skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EDIT:
Talking about "lower class", I didn't mean it in an elitists way, I'm sorry if it sounded like that. Probably I should use other words than "class". I wanted to explain that many technical people in IT business (programmers, engineers...) kind of put themselves down with their soft skills, manners or the way they behave. Like they are really clever and skilled but the way they behave make them look somehow "lower" many of them can't ask for the money they deserve etc...
Not all jobs are software engineer, or are from Silicon Valley.
The headline and lede don't accurately portray proposed changes. You need to go down a few paragraphs to find this:

" The bill prohibits H-1B dependent employers from replacing American workers with H-1B employees, there are no longer any exceptions. It also lengthens the no-layoff policy for H-1B dependent employers and their client companies for as long an H-1B employee works at the company, which means they cannot layoff equivalent US workers.

For H-1B dependent employers to be exempted from the requirement that US workers be recruited first, the Protect and Grow American Jobs Act dramatically increases the salary requirements for H-1B workers. "They must pay the lower of USD 135,000 which is indexed for inflation or the average wage for the occupation in the area of employment, but with a floor of USD 90,000," said a media release issued by the House Judiciary Committee."

This proposed changes would only apply to H1B dependent employers, which are employers with 15% or more of their workforce on H1Bs. Furthermore, there isn't currently and won't be if the proposed language becomes law, any minimum salary for H1B visa workers. Instead the salary mentioned acts as a safe harbor for H1B dependent employers to avoid certain steps they'd otherwise have to take in order to file additional H1B employee petitions beyond the 15% level.
Assuming the inspector can catch it. They're detail orientated, but they can't see inside walls or through roofs.
It's not a ridiculous term. Many companies abuse the H1B visa program to keep wages down at the expense of pretty much everyone but corporate interests that save a little money. It's terrible for the visa holders as well, they get stuck in shitty positions with low pay.

And yes, the government does in fact have the right to say who can come and work inside the country. That's sort of a fundamental right of a nation. If you don't have that, you essentially don't have a nation at all.
I think you might be downvoted because you plastered a link with no explanation. It doesn't actually address my concern, which was that when I was reading the documentation I did not see any examples.
I'd worry it attracts the lower end of storage needs, those users in the $1-$3/month range, who wouldn't want to sign up to Dropbox or OneDrive ($7/month). Spending 15 minutes on a support email can already void profits, you wouldn't have much budget for customer acquisition, and it's hard to raise prices when the main selling point seems to be the low price.
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What should happen if you change clothes in the bathroom? You would not allowed to enter with any goods not already purchased. So, you have to pick up your items after leaving the bathroom in your "new" clothes in a designated storage area (think: Ikea, Frys or Borders restrooms). Either, your smartphone would identify you against the system afterwards and the picked up items are attached to your account or the system would itendify a stranger without smartphone/check-in picking up items from the storage area. In both situations, I don't see how you could game the system.
The company address is on the https://cloudbuddy.cloud/cgi-bin/contact-us_p1.pl page (edit: oh, if it's a post office indeed my argument doesn't count). I agree, there should be (many) other assurances and trust signals.
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https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/170

So now you can be a high school graduate but if you earn 135k or higher, you are eligible for an H1B? Am I reading that right?

Also, would this affect (say) a postdoc virologist in Ohio trying to get an H1B? Or is this just for programmers in Silicon Valley?
> eliminate the lottery and sort applications by salary and take the top N

This is exactly what should happen.
It's the mediocre developers or developers in areas where the overwhelming majority of the jobs are mediocre that are hurt by this. Generally speaking they're not being replaced with better workers, they're being replaced with cheaper foreign mediocre workers.
"I'll be against it if you pay me enough money"- every person who works/collaborates with a company that does things against the public interest
One bright spot for workers from Infosys et al that survive this change is that now they can look forward to a 50% raise for their servitude. Compared to most wages in India working for USD90k for a few years under onerous conditions might be palatable (definitely much more so than USD60k).

Added that this bill closes the loopholes for replacing local US workers mean that for a greater number of workers this is a much better situation.
It's not about the total, but the prices of individual items as they show up on the checkout screen, which are pretty easy to remember (they're mostly the same week to week).

My local supermarket has some specials which are loyalty card only, so when the item is scanned the full price shows up. I use this to determine when to use the loyalty card for minimum tracking, minimum time, and minimum price (it doesn't have my personal info associated with it, but still connects purchases and it's faster to skip).
Hmm, I guess our experiences are just different then. Personally I've never noticed much amiss in online videos, aside from low bitrate. Meanwhile, I can tell gifs apart right away because of banding, overt dithering, and generally diminished quality. I also do photography as a hobby so I'd like to think I'd be sensitive to color issues, but it's possible I'm just not looking for it.
AWS misconfiguration, apparently. The Ars article links to the original source, which provides additional details: https://www.upguard.com/breaches/cloud-leak-centcom
Hotshot Tech Founders Face a Dilemma: Lie Low or Live Large
Are you required to update yearly with Affinity Photo? I was initially bullish about Sketch App for CC replacement but unfortunately their business model isn't really consumer friendly either.
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Who picks 'N'?

https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-optimal-numbe...
So, why trying to be creative? Just robbing the store in a conventional fashion should do - and facing security/police when leaving. Good luck.
Pay-per-impression is a hell of a drug.
I think that's fine. If as a content distributor, HN wants to ban all such links then that's completely acceptable. And if as a user, you want to blacklist any site that has that kind of experience, that's acceptable too. I'm not against choice or whatever principles people choose to adopt.

What I don't understand is the sentiment that somehow every site must provide you the perfect user experience, high quality content, high production value and high quality research, all for nothing more than your time. I'm sorry but your measly few minutes isn't ultimately that valuable. Feel free to bounce from the site, you're not the intended customer.

And if a site doesn't provide this magical experience for free then people start calling it "toxic", start calling for the execution of the designers, and a boycott of the product.

I mostly see this sentiment on HN - and I bet it's the same group of people that want a decentralized social network...

Also to your last point, while this particular site prompts you for an email, they let you finish reading without you giving them your email. It's just a prompt and as a site, it's not even one of the worse offenders of this practice. It's quite tame and the rest of the reading experience is super clean.
You're confusing professional licensing (applies to people) and product regulations.
Your AK-47 to serving spoon project is interesting too: https://izbicki.me/blog/turning-an-ak-47-into-a-serving-ladl...
Why does it matter who they're hiring or where? The amount that you are willing to pay someone is a(n imperfect) reflection of how much value they're giving you. People who benefit the most from these immigrants should be able to get them. I agree that it's imperfect, but surely it's better than literally distributing them randomly.
A Future Without Jobs? Think Again
A sphere (swam more likely) that is under construction/damaged/ruined would leak a large amount of light at high wavelengths. A 290K infrared survey is not going to pick up one of these structures.

It reminds me I need to finish my post on how to actually find Dyson spheres.
Weird. In the UK, your notice period is generally part of your contract. If you're made redundant, they have to give you the same notice period as if you resign. I've had 3 month notice periods in the past but my current is 1 month.
Silicon Valley Firms Back New Music Venture
Change aversion killed IRC. A lot of the opers on the big networks are extremely conservative and default to poo-pooing ideas because it's simpler.

IRC with good mobile/push support could have taken off, but using it from a mobile device is painful because of the constant drops and the need to have your device responding to ping pongs every few seconds kills your battery.
We don't have to change N to start. That is separate debate.

N is currently 65,000 with another 20,000 for US advanced degrees.
Yeah, it's a box at the post office ("Unit 184" is "PO Box 184"). I'd wager the phone number is a (so-called) "virtual phone number" as well.

It could be a totally legit business but there's a bit too much "secrecy" for me to trust them.
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> I believe that many compilers have an intermediate step that looks like a stack based language.

I admit that in the 80th many compilers used something reminiscent of a stack based language for the code generation phase. The reason is that it is rather easy to write a code generator for an accumulator machine (do it as an exercise if you want).

But this is not how typical modern compilers look like. Just to give one point of evidence beforehand: Modern processors have many more general purpose registers (x86-64 has 16 and AArch64 has 32, though some have reserved purposes). So such code would be a waste of the possibilities.

A typical modern compiler looks like this (I am aware that your preferred compiler might have additional or somewhat different stages, but the following is typical):

Frontend (very language-dependendent):

- Tokenize input
- Parse input (or report syntactical errors) to generate parse tree
- Generate Abstract Syntax Tree (AST)
- Do semantic analysis/type checking
- Transform program in Static single assignment form (SSA form)

Middleend (not much depdendent on language or machine)

- Do optimizations on SSA code (e.g. liveness of variables/dead code elimination, constant propagation, peephole optimizations, perhaps replace whole algorithms)

Backend (very machine-dependendent)

- Do machine-dependent optimizations
- Do register allocation
- Generate machine-dependent code

As one can see: A stack-based intermediate step does not appear hear (and is to my knowledge uncommon) - instead transformations on code in SSA form are common.
If the vendor you pick goes "tits up" with minimal notice, what is your Plan B, or Plan C?

How essential will any given vendor be to your biz model? If they are acquired, say by a competitor, where will that leave you?

How might any of these "relationships" effect your exit strategy? That is, what you find palatable and necessary your suitor might not.
alls i'm saying is that if anyone wrote "acceleration speed" on reports in high school physics class they'd get points off. acceleration is a kind of rate.
At the point where I had reached the end of your first sentence, I was about to respond with your second sentence. As Lederer's poem shows, the irregularity exists in the spoken language, and for the most part, the written language merely reflects that, at least in approximately phonetic languages.
From memory Facebook popularized this approach way back when.
Yeah, I leapt right in, and had to revert to Firefox ESR when I realized that RequestPolicy Continued doesn't yet work.

(BTW - thanks to @fghtr for letting me know about it this extension.)
Yes. And I hope India will increase its protectionism as well. I don't see why Flipkart has to compete with Amazon. Why do we need Whirlpool or GM when there are Indian companies that will help create jobs in India?
This is why robotics might not produce a job boom. The argument will be that there are bad things you can do with a robot, so only very very certified companies should be allowed to produce and write software for them. This is already starting to happen with drones.
> What should happen if you change clothes in the bathroom?
Nothing. Just like in a regular store.

If it ends up working how you describe it sounds like a terrible experience in cold areas where people regularly take off multiple layers of clothing, including but not limited to face masks, gloves, sweaters, coats, etc.

Also, in terms of gaming the system, it doesn't need to be "gamed", it just needs to allow you to walk out with items easily. People already shoplift easily, the question is whether it will be easier with this new system. Presumably the purpose of this is to be both easier for the customer and cheaper for Amazon compared to have cashiers.
I'm not a fan of over-regulation, but there are definitely some public good issues with plumbing in particular which justify some scrutiny by the state.

For example, a bad/ignorant plumber could build a system where small quantities of used water can be reintroduced to the mains supply (the public health consequences of which could obviously be horrible).

We could help the poor more by providing free training/licensing, or just by having a more generous welfare system so that they could buy it themselves. Sacrificing useful regulations is actually a very costly way to help the poor.
Quite irrelevant as the question explicitly stated the time as "[during] the Falklands war", and the answer is of course no, Tatcher certainly wouldn't have helped the Argentinians during the war.
and from the article itself: "[...] and is pretty stable and bug-free by now."
Ah, that is interesting. I'd love to see something on the multiple data you've seen! I tried to look but didn't see whether this data is for only VC funded startups, or for a wider set that includes others, do you know. If there are other data sources on SV startup salaries that disagree, then I have to take back my US vs Germany comment. Perhaps the discrepancy is that this data was all opt-in, which could bias the sample? Anyway, thanks for following up!
The Politics of Apps
If you know of one, post it in the comments.

The primary issue though is that the source material isn't digitized yet.
> The main reason I've heard for using Angular 2 at my work is that it's made by Google, but it's not like they use it themselves.

A lot of Google’s bigger products like gmail and maps predate Angular, though there are some products like the Google Cloud Platform Console that use it (https://console.cloud.google.com).
You can easily compete with a foreign company that hires people that are not able to get a 90k offer in the US.
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No.

From "tosheets"'s stdin to sheets.
Well, if the Korans ask for help it would be such an unusual move that the U[KS] would very probably help out. Unless Trumps prevents it with a tweet for course.

More likely scenario is that China helps out though, what with being and actual neighbor and not a nation from a distant continent...
I don't know exactly how you'd test this but I'll bet the UK has the heaviest change in the world.

Most of the rest of the world seems to have lighter coins and more smaller note denominations, which is way more convenient.
Fair enough, but why is there no standard shell or alternative interpreter?
Is Da Vinci's Painting Worth $450M or $450k?
The History of Photography Is a History of Shattered Glass
> Blu-rays and Netflix work just fine on my old laptop that doesn't support secure enclaves.

4k Bluray requires Kaby Lake or newer (I don't know whether it works on Ryzen or not) and HDMI 2.0a with HDCP 2.2.
Brilliant! If you really need foreign workers because you can't find them in USA, they must so good, so special and deserving way more than $60k.
This is an extremely uninformed opinion. First world countries restrict trade all the time. It's a mantra disseminated by first-world economists to justify breaking down trade barriers in third-world countries and set up shop more easily.

It has been seen time and time again. It would be great is this meme were put to rest.
An ex-submariner had a blog named after a saying from the community: "The stupid shall be punished."
There are quotas by country which is why it’s easier to get one as a Canadian. Harder if you are Chinese or Indian.
Is Google Fiber expansion ramping back up? It seemed prior to the election they were not looking to continue the costly expansion, but because of the trump administration and deregulation they are now expanding (Louisville). The thing the Louisville expansion shows is the difficulty ATT gives new competitors in the area.
Houdini is still my favorite engine though. It plays much more interesting than Stockfish, which plays like a, well, a stockfish.
> $185 isn't much to start a profession. I imagine as a barber it's likely the least of your initial costs.

I think $185 is just the licensing fee from the state and does not include the cost of the training or the missed revenue/income while you're doing that training instead of running your business. So the true cost is likely much higher.
precisly

AML requires freaking garbage collection in the interpreter and deal with a zillion complex data types. AML is so crazily obscure and ugly with its 4 character identifier limit. its is all bad and ugly and the people responsible for this monster should be forced to write AML interpreters in AML forever until they die.
Ah - fair enough. I made some assumptions based on some of the hurdles seen by some of the more recent moves to HTTPs on smaller BBC sites, not of any real knowledge of the current situation.

(FWIW, your article from Dec 2016 played a part in me joining the BBC recently as a developer, and I know of at least one other developer currently at the BBC who also was motivated to apply after your article :))
The weird part is that even with higher salary, I wouldn't recommend people to go on h1b.
Job flexibility, healthcare, work/life balance all sacrificed in the name of workin in America!
What country or city do you live in? I am sure we can find an armchair policy we should make to help everyone else that you can foot.
if you do the job...you do the job. Market decides
The prophecy of Robocop 3 continues.
I'm against net neutrality. I'm also against the local, state and federal regulations that gives Comcast and similar companies any competitive advantage over new entrants.

The cable companies actively lobby to maintain things like local taxes and regulations on communication infrastructure (literally - you have to pay extra taxes to put cables up on the poles) because this creates an additional barrier to competition.

We don't currently have a telecommunications market. It has been sectioned off and divided up, and rolling out new ideas and services is basically illegal: you have to convince a ton of people in government of what you plan to do first. And so progress takes a lot more time than it would be if people were free in this respect.

---

Disruption is coming, though. For example, gigabit fiber is a reality for me here in Seattle where population density is high. And satellites that sit relatively low in the sky above us promise to improve things _globally_! (This is very different from existing satellite internet services, which are very latent because the current satellites sit much higher up in the sky.)
Exporting poverty? Ludicrous!
You can please just leave out the last line, which is uncivil and violates the guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I've never been to the U.S. I just hate unfair competition.
Dell, System76, Purism, etc.
A snack machine represents new retail
If fewer people carry cash around, there's less of an incentive to mug people for their cash.
Exporting poverty? Ludicrous!

What an insane proposition. Its exporting its labor, and us is buying it. And its a better price for both the US and for the Indian person to bring the labor into the US than to keep it there or not have it at all.
I like the idea of cash but I barely need it now, I took some out last week but before that it was about six weeks since I went to an ATM. Even my daily croissant at 78p goes through via contactless, with automated checkouts I'm in and out in nigh on 60 seconds.
> Fair enough, but why is there no standard shell or alternative interpreter?

There actually exists the UEFI Shell, but not every UEFI implementation has it built in. For example the UEFI implementation that Intel provides for the Minnowboard Max (now EOL) and Minnowboard Turbot does provide an UEFI Shell.

If the producer of the mainboard/laptop has not built in the UEFI Shell, there still exist options to start an UEFI Shell binary as an ordinary UEFI application (just as a bootloader etc. is also just an UEFI application):

> https://superuser.com/a/1057594/62591

In principle it should even be possible to write an alternative shell for UEFI and start it this way, but I am not aware that someone has written one.
Yes, Brilliant. Take a pool of talent that is available, and make up rules on how to limit it. What a sophisticated thought it is to find novel and different ways to hurt yourself.
To me, that's not a downside but a positive feature. At work, I connect to slack via the weechat wee-slack plugin, and it's great to filter out all that gunk. I want plain text chat, and this way I can still get it.
I think those two pages are the fastest-loading web pages I've viewed in the last 6 months. The second is just 109kB with all assets.
> [eliminating the lottery] I imagine that would be politically unpopular.

Why? I'm in the US with a work visa and the idea of having a lottery to decide who is allowed to work in the US is absolutely insane for me. It just does not make sense.
So do you want unlimited immigration?
>In its raw power, some conservationists see a way of achieving impossible-sounding feats like exterminating an island’s rats by spreading genes through the wild population that make it difficult for the animals to reproduce.

How can a gene drive which prevents reproduction spread to the whole population? And wouldn't it be self limiting? I kinda of seems like me to be the opposite of a gene drive.
Money shot:

> That’s one of the other counterintuitive things: Adding people doesn’t mean there’s less work for the people that are already there. It means that the entire company can do more. If one person was managing all of marketing before and then you hire someone to manage your content channels — the person who was doing marketing before is not going to have less to do. It either means that she'll be able to do the rest of her job better, or that she'll be able to take on new things.

You might say that people are thinking in terms of Amdahl's Law, while what happens in reality is Gustafson's Law. The task increases to fit the available processing power.
I was thinking about taking a job in US many many many times, but I was always deterred by the prospective of becoming a US taxpayer for life and fear of overzealous tax enforcement