skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This blog post sums things up well - http://blog.cyrusmehta.com/2016/03/suffocating-the-foreign-e...

Whilst it's pretty great that the extension was increased from 17 months to 2 years, you now have to prove an employer-employee relationship, which is significantly more limiting than the previous iteration.
I guess you could say we've had similar experiences, I wouldn't be this motivated to find another way if I thought Lisp or Forth was the final answer either. Or Smalltalk, I was really excited about Strongtalk for a while. I've had this gut feeling for a long, long time that it's quite possible to add more structure without taking away the power; and doing it in Forth proves the point.
I edited my post, as after giving it some thought I concluded that the author wants to pass around the source code of the function. That indeed is something that python cannot provide in cases when function is already precompiled.
I'm guessing, since the author used the arrow shorthand notation in Javascript as an example, that the limitations of Python's lambdas are the chief complaint
I see where you're coming from. I can get on board with that; we can address root causes before needing to remove these fixes/patches. Though I think we should keep both things in mind; perhaps the day can be celebrated when we can remove affirmative action programs.
As a general rule, US immigration does not come into play for employment outside the US even if the foreign-based worker is an employee of the US company. Regarding employment abroad by US citizens, that will depend in part on the laws of the country where the US citizen is residing and tax treaties between the US and that country.
What advice do you have for someone who's on a H1B visa, wants to co-found a startup, incorporate it, work on it part-time until it receives VC funding, and continue working at their H1B "day job" in the interim?

My understanding is that the H1B visa does not allow you to do any work for anyone apart from your visa sponsor. If a co-founder were to spend his evenings working on his startup which has been incorporated, I'm not sure if that would conflict with the above regulation, and if so, how to work around this.

I'd be happy to contact you privately if you prefer that.
> The lack of awe is what surprises me. Just how quickly we take each breakthrough for granted.

That's just your perspective and the people you deal with. Many people I know over 40 are amazed. Perspective....

A lot of the technology is respun other technology, and that does take the luster off.

Personally I think a lot of the social media stuff is bunk, particularly the bits that prioritize zero-content fluff. But things like Mastodon, Hacker News, or Wordpress (remember twitter was microblogging) have spawned deep and thoughtful engagement with the world and others.
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Feels like extensions tend to make it hard to find out what you need to import to make things work as intended. Maybe visual studio proper is better at inference for it? Will only autocomplete methods that are actually in scope as far as I can tell.
A short introduction to TPMs
Trading Group Theory for Randomness by Laci Babai (http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=22192) -- this beautiful paper introduced algorithmic group theory & interactive proofs (in the form of Arthur-Merlin games) to study the Graph Isomorphism problem, and introduced several groundbreaking new results. Perhaps a more approachable (and funny) version of this would be Babai's humorous essay detailing the flurry of work that broke out after his results introducing AM/MA...it's the closest thing I've seen to making theoretical CS exhilarating :P (http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr09/cos522/Bab...)
Anyone taking this off-label?
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I'm leery of Chrome Extensions. They are basically just a plot to collect your usage data and sell it to marketing companies. I have disabled almost all Chrome extensions and locked down my browser. I got tired of the super targeted, annoying advertisements that were being thrown at me.

Check out the privacy policy before installing any Chrome Extension.

https://www.whatruns.com/privacy
"Passion" the term definitely needs to be retired. It's pretty much a dog whistle as you say. However, whatever you want to call it, I do prefer to work with people who have both a high work ethic and an intrinsic interest and excitement about their work. It's absolutely more fun to have people to "geek out" with than not. In the grand scheme, I think we spend too much time at work to not try make it as enjoyable as possible while also still doing a good job. So I guess to your question of who gives a care if a coworker is boring: I (and I think lots of others) do...
HN is remarkably fickle; a browser extension is a perfectly reasonable user-friendly mechanism for the service given the choices out there. There are privacy concerns given the coarse level of granularity that Chrome provides, but until Google changes that ("Read and change all data on websites you visit" shouldn't be the same thing as "give the current URL to the browser extension when I click its button"), that's just what we're stuck with for user friendliness.
Thank you! I will be doing so.
The author did not say "as a string" and I am extremly confused as to how you read it like that... what? Essentially, the complaint (which is extremely common) is that functions that contain statements are not expressions in Python, so functional coding styles using things like .map() and .reduce() end up fragmented (and you are horribly tempted to play extremely insane tricks with decorators to build something that feels like a Frankenstein Ruby block); this is why the author then brings up arrow functions: it has nothing to do with strings.
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A fair starting point is not achievable without everyone being clones, and very likely not even then.

I care more about equal opportunity than others, because equal opportunity means truly treating people fairly and in a standardized way at a policy level, rather than discriminating based on skin color, gender or ethnicity.
http://i.imgur.com/SqdzxzF.png

You might save 2km/s if you can use an elevator on the moon. Which is not a lot compared to a space elevator on Earth, but it would definitely be useful. That could be half your delta-v budget if you're going between the moon's surface and an orbit around Earth/Mars/Venus.
There is no standard that I'm aware of. On a related note, if I had a dollar (or a Euro) for every US problem that the Germans solved long ago through straight thinking, I'd have enough money to move to Germany.
> To address your concern with the privacy, WhatRuns do not collect or log any visitor information including IP address, location etc

That's not the whole truth - you are using Google Analytics to track visitors and you fail to disclose this in your privacy policy, despite this being mandatory under the Google Analytics T&C's.

Well done launching what looks like a very cool project, and I hope you can further improve it by informing visitors that you are using Google Analytics to track them (or even drop GA completely in favor of something privacy friendly).
Just a datapoint: I recently transferred while premium processing was suspended, and it took only about a month for me to get the approval.
It's possible to have two H-1B employers, one based on full-time employment and another based on part-time employment. This is referred to as concurrent H-1B employment and it requires two approved H-1B petitions.
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For those in one of the covered regions[1], Kaiser Permanente is largely not-evil. You have to go through your GP to get referrals to specialists, but it's a series of mostly consistent "I have X problem" "Try Y" "Didn't work" "Try Z" "Didn't Work" "OK, let's get you to a specialist" events.

They have an interesting governance structure (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser_Permanente) that tries to align incentives correctly.

[1]: Coverage areas as divided by corporate entities:

Northern California
Southern California
Colorado
Georgia
Hawaii
Mid-Atlantic (vicinity of Washington, D.C., including Maryland and Virginia)
Northwest (Northwest Oregon and Southwest Washington)
Washington (except Southwest Washington)
I've met some alumni of the Recurse Center. They were all career programmers or hackers prior. It is not a boot camp like the ones mentioned in this article.

https://www.recurse.com/not-a-bootcamp
It's more of a feature than an arbitrary limitation I think. Python philosophy, 'explicit over implicit', and that stuff.
Why don't you want to stay in India?
I imagine the first step for producing food in loco would be hydroponic agriculture on either place.
Tiny bits of dissolved nutrients (extracted or brought along) should be fine. Actually building soil would be a second step.

Once you get there, almost everything is a little easier on Mars, but getting there (and back?) is a heck of a lot harder.
> Feel sorry for the stores taking the orders with no hope of actual sales.

Since it's not clear if the book has actually even been published, I'm not sure those orders would ever be fulfilled.
If it works on Windows, I'd love to give it a try! Our ERP system is written in COBOL and I have to deal with fixed-width files all the time. Does it also handle REDEFINES and level 88?
I recently learned about "commuter" green cards, which let folk live in Canada or Mexico:
https://www.uscis.gov/ilink/docView/SLB/HTML/SLB/0-0-0-1/0-0...
Is there a firm near Mountain View you would recommend to consult about specific cases?

I am an American citizen considering marrying a foreign national who has a F-1 visa and would like to know more about the process of applying for permanent residency.
That's right, regular processing of H-1B petitions oftentimes is not taking as long as people initially feared. In my experience, they are getting reviewed within 2-3 months, sometimes less.
Hi Peter,

Is it possible to convert from a L1 visa to H1B visa while in the US?

Thanks.
Off topic, but, has anyone else been able to identify software frameworks by the behavior the application presents before?

I find myself getting slightly better at this as I spend more time in web development.
Why do they not transmit location during relatively peaceful times? There is more of a threat from collision then hostile action in these waters.
Hurricane Harvey poses an unprecedented flood threat to Texas
I find it amusing you'd think of them first rather than... The Co-operative? https://www.co-operative.coop/about-us
In a hundreds-of-million USD war vessel, LIDAR-or-some-other-clever-tech-based collision sensors sounds like a well spent couple-of-hundred-k. Probably not-too-hard to upgrade the fleet for a few billion USD.

Just spec it to GD like "y'know that beep that I get on my car when I'm about to backup into a tree? Let's get that on these boats."
MoviePass Says It Passed 150,000 Sub Target After Price Drop Publicity
I fully expect to get downvoted for this, but it's an important point that I have to address.

> Some non-zero percent of those 12k people live with a partner who doesn't know their HIV status. It is totally unethical for those people to fail to disclose their status to their partners

This is itself based in old misinformation about HIV that serves to perpetuate harmful stigmas around HIV.

HIV is treatable, and when properly treated, cannot be transmitted[0]. That's not even taking into account other forms of HIV prevention that are practiced to reduce the risk of HIV transmission. While it's advisable for an HIV- to ask their partner's HIV status (and HCV, and other STD statues), a person with HIV under proper treatment should not be expected to proactively disclose that to every partner or potential partner, and it's not "totally unethical" for them to make the decision not to volunteer that information unasked.

[0] Decades of misinformation have drilled the false belief that HIV is always infectious into people's minds, to the point where public health groups are literally launching massive campaigns to correct this belief.
Why does everything have to be so economically driven? Clean drinking water should be totally free for everyone, we kinda need it to live
For Red Dragon they were going to add an asymmetrical 'sled' under the capsule that alters its geometry to form a lifting body, so it could spend significantly more time up in the atmosphere braking than most custom designed landers would. The sled would be jettisoned immediately before the propulsive landing.

It's not an ideal design, but this way they would only have had to make minor changes to the capsule, mainly to add more fuel for the landing than the regular design.
I picked the GAO report because they have a reputation for solid, unbiased work. But a quick google will find you many other citations. Quite a few people have come independently to the conclusion that it decreases turnout among populations that tend to vote Democrat.

So that's a problem. Making ID cards free would probably help, but the other issue is that you're weighing the potential disenfranchisement of some marginalized people on one side against a phantom "voter fraud" boogeyman on the other side. In-person voter fraud basically never happens. There's no need to take any steps to stamp it out.

There are so many better ways to spend that time and effort -- improving the vote-by-mail process, to pick an easy example.
Great to see these Swift features[1] appearing in C#:

* Nullable Reference Types
This makes it so much easier to reason about references. I always found it strange that C# had nullability on value types, but not on reference types.

* Default Interface Implementations
Inherit an interface, and get an implementation "for free". This makes for a very powerful way to define interfaces and default implementations.

* Extension Everything
As noted in the video/text, the current syntax feels a bit weird -- having to use a static class.

[1]: Not saying these are exclusive to Swift, or Swift was the first to implement them.
We are using Google Analytics only on the website, it will not (and do not have access to) collect extension user data. However, you are right that we should've mentioned this in our privacy policy. We're on it :)
I'm not here to plug my firm but we're in MV as well but there are a lot of really good immigration attorneys in the area. If you would like some recommendations, email me offline.
Well truth be told it was hard for me to understand what the author meant. Thanks for clarification.
To address your concern with the privacy, WhatRuns do not collect or log any visitor information including IP address, location etc. We receive anonymous website data and match with our database to display the results. Hope this clarifies.
In 2014 alone, Americans filled 76.9 million
prescriptions for metformin, and some of those
prescriptions went to Barzilai himself. (He’s
been taking the drug since he was diagnosed
with prediabetes around six years ago.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metformin

Metformin is in the biguanide class. It
works by decreasing glucose production by
the liver and increasing the insulin
sensitivity of body tissues.

The most serious potential side effect of
metformin use is lactic acidosis; this
complication is very rare, and the vast
majority of these cases seem to be related to
comorbid conditions, such as impaired liver or
kidney function, rather than to the metformin
itself.
Can a Canadian, living in Canada and working remotely, be an employee of a US tech company (if the company has no offices in Canada)? Or he/she need to be a contractor?
Works on ARM newsletter – Issue 17 – from RPi to edge to mobile
Hi Peter, I got a L1B visa a month ago, i.e. I'm an intracompany transferee and I want to know if I'd be authorised to work for other companies in the US in the future. If so, should I have to get a different kind of visa? What's the process like? Thanks!!
US Bank account numbers aren't proprietary knowledge. They're written in plaintext on the bottom of every check.
I only ever post photos taken in other apps, but I believe you can shoot photos and video+sound directly in Instagram.

The "stories" feature that they knocked off from Snapchat would definitely use audio.
Maybe we shouldn't be funding healthcare on a profit-driven basis then.
We're on it. Thank you so much for bringing this to our attention.
Self-driving trucks to be tested on UK roads
Hi Peter,

I'm in US on a TN visa and started a company (no revenue/no employees) to list apps on app store. When I went to renew my TN status, Immigration officer gave me a bit of a hard time saying I needed approval to open this business from Homeland Security. Is this true?
Askscience isn't that bad, either!
I'll crank up those `null` assignments to non-optional references warnings up to compiler errors. There's really no reason to ship software that doesn't explicitly declare something as nullable.

The `!`'s are always code smells. I hope I can turn them into warnings or build errors.
Yes, I've a data-only SIM from T-Mobile US in my iPhone. Works great. $35 / 6GB and comes with datastash and BingOn.
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if it's impossible to dilute the worker, it's impossible to fund the business.

Lets say your startup sells 20% to an investor (round A), keeps 50% for founders/direct employees, and allocates the remaining 30% to "workers", i.e. drivers, employees. Now you run low on money and go out for round B.

Where is the equity for the round B investors? Say they want 50%, who takes the dilution? Just the round A investors and founders, taking them down to 6% and 14% respectively so workers can stay at 30%? Thats never going to happen, the B round investors aren't going to give funding to see founder incentives massively reduced (unless they plan to replace founders). They want the people they think are most likely to make their investment successful to have the most skin in the game, and that's very unlikely to be workers/drivers.

Also when an investor gives a management team and workers a big round of financing, they typically expect preference in future rounds. Especially if you don't achieve your promised objectives, your A round investor doesn't want to take the same amount of punishment as you will.

Whether you are an employee or a driver, you will almost always get common stock. Investors will get preferred stock. Preferred stock can have all sorts of negotiated rights, but almost always it means that they will get their investment back before common shareholders get a dime. This kind of structure actually makes venture capital possible, the vast majority of investments fail and being able to recover some of their investment from many of them instead of a huge smoking crater keeps funds going until they finally book a big winner. So if your company takes $200M in funding and then sells for $200M, the only payout employees can hope for are retention bonuses for key players.

What Juno did looks really sleazy, given they supposedly only raise $30M and sold for $200M liquidation preferences should have nothing to do with it. And drivers got restricted stock grants, not options for common shares. The difference is options are worthless until the option price is reached. RSUs are typically structured so you always get value, you don't have to reach any exercise price. No idea how they could only end up with 2 cents per share unless Juno had 20 billion shares, which is ridiculous.
What is the reason you dont naturalize? Future tax concerns?
> Or lower the bulk threshold to one. Meaning a single sale of a title “counts” while >1 sales in a transaction counts as 1.

Not knowing their data, it could be that they settled on 30 because reducing the number below that didn't change the results, and was more effort (ie, expensive) to tabulate.
How to cold email a freelance lead
The weather? Source: UK citizen wishing to move to the US.
Ancient Babylonian Tablet Identified as the World’s Oldest Trigonometry Table
I first had my H1b approved several years back. I was with Company A for 2 years before I moved back to India to work at another company. I then came back to the US where I worked on H1b (same visa) for Company B for another 2.5 years. So I've used up around 4.5 years on my H1b that was first issued in 2007. I left the US and am now based in Canada.

I recently got another offer from Company C in the US. Does Company C need to apply for a new H1b, or can they simply transfer the current H1b I have? Note that my current H1b (that was sponsored by Company B) expired in May 2017, but I still have 1.5 years that I can use on it before the 6 year limit, as far as I understand. I hope my question makes sense.
I think it depends on the individual and the class. With several philosophy classes I saw scores on weekly papers go from around 9/10 to around 5/10 if I tried to wing it and do it at the last minute.
Regarding your first question, there are a lot of factors at play so email me offline. Regarding your second question, always check with your school but what counts against your 12 months of post-completion OPT are pre-completion OPT and 12 months of full-time CPT.
Hi Peter, I'm on a L1B visa right now, i.e. I'm an intracompany transferee. What if I want to start working for another company in the future? Will I have to switch to another kind of visa? What would be the process like? Thanks!!
How to take my product to the next level?
Hi,

I'm Suhas. I've been mostly a lurker in here. Few years ago, I had built an app called Horcrux Email Backup. https://thehorcrux.com/ . It's an app that let's you easily backup your emails as well as move your emails between different providers. It got slightly popular when it got on the first page of HN, long time ago.

Thanks to that, It was mostly a passive stream of income for me over the years. I'm starting to believe it was just a passive side project since I couldn't figure out how to scale it, marketing-wise.

I recently did a whole redesign and improvements to the app that I'm quite proud of. Now, I want to get to the hands of the people now. That's just super tricky.

I was wondering if I can get any advise to improve the marketing aspect and make this a sustainable business.

Regards,
Suhas
I think part of it is that Google Maps and Bing Maps do not have a sense of urgency. So for one thing, the base maps are poorly performing.
While '==' meaning compares equal by value would be nice; it makes the == operator quite complex. If it's a general comparison operator, it would need to recursively compare all the members, and avoid looping on circular references, or risk == running forever.

Certainly, one can come up with examples of how a different operator == would be useful for certain types of objects (including Integer), but the architects of Java strongly felt that an operator should always behave the same, regardless of the type of its operands, unless the operator is + and the objects are Strings.
If you don't have any weird issues like divorces, children from other marriages etc. to worry about then the process is quite straightforward and you may not require a lawyer if you just follow what the USCIS website asks you to do.
I'd wager the feature required fewer than 8.8 million lines of code :-)
Clean drinking water for drinking, yes. Clean drinking water for industrial (or even irrigation) purposes, no – because putting a fair price on it would appropriately punish those who use it wastefully.
Former president in jail since earlier this year. Will probably end up in conviction, too.
I've long wanted something like this, basically as a sort of super-history search. Looks promising!