.
What else is there to say? It's the Middle East. Can women even start businesses there? What if you're gay? Will they behead the CEO of a Y Combinator-backed startup if he/she is ousted as gay or an atheist? Will the founder have to have a male escort to board meetings?
That reasoning could be used to justify a lot of things.

(I know you may be stating their reasoning and not I am not saying you are endorsing that)
Now I see, forgot the context and last events
I am curious to know why you think that's a relevant question?
>>I don't understand the hatred of Russia

the USA and Russia (USSR) have been at odds far longer than I've been alive.

>>Wouldn't we want to be allies with the second most powerful country?

maybe, but we aren't talking about China here (I have no idea how you would rank Russia as the 2nd most powerful country, but please enlighten me).

>>any evidence of the hacking?

No, but (at least from my perspective) the razor appears to be leaning heavily in one direction.
Assume good faith! We changed the title to representative language from the article.
Finally! The one reason I could think of to stick with AWS.

I'm really excited about the future of GCP.
If we didn't have a long history of screwing each other on the order of millions of humans lives it might be possible.

They feel that we should have helped more in WWII so that 30 million (This number might not be accurate, but their count will be higher than ours) Russians wouldn't have had to die to defend Russia. The wanted a two front war with the Nazi's early on.

They feel that we have been actively maneuvering to endanger their safety throughout the entire cold war. They see our wars in Korean, Vietnam, Iran, Iraq Afghanistan as shows of power to demonstrate to them that we can kill millions and get away with it.

Then on top of all that, they were insular and perhaps even xenophobic before that anyway.

Recently Hillary was hawkish on openly attacking them and Obama held his ground well. They need to work their ass off just keep their ports from being useless, so they took the Crimea.

Worse, the way we see it we have done nothing wrong and view what think are acts of national security as acts of war. Maybe they are or aren't, it doesn't really matter here and now. What does matter is that all this damages trust.

How do we go about allying with someone we have so little trust capital to work with?
This has the big limitation, at least at the moment, that the supported providers all cap out at 1 TB for any kind of reasonably-priced storage.
Yes I think you may be right about this, but I also honestly feel like your standards for inflammatory content are only applied in one direction.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13831252

Heres an example of a thread where (in the second reply) I thought mikash was being inflammatory, but my expectation is that you wouldn't care! This I think highlights the "one direction" I'm trying to point out.
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2nded
> "I started out life as a baby and then a little girl in Detroit and now I live in LA and run Lumi."

Where "Lumi" links directly to the company website.
Given that this was the administration's attempt to implement a ban on Muslims entering the country, I'd expect it to be expanded to more predominantly Muslim countries if the courts don't completely smack it down and the administration survives long enough.

And beyond that, who knows? When insane people are in power, anything is possible. Maybe some big attack is carried out by a radicalized Muslim from France or Sweden, and the response is to ban entries from there. I'd have called this idea absurd not too long ago, but now I consider this kind of thing a serious, if small, possibility.
I totally don't endorse that. But it gets better, last month they removed visas for Russians and I'm coming soon!
Do you know of any good mithril projects out in the wild?
Sometimes people do this in interviews because they get a chance to explain something that they are very comfortable with and get cheap points. In cases like this it will backfire, but in general it doesn't hurt to explain a concept in detail to show that you know it more than the next guy.
> "Don’t invite me to your event and admit it’s because you want women there."

Everyone is doing this. Tech companies are explicitly hiring women to increase their diversity metrics. I am very confused. Do we make a special case for minorities and women or do we not?

The penis comment at the end was cringe. This place sounds like it would be a difficult place to work for those of us with a family relying on us. The CEO is making sexual jokes in a public blog post. I can only imagine what the office banter is like and how many times per day I'd be zipping my mouth shut for fear of contributing to a joke that would likely see my immediate dismissal at another company.

This doesn't seem like a very professional way to represent your company.
Extremely exciting, been waiting for this for a while
Nice! I didn't know the closure compiler toolkit handles css/html templates too. That explains why googles classnames are mangled.
You're forgetting Stuxnet, a computer virus that had the ability to physically kill people as it destroyed the equipment they were working on. You're forgetting cyber attacks that can shut down medical equipment or power systems, leading to deaths. You're forgetting attacks on bluetooth systems in cars that can remotely shut them down or control their steering.

You seem to be of the opinion that just because things are digital means they can never be dangerous. Your opinion is very wrong. A collection of bits on a hard drive is very much able to kill people.
Yep.I now believe Google is serious about cloud.It is beyond me why it takes Google too long to do this.
F# units of measure are pretty cool - types for units!