skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> "...the reason for the ban was intelligence that jihadist groups..."

The reason for the ban has nothing to do with jihadists and everything to do with protecting domestic business.

Emirates and Turkish Airlines were eating US flag carriers' lunch on profitable routes by offering reasonably priced service that doesn't suck. So the domestic airlines called their friends in Washington and asked them to tip the scales.

You'll notice that the laptop banned routes were cash cows for the foreign airlines while being wholly unimportant to Delta, United et al. This tells you everything you need to know about the actual security impact of the laptop ban. It's just regulatory capture of the "security" agencies.
What's wrong with having no opinion?

We're talking about the behavior of others; who cares if Sally wants to order chicken or Fred wants a blue car or Mark and Sarah want to form a club for Pittsburgh-expats? If someone wants to create an award for women/minorities/lefties/gingers/etc, it seems perfectly reasonable to feel neither positively or negatively about it. This isn't a test, you don't get marked down for "no answer".
> If you think a 691 bhp Tesla is going to wear it's parts the same way as a 278 bhp Accord...

Literally no one said that.

And that wasn't the criticism of your comment. The criticism was that you asserted that Hondas would be as reliable as Ferraris if they were driven hard. Lots of people do drive their Hondas hard. They replace the exhaust and lower the car and maybe throw on a wing and pretend they're on a track all the time. They drive these things hard as hell and they hold up very well.

> I'm not saying Tesla build quality is higher or lower, I'm saying it's comparing apples and oranges.

It's not apples and oranges. It's cars and cars. Yes, people drive their Teslas harder than their Nissan Leafs. What about M5s? How do Teslas compare? They should be far more reliable due to the vastly simpler drivetrain. Are they?

> It's also worth noting that Honda's have decades upon decades of previous models to build off of. Tesla's been around since what, 2003? And they didn't have a car to show until 2008.

So your argument about Tesla reliability is essentially that they are unreliable, because they're new?
I have an someone at work who is currently in the process of applying for a greencard renewal (f48 I think). They sent out their application nearly a year ago now and are still waiting for the result.

Is this cause for concern? Should they hire an immigration lawyer? Is there a chance for them to be denied even though they've been here over a decade as a productive, law-abiding member of society?
Do H1B visas granted outside the cap to employees of universities or nonprofits differ greatly from those granted to employees subject to the H1B cap?

I seem to remember reading that an H1B visa granted outside the cap could not be used for working for a company subject to the cap, you would have to reapply and be subject to the lottery. Which makes me nervous about green cards.

Could someone with an H1B and working for a university still apply for a green card? Or are H1B's granted for university/nonprofit work not eligible?

Thanks!
Thanks for the reply !

Yeah that's what I mean. I guess I just need to wait a little bit more ^^
A Mercedes limousine is hardly exotic, and neither is it unreliable.
> if the cheap boots that fall apart quickly didn't exist, Sam Vimes would not be able to buy boots at all in the first place.

On the other hand, if the scale in the marketplace was in durable boots, then companies would be able to optimize for that, and the price would almost certainly come down. There would be a shift away from fashion design, and marketing, towards product engineering to be able to produce that product at a price that most people could afford.
"Plugin hybrids do seem to offer the best of both worlds right now."

Yes - absolutely. If you are a legacy car maker. You get all the benefits of the halo of "modern" technology and "green" initiative but you still get to hang on to your very lucrative ICE maintenance business (oil changes, fluids, complicated mechanicals, etc.).

As a consumer ? You get none of the technological benefits (dramatically lowered center of gravity from "skateboard" designs and all wheel drive coming from multiple motors, to name just two ...) but you get all of the logistical and aesthetic penalties that come from running a shitty little lawnmower engine inside your fancy new car.

I think the BMW i8 is a perfect emblem for this kind of flawed thinking. A beautiful, modern (looking) "luxury" car that has a 3 cylinder ICE hidden inside.

If I could say one thing to all of the legacy car manufacturers pinning their strategy on hybrids: Don't piss on my head and tell me it's raining gold.
Thanks for that info! is this the correct website http://www.robertsimmigration.com ?
"Monday Morning Meeting", routinely lasted well past noon.
Something to do with changing jobs, then having the new job fall through a month later. He thought he had 60 days to get a new job (which is pretty easy for developers these days). The border guards had not heard of such a rule.
How long do the batteries last? I've heard replacement batteries will be $20,000.
> I think that such a surprising result definitely deserves scrutiny

But I think the point of the OP is that the effect is so large, it would be impossible for it to be a surprise to anyone.
Also if they get a lot of products back in warranty they will
notice that if part X breaks often and they make a small change in design, maybe add some vibration or dust protection that would increase the part X longevity.
"Flag Prayer"? The Pledge of Allegiance?

Only US citizens should recite the pledge of allegiance. Non US citizens owe their loyalty to another country. But schools don't do that, because it would mean identifying US citizens.
The basic algorithm is "parentheses counting": walk the string starting from an opening bracket, counting +1 per `[` and -1 per `]`; when you reach 0 you're at the matching closing bracket.

First, lets split the code to one char per row:

=MID($A$1,D3,1)

(D3,D4,... are simply 1,2,3,...)

Now, lets parse `[` as 1, `]` as -1, anything else as 0:

=IF(E3="[",1,if(E3="]",-1,0))

Now, we will need one column per character in the code, where in the i'th column the first row is the i'th character's value and each row we go down accumulates the value of the next character.

=G2+OFFSET($F2,G$1,0)
=G3+OFFSET($F3,G$1,0)
...

(Column F is the 1,0,-1s. Row 1 is 0,1,2,3..., this time horizontally, which we use to translate horizontal motion
into vertical motion)

Now for the i'th row of the "] match" column, lets find the index of the first 0 in the i'th column, and add `i-1` to get an index from the beginning of the code instead of from the opening bracket:

=MATCH(0,offset($G$3,0,D3-1,18,1),0)+D3-1
=MATCH(0,offset($G$3,0,D4-1,18,1),0)+D4-1
...

And all that's left is reverse-search this table to find the matching opening brackets to every closing bracket, and while we're at it lets clean up all irrelevant rows to the empty string:

=IF(F3=1,C3,IF(F3=-1,MATCH(D3,$B$3:$B$20,0),""))

(D3 is the index of the closing bracket, $B$3:$B$20 is interestingly the column we're currently in - Sheets does not complain as long as there is no actual circular referencing going on)

Voila! Column B now contains for every bracket its matching bracket's index in the code, and for anything else, "".
The Curious Tail Errr, Tale of F.D.C. Willard
I think the Answer is yes.

We had no issue with Nokia or Toyota. We consume Anime. Lots of companies use Kaspersky despite apparent ties to RU intelligence services. There is some talk of the DoD pulling out from a contract --but that's DoD and I imagine Chinese version of DoD would do something similar.
+1 for assembly

I'd love to see more assembly-like games. I've hear about Core War, well so far there are no new exciting progress.
It's not the minority that holds you back. It's a class system.

Well, I'd counter that and claim it's actually both, and the former frequently contributes to the latter.
Exactly, why downvote?
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I have seen this quote before, but I hadn't thought about it as a mantra before (ie. putting yourself in the mindset for focus and sales). As a leader of a company, you need to be able to convince your team that this job/task/project is the most important thing in the world. If you don't believe it yourself, you won't be able to sell them (or your customers) on it.
In the absence of a startup option, the O-1 and the E-2 tend to be the best options. The H-1B, as correctly noted, requires the existence of an employee-relationship, which can be tough to demonstrate for the founder of a new/small company.
Here is the refutation being referred to in the article, the article author did a poor job explaining it, and the reason to reject isn't "effect is too large", because the effect is real -- but this study explains it:
http://journal.sjdm.org/16/16823/jdm16823.html

1. Prisoners are ordered by whether they have an attorney (so those going last in a session are self-represented)

2. Judges order prisoners often by "complexity of the case", so the ones taking most time are first (and therefore most likely to have a favorable decision, a short/easy case is probably a no-parole situation)

3. Statistically, the cases that gained parole take longer than those that don't, so even if they are random/normally distributed, then if one falls at the end, it will come back to the beginning of next session. A simulation shows that even with random ordering, you still get the same graph (because the long/complex cases that could be paroled tend to be moved to next session when the session is almost out of time).

So after reading this, the graph means:
Ratio of cases with a lawyer that can be finished in the remaining time in the session.

Both values are decreasing as the session continues, so it produces a heavy down sloping graph that resets each session to some approximately random value (.65).
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I take it you mean "I think what most feminist advocate isn't equality, but sexism against men" - that is not what the predominant message of feminism is today. As I see it, you are taking a vanishingly small minority of comments from extremists/trolls and extrapolating that all feminists believe it.

(Edited for more civility).
Will no one think of the children?! I mean, specifically, NASA's hostage martian slave children. Will the reactors be made half-scale, so they can be operated by the children's tiny hands? Will the children be forced to labor in the plutonium mines, far from OSHA oversight?
Darn. No worries. I was hoping to hear something authoritative on that. There's a _lot_ of sensationalism in the news around the ban, but not a lot of hard facts.
A fair point. I have unintentionally misrepresented what was being said in order to make my own point. Although, I think it is worth referencing next time you hear someone talk about attitudes to empire in the context of modern Britain.
They can charge more, but they need to compete with the others that will charge less if their own products are not breaking that often or if they have a cheaper way to repair instead of replacing the product.
I have kids to take care of. There are certain opinions I might have that I dare not discuss. I don't even dare say I have such opinions even without naming them, that's how deep the impulse to self-censor goes. Let's just say I do, hypothetically.

I would very much fear for the economic consequences of voicing various opinions. Even if they didn't lead to my termination at work, I'm certain they would prevent any kind of career advancement.

I'm reasonably sure I can survive in the world without my opinions being known, or the changes I presumably would like to see not being made. In short, they win, I'll survive somehow, and my kids will eat. They'll also maybe learn that some things I might believe are not acceptable, and will have to think about that when choosing to believe them themselves.

Certain ideas and people have definitively won the day, and it's now just survival mode for many.
One of the things "SV Tech" broke first in their rush to move fast and break stuff was what was traditionally known as "professionalism".
> If only some games had busywork as part of their gameplay

Try Mass Effect
I'm not blind, but personally I would find voice commands to be quite useful, since I can speak much faster than I can type. Keyboard shortcuts are similarly efficient, but they are somewhat hard to memorize when you only infrequently use them.

Unfortunately, the state-of-the-art in speech recognition is not quite there yet, especially when you want to use arbitrary identifiers like strncmp that can't be found in any pronunciation dictionary.
I suggest you first try to follow it yourself, maybe copy and play with A1 and see what happens, maybe copy aside parts of the formulas and see what they output.

Then you can read the writeup I wrote in response to another commenter (the guy who wrote the original Apps Script VM).
Not many sites show the source of the image like Reddit does. For most uses, the viewer doesn't know where the image is coming from, just that it is there on the page, and that is quite hard to do as an ad-supported service.
Their concept looks like a multi-car train, not a single vehicle. Even as a single vehicle, I don't see how it could turn in place without the wheels being able to turn 90 degrees (sounds hard and expensive, but maybe I'm overestimating it) or a rotating ring built into the intersection.
Turbo-diesel fuel injection pumps are ... not the most reliable thing to have in a car.
Probably a bad choice words. I simply used that term because the H-1B1 is a subset of the H-1B. But you're right, it tends to be a very quick and easy process. The only challenge can be in the renewal context since an applicant must be able to demonstrate his or her intent to return home.
The EU also has a 3-year minimum warranty requirement on consumer products.

Much of what the EU does is to make buying from another EU country within the EU a seamless experience. They just prohibited phone roaming charges within the EU, for example. This is the "single European market" concept.
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> If everyone won't provide wedding services for you, or everyone won't let you attend a class, or everyone won't sell you food, you can't live your life.

True, but socially, we've moved past that. There might be the rare individual baker who would not want to bake a cake for a gay wedding, because he's a devout Christian or Muslim or whatever and thinks homosexuality is a sin. But 98% of businesses won't care, as long as you can pay the bill.

We'll never be rid of all discrimination. It's just a flaw in human nature. We should keep educating and working against it. But I think we're largely past the institutionalized (to say nothing of codified) discrimination of the past centuries.
I've been there. I feel your pain.

In hopes of helping to restore some of your sanity, I've found the following helps immensely: https://github.com/git-tfs/git-tfs
It doesn't have to be integrated. It shouldn't be hard to produce a .clang-format configuration file for this coding style.
This is where I am too, I could see him aiming for 500k cars in 2018 and only shipping 425k due to some shortage. I could not see it taking until 2022 for him to get to the 500k mark.
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That was FlyWeb [1][2]. Judging by the wiki, it seems the project isn't too active anymore, at least publicly (empty calendar, no meeting minutes from 2017).

[1] https://flyweb.github.io/

[2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/FlyWeb
I am a foreigner that wants to work in a US company, however H1B's quotas have been hit.

For the O-1 visa, i dont have meaningful contributions to software engineering but I have been exceptional in a sports related field(with meaningful community contributions, international representation, etc). Is the O-1 a possibility for me even though I would enter as a software engineer?

Otherwise, is it common to get another kind of visa for a first time job-entry in the US?
Petya ransomware authors demand $250,000 in first public statement since attack
Not to play the free market card too aggressively, but isn't there already a solution to this, called "extended warranties"? Whether provided by the manufacturer or from the retail seller, they provide a way for customers to pay an extra fee in order to extend the product's lifetime.

In theory, they even give a way to price out the effective longevity of comparable devices by looking at the prices of the warranties.

In the end, my understanding is that customers do not assign a lot of value to that lifetime extension, and as a result the extended warranties are generally not purchased.

If the EU enacts measures to enforce product longevity, they force customers to buy something that they have already chosen not to buy.
There is zero reason to believe that this piece is suggesting that women who get groped shouldn't call it out. Part of her point is that having awards specifically for women implicitly agrees that women are second rate and can't compete with the guys, so should not bother and should just accept their pink collar ghetto status and stop bothering to try to escape it and actually get taken seriously.
I would probably get your background evaluated by an attorney to see if a TN is even an option (a quick process) and then look for work armed with the knowledge that a TN is possible.
What a great series of posts! Thanks for sharing.

Minor nitpick - I wish the author would link to the previous installments in the series at the bottom of the page :)
I think this is more correct, but I'm not sure there's really any point in differentiating between the two. The end result either way is: either keep your mouth shut or parrot what the crowd is saying, even if it's the opposite of what they were saying yesterday.
Most of the asian MMO scene is ridiculously grind-y. There seems to be a market over there for colorful, repetitive, good-god-that-is-a-hell-of-a-grind MMORPGs.
It's almost as if segregation adds unnecessary constraints to the lives of the people involved.

You'd think people would have figured this out centuries ago, yet we still self-segregate and divide ourselves wherever possible. Shame.
When I left my last company I was offered $30,000 for my silence. Most people in important positions were offered money as they exited.

I left the money on the table. It was very very hard for me to do - because I am a saver. But I could not agree to the nondisparagement terms.
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Yes, it will be higher by few times for highly enriched uranium (90%+) or plutonium 239 (because of higher cross-section)
Not really. I went and saw that movie, it was hilariously dopey. It was about on the level of an anti-drug PSA, but for "working at a technology company". I bet in the coming years it will become a tradition among Google employees to get drunk and watch it while snarking at the screen MST3K-style.
Awesome, nice work.
Others are speaking up about discrimination at Tesla
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Ok, imagine that you're sitting in front of a tablet without a keyboard. That's an easy use case.

Yes, one can be quite fast if they're sitting with their fingers resting on the keyboard. I wouldn't want to take that away.

However, I'm often sitting back reviewing what I wrote, and I'd certainly like the option of have my computer assist via voice without needing to reach for the keyboard.
I mean racism. It's commonly accepted that race is a fuzzy term when it comes to this kind of thing and encompasses discrimination against people based on background, nationality and ethnic groups. However you want to define racism, the discrimination against Irish people in England fits the same pattern and has largely the same problems as racism in other forms.
As someone who flew Emirates to the US during the ban I can assure you that laptops were well taken care of. There was special staff in Dubai to take inventory of laptops and other electronics, securely shrink wrap and pack them, and then seal the bag.

Upon arrival in the US there were again special staff that would hand you your laptop box after checking ID and boarding pass, which an airline seal still on it.

At no point did I feel like my laptop was handled by someone who doesn't care about what happens to it.
If you still don't get some part of what's going on after copying it and playing with it a bit (A1 is the code, A2 is the input, you can find an explanation of BF and a simple Python implementation in my linked slides), try reading my discussion with briansteffens, who is also the guy who wrote the Apps Script implementation that inspired this.
Ahh, ok here is what your missing. There is no axle between the wheels so they could turn them independently. EX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IpHQRKheac You can do something similar whenever you have independent motors for each wheel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJUogOpfcp8 But, even without that you can do something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrasteer

So, yea it would be cheaper to build something that can't turn, but turning radius is simply an engineering trade-off.
Your area of extraordinary ability for O-1 purposes needs to be related to the work you are going to do in the US so unless you somehow are going to work in sports, an O-1 might be tough.
Hi Peter,

In this AMA you mentioned a few times that while the EB1A bar is high, it is perhaps not as high as it seems. Any advice for early career academics?, eg

As a reasonably successful postdoc at, say, Stanford (good scholarship, steady publication record, presentations at international conferences, and so on, but no proper 'recognized awards of excellence'), is it even worth considering EB1A, as opposed to a EB2 NIW which in contrast seems likely but would take a long, long time?

The wording 'sustained ... acclaim' makes it sound like you'd have to be a semi-famous professor, so I kind of ruled it out before. Have you seen young scientists pass EB1A? Thanks