skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm on a H1b and I've already applied for a green card on the extraordinary track. My application is pending, but I have an EAD + AP. Does this mean I'm allowed to take on contract work as long as I maintain my primary employment with my H1b employer?
I dunno about "diversity of opinion" but I'd certainly appreciate the wholesale destruction of tribalism. (I know; not holding my breath.)
"If you had played these lottery numbers last year - how rich would you be?"
Agreed. Although, my only major gripe with the current system is that "buy" !== "own." It means license and vendor lockin.

Other than that, yeah, HBO Now and Amazon are enough for me. I'll wait for everything else. Netflix used to be enough for everything, but they seem determined to become a repository of garbage these days, so services had to be swapped around :(
I’m researching the idea just as you do before you begin to build a business - and I think as entrepreneurs by our nature we’re implicitally employing a level of optimism and risk.

My questions a bit more about balancing the morality.
Sapiens, Ghost in the Wires
> All to say that, while different methods for representation should absolutely be considered and discussed, it's important to remember that none of these are a panacea

Well, other than that more proportional results, by whatever means, seem consistently across modern democracies to provide government with which the people are more satisfied, and also provide a higher dimensionality to the range of political ideas and debate. (See Lijphart’s Patterns of Democracy.)

Every options has positive and negative traits, but single-member FPTP districts are about the worst, on balance.

Well, worst would be that plus having districts that don't even try to have similar population, so that the results are even less proportional than you'd expect with FPTP in single-member districts.
That's my personal feeling. I know a lot of talented dreamers in science and technology and others fields.
Excellent article! One question though:

> A better approach is to use a “set-then-get” mindset, relying on atomic operators that implement locks in a very performant fashion, allowing you to quickly increment and check counter values without letting the atomic operations get in the way.

Can you elaborate on this? Why is it more performant? And what are the trade-offs vs. get-then-set?
'The Great Shame of Our Profession:' How the Humanities Survive on Exploitation
While $2/hr sounds low for the US, this seems viable in countries with super low cost of living. I suspect language barriers are holding back more people from taking advantage of this opportunity.
False. The law actually changed because judges noticed that the law as it was in the books was pretty nonsensical and totally arbitrary.

It was mostly created, pushed and used by a group of progressive to go after their political opponents. Its well documented (even if people choice not to remember this part) that this was very much PR and protectionism of businesses that were afraid to be driven of the market by the larger more efficient companies. The first anti-trust law in US history for example was quite explicitly passed to restrict the centralised slaughter house industry from driving all the local butchers out of businesses)

The new interpretation that has been adopted requires that you can show consumer harm. I actually have credible evidence that people are getting overpriced.

> Many of our concerns about antitrust would be assuaged if regulators started keeping separate markets separate.

That is very easily said but practically impossible. And even if it is possible, it would be massively harmful because some of the largest changes in the history happened because or were at least massively supported by companies bridging, merging, combining, integrating different markets.

In fact what you describe is pretty much called 'Indian Socialism' a form of 'Socialism' that was very in vogue with British elites after WW2 and India served as a nice place to test this since many of the Indian leaders had an English education and agreed with it. They had a sort of 5 year plan that attempted to plan how many companies could be in what market requiring licences to go into or out of different markets.

Those licences were of course a perfect tool for the state bureaucracy to get bribes from all business people.

> Or requiring platforms to provide third-party-friendly APIs.

Again, said very easily. Have you considered what that would mean? It would mean government regulator would have to go threw each layer of the software and each application and define adequate rules about what sharing would mean. This is a political insanity specially in a democracy.

Now you could argue, that it should all be made by some loosely controlled government bureaucracy like the Fed. An API tzar but how that would end is pretty easy to see.

I would agree that it would make sense for government to support and insensitive the adoption of open standard that were created and adopted by people and companies in the market voluntary.

If you want to use state power to force companies to support open standards it can not be on a ad-hook bases. You would need to think about a specific general law that could be applied to everybody and that does not involve concrete technologies or companies. That would be pretty hard because I think once such a thing is written most people (at least in here) would oppose it.
The invalidity of non-compete clauses and the inability to take IP away from employees are, perhaps, geese laying golden eggs for California. It can be argued that they give phenomenal power to employees that figure out the right way to do something and punish employers that won't listen. As a hypothetical, a former employee might start a competing company and let the market figure out who is right. Without these, it can be argued that employees are less motivated to figure things out because they have no way to capitalize on their ideas unless the decision makers of the employer (whom they probably may never meet in their lifetime) buy in to the idea. [1]

[1] This is not legal advice.
It was Louisiana before that until Georgia started offering better tax breaks.

Companies don't seem to find it very hard to move filming locations based on what state is offering them the most money.
How do online poker sites deal with this? No one would want to play if they were constantly getting rinsed by bots.
> reframing one's own thoughts.

Who is this entity that is reframing the your thoughts. Is it also not you? This is some sort of psychotic thinking to divide yourself into many parts, one part passing judgments and rulings on the other. This sort of thinking of is at the root of why we are so conflicted and full of suffering. This just perpetuates that style of thinking without examining why we are so divided in the first place.
Not sure ther issue with Google. I use Google Alerts and get a mixture of content and definitely not slanted one way or another.

I am pretty liberal but I am someone that can deal with reading the otherside and do not have to put my head in the sand. I will even watch Fox from time to time just to see how they are talking about things.

Google would know my slant so putting Breitbart articles in my alerts and on the Google Assistant suggests they are not filtering.

Heck I get negative Google stories and clearly if Google was going to filter be the first thing to filter out.

I really do not use FB so can not comment about it.
Pay actual service to EU regulations? Follow their treaty obligations, or renegotiate the treaty?

They admit in the article that it’s a solution looking for a problem, which is a good strategy for creating problems for no reason.
Man, I don't know. Only the one of them having made it possible to build the technology by which we're communicating with one another right now? Assuming we are communicating with one another right now, a point on which I have my doubts. I mean, I'm placing the responsibility for eugenics and its consequent enormities squarely upon those who saw no reason to involve any concept of morality other than the most reductive utilitarianism in their development of the science of heredity into the technology of eugenics, and you seem to find that in so doing I'm saying something laudatory, so...
There is only one Silicon Valley. It's silly to think otherwise, although it seems to be getting recycled constantly by journalists and economic development people.

It's high time however that startups become more popular in the Midwest. If you are profitable, growing rapidly you can raise venture capital in the Midwest. However that rules out the majority of startups. That's a big reason that our best and brightest make the pilgrimage out West.

What we need to see are startup clusters, let the companies stay in place. In Michigan it is starting to happen, but progress is still woefully slow. Angels are in just as short supply as venture capital.
As a general rule yes but the answer really depends on the basis of your green card application and where you are in the green card process.
That middle ground is pretty much Amazon with Amazon Prime Video today. Netflix presumably wants to remain an all-you-can-eat subscription service--which has the advantage that I know anything available on Netflix is "free."
I have a longtime bookmark which I frequently return to and reread which is about Ricardo, comparative advantage and its legacy. An essay by Paul Krugman called Ricardo's Difficult Idea. [0] I think it might make for a good companion reading piece for this blog post.

[0] http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/ricardo.htm
The 4 big tech companies are Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon. Facebook is climbing, sure, but not yet in the top 5. In the data I saw from 2015 it was in top100.
> Netflix [...] basically covers everything for me

Not if you live (for example) in Germany. Every time I compare German Netflix to US Netflix I want to cry a little.
What the heck is "Tesla like electric vehicle". And even more interesting, what do you consider non-Tesla-like electric vehicle?
I'd guess that, along with converting all of their artwork to bitmaps, this was needed because Haxe+OpenFL didn't support what they were doing before. If they were going to have to change it anyway better to make that change before the port so you don't mix up two sets of bugs.
Having just gone through this process for a green card by marriage, you can work for anyone once you have EAD. EAD + (multiple-entry) AP is practically a green card, albeit, without the official decision and could be revoked much more easily.
Don't be dense, f2n was clearly advocating for downloading copies of copyrighted works.
I guess the grass is always greener on the other side. I'm European, and I sure miss my perceived greater freedom and innovation of economical activities in the US. Things like having UBER banned for example in France or Germany completely throws me off. And in Germany you don't know yet what's living without cash and only with a credit card.

And those damn cookie notices!! Because they show up in every page, everybody accepts the policy without questioning, which completely defeats the purpose. And worse for the user experience, most often the implementation of websites for those notices is dummy, and show the notice upon refreshment, even after having accepted the policy before.
>other than a format that makes all browser vendors happy

No small feat!
I once saw something I can't explain. Two spots on the night sky a bit larger than a star and of the color of an incandescent light about a half thumb on an outstreched arm apart. They were slowly moving across the sky, however with a swinging movement forward and backwards about a thumb with a period of two seconds. Like two people side by side walking together two steps ahead then a step back the whole time, just in the sky and this was a smooth movement.

Then suddenly one of the two lights went out. The other one continued the same movement and also went out about a minute later.

This steady swinging movement is an unexplainable riddle for me.

A friend of mine also sighted something in the bright day sky of Spain. He told me that he looked up and then that thing whooshed away in an incredible speed over the Mediterranean Sea.

It's really weird. Either our senses and even the technical equipment like cameras are just fooled or we have extremely strange things going on over our heads.
As someone born and raised in the Midwest (and who takes great pride in that) now leading a company in SF, the difficulty truly isn't lack of capital, it's lack of founder talent (and ideas). People with big ideas that can inspire the best technical leaders to join their crusade. There are plenty of great schools (Michigan, Purdue, IU, ND, U of Chicago, Northwestern, Rose Hulman, Depauw, U of I, and many more) churning out folks that are hungry to work hard and get ahead. What's missing is a sufficient population of 25-45 year old inspiring founders with enough of a nest-egg to take a big risk, willing to put a hold on family life, and with a big idea.

There's a second problem that comes about when these rare combination of things come together - which has to do with cap tables... In that good teams get pummeled on early stage valuations compared to the coasts, resulting in exits that return far less to founders than investors (and thus stunt "the ecosystem" growth that exists in SV), but this is secondary to above IMHO.
Right now I'm using wordpress installed on a bluehost server, which I uh... have a google domain... pointing to? I'm using this as an opportunity to learn about all this so I have trouble speaking intelligently about it.

It's http://blog.calebjay.com/ - I forgot I actually have the blog set as a subdomain, not an endpoint. It's been a couple months since I've done anything with it... man, it even still has the bluehost default favicon X(
There's also the technical analog of this, too. Which services work well on my smart TV, my Chromecast, my Roku, my Amazon Firestick, my XBox 360, my PS3, my Android tablets, or my Windows machine is a total crapshoot. Even before we consider the yipping chihuahuas like Google and Amazon refusing to play with each other or questions of effective DRM or region locking, making something work on all those platforms is really hard.

(If only they could have seen this coming... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5639076#5639327 oh right. This is pretty obvious stuff.)
1.4M Lines of Code in a very high level language? What the hell are they doing?
This is an interesting idea. Is the propaganda so strong and coordinated that the Republicans can influence EU antitrust agency? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-google-antitrust/eu-an...

I think it’s interesting that you think antitrust Google benefits right wing groups over left wing groups.

I think this thought is mainly due to the dichotomy of “google = good” and “republican = bad” having some transitive logic making “stuff against google = republican.”
I'm not saying that Crystal or any language shouldn't support multithreading or parallelism, but that web applications (that is, almost all existing commercial Ruby applications) don't employ and wouldn't be able to benefit from parallelism. This is due to the laws of physics: two CPU cores connected over a network cannot communicate faster than two cores on the same silicon die, so network communication is impossible to meaningfully parallelize at the CPU level. (But, those same characteristics make concurrency a massive performance win).

>the class of high-level dynamic languages that were on the rise in the mid-00s (Python, Ruby) lost a lot of steam to newcomers like Swift and Go due to the language designers' hesitation around embracing parallelism.

Quite the opposite, Python has a dominant and rapidly-growing market share (as the developer-facing API wrapping Fortran/C/C++ libraries) in CPU-bound, massively-parallel applications (NumPy, Tensorflow, etc).

Swift and Go are odd examples to make your point: Swift's support even for concurrency[1] is a low-level and unergonomic Objective-C library, and for parallelism (or implementing other concurrency primitives) an even lower-level and less ergonomic paper-thin Objective-C wrapper around pthreads.[2] That's still better than Swift on Linux, where the only option for either is plain pthreads.

Go has excellent concurrency support (with goroutines, aka fibers, aka green threads, which execute one-at-a-time on a single CPU core and from within a single actual OS thread), but for multi-core parallelism its standard library also offers nothing more than a paper-thin wrapper around pthreads.[3]

Even C++11 offers a substantially higher-level and more ergonomic parallel-threading API than either Swift or Go.[4] Among recent, relatively mainstream, general-purpose languages, the examples that come to my mind as exemplifying strong parallelism support are Rust, Julia and recent versions of Java (Streams) and C# (TPL, PLINQ).

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/dispatch

[2] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/thread

[3] https://golang.org/pkg/sync

[4] http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/thread
Twitter launches a new enterprise API to power customer service and chatbots
When I looked into the cookie stuff I came to the conclusion that you only needed consent if your cookie tracked the user (except auth cookies)

Basically everything that isn't invading their privacy requires no notice.
Video and slides: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gizTueGQTV4&feature=youtu.be
I still don’t understand the primary use case or benefit over JS. Looks a lot like a solution in search of a problem. Maybe it can be used for DRM?
It's very concerning that there is so much influence concentrated within such few hands. However I have to ask - would the WSJ would be so concerned if Google or Facebook were conservative leaning outlets? Normally the WSJ defends this kind of duopoly kind of thing - if either Google or Facebook had some sort of right side leaning the WSJ would be preaching to us about the genius of capitalism and the wisdom of the markets.
Yea actually I am curious here, I don't know the difference. Not sure why you are downvoted, I for one would appreciate someone who knows more to explain.
> Which makes me ask the question: do you, gentle Hacker News reader, really want diversity of opinion and why?

I speak only for myself, but the answer is an absolute, complete and emphatic YES. The reason is quite simple: in all of human history, there have been only three "families", broadly speaking, of epistemological methods[1]:

* Mysticism: you have been told what is true by an unquestionable (and often distant) authority. Think Moses descending from the mountain--only he can safely speak to God. While God is ultimately the original [claimed] source of the knowledge, it must be funneled through Moses first.

* Socratic debate: two humans can talk about the topic, trying to apply abstract reason to determine the "best" answer. Note that in a "pure" Socratic debate, only logic and not any evidence is used.

* Scientific study: humans can attempt direct inquiry of an answer from the physical universe. Note that logic need not apply to scientific answers: the results of many particle physics experiments such as the delayed choice quantum eraser are not "logical" in that they violate what "common sense" tells us the universe should allow.

Now, there no reason I had to use a religious example for the first family, but they do not exist for the other two: literally, both debate and science cannot work correctly if you do not admit the possibility of contrarian or "heretical" ideas.

Since I wish to live in a society jointly directed by reason and science, I must allow (and to some small extent, seek) contrarian and heretical ideas.

1: I'm speaking of epistemology not in the definition taught in philosophical classes (e.g., "How do we know what is real or what is knowledge?"), but a far more direct, literal, and practical application of how knowledge is generated and transmitted between societies/individuals.
Magic Realized and Other Poems on the Human Spirit, by Louis Alan Swartz https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072Q5V2MN
Only seen the right wing go after Google. Not sure I really even know what is left wing? What would you consider left wing?
The E-2 requires a substantial investment by citizens or companies of the same nationality as the applicant so it's possible, if the U.S. company is the same nationality as the applicant, that revenues reinvested into the company could qualify as an investment for E-2 purposes.
> Problem is, if the ice cream makers want their own store

But we have tons of stores that sell their own ice cream (and coffee, computers, etc.). Should Apple be required, by law, to sell Macs through Best Buy, Target, etc.?
Hello Peter,

USCIS released a memo 204(j) Job Portability (https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Laws/Memoran...). Does it make sense for a founder of an early stage startup to go through with it or wait for the approval? USCIS has been taking unusually long time to process I-485.

Thank you!
My bet is on the Raleigh-Durham triangle, Atlanta, or Austin.
The internet culture shifted in 2007, with the release of the iPhone. Libertarian conversation died with the living room desktop.
Show HN: EverybodyWorks
This is my first time submitting to Show HN so I apologize in advance if Im doing it wrong. About 5 months ago, coming off of several different projects that went nowhere, I was looking for something to do. About that time a user, /u/max0563, submitted findremote.work to Show HN. While most people took to trying to break it I thought that the design was simple and clean and wondered if I could build similar in 6 to 8 weeks. I had been looking for a new project and for an opportunity to go back to working from home so I felt that this scratched both itches so to speak. I try to keep MVPs to b/w 6 & 8 weeks. This project took about 10 weeks that included dealing with a design company for logos and social media artwork, and an attorney to handle terms, privacy, etc.. I know there are many players in this field but I enjoyed building the site and looked forward to making it even better.

I don't really have a marketing plan or anything as off yet. Havent really launched, just quietly opened access and let people trickle in. They havent! Just really wanted some feedback on the site and thoughts about anything you'd like to see or improvements I can make.

The site: https://everybody.works
Thank you.
I thought the B1/B2 was a business/tourist visa. You can't check email if you enter on a business visa? Business does seem to be the purpose of GP's trip.
>TL;DR: complex numbers are the unique algebraic extension to the real numbers

The simplest, (or maybe most compact) extension.

You can also achieve closure by going from R to R^2 and adding the Geometric Product. This is also closed, but it includes vectors in R^2 as well as the complex numbers.
F-1 visa, STEM major, graduated, currently on post-completion OPT, employed in the US by a big company.

Can I establish an LLC and work (earn money) in addition to my employment?
Microsoft has never had a requirement that Windows apps use the OS's JS engine and browser components. They originally required you to use the WinRT API rather than the Win32 and cross-compile for ARM processors, and suggests XAML as your UI layer, but you've always been able to access WinRT from C/C++ and program directly against DirectX buffers if you wish.

They've even relaxed both the WinRT and ARM requirements by allowing Win32 apps in the Windows Store.

The only thing stopping Google from putting Chrome on the Windows Store is Google.
The acquisition was approved in Europe on the basis that WhatsApp would not share the data with Facebook. In this case, the European governments certainly have a legal basis to carry with penalties.