skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who worked through the H1B system and is now a US Citizen, I can say that it’s a decent program when executed properly.

H1Bs are temporary high-skilled workers who are hired when domestic workers are unavailable and can also get sponsored to become permanent US residents if the company is still unable to find domestic workers after a few years.
In my case, I had to relocate to a small town in Kentucky for the job where (at the time) no American tech worker was willing to move to. I was essentially hired out of frustration on part of the hiring manager. I had other job offers but decided to go with that company because of it was a reputed (Fortune 500) company.

That said, numerous issues plague the program:

1. I noticed my fellow H1B co-workers who were Indian were paid much lower than I was. (I’m not Indian and I was paid market-rate). I’m not sure why but it seems companies think Indian workers are more desperate and will take less money.

2. H1B workers have absolutely no power. Your boss/company really does OWN you. You have little room for negotiating raises/work environment/responsibilities/schedule etc. If your boss doesn’t like you, you might end up in legal limbo in a few years.

3. H1B workers are constantly worried about the company’s bottom line/future/decisions. It’s very difficult to change jobs and a layoff/termination automatically invalidates the visa. Even if a H1B worker manages to switch jobs, the time limit on the visa doesn’t reset and the new working conditions might actually be worse than previous company.
This lack of mobility also has a dampening effect on the H1B worker’s career. Six years is a long time in the tech industry and H1B workers usually end up stuck with old technological stacks because they were unable to move on to jobs with better opportunities.

4. Many companies bring H1B workers on board with promises of sponsoring a green card knowing fully well that they have no intention of ever doing so. Some companies tell H1B workers that they have filed an LCA or are working on some other step without actually doing anything. Reason: It costs money.

5. Some companies ONLY hire H1Bs even if domestic workers are available. This is because they can get away with paying SOME H1B workers lower wages and H1B workers are more easily controlled.
Also, some unscrupulous managers use the H1B system to hire their friends and relatives who are absolutely unqualified for the job.
I can’t prove it, but I’m sure their is a shadow market where some managers demand BRIBES from H1B applicants in illegal pay-for-play hiring schemes.

6. H1B workers have been brought in by companies (like the Disney case) to replace American workers. Sometimes, the domestic workers are forced to train their replacements before being laid off. This has caused a lot of resentment towards H1B workers.

7. The Indian “Consultancy” companies: Tata, Wipro, Cognizant, etc. — Too much to talk about. These companies are the worst offenders and chronic abusers of the H1B system. I’d implore both American workers and H1B applicants to stay away from any company that has a large swath of H1B workers — read: INDIAN
People have used that excuse for decades...and here we are.
Not sure how it is on iOS, but I'd assume your app has to deserve to some extent to be in the top. If you're in the top because of a fluke (e.g. you got featured in some blog post), you'll fall as soon as the hype fades. No idea really, the most "high-ranked" I've been on iOS was around rank 80 Top Grossing in the Productivity category, which I lost as soon as the launch hype faded.
I've known chickens. Don't worry about killing them. They don't even mind. They can last indefinitely without their head.
Who in the US is doing similar? I read an article about japanese fishermen doing this recently on wsj

http://www.wsj.com/articles/startups-upend-japans-fish-marke...
The everyday action in this case would be akin to someone breaking into a rival company's headquarters, trespassing, and stealing secrets. Sounds like an action that's worthy of federal criminality to me.
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In case you're actually interested in fixing that particular problem, it's probably polkit that's gone bad. To examine the issue further, nm-connection-editor is a separate binary that you can run from the command line, and it'll print errors on stdout - including what it's unable to do.
You should use source maps
This isn't about face recognition technology, it's about face recognition data. The EFF and friends want to come up with standards for storing, securing and sharing face-recognition data between companies and government entities. These standards make sense—and need some minimum level of scrutiny—regardless of how easy facial recognition technology is to implement.

Writing software that parses Social Security numbers into lists is even easier than face recognition, and yet we still want standards around handling the information!

Okay, that was a slightly facetious example, but the point stands: it's a question of securing data, not technology.
There is no shortage of qualified developers. There is a shortage of employers willing to pay for scarce talent. I am confident that if suddenly developers started earning brain-surgeon salaries within a short 3-5 years the supply of qualified candidates will rise to the occasion.

Until that happens, the supply of software engineers is precisely balanced with the demand.
Dangit, I didn't read the second paragraph. For GA, they will have the cross-sign. It's just for the EA that they don't.
The short version is, that just isn't possible. Too many things would be unknown, and it is easy in both C and C++ to, at compile time, check the sizeof(size_t) and perform totally different behaviour depending on the value.
I don't think it's "political correctness" to prefer not to be verbally abused. Linus has admitted that he doesn't care about people:

http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/01/linus-torvalds-on-wh...
Not true. Could be in of a van. Or hidden on a roof. Iraq had once forbidden TV satellite dishes; thousands were in use.

A dish leaks very little energy except in the direction of the satellite. It could be astronomically unlikely anyone could detect its use unless they were line-of-sight between the dish and the satellite. And pointed in the right direction.
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No forced TLS, and when I manually enter https most of the resources try to load over http. c'mon, you've done the hard part of getting TLS, now you just need to make your home page aware.

EDIT: when I sign up it POSTs my password IN THE CLEAR. what year are we in?
How would that happen with 2FA set up? Even if they have your master password, how do they copy your Authenticator code or YubiKey or whatever else you might use?

I see people struggle with offline password managers to the point where they never use them or they get burned once because they're somewhere without access to their database and they stop using them. LastPass alleviates all of that. People make the same claims about TouchID (it's not secure, look at these theoretical bypasses, etc) but the fact is (which I thought I pointed out earlier) that convenient security is better than no security and no security is what you're going to get.

You think the government can't download things from your Dropbox and you think they can't decrypt your database? We know better now. The fear of "what if the government does" is completely gone. Even if they can't get to your password, they'll just go straight to Google or worst case scenario, straight to AT&T. The difference between encrypting like SpiderOak vs uploading an encrypted file like DropBox is that DropBox can hand over your password database to anyone they want to give it to. SpiderOak can't. You don't need to try to hide the fact that you have a password database, no one can tell in the first place. Security through obscurity isn't no security, it's just poor security and poor security is better than nothing (and far better when combined with good security).

You're using a password manager to keep your accounts safe from petty criminals and identity thieves, not from APTs or shady governments. And if you're using DropBox, the government probably already has it. I guess you'd have to ask Condoleezza Rice about that.

Use whatever you want, everyone has different needs and opinions. But I will continue recommending LastPass (and at the very least, strongly recommending against whatever + DropBox). Like I said, it's no less secure than whatever + DropBox. But it's a heck of a lot more convenient.
Nano satellites would be cheaper, by orders of magnitude, than the facilities needed to 'shoot them down'. Anyway the idea was, out of reach of regulation.
"It's capable of temporarily putting passwords on your clipboard and tracking password changes using git."

Holy moly, thats awesome. I think I'm gonna drop keepass for that.
Somewhat relevant: http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/02/if-y-combinator-did-a-growt...
yes! Where is dsi-pi already? We don't need a case when pibow already does an excellent (better than this?) job already.
I use an alias for it:

function launch {
type $1 >/dev/null || { print "$1 not found" && return 1 }
$@ &>/dev/null &|
}
alias launch="launch "
In my travels throughout Europe, I've noticed many cultural differences between Europeans and Americans. Very few I considered noteworthy. One distinct difference I noticed is that Europeans, on average, tend to spend far more time thinking and talking about Americans, than the reverse. I realize the article was written by an American, but it seemed to reflect that need many Europeans have to convince themselves that they're superior to Americans in so many ways, to the point where they compare stupid things like the aspects of personal greetings, conversational pauses, and drinking coffee.
>"an open source equivalent of Sublime Text would be very welcome."

Good news, it exists. If you know Go it's possible to see it sooner:
http://limetext.org/
Oh there are a lot of those, there's a whole tumblr http://pleaseregisterthisshareware.tumblr.com/ You could probably brute-force that one, just click refresh to reboot until you get it :)
Hah, I was about to get mad at myself for not realizing retina biometrics were built in to OpenCV.

As someone who has worked a bit using OpenCV to detect eye features, I can say pretty confidently that it isn't THAT easy.
OpenCV can help you start off by easily being able to detect that there is an eye in frame, but I think you are on your own beyond that.

My general approach was to use haarcascades to detect that an eye was in frame. Then you have to isolate the iris, and pupil. You can use Hough Circles or the Daugman algorithm for segmentation. I got a reasonable result using the Daugman algorithm, but Hough circles seemed to be more erratic. I had a huge problem with reflections though, which I think it is known that the Daugman algorithm suffers from. You pretty much have to take the picture of the eye in a controlled setting where you flash a light in the subjects eye such that the reflection in the eye is a small isolated circle. Even then I wasn't always to get a correct result. I think I may have not implemented the algorithm perfectly though.

I never got farther than that, but even if you are able to capture the eye perfectly you then have to actually build up a model of the persons features and then be able to compare it.

I would be interested if anyone else had better luck than I did.
Here's an interesting kqueue v epoll benchmark I picked up somewhere when this topic came up.. http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=2124

Time for a epoll for kqueue swap, and make this performance debate go away for both, Linux and FreeBSD once and for all. No reason for this pissing contest.
Here's an interesting kqueue v epoll benchmark I picked up somewhere when this topic came up awhile ago.. http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=2124

Time for a epoll for kqueue swap, and make this performance debate go away for both, Linux and FreeBSD once and for all, unless this involved redesigning the kernel entirely... not sure.
What? I legitimately did not understand what you just said.

Django, similarly to rails, has far too much bloat and is tediously layed out. An entire rant aside, Django is becoming increasingly unpythonic and more rubylike, imo.
By "here", do you mean solar already cheaper than utility power in 36 states [1], it estimated to reach grid parity in all 50 states next year [2], and US solar generation capacity surging to almost 40GW by the end of 2016? [3]

Because that is where "here" is.

[1] http://news.investors.com/technology/061515-757277-tesla-see...

[2] http://reneweconomy.com.au/2014/deutsche-bank-sees-50-us-sta...

[3] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-26/solar-as-f...

EDIT: Want to save the world? Build out solar and wind as quickly as possible. We have a lot of coal, natural gas, and nuclear generation to replace quickly (in that order).
Is this a fund for follow-on investments in YC startups? In the past YC has indicated they dislike follow-on investments by accelerators since it sends a negative signal re: the startups they decide not to invest in.
I don't quite understand the logic of "natural" being "good for you" and "not-natural" being "bad for you". For example, the glasses sitting on my nose are not natural, yet without them I wouldn't be able to see too well. And the sanitation and water supply systems are an improvement to what was there otherwise (i.e., people dumping their chamber pots into the street). And yet, if I stumble across a copperhead snake, I'm going to avoid it even though it is natural. And don't forget that tobacco is natural.
I don't buy this "explanation" for the following reason:

Even if they could not anticipate an attacker tampering with user data, surely they should've been able to anticipate filesystem corruption?

Let's not pretend that MACs and secure integrity checks were a modern marvel just because CCA attacks were seen as theoretical back then.
Wow, super interesting data set, thanks for that!
"I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser..."

https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
The secret to NewRelic is to deploy it on a limited number of servers to monitor performance and use an open source monitoring tool like Icinga to do actual monitoring.
His voice has gotten deeper and his accent has gotten better in all these years since :)
...the Navajo Generating Station keeps grinding away, consuming 22,000 tons of coal and emitting 44,000 tons of carbon each day.

Help me out. Where does the extra carbon come from? (or did they mean CO2... in that case wow, burning the coal doubles its weight with collected oxygen!)
Been using it for a month now, it's fantastic.
"It consumes 22,000 tons of coal and emits 44,000 tons of carbon daily."

How does that work out? Shouldn't mass be conserved?
What if they added in a right to invest a certain amount in future rounds, such that they don't lead the growth?
...because there's never been any innovation on this planet. Sheesh...
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Non-stackable case?!?!?

Why, just why did they think that a curved top was more important than the ability to stack more devices together, or to make it easier to fit in a simple and precise slot.
Apparently someone reported this thread to the author. You might want to follow the SourceForge issue: http://sourceforge.net/p/keepass/discussion/329220/thread/2e...
On iOS you are much more likely to stay in the top if you first get there. I.e. it has it's own mechanics internally and externally because more people visit the iOS app store.

Also much more sites are looking at the top in the app store and so your exposure for getting there is many many times more.

Further more much more iOS apps are inherently social so that helps too.
Why does there need to be a way to takedown hate speech?

Moderation provides a way for communities to decide what they will and wont accept and you can choose what communities you would like to be a part of.

If a person spews hateful garbage all over the forum report or comments look to the people that run the community to take out the trash. If they wont find a different community.

There is no reason you ought to be able to shut down speech because YOU find it offensive. It sounds great when its happening to a lunatic spewing hate but its a perfect tool to squelch free thought and discussion and it can and will be used for less benign uses if you put that tool in the hands of government.
Hi finnn -- we're on it!
I've bricked the OS on my RPi enough times that the thought of hacking on my phone the same way makes me cringe... and I think that's the whole point.

I've tried different operating systems, hooked it up to all sorts of peripherals, left it running and hosting a VPN server in a drawer for an entire year...all things I'd never want to do with my phone, and all valuable learning experiences. A big part of the appeal is that it's not a computer you're relying on, so it's okay to break it (and fix it at your leisure).
I don't think so. The DSI and CSI connectors are of limited use to most Pi users compared to an official case.
I wonder how Bitcode will play with profile guided optimization. Will you also provide pgo information to apple or will they generate it.
It would be interesting if Y Combinator attempted to convert to an entity that was able to publicly list on a stock exchange and sell shares to the average investor - much like private equity shops Blackstone and Carlyle have done by going public.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2007/06/blac-j25.html

http://www.carlyle.com/news-room/news-release-archive/carlyl...

If there is a bubble valuation in the public-to-private market, YC could potentially arbitrage the valuation difference into cash for its LPs.
>vicinity of the phone

What phone? Last I checked this was for the desktop build of Chromium
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I commented on this topic in another HN thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9727988

The important part, in my eyes, is in my last response to dragonwriter, which I will repeat here.

>You just no longer have to worry about the website who you've sued successfully in your local courts taking its offense at having being found liable to the ECHR. So it has precisely zero effect on Britain beyond not blocking certain types of liability that the British government might create through its own laws.

As explained near the end of the article:

>As a consequence, active intermediaries and blog operators will have considerable incentives to discontinue offering a comments feature, and the fear of liability may lead to additional self-censorship by operators. This is an invitation to self-censorship at its worst.

The statues under the United Kingdom Hate Speech laws means people can sue in courts for comments containing hate speech and the ECHR now has a precedent to rule in their favor and hold the intermediate party liable for said comments. The result? Nobody wants to be held liable, so they shut down their comment sections.

That's bad for free speech and is a side-entry form of censorship. Not direct from the state, but implied and enforced by the state on private entities.

//end self quote

Although the courts probably wouldn't hear it - wouldn't ISIS or criticisms of extremist readings/interpretations of the Qur'an be protected from hate speech under the U.K's current statutes? Just want to make sure I'm understanding the U.K's hate speech laws properly.
Pushing a new tag is a vastly smaller privilege than pushing arbitrary objects.
Source, as I can only assume downvotes because folks think this is bullshit:

http://www.scran.ac.uk/packs/exhibitions/learning_materials/...
We care about Linus dying because he is Linux. The BDFL model makes a project more dependent on one person than it really should be.
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Well for one, they already have been broken into. Also they have a member of the board who strongly supports the NSA wiretap program and has very close ties to the highest levels of government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condoleezza_Rice#Criticism_of_...
ecryptfs doesn't obfuscate filenames (it is a "stacked" filesystem) so that's not going to do any good. You'll need block-level encryption such as LUKS and a loopback mount if you want to keep that hidden, at least when that partition isn't mounted.
I think that the deformation of the Earths surface are not important

This probably only matters if the distances are larger. Probably larger than the distance a Tesla can go on a single charge. And so can be dropped from consideration.
DSI? Well you could make a nice good computer out of a Pi, just link a decent display to it.
Node.js and io.js merging back together
> Communities such as San Diego, California are using mobile biometric readers to take pictures of people on the street or in their homes and immediately identify them and enroll them in face recognition databases.

In their homes? I'm pretty sure this is illegal. Or is it not if they are visible from a public area?
I just spend 6 hours on a project rewriting Bootstraps columns, etc using @extend in SASS because bootstrap columns are not semantic. yuck.
If we ever split up, I'd give her at least half of my money to look after my children :-)
The Agile Keychain format has a field called "contentsHash" (which looks to contain 32 bits of data). I'm assuming that's some sort of hash (perhaps crc32) of the encrypted contents, used to protect against corruption (but not against malicious attackers).
Sorry, should have used past-tense :(

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson_Reuters#Purchase_proce...
When it comes to web frameworks, the things you should look at before performance are: community support, how active the project is, what does the framework provide me free out of the box, # of bugs, etc...

You'll not bottleneck on the framework most of the times.
RPi is $25-35. A phone is at least $100, most probably $300-ish. What would you prefer to accidentally fry when fumbling with DIY electronics?

This one would be enough, but why stop.

A lot of space in RPi and similar boards is dedicated to I/O pins and jacks. Would you carry an 1" thick device (or even an 1.5 cm thick device) instead of your current phone?

RPi runs various flavors of Linux, RPi2 will also run Windows 10, and you can try to run an entirely different OS. Are you comfortable changing the OS of your phone? Is it easy?

Well, you see. A phone is a piece of your life-support infrastructure (think calling 911), while an RPi is an entirely different thing that most people want to keep separate.
I assume "carbon" is short for carbon dioxide here, so you get mass contribution from the air consumed in the process.
Interesting that the article doesn't even mention nuclear as an option.

From another energy article today I found this, may be just what the doctor ordered:

http://qz.com/426718/japan-is-building-huge-solar-power-plan...

While nuclear would be a big step, it seems like solar could be introduced immediately piece by piece to reduce the coal burden.
Currently in the same situation. I have two toddlers (< 3yrs old) and started a business with a partner this year. It has been grueling at times, but I have managed to find a tenuous balance by carving out time for myself, time with my kids, and time with my wife.

My only lament is that I no longer have a functional social life. I am hoping to meet other parents to make new friends since my childless friends simply can't relate.
Please don't say things like that. I know chickens that care very much about their own lives and the chickens they live with. They do not want to be killed.