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The author's main reply to standard immigration boogeymen are keyhole solutions, which are admittedly a pretty cool idea. A keyhole solution is one that tries to address the negatives of a policy exactly, rather than torpedo the entire policy because of a few problems. In the link from the article, suggestions like: if worried about foreigners voting against the interests of current citizens, don't allow foreigners to vote. If worried that a specific market sector will be affected, compensate that sector. Basically: pursue overall improvements, and compensate the losers or guard against specific negatives.

This reminds me of a funny story. Bear with me.

My brother is about to graduate with a physics degree. In an interview with an engineering firm, they asked, "You have a metal that expands/contracts with heat according to such-and-such relationship. How do you keep a room at such-and-such temperature?"

He answered, "Oh, just wire things up such that when the metal does blablabla, it heats the room, and when it does the opposite, turn off the heat."

"Could you explain what you mean by "wire things up?""

"Oh, I don't know. That's an engineering problem."

My brother did not get hired, to everyone's (including his, ha) relief.

Keyhole solutions seem like bullseye-on-head clusterfucks of political engineering. They are (by definition) complex and involve many interest groups. Proponents (correctly, I think) point out that they are designed for that environment, in that they may gain support from all parties, but for different reasons. But is there any guarantee that the bill remains integrated? What about a last minute addendum/removal of a clause? We can't seem to stop SOPA and cousins; is anyone confident that the legislative process is their friend?

I know, I know, it's a political engineering problem, not an economic one. Hence the story about my brother. Sometimes you need an engineer.
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yes, but it should start small and grow iteratively.

First version can be very simple: This is what we do, here is how we will make money, here is how we are going to prove that this is a viable business.

Then run some experiments (aka get your mvp product into real people's hands as quick as possible) and do some learning, and add details/change things as time goes on.

Traction beats all.
Extended lifespan for sale would carry an onslought of moral and social problems with it. And this is why it's actually a good analogy, but not for the reasons the author brings up.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10565032
He can keep his money. Widely used - yes. In vogue - no
One thing that bothers me somewhat about immigration discussions on HN is that the US always seems to be mentioned as unjust in terms of immigration policy and rights of foreigners. However, I'm pretty sure there are plenty of other 'advanced' countries that have similar or worse policies (Japan comes to mind). So the question I end up wondering about is, why do countries practice this kind of stuff? It seems so odd to me that happening to be born somewhere is a meaningful qualifier for anything.
So... I think the question still stands.
There is also a the income : cost of living balance and barriers of language & culture.

Another thing I wonder if they can take advantage of welfare? Can a polish person get UK welfare and NHS services indefinitely if they just move there?
Really? What if some of these immigrants create more successful startups (like many have done before), generating x new jobs and even some "Netflix"s, paying really high salaries?
None of the glyphs are decorative (as is made clear in the article, if you read it). The point is to have the writing reflect pronunciation.
Here is a simple provision script for EC2 - https://github.com/crushlovely/ansible-ec2-provision

Once the setup has been done as shown above, the provision playbook can easily be run.
In Europe, after a few quiet years violence is now on the rise again.

And once again it is between etnical groups. (The previous that I can think of where mostly Northern Ireland and Northern Spain with a few lone wolves in between.)

Not arguing here that immigration shouldn't be simplified but be ware that it isn't just rainbows and unicorns.

> foreign nationals are denied basic rights that US citizens take for granted

I'd say at least modern US is skeptical to everyone, regardless of race, religion, color, ethnicity etc - don't we regularly complain here about how TSA even stops US citizens with US passports at the US Border? : )
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> But you can have both.

It seems you misread the article as saying Python created a trade-off. Perhaps the author shouldn't have tried to create a surprise ending. Regardless, the conclusion was that the Python implementation was both easier to code and more performant than the Java implementation.
There must be ways to deal with people you don't like, without killing them.
Beside the first paragraph, on the left. BTW, I didn't downvote your comment.
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Main takeaway: Samsung Evo+ (red color) blows away all the other cards performance-wise, and it's $9.99 at Best Buy right now; 64 and 128 GB cards also discounted.

The microSD card you use makes a huge difference in how the Pi performs, for the majority of tasks.
I am a software development manager from Europe. Right now we have to turn down projects because we don't have enough people. If we have more people we can start more projects and make more money. My wages will go up as I will have a larger team to manage. The developers in the team already will get more seniority as people come in from overseas "below" most of them. Their wages might go up. Some of them that might not perform as well as the new arrivals might get paid less. Overall, the market might not be as flexible as the labor supply, so we might a reduction in wages over the mid term. This would be a correction in my eyes. I think western workers are overpaid and third world workers are underpaid, so it seems fair to see a natural adjustment here.
Last time I saw anyone tried to pull this card their stats were thoroughly debunked. I don't have access (or time) but thread carefully.

Edit: added "I saw"
To a point. The cost of living is pretty high and the area very anti-development. People move away from the bay because it's less profitable if you want a family compared to boston, seattle, austin or even new york. The cost of living and interview requirements alone will limit the wage decrease. There are many developers out there already in the USA, who just don't want to move to the bay area.
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Unrelated aside: I submitted this story yesterday... How is it only now showing up as '1 hour ago' as of midnight a day later?
Yes, but for some peripheral skills that might help but aren't really "necessary", this rule makes a lot of sense. I mean, spending 100 hours on a skill definitely wont make you an expert, but it'll make you literate in it. Taking the sales example, as a programmer it might teach you how to "sell" yourself to forge a better career. Or say public speaking.
Kansas City has gigabit, yet Silicon Valley still exists, so inter et connectivity isn't the major factor.
In other words; no one believes her?
There are a lot of assumptions there that may or may not be true. Are the incoming immigrants of equal skill to current local workers? If so, why shouldn't a company be able to hire an equally capable worker who is willing to work for a lower salary. On the other hand, will the incoming immigrants want lower salaries than locals? And if they are generally lower skilled, do you want to work for a company that is willing to compromise on output quality?
> The uncertainty principle hints that something discrete may lie at the bottom.

Not necessarily. The uncertainty principle is a direct consequence of some quantities being "the Fourier transform" of each other. You can't play a pure tone unless it extends infinitely in time, and vice versa: You can't play an infinitesimally short sound unless you ring all frequencies. That's all.

And actually, if something discrete lies at the bottom of spacetime, the uncertainty principle implies that there's a maximum energy and a maximum momentum. For the same reason that there's a Nyquist frequency when sampling. So, if anything, our intuition that there aren't such maxima makes the uncertainty principle hint that there's nothing discrete underneath.
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Don't blame it just on lack of people. Hiring is utterly broken with recruiters and managers sitting in front, tilting their heads asking: I see it is X years since you programmed Y[0] - are you sure you can handle this?

[0]: old, mostly stable language that I have used a lot on my spare time in between
A phased-in revenue-neutral carbon tax of $30/ton would increase electricity rates in (most of) the US by < 10%. And could lower income taxes (or if not revenue neutral) reduce the debt. What's not to like?
>Removing artificial restrictions on a free market system will increase overall productivity. It will certainly increase global GDP to remove barriers to free movement of people.

The global economy isn't a free market system, it's not even close enough to a free market system to make modeling it that way useful. The entire argument that treating what isn't remotely a free market system, slightly more like a free market system will necessarily produce some result is completely misguided.

But let's assume that we can actually model it this way and that completely opening borders will eventually increase overall global productivity.

Even in this case, there is still an enormous problem here, the increase in productivity will take time. The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

Imagine 2 countries Richland and Pooria. Richland has a GDP per capita of $50,000, Pooria's is $500. Richland has a population of 10 million people, Pooria 50 million. Richland has expansive public services, good schools, and a fantastic infrastructure. Pooria has none of that.

Now lets say that we open the borders between the 2 countries, and 10 million people from Pooria decide to live in Richland. Now eventually in this hypothetical situation, Richland and Pooria may reach an equilibrium where the average GDP of both was higher than it was before.

However, this could take decades and during that time Richlands resources will be strained to the breaking point. During those decades the people of Richland would be much worse off, and the people of Pooria might not be any better off in a failing Richland than they were in Pooria.

And what if Richlands entire system of government breaks down under the weight. In that case the complex sytem that allowed Richland to produce so much could collapse completely and there is no guarantee that it would ever recover.
I think that code readability is different from system comprehensibility, and that readability is merely a subfactor to comprehensibility. Readability often means the time it takes for me to grok a function, module, or unit of code, and often what fits on my eyeball.

System comprehensibility is how long it takes for me to learn the minimal set of atoms in order for me to comprehend an entire system.

Rob Pike criticizes map and reduce and other functional idioms as not machine simple. And although Rob Pike doesn't say this, I might argue on his behalf that functional code has a mild reputation for less readability.

But I would argue that functional idioms permit tasteful tradeoffs between machine simplicity and system comprehensibility. I would also argue that when a system gets to a certain largeness, I would be sometimes okay with sacrificing some readability and machine simplicity for system comprehensibility. I would also say that although I might lose some performance advantages with a functional approach, the improvement to system comprehension might mean an improved cognitive capacity for the human to optimize for distributed multi-core contexts, which might offset the losses from machine simplicity.
Your question could be phrased as: "Why should we consider our own welfare over that of others?" Part of the answer to that is that for a thing to survive, it must discriminate in its own favor, especially because other things will also be doing so. The other part is that survival, and even preference, are legitimate ends, and need no justification.

That's not really an answer to you; rather, it seeks to provide rhetorical relief for the native pondering whether he is morally obligated to throw open his borders. He or she is not. Their survival, and even comfort, are legitimate goods. They may calculate utility differently than their would-be neighbors, and that's OK. Vote, let them vote, converse; but don't attempt to dialectically back them into a corner. Friends don't criticize each others' utility functions.
Too bad. They're probably chasing local optima that are quite different from the global maximum.
> It seems so odd to me that happening to be born somewhere is a meaningful qualifier for anything.

It is a proxy. Most likely if you were born in X you were born by parents born in X. Most likely if your parents grew up in X they will raise you to fit into X.
Just visited European XFEL a few weeks ago. The linear accelerator was about 2km long and I believe the total cost of the laser is over 1 billion Euro, but nevertheless this is an awesome idea :)
The short version: The Zetas were money laundering through a U.S. horse breeding and racing operation.
I agree that the meaningless deadlines are evil, but this article falls into the false dichotomy of either Waterfall or Agile, and nothing else
As a Canadian living in the UK on a temporary work visa I get to vote (LOL THE QUEEN IS ON THE LOONIE), and am served by the NHS for emergency stuff but my visa says "no recourse to public funds" which I'm pretty sure means I don't get things like disability benefit.

Pensions on the other hand, I'm not sure about. I'm getting tax relief for my pension contributions, but maybe there will be a withholding tax if I leave without naturalising.
At the time, after registering in, they could not claim welfare benefits for two years.
First, no-one mentioned cultures being superior until you did. Why is being rational, equality-oriented, and inclusive in your eyes superior?

Second, I'm sure there are some wonderful people in cultures where women (for example) are considered second class citizens. If I travel there and return with some feel-good anecdotes, I fail to see how that changes anything.
yes, air quotes are implicit, but the Japanese who do this research probably believe whole heartedly in its necessity – it's worth having empathy for others, even if we disagree with their motivations.

This is very sad news, indeed. Are you a vegetarian? That may seem out of order, but, if you're eating meat, you're slaughtering animals as well, so, just food for thought... food :)
VC investors tend to influence the company too.
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This is an easy problem to solve. You can start open borders restricted to EU. This is a reason for particular implementation of open borders, not a reason against open borders.
HN is auto-reposting some stories that its selection algorithm sees as valuable, but that didn't get attention.

There is also another variant: dang is sometimes sending out special links to repost stories that were manually vetted as good, but ignored. Those get special treatment, for example, they cannot be flagged down (easily at least, maybe at all).
>Newcomers don't just take jobs, they create jobs!

Probably, in the long run. In the short term they will depress wages, and we don't know how long that short term will last--could be decades.

If you allow 10 million programmers into the US, it will severely depress wages for programmers already living here. For those people wages will likely not recover in their lifetimes.
I've tried unsuccessfully to learn the zen of Lisp.

When you read a Lisp one liner, to me it seems like there are many implicit details you have to hold in your head. "Ok after this parenthesis now you have a list of maps keyed by symbols with string values. Ok go up one parenthesis and now it's transformed to a list of maps with..." Continue unwrapping for 3 levels. Get messaged by coworker. "Ok. Where was I? Fuck."

Rich Hickey said something along the lines of "If a function only deals with mutability in local variables (for performance), it's still a pure function". I prefer reading imperative functions that are still pure in that sense and spell out each transformation line by line to reading highly compact code written in powerful languages. Maybe I'm just dumb.
Were I live this is being debated: People can come here, have kids and move back and have significant amounts of money thrown back at them over the border.
Let's go back to the beginning. I argued that what's going on with the police is that they're used by the higher classes as a tool of defense/oppression against the lower ones. I don't think race is of any direct relevance to this phenomenon.

You argued (as I understand things) that the motivation for forming the police was usually "racist", and that it made more sense to view the depredations of police as race issue than a class issue.

I counter that in a society of several racial groups, some poor and some wealthy, I think the police would be expected to spend their energies on the poor groups while leaving the wealthy ones alone. To me, this is evidence that the police are a social-class based instrument rather than a race-based instrument, because if they were an expression of racism they'd be expected to spend their energies on aliens while leaving natives alone (in this analysis, Jews who have been resident for centuries but maintain their own separate culture are "aliens", not "natives").

You say that the different treatment of racial groups according to what social class they belong to is just more racism. You can call it that, but the label stops being useful -- if the police are a "racist" institution, by this definition, you can't predict anything about how they'll treat someone even knowing the race of that person, or knowing whether their race differs from the race of the police they're interacting with, or whether it differs from the race of the group running the police, or any such thing. You have to know their race and the position their race occupies in society. But the social position is doing all the work -- your predictions will be nearly as good if all you know is the personal social standing of the person interacting with the police. Race is a sideshow.

Why is treating different races differently because they have very different social standing primarily an issue of race rather than social standing?
I'm pretty critical about the H1-B/L1 systems but my biggest problem with them are the restrictions they place on the visa-holders and the power they give the employer over the employee.

This affects me because I compete in a market where a substantial portion of my colleagues are modern-day indentured servants. This affects my working conditions, compensation and opportunities.

With respect to your point, I think it's valid but I don't think it's as simplistic as more local engineers == less pay. For one thing, we're already competing in a global environment -- software crosses borders easily. For another, the labor pool is never zero sum because more people consume more resources and demand labor. OTOH I don't think unilaterally throwing open American borders would work very well and I think the position of this article is naive and idealistic.
that's exactly my problem right now... finding enough users that are within foot distance
I'm having trouble finding any other references to a notion of a dimension of a graph which is based on howthe number of vertices which can be reached through a path of a given length increases with the length.

I'm finding things like, a dimension of a graph as the minimum dimension of euclidean space where the vertices can be placed and have each edge have length 1, and another thing which seems closer which is based on a metric from the graph, but that is based on the idea of a metric basis, which I don't think is equivalent (in it, a subgraph can have a higher dimension than the graph it is a subgraph of, which I don't think is the case in the version mentioned in this blog post. And one example I'm p sure has finite dimension in the blog post version, but infinite dimension in the other thing, so, I'm p sure they are different things).

Does anyone have any non wolfram references for the notion of the dimension of a graph as is explained in the post linked?
I actually see this as a positive as it means the whale numbers are making a great comeback now that (most) nations have stopped hunting them. Here in Australia the humpback whale is back from 200 to 26,000 just on the east coast alone [1].

1. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-27/humpback-whale-populat...
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100 hours of civil engineering will definitely make you build better structures if you're a Lego enthusiast. It'll help you make more informed choices when you build your own house.

I'm assuming if I removed the snark from your comment, you're trying to say that 100 hours isn't nearly enough for doing anything useful.
I haven't felt this much anxiety and empathy from a story in a long time.

He's a hero for putting up with that environment for as long as he did. I almost wonder if the story's embellished a bit, because I can't believe he could stay so calm during those encounters.
> What will this person have stolen? To whom will it belong? Someone will have to claim to be the victim.

Property from a collection of property owners who -just like much of the Dothan police department and parts of the DA's office and who knows who else- believe in the ongoing quest to target, harass, and jail a disfavored group of people?

I mean, have you personally known a rabid dyed-in-the-wool racist? I've known many. Several of whom would -if they had the means- jump at the chance to participate in such a scheme.

> We need to repeal laws against every one of those offenses...

We need to repeal laws that make illegal and/or unsafe possession of a firearm, trespassing, parole violations, and traffic violations illegal because... such laws could be used to disproportionately target a particular class of people?!

That's definitely throwing the baby out along with the bathwater.

Look. Your continued assertion that the biggest problem here is nuts-as-shit drug laws, and this would have never had happened if it wasn't for them is (deliberately?) obscuring the real problem.

What's the real problem?

* For roughly twenty years, evil people in positions of power successfully harassed, jailed, and -effectively- stole money and property from targeted members of a disfavored class of people.

* These evil people occupied positions of power in both the police force and the judicial system.

These evil people used their influence and power to:

* Quash objections to their ongoing conspiracy.

* Terminate an official police investigation into their conspiracy -long after it turned up hard evidence regarding the nature and scope of the conspiracy-

* Promote those who furthered the goals of the conspiracy to higher office (including State Director of Homeland Security!)

* Demote or remove from positions of power those who attempted to dismantle or shut down the conspiracy

I get that you don't like drug laws in this country.

There's a much bigger and much more important story here.