skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand - I never claimed equivalence or even a comparison. I don't believe its wrong to acknowledge other parties also affected, especially when designing an ideally lasting and widely adopted solution.
Would you please stop posting flamebait to HN? You've done this repeatedly and we ban such accounts. If you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; otherwise please don't comment until you do.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14702902 and marked it off-topic.
VBA is actually a pretty amazing language.

Even without diving into the Win32 APIs, there is an absolutely amazing amount of stuff that gets exposed via COM and, as a result, is easily accessible from VBA.

Of course, the biggest downside to all this power is that people actually used it. This is how you end up with businesses that live and die by gigantic and virtually impenetrable Excel workbooks.
Food was not the point. The point is government agencies withholding information that helps their people:

1) think critically

2 allows them to make informed and rational choices

3) quantify risk
Brett, please review and decide who should get this task
A) Cases are not presented in a random order, B) judges attempt to complete all cases from a given prison before a break is taken, C) the study groups together "deferred" and "not granted parole" - it's possible "deferred" cases are pushed to the back of the prison's docket. Also, D) shared representation is common, and in these cases it's possible and likely for the representative (who chooses what order to present his cases to the judge) to present the most promising case first.*

How this at all boils down to "hungry judges" and then gets reported as such is basically everything wrong with science reporting (which is to say, almost everything is wrong with science reporting).

* Probably oversimplified from http://www.pnas.org/content/108/42/E833.full
What if the charging station could roll to your car and plug in while its parking?
Basically a cable drum drone, with a little lair somewhere below the street.
The problem is that what you call "improving the web" isn't necessarily what other users would call "improving the web".

What do you mean by improving the web?
Jefferson was a key influencer on the Constitution and one of the reasons (though not the most important) that it didn't included graduated emancipation --- an idea Jefferson supported in theory but believed in practice would, without a program to immediately deport all the slaves back to Africa, lead to a race war in which whites would exterminate blacks.
The important part of mars colonization is being able to produce 100% of all needed goods (from food to CPU's) on the surface of mars, not covering the planet with people. Really 2-3 redundant geosynchronous satellites on mars should be plenty for a very long time.

Musk wants satellite internet as it lets Space X lower cost per launch by launching a lot of satellites.
I'll piggy back on this, as a Canadian.

What are the pros and cons of each for the employer?

What are the pros and cons of each for the Canadian employee?

In practice, how many times can a TN be renewed?
> You can claim that's not what feminism today is working towards, but that's simply untrue.

You can claim that's the definition of feminism, I believe what you're saying is untrue. I don't believe what you quoted is the definition of feminism - there are more likely almost as many definitions of feminism as there are feminists. I think it's absurd to claim that there is one definition given the rather elaborate diversity of belief on the matter just among feminists.
Thanks so much! Not sure if off topic but related: I'm a canadian trying to figure out how to provide services to the US market. For people entering on TN-1A or similar, how has the trump administration changed the process? I don't have a comp-sci background. If I do pure consulting (no code) is it feasible to go in under a T1? I make > 200k/year - I think the lowest limit was doubled to 160k?
That's not something that I can comment on.
What is PerfectPage?
Nice. I need to find a job like that. I moved out to a new province and accepted the first job I got offered and I didn't like it.

Then I got offered and accepted a new job which seemed nice but it's just so boring.

I need to be more picky seeing how companies like Buffer exist. I always just take the first offer I get because I don't like interviews and I've been lucky enough to get a job offer after the first interview I do when looking, but it's pretty stupid in retrospect. It's a gamble that has long lasting effects.
we've created an industry with a culture that prioritises the values of one class (middle/upper-class urban men) over everything else. Thus you have 'casual' workplaces with games consoles, beer, lame forced socialising, chill zones etc in which some people feel comfortable and others feel thoroughly excluded from.

I disagree. Speaking as someone in that group, I would argue that those things are most valued by freshly minted graduates who've been in the industry for 5 years or less, with few if any commitments outside of work.

i.e., the folks the tech industry exploits by convincing them to work 60-80 hours a week until they burn out. Heck, Google et al even refer to their facilities as "campuses" to appeal to that demographic.

That said, I agree, Silicon Valley has created a culture in that region that values one thing: male youth.

It's why sexual and age discrimination are such a problem in the industry in general, and in that region in particular. It even gave birth to the concept of the "brogrammer", which is the ultimate expression of this ideal.
Not sure what you mean by this. You have full control over your table schemas and relationships with the Django ORM.
hi Peter, the Greencard EB1 category for multinational execs was once faster but is now taking more than 1 year. Is there any other alternative?
The USIP Academy
Is Irish a race? I'm thinking you mean discrimination.
It seems you've reduced the process of making a car to welding finished parts together on the line.

Seems intellectually dishonest to suggest that a robot screwing finished parts together is the only context relevant for considering cost comparison

Products that last longer reduce our need to produce more. Reduces human labor requirements, resource extraction

They crater sales though. And economists can't sit about contributing little while dictating how objects are produced

IMO that's a net win for humanity. Economists religion be damned. Play Sim City if you want to get your authoritarian jollies off
Also, new core-tech, new game - especially for those car manufacturers beaten at the market by the great three, this is a chance to recover lost ground.
Hm, that's a side of gaming that is foreign to most people who call themselves "gamers" (even casual gamers). A game like starcraft is much more complex (by orders of magnitude) than chess, a game with a respected intelligence component. AI cannot (yet) outperform human teams in mobas like league of legends or overwatch. These are the titles i think of when thinking about "modern gaming".
"All those 500KB JS adds up, and the memory on those devices are shared with the fb, twitter, whatever bloatware apps."

No, those are pushed out of memory.

"And yes, amp is a horrible idea. Block ad networks instead."

Well, just don't access any ad-funded content. You can't have the cake and eat it too.
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What about more expensive items like big TVs, washing machine is it fair to replace them instead of replacing one small component inside it, and if they would have spent maybe a few cents more and not use the cheapest parts on this expensive object and maybe added some protection for electrical and mechanical damage(water,dust) your device would work for 10 years.
There's no question that it's tougher to get a TN now than in the past but this trend has been going on for several years. Regarding the specific TN occupation, I would need to know more about your background.
I want to be clear that I don't think the values Rayiner appreciates are horseshit, just their framing as something intrinsically "European" --- a term that really doesn't mean that much. If we're going to be intellectually honest, we should refer directly to the specific European culture whose values we're claiming. If not, we shouldn't frame those values in such a way as to exclude Mexicans.

The values themselves are, I think, super important. Americans should aspire to American civic norms, not those of Bangladesh, or Mexico, or Italy or Greece.

That belief, I think, puts me to the right of some vocal leftists. Which is what, I think, Rayiner is talking about. But I also think that segment of the left is on the fringe.
> That would right away, increase the lifetime of the products

there's no guarantee of that. the manufacturers could just charge X times more, and expect on average to send 1.5 replacements out.

(or less, most likely. folks who wouldn't bother to ask for warranty service, or lose the device first, or otherwise fail to satisfy the requirements of the warranty.)
as a former founder, I can tell you that much that you cannot work for the company you founded on an H1B visa. You can found the company, but not be employed by it. You will need another visa like the O1 or E2 investor visa.

For an H1B you need to be fireable, i.e. have a board of directors that can fire you as a CEO. Otherwise USCIS will argue that you started the company to get yourself an H1b visa
Disclosure: I've never worked in or around the automotive industry.

The amount of focus and effort Tesla has put toward the tech in the Model 3 pales in comparison to the amount they have put toward factory automation. Musk has said as much in multiple interviews. He's talked about how it's 10x harder to 'build the machines that build the machines'.

See also their acquisition of Grohmann Engineering.

Having said all that, we will have to wait and see. One thing I do know is that Musk's ventures have a long history of surprising the status quo.
excellent video. I wish I could get a point across as eloquently as Pinker...

It seems these movements don't have a defined point where they can say the goal has been achieved and everybody can go home. Instead I think it's the opposite and the movement wins in strength. The more traction the movement gets the more power and influence it gets and the bigger its goals will get.

His example about child protection is great. There is no cutoff point.

I would also argue that shareholder capitalism has reached the same state. In a lot of circles it's not even OK to question the current trend of inequality and it's not OK to think about ways to raise standards for everyone.
Rust's 2017 roadmap, six months in
Possibly the EB1A extraordinary ability GC or even a PERM-based GC.
Also curious, for the average european developer how easy could it be to move to the US?

Also without a degree
This isn't really an incentive though, unless this is driven by very knowledgeable consumers the companies that don't do this will make more money and eventually drive out the moral companies.

One way of doing it would be to charge companies up-front for the cost of handling the waste for the eventual disposal of the product. That directly disincetivizes companies from make it poorly, pile it high, sell it cheap business models.
Hi Peter,

I'm an Australian planning to set up an Australian LLC equivalent for one of my side projects. In the near term I'm not planning to raise investment or hire employees, I just want to start working on this project full time.

I would also like to leave my options open. I believe that by establishing a company-employee relationship between myself and the company, I can make myself eligible for an L1 or B1 in lieu of H1B in the future.

Is it worth establishing this relationship, and if so what steps should I take? So far I only plan to pay myself a nominal salary.

Thank you
Yep. Examples of organisations who achieved their original goals and then said "well, time to pack it up!" are vanishingly rare.
It is not just the foreign aspect. China government will shut down private Chinese actors who voice opinions or provide an independent platform which goes against the party line.
> Will Quants be “mined” or “premined”?

> No. Every quants will be created by the general public through an event known as “Blood Fire”. During this event, everyone in the world takes a photo of their national banknotes. Each banknote is passed through a contract app that is able to identify its country and denomination and have the value (in USD) issued as quant tokens. This event will be powered by an Ellcrys smart contract with source code openly accessible and verifiable. All new quants will be derived from a root quant with a fixed supply. More details will be released soon.

ummm... huh ? This is a Shannara reference
A lot of replies in here seem to think the article is arguing that the data be disregarded. My reading is that the author is saying that because of the data, the conclusion that the cause is purely psychological must be disregarded.

The argument for that being, partially, that if the effect is caused by hunger that would predict widespread issues elsewhere in society that we do not see and, partially, that there are no other psychological effects this strong.

Another hypothesis is needed. For instance, anyone who has spent time in a courtroom knows judges like to get small simple cases done first to get people on about their day - perhaps the effect is because more complex cases scheduled towards the end of a shift at the bench are more likely to get a negative ruling?
Regenerative braking only works if there is spare battery capacity to absorb the energy. In general that requires a large battery to be useful. A normal car battery is nowhere near large enough and is generally topped off by the alternator.

My ICE car has regenerative braking as well, but I certainly didn't buy it for that, nor have I been able to discern the impact of it. I have driven EVs before and the regenerative braking is unmistakable.
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Labeling groups of people is like using global variables. You should really try to avoid it, but sometimes it's needed to work through a problem.
It'd take flammable vapor over explosive pack of batteries :)
I liked the part where the author insisted that the Beat Generation were more than a bunch of middle to upper class white dudes and to wit, lists some members who have not nearly been covered enough, but then proceeds to only write about middle to upper class white dudes who have been written about ad infinitum
Hi Peter.

It is my understanding that getting a visa is a tough process. Is trying to get a visa as a UK resident whilst having a police caution (not a conviction - but the US doesn't have this distinction) on their record a complete non-starter?

For the wider audience, are there any red flags that will prevent someone from obtaining a visa?

Josh
Can a Canadian PhD computer scientist work in the US on a TN visa? Also, I've heard that an EB1 is possible on a TN. Is this so? Any caveats to this?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermophotovoltaic
Make bombs out of thermal printers, got it.
Elon tweeted a couple of days ago that Model 3 had all needed regulatory approvals, so I guess it passed the crash test. I can believe that you know a lot about building cars, but you don't seem to have any actual information about what's going on inside Tesla's Fremont factory.
A study with Resumes/CVs is a fun thought experiment, but it's not reality. You need to compare actual wages in actual jobs.

> You may have your pet theories as to what explains the statistic

Please avoid this race to the bottom. I could be wrong. You could be wrong. No need to say I have "pet theories." The EPA once told DDT was perfectly safe to spray around humans. We are all wrong about something.

"..under this metric for people with a college degree, there is virtually no pay gap at all."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/the-w...

"When controlled for education and career choices, women make 93% "of what men earned"

http://www.aauw.org/files/2013/02/graduating-to-a-pay-gap-th... (p20, 34)

The Confidence Gap is a great article which talks about how people are more likely to get high wages if they have confidence and ask for it, and how women have trouble with portraying confidence without being perceived as bitchy:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/05/the-con...
The marriage-based GC route but she'll need to get a waiver.
Can this technology be used for in-browser BitTorrent?
I don't think this is a good solution, but it's not as bad as your suggesting.

Again, these could be built to spin in place they simply can't turn sharply when cars are under them. So, they could do a 90 degree turn as long as they had a separate turn signal or bridge over traffic to do so.

However, even if they where limited to nearly strait lines many city's like NYC for example have a lot of strait lines.
Thanks for the AMA Peter. My question is about premium processing of H1 visa. With premium processing halted, change of employer would have to go to regular H1 processing - which is a matter of months.
What is your advise on employment transfer - one should wait till premium processing is resumed, or start working as soon as transfer receipt is obtained, or any other option/advice?
Fun read, it reminded me of a Computing Science assignment I remember to this day - prof had us build a Russian compiler that worked with trits (0,1,2) instead of bits. A tool like this would have made traversing and visualizing it a lot easier.
I work in Chinese publishing, and the same thing is absolutely happening there. Books are being pulled off the shelves, publishers are being warned away from anything potentially controversial. The basic attitude is, "Don't risk it", and it's absolutely deadly to creativity and culture. On the one hand, the central government is trying to encourage Chinese culture to "Go Out" and wow the world. On the other, it is absolutely strangling the country's cultural creators.
I think the idea was that the car would be self-driving. So, Auto charging would also be important for them.
> No please don't do this, no one will ever do the todo.

I've worked in numerous places where TODO placeholders were regularly processed by devs as an explicitly scheduled exercise. If the TODOs are being left to rot, this seems a symptom of bad dev process management, rather than being inherent to the pattern itself.

> create a ticket

While I've never seen it rigidly enforced, most TODOs I've worked with have been linked to relevant tickets (with ticket #number being referenced in the TODO comment).

It's also clearly common enough practice to be supported out-of-the-box without config both by many IDE syntax highlighters and also, I think, by some linters.
That's free-speech. Person A freely makes a statement and anyone else can freely respond to it. That's the ideal that everyone envisions and it's also the reality on the ground.
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