skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do! For example, Vision takes languageHints [1]. With the Speech API, I took an hour long tour of Rouffignac (in French) and translated it into English. I considered adding some SpeechContext [2] for things like mammoth and so on, but actually it did a fine enough job as is (besides, I had to listen to it later, as there was obviously no coverage in the cave).

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (but not these APIs).

[1] https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/reference/rest/v1/image...

[2] https://cloud.google.com/speech/reference/rest/v1/Recognitio...
Is there an immigration path for people who incorporate in the US (LegalZoom Delaware LLC / Stripe Atlas C Corp) and do reasonably well, pay taxes, etc? If yes, what would be the route and what would be a reasonable bar?
Don't know if this is the forum to ask or you have the knowledge but i'll ask anyway. Is there a reason why India alone receives more than 70% of all H1b visa (more than twice every other country combined)? Is this by design or accident? (Also I find most immigration question forums tend to be dominated/overwhelmed by Indians and their specific immigration questions)
*update with relevant link: https://www.recode.net/2017/4/13/15281170/china-india-tech-h...
Also deciding to pass on someone because they don't fit your mythical 10x unicorn developer vision
On rainy Seattle days I often research other tech cities I could live in without a large mortgage and larger commute. I've decided, for me at least, Raleigh offers the best balance. Good economy, small-ish city, vibrant downtown, cheap-ish houses. As soon as I can, I'll be leaving Seattle for Raleigh.
This is purely anecdote, but I found Seattle to be significantly less diverse than Cincinnati or Columbus. The larger cities in the Midwest tend to have governments with goals that are hard to distinguish from any of the Democrat controlled coastal cities.
> Why eat iodized salt?

Because people tend to use salt. You can get iodine other ways, sure.

> Wy not just take iodine supplement

"Just"? For most people, adding a supplement is more of a change than changing which salt they buy (and in much of the world, iodized salt is already the most visible, anyhow.)

> Or iodize some other foods perhaps?

Iodizing salt is easy, and has nesr-universal reach. There aren't many alternatives that share those features.
"anonymized" is a statistical measure. What you are doing is making it less likely that someone can be identified not necessarily impossible. I think it would be best if folks were more honest about that. The article mentions finding 7 people in a dataset of 2.9 million. It's obvious that they felt that 7 prominent people was enough to tell the story and they could likely find many more. My question is could they find 0.001%, 1%, 10%, or more? If so with what resources...

Edit: an old an interesting discussion on this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2942967
The situation you describe will be positive for the Midwest. Many of those engineers at the dev office back home have options and, should the company have a successful exit, are well positioned to start new companies or angel invest, and do it where they are. This isn't going to happen overnight, and more teams and founders will stay put and still be successful over time.

Plus, engineering is core to many tech startups. It's a big change in the industry that they are successful having the dev teams back home and bay area investors are cool with that! (disclaimer: I'm the founder of a midwest-startup with coastal VC)
Hah! Minnesota has 10,000+ lakes and tons of natural beauty. We have a lake cabin/home that we visit year round.

I LOVE winter here, couldn't live without it. Yes, I love the cold. Dress properly and it is quite enjoyable.

I'm by no means "rich" but I make well into six figures in software and I love this area and would find it hard to move anywhere else.

Occasionally I visit one of my clients that is in Silicon Valley. While California is absolutely gorgeous in certain areas I find the highways and dreary brown awful for the most part. The only time I really enjoy it is in very early spring (Feb-Apr) when it is green for a short period of time.
If the I-140 was not a self-petition, you will need to start the green card process all over again with your new employer. The only benefit that you will keep is the priority date from your first green card application.
Wow, you've listed three things I absolutely hate. Perhaps I'm simply not cut out for human interaction.
> In a November speech, Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, argued that “edge providers” like social-media websites and search engines “routinely block or discriminate against content they don’t like.”
...
> He also pointed to Twitter’s suspension of a pro-life campaign ad from Rep. Marsha Blackburn, an action that would have been illegal if done by a TV or radio station.

Which is interesting, considering this FCC decision in 2014:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/sue-wilson/fcc-no-more-equal-...

It's also worth noting that FCC statute 315 (https://www.fcc.gov/media/policy/statutes-and-rules-candidat...) applies to licensees.

Is the FCC going to begin licensing social media sites?

Does the FCC consider internet traffic to be a broadcast mechanism? When newspaper publishers are not required to follow the same laws/statutes as radio and TV when it comes to political advertising?
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Yeah, as someone also on a TN, I'd love to hear more. I'd also love to know what the renewal process has been like for people that have been in the USA for a while (I've been here for 4 years and am looking to renew next October).
> Why your God only sent his prophet to earth?

The main schools of thought are that Jesus is unique to Earth (there are explanations as to why, such as Earth being the only sinful planet), Jesus has existed in one way or another on every planet with sapient life (this is viewed as heretical by the church) or that the same Jesus visits multiple planets. Some of these religions do not believe that the messiah (there have always been multiple prophets in these religions) has yet arrived. I'm sure that Scientology would feel vindicated, unless ET confirmed that Xenu does not exist.
4. The entire world is a simulation and UFOs are moving around in debug mode. The size of the simulation could be anywhere from the entire universe to the Solar System (or less, if you can come up with a plausible reason why the Pioneer probes appear to continue to operate despite being outside of a smaller simulation volume).

Occam's Razor would throw that one out too of course.
No it is FICO score + your loyalty to current administration.
> not really secure

Depends on your standards and your use-case. If you message from your phone most of the time, you can open an encrypted chat[1] with someone and it's properly encrypted.

If you use desktop too a lot, then this doesn't work because the desktop client doesn't support end to end encryption. In that case, you're at the mercy of them not reading your messages. Pretty much the same as with WhatsApp (closed source), Facebook messages, and virtually every other chat application out there.

(Except Wire.com, by the way: they're really cool but nobody uses it, so no network effect there unfortunately. I wish I had a good reason to get people off of Telegram except for "maybe some sysadmin is laughing at your jokes too".)

[1] the application calls it a "secret chat", and recommends people not to use the terminology encrypted chat "because all their chats are encrypted" (yeah just like https: until they're in your datacenter, no matter what they claim). So I'll use the proper term instead of the marketing term: encrypted chat.
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This is cyclical news. It's an amazing marketing campaign for VCs. This is an interesting armchair idea for lots of people, but absolutely inspiring for people VCs are targeting to work for them and shoulder the non-cash component of their risk.
Are you mad? Miss out on a market of 740+ million of the world's richest consumers, twice the size of the US, the bulk of the western world and most of the developed economies on the planet??

No, that's absolutely not going to happen.

Additionally, they'd never risk withdrawing from a market and letting a local competitor develop, take hold, expand, and attack them on home turf. Look at social networks and search engines in China.

EDIT: I see you are fairly highly placed in Google. I'm quite surprised if you genuinely think what you wrote, given the raw numbers you must surely know, but given your legal training, I am not at all surprised that you would posture as if you were unaware of this.
I know a guy who worked for that company. Sounds like they had no goal beyond refactoring their ActionScript as better ActionScript as recently as a couple years ago, denying the ample writing on the wall that this was a fool's errand. I assume they pivoted and turned that into a stepping-stone for their Haxe port when it finally sunk in that Flash was getting euthanized. So they might be monkeying with the timeline and cause-and-effect in the article, but the end state is ultimately what matters.
Yeah, I'd just use them on an isolated bike trail, never with traffic.
What is modulino? Attempts to google it keep pulling up blog posts related to it, but none of them say what it actually is.
Same thing with athletic/outdoor apparel/footwear. There are so many companies headquartered in Portland, Oregon in this industry. It started with Nike, then Adidas and Columbia Sportswear. Now it seems like you can't throw a crampon without hitting another athletic/outdoor apparel/footwear startup.
simple DMCA a bitcoin memo.
Considering that MPD, which is doing the actual music playing, is only 13MB (https://www.musicpd.org/download/win32/0.20.13/), yeah, it seems crazy that this bundle is 160MB.

Electron doesn't even have any inclination to fix it: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/2003

They could even probably use Chromium Embedded Framework, which is usually ~40MB and get a decent improvement. The binary would only be 4x the necessary size rather than 10x then.
Worse, they are a campaign to make this behaviour acceptable.

How I would feel: to the 300 morons who took the train on 31 december to south of The Netherlands, WTF are you doing in that crappy rural area?
Yes, it's like what's going to be the next craigslist.

Craiglist has unbelievable traction, just as Silicon Valley.

If you want to be the next Silicon Valley or even 1/10th of its quality, it requires at least 20 years of work.
I have yet to appreciate with the whole tarball/package thing.

My application is 5-6 deployments, a 3 statefulset and a cron job. I have it all in one chart that I keep unpackaged on in a directory. The workflow is (i) update the templates/values, (ii) ensure necessary containers live on GCR, `helm upgrade` my application. And that's it.

I've yet to find a need for breaking this single chart into multiple charts with dependencies. Maybe once it gets much, much bigger? I also don't like the idea of pulling in third party charts as dependencies, even if they're public from github. This last point is probably irrational and me-specific, but something about it is less appealing than just copy/pasting the manifests I want into my project. So much more direct.
A few questions:

1) Have you or your firm ever submitted an O-1 application that did not get approved?

2) Have you worked with clients that after not getting picked in the H1-B lottery solved their need by increasing pay and hiring a citizen?
To add to what jdale27 said, here's another quote from a related article- "Hong Kong-based Lenddo takes it one step further by using a debtor’s social connections to exert pressure if he or she defaults on payments, according to the Journal. For example, the start-up will tell customers’ Facebook friends if they haven’t paid, and the friends’ Lenddo scores could suffer if the customer fails to repay the loan. "

Just plain weird to me if you ask my opinion.

Link: http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/the-social-credit...
Also at: https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/19/dgraph-raises-3m-for-its-o...
A verbal "go ahead" won't help you. If they wanted to litigate in the future, they would either way. Bringing it up to your employer would only impact your career prospects and not benefit you in any way. They would just treat you as potentially leaving, or disengaged and you will be less likely to earn promotions etc. Its best just to keep it to yourself. If you are worried, keep records of working on it on your own time, in case it becomes an issue. If your side project takes off, you tell your company you are leaving to do your own thing, and generally most companies don't care. It's only if they discover that you are doing something that directly competes, then they will look into it.
What are the laws on ownership IP in Washginton state (Seattle, a.k.a silicon valley 2)?
I might be the weird one here but I actually enjoy IQ tests.

I consistently do well on them and if a company give me one I feel it increases my chance of getting the job as I like to think I'm quite a lot better at figuring out stuff than I am at smalltalk :-)

It might help though that none if the serious IQ tests I see here include any writing: they all consist of pattern matching and other puzzles.

In fact thats a major point for a good IQ test I've been told: ideally it should give the same result for equally smart persons even if they were raised in vastly different environments.
This is just going to lead to another massive wave of ~privacy~ piracy (thanks for the correction), and it’s harder to win people back from free than hold them to begin with.
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Statistics.

Imagine 70% of all applicants being Indian nationals. Randomly sample all the applicants and with a big enough sample size, the distribution will be the same, i.e. ~70% of your samples will be Indian nationals.

Countries that have the most people in the world have the most people in the H-1B application process as well. China and India are my guesses, without looking at the publicly available data on H-1B applications. You don't see as many Chinese people speaking about it online because they, on average, don't speak English as well as people from India.
If it's a secret experimental aircraft and you're afraid of a 3rd party leak, isn't it better to get ahead of that, release the video yourself and then say it isn't yours? Let the media and general population come to their own conclusions, wildly speculating about UFOs.

Nothing here says the audio is even genuine.
Have you looked into keyboard cases for phones? Something thin like an iPhone + a relatively thin kb case can't be much thicker than your average smartphone with an otterbox.

edit: actually, now that I'm looking, they really only seem to exist for older iPhones (pre-6) :(
E-Residency is still a solution looking for a problem, the program runners just dont want to admit it yet. Instead they sink more money into a pointless cause.

Estonia literally needs to make amendments to their constitution for this to work, yet they refuse to believe it yet. They also need to create actual incentives for people to create their company in Estonia (labour related taxes as pretty high there), as well as work out all the remote banking related issues (banks not wanting to open accounts unless you show up in-person).
I think it might be one of those situations where the microphone data is being captured using some other app and then shared into a data network as tar-getting data, providing a convenient and plausible deniability to Google and Facebook for shady practices.
Same with Northern Wisconsin. The beauty is hard to beat.
Worth nothing: Thoughtbot is working on a web framework for Crystal, called Lucky: https://luckyframework.org/

It looks quite promising, but as others (including core team members) have noted, development on Crystal seems to be losing steam. It's tempting but seems like a bit of a gamble to pick Crystal for anything serious, especially with great new languages like Elixir and Go gaining traction.
New to me too. From the article:

"In the Python world it is quite straight forward to make files work either as executables or as modules. In Perl it is a bit strange, but doable.

brian d foy has written a number of articles about Modulinos, but in nutshell a Modulino is a Perl file that can act both as an executable (a script that you would invoke directly) or as a module (Something you load into memory and expect to execute code only when you call one of its functions or methods)."
How would you recommend the government address HB1 fraud, where people on HB1s are hired by temp agencies, and thus have a much lower prevailing wage than US employees?
Sounds like a culture that has embraced Stockholm syndrome. $1700 to get a car out of impound when there was no crime, and yet the people who are getting shot aren't the people who enabled and profit off such an obviously corrupt system.
sounds like we need some sort of subscription service that bundles most of them together for one price. Premium channels I mean services like HBO could be add for a separate charge.
Can't upvote this though enough.
Right now it appears that the remaining "major" actively developed/supported alternative mobile OS's are Sailfish and Tizen. The former living off of Russian/Chinese contracts and funding, the latter because Samsung wants an insurance policy against Google. Which one is more likely to survive to 2020?

I understand there are a ton of Linux non-Android projects like Plasma Mobile, Librem, KaiOS, etc., but I'm not sure if any of them are as far as long yet.

edit: see - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14049174
There is now a 60-day grace period after the end of H-1B employment so you would be considered in valid status and "portable" to a new company until the end of February, meaning that as long as the new employer files the H-1B petition before the end of February, you can remain in the U.S. while the petition is pending and even commence employment upon the receipt of the petition. And yes, different companies can file H-1B petitions at the same time but this might cause USCIS to question - if it is made aware of this - the bona fides of the various job offers.
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That seems reasonable - as long as the US maintains its protectionist stance of not letting people born in France compete for jobs on a level playing field with people born in the US, why should France allow employers in the US to compete on a level playing field with employers in France?

(Are you counting protectionist immigration laws as part of countries' industrial-governmental complexes?)
That's actually rather mature of Microsoft to do. It'll be nice to get to open IE zero times instead of once to install Chrome on a new PC now.
I have a cable package only because the Internet I want is cheaper packaged with it vs without. I would drop it if I could. Hulu and Netflix are all I really want.
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Yes, I do think this is a challenge for the Midwest. However, the key to solving that I believe is to focus on university towns like Madison and Ann Arbor that do draw in more diverse talent. These towns are key to the entire Midwest tech scene.
It isn't, unless we're talking a few flights per month at most.
You should also have a look at the logcat messages WhatsApp outputs. I got a forensics case two years ago in class where someone had WhatsApp installed and it was crazy: every time you unlock your phone or start charging or do anything at all, it is logged by that thing. I don't know whether they upload it, but if they aren't using it, why the hell are they monitoring and logging it otherwise?
Yes it does. This is similar to what is shown on the video scopes of television engineers in the luma waveform view.

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH12688?locale=en_US&viewlocale...
No, they saw that and thought it'd be a great idea to introduce a broken system with a centrally managed algorithm they'll never be able to get to work.
Unfortunately, yes to the first and I suspect yes to the second but this is not necessarily something that our clients would advise us of.
"I'm fine" is the default reaction because we've learned that the asker almost never genuinely gives a shit.
Would this fly in the United States? Is there a near-future where this will happen in the U.S. as well?

I think it would not. Americans value their individuality too much. I think "trustworthiness" is not really a characteristic that Americans would want to rate each other on.
Ah. So it’s a case of “we can sound like we’re doing geometric optimization, but really only partially optimize in an exploitable way”?

Thanks for the summary. I’m at work and won’t be able to review he actual paper until later.
I get the feeling that the perception of tech companies as being evil/hated is overblown.
Link to a tweet with one survey that supports my claim. https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/942468649390100481
Maybe the now there will be an effort to aggregate and make deals with the streaming services since net neutrality has been repealed. They could bundle up all the services into a single package. Why does this sound so familiar... /s
Meanwhile, bittorrent is completely free and requires absolutely no subscription.
I feel the same way, only about western Oregon/Washington. There really are places that it is possible to make six figures while being surrounded on all sides by tons of natural beauty, but SV isn't one of those places.
Major cities (and many metros) in the midwest are reasonably diverse.
Honestly, I believe that the market is big enough to make it worth it anyway. But if they decide to leave, that could be a win-win. "Worst" case scenario, some EU-based company replace them and becomes a tech giant. I mean, look at Yandex or VK in Russia.

Facebook (the website) is not rocket science. As for Google, replacing it could take time, but in the long run it's good to destroy their monopoly in Europe.
I am a solo C Corp technical founder (Stripe Atlas). Any advise for similar founders?
What's just as frustrating is that this issue has existed for a few years now. I've submitted a few bug reports/feedback regarding it in detail, but Facebook listening to user feedback/bug reports is about as likely as Apple/Microsoft listening to anything their users have to say via an online submission.
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Don't worry, Comcast will take care of this for us now that net neutrality has been repealed.
Probably the current approach, which is to conduct site visits.
Yes. I will be working for the sponsoring company. The USCIS has not got back to me after the h1b interview(3.5 months ago). Is the scrutiny on startup employees more than multinational companies? I am the first employee of my employer to sponsor an h1b.
> There is a third option...cease trading with the EU...

This is the direct equivalent of demanding the right to dump whatever I like into the river, because some other company in another country can.

More generally, this is an example of "all regulation bad" thinking. If it is inherently evil to impose any rules on companies operating under your jurisdiction (and that's what you're implying with phrases like "obey us or we crush you")... Well, now you're arguing that no government should try to solve any coordination problem. No auto efficiency standards, no pollution regulations, no product safety standards...not a world I want to live in.

(I'm going to ignore the Brexit stuff, as that's a long-standing flamewar that's already producing more heat than light in this thread.)