skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It still wouldn't fix downward pressure on American wages, and it also increases the negotiating leverage of employers vs. their H1B employees.

If employers bid for the permits themselves, there'd be a large fixed-cost component to employing an H1B, but then no incentive (indeed, an extra disincentive, since the company had to shell out to get them to the U.S.) to pay them well afterwards. And since H1Bs are sponsored by their employer, they have limited job mobility and can't just go work for a competitor, particularly since the competitor would then have to shell out even more money to win the auction for the visa. That'll put downward pressure on immigrant salaries, which in turn will put downward pressure on American salaries for workers who do the same job, as employers could substitute a one-time fixed cost to "lock in" an H1B rather than paying prevailing market wages.
The answer is that you pay to train someone in mongolian cuisine before you start the business, find local mongolian cuisine talent for under 100k, or you fail.

Who starts a business without the person that makes it possible in the first place on staff? If you dont have a buisness without someone you cant afford to hire, you dont have a buisness to begin with.
> > Mashing together two DSLs can be close to impossible.

> What?!? Unbelievable.

Let me put the unbelievable into concrete terms for you. On a previous project, I had a program that needed to repeatedly do the following

1) Download and XML config file
2) Parse said XML file for a set of voltages
3) Send the voltages over a set of power supplies
4) Retrieve a new array of voltages from our ADCs
5) Plot the voltages
6) Display the plots on a webpage

At an early point in the project, everything was using the best DSL for the job. The XML was parsed via XSLT. LabView was used to control the power supplies and ADCs. OriginPro provided the plots. The web pages were written in php.

However, the amount of effort that went into channeling the data between AWK, LabView, OriginPro, and php was found to be far greater than what it took to write a new application that did all of it in Python. No single stage of the process was as easy as it had been in the DSL, but the impedance mismatch between the languages was nightmarish.
You don't address his question though - which was, if you set the new threshold to 85K a company can bring in a H1B at 85K in Kansas city and then relocate him/her to SFO at the same salary. This is gaming the system again - the company gets a cheap resource without having to pay Bay Area salaries.

Now we have to talk about cost of living adjusted thresholds.
If you don't like lists, then put in the necessary hard work to curate them, and you only need to do this once to enjoy Twitter

There are so many ways to do it, and there is no 'one way' to browse Twitter, apart from deliberately being serendipitous.

Here's some lists I made:

https://twitter.com/enginnr/lists/true-hackers

https://twitter.com/enginnr/lists/twitter-dna

https://twitter.com/enginnr/lists/diamonds-in-the-rough

https://twitter.com/enginnr/lists/availability
What's the solution then?
The Canadian copyright length is being extended. Does the TPP also put a cap on the US copyright length or are countries still free to extend their copyrights as they see fit?
Capitalism and Personal Branding at its finest.
Only housing is higher in the bay area as compared to Toronto (disregarding exchange rates - assume one is paid US/CDN and pays rent in USD/CDN).

So if you pay $1000-$2000 more in the bay area (not unrealistic - I just did a deep-dive on a move from Toronto to SF) your base salary in CDN should be in the area of $125k - $175k if the issue is cost of living.

From what I've seen, Toronto salaries are about half that, I've seen positions advertised for as low as $65k and the highest I saw was $110k (both CDN) for an engineering manager.
"We don't care" isn't a rebuttal, it's a trivial dismissal.

Which is exactly the amount of respect I believe your opinions about how to lose a war deserve.

then they are counter-revolutionaries who I gravely fear.

Fixed at least part of it for you.

I'm talking about reacting, not initiating action. Of course, there are those who argue the time for violent counter-revolution has arrived, but they aren't getting much of a hearing, and obviously not actually, you know, acting....

Every time a mass shooting happens, the MSM theorizes it's that sort of thing, and every time they're wrong. For now, thankfully.

(There are bombing exceptions, e.g. OK City and Eric Robert Rudolph's, but the vast majority of this sort of thing is and has always been by the Left, and as of late Muslims.)

Let's return to my thesis: we've been arming ourselves like never before (at one point, just about all available rifles of military utility had been bought, cleaning out the last of the available Cold War stocks, most certainly including the ammo), but don't care much about the surveillance state. Why is that true?
With regards to priority number 2 (that the property is kept in good condition):

The landlord rents out a property at an expected degree of risk. They make this determination by screening the renter and drafting an appropriate rental contract (or vice-versa).

If a renter plans to sublet out to 20 individuals every given month, risk skyrockets for everything from theft, pet damage, smoke damage, fire, etcetera. The landlord's home/rental insurance may not even cover these scenarios. Had the landlord known about this increased risk, they may have chosen to increase the deposit, amend the rental contract, or chosen another renter altogether.
From $0-100M with no sales people
Evolutionary Psychology: A Primer (1997)
Even the advanced degree route is fully gamed by mediocre Indian students. See my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10540365
I find a major problem in very large organizations is the centralization of processes when there is ample budget to establish competing organizations.

For example, clouds and datacenters in large orgs should have three different groups offering competing solutions. If one (inevitably) underperforms, then it gets axed and a new datacenter option is bootstrapped.
Yeah I have been bitten by the _'ing errors thing in the go community.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10320509
Why stop at 1 death?

The worst that could happen[0] is someone does an unauthorized rental to a terrorist whom then uses a nuclear device to end all life on the planet.

0 - "The worst that can happen" is often used a little bit too freely ;)
http://blog.mapillary.com/update/2015/11/10/pointclouds.html
The normalized data is the index. It can still be pointing to the raw data. The nice thing is that the index organizes the data in a way that makes it easily (lossless) compressible.
Actually, H1B already addresses that. H1B is based on Labor Condition Application (LCA) which is location specific. If the employee changes location (even for the same employer), they are required to file an LCA with USCIS (They don't have to go through the whole H1B process). However, this rule is very poorly enforced. I have personally seen cases where USCIS has rejected the H1B renewal if they found out that you changed your location without filing a new LCA.
What was the limitation?
Yeah I feel like some responses are pulled up, and then "M" gets assisted to pick the best answer, in the case an answer is not generated someone types one out. I would call it "Assisted AI" if anything, whereby the AI is monitored for accuracy. It makes sense to me, eventually in theory it would not need as much assistance, and even if it still would need assistance, it would still be one of the more reliable AI systems yet to some degree.
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I'm working on another visa. I also started my own venture now: http://www.jobsintech.io
I don't have a problem with someone that hosts a few guests in their home 2-3 times a month and having them around the dinner table (what Airbnb advertises in PR that they do). I do have a problem with people running illegal hotels and blatantly violating zoning laws (what the data says a lot of Airbnb folks are actually doing).

Sorry, but people don't want to live next to a hotel. These laws exist for a reason.
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Is this the same agency that not so long ago had their computer systems simply "down"... for a week or so. It was some form of immigration or Visa granting agency.
> I am not worried about attacks from Tunisia.

Why not?

> I am worried about GCHQ.

I don't contest this part.
And if it ever went to court, Airbnb would pour so many lawyers into getting that case thrown out that you'd never see a dime of it. It is imperative that a lawsuit like this never get publicity, or else they'd lose billions of dollars in valuation instantly, which would make investors very cranky.
Santa Monica resident here. The local increases in rent around here have been astounding over the past 2 years and most of my friends who have had a life event causing them to have to change apartments have been completely priced out and forced to go to the Valley. I attribute much of this to AirBnB, having known a few people here that operate business models much like what is described in the article. We have the most expensive hotel rates in the state and vacation rentals are extracting a lot of profit from the market because of it.

I know a girl who rented three 1-bedroom apartments around Santa Monica. She would live in whichever of the three was fetching the least interest on AirBnB that month and put the other two up. Those two units were occupied about 10-15 days a month. After all expenses she netted about $1000 cash and free rent for herself every month. In return there were two more units taken off the market and the price of actual residential units driven up ridiculously.

L.A. Mayor Garcetti came to speak at our office last week and he said that there is one housing unit west of the 405 (demarcation of west L.A.) for every 4 jobs west of the 405. Turning so many housing units into short term rentals is making this far worse. I support Santa Monica's law even if it means that I cannot rent my apartment out while I am traveling this December. I don't want to live somewhere that only techies can afford.
... so it sounds like we're in violent agreement.
As I replied to the parent comment, this is not how H1B works. H1B is given for a given LCA which is location specific.
sklogic is talking about DSLs embedded in a host language. You are comparing it to external DSLs, some of which were built not to play particularly well with others.

You can, of course, still have impedance mismatch between eDSLs, but you're just not talking about the same things.
I remember from college returning from a weekend on the reservation talking to my friends and picking back up the slang (not as bad as Canadian infused Turtle Mountain accent but the Dakota reservation was not without its strangeness and slang) and the cadence change in my voice. It took a day for me to change back, but I sounded pretty odd given the normal ND / MN accent. It probably didn't help that my normal speech pattern back then threw a couple of Dakota words in the mix. And yes, the guy from NYC thought we all talked too slow and I was probably not very smart. It probably went worse because I have a loud, low voice.

Laugh and live on, we judge patterns because that's what we got and how we survive. I will say, that an English accent spoken by one of my classmates might have had me with a bit of prejudice the other way. I loved her voice as it was smooth compared to my own rock-on-rock sound. Although, that was my first exposure to "being separated by a common language" as her description of fixing her car made me question my sanity ("bonnet??") rather than thinking less of her.
At least with respect to web security, even people in Tunisia can avoid Tunisian intercept just by not using Tunisian services. But virtually no one can avoid .COM.
"“I would expect most people would feel Atulya was making a positive contribution to the U.S. economy,” he said. “There is no American who could do his job. Without Atulya, there would be no company.”

Wow, you are one BART bus away from being gone. I can see making a statement like this in your request to have someone come and in their application to be a citizen. But if your entire business model depends on one person you should get another smart person to shadow them to have some kind of backup plan. I'd be scared to death to be an employee where my future depended on them being alive and healthy.
If Java is still around in 2100 I weep for how little progress was made.
Life is too short.
I'd spend a week with full rest, clean food and water, determine your happiness level there, then decide. Sounds like you are trying to mask the core/root of the problem, a bad environment for you.
> Why is it even possible to disable SELinux at runtime?

As with all things SELinux, it's a policy setting. You can configure your policy to disallow disabling SELinux.

That wouldn't have made a difference in this case though, when you have unprivileged applications accessing kernel memory directly.
I'd much prefer to live in such "dystopia"[0] than in a country whose people got sick and died believing in the idea that individual liberties of a random dude with access to an advanced genome sequencing machine are basis for all other liberties.

And I'd rather die on my feet that live on my knees.

As far as I'm concerned, freedom is it's own end and needs no further justification. I mean, to be free is to have agency, and to be subjugated is to be denied that agency. And from what I can see, it's our agency, our free will (or the illusion thereof), our freedom to make decisions, that fundamentally makes us human. Without that, I see no reason to live at all.
Come on, you got to give a better source than that. If you tell us to basically google it, that's not a source, that's an assignment. Nor is telling us that a comment is a source. You have to give us at least an article or link to even pretend you are sourcing something.
Some German Cinemas have refused to show any Disney movies for months, and are still discussing if they’ll show Star Wars at all.

Disney wants far more of the profit the cinemas make, which is already next to nothing, and for some cinemas would lead to them paying Disney more than they have in income.

So cinemas have been boycotting Disney.

http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/kino/star-wars-boykott-deutsche...
Yes, the article is explicit: "For more complicated tasks, such as making a driving test appointment at the DMV, the humans will do most of the heavy lifting. They’ll actually place a call to the DMV."
> Chinese factories will manufacture things with as much quality as you want ... Pretty much all of electronics you use, including the most high-end devices, was made in China.

Agreed.

> Western "Chinese = crap" stereotype seems to be because of Western companies, which pay for low-quality manufacturing.

Eh? If I go on eBay/Aliexpress and order some consumer good, the only worthwhile thing I'm going to receive is the amazement at seeing exactly how far they skimped. I doubt choosing a more expensive listing would yield a better result. Nevermind the many stories I've heard of Chinese manufacturing autonomously substituting different part numbers on a BOM, causing a run to be reworked or scrapped.

This indicates the culture of "good-enough" cheapness belongs to China itself. Yes, it is possible to pay more (meaning supervise more) for quality production in China - if it weren't, everything wouldn't be made there. But this seems like getting quality in spite of Chinese customs.
[citation needed]

Or are you just talking about doing a factory restore on system which brings back everything to it's original state?
Those who ran BBS systems wax nostalgic about being early adopters of new communication methods and systems. It's the same with the digi-native set; waxing nostalgic about Geocities and Angelfire homepages when they could be building something to replace them (Like what the Neocities and Snapchat crowd are doing). It's the wrong question. 'Too' in a question puts the onus to answer with an extreme viewpoint
There's already a visa that does exactly that, the E-2: http://www.uscis.gov/eir/visa-guide/e-2-treaty-investor/e-2-...
I've perceived more of this sort:

"OK these gay people are not evil after all. But this other group, they are evil! I don't hate anybody, but hating evil people doesn't count!!!"
The difference between homo economicus and homo sapiens is that the latter can opt to not follow some economic incentives (at least those sufficiently weak), and to maintain other types of incentive structures (like social, cultural).

A guy who's subletting his place on AirBnB in clear violation of his contract is an asshole. A douche bag. I'm calling our figurative guy names not because I need to vent out. I'm providing a social disincentive for such behaviour. The vaguely defined terms like "asshat" are actually part of the way society incentivizes one to behave in a particular way. Mostly, it incentivizes cooperation (as in Prisoner's Dilemma) and disincentivizes defection. In the West, such incentive structures are individually much weaker than economic ones - but still, when they are aggregated, they form a powerful force. Services like AirBnB and Uber unfortunately slowly erode social/cultural incentives, turning citizens into competitors instead of cooperators.

> Another comment mentioned that landlords are inserting language into leases that they get the profits from AirBnB if it's used. That seems like a reasonable response to me.

And this is the bad outcome. The end result is the same as before AirBnB subletting became a thing, but now the contracts have additional clause that will probably be phrased vaguely enough to destroy some use cases that would be beneficial for both parties. That's the bad result I'm talking about - the side that's being cheated won't just lie down and admit defeat, they'll take up arms and defend themselves. In the end things are worse for everyone involved.

> Wagging your finger and moralizing is only going to convince people who probably weren't going to do it anyway. If you want to change behavior, you have to change the incentives.

I am changing the incentives (in a very small way - armchair activism, I know). I'm trying to highlight the problems in hope that some readers who may not have noticed them before will notice them now and opt out of contract-breaking subletting, and will discourage others from doing so as well. It's working the foundations.
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This is a terrible idea.

All employers will be incentivized not to sponsor H1B visas because it will become a bidding war. It's not a 1-day event - most of the sponsored immigrants have been already working for the employer for months through temporary OPT or CPT.

The solution is to finally open up more H1B visa seats and do away with the lottery system. To be approved for the visa the immigrant already needs to be making the same or greater than the average U.S. citizen salary in the same area anyways.

Edit: The problem with a bidding war isn't the price as many of you are thinking, it's the volatility. Employers are setting these wages when they hire immigrants many months in advance, and they won't do it if there is a risk they will be outbid later.
I feel like there should be a case study in every MBA program in the country using Microsoft as an example of what happens when you let a partner control the 'last mile' of your user experience - and consequently, your brand.

For years the Windows experience was completely ruined by hardware manufacturers pre-loading laptops with a ton of very poorly developed software. It's a night and day difference.
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> You can't get away from the decisions. I have an array of stuff, and I have to decide, "do I want a list, an slist, a vector, or a deque, and what the fuck is a deque?". 98% of the time there is one sane decision that is so close to optimal that it's not worth tinkering with.

I'm currently working on a project (WebRender) in which we keep using the standard library hash table in the first cut of code whenever we need an associative lookup table, and every time we use it it keeps coming up #1 in the profile. Almost every single time. We then have to switch to another, more optimized data structure, and generics really help here so that we can reuse these data structures. In fact, if we didn't have them, we'd probably be sunk.
It just requests a minimum length, nothing about maximum lengths. (Obviously, as the US needs to extend Disney’s copyright soon again)
Very fast port scanner with fine-grained timers, the I/O scheduler leaks file descriptors (briefly, but enough to be a drag).

I got around it by coding down to syscalls and allocating a goroutine to a simple poll() loop.
> but it doesn't mean that it automatically makes for a bad programmer.

I came to PHP late from proper languages circa 2008/2009ish been programming since I was a kid in the 80's, I've no great love for the language, it's purely a tool and once you ignore the rusty bits it's not a bad language for a lot of web stuff but I've never been concerned with purity/beauty for it's own sake I just care about what I can do in a language, these days I use PHP a lot on the web, Python for just about everything else (even my build system for automating browserify is in Python using Envoy) and I play with Go and such on the side.

All that and there is a lot of work in PHP clearing up after others (if you like those kinds of engineering problems which I do) which is also nice.
intermingling the actual Clojure keywords (there's only ~17 of them) with the convenience macros and functions built up from those two primitives.

It sounds like you are drawing a distinction between the core Clojure language and the macros and functions in the core Clojure namespace. This is not really a valid distinction. That's the thing about Lisps, that much of the language is implemented in the language itself. Macros make the language easier to extend by both the language designer and random developers and users in appropriate cases. You can keep special forms to a minimum. Those those functions and macros are considered part of the core language even if they aren't special forms.
Again, I'm not arguing that we never need custom containers.
You might consider shifting some of your enthusiasm from VPRI to CDG Labs, where a fascinating group has come together around Alan Kay.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-01-29/sap-looks-...
+1 "You tell me the rules and I'll tell you how I'll beat the system" - Statement above the entrance to almost every Law School in the world.
With a non-validating stub resolver you'll have no idea if DNSSEC is being used at all, much less if DNSSEC fails and it falls back to plain DNS. And most OSes up to this point use non-validating stub resolvers.

From a user's perspective, DNSSEC is merely the potential to be more secure; until they personally verify it is working for them, they have no idea if they are actually more secure or not. And you have to do this per device, per OS.

I just pulled up http://www.dnssec-failed.org/ on both my laptop and my Android phone, it loaded just fine. So DNSSEC failed to prevent either of these devices from loading an invalid domain. But I had no notification that DNSSEC failed; the page just worked!

If the browser actually informed me that DNSSEC isn't being enforced at all, I would at least know i'm not as secure as I could be.