skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Around the founding of the country, there were arguments of some range between 30k to 40k. Obviously that wouldn't be practical nowadays, that would create 10k representatives and the ability of the government to respond to an urgent issue like war or economic depression would be severely diminished. It could also decrease public turnout because they feel like not just their vote, but their representative can't make a difference.

But yeah, I think at a few hundred thousand, though that would likely mean over one thousand representatives, could probably work.
I'd say the jury/consensus is still out, or rather, hasn't even been convened. One could also conceive of it as a mass noun in the context of consumption, similar to corn, beef, or lettuce.
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I think that you are falling into a West-Coast trap that says Asian = Diverse.

San Francisco is 42% White, 33% Asian, 15% Latino, 6% Black.

Chicago is 30% White, 30% Black, 30% Latino, 7% Asian.

This is a great article:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/normal-america-is-not-a...
Here's something: ask your Google Assistant how old the Earth is. Now ask how old the Moon is. Do you think it's just an innocent oversight that Google Assistant doesn't reply with the age of the Earth? Perhaps it is.
It's certainly not California in that regard. Winter may not be like Maine and Summer may not be like Houston, but August in Manhattan can get pretty unpleasant. There's a reason wealthy New Yorkers summer in the Hamptons. And, while it's warmer and less snowy than Boston or Chicago in the winter it definitely gets its significant snowstorms.
They go amazing with tacos
I think it's a mix of "do some bullshit smalltalk", "be nice" and common sense.

I really need to re-read it, but my basic takeaway was "Don't be a dick" - and maybe my suspicion is right that it (although it is very old) still play on subtle differences of American and European (to be more specific: German) work culture. I'd absolutely say we're not as nice and polite, but more direct - also more honest. But that could also be my limited experience in a non-significant amount of companies and fields. :P
Nopal[1] is common in Mexican and TexMex cusines[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nopal
[2] http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodmexican.html
Ask HN: What are good places outside US to work as systems/data infra engineer?
I am an Indian immigrant in the SF bay area. I enjoy being a systems engineer. I have typically worked in infrastructure to handle data at scale which involves storage, indexing, distributed systems, handling general concurrency and consistency issues, etc. For some clarity, here are some companies I have or would love to work for: File systems(Pure Storage, Rubrik), Databases(FaunaDB, CockroachDB), Analytics infrastructure(Databricks, Confluent), Infrastructure as a service(AWS, Google, Digital Ocean). Another interesting option would be working on the data infrastructure for companies whose end product is not the actual infrastructure as well(Uber, Airbnb).

I am here on an H1B. As the immigration situation is growing more untenable gradually, it is becoming apparent that staying in the US may not be a viable option for me in the long term.

There is Bangalore which is a decent choice(is it?). Aside from this, I would like to immigrate to Europe/Australia/North America. Which is a good (in terms of living standards, wages, employer options, etc) immigrant friendly place with interesting tech activity where I can continue the kind of work I am interested in?

Problems which are making me consider this:
- Long green card queue for India born people.
- H4 EAD being repealed.
What does net neutrality have to do that? That talk is about the role ISPs play on the Internet, and whether practices like zero-rating and shaping based on source and preferring your own services should be allowed.

Yes, if you want to provide services on the Internet and don't want to comply with the laws of some countries, then you have to make sure you don't provide services to those users.

You see it all the time in copyright related situations, where companies lack the rights to distribute something in certain countries -- so, Spotify doesn't work in every country, for example. Neither does Amazon Prime Video. Netflix has a different selection in each country it operates in, and is also not available in every country.

What's the difference?
> it's easier for a Republican to turn a Libertarian voter to their side than a Democrat voter.

Maybe in the Reagan years, but it's become more difficult since then. Orwell said "The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians." Both Republicans and Democrats have grown increasingly more authoritarian over the past 20 years.
I remember about 5 years ago I was telling friends on day we wouldn't be able to root flagships (that was back when root exploits were common enough). They laughed me off, but here we are with more flagships than not never getting root.

Android's getting locked down, and GPS is getting more and more integral to Android's functions (stuff like needing FCM for communicating with a device in Doze mode).

I'd still say iOS is more locked down, but iOS has side loading
I don't know why people keep bringing up the weather. I moved from OK to CA because there was nothing to do in Oklahoma, especially for someone with a family. There is an endless amount of things to do in California. I can drive a couple hours and ski, or 20 minutes and surf. Plus all the amusement parks, museums, amazing national parks, Mexico close by, and just what not. The weather was an unexpected bonus for me.
Why do you think that is the case in the Midwest and how would you see it changing in the short /medium term?

edit: I ask this because in Portugal we also lack the entrepreneurial mass to match the tech talent.
Agree with your analysis, sentiment.

It's still necessary to contest every race. Because of down ballot races. Moving the needle 5 points in a statewide race can mean winning a lot of local elections. Ditto putting initiatives on the ballot, which motivate your base to turn out.
I ate cactus quite frequently when I lived in Mexico. It’s pretty good when prepared well.
You will have to specify if you don't like the purpose of the law or the implementation. Because the implementation isn't really up to the EU. Google could implement a http header tomorrow that complied with the law (at least as much as a notice) and would act like other ways of accessing your browser (like web camera or location). The problem is everyone would turn off the tracking, which would affect their revenue.
Makes total sense. In fact, there’s a book called The Now Habit by Niel Fiore which advogates this structure (“guilt-free play”), which I can recommend.
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Is that slowing the uptake of USB-C with its standardized Power Delivery fast charging?

What does Google ship with Pixels? The same USB-C fast charger and USB-C cable, then toss in a micro-USB to USB-C adapter for regulatory compliance?
If there was ActionScript as WASM compile target, those guys would safe themselves from 1.4M LOC rewrite.
A non-cloud API: https://docs.opencv.org/3.1.0/d4/d61/group__text.html
Well, that's not true - they certainly can, and (as in this case) are going to, the EU GDPR restrictions on personal data privacy (starting from May 2018) will affect many, many non-EU companies, starting from the largest global ones.

Perhaps you meant to say that other countries shouldn't enforce their laws just because you communicate with their residents?
Hey Jared, great idea and they do have competitors, SimpleCitizen (YC S16) https://www.simplecitizen.com/business/ is one and does a great job simplifying all/most of the business visas used to sponsor US employees.
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I see, thanks for the reply padseeker.
That could be viewed as self-employment which is prohibited and regarding how you get paid, you should contact a U.S. tax accountant because my understanding is that you still would be subject to the payment of U.S. taxes.
> One very cool answer is aquaponics. Aquaponics is a plant growing technique similar to hydroponics, which is basically growing plants in a medium other than dirt with water. The cool thing is this: Where a Hydroponics system requires you to add nutrients to the water to feed your plants (basically fertilizer), an aquaponics system uses all the nitrates produced by your fish as natural fertilizer! What a perfect solution for my laziness – I can stop doing water changes and let plants do the work for me, all the while saving (a bit) of water and always having home-grown produce on hand!

I'm no expert beyond some YouTube research, but apparently plain old hydroponics is way cheaper/simpler/more productive than aquaponics, if the fertilizer aspect doesn't turn you off.

Hydroponics vs Aquaponics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0fsehjZfzc&

Good educational video on aquaponics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg2MfC-Oi18

Here is a very nice aquaponics system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpGwK81tOIs
The Issue with Inheritance
I really like martial arts, specifically jiujistu, for this fact. If you find the right group it's almost like finding a family.
Yeah, I figured, but I think I'll manage with Mordechai Ben-Ari's book (Ada
2005), John Barnes' book (Ada 2012), and Ada Reference Manual (I'm kind of
used to reading specifications).

Given that I mostly write network servers for running on Linux/Intel, which is
not too popular topic among Ada crowd, I would need to develop my own
strategies and patterns even if I got my hands on typical printed materials
for Ada.
The downside of this technique is getting into the zone but being forced to leave your desk for organic reasons. A pomodoro timer, you can turn off.
I love that this article begins by quoting an absurdist parody novel, confirming the aphorism "many a true word is spoken in jest"
No, but you can be denied a place to live or a means to make a living. [1]

Not to mention the life-long mark of Cain that you get if you, heaven forbid, are convicted of a crime. Sorry, but we don't hire/lend to/do business with ex-cons.

[1] You can also be arbitrarily denied boarding an airplane in the United States because your name ended up on a no-fly list. You have practically no legal recourse for getting yourself removed from it.
I generally do not like Steve Jobs (at least as a business person), but killing Flash was the right thing to do, regardless of whether he did it for the right reason.
As a general rule, yes.
My comment was me wondering if there is more to monopoly than this

> 1) the ability to raise prices profitably above that in a competitive market, and 2) anticompetitive conduct.

Since that clearly applied to comcast and nothing has been done about it.
I agree with you. Iodized salt is a terrible way to get Iodine. The US RDA is 150mcg which many have found to be rather low. I started Iodine more than 5 years ago with around 1mg and also 250mg of Magnesium - this combination cured my asthma (or perhaps it's an ongoing treatment since I never stopped). Nowadays I just use Lugol's Iodine solution - several drops in a few ounces of water say twice a week. It's also great for healing wounds or skin irregularities (strange moles).

Read about Iodine and apoptosis. Iodine and heart disease. Iodine and cancer. It seems to help with a lot of things. Why? Because it's good for the mitochondria among other things.
Both alcohol and caffeine get related to health benefits in the popular press (including science press).
Yeah, piracy seems way easier, better, and cheaper..
When I lived in New York State in the mid 1990s, there was time-variable electricity pricing. Being a grad student, I exploited it to do my dishes and clothes after peak hours to save money. Eventually I put my water heater on a timer. I think the rate differential was significant (order of $.07/kWh vs. $.11/kWh).

This is still the case, see: http://www.nyseg.com/YourHome/pricingandrates/daynighrate.ht...

Perhaps you misinterpreted the scope of applicability of what the professor said.
The Thirty Thousand project aims to fix the problem gradually by scaling the number of representatives to the population:

> As shown above, in 1804 each Representative represented approximately 40 thousand people. Today, the average population of congressional districts is nearly 700 thousand and growing.

> In order to restore the House to the citizenry, our total number of federal Representatives will have to be increased substantially. Achieving this goal is essential to extending the ground of public confidence in our government and ensuring the beneficent ends of its institution.

http://www.thirty-thousand.org/
Hi, I hold a TN-1 Visa through an Employer in Oregon.

I signed and returned an offer letter with a different company.

After receiving the offer I signed, the company called saying I'm ineligible to work in their data center, with their data, as a non-american citizen. They will not hire me. I have signed nothing further.

(We signed the offer and worked on Visa transfer in parallel.)

Do I have any options? What law prevented me from working?
GP said, “at the end of 2017”. Drugs were the prime use case from 2011 to 2013.
> Honestly, I believe that the market is big enough to make it worth it anyway.

Not for some of us just starting our companies. "Worst" case scenario is smaller players that would otherwise play globally will now not play in the EU market.

I was told the other day, "don't worry about it if you don't have sensitive data." That misunderstands risk management. I have plenty of customer potential on this side of the pond, why even risk it until I am large and have saturated my pool? I plan on handling my data completely within the spirit of that law, I just don't want to risk it. Seems on risk alone, others will have to make the same decision as me. We're not losing out really (we can only grow so fast) but those in the EU that might want access to the global market, big or small, might be.
Proportional voting is the only way to eliminate gerrymandering. Approval voting is great but single winner elections are always going to have gerrymandering issues.
Also language barriers, and a fair share probably does not even know that such opportunity exists.
The Borat village scene was actually filmed in Romania, not even Kazakhstan
That is literally a hotel. An "apartment complex" that is rented by the day is functionally identical to a hotel. Everything old is new again. Next up, Turo announces they will buy a bunch of white of Chevy Malibus and rent their own "shared" fleet.
And in margaritas!
> Which makes me wonder how much the largest successful one-shot liquidation anybody on HN has ever done and how they did it?

Could be that one sale that flash crashed Coinbase' ETH/USD market. One big sale caused lots of margin positions to close; which spiraled ETH's price from ~350USD to 13USD. Went backup immediately tho.
I would like to make it clear that I am perfectly aware the protocol is not illegal, and I'm rather flabbergasted that anyone thought that actually needed to be said. The context was very clearly advocating for using bittorrent to illegally download copyrighted works.
>and the internet were born

There are people from MIT, BBN, CERN, etc. that would like to have a talk with you. (Yes, Stanford was involved early on but pre dot-com, a great deal of the early Internet work was well outside of California.)
Agreed w/the rest of your comment but "[...] they stay for TV?" I take it they and/or you meant "series".
What are things I could do to improve my resume for EB1 category Greencard in the next year or so? I am currently on H1B working as a SWE at a top Silicon valley company (think Google/FB). I have a Master's degree in CS from a top US university and have a couple of years work experience. According to the company attorney, I qualify only for the EB2 category. Unfortunately, the EB2 queue is extremely long since I am from India. I am asking this since you mentioned in your past AMAs that it is possible for strong EB2 candidates to move to EB1.
How is this any more difficult than signing up for a free e-mail address and then using an e-mail app on the phone?
Re: the ecosystem. I think that's in the process of being addressed. If I'm starting a startup, I'm looking seriously at the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center [0].. Tahoe/Reno are only a few hours drive out of the Bay Area and the Reno area has a dramatically lower cost-of-living.

[0]: http://tahoereno.com
This is a most useful explanation, it explains the rewrite, thank you.
Several European countries add fluoride to salt instead of water.
Well this is getting a bit off topic but that is not correct. The EU has been quite clear that it will ban people and companies in its jurisdiction from buying financial products from the UK: not impose tariffs but rather implement outright bans. And they are not willing to negotiate on that point. It is seen as a necessary 'punishment'.

They are also talking about banning member state citizens from buying tickets from British airlines in situations where they currently can. And possibly banning all flights from the UK to the EU. Again, bans, not tariffs.

Lastly, I note that the effect of GDPR is that effectively "Europeans" are now banned from buying training products from this US training firm. It's not technically a government ban, it's more like major encouragement to the outside world to implement their own private sector bans, but the end result is identical: you cannot buy at any price.
You should check with your school to confirm but if you are regular OPT, then this should be permissible.
>Take a look at their success with e-voting

How do you know that it was successful? I'd say that, in order to be successful, an election must ensure that (1) the votes are accurately counted and (2) the voters aren't bribed or coerced w.r.t. their votes. Traditional voting at polling places ensure this by having voters mark their ballots in secret and keeping the paper ballots available for a recount. I don't see how it is possible to provide either ballot accuracy or ballot secrecy if voters can vote on insecure (possibly malware-infected) computers in an uncontrolled physical location (possibly being watched by someone bribing or coercing them to vote a certain way).
It's for this reason that I think Canada (Toronto in particular) is better positioned to see the most growth in tech outside of SV/SF.
Thanks for your time. That's interesting. I guess this might be a little more nuanced than I thought.

So, despite the fact that the company would be a Canadian entity, I would be considered self-employed. Would a simple workaround be enough to thwart this, such as having a friend own the business, and proceed to hire me as a remote employee?
There's no way a single shared blockchain would be able to serve the whole world. The number of transactions per second is one thing. The size of the chain is another. If we all start throwing money transactions AND idle drawings into the same bucket, it will overflow.

Something needs to change. The current architecture clearly does not scale.

Maybe something more like Pascal Coin would be better able to scale up to become used worldwide for daily transactions.

EDIT: Before you downvote, I'd like to ask you a few questions. Are you invested in ETH or some other blockchain technology? And if you are, how does that color your thought process?
I'm not saying the argument is right or wrong. I'm just amazed at the message discipline across many channels. Steve Bannon declared in july that they were going to start pushing for this [1] and since then the message keeps popping up everywhere. It's amazing power to shape the public discourse.

[1] https://theintercept.com/2017/07/27/steve-bannon-wants-faceb...
That is how free market works: everyone is free to collect and trade personal data.
Uber/Lyft, whatever social media apps are popular at the time (facebook, snap, twitter, instagram, whatsapp, and periscope at the moment, probably), banking apps, high quality navigation app (a lot of people would never give up either Google Maps or Waze). There's probably more I'm not aware of, as I've never been a particularly heavy app user. But with things like Amazon moving into groceries etc I wouldn't be surprised if more and more software gets tied up in proprietary mobile platforms. Even if most of those applications could be done in HTML5, most of them are not, and I highly doubt you could make them that way without significant UX compromises.
Thanks. I looked it up beforehand and was like "Prop 13, not prop 8, not prop 60", and then somehow I wrote prop 8.
Because if some of their customers are prepared to keep a reminder of the restaurant on their home screen, why would they turn that down? And it's a lot easier to tell them to install an app which they understand the concept of and have done many times before than to try to explain how to add a website to their home screen.
See other comment. TL;DR: Approval Voting for executive races, eg mayor, governor.
I think one snores more when drunk too.
Different topic, but on the subject of immigrants - would you say the majority of Muslims living in London are legal British residents?
You don't have to be paid to be a sucker. For clarification, by sucker I mean someone who is losing something in an exchange without getting anything in return and thinks they somehow got the upper hand in a situation.
Adobe recently confirmed the suspicion held by many in the games industry that Flash is a dying platform.

I looked at the date of publication thinking maybe this was written in 2013 or 2014, but it was not the case!
I see. So, will the "ebb and flow", bring down my wait time from 800 years to 300 years?
1. Off to Be the Wizard (Scott Meyer) - Very good.

2. Ready Player One (Ernest Cline) - I liked it although it's kinda ridiculous and one-sided.

3. The Bloodline Feud (Charles Stross) - Actually part 1&2 of a series. Really need to continue, very good. I'd say this was not "oh I know what will happen next" which is kinda rare.

4. The Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman) - It's ok, but not as good as I had hoped.

5. Coraline (Neil Gaiman) - It's a children's book, and very short, but I liked it a lot.

6. Accelerated C++ (Koening/Moo) - Not finished, I was under the impression it's "C++ for programmers well-versed in other languages" and for that it's a bit slow-starting, but not bad I guess

I really need to read more. :|
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Yep, I like the current trend where remote jobs are becoming more common so you can live in the Midwest while employed by a high paying SV/NYC/etc job. I don't really need the cultural elements of SV being spread across the US, that's part of the whole reason why I love the Midwest to begin with.
You can compare Google vs Microsoft vs OCR.space without signing up here:

https://ocr.space/compare-ocr-software

OCR.space is a "good enough" option for many projects. It has a very generous free tier of 25,000 free conversions/month per IP address (Google only 1000/month per account). In my tests it performed not as good as Google, but good enough for many applications (much better than Tesseract).
>> What else can I consume to improve my brain function except salt and low dose lithium?

Try glycine - 1 gram minimum per day. You may be able to find it as Magnesium Glycinate sold strictly as a Mg supplement. The thing is it contains 6-7 time more Glycine that Mg. so if you take 200mg of Magnesium in this form you'll get about 1.3 grams of glycine. It's a neurotransmitter and helps sleep among other things.