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This is not a Flight Simulator story. This is an end-user that cannot separate software from reality. Similar to the just released Facebook AR Studio, I've spent time in "personalizing technologies" which manipulate imagery of people. The types of bug reports common to that type of work reveals the lack of understanding everyday people have with their own vision system and how basic physics in the world work. It's hard to describe the disconnect some have in their relationship with software - almost like it's a magical authority to them. Cartoon effects like classic loony tunes bombs and dazed-dizzy-stars scare some people as if the effects are real.
The article is talking about college graduates in general. The study you linked to is about young college graduates (age 21 to 24).
But I seldom hear people saying the old web pages can't be shown on today's browser.
What exactly do you mean? All the major US tech companies (and plenty of minor ones as well) have huge India offices. If they were delivering "pretty poor results", they wouldn't still be operating.
MSFT has the biggest lobbying presence in DC and all tech companies follow MSFT's lead.

The history is that during Bill Clinton's Presidency (in the 1990's), there was an attempt to split MSFT up into 3 because of alleged monopolistic behavior. MSFT responded by building up the most formidable lobbying operation DC has ever seen from any Tech company.

After the threat of splitting up MSFT was defeated, they turned their attention to Immigration policy and got passed the AWICA and AC-21 acts which directly resulted in our indentured servitude.
MSFT lobbyists are the founders and architects of the "indentured servitude". They have been very unhelpful with any attempts to free people.

Because MSFT has this formidable lobbying infrastructure, in matters of common interest (like H1-B), all Tech companies essentially follow MSFT's lead (or just outsource their immigration lobbying to MSFT).
Very cool project! I often hear people talk about this as an idea, but never really getting further than that :)

Some suggestions/notes:

- Looking at a recipe (e.g. https://www.eathow.com/recipes/219) I think you forgot to use a cursor: pointer; on the "Directions" and "Ingredients", to indicate that they are clickable

- Someone else mentioned, but you don't have to be so apologetic about wanting money for this :) My personal recommendation would be to mark "The money thing" in it's own section, after your self-intro, and then display very clearly as the first item the two different plans (monthly and yearly), perhaps in some more traditional style boxes as you often see (familiarity is oft helpful).

- I completely understand your reasoning behind 14 days of trial, but you might want to consider your long term game more, by extending the trial so that users will get hooked/dependent on it. Take for example the difference in Apple Music and Spotify trial plans, with Apple Music offering 3 months and Spotify only one month. Now I'm not saying that's the only reason, but Apple Music recently overtook Spotify in monthly unique users[0], which will presumeably convert to paying users later on.

[0] https://www.macrumors.com/2017/03/29/apple-music-monthly-uni...
female autonomy? Is that how you're framing it?

1) Many sex workers have little choice

2) It also legitimises sex as a labour asset, increasing gender inequality
This has been my experience too. Just in the last few weeks basically all of the channels I follow have had a total freak out and started patreon to save their livelihood.
I am a solo founder. I feel that I have a very small chance.
That is a vision that is incompatible with the reality of computing from the past 10 years.
spammers? or dissidents?
First they came for the janitors...

http://www.vdare.com/letters/first-they-came-for-the-janitor...
In "toy planes" we (used to) use "clunk tanks", where the fuel pickup is a piece of flexible tube with a weight on the end, so no matter what orientation the airframe is in, the "sloshed fuel" and the fuel pickup end up in the same place (near enough). For aggressively aerobatic model planes (like control line combat wings) a pressurised fuel bladder was sometimes used (made, back in my childhood, we made these from baby pacifiers!)

Note: this is a couple or more decades old knowledge... Modern electric powered rc planes and builders don't have this problem to deal with.
Why is Microsoft villain? Does it provide its H1B employees below market salary? Genuinely asking as I've seen H1B employees at MS paid a huge salary, equal to their citizen counterparts, and also they've been freely jumping companies to get an even bigger pay raise.
Maybe a similar idea would be running those bots as evaluation tasks. I suppose voting would be a decent proxy objective when you are dealing with very qualitative results and don't want to spend a ton of time evaluating them yourself. Spin up a bunch of bots with different ideas and see which ones score the best.
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Hah, I just got rate limited :p. Couldn't respond for a bit.

I don't disagree with you there. Some of these things are perniciously difficult to substantiate. However, in the case you just mentioned, I think you did a decent job of substantiating it. George Bush is indeed contrary evidence to the assertion that people don't hire blacks due to inarticulateness.

Some things for sure are really difficult to substantiate though. But what is the alternative? Ultimately, to enact change, you need to convince some portion of the culture that it's the right thing to do, or that there's a problem in the first place. I think there's a lot of evidence that efforts like that have been successful over the long term in a number of different areas.
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I think this is a rather pessimistic view of the benefits of hiring intelligent and hard working people to work for your country's companies. Its most certainly not in the disparity of pay; more because they provide more value, due to said intelligence and proclivity to work hard.
> livejournal.com

Now THAT is a domain I haven't seen in a long, long time.
Actually Google spends more on lobbying than Microsoft, and has for a while now.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3024945/major-tech-companies-...

Google spent almost twice as much as Microsoft in 2015, for example.
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Thanks for letting us know! We've been waiting...
TensorRT currently is supporting Caffe; it would definitely be interesting to make a direct Caffe2 compatibility support.
I've seen it in big and small (10 people companies), it just depends on having someone in HR that cares about shit like this and the authority to do something about it.

Sometimes you can't change a light bulb at a small company, sometimes at a big one you're first job is to assembly you're own desk.
Not until they can shoot sports. Go to any big sporting event and you will see a sea of Canon 1DX FF bodies. For the burst fanatics, it will do 14 FPS and refocus and re-evaluate exposure each time. Lock those two and it will do 16 FPS.

I've played with mirrorless, bought one for my kid, I think they are a joke if you are shooting as a pro. I just don't see why I would want one. A phone or a point and shoot will fit in your pocket and they do a great job. If you want better results you step up to full frame. Mirrorless seems like a solution to a non-problem. To me.
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I could easily imagine an incident where someone plugged something in the wrong socket, something got destroyed, and it was codified in policy that only the people who certifiably know what they're doing are allowed to plug stuff into sockets. It takes just one to ruin it for everyone.
Please see my response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14144354
I'm not sure this still works, but I wrote a nim playground a while ago that you can just run locally.

(Similar to http://play.rust-lang.org or https://play.go-lang.org).

https://github.com/theduke/nim-playground
Last I heard (from a twitter thread with those in the know), the "do" keyword is considered highly likely to become standard.
You actually bring up an interesting point. A startup lures employees with promise of huge payouts in its shares. But it cannot use those offered shares in an all cash competitive war to get H1B's based solely on cash.
How are you getting food poisoning often enough to draw statistical conclusions from it?
Nah, merely cruise ships going into warp between intergalactic planets.
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I can get why Americans are pissed off by H1Bs going to Indians. Why are you pissed off? You go through the same lottery process as Indians, no?

I would think that there is a percentage of the spots going to people who put in multiple applications, but that affects everyone equally (and that sort of fraud is an equal opportunity employer).
> l3m0ndr0p (yeah, I'm totally him/her) made an "America first" type of comment.

on the topic of "America First", i wonder if there's a double standard.

if Apple/Facebook/Microsoft/Google/et al say "if we don't reform immigration policies to allow more talented people to enter the US, America will lose its position of technical leadership" that's basically an "America First" argument. but in reality these companies are basically motivated by their own desire to make more cash. and it's not very controversial.

by contrast, if some individual middle class US resident says "H1B visa holders are costing me money by depressing salaries" that's basically an "America First" argument too, even though that person is basically motived by their own desire to make more cash. but it's quite controversial.

is corporate greed somehow more acceptable than individual greed? is there a kind of bias against the little guy?

why isn't everyone equally entitled to advocate for their own greed?
No-one could even agree on making HTML5 valid XML - in order to leverage all the tools and knowledge that exist in that space.

Not that I even like XML. But having another XML dialect that's not actual XML shows that the only hope is to build valid tools and abstractions on top of all the crud.
You must be blind "StarCraft will be free with this patch as well. We'll add a link here when the patch is live. "
There are trade-offs. In very broad terms, single-page-apps are better for something that behaves more like an application (has a lot of user interaction or real-time behavior) than something that behaves more like a website (a page is loaded and the user views that now-static page for a period of time).

I try to fit the more traditional paradigm when I'm allowed to architect an app myself. I like rendering a page on the backend.

Anyway, you can read arguments by smarter people than myself: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21862054/single-page-appl...

That's just one thread of many.
Making it illegal harms female autonomy. They become victims of their pimps. Pimping is much harder to prove than prostitution. When it is illegal, it is usually the women who are hurt by it.

I will add that there is nothing inherently gendered about sex work. Your assumption that it must be a male customer and female sex worker is problematic and, itself, biased.
It's also a sign the company is circling the drain, it's the more qualified people that tend to take voluntary redundancies and take their chances in the job market. This leaves a lot of dead weight behind.
My aunt volunteered to be laid off from her airline. She also traded her pension for a small buyout and lifetime standby airfare for her family.

Smart move. The pension was basically killed when the company was bought out and she retains the free flights to this day. One time I flew with her and my cousin to Texas for dinner during a summer vacation. I think my ticket was $50.
PyTorch definitely makes experimentation much better. For example, if you want to train some system that is highly dynamic (reinforcement learning, for example), you might want to use a real scripting language which is Python, and PyTorch makes that really sweet.

Sometimes the line gets a bit blurred - for research that are focusing on relatively fixed patterns, such as Mask RCNN, both PyTorch and caffe2 are working great. In fact, Mask RCNN is trained in Caffe2, and that also makes things much easy when we put it on mobile - what our CTO Mike Schroepfer showed in his keynote is a Mask RCNN model trained and then deployed onto mobile with Caffe2.
> the absolute murder "small businesses" get away with, (like; taking their personal Truck as a deduction, by calling it a "work truck")

How about "work computer"?
do you know what I like more than a down vote? To know you exists ;)
It is good that other companies are catching up. But, MSFT got the AWICA and AC-21 acts passed decades ago, which directly resulted in indentured servitude. MSFT lobbyists are the founders and architects of the "indentured servitude".
Yeah, I didn't mean scaling to users.

Scale was a poor choice of words. Front-end complexity is a better metric, and in particular complexity which relies on manipulating state.
If it's 3 billion communication-years away, in order to see Earth they'd have seen it 3 billion years ago at the time of viewing. Therefore, for this signal to be targeted at Earth, they'd be targeting an Earth SIX billion years ago (we didn't even exist yet).
This is why we impose limits on what traditions can be practiced in our society.
we just got ours
HN doesn't do much, but Wikipedia does a decent amount of stuff with JS on their website despite people taking it as an example of "the web as documents"

meanwhile, I don't know how FB or Twitter are nice user experiences when you operate on a "paginate 20 tweets at a time" philosophy.
I like the idea. I wrote a cocktail recipes app around a similar concept - https://github.com/dlubarov/Mixologist

I haven't monetized it, but figured it could be monetized with referrals to stores or delivery services. If nothing else, Amazon has a lot of non-perishable ingredients. I wonder if you considered that rather than a subscription model?
Just got our invite! Good luck to everyone else!
What are you talking about? How is this code worse than what you might have seen in 1995? How has the concept of const been abused - it is just an assignment keyword, no worse than the var of 1995.

If you attempt to compose functions out of smaller functions, then you need variables to hold on to those small functions. What's wrong with that? And why would you need "separate classes" for those smaller functions? What problem would "smaller classes" solve?
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> Obviously he'd be in a very odd and like one-time situation if that were the case, but it is possible with how screwy our tax system is.

That scenario is possible, sure. either way it's disingenuous to make the claim that they would lose money by making one more dollar when the tax breaks were not part of the discussion and that cliff would exist regardless of the marginal tax rate on the high earners(which they were discussing). I am ALL for simplifying the tax code to remove subsidies and loopholes and other complexities to the tax code. I am not for removing the progressive nature of the tax code.
The use cases are quite limited since it can only be applied externally (e.g. wound infections) and not against systemic infections.
I went through the entire comment thread and feel like you guys are missing a lot of the H1B benefits by focusing just on tech and the effect of the Indian consultancies.

Most PhDs, specially in STEM, math, stats, econ, etc. are not American. And almost all of them end up with a H1B visa at some point if they remain in the US.

It might be lottery based if you go to work at any firm, or quota-free if it is in academia/nonprofits/govt, but it's still through H1B.

Now, what happens if you kill the H1B?

1) Applications from qualified foreigners to US PhDs drop a lot, because they know they won't be able to find a US-based job.
2) Every firm that does R&D, from Boeing to Amazon, will lose out on a large pool of very skilled workers, that are very hard to replace (how easy is it to replace a CS PhD working on LIDARs for self driving cars?)

All in all, I don't think critics understand this side of the value of the H1B to the US. Every year, you guys take some of the best engineers and researchers across the world, and move them to very useful roles in the US economy.

Disclaimer: I'm currently in an H1B, and would like to think my work contributes to the US. So reading all this makes me a bit sad (and unwelcome).
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American Apparel and Dov Charney tried the hire american model and it was successful until he was forced out.
Congrats! Good luck in the interview.
I've considered this a few times, and things are getting closer to where it's practical to make an app you can point in your fridge and cupboards and have it work out you've got tomatoes, mushrooms, rice, pasta, whatever, and show you recipes you can make with what you've got, or a list of groceries to grab on the way home to make a longer list of possible recipes... I suspect I'll see this app within a few years - given the current capabilities of OpenCV and other optical recognition software...
Just got an invite for an interview. Great news! Can anyone swap interview slots who has one booked for the week of May 1, which is now full?
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Jail will be part of his recovery (as long as he isnt badly beaten or raped). But I also think he deserves mental health care. Counseling or something.
what does that have to do with whether or not to completely change the name of the re-write?
Now imagine your financial world crashes down, so you make a loan at the bank with heavy interest and open a small noodle shop in an alley, which is the last chance to save your family from going homeless.

And then on Day 2 you find five food stalls blocking your store...

Edit: Also do you think people selling food in a busiest street are not being regulated? It's a prized spot, and these guys are professionals. Chances are that it's being regulated. Just not by the police.

And the "tax" they pay for the privilege of operating there isn't being used to, say, build a better road.
Just got our invite! wooooo
It's that [-] button next to the username above each comment. It collapses all the cascading comments. It is enabled via JS. If you disable JS, then it disappears.
Heh, sorry, was the buddy I called 15 times girlfriends cat.
Regardless of your stance on corporal punishment, a parent is in a position of authority over, and responsible for training their children. The relationship between a parent and child is ideally a loving relationship, but it is not a relationship of equals. The parent, culturally and legally, is expected to make decisions in the child's best interest, even, sometimes, when the child disagrees. A child is not an adult.

The relationship to a spouse is fundamentally different. In this country, marriage is a union of two equals. You do not give up the legal autonomy granted to you at 18 just because you got married.

Most people would find it weird or creepy to find you were using other kinds of punishment on your spouse, even punishments that are uncontroversial when used on children, just because this implies that you are not respecting your spouse as an equal, but instead treating him or her as a child.
Could one be the unemployment rate of all with a college degree, and one be the unemployment rate of recent grads?
Thank you :) I'll definitely be rethinking pricing and trials after this.
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Physicist here. There is no law of the universe that prevents flying an absolutely perfect 1G barrel roll. Maybe those numbers are assuming perfectly steady thrust and a constant angle of attack, or true circular motion? That's the best I can think of.
Because "this is X for Y" is technically one sentence but it needs a lot of work to decode. If you can deliver just a sentence, it should also be just a sentence of thought to parse. Instead we need to think about what is X, what is Y, substitute the variables, and now we're juggling a paragraph of incoherent thought. Whereas a "Do this, and that happens" doesn't need any of that.
> There's a natural progression from Bash to Perl to Python, each more powerful than the previous.

As someone who moved in the opposite direction, I can't disagree more strongly.

Python is great if you want to write programs, but that adds a huge overhead over time, even in a simple language.

When I started using Perl, I feel like I really became a DevOps engineer. I built an automated test framework, deployment and monitoring tooling. I wrote scripts to automate processes large and small. It was the perfect scratchpad for getting an idea down with a working implementation, it was as free form or structured as I wanted it to be at any time.

Over time, my familiarity with Bash started to cover a lot of the smaller Perl tasks I was used to.

To automate some simple testing of a REST API, is Python / Perl _really_ needed?

A simple bash script could read data from a text file, then run curl commands in parallel while logging failures. Hell, use jq and you can process the JSON responses trivially too.

If Bash lacks power, I haven't ran into many situations where this was my issue.
I never understood people who loved this combination. Horrible mix, brings out the worst of both drugs.
That's insensitive.
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Except for this blurb from Audience section on the Moby Project site:

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Application developers looking for an easy way to run their applications in containers. We recommend Docker CE instead.

Enterprise IT and development teams looking for a ready-to-use, commercially supported container platform. We recommend Docker EE instead.

Anyone curious about containers and looking for an easy way to learn. We recommend the docker.com website instead.
Something like IBM's chef Watson?
Exactly. Combined with utilities, insurance, property taxes, zoning, maintenance, etc...

A house is literally a systemic bureaucratic yoke around your neck.
Any specific examples? Nodejs seems like it's managed to avoid the early java mistakes of XML everywhere and one-thread-per-request servers.
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The last twenty years have been about deprofessionalization, not professionalization.

Indian universities are terrible but are getting slightly better, US universities have been getting worse over time but are still better.

But the process is about just getting enough numbers - why improve an education system when you can just harvest the small percentage of people who learn despite the poor quality - you only need so many skilled people, after all. The people running this don't care about your average American or Indian but they know there are a lot of Indians.

Training people the usual way costs money and requires an education system where the educators aren't disposable themselves. That's not in the spirit of creating a few highly skilled, energetic, disposable folks who will work 14 hours/day for 10-20 years, squandering their only relatively high salaries until they are replaced by the next batch, with the entire workforce indentured by debt (or visa conditions) despite the poor quality of the education involved.
Machine learning would be interesting to apply to something like saltybet[0], there's already a paper on the idea[1], dunno if somebody actually did manage to do it.

[0]http://www.saltybet.com/

[1]http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:VXw25h2...