skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For 5-6 hour flights, it's usually a combination of things for me:

- Videos related to whatever technology will be pertinent at the meeting I'm flying in for.

- Distraction movies: Bourne Identity, etc.

- Anime I'm currently binge-watching.

- Games on my phone.

- Printed technical articles I've been procrastinating about reading.

Honestly, how virtuous/edifying my in-flight activities are depends on how much sleep I got the night before. This is one reason I dislike early-morning flights - they leav me zonked and unable to make good use of my in-flight solitude.

Side note: On Android, I just discovered "Movies Anywhere". It was a great tool for downloading DRM's movies/shows for my last trip.
> Really? It's fairly common advice to store an emergency fund in something akin to a savings account (or at least something with FDIC backing)

That’s where I have my emergency fund (earning nearly zero interest of course). If OP knows of some other type of account with enough liquidity to use as an emergency fund AND generates significant interest, you have my full attention!
There are some very narrow exceptions but generally the answer is no, unfortunately.
Peter - Can a large company like Amazon sponsor an individual for the green card directly without going through the an H1B visa?
Not really, because there is a wide spectrum of stuff you might do.

- Do you want full stack?

- Native frontend (which one Forms, WPF, UWP)?

- Web frontend (Forms, MVC, .NET Core MVC, Sharepoint, Sitecore)

- Distributed computing (WCF, Akka.NET, Orleans, SignalR)

- Database access (ADO.NET, Dapper, EF, EF Core)

- Game development (Unity, MonoGame, CocosSharp, Xenko)

There are many other possible groupings, so it depends a lot in what you want to focus.

Have you had a look at MVA videos?

https://mva.microsoft.com/#developers
I feel like Google as a whole are aware this could be used for phishing, and will have methods preventing malicious use.
When over-enforced or subjectively enforced, people will complain too. Then people will realize you can't win on the enforcement front unless the law is written to the limits the society/enforcers can/will submit to.

I've often wondered why under-enforcement of GDPR's predecessors wasn't explicitly tackled instead of larger legislation. Sure the legislation may have both given the enforcers more teeth and required they do more, but that's an impractical way of getting what you want done. And you can't reasonably increase the scope of legislation with an unsuccessful base to build from. Waving your pen at a problem is not going to work, it's just going to hurt the rest of us living in this ambiguous legality swamp they've created.
We'll likely have an inverted yield curve before the end of 2018 for sure. Go back in history to see the correlation to past recessions:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T10Y2Y

Obviously it's not as simple as that but it certain implies that something uncommon is happening in the financial markets.
_Active_ WMD program turned to be a total fabrication. WMDs were a-plenty in Iraq: "American troops secretly reported finding roughly 5,000 chemical warheads, shells or aviation bombs" from https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middlee...
It's the law! I'm not sure how you don't get that. People have to get explicit consent to Terms of Service and marketing. If you don't understand that times change and companies have to adapt to follow the law (with a popup modal of all things gasp) then I'm not sure what to tell ya. Good luck with that mindset.
Hi Peter!

I believe you have already helped my case via email through my company, thank you for that! I just happened to see you here by coincidence and thought it would be a great chance to clear some of the follow-up queries I had:

I just received a Job Offer from a CA-based startup. Here is a refresher of my H1B case:

1. My H1B stamping expired in Sept 2015, but I understand that the petition is valid till Sept 2018 as it was approved in Sept 2012

2. I spent only 1 of the total 6 years working in the States, so there are a remaining 5 years of time that can be 'reclaimed' on the Petition

3. I was issued an L2/B2 Visa in 2016, at which point the H1B was stamped 'Cancelled without prejudice' (the original stamping had expired by that point anyway).

4. I understand that I fall into the category that is referred to as 'Cap Exempt' and a new H1B petition needs to be filed with the same petition id.

------------

My questions are:

1. I understand that there is no provision for unmarried partners to get H4 Dependent Visas in the US, even if they are long-term partners. Could you please verify this?

2. My girlfriend and I have been together for ~10 years now and plan to get married sometime soon (in the next 2 months), primarily so that we can be together once I move there. Is there any restriction/complication for newly married couples to emigrate? In the UK, I know that there is extra scrutiny for newlyweds.

3. Because my first H1B stamping has expired (and was 'Canceled without Prejudice' when I was issued my B1/B2), I am assuming that I will need to get a new stamping, and for that, I will need to travel to the nearest US Consulate. Could you please verify this?

4. My Passport expires in July 2019. I understand from research that the Passport needs to be valid for the entire duration of the intended period of stay. Would you recommend I apply for a fresh passport (I will be only able to apply on the 12th of July as in India you can apply for a fresh passport only 1 year before your existing one expires)? The process takes a 15 - 20 days.
Everything is fine

https://www.compass.com/listing/33-day-street-san-francisco-...
Ask HN: Can You Recommend a Good Brand of Jerky?
I’ve recently been eating less carbs and more protein, as I find the latter more satisfying in smaller quantities. Jerky, especially beef, has been really useful as a snack lately, but the ones I’ve bought from the store tend to be pretty underwhelming. Worse, some have a strong metallic aftertaste that I don’t appreciate. I started to search online for specialty jerky, but there are so many small and large brands!

I know that in addition to intellectual pursuits, plenty of people here are into alternative diets and food in general, and might know something about jerky. I’d really appreciate and specific brands, or general tips to sort the wheat from the chaff.

Thanks very much if you’ve read this far, and thanks again if you can help.
>which I or my children will have to pay back at some point

Which is not as relevant as you think, since if your kids have to pay it in 50 years, deflation will have made it effective 1/4 as much or so. And if the current spending results in more total wealth at that point than if the spending was not done, then everyone is better off.

Not all deficit spending is bad economics, in the same way buying a house or paying for college is on average a positive economic move in the long run.
Haiku is written in C++, as are most of its utilities I imagine. I don't see them redoing all that effort for such trivial gain. They're just talking about tooling and language bindings for people developing applications for Haiku.

You might be thinking of RedoxOS [0]?

[0] https://www.redox-os.org/
If you are going to look at participation rates, I find its best to look at the age, gender and race breakdowns to understand which changes are cyclical and which ones are driven more by demographics and cultural changes.

https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/civilian-labor-force-particip...

For example, there have been huge upticks in 55+ labor participation rates and huge downtrend of teenager participation over the last 20 years.
Code with a mix of Y%#$ and lower_UPPER_CamelCase looks ugly.
When I get an unsolicited phone call, I typically put my phone down without hanging up and go on about my business, until they hang up.
I am a Canadian citizen in California on a TN visa. I have been working on a project that I would like to post as a website and monetize, but has no relation to my TN visa, of course. Is this possible to do without having a green card?
That's why we have regulators to determine acceptable risk. Companies left to their own devices would make the margin ridiculously small.
Not convinced. I'd say the best laptop right now is still the 2015 Macbook Pro.
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> I'm a natural person (i.e. not a corporation), so everything I receive or produce or give away is taxed.

This sounds like a dystopian nightmare. Where do you live?
And the microphone was just the diaphragm that a microwave beam was bounced off of. The device itself was entirely passive.
then who would monopolize violence in that scenario? What stopping us from a might is right type world?
>Wage growth has been non-existant for a long time

Wages grew at the fast rate on record in 2015. [1] Nearby years are similar.

Here's FRED real median household income [2]. Real wages have been growing for several years.

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/09/13/the-m...
I guess that PyPy could directly compile only RPython (subset of Python) so it could be a bit of hassle to get proper code :)
Looks like a telemarketing problem from my end.
It's not really Boeing's money, they aren't a charity, any increase in the price of an aircraft gets passed on to airlines (and from the airlines to passengers)

If unlimited safety improvements are required without regard to cost, it could drive the cost of the aircraft so high that airlines can't afford to upgrade, so they keep their older fleet in service for longer. Which works for a while, but airframes do age and need to be retired.
This is when describing how the Hotspot JVM would execute a Java application.

There are other ways to execute Java applications.
I suspect that your field of expertise is one that has triggered the additional review by the Consulate. There's little that can be done when this is the basis for administrative processing. You could contact your local Congressional office and ask it make an inquiry but unless your application fell through the cracks, this usually doesn't change anything. What's your field of expertise, if I may ask?
Hi Peter,

What are the implications for a h1b holder join other startup at early stage as early member/cofounder? How much money the startup shall raise? What are implications when accepting offer at less compensation compared to earlier?

Thanks
The last sentence is the big problem. I feel like a lot of industries didn't just make the best of the advantageous labour market in the last 10 years, they reshaped themselves to become dependent on it (i.e., on cheap and easily-replaced human capital). Now that labour's tight again, they're finding that they've worked themselves into a hole they can't get out of.
44% of Microsoft Employees Say End or Alter Contracts with ICE
I see a lot of criticism of this product by referencing it as a telemarketing solution - it is not.

These are not cold calls: they are inbound leads that you have to source and have permission to call. If someone fills out a lead form on your site and checks the “contact by phone” option, this allows you to scale a bit more rapidly in high-volume top-of-funnel lead gen where you are trying to filter out unqualified or low-value leads.

Edit: sueders101 pointed out that they reference cold calls. With the TOS in mind I bet that’s a copy mistake as they require permission to call berg secured before making a call. Thy definitely could use some copy updates and calling out security/privacy more clearly.
I agree, but the debate is, (in the society at large) disproportionally, in my opinion, about the advertisements.

And they are used, I think, like a distraction, instead of looking into the real issues.
Saving that $300 a year at a highly unlikely 10% interest ends up being $36k after 25 years. It's not solving any problems. To even save up that $500 minimum would take 2 years. We can't just blame it on a single straw-man.
I disagree. I think I laid out a fair argument for my opinion, and I believe I have the right to express that opinion in our lovely open internet as much as they have a right to be a thing in the first place. Me wanting this to cease to exist isn't calling in to question their right to be there in the first place. I think if we ever lose our voice in calling out things that seem detrimental to our society at large for the sake of not seeming "judgemental", then we've devoided all platforms of value - especially HN.
I absconded from all my moderator positions a while back. I was nervous about it, leading up, but it felt so freeing afterwards.

I highly recommend it. Once you've stepped away, you'll wonder at how you could ever have felt so deeply invested in it.
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BSO flutist makes $70,000 less than male counterpart, sues for equal pay
> Consider instead the Xiaomi probook, another macbook clone.

I haven't had a chance to try the Huawei Matebook, but Xiaomi's trackpad is rough and doesn't come anywhere close to Apple's.
Scott Alexander gets deep into labor force participation rate in those post (with lots of good charts!): http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/02/19/technological-unemploym...

A sister-comment mentioned baby boomers-- there's a second index called prime age male labor force participation rate (PAMLFPR) that corrects for that by only looking at working-age men. We've gone down from 97% PAMLFPR in 1948 to 88% PAMLFPR in 2016.
> is extremely judgmental

I agree.

> and out of place on HN.

I disagree.

Why should we be discouraged from calling out what appears to be (at best) amoral behavior?
That's statistical. A close approximation of how we value our own life would be the value of a micromort (1 in a million chance of death).

According to Wikipedia people value one micromort of their own life at around $50 (inferred by how much they want to pay for safety features). So if I am average, I would probably value my life at around $50M, so yeah, you are right, though maybe not in the way you intended.

Still, it is difficult to make sense of comparisons between our own perception of the value of life and how much we actually value it based on our actions. The expenses on safety when chances of death are low is only one aspect.
No mention of Ada at all. Very sad and disappointing - Rust basically has a carbon copy of all of its features. It deserves a fair shake..
If they believe the 787 is, on whole, safer than the planes they're replacing, arguably the case could be made the variance is requested for the best safety for consumers.

Not that I'm qualified to answer whether or not that's the case here, but it's arguably something the FAA would need to consider.
Hi Peter, thanks for doing this! Have you started noticing any problems with naturalization applications since Trump took over?
That says that 3 individuals have more wealth than the bottom 50%, and that the top 400 individuals have more wealth than the bottom 64%. But that doesn't mean that, as you said, "Most wealth in America is concentrated in the hands of a small number of incredibly wealthy families." It says that a small number of incredibly wealthy families have more wealth than the most of the people (put together). That is, the article says they out-weighed most of the people, but you claimed they out-weighed most of the dollars.

Your claim is therefore either poorly worded, or unsupported by your citation.

And if I'm going to complain about your lack of citation, I should give one. Wikipedia (yeah, I know) says in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_Unite... that "Currently, the richest 1% hold about 38% of all privately held wealth in the United States." That's a lot, but it's not enough to make "most wealth in America is concentrated in the hands of a small number of incredibly wealthy families" accurate.
Leftist news outlets are not known for their integrity or consistency.
Hey Peter. I've been researching this question online a lot and always see conflicting answers. Can you start a side project or job (e.g., a website generating revenue or teaching classes after work) if you're on H1-B but already got an EAD card while waiting for a green card?

I see many people online saying that would invalidate your H1-B and many other people saying it's ok because your H1-B and EAD card are independent.
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You’re getting downvotes but it’s really difficult to take any report on employment seriously, since partisans are always bending definitions of things like “wants a job” and “has a job” to suit their narrative.
Each device emits a specific RF signature when turned on. Nothing more. The Red Team then knows which journalists are susceptible to these kinds of attacks and will use this information later.
Des Moines resident. "Full" just means that the number of minimum wage jobs exceed the number of those unemployed. Software industry here is total crap. Only large tech employers are Principal, Wells Fargo, DuPont, John Deere.

Principal will tank when the market drops (company almost tracks large index funds), they have already hearded most employees into shared community desks like cattle with draconian policies against any personal items or even paper.

DuPont is about to be eaten alive by State funded Chinese seed corn.

John Deere is at an inflection point where they need massive RD spending in a bad economy. Either they ship autonomous bots for seed/weed/feed or they become a dinosaur.

Wells Fargo ... isn't exactly the most ethical corporation.
Ah, but then you're back at general taxation of a utility, not discriminatory taxation of certain content. I disagree wholeheartedly that it would make sense to have a government tax on TV slots, but it does not manipulate information exchange in any way.

Taxing social media would be more akin to placing a tax on documentaries, or all content containing a narrative by Morgan Freeman.
That was one of my (only) favorite parts of my French cell plan. It’s a bit sad when the less developed world rapes their customers. For example, What’s App got big, especially in Latin America because up until a few years ago, a typical Mexican cell plan would include 10 included SMSes per month, then overages were something like 25 (US) cents. Carlos Slim got away with that nonsense because he had a government mandated monopoly when he first bought the network. That monopoly expires, but in the meantime, he was able to charge whatever he wanted. I used to be amazed that What’s App even needed to exist for SMS until I lived down there and discovered “unlimited” didn’t exist. What’s App in the US didn’t really have a compelling value prop because unlimited texts were such a staple. I prefer iMessage and FaceTime personally but good for What’s App for trying to innovate around the typically corrupt third world providers who enjoy monopoly status due to various structural and political issues in those countries.
>A third part is many people are opting for one income, since many couples can now live on one income."

I beg to differ, its quite the opposite actually. More people are in debt compared to past. Not sure if that's what you mean by 'climbing up'
With the added irony that Marx envisioned the fall of capitalism to start with workers taking over control of the factories they worked in, not by some vanguard taking over government by force.
Probably referring to the proprietary drivers, not the open ones that I assume were included in the distro.
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Looks like chiclet keys to me.
From available data it is not possible to show that education has any positive influence on economical growth. What it seems happens is that economical growth bring prosperty that allows parents to send their children to high schools and universities. The book [1] shows that very convincing.

Moreover, as money spend on high education in many cases is essentially unproductive tax, sending more people to universities may even harm the growth.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Experts
QE stopped in 15, but the balance sheets were still full of them until the end of last year, we are just starting to get out of the effects of QE and to see how things will really look over the next few years [q] And war is very profitable and keeps money circulating, may not grow and economy but it will sure stabilize it while there are people to kill and things to break.

[q] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/24/the-fed-launched-qe-nine-yea...
Of course. There is however a subtle but important distinction between talking about (race-based) "past discrimination" (RBPD) versus any "past disadvantage" (such as grandpa with polio).

It is this limitation of focus to RBPD that I'm objecting to. First, I think it is a form of selection bias, as I said.

Selection bias is a big issue in politics -- I have found that climate activists like my wife hate hearing "we can deal with climate later once we've solved poverty" -- because they very reasonably know that "later" in politics means "never", and they interpret this statement to mean "poverty is more important than climate".

Interestingly, I think this is what is going on in reverse when affirmative action advocates hear people say "We should do something about RBPD, but poverty is even worse, we should focus on that first". AA advocates hear "RBPD is unimportant and we'll do it later (never)".

Perhaps you could help me with the following summary of every discussion I've had about this topic:

- Why do we care about RBPD?

Because it has lingering bad effects.

- But so does any form of past disadvantage. Why then do we focus on RBPD?

Because we have to start somewhere, and we don't have enough bandwidth to focus on everything.

- OK, but wouldn't it be simpler then to target disadvantaged individuals rather than disadvantaged groups because then we wouldn't have to solve the impossible problem of quantifying everyone's group-based net advantages and disadvantages? And also, if you adjust outcomes based on group outcomes, rather than individual outcomes (poverty), won't it be impossible to ever balance the ledger, because every time you give an advantage to one group, you disadvantage another, some members of which are disadvantaged on other axes?

And this is where it breaks down. The answer usually given is "Don't you believe in RBPD? It is horrible and there is plenty of evidence it exists!" But this doesn't answer the question at all. I've already agreed RBPD exists.

The only answer I can think of is perhaps that we should distinguish between problems caused by society (slavery) and problems not caused by society (polio), and to say that society only has an obligation to fix the former. But in this case, it becomes an issue of justice rather than outcome, and we are no longer justifying affirmative action on the basis of current bad outcomes but rather on past injustice. And if you do that, then you lose the ability to ever say when the ledger has been balanced and consequently remedies will have to go on forever.
Someone is gonna be rich
I tried adding it to feedbin but it can't find any feed. Is it possible to subscribe to it with a RSS reader?
> Would Swift qualify as one?

For Apple it does.

"Swift is a successor to both the C and Objective-C languages."

https://developer.apple.com/swift/
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Hi Peter,

Thank you for helping.

Does new greencard process will take time a lot?

My company is filling now, I have read about 150 years.

I have done MS in US, and according to news EB-3 is faster than EB-2
It's not bad to offer suggestions on what to learn if you're looking to solve some particular problems. It's a cheat sheet. But cheat sheets like the one OP linked to scare people like me away! It shows everything all at once without any context as to why you would want to use each part over its alternatives (including none).

If I made a chart like this one, I would take out CSS preprocessor section completely, replace the whole Build Tools section with "create-react-app", remove PropTypes and Flow in favor of TypeScript, move the State Management into a separate de-emphasized chart, and a bunch more.