skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd just like to address your last point:

> I cannot imagine why we don't have a system for taking students who come to this country to be educated in college and give them a work visa not tied to a company.

This exists already. It's called "F-1 OPT". It allows students to work in the field of their major for 12 months normally, but if they had a STEM major, for 29 months.

> I wonder why we don't allow a pool of skilled workers into the country under circumstances where they have a job waiting but are not tied to that employer.

That's what the H1B is. You need to "have a job waiting" but you "are not tied to that employer"†.

The only thing preventing an H1B holder from getting a better job is how good they are at what they do, and whether the company they want to switch is willing to handle an "H1B transfer".

Most companies in tech are willing to do perform an H1B transfer, and there's great job mobility in tech, especially for the most talented H1B holders, who are widely sought after.

†Note: Before the year 2000, you couldn't change jobs on the H1B, and you were tied to your initial visa sponsor. This changed after Congress passed a law (called "AC21") that enabled H1B visa holders to change jobs.

So this idea that H1B visa holders can't change jobs is a myth. Also your pining for work visas to be "abolished" without offering a meaningful alternative is equivalent to pining for no skilled immigration. Without work visas, the only people coming here would be refugees and family members. What you should've said is "we need better work visas" or "we need to lift the quota on them".

A lot of international students who study here, and graduate from U.S. schools end up effectively getting deported because of the quota on H1B visas. Here's one HNer who's getting kicked out thanks to the H1B cap: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9767627
You're downvoting me but you're so wrong on so many points I don't know where to begin.

1. Cisco, Juniper, Alcatel, Arista all have merchant silicon platforms. They marry those to their own control planes because the customers want that kind of continuity and support. Pico8 and others are a FRACTION of the market place for switching (including datacenter switching). My own company has so many racks full of gear at AMZN and GOOG that it's hard to understand why you feel like you know that infrastructure better.

2. Writing a scalable control plane isn't as easy as you are representing. GOOG took many years to write theirs and it's still problematic for them in anything in lots of their use cases. I don't know why you think that quite literally the entire Internet along with all of the protocol work that has built it is a drag on novel architectures.

3. Mesos/Kubernetes are vanishingly small parts of the larger ecosystems out there. You can't just wave you hands and disregard quite literally the billions of dollars of infrastructure that are deployed each and every year by major service providers and corporations. Tiny cloud providers are not the largest slice of the pie when it comes to dollars spent on networking gear right now.

4. "At the point where it's a problem you have the people around to make said problem go away." HUH???? I can think of maybe 8 or 9 use-cases off hand that absolutely REQUIRE this kind of functionality because billions of dollars of transactions are handled by the infrastructure within and between those datacenters.

Sorry buddy. You're way wrong here. Either you've never built an infrastructure that anyone cares about losing for an hour or two while you figure out what went wrong or you're so tanked up on "cloud" kool-aid that you've forgotten how we got to this point and have failed to understand how large systems scale up from small ones.

Show me a large multinational bank that's storing their transaction data on S3 or Ceph and I'll show you a bank that's not "systemically important". Most large enterprises don't have the luxury of simply discarding 100% of their working, proven architectures on the promise of a few small startups hoping to cash in big.

Things like operational stability, redundancy, fault isolation, and monitoring are not "nice to haves", they are mission critical requirements. They aren't up to the whim of some bright-eyed CTO, but the watchful eye of umpteen nations of regulators.
"I stopped reading at" considered harmful.
By that measure, leprosy and the black death were "endurable and honorable" for humans. Or, to give a somewhat more Biblical example, so was war.
Just sign up for a free trial for Astrill. Being in China without a VPN is insanity.
I am fortunate enough to work for an employer who does sponsor employment-based residency. I'm also fortunate to be in the home stretch (should get my PR later this year). I'm also fortunate to be born in a country that doesn't have a massive backlog that add years to the process (those countries being India and China primarily).

Even so, by the end it will have taken almost 4 years. This isn't bad by the standards of what others have gone through but it's terrible we're in a situation where 4 years for PR is defined as "not terrible".

So I sympathize. I want to stay here too. But there are three things I want to say here.

1. As another poster said: maybe this is how it should end up. There is, after all, a glut of lawyers. This makes it difficult for an employer to justify the expense of going through the process;

2. Job losses and an abundance of qualified applicants make getting an LC far from certain. This isn't really a problem for tech companies. I imagine it's a huge problem for a law firm;

3. I see no mention of the DV lottery. I don't know the exact probabilities but applying 10-15 times from New Zealand must have a decent chance of your number coming up. Did he ever apply? If not, why not?

Contrary to what at least one poster said, it absolutely has zero impact on your nonimmigrant visa applications to have entered the DV lottery. over the years I applied probably 6 times? My number never came up. Not unexpected. I've met several people whose number did come up.

How long is the typical career in corporate law? How long does a job typically last with a law firm? I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. Is it 5-10 years? If not, will the employee still be around at the end? It seems reasonably likely they won't be.

So, my sympathies. It's a shame you're not Australian, because we have it easiest of probably anyone barring arguably Canadians.
Our racist nation that has president who the son of an Kenyan, has present and fmr state govs that were born to immigrant parents, the head of one of the largest tech companies is from India.

What other nations have this? very few.

We have some shameful history no doubt but keep it in context to other nations.

With your reasoning it is good the author can't get a visa and may return his brain to New Zealand.
I prefer to watch on my iPad+standzout, and find it vastly simplifies one's lifestyle. That it avoids commercials and TV FUD is icing on the cake.
I lost my fitness band and now I don’t know what to do
Perhaps the author's point about filtering wasn't so clearly made. The idea is that if the best candidate that enters the funnel is a 6.2 on a 10 point scale, no amount of filtering will produce an 8.3 out of 10 candidate. To get 8.3 candidates to the filter you have to source candidates above 6.2.
Show HN: Startup Catalyst – Annual Mission from Australia to Silicon Valley
Dave Kearney, CEO, FluidUI.com, about the mobile development industry
Actually most western European countries wont do this. They will try to re-socialize terrorists.
Protip: If canceling telecom/tv/whatever crappy ossified subscription business, tell them you are immediately moving to a very remote location. I usually say I've joined the Peace Core and am leaving for Namibia next week. After you repeat this a few times they stop nagging and escalating you and just cancel the service.
Fantastic discovery! Kind of makes me wonder if there are other OEMs doing the same kind of thing and we just never noticed it.
We've seen big growth and interest in the Chicago Haskell group as well.
I went on this trip last year, it was fantastic. This year's apllications are open now. Happy to answer any questions relating to the trip, Queensland tech scene, what we thought of the Valley, or anything else.
The unstated assumption of this announcement is that if you haven't heard of Docker, you may have been living under a rock. It arguably has more hype after two years than Java did in 1996-97.

The other part of the problem is that this is a rapidly evolving space with a ton of money and attention being pored into engineering and competitive battles playing out, and not so much in the marketing and clear explanations. runC is in part a symbolic "bury the hatchet" moment for a public feud over standards with CoreOS and others that began in December 2014. If you haven't been following the inside baseball, it it's all kind of confusing.
As it happens often, the title says New York City but it is only for Manhattan.
It would also be nice if there were maps in-between 1609 and today to see which areas were built at different times.
Someone from a no-name school, no relevant/interesting companies, technologies that aren't considered cool at the moment, and from somewhere you consider backwards. Think South Carolina at the moment.

Imagine you're a Stanford alum (even dropout) working at Google. If someone from University of [current bad state] comes across your desk with their main work experience being enterprise consulting in Java, odds are you're going to pass and look at the next person.

Quickly filtering by these "important" things seems to make some sense except for the fact that none of these factors tend to be indicators of success or failure. You may be saving yourself some time but you're missing some good candidates too.
It sounds like you have not been in the position of leading a development team before. As a result you are suffering from the same mistake that I made myself when moving into that situation.

Stop asking your boss for permission to do every technical task. As a developer this was appropriate but when running a team it is not. It sounds like your boss is viewing the development team as he should, it's a sausage factory. He cares about the output but has no real interest of what happens to produce it.

As he will not let you dedicate fixed time now to make changes you need instead to gradually introduce them. Set a goal of getting all the process changes you want made over the space of the next year. For example, add some automatic monitoring. Don't ask for permission, just go ahead and go it because it is a small task. Once it is working well you then get the three other developers to start using it. Once everyone sees the benefit over the next few weeks you can then make another change.
> As it is out biggest city, Auckland, is experiencing insanely high house prices that folks in the Bay area would grimace at.

I was a little surprised by this comment and wondered how true it actually was. According to Numbeo, rental prices in Auckland are 67% lower than SF. Likewise property purchase prices are between 66% and 71% lower on a price per square metre basis. Something worth noting these figures are for SF on average, not just the Bay Area.

http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?coun...

Edit: Formattting
If this is true (and frankly I know for a fact it is, as I just downloaded the linked file containing Disable_Windowsupdate.exe, which is signed by Samsung Electronics CO and downloaded from Samsung's own servers) then Microsoft should pick up the phone and threaten the heck out of Samsung, Microsoft while somewhat neutered by anti-trust still has a great deal of power over OEMs and stuff like this is a perfect time to [ab]use it.
H1B is basically how big companies remain 'leen' enough to compete with start-up. This is made very clear in Amazon and PayPal India offices afaik, but sounds reasonable enough to be generalized. It is impossible for a large company with thousands of employees to remain competitive without the crunch-culture of startups. So they get H1Bs.
Watching the creator of a programming language program in it is a revealing experience. Stephen Wolfram is genius level smart.
Isn't there a method by which Samsung can deliver to Microsoft the set of drivers required for their hardware, to solve this exact problem?

Is this a matter of Samsung not wanting to go through the WHQL process?
Some examples as images: https://github.com/FourMan/4/tree/master/sample_code/image
Inspirational - truly, and I mean literally, for me - that they started that with two guys who were not experienced coders.

There really is no excuse. I should get off my ass and make something.
Meta: I submitted this post with the article's title but it seems the mods have changed the title to something less loaded.
It saddens me to hear this. I wish you had been able to stay. I know how painful it is to leave a place that you made your home for 5 years. Your situation reminded me of a similar story I read of a while ago: http://app.fwd.us/stories/429

The immigration system here is really broken. I wish people would recognize that more, and fight for change.
I cannot tell from your comment if that was snarky or genuine because I know nothing about Ms. Boudin.
I've marked my calendar.
The front page algorithm is specifically tailored to normalize the appearance of subs precisely so this sort of thing doesn't happen. It's simply not true that the front page would get flooded with politics if you brought in a single default subreddit that allowed general advocacy (or just reddit rule parity like /r/reddit.com did).

Also what makes /r/TwoXChromosomes any different?

Can't you see how that seems a bit unfair to long term politically oriented users of reddit when kn0thing is making statements like this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/35ym8t/promote_ideas_...

And ekjp is out doing interviews with avowed feminists and talking about safe spaces?

If reddit doesn't want to be a platform for political advocacy and activism just make that clear and be fair and even handed about it. Right now some groups are allowed to coordinate email campaigns while others are not and this favoritism has existed at high levels of reddit (whether due to mod cliques or admin influence) ever since the Ron Paul campaign.

The truth is that everyone posting to reddit is posting it with some measure of "YOU need to read this" and the state of default moderation leads to a torment for users who actually want to contribute in ways that powermods (and now admins) disagree with.

The new safe space rule is "Systematic and/or continued actions to torment or demean someone in a way that would make a reasonable person (1) conclude that reddit is not a safe platform to express their ideas or participate in the conversation, or (2) fear for their safety or the safety of those around them."

The way this is written implies that safety is not the only factor in harassment, but that continued actions to torment and demean users in a way that makes reasonable people conclude that reddit is not a platform to express their ideas or participate in the conversation.

https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/36iduv/what_is_the_ap...

But the community team seems to only be using it to "ban behavior not ideas" by banning fresh subreddits that share any similarity with previously objectionable subs that were banned for harassing activity without warning, and without submitting any evidence to the community of the behavior so contemptible that it was worthy of disbanding a relatively large community without warning or any recourse whatsoever.

But to be clear, the banning of FPH did not trigger my outrage, I was stunned and appalled at Pao's statements wrt to Free Speech recently it's just a massive departure from the historical nature of the site and it's disingenuous to not acknowledge that to the community from whence you draw all power and profit.
Ironically, the reason the CS site hasn't been updated is because it's implemented in J.

So naturally no one is willing to touch it.
Wow, as an american I find this situation intolerably embarrassing. People like this built this country, and the fact that some useless bureaucratic entity designed by xenophobes and racists is kicking people out is incredibly depressing. I'd rather deport the inventors of these idiotic rules, we'd all be better off for that.
"If we started being serious about cutting immigration, there would be more political pressure for these foreign countries to get their shit straight."

Spoken like someone who never had the idea of moving to another country.

Here is the problem - those 12% unemployed will still walk around pretending that USA is the bestest country in the world where people have 'gotten their shit together', than to move to a different country and get a job - something that is unbelievably insanely easy if you are an American citizen.
Not even the PDB symbols are available for ATMFD, probably because it is third party code originally included into Win2000.
His point is the valley isn't diverse because we don't value people like him. That sort of inevitably makes it about him.
there are tons of issues with rooftop solar: they still require the grid, its only economically sensible with heavy subsidies and tax rebates (even worse when you consider time valued money), much of the country is unfeasible to run 100% on solar. Hawaii is the most feasible solar place in america, with electricity costing 3x the national average, and yet it has a long way to go and even those solar customers require the utility companies.

cable on the other hand, doesn't seem like its that far away. besides infrastructure, one of the reasons why cable is expensive is they have to pay royalties to content providers. lets assume cable went away today, do you really think netflix / hulu would be able to charge the same rate?

they are trying to free themselves from the content providers by producing their own original content
That was a lot of fun. He mentioned he would be streaming again soon and even solicited problems to work on. So if you have something really hard to solve now's your chance!
Most people don't know this, but it was PG who gave Alexis and Steve the idea to make something like reddit, and also gave them the tagline "the front page of the internet".[0]

PG had vetoed their initial idea to create a food-delivery app and then called them back and asked them to come up with something new.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rZ8f3Bx6Po
Ha, agreed. I always tell folks don't worry about problems down the road. Your company has to get there first. (This is usually to bootstrappers and startups.)

We often worry about things before we REALLY know what the product is. Or even sillier before you have customers.
People do anything for points on StackOverflow. It's pretty much the same thing
Upvoting as I'm from Charlotte, NC and want to hear how our neighbor Raleigh is doing! From my time visiting there and from what my friends who live there say:

It was a great, relaxed place to live. There are lots of smart people (it's in the Research Triangle). Weather is truely seasonal. Hot in the summer (80-100+), cool autumn and spring, cold winter. Not cold enough to have the snow stick regularly, but it will melt in the day and freeze at night. So beware black ice.

I'm also in the Bay Area. Would love to hear why you're leaving over coffee if you're open to it. Maybe I can intro you to some good people if you end up moving over there too. Email is in my profile.
Five minutes is not enough. It takes 20, at least.

You have to be in a quiet environment where you can focus on the sound. Also, I've found better results with isochronic tones. Binaural beats pretty much mandate headphones and, even then, if you're in a noisy environment or there are defects in the headphones that have one side louder than the other, it can be quite "off".

It definitely alters consciousness, but I don't know if there's anything magical about beats per se, because drumming has been used to similar effects for thousands of years. Whether it does so by entraining the brainwaves, that I don't know. It seems like a reasonable guess, but the brain is far too complex for one to assume that such a thing as "an alpha state" exists: we actually have multiple frequencies at all times, and variation around the brain, and we're just starting to develop the technical capability to look at the complexity of all this.
pipelining :-)

He could have more stages than a Pentium 4.
TV gets an hour of our time. Not because I wouldn't like to give it more time, but now that we have work and hobbies and chores AND kids, that's all the time that's left.

So, we got Netflix streaming on my aging PS3, Clearwire for internet, and over-the-air broadcast HDTV for the public television shows. Yeah, I miss not having DVR, but this was the cheapest option in my area, and I still get pretty decent entertainment out of that mix.

Haven't had Comcast since 2012, and it feels good. Not having cable might be permanent for us!
The author isn't white. Maybe don't have a knee jerk reaction and using white as a near epithet.

Vox has other articles on those from mexico/latin America.

You imply people and organization are racists without even knowing the facts. Maybe check your own bias.
I have two questions:

What types of positions were applied for?
What did the applicant study?
Were all the applications via resume submissions?

The author may be completely right that the difficulties he had were due to race, but he also may be wrong. There simply isn't enough data to figure out from the blog post.

I'm a white male that graduated with similar credentials and when I applied to 50 management consulting after college I had a very similar experience: courtesy rejection letters if I was lucky, but most of the time not even that.

In hindsight, now that I've been on the other side of the table and I've learned a lot about how effective hiring is done, I went about it all wrong at the time. My current self would give my past self the exact same treatment I received. give my I had few references and connections to the industry. Most of my applications were letters/emails with a cover letter and résumé. Later on I discovered that such a tactic fills less than 10% of jobs out there and there direct referrals is one of the best ways. I was naive and inexperienced and went about it all wrong.

Applying from a distance is also a huge strike against you [0]. Only senior people with lots of experience get to apply from a distance. For everyone else, you basically need to move to where you want to be and apply as a local hire.

[0] http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/05/28/you-cant-look-...
I hear you about having enough technical ability to understand what's going on and make sensible decisions. Certainly in a role like that and the one I have now a mix of technical and positional authority are required.

But at what point does it become ludicrous? When your CIO is yelling "No, No! You have to enable the EPEL repo or you'll patch to the wrong version!"?
But picking Haskell as a start up is suicidal.

Unsubstantiated FUD.
To grok their sense of life, the absolute best book is "The Greek Experience" by Cecil M. Bowra [1]. No other modern book will give you as much (I've read dozens; this one I first read 14 years ago). It's about 200 pages long.

It covers the unity of the Greeks, their heroic outlook, the gods, the city and the individual, the good man and the good life, myth and symbol, imagination and reality, the plastic vision, and the place of reason.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/dp/1857991222
Does anybody know the precise (more precise than given in the slides) reason Windows had to put a font renderer in the kernel? That's absolutely insane.

EDIT: holy jeez, this isn't even the whole thing. MS has their own first-party ttf renderer in the kernel too, what the heck?