skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One major issue you're going to have with studies like this is the same as with studies on any social or economic issue - there's room for 'massaging' the data to fit any narrative. It's the same thing with things like minimum wage. In Seattle after the city increased the minimum wage they commissioned an independent study from the University of Washington study to try to assess the overall results. The study indicated that they'd lost ~5,000 jobs and the changes were hurting lower income workers resulting in fewer hours and an overall loss of $125 per month per worker. So they canned that study which was supposed to run for 5 years, and commissioned an individual well known for evangelizing wage increases to carry out a new study. There's a writeup on WaPo here [1] about that. The Michael Reich individual they quote, in that article is the person who was commissioned to carry out his study. And he managed to report that wages are up and there was no increase in unemployment.

H1-B (and immigration in general) is not only a fairly hot political topic, but also one where there an immense number of massive corporations that benefit substantially from the system. There have been an large number of reports, including government reports during the former administration, indicating a substantial depression of wages due to H1-B visas. [2] I hate to cite Wiki, but really - there are a ton of reports there and me giving dozens of links in this post is less reasonable than just linking Wiki there.

So on this issue, your phrasing is already hinting at some angling and I'm not sure you even realize it! In the US there are a huge number of STEM educated individuals who are not working in STEM. Certainly many of them are doing so voluntarily, but it's equally certain many of them are doing so involuntary. Filling these jobs domestically would of course create at least as many jobs, but on top of those created jobs it would also allow citizens to also occupy the 'creating' jobs, all without the wage depression of H1-Bs.

[1] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/06/26/new-s...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa#Wage_depression
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It can also be seen in photos on the linked site.
I work at Google. For a company of this size, the culture is extremely dependent on your specific team/org.

I think I probably hear more about politics at Google from HN than from actually working at Google.
All of my "101" courses in uni were notoriously hard weed-out courses due to their large volume of assignments and reading material.

My computer science courses were the easiest part of my degree. Meanwhile I was up late into the evening for my British lit, psychology, and other "soft" "101" courses. Those were the courses I'd have been most tempted to cheat in if it was possible.

So you're only speaking for your own uni experience.
H-1B is not intended for newly graduated students. For them, there is OPT. You are right OPT is restrictive, but that is best solved by changing OPT.
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Linger long enough without going and you'll probably see a yellow at a metering light.
Ask HN: Can you be a felon and still successful in tech?
Background: 20+ years ago, I did time for a white-collar crime. I completed parole. Restitution has long since been paid. I've gotten a pardon for my crimes. What most people don't understand is pardon != expungement.

Felonies follow you forever.

I'm curious to know if other folks in tech have been able to overcome the stigma of a criminal record.

What have your experiences been?

Have companies been forgiving?

Have you been lowballed on pay?

Please share as much you're comfortable with.

I'm very interested in others' experiences, and any advice anyone might have.

Thanks.
Is there any reason you aren't allowed to slow down and take your time? I have no idea how many credits you are taking or why, but maybe are you are well above "full time" which is usually 12 credits?
Couldn't the installer write the initial seed?
Paying immigrants less than the prevailing wage of American citizens with H-1B visa is illegal.
You posted that Wikipedia link 4 times in this thread. That's a bit much, and also kind of dodgy to do without mentioning that you wrote it.
The classic application is generating the ssh server keys.

I don’t know if that solely uses the system RNG though.
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> * Can they get hacked? Of course they can… Are they difficult to hack?

http://phrack.org/issues/60/14.html#article
...Something nobody ever said when they were on the receiving end of someone else's poor ethics instead of the one partaking in it.
They look like a standard global systems integrator (GSI) company - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_integrator
Something like FAP80 maybe?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13438610
Skaboarding is not cheap sport. Skateboards break often if you do tricks on them and shoes get destroyed often. You need parent to pay, because you are unlikely to earn that much.

The other thing is, as much as people make fun of those seeking validation, the fact is, everyone needs validation and attention. The big difference is that some people are getting it easily, for example because they are good in more popular sport or can be funny or something. So you know, if they can get that need filled by going up and down ramp, then good for them. It is actually healthy way to deal with that need (the us vs them culture that tends to arise is other issue).
From the README:

> For users who can't spend the money, we made it easy to build the pro version from the source code.

So the pro version is still FOSS, their builds are just not gratis.
I would imagine it depends on the crime. Can you give us some basic details of what kind of classification it has or who the potential victims would be?
Why are people unlucky enough to be born in the wrong part of the world less entitled to "suppress wages" compared to the hordes of Americans entering the field?
I think we turn to compare wrong product categories.

a > $700 premium iPhone to a < $200 android phone.

a > $2000 premium mac to a < $500 PC.

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To me it seems that trend started somewhere along with Notch's dcpu16 and assorted virtual hardware from 0x10c.
GP is talking about switching the H1B visa to a wage auction, specifically doing away with prevailing wage. That's what we're talking about.
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I can't tell, is this a joke? Or are you being this obtuse on accident?
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> Transmeta's x86 CPU's were even doing translations and optimizations dynamically between x86 and their internal representations.

I think every modern x86 CPU is doing exactly that.
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The center is it's own political direction which seeks to apply proposals from both left and right, pragmatism is a driving force.
I think it's important that any TLD is open for registration of domains. For example if Facebook bough .book they should need to allow others to register under it.
For the most part, your complaints are fixable by just splitting jobs into categories, and then only taking the highest paid in each category.

But honestly, I don't think that's needed except for a few areas like translators. If a company truly needs someone, they're going to be willing to pay.
Poe's Law in action?
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“Cloudwick has never brought resources from India,” Chhabra said. “All the resources are Master’s students that have educated in U.S. and then we hired and trained them.”

This is rather slippery way to paint the picture. And from the looks of it this is more of an abuse of the F-1/OPT visas program. These visas haven't got the coverage as much as H1B program:

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2495580/it-careers/for...

Unlike H-1 the F-1/OPT visas don't have any wage requirements. It rather asks employers to attest that people on F-1 are paid according to someone with similar duties.

Workers were paid $800 a month during training, he said.

The whole training thing is another sword of damocles hanging on people getting H1/F1 visas. I have heard stories about Infosys suing people for money if they leave before serving 2 years on H1 with Infosys. The route Infosys take is that company has paid for training and needs to claw back that amount from these employees.
Reminds me of the parable of the two shoe salesmen in Africa [0]. The point being, if there's all these isolated, lonely cliques, there's actually a huge opportunity for someone who can consistently connect with others starting out as a stranger.

[0]:http://johnassaraf.com/goal-achieving-2/a-tale-of-two-shoe-s...
Why wouldn’t that happen now already?
Honestly though who goes up to women and asks their number in this day and age? I'm sure it happens but these kinds of interactions have moved into the phone.
The court documents explain Lundgren's points (these discs are free, they still require a licence) and the prosecution's points, and why the courts agreed with the prosecution.
Pico 8 and Voxatron (its predecessor/3d succesor) both predate the 0x10c experiment I believe.
The problem is that if you are actually do know best, everybody else has to make that mistake and learn, and while doing so, is halting progress that could be made in the right direction.

In my world as a software developer, I've found that if my group of colleagues and the boss has very different culture and skills than you do, it's very hard or impossible to influence change. Because the entire group would have to be on the same level of technical experience OR have enough respect for titles or experience to follow someone else, in order for progress to happen.
It's seeds all the way down.
> Not to mention it would drive down wages for American jobs.

There are a fixed number of slots in the program. Requiring the highest paid employees take those slots would mean immigrant labor would be costlier.
I'm in Carrboro, down for a beer or three. I bet there are a fair number of HN readers in the triangle area; maybe we could also try to organize some kind of meetup?
> A "Publish early, publish often" strategy could produce more and better results in the long term I think.

That (at least the "publish early" part) is already the case for a lot of programming language research in things like semantics or program analysis. Published papers often treat a toy language (no arrays, no dynamic memory allocation, etc.) and leave the rest for "future work". Sometimes that future work does materialize, often it doesn't.

It's a difficult situation for academia: If the basic system is too hard to extend to a full language, you will end up without final results, and from the point of view of your funders you have just wasted a lot of time and money. If it's too easy to extend to a realistic language, you might build a tool but end up doing "only engineering" without having new breakthroughs to publish, again seen in academia as wasting research funds.

For many people in academia, the incentives for building systems really applicable to real-world languages are just not there.
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I don't think rape is the only thing people fear when meeting strangers. Unpleasant experiences or stalking creeps might be something to look out for.
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>One thing I never see come up in these discussions is the overall increasing wealth disparity in the US.

Wealth equality cannot save you from the basic mathematical reality that you can't uniquely assign N homes to N + 1 households. Inequality is the only thing that ever comes up in these discussions, and it's a red herring every time. Price is the mechanism by which markets exclude people, so it's the one you're going to see in a market economy. Social programs use waiting lists/lotteries/political connections, but at the end of the day it's all the pigeonhole principle.

Income inequality could be responsible for people wanting to concentrate in cities in the first place, but I'd argue this is actually the arc of humanity for millennia - America's decentralization is a mistaken aberration, and one that's ending. People who can afford to overwhelmingly choose cities.
I would think any such wage auction reform would maintain prevailing wage requirement. I don't see why not.
South Korea to censor HTTPS based on SNI challenges (translated from Korean)
I actually agree with you here, I'm just pointing out that there is no indecision of any sort on the part of homeowners.
We Humio.com are a small business as well, and we hired a consultant for a few days to help us iron out the changes we needed to do. We are happy with the help we got and it would have taken us a lot longer to get right by ourselves.
...is this grounds for monopolistic suits?
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Why wouldn’t that happen already now?
Thanks. Strangely Google's first result for Newark was New Jersey.
Actually if you read IBM's research papers on RISC, their PL/8 compiler toolchain was pretty much like how LLVM kind of looks like, just on the 70's.
It was credit card fraud.
"He and Bernal provide a meta-analysis of the disparate measurements with a “Bayesian” statistical approach. It separates measurements into separate classes that are independent from one another — meaning that they don’t use the same telescope or have the same implicit assumptions. It can also be easily updated when new measurements come out. “There’s a clear need — which you would’ve thought statisticians would’ve provided years ago — for how you combine measurements in such a way that you’re not likely to lose your shirt if you start betting on the resulting error bars,” said Peacock. He and Bernal then consider the possibility of underestimated errors and biases that could systematically shift a measured expansion rate up or down. "

I am not sure how to parse this quote, and seem unlikely that appropriate statistical models weren't available
s/problem\./problem that probably need not be solved./
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Not true. You have the right to retain backups and logs etc. as long as they serve their purpose to secure your service for accidental loss of data or other security purposes and they are properly stored and secured.

What if hacker deletes your Facebook account? Under GDPR Facebook has actually obligation to keep your data safe from this scenario. Which means they have to keep logs to investigate what happened and also be able to restore your data.

You should delete backups after certain amount of time and state your policy to users.
IQ tests are based on pattern recognition and abstraction. So your comment being as meta as it is probably means your iq hasn’t dropped. I do understand that it’s a figure of speech in this case but to go more meta it is a lazy argument... perhaps indicative of low iq! Fun right?
It's not an issue with 'domain names per customer' but with SNI.
Because ip addresses are limited (well, ipv4 at least) they cannot use dedicated ip's per domain name.
That's the whole issue.
There's a very substantial difference between legal self defense and "hacking back". Self defense is an immediate response and an innate human instinct. Hacking back is more like tracking down an assailant attacked you or your family member in the past, breaking into their home, and killing them.

Another analogy: if a store owner saw someone steal $100 worth of goods, would it be legal for that store owner to hire someone to break into the thief's house and steal $100 worth of the thief's property?
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That's the whole point. Unless you are a direct descendant of native Americans, you too are a guest of theirs, regardless of whether you are a first generation immigrant, or the grandchild of one. But strangely, nobody is in much of a hurry to ask for native opinions on immigration policy.

I am here under the same set of rules as any native born settler - which accurately describes most Americans - is. Maybe even more legally, given that immigration control is historically, a relatively recent phenomena. (At least, with respect to 'white' people. Let's not talk about the incredibly racist history of that institution.)

There's a certain oddity to having a country founded on immigration, without the consent of the native inhabitants, setting up rules for who can immigrate to it (which many Americans' ancestors would probably not have been able to meet), and then pooh-poohing someone who has met said rules for legally being here. It's a tad hypocritical.
Then you'd just adjust the pool of openings till it stopped being an issue. We control the supply, so we can set the price.

And you're kind of overlooking that the program is already heavily used for what you're afraid of.
“the agency was using National Geographic maps from the nineteen-sixties, with names for landmarks and villages that didn’t correspond to those used by the locals.”

I call disinformation on this one, since agency has been involved in counter-USSR operations in that area in the eighties their maps should have at least been from that time period, not the sixties.

“the Kalashnikov, a Soviet-developed assault rifle that can penetrate a person’s torso from more than half a mile away.”

I have yet to meet a person who can throw a Kalashnikov with a bayonet attached for half a mile. Such poor writing.

“designed for use in war zones”, “high-powered weapons”

For some reason one can always tell when a piece writer got their hands on a Common Sense Gun Control Thesaurus.
I think this all comes from too many smart people left with too little meaningful things to do. So they get bored and start playing the usual 1000+ years old game of forming cliques and figuring out who's more important. Kinda comes from the current investment climate.
I see it too.
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No, it just means that you have a set supply and the auction settles at a specific wage.

Say you limit the supply so that only immigrants being paid more than $90/k yr gets approved. Now companies start laying off American citizens getting paid more than that in high-cost-of-living areas because they can hire replacement immigrants for $98/k yr.

If you look at the purpose of the H1B program, it's not to play a numbers game with wages - it's to allow skilled labor to come to the U.S. and contribute to the economy.

40% of Fortune 500 companies are founded by immigrant families, and if you keep lowering H1B quotas to make sure Americans survive the wage auction, you're going to stagnate the economy.
I think you are 100% spot on. I used to run an edtech startup that sold directly to government run schools. When I attempted to introduce the technology to the school I was often met with hostility because they said my technology was designed to replace teachers rather than empower them. Needless to say, I got out of the business quick and now I focus my efforts on building technology to allow self-learners to directly learn.

The existing government run education model is completely broken. They are openly hostile to innovative technology. It is a matter of philosophy and it cannot be fixed. If the system is broken, it is time to have it replaced with something better. Eventually, something better will come a long and citizens/taxpayers will begin to question why this old model still exists, just like how people ask why certain businesses still exist.

If there is any innovation to happen in education, it will not come from traditional universities or schools.
I stopped using Facebook several years ago, and it was already a dating app at that time. That was more or less the point of the thing.

How is this new?
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> Why not out of curiosity?

Because you are lying about what domain you want to access.
This is against the TOS, and simply something you should not do.
I know it helps signal to get around censorship and blocks, and it's technically working, but one should not do that.
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Is no one going to point out that Facebook is still in the center of a public panic over privacy? Are you sure the public is going to want FB of all entities to host and run a dating service?

I don't get how everyone is so bullish here. I think if anything Mark should have waited a couple of months.

Not trying to be needlessly negative, I'm just surprised by the reaction here.
Java might not be, but C# is another matter.

Specially after the Midori and Singularity projects, and how it affected the design of C# 7.x low level features and UWP AOT compiler (shared with Visual C++).

Also Unity is porting engine code from C++ to C# thanks to their new native code compiler for their C# subset, HPC#.