skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just moved out of US and in process of moving to Canada. Just for background: Worked in leadership roles for startups and Fortune 15 companies, sold a company, advise/invest in bunch of startups.

My life's goal is contribute to curing/diagnosing terminal disease using technology. Everything I did in the past 14 years has been towards meeting that goal. I figured, I would need knowledge, network, and financial stability. I moved to US in 2011 and over 14 years I achieved all of these. However, after moving to US I realized that I lost the most critical piece: ability to work on this goal without significant restrictions.

Visas like H1/O1 have lot of restrictions on what you can work. Recently it has become extremely difficult for early stage startups to get H1, especially if the applicant owns significant equity.

Once you get invested and comfortable in a place, you stay put. I worked really hard to break this ceiling. I tried for EB-1 Green Card twice and got rejected both times. You need 3 out of 10 criteria for Green Card. Over 2 petitions and an appeal - separate USCIS officials gave me 4 criteria. But none of them gave me 3, and their responses were very hostile.

I had to deal with H1/O1 petition every year while I pursued my entrepreneurship goals. However, I am finally done with this and can't do it anymore. I think I also have PTSD because of my experience dealing with immigration. I could not work to my potential, missed family events because I couldn't travel and stayed in limbo for too long.

However, finally I have moved out of US. I want to pursue my goal to attack terminal disease without any employment restrictions. At this point, Canada seems like the best place for this and that is where I am moving.

I am originally from India, and as mentioned in a few other posts, I do not want to live there because of quality of life challenges.

I will write more detailed posts sometime next year detailing my experience. However in summary my advise is:

If you are from India, come to US only if you internalize that you are in a temporary situation with a set goal: make more money/learn/build network. Don't get too invested, because you might need to leave at short notice. If you are an entrepreneur, you would be spending the best years of your life, without being able to perform to your potential due to immigration related bureaucracy. India, currently, has great opportunities for Entrepreneurs.

I was lucky to be able to found a company on H1, sell it and work at a few great companies. Still it wasn't enough to make it here.
I am kind of on the same boat as you. I have been doing ASP.NET and .NET contracting in a large enterprise for the last four years and my contract just ended so I am trying to plan the for next 10 years to do consulting and develop my own products. I picked up some Laravel and React\Redux during my time consulting and have been following ASP.NET Core as well. Last week I made an ASP.NET core boilerplate https://github.com/aregsar/house , still in progress, that you may find interesting. One concept that I am going to use for my blog posts and presentations is to have some unique perspective or theme that weaves through all of my content. I can then use that for branding and setting myself apart from others in the field. It could be a development perspective or opinion or even a controversial idea that is effective in some situations but goes against the norm or best practices. Anyway, good luck.
You misinterpreted parent in the second section, quotations around sentence subject for clarity:

>I wasn't advocating "flying craft there anyway and if there's a crash well we'll pivot to a new model".
Plenty of examples with CNTK https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cognitive-toolkit/cntk-libr...

Also Nvidia have a course https://courses.nvidia.com/courses/course-v1:DLI+C-AC-01+V1/...

But I am also curious why... this is deep-end stuff if you’ll forgive the pun. Why not start with Keras and only dip into the C++ if you need to?
Yep, Montreal is slowly becoming an AI hub.

Microsoft has already opened their AI research branch in Montreal. Google Brain is in Montreal too.

I can see it becoming a more popular spot as time goes on.
>Voting can change things (and publicly embarrassing elected officials works, too), but I doubt any of the people reading these comments live in the voting districts of the officials involved in the cases in the article.

You seem determined to believe things without evidence.
I know a lot of people in various Open Simulator related communities who are extremely unhappy about it, and are desperately searching for a replacement. Is that close enough?
Notably, with the advent of things like Unity that compile to WebAssembly, people could be programming frequent communications between WebAssembly and JS, without ever having learned a low-level language involving pointers (which would be the situation in which one would learn about stack frames).
I’ve thought about it a lot, thanks. I’ve also moved around a lot to test my theories out IRL.
Seems relevent to know the company so we can avoid them in the future.
What? Your reply to your own posting contradicted yourself?
As luck would have it, I have a degree in statistics and I'm a trained statistician! So let's talk about stats.

Let's assume he's 99.99%[0] safe to fly his drone in this situation. That means 1 in 10,000 drone flights are not. That's actually not a great safety margin when you consider how often this is done a day. There are 2.5 million drones in operation at the moment.

You're overemphasizing the individual case here and not the population at large. There's actually a formal name for this type of statistical fallacy, though I've forgotten it. There's TED talks about it and everything.

But you can probably get better than 99.99% assurance of safety here...and you do that by registering your intent with people who assess safety for a living.

[0] this is, of course, a ludicrous statistic. It's illustrating the absurdity of thinking that just because something is unlikely doesn't mean it won't happen. In this case, when it happens people can get seriously or fatally hurt.
400k doesn't sound so rare. The entire population of Tulsa OK, Wichita KS, or New Orleans, LA just drops dead every year?
You can put up to a 200ft tower in your back yard for radio purposes without registration so long as you're at least 4 miles or greater from an airport (closer requires proportionally smaller towers - around 1mile/50ft). https://hamradioschool.com/g1b01-maximum-antenna-structure-h...
Some messaging apps seem to prefetch thumbnails and article titles too, which doesn't work out well when you inevitably receive a spam/phishing link.
August 2018 Median Household Income
Tangential - any advice for software devs looking for entry level experience in the industry? It's a topic I'm passionate about and would love to branch into, but I started in computer science and don't have any aerospace experience.
I posted this on the other discussion related to this, but would love to get feedback here.

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I can understand this position, but I'd be curious what your thoughts are on how to best (I realize there is no perfect) keep your data private from snooping employees, hackers, or law enforcement.

I've thought about this over and over, and it's hard to come to a solid conclusion about keeping personal data safe (in this context I mean emails and files you may store in the cloud, not browsing history, social media posts, etc.). There are so many options with downfalls for each, and I'm not a security expert. So every time I get excited about trying a new service geared towards privacy, or setting up my own instances, inevitably somebody points out the terrible pitfall in it and I get discouraged.

1. Don't use the internet or internet services, period. <- Not tenable for most of us.

2. Use services who market themselves as geared towards privacy. <- Can't actually trust those services, even with E2E encryption because they could be running different code from what you think they're running.

3. Use regular cloud options, but stack stuff on top - VeraCrypt volumes or Cryptomator with Google drive, GPG for email, etc. <- Really difficult to setup and have a nice reliable way of accessing data on mobile/desktop/etc. No security audits on a lot of the open source software.

4. Host your own services - i.e. a Nextcloud 14 instance on EC2 with an S3 backend, then use client-side E2E <- Difficult to make sure you set the service up in a safe way, and not even a fraction of as much resources in auditing code as, say, a giant corporation.

5. Spread what you do out over multiple services - FastMail for email, DropBox for cloud storage, Standard Notes for notes, etc. <- A real pain.

I know there will never be a consensus on this, but I'd love to hear what your thoughts are on the best way to keep my personal files and notes personal to me. Let's assume I'm not a target of any spy agencies or whatnot, but I want to make it very, very difficult for anyone to read my person notes and files but me.
Medoo v1.6 released
The post didn't say anything about "value" in terms of money

good enough to raise money, or good enough to keep working on a feature or product, or good enough to believe the product will grow into something much bigger someday.

In the last sense, 4chan is probably in the top 10 of websites that have impacted the web/world the greatest over the last 15 years.
Please explain to me how a corporation can be "doxxed", because I don't understand how that's possible.
Scratch and similar block-based environments could be "the real deal".

If you ignore the pretty blocks, you can see that scratch is nearly a normal language. There is no reason we can't have a language with both representations, plain text and pretty blocks. You could even have a hotkey to switch the pretty colors on and off.

I strongly suspect that most modern programming languages would almost work with a block-based editor. You might need to leave out a few things, but not much.

Consider C. You can't tolerate a macro that expands to an opening curly brace, but you can tolerate both function-like and const-like macros. You could load many normal *.c files, and you could save them, and the only thing lost would be some whitespace.
You don't want to inline functions that haven't been parsed. If it hasn't been called by the time you are JITing, then it probably isn't going to be on a hot path.
Load XDP programs using the ip (iproute2) command
This is bad advice. It is really risky to do this and you can be barred from US forever.

Lawyers can give bad advice, and you need to triple-check non conventional advice. I used a lawyer who is really popular with YC companies. He gave me really bad advise, none of it worked eventually and I had to leave US eventually.

Be very conservative and careful when dealing with Immigration laws. Especially with the current environment.
Indeed. We need a new and more comprehensive set of metrics by which we measure value add or success.

When considering how successful a thing, a person, or a project is, innovation and market success certainly should be weighted heavily but we really need some other metrics to include.
I'd largely agree with your assessment; it's not cheap, but the cost of living to income ratio is good and therefore it's relatively affordable.

It sounded like the OP was not intending on earning a lot though, and so somewhere that was outright cheap was probably better for them.
From another wearable founder [1] to you, congrats on making a great product! I'm wearing the new steel Oura right now. Although the firmware update this week broke it for me on android :(

Still my favorite heart-rate enabled wearable out there!

[1] https://pavlok.com
Muzmatch (YC S17) is hiring engineers
> also there is tons of walking culture in this city

Your biggest pedestrian street, La Rambla, is a 10m wide sidewalk with intense car traffic on both sides. You walk in the middle of traffic and inhale the diesel exhaust that makes you choke whilst strange looking people try to offer you counterfeit bags and shoes from the large blankets they've (probably illegally) put across the pavement. Not my idea of a good time and probably not the best way to run your most famous street.

> Regarding paying for parks, its 1 park

could be, but you can probably understand how charging entry for (parts of) a fairly small park is unusual and is going to make visitors feel like they're being nickel and dimed wherever they go.

> So im sorry if you have had a bad time in Barcelona, and I agree there are things that need work, but its not as horrible as you say. Hopefully they keep adding bike lanes and continue to reduce the car traffic in the city center.

That's alright, I had an OK time overall, but I came in with higher expectations and was disappointed that some things (like the traffic pollution in the city center) felt a bit behind the times for modern European cities.
Well, owning your own house won't make up for being miserable, if it comes to that.
“We are students opposed to the weaponization of technology..”
- good luck with that! have they wondered which government departments financed the growth of tech in the Cold War ?
My guess is that they tried to claim the "value-add" was all in this other jurisdiction (e.g. the DB or the "secret sauce" algorithm, or something as boring as applying their "valuable" trademark after paying a license fee).

Canadian mining companies do this with "hedging" contracts with their Swiss subsidiary that is basically a desk with 3 directors. Wait until you've hit a low in the market, then sign away the future growth to the subsidiary for "price-stability".

On the WAN side, I deliberately choose foreign AWS locations just to avoid the sales tax from domestic AWS sites...
It could be argued that by focusing on the wide release, they inherently doomed the product. Hard to build a cohesive community of 300M when the stickiness factor doesn't exist yet. Arguably would have been better to focus on limited releases on niche communities to create that stickiness/increase retention.
The assets accumulated from 6+ years working in the Bay Area would generate more than enough interest annually to cover the difference in living costs.

I agree about the weather, but bad weather doesn't affect your mental health anywhere as much as the uncertainty in America's never-ending visa process.
Net revenue often refers to net profit, meaning revenue minus expenses.
Nic Cage or Not App
Those aren’t mutually exclusive options.
Bigger transistors and more cores.
https://youtu.be/ucMQermB9wQ describes this in more detail.
How (if at all) does this impact "Login with your Gmail" and those APIs? They started off separate but were subsequently combined into one common package.
If you are looking for something that is probably not a scam, there is a UN citizen platform for carbon offsets. [0] FWIW the platform is supported by a number of major corporations including Microsoft. [1]

[0] https://unfccc.int/climate-action/climate-neutral-now/i-am-a...
[1] https://unfccc.int/climate-action/climate-neutral-now/i-am-a...
> Resource Limit Is Reached

Time to upgrade your web server?
You’re thinking of the fallacy of composition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_composition
It was buried as a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18169243. We're just trying to figure out which URL is the best one for this story. It's a bit harder than usual. In the meantime, I've restored the current thread.
Why does the FAA need to get involved with any of the stuff you mentioned? Not everything needs to be a Federal matter.
I think this is exactly right. It would have been a lot better to organically build a social network across all their products that people actually like to use and comment on. Instead we force them to do things they didn't want to do like real names, but also constantly having to make decisions about what was public or not. It was doomed to failure. I even worked on a project that was a tiny part of Google Plus.
First: Going in I understand the impact a drone could have on a given aircraft wing if it were to impact. I also understand how that compares to a bird or at higher speeds as I've watched the linked video. I learned a lot I didn't know from it.

Now, honest question from someone outside the hobby who sees good arguments and reasons on both sides and doesn't seem to be swayed to one side or the other yet.

How many people flying drones, would you estimate, on a given day are flying their crafts within airspace that would be restricted for them, generally, if they were to be registered and request use of their regular airspace -- on a given day?

Is that even possible for anyone to guess? Am I asking a question that's unreasonable and too difficult to ask? That's just something that I think would give me and others on the outside some sort of idea how this would actually impact people wanting to fly drones.

I also realize this is being put in place to prevent an accident before it happens. That's obviously unneeded (any accident) and I'm sure no hobbyist or anyone for that matter is trying to get their drones tangled with an anything in the air, let alone an airplane.
> The idea of "circles", where you had a circle for "acquaintances" "friends", "family" would be great on, say, Facebook

I don't think Facebook will add them, but Diaspora has them.
You can search for "from:me". For example, this link should show you your own posts from last year:
https://plus.google.com/s/from%3Ame%20before%3A2018%2F01%2F1...
"... out of thin air"

I'd say, rather, "out of Gmail account users"
This is false. H1B holders pay into Social Security and Medicare, but are not allowed access to SS and Medicare benefits, precisely because it's a dual intent visa with the intention of immigration.
If it's been JITed then the AST may well have been discarded after the JIT completed! Doesn't V8 work like that today? You'll need to pass it again even if you have already parsed it!

It's not hard to think of worst-cases. Think about an enormous function that you would not want to inline. It's been JITed, or it's running in a byte code interpreter, and the AST has been discarded. In your scheme you'll have to parse it to find it's too big. Huge waste of time, if you can see it's too large from the source code.
They are optimizing for posts that generate revenue. Since users don’t pay, the news feed is optimized for advertisers and the user posts that lead to more advertiser engagement.
> 5) Pure lie. Really, you want to say you measured air pollution levels? Or you can see transparent gases?

I don't need a special device to tell me the air is bad whilst I'm suffocating :)
The biggest issue is the American public that fetishizes this job so much. A lot of people have such an erection for "TOUGH ON CRIME" policies, and they'll just let cops get away with whatever they want.

People are really gullible, too. So any time a cop murders a defenseless and un-armed American citizen, the news and the police will start to throw out propaganda that will make the victim look bad. "The victim was in a gang--look at them throwing up a gang sign on an old Facebook picture they posted! They were wearing a hoodie, at 2am! They had a criminal past!" As if any of that justifies the murder of a person by a shitty and violent police officer.

It's completely enraging, but there's not much to be done about it while "TOUGH ON CRIME" idiots continue to vote and the politicians that are voted in continue to empower their armed lap dogs.
Man, your comment hits home. I desperately want a drone as a toy but under the guise to check my gutters if they’re clogged.

However, next to where I live is a small airfield and, at times, we have small private jets and sesnas flying next to us.

What always stopped me from buying the drone was because I simply didn’t want to put myself in a position to have that one malfunction that causes the drone to soar and accidentally damage the plane. Regardless of how improbable or unlikely, I just didn’t want to be “that guy”.
This is a bad example.

825,000 drones were sold in the U.S. in 2016 alone.

If you had 825,000 developers, who on many days did commits and didn't have any real issues, you may think differently.

I again, am pro regulation, but this is a _terrible_ argument.
> The announced it. Perhaps you think it should have been sooner?

Yes, they did. After it was investigated by the WSJ, 6+ months after the fact. I'm not a real stickler about disclosure timelines beyond "wait for the patch please", but "only after it leaks several months later" still rubs me the wrong way.

> They followed their legal obligations and - even more important to me - I have no ethical or professional issues with the way they managed the incident.

Ethical standards vary widely. Personally, in the category of "Things Google has done that raise ethical concerns", I don't think this incident is significant enough to bother mentioning. But I do think it sits in a bit of a moral gray area.
"90 percent of Google+ user sessions are less than five seconds."

Oof. Good on them for finally admitting it, but who knew the data would be even harsher than G+'s most vocal critics.
As others have already mentioned, spaceflight has useful applications at creating a long term stable population center outside of Earth. There's also the commercial application of being able to gather vast resources relatively cheaply from the asteroid belts once there's a platform to routinely and cheaply transfer cargo up to space, down is relatively easy. We're going to run out of raw resources at some point and this will be the least costly application. Deep well drilling could access large amounts of trapped resources however the cost is prohibitive for the return.
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I think a Mixergy interview of Drew Houston? Lurked several months then made an account.
> Google/Microsoft/Facebook/Apple/etc are each individually orders of magnitude larger than the entire Canadian software industry combined

We just need one of those companies to get fed up and move their HQ north. Canada's tech sector would double overnight.

I can even see that happening if the next couple US elections go the wrong way.
Yes that's a good point, and it seems like the WSJ article has gone further into the story so we've un-duped it. There's a workaround for the paywall in the thread.
2 -> you can download the video and post it anywhere but yeah it would be nice to have it directly saved to phone rather than snapchat then save to phone
I don't see the benefit. We'd all just end up with a barrage of emails we don't really care about.
Related discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18169243.

Normally we'd treat these as dupes of each other (and initially we did that), but there seem to be two stories here: one about the data breach and one about Google+. So I guess we'll leave both of them up.
Interesting what he wrote about imagine his/her partner suddenly dies.

Sometimes (happened probably 3-5 times in the last 6 years) i imagine that and get very sad and my wife was always around anyway so i went to her and hugged her.

After that i tell her, that i wanna day before her.

But whatever happens, the time with her is still the best thing ever happend to me.
STL Iterator support in Eigen
I cannot answer that question, but I can add that it's a common German saying as well, in a slightly different form: "The fish smells from the head."
To start off with:

1. Really quick feedback loop.
2. Progressively improving our skills.
3. Keeping score.
4. Having a community/tribe

There was a hn top post article about a guy who gamified his interview preparation to get into Google.

I think gamification of our daily life is a good idea.
Every administration and every congress in the last two decades has called for sweeping immigration overhaul. What they actually do remains to be seen.
So you think you know… Tune in tomorrow to see for yourself #madebyGoogle
Bird scooters to be delivered directly to customer's house and reserved for them
Why Amazon Really Raised Its Minimum Wage to $15