skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Curious what you or any other H1B employee feels about this point of view?

I'm quite biased, because I failed the H1B lottery. Took me a good while to get a different work visa (and LPR now). So take this with a grain of salt.

From the perspective of somebody working in a niche where I (via companies I work with), would immediately hire anyone qualified in that niche, be it a USian or not, I agree. Trying to hire specialists (abroad, because there none available in the US) and then being unable to get H1Bs for them, is quite frustrating; especially when you see companies/people getting H1Bs in roles with plenty local candidates/low specialization.
I am pretty sure this update does not add FUSE support.
FUSE would add the ability to use SSHFS, which is the network file system support I'm interested in.

If FUSE would be useful to you, please vote for it at
https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-con...
Google’s S2, geometry on the sphere, cells and Hilbert curve (2015)
Blogspam of

https://insights.mdc-berlin.de/en/2017/04/mission-control-bo...
same question: I want to able hack/modify/change a car to high performance car. do I need to understand how it work?
how does an engine work? what kind of parts I need?
I think you should understand how does cpu and memory work.
how does network work. how does cryptography work. what kind of tools able hack.
India me petrolpump par ban
5 Easiest Programming Languages to Learn for a Novice
I have nothing but good things to say about the king.

This of course has nothing to do with the fact that I might one day like to visit my old highschool friend who lives in Thailand.
Oops, my bad. I feel dumb now, apologies.
I think inking a deal with Plex would be pretty obvious. I'm not sure where the line is for knowing that you are storing infringing content, but MEGA claims they didn't know what users were uploading.
Blogspam of

https://news.fsu.edu/news/health-medicine/2017/04/17/think-b...

with author credit (Dave Heller) stripped out.
Still can't see anything about making server-side rendering a first class citizen for relay :(.
I felt the same way. I am still learning it, but not as fast as I could with a REPL. Transpiling to C to get the optimizations in GCC is awesome.
I guess a successful exit in my last startup and revenue in our first 6 weeks for this startup weren't good enough, LOL.
Kick some ass everyone! :)
This doesn't really work either anymore, changed on the same day. Almost all biology and science related jobs have been deleted from the list of skilled migration jobs (NOT just 457, this includes all skills-based migration).

https://www.border.gov.au/Trav/Work/Work/Skills-assessment-a...

Removed:

- Life Scientist (General)

- Microbiologist

- Biochemist

- Biotechnologist

- Geophysicist

- Natural and Physical Science Professionals NEC (this one is a catchall)

https://www.border.gov.au/Trav/Work/Work/Skills-assessment-a...
Ya, I don't think Plex would be necessarily at fault, although they could be susceptible to DMCA takedown notices. But a storage provider could get into deep trouble if they know tons of pirated content was being uploaded. Kim Dotcom claims MEGA had no idea if the content being uploaded was infringing.
We're not selected to interview. We were invited to the pre-interview (video call) last week. Solo founder. Good luck everyone!!
B2C focus is arguably an established trend in incubators/kickstarter/hardware startups in general as well.
Yeah right?

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20091123-00/?p=...
What's your definition of full stack? Anyone that knows a back end language, sql, html and a bit of css and javascript is a full stack web developer.
Many do. For example, the `Lambda` Layer from Keras:

https://keras.io/layers/core/#lambda
programmable statically typed languages

programmable refers to nim's metaprogramming capabilities.
I think that's the point--something is very wrong here. Plenty of U.S. people have technical backgrounds who are under-employed and/or have abandoned the field due to low job prospects.
Demos are unwatchable on iPhone.
edit: I'm wrong, leaving this for posterity.

You're neglecting two potential sources of upward acceleration. One, the turn itself, or in other words air resistance: if you stop turning when you're pointed straight up, clearly you're going to go up, not down (at least to start with), which means the turn accelerated you upward. And two, any forward acceleration provided by the engine while "forward" isn't horizontal.

(I don't know enough about aerodynamics to actually determine how a barrel roll actually works, though, only enough to contradict your post :)
> All these effects are the product of workers being stuck in their jobs through the H1B program. Give H1B workers the same rights as American workers and they will compete on the same terms, getting a competitive salary and not bringing wages down.

I strongly agree on the general sentiment. But I think you'd continue to need some restrictions, otherwise it'll end up as a means to pay companies to get a US visa. Get visa, switch to a different company with way lower salary, etc. Similarly you could have arrangements where companies move people to cheaper subsidiaries after getting the initial visa.

I presume you'd have to have continuing salary requirements, possibly requiring that the next job's salary is higher than previous ones. That'd have the issue that you could trap somebody by giving a way above market salary, but that seems a fairly remote problem.

> Also, ban H1B outsourcing.

Not sure about that in general. There's plenty of work where it just doesn't make sense to have a full-time employee in a company, but you want somebody available on a regular basis. But it's also quite commonly misused.
Emacs.

I have the nim-mode and smart-compile packages installed, and I have bound F9 to compile the nim code in the current buffer, and run it in the emacs-inbuilt eshell.

I have configured so that the point and buffer switching 'does the right thing'.

- If the compilation fails, show the compilation buffer in the other window, and do not execute the binary, and keep the point in the code window.

- If the compilation passes, execute the binary in the other window.

- Now if the binary execution ends with showing the eshell prompt, move the point back to the other window (code window).

- If not, that is, if the eshell prompt does not show up, keep the point in the eshell buffer, because that most likely means that some user input is expected.

---

So my nim learning process goes as: type a code snippet, F9, type more, probably cause error, F9, fix that, F9, etc.

Config: [1] [2]

[1]: https://github.com/kaushalmodi/.emacs.d/blob/master/setup-fi...

[2]: https://github.com/kaushalmodi/.emacs.d/blob/master/setup-fi...
Patrick Wyatt: The StarCraft path-finding hack
Chemist’s Misconduct Is Likely to Void 20,000 Massachusetts Drug Cases
The second is an aileron roll done purely with the ailerons, engine and tail, not using the lift generated by the wings. Not all planes can do it because the engine needs to be very powerful to support horizontal flight, and the wings need a neutral airfoil shape to provide lift when upside down.

Trying to come up with a better explanation for the first.

EDIT: Try this on for size:

Given - the force imparted by the wings is 1G (enough to cancel the force of gravity), and will always be pointed straight through the roof of the aircraft. The pilot takes no action to increase the amount of lift. The G's are measured from the frame of reference of the passengers in respect to the aircraft. Rotational forces are not considered - most people are unable to kinesthetically perceive any rotation which occurs at less than 5 degrees per second, and don't realize that they could be upside down and still feeling like they're right side up. It's why instrument training involves so much instruction and reminders to trust the instruments, not your body.

The maneuver is initiated by rolling the plane (clockwise, with respect to the pilot) with the ailerons. Since no effort is made to change the amount of force being generated by the wings, the downward component of that thrust (as measured from an external reference point) will lessen, allowing the aircraft to start accelerating downwards while also accelerating to the right. The force felt by the passengers is still exactly 1G - the force created by the wings, and it is still pointed vertically through the plane. Since the downward component affects the passengers and plane equally, there is no measurable effect on the G forces with respect to the passenger's frame of reference.

The aircraft reaches 90 degrees, and is accelerating to the right at 1G, and downwards at 1G. The downward force is not felt by the passengers, again because their entire frame of reference is accelerating at the same speed, only the force pushing them into their seats.

The aircraft reaches 180 degrees, and is now accelerating at 2Gs downwards. Passengers are still feeling only 1G of pressure from the seat.

270 degrees - the acceleration to the left cancels out the previous acceleration to the right, passengers are still being just pushed into their seats.

360 degrees - the maneuver is complete. The plane is significantly lower and some distance to the "right" of its original position. Their velocity now includes a significant downwards component.

Now here's where things perhaps become a matter of semantics - pilots would consider the barrel roll to be completed at this point, and they simply need to recover from their new orientation. Of course, this will probably require little to no input from the pilot, it will simply happen naturally due to the changed angle of attack induced by the downward motion increasing the lift generated by the wing.
I met some folks in a RV park in Mazatlan. They had a cruising sail boat. They sold it because the cost of a night or so in a yacht harbor was too extreme and the worry while they were traveling in the area was too great. They had a van and seemed content.
Blogspam of

https://news.ncsu.edu/2017/04/flexible-thin-film/

with author credits stripped out.
D&D is descended from wargaming.
I agree the two images were problematic, but they were mixed into millions of forum posts...

Anyways, if your domain sites contents break the AUP at https://www.namecheap.com/legal/universal/universal-tos.aspx , it seems they will suspend your domain that fast...

Again ridiculous. They even replied "Yes, we have checked the content of the web-site and based on its not deliberate nature we have provided a reasonable time-frame for removing the illicit content."

Reasonable time-frame being 24 hours. More ridiculous.
> Put down those donuts, pies, cookies, cakes, pasta meals, whole grains, and fruits. Get rid of the dairy. Eat according to a harsh stress filled environment if you live in one: a modified hunter-gatherer diet is best. What do you have to lose if you don't?

This biased, agenda driven, food shaming conclusion in no way follows from the effects of starvation on infants.
Well of course these students and their professors aren't going to advocate for limiting their own speech ;)

In all seriousness though, there seems to be no attempt whatsoever at restricting "dangerous" speech coming from leftists by these people, so that alone ought to make it clear they aren't making a logical argument. It's emotions and regurgitation. Basically the same thing as the worst of the alt-right.

A good example of how absurd their criteria is too: At Norte Dame they're attempting to prevent the Vice President from speaking at their commencement because they claim he makes them feel unsafe.
H-1Bs are law-abiding people and therefore the easiest immigrant group to attack, unlike illegals they will leave when told so.
The IRS has fillable forms available. But the best thing is to just hire a tax accountant.
Gödel’s Loophole: Gödelian design defects in US Constitution
Congratulations to everyone for applying, and giving it a shot, whether or not you got an interview! Go get 'em! :)
Got our rejection. I guess it'll be Winter 2018 for us.
iirc, they are retiring her bib number as well. only the second time this has been done.
YC just missed me ;)
This is exactly how I feel. The news is so sensationalized it's ridiculous. As a thought experiment, read the news headlines from a Trump speech, then watch the actual speech. They focus on a sentence or two and ignore the rest of the speech. Yes, he said something stupid, but what else did he say?

Perfect example is the Spicer gas thing. Had he said Hitler didn't use gas on the battlefield, he would have been completely right. In WWI they used gas a lot and everyone expected Hitler to do so. Many theorize it was because Hitler himself was gassed in WWI. What else did Spicer say? You'll have to watch the press conference to find out, the news sure isn't going to tell you. That's subversive as hell.

I don't particularly care for Trump, nor any politician for that matter, but I don't like being treated like a child by the news (left and right).

For what it's worth, many companies have been using H1B to lower wages. That's all that's on their spreadsheets. They're sold on other things like, "you can ramp up when you need it," and, "you never have to worry about losing people because we have redundancy and will train the new person," but that's all BS. I think it will raise US wages and equity packages for at least the next 10 years or so. 10%, 30%, 50% maybe. I'll take that. They've been suppressed for 20.
A cool way to discover new apps
> In fact, these buildings look nicer than many apartment buildings I have lived in in the northeast US.

Absolutely and strongly concur. USian housing is a complete shitshow, between the government's disinvestment from any sort of public/social housing and the existence of zoning laws (and other land use restrictions) that make any sort of high-density housing extremely difficult to build.

For many people in US (especially those who are poor or elderly or disabled or working-class) a unit in one of those "khruschevka" would alas be an upgrade.
This is our 3rd time applying. S15 - Rejected. S16 - Invited then rejected after the interview. S17 - Rejected (we grew to a much higher MRR since S16 with a stronger product). YC's decisions can be unpredictable and I believe you have to get lucky with the batch (your startup showing more promise than others in the pool).
Movies are different. That could be a continuity problem. Actors are clean or dirty for a reason. 24, for example put a lot of effort into costume continuity. Shot over months, 10 copies of the same clothes, looking slightly worse as the day wears on.
We got pre-interview video call too and then finally got rejected. I thought pre-interview would be a foot in the door but apparently not
So what companies are currently in Tilt's space?
By smoothly transitioning into the turn as you roll. The simple act of rolling the aircraft doesn't change the amount of lift being generated towards the roof of the aircraft. In fact, if you don't increase that force intentionally, you will turn and lose altitude.
Has anyone pitching a non profit heard back?
I think because of the velocity of YC, and I believe they've even said as much, that YC doesn't care about ideas. They care about people and markets. It's basically their investment thesis. So for their purposes, positioning is much much more important than differentiation. They want people they can recombine and reposition.

There are however other kinds investors and other kinds of entrepreneurs where that just doesn't make sense.
I lived in a homeless camp for two years while I rebuilt my classic Avion truck camper. Trouble did come through at times, but I value the time I spent with the people there. It can be a hard life some times. There, people had it particularly hard because of personality problems. That didn't mean they weren't trying to live as good a life as they could and be as good people as they could manage. I have thought of writing a book: "Live Among Heroes" because their lives were heroic struggles.
Most of the stores you are referring in Bangkok are mainly big chains or shops run by people with lots of businesses.

The people who really struggle are the people who run the stalls :/
Do you have any blog posts or similar about how you're managing the scene graph? I've been thinking a lot about building a scene graph lately, and coordinate -> component mapping seems expensive in time and/or memory depending on how you do it.
>That's not true. The American Universities don't choose to admit foreign students just because. The good schools always try to balance the mix of students admitted into the program.

Then why do Indians make up more than 30% of my school's CS program, despite them making up less than 1% of the US population?
When do the non profits hear?
I'm not addressing any sources of acceleration. I'm only looking at the final acceleration vector. If the magnitude of that vector is 1 gee, then there are only two possibilities. One is that it perfectly opposes gravity, resulting in zero net acceleration. The other is that it doesn't perfectly oppose gravity, resulting in downward vertical acceleration. It is not possible for a 1 gee acceleration vector to result in upward vertical acceleration, regardless of what causes the acceleration.
Meh. If H1B were reshaped to actually be for specialist workers as it was intended (at least by some), then that's a lot easier said than done. I got to the US on a temporary work visa (not H1B because of loosing the lottery), and I'd find positions for somebody with my and a bunch of other specializations several times over.

By auctioning based on salary you're preferring areas with absurd costs of living - which is a) not where you necessarily need to get more people making the problem worse b) reinforcing economic inequality between areas of the country.

If there's a company needing some specialist somewhere with a saner cost of living, and they tried to find such a specialist, offering above market wages, what exactly is the benefit of not them having to pay twice or thrice the effective salary of somebody in SF/NYC?
Indeed! I made a few mutant cats and weird shoes...
Just got the glorious rejection email :) https://mail.mixmax.com/m/kWxSBXQlxWO9sN6AC

We interviewed in-person for W17 in October and got rejected because we didn't articulate a good plan for growth.
- we grew 4,000% since October
- launched huge features for both sides of our marketplace
- received acquisition interest in < 3 months of being live
- most importantly, made something that people are loving and using on a daily basis.

It's a bummer for sure but not the end of the world.

To anyone who got an interview,
Figure out your biggest weakness and a plan for how you overcome it. Your interviewers will exploit it.

Here's some notes on our experience going through the interview
https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/YC-Interview-Experience-L45KzT...

Good luck all
The version I preferred was "the customer is not always right, but has a right to be heard".
I once had the fortune of working at a company that offered voluntary lay offs while I was in the middle of negotiating an offer at another company. I basically ran to the HR office to volunteer in exchange of multiple months of severance.
H-1s are hard to bring in if you're a startup. On one hand, that's as it should be (the country is insane not to give preference to locals) but on the other hand is painful (since not everybody locally has the needed skills).

And it's impossible if you have non-tech requirements (like the native foreign language teachers we tried to bring in when I was on the school board -- the allotment ran out in October yet teachers are recruited in march-may to start in August).

With emotions so high it's hard to say "the big consultancies are abusing / destroying H-1" without people thinking you're saying either "H-1 is bad for America" or "I'm a troglodyte who hates H-1". H-1 is pretty good for all concerned, actually, if you follow the rules.

Note (not really a disclaimer): despite saying, which I believe, that the big consultancies are abusing H-1, I have friends at Infosys, Tata, Birla etc.
> "Did Seattle rain in your coffee or something?"

Haha very funny. Starbucks HQ is in Seattle. I do drink Starbucks sometimes.
Will React Fibre be utilising WebAssembly for a performance increase, particularly for their virtual DOM? (falling back to JavaScript when possible, of course)
Ask HN: Rejects Unite?
Why don't we get all the rejected companies that haven't launched yet and make it our goal to launch on the same day as the accepted ones? There are way more of us right? I have an extra $1000 for publicity. Who's in?
rejected :(
Canceling a fake reservation with Airbnb
If you are like me, then you probably schedule trips last minute like I do.

It was a little after 5 pm when I started looked for a hotel or Airbnb listing near a conference that I'm attending tomorrow and Thursday.

This one listing looked particularly perfect and was very close to the conference center and was less than all the hotel rates in the same area. So I booked it and shortly after I received this email: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/329801eb7e5f3a6d6506f84c4a66e8b4

--- email excerpt ---
First, I wanted to make sure you were aware that the address of the building is [redacted]. For some unknown reason, Airbnb lists the official address of the building at a different location and I want to be sure you had the correct address. I am working to fix this with Airbnb, but they are moving slow.
--- end email excerpt ---

The twist is that the cancellation policy determined by [redacted] only refunds me 39% of what I paid for and the textarea that Airbnb provides for me to write a detailed account of my terrible experience only allows 240 characters.

Seriously Airbnb, only 240 characters?
Java still doesn't work properly though =(. "mvn clean package" on one of corporate projects takes about 5 to 8 minutes in native java on Windows or Mac and it takes more than one hour in WSL. I had so much hope for WSL that I would finally have only ONE device (surface), but no, we're not there yet.
Want to launch anyways? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14144922
I'm sure they did. Good luck with your startup.
Hah. The Y prefix alone should've been a tip off. I don't know a darned thing about air travel but I know Canada is stuck with the Y.
Your Windows drives appear under /mnt/c, /mnt/d, etc. in WSL. So your Windows home directory is /mnt/c/Users/ffoobar.

You can easily read/write Windows files from Linux, but I don't think you can do the opposite. I've used git within WSL to drive a repo on my Windows drive.

WSL gives you full-blown Ubuntu 16.04 where you manage packages with apt-get. You have to look close to the bare metal to see differences. Until the creator's update, for example, ifconfig didn't work.

Earlier today, I compiled and ran some OpenMP-based code in WSL and it happily detected all the cores on my dev machine and kept them busy with worker threads. Pretty cool!
Raymond Chen's war stories from the Windows era are fun reads. I'd guess many of these upvotes are for the author rather than this story.
Chuwi’s Lapbook 12.3 will offer the same display as the Surface Pro 4
Some 4.5M Japanese aged between 35 and 54 are living with their parents
I can't imagine the kind of person who would try to argue with an actual commercial pilot in-flight based on their assumptions about a video game.
I also have a friend who is waiting to hear back, though he did apply late. We received our email a little over an hour ago.
Unfortunately react-storybook is not very mobile friendly. I would suggest using the Codepen demo instead. Here is the full screen link for that: http://codepen.io/tannerlinsley/full/dWYEwd/
It's funny how Windows 10 is rapidly becoming a better Unix than MacOS since everything that matters runs Linux.