skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
H1-B workers are (by the nature of their visa) prohibited from creating companies

Founding a company is not the only way to create jobs
I would, particularly since drugs/bitcoin seem like pretty low level offences. But I work at a large company and have no control over that now.

One thing I have heard is that big companies often care whether you have a record from the last 5-7 years, so as the conviction is further in your past you may find that it gets at least somewhat easier. Even the "Fair Chance Ordinance" mentioned in this thread only applies to convictions older than 7 years.

I don't think there is any creative way to hack this problem, since it is a trust problem, and remote work may make that trust piece even harder.
This is fantastic. I love the demo tunes. Runs pretty smooth too.
This non-tech person's attempt looks to me is futile, just switching from Google to Apple or other companies doesn't mean you won't be tracked. To me the best solution will be self-hosting cloud services for email, calendar, and using TomTom or Garmin GPS.
I wrote some revised radix-based text encoding specifications to make them interoperate better with modern text processor standards (SGML, string literals, filenames, URIs, etc). I also included a representative test for how they fare on uncompressed vs pre-compressed data when compressed with gzip:

https://github.com/kstenerud/safe-encoding/blob/master/READM...

radix-64 of course fares the best, but radix-85 isn't much different, and is 10% smaller uncompressed.
The joys and perils of walled gardens, where somebody's else owns what you've bought and you have to play at their rules.
If you truly lose connection to "friends", are they really a friend or just a number in your friends list? What are you considering a "friend?" There are a hundred+ ways to stay in touch with people in 2019, and they're all using the same kind of device that works for accessing facebook.
If the US doesn't allow software engineers in, will they just disappear? Nope. They'll write code for foreign companies which will compete with Silicon Valley. I.e. the competition is there anyway.
That wouldn't be consent under GDPR so I hope your company doesn't have customers in the EU
IMHO they are. :^)
Purported hackers stole evidence to tarnish Mueller probe
Samsung Galaxy S10 Features Crypto Wallet, Reports
Reader had nothing to do with Google+, yet the comparison is still relevant. It would have been much easier to turn Reader into a social network than to create one from scratch.

It's still shocking to me that Google shut down reader. I'm not sure I've come across any company that has abandoned such a beloved product.
I come across colleagues in the same boat as the OP, but the truth of the matter is that a $5/mo VPS hosting WordPress is really not going to handle a surge of high traffic. Been there, done that, when I had a $20/mo Digital Ocean droplet with my blog on it. Anytime I posted a link to it on HackerNews or Reddit, it used to die under the 'hug of death'.

Since moving my blog to SquareSpace, I've never had that issue. In years. Note: Not an advert and not an affiliate for SS, just a happy user.

We still have a WP blog on a VPS for our SaaS, but I am keen to move that over to another platform, because I have enough on my plate to develop code for my SaaS itself. For my blog, I just want to post my thoughts without having to wade through a WordPress Admin console and see dozens of flags, warnings and popups about a myriad of plugins that need attention. Seriously - our WP admin console causes a lot of stress just logging in, which sucks all the creativity out of me.

SquareSpace (and even Medium, for all the negativity surrounding it) makes it so easy to start with a blank slate and just write and let the ideas flow.
In other news. It is cheaper to stay on a cruise ship than in a nursing home.

https://www.reshareworthy.com/old-lady-alone-on-a-cruise-shi...
Is there a timeframe on this obligation?

And if the project is cancelled, it'd be logical that Foxconn will be limited to costs incurred to date. It's not like 1.4B is an open unconditional check.
What is "Google+ for consumers"? Is it different from the Google+ a regular user like me?
Kindly fuck off
Show HN: AHOY – A location-based messaging app
Howard Marks: Political Reality Meets Economic Reality [pdf]
Exactly. Godel's Incompleteness Theorems have as much to do with philosophy of mind (consciousness/brains/AI) as the Pythagorean Theorem does.
> The disregard for security is so bad, I was actually surprised. How does India, a giant in terms of providing technology and tech workers have such bad standards?

Most of these data leaks and hacks occur on nationalized banks/govt institutions. Thanks to various legacy decisions such as quotas on everything other than skills and merits, politics, decades of socialism, etc, the actual skill tech workers (or any kind of skilled workers) go to private institutions or immigrate out. You won't hear any private institutions of having data leaks with such frequency. Private sector companies have high standards. Many of the high performing and skilled people across USA are Indians.

What not many people understand is than up until the last two decades, the only comfortable job in India was in the government. Private sector jobs were few are far between.

Therefore, parents often pressurized kids to get into government services so that they can get official cars, manors and "benefits", without having to do any work. You can imagine what kind of people get into government institutions with such a culture. Rank idiots and rote learners. No one in India is surprised by such shoddy inefficiencies in a govt agency. It's basically expected.

Politicians do not try to change this culture as it benefits them immensely and because of opposition pushback. Modi has been trying to offload more and more government agencies into the private markets, but the sheer amount of bureaucratic pushback is not helped by the opposition trying to portray him as a crony capitalist to earn political brownie points.
Have the 2.3 billion MAU been independently verified and checked for duplicates/triplicates etc? Considering the number of people in the world, the number of people older than 13 and younger than 75, the number of active internet users and the penetration in richer countries, I seriously doubt these numbers. Turns out, others are doubting it as well: https://mashable.com/article/report-claims-half-facebook-mau...

So why is everyone uncritically peddling these numbers?
Thoughts on Tech Stacks for Bootstrapped Startups
the way I see most people using it when driving, walking, in meetings, at a resturant? 80% of the high res part.
Chicago sets its train tracks on fire when it's this cold
Don't worry about the math, one of the great things about this course is that the professor is a magician when it comes to explaining and defanging scary looking math, you'll be fine. Having said that, it's mostly basic matrix and vector algebra, basic probability and basic calculus (all high school level).
Plus the world is going to shit. How do you justify having a child who could expect to live to about 2100 when there’s no clear guarantee that the earth will be inhabitable then?

(n.b. Of course I hope I’m wrong, and I’m doing what I can to make sure I am, buti it is a truly monstrous challenge.)
> But if you are very private, you have little to share. You miss out on the social conversation of humanity, and businesses will treat you as another generic faceless entity, throwing whatever crap they can at you hoping it sticks.

And mass surveillance and data collection combined with blackbox machine learning techniques are somehow producing a different outcome?

I think it is very misguided to conclude that people don't need privacy from all of this. Most of what people use Facebook and friends for is private, they just haven't been seriously and obviously burned enough from the fact that a large number of corporate entities are siphoning it up.

Maybe they'll never get burned enough. Maybe it all turns out well. But concluding that no people do not need privacy as a basic psychological need is wrong. I know I do and I don't have a bad social life because of it.
Well, I personally choose to just ignore them. Blocking each of them are a waste of time. By ignoring them, I think along with time, they will consider my phone number as an inactive number. Sometimes I also look up the numbers on Google or some sites like http://whycall.me and just post some reports about those numbers if I find people have reported them as scams.
Oh, I can do but I promise you that it's rough as a badger's arse because it was a quick lash up. I'll see if I can throw it up somewhere later today.
...or rendered on your head-mounted virtual reality headset as you drive around town in your windowless car with perfect visibility.
> It's great at what it does but I think you've out grown it.

There is absolutely no justification for him to be running into these sort of issues at such an incredibly low load. Let's pretend he gets 50,000 hits per day (he says 50k per month but I don't know reqs/sec). Than's less than one per second. The $5/mo box over at DigitalOcean can handle 100 times that with the most poorly optimized PHP, Wordpress, and MySQL installation.

The problem is entirely due to a shitty host and/or grossly misconfigured server. No CMS should run into load issues at the microscopic traffic levels he's complaining about. He doesn't need Cloudflare, either.

So, yes, a static site would indeed perform better but to imply that he's actually reaching the limits of a simple CMS is absolutely ridiculous.
This article compares base64 with gzipped base64 and posits that there isn't too much difference in size. That's not terribly insightful. The only reason base64 exists is because of a lack of standardized binary distribution formats, especially over the internet. There is literally no substantive difference between data, and base64 data. I'm actually quite surprised that gzipped data is 2% larger, I'd expect a smaller margin.
I mean, a lot of relatively smart people I know these days have gotten over fb and I don’t see many of people in fb or social media that much. Fb gets old after college and then it takes people a few years in their mid twenties to grow out of it. By late twenties I’d say the majority of smart folks know to keep their distance from fb and such ilk.
What Tesla has achieved in the past decade is a miracle. Their success is a combination of luck and the resolve of everyone at Tesla.

But given the tall odds and strong pessimism from multiple groups, it's a marvel they continue to thrive. Kudos Team Tesla!
Contrary to the rhetoric, unless you are buying your degree from shitty colleges which exist on paper, it's very difficult to get bachelor's and master's degree in India.

I'm an Indian and I know that because the entrance exams are tough.

But yes, emphasis on masters degree missed the point.
After Facebook, Google apologizes for running a user data collection program
I'd pretty confidently bet this guy has some ridiculous and/or buggy wordpress plugin that loads a bunch of images or is horribly written that is causing the problem. Even a naive and basic wordpress install on crappy hardware should be handle this load.
Our kids’ chance of survival and of having a peaceful life with full stomachs has never been better.

That is true in South Korea as well.
No, regular users are using G+ for consumers, and that's what's shutting down, G+ for enterprise will still be around, as an internal social platform for employees of an organization to communicate with each other.
It also didn't have any public entitlements. It's also 100 years later. So the point is not particularly relevant.
I was one of those Disney employees laid off in 2015 and there were no "shortages", they just wanted to save money. A few months later they wanted to do the same at their ABC unit. They told employees they were laid off and gave them a date and then walked it back because of the bad press.

https://aknextphase.com/disneys-wild-it-ride/
You can already send vector graphics to the browser in the form of SVG.
That's odd, the problem didn't used to be with me.
This is just sad. I don't think the Unics moniker was ever used in any formal sense and not at all for over 45 years.

Meanwhile, there have been UNIX, XENIX, POSIX, Unixware, ULTRIX, A/UX, Cromix, HP-UX, IRIX, ...
> the people who are requesting the delivery should have to set a rate at order time

That's an interesting idea --- reminds me of e-coins with variable transaction fees. You can offer more if you want people to work on your transaction faster.
I use scripting extensively in Clojure, both on the JVM and on Planck (JS). You have the choice of slower startup times but a ton of libraries to do anything you want, versus short start-up times but less libraries, using the same language. I use https://github.com/l3nz/cli-matic as a wrapper and it works on both.
>The arguments that because humans can do it with two eyes

I see that argument a lot, "well humans only have two eyes so of course two cameras would be enough".

Well monkeys have two eyes too but they wouldn't be driving on the autobahn anytime soon would they.

That argument is really used by people who have no idea how any of this works, and it really is frustrating.
The anti-ethics roadshow hit a speed bump by the looks of it. FB’s developer certificates for iOS just got revoked by Apple for violating their developer agreement.
You're right that pundits, and that not that those of the US, are bad at following trends and successes in other countries.

However the Economist had an interesting take on Facebooks success outside the US: Their sales outside the US is equivalent to that of a medium size biscuit maker.

So is Watch successful because 400 million people use it, or does it also generate substantial profit for Facebook?
I found I Am a Strange Loop good, but a little sad.
> How do you justify having a child who could expect to live to about 2100 when there’s no clear guarantee that the earth will be inhabitable then?

How do you justify your own existence if you "know" the earth eventually won't be habitable. I have the answer for you: you hope. There's plenty of that left, it's what keeps us all going.
Well, you're the one pulling the word out of the hat. "Not truly understanding the technical implications" does not equal dumb.

As an anecdote, my father is a non-dumb person who at some point started using Facebook out of a combination of curiosity and a feeling of missing out. He can use a computer proficiently for the things he needs and is quite adept at learning to use it for new use cases on his own. Yet he is far from a technological expert with as good as overview of the whole picture. Once I explained it to him over a course of several conversations, he was concerned and stopped using it.
Southern California Edison (SCE) also did the same thing as Disney. Abused the H1B and L2 program fired american workers and replaced them with foreign contractors.
Yeah static works good... in fact I'm working on a SaaS app w/ blog built in that will be open source (w/ upgrades), the frontend will have theme-able blog that's built statically via nuxt generate, the backend will be vue SPA - not using Nuxt, since SEO really isn't required. The stack is Laravel for the backend...

It's 'SaaS' in that the actual app will have easy subscription plans, analytics, single/teams, etc...

I was working on my own SaaS and realized other than some potential code examples from dead github repo's and Laravel's Spark, there isn't much on the market or github -- even in other frameworks like express or rails that covers this niche.

Definitely nothing open source, I'm hoping to get some sponsors early on to offset some of the costs of development till I get other streams of revenue...

I got off on a tangent lol, but I don't think $15/month + $99 migration is super sustainable...esp if I scale, but it would be nice to have even $1000/month just on autopilot via hosting.

Plus you can upsell stuff. I've got a brother who's a stock boy (he's 28, I'm almost 40), who graduated with a Bachelor's in Digital Design, I could probably kick him in the ass w/ some motivation and teach him to manage everything and maybe get him to work in his actual career field for once...He'd work for min wage right now just to get some beef on his resume.
I had a hilarious incident of this with Google Search being on the money and YouTube being so far off the mark it appeared broken. Try searching for "GPL3" and I assume you'll see something similar.

On the other hand, searching for "GPL v3" actually gets relevant YouTube results, so they are out there and YouTube knows how to find them if you ask the right way.
Their plugin selection isnt great though and you cant install your own.
Being good at leetcode means you are good at spending plenty of day hours on interview prep and not real work.

Would you really want to hire such a person who does no work all day, and only prepares to move on from current company?
Read my full comment.
>any increase in productivity is bad because it reduces labor scarcity

Isn't it? Increases in productivity, normally called automation, must reduce labour scarcity unless demand for the product is proportionately increased. There are plenty of sectors where this is exactly what happens, and some where it isn't.
G+ was the typical google launch. It failed on too many levels from the beginning, took a long time to get their shit together and had too many scandals/annoying traits which pushed people away. And at the end it's main sellingpoint still was just that it was not-facebook.

Googles biggest fail was probably that Plus was too nerdy, and that they tried to sweep everything into it. Youtube, Reader, Photos, even the search was harmed by it. And at the end the people just got another unsexy service where nobody they cared for was available. Google should have done it the google-way, lettingnit work alongside other services and on it's own, instead of trying to copy facebook and then forcefeed everything to everyone.
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Actual title: Youtuber creates time lapse of Michigan snow storm
Depth of field is adjustable for all by resizing the aperture (a.k.a. the "eyelid" mechanism). Try a higher f-stop ("squint") if you're having trouble with it.

However, the focal point with respect to the sensor is indeed miscalibrated in some units, and good units can become miscalibrated over time. There are some after-market correction devices available.
+1 for Ghost. We run our development blog on it for our SaaS and it runs on the smallest Digital Ocean droplet just fine. Not a lot of traffic, but even so, the CPU and memory footprint on a small VPS is negligible.
This is now covered by Google News. Well, maybe if they shutdown this too...
Url changed from https://science.slashdot.org/story/19/01/30/1559228/mind-alt..., which points to this.
It's not common enough, but I think the situation is getting a bit better. Node and React made it greatly easier to render your pages on the server side, and I've seen a lot more sites do it.
I am not against H1Bs, but the minimum pay should be raised to 100k. They should be able to switch jobs after 1 year so they are not slaves to their sponsor.

And every h1B application should be posted on a easily searchable site where American applicants can review and apply for that position if they meet the job criteria.
I don’t follow any rules of thumb. I simply don’t buy anything I don’t absolutely need. I guess I do have a small rule: don’t sweat the small stuff. If I don’t really need it but it makes my life easier somehow then I will buy it without sweating over it. Everything is saved by default. Investments auto topped off. Credit cards auto paid.

The only thing I do is occasionally review my subscriptions to see if there’s anything I can do without. All withdrawals and deposits over 500$ are sent as notifications and I can swipe them away quickly.
It's not that wages haven't kept up with general inflation, it's that wages have not kept up with asset inflation.

So your 200K/year (accounting for inflation) probably buys roughly the same amount in goods and services as your father, but it can't buy real estate, because that has been inflated in an asset bubble.

These asset bubbles (stocks, real estate) are driven by the fact that owners of capital have been able to depress taxation on capital growth, while increasing (in proportion) taxation on income. They have also been able to use the US national debt to let the Fed maintain their asset bubbles.

Not to mention that in your father's day, inflation ate away at debt, much to the chagrin of the debt holders (ie suppliers of capital). Funnily enough, low inflation has meant that lenders do much better than borrowers.
This article tries to be far more controversial than it actually is. Godel's theorem's don't negate truth, obviously some thing are clearly true (1+1=2) and false (1+1=3). His point is that there are some things that are unknowable.
We have the same trend in Hong Kong, where it was estimated in 2014 to cost $700,000 (USD) to raise a kid [1].

I've several married friends (all Hong Kong locals) chose to have pets over kids, and that's also my preference - except I don't want to have pets either.

By the way, there are 150 mainland Chinese migrating to Hong Kong, daily [2]. That means "original" Hong Kongers will be rare eventually.

[1]: https://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/09/04/want-to-raise...

[2]: https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/08/15/41000-one-way-permit-h...
That could be true for silicon valley. I don't know because I don't live there and refuse to move there due to the absurd cost of living and strange subculture.

It is not true, though, in most of the rest of the US. Visa holders make close to competitive wages at higher expenses to employers due to the costs of visa sponsorship. I personally know a senior principle engineer at one of the large .coms who has been living and working in the US for almost 15 years and has not bothered to achieve citizenship, because he is doing very well even working under a visa.
hi. I'm not sure if I understood everything but I will try to answer:
Regarding scalability: I think in the far future scaling will be possible through implementing AI, optimized and automated processes and a bigger team working together on that project.
But honestly I am much more focused on quality than quantity for now and things like "understanding all legal aspects" etc. But of course in future I will work on having more different artists from different genres on the platform with growth capacity.
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Regarding "self-promotion": As I stated in other reply, I just started giving my own music for free as I realized that this is the only way to start assuring copyright restrictions.
It should not be about me primarly.
I also consider changing the Domain-URL from ".me" to a ".com"
to support this.
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Regarding all technical issues you mention - wow really helpful thoughts but I am not a pro by far. None you mentioned is in any way with bad intention - the opposite, I tried eliminate all unnecessary stuff from a tumblr template to get a clean website. If you have concrete improvement ideas please contact me directly via mail - really appreciate your thoughts!

For now I'm already starting to work with some of you who offered to support the project technically and to build it on a more scalable solution. stay tuned (newsletter)
Thankyou!
The dialed toaster! I have one and probably had one of the funniest nights with my girlfriend being drunk and doing "burning" test with different bread, etc...I own that toaster for years and yet still burn a few slices once in a while.

A lot of people nowadays just want a streamlined experience or doesnt bother to look/experience.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19041303

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