skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Criticising past immigration is something different than inciting an audience to chant to reduce the number of Dutch citizens with a specific background.

Most political parties in The Netherlands have talked about the problems of immigration and integration in The Netherlands at least since Pim Fortuyn 15 years ago. Some parties longer (e.g. Frits Bolkenstein of the VVD, who Geert Wilders worked for). So, it is by no means illegal to talk about current or past immigration policies.
I think it's also why I have friends that did Philosophy before going to Law School. Despite what was said above, good philosophy papers do take some rigor of thought.
Isn't it much more likely that this was a predictive algorithm doing a good job of guessing what you might want?
>(don't beat up on their phone agents though, they are just trying to make ends meets).

I've gotten very tired of this. Every time I'm on calls like this now I gently suggest to the phone agent that they know that what they are doing
contributes to a system that hurts people and that they should try to do something more with their lives.

Don't scream or bluster. Do it with gentleness and respect and get ready to be occasionally very surprised at the results.
Full time remote
What's the recommended way to bring an employee to the US? How to choose between L1 + L1A and H1B + EB2/3?
Unfortunately, that would be viewed as work and since it's outside your friend's field of study, it would not be allowed.
Belgrade's floating river clubs
Samsung heir convicted, sentenced to 5 years on corruption charges
If i went into every thread about rust and mentioned how Ada is great (or any other language, including C), id' get downvoted. Why is that ? "Hyper-sensitivity" ?
good thought, will A/B test this soon!
Tiny Linux hacker board features dual Ethernet and a $14 price
Seam Carving!

http://perso.crans.org/frenoy/matlab2012/seamcarving.pdf
That really depends on the particular facts relating to the company's operations, the employee's background, and the offered job. Email me offline with the facts if you would like me to analyze.
Hi,

I am from India and I want to know the options that I have to come to valley.

I don't have graduate degree but I have learned Computer Science from sites like edx and coursera.

If needed I can pay a little fee on those sites and get the certificate of complications that they provide.

What are available options?

I really appreciate you taking time to do this ama. Thank you
Hello Peter! I am a US Permanent Resident since 1997. Should I be concerned about traveling internationally at the moment, US politics being what they are? Or is it safe to assume that if I leave the country for a short while, I'm not going to get turned away at the border?
My guess would be the abundance of nice sheltered inlets for net pens.

My sister is a marine biologist for a fish farming company (not the one involved in the article). My understanding from past discussions with her is that there have been attempts to farm some of the species of pacific salmon, but they have not yet figured out how to get good yields.
Murder by Craigslist
Show HN: Activity tracking and live location sharing app
Imagine those on the attic, connected to a internet connection, forming a mesh-net with all houses nearby- and activated if distributed computation power is needed.

Converting abundant power into computation.
I'm really dreading the first major spill. The ecosystem up there is pretty fragile to begin with, lots of species that don't live anywhere else, and as the article mentions a cleanup would be impossible.
Polygram detects facial reactions to shared photos
Indeed; I was using "derived" somewhat loosely. But I think there is certainly a visible lineage there. Indeed, pybind11 is much nicer than boost::python (and I did evaluate it for the future of the project I mentioned above).

However, the very nice feature of cppyy is that it does much (most?) of what pybind11 does, but it can also be completely on-the-fly, in the sense that it relies on the cling JIT interpreter. This means that there is absolutely no need to maintain a compiled C++ part for your bindings, and so the problem of keeping the interface up to date is greatly mitigated: the equivalent changes to match the interface when using cppyy are _much_ smaller.

Often, one maintains a "C++ interface" layer in one's Python bindings (which could be created by pybind11, boost::python, or SWIG, for example), with a pure Python shim layer on top of that. cppyy allows you to do away with this two-layer structure entirely; all you need is the shim, if you need anything at all.
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Reference please? My Bayesian estimate is that it is much more likely that you misunderstood badly or believed fake news than that the EPA was upset about a drinking water spill.
> there's no acceptable way to pass a function body to another in Python.

What. Why would you ever want a function body as a string? What kind of vile sorcery are you doing? One can use inspect.getsourcelines in python if really pressed to, but I find it horrifying that javascript developers actually seem to require this functionality often.
Light weight EXCEL download
What did they change about the STEM extension?
It seems insurer's scream louder about the "insuring across state lines" bit then they did against Obamacare in my estimation. On that metric alone I estimate that it will be more effective.
I would greatly appreciate to test your technology on a given site on your website before installing your extension
People can also gain more interest even if it was "just a job" before.

I fell into IT and struggled with feeling overwhelmed the first year or two but once I found the things within that field that fit my personality, that's when I felt more comfortable and could push myself more and ignore the BS that I didn't really like.

I completely agree about the "passion" thing. You can develop curiosity and interest about anything.
Calling R Externally: from command line, Python, Java, and C++ [pdf]
> computer scientists aren't actual scientists

I think a lot of folks here are gonna disagree with that.
For an H-1B, you would need to have the equivalent of a 4-year bachelor's degree and this equivalency can be based on foreign education or experience or a combination of the two. The evaluation would need to be done be a certified evaluator.
Hi Peter,

I am Indian citizen on H1-B with GC EB2 priority date of 4/2011 and approved I-140. I've been with same company ever since in US. Is there a way to make my GC processing go any faster? A lot of my friends are in similar situation and are eager to star a company. Many thanks!
I was told that if that was once the case, it is the case no longer- really the signature is only to verify that someone was there to have made the purchase, to decrease the store's liability if it is a fraudulent charge.

This is why the charge to the card goes through before you have to sign anything. Even on pos systems where you sign on the screen, I get the text message notifying me that my card was charged even before I start to sign on the screen.
Hi Robert, thank you for your time!

We have a small 2 people company doing web products, making about $1m a year. Does this help in any way to move to US (and move the company)? If so, what is our best path?

Thank you!
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However I see that

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Five of these 10 studies found that ID requirements had no statistically significant effect on turnout; in contrast 4 studies found decreases in turnout and 1 found an increase in turnout that were statistically significant.

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And all the states includes in the study seems to have disagreed with the methodology used:

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In comments on draft report excerpts the Kansas, Tennessee, and Arkansas Secretary of State Offices disagreed with GAO's criteria for selecting treatment and comparison states and Kansas and Tennessee questioned the reliability of one dataset used to assess turnout.

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To me it seems the answer is then "let's have community outreach to help every eligible over get an acceptable ID. Even subsidize free ID that can be used for voting" not "let's not have any IDs".

Also coming from Europe and knowing that other countries with even more poverty and somehow manage to have an ID https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_ID_(India) and here despite all the insinuations and allegations of voter fraud and all the talk and energy spent on elections people are still against IDs.
"Research may have guided the initial level of a British landfill tax, at £7 a tonne in 1996. But other considerations may have boosted it to £40 a tonne in 2009, and thence to £80 a tonne in 2014."

While it is a theoretical issue, this particular example seems overly harsh, many tax introductions like this are phased in, so that people are given fair warning and time to change their behaviour. I can't find full documentation but certainly in 2009 it was already decided that the price should rise by £8 pounds every year until it got to £80
If all you need is a phone number to pay, how does it handle multiple accounts? Or can you only sign up for a single account?
It's unsafe to Rust. Rust has defined safety to mean a certain thing. In order to support FFI in general the Rust compiler must assume nothing about the safety guarantees of the other language, and therefore that it should be considered "unsafe" according to Rust.
Security products flag cookies as malware, so your point is kind of doubtful.
The Kickstarter says December 2017.
Even in this environment, I wouldn't worry at all about traveling as long as your primary residence is the US and your trips are each less than 6 months in duration.
hustling like Ray Kroc
The number one rule is don't pay anything until it is resolved. The second you've made payment, nobody else cares to make any effort.
Seems like the naval vessels should be using passive radar detection as well, if they're not already. That wouldn't protect them from everything, but it should catch all of the big commercial vessels, right?
Poor misguided person
Can someone remind me why boot camps were even a thing?

There was a sense among some that webdev had advanced to a point where the skill of labor needed had declined to cogs that could be squirted out by a crash course.

Ofc, there were always people willing to take the opposite perspective: that advances in the state of the art of development are continuously folded back into development processes. And there aren't roles that still require man-time after driving the skill barrier to zero because that becomes tooling given to the internal customer that specializes in a different part of the business.

But payroll and management salivate at the cog idea. So we got to see the idea be tested in the marketplace and prove out what was fantasy and what wasn't.
The only way is to "up" your green card application to an EB1A application. This is a high standard as you probably know but not unreachable by those with strong backgrounds. If you would like me to evaluate, send me your CV.
Wait- handwriting is actually used for something? IIRC, handwriting analysis is not allowed in US courts of law because of its supposed inaccuracies. Why are we using it for any other legal uses?

I mean, using a signature as a legal, "I was there and I approved this document" is all fine and dandy, but for authentication? There are much better methods
You are wrong. I am in the process of opening a business account remotely.
It's a shitty system, but they openly admit to doing this: https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-1680

If you have a plan that doesn't offer unlimited calling, calls made over Wi-Fi Calling count against your plan minutes. For Pay In Advance prepaid lines, calls made over Wi-Fi deduct from the plan bucket just like regular calls.
Hey dude, while I agree Germany was not involved in Libya, let's not throw mud around.

Italians have been close to Gaddafi since the '80s - the alternative at the time was actual war, which the country did not want and could never win. The Italian plan was basically to wait for Gaddafi to die and then take that chance to promote an ordinary transition to a more presentable form of government, which would have safeguarded Italian interests and security for everyone. It's what worked for Spain, after all.

The governments who really fouled things up were France and UK, with US support behind the scene, who first recklessly promoted the "arab spring" and then attacked almost unilaterally, dragging NATO into it. Italy was involved as a token gesture; the Italian government at the time was extremely weak and nearing the end (which happened 6 months later) as Berlusconi was engulfed in more and more scandals. They had no interest whatsoever in making waves - whereas Sarkozy thought it would have ensured his re-election the following year and earned a new country for the French "sphere of influence".

Everyone in Italy knew that nothing good would come from the war, because Gaddafi was the only barrier between the country and waves of sub-saharan migrants. For years, we literally looked the other way as Gaddafi disposed of migrants in brutal concentration camps (or worse); as long as we kept paying "development aid" funds, he'd keep illegal boats to a minimum. Like Erdogan is now doing in Turkey, there is profit to be made by being the buffer zone between prosperous "cities on the hill" and starving people. And before that, Gaddafi was one of our "ins" in the world of Arab "movements", which helped mediation efforts in scenarios like Lebanon and ensured Italy was spared the worst waves of Palestinian terrorism, for example. (These policies predate Berlusconi, by the way, even though he brought them to a farcical pinnacle when he let Gaddafi camp out in Rome.) We had absolutely no upside in trying to get rid of Gaddafi, let alone doing it as rashly as the French did.

Responsibility for the Libyan clusterfuck sits squarely with Sarkozy and Cameron, with Obama right behind.
I've actually had surprisingly good luck with their AT&T LTE sim. I use Google Voice as my primary phone number, so as long as I have an internet connection, I'm golden. The Freedompop sim goes in a burner phone that I take to the beach or out on the water.

The trick here is to realize that they are basically a scam company and treat them as such. I used a temporary credit card number to prevent any unwanted charges. As long as they're willing to give me a backup LTE connection for free, I'm willing to take it. When they inevitably implode, oh well.
Do similar restrictions apply once H1B is granted?
> in large part motivated by religious fundamentalists seeking to replace public education with voucher-based religious schools

This is preposterous.

Public schools have been neutered by deep budget cuts by politicians of all parties who, along with their boosters, can afford to send their children to private schools. School budgets rely heavily on taxes (which politicians cut for political gain), state/federal grants, and programs like state lotteries.

The wealthy alumni of private schools, denomination be damned, bankroll candidates and in return the politicians push programs to force kids out of public school. They also fill the curriculum with inferior text books based on handshake agreements with publishers and drop standards to maximize the number of "successes".

TL;DR - adults fail to value the education system, watching those who can afford it send their kids to private schools, so people want more money in their pocket (less taxes) to pay for private school or demand "options" - like vouchers.
Anecdotal as well, but I took all the app media permissions away from Facebook and Google apps and the weird advertising coincidences stopped. The apps run just as well.

I still get targeted ads based on my FB posts, but that's the accepted trade.
I cant figure out what he means either since he follows it up talking about map() and reduce() whcih you can use with function pointers (references? IDK what they actually are in python)
That seems very hard to believe
For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
2 Peter 3:5,6

National Geographic: 'Inner Earth May Hold More Water Than the Seas' http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/03/0307_0307_wa...
It's a great emo band name.
Does the US not have standardized letter and envelope sizes?

In Germany we have standards for paper sizes, window placement and the layout of business letters. Considering this type of letter is probably not typed out by hand, it's trivial to use a template with the correct layout. At that point the choice of letter becomes irrelevant.

I'd expect the US to have something similar but maybe they don't? If there are standards, this boils down to either "Aetna used non-standard envelopes" or "Aetna formatted letter incorrectly".
> running at 700 GHz

Nice typo. That would be an effective heater.

> If it can’t do more than Moore’s Law...

Or rather, the GPU equivalent performance trend. Moore's law is long dead.
I love programming in Go but the thought of forking and maintaining every single library I might use in one of my projects makes me also feel we've entered a new, bizarre, and terrifying world. This is literally one step away from "write your own OS and compiler, it's the only way to be sure you get the exact behavior you want".
A few days ago I saw a link to https://stackexchange.com/ on the HN frontpage. Didn't know this site before (although it in fact seems to be the parent of stackoverflow or at least somehow related) but it looked as if it might fit your description.
> Net neutrality has to do with packet discrimination: blocking or throttling traffic based on its content or destination

So do you think that QoS to prioritize voip traffic violates network neutrality?
Thanks! Right now mainly working on getting the product totally production ready. No additional features for now. Once everything works perfectly want to add a pro account which offers additional functionality. For example, allows to also create HTML snapshots.
That’s one thing but he’s saying it’s counting Data. I can’t believe that.
There's an "easy" solution to that too, you make it a flat bed electric self-driving trailer which takes a container similar to sea shipping containers on top.

Then you don't:

- have the unnecessary truck cab in front

- cost of the trailer being unused while loading / unloading

- potentially drastically change shipping containers received from over seas.
How do you "decide how much partial it is worth" ?

Generally the task is not writing code, it is solving a specific problem and non-compiling code is a non-solution, not a partial one.
Yes, you need a job offer and the initial requested period cannot exceed 3 years. The offered job needs to be within one of the listed NAFTA occupations and the job offer letter needs to demonstrate this and also show that your education is in the right field.
Agree with what everyone else is repeating about the article. I'm curious though: why does Instagram ask for your mic in the first place? I don't use the app so the presence of that option is weird.

Personally I am sure that I am tracked online, but I block ads very aggressively so at least there's that.
There's some interesting and controversial stuff in here. I am very excited about extension everything. I also like the new extension method syntax; much cleaner and a much clearer expression of intent.
I have an employee who has been given access to the country on an L1A. We have filed priority for a renewal. USCIS has asked for more information on our request for his reapplication but we have not yet received the letter. His visa expires on the 30th of August.

Should he leave the country?
Thats a pretty bold claim. Can you name a single site Tmobile blocks when using WiFi?
Hi Peter!

I'm currently a student on F-1 visa. I had two questions re: immigration.

* If I apply to and get into YC, what would be needed on the visa/work authorization front? Will I have to apply for pre-OPT/CPT?

* When considering someone for post OPT, does USCIS check for 12 months including pre OPT and CPT or is it just 12 months of CPT?
> Most languages look pretty much the same because we do have half a century of experience with what people get comfortable with.

I think it's more about familiarity rather than any inherent quality of the syntax itself.

> But for many of us, being able to instantly get an overview is a visual process that requires more distinct syntax.

I think colour and shape can go a long way here, too — and that applies to both Forth & Lisp.
You seem to be forgetting what your original claim was. It was not that Google maintains forks of some third party libraries for some reason or other. That wouldn't be surprising at all. You claimed that

>the Go authors have always strongly promoted that you fork and maintain your dependencies

And you said that in response to a need for stack traces and specific error types.

Burdening yourself with maintaining a fork of a third party library for that specific purpose is what I'm calling insane, and I don't think the Go authors have ever suggested such a thing.
Hi Peter,
Thanks for doing this.
1. Since premium processing for many H1B categories is suspended are tech companies looking to wait out 2 or so months to wait for the USCIS approval to hire an H1B(assume in this case that person cannot work on the receipt of the H1B application)?
2. What processing times are you seeing currently for H1B petitions?
Its kinda ridiculous that we've just accepted things are going to broken at launch.
Oh, that's crazy. I just saw "wifi calling" and automatically assumed it was their crappy policy on plan minutes (AT&T doesn't charge them).
I agree with this somewhat. The technology is the tool but the principles should be the first step.

This was said over on /r/sysadmin when people were discussing where to start with Powershell scripting and the top answer was to get a basic grasp of OOP first as a foundation.
A lot of innovation happened in JavaScript space over the past few years and yet the learning curve is high. I prefer to use Python for Data Analysis, Data Transformations & Machine Learning. For web applications, Node/Express + React/Vue seems to work better.
Wow, what an incredibly narrow world view.

Are you under the impression that everyone in the world has had access to decent education their entire lives?

Are you under the impression that motivation is the sole factor in determining one's ability to learn?

>How can you learn to learn

By not taking everything hyper-literally. The course is educating people on strategies they can use to help retain and learn information. How is that self-defeating?
Or botnets
> COMPLETELY different from rust. Not only in the syntax

Why bring syntax as the first thing? What does that have todo with memory safety.

> By a lot i mean A LOT.

You mentioned Haskell and Ada so far. Which I agree with. What are the other ones?
I don't know if there are actual codified standards, but I often receive letters (mostly bills) with the same envelope size and window placement. I would guess they just folded or ordered the contents of the envelope incorrectly.
The money shot, albeit unsurprising:

"FreedomPop collects data about users’ backgrounds and phone habits."
> a higher percentage of private school parents value education and are engaged in their childrens' learning

It's just not true.

Higher income families can afford to take more time off, especially salaried workers, and are often two-parent households. This gives those parents time that hourly-based workers, poor, or single-parent households literally can not afford to spare.

They don't love or "value" their children's education any less, but they are in a situation where being as involved as those more fortunate than them is so much more difficult.

Malcolm Gladwell has written about this - https://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Kimberly-McCreight/dp/006235...