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> At this point, saying that each H1-B worker must make $117,700[1] or more to prove they are skilled beyond US workers seems to be a fair change

That's not enough for some places. I know mid level engineers at some of the big companies make more than that, for example.
itt and in the article, everyone talks about legibility etc but nobody points to any study (or even pictures) on how those fonts compare under low conditions (night, rain, not illuminated, headlight full on)

usability is about the 5% cases. in broad day light the fonts only compare in a matter of personal taste.
Some info from the Nature paper.

AlphaGo played Fan Hui using 1202 CPUs and 176 GPUs.

It's strenght was assessed to be 3140 ELO on the scale used by www.goratings.org/ (BTW, this is different from the European ELO system)

That would put it at #279 in the world. Fan Hui is number 633 at 2916. AlphaGo's next opponent will be Lee Sedol, #5 at 3515.

The single computer version of AlphaGo is estimated to be 2890 ELO, which would be #679 in the world. It's is closer to what we might be playing against on our laptops and phones but still 48 CPUs and 8 GPUs.
A Dialogue from fight club movie:
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Tyler Durden: Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.
In 2010, UWisconsin professor of history Alfred McCoy was invited to the 8th Annual Western Regional International Health Conference "War & Global Health" held at the University of Washington in Seattle. He gave a lecture mostly on torture and public policy.

In this lecture, Dr. Alfred McCoy claims that there was a bitter debate in the 2000s between the Justice Department and the Judge Advocate General's Corps [Famously broadcast television's JAGs] over torture [1]. He alleges that the JAGs were against the vast expansion of Executive power under the Bush administration (continued under Pres. Obama).

It is tinfoil-y to make broad sweeping narratives about the powers that be. All the same, on the basis of Dr. McCoy's speculation and public knowledge about John Yoo [2], I presume that if the Justice Department and the Navy are fighting that the Navy are the good guys.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy_jjwid3YM#t=52m21s [portion of immediate interest at 53:45]

[2] http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2010/04/08/they-did-authoriz...
Does it matter if job growth is zero if the population is constant? If it remains positive for too long you'd have more jobs than population.

Cherry picking the data slightly the IMF has the GDPs per capita as

1964 Sweden 2758 USA 3423

2014 Sweden 58538 USA 54370

so they have not done that bad
Death of a troll
Not true. Profession go players read out 20+ moves consistently. Go Seigan's nemesis Kitani Minoru regularly read-out 30-40 moves.

As an AGAAmateur 4 dan I read 10 moves pretty regularly, that's including variations.
And if the sequence includes joseki (known optimal sequences of 15-20+ moves), then pros will read even deeper...
Will the protocol documentation be publicly available?
Is that with 1200CPU's?
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> I mean no offense to

has anything inoffensive ever followed this phrase?
There are very few violations of the FCC's rules in general partly because the FCC regulates and certifies hardware manufacturers of radio equipment, so it's very difficult to purchase equipment that doesn't follow the rules. You can see this happening in the Wifi space where the FCC is clamping down on dd-wrt at the device manufacturer level because the software allows people to violate that frequency's rules. People with the right skills can build custom equipment to violate the rules but it's rare. And for the few people that do try to do things like pirate radio the FCC hunts them down and the penalties are stiff.

My point being that for the most part the FCC's regulatory scheme works at keeping people playing by the rules without extra layers of technically complicated security.
To comment on that: whenever I accidentally click a mobile ad because it pops up above what I was trying to click, I make sure to click it for another 2 minutes over and over again.

Hopefully someday all ad networks decide that they only get fraudulent clicks from me, and stop their practices.
> However, the protective effects typically wore off after that, with recurrences rising after 12 months, probably because many of the people who’d been involved in the studies stopped exercising, Dr. Maher said, and their back problems returned.

Ah, speculation. In 5 years, we'll be hearing how exercise causes chronic back pain, and the solution is to exercise for 6 months, then take 6 months off, because some other highly-decorated surgeon thinks it probably makes sense.
My alarm bells usually start ringing when I see too much bolded text, capitalized text, or too many short sentences.

That said, I have to admit I do agree enough with the gist of the article, and the tips at the end for Headspace and Mindfulness in Plain English are decent. Using Headspace and researching/practicing mindfulness have been very beneficial to me.

Which kind of makes me feel worse about this thing as a whole. It just feels wrong.
top 10 are all consulting, wow.
The IM protocol that runs over SIP is called SIMPLE and it's anything but.
That means moving to a webhost and plan which supports SSL. They are usually more expensive. It's not just getting the cert.
Epic tale of a troll in an online Mafia game, where the players seem obsessed with doxing. A tad long but worth the read.
I read it literally - as in, nothing interesting happened.
Maybe this happens every time you go to sleep.
The author mentions one thing which perplexes me. Do Not Disturb turns off automatically every morning, eve if I manually enable it during negotiations the day. His example makes no sense.
Really? I know you can buy Rosewill on Amazon.
Where do you host at? Curious what the spec differences are between your VPS and mine, if you don't mind answering
SIP is a signaling protocol (and XMPP can also be used that way). It doesn't really have much to do with voice & video other than it gets used to initialize a connection.

Also SIP is horrible.
As someone in that demographic, I see new posts on my timeline every 2 or 3 weeks.

If I want to know what's going on on the campus, I check Jodel.

If I want to message others, I use WhatsApp.

Facebook's acquisition of WhatsApp is the only reason why I use any of the products.
There a psychological bias called the "false consensus effect" whereby people overestimate how similar other people are to themselves. It's backed up by things like confirmation bias where you tend to socialise with people similar to yourself so it feels like most people really are like you.

The simple reality is that you just don't know enough people to draw any statistically relevant conclusions about society. It may well be the case that none of the young people that you know are on Facebook, but that really only says something about who you know, not about young people's attitude towards Facebook in general.
There is some evidence, e.g. Government childcare subsidies in Australia. On the other hand, targeted subsidies may be worse than basic income in this respect.
I have been using occasionally Java since it was made available in 1996.

Our university adopted it right away and made it in 1997 the official language for compiler development and distributed systems classes.

Without bothering to search the Internet, NIO was either introduced in 1.4 or 1.5.

Yes they have open specifications, but they also have trademarks and compliance certifications.

The JDK was open source, but the license prevented its use for mobile devices without a Sun approved license, that Google didn't want to pay for.

So now Google has actually created a fork in the Java community.

Just imagine when you have Java 9 with modules, or Java 10 with reiffied generics, value types, JNI replacement, official unsafe package, among many other roadmap features, how to keep the code portable between Android Java and the real Java.
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Singapore != Asia

Correlation != Causality
Your comments are quite striking in their (over)use of ellipses... I've been wondering if there's a particular reason you do this? At the very least they make your contributions distinct, I guess.

(honest question.)
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How many of the 1.59B users are still active, at least once a week? Not just have the app installed and receive just notifications but actually open the app or website?

Facebook is mainly used by 30+ woman's nowadays, to share their baby, cat and dog photos. And is a huge ghost town with much of the profiles haven't been updated or have posts for multiple years. It's like MySpace in 2010.

Facebook (and to some extend Google with its bullish Google+ auto-written posts based on Youtube comments, etc that no one wanted) single handed destroyed/burned the notion of social networks because of pure greed. Yet social network as in 2008/09 (at its peek) were great, than came the broken "newsfeed" that doesn't show all friend updates in chronologic order anymore, but selected featured filtered crap.

[I am talking about Facebook the app or website - the social network. Not the messenger app nor WhatsApp nor Instagram]
Nearly every day for the past 15+ years. Social networks come and go. IRC has remained consistent for me all that time. I'm on to give/get technical help, and socialize. In that order. :)

also, for the curious... irssi is my client of choice. I've tried out so many different clients. I always end up coming back to irssi.
I'm pretty sure that Do Not Disturb is in manual mode by default. You can change it to automatic in the settings.
They're trying to get invalidation of patent on record. And it does make sense, as plaintiff can refile (ostensibly after they sue a few others and get precedent in place)
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Maybe Bill Ackman should not have invested such a high percent of his hedge fund into a un-ethical price-gouging pharmaceutical company (Valeant).
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Digital ocean!
Closer to 2 stones between 2 dan pro & 9 dan.
>Do people, without the fear of not being able to eat, accomplish far more and benefit society far more?

Why not basic commodities ? I mean distributing significant quantities of corn, corn-meal, flour, rice, a wide variety of beans, dried fruit, beets, onion, millet, granulated garlic, etc. The stuff that you can make a vast array of healthy foods out of.

This eliminates much of the possability of waste in the system, and at the same time it doesn't expose the individual to legal and privacy complications that come with 'income'. It translates into money in people's pockets indirectly because now their family's food budget is dramatically reduced.

I think this is a more elegant solution but the reason why it's difficult politically is because it incentivizes individuals and families to put more time and planning into home food preparation. There are billion dollar advertising campaigns aimed at conditioning the exact opposite behavior which is one reason why it's probably politically untenable at this time.

Also I'd like to raise another point which is that I find it somewhat disturbing that a major startup community leadership organization is so interested in possibly attempting to influence the national policy around financial issues in a way that is so far removed from the technology domain.

Are you guys a startup incubator or a think tank ? In other words are you busy conducting research to churn out position papers designed to influence the national debate on non-tech issues ? If so then how transparent do you plan on being with founders, past, present, and future about this entire process as it evolves going forward ?

The reason why I believe it's a bit of a stretch to consider this a tech issue is because in my view the idea that "technology is eliminating jobs" seems to be a false premise statistically speaking. To me it's a debate centered around how "free trade policy" is influencing the global job market and how that has impacted the United States economy. I believe that in the US at least the tech ecosystem has created more jobs, a whole new economy in fact which didn't exist before. It's the non-tech jobs that are gone, but they weren't eliminated by technological innovation as much as they were dispursed globally in the wake of certain regulations.
Feedback for your app ideas
How are video games meaningless? They are entertainment. If someone devotes their life to pacman, they hopefully enjoy it!

It seems to me that we do not disagree. From my point of view the CEO/guild leader discovered that he/she enjoys working and that they do not enjoy anything that is very expensive. That is great!

All I am saying is that making a lot of money should go hand in hand with asking 'What will I use this money for?'.

To your point, if you ask the question and decide that you get a lot of personal fulfillment from activity that makes money, you might not be able to spend it as fast as it comes in.
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I think it really depends on your application. Car systems are pretty predictable with regards to messages received, they don't have random users sending impredictable data. I'm a SWE writing firmware for cars and I've got to admit, I never caught myself thinking: "Gee, I could sure use the heap right now!"
If anyone wants to play a game of go, regardless if you are a seasoned amateur or a complete beginner, please send me a message on http://online-go.com (username mongorians)!

If you have no prior experience I would be happy to teach you the basics -- it is truly an incredible game.
See also http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/28/health/schizophrenia-cause..., via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10983176.
> Throughout his life Jefferson was intensely interested in theology, religious studies, and morality. Jefferson was most closely connected with Unitarianism. He was sympathetic to and in general agreement with the moral precepts of Christianity, believed in an afterlife and in the active involvement, or guidance, of God in the affairs of mankind

That's how it looks to be not religious at all, I suppose.
In principle, I wholeheartedly agree. In a perfect world that would be a great solition.

In reality, non-profit groups will inevitably grow in scope relative to the ambition of its leaders and/or accessibility to easily acquired sources of funding.

At some point the organization will grow the the size where it'll have to seek funding via membership dues and/or direct sponsorship.

The 'we stand up for the little guy' will become a marketing facade to justify the organization's existence. Meanwhile, membership and the protection it provides will be carefully meted out and sold to the highest bidder.

NewEgg is doing something
much more beneficial overall. Instead of building alliances and hedging resources for an impenetrable defense. They're saving all that wasted effort by going on the attack.

They accepted a much greater degree of risk at the start but legal policy is relativistic. The more they win, the more they will win because they can use the outcomes of prior casses to support their arguments.

In a way, their success is literally writing the future law of patent litigation and filling in all the gaps that the trolls have been aggressively exploiting for years.
I don't believe it. My dramatization of that moment in time is much more movie-accurate, and therefore, much more believable.
Try lying on your front and do a sit up in reverse. The weight of your upper body is enough and helps strengthen your lower back. Ironically it was an osteopath who told me of this exercise as I used to have lower back pain. After a few weeks doing it I never needs to go back!

In addition, running and sit ups can also help massively. But don't over do it until you're completely mended.
"Likewise a grandmaster can explain that pawns are valuable in situations like this, or that point to a certain position and say don't do that, etc. To a computer that information is useless, but to a human that's extremely useful. "

I think that the only reason this is true is because, humans, shared the same low (or intermediate in this case) level features of their models of the world and a common language to share them.

Artificial neural networks understanding have evolved along other path, and they probable have another different organization between the different levels, but that doesn't make the fundamental mechanism different.
The odds are very good that people start discussing things like pregnancy in Messenger at the same time they start googling symptoms. Public posts aren't all FB has available.
I don't think they have to show beyond a doubt. But you're correct they have to somehow demonstrate not just that this capability exists, but that it was used on them, and that the court can provide a remedy.

This is just one example of why whistle blower protections are necessary.
Your employer sounds like a real piece of shit if they're firing you over a medical condition you're just starting treatment for. If nothing else, they should consent to just deducting your pay for the time you've been sick, but I guess that would mean acknowledging that you're sick and exposing themselves to liability or something. Hang in there.
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Ask HN: I want to get into stocks and options
I know this may seem like not a thing to ask in this forum but I think it's the PERFECT place to ask. A bunch of technically apt people seem like the perfect place to pose this.
What platforms for stocks and options do you all see as "the best"? Low cost, maybe has a scripting language built in. Trustworthiness.
What resources should I gather together and learn?
What kind of pitfalls should I look out for?
This seems like the perfect system to take apart and learn about.
<This can be done in non-traditional ways by having a fleet of transit vehicles that operate like UberPool instead of along fixed routes>

I don't know of a case in the USA where a public transit agency has done this without making transit worse.

For example, this was tried years ago in Santa Clara County. Called "Dial-a-Ride", the implementation was that an individual could call for a bus to pick him/her up and take to a given destination. The theory was that an assortment of people would all have origins and destinations along a common route, so you'd have a de facto ad hoc "bus route" for that collection of journeys.

But when you crunch the numbers even this ideal scenario, the time lag in chasing down and picking up the subsequent riders makes the trip time and length for the original rider uselessly long.

Nevertheless, this went on for years, with the result being that a handful of individuals got chauffered around at extremely high costs. It was computed that it would be much cheaper to have taxpayers pay for individual cab rides for everybody. Eventually, it was dropped, but it continued in south county for additional years.

And to this day, VTA is the financially worst-performing major transit system in the nation (as measured by percentage of farebox return on variable costs -- don't even ask about how much worse it is when fixed costs are added).
Apple's major competitive edge right now is supply chain and economies of scale. They are able to source materials far better than basically anybody else. This has always been Tim Cook's strong suite.

Another competitive edge is chip design. Apple's A9x has a custom PowerVR implementation that blows its competitors out of the water in terms of power and efficiency. They seem to be consistently ahead in this regard.

Apple's major R&D investments right now are in Music, VR/AR, and the car project. They're working on some cool things in music that I can't talk about, but IMO music is too small of a market with too small margins, and Apple is putting way too much effort into it. Apple has made some really good VR/AR hires, but Facebook, Microsoft, and Alphabet have better teams. Who knows how the car project will turn out.

Apple is currently investing more in R&D than they ever have before. This scares me because their successful projects have almost always been on the thin side investment wise. Apple has traditionally launched products with the bare minimum of features and built up from there. People hate them for it, but it works. I hope they're not moving to a more monolithic model.

Lastly, Apple seems to have had a collapse in quality in the past year or so, especially with phones. This is anecdotal as I haven't seen any actual data on it, but I know so many people who have gone through numerous iPhones (for the most part 6s's and 6s Pluses) that have had one problem after another. I've been pretty lucky, but I have a 6, not a 6s. My previous 5s, however, barely lasted a year.
Why is HTTPS-only for normal websites silly? It ensures the page was not tampered with enroute.
It's of course possible to simplify a chat protocol. For instance, I'm not sure why the XMPP designers decided to go with XML; it's much more verbose than most formats, and typically slower and more complicated to parse in my experience say versus JSON.

What advantage did it have? Unless someone is sniffing unencrypted XMPP packets and finds that XML readability handy, I don't really see the point. And that's an edge case. Not to mention XML's main advantage over many other formats is having hierarchical relationships--but how does that help in a chat protocol?

I'm sure someone could very well have counter points to the above, but those are the things off the top of my head that made me question why XML was the top choice here for an IM protocol.
Thanks for the link! Looks like author added it too, it is indeed MIT: https://github.com/HunterLarco/voxel.css/blob/master/license...
Yeah, that's scheduled mode, not the default 'Manual' mode.
A few weeks to reach a solid level, most likely, provided you actually practice.

If you type a lot of boilerplate code (which really is the only area where typing speed will hurt you) you'll notice a difference, but I'd argue that fact in itself is something you ought to fix.

I taught myself workable svorak (A5) in a weekend on IRC, then polished it over a shorter period after to feel comfortable. The good thing about SvorakA5[0] is that it uses AltGr + regular keys for special characters, which is really nice.

I don't recommend learning dvorak or any variant of it for the typing speed unless you do dictation or whatever, because you're not getting that much from it in any profession that requires you to think anyway. Personally, I just feel like I'm destroying my hands less when typing, which is a good enough reason. They're already some level of broken from having played strategy games too much, so I feel like I should take care of them more.

(Obviously Svorak is the Swedish version of Dvorak, so for other languages you'd have to find something like A5)

Edit: I recommend playing "Typing of the Dead"[1] if you can find a way to do so. Great way for polishing your use of a layout.

0 - http://aoeu.info/s/dvorak/images/svorak-A5.png

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Typing_of_the_Dead