skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi Peter,

Thanks for doing the AMA.

Can you clarify because I didn't understand.

> if the U.S. company is the same nationality as the applicant.

Let me give you an example.

If I, a UK citizen and currently residing in the UK. I incorporate a company in the US, a Delaware LLC. That company generates $100k and then is on target to be generating additional revenues for re-investment in the company.

Can this $100k and re-investment be used to petition for an E-2 visa?
>Right wing propaganda is so strong and coordinated these days that they can develop a new goal and drive a single message repeatedly across multiple platforms for months or years.

If that is the case, why is it that we see mostly left wing propaganda on social media and most news sites?
I'm just saying it's part of it of a list of accomplishments, wasn't trying to be too specific.
Not necessarily. Such a departure could trigger an RFE that would evaluate the approvability of your application when filed and now. But don't do anything until you have spoken with an attorney.
Thank you very much Peter!
You may be interested in this thread going on right now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15958827
A couple of questions:

- Do all 50 states require lobbyists to be registered?
- How is this information (on registered lobbyists) made public?
- How would one go about compiling a comprehensive list of all of Amazon's lobbyists in all 50 states, and the date on which they were registered?

Answers to those questions might help figure out whether this is just a normal hire for Amazon, or a possible clue as to the location of HQ2 (which I'm as curious about as anybody, I suppose).
This is probably the best way to prove his point for the record.
There's no shortage of "X is going to be the next Silicon Valley". There's seems to be about one a month.
Yes, a Labor Certification could work under such circumstances.
Nope, it's section 10.2.1 of the Windows Store guidelines:

"Apps that browse the web must use the appropriate HTML and JavaScript engines provided by the Windows Platform."

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/windows/agreements/st...

[Also, it was a new rule introduced on January 17, 2017: "Added Security (10.2.1) to cover requirements for browser functionality."]

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/windows/agreements/st...
I suppose I see consolidation which is a function of the mechanics of the market as a good reason for nationalization and consolidation which isn't as a good reason for antitrust. So maybe Facebook/Google should be nationalized? I think the real test of that though is to break them up and see whether consolidation reoccurs. I'd love to have lots of competing Googles and I prefer that world to the one with a nationalized Google but I prefer either of those scenarios to having just one private and unaccountable Google.
> That is very easily said but practically impossible.

It's very practical to say <content distributor> should not be able to buy <content creator>.

Likewise, it is practical to say <web site> cannot favor their product in feeds, search, app stores, etc. over competitors.

> Again, said very easily. Have you considered what that would mean?

Sure. To the extent that open standards support types of media, it's a solved problem. Displaying <img> tags has been a thing for decades, for instance. <video> tags are a thing now, as well. Facebook could be previewing external video the same way they preview their own. But their business model is to try to gain market share in the streaming video market, live and otherwise.
Not sure what USCIS stands for but I think DOL is Department of Labor.

I did a search here:
http://www.flcdatacenter.com/OesQuickResults.aspx?code=15-11...

Which is the Level 1 wage of a computer programmer in Silicon Valley. $55,203... my jaw drops.

Clearly companies in the US are using immigrants for cheap labor. This hurts US workers, and the immigrants are being taken advantage of too. Although to someone from a developing country, that salary might look like a dream.

I'm still pro-immigrant, but we've got to get the base salaries in line with average salaries of local talent.
Why is having your social score be based on money less alarming than having it be based on your political activity?
The thing about symptoms is that they require a differential diagnosis.
A car should be able to charge another car. There needs to be some kind of standard here.

Or else small portable batteries need to become more common.

Or I could envision a service where, if you run out of electrons, you tap a button and a drone is dispatched with a portable battery to your location. Or maybe the car itself could place the call automatically.
Particularly in an environment where the marginal cost of goods is nil, price signalling should resolve this. Consider the economics of Simon, Hubbert et al vs Erlich, Malthus et al.
Google Adds Chrome Installer to the Microsoft Store
I’ve noticed the data sharing between Instagram and Facebook, and purely as a user, it has been an annoyance so far.

I had been cultivating the two as separate networks, to avoid the algorithm’s tunnel vision and interact with a wider circle of people. I never linked my IG and FB accounts together. I use both of them for my business as an artist, and have thousands of people that I’ve never met on both. On instagram, they started emphasizing the posts of people I had recently interacted with on Facebook, and vice versa. Presumably, the algo does this because it deduced I’m particularly interested in those people. It’s an incorrect guess and is actually the opposite of what I’m trying to achieve by using the two apps.

When Instagram was purchased, I presumed that Facebook was going to slowly turning into Facebook and ruin it. It’s a typical story – a new product comes up that is successful or special for reasons that a large company can’t understand, and since they didn’t understand it enough to create it, once they own it, they can’t continue the recipe. Filtering the feed, ads, video, the snapchat copy, messaging... Turning Instagram into an extension of the Facebook network actually makes it a lot less useful. Once my parents are posting on there, I’m done.
Speaking of bad stuff in your tap water: http://www.dhmo.org/
Chronicler of Islamic State ‘killing machine’ goes public
Netflix already has the outsized source of the profits. Disney and the like better hope theaters still exist in 10 years or their business model is toast. A home television screen is already better and if Netflix has good enough television and movies, there's no reason Disney needs to exist.
Not in the US. My experience is that immigrants, for example from India, are grossly underpaid. This would be for the software engineering area, and I've seen this over a two decade span.
This is really interesting. Finally businesses are taking crypto seriously. Let's hope more business find a suited crypto, they don't need to reinvent the wheel themselves. There are bright minds in crypto currency development.
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> Facebook made a commitment they wouldn't connect the data in order to get permission from competition authorities for the merger. I don't know how legally binding that is.

Not quite. They said it's "technically impossible" and the EU fined them for $122M after Facebook did "the impossible" and started sharing WhatsApp data with Facebook.

https://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2017/05/facebook-re...
I've always disliked this excuse. Software licenses are negotiated with third parties, not handed down from god. If Adobe really thought it would be advantageous and profitable to open source Flash, wouldn't they have gone back and renegotiated these licenses? "We'd love to do Xyz, bbbbbut licenses!" doesn't really make sense.
There's this:

http://www.girlscouts.org/en/raising-girls/happy-and-healthy...

You might find it useful to google for enthusiastic consent and sex positive resources as well.

But you are the one coming up with this idea that it should be discussed with one gender or the other. I raised my sons this way. My original remarks were aimed at someone with a daughter, but there is no position here on my side to choose only one gender to educate.

I would like this to be a new cultural standard across the board. If you want to stamp out rape culture, then we need a new culture. This includes everyone, not one gender or the other.

The idea that it should be all on men to make sure sex goes well is rooted in current concepts of gender and heterosexual norms that actively train girls to be reactive, not proactive. It is rooted in a patriarchal framing of the world. This framing is inherently incompatible with female empowerment.

What if I want to ask? What then? How does your concept of focusing on men help there?

The other thing is that putting it on men amounts to assuming guilt. This never goes good places. There is a reason the US legal standard starts with an assumption of innocence. Warning men they need to not be rapey bastards begins with this assumption that there is a very big chance that they will do something terrible if they aren't berated from the get go.

What if we treat both men and women like people who likely need to politely negotiate a mutually acceptable arrangement to get their needs met? That negotiation process requires substantive communication about the matter, but it isn't inherently predatory -- unless we make it so culturally, as we currently tend to do.
Surely it's Vancouver if we're going to talk Canada.
US-NK Tensions ratchet up over Wannacrypt attack
The author makes the point that these are philosophers, but our current pure, strict definition of that makes them just writers and filmmakers. Like you said, more people have seen one of their films, or read one of their books, than read an academic philosophy paper
And if the company said: "so what made you decide to interview with us?" that would be a totally reasonable question as well.

The thing is, perhaps from years of being conditioned to expect desperate applicants, some companies haven't internalized that candidates aren't desperate enough that they want to work for your company even before they've talked to you. It's when the question is phased with an implied assumption that "You would totally work for us if we let you, wouldn't you?" that it bugs me.
Blackberry's app store is still running? That is baffling.
Also, you might have gotten out at any of the previous all time high prices, such as four years ago when everyone though $1000 was absolutely ridiculous and that was as high as it would ever get.
For most, probably never. While installing Plex/Kodi on an old machine isn't that hard, it's well outside of the comfort/effort zone of most people.
I do something similar but with Instapaper annotating and commenting on bits of the article I agree / disagree with, etc.
Charles and Ray Eames: The couple who shaped the way we live
Was passing by and saw this, a better explanation and in-depth analysis can be found here:

> https://blog.figma.com/an-alternative-approach-to-rate-limit...
I would need to explore your background further but some options are to do journal/conference review work (this is more available than many people realize) or try to obtain a higher level of membership at IEEE, for example, or other similar organizations.
Plenty of companies use FOSS libraries,languages and tools outside the web - never to contribute anything back. And there is nothing wrong with that as long as the license is respected.

That said many companies do contribute back and in the case of the web quite a few big libraries and frameworks were released open by private companies.
Yes, debit cards are much more accepted than Credit Cards. I don't use Credit Cards outside of online though
The author glosses over the true source of the magical, "free" fertilizer: "some fish food." You have to feed the fish. I have never seen an aquaponics zealot do the math on the cost per unit of fish food versus the cost per unit of fertilizer. Intuitively, complexity and costs could be reduced greatly by removing the fish component, i.e. hydroponics.
DYdX is building a decentralized protocol for cryptocurrency derivatives
"That wasn't a character assassination."

It quite literally was (ie it's literally dictionary definition character assassination), and if you don't understand that, i'm not sure what to tell you

"However, it's a very convenient cop-out for you to duck out of the discussion. "

So, just to get this straight, your way of having a "discussion" is:

1. slag on someone's character and background for no reason.

2. drag irrelevant stuff into the mix.

3. Cast aspersions on their motivations for refusing to participate as a result.

Yes, if that's how you have "discussions", please, feel free to keep me the hell out of them.

I've participated in plenty contentious discussions on HN with actually civil people.
All true, but for me the most unexpected surprised about living here (specifically the Bay Area) is the relative lack of mosquitos. Coming from Ontario, that is a huge change!
Meet the Nomad Who’s Exploding the Internet into Pieces
hi posted this because i thought it was initially understood that the wannacrypt was a piece of weaponized NSA malware that was leaked from vault 7 (edit: or shadowbrokers), then in the news about 3 days ago I heard the U.S. now blames NK for the attack..,

Was this not true?
For a different view on the topic watch "Stop Rate Limiting! Capacity Management Done Right" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m64SWl9bfvk

The basic premise is not do do req/s limiting but rather concurrency limiting which results in req/s limiting by itself.

Concurrency limiting is rather simple and doesn't require a lot of code complexity.
This.

When The Coca Cola Company (the folks who own the secret sauce) bought Coca Cola North America (N. America's largest bottler) there was an entire floor that TCCC empoyees weren't allowed into. CCNA had bottling agreements with TCCC's competitors.

The restrictions were strict!
It absolutely is, but it depends on where you're coming from.

You have to work to cultivate those actions to be genuine. I've been following the Buddhism path, and it's helped me become more genuine.

Source: Read that book this year. Thought about the same thing.
>university towns
>draw in more diverse talent

Universities are rich and white with a pinch of token racial diversity. "Diverse talent" maybe. Diverse relative to any random small city people from a few states over haven't heard of they are not.
Don't worry, most of them would freeze to death come the first winter, and we'd have things back to normal.
> ... VRV is the only bundle of other streaming-only services that I’m aware of. This is shocking. If consumers are reluctant to have 3 or more streaming services, bundle packages are an obvious alternative.

I'm not sure if the author realizes the irony in pining for a return to the equivalent of cable bundles.

Not to mention that there is nothing shocking about Netflix, Hulu or Amazon having less than zero interest in allowing their services to be bundled. It would undermine their very business model while also devaluing the service in consumers' minds.

It concludes with several disjointed, contradictory conclusions:

> We have seen these streaming services do little to distinguish themselves through technology, payment models or branding. There is a lot more that could be explored in the underlying system of how video is delivered over the internet, and this is an area many smaller services should begin to investigate, while the giants fight it out over who has the next Game of Thrones/Stranger Things hit.

Who cares how innovatively the video gets transmitted if all the shows you want to watch are on a different streaming service? Quite the fool's errand to throw money at tech innovation without great content as a foundation.

> Streaming video over the internet is hard. The underlying technology is complex and fickle, and to do it right is expensive. Perhaps as expensive as buying or creating content.

Spoiler: this is a lead-in to the sales pitch. And also why the current payments models are well-suited to the product: they ensure a higher degree of revenue to pay the high overhead.

> To be sustainable, a streaming service needs several pieces. It needs to handle high loads and deliver high quality streams. It needs great exclusive IP or popular original content. And it also needs to be innovative and to develop a strong brand to stand out in the crowd.

> It’s a big ask, but it is doable.

This statement undermines advocating for smaller services to take on the giants without all these necessary ingredients.

And the pitch (my critique is clearly not of their product or company):

> If you’d like to hear more about Peer5 and the advantages of P2P video streaming, you can reach out to us for a demo!

-----

The bottom line is this: this is a winner-take-all market that will consolidate down to 2-3 major players. Netflix, Amazon and probably Disney/Hulu (depending on Hulu's fate post DisneyFox merger). I am very doubtful we'll see HBO be able to replicate GoT and it will quickly fall to niche status. There will always be niche players, but we are already well past the point of seeing a challenger to Netflix. And the consolidation is most definitely in the average consumer's best interest to alleviate the very frustration that was the point of the article. Even more odd that the article advocates the creation of more streaming services (bundled or not) while starting with the premise of consumers' frustration over just such issues.
Only in the short term. In the long run its more than worth it because:

- It will be impossible to hire good AS3 experts. You will need to pay mountains of money to train juniors or hire the remaining experts. Programmers will always want to try the new shiny thing, which they cant adding more HR problems.

- Now they will need to maintain the AS3 -> new tech compiler too. New tech evolves constantly breaking your compiler.

- Current tooling will show its age quickly. The official IDE for Flash is an outdated Eclipse plugin that wont work without patches. JetBrains has an excellent plugin, but its in maintenance mode who knows when they drop it. Also profilers, debuggers,...

If you don't fight the tech dept you will end up like banks where it takes a day to make a simple money transfer because everything core is running on mainframes in COBOL.
Only to roughly the same degree that it's possible to decompile x86/64 binaries to C or C++.

It depends heavily on the specific optimizations and obfuscations used, whether or not debugging information was left in, etc.

There's a reason the GPL has a "preferred form for editing" clause.
Credit ratings have been around for many decades. You can even get your FICO rating for free by financial institutions you use.

We've had this story on HN every day for the past week.
I am going to take a break now. I will be back in an hour. Again, thank you all for your questions and comments.
To the person who downvoted this. Why?
ThisIsScraper – Plain Text News Scraper
Left wing propaganda is so strong and coordinated these days that they can develop a new goal and drive a single message repeatedly across multiple platforms for months or years. This defense of Google's monopoly is a new left wing message developed this year but they just keep hammering at it across all their channels tailoring their argument to the different audiences and continuously building mind share and momentum.
Will your taxes go up or down in 2018 under the new tax bill?
is this available to use by non-googlers?
> […] my main point was that we achieved financial system stability for a long period […]

What period was that, exactly?
Inside One of Canada’s Most Secretive Agencies
Yup, no transaction costs to have to deal with, no thoughts about should you go somewhere else. Netflix is all about one thing. Giving the best video experience they can at the cheapest price. Amazon is all about getting you into the ecosystem. Most of the time they don't have anything compelling.
In addition to fuel being portable, storage is important too. I can store extra fuel. When the power is out and the gas station can't pump - I don't care, I have a backup. I can put it in my truck, generator, etc.
New Zealand. Lord of the Rings, King Kong, Whale Rider, The Last Samurai, The Hobbit, Bridge to Terabithia, Avatar, The Lovely Bones, etc.
One of the co-authors here. Happy to reply to any question. This tool is part of our research and describes how a single status is distributed across Twitter in order to shape information and hence, influence the public opinion.
I'm sure you're correct that there is a price that FB/others would not be willing to pay to stay in the EU. It's a valid concern for consumers in that region, and it's one that I suspect isn't discussed enough when privacy advocates cheer on the EU's increased requirements in this area.

I'd be very surprised if the case described in the OP was the last straw for FB in the EU though. By "change their tune" I really just meant that they will have to take another position than "your laws don't apply to us even though we do business in the EU". Exiting the EU would also be a change of tune as well!

(I don't have any numbers here, and would be interested in your thoughts, but I'd be very surprised if regulatory compliance was eating as much as 10% of FB's profit in the EU. I'd guess it's more like 1%. But that's just shooting from the hip based on my experience in a more regulated space than FB's. I'd expect FB to remain in the EU until regulatory costs made it unprofitable; it would seem hard to justify any other approach to their shareholders.)
Super cool! Why does the Delaunay triangulation avoid skinny triangles?
But what you're positing is a consequence only where vertical integration is combined with horizontal dominance. If I don't have market dominance in content, there is little risk that I'll be able to translate that into dominance of the streaming market.

At the same time, there are huge downsides. You take all the negotiating leverage away from the content creators and give it to the distribution middlemen.
I love that the author quotes Kant in the context of imbuing philosophy with storytelling. It's true!

>>> begin quote

One philosopher writes, with studied relief, of arriving to “the land of truth,” which is “surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the region of illusion, where many a fog-bank, many an iceberg, seems to the mariner, on his voyage of discovery, a new country.” The quote is not from Nietzsche or Benjamin’s work, nor from other “literary philosophers” — it’s from Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason.

>>> end quote
This is a categorically false assertion. Almost everyone hates comcast. And left, right, and center numerous municipalities are trying to break Comcast's local monopolies, but are being stopped by state legislatures. Regulatory capture is a big problem, and the buying of politicians is a problem on both sides politically in the US.

*Edit: I'd be curious to know why people disagree with my statement.
Why are some accents more attractive? (2014)
>It's also possible to have, say, a trillion tokens on the board and it's legal to pick any one of them as a target

Even more entertaining, is the fact that (IIRC) there are certain combos that cause infinite loops that can't interrupted, e.g. if neither player has a counter or kill spell, then the turn lasts indefinitely.
A lot of perception is flavored by the fact that a lot of the time "tech" gets defined as what dominates Silicon Valley. So you get taxi companies counted as tech and bio/pharma or fintech often not.

That said, while California does have a lot more VC funding, New York and Massachusetts and #2 and #3 even though Boston/Cambridge in particular tend to not be mentioned in these kind of discussions.

https://ssti.org/blog/useful-stats-venture-capital-dollars-a...
I suppose many of them could craft a similar statement about the culture in SV