skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider the following scenario: a foreign (non-resident alien) founder gets funded in the US, standard C-Corp. The founder and the entire team are based in another country.
The founder comes to the US once in a while for somewhat extended stays (~1month) to fundraise, do deals, etc. Regular B1/B2 visa. But expectedly, they will still do a bit of work in the meantime. Are they in violation of the B1/B2? If so, would being paid by a foreign subsidiary help it?
omg - THATS what that double-tap feature was for?!? i always thought it was a bug.
Good for PayPal, they are a private business and can choose who they will allow on their platform.
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Been using it for twenty years for photo editing, touch up, and light drawing. It works great for all those tasks.

The only complaints I've had are that development has always been slow, and interface was clunky until 2.0.

Before that I often used PaintShop Pro on Windows for the same tasks.
You are comparing R&D with Cost of Goods - they are different things.

Cost of goods refers to the production cost of an individual item. COG for app store is zero. You don't even pay for hosting your app on the app store.

Software developers are R&D, not cost of goods.

There is R&D associated with Starbucks coffee as well (researching beans, refining the blends, etc), but nobody really factors that into its perceived value.
> Is There Hope for the Paid App?

Sure there is. Just do what Starbucks does:

• Build an app experience that’s unique and doesn’t feel “easily replicated”

• Provide something the user sees as valuable to their daily life

• Package it such that it shows off its craftsmanship
Find creative ways to profit off of a “free” version (Starbucks doesn’t do this…. yet)

• Quit complaining about money wasted on cups of coffee

Don't forget the part about spending millions on advertising, so that people know what your product is.
The GP starts his post with "every week," and I interpreted it as being structured to indicate a recent trend.

It is ambiguous, I admit, but I don't think I'm reaching with my understanding.
What is an "executive"?

If a sales executive considered executive?

If a person has 5 reports, is he/she an executive?

It's impossible to be wrong to call everyone working in a company "executive", and both VW and DOJ know this.
Why would you want to talk only to customers who "really want" to talk to you? Instead of all your customers, who are a superset of that group and don't always have the same needs?
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Wrt dna testing, my feeling is this: I don't want to be a voyeur of my families past, i want to be its friend.

I wont ever give my dna simply because i want to keep family secrets secret. To honor their wishes. One of the worst cases is you find out your father isn't your father. Or gf or ggf etc..

This article [1] is an example.

Family secrets should be kept secret.

I can imagine matching dna to pregnancy terminations.

Just don't submit your dna at all.

[1] http://goo.gl/8RMztZ
The short answer is yes and CBP does this all the time although there has to be some basis for doing so. But the risk is real - in short, admission once in TN status doesn't guarantee admission in the future.
Another surprised comment, but I'm surprised there is no Seattle or PNW locations..
How do you know if you've been filtered? Not getting a response would lead to a lot of frustration.
There is already such incentives for companies defrauding the government [1] :

"Qui tam" where the whistleblower can receive "between 15% and 25% of any award or settlement amount" on cases like this seems to be a pretty huge incentive.

Look at the "Example" section in [1]:

- 2009 :
[...] was awarded $51.5 million for his role as a whistleblower
102 million that was distributed between the six whistleblowers
[...] whistleblower was awarded 18% of the $253 million civil settlement
- 2012 :
was entitled to $3.6 million of the settlement

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qui_tam#United_States
@samblr First off, thank you so much for your kind words. Glad you liked the info we're providing.

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.
Never heard of PSD until your comment. Not so standard.

Wikipedia: "A .PSD file is a layered image file used in Adobe PhotoShop."

Oh, that's what you mean by "standard".

Not "standard" as in, I can put onto a server, point a web page's IMG at it, and be confident it displays on everyone's browser.

Or "standard" as in, documented in some RFC or other standard document.

How well does Photoshop open the "standard" GIMP .xcf files?
Oh, but Ansible is not agentless. You do have an agent, and the worst kind at
that: the one that you easily cut off by a single configuration mistake,
because it serves both to send configuration commands and for diagnostic
access. And then, whole Ansible run breaks on first problem on any host, even
if it was a planned downtime.
> Do not transition on any negative (falling) edges.
> Falling edge clocks should be considered a violation of the one clock principle, as they act like separate clocks.

I think this is a good thing to point out if you are working in a primarily rising-edge system, which is common, but if your _entire design_ uses falling edges for one reason or another, I don't see the problem.

I have had to transition a design to falling edge when I needed interop with existing external hardware that operated on the falling edge. Rather than invert my clock, using the falling edge was fine.
I think it's fairly obvious your father probably has a number in his phone of your grandfather or one of the relatives and so does Rebecca so it joins the dots.
Hi Peter,

What are the tax/any implications of working remotely from California for a Florida based company which is sponsoring an E-3 visa?

Thank you!
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And really, to be fair, America has been benefiting from brain drain from the whole rest of the world for decades and decades. Almost centuries. It probably can't last forever.
Anecdotal, but most companies I've worked for have policies that claim ownership of everything I produced in my own time on my own equipment. I think that's the rule, not the exception.
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>Under Morin’s ruling, any information prosecutors find unrelated to the rioting would be sealed and could not be shared by prosecutors with anyone else or any other government authority.

May as well be unsealed because of parallel construction.
I thought I had read it closely, but did miss the detail regarding his executive status. The implication remains, however, that higher executives were the source of the pressure to defraud. Maybe it was his idea and maybe they did get the "right" person.

Pleading guilty, however, is as much a sign of pragmatic intelligence as actual guilt, especially when dealing with federal law enforcement in the US.
USCIS and CBP will deny TN applications based on significant ownership alone even if the employee is truly working as an engineer and owns less than 50%.
When I was in grad school, you were sent to the front of the line when applying for tenure track positions. (If you got a paper or two into those two publications).

However, people still had to like you in the interview and job talk.
The problem is the fund size. when you have make a good return on 100m you need something that will eventually get there.
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Scarier point: USPS probably knows without that. If these letters are sent out in batches and the envelopes/timing/vender is unique, then all it takes is knowing that 1 letter is abut HIV and then you know all of them are without ever seeing the content.
Indeed calling him an engineer, while technically true, suggests something different than what happened. He is an executive, not a line engineer.
It depends on where you live. It's about 37k usd after taxes in Stockholm.
I have a marked lack of faith in contractual language's ability to safeguard privacy in cutting edge technical matters, where there is any gray area.

"We promise to anonymizing your data, but we will sell it" is a huge gray area.

Are there legal standards for anonymizing data? To what degree? What type of protections are required for the un-anonymized data 23&me holds on their servers? What about any mapping data that allows anonymous products to be deanonymized? What obligations is 23&me under in regards to any future data products they offer with remixed data? What happens if their data products are found to expose individuals via third party information unmasking or statistical attacks? Am I entitled to be made aware of products 23&me sells that include my anonymizing data? If not, and it's custom deals struck in a backroom, how am I able to ensure any anonymization meets my standards? Etc.
Maybe I could have said it less bluntly, but I replied because I favor honest discussion over silence. If I'm going to not do someone a favor, I think it's better to say why than to ghost them.
This worker is the executive. He was in charge of the entire development of the project, and was a key decision maker in the later coverups.

They're calling him an engineer out of respect for his professional qualifications as such things are immensely important in Germany. Because he was an engineer, he has a duty to not act unethically within his professional capacity, and is shamed more than a mere MBA-style executive would be.
The project has moved on (both in terms of where the repo is hosted and implementation-wise) so I thought I'd re-submit this. Thanks for pointing to the previous discussion :)
There are some products that will help you strip that information out automatically, e.g. https://cloud.google.com/dlp/ Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXTCIDbLdfw

Others probably exist, but that is the one I know about.
This is because anybody who knows what's going on wants health insurance outlawed. Everyone else just wants to milk sick people for every dime they have.
The good aspects aren't ignored, they're just relatively small.

Rapid change creates problems even when the net difference is superficially zero. For example, if I knocked down your house, but built two better houses in the middle of Nunavut, you'd probably still be unhappy, and it would still cause problems for your life.
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The question is can you trust these devices?
Samsung heir sentenced to five years in jail after corruption conviction
> Well in Europe you usually get your 2 weeks

Are there EU nations that give so little paid vacation? At least in the West, I think at least 3 weeks (non contiguous) is the norm...
Aetna accidentally leaked customers' HIV status through mail
In addition, I would say there is value in trying to tell people, "Don't stick your neck out for corporate boss! Otherwise you may go to jail and they may go free."
It's a longer discussion which I would be happy to have with you but there is no question that an E-3 worker can apply for a green card while in E-3 status. The short explanation is that the issue is intent at the time of admission and intent can change after admission.
>> Can you mine whoppercoin?
> No

Unless you count eating lots of whoppers as mining.
Companies often use noreply@… as sender and add a real address as Reply-To so their staff does not have to deal with bounce messages.
There are different forms of B6 and B12, and no actual relationship between vitamins that share the "B" name. Almost all categories invented in nutrition are bunk, and each individual molecule affects us differently.

P5P (B6) has different effects than the usual pyridoxine hcl (B6). Methylcobalamin (B12) has different effects than Cyanocobalamin (B12).

Sometimes different isomers of the same molecule affect us differently.

This study is behind a paywall, but the abstract doesn't seem to mention what forms were used. How unfortunate.
Wait, so this fellow came up with "rational trigonometry" more than a decade ago and just happened to find a Babylonian tablet suggesting that the Babylonians used his technique? That's... awfully convenient, isn't it?
How does this differ from BuiltWith?
You absolutely should beat up the phone agents. They are part of the problem just like everyone else in the health industry.
i would argue there are fewer qualified academics being created in the U.S., because our educational system is declining and has been for some time, relative to other countries.
> Can you use ACH to initiate a transfer between two (third) parties (i.e. you not being one of them)?

No, the closest you could come is what you quoted. You could issue the debit & credit actions together, but you'd be taking on the risk that the debit fails and the credit succeeds, leaving you short.

> If not, what are the requirements to be a broker / escrow in between them?

The Federal Reserve is the entity that is between all inter-bank ACH transactions. Essentially US banks hold an account with the Federal Reserve. When they send ACH payments for their customers, their Fed account is debited (and the other bank is credited). When they receive ACH payments for their customers, their Fed account is credited (and the other bank is debited).
What do they mean they don't know how Facebook found out? Facebook imports your contacts and then it uses a combination of data you give it and public records data and it just builds linked lists it then walks.

'John Porter': { records: '1215 Wash Ave,Akron,OH, 555-0001', siblings: 'James Porter' }

'James Porter': { records: '1215 Wash Ave,Akron,OH, 555-8901, jamesp@gmail.com', contacts: '555-0001, 555-1234', spouse: 'Rebecca Porter' }

'Rebecca Porter': { records: '1215 Wash Ave,Akron,OH, 555-1234, facebook.com/rebeccap, rebeccap@gmail.com', contacts: '555-8901' }

'Jim Hill': { records: '9030 Stine Blvd,Miami,FL, 555-5678, jimh@gmail.com', contacts: '555-2345', children: 'Kashmir Hill' }

'Kashmir Hill': { records: '9030 Stine Blvd,Miami,FL 555-2345, facebook.com/kashmirh, kashmirh@gmail.com', contacts: '555-5678' }

Because FP and JH are not on Facebook, we do not have the data connecting the two, so we have to find a path between them with more data.

A very creepy link is possible. For years, companies like Facebook have been compiling profiles on the habits of users browsing the web via tracking cookies. Additional data is collected over time until they know virtually everything about all kinds of people, even if they've never signed up for any website ever. It is very possible that just by browsing the web randomly built up Jim and James's profiles, and searching for the same funeral home created a weak (but potential) connection, which could then be strengthened by mapping other data between their mutual contacts.

But I suspect a simpler explanation exists:

"My father was adopted by a man whose last name was Hill, and he didn’t find out about his biological father until adulthood. [...] A few years ago, my father eventually did meet his biological father, along with two uncles and an aunt, when they sought him out during a trip back to Ohio for his mother’s funeral. [...] My father had met [Rebecca's] husband in person that one time, after my grandmother’s funeral. They exchanged emails, and my father had his number in his phone."

So Kashmir's grandmother died in Ohio, and her father knew her, and so did his biological father, and so did Rebecca's husband. If the grandmother ever had a Facebook, and her son's and her son's father's phone numbers, she would provide a link between Jim and James, and thus a path from Kashmir to Rebecca. Rebecca might also have had Kashmir's grandmother's phone number. If the grandmother and grandfather also were ever married, or lived at the same address, public records could link them.

Regardless of the connection, if you add enough data from enough people over time, even if they are 6 or 7 or 8 links away from each other, the connections can be made, without even creepy tracking stuff.

(Apologies in advance for the huge post)
You brake before getting close to whatever you want to rendevous with.

This makes me question whether you actually understand how orbital rendezvous works. How about as an exercise, you explain why I would say this. Otherwise, I think the resulting conversation would be tiresome and not worth my time.
70MilionJobs Seeks CTO/Co-Founder
70MillionJobs, the first for-profit recruitment platform for 70 million Americans with criminal records, is seeking a CTO/Co-Founder to help build the business.

We just completed YC (S17), and when we launched on HN a couple of weeks ago, we received nearly 2000 up votes, along with an incredible amount of great suggestions and support. (I can't tell you how personally gratifying it was.)
While we have a perfectly functioning MVP job board (70MillionJobs.com), this product does not come close to being a market fit for our very unique users. Despite that, we have several million applicants in our pipeline, and have begun working with some large, national employers.
We received a great response at Demo Day and Investor Day, and have nearly completed our Seed Round with some good investors.
Full Disclosure: getting involved may not be the most advisable career move: my first CTO learned that his wife had cancer shortly after our acceptance into YC. My second CTO's family was involved in a terrible auto accident just prior to our interview for the summer batch.
I need someone with whom the mission resonates (helping people who desperately could use a hand), as well as ready to own everything technical large and small. Significant equity and a living wage are on the table. I am leaning towards operating the business in Oakland, but that's negotiable.
Please contact me (richard@70millionjobs.com) or share with whomever you think is great. Help me build a big company and save a lot of lives along the way.
Thanks for all the great answers. I wish you the best.

>>The water mafia question is definitely a super important. The only way we can see taking on the mafia is to add more water supply on to the market. The only way we can do that is to enable micro entrepreneurs to sell water. As you probably know, about 50% of urban Indians have their own borewell, but less than 1% sell water. Phase I is to aggregate water demand using our IoT devices, and Phase II is to enable hyperlocal selling of water.

Thats an innovative idea with potentially many social ramifications(positive and negative). I will be watching it closely!
I went to Los Angeles and did a summer job at Axiotron in 2008. Then I tried to convert to a student visa when I moved to study at UCSB for an exchange programme.

My address changed, and I never got a letter asking for proof of funds. The USCIS didn't recognise the letter from my parents' bank.

I petitioned to reopen the application when I found out it was denied. I waited for months, and eventually was given 30 days to leave the country because I didn't have $25,000 cash in my own name (I was 19 years old. I still don't have that much money now). Thankfully I was already scheduled to leave 7 days later - the process had taken the entire year, so I finished my exchange programme.

I think that means the US kicked me out, and I can never get a visa to go back. I did travel there as a tourist once, over land from Canada just in case.

Is it worth ignoring any opportunity to work in Silicon Valley because of that bad experience? I'd rather work in New Zealand or Canada or (stay) in Taiwan anyway.
The fact that we spend too much by an order of magnitude or two doesn't mean the rest of the world is dependent on us. We don't spend this much because it's the only way to make the world safe. We spend this much because every Congressman has a some part of a defense contractor in their district and they'd rather build billion dollar boondoggles that the military leadership explicitly doesn't want than vote to close the local plant.
Essentially, there are 3 grounds for self-petitioning: through investment or based on extraordinary ability or national interest. The major factors depend on the path.
Yeah, but only to 20% of those who try it. For them, there's a slow release version, but I don't think it's widely available - I tried finding Glucophage SR in Europe with no success!

Anyway, I'm among the lucky 80% of those without side effects. I'm not diabetic; I take it for biohacking reasons.
I wholeheartedly agree with these bloggers in despising the "noreply" practice, and here is a rule in my Exim mail server config that I've had there for years:

deny
message = MYDOM does not accept SMTP traffic from "noreply" senders. \
E-mail is a "two-way street". \
If you want us to accept \
your mail, then please accept replies.
senders = ^.*noreply.*\$ : ^.*do.*not.*reply.*\$

Unfortunately, this has to be immediately followed by a whitelist:

!senders = *@sourceforge.net : github.com : [ ... others ]
Can we get the title changed to "VW engineering exec"?

As it stands, I think it's a bit misleading
If we dropped you off in the middle of interstellar space, what do you suppose your chances would be of solving the inevitable problems?
One higher executive (Oliver Schmidt) has pleaded guilty and is awaiting sentencing. The others are German citizens living in Germany and can't be extradited.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/business/volkswagen-diese...
SUPER ANNOYING BUG.

It seems to only look at the second-level domain, and thinks that websites with the same subdomain are the same.

They are not.
We don't have to guess... What happened to each group during the last two tech/economic downturns (2000-2003 and 2007-2009)?
Well he still broke the law(and not unjust ones either). Just because you cooperate doesn't mean you should get off free.
Yes, her Iranian citizenship doesn't mean that she can't get a nonimmigrant visa even under the current limited ban.
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IMO arbitrary rules like lambda expressions being limited to one expression do not directly improve readability and maintainability. Consistently using good conventions in the first place will help you more than arbitrary restrictions.

And to be clear, I would classify, say, Rust as not having many arbitrary restrictions. All the limitations that Rust has compared to C fit clearly within the language's core design. On the other hand, I don't see this same structure and consistency to some of Python's rules.
I keep seeing "But they're doing so well with DOTA! Well good for the f#$%ing Dota fans. The rest of us meanwhile are out here in the cold.

I can't stand multiplayer games-as-a-service. Any of them. Team Fortress, Overwatch, Dota, on and on it's all the same rehashed ideas with the same business model at it's core; continuing to make money well after release by releasing a trickle of low effort, easy to market in-game assets that are all worth exactly NOTHING when the next popular one comes out (or in the case of Destiny, even the sequel).

I've never touched any of these stupid things because it's all artificial; artificial scarcity of items by way of limiting the rate they come out and not allowing trades; artificial hype by employing the very best of marketing sleaze and artificial competition of various groups/clans/teams all pitted against each other in a dance of noise and anger signifying nothing.

And then the next one comes out and everyone goes to that, leaving all the achievements, collected items, won prizes and earned trophies to sit in the digital dust until the publisher gets tired of hosting it, pulls the plug, and then it's gone forever. Nothing was learned, nothing is retained, nothing is remembered, all packaged up and shipped off for the next set of customers.

It's the most cynical and hollow business model and hopefully will someday piss off so we can get more good story driven titles again.