skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can anyone elucidate why having artificial barriers to employing certain types of people is beneficial?

Beneficial to whom? The world (or humanity) as a whole? Not really. US Citizens presumably want employers in the US to employ them over, well, people who aren't US Citizens. The US Gov't is elected by US Citizens. Hence the existence of legal barriers.

If so, why not create the same restrictions on, say, a company in California from hiring someone from New York?

Because states don't have the power to enact those restrictions. US Congress has the power "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.", and "The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States." See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corfield_v._Coryell

As far as the Xenophobia bit? Yes and no. It's very easy to argue that discrimination based on place of birth is fundamentally wrong, and that open borders are an ideal worth striving for. Not sure if anyone has figured out the pragmatic policymaking around that -- i.e. designing social structures that are resilient to open borders.
You can also use ADS-B to track government planes overhead! See what neighborhoods they are spying on and where they are based! Self-adjusting tinfoil hat not include.

(ADS-B broadcasts were what caught Gov owned aircraft circling recently in Baltimore and other cities.)
At the same time, expanding immigration because Linus Torvalds exists is also a vast oversimplification. Even most anti-immigration people I've spoken to concede that there should be avenues for outstandingly talented people to emigrate if they wish.
This article does a great job explaining the several not really documented steps of finding memory leaks using XCode.

I do wish the XCode developers would have implemented a more intuitive UI to do the same - e.g. taking inspiration from Chrome Developer Tools, or Visual Studio.

<rant>
Actually, I would just be happy if XCode had the debugging features that Visual Studio 2005 (10 years ago) had. Like inspecting variables values with mouse over on breakpoints. Or when right clicking "refactor" in XCode on a method name, being able to refactor Swift code. 1 year after the release of Swift the error dialog "XCode can only refactor Objective C code" appears - so much for supporting the Apple's own language.
</rant>

Anyway, article bookmarked - because even after reading this, there's no way I would remember all the steps needed to debug those memory leaks!
IMO, that's not a valid reason to return something, but it's just the tip of the iceberg on REI returns.

There's an outdoors forum I read, and one of the members there works part time for the REI in Boulder, and he's mentioned on several occasions that many people take advantage of the return policy in ways that nobody would find reasonable. He claims to have seen people return several year old hiking boots, worn out and falling apart, then walk into the store and buy a similar pair.

I suspect it was a small group of people who were taking advantage of it to that extreme, but they probably ruined it for everybody.
In my opinion, the real fix is to make the H-1B 'lottery' into an auction. Instead of accepting 65,000 H-1Bs at random--accept the 65,000 H-1Bs with the highest wages. That way we are getting the immigrants with the highest valued skills and stopping companies like Cognizant and Infosys that game the immigration system by applying for the cheapest H-1Bs possible.
I (American) have heard of Chicken Licken and all the other alliterative ones, but I blame my mother having grown up in a former British colony.
I read Not So Fast without reading Flash Boys, and enjoyed it a lot. Learned a lot about market microstructure.
There's no other feature that I really need. As long as my wife can reach me and I can get directions to some place while we're out and about.

I wouldn't ask for voice if it weren't such a good safety feature. I still swear I could punch out text faster on T9 than I ever could on a touchscreen.
‘BrainCheck’ App Could Provide Guidance for Athletic Concussions
The pressure (asian parents) and competition for grades and jobs got the better of me. I felt desperate and overloaded. Looking back, it's seems ridiculous, but only because I have a job. I can't imagine what its like to have a ton of student debt and no job.
I don't think you understood my point. I don't think mandatory arbitration clauses are ideal, and I wish they were banned. That's what you're arguing here and I agree with you

The point is that it's overly simplistic advice to say never to sign such a thing, when there are potentially huge upsides (getting a high-paying job that treats nearly all employees well).
Show HN: Javosize Lite the java troubleshooting tool
I see a timing attack in the list. It's fairly trivial to mitigate against this in the majority of languages nowadays [1] [2] [3] etc..

I presume this can also be mitigated by implementing rate limiting on your authentication endpoints, although that should also be implemented for other reasons.

[1] https://golang.org/pkg/crypto/subtle/#ConstantTimeCompare

[2] http://php.net/manual/en/function.hash-equals.php

[3] http://www.levigross.com/2014/02/07/constant-time-comparison...
I don't understand what caps or punitive damages have to do with it. Most venues don't have caps at all, and only rarely does an insurer get stuck paying for punitive damages. In the real world these things have little effect on the amount of money insurance companies actually pay, so I don't see why they'd have much of any effect on underwriting.
This seems more like an argument in favor of employing these people, not having artificial barriers to employment.
As someone who solves cubes and is a "get-shit-done" engineer, I think its not as neat as you make it sound. I'm horrified by the drilled holes, but amazed at the build and engineering.
Anybody know if/how well this can export scores to MIDI? I've recently been learning to use Ableton and found that exporting my compositions created in Finale to work excellently, which has given me a whole new level of control over it.
> All it does is drive down wages for everyone and hurt everyone except for the 1% at the top

Can you elaborate a bit more on this? Doesn't the initial LCA application with the Dept. of Labor requires you to submit wage details that conclusively prove that the offered wages are as per market norms.
20 years of India at Night
Didn't realise this was an editorial
What is special about the number 65,000?

Absolutely nothing. It's central planning for something that doesn't require it: http://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-optimal-number...
If a company wants to cut labor costs and move, open the new facility and train the people in the new location. Do not bring them in on a visa meant for skilled labor, make someone train their replacement and then fire them.

Personally, I would like to see the H1-B system go away/become unavailable to large body shops and consulting firms. All they are doing is the scenario outlined above.

Some companies are good, some, like IBM which are attempting to cater to the daily whims of Wall Street, not so much.
Out of curiosity, did you ever try a PT Cruiser? Of course now that they're out of production, it's kind of moot, but I've heard a lot of good things about the way their seating is designed by my 6'3"+ tall friends.
Thanks. Ya, Android is under development.
It's generally better for your whole country if your citizens are employed doing high wage, productive labor rather than having their jobs poached by foreigners who get paid very little send much of their wealth back to their home country. This in practice benefits a very small minority of very wealthy people and doesn't do much for your overall country. It is also better on a state level as well, to (for example) keep Apple in California rather than have them and their jobs leave for Texas, as well as the highly educated citizens you have leaving California for jobs in Texas.
In general, regular 'brain health' checks could be useful outside of sports injury investigation. From Marketplace Tech, an interview with the CEO of BrainCheck alluded to multiple uses of the app including checking cognitive impairment perhaps for manual laborers.
Wait A second something doesn't make sense here.

I thought the main reason for H1-B visas was because there aren't enough American workers?

So why would they get rid of American workers they already had ,that have been doing the job?

Surely it couldn't be because they lower pay of the H1-B workers?
I've also done something similar with Wireshark and a hotspot off my laptop to find out what API calls an Echo is sending to Amazon. I believe I could see the endpoints, but not the content.
Cool! There are so many HN clients out there. I like the visual spin of this one with pictures.
You're missing an important piece of context.

The argument being made here is about Katsuyama's complaint that the prices he'd see in his terminal would suddenly move away from him if he tried to trade large blocks of stock at that price.

What makes Katsuyama sound incompetent is his apparent lack of understanding of the price pressure his own large block trades put on the market. Lewis makes Katsuyama out to sound as if he can reasonably expect that if FCOJ is quoted 29.78-29.80, he can sell 100,000 shares at the quoted price. Of course, not only can he not expect to do that, but the influence that large trade has on the market is the whole reason Katsuyama is paid by RBC to trade for its clients.

Hence: either Lewis doesn't understand his subject well enough to report on it, or Katsuyama doesn't understand the basic function of his job.

In any case: not an ad-hominem, sorry. There's a popular Internet fallacy that says any argument that uses insulting language must be an ad-hominem. Insults aren't usually productive, but they don't automatically produce flawed arguments.
FS sync, may it be for the code, the assets, the data, the logs, is painfully slow on osx, because of vboxsf poor performance.

If you intend to use docker containers on osx as an isolated runtime, with all your "data" sync'd in realtime between your host and your container, then use linux.

Fswatch / Rsync / unison over NFS, ssh or cifs are hacks of a greater order than having to source an env script.

Out of curiosity, why would you need directional sync/unison?
They bought it off a classified ad. The guy they bought it from was pissed when he found out what they did. [1]

[1] http://www.curbsideclassic.com/automotive-histories/automoti... Search for "Jim Snell"
PBS Nova had an episode called "Why Ships Sink" that included the Oceanos story.

Episode:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/why-ships-sink.html

(note the Transcript link, for text)

another clip:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/cruiseship-guitar-hero.htm...
The article gives some interesting perspective. It talks about security vs. stress. What will be interesting is security vs. motivation. Wondering to what extent the author is motivated by his goals vs. a sense of obligation to his patrons, and how that compares to the motivation generated by insecurity.
I believe I fit squarely in to that category. I'm just old enough to have seen the fall of 'corporations who hire for life' in to 'everyone for themselves' employment. It is a disheartening drop in live stability.
Even at a bank a slap on the ass will get you in hot water with HR. Bandaids have plausible deniability.
There are those AIO DVR/Camera solutions that are fairly cheap and popular. All data is stored locally on the DVR and you can see it remotely via DynDNS or something similar.
The current implementation is here:

https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/859ca4474e1608b83d6194...
The nest thermostat seems to use firebase.com API from my research.
It was an interesting and well researched article that added value to my day. Your condescending comment hasn't added nearly as much.
ac2u FTW! Follow these steps:

-What you can work on fastest

Then:

-available hiring pool

-finally things like licensing
This doesn't seem to be a question of pragmatism -- they're going for a world record, not trying to solve a practical problem. I'm no expert on this, but it seems to me like the criteria for obtaining a world record title would include not modifying the object used. To me this is like trying to beat the record for furthest soccer ball kick by modifying the materials used in the soccer ball.
Monkeys genetically modified to show autism symptoms
Of course they are people, but I think the US government should be more concerned with protecting its own citizens (voters), not the international community. The US government has an obligation to protect its own citizens above all others.
http://i.imgur.com/boZRjbB.png
Don't rely on paper cash being around for that much longer either - http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-23/norways-biggest-ban...
That is because it is.
how is RFID use innovative?
Surely not, heaven forfend.
Active Benchmarking
Same here. My old job had a very feast or famine tempo which ended up with me getting stuck in a nasty facebook + reddit + arstechnica feedback loop between the feasts.

Blocking all 3 via /etc/hosts broke any interest I had in FB and Ars but I eventually added Reddit back to the list permanently.
Under the Hood at FarmLogs: Creating Crop Health Monitoring
Since we are forced to live in a world divided into countries, it seems fair to view your own employment position defensively.

If I'm doing a job and I get paid X, then I get laid off, but before I can find a new job I have to train an immigrant from another country to work for 40% less, I think it's quite right to view this from an nationalist point of view.
One wonders if pg will respond to this piece.
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Hollywood’s Turn Against Digital Effects
What benefit are you thinking would be the outcome of the increasing need for doctors and nurses to document what they do?

The complaint above was about "making notes". In a hospital setting, those notes would be used when shifts change. Or, when patients come back for follow-up. That would be part of "practicing medicine" and not something we can remove completely (though we can make it more efficient).

I have no idea how much of that type of note-taking has to be done by the MD (or nurse). Or, how much of it is simply red-tape.
I would be just as concerned if it was unlocked and unrooted. Nothing stopping a malicious party from rerooting the device after they install their rootkit.
My father worked at one of the Hedge Funds referenced in The Big Short for about 15 years, and was there during the collapse. I've talked to him ad nauseam about these books and the only one he didn't like was Flash Boys, but calls The Big Short "sort of scary" in how accurate it was.

In reference to Flash Boys he said that the technical aspects of how HFT works were so poorly illustrated that he couldn't really take the book serious and felt that it would limit his ability to further consider future Michael Lewis books. Wish I understood more of that, but his point was, I think, that it's not as nefarious as it's often made out to be.
I'm not against immigration, but the most egregious offense here was having the replacement workers trained by current employees as a stipulation of their severance.

Here's the article that was posted here a little over half a year ago. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff-...

It's nice to see some closure.
>Doesn't the initial LCA application with the Dept. of Labor requires you to submit wage details that conclusively prove that the offered wages are as per market norms.

There's nothing preventing you from applying for a lower LCA level. For example, say you have someone with 15 years of experience in system architecture and they have a Master's degree, and are bilingual, etc. Instead, you apply for a generic software engineer LCA, with a bachelor's degree with 3-5 years of experience. Now isntead of the LCA being approved for $150,000 it's down to $80,000. The immigrant doesn't complain because they're still getting a raise and have a chance to get a Green card. Meanwhile the company is getting to severely underpay (profit!) the worker.

There are all kinds of ways to game the LCA system. Apply for a location in Indiana, then bring the workers to Chicago. Apply for Arizona then bring them to LA. All the tech companies are abusing the system to their own advantage. USCIS is poorly funded and hardly checks on this, if ever.
Usually you're using ES6 because you can, because you're highly encouraged to use Babel to transform JSX.
Why yes, http://www.dol.gov/whd/immigration/h1b.htm states:

The intent of the H-1B provisions is to help employers
who cannot otherwise obtain needed business skills and
abilities from the U.S. workforce by authorizing the
temporary employment of qualified individuals who are
not otherwise authorized to work in the United States.

Sadly, the top H1-B visa sponsors are: http://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2015-H1B-Visa-Sponsor.aspx

You'll not that list is pretty heavy on the "body shop" side.
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I would suggest either changing the link to the beginning of the review[0] or updating the title to something like 'The Google Pixel C Software Review'.

0: http://www.anandtech.com/show/9972/the-google-pixel-c-review
If that replacement can serve the same purpose, and give approximately the same value to the company, why should the native and/or higher-waged person expect to have priority?
I've been a member since last year. But I grew up in the Northwest, and shopped there many times with my family in the 80s and 90s (they had a membership, of course).

More recently, I've used my girlfriend-now-wife's membership, and only signed up for my own last year. I saw no urgency or reason to get my own, and I have never heard of voting on anything at REI, from my own membership or from my family's.

It's odd how pushy they are about employees selling memberships (I had a friend who worked there for a few years), when they clearly 'cost' the co-op more than they bring in over the long run.
Great to see an alternative to sequential polling being used to gauge group sentiment.
Speaking of rich bastards, who could forget Rich Morin's "Canta Forda Computer Laboratory"? http://www.cfcl.com/
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I think you need to keep going with that train of thought. Is it morally right that an employer can fire someone they don't like? If it doesn't violate civil rights, it's 100% fine to me. What's the alternative? Should an employer NOT be allowed to fire someone they don't like? That sounds like very bad constraints on the employer. Should there be some protection system against specific reasons for terminating employees? It's not possible from a legal perspective, because you'd have to implement a law to protect every possible reason an employer would want to fire someone, all of which would trample the rights of the employer. Any employer is as free to fire someone for hate speech as the person is for supplying hate speech. It doesn't mean that either are free of consequences.

The employer controls the company. If keeping someone on board who has opposing views will lead to a worse company and more suffering, it would make moral sense to fire them.
As far as I am concerned, REI is just another non-local retailer. The biggest issue I have with them is that money spent at REI does not stay in the community. Another minor issue that I have is the lack of competent staff. At our local climbing shop I would be able to talk with staff that I would also see when out in hiking/climbing. The staff at REI are just buffoons that could fill out a job application.
I've always been confused about this. REI has 12 million members, and annual revenue of $2.2B. If someone wanted to buy REI's business, who would they buy it from? A retailer like Target has $70B annual revenue and a market cap of $40B. So that would suggest that REI could be worth something like $1B. Would each of the 12M members get a check for $83?
What I found most curious about "The Big Short" was its (almost exclusive, IIRC) focus on telling the story of the folks who were short these ultimately toxic derivatives: Why they thought this was a smart move, the finacial engineering and negotiation done so they could actually make the move, the usual Michael Lewis quirky portraiture.

What it was missing was any explanation of the folks who were long. Presumably many of them were at least almost as smart as the shorts, but I got no sense from "The Big Short" why they bet in the other direction.

Genuinely curious if there's a mirror of "The Big Short" out there that could fill in that gap.
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Is, it is the main reason, and the purpose of the visa. It doesn't mean that all companies use it for that purpose, despite what they say.

Note that, according to the article, the laid off people seem to be (relatively speaking) older, with multiple years in the company. It is likely that their salaries are higher than what management would like them to be. My theory makes the prediction that the H1 holders are young. If so, they'll take lower salaries, specially if they aren't aware of living costs. Until they actually move, whatever offer they got must have seemed like a crapton of cash.
I don't know about faster, but I could do it blindly...
Like inspecting variables values with mouse over on breakpoints

Pretty sure you can do this already
You can always attempt to sue. As in, there is nothing stopping you from serving the papers to a court to initiate the process. However, it would be a pretty clear-cut dismissal motion if a mandatory arbitration clause in in place. And you'd probably piss off the judge for wasting their time to boot.
What happened to getprismatic.com?
Used to use their service daily, and it's been offline for weeks, what happened to them?
what would be interesting is if there was a category where the robot solver has to grab the cube from the table, analyze it, solve it, and put it back on the table in the same spot, would be cool to see the compromises that would have to be made for speed of transfer/analysis vs speed of solving
I only know as much as I read in Flash Boys, and it sounds like front-running is generally the right name for this, but the difference is that it is not your broker but 3rd parties who are fishing for info on potential trades that are front-running.

By your analogy, the real estate agent knows you want to buy 5 houses, and suddenly after closing the first one, the price of the remaining 4 goes up.
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You've got to hand it to someone who uses our lack of flying cars as proof that innovation has slowed.

Then there's this later on: "you or I could walk into a 1940s apartment ... and we’d find it basically functional. We’d be annoyed at the lack of television and Internet — but not horrified or disgusted."

But obviously these intense, abrupt changes of hygiene aren't going to be indefinitely repeated; there's only so much filth to remove. And it's not as if there haven't been dramatic shifts in standards of hygiene since then, although they're a bit subtler--look at the chart here on frequency of showering, for instance: http://www.businessinsider.com/charts-that-will-restore-your...

Of course no one can be certain what the US's economic future will look like, but it seems absurd to argue that all the big changes are over and things will mostly stay the same from now on.
IIRC it was also common for the engine to follow the steering column into the passenger compartment to polish off the driver and break the passenger's legs in case they hadn't been maimed yet.
I created a very similar post not too long ago:

http://shahruk.com/code/snippets/2016/01/18/Definitive-Guide...
Dictador will live forever