skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's utterly fucked how restrictive and exploitative the US immigration system really is.

It cost me about $5000 of my own money and a year and a half of my own time to become a permanent resident of Australia, with no advanced degree and no cash reserve needed. That route is literally impossible for potential U.S. immigrants. You either have to marry your way in, play the greencard lottery, have a PhD, or buy your way in via an investor-class visa.

The alternative, if you can get one, is an H1-B visa that ties you to a single employer who's free to take full advantage of your situation for half a decade. And this is what Microsoft wants more of.
Awesome for trying out a standing desk.

Take a look at this article which has a picture of what your posture should look like:
http://www.tinkeringmonkey.com/site/do-your-back-a-favor-get...

Likely problems I see with your set up:

* Keyboard too high
* Monitor too low and off to the side

You'll probably be looking down and to the left, and certainly would if the keyboard is the right height so your arms are at a 90 degree angle.
I really, really dig this idea. There's a handful of little hardware projects I've wanted to do with an Arduino or the like, but I've found that if you've got slightly different peripheral requirements, it's difficult to find one of these boards that will fit the bill. The idea of being able to significantly change the functionality of the hardware pins without doing loads of work is fantastic.

One minor gripe would be higher precision DACs (only 8-bit?), though the ADCs look great. The DACs would be a problem for audio, though the ADCs would be good for the lab.
It's very pretty, and I'll likely buy some.

But oh-my-gosh is your server slow! Having to wait 60s between page loads is stopping me from exploring your collection and buying stuff. You need to fix the speed issue, because it's costing you money, right now.
It's not futuristic anymore. It's today's software. Future is still being cooked in someone's bedroom. Right now.
The feet are the killer. I had the same problem too. I live in NYC so I walk a lot in addition to standing all day. I found that wearing running shoes would help somewhat. Also getting a gel mat to stand on helped reduce fatigue. To be honest, the feet thing is my biggest long term issue. I wonder if it just goes away?
Yes, that's at least 12 times more expensive then the $10k.
An I-485 is "Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status". You can only apply for an I-485 after 5 years of residency. That means after 5.5 years you may freely change jobs - to a similar position. For those 5.5 years you're still vulnerable to discriminatory treatment. I'm not sure if "similar position" means you could form your own company.

If I were 21 again - no brainer. Unfortunately I'm nearly 30 and would be setting myself backwards if I did it now. It makes more sense to spend time establishing myself locally and using that to put myself into a more favourable negotiating position with a sponsor in the future with respect to emigration. Alternatively I may choose a country with more sensible emigration policies (e.g. Australia, UK if they reinstate their highly skilled migrant quota) and then the US loses out.
I guess so, same as on iOS devices. The example of iOS, however, shows that Retina will become the standard sooner or later … :)
Customer acquisition to juicy exit is still a business model. Might not be as easy to grasp as pay me X for Y, but It's still a business model.
If you lived in Great Britain and typed in "Taj Mahal", it would find 100 restaurants within one mile.
It is not legal to underpay H1Bs. They literally should not be able to fill those positions with Americans if they are complaining about this.
As much as I agree with the whole discussion surrounding the definition of a startup, your arguments are weak and pointless to say the least.

Would this company be more of a startup if their website was powered with a custom made app written in Erlang on the backend and Haxe on the frontend? ...

Would this company be more of a startup if they could lure some VCs to invest in them? ...

Please come back to earth and provide constructive comments, or better arguments, like pan69 did [1].

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4592559
There is a difference between electronic gyros and mechanical gyros.
Speaking in English won't give you a heart attack.
But it was smart of Apple to get their product to market first. Waiting for it to be "finished", then being stuck behind Google in ML technology indefinitely, would have been dumb.
A Simple Hack To Convert Consumers To Content Creators On UGC Platforms
21,000,000 isn't cause for celebration either.

(I know that this article is about bad science reporting, but it needs to be said that if a third of the UK had a stereotypical meal of fish and chips one evening consisting of adult North Sea cod, there would be 0 left)
Grammer? Appologise? receieved?

Maybe you can set your browser to use English as the default language, then words that are spelled wrong will show up with a red underline.
As far as I can tell, you can submit the I-140 immediately after arrival, processing takes about 6 months if you don't apply for "premium processing". Then you can apply for I-485, which then needs to be pending for 6 months - ie. you're only stuck for a year. But I could be wrong?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Permanent_Residen...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priority_date
I have long supported that the EU should adopt english as an official second language (Kind of like India). Translation services alone account for 1% of EC's budget
Same here:

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Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0 as downloaded and installed just a few minutes ago.
OT: When does HN upgrade it's voting arrows for Retina displays?
Edit: When trying to signup, your TOS page is 404ing
http://sketchfab.com/license

Terms page after login works
https://sketchfab.com/terms
Exactly. If you pull that investment from the graph it looks pretty boring and business as usual.
The API is back online.. and the security issues prevail (check out my post http://wnstnsmth.net/blog/2012/09/whats-up-with-whatsapp-a-s...)
I think the UI gap between Apple and Google is either closing rapidly or has already closed. Android looks slicker and more useful every day while iOS is slowly grinding on with the same old app icons and home button.
So - where is the code?
I like the idea, and the website looks good.

However, the website is very slow, I don't know much about your tech team, but IMHO this is something you should investigate if you want to increase your conversion rate.

Good Luck.
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XCSoar is a very nice free and open source flight computer that includes an artificial horizon. It runs on your Android phone, old PDA, and many other devices.

http://xcsoar.org/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.xcsoar

It's designed for sailplane, hang glider and paraglider pilots, and is slowly disrupting the incumbents in this space. Source code is C++.
Could be that they are in France :)
You might want to know that in Italian the name of your startup reads (and sounds) quite badly.
And I can not understand how can you not say the military is a solution in search of a problem.
For one, HyperDock has an other purpose than Slate et al.

And, what absolutely bugs me about HyperDock:

It never ever has worked for me in a predictable way across 10.6., 10.7. and now 10.8.

I've had/have to, for the window preview to work, always open the program in question which kind of voids the whole purpose of the app...
It shouldn't take so long to get from the UK to France though, eh? ;-)
I wondered that too. But in the news section[1] of the front page:

The winning source will be released later this year after the winners have reviewed the writeup of their entries.

[1]: http://www.ioccc.org/index.html#news
It should be noted that IE doesn't support WebGL

http://superuser.com/q/353549/10142

There is a plugin for it though: http://iewebgl.com/
That's an incredible idea. I really wish it was available a desktop application though. Such an app could gather information from multiple sources (including companion mobile apps) and maybe even location-aware social networks. It's useful on a mobile phone but i would rather buy a dedicated gps device to track my progress as constant usage of gps on a phone will definitely decrease it's battery life. Also I really feel uncomfortable handling this kind of historical data to any sort of SaaS. I would definitely pay as high as $10 (or maybe even more) for something like that.
Microsoft doesn't pay that low. Here's[1] some data from 2 years back. Friend of mine got over 100k last year, they treat H1-B holders well.

[1] http://goo.gl/P0UCj
>In some respects they do: often government or insurers are left with costs. The insurers make their margin upstream of this, so there's low price pressure on the drug manufacturers.

But governments and insurers don't save money by saving your life. They save money by letting you die before you get old. That was the ironic thing about the tobacco settlements in the US - the states sued the federal government claiming damages for the extra care they had to provide to people who smoked, when those people would have cost the state more money if they'd lived a normal lifespan.

In some cases a new drug will save money by keeping some damaging disease from becoming a problem and pushing expensive treatments far into the future. That's not the normal case, though. I'm all for helping people live out their threescore and ten in good health, but on average it doesn't save anybody money.

>Also, demand for drugs is often inelastic, so people are more likely to make sacrifices here to pay for drugs. Which is fine in itself, but not when the high costs are the product of a cartel arrangement between government and industry.

Here again there has to be some way for the people doing development to recover their costs. The patent system allows the drug company to charge more to every patient who takes a drug for twenty years. Without it that would all have to be covered by tax money. I like the patent system better, since it's biased toward charging people with lifestyle-related problems more money than people who take care of themselves.

Also, with the patent system companies will spend money on development for treatments that are within the realm of scientific possibility and not because advocates for that particular disease have more political clout. How many billions were wasted in the "war on cancer"? Government just doesn't do this sort of thing very well.
You're neglecting the salary of the employee that you hired in that, aren't you? The 60k are on top of the salary you're paying, which would typically be comparable to the US-based developer's.

Companies don't hire people on H1B to save money, but because they are starving for talent.

EDIT: Sorry, didn't understand that you referred to the employee's salary with the 50K. Are you assuming that H1B employees are payed less in general?
Please do continue your work. I'm especially hopeful to get it as a desktop app for Mac. Thanks for building something really useful but not another social network. Please don't make it social, don't make it a SaaS. Something personal and local is so much better and comforting. (My another comment https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=4592630)
I think they know, otherwise they wouldn't have this:

"It all starts with the kaz" prominently featured here

http://www.stickaz.com/en/info
That doesn't follow. If patents were abolished companies that spent nothing on development would be able to produce the exact drug that the FDA had approved.
How many years could pass, until they will figure out and develop a the same development process that brings Linux kernel and other wonders to us - a collaboration of engineers around the globe?

But wait, that means all you need is gcc, emacs, git sometimes ssh and internet connection and Paypall (sic.) account? How could they sell all that disconnected from reality, bloated crap they produce, spending billions per year?

The answer is quite easy - in order to get 200+k salaries and bonuses managers must maintain this bloated hierarchy and fabric-style sweatshops. Otherwise, who needs them?

But the real question is - why we still care about MS? Who cares about old Nokia phones or Delphi or Java or things like Novell Netware?))
I'm curious to know which sort of rocket science Microsoft does that is not taught at US universities.

Of course they are unable to fill positions at a given salary level. It's quite hard to find tomato-pickers at slave-like wages.
Oh? Well, if "decent" is a quantity then perhaps you can give us the number he's implying.
This is very well implemented. Congrats! I think you guys can jack up the number of files for free users. This will help build up a nice repository of models.

How about incorporating some form of shape search tool - might help browse as the repository grows large?
>For example, grant a company some limited exclusive rights for commerce/sale of a drug they have funded through clinical trials.

Eh, isn't that the textbook definition of a patent?
It might not be legal, but it's easy to do.
Which webgl library are you using to load all those file formats if you dont mind me asking, and does it save as a JSON file?

I signed up.
Not just Sony: many Asian consumer electronics companies are really part of much larger conglomerates. Samsung is the largest provider of life insurance in South Korea, and they also run a large ad agency (Cheil) as well a other service based subsidiaries.
I noticed some problems with English version (e.g. each is singular), you might want to have a professional check that for you.
Several things come to mind; let's take Convergence (http://www.convergence.io) as an example. First, the software (Convergence plugin and notary code) need to be stable. This is mainly the job for the project team, but they might need help. In my personal experience, the code works well; haven't checked recently to see how it performs for others. The Convergence plugin is a hack, so it probably has a few rough edges.

Second, the protocol and the code need to be independently reviewed. This hasn't happened as of yet, but I am sure will if the popularity of Convergence increases. I'd be willing to give it a go at some point.

Third, we need a good-enough infrastructure to start with. SSL Labs (which I run at Qualys) sponsors Convergence by providing 4 notary servers (2 in the US, 2 in Europe). These notaries are installed by default, so you could say that the infrastructure is decent (at the current level of usage).

Finally, we need to have the technology available in all major browsers, at the very least pre-installed and available as an option, but -- ideally -- fully integrated ("This looks like a self-signed certificate; please wait for a moment while we verify that you are not under an attack"). A big problem for adoption is that browsers are lacking APIs for this type of work.
When I load your homepage, it spams my browser history. Seems like a bug. (Chrome 22/Win32). Awesome application though.
What?
- US developer salary: 60k per year (cheap areas etc etc). Over three years: 180k.
- Foreign visa: 50k per year + 10k one off. Over three years: 160k.

And of course, the foreigner is locked into the company for X years, whereas a local can piss off after three months.

Note: I say that as an Italian-born UK resident who looked into the US visa system and found it, er, suboptimal for everyone involved except corporations.
"Some, but not enough to discount the fact that it is essentially sugar you're eating."

I have to respectfully disagree with you about fruits. Fruit is more than just sugar, it's a source of vitamins and minerals and it should not intentionally be limited from your diet. Of course you need to eat a variety of different fruits (and vegetables).

"A lot of fruits have a GI of candy bars..."

Can you give some examples?

A piece of fruit and a candy bar are not nutritionally equivalent even if they share the same GI. In fact, most fruits are low in GI. See for yourself by going to the University of Sydney GI database.

http://www.glycemicindex.com/foodSearch.php

We all need to eat fruit and vegetables daily as part of a healthy diet. It's misleading to claim that fruit can cause health issues or should be limited in your diet without providing evidence to back it up.

Even people with Type 2 diabetes are not discouraged from eating fruits. See the advice here for example from Diabetes UK (a charity). They are a credible and trustworthy source of advice for people with diabetes in the UK.

http://www.diabetes.org.uk/MyLife-YoungAdults/Food-and-diet/...

One final link, a 2011 report from Cancer Research UK found that over 40% of cancers diagnosed in the UK were from avoidable lifestyle choices. For men, the number one culprit was tobacco. Number two culprit? Lack of fruit and vegetables in the diet.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16031149
osgjs. And all file format are handled by the server, converted after to a unified json + binary file
Those charts are abysmally bad [1]; they also don't seem to agree with what other branches of the government are saying. From the SBA [2]:

"Small firms represent 99.7 percent of all employer firms; employ half of all private sector employees; pay 44 percent of total U.S. private payroll; create more than half of the non-farm private GDP; hire 43 percent of high tech workers..."

I think Silhouette has got the details pretty wrong, but if he had said that SMEs were as important to the U.S. economy as BigCos, and especially the Fortune 500, then it looks like the SBA agrees with him.

[1]: The data between businesses with no employees and businesses with less than 500 employees is mutually exclusive; you can't use those carts to make any points about the contributions to the economy of businesses with less than 500 employees, including those without employees, because that data is missing. "Annual Payroll" is a pretty bad data point to use for judgements about contributions to the economy; "sales or receipts" would be better, but that's only available for all employer firms, with no further breakdown, for some reason. All in all, pretty useless here.

[2]: http://web.sba.gov/faqs/faqIndexAll.cfm?areaid=24 -- seems to be down right now, try the Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Wv_OfwD...
And what's the cost of a developer leaving after 6 months for better opportunities? Periodic raises are part of overall costs, and again a locked-in visa-holder is cheaper to "maintain" in that regard.
The name in italian sounds hilarious. Awesome
صور رائعة للوحات فنية رسمت باتقان يخالها من يراها انها صور فوتغرافية
صور رائعة للوحات فنية رسمت باتقان يخالها من يراها انها صور فوتغرافية التقطها محترف
Hmmm if that's the way it works that's a very positive change, although it's very different from other countries (where you can only apply for permanent residency after a number of years of actual residency) so I wonder if we're seeing the proper picture here. Finding simplified requirements is pretty difficult.

Your first link does indicate that the backlog for EB-3 category applications is 6-9 years. So in that time you presumably must be working and wouldn't e.g. be able to start your own company (which is something I'd want to do by age 35), and you'd still be at the mercy of companies who know you're an emigrant so they can pay you less. It doesn't look like you can apply for residency in the EB-2 category as a programmer unless a masters or above is a requirement for the job (i.e. Google is hiring you).

Overall the situation for older migrants is still not very good and while the US would be my first choice it still seems better to emigrate elsewhere or to wait until I'm more established and I qualify under a category with a much shorter backlog (after which it's another 5 years for naturalisation, whereas in other countries you're looking at 5-7 years TOTAL).

One serious potential problem: apparently the old employer can revoke your I-140 (if you change companies) and you lose your priority date if that happens. [1] Also all of this assume your sponsor is going to file the I-140 on your behalf. What if they promise to do it and then don't? You're still at their mercy.

[1] http://www.immigration.com/faq/us-green-card/form-i-140#t101...
Whenever I see statements of this form, I find myself adding "except when it doesn't" to the end and then finding it much more acceptable.

Future software will look like Facebook except when it doesn't.

Much better.
Not there yet. I turned off AA in the Terminal and it looks smooth, but not completely. If I use a lower scaled resolution like 1440x900, then it looks even smoother, but again not completely smooth. So I guess an even higher dpi is needed. It would be interesting to see non-antialiased fonts on the iPhone which has a much higher dpi.
Painting, Rebooted
Show HN: Laterflix - A Chrome extension for watch later functionality on netflix
but its half as much as the yearly cost of a hiring a new dev.
The fashion industry does quite well thank you WITHOUT patents. Check it out. No patents in fashion. The most you can do is copyright a logo and slap that on your product. The rest is open season, and we all are the richer for it.
Patents only make lawyers rich at the expense of the rest of us (the 99%).
Homepage is unusable on Safari on an iPhone.
Or the Hacker News effect strikes again.
Also the author missed the point of clicks, subsequent searches and back buttons/bounces: Google sees all of these as data to be mined. So while the Apple engineer is worried about returning the wrong result supposedly (yet they return tons of wrong ones anyway), the Google engineer is saying "we are mostly confident on these ones, lets put them out there and see which ones cause the users to bounce or search again and which ones terminate at that point and then we can upgrade their scores".
You must do ankle rolls and calf stretch every 30 minutes while using standing desk.
Oh, so you've looked into the H1-B system

But do you know anyone that's actually employed like that?

I know several

- None of them get payed less than their colleagues

- They are usually already at the "top of the chain", it's difficult for new/better job opportunities to show up. Inside the US it may be more difficult, surely, but they have no problem leaving the job and going elsewhere (and H1-B is a little less restrictive in swapping jobs than some work permits in Europe)

One of the main issues today is the time it takes to apply for a Green Card, some of them are in their nth H1-B renewal now with little perspective of getting a Green Card
marx is not synonymous with arithmetic (or even basic bookkeeping).
Australians surge in quest for new class of computer
I don't think that selectively removing the single most significant data point and then claiming that its "business as usual" will lead anywhere useful.
How many Comp Sci or related discipline students do the US universities graduate every year? How much is the demand? How many of those graduates are from other countries and need VISA to work?

How do you know what skills Microsoft needs and why do you assume they pay slave wages?
The H1-B is not tied to a single employer. But it only allows one month in case of lay off.