skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know what these people call themselves ?
Middle class.

You see the same thing here in the U.S., and to be honest, I think it's somewhat accurate. The vast majority of the United States is middle class, and there is a huge range of privilege within it. Some parts of the middle class are virtually inaccessible from other parts. The mistake is not in labeling those rich, privileged people "middle class," but rather in thinking that there is no such thing as middle class privilege. In fact, being born into the middle class is a privilege, and there is a vast range of privilege within the middle class. In the U.S. a middle class kid could have parents with high school diplomas or parents with PhDs, parents with no connections or parents with Ivy League connections, parents who have never been more than a few hundred miles from home or cosmopolitan globe-hopping parents, parents who force them to take out loans for college or parents who pay the entire cost of an Ivy League education with a break year plus professional school afterwards and apartments and cars the whole time. The label "middle class" just doesn't mean much these days.
Not to sidetrack the conversation, but why is Backbone "a joke"? It seems a bit different in approach from Ember, but I've used it for a pretty big application and it worked great.
Maybe the open source community needs a sort of standard way of declaring/disclaiming how production-ready a project is, and how much effort we intend to put into supporting it.
http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/index.php?q=country%3A%22North... Holy shit!
Concerned for the bird, or concerned that someone had a webcam stream of a dead bird? :)
Of course. I think a lot of companies don't want to offshore some engineering jobs, however, if push comes to shove they'll do it. I'm not sure a government mandated limit helps this not occur.
I'm asking who is responsible for the poor application design choice.
A couple of friends of mine came on a b1 and had no issues in NYC just make sure u bring all the papers and demo with u in case they ask.
This is amazing but also sad at the same time. Its amazing that people don't realize what connecting something to the internet means but sad because I've found some webcams inside peoples homes, I won't post the URLs for their own safety/privacy.
We already have the option to work on 'entrepreneurial projects' for our capstone (final year) projects--in contrast with industry-sponsored projects--but the resources and entrepreneurial mentorships aren't provided.

For the smaller project courses, I just want to see the option of getting marks for contributing to a fun/useful real project. The rest of the list could stay the same if the professor chooses. There would never be a lack of projects.

Our capstone project is already an unpaid project. The industry sponsors just pay for the materials you need. You do work for the company for marks, and you hand over all rights to your work. Nobody has a problem with it. It's practical experience, and it's a requirement for your degree.
Biologically? The various chemical signals (shame, fear, regret, etc) that enforce behavioral expectations within groups of humans.
I know a railroad "lost" a car full of soybeans. It was pre-9/11 and when they finally figured out where they put it(1), the cargo wasn't "fresh".

1) to be fair, the RR company didn't find the car, a worker from the company that was shipping the soybeans spotted it on his way to work and called them.
Well, Vagrant provides a hook for different provisioning frameworks. I believe that Puppet and Chef and officially supported. The project uses Chef, which is written in ruby and uses ruby-based cookbooks to do its work. So it is pretty unavoidable. Also, Vagrant is written in Ruby last I checked, so if you are using Vagrant you already have a Ruby dependency.

Sorry if I've misunderstood.

As an aside, I thought it would be cool to build a service like this, so it's great that somebody did it. However the name definitely has the wrong connotation.
> A no brainer to me would be that as the supply of something increases, the price goes down.

How many computer programmers were there 50 years ago? And now? Have their wages gone down proportionally?

"Economics 101" doesn't suffice to explain the complexities of the real world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy
Hey, I couldn't find any contact info in your HN profile. Have you and infrec started already? If not, I'll go ahead and create a repo on GitHub.
What makes you believe that Indian/Chinese doctors, lawyers and professors are not poor by US standards?

You might be a "rich" corporate lawyer living in Bandra, but that doesn't mean you can afford a car, or more than 1 room/person for your family (most poor Americans have these things).
Here you can find a 24kWh 48VDC "industrial" battery (forklifts being the primary use) at around $190 per kWh. http://gbindustrialbattery.com/Forklift_Battery_Sizes_and_Sp...

They are more expensive than natural gas backup if you buy them new at retail. But these things get un-useful in an industrial setting quite regularly while still retaining quite a bit of utility for people who just want medium term household energy storage.

Would it be practical for EVERYONE to buy these things up used? Not a chance. But if you just want to set yourself up nicely look around. They go for a few hundred used as that's all the recyclers will pay for them.

EDIT: I wasn't thinking of them in comparison to natural gas backup until you brought it up. When 10kW of solar cells cost $10k and a 5kW inverter costs another $3k-$5k the idea of paying another $5k to put in a rather large-sized battery doesn't seem all that out of place to me. But you're right that a small natural gas generator would win re: batteries.
This is making a lot of assumptions about the author of the gist, whom we know absolutely nothing about.

They might actually be one of the contributors.
I don't think I could be any less inclined to try that app/launcher anyway.
Most Indians in US are from top 1% in India - pretty much every Indian I know had maids/gardeners/cooks at home. One guy cooked/washed clothes himself for the first time when he came to US.
Why PC sales are declining: Old PCs still work just fine
This link will break after May 7 when Twitter shuts down RSS support.

https://dev.twitter.com/calendar

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/overview#JSON_support_o...
My gmail account has been suffering a similar problem in that someone uses it for their throwaway signups for computer game forums and the like. Either that or it's a very effective form of spam to pretend to be the "initial registration" message, as by definition such email has to be the first contact.

There is still much to be said for spam filtering though as it catches 5-10 a day for me. Layer priority inbox on top of that and only checking mail when you need to, not letting it interrupt you, and you can get some clarity.

I wonder if someone can come up with a proper paid competitor to gmail, it would be something I would be interested in. What are the current alternatives?
Many SV millionaires still consider themselves to be "upper middle class" (rather than say, lower upper class), and while it may be a bit inaccurate in an absolute monetary sense, the sentiment may actually be somewhat justifiable considering their relatively lack of influence/status/connections that really drive the country (the "old money", for instance).

In that sense, even the SV millionaires are outsiders to the real power brokers, the real upper class, the real movers of the country.
He was wrong; Atlassian's pricing cut the floor out from the market, so Fog Creek changed our pricing to stay competitive. I've watched some SCMs change their pricing in response to Kiln's downward force, too, and I expect that Trello's competitors are doing the same. Welcome to responsive pricing.
Wonder how much it weighs?
There are countless cases of where rich people would push poor people on bikes off the road and into ditches with their cars.

That would be a serious crime in the USA. If you did that, and you got caught, you would be in very serious trouble. And, it would not matter how rich you were. That's assault, perhaps with intent to harm or kill and civilized society does not tolerate it.
Great, I'll look to get a B-1 ASAP... Do you know if they told they would be working on a company of theirs?
Honestly, I'm not _why.
IMHO Backbone is in a weird spot between plain old jQuery apps with no structure, and frameworks like Ember/Cappuccino/Angular/Knockoutthat have "bindings" constructs that can drastically reduce glue code.
> I was trying to say that while all this is being done for the worker, that worker is beholden to the company doing all this on their behalf.

Not at all, because there are thousands of other companies will to do this too. Its a sellers market, and engineers can literally get a job with a week's notice (plus maybe 2 weeks to get the visa sorted out).

> At your 6 year mark, where the green card has to be filed for you to stay in the country.

Green cards take time and should be planned years in advance. Don't work a H1B job without negotiating Green Cards.

I agree there is a time where you are unable to move during this time. I don't believe that good companies are going to mistreat their employees during this time. Similarly with your last point, the prevailing wage is irrelevant because there is high competition.

> horror stories I've heard from h1-b workers at some of the body shops

I think we disagree because we're coming from different perspectives. I think you're looking at the body shops (which account for half of the H1Bs) and where everyone has heard horror stories. Those H1B employees might believe they are beholden and stuck, but the truth is they are not. Move out of New Jersey, come to SF and you'll find the streets paved with great working conditions and employers who pay and treat you right.
No, it's pretty clear that that wasn't the point being made.
He can't start a company in the US with an F-1 visa. He can't even work off-campus more than 20 hours / week with an F-1 visa. AND he has to be enrolled in an institution that grants an I-20 and has to take at least 12 credit hours / semester, which I don't think accelerators satisfy.
Whatever works :)
The Lunchbox Copter
Is it just me, or does the guy that jumps in to the pool look like John Gruber?
Pull requests can take more time to process than feature requests, because 1) The code is usually inconsistent with the rest of the project, 2) there are often merge conflicts that the submitter has to resolve 3) people rarely write tests or documentation about the feature.
India has many wonderful things to offer but my biggest issue in that country would be the cast system. The untouchables! I think it's awful that any human is deemed less than human at the point of birth. Awful!
First off you have supply and demand, which is enough to say that new workers would depress wages. You can go deeper into the micro-economics view point and look at the utility curves of the American Engineer vs. an Immigrant Engineer, and see that they are very different. A immigrant engineer, is facing possible deportation to a country with lower wages, whereas an American Engineer is more willing to hold out for a higher wage, knowing the state of the labor market and that they do not have as pressing of a need for a job immediately. To an immigrant worker, turning down the job could lead to a much worse outcome, so their logical choice is to take the initial pay offered.

Furthermore, the business is aware of both their cost of the H1NB and of the immigrants situation, which gives them a negotiating advantage. They can use the H1NB cost as a negotiation tactic, and pay the worker a lower wage, without fear of being turned down.
Most "body shop" employees are doing stuff that is irrelevant to employment at innovative Silicon Valley companies.
This reminds me a lot of the old days of Windows 3.1, when you had third party shells out there like HP's NewWave. I can't recall any of them having any long term success.
This is a repeat of the other day's conversation (and about 1343243243232 other similar conversations on the internet, which is why we ought to get rid of political articles), but like hell will I "not talk about my obligations" to other human beings that happen to be born with some other passport.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5533155

Edit: looks like someone is sinking these articles off the front page. Good call!
You mean you don't see these things in countries with strong social safety nets (i.e first world countries).

While the US is a first world country (disclaimer: US citizen/resident), we have nowhere near the social programs other more progressive first world countries have.
I didn't read it that way. The author goes to some effort to point out the reasoning behind the choices made, and also goes in-depth explaining the options between client-centric and server-centric designs, and where the trade-offs are. While it's true that only one type of implementation is discussed in detail, it would be impractical to discuss the popular frameworks without getting lost in pointless detail.
Got an email from BosiDNA but had no idea where it was from. Now I know.

I got a spam phone call too, which may or may not have been from cofounderslab selling my data.
I think that being middle class is not about representing any kind of median level of wealth in a population (or other relative measure), but rather has something to do with the kind of resources and income you have access to relative to human needs in an absolute sense.

For example, if some, but not all (or even most), of your family members need to work in order to maintain a comfortable lifestyle (which includes healthy food, a home that is not crowded, access to decent education, and one to four vehicles) then you are middle class. If you have to work but don't have these things, then you are lower-income. If you can have these things without working at all in perpetuity, then you are well-off.
What I don't get is that the law allows hiring foreign workers only if a qualified American worker could not be found, but I have never seen any evidence of this. Has anyone heard of a company being forced to prove this, or experienced an interview process where they prioritize American workers?
>These people struggle (or think that they do..) for so long in the rat race that they forget that they have risen above it and gone far beyond that.

If these are people who have "made" the money themselves in their own generation, I can see why/how they still view themselves as middle class. It's a mindset.

I have had the fortune of getting to know many SV millionaires who grew up in modesty/poverty, and still buy shorts from Target and pinch pennies madly. They have their mansions and their fancy cars, but they're still bound by the mindset of their lower/middle class background where they fought ferociously and squeezed themselves and their financial abilities to get to where they are today.

As long as that mindset persists, even very wealthy people won't consider themselves to be "upper class".

Give it one or two generations though. Their kids and grandkids will probably behave and believe that they're upper class.
In India being upper middle class can provide you with a lifestyle (and I think therefore mentality) that resembles upperclass in the West because of cheap labor and weak labor laws. I know doctors in India who have live-in servants, chefs, drivers, etc.
> You are vulnerable, as it essentially makes it impossible for you to move for almost a year

180 days post application not a year.. This is well known and established, anyone applying for permanent residency should be well aware of this and should apply as soon as acceptable if they wish to stay in the US long term.
Well, what about having several house servants? Rich Americans don't have these things.
Steering clear of Facebook entirely would be better advice, I think.
What do you think is the basis for your obligations to humans that you don't share a government with?
> instituted to protect American interests and American prosperity

That makes intuitive sense. But in practice I'd argue it's much more nuanced than that. What we all legally and sovereignly call "The United States of America" are many distinct (and I don't just mean by State borders) populations with vastly different needs and are affected differently by global undertakings.

As a thought experiments, let's say bringing immigrants from Country Z lowers the wages of workers in Trade X in Alaska-America by 50%. However, this decreases the amount of production for Product H in Country Z by 25% due to migrating workers. This increases the wages of workers in Trade B in Florida-America by 200% due to the shortage of Product H. The net-gain here is Zero for The United States of America (assuming workers in Trade B and X are same in numbers, thereby cancelling each other's net loss/gains out).

Ought not the American government allow the immigrants on the basis that, overall, it is increasing the wealth of the world economy; the world of which the United States of America is very much a part of?

I suppose the argument can be made that fundamentally the government only cares about its own Prosperity even in this case, and that a "rising tide lifts all boats" scenario outlined above merely falls into that category.
Yes, you can configure inverters to not dump excess current back to the utility. You either charge batteries or you dump the power into a load like an electric water heater.

In almost all grid-tied scenarios though, you want to sell the power back to the utility. I'm not familiar with commerical operations, as they would fall under power purchase agreements (PPAs), but with residential installations your meter quite literally does spin backwards or a separate meter is used to determine how much power you've sent back to the grid. This is dependent on how the utility compensates you for the power you generate (spin the meter back if its a credit or the same price as what your purchase it from them at, separate meter if the pricing paid to you is different than the retail rate).

As the article states, we don't have the issues in the US that Germany has yet, because Germany produces so much more solar energy than in the US. At some point though, questions will need to be answered about who is going to pay for the spinning capacity (likely natural gas generators) that isn't used except for those rare times when the wind isn't blowing, the sun isn't shinning, and you can't drag enough power in from another geographic region over HVDC transmission lines.
I find these very useful: https://github.com/nviennot/zsh-config/blob/master/lib/key-b...

ctrl+f is similar to "forward" in your browser.
ctrl+b is similar to "back" in your browser.
To me .io is generic. It is more expensive, though.
Nope. It's a cat again :)
It's not a "poor application design choice." Facebook wants to provide the ability for users to send and receive SMS/MMS from the Messenger app. Even though it's a feature you can turn off, the app must request the permission even if it's not using the feature. This is an Android limitation. A better solution would be to the app request permission only when it needs it, such as how an app requests your location or access to your photos on iOS.
Iterate services quickly, not the tools to build them.

Netflix down? Oh well. Latest Django build breaks thousands of sites. No thank you.
I always wonder how much of the attitude measured among modern parents in the U.S. is due to the number of people who have an only child, and do so later in life.

When you have more than one child, I think you're more realistic about their personalities and capabilities, because you can compare them. When you have just one, everything they do is extraordinary. When you have more, you see them more as a bunch of morons who get things right occasionally through random chance.

Not to mention, since we in the U.S. don't typically have large broods, most people have very little experience with children at all and are shocked at what they are capable of, because it doesn't really fit with the preconceived notion of what a "child" is.
So if someone wants some actual data on this, here's one thing that we could look at:

Openness to immigration (admittedly not the easiest statistic, but we should be able to find something that works) compared to local wages, corrected for GDP.

That should give us a way to compare relatively open countries with relatively closed countries, and see which ones have higher wages.
The cheapest watt is the watt you never had to generate.
Want to work on a profitable side project
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I work my ass off, and I am dead set on making this happen. I'll do whatever has to be done to make this goal a reality. The goal is to make $500 a month within 3 months of working together, within 1 year to make our full salaries! This is possible – only with hard-work, dedication, and being crafty. I can't do it alone, I need help: back-end, design, and maybe a good marketing guy/gal. We'll have to work our asses off at first, but the goal is ratchet it down, and only maintain, build enhancements, bug fixes, and make money. (10-20 hours a week for all of us; it's a worthy goal) If you're interested, lets chat, and exchange resumes / projects / portfolios etc. Finding someone in the area would be cool, but this is going up in several cities. Remote is more than totally cool. We'll all have to work our asses off, but it's possible to build something that could enable us to quit our jobs, and concentrate / work on something else we really care about. Have lots of ideas, but who cares about that, it's all about implementation. Email: kilroy123@gmail.com
There's plenty of right-wing people in the middle and lower classes.
Most people should be using geothermal instead of air conditioners, but the upfront cost is much higher ($20-30K).

We should be subsidizing geothermal installations because of how damn efficient it is compared to trying to push heat into the air.
Assuming society can actually find time without being distracted. No doubt we'll adapt, but at what cost?
Unhealthy Food Observatory in the other Cambridge: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=22785
This is actually a huge deal. Coal advocates disparage environmentalists about the coal industry going down the tubes, when its really US fracking efforts that are driving down the cost of natural gas.
How programming languages should be written:FNXBasic fits in 1.1Mb
What about using a bloom filter of common passwords? It would prevent some safe passwords from being used, but otherwise would allow for disallowing unsafe passwords without holding a dictionary of them, potentially avoiding existing patents.
I'd really like to see it changed so that consultancies are not eligible for H-1B visa application. This would eliminate the body shops pretty quickly.
Generation and transmission are two different utility businesses. This article is about how people are not going to want to pay to be hooked to the utility "just in case".