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By placing "who has no other expertise" in paranthese, it reads like a general assertion about "the MBA", rather than a qualifier intended to indicate that it is referring to a subset of MBAs.

I'll allow it this time. But I'm keeping my eye on you. ;-)
> If the lessee is willing to pay the penalty, what's the problem? If the penalty isn't sufficient to deter the unwanted behavior, increase it until it is.

You are ignoring the practical realities of landlord-tenant relationships.

Let's say you rent an apartment from me and I add a liquidated damages clause to the lease. It states that you will owe me $50,000 if you are found to be subletting your apartment using a service like AirBnB. Unless you have $50,000, the liquidated damages clause is effectively worthless and you can easily choose to break the lease ("my landlord can't get blood from a stone"). If I increase the liquidated damages to $100,000, the deterrent effect likely doesn't increase.
It was just a hypothetical example. Why would a H1-B have to be a techie making a 6 figure starting salary?
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It's not a promotion as much as an example and an interview on the subject.

Taskulu is established in Iran and has gone through some harsh times while Iran was under all sorts of sanctions.

You can't talk about Iran's tech atmosphere without talking about one of it's most successful startups.
another option that's roughly $1 for 100 pages:

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This is a good option depending on your needs (e.g., only select books, smaller collection, you don't want to do any of the work, etc.)
So why does a startup need to bring in (theoretically) high skilled talent on a work visa, especially if they cant afford it?
Slam-fire shotgun can be built, in a day and in total secrecy, by a 12 year old with some loose change in any modestly equipped garage. It is extremely easy to conceal and carry, you can reach 30+ shots per minute with little training and, sadly, ammunition for it is probably less time (read: resource) consuming to acquire in many countries than the knowledge of electrical engineering sufficient to build a working railgun of that scale.
I'm saying that some projects need custom containers all the time—to the exclusion of the built-in ones—and need to reuse the implementations of those containers.
Welcome to capitalism - If you can't afford the going rate for staff the your start-up is not a viable business and should never have got funded.
Yeah, only posting the image thread misses the main discussion. Thanks for the link.
Creating USDS/18F may be one of the most under appreciated, impactful changes of the Obama administration in the years and decades to come. Keep up the good work!
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> Modern linguists agree that the best way to do this—to train your brain and to rid yourself of biases—is to spend more time with people who act, look, and speak differently from you.

I'd argue that it's generally a good thing in life as a whole, not just when it comes to languages. I have an accent and a look that a lot of people can't place; the novelty of watching people ignore whatever comes out of my mouth while trying to figure "what" I am wears a bit thin over time.

It does show that many people very much judge you by what they assume your background is, rather than what you have to say. I've moved around a lot over the years and it is clear to me that multi-cultural exposure is not just a good thing, it's essential if the world intends to move forward peacefully and productively.
> So just to be clear, you're genuinely suggesting a system where you restrict the movement of people based on their salary?

I think they're suggesting opening things up so that if you make good money, you can move around with less hassle. That's less restrictive than what we have now.

> As an ex-EU citizen you probably know the EU allows any citizen of a member country to travel and work in any other country regardless of income

Within Europe. TTIP is a 'transatlantic' trade deal, so presumably they're referring to opening things up between the US and Europe, something which I fully support.
Somewhat, yes. My own SO works in post 16 education, at the college their is a vocational 'health and care' track. These are the people who will credentialed to work in state sponsored or provided care. I would not want many of them to look after any one I cared for.

I think part of the point the article is making RE this is that given (amongst other things) the variable quality of this labour pool (and the regulation it attracts), the ability to select outside of it - difficult as this may be - is valued.
Looks like a limited roll-out to users in the Bay Area.
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I just want to point out:

1. Variable Length Arrays: Go has slices
2. Anonymous Structs: Go has these
3. No built-in runtime (in C): This is not true unless you are compiling -ffreestanding -nostdlib, etc. I have done this in C, but such programs have to call system-calls directly and provide their own malloc, etc.
The initial attackers transferred back a small amount of btc to Protonmail to communicate that "somebody with great power" had come in for the kill after them: https://blockchain.info/tx/7fca8fb2ee6d0bee0544fa8b9653ecd17...
If the "most talented and highly-skilled" people only get "very mediocre salaries", it sounds like there is not actually a dire shortage of them, then, unlike what H1B proponents claim. Either that, or the market's price signals are not working properly for some reason (due to downward wage pressure from something else, like collusion?).
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Sorry about that. Looking back, he even said eDSL in his post.

Yeah, embedded DSLs are awesome.
We are more than a bit insane about weapons in this country.

How so? We purport to be a "free country" and part of that entails the right to own weapons. Just because some people spazz out with irrational fear every time the hear the word "gun" doesn't mean that the rest of us have a problem. Consider that, by far, the vast majority of firearms owned in the US will never be used in the commission of a crime. I don't have the numbers in front of me, but somebody worked out the math and based on existing statistical trends, it's a minuscule percentage of firearms that will ever be used to commit a crime.
If you change it to visa bidding based on the cash value of total compensation, you can eliminate some of the startup penalty without a huge bureaucratic nightmare. A startup would first hire a noncitizen remotely and give them equity, and then by the time they're ready to bring the remote employee on-site (maybe after a B round or so), the value of that equity will have skyrocketed, making their total comp competitive with big tech companies.

Startups that aren't on that growth curve shouldn't be hiring remotely, or hiring at all really.

I'm not certain that a COL adjustment is necessary either. The higher COL in the Bay Area and NYC reflects the higher productivity of workers in firms in those regions. If you want to allocate foreign specialists where they will generate the most economic value, it makes sense that they go to tech hubs with high average salaries and high costs of living. It also solves the "domestic worker displacement" problem, which seems to be more of an issue in Kansas City than in San Jose.

Also, such a change would be in the interests of major tech companies like Microsoft, Google, and Apple. They already pay their H1Bs close to market rate, significantly more than Wipro/Infosys/TCS pay theirs, and so they would win a lot more of the H1B visas under this system. Someone (any insiders here?) should let their public policy teams know; they may be useful allies.
So you don't get to eat dinner with the kids?
The assumption being it won't be a Pyrrhic victory. I don't know of any revolution or insurgency that hasn't ended in reinstating or even worsening authoritarian streaks. Then, of course, your rambling of "losing a war" won't make wantonly executing your own people who are not statist expropriators any less of a crime, nor not end up turning them against you and desiring retaliation of their own. Of course you haven't yet responded what the political views held by the "Three Percent" are, but that you ignore self-ownership and private property implies to me they are authoritarian and socialist.

Of course, such a conflict can only be justified as a reaction, so there is that in your favor. Militarism ultimately cannot be divorced from statism and trampling on voluntary exchange, however.

lol @ left-baiting. "Leftist" isn't a useful term.
git? Maybe in 10 years. Some of us just moved to svn from cvs... (and many are still using cvs).
It can be trivially amended without change in salary - you don't even need to wait for the amendment to be approved before you can move the employee to the new location. In any case the point still stands that there would need to be location specific minimum salary requirement.
A project just launched yesterday is Depsy [1], from Impact Story. Depsy tries to give credit to the coders who write scientific software that's used in research. One element at play is that it's not worth it from a reputational standpoint to go through the hard work of getting your code ready to release publicly. It's the same problem we all have with open sourcing hacked together side projects (except even relatively shoddy side projects do help build a programmer's reputation). Depsy wouldn't totally solve that problem, but if there was a good way to boost your reputation by contributing public code then you might see changes in the industry. But like all things in academia, you have to start with reputation and work your way to a solution from there.

[1] http://depsy.org/ and the blog post announcing it: http://blog.impactstory.org/introducing-depsy/
Used to live in Sawtelle. This poster is totally correct. When I left, we paid 1200 for our 1 bedroom just off Santa Monica Blvd. Our landlord raised the rate to 3000 and it was off market in hours (we keep in contact with the super). West LA is insane, almost at SoMa levels now. I never saw too much about the AirBnB rentals, but boy did I hear about them from everyone. My heart goes out to all those UCLA students trying to get by in that mess.
Isn't concentrating them towards high-salary fields exactly what should happen? The stated point of H-1Bs is to solve skill shortages, and fields with relatively low wages presumably have no skill shortage, or the supply/demand imbalance would have driven the prevailing wages up.
Put in an general avoidance rule like they do for tax and/or have the IRS sign off on all H1B as they have an interest in maximizing the tax take.
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Eh!

I'll start worrying when the actual amount of danger exceeds what a rural teenager can do with access to a farm supply store and $20.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANFO
By the way, I you do have an accent and are about to interview at YC in a few days... this is my personal experience http://al3x.svbtle.com/yc-interview-when-english-is-not-your...
If ever there was a case for programming as part of computer literacy, surely this must be it? Give children an introduction to some basic version control (also useful for writing in general!) and basic programming and maintainence (eg: give a programming assignment in 2nd grade, have them improve it in 4th grade).

That should leave some scars that can be built on in the phd. program.

(And either make sure they have a full number tower (probably best for "most"), or make sure they know that computers, despite their name, suffer from fundamental dyscalculia -- the ability to manipulate decimal numbers).
So did we! We didn't use Golang's maps to implement limit order books; we used a red-black tree. We did not build our own, nor did we find a red-black tree that was designed for order books.

This just isn't as much of a big deal as people think it is. Go makes it a drag to use a custom container, but it doesn't make it hard, and that might be how it should be!
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Important characteristics of the Intel® QuarkTM microcontroller D1000 CPU are provided in the following list:

• 32-bit processor core

• IA-32 instruction encoding [1]

• 5 stage pipeline

• Harvard architecture

• 8KB of on-chip data SRAM

• 32KB of on-chip data/execution FLASH

• Deterministic 21 Cycle interrupt latency

• Minimal processor initialization for fast power-up

Above from the PDF

[1] IA-32 architecture subset, no segmentation support.
Vaporwave?
Thanks, this might be the nudge that I need to actually start doing this stuff!
GCHQ director blasts free market, says UK must be sovereign cryptographic nation
I'm not asking to Google it, I'm asking to type it into the Hacker News search bar, which fetches the results from this site, and sorting them by popularity. Me giving a list would amount to just copy-pasting headings from those results.

But ok, random issues from the top of my head:

- sabotaging competition, hiring people to do this, facilitating mass cancellation of rides by providing them with burner iPhones and credit cards

- blatantly breaking local taxi regulations

- employee/contractor issues and related tax issues

- Uber management declaring they'll set up a fund to ruin a journalist's life because the latter dared to voice criticism about the company

- God's Eye view and privacy issues

- encouraging drivers without proper insurance

- tricking drivers into (and helping them) getting loans for a new car, and then (after a year or two) adjusting payment rates so that they basically stay locked in Uber

All of them discussed at length on HN, most of them covered on the first page of search results.
what does "just" mean?

What are your company's official languages used for?
No assumption by me. But what's the odds that none of them are? Business travelers - maybe not. But vacationers are there for that intended purpose, right? And at least some of them will be annoying all-night partiers with no interest in pacifying neighbors they've never met and will never see again.
My point is it's not a moral issue, it's an economic transaction. Both parties are free to negotiate the terms. The landlord often has significantly more leverage to do so.
I'd add that when you're with those who speak your native accent you relax immediately because you feel at home.

And this, as you state, is partly is fairly large reduction in communication error rate.
I suppose the author counts the University of Texas as being government? They were able to propel a 185g projectile at 1900m/s which is nearly 700kJ of projectile energy, wheras this appears to be at best 1kJ of projectile energy.

[edit] Just found that in the 80s they achieved an 8.8MJ launch; their later designs were lower energy but could fire repeatedly.
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Many of these H1B shops game this through a consulting model. They claim the immigrant is living/working in one low wage location, then have them consult in the more expensive locations.

If you create a bidding war and localize it, the H1B shops are going to exploit this even more.
And you had one data type that you used with that red-black tree, so you didn't mind not being able to abstract over the types of objects you were placing in the container. But we have lots of data types that we reuse for freelists and other types of containers. We don't want to have to reimplement that code for every single type we want. That's where generics save us.

> This just isn't as much of a big deal as people think it is. Go makes it a drag to use a custom container, but it doesn't make it hard, and that might be how it should be!

I believe you that it wasn't a big deal in your case. But I disagree with your general claim. I think you're extrapolating from your use case to claim that generics aren't important (vital, in some cases). I'm saying that, in my use case, they are.
Very simple way to put it. Probably why people argue that it's a question of nurture. When introduce to the bliss(at first) of mutable memory it a bit complicated to ask people to twist their brain, until late down the road. Now taught without this unfair comparison point, people will quickly find the "mutation free" easy to deal with with proper basic principles.
The same thing that has plagued Google for years: institutional ADD.
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They might find out about topics that will help them live happier and richer lives. They will have the chance to learn from great people about a wide range of topics.
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I was under the impression there already is a requirement similar to this yet the general tactic is to hire someone for a job far, far under what they are actually going to be doing. For example, hire someone with a PhD and years of experience to be a "web designer" (a very highly paid one, making 70k!) on paper but who actually does complex distributed systems that happen to serve web pages.

Honestly I'd favor an absolute minimum limit. Hiring someone through this kind of visa should be an extreme method you use to find talent you simply cannot find here at any price (not sidestep the American job market and devalue labor) since their visa is contingent upon them willing to work for you -- it's nearly indentured servitude. So you should have no problem paying them at least $200,000/year.
The difference is that one of these examples is outlandish, and the other is a near certainty to happen within the next couple of years.
I actually prefer the Win8 look. It's cleaner and still simple. But all the other mystery navigation of Win8 makes it a non-starter for me.

I hate the turquoise. Don't mind the dark blue and grey.
It's common for major physics journals to copy-edit before publication. The APS journals and the Review of Scientific Instruments both do it.

Sometimes they'll catch a subtle error, sometimes they make edits to bring the document into compliance with their own style guide, and occasionally they'll introduce an error. On balance, they make the publication much stronger and more consistent. I've gotten nice PDFs that highlight the diffs and any questions/concerns they may have.
I don't know. I just wish local government would have more balls, acted more decisively. AFAIK Germany is the only one who successfuly managed to (mostly) get rid of Uber.
Why not, if both parties are happy with the arrangement?
https://www.youtube.com/embed/g5BXC3Xtan8?rel=0&autoplay=1
Easy and very pretty, thanks for putting this together.

It is interesting to consider how some of these communities likely benefit from leaving their styles the same for a long time. Many of the biggest update very rarely: reddit, 4chan, etc... The familiarity to old users, simplicity and speed of an older design, and the added walling-of-the-garden that probably helps keep content quality up.
Contrarian stance here: if kernel security is important, the game is over, the attacker has root; they are running code on your server and you've lost because of one of the innumerable issues that the attacker knows that you don't. Restated, the kernel is defined to be insecure; now play the game. :-)

Design wise, the principle I've adopted is that each server is running an application set; when one of those applications is compromised, the server is immediately rooted, game over, all applications in the set are compromised and the attacker controls those resources and the server. In general, the layer of security I am looking for to control server rooting is an application's security, preceded by network level security. Separation of security regions (domains, whatever you want to call them) is accomplished by having different ephemeral servers; exploitation of one region not rachetable to the next region unless it's prespecified that way.
Taking a look around now - any plans to integrate with fitness trackers? I'd love to have this manage my diet and post my daily caloric intake to Fitbit. Right now I use MyFitnessPal and it submits to Fitbit, but tracking my diet in MFP is fairly cumbersome - although in fairness it is a very difficult problem to solve from the perspectives of design and UX.
Well to give an example: good luck finding an Ada compiler that compiles to PDP-11, and then good luck getting it to run :)

And this is even an example of a combination which once was considered mainstream.
Great teaser of a trailer - waiting for the full episode!
As a Canadian, why can't you do such work on TN status?
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No, but theoretically, the way they did it, they could install whatever they wanted.

Source: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/lenovo...
If all employers will be incentivized not to sponsor H1B visas, then the salary needed to get an H1B will fall to zero, and all employers will be incentivized to sponsor H1Bs since they can trivially get foreign labor.

That's the mark of a successful market system: negative feedback loops so that the more out of equilibrium the system gets, the more incentive there is to bring it back into equilibrium.
The character part comes into it with your reaction to the difficulty. A person with good character doesn't get embarrassed and lash out at unfamiliar things
Thanks for the feedback! Have you by any chance submitted these to GitHub or Stackoverflow? Our community tries to be really responsive there - I would have submitted for you, but I couldn't detail through the debugging steps you have gone through. Please let me know if you need any more help!
PLOS ONE is only one of many PLOS journals. The others do also review for importance. This is probably why PLOS ONE is cheaper than their other journals: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/publication-fees

So Eisen is correct, it's the same thing. A non-open access publisher could make a non-open access equivalent of PLOS ONE if they wanted to (and maybe somebody has). It's not a question of open access.
Physical work weather it's woodwork or a hill on a bike is a good way to get some distance from problems and think about them, I solve some of my toughest problems by going for a bike ride and deliberately focusing on the bike, view and riding style which I find clears my mind better than any other activity, usually a solution will present itself at that point.
I'm particularly excited about this version because it is the underpinning of B2 (which required higher performance), but we were still able to keep the costs low.
lol at this prole defending orthodoxy in the hallowed halls of Wichita State. umm there is NO room for debate heretics, the matter is canon
The law doesn't hand out treble damages like candy. Please explain the legal basis under which landlords are going to magically receive these for civil breach of contract claims.
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I've got something going on that is forcing a pattern, pin, or password for stock lockdown...

Also doesn't look like weird DPI is handled.

I like the idea ahs would be near I reckon, Good luck ;)
Why limit this freedom of movement to just professional persons?
> What's the point of putting a cap on highly skilled exceptional labor?

Mostly short-sighted people from the US who think that they're entitled to higher wages because they were born in the USA, and who do not realize that large companies can and will go abroad to seek talent, and that if things get bad enough, countries that are more open and willing to accept newcomers are where the best startup ecosystems will eventually form.
Large Companies Game H-1B Visa Program, and Jobs Leave the U.S