skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So these people are good enough to work in our jobs , with skills that are, by definition, hard to find in the US.

It sounds like these people should be fast tracked for citizenship, given that they would be filling a gap in the country's skillsets.

If we invite them to move to the country, it seems fair to not kick them out for no good reason.
this is a weird rule. H1B workers can only work as contractors then. what is the incentive to hire them full time knowing they have an expiry date?
We’ve been working on a mobile app that helps people connect locally to conversations.
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We would love to get a few early adopters and happy to pay people for their contributions.

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This is an interesting thought. I had the same sentiment when I was staying in Europe on similar conditions. Then the changes came and they at first seemed as worsen the situation, but instead was a change for better. As obusive visas were exchanged for others that offer better conditions.
Self-scanning was first launched in the UK in 1995. It's still available at some branches of Tesco, but it isn't particularly popular.

https://www.marketingweek.com/1995/04/28/shelf-service-at-sa...

https://www.tesco.com/scan-as-you-shop/
They should "power" the lamps with excess CPU/processor heat.
i don't disagree with those criticisms, i just haven't experienced those issues with our local stores. possibly combination of what I buy as well as the tech. most 'confusing' issue to me in the last year was buying a self-assembled salad from the salad bar. There are 2 options "small" and "large", but they're all sold on weight anyway, so it took me a few times to determine my 'go to' size to choose ('small')
I'm on H1B and in the backlog for past 10 years. I'll soon be 50 years old. If I lose my job, my resume will not even get shortlisted at this age
Ironically, Trump's agenda proposed exactly that system in August. So far there's very little support in House and Congress for some unknown reasons.

http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/homeland-security/346...
I agree that southerners are genuine people. But I don't equate genuine with honest.

Perhaps I was not totally clear in my rant above, but I see both sides of the issue. It's categorically not an honest question. You can call it whatever you like. I happen to be really interested in weather, and I think it's fascinating. If I'm talking to you about weather it's because I've been reading something interesting about it.

One person's nonce can be another person's passion.

And the way I respond to a close friend asking me how I'm doing at his house is way different from how I respond to that same person at work.

And there are also cultures where people emphatically refuse to acknowledge each other at all (NYC) unless absolutely necessary.

You can classify the words however you want. But the form of it is a question. It's not totally honest by definition because a real answer is not expected. And giving a real answer is probably a mistake unless you are talking to a close friend outside of work.
Tesco in the UK have had this for a few years now. The only issue I have with it is that you need to have a Tesco Club card to be able to activate the handheld scanner. Despite this it's a very convenient way to get your shopping done.
I don't think that's the case. Right now a ton of the H1-B visa's are given to various IT contracting companies, which use them to suppress wages. Those companies know that their people can't easily leave (and wouldn't be qualified for lots of other companies anyways), and so they can pay them less than they would US citizens.

The bigger tech companies aren't using the program to suppress wages though, they're using it to bring in highly skilled employees. For example, there is a ton of hiring in the AI field and grabbing up foreign workers who are skilled in this area is a huge economic advantage for the US. The tech companies want these people, not some dude who took a three month course and is now "qualified" to work on a helpdesk.

It's in the best interest of these tech companies to reform the H1-B program to make it more viable for these highly skilled workers. Unfortunately the big fear right now is that any reform attempts will be used by the current administration to crack down on all H1-B holders instead of simply reforming the system so it fits the original purpose.
Porn has always been a factor in driving technology forward.

People who weren’t motivated before to learn machine learning or programming suddenly are.

This is no different!
This is probably part of the problem. If the insurance company doesn't have enough knowledge or data on beekeeping, they'll need to charge higher premiums to offset the risk of the unknown.

Also, my understanding of insurance is that there needs to be enough beekeepers that are buying insurance out there to spread the risk around.
I want to clarify that the whole point of unit tests is to have 100% coverage, that all code paths are exercised by the tests. If you do unit testing and have code that is not covered it's either a bug or dead code that should be removed.
Everything is a federal crime. It's enough that some of the fruit they pollinated might or might not be sold within the state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
And the same vendors will suddenly write better drivers with a new unfamiliar OS?
It's not "clarifying" when it's inconsistent with what he first said.

And it doesn't make your strawman accusation any less incorrect.
When I was a sacker in highschool and the grocery store got self-checkout booths, the staffing did not change. We still had 2 human lanes open during work week hours but now with +4 self-checkout booths. So of course that's going to increase throughput.

Also, not to mention all the times the few human lanes are clogged by people with 200 items that are holding up all the people just trying to buy a bag of cat food.

Now my hometown grocery store has 8 self-checkout booths managed by a single person. Since those 8 self-checkout booths did not replace 8 human lanes, I'm not sure how you can argue that it did not increase throughput.
Interesting, how is instant10-k different from EDGAR Fast Search[0]?

[0]: https://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/companysearch.html
> unless you actually think anybody wants the kind of job which is so tiresome it can be done with a machine instead

This is an extremely entitled comment.

Most people do not have the choice to work on whatever they want. For most people, it is more like "do 'that kind of job' or be unemployed". If those were your options, you'd take the job of truckdriver or miner or real estate agent.

Do you really think all those peoples' livelihoods are beneath human?
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It's a step in exactly the wrong direction. This essentially makes it impossible for anyone from India or other countries with high numbers of H1-B visa holders who have applied for green cards to ever get a green card. If someone has worked in the US for six years, we should just give them a green card right away. We shouldn't kick them out of the country just because they happen to have been born in India.
In Sam's club, their self-checkout has a handheld scanner and doesn't require putting items in the "bagging area". So, while I'm shopping, I make sure to place the items in the cart such that their UPC labels are exposed. At the self-checkout station, I simply scan all the items in the cart without removing them. I suppose this works because they don't provide bags for one's purchases.
Not sure if this is a good move but hopefully this will increase scrutiny on this $40B / year nightmare.

Aside from the valid CBP responsibilities DHS has due to absorbing that agency, I would estimate that 100% of their resources are wasted doing nothing.
I worked at amazon with a number of H1Bs and they were never asked to work on weekends AFAIK(and I get notifications for commits into our repo and never particularly noticed any weekend activity).
> As you choose products, you scan them and put them straight into the bags.

Isn't this the same as described in the article?
Another language that has some very interesting features is Perl6. I know it's the brunt of jokes because of how long it took to bake but I'd say it's innovative over languages from the 90s, namely it's own predicessors.
I started an algorithm that trades on Ethereum.
I am curious, can you give an example where that happened?

In any case, I don't think that the current Administration is planning to overhaul the H1B system, given that a change in that visa policy requires legislation, and I don't think it is high on the list of priorities of Congress right now to do anything about this.
If Cloudflare ever open another office, they could use a wall full of Drinky Birds for randomness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_bird
We split it with many families, each paying for a share of the larger amount. I recognize not everyone will be able to coordinate with a group of families, or have a local farmers market. But many of us do, and may not be aware this option even exists.
Anyone can visit it though, according to the article.
IMO you are reducing complicated situations into a false black and white in order to argue that people are ultimately immoral beings.

You use the benefit of perfect hindsight, then adopting a particular consequentialist utilitarian framework and saying 'this is all there is to morality', but morality has multiple (often conflicting) objectives. I think denying that any conflict exists is really the essence of evil.

In the theatre of war, soldiers do not have perfect information or context. People who purposefully disobey orders generally put the lives of their own comrades and countrymen at risk.

Loyalty to your fellow soldiers and putting a measure of trust in them is moral. So is courage in the face of danger (in the case of admiral captain).

Even if we adopt your utilitarian framework, in the case of the U-boat attack, you are presupposing that the lives saved by allowing the rescue to continue will outweigh all the future damage and people killed in the future if that U-boat is allowed to continue to operate unimpeded. How do you know that's true? How would the pilot know in that situation?

In the case of the admiral, how we know his strategic choice was superior to the Admiralty's? It seems like you're assuming that he made the clear right move and was punished for it.
IX demo (2011)
Spent much of my spare time working on https://github.com/justwatchcom/gopass
I did something similar a few years back, except instead of Lava lamps, I used a Geiger counter module connected to an Arduino (scrap from a project I was working on to make something economical for civilian use after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster). Basically, the background radiation is used as the PRNG number (not just as the seed). I found out later that someone at Sparkfun already did this: https://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/132
Yes, but the part I'm specifically talking about was how he got up from the seat on the tube when confronted in a way the officer in question thought was aggressive, but that in reality is something you often see on the tube. There's no doubt there was lots of bullshit coming from the police over it too, but that he stood up was one of the few claims the jury in the inquest agree was proven, an it stands out because the testimony relating to it as far as I remember made the officer seem genuinely to not realize why someone might get up that way, which is quite unlike their other excuses in that it exposes ignorance compared to the other attempts to describe things in a way that could have actually contributed to giving them an excuse.
DimScape demo (2011)
> become nearly free in the modern age

.. and/or insanely profitable if you can vertically consolidate the supply chain and exclude/delay competitors from your closed ecosystem, e.g. Apple and Luxottica.
Listen Notes, a podcast search engine that actually works. I'm working on it full-time now.

https://www.listennotes.com
What I like about this is that they made a point of closing the donations and suggesting that people donate to other causes. They're not trying to ride this for all they can get, they got enough to let them recover (and maybe a bit more?) - and even if they did get a little more than absolutely required it's not like it's "take the money and run" levels.
You can say no, because in the worst case you would "only" have to go back to Germany. But what about people who are from countries like Pakistan etc.? They would rather work on weekends than to have to go back.
In addition, some people who have succeeded in the green card lottery actually oppose any change that makes immigration situation better. Maybe that's "us vs them" mentality?
> spying on everyone's communications

Facebook and Google already do that — it's part of their business model. What makes you think it's better when unnacountable corporations do it than when accountable governments do it?

The UK is not America. There is no absolute guarantee of free speech here. Inciting and glorifying terrorism is illegal. No one cares about thought crimes. They care about innocent people being mown down by lorries and children being blown up at pop concerts.

You can argue that forcing social media to police itself won't be effective at reducing terrorism and the spread of islamic extremism, but if it is effective, it seems perfectly reasonable to me.
Sheikh Rasheed Criticize on General Nasir Janjua for Meeting with Nawaz Sharif
Perhaps Antlr?
Lots of things but regarding side projects I built http://mockrest.com which allows people to implement json APIs for testing. It doesn't have much traction but works by itself and I use it for my web development classes..
> You cannot just make up an arbitrary model and say this is how we think it works.

Perhaps it's meant as hyperbole, but that doesn't happen in economics. Models are not arbitrary, but the result of years of hard work based on generations of research. And then the models are tested and retested against reality.

Some problems, such as economics, are important to solve even though the universe does not make it easy for us with an abundance of objective data. 'Why are food prices rising worldwide' is a bit more complicated than 'why does one body fall toward another body of greater mass', but it's just as important.
We already have them. It's called compiler type checks. Albeit having an SMT solver in your unit tests is nice too.
In that case you can simply use a distribution that makes the choice for you. Generally people recommend Ubuntu or Linux Mint here.
Production ready tool for Mutation Testing targeting compiled languages (C, C++, Rust, Swift):

https://github.com/mull-project/mull
The above link the dude did it 2 days in a row on a stock stripped down helicopter. If you had tolerance for higher cost you can make a much lighter version replacing parts with composites, titanium etc. and modding the engine to work better at high altitude.
> How is this better for you

Standing in a line for 10 years, and then realizing there is no line. I wish no one else have to go through what I'm going through
While that's great in theory what it actually does is suppress wages of US citizens. By having a separate class of "indentured servants" who have no choice but to work for the specific company or they'll be deported they are removing leverage from the labor market that would otherwise force the company to pay a more solid wage. Combine that with the fact that companies can easily find ways to claim that there are no suitable American's available for the role (even when there clearly are, they're just more expensive) and you have a system which is ripe for exploitation.

If the claim that there is no suitable American for the specific job then it shouldn't matter who the employee is. Either the skills are available in the existing market, and thus any employer can find someone, or those skills are in more demand than there is supply and all companies are likely to have a shortage.

Allowing H1-B's to transfer from one job to another easily would solve a lot of the issues that has come up with the program. It would make is to the wage suppression techniques would no longer apply, making the system more fair to both US citizens and highly skilled foreign workers.
Yes, money. Also, I quit that job.
As always with this theorem it's pretty hard to be sure if the kind of non provable statement happen often enough to be a concern in practice
"after all the point of H-1B was never to get CHEAP labour, it was to get GOOD labour"

I find that to be naive. It's not because a politician says that something is for X that it's really for X.

Especially considering that if for some reason good labor was rare and in demand, it would mean higher wages for this good labor.

Follow the money...

"(...) then at the end of the term there should be a "job interview"-like process where it is determined if this person has brought enough value."

Why do you want to add citizenship to the deal? If the salary alone is not a good enough incentive, perhaps it needs to be higher. Otherwise you're just selling citizenship in exchange for lower wages.
There's no "backdoor", H1B is a dual intent visa, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_intent
We actually looked at crowd cow, but at the time, the animals were grain finished, which we were trying to avoid. Still, a great resource for folks!
Suing LinkedIn / Microsoft to protect free speech and the "right to remember" https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/forbestech...
Quit my job (Frontend engineer), moved to the east coast and bought a hotel. I don't think I can go back working for corporation/startup.

My net income reduced (Based on the 2016 P&L) but so far I like it.
You get better at getting stung (except for the rare individual who gets worse). The first hurts, then it declines over the season. The ones I get in my hands I sometimes don’t even feel but come across later when cleaning up. The ones in my legs hurt. I got 6 or 7 last week and it swelled too. Maybe don’t wear shorts and jandles.
This is because someone's great feature is another's broken mess.

For example, i cannot stand vsync anywhere with the only exception being video playback. I want my windows to follow the mouse precisely, not lag behind a few pixels, i want my games to react instantly, not lag a few milliseconds, etc. Yet GNOME, elementaryOS and even Wayland's whole design force it (well, Wayland could be implemented without vsync, but is anyone doing it?).

At the same time you have people complaining about tearing and when they force composition everywhere to fix it, they do not mind (or sometimes, even notice) the lag.

Similarly, i like how X allows composing applications and environments out of individual components (ironically this sort of application composition lends itself to the Unix idea of one app per role, but most modern toolkits ignore that feature so we ended up with almost nothing really supporting it unless you go raw Xlib or ancient toolkits like Xaw or Motif).

Others see it as anathema and the root of all evil (ok, i cannot put some more concrete negatives for this as i cannot comprehend how someone would dislike it, yet i always end up arguing with people - especially GNOME/Gtk+ people /for some reason/ - over at Reddit about it :-P).

There is no way to please everyone, so you have to allow for choices. Or deal with people constantly complaining about their lost choices, that works too i suppose :-P.
Coincidentally, Nepal is one of the best places to trek in the world, thanks in part to the natural beauty and tea houses located everywhere. It's worth it just to visit base camp.
Uncertainty doesn’t require observation, you may be thinking of perturbation?
That would affect incidents where the police is not yet sure whether they're meeting someone armed, but the de-escalation is generally adhered to when firearms teams are brought in too - which are generally situations where they know they're dealing with an armed suspect.
It does far more than just that-

> In many ways, the RAISE Act returns us to the dark ages of American immigration policy. If enacted by Congress, this new legislation would cut the number of immigrants entering the United States by half. It would do away with family-based immigration, which reunites thousands of families every year and introduces a points-based system for potential immigrants which is stacked in favor of wealthy, highly-educated, English-speaking applicants. In short, it is the most far-reaching remaking of American immigration policy in more than 50 years.

Now, if the RAISE Act applies to only the H1-B program then your claim would be accurate and I think the bill would have a lot of support.
Genuine question, isn't BigQuery like services serverless? If yes, I don't see a problem with Enterprise adoption.
> Are they doing anything about terrorists using those platforms?

Yes, via several other publicly funded services: the police, the judiciary, and the prison service.
FWIW, it's an urban legend that you can (easily) tip a cow.
Let me know when facebook gets us into a war with another world power.
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Fair enough, I’ll keep that in mind going forward. Thanks for taking the time to teach.
My other thought was it was someone stung by a bee in the area.
Emailed! Great idea.
I love self-checkout, it's always the fastest line at the grocery store by a huge margin. I've counted a number of times while standing in line, and the bank of 4 self-checkout kiosks can usually clear 6 customers with no limit on the number of items in the same time the adjacent 15-item-or-less cashier can help one.

The bottleneck seems to be Americans. I live in Canada but we get a lot of American tourists, and they always go to the self-checkout and then get confused about something and tie up a terminal for 5 minutes and then start loudly complaining about how terrible self checkouts are. There's some strange mentality among Americans where they know they hate self-checkout, they know they will fail to use them, but they still insist on skipping over all the staffed checkouts and using the self-checkout anyways.
I don't know why you are being downvoted. This is essentially accurate. There may be a few other countries affected like the Philippines but no predominately white countries will be affected because their green card waiting lists are short enough that people from those countries can get a green card before the original six years expires.
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> the hard-coded delay between consecutive scans is small enough that you don't swipe too quickly.

The Kroger where I shop currently has self-checkout systems where they only let you scan the next item after the previous one has been placed in the "bagging area". That addresses the scan more than intended issue you mention, but it makes scanning individual items of the same type even slower.
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You can find many examples in my comment history where I mention that I work for but don't speak for Fitbit. I don't feel it's necessary to mention it for extremely basic fact correction as in this case. The details of what was and wasn't acquired are public and widely known.
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Job Hunt
I started learning Elixir/Pheonix and React for a project in my company. Elixir/ Phoenix didn't take much time but React gave me some hiccups initially but seems good now.

Really loved way functional programming works and also how Elixir handles things . Later I was able to relate Elixir concepts with ES6 features in React. Loved this stack. Hoping to get better in them as the time passes.

Looking forward to contributing to an open source project in these technologies this year.

Any recommendations for Elixir/Phoenix would be highly appreciated to begin with.