skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/19/business/media/adblock-pl...
https://medium.com/@trybravery/please-stop-using-adblock-but.... (HN commentary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16997272)

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Also, I find it suspicious that the user who submitted the post only exclusively submits articles from "sociable-co".
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Foreign businesses having to follow local rules is nothing new, whether it's in China, England, or Mozambique.

China has, in the past, detained foreign executives accused of breaking local laws. There was this pharma case involving GSK in 2014 (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/02/business/international/ch...) which found the company engaged in fraud in the country. GSK paid up $.5B and had to reform some of its practices as a result.

What is troubling is when those rules are unevenly or unfairly enforced, are designed to give other businesses an unfair advantage, or are subject to additional requirements outside of the standard protocol. There's a good backgrounder on IP theft in China here (https://law.stanford.edu/2018/04/10/intellectual-property-ch...).

If you dig around it's not hard to find all kinds of horror stories involving "joint ventures" or unfair advantages given to domestic companies. I know someone whose relative was involved in a business dispute in China which resulted in that person being detained in a hotel without any charges filed at the behest of some local official. He couldn't leave the PRC until the dispute was settled to the satisfaction of the Chinese business partner.
To follow up on their question, as a DACA applicant thinking of creating my own company. Is this safe to do? Should I consider incorporating in another country instead?
Yes, but in my experience, ProtoLabs is the exact opposite of everything available for <$1 -- they specialize in rapid turnaround, and they want all the money for that kind of rush.

I also found that they aren't all that amenable to finding the most efficient route using stock material. E.g., on one job, I just wanted a stamped or laser-cut hole pattern in stock aluminum, so I specified the stock thickness in that field and commented in the notes what I was seeking. I got back a quote for basically CNC milling the exact part out of billet. Lovely, but completely unnecessary, and it didn't improve chatting with the rep. I would up fabricating the parts out of carbon fiber and CNC cutting the shapes/holes myself (all in-house).

So, yes, I'd say that the Shenzen flea-market mentioned above could be really cool, is definitely not here yet, and is sadly unlikely...

(Edit: typo, dropped words)
You just need to smoke that rapper weed and dmt
California has as many people as all of Canada. There's _tons_ of people in this state to null your point. Maybe in the midwest your argument might hold true, however.
I don’t think that’s what has happening given how much it asks you to touch the wheel.

Same thing could happen with cruise control and be even more dangerous.
"[T]he gravitational interaction is exchanged by a spin-2 field, whereas the electromagnetic force is exchanged by a spin-1 field. Note that for this to be the case, you do not need to speak about the messenger particle that is associated with the force if you quantize it (gravitons or photons). It’s simply a statement about the type of interaction, not about the quantization. Again, you don’t get to choose this behavior. Once you work with General Relativity, you are stuck with the spin-2 field and you conclude: like charges attract and unlike charges repel."

There was a bit of discussion about this on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18609375 as well. Working through the exercise of how spin-2 mediated forces differ from spin-1 is a worthwhile exercise for those who are so inclined.
Thanks for the prompt response!

To shed some more light on qualifications, I've BS+MS in ECE with ~3 years of experience in the security field. I'm a member of a well recognized standards committee defining security standards. I've given conference talks, and published articles in industry trade journals.

Does that make my odds of getting O1 visa (or EB1 green card) higher in any way?
About the mirrors. Since it is a screen, would it make more sense to put the screen in the drivers field of vision? That way they do not need to turn their head away from the road to look in the mirror. Only downside would be checking the blindspot -- this mirror system could be setup without a blindspot.
And also believing SF sourdough is actually a thing not born out of over engineering and OCD? I think bread could become a bit like wine. People can't actually taste the difference but enjoy being a bit snobby.
Ultimately, code from each security origin is going to have to run in its own process space.
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Funny, I always say the same about foreigners coming to the U.S.
I noticed one of these recently and tried to block it with an adblocker by finding the word Sponsored. I looked at the source code and found that they separated each letter of the word 'Sponsored' into separate html tags, making it impossible to find it by text. So sleazy, Facebook.
I do not have any developer friends in the real world. The closest technical minded friends I have are at the level of IT helpdesk. That's okay to me; their technical chops aren't why they are my friends :)
I just went through this so let me give you my thoughts/experience.

Separate work and job-hunting as two different skill sets in your mind.

Use any note-taking tool of your choice (I used EverNote) and write up:

- Standard algorithm questions and answers to quickly revise on

- Soft questions (like name a time you rose to the challenge/etc) with pre-prepared answers.

- ANY f*ckups from previous interviews and how to not do that again

- ALL tech questions you were asked + solutions to revise.

I hope you get the gist of what I'm saying here. Job-hunting is a "mode" you enter in. It's like preparing for an exam where you're learning a whole bunch of stuff before-hand, but knowing very well that once the exam is over you'll forget everything.

This has already happened to you with algorithms. Same thing goes with jobs. You'll enter into algo-solving and interviewing mode, but once you have an offer you'll have the luxury of forgetting it all once you start working.

It's when you're back on the path of finding a job again that these notes you've taken serve as an anchor for quickly getting back into that job-hunting mode.

It's served me for years.

All the best.
The overreach on southern straits is pretty egregious.
What you're saying makes no sense. If China is doing something bad and the USA allows it because of economic reasons, then both countries are in the same boat! Now you're proposing to punish China only because the economics don't seem to favor US anymore, which, if true, in fact means that the US is the rogue one.
>State Dept. official: China holding 800k Muslim minorities in internment camps

That sounds pretty terrible to me.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/419855-state-dep...
I recently tried setting up an alternative dev environment on Linux and it takes some work but I think Visual Studio can be matched on Linux now for C++ development.

The combination of VSCode, cquery, and clangd can provide code completion and navigation that I think is finally on par with IntelliSense, and it scales to large projects. VSCode's GDB integration is tolerable for debugging.

Linux has some definite advantages too. For one thing the filesystem is just blazing fast, which really helps with git. Various other things are faster too, like I'm writing an OpenGL app and creating a GL context is much faster on Linux. Also I've been trying out https://zapcc.com which made my builds five times faster, no joke. I'd almost move to Linux for that alone.
> I wonder if there is even a safe "in between" phase between normal driving and truly, fully self-driving vehicles. Or will many people put too much trust in the tech to make it a safer alternative until it's much more mature.

the prevailing opinion on this forum seems to be that these semi-autonomous driver aids are inherently unsafe because the driver inevitably stops paying attention. but are they actually worse that a typical human driving manually? I know we've seen a bunch of high-profile news stories about tesla autopilot malfunctions and inattentive safety drivers, but is there any real data to suggest that these systems are as bad as portrayed?
They're very limited unfortunately but if it's a great startup and you've played an important role for the company, then an O-1 might be an option. Also, and I'm not recommending this in any way, there are academic programs, as I'm sure you've heard, that give full-time CPT to those pursuing an advanced degree.
True but the local political rules in these places are pretty predictable and don’t change drastically on edict. So, yes, follow the rules, but the rules applied to you are the rules applied to all.
I am sorry - I thought you it was 'ask me anything', I did think it was only immigration questions. My apologies.
I find some of those items strange strange such as "how teams divide responsibility, how they collaborate on work, and preferences in styles of communication"

That's just doing the job. If company does X, then I do X.

I know folks have strong opinions on it but I've found there are many ways to do various tasks and as long as everyone works together in an expected manner... it's my job to do it that way.
Are you trying to say that the TRS-80 wasn't a top-of-the-line luxury computer?
"You no longer study?" This is a straw man. It is clear from the context of the discussion that 'studying' refers to the study of algorithms/data structures/etc that is typically questioned in CS job interviews.
> tampered with elections

By that metric the US is most egregious, so is hypocritical to sanction anyone
Motorcycles are still legal even though they’re far more dangerous than sitting in a car without a seatbelt.

There are reasonable trade offs to make.
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Netflix just had a record-breaking November on mobile
I think it applies equally to furniture or solar. If you want quality local manufacturing, it is better to let it compete on the global market. Help by placing orders, may be, but let it compete.

Otherwise we'll only prolong inevitable decline.

Example: go to Japan and check in into a modern hotel. Then look at the hardware - door latches, bed, toilet... Then compare the quality of these products against their American counterparts. An isolated example, may be, but the outcome is higher quality at lower prices.
Funny tho, that purchasing prompt is the only "feature" I'd missed from Sublime after switching to VS Code.

So I made one for it [1].

[1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=cottonh....
To add to this, another great design tool is Figma – it's browser based, but just as capable as Sketch. Although working in the browser often feels like a toy, the bonus is that it's cross-platform unlike Sketch.

Also, for color help, the Material Design Color Tool is a fantastic little site for helping develop color schemes quickly and visually. https://material.io/tools/color/
The trick here is to not use any windows program to modify anything on the WSL file system (because of the unix permission system). But it works vice-versa ... so you can use any unix program to modify a file on the windows file system.

So my hack there is to simply make a symlink in my unix dir (`~/dev`, usually) that points to a folder on the windows file system ... that way I just do all my work in ~/dev and it's all good.
Isn't this a violation of FTC rules?
I would pay a decent sum of money to configure my iPhone to only accept an easily maintained whitelist of phone numbers... (I know you can hack something together with DND etc, but it's a PITA)
This a really excellent response. Thank you.

If you don't mind, could you explain what HCI is in your view as well? I think that's another discipline related to CS/UX/Design but is still quite distinct to those who understand it best.
Work somewhere on something you would enjoy. Also build out your network.
https://goo.gl/images/HbXTru

What did you think would happen going to a place that is super corrupt, has an authoritarian government, and steals IP blatantly?
That is definitely one of the things I observed some manager doing. Slightly related situation is when an engineer does that and can do it because the manager does not understand at all how the system that is under his responsibility work.
Hi Peter, I completed my OPT and just received an H1b. I have applied for the i-140(premium processing). I am from an undersubscribed country and all my priority dates are current. I'm thinking about changing my employer and wanted to know the optimum time in the process I should do that while minimally affecting my GC process.

Thanks
STH previously reported that Intel began offering Xeon discounts to smaller organizations that asked for AMD EPYC price quotes.

https://www.servethehome.com/intel-is-serving-major-xeon-dis...
Guys like Spolskey did enormous harm to the industry by pushing this inane meme that a single bad hire will destroy the company overnight. It just isn’t true. The vast majority of work doesn’t need a superstar, it just needs basic competence and a good attitude. And probably most of the candidates you interview can do the actual job.

Plus it just isn’t plausible that the finest developers in the world were flocking to work on a web based project management tool so how was he an authority anyway...
in somewhat functional markets that are subject to competition, companies cannot arbitrarily raise prices.
There's something that I learned too about entrepreneur, once their company is bought, they usually don't stay long, often they only stay the length required by the contract. Sure money is a factor, but usually, an entrepreneur wants/needs more than a simple job.

Brian Acton himself left 3 after later, months before all his options vested. In his case it was about Whatsapp monetization, but it's in the same vein (lost of control of the company).
You download the nightly installer from mozilla's website, and then it bugs you to "Restart to update" everyday. I run nightly on many of my systems, but I don't update every day
Which one did you learn to use first? Wondering if that has much of an impact. I've only used Powershell for a bit while I work with *nix shells daily so I'm definitely biased towards them but wonder if I'd cut my teeth on Powershell if I'd think the same way.
You haven't taken into account how much the bay area would have needed to spend on bridges and freeways if BART hadn't been built.

https://www.bart.gov/sites/default/files/docs/BARTfactsheet_... says (as of 2017) 70k people go through the transbay tube in each direction during peak commute hours.

http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/esc/tollbridge/SFOBB/Sfobbfacts.htm... isn't dated but says that 270k vehicles cross the Bay Bridge every day.

These numbers aren't directly comparable because they're not measuring the same thing, but taking things as pessimistically as possible, let's say those 270k vehicle crossings all happen during the same time period as the BART numbers. If all those commuters crossed the Bay Bridge by themselves in a vehicle (because the overwhelming majority of car commutes are one person per car), that would be (270k + 70k) / 270k or a 26% increase in vehicles, when it's already ludicrously packed every single day. The bridge would need to have been widened by now (or another bridge built entirely, with feeder freeway interchanges on both sides).
We already have that data. We don't show it because we want to filter out bad data!!

Let's take an example: illiquid coins, like for new forks.

Look at the prices quoted on every exchange: you will often see huge differences. Because on some exchange, you can only buy the new coins - not sell them. So the price is high. On the exchanges where you can buy and sell, the price is low.

We think that's scammy. We don't want to list these coins or that information.

We are working on ways to do that, but extending over the top 50 is not very high in the priority list. There are even coins from the top 100 we are not comfortable showing in the API. We just hope they won't ever make it to the top 50 on our frontpage :-)
Anecdotal evidence from a pinball factory in China from Strange Parts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnPhAn2_bjk&t=262s

Leases on buildings have gone up in price.
Regulations have been increased.
But labor is still very high quality.

After watching this video, I feel that high schools in the US and elsewhere would be better if they taught consumer electronics repair rather than shop class.

There's still a lot of empty space to put electronic factories in the US. There's just not a lot of skilled labor.
That seems to be the case with a lot of super charismatic leaders. Somehow these people can instill an extreme level of loyalty in people they meet.

I don't want to compare Jobs to Hitler but when you read accounts from people who worked with Hitler they also had this sense of loyalty they couldn't overcome even while knowing that something was going wrong. Reagan may be another case.
I suppose this is a natural consequence of the Twitter generation where attention spans longer than 2 minutes are for firmly in the realm of old people but no, if a 15 minute read gets you "so tired when thinking about it", the problem isn't with the author.
The typical process is though a US Embassy but if it's determined to be for tax reasons, there potentially are negative tax and immigration consequences. While this touches on immigration, speak with an accountant before going down this path.
That and the fact that you get no shortage of people essentially making the claim that, if you have a pulse in Silicon Valley, you can send out a few emails and have a new job paying $300K by the next Monday morning.
I had forgotten about it, but your link says nothing was proven... so a bit different than more recent events[1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_20...
Isn’t China just making the “invisible hand” visible?

Meanwhile, in the US, the majority are “boxed in” to the prerogatives of billionaires.

I don’t really see the difference in a practical sense.
I did this when I was a math undergrad applying for grad school. I applied to 15 graduate programs and got into 10, and rejected by 5. The surprising pattern was that I got into a graduate program if and only if it wasn't in the Northeast; selectivity of the program didn't seem too relevant. After graduate school, for my first job I ended up being on the graduate admissions committee at the Harvard Mathematics department and got to see things from the other side, where you receive 400 incredible applications, and can say yes to less than 1% of them. In that setting exactly what you wrote "Decisions were mostly based on..." applied just the same.
> Meanwhile, the laptop weighs 1.33 kilograms

What?! The last 17" laptop I had the misfortune to be lumbered with was an HP Zbook 17. I don't recall exactly, but it was easily at least 4kg and about 1.75 inches thick!

I'm astonished they've got this so light and thin - will definitely be considering one when it's time for an upgrade, as I much prefer a larger screen for coding!
Why is China crazy for not being able to provide the same quality of life as the country with the reserve currency?

It makes sense that US is one of the easiest place in the world to live in.
By comparison, most of that kind of stuff in Russia died with Stalin.
> You no longer study? You stopped any form of education?

Oh please.

I've always taught myself new concepts and am constantly reading books and learning new languages. Hell, I went from working in "big corporate" to starting my own business building video games, something I knew virtually nothing about because I was driven to do so. I learned Rust on my own, I taught myself 3D programming, I've taken classes on public speaking. These are things I didn't need to prove to anyone, I just felt motivated to because I felt it would benefit my career.

> Studying to pass their interview process is no different than studying to apply X new principle.

The fact there are websites dedicated to helping you study for Google's interview process means something is broken. You should be able to gauge a person's motivation and willingness to learn beyond knowing seven different algorithms from memory. If they want someone who can adapt, look to experience and have questions ready to prove that experience. I shouldn't need to recall information like flash cards. Applying to Google feels like studying for the SATs all over again.

Two cents. Google isn't for me despite feeling I could make a big impact there knowing my motivation levels and work ethic. I highly discourage anyone from adapting a similar interview process.
Was this a self-sponsored I-140 petition or company-sponsored?
That’s brilliant, in an evil way. At that point I would just draw the text on a canvas (not to give any ideas).

It’s ironic that people who use adblockers are the exact people you don’t want to push ads onto, even if you can. They have adblockers for a reason, and they’ll just ignore them anyway!
I didn't say "why should it die", I said "why would it die." Unless you mean that you find it likely that some appreciable fraction of developers will stop owning Apple hardware at some point.
I love when he goes to buy the fake rolexes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWdEDH2Sjt0&vl=en
I have had half-days (my company does that too) which pretty much require a full day off.
I read his answers and a few others. Thanks! It sounds it is definitely worth to test it.
Oh, now we're on to "badmouthing". With no acknowledgement of any of my points, including the fact that you were rude and dodged apologizing. Or of your apparent lack of understanding of the topic you're so eager to discuss.

You should note that you're very invested in defending the honor of a white person that is even to me totally anonymous. And then go read DiAngelo's book.
Most probably thought that they would be lucky and become a poster child or something.

"Look at this nice American, how he came to us and made big money!"
Even after the symfony bundle era ? I was hoping too much maybe.
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Yup. Got ripped off by a major hardware component manufacturer there. They refused to release the significant safety deposit when they were obliged to. Not a great way to loose USD30000 for a startup[0].

Then we have the almost comical lack of quality assurance, and understanding of what quality means and is.

Most of our significant efforts to set up a production line for computer hardware in Shenzhen failed.

It didn't kill us, maybe some innovation and extra focus on our product and quality came out of it.

It was, however, the fortune 500 client lawyers who saw to it that we met our demise (we were a "2 big clients shop").

[0] http://bergesolutions.com Eulogy: Now defunct. Had massively big clients. Too big for us to handle. Shipped about 5000 units and we filed several patents.